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I eventually found it, it’s called bbpress/content-archive-forum.php not exactly an intuitive name.

Wondering if there are a list of hooks, or even this bbpress support theme for download somewhere?

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Stephen my rant was no way a slight against you and your work, assuming you’re the lead programmer? I know it’s been a hard road, I’ve been using bbpress since version .9, and seen a few leads over the years.

Much to my delight, the posts in the wp category were not deleted, just the category itself. So I just recreated the category and put those posts in it again.

But the tags in the wordpress site were definitely overwritten in the migration, including any custom taxonomies using the same slugs.

The community I’m involved with is large and active. Since the forum went live again they are back to posting. We’re kind of tied to bbpress as long as it’s supported and is feasible. Here’s hoping the future is bright.

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@apet083
I gave up, and never solved it.

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ebiznet88 – even trying to hire these fellows is not easy. They rarely respond to any emails, even for paid work. And when they do, they seem very disorganized. Maybe they are just busy?

I suggest you move on.

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The shorter URL might look better to you, but according to Google it has no difference in search rankings:

Did Matt tell you this directly?

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Try putting add_theme_support into the parent theme’s functions.php

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MTPrower,

I’m no expert, believe me.

But, if you have a child theme already, did you try merging your child theme with a bbpress child theme?

I would try dropping all the relevant bbpress php templates into your child theme, putting the necessary info into functions.php, and seeing what you get.

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Here are the steps I just took to install bbpress on a wp install and get a child theme started so I can develop with it. It assumes you have a mirror of your site files on your computer HD. Hopefully it will help someone.

1) Install plugin on live site.

2) Download

/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten

to your computer, and copy folder and contents to

/wp-content/themes/

rename the folder if you want, so you have

/wp-content/themes/newchildtheme/

3) turn this into a child theme:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

(basically, add a “Template: ” parameter)

4) Upload this new child theme to your server

5) In the parent theme, add

add_theme_support( ‘bbpress’ );

to functions.php

5) Upload functions.php to server

6) Go to

/wp-admin/themes.php?activated=true

on your site and activate your child theme

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I had this same problem — a recount fixed it. Thanks zaerl!

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I had this same problem — a recount fixed it. Thanks zaerl!

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Ramiuz –

I turned on Akismet last night, it caught all my car spammers and then some while I slept like a baby.

You realize that Akismet is actually run by WordPress, right? And that they are actively developing it? And that it connects to a shared database so that all spammers across the internet are flagged?

It shouldn’t “mess the whole forum up.” Try it again and if you’re having problems come back and I’ll help you. Akismet is the solution to your problem.

TonyVitabile –

Can’t you search users via the admin panel and see who is an admin?

If there are “tons of posts” but none showing, maybe they have been deleted already? By Akismet, perhaps?

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Ramiuz –

I turned on Akismet last night, it caught all my car spammers and then some while I slept like a baby.

You realize that Akismet is actually run by WordPress, right? And that they are actively developing it? And that it connects to a shared database so that all spammers across the internet are flagged?

It shouldn’t “mess the whole forum up.” Try it again and if you’re having problems come back and I’ll help you. Akismet is the solution to your problem.

TonyVitabile –

Can’t you search users via the admin panel and see who is an admin?

If there are “tons of posts” but none showing, maybe they have been deleted already? By Akismet, perhaps?

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I have the same problem – all car related.

Realized I didn’t have Akismet turned on. This is what the plugin was designed for. I’ll keep an eye on the forum and see if this works, and report back.

Not sure why you are so reluctant to use it?

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I have the same problem – all car related.

Realized I didn’t have Akismet turned on. This is what the plugin was designed for. I’ll keep an eye on the forum and see if this works, and report back.

Not sure why you are so reluctant to use it?

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Thanks for the help, but that doesn’t seem to be it.

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Have I gone insane, or did starting this thread just redirect me to a 404?

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You can download it all here:

http://selfevidenthotdogs.com/bones

Take it an enjoy it.

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No disrespect to anyone here, but the first order of business is to get _ck_ back.

You can have as many Project Leads and Benevolent Dictators as you want, but they will be leaders of the scrap heap without dedicated, innovative, and careful programmers like _ck_. Especially with no budget, and people working for free, who is going to follow orders?

I don’t know the _ck_ story, but I know that this project needs her, or someone like her.

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No one knows what the future holds, but bbpress is *probably* not going away.

Even if it does, you will always have your installation of bbpress, that can’t be taken away from you. So your forum should give you years of enjoyment.

If you like it, use it.

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Thinking about this some more, it might be a while before bbpress becomes a plugin. I’ll start on a sandbox theme regardless. Even if it only gets used for a few months (?), this would help move bbpress forward and get serious themers/skinners seeing it as a viable platform.

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Thinking about this a bit more, eventually bbpress will be a plugin, no? So we won’t even need themes at all.

So creating a Sandbox theme would be a lot of work for something that would eventually be phased out.

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Yes sorry, I should have explained more.

I just did something similar with a single install of wp.

Keep in mind that when you use wp for user data, it will use all the ids in the wp_users table. When you click the option to use that db for user data, it doesn’t merge anything at all! So for example, if one user has an id of 5 in bbpress, when you use the wp db for user data whoever is 5 in that db suddenly gets the bbpress guy’s data.

So! To get your data into shape, what you need to do is map the bbpress guys to the wp guys. So 5 in wp should be the same guy in bbpress. You might need to change the id of that user in the bbpress db.

Also! there is a bbpress user metadata table, so be sure to change the id there, too.

This is how I tackled it. There might be an easier way, or some tool, but if there is, I couldn’t find it. I just did some SQL on the db directly to get it structured as I needed it, then turned on integration.

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Use Gravatar.com.

Support for which is built into wp and bbpress and a million other sites on the internet. I just went through this same thing: trust me and buy into the gravatar system, which may be kind of clunky but is far better than anything you can hack together.

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Thanks to both of you, let me look at this plugin and ck’s mod.

Trunk is not for production environments, is it?

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Yes, remove the duplicates.