[lagrou]

Sorry my dump wasn’t successful in helping you out here…

Slug vs. stub, I missed that one, I tried your version on my test install and it works !! It converted forum / topics / replies. Thanks! Couple of issues, questions, comments…

In WPS terminology, there’s one forum made of categories. They can be nested. Along with subforums, they may contain topics with replies. One of these cats may be made the “default category” which users will be prompted with when posting in the forum frontpage, that’s ‘symposium_cats.defaultcat’. If not set, the first of the list will be the default. I’m not sure what happens if two or more cats are made default…

‘Allow new topics’ will basically close the category to new topics. Likewise, in a topic there’s a checkbox to allow new replies or close the topic.

‘remote_addr’ is for monitoring spammers, I don’t think it deserves much interest in importing forum content as it’s mainly a short-time asset.

I’ll go through your callback functions tomorrow, but a quick comment about values in WPS: they are either ‘on’ or anything else, possibly not set, so it’s better to revert the switch and test against the “case ‘on'” and any other “default” ?

The group forum post from my demo install was converted. In the list of topics it is indicated as ‘no forum’ which is true (as per my previous post). We should either create a forum (named like the group itself for instance) or discard group forums topics altogether (WHERE symposium_topics.topic_group != 0).

About importing users, you raise an interesting point. I’d like to understand if this tool is a converter or an importer. Being located in a folder called /converter/ I had assumed it should work within the same WordPress install and convert it from one plugin to another, but you seem to move it towards the import of data accross platforms. Incidentally, I have been wondering why I need to fill the ‘Database Settings’ with db name / user / password / prefix, while I’m converting an existing forum within the same base. I’m happy with both, although I would tend to consider that most WP-to-WP imports will be performed within the same site…?

The other topics I’d like to bring at some point in our discussion are the attachments and the avatars. I’m not sure yet how bbPress handles attachments, for WPS they are physically stored in a location set from the “params” tab, and displayed either online or as links (depending on a setting). As far as avatars, once WPS is deactivated they are all gone, is anything possible or is this too dependent upon the plugin the admin may install for avatars ?

[Robin W]

The approach should be to get to a ‘clean’ site – ie one that works, and then add back theme, and then plugins until you find which is conflicting with bbPress.

Some plugins and themes delete database stuff when they are deleted, but many/most just leave it behind, so deactivating should do it.

If you have a local dev, then I’d deactivate ALL plugins, and change to a default theme.

Then test if this works. if it does then you have a good start point.

Then add bbPress and see if this produces an issue.

a) If it does, then come back with what theme, and confirm versions of bbpress, wordpress and theme and exactly what you are doing to test – ie user set to… go into… select…. and I’ll try to replicate.

or

b) If your base version above works, then add theme next. Don’t worry about the extend plugin, as you’re seeing if the issue is with a post, not bbPress !

Then add extend and re-test

Then each plugin and retest

[Robin W]

‘I might be missing something, but if deactivating the bbPress plugin solves the problem, the bbPress plugin is probably causing it.’

Depends how you define ’cause’

bbPress is tested against the default themes (twentyten, twentyeleven etc.) and latest versions of wordpress, and should be fully functional against that.

Since bbPress is just a plugin, it ranks equally alongside all other plugins and all non core themes. All of these have the capability to conflict with each other as theme and plugin authors use tweaks and add-ons to WordPress. The ability for two authors of plugins/themes to try to change an element is actually quite large, and changes can have unexpected results.

So if two authors both make a change and one overwrites the other, both can argue it is the other’s fault.

So I cannot get bbPress with a default theme to have your issue for authors or above.

If without any other plugins, and using a default theme, you get this issue, then please come back with what levels of access and I’ll look further.

[Stephen Edgar]

Created a pull request https://github.com/Lagrou/wps_extends_bbp_converter/pull/1 🙂

WPSymposium – 1st pass update …
* Cleans up PHPDoc for WPSymposium Converter
* Fixes Forum slug field mapping
* Add Topics section
* Adds Reply Section
* Adds callback_topic_status for open or closed topics
* Adds callback_sticky_status for sticky topics
* Adds reserved callback callback_forum_type to be implemented
* Adds reserved callback callback_forum_status to be implemented

Per my previous comment we should be able to determine forum type and forum status.

I haven’t added a users section yet, need to think about this a little, there are two use cases, if you add bbPress to same WordPress install as you have used for WPS vs importing into a fresh WordPress install where WPS has never existed.

[john peel]

Hi,
I just installed a new bbpress form as plugin with wordpress theme named Dicovery. Somehow it is not working. On the main page once I logged in as any user I can’t see any place to start a new discussion or comment. It seems that only admin can create a new discussion.

Also, when I try to log in using my admin account and try to create a new topic, I am not able to select the Discussion group/category, it seems that it is disable somehow.

Can anyone please help me rectifying this.

Thanks
JOhn

[ThemeTon]

I can’t wait until next version of the plugin. Therefore I’ve changed something here for my need.
The problem is same as Stephen’s explain, parent post gets reply id.

And I’ve removed treated (sub) reply possibility from posts and added page_walk sub function into BBP_Walker_Reply class (bbpress/includes/common/classes.php).

Those changes won’t allow sub replies but now my forum shows correct ordering 🙂

Thanks a lot

[Stephen Edgar]

Ah cool… In a future I dream of it would be nice to migrate these importers to standalone WordPress importers so when you import Joomla to WordPress if you also want Kunena to bbPress then check a box… Not going to happen anytime soon, but one day once the core WordPress import and export gets some loving updates this should be a little easier to implement. 🙂

[Robin W]

new version 1.5 with unlimited groups just added to website

bbp Private Groups

and will be uploaded to wordpress plugins in the next few days !

[Nathan]

@robin-w thanks for the function. This is not going to be as easy as I expected.

It was easy to hook into the new user creation with “user_register”, but WordPress is gives me a “Fatal error: Call to undefined function” when I try to call bbp_add_user_forum_subscription from this hook (my theme’s function.php).

I saw somewhere else that some functions need to be run within a bbpress loop?

@iclimb, I’ll be happy to share if I get it working.

[arunondeck]

Hi,

Basically I am looking t for a plugin that would monitor the forum for some predefined keywords and if they are entered, in a topic or reply, mark that as pending, show a message to the user who entered that and send a mail to the administrator notifying of the same.

Wordpress discussion settings do mark any comment as pending, but if I could edit it to send a notification mail to the administrator as well it could help. Any input on how to accomplish this would be helpful.

Thanks

[Stagger Lee]

You people if you dont mind paying little over 50 € you can try this converter:

Kunena add-on

I would not advertise commercial plugin here if i not tested theirs K2 to WordPress converter. It is simply brilliant. Imported absolte everything, custom fields, attachments, dates, page views, and aranged whole WordPress so that i didnt have any work to do with organizing content.

[iclimb]

Hi nhadsall.

This is just the function i’mo looking for. have you made something that works? I need all future users to be subscribed to a specific forum, but still be able to unsubscribe afterwards.

My php skills are wery sparse, so i hope you might share your solution or help me one the way.
I know my way around wordpress and coding in general so i won’t take hours of guidance 🙂

Thanks in advance.

Regards Christian

[Robin W]

@vikr0001 – thanks for your comments.

There are many ‘group’ and ‘member’ plugins for wordpress out there, and whilst they share some common features, many work in totally different ways, and to make my plugin work with any/all of these could be very difficult.

Alongside this people use group and member plugins in different ways, so how you would like my plugin to work with groups may be different from how someone else would like to

I can usually however make it so that my plugin doesn’t conflict – ie not cause any issues and can be used alongside.

If my plugin is conflicting with ‘groups’ plugin, please let me know and I’ll take a look.

If you want me to look at any further at compatibility, can you summarise what you would like my plugin to do with the groups plugin that it currently doesn’t, and I may take a look to see how easy that would be to do.

Regards

Robin

[Juan]

I migrated the attachments succesfully. You must edit the script:

Change these lines (6 and 7) with the correct path:

require( '/home/user/public_html/wordpress/wp-load.php' );
require( '/home/user/public_html/wordpress/wp-admin/includes/image.php' );

Add the data of your site and database (lines 10 to 14):

$host="localhost";
$uname="db_username";
$pass="db_username_password";
$database = "";
$site_url = 'http://www.example.com';

In line 28 change j25_kunena_attachments to the same name as your attachments table name.

I’m sorry for the trouble but, as I said, the script is in very early stage but made the job for me.

[MediaSVI]

I am looking for a site wide advanced search plugin so I can have 1 search widget that will search both bbPress and wordpress and have advanced settings if possible.

Thanks for your time.

[MediaSVI]

I totally forgot about a file you worked on back 7 months or so ago importing from VB4. You where helping figure all this out. As it turns out I ended not moving to WordPress at that time.

Fast forward to this thread…I went back to this thread https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/import-forums-error/

and downloaded the vb convert.php file you had been working on and did a new import with it and it worked!

YouTube and SoundCloud are working as they did in VB4 posts! All threads open up!

The only issue new is crumbs. Once you click into a post the crumbs look like this (Home>Topic>Topic Title) you loose Forum crumb. Also Stickies post colors are very light in color?

You are welcome to check out the forum here. The music forum has lots of SoundCloud and you can see YouTube in the Reason lounge,

[lagrou]

I have a forum running WP Symposium and WordPress, all current versions, that I want to convert to bbPress. Won’t elaborate on reasons unless deemed to do so, LOL.

I have first started with a converter of my own, which was creating custom post types for forums, topics, and replies. Unfortunately, counters in bbPress weren’t set, so the frontend pages were incorrect, replies were not chained one after the other in topics, etc.

While digging these issues, I found out that bbPress has its own converter that works using modules. So I started over by creating a module, based on the existnig ones and URLs given in this forum, and tried to make it work for forums, first. But, they simply won’t convert, whatever I try I get ‘no forums to convert’.

While I have a relatively good knowledge of WP Symposium database tables, via custom developments etc., I’m at a loss on bbPress side. Hopefully someone can catch my call so we work together on adding WPS to the list of importable plateforms for bbPress…?

Thanks a lot,
Antoine

[Stephen Edgar]

This is currently how bbPress works if you have ‘revisions’ enabled each time a topic or reply is edited a new log entry will appear as per your image.

We have a ticket somewhere in Trac to update this similar to the UI experience for WordPress post or page revisions, I just kind find it right at this minute 😉

Edit: Oops, your are displaying twice, give what Robin wrote above a try 😉

[Anonymous User 5853594]

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2258
The link disappeared, yay for mobile devices… -_-

[Anonymous User 5853594]

@synaptic
I’ve taken a look through trac and found a similar feature request (). Could you take a look at it to see if this is similar enough, if not I’ll see if I could open a new ticket to get this to the attention of the developers.

[Stephen Edgar]

I would suggest you upgrade to WordPress 3.9.1.

Ultimate TinyMCE is NOT compatible with WordPress 3.9.x and is being replaced by WPEdit (it is worth reading the info via that link and the alternatives it offers)

I would suggest switching to Twenty Thirteen or Twenty Fourteen themes and disable all your plugins except bbPress to narrow things down.

Once you see bbPress working with the code in your original post to enable bbPress Visual Editor then go from there… Enable your theme, does it still work? Next try one of the TinyMCE plugins with the default options, does it still work? Now update any settings in that plugin, does it still work? Now enable your other plugins one by one, does it still work?

[MediaSVI]

Ok I got it installed again by downloading my VB db and than uploading it to a new db on my new servers and then imported from that db.

I am using WordPress Smith 3.9.1 and yet again the same thing happens like the picture I posted earlier. I did check the forum before using the repair tool and they all worked but they were backwards in order also my YouTube videos & SoundCloud embeds are not showing.

[Asynaptic]

@tieptoep No problem. I’m glad it is clear now.

It is way beyond ‘inelegant’. It is beyond baffling why it hasn’t been fixed yet. And beyond frustrating that the devs strongly push back instead of simply acknowledging the issue and working on fixing it.

Unfortunately I’m not a coder and have no idea how to even open a ticket or word it properly in this context. But as a user, it is self-evident that the way bbPress uses permalinks needs fixing.

Also, through this thread and many others, it is also very obvious that this is a very important and irritating issue that has been brought up going back as far back as 7 years!

As I mentioned, there is or was a plugin which claimed to fix the issue. I don’t have access to the code and even if I did, there is a chance that the code is now out of date with bbPress’ core development since the plugin would be a few years old.

All I can do is to clearly state the case for permalinks, their importance and request that it be placed at the highest priority. I hope you and other bbPress users add their voice so that the devs take this seriously.

Unfortunately, there is no way to prioritize issues in bbPress development. Other projects have a way to measure the community’s voice in terms of what needs to be fixed first. For example, here’s symposium’s page:

http://www.wpsymposium.com/voting/

Both buddypress and bbpress need this functionality. Like yesterday. That way issues like this do not fall through the cracks.

Of course, this is assuming that the dev team is serious about creating a 2 way communication channel with the wider community rather than a 1 way.

As Matt M. mentioned in a recent video, he measures the success of wordpress in general by how well and fast it reacts to the needs of its community. I would suggest the same applies to bbpress and buddypress.

[orionghf]

Hi
yes this is what Im using .. but Im still using WordPress 3.8.3
The MCE editor is displaying perfectly and I can use all its features .. but when I save the content from the front end, the content is displayed with the html codes ..
Could it be a theme problem?

[Stephen Edgar]

I’m not sure of the exact issue you are having a problem with!

The snippet of code you have looks correct via https://codex.bbpress.org/enable-visual-editor/

I have done a fair bit of testing of WordPress v3.9/v3.9.1 and bbPress v2.5.3 compatability with the above snippet to ensure things are not broken with the new TinyMCE v4.0.x in WordPress v3.9.

I have also used this plugin to test the above also https://wordpress.org/plugins/tinymce-advanced/