[Stephen EdgarModerator @netweb 9 months, 1 week ago]

If you disable ALL your other WordPress plugins then activate bbPress do you still the 500 error?

[Stephen EdgarModerator @netweb 9 months, 1 week ago]

You will need to copy the templates into a subdirectory of your theme

http://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

[Stephen EdgarModerator @netweb 9 months, 1 week ago]

Take a look in form-reply.php/form-topic.php/form-forum.php templates.

If your going to edit any of these I suggest you copy them to your theme folder so you don’t edit the core files and will not lose any custumizations you get bbPress updates.

http://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

[Stephen EdgarModerator @netweb 9 months, 1 week ago]

Take a look at http://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/

And http://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/

[Stephen EdgarModerator @netweb 9 months, 1 week ago]

@capsx Those are phpBB ‘magic_url’ and phpBB by default will truncate/shorten all URL’s to 55 characters. It does this so there are not extremely long URL’s in posts. eg. This URL is 63 characters in length, phpBB will leave the ‘href’ in tact but shorten the displayed URL to 55 characters.

<a href="http://www.example.com/directory/directory/directory/directory/">http://www.example.com/directory/directo ... directory/</a>

phpBB SQL DB stores this in the posts table with the following code

<!-- m --><a href="http://www.example.com/directory/directory/directory/directory/">http://www.example.com/directory/directo ... directory/</a><!-- m -->

There is more info on ‘magic_url’ here and here.

Thanks for posting your example code above.You may also want to look at http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1884

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[Stephen EdgarModerator @netweb 9 months, 2 weeks ago]

Here it is here for me http://imgur.com/a/mW7LM#3

WordPress 3.4.1 – bbPress 2.1.2 – bbPress WP Tweaks 1.2

Do you have any other plugins enabled or custom funtcions for your theme that could be conflicting?

[Stephen EdgarModerator @netweb 9 months, 2 weeks ago]

Thanks, very happy it went well for you (and us?)

• Obviously my vB was set up with a ton of permissions we now dont have.
  At this stage that would be quite tough to migrate those
• Also not sure if deliberate, but forums that were childed are now not and I had to spend an hour re-organising all the forums.
  It is a ‘known issue’ also with phpBB, hopefully in the future we can fix this.

[Stephen EdgarModerator @netweb 9 months, 2 weeks ago]

Give this plugin a try if you only want to do some CSS tweaks.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-custom-css-file/

If you do want to go down the custom templates route http://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

[Stephen EdgarModerator @netweb 9 months, 2 weeks ago]

Don’t copy any templates into any of the bbPress plugin folders (/wp-content/plugins/bbpress)

The details of what to do are here: http://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

[Stephen EdgarModerator @netweb 9 months, 2 weeks ago]

@DevArthran There has since been another update and unless you downloaded the version you are using from the ‘SVN Trunk’ you wont have the latest patches.

You can download an updated version of bbp-user-functions.php (4141) which has worked for a few others it will be in the next update of bbPress.

It would also be great to get some feedback on the vBulletin import as we have had very little feedback thus far from anyone migrating from vBulletin to bbPress.

[Stephen EdgarModerator @netweb 9 months, 2 weeks ago]

Do you get the sidebar and widget when viewing /forums rather than /forums/general in your screenshot? And when you are viewing /forums/general is the sidebar & widget near the bottom of your screen instead of directly to the right of the forums?

[Stephen EdgarModerator @netweb 9 months, 2 weeks ago]

Thanks, It is now being investigated and if confirmed will try to get the patch in for the next release.

[Stephen EdgarModerator @netweb 9 months, 2 weeks ago]

Check the Codex http://codex.bbpress.org/ for the latest docs and to get you up and running please see:

‘Getting Started with bbPress’ http://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/

If you would like to help us get the docs updated please login with the same credentials you use here on bbpress.org to http://codex.bbpress.org/wp-admin and help out however you can.

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[Stephen EdgarModerator @netweb 9 months, 2 weeks ago]

Go into ‘bbPress WP Tweaks’ settings /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=bbpress-wp-tweaks and change the ‘Default forum wrapper’ to ‘index.php’ (it should be in bold text)

[Stephen EdgarModerator @netweb 9 months, 2 weeks ago]

Awesome work, looks great

[Stephen EdgarModerator @netweb 9 months, 2 weeks ago]

What do you have the ‘Forums Base’ slug set to and is the ‘Forum Prefix’ checked?(/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=bbpress)

[Stephen EdgarModerator @netweb 9 months, 2 weeks ago]

Have a look at this plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-wp-tweaks/

It will give you a different sidebar whenever someone is on a forums page and you can populate it with whatever widgets you need.

[Stephen EdgarModerator @netweb 9 months, 2 weeks ago]

What error messages are you getting specifically? I could not find the ‘WordPress Database Backup’ plugin you are using

I just installed and activated these three and I do not see any conflicts?

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-everything/

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/the-events-calendar/

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/

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[Stephen EdgarModerator @netweb 9 months, 2 weeks ago]

OK, I’m with you now, are you going to use a BBCode plugin for bbPress to render the HTML output?

I have just started working on a patch to add CSS for bbcode_quote, bbcode_quote_head, bbcode_quote_body and a few of the other CSS classes that are are parsed with bbp-parser.php

[Stephen EdgarModerator @netweb 9 months, 2 weeks ago]

There are 20,000+ plugins in the WordPress plugin directory alone, at times there will be conflicts.

If you do not specify the exact problems you are having here regarding bbPress or prepared to specify them to the other plugin developers then no developers know of your issues and this indeed comes to mind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_a_tree_falls_in_a_forest

[Stephen EdgarModerator @netweb 9 months, 2 weeks ago]

This is by design, if the user enters the correct information for the database settings on the import screen the importer would be able to read that data and would start trying to import that data and as Murphy’s Law dictates whatever that default you set it to will not be the option the end user assumed it would be, then you have an incomplete and inconsistent data set to try and remove.

I did this exact thing yesterday and was quite happy that this is what happened rather than having to go into phpMyAdmin and manually delete data chunks from WP tables.

• This reply was modified 9 months, 2 weeks ago by  Stephen Edgar.

[Stephen EdgarModerator @netweb 9 months, 2 weeks ago]

Have a look at the raw data in your MySQL database not the rendered HTML output, apart from some ‘line breaks’ (<br />) you will find this data is identical.

phpBBv3: phpbb_posts.post_text   bbPress: wp_posts.post_content 

If you are actually wanting the importer to convert phpBB’s BBCode during import that is being worked on for future versions of bbPress and the import/conversion tool.

• This reply was modified 9 months, 2 weeks ago by  Stephen Edgar.
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[Stephen EdgarModerator @netweb 9 months, 2 weeks ago]

You would be best to look at WordPress plugins, this is not something that bbPress does.

eg. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ndizi-project-management/

Or others http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/project-management

Or just search http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/

[Stephen EdgarModerator @netweb 9 months, 2 weeks ago]

I suggest you contact each of the plugin developers and ask if they are going to be supporting bbPress in future updates for starters.

[Stephen EdgarModerator @netweb 9 months, 2 weeks ago]

Also see this TRAC ticket #1924 http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1924
And http://wpimpact.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Untitled-11.png

• This reply was modified 9 months, 2 weeks ago by  Stephen Edgar.