[Stephen Edgar]

Forum Section

• Added Forum Display Order using wbb1_1_board.sortOrder
• Added wbb1_1_board.boardType and callback method callback_forum_type where category =1 & forum = 0
• wbb1_1_board.isClosed & callback method callback_forum_status where closed =1 & open = 0
• (Are the above values correct for these DB fields? I have guessed these ;))

Topic Section

• Changed callback method for Topic Language from callback_topic_reply_count to callback_topic_language
• Added topic author ip
• Your SQL join for the topic content looks good

Reply Section

• Fixed ‘Reply parent forum id’ (we need the ‘parent forum’ here not the first ‘post id’, the inline docs were not very clear here)
• Removed ‘Reply Unregistered Author name’ (See #2347for more info)

User Section

• Added ‘User Signature’ wcf1_user.signature

Generally cleaned up the code and inline docs to match the other importers.

The updated version here: https://gist.github.com/ntwb/41b8bb57df78d1a1bd01
The differences between versions here: https://gist.github.com/ntwb/41b8bb57df78d1a1bd01/revisions

[xpoveda]

Hi, I’m thinking of a website entirely implemented in wordpress that has a section in which the user can identify and from there you can access different pages and also to an online store WooCommerce. If the user would not have to buy anything to be re-identified.

All this I can integrate bbpress?, I need some additional plugin?

Thank you!

Xavier.

[justinheron]

Hi Guys

I know WordPress to a reasonable level but am completely new to forum building and BBPress. I am hoping my question has a simple answer and is probably me missing something very simple.

I have set up the forum for a charity I am working with, its installed fine and we have some test topics up and running. No problems.

The installation provides me with a forum address of http://mydomain.com/forums/forum/forum-name which is fine.

All I want to do is basically add some notes/welcome message and an image just above where the forum starts but I dont seem to be able to do it. When I go into my form and add in text or an image, in the same way you would add to a page/post then save it, nothing appears?

Any ideas at all how I can achieve this? Should this be happening in the way that it is?

Many thanks!

Justin

[palmdoc]

Hi I am not denying search engines nor changed the site address yet I don’t have notifications when the user is mentioned in the forums with @username
It’s working in the Activity stream though.
Anyone else have similar problems?

Buddypress 1.8.1, bbPress 2.4 and WordPress 3.6.1

[jenseo]

Hi!
I’m using pretty permalinks on my WordPress site and has been working hard with the SEO on the site.

One thing I can’t seem to solve, although I have been googling and searched this forum for days now, is how to get rid of the /topic/ and /forum/ parts of the permalinks when using bbPress.

Is it even possible?

The ideal setup for me, that would also reflect how the rest of my site is set up, would be something like this:

mysite.com/forums/name-of-the-forum-topic/name-of-the-thread

Is this possible to accomplish?

Thanks a lot for a great plugin!

// Jens.

[Kaliceos]

I went to clan.wolflan.com and your source code looks like some paragraphs were added by your editor as I see some <p> and </p> in weird places. What software did you use to edit loop-single-forum.php or your functions.php ?

I was not able to check because some of your forums are private, but what’s the html source code for the list of subforums ? (I mean in the browser) Is there a <br /> between the list of subforums ? Because, when I watch your screenshot, subforums are not separated by a comma, so I guess the function did his job, but your code may be broken because you used WordPress editor or an other editor that deleted the <br />.

Anyway, in your case, the simplest solution may be using some CSS. And as you said, simple stuff first ! You wouldn’t need to change any php template. You may try something like that in your style.css or Custom CSS if you use Jetpack :

#bbpress-forums .bbp-forums-list li {
  display: block;
}

If it works, I don’t know what was the problem with the bbp_list_forums() function, but you will not need to use it and you can delete the custom loop-single-forum.php that you copied to your theme’s directory if you had not made other edits.

[Beau Lebens]

Yes, except that I work at Automattic (we run WP.com), so we can run whatever we want on WordPress.com. Getting bbPress working there would be a very different project from what we’re doing with o2.

[Erlend]

Thank you very much for chiming in Beau. Your points make sense, except the first one has me a bit confused. o2 is going to be a plugin, like bbPress. So isn’t “WordPress.com runs WordPress, not o2” just as true?

the code will be open source, so you’re welcome to take pieces and apply it to bbPress as well.

I sincerely hope that will be feasible. Excitedly looking forward to seeing o2 in action!

[Beau Lebens]

I suppose there are a few reasons for this, but the most immediate are:

• Our primary goal is replacing our own internal communications platform (P2). That runs on WordPress.com, which runs WordPress, not bbPress (this is probably the biggest one).
• We (the team working on it) are more natively WordPress developers than bbPress specifically.
• Quite simply, we didn’t really think about it until we were already well along the way building it for WordPress.

There are no plans to do anything related to bbPress, but the code will be open source, so you’re welcome to take pieces and apply it to bbPress as well.

[Travis S.]

My goal is to make multiple forums (around 10 when its all said and done). Each forum will be for different subjects but all related with each on a different page.

Per example… one forum will be on a specific fruit. So apple, oranges, etc. but would all fall under the umbrella Fruit (not my actual plans, but this was easier to explain).

Is this possible?

I’m currently running one bbpress install on the twenty-13 theme. I know there is a shortcode to show specific topics on a page, but I want each forum to show on just one page.

Note: ive been on wordpress.com for a little while and started over on the .org. So I’m completely knew to screwing around with php files. Not asking you to hold my hand through it all, but clear directions would be great. Sorry if this question is a repost and/or very basic and im just over thinking it.

Thanks in advance,

[Erlend]

I came by this talk about o2 recently, (the successor of the P2 theme, but now made as a plugin):

Flick through the slides for a quick summary.

So as I was listening to the feature set of this plugin, every single one of them turned out to be on my bbPress wishlist:
Native infinite scroll, improved front-end editor, drag & drop image uploads, JSON API, post by e-mail, cross-site search. It seemed to me like the goals of o2 and bbPress are very much aligned.

I guess I’m just wondering if the bbPress developers have been in touch with Beau Lebens & co at all? And could you perhaps shed some light on why o2 isn’t just being made as an extension of bbPress?

[Newo1t]

My host have disabled set time limit.

So I’d a lot of error ”
Warning: set_time_limit() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/www/fad9968d01a605ebf45b28d7b5238ea3/web/dev/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converter.php on line 306″.

I’ve try to comment this line ( with // before the ligne 306 ) and I’ve try to import forum again.

I’ve now the error ”

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘topics_table.the_topic_id = replies_table.the_topic_id WHERE topics_table.first_’ at line 1]
SELECT convert(replies_table.the_reply_id USING “utf8”) AS the_reply_id,convert(replies_table.the_reply_parent_forum_id USING “utf8”) AS the_reply_parent_forum_id,convert(replies_table.the_reply_parent_topic_id USING “utf8”) AS the_reply_parent_topic_id,convert(replies_table.the_reply_author_ip_address USING “utf8”) AS the_reply_author_ip_address,convert(replies_table.the_reply_author_id USING “utf8”) AS the_reply_author_id,convert(replies_table.the_reply_title USING “utf8”) AS the_reply_title,convert(replies_table.the_reply_slug USING “utf8”) AS the_reply_slug,convert(replies_table.the_reply_content USING “utf8”) AS the_reply_content,convert(replies_table.the_reply_order USING “utf8”) AS the_reply_order,convert(replies_table.the_reply_creation_date USING “utf8”) AS the_reply_creation_date,convert(replies_table.the_reply_modified_date USING “utf8”) AS the_reply_modified_date,convert(topics_table.the_topic_id USING “utf8″) AS the_topic_id FROM phpbb_replies_table AS replies_table INNER JOIN phpbb_topics_table AS topics_table USING topics_table.the_topic_id = replies_table.the_topic_id WHERE topics_table.first_post != 0 LIMIT 0, 100”

How to repair this ?

[fontadoni]

Hello,

I encountered major problems after running the “Repair Forums” tools on my site newdirt.org/forums. It seems like all forums, topics and replies have lost their “parent relationship” and my forum looks empty. This is not a new forum installation, I have hundreds of posts. It looks the same from the admin panel, I can see forum names but they have 0 posts in them. I can see topic titles but they look empty. Replies have “No Topic” and “No Forum” assigned to them, but the content is there. The funny thing is that if you go directly to each topic link, you can see each topic with their replies (for example as accessing “Latest Forum Topics” from the sidebar: Topic From Sidebar.

Things that I did previous to this problem: upgraded wordpress to 3.6.1 and then ran Tools -> Forums -> Repair Forums.

PLEASE HELP!

Wordpress Version: 3.6.1
bbPress Version: 2.4

[jbuesking]

When I run the script with the convert users option checked it throws the following error:

WordPress database error: [Unknown column 'users.userid' in 'field list']
SELECT convert(users.userid USING "utf8") AS userid,convert(users.password USING "utf8") AS password,convert(users.username USING "utf8") AS username,convert(users.email USING "utf8") AS email,convert(users.registerDate USING "utf8") AS registerDate FROM tvc4d_users AS users LIMIT 0, 100

It appears to work if I don’t try to convert the users. I’ll dig into this later this evening but wanted to see if it’s something obvious?

[Erlend]

We’re using bbPress and BuddyPress to power the jMonkeyEngine community site:
http://hub.jmonkeyengine.org/

Using the excellent Firmasite as our parent theme, our child theme is a modified version of the ACME Dashboard. It is indeed marketed as an admin theme, but we found it to be nicely suited for a clean discussion-centric layout.

We’re not taking great advantage of BuddyPress at the moment, in great part due to a pending bbPress/BuddyPress bug that makes it difficult for us to repurpose our groups. In the future we want to use vanilla groups for task-centric “workgroups”, and we’ve long been entertaining the idea of making a customized version of groups to create a plugin front-end for our SDK.

bbPress on the other hand is constantly being pushed to its limits, and we’re very happy with it. We’re using the Support Topic plugin to great effect, along with our custom made Quotes plugin, among many others.

Huge thanks to the developers and contributors of bbPress and BuddyPress for making two outstanding pieces of free software.

p.s. If any budding WordPress developers out there would like an opportunity to get some experience contributing to an open source project, you’re very welcome to get in touch.

[inspirationally]

Allright, another thing I need help with:

In WBB, there's the field isClosed to create a WordPress status from it with this:
// Topic status (Open or Closed)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'wbb1_1_thread',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'isClosed',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_status',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_topic_status'
		);

and

public function callback_topic_status( $status = 0 ) {
		switch ( $status ) {
			case 1 :
				$status = 'closed';
				break;

			case 0  :
			default :
				$status = 'publish';
				break;
		}
		return $status;
	}

But there’s also a field called “isDeleted”, so I could also use

`// Topic status (Deleted)
$this->field_map[] = array(
‘from_tablename’ => ‘wbb1_1_thread’,
‘from_fieldname’ => ‘isDeleted’,
‘to_type’ => ‘topic’,
‘to_fieldname’ => ‘post_status’,
‘callback_method’ => ‘callback_trash_status’
);`

and

public function callback_trash_status( $status = 1 ) {
		switch ( $status ) {
			case 1 :
				$status = 'trash';
				break;

			case 0  :
			default :
				$status = 'publish';
				break;
		}
		return $status;
	}

The second, though, would overwrite the first, so that even closed topics that are not trash have the status publish again. Is there any chance to combine these two?

[Kaliceos]

I’m running latest releases of WordPress and bbPress, and I don’t have any problems neither with the custom function (placed in my theme’s functions.php) nor with the menus.
Edit after your edit : I also have buddyPress installed

What theme are you using ? The bbp_list_forums may be used in a different way in the theme where it doesn’t work.

For the menus, I don’t know what could cause this issue, have you tried with an other theme ?

If you want to rebuild your site, take a look at the Tools > Export and Tools > Import in your dahsboard, you’ll be able to transfer your forums, topics and posts.
For users, it looks like the plugin AEIOU can do that. Otherwise, transferring the mysql tables (wp_users, wp_usermeta and if you use buddyPress wp_bp_xprofile_*) should work too.
I guess you have to import users before forums, posts, and topics if you want to keep the author relation.

[PureLoneWolf]

Ok. I have now done the following:

Copied the entire bbPress (plus bbPress plugins) folder from the working site.
Copied the working theme from the working site.

Deactivated deleted bbPress (plus bbPress plugins) from the non-working site
Uploaded bbPress and plugins to the non-working site.
Uploaded theme
Activated all on the non-working site

This didn’t work. Forums remain stubbornly on one line and the Forums option doesn’t appear in the WP menu editor.

On top of that, I then deactivated and deleted bbPress..then re-installed through the WP Add New Plugin interface.

This also didn’t work. No change whatsoever. I am going to have to build a test site and re-build the site I think.

What would be the easiest way to get the forums/posts/users etc brought over?

Many thanks

**EDIT**
This just gets weirder and weirder. I just created a blank, brand new installation of wordpress. Installed buddypress, then bbpress. Went to Appearance/Menus and Forums does not show up.

[RitaJoC]

I keep receiving the above-referenced error. I’m using wordpress 3.6 and 2.4 bbpress. I don’t have a multisite network setup. Help! Thank you.

Rita

[Stephen Edgar]

3. some users are twice now (like myself..who have been admins of wordpress and users of the forum). Can I simply merge them with
UPDATE wp_posts SET post_author = ’1′ WHERE post_author = ’2′; and it will count for the forum, too?

If a user already exists in WordPress during the import a new user will be created called ‘Imported_Username’, you can go to wp-admins user panel and when you select ‘Delete User’ you will be prompted to delete all posts or attribute them to another user, select the later and all the topics/replies etc will be attributed to the user you selected.

4. the passwords – in WBB they are hashed by this:
$passwort = sha1($row->salt.sha1($row->salt.sha1($_POST[‘passwort’])));
so what do I write at the end of wbb3.php
public function authenticate_pass( $password, $serialized_pass ) {
$pass_array = unserialize( $serialized_pass );
return ( $pass_array[‘hash’] == md5( md5( $password ). $pass_array[‘salt’] ) );
}
or is this impossible and the users have to get the new password by mail?

I am going to look at passwords next week for all the importers as my skills with PHP are only just beginning so this is all a bit tricky for me at the moment. 😉

So the best workaround is to have the users reset their password by email for now.

5. the imported users have no “Forum Role”. Is is “normal”? Is there any chance to automatically give them the forum role “Participant”?

Go to bbPress tools and run the repair tool ‘Remap existing users to default forum roles’ and that will do the trick. https://codex.bbpress.org/repair-forums/

6. do I have to keep the wbb3.php “forever” because of the passwords or can I delete it one day, even if not all members have com back yet?

If the passwords are not being converted you do not need to keep it, though I don’t see any issues why you would need to delete it.

Speaking of keeping it, can we include your WBB v3 Importer and distribute it with bbPress?

7. until now we have everything like private messages, profiles, friends and especially user groups (Moderators, crew members) with hidden forums. Do I see correct, that I can install both, import bbpress and afterwards attach for example our “Mods Only” to the group “Moderators” as group forum?

Currently bbPress only has: https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/#creating-your-first-forum

Visibility: decide whether your forum is public, private or hidden.
Public – Anyone can see these forums
Private – Only logged in registered users can see these forums
Hidden: Only Moderators/Admins can see these forums

I see that every user gets a new User ID – old IDs are saved in table _bbp_converter_translator – will that table be kept? Maybe by this I have a chance to later import – somehow – private messages for buddy press!?

The translator table is not kept and the old user ID is stored in wp_usermeta as per this item in the ‘Example.php’ importer.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/includes/admin/converters/Example.php#L458

                // Store old User id (Stored in usermeta)
459	                $this->field_map[] = array(
460	                        'from_tablename'  => 'users_table',
461	                        'from_fieldname'  => 'the_users_id',
462	                        'to_type'         => 'user',
463	                        'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_user_id'
464	                );

I’ll take closer look at the importer and structure you linked to over the weekend and post back with anything else I can think of.

[Stephen Edgar]

As far as I know there are no issues importing from phpBB v3.0.11

This doc has any known issues when using the phpBB importer:
https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/phpbb/

Did your import fail at one point and you started the import again which would have caused duplicates?

To debug the issue further I would need some detailed information, particularly some SQL examples would be helpful.

If you still have issues after resting your forums and this constantly happpens please create a ticket on Trac https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ with some detailed steps to reproduce the issue and I will take a look.

[SysFailure0x5a]

Nevermind, I found bbpress 2.3.2 stable here: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/2.3?rev=4891

Thanks.

For google searches:

Download BBpress 2.3.2
Downgrade to BBPress 2.3.2
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/2.3?rev=4891

[SysFailure0x5a]

@Xevo

Go to https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/2.3 and press “Zip Archive” at the bottom.

That appears to be 2.3.3-ALPHA. I need the latest stable of 2.3, which I thought was 2.3.2?

[Kaliceos]

I’m not good enough in PHP and wordpress filters to help you, but you should check the diff between 2.3 and 2.4 for the /includes/common/functions.php around line 1158. Some changes were made to the bbp_parse_args function.

Otherwise, you can edit (or create) your theme’s bbpress/loop-single-forum.php and edit the bbp_list_forums() line 30 to bbp_list_forums(array (‘separator’ => ‘<br />’)). That should do the trick.

[PureLoneWolf]

Hi there

I have bbPress (along with BuddyPress) on two, fundamentally, identical websites.

However, on http://www.wolflan.com, I have no issues, but on clan.wolflan.com I have a couple of weird ones.

They are both even using themes from the same author.

On wolflan.com, I was able to use

function custom_bbp_list_forums() {
  $args['separator'] = '<br />';
 
  return $args;
}
 
add_filter('bbp_before_list_forums_parse_args', 'custom_bbp_list_forums' );

in my themes functions.php, and therefore get the sub-forums on their own line. Additionally, I was able to add individual forums to the site navigation menu (Appearance/Menus).

On clan.wolflan.com I was able to get the sub-forums on their own line, up until I upgraded to 2.4. At which point, my private forums moved to the bottom and the code above stopped putting the sub-forums on their own line. Today, I decided that I would like to have forums on the navigation and noticed that I have no option for this.

Both sites are running an identical plugin list, they are both on the latest versions of all plugins and are also running WP3.6.1 as of this morning.

Would anyone have any ideas?

I have linked to images that show the issue:

wolflan.com
Fully working, modded functions.php
fullworkingfunctionsmod.png
Fully working, wordpress menu editor
fullworkingmenueditor.png

clan.wolflan.com
Not working, modded functions.php
nonworkingfunctionsmod.png
Not working, wordpress menu editor
nonworkingmenueditor.png

Would anyone have any ideas as to what I can do to solve these two issues?

Many thanks
Dave