[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

When you say “The spam is removed “, if you’ve only marked it as spam, then the post still exists, and the system may recognise this – whether it should is another matter !

Try going into Dashboard>replies and deleting the offending reply.

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

Yes (at least it was in my case) – unless the old system used the same password system, then the encrypted password is alien to WP, so unless it just believes that all users are genuine, then it has to reject users.

Password lost works as a good mechanism as it sends email to user, so confirms identity.

I just created a page in my menu headed “old forum users” and put a message in there that they wuld need their password reset for security reasons, and to click lost password. I then used the [bbp-login] and [bbp-lost-pass] shortcodes to display that on screen under the message.

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

if you’re happy with rough and ready, I’ll try and cut some next week ! should be a simple couple of loops (but they’re never as simple as that !)

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

No problem – I spent several weeks getting my head around importing from a flat file database, in similar circumstances !

The real issue here is whether you can get email addresses. If you can, then if you import users as per my previous, they can use “password lost” to re-do their passwords, and then it’ll all be fine.

The problem otherwise is that posts link to user-id’s not names, so yes when they register they’ll get a new ID, and the old posts won’t show as theirs. Additionally logon names need to be unique so they can’t register with any existing username !

OK so what would I do?

I’d do as previous and create a user table to import, but call each user ‘old_xxx’ – you can do this before import, effectively your placeholder.

As each user registers, you can run some code around the posts to remap them. You’ll get a registration notice, so if you cut some code, then you can just run this each time someone registers. Basically you would just enter there old username and their new one. The code would look up the old ID, the new ID, and then run through posts to remap to the new user. If you’d like help with that, just let me know and I’ll try and cut a quick loop code that you can run straight on the website (pw protected of course)

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

ok, you need to eliminate whether it is a plugin or theme issue

Check other plugins

Check that no other plugins are affecting this.

Turn off all other plugins apart from bbpress, and see if that fixes the problem. If the problem is resolved, add back one at a time to see which is causing the conflict.

Check themes

If plugins are not the cause, then it may be a theme issue. Switch to a default theme, such as twentytwelve, and test.

and come back and let us know

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

Check other plugins

Check that no other plugins are affecting this.

Turn off all other plugins apart from bbpress, and see if that fixes the problem. If the problem is resolved, add back one at a time to see which is causing the conflict.

Check themes

If plugins are not the cause, then it may be a theme issue. Switch to a default theme, such as twentytwelve, and test.

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

try running the forum repairs

Dashboard>tools>forums>repair and run one at a time

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

So you’re fixed !

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

It could with some coding, but this message probably applies to many situations eg not logged in

Try this in your function file

//This function changes oldtext to newtext
function rchange_translate_text( $translated_text ) {
	if ( $translated_text == 'oldtext' ) {
	$translated_text = 'newtext'];
	}
	return $translated_text;
}
add_filter( 'gettext', 'rchange_translate_text', 20 );

where old text is the old text, and new text the new.

If you have more than one of these functions (seem to think I have given you this solution for another part), then just make sure the function name is unique eg this ones called rchange… so next time maybe call it schange… and change it in first and last lines to match.

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

what shortcodes?
what software versions of bbpress, buddypress and wordpress are you running?
what theme?
what plugins are you running?
url of your site?
when do you get 404 – logged in, not logged in?

etc.

We would love to help you, but give us a fighting chance of working out what is wrong by giving us some details 🙂

Come back and we’ll do our best to hep you !

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

and this on their site seems to suggest issues

http://help.olegnax.com/discussion/2099/retro-with-buddypressbbpress/p1

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

this just posted in wordpress

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-edit-own-post-with-bbpress?replies=1

is that the same website?

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

and if you make it public does it work?

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

This does presume that you’ll be doing a manual re-register – ie that the users will send you a name and email and you’ll just amend the username created in the conversion. If you want an automatic registration, then come back as that may be really complicated !

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

I imported from an access database (ditto conversion to sql) so know what you’re going through! see https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/documented-import-from-snitz-access-database/ for a blow by blow of how I did this and presume you’re already well into using custom importer https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/custom-import/

Now given that you’re going to re-register users, then we only need the topics to be assigned to a user which exists, which then when they re-register you can set up properly.

So for instance if you have a topic with the author name of “fred” – then you need a user fred to exist. This needs to be at ID level.

So in essence you’ll need to import

topic with author ID
User with same ID

Minimum info to create a user is (in theory – it may be less) ID, username, email and password.

In my case they mapped from a snitz access forum (via sql) as follows

MEMBER_ID _bbp_user_id
M_NAME user_login
M_PASSWORD _bbp_password
M_EMAIL user_email

So I would go about it this way.

What we need to end up with is a topics/replies table that has a author ID (number) against each topic/reply.
In a user table, we then need that same ID, together with name, password and email.

So first I’d go back to my lotus notes and see if topics has an author ID. If not we’ll need to create one (we’ll do that in a minute).

Then from the topics and replies lists create a set of autor names and (if it has them) ID’s

Create a user table (in my case in excel, but presume you’re familiar with creating in lotus notes) with the following headings

ID NAME PASSWORD EMAIL

If your topics/replies doesn’t have user ID’s then you just need to populate this table with unique ones, I’m pretty sure that you can just start with 1 and increment them – wordpress will assign new ID numbers as they come across starting with the next number that wordpress is not using.

For password, just put anything – and they can all be the same

Emails must be unique in theory, but don’t need to exist so abc@def.com is fine (you’ll be fixing these as they register, so doesn’t matter). But as you’re importing directly into the database, I reckon you could get away with them all being a single fictitious one. But if you have the skills, I’d create them as increments eg abc1@def.com, abc2@def.com just in case

so now you have a user table to import.

If you topics and replies don’t have author ID’s, then now go back to the topics and replies tables and run macro to populate a new column using name against the user table you’ve just created to populate with id.

Now we have topics with ID’s an da user table to import. Just check that column names match the importer, convert it all to sql, and off you go !

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

you’re welcome !

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

This comes from your theme’s main style, in my case

a:link { 
color : #EEEEEE !important ; 
}

if you want to change this throughout your site, then drop this into your style.css (or amend the current setting)

If you just want it in bbpress

#bbpress-forums .bbp-author-name a:link { 
color : #EEEEEE !important ; 
}

should work

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

No, nothing you can do, but I’ve just made an error in my plugin, and I think I have solved the problem above by chance !!

The plugin will let you do this, but you’ll have to wait for the plugin though as it is still in dev – expect a week !

I should be able to get content in as well with luck !

Sorry can’t be sooner, but a lot of code to write properly now I know it works !

and of course no guarantee that I won’t find some major flaw !

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

No problem, not an area I’m any good at, but maybe someone else reading may have the knowledge !

Hope you get fixed !

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

Yes, it is in the long list I have, and I have failed you !

As per your other post, this is all in related area, and I’ll try and have a look at this also !

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

ok, so that two posts I haven’t come back to you on !

I had a dig, and this one is not a two minute answer, and I may not be able to solve it for you.

However, I am working on a plugin for an entirely different use, but it is in the same code/function area, so as I am digging I try to see if I can work a fix for you.

BUT, I may not within time available to me

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

do you mean no. 8 in the attached?

bbPress Styling Crib

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

“I asked on another forum and had no luck.”

If this wasn’t

Support Forums

then post it there, you’ll more likely get someone who knows

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

In the spirit of free community software – if/when you work a solution out, do post it here, so that others following along in a few months/years can see how it was done !

Thanks

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

it means that someone has gained access to your site, and put some code into it.

You really need to go through all of these to fully clean up the site and make sure any “backdoors” have been closed:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/268083#post-1065779

How To Completely Clean Your Hacked WordPress Installation

http://ottopress.com/2009/hacked-wordpress-backdoors/
Additional Resources:
http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/scanner/
http://www.unmaskparasites.com/
http://blog.sucuri.net/2012/03/wordpress-understanding-its-true-vulnerability.html

or you can pay securi to fix it for you – see the link above !