bbPortal: Recent Topics

bbPortal: Recent Topics http://www.bbportal.org/ A test forum en Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:31:49 +0000 FryDay on "KEEP IT UP" http://www.bbportal.org/topic.php?id=39#post-73 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:21:03 +0000 FryDay 73@http://www.bbportal.org/ Man i've just found this and it's amazing, please keep the work up to date! :-D and publish it on bbpress.org (http://bbpress.org/plugins/forum/requests) btw there is a bug that you cannot add a new thread on the frontpage ;-) Admin on "bbPortal and themes" http://www.bbportal.org/topic.php?id=38#post-72 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:32:34 +0000 Admin 72@http://www.bbportal.org/ Well I did get some questions about how the current portal plugin (and menu) acts with the new Kakumei themes. Well you don't have to change anything, except to add a few lines into the Kakumei template (see readme file). Note that you only have to do this in the basic Kakumei template file (header.php and style.css). No changes are needed for the Blue version of Kakumei. It will automaticly adapt the menu when you choose the blue one! To demostrate, I have added the theme switcher plugin by _ck_, so you can switch between the green and blue Kakumei theme and see how it adapts. In the near future I'll add some more skins. I am thinking to re-make/update the Aardvark theme so it uses the new gravatar option and other new functions bbPress has added over time. When this theme comes available, I'll add a theme's page to the site where you can see and download the theme you want. _Null Admin on "4 months later..." http://www.bbportal.org/topic.php?id=37#post-71 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 09:45:40 +0000 Admin 71@http://www.bbportal.org/ Hi, So it's 4 months since I've done anything with this plugin. So what did I do? I moved to a new appartment, graduated, got a job, got a girl, got a live (lol). All this took up a lot of time. I am thinking to start up the project soon. I already converted the plugin to use jQuery (which made the plugin 90% smaller in size!). Also bbPress has evolved a lot since last time I checked. I am very curious to what they did and how things work now. So perhaps I'm going to finish the beta and release it in the near future (if time let me, since I am very busy at the moment). Stay tuned! _Null Admin on "Now that interface is dead..." http://www.bbportal.org/topic.php?id=36#post-70 Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:20:04 +0000 Admin 70@http://www.bbportal.org/ ... I have a real problem. I was converting the portal plugin to use the jQuery, but with the latest release, interface isn't compatible with it anymore! I did some digging and found out that interface it self isn't going to be updated anymore either. Instead of that, they have created jQuery UI. That's some good news, if it wasn't that buggy. They say it's gonna be the official interface like plugin for jQuery, but to be honest, I think they released it too soon. It's still beta (though they say it isn't) and isn't as great as interface was (for now). The down site is that I can't continue to convert bbPortal to jQuery at least untill UI works properly. So I am gonna concentrate on fixing some small bugs and add new stuff that doesn't requier jQuery or the old libary I am using right now. Stay tuned! _Null Admin on "bbPortal 1.3 released..." http://www.bbportal.org/topic.php?id=35#post-67 Sun, 12 Aug 2007 10:36:30 +0000 Admin 67@http://www.bbportal.org/ bbPortal 1.3 has some several bug fixes and minor code improvements: - bbPortal now uses the bb_admin_add_submenu hook - Topics that are marked as spam or are "deleted" will no longer show up at the portal page - Textfields in the admin area will now return a value (if there is one) instead of leaving the fields blank - Merged bbPortal and the bbMenu plugin. It's no longer needed to have the bbMenu plugin installed This is also the last version I release using the prototype libary. The next version will be jQuery based and smaller in size. You can download bbPortal 1.3 here: <a href="http://www.bbportal.org/bb-downloads/bbportal1.3.zip" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbportal.org/bb-downloads/bbportal1.3.zip</a> I also get a lot of questions on how to add more menutabs to the bbMenu. To be short: you can't. This feature will be supported in the next version of bbMenu. Since I am not a bad guy (and the next release can take a while), I've written a small plugin so you can add menu tabs. It is experimental, so read the read me text before using it! You can download it here: <a href="http://www.bbportal.org/bb-downloads/addmenutab1.0.zip" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbportal.org/bb-downloads/addmenutab1.0.zip</a> _Null Admin on "bbMenu 1.2 is out" http://www.bbportal.org/topic.php?id=34#post-66 Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:59:00 +0000 Admin 66@http://www.bbportal.org/ I am back! and give you: bbMenu 1.2. bbMenu 1.2 has some several bug fixes and minor code improvements: - bbMenu now uses the bb_admin_add_submenu hook - Fixed a bug that caused bbMenu to crash on some servers (thanks box87) - Some code cleanup and optimalisations (thanks box87) - Some template changes. If bbMenu is deactivated, the header now adapts and wont crash Note that bbMenu 1.2 is not compatible with bbPortal 1.2 and bbPress pre 0.8 This is also the last version I release using the prototype libary. The next version will be jQuery based and smaller in size. You can download bbMenu 1.2 here: <a href="http://www.bbportal.org/bb-downloads/bbmenu1.2.zip" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbportal.org/bb-downloads/bbmenu1.2.zip</a> Admin on "Finalizing" http://www.bbportal.org/topic.php?id=32#post-63 Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:56:29 +0000 Admin 63@http://www.bbportal.org/ Well it's almost done... This weekend I'll have to pick up my final stuff and move to my new home! After that (and IF my internet connection is moved allong with me) I can do some work on the portal plugin again. I am kinda excited to work on it again :) bbPress has also released a new version, using jQuery. That's some good news too. This will allow bbPortal to do more with less. I've got some nice ideas, but the first thing to do is to convert the current drag & drop function to jQuery. If I get this done, there will be a new release. But first things first... like getting my stuff to the new house :) _Null Admin on "I am NOT dead :)" http://www.bbportal.org/topic.php?id=31#post-62 Tue, 29 May 2007 14:17:26 +0000 Admin 62@http://www.bbportal.org/ Well I have had some questions about the progress of the bbPortal project. I can assure you, it's NOT dead. The problem is that I currently am very busy with the real life. I have a normal day job (9 till 5), also finishing school (last 5 days I was working on a 3D-max animation for school, till 02:00 hours in the morning, every day :() and on top of that, I also have to move soon... So yeah, this project is pushed back a bit on my todo list ;) I'll continue it as soon as I have the time for it again, hope you all understand. Best regards, Null Admin on "bbPortal 1.2 is here!" http://www.bbportal.org/topic.php?id=30#post-47 Mon, 16 Apr 2007 21:49:37 +0000 Admin 47@http://www.bbportal.org/ bbPortal 1.2 is ready to download. You can download it here: <a href="http://www.bbportal.org/bb-downloads/bbportal1.2.zip" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbportal.org/bb-downloads/bbportal1.2.zip</a> Changelog: - Made bbPortal compatible with bbPress 8.0 + - Rewritten most part of the code and fixed some small bugs - Now using the bb_get_option API instead of creating a new database table - Moved the plugin options in the admin area from "Content" to "Portal Management" in the main admin menubar - bbPortal now uses the bbMenu plugin for its menu's. This plugin is added into the .zip file - Fixed the form processing bug (thanks to Sam Bauers) Still to do: - Fix the hyperlink bug - Better CSS for the left and rightbars - Widgets - Being able to create new pages - Being able to create new link tabs _Null Admin on "bbMenu 1.1 released" http://www.bbportal.org/topic.php?id=28#post-45 Sat, 31 Mar 2007 20:54:56 +0000 Admin 45@http://www.bbportal.org/ Get it while it's hot!!! Add your own menu to your bbPress forum, rename and re-order (drag & drop) the menu tabs to your liking. New in this version: - You can now rename the menu items by double-clicking them - Fixed a minor $bb_table_prefix bug - Added compatibility with the bbPortal plugin Important: Before installing, be sure to delete (drop) the previous bb_menu table from you database Known issues: With FireFox: There are some problems when trying to edit the menu links in FF. Sometimes you can't edit the text in the textfield. Just try double clicking a text in the menu link, then double click another one and now try to edit the first one opened. If you know how to fix this issue, plz let me know To do: - Be able to add custom menu tabs to the menu using the admin panel - re-write the plugin to use jQuery?? (This is used in the next bbPress version) Download: <a href="http://www.sourceskins.com/bbmenu1.1.zip" rel="nofollow">http://www.sourceskins.com/bbmenu1.1.zip</a> With this plugin released, I finally have the time to work on the bbPortal plugin again. bbMenu will be a requierd part in the next bbPortal version. More on this later! -Null Admin on "bbPortal 1.2 is comming" http://www.bbportal.org/topic.php?id=29#post-46 Sun, 15 Apr 2007 14:25:06 +0000 Admin 46@http://www.bbportal.org/ bbPortal 1.2 is almost done. I just need to fix a couple of small bugs and then it's ready for download. There are some significant changes in this new release. bbPortal will have it's own admin area, will use the bbMenu plugin and will be compatible with the latest bbPress version. I proberbly update this forum/site to the latest bbPress version within a few days and then upload and release the bbPortal plugin. Stay tuned! Admin on "bbPortal 1.1 released" http://www.bbportal.org/topic.php?id=18#post-18 Sat, 30 Dec 2006 12:56:06 +0000 Admin 18@http://www.bbportal.org/ bbPortal 1.1 is now available for download. Running this script for the first time will show an error message. Just ignore it. It just says there is no database table yet, but this will be created as soon as you press submit. Other changes: - Made bbPortal a plugin - Added an admin menu for editing the portal page (admin/content/portal) - Fixed a bbPress CSS bug that caused all <h1> and <h2> fontsizes to be different in every browser - Changed how the portal's menu is placed (original #main in the style.css is put back again) - Cause bbPortal is a plugin now, chances to the bb-includes/template-functions.php file are no longer needed. You can put back the original bbPress template-functions.php file Happy new year! Admin on "bbMenu 1.1 is comming" http://www.bbportal.org/topic.php?id=26#post-30 Thu, 01 Mar 2007 21:57:57 +0000 Admin 30@http://www.bbportal.org/ I am in the final stage of testing bbMenu 1.1 This version will include some bug fixes and the functionality to doubleklick the menu item (in the admin) and then change it's name. So you can change Forums to Forum or to Community or to what ever you like. After this release, bbPortal will have my full attention! Promise!!! Admin on "bbMenu 1.0 is released" http://www.bbportal.org/topic.php?id=24#post-27 Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:01:20 +0000 Admin 27@http://www.bbportal.org/ After a lot of trial and error, lots of frustration I give you: bbMenu 1.0 What does it do? It adds a menu to you bbPress site. You can edit the menu in the admin page (Content->Menu) by just drag & drop the menu items in the order you want. Installation instructions and some documentation are included in the .zip To do: - Rename the menu items by doubble clicking them and then put in your desired name. - Add an bbMenu_installed check so theme builders can make their theme's compatible for bbMenu aswell as for non bbMenu users. (It will check if the bbMenu is installed.) Ideas about how to do this are more then welcome!!! Download it here: <a href="http://www.sourceskins.com/bbmenu1.0.zip" rel="nofollow">http://www.sourceskins.com/bbmenu1.0.zip</a> The next version of bbPortal will require this plugin in order to work. I still have to tweak the bbMenu plugin a bit more, but when this is done I will start working on the next version of the bbPortal plugin. I can tell you this: it will have a very cool new feature!!! Admin on "bbMenu BETA release" http://www.bbportal.org/topic.php?id=23#post-25 Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:17:56 +0000 Admin 25@http://www.bbportal.org/ I've released bbMenu BETA. More info at: <a href="http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/653?replies=1" rel="nofollow">http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/653?replies=1</a> Admin on "bbPress 0.8 is comming" http://www.bbportal.org/topic.php?id=22#post-24 Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:57:53 +0000 Admin 24@http://www.bbportal.org/ bbPress 0.8 is comming and has some major changes. 1 of them is the use of a template manager and this will make bbPortal incompatible. I will update the portal plugin, but after 0.8 is out. Also the bbMenu plugin is almost done. I think I am gonna wait for its release when 0.8 is out too, but I am not sure about that. Time will tell :) Admin on "Russian friends!" http://www.bbportal.org/topic.php?id=21#post-23 Tue, 16 Jan 2007 18:23:58 +0000 Admin 23@http://www.bbportal.org/ Ow yeah, we have some Russian friends (http://www.bbpress.ru/) talking about the bbPortal plugin. How nice :D Well some info about the developement of bbPortal 1.2 (yes it is comming :)) - Easy menu editing using drag & drop. I am going to release this as a seperate plugin first, so basic bbPress users can add a menu to their forums as well (more info on release). - More dynamic frontpage. If you don't want to have a left or right sidebar, just delete it fromt the template. The page will auto ajust when it's missing a left or right sidebar. In the future, I want to add this option to the admin (so the user can deside if he wants to use the left or right sidebar and the template will then auto ajust to it). This will also fix an Opera bug (I hope). - Make bbPortal use the new bb_get_option function. (so the bbPortal SQL table can be removed). - Some other bug fixes.... ??? Well this is it for now, still working on this, but this will give you guys an idea on what I am working on. The menu plugin is going to be released first (this or next week). Null Admin on "bbPress 0.74 has been released!" http://www.bbportal.org/topic.php?id=20#post-22 Sat, 06 Jan 2007 22:17:05 +0000 Admin 22@http://www.bbportal.org/ Good news, bbPress 0.74 has been released. I think bbPortal is compatible with this new version, but I haven't got the time to test this yet! With this 0.74 release, we can use some new functions like bb_get_options, which makes making plugins a lot easier. I think I am going to re-write the bbPortal plugin, so it will make use of these new functions. Perhaps it will resolve that small bug I've posted about at the same time! Well get the new bbPress release at <a href="http://www.bbpress.org" rel="nofollow">www.bbpress.org</a> Admin on "Small bug discovered in 1.1" http://www.bbportal.org/topic.php?id=19#post-21 Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:43:09 +0000 Admin 21@http://www.bbportal.org/ Well funny thing, when you view the admin page (just viewing it, no updating), it will cause the frontpage to turn up empty. So the admin page empties the portal table when viewing it. Not sure how or why this happens, some help fixing this is appriciated! Null Admin on "bbPortal 1.0 released" http://www.bbportal.org/topic.php?id=17#post-17 Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:48:58 +0000 Admin 17@http://www.bbportal.org/ So here it is, the first release of bbPortal. Download it while it's hot!!! Admin on "No widgets and plugins yet!" http://www.bbportal.org/topic.php?id=16#post-16 Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:27:39 +0000 Admin 16@http://www.bbportal.org/ No widgets and plugins yet, well in the future perhaps. I saw the widgets plugin from Wordpress and I am defeniately going to try to implement it into bbPortal. For plugins you'll have to be at the bbPress forum (www.bbpress.org). I don't think it's going to be a good idea to have some plugins here and some at bbPress, since bbPortal is a plugin for bbPress. Widgets however arent in bbPress (and most likely wont be in it either), so those will be supported/ can be downloaded here. Admin on "Known bugs and issues (read this first before posting!)" http://www.bbportal.org/topic.php?id=15#post-15 Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:24:29 +0000 Admin 15@http://www.bbportal.org/ Known bugs: - Portal ID returns front-page ID This is because in template-functions the <code>case 'portal.php' : return 'front-page'; break;</code> returns the frontpage ID. Changing this to: <code>case 'portal.php' : return 'portal-page'; break;</code> will result in messing up the looks of the portal index. Somewhere front-page and portal-page are in conflict or something... - Add new link on portal page aint working in Opera This is an Opera bug and is reported at the Opera forums. - Comment link links to the last comment, not the first Couldn't get this to work either. There is no standard function for this in bbPress and since my programming skills are below average, I have no idea how to fix this (yet). All help is welcome! Admin on "Our to do list (read this first before posting!)" http://www.bbportal.org/topic.php?id=14#post-14 Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:14:43 +0000 Admin 14@http://www.bbportal.org/ So, you have some suggestions and ideas? Well before posting them read ours first: - Make bbPortal a plugin (no more manual core changes) - Add an admin menu so we can config bbPortal (no more manual portal.php editing) - Widgets (like in WP but slightly different) - Better menu (dynamic) - Add a read more function (so you are able to cut the text on the portal page) - Fix bugs - Add a RSS feed for the portal page (and not use 30 latests discussions) - Add pages as plugins (like a FAQ, About or download page) I must say, I am NO programming wonder, so all help is welcome! Admin on "Do NOT create new topics in the FAQ section!" http://www.bbportal.org/topic.php?id=13#post-13 Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:02:10 +0000 Admin 13@http://www.bbportal.org/ Dear user, This forum part is used to create a simpel FAQ for bbPortal. Since bbPress doesn't support forum restrictions yet, I ask you to NOT create any new topics in this part of the forum. Creating one will result in a PERMANENT BAN! Lets keep this FAQ clean and enjoyable for all. Thank you, Null (Admin) Admin on "How do I install bbPortal?" http://www.bbportal.org/topic.php?id=12#post-12 Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:59:25 +0000 Admin 12@http://www.bbportal.org/ 1) Download the .zip file 2) (Optional) modify or create a .htaccess file (see: <a href="http://www.bbportal.org/topic.php?id=8&replies=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbportal.org/topic.php?id=8&replies=1</a>) 3) Upload the files using the same map structure as in the .zip file Note: If you don't want to overide any template files, you can also upload all the template files to your my-templates folder instead of the bb-templates one 4) Configure bbPortal (see: <a href="http://www.bbportal.org/topic.php?id=9&replies=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbportal.org/topic.php?id=9&replies=1</a>) 5) Surf to your website and refresh it 6) Done, that was easy wasn't it? When upgrading from 1.0 Do the same as above, but also upload the original template-functions.php to your \bb-includes folder. Since bbPortal is a plugin, chances to the bb-includes/template-functions.php file are no longer needed. Admin on "What did you change in the core files?" http://www.bbportal.org/topic.php?id=11#post-11 Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:54:23 +0000 Admin 11@http://www.bbportal.org/ Since version 1.1, bbPortal is an plugin and no core file are edited. Admin on "Can I safely overwrite excisting files?" http://www.bbportal.org/topic.php?id=10#post-10 Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:52:01 +0000 Admin 10@http://www.bbportal.org/ If you have a clean bbPress install: Yes If you did some code changes it would be wise to take a look into the files to see what is changed added. All changes are commented and aren't huge. You can also choose to install the template files into your my-templates folder instead of the bb-templates one. Admin on "How do I configure bbPortal?" http://www.bbportal.org/topic.php?id=9#post-9 Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:42:49 +0000 Admin 9@http://www.bbportal.org/ 1) Go to your admin page (you will see an error message now, just ignore it) 2) Go to the bbPortal admin menu (Content->Portal) 3) Select the forum where you want to pull your topics from and the number of topics you wish to show 4) Press Submit to update the portal settings Admin on "How can I load portal.php first and not index.php?" http://www.bbportal.org/topic.php?id=8#post-8 Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:28:01 +0000 Admin 8@http://www.bbportal.org/ There are several ways to do this: Method 1: (for Apache server) Create/ modify file .htaccess in bbPress root directory and add/edit this line: <code>DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm portal.php index.php</code> Method 2: (use META tag - if you cannot apply the 1st method) Create file index.html in phpBB root directory (without #) <code><html> <head> <title>Redirecting...</title> <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=portal.php"> </head> <body> </body> </html></code> If your bbPress was placed in a subdirectory to the webroot, like: <code><a href="http://something.com/bbpress" rel="nofollow">http://something.com/bbpress</a></code> you could create index.html in the webroot and modify the line 4 to <code><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=bbpress/portal.php"></code> Method 3: I think maybe you can find out method 3 yourself ;) like JavaScript, etc. Admin on "How do I make my template compatible?" http://www.bbportal.org/topic.php?id=7#post-7 Fri, 15 Dec 2006 12:35:59 +0000 Admin 7@http://www.bbportal.org/ That's easy. You only have to add a few lines in the header.php and the css file. I've commented all the lines that are added, so take a look in these 2 files if you want to know what was changed/ added.