You can use the standard WordPress import and export tool, no need for a bbPress to bbPress importer
Using the default wordpress export/import tool:
The problem started when importing the topics, they would import fine but would not display or show up in the parent forums. This was easily fixed if I resaved them. But this is an issue due to having over 2,400 topics and 15,000 replies.
I ran into another problem, because we have imported the user and usermeta table first, when importing topics and replies it asked to assign them to the user account. I manually have to select the user to assign them to, if I do not it would assign them all to my admin account. So I tried that with the topics and assigned them all to user account. However this did not assign all topics to the user account, some (about 150) topics were still assigned to me.
So what I tried was doing a raw forums, topics and replies data dump of the posts and postmeta and importing to the existing NEW tables. This was almost flawless with 0 data loss except for the fact that there are duplicate ID’s, about 1400 in the posts table and thousands more in the postmeta table.
Do you know of a way that we can run a script on the 2 tables and give all unique ID’s starting at a specific number that would match both the id on posts and post_id on postmeta table. I have extracted the forums, topic and reply data and imported them to their own table. If I gave new id’s I could easily import them without duplicate errors. What do you think of this? This is the way we really prefer to do it for 0 data loss. Keeping the forums, topics and replies exactly as they are now.
version bbPress 2.5.14
We’re going BBPRESS TO BBPRESS both same version.
ok, I’ve done a very basic version in my style pack plugin, which would let you use a shortcode in say a widget.
bbp style pack
once installed go to
dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>shortcodes and see the last one
In our case, we have only 5 forums and we were thinking it would be nice to show the same information available in the “Forums” section in the backend of WordPress where it displays a column of the number of subscribers for each forum.
Pascals tollkit will show the number of sucsbribers in the backend as a column
bbP Toolkit
I need to do much more to do what you want for the rest.
Using default wordpress exporter/importer. Moving forums, topics and replies from one database to the other. BBPRESS to BBPRESS.
Also found that I have to resign users to their topics and replies on the import, which is very time consuming. If I just click import, the topics and replies get assigned to my account, when the other users account do exist.
I finally found out that if I just do a raw mysql dump I can import all the data with 0 loss and they get tied to the correct account but the problem with that lies in the ID – I get duplicates because of the data that is already existing from pages and blog posts. Do you have a script that I can run to easily changes ID’s across 2 tables “posts” and “postmeta”? I think that would be the best way of handling a migration.
I imported forums and that went fine.
I imported topics and they do not show in any forums. I re-save topics and they show up in forums. But having to save over 1,400 topics is a problem.
I have not yet imported replies but based on other people’s problems this is also going to be an issue. I cannot re-save over 15,000 replies to have them show up in topics.
This is using the WordPress built in export and import.
I have tried disabling all plugins except bbpress. I have tried saving permalinks. Nothing has worked.
I have tried the latest bbpress version, I have tried the RC version and I have tried the beta version. All with the same results.
There’s actually some information on the updates that need to be made to the Post by Email plugin here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/working-with-newer-wp-releases/
I’d be very happy if maintenance of this plugin resumed somewhere. I’m working on migrating an email group to bbPress and this is a core functionality the users don’t want to lose.
So, the developer for the moderation plugin provided a fix for this (you can see it here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moderated-topics-dont-send-new-topic-notifications-on-approval/). Their plugin adds a front-end option for managing topics, so this works through the front-end. They mentioned that it could also work through the back-end/Dashboard by using “transition_post_status”. Anyway, thanks again for your feedback and help with this.
Matt
when they first log on they are allocated the default role that you set in dashboard>settings>forums.
you can use the bbpress logon widget in a sidebar, use the shortcode [bbp-login] on a page or post, use any wordpress logion plugin or technique, or add a login to your menu using
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-style-pack/
1. bbpress uses wordpress post database, so these are wordpress post numbers, so no, you cannot have different numbers for bbpress (without completely re-writing bbpress !).
2.
I also wanted to ask if there was a plugin that supported sharing bbpress topics.
None that I know of
The official WordPress job board is https://jobs.wordpress.net and they have a Migration category that seems like this would fall under.
When AMP plugin just update to Enable for bbpress,
But my website got 404 error with bbPress Permalinks with ID plugin
(https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-permalinks-with-id/)
Has anyone solve this problem?
Thank you.
Thanks in advance Robin!
In our case, we have only 5 forums and we were thinking it would be nice to show the same information available in the “Forums” section in the backend of WordPress where it displays a column of the number of subscribers for each forum.
For the frontend, we were thinking this would be the main /forums/ page. And, if it’s not too taxing on the system, to show it at the top of the individual forum page beside “Subscribe” to help suggest you to subscribe.
However, if it’s too taxing on the site to display the subscriber count, we completely understand. We assumed WordPress might already have a way to calculate it on the fly since it’s always displayed in the backend but completely understand things are not simple.
Appreciate your time in between other projects!
bis bold
I is italic
B-quote puts a wordpress block around the text – exactly what is set by your theme
Del – is delete quotes
img is an image
ul is an unordered list
ol is an ordered list
li is a list item
code is code – stops the display from executing, just displays it
close tags – closes all open tags
this plugin will help you style the forum pages
bbp style pack
having a button at the top which goes to the form at the bottom can be achieved by
bbp style pack
dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>buttons
Having the from hidden is quite possible, but I don’t know of any already written code to do that
When I try to access a user profile (not an administrator), I get an error 404.
From the administrator user comes in and does not go from the usual. What to do?
WordPress version: 4.9.2
Version of bbPress: 2.5.14-6684.
Site address maks12345.biz.ua (site in Russian language)
Hi there,
For job postings, please use one of the resources such as https://jobs.wordpress.net/ or https://jetpack.pro/ .
Or find a local slack (https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/handbook/about/teams/local-slacks/) and look for a job channel.
Pascal.
Hi. I have been trying to create a version of my website in Spanish and it is proving more difficult than I expected. I have tried language plugins such as Polylang and it created a massive problem that locked me out of my own website and created issues frontend so I am not willing to risk that again.
I am now looking into creating a multisite but the process seems quite complicated so I am wondering if there are registered WordPress specialists who would do this for me for a fee as again, I don’t want to risk further issues to the normal working of my site.
Site: http://www.canaryadminservices.com
WP Versión: WordPress 4.9.2 running Azoom Child Theme theme
Thanks in advance,
Sabrina
this function is now in
bbp topic count
see
dashboard>settings>bbp topic count>shortcodes
Hi Robin,
Sorry for the late reply. I had a health issue that set me back a few weeks. I did some testing on a vanilla WordPress install this morning, and it looks like this issue affects standard BBPress as well. Here’s what I did:
1.) Set up a local WordPress installation. Added Buddypress, BBPress and WP Mail Logging as the only plugins (latest versions on everything).
2.) Created several users and a forum. Logged in with each user account and subscribed it to the forum.
3.) Went to Settings->Discussion from the WP Dashboard and set it to hold a comment in the moderation queue if it has one or more hyperlinks
4.) Created a new topic that had no hyperlinks (i.e., did not go to moderation). WP Mail Logging showed that a new topic notification was sent and all subscribed users were BCC’d on the email.
5.) Created a new topic with a hyperlink. The topic went to moderation.
6.) Approved/published the topic with an admin account. No new topic notification email was sent.
Another issue is that new topics that are added directly from the Dashboard (i.e., by going to Dashboard->Topics->New Topics) also did not generate a new topic notification. The moderation approvals have to be done from the backend/Dashboard, so maybe these two issue are related?
Thanks again for your help with this! The moderation plugin author finally did get back to me and said they’ve added the issue to their backlog, but now I’m wondering if this is something that should be fixed in standard BBPress?
If necessary, the site owner I’m working said they might be willing to pay directly to get this issue fixed. However, their company is a small non-profit, so they probably won’t have a lot of extra funds for this sort of thing.
Matt
Stephen,
I’ll ask about the database schema, but since Rainmaker is proprietary software there’s no guarantee that I will be able to get it. Stay tuned.
Also, liderxlt asked if I was able to solve the problem. The answer is… kind of. Since I’m copying all of my content over from one site to another, in my desperation I ended up hacking the WordPress Importer plugin so that it does not look for conflicts in the $post_parent value during import. This means that existing Post content will be overwritten if it shares the same $post_parent value, which would be an untenable solution in most cases. But since my content will be identical from site to site, I’m counting it as a necessary evil.
Here is the snippet I excised from ‘wordpress-importer.php’:
if ( $post_parent ) {
// if we already know the parent, map it to the new local ID
if ( isset( $this->processed_posts[$post_parent] ) ) {
$post_parent = $this->processed_posts[$post_parent];
// otherwise record the parent for later
} else {
$this->post_orphans[intval($post['post_id'])] = $post_parent;
$post_parent = 0;
}
}
Of course, I made these changes as a separate (cloned) plugin, so I also had to update the register_importer function as well. That way I have access to the original Importer for non-Forum Posts and Pages.
Like I said, this is a brute force hack, and not an elegant solution. If anyone has an elegant solution, I’m all ears. Thanks!
bbptress uses wordpress registration, so only one registration needed
Forums and Topics are totally separate custom post types, correct?
Yes.
I am reticent to start delving into this plugin – there are hundreds of thousand of plugins in wordpress and I only go into those that are specifically bbpress and then only a few of those – it can take a day easily to look at and understand a plugins code 🙂
There is a hook in topic creation that you could use
The following code is untested, but you could put this in your functions file. You must be able to edit that file outside of wordpress (ie NOT using dashboard>appearance>editor) in case it errors so you can amend it.
add_action( 'bbp_new_topic_pre_extras', 'new_topic_id', 10, 1 );
function new_topic_id ($forum_id=0) {
if (empty ($forum_id)) $forum_id = 31086 ;
return $forum_id ;
}
This will put any topic that doesn’t have a forum into that forum.
