[mtedwards]

Hi Guys,

I am moving a medium sized forum from one WordPress site to another existing site.

Everytime I use the WordPress exporter / Importer it works, but is missing the Topics. I have tried doing it on a database level but keep over writing existing data on the current site.

I’ve noticed there is a specific forum importer but doesn’t offer any import from current bbpress 2 forums.

Any advice?

Thanks

[maxime77]

Ok, we figured it out. The problem comes from the french version of bbPress. The latest version is over a year old and it’s based on an older version of bbPress, so it doesn’t show replies…

This puts us in a bit of a bind, but at least now we know what the problem is.

Btw clickmac, I noticed I couldn’t see the replies in the link you posted for your site, just a bunch of empty space. I had the same thing happen when I tested bbPress on a clean install of WordPress. My collegue had me try it with IE and there they were. So with Firefox you don’t see anything. For more info :

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/user-profiles-topics-created-and-replies-dont-show-up-for-me-either/

[stickFinger]

I guess i have the same problem as you my file is different from moebis´ and so i could not find the correct lines.

I´m not a coder but i can assure you that i know how to copy and paste 🙂

But you´re right, maybe i´ll start with BP 1.6.5 and use this Nice PLug to get the project as I wish for now. I have a similar project as Yours but very smaller

A district site ( with maybe 4 to 10 ) and with subforums like Health, Education, Secutity, Traffic, etc.

So for instance:

Brooklyn:
–Health
–Education
–Traffic

Queens:
–Health
–Education
–Traffic

But i still have some concerns about future updates, you know. i´m a bit stucked 🙂

[stickFinger]

At least one response Fraternity 🙂
It seem that matter are kind of…forgotten

For my kind of site/ project this would be perfect.
Also i´d like to mention a hidden (at least for me) fact: on a new install of bp 1.7 + bbpress we have no choice to stay with the now “retired” bp forum compnent.

I´m telling you that because with the old forum component + we can achieve buddypress subgroups and subforums aswell.

moebis…where the hell are you ? 🙂 we need your hack. please elaborate a bit more …

[boki_]

Exactly, it’s 1.2 version… Sorry, I’m a bit new to wp & related so I don’t know the history…

Thanks

[xmasons]

Optionally you can restrict access through functions.php using a function with !current_user_can( ‘publish_pages’ ) and add_action( ‘admin_init’, ‘no_admin_access’, 1 )

[adrake9]

https://bbpress.org/download/legacy/ – has info on older versions

Its probably 1.2 which i think is that last standalone version. bbpress is much better if its running inside of wordpress, it eliminates issues with members.

I would install WordPress and then activate bbPress through the plugin version.

[tibmix]

Yes, sure

`
AuthType Basic
AuthName “wp-admin”
require valid-user
AuthUserFile “/home/vssracin/.htpasswds/public_html/vssracing/wp-admin/passwd”
Files “admin-ajax.php”>
Satisfy any
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
/Files>
`

[boki_]

Hello. I’ve just switched from wampserver to ampps by softaculous, because it’s python/perl default integration, and I’ve also noticed their script installer. And there is WordPress in CMS/blog scripts, and also bbPress in forum scripts. I was curious, and I’ve installed bbpress, and this isn’t a wordpress with bbpress plugin already installed, but it’s only bbpress, standalone, strict forum without pages, posts, everything that wordpress has, but only with very similar to wordpress file structure and dashboard. But here it can be only downloadable as a plugin, and I’ve also see this nowhere yet… Is this maybe a softaculous’ “version”, that they integrated a plugin in wp engine, so that plugin can run? It’s very interesting thing, but it’s limited extendability bothers me, you can’t install new themes or plugins.

I’m now confused with this “standalone” bbpress, anyone knows more about this?

Thanks

[Daniel Dvorkin]

Can you post your full .httaccess?

[Sam Rohn]

if you search the wordpress plugin repository for “avatar” or “bbpress avatar” you will find several options

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=bbpress+avatar

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=avatar

this one looks good, and explicitly supports bbpress

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-user-avatar/

this one works too

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-avatar/

you may also need to grant forum users upload permissions using something like User Role Editor

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-role-editor/

sam

[acousticwebdesign]

I’m using bbpress 2.2.4, wordpress 3.5.1

If I edit a (non-sticky) topic created by another user and change the forum that the topic should be in – the topic is saved properly but it is made sticky. This only occurs if I am editing the topic on the front end (using the admin links). Changing the forum from the back end (wp-admin) does not cause the topic to become sticky.

Any idea what’s happening here?

[tibmix]

Update to update: the problem is not fixed. Mea culpa.
Does anyone have a solution to this?

[pamneely]

Stephen, could you tell us which plugins have avatar support for bbPress? I haven’t been able to find any.

Thanks

[pamneely]

This is probably a dumb question, but I’ve searched the forums and the documentation and haven’t turned anything up. I’m learning bbPress and need to be able to add avatars to the forums I’m creating. Could someone please suggest a few WordPress plugins that are simple to set up?

Thanks very much for your help!

[tdesany2]

Dears,

I have configured many forums using bbpress (v 2.2.4 and wordpress 3.5.1) and WPML (v 2.7.1)
and I can reach topic pages http://fr.no-obsolescence.com/forums/forum/images-et-videos/
but replies not. I thing my website users would really appreciate to see their replies 😉

I am using the theme available here: http://organicthemes.com/demo/shop/
I guess perhaps one person with more experience than me could support me in such a fix?

I have tried to force the usage of loop-replies.php but it seems that while ( bbp_replies() ) always returns false :'( even if the blue rectangle just before is showing This topic contains 1 reply, has 1 voice, and was last updated by Thibaut de Sany 15 minutes ago. ??

With kindest regards,
Thibaut de Sany.
http://thibaut.desany.eu

[tibmix]

UPDATE:
I’ve added this to .htaccess and apparently the problem is gone, for now:
<Files "admin-ajax.php"
Satisfy any
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Files
I found it here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-ajax-event-calendar-aec-htaccess-and-admin-ajaxphp?replies=2

[tibmix]

@mzaweb Thank you Daniel, but I don’t meet the requirements listed at the beginning, to understand the “AJAX_in_Plugins” :=) (I have read it anyway, why not?).
Isn’t there any other simpler way to make an exception, as adding an “exception” line in .htaccess, or something like this?
I thought that’s a common problem with a common solution as bbpress has been around for a while and protecting /wp-admin isn’t new either.
Thanks.

[neriokas]

Hey guys, I just converted my wordpress to multisite and when I’m trying to add a new site I get the following errors:

Warning: array_keys() expects parameter 1 to be array, boolean given in /home/omgl/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/core/capabilities.php on line 453

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/omgl/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/core/capabilities.php on line 453

Warning: array_keys() expects parameter 1 to be array, boolean given in /home/omgl/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/core/capabilities.php on line 453

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/omgl/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/core/capabilities.php on line 453

Warning: array_keys() expects parameter 1 to be array, boolean given in /home/omgl/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/core/capabilities.php on line 453

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/omgl/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/core/capabilities.php on line 453

Warning: array_keys() expects parameter 1 to be array, boolean given in /home/omgl/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/core/capabilities.php on line 453

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/omgl/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/core/capabilities.php on line 453

Warning: array_keys() expects parameter 1 to be array, boolean given in /home/omgl/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/core/capabilities.php on line 453

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/omgl/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/core/capabilities.php on line 453

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/omgl/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/core/capabilities.php:453) in /home/omgl/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 876

Does anyone have any idea what’s going on? Seems to me like bbPress is the culprit and when I deactivate bbPress I’m able to add a new site, but with bbPress activated I get those errors..

[themattman]

Hi,

After a few attempts, I got my forum converted from vBulletin to bbPress. But I forgot to click on the Username conversion, so everything came up as Anonymous. I deleted the conversion fully and started again. This time: I clicked on the “Attempt to import user accounts”.

Now this comes up:

`WordPress database error: [Unknown column ‘user.user_nicename’ in ‘field list’]
SELECT convert(user.userid USING “utf8”) AS userid,convert(user.password USING “utf8”) AS password,convert(user.salt USING “utf8”) AS salt,convert(user.username USING “utf8”) AS username,convert(user.user_nicename USING “utf8”) AS user_nicename,convert(user.email USING “utf8”) AS email,convert(user.homepage USING “utf8”) AS homepage,convert(user.joindate USING “utf8”) AS joindate,convert(user.aim USING “utf8”) AS aim,convert(user.yahoo USING “utf8”) AS yahoo FROM user AS user LIMIT 0, 100`

If I continue and skip this step, the forum converts still but all the posts will be anonymous.

How do I fix?

[kafe]

I am running the most recent version of WP (at the time of this posting, I believe it’s 3.5.1?), and a multi-site installation. I have two questions, and I apologize if they’ve been asked before. I’ve been looking but haven’t found an answer:

1) Can I install a BBPress theme separate from my primary wordpress theme? I have a heavily-modified version of conduit, but the theming of our forums doesn’t look great: http://www.twinfinite.net/forums/topic/first-topic/.

2) We have been trying to install the theme, but are having issues. I can’t figure out how to do it. It seems like the process is different based on the version, and none of them seem to work. I’ve created a “my-templates” folder in the BBPress root directory. I can’t find a dashboard for BBpress, and I can’t find anything on the settings page. I believe that at one point I saw a “BBpress themes” option (or something like that), and it linked me to http://www.twinfinite.net/wp-admin/themes.php?page=bbpress-theme-admin.php, which, despite me having both superadmin and keymaster roles, simply displayed:

“You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.”

When I returned to wp-admin, the BBpress themes option had vanished, and I haven’t seen it since.

Frankly, I am stumped. I just want forums that look like normal forums would, rather than a wordpress post with a sidebar, etc.

Thank you for all your help!

-Keith

[serpini]

Hello,

I just installed bbPress 2.2.4 version on a wordpress version 3.5.1, I wish you all the forum pages were full size without displaying the sidebar, I’ve searched the forum and the solution of copying the full-width page to bbpress.php I have not worked or have not done it correctly.

Would I could say how I can make the forum will be full size? and steps for a beginner.

I use the WordPress default theme Twenty Twelve.

Forum url: http://www.serpini.es/sqlrpt/forums/

[ovizii]

Solved by using User Role Editor to reset all wordpress user roles to their default.

[Jared Atchison]

Assuming you are the admin of the site, if you manually create a new user do you get a notification email?

If you don’t, the default wp_mail() function likely isn’t working with your web host/server. This is semi common.

The easiest fix is to use an SMTP plugin like https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/configure-smtp/.

 

[Stephen Edgar]

Again, thanks for writing that post. 🙂

I have a newer version of the ‘example’ converter that includes much greater inline documentation and ‘best practices’ based on all the other importers and it is now just a matter of updating the docs to match this and including it with a future release of bbPress.

We would be more than happy to include the Snitz Forums converter with bbPress. Just create a ticket and upload it to https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/