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there isnt an option within bbpress to do it but if you install https://buddydev.com/plugins/bp-default-email-notification-settings-control/ this and modify everyone to ahve no notifications it seems to stop it.

The notificatiosn are still a bit of a mystery to me tbh. they seem to be queued somewhere but i have not had time to look into it. installign that plugin and deactivating all notifications worked for me.

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oh and here is the plugin to amke vbseo style urls in bbpress https://github.com/siparker/bbpress-vbulletin-permalink

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Hi,

thats not that small lol. but anyway a few tips.

I imported 2500 rows at a time. on a dedicated server. using chrome.the last poioint is improtant as firefix inevitably crashed part way through the process.

before starting i pruned all of the crap posts that provided no seo value over a few years old.

do purge all tags. especially if you used something like the auto tag generator beforehand. it take a very long time to do tags otherwise.

i then ran it over about a day or so and it did work.

Also ensure you are using the 2.6 alpha release thats available as this made a difference to me when importing.

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@consultjoseph I think this is down to the id not being available.

We are trying various dfifferent ways of doign this now with different url structures. Once we have a solution we will release it as part of the Coffeeblack BBpress extended plugin.

the default code still works for search engine friendly urls but there are a load of other bits i am working on too. like auto setup of urls to match default vbulletin, default kunena, default phpbb and so on. so you can just choose the format from the admin side and it will just work.

Also looking at a sensible way to auto redirect all old urls to the new ones. Which is a harder propsective change but nonetheless it should be done so this solution can work for everyone.

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The Coffeeblack Plugin for BBpress and Mediapress does this

Mediapress BBpress Gallery Insert From Editor

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You can use this

Mediapress BBpress Gallery Insert From Editor

It works with media press but even if you dont use mediapress it works by adding the img bbcode into the posts.

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@themichaelglenn thats interesting. i know we trried various ways to get the url;s working for topics with no ID but i didnt try with the normal forum structures. Will have to look into that.

Could you post the changes on github perhaps just in an issue discussion.

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@themichaelglenn @readmenow
You are welcome.

No one actually made any contributions in the end.

the f- part of the plugin was in order to replicate exactly my old vbulletin urls. So it can be removed if not required for your install.

We are just putting a few final touches to our bigger plugin for bbpress / buddypress which includes all the various bits of development we have done in order to make bbpress work more like vbulletin. should be launching in the next few weeks. One of the main aprts of this is i want a configurable permalink structure part in there so things can be added / removed from the rewrite rules to provide variations on the hierarchy.

One thing is the way it deals with forums and subforums.

for your query about removing the number before the forum name and the structure bit

The URL for the child forum is now

forum/square-enix/final-fantasy-vii

and I want it to be

forum/final-fantasy-vii

The interesting thing is that the topic “Cloud’s Limit Break” still shows as

forum/final-fantasy-vii/143-cloud-s-limit-break

which is the URL structure that I want, when someone clicks on a topic, so I’m happy with that.

But I can’t seem to figure out how to remove the parent or top level forum from the forum URL.

You Cannot currently remove the identifying number from the last url part.

if it is a forum or a topic or a reply you must have the ID of the final item in the last url part.
the reason for this is because of the way BBpress saves these as custom post types the id is required to determine what post type it is. forum topic or reply.
without the ID you cannot govern what is displayed. There is no other (correct me if i am wrong @netweb ) for the system to know if /new is a forum a reply or a topic without the id being passed in.

We can certainly build it so the Id is after the name rather than before it. i will sort that out so it works.

So you can have

forum/subforum/ID-topic-name
or
forum/ID-topic-name
or
forum/subforum/topic-name-ID

for topics to be shown. basically the pieces preceding the final topic item are not really relevant its just what you want in there. you can have as much or as little hierarchy as you want. So long as the ID is in the last url part.

however you cannot have

forum/subforum-name/ because we must have an ID

so it would always be

forum/ID-sub-forum-name/ or forum/subforum-name-ID/

IF you check you can actually remove mostly anything before the final url part which contains the ID. discussion on that in github where i explain why this is not an SEO problem. its how most things work in WP.

If you want to post your current forum structures here i will create permalink optioins to replicate these. or rewrites to deal with moving from them to the new structure.

I have the Kunena one from above

forum/forumName/topicID-topicName

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I recently moved VB to bbpress for my forum.
i pruned a lot before moving.
9k users now.
20k topics
115k replies

I managed the import ok. the key to this is pateiance to a certain degree. the 2.6 alpha i am running worked better for the import than 2.5

However. if moving from VB your in for a bit of a shock. as it does not work the same way. so please do double check everythign before you move. one of my other posts has a plugin to create VB like urls as i came from vbseo across to bbpress which has a very different hierarchy.
however it does put your forum into wordpress which opens up amny other options. which is why i did it.

If you need any help let me know and i will do what i can to advise what i ahve done / used to make bbpress more like vb.

Two major things to not do
Do not leave the default notifications enabled when you move the forum. mine sent every notification ever out again. somethign like 250k emails got sent every time i did the import.
And on top of that i had several test versions so by the time i realised i had well and truly pissed a lot of people off.
Secondly the basic spam filters bbpress uses are different to how vb works and will possibly block some users. I know new moderation stuff is due in the near future but its not in yet so the spam options available are a bit difficult to work with.

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perfect thanks robin

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Hi

It is specifically not to add a item into a theme folder as i want the plugin to be totally standalone. with no “Extra” edits required.

So adding the location can that work to add a location within the plugin to view templates etc.

so the template lcoation would be /wp-content/plugins/myplugin/templates/replacementbbpresstemplate.php

Will that work?

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@Robkk Yep

You ahve been mentioned and someone replied to your posts etc

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yep no errors showing in console now.

runs normal speed for me

probably be sped up a bit on a dedicated server or a tweaked vps but basically running well

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hit f12 and look at console output

your site is tryign to do a few bits which its waiting for and not running

http://vpinball.com/wp-content/plugins/bbp-style-pack/css/bspstyle.css 404 (Not Found)

then some jquery stuff which is either not loading or says you are using deprecated functions in jquery.min

also looks like some facebook issue possibly. it cant find your application error i think.

‘//@ sourceURL’ and ‘//@ sourceMappingURL’ are deprecated, please use ‘//# sourceURL=’ and ‘//# sourceMappingURL=’ instead.
flyzoo.start.js:49 Flyzoo > loadFlyzoo()
flyzoo.v2.0.0.js:1 Flyzoo V2.5.6 – Start //widget-b.flyzoo.co/
flyzoo.v2.0.0.js:4 StartFlyzoo
jquery.min.js:1’//@ sourceURL’ and ‘//@ sourceMappingURL’ are deprecated, please use ‘//# sourceURL=’ and ‘//# sourceMappingURL=’ instead.
jquery.min.js:1’//@ sourceURL’ and ‘//@ sourceMappingURL’ are deprecated, please use ‘//# sourceURL=’ and ‘//# sourceMappingURL=’ instead.
jquery.min.js:1’//@ sourceURL’ and ‘//@ sourceMappingURL’ are deprecated, please use ‘//# sourceURL=’ and ‘//# sourceMappingURL=’ instead.
ping?client_id=898443556938827&domain=vpinball.com&origin=1&redirect_uri=http%3A%2F%2Fstaticxx.face…:1 Application Error: There was a problem getting data for the application you requested. The application may not be valid or there may be a temporary glitch. Please try again later.
jquery.min.js:1 ‘//@ sourceURL’ and ‘//@ sourceMappingURL’ are deprecated, please use ‘//# sourceURL=’ and ‘//# sourceMappingURL=’ instead.

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I have a load of wierd issues after trying this again

Import seems to get as far as favourites then stops there never progressing

Forums have replies missing or 1 reply in a thread i know has many replies

i have tried all of the repairing options one by one. all ahve run and no change

last post replies for most people are from 8 years ago (the first posts to be imported)

there are basically so many issues i dont know where to start.

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cool will try it later

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ok i will do @netweb . Is it a simple enough upgrade to 2.6 as i want to try and avoid reinstalling everything if possible.

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just a warning. last tiem i posted to jobs.wordpress.net i ahd to find a way to remove the posting after thousands of emails came through.

If you post the problems here there is plenty of free help.

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code works fine for me to include topics posts and replies but same as above it shows private replies.

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I replied on github. with the answer

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Hi @natesirrah

please explain the

“For authority to be passed allll the way down to the topics, we need for the forums and categories’ permalinks to live without these -postIDs. That way, (mysite.com/forums/category-name/forum-name/topic-name-postIDstring) can get the full trickle down benefit from any links /category-name/ and /forum-name/ receive.”

bit please. I am not sure what you mean here.

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ok cool have a good rest and ill look forward to your feeback.

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ok. so will this be defunct then or will i need to update it? or can you build this into core?

Just want to know to see what i will need to pay attention to in the future.

and looking forward to your pull request (what a nerdy thing to say)

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@netweb

https://github.com/siparker/bbpress-vbulletin-permalink

Also i was reading yesterday about the bbprewss changes due for the next version.

will the changes affect this rewrite set? i see bbpress replies as comments?

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Here you go

http://www.coffeeblack.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bbpress-vbulletin-permalinks-1.zip

for now it just basically replicates the permalinks that I have in Vbulletin but it puts the threads into their parent forums etc

You are welcome

Please post any changes here and ill setup the github properly so it can be updated there.

Mods admins etc please see if you can integrate this as an option in the core.