[@netweb Keymaster 12 years, 5 months ago]

Excellent, glad it worked 🙂

[@netweb Keymaster 12 years, 5 months ago]

No.

That is less than one sentence, bbPress requires WordPress as everything bbPress is stored within WordPress’ database tables, it does not use its own database tables for anything including user login, registration and management.

You don’t need to show WordPress ‘blog’ pages on the homepage and you can make bbPress the ‘homepage’ essential a page on your current site.

You would have to look at how you could integrate single sign on for your current users with WordPress.

[@netweb Keymaster 12 years, 5 months ago]

@noumaan I just tested this and everything works as expected with a WordPress user with the WP role ‘Subscriber’ and bbPress role ‘Keymaster’
These following are the only admin panels available/visible in the WP admin dashboard:

• Home – Right now in forums (stats)
• bbPress Forums, Topics and Replies panels
• Profile (Edit own profile)
• Tools -> Forums (Repair, Import & Reset bbPress tools)
• Settings -> Forums (Main bbPress settings)

[@netweb Keymaster 12 years, 5 months ago]

I have updated Mingle.php over in trac here with what I hope should fix things up.

Let me know what other issues you have found that we might be able to improve upon also.

[@netweb Keymaster 12 years, 5 months ago]

This is bbPress here, you want to ask BuddyPress questions over here 🙂

https://buddypress.org/support

[@netweb Keymaster 12 years, 5 months ago]

Have a look at a few of these plugins and see if one of them will suit your needs.

Plugins

[@netweb Keymaster 12 years, 5 months ago]

Take a look at the freshly released bbPress Post Ratings plugin that @sadr mentions here.

Introducing plugins for Quotes, Ratings and Unread Posts

[@netweb Keymaster 12 years, 5 months ago]

I created #2172 and patched the issue of ‘special characters’ in ‘blogname’ for bbPress subscription emails.

I’m still looking into the @mentions and I cannot reproduce it.

Do you get this error for every @mention in your forums?

[@netweb Keymaster 12 years, 5 months ago]

Nice one, just had a quick look around the site and quite impressed 🙂

[@netweb Keymaster 12 years, 5 months ago]

I can’t see what the cause is straight up so could you paste the entire code in a gist at @GitHub please, also a dump of the relevant DNN database schema would be helpful.

https://gist.github.com/

(We will also add this DNN converter to bbPress for others wishing to convert from DNN)

[@netweb Keymaster 12 years, 5 months ago]

I agree we need to look at this a bit more… I was using copy and paste with ‘Note’ on the iPad (3rd Gen) the other day to post here as noted above for Android ‘it will let me type, but nothing appears in the editor’ was the same behaviour I had with the iPad.

Can you create a ticket on trac so we can start to get some detailed device tests on how the editor is behaving for WordPress, bbPress and bbpress.org and go from there… It may be a core issue with WordPress that bbPress then inherits.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/

[@netweb Keymaster 12 years, 5 months ago]

@nobodyridesforfree See https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-in-your-language/

[@netweb Keymaster 12 years, 5 months ago]

Monica,

Sorry nothing new to report on a fix yet…

Btw, I’ve set this as private b/c I didn’t see a way to have people log in, so this would only be available to members. Don’t know if this is part of the issue.

With that above from your first post in mind, is it important your forums stay private or having them publicly accessible would not be an issue? If public is not a problem, try this:

If you leave the ‘category’ set as ‘private’ but change the two forums you have under this category from ‘private’ to ‘public’, I just tested this and it appears to be working.
(You can also change the parent category to public also and it won’t trigger the bug)

Back to the quote above you can use the `[bbp-login]` shortcode ona page or the login widget in your sidebar.

[@netweb Keymaster 12 years, 5 months ago]

At this stage I haven’t seen anyone mention anything about converting to BuddyPress ‘Group Forums’

With some theme customization you could make it appear that you have two lots of forums by putting each into their own ‘parent category’ and using shortcodes to only display each ‘category’ in specific areas of your site.
https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/

The other way is to go WordPress Multisite and have a  separate site for your ‘support’ side of things.

To customize bbPress as a support forum check this great tutorial by @mordauk http://wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/plugins/using-bbpress-as-a-support-forum/

[@netweb Keymaster 12 years, 5 months ago]

See this https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-in-your-language/

[@netweb Keymaster 12 years, 5 months ago]

Cool….

bbPress does not create any tables of its own, it uses WordPress custom post types for forums, topics, topic tags and replies.

I cleaned up the code layout of Example.php in #2134 so it now matches the coding style of the other importers. If you use SVN you can apply that patch directly or download it directly from here.

I am slowly getting updated and more docs in the codex starting here:
https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/

To customize the Example.php importer I have started this doc which follows this topic on building a new custom importer for the Mingle forums.

https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/custom-import/

This is all a work in progress and has a few moving targets so any questions ask away 🙂

[@netweb Keymaster 12 years, 5 months ago]

I have succumbed and installed Mingle in the need to find what’s going on with the rogue post!

[@netweb Keymaster 12 years, 5 months ago]

This is now in bbPress trac https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2163

(All updates will be posted at the above URL from now on i.e. download from trac NOT GitHub)

The docs will be on the codex at https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/mingle/

[@netweb Keymaster 12 years, 5 months ago]

Smileys & Open/Closed Topics are done, stickies we can’t do for now and that will have to wait.

Grab the latest again with https://gist.github.com/4534229/download

I’m still not sure why the extra blank post is turning up 🙁

[@netweb Keymaster 12 years, 5 months ago]

So it imported users, forums, topics & replies? Nice 🙂

There is a blank post by the original author at the start of each topic causing false count

Let me double check that I am not importing something twice…

Parent forums are missing (everything was imported under ‘Forum’)

Joining the `wp_forum_groups` will be a pain if there are ‘id’ conflicts, easy workaround is just manually create the parent category with bbPress.

Custom Smileys, Closed Topics are open again & Stick Topics are normal topics

These three are easy,

Smiley’s: I think these are done 😉

Closed Topics: Does the table `wp_forum_threads` have a specific column for the open/closed status of a topic? If so what are the potential values?

Sticky Topics: Does the table `wp_forum_threads` have a specific column for the sticky status of a topic? If so what are the potential values?

(For the closed and sticky table options, sometimes its numerical 0,1,2 or it might have a value normal or sticky or closed etc)

[@netweb Keymaster 12 years, 5 months ago]

Cool…. Everything should work…

With the two posts above of your errors.

Case 1. You used `wp_forum_` on that first revision when I used forum , threads, posts & user as the from_tablename’s, the error you posted was `’str1210409063589.wp_forum_user’` and that is correct as the importer was trying to find `wp_forum_user` which indeed does not exist.

Case 2. You used `wp_` on that second revision when I used forum_forums , forum_threads, forum_posts & users as the from_tablename’s, the error you posted was `’str1210409063589.wp_forums’` and that is not what I would expect to see here, it should be forum_forums.

Can you confirm by downloading the latest revision with this link and replacing Mingle.php with the version extracted from this zip file and use `wp_` as the table prefix.
https://gist.github.com/4534229/download

[@netweb Keymaster 12 years, 5 months ago]

Yes, thats what I wanted…. Why do you not have any WordPress tables in your old site?
Specificity if your users are not stored in `wp_users` where are they stored?

[@netweb Keymaster 12 years, 5 months ago]

If you view the source of the importer browser window, the ‘yellow window’ panel you should see the SQL queries listed in the source…

There are 4 main queries and they should look like this:

• SELECT convert(forum_forums.id USING …
• SELECT convert(forum_threads.id USING …
• SELECT convert(forum_posts.id USING …
• SELECT convert(users.ID USING …

This matches the table structure I listed above and use `wp_` as the table prefix.

[@netweb Keymaster 12 years, 5 months ago]

Ok… What is the table structure showing in phpMyAdmin?
This would be the old WP/Mingle site (these are based on the DB schema in your first post)

• wp_commentmeta
• wp_comments
• wp_forum_forums
• wp_forum_groups
• wp_forum_posts
• wp_forum_threads
• wp_forum_usergroup2user
• wp_forum_usergroups
• wp_links
• wp_options
• wp_postmeta
• wp_posts
• wp_terms
• wp_term_relationships
• wp_term_taxonomy
• wp_usermeta
• wp_users

The WP site you are importing into

• wp_commentmeta
• wp_comments
• wp_links
• wp_options
• wp_postmeta
• wp_posts
• wp_terms
• wp_term_relationships
• wp_term_taxonomy
• wp_usermeta
• wp_users

[@netweb Keymaster 12 years, 5 months ago]

Did you use `wp_` as the table prefix?