WordBB Alpha Testing Opened!
WordBB 0.9 Alpha is finally done, and so the testing stage has started.
Here’s the list of the testers who contacted me in these days requesting a copy of the release to test it out:
- Claudio Pires
- DEWEY
- Giorgio Mapelli
- Joey Matthews P&A
- Jon Sahagian
- Levent Korkmaz
- Saad Sadiq
- ubunto
If I’ve left someone out, I’m sorry – please contact me via mail again.
As I wrote on the mail, please DON’T report bugs to my mail address, as it would be difficult for me to track them.
Please report bugs and errors on this blog post instead.
You’re encouraged to write suggestions/complains about anything, from how some functions have been thought and made to the design of tables. Just drop a comment on this same blog post.
Thanks a lot for your contributions!
Oh… there is like a bug with the downloadl ink… it’s a code ine a page and note a file ….
The download link works fine for me.
Sorry, I don’t really get what you mean. Could you please explain what errors you’re getting?
thx for adding i will also translate this to turkish. lets find some bugs
Hey, good idea about the translation thing! I also read that it would be okay for Ubunto to translate WordBB in French. So we already have two translators!
Now the thing is: I’ll need to use WordPress and MyBB APIs for translations. This is not yet implement, so for now you can make a text file and translate all the text you see, instead of digging into the code and editing it translating each line.
I would really appreciate it.
I would do the rest of the work, i.e. putting the lines in separate language files and letting the plugin read them.
Thanks!
Hi, the download is actually fine, it’s me who whas messing up…
I am OK to translate in the code but if you preffer to use .mo or .po format, I am also OK with that… You choose.
I have a first bug report: In the merge users functions, the checkbox to select all users in the table doesn’t work for me…
By the way, WordBB is great !
No problems so far, working like a charm
Ubunto why would you need a checkbox to select all users? The thing why would you want to merge 1 user with all the users?
@ Ubunto:
Which browser are you using?
Thanks for adding me, Hangman
I´ll test it and submit any bugs I find and translate to Brazilian Portuguese later
I use Safari but i have the same bug with Firefox
Ubunto
P.S. I have an idea for 2 new features:
1) Cookie infromation so that visitors could login on the wordpress blog and also be loged in to the mybb forum in only one conection…
2) An integration of the MYBB forum directly in the the blog (slidebar and header)
Special characters in merge-users system from mybb to wordpress are truncated since wordpress doesn’t allow username with special characters.
If in mybb you create a user called, for example “òàèòàèò” in wordppress it won’t have any name, but this isn’t allowed in WP
Another thing, if i create a user in wordpress from the AdminCP and i try to login in MyBB with wordpress account details it returns th following error:
“Please correct the following errors before continuing:
You have entered an invalid username or password combination. “
I have the same problem that MapoGio…
Hmm, I think I know why you get that error. I’ll take a look at the code today as soon as I have some free time (I moved today to North Italy).
Thanks for your reports and feature requests!
i coudnt test enough but right now i can say a few things:
wp cant parse mybb’s parsed post for exm. img tags shown as plain text. and on first run i coudnt sure about plugins works couse it didnt say anything but than i find how it works. mybb’s post waits for activation on wp and you miss to say in read me file
anyway thats it for a while when i can try harder i can say more.
@levent: Yeah, you’re right. But anyway if you take a look at the configuration panel, you can see that by default the “Moderate MyBB to WP posts” (or something like that, can’t remember the exact name right now) is set to Yes.
With this option set to Yes, the posts created by WordBB when threads are created, will have the draft status.
Thanks for your report!
@Dared – try this plugin:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbcode-w-editor/
you´ll need to set perm. to 666 to file “bbcode.xml” before creating a [IMG] tag – plugin author didn´t write this step in doc files
@Hangman – the plugin is awesome, great work
The mybb => wordpress post is only legit to merged users… This is a great idea to control spammers
I have tried this, the only problem I have found so far is if a user posts a comment on the WP post, it doesn’t transfer to the MyBB thread. But it works the other way around…
@Tabbie: Yeah, that’s normal. WordBB is meant to be a replacement to WP’s comment system, as it lets you use MyBB for comments. But, as stated on the readme.txt file in the package, in the “Custom theme functions” paragraph: “You should also delete from your theme the HTML code that displays the “Leave a reply” box, since the WP comments system won’t work.”
That’s because if you leave a comment using the WP box, it will be stored on WordPress’ database, and, as far as I know, there’s no way to avoid this and add the post on the corresponding MyBB thread instead.
So, basically, the only way is to edit your theme deleting the HTML code that shows the “Leave a reply” box, and display a link to the corresponding thread instead, using the function wordbb_get_thread_link. You should also replace the call to comments_popup_link with wordbb_comments_popup_link, so that your homepage will show the corresponding MyBB thread’s last poster and number of posts instead of the WP post’s last poster and post count.
If you want a better explanation and a practical implementation of this, check this post I wrote sometime ago: http://community.mybboard.net/thread-8055-post-173396.html#pid173396
@Ubunto: if you have some experience with PHP, you can do that using the function wordbb_get_logged_user_info() in your theme. That function returns an array of info on the logged user using MyBB cookies. Using that variables, you can fill up your own table or sidebar.
Thanks ! It works !
If you can give me a link, I would be very glad to see how you made it. Thanks a lot!
Bridge just creates post on wp if you create a new thread from mybb, but sometimes thread was open another post section so you move thread to right place. but with this moderation is not works with wordbb.
for exam:
wordbb takes threads from X section, but thread open in Y section so you move that thread to X section for wordbb but wordbb doesnt takes thread. can you add a option for that? it just takes if thread was open in X. if you move it to X wordbb ignores thread.
@levent: Yeah, this is just a case I didn’t think about. Thanks for reporting this behaviour, I will add this option as soon as possible!
I don’t know if it is a bug or it is intended, but when you unapprove a thread in the WordBB section it’s still shown in wordpress.
The same with posts following the first of the discussion.
How do we download this mate?
@ Jon: this is an alpha version; it still has some bugs to be fixed, so I don’t recommend to use it for public websites.
Do you want to test it out to report bugs? Thanks in advance for your contribution!
Hi, Unfortunately I’m not in a position to do so. Cheers
hi again, i am not sure but i saw something interested, on my board there is some guest with server’s ip and looks /wordbb_bridgemybb.php??uid= or /wordbb_bridgemybb.php?? page sometimes both, any idea?
@levent: Well, I think that’s normal. I don’t know how MyBB access logging works, but I’m pretty sure that what you said happens for the fact that WordBB makes calls to a file placed in MyBB’s folder (wordbb_bridgemybb.php).
hmm ok than. i just worried about it but if you say so its ok for me =)
My site uses multiple wordpress installs to host various area blogs and I’m wondering if it might be possible to get this to do multiple blogs or multiple installs of wordbb.
So far I’ve not found any bugs that have not already been mentioned.
@ Alicia: You mean using WordPress MU? Or just multiple WordPress installs? I never worked with WordPress MU but, as I already said somewhere, I’m going to do it soon after the new release. As for the multiple installs, it should work with no problem.
Thanks a lot for your testing and for using WordBB!
No not wordpress mu, just 3 wordpress installs.
How is that going to work with 3 installs of wordpress, you only get one wordbb plugin to put in the code for?
@Alicia: I never tried, but it should work fine. Let me know if it works if you try it. Thanks!
I’d tested the previous version of bridge.
Could I have the WordBB 0.9 Alpha files to test on my localhost with WordPress 2.7 and MyBB 1.4 ?
After maybe, I could make a french version.
Thanks !
I have the plugin installed on a live site. I haven’t had any problems yet.
It is impossible to install wordbb for multiple wordpress installs on one mybb install. It would take a rewrite of every function name.
@Alicia: I don’t get the function name rewrite part. Could you explain please?
Hi,can I be one the tasters?!
is there any news? we all know this 0.9 is steable enough to release but what about testers requests? or just still wait for API’s ? when you say its done i will start translate.
Hello, I also want to become a tester.
Hi,
What’s up?!
Any Progress??!!
Is this still a current project? Looks like activity has dropped off.
I need this functionality (especially the user merging) and would just as soon not start coding it from scratch, if I can avoid that.
If you still need testers, I’d be willing to lend a hand, as long as the project is still progressing.
Hey,
I received a lot of emails and comments here.
Just wanted to say sorry for the delays; the project is not discontinued anyway, I’m just working very slowly because of job, other projects and stuff.
I’ll try to make an update post this weekend to keep you guys up-to-date about the release.
Thanks for your interest!
Thanks Hangman for your news. I waiting for the latest release.
Hi Hangman,
Thanks for your news.Please inform me if its done, I really need it.
ok Hangman i am still here and wait for updates…
@Mepozokegu – Huh? LOL I think you have been messing with your dosages again.
Hangman — I thought you were kidnapped or something. I was about to call the police. LOL I have a test bed available if I can get a copy of the files.
Does this plugin in any way bring the WordPress Theme over to MyBB? Like maybe the header and footer?
Could I do Tester? Or anyway How is possibile to have the plug in?
Can I help to do anything?
Kind regards
Ciao
Luca