[@gautamgupta Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

bbPress have a long tradition of “working alphas” is this the case again? I mean can I consider now that once beta and final version are released it won’t mean reconverting everything again from scrath?

You won’t need to convert anything now, there might be normal internal upgrades.

would I better off waiting for the final release and importer, specially if we plan to integrate buddypress on this installation afterwards.

I’d recommend at least waiting for the official alpha of the plugin.

[@gautamgupta Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

bbPress have a long tradition of “working alphas” is this the case again? I mean can I consider now that once beta and final version are released it won’t mean reconverting everything again from scrath?

You won’t need to convert anything now, there might be normal internal upgrades.

would I better off waiting for the final release and importer, specially if we plan to integrate buddypress on this installation afterwards.

I’d recommend at least waiting for the official alpha of the plugin.

[@gautamgupta Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

1. No, you should install it in a sub-directory like forums. If you install it in the same dir, then their might be conflicting urls.

2. You’d need to port the theme yourself. There is no theme compat. (Though the new under-development bbPress plugin has that)

3. If you don’t want anything of WordPress to be shown in bbPress (ie. by using WP functions), then no. It would add extra load.

[@gautamgupta Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

1. No, you should install it in a sub-directory like forums. If you install it in the same dir, then their might be conflicting urls.

2. You’d need to port the theme yourself. There is no theme compat. (Though the new under-development bbPress plugin has that)

3. If you don’t want anything of WordPress to be shown in bbPress (ie. by using WP functions), then no. It would add extra load.

[@gautamgupta Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

bbPress only supports MySQL.

[@gautamgupta Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

bbPress only supports MySQL.

[@gautamgupta Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

I’ve updated the script, the latest version can be found here which addresses the issues highlighted by jonkristian (replies not being displayed) and Rick (errors from plugins – turned debug option off by default, though it is recommended that you turn off all plugins) and some others too.

Rick: You should put only the bbs2p.php file in the root directory (where you have wp-config.php. Then change those lines to:

define( 'BBS2P_WP_PATH', '' ); /** With Trailing Slash, if required */

define( 'BBS2P_BB_PATH', 'forums/' ); /** With Trailing Slash, if required */

JJJ: I’m on that.

[@gautamgupta Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

I’ve updated the script, the latest version can be found here which addresses the issues highlighted by jonkristian (replies not being displayed) and Rick (errors from plugins – turned debug option off by default, though it is recommended that you turn off all plugins) and some others too.

Rick: You should put only the bbs2p.php file in the root directory (where you have wp-config.php. Then change those lines to:

define( 'BBS2P_WP_PATH', '' ); /** With Trailing Slash, if required */

define( 'BBS2P_BB_PATH', 'forums/' ); /** With Trailing Slash, if required */

JJJ: I’m on that.

[@gautamgupta Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

Under normal circumstances, it should be absolutely painless. I’d recommend running it on your localhost or at least have a backup of the whole database. Also, I’d recommend you to use the latest version, you’d have to copy paste or checkout the file – I haven’t zipped and uploaded it as an archive yet.

[@gautamgupta Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

Under normal circumstances, it should be absolutely painless. I’d recommend running it on your localhost or at least have a backup of the whole database. Also, I’d recommend you to use the latest version, you’d have to copy paste or checkout the file – I haven’t zipped and uploaded it as an archive yet.

[@gautamgupta Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

jonkristian: Will take a look into that, worked for me though.

JJJ: I’ll give that a shot.

[@gautamgupta Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

jonkristian: Will take a look into that, worked for me though.

JJJ: I’ll give that a shot.

[@gautamgupta Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

padams: I think JJJ is thinking of getting them into the alpha or the first major release of the plugin.

[@gautamgupta Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

padams: No, forums are made using custom post types. bbPress will soon introduce its own feeds.

[@gautamgupta Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

frankdamienzoe: Sorry, but I can’t help you out with your posts being marked as spam. That is handled by Akismet. Please run this sql query in your database via phpMyAdmin (it’s very easy, there are many tutorials available for this):

http://pastebin.com/0pm4SrKH

[@gautamgupta Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

frankdamienzoe: Sorry, but I can’t help you out with your posts being marked as spam. That is handled by Akismet. Please run this sql query in your database via phpMyAdmin (it’s very easy, there are many tutorials available for this):

http://pastebin.com/0pm4SrKH

[@gautamgupta Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

Namaste!

Recently, even I installed bbPress on MAMP and it gave an error that the bb_posts table could not be created, a simple change in the query solved the problem though. Can you please check if you actually have the bb_posts table there?

[@gautamgupta Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

Namaste!

Recently, even I installed bbPress on MAMP and it gave an error that the bb_posts table could not be created, a simple change in the query solved the problem though. Can you please check if you actually have the bb_posts table there?

[@gautamgupta Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

Jaja: I think it would work in the way BuddyPress works, i.e. placing plugins for BuddyPress in wp-content/plugins too.

[@gautamgupta Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

Rick: That’s the only one I know of.

[@gautamgupta Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

Did you see any errors while installing bbPress?

[@gautamgupta Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

Did you see any errors while installing bbPress?

[@gautamgupta Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

Just a note for all: There are importers for phpBB from almost anything, so just import your forums to that, then use the converter for phpBB -> bbPress standalone and then convert bbPress standalone -> bbPress plugin. That’s the way it could work right now, but can be simplified later.

[@gautamgupta Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

You can convert your WordPress install into bbPress standalone and then convert bbPress standalone into bbPress plugin.

[@gautamgupta Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

The first image looks fine to me. Probably some post text is showing up before the proceed statement.

In the second image, there is an error saying that there was a url that was long and is not allowed in bbPress. You would have to probably remove those manually and re-run the script.

The third is also an error. Please delete all topics and posts from the database, not from the front-end as it doesn’t actually deletes them.