Comments on: BackPress, Your New Best Friend

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 06:49:03 +0000

+1 Looking forward to seeing the tutorial

By: Beau Lebens

Beau Lebens — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 21:08:39 +0000

Unfortunately I haven't written it yet, but I still have a draft waiting to remind me, so I’ll get to it eventually :-/

By: Mat_

Mat_ — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:56:39 +0000

Hey,

Did you write the tutorial ? I'm really interested in it
Thanks !

By: Jon Dunn

Jon Dunn — Tue, 25 May 2010 16:41:10 +0000

Thanks Beau! You're right, I have been seeing lots of mentions of Backpress lately but have yet to take the time to research it myself. Thanks for saving me a step! Send me a reply when you update the article with that Backpress demo you're talking about – I'm looking forward to it.

By: Flavio Paiva

Flavio Paiva — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:50:32 +0000

Oh, great. I will download and explore this tool soon

By: beaulebens

beaulebens — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:13:19 +0000

I completely agree http://backpress.org/discuss/

By: Malaiac

Malaiac — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:23:21 +0000

Having a mailiing list (with archives) would help working on BackPress development.

By: Beau Lebens

Beau Lebens — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:44:04 +0000

Hah, glad to hear it. We'll see what we can do about a tutorial
covering that particular part of BackPress. Ideally I'd like to have
tutorials covering every \”concept\” available within BP, but that will
take some time to put together, obviously. Slowly, slowly!

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:18:23 +0000

Thx Beau,

Your advise worked perfectly. I got the script up/running this morning. I look forward to reading your upcoming tutorial. Any plans for tutorials focused on using the User Roles management and User management sections? Hint! Hint!

By: Beau Lebens

Beau Lebens — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:25:07 +0000

Hi Brian — you do indeed need to include a couple of files to get things running, and I'm actually planning to write up a quick tutorial on how to get started using certain parts of BackPress.

In the meantime, I have a project where I'm doing it something like this;

- load configuration file with database details similar to wp-config.php
- include a series of backpress files
- start doing custom app stuff

The second step there, in my case, involves loading these files (in this order);

require_once dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/backpress/functions.core.php';
require_once dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/backpress/class.wp-error.php';
require_once dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/backpress/class.bpdb.php';
require_once dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/backpress/functions.formatting.php';
require_once dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/backpress/class.wp-taxonomy.php';
require_once dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/backpress/functions.wp-taxonomy.php';
require_once dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/backpress/functions.plugin-api.php';
require_once dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/backpress/loader.wp-object-cache.php';

depending on what you're doing, you'd definitely be able to leave out a bunch of them, probably everything from wp-taxonomy onwards (perhaps also formatting).

Keep an eye out here for the tutorial I'll post with more/better detail

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:39:25 +0000

hmm…i'm not a WP rookie, but i guess my biggest question right now is how to get BackPress up/running. I've tried to setup a simple DB call using something like:

include("includes/class.bpdb.php");
$wpdb = new BPDB('root','','www','localhost');
etc….

but i'm getting:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_parse_args() in …includesclass.bpdb.php on line 226

What is needed (configurations, WP files, etc….) to get BackPress up/running?

By: Beau Lebens

Beau Lebens — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:04:55 +0000

Court – there are a variety of tools TortoiseSVN is the first that comes to mind) that can help SVN become a part of your workflow on Windows in particular. Using some sort of version control (e.g. SVN) is critical to a project like this, where there are different people all over the world contributing and working on the code.

We may also offer downloadable ZIP/TAR.GZ files at some point, but right now we don't because the library is still maturing as a project of its own, so it doesn't make too much sense (there are no specific version numbers or "releases" in the common sense).

By: Court

Court — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:21:46 +0000

Hello, i really would like to be apart of backpress the only problem is i have no access to the code. i am on a windows machine and svn and all of that just doesnt work well into my workflow because of so many different reasons. i consider myself a fairly decent coder. id just love it if u could send me the files to coolcourt [at] gmail.com id really love to see what i could cook with the skeleton

By: Beau Lebens

Beau Lebens — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:34:48 +0000

Thanks James, although all I've really done is slapped up a quick site thus far

We're hoping to rally some support and get some interest in BackPress, so I figured this was the first step. Keep an eye on the site for more updates!

By: @om4james

@om4james — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:51:28 +0000

Great work Beau!

Having a dedicated website for BackPress should really help with the promotion of the project.

Last week I started using BackPress in a project, and noticed that there wasn't any documentation around. Hopefully this will change now that there's a new website up and running.

It's great to have access to standard WordPress functions when writing other projects!

By: BackPress, Your New Best Friend « Dented Reality

BackPress, Your New Best Friend « Dented Reality — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:35:15 +0000

[...] here to see the original: BackPress, Your New Best Friend « Dented Reality Comments0 Leave a Reply Click here to cancel [...]

By: uberVU - social comments

uberVU - social comments — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:12:47 +0000

Social comments and analytics for this post…

This post was mentioned on Twitter by beaulebens: Are you a @WordPress developer? Check out #BackPress – http://dntd.cc/8l...