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Jimi, yeah that is looking promising. I think you are a great asset for this project and you speak a lot of sense and know your stuff. I hope people listen to you and take your thoughts seriously and onboard.

I reverted my main forum back to phpbb unfortunately last night. it’s a bit of a mess right now as I also have no internet working properly and I still have files to upload. I wasted quite a few days on that but I have no one to blame but myself for not researching enough. I wanted to move forward but I went backwards. I like wordpress so I feel a bit disappointed with all this.

We only progress when we can listen and learn! Constructive criticism should be welcomed not shut out or taken personally. There is great potential here but a little lack of acceptance of what people really want.

thanks and all the best!

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Jimi, I was also disappointed when I installed BBPress and found it to be very unlike a forum I had known in the past. Out of the box it is too simplistic with several themes I tried it with. I just wanted a forum look but this does not seem possible unless you hire developers or are a really good coder with loads of time.

I do appreciate the effort of the developers as an open source software. unfortunately I had the wrong impression from reading reviews of several wordpress solutions as they all pointed to this one as the best. To be blunt I would not like to try the worst ones.

I have had a lot of issues, many plugins are not compatible and I still have nothing that looks remotely like a normal forum. I actually just searched to how to enable PM’s and that is when I found this post and another which says basically you need to install the Buddypress which is an overkill it seems.

I do hope that BBPress will eventually cater to everyone’s needs but sadly I think I have to look at another solution and revert back to my PHPBB forum form 2 weeks ago. Then I will consider going with IP board or Vbulletin.

Jimi, can you tell me why you stopped using IPB?

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well I appreciate it been open source, My intention was to point out something’s that I was disappointed with and not to put it down. If I had that intention I would have not spent 3 days upgrading to BBpress. Sometimes the best way to see things improved is to give feedback.

Thanks Rob, I will take all these things into consideration.

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Here is a forum that looks good: https://www.namepros.com/

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Hi Robin, so you don’t like feedback here? I seemed to have hit a sensitive nerve with you! I did try to make some positives as well as what I thought were honest concerns. I looked on the support forum and there were also other older threads with no replies, not just mine, If you can’t take feedback about what you do then I’m sorry to say you will never learn or grow. As for it been free, well I’m not going to go into a debate about that. But I believe there would be ways to make money out of this like here: http://www.packtpub.com/bbpress-complete-comprehensive-guide/book

Rob, thanks for the reply. I have now put instructions into my post as suggested.

I had found the theme by lying but from what I seen all it basically did was separate the man forum page to have borders in between the categories and that was it or is there more?

Both that and the Suportte theme just seem to be a very simple white theme that I can’t see how they look like Vbulletin, Invision or PhpBB. This is the demo I found which is just a screenshot: https://camo.githubusercontent.com/0370bd78798f25ca777774b376651cc71ef4fff9/687474703a2f2f692e696d6775722e636f6d2f386c45694144442e6a7067

Am I missing something?

Your own layout looks promising, I hope it goes well.

As for examples

Just any thing that looks like a forum:

here is one theme I do like, just a screenshotL http://invisionmodding.com/index.php?app=downloads&module=display&section=screenshot&record=1678&id=1408&full=1

even IP board support forum is very basic: http://community.invisionpower.com/

here are just some random links to IP board forums I found, nothing special but just demonstrating a forum look with a structure of a forum with a skin.

osatuk.com/community/forums/
mlbboards.com/
community.simtropolis.com/

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Just in case anyone else wants to know what I did:

I just searched for moving WordPress from blog to root. I followed the instructions for a simple way written in the last year.

I backed up everything first. I changed the site and url settings in wordpress.

I then used Cpanel file manager to clean out the root but left the blog and forum folders, then copy the contents of the blog folder to the root and copied the forum folder to the root. I renamed the old folders for backup purposes.

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I have over 10,000 members, only a few thousand at most would be active though. I also want to give them an option to login with social media.

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I successfully imported a 10 year old forum over in last few days. I had no mods on my forum. it went really well with the built in importer.

the only issue II have is avatars were not imported

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this can be closed, its all done.

Thanks for the great support 😉

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well this is what I want to do but I want to have no blog folder, just have the blog on root and the forum in /forum folder.

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OK, so I’m hoping someone can help here.

I’m ok with it having the blog in the root directory but doing away with the folder “blog” and have the forum in the directory /forum.

At the moment it’s in /blog then the forum is in blog/forum

I want to take out the blog directory so it’s like this:

/
/forum

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OK, I have done the import. To simplify my questions, how do I change my forum now from /blog/forums/
to just /
in other words change it to the root or top level?