Good to see this!
Gonna try to convert my forum next week. (have to duplicate current database to ensure if anything goes wrong I still have the backup ) .
My forum stats : “405019 Posts in 13948 Topics by 8112 Members”.
I’m running on my own dedicated server, intel xeon + 8gb ram. I wonder how long it gonna take.
Wordpress + BbPress + BuddyPress + (WPMU?).
my very own Arts social network perhaps?
😀 Congratulation for all good work.
Regards.
Hey guys!
I have a little test site running for fun here.
As you can see, when you click on the forums page, bbPress is extremely light and does not fit in with the theme I am using.
Can I get any instructions on how to make bbPress sue the same style as my WordPress theme?
I am not extremely familiar with coding, so simple instructions would be the best!
Thanks!
All first posts on an area are “topics” and the subsequent ones are replies, so it is correctly doing that.
These are called custom post types
User levels (eg admin) would/should not affect this
I suspect the issue is in your memberships plugin – even though you’ve tried. Do you anywhere define what is shown to users? if you can find the word “replies” anywhere then look for adding “topics” as well.
I’d suggest that you add a new user (yourself but under another name) and then play with the settings for both wordpress and bbpress. I presume you are aware that when you have created a user, if you go back into edit then you’ll see a bbpress role for each user. So play with both of those and see what displays topics and replies and then come back.
ok, you would easily see it in usermeta table if it was there.
would suggest that is why it is coming up a 0
can you try
Dashboard>tolls>forums
and then the tab ‘repair forums’
and then click “count topics for each user” and “count replies for each user”
and see if that fixes it
what versions of wordpress and bbpress are you on
do you have buddypress also installed?
presume you mean this is the piece of code you’ve tried?
Enable Visual Editor
have you tried this plugin
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-enable-tinymce-visual-tab/
Just want to know how does bbPress include page templates (/templates/extras/….) into the WordPress page template dropdown which are available when creating new pages. Just want to know where the code exists in the codebase
Sorry wasn’t yelling – have now seen that this is a password protected page rather than a wordpress password
will take a look
Hello
I installed bbPress Version 2.4.1 into WordPress 3.7.1 with Atahualpa theme and set up the forums.
I realized that editing is too limited to be useful. Some research showed that bbPress disabled the visual editor several versions back, but some people managed to activate it since then with some “code snippets”.
The code snippet does not work. I get errors. As I am not a Techie and for the most part do not know what I am doing, does anyone have simple instructions on how to get the visual editor in bbPress to work again?
Appreciate all help on this
Andy
You are right. There’s a problem because WordPress filters all searches, including the bbPress. Now I don’t know how to recognize if the search is coming from WordPress’s search box or bbPress’s searchbox.
I don’t need search box for forum on first/home page, but I need to filter results when searching with WordPress’s search box. I must not show pages in it, so that’s why I’m searching solution.
Thank you!
bbpress 2.4.1 comes with it’s own search function, which only searches forums.
this post also describes forum only search boxes which might help
http://vfbpro.com/2012/10/25/how-to-add-a-search-box-to-bbpress/
and also a widget
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-search-widget/
that you could crack the code of
doesn’t seem logical or make sense to me
Nor to me !!
Perhaps one for JJJ or Stpehen edgar to answer
It’s no doubt linked to the fact that bbpress is a plugin. I also run MarketPress on my site (an on-line shop) and the user details for that also don’t appear until I edit – so it’s not just bbpress that doesn’t do it, which would tend to indicate a wordpress constriction, rather than bbpress failing.
I still don’t understand why the forum roles appear in the role drop down after I deactivate bbpress…doesn’t seem logical or make sense to me…but at least I can now add people with forum roles. Thanks for your help
You don’t need to deactivate bbpress, just create a user, then after creation go straight back in and edit – once you’ve clicked save on the create, you’ll see a bar at the top of the next screen that will say something like “xx user created – edit”, and you can just click that, so whilst an annoyance, quite easy
Or did you mean something else?
Thanks very much
It’s a tiny database 455KB, the forum has only one forum, 70 topics. So it seems I can safely assume it’s just not working.
I have all the correct vales, exactly as on the config.php
This is what I see:
“Delete users WordPress default passwords (0 – 99)
Converting users (0 – 99)
Deleting previously converted data (0 – 99)
Starting Conversion”
After an hour or so of this (with the spinning wheel thing) I can go to Forums in the admin dashboard and sometimes there will appear to be a forum with 70 topics, but on the fornt page only a forum with 0 topics.
Other times I try the import and there is just no forum at all.
Is there a premium support for this? I would be happy to pay for some help.
Do you have the Akismet plugin activated and have a valid API key?
https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Akismet
I have just commited the three versions of Kunena bbPress importer for bbPress 2.5
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/includes/admin/converters
Kunena1.php for Kunena v1.x Forums
Kunena2.php for Kunena v2.x Forums
Kunena3.php for Kunena v3.x Forums
If you could all give them some tests and let me know if it works or doesn’t work that would be great.
bbPress is a plugin for WordPress and will only use the WordPress database.
If your WordPress instances, instance “A” and instanace “B” are sharing databases already bbPress will use whatever database you have WordPress setup with.
I think if you had a look at configuring WordPress to use multisite
https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network
Everything is still going fine, I ran some phpBB imports yesterday whilst implementing a few minor updates.
Details are here https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2467
Feel free to download the latest from here:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/includes/admin/converters/phpBB.php
bbPress 2.4.1
WordPress 3.7.1
Theme: ZeeNews
The colors used in the Topic Listings are very pale grey text and very pale yellow background. This is very difficult to read but I cannot find how or where to change it.
Have a look yourself on my site Emergency Retirement
Ideas anyone?
Thanks for reading this!
I am so sorry for bumping but it’s really bothering me that issue that’s why i asked again here and i have disabled the registration so I lost many users and the second I enabled it again I got around 5 spam users in few minutes only
Thanks
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/
@manuxel
Thanks for replying!
Yes they are under same server. I m using cpanel
so the directory of smf is
public_html/smf and for wordpress is public_html/forum.
I entered the previous db details and and put the limit as 100 for Row Limits
This server is shared though but its very fast,
@sachinsud you need to post more info about your situation my friend.
For example, is you WP on the same folder of your SMF? for example
www/wordpress
www/smf
How did you input your info in the converter fields?
How long did you wait? Depending on your server it might work reeeeeeeally slow.
What did you input in ROWS LIMIT and DELAY? If you for example input 2000 rows and your server is slow or your in a shared host, it may take several minutes to show something…
Cheers
I need some help here.
I want to convert my forum from smf to bbpress.
So what exactly i did is
1) Installed wordpress and then installed bbpress.
2) Then i copied the converter file as mentioned https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/2380/SMF.3.php to the location where it was mentioned,
3) I went to my wordpress menu > tools > forum > import forum and i choose SMF.3 from there and filled all the required options. And when i click on convert the bar just stays at Starting Conversion and nothing happens.
What am i doing wrong here 🙁
Just uploaded a new version of SMF.php, the core changes of the forum import have not changed. The main changes are the regex (regular expressions) to convert SMF’s BBCode.
It is a start and only a few tweaks are left to do, alas it’s 10pm Friday night and I’m done for the night 😉
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/2380/SMF.3.php
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2380#comment:7
Hello,
Is it possible connect to external database?
I have two separately wordpress instances, instance “A” and instanace “B”.
I have installed BBpress plugin in both instances, but I need connect to only one database.
Is exists any configure file only for bbpress plugin?
thanks for ideas…
hey thank’s a lot for your help. I’ve added the code but it doesn’t look like it worked.
this is the file I had to modify
/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/loop-single-reply.php
Not sure I understand what your problem is, but let’s try this in case !
When you create a new user, then only the blog role shows. If you save and then go back in and edit that user, you’ll see the wordpress roles at the bottom of the page which you can then set.
