[TrishaM]

I’m starting a new thread for my problem since no one is replying to my old thread and I still desperately need help! If anyone is interested the old thread is here:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/post-import-cleanup-help-needed/#post-134121

Basically what is happening is that I cannot use the Tools > Forums > Import tool to successfully import my old bbPress 1 forums/topics/replies to my newly upgraded WordPress DB…. in a nutshell here’s what has happened and where I’m at:

1. Updated WP to 3.5.1 and updated bbPress (initially) to 2.2.4;
2. Tried to import from my old bb_ tables but first attempt resulted in NO parent forums being converted so all topics showed “No Forum” in the Forum column;
3. Made a second attempt and made sure to check “Purge all information from a previously attempted import” thinking (silly me) that this would actually purge the previously imported data. FAIL.
4. Second attempt actually duplicated everything so I had twice as many topics/replies in my wp_posts table;
5. Following the instructions from the previous thread I manually deleted *all* of the imported topics and replies from my wp_posts and wp_postmeat tables, so that I could start fresh, and then asked for more help to continue since I had no confidence that the import function would work properly;

Since I received no further replies, I tried importing again after updating the bbPress plugin to the current version (2.3.2) but had the same FAILURE of Parent Forums to import – during the conversion I saw the message “No parent forums to convert”, and all topics showed “No Forum” after importing. Oddly, the parent Forums showed up when you clicked on the link to the Forums from the website, and had a number in the column to show how many Topics were in that parent forum, but clicking on any of the forum names then showed no Topics for that forum.

SO NOW I’m back to square one – I scrapped all of that again and now have a fresh database of all my wp_ tables WITHOUT the imported bbPress data, and the bb_tables in a separate database waiting to be imported.

WHAT is the secret to successfully migrating from bbPress 1 to bbPress 2. WHY does the Import Forums not work as it should?

I have an active (well it used to be anyway) forum that has now been offline for over a month and have numerous complaints from forum members……I REALLY need help to get this fixed….

[tharsheblows]

I don’t think people need access to /wp-admin to browse the site.

I keep everyone except logged-in admins from accessing wp-admin (popping them back to the homepage) by using the following in my functions.php

//don't allow users to go wp-admin
add_action( 'init', 'blockusers_init' );
function blockusers_init() {
    if ( is_admin() && ! current_user_can( 'administrator' ) &&
       ! ( defined( 'DOING_AJAX' ) && DOING_AJAX ) ) {
        wp_redirect( home_url() );
        exit;
    }
}

[Dan Knauss]

It’s definitely WAMP, most likely the ‘W’ part. (I tried this on Windows 7) XAMPP has even more trouble. Apache is being disrupted and crashed at times, probably because of Windows User Account Control (UAC) security settings and/or IIS. You should get a warning about this when you install XAMPP on Windows. I haven’t test to see if that’s the cause, but it seems likely.

See: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_xp-windows_programs/i-am-trying-to-install-xampp-win32-177-i-get-a/0b44bd10-2fff-49ac-bb48-30dfc4ae9c44?msgId=0c558024-e8e2-47b2-a9f7-ee102b62aec9

What does work is LAMP, so just do the migration on your webserver or localhost. I’ve had no problem doing it all on Nexcess.net’s WordPress hosting with over 61,000 posts and 1100 users converted with the default settings of 100 rows at a time with a 1s delay.

[asdseed2]

Some discuss and half-solution:

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/combination-with-bbpress?replies=3#post-4183880

[asdseed2]

My WordPress is: WordPress 3.5.1. (Russian language pack)
Theme: Emphaino
You are using bbPress 2.3.2.
also installed Akismet (upgraded)

after installs and activates “all in one seo”, I have same trouble:

1. Then “all in one seo” activated – bbPress is dont works well:

1.1. Then I try to create new post, I have an error: “ERROR: You do not have permission to create new topics.”
1.2. Then I try to go http://catstock.ru/wp-admin/index.php?page=bbp-about – I have about the same error in Russian Language – “Dont have permission”.
1.3. Then I in Plugins menu in admin panel, and I click “settings” (http://catstock.ru/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=bbpress) – I see the same error – “Dont have permission”

1.4. I stil see the bbPress widget in Console (http://catstock.ru/wp-admin/index.php)

2. Then I deactivate “all in one SEO”:

2.1. Right after deactivation – I start see “Forums, Topics, Replies” in the admin left panel.
2.2. http://catstock.ru/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=bbpress2 – start works correct,
2.3. Now I may correctly add new topic or reply at page http://catstock.ru/?forum=test_forum

3. Now I activate “all in one SEO” again, and all goes back to &1.
3.1. In “All in one SEO” settings using “Reset to default” dont help any.

[ZachMatthews]

I am having this exact same problem, but my phpbb database is in the same place as my wordpress database. (_phpbb and _wordpress on my MySQL server).

Anyone figure this out?

[John James Jacoby]

When you delete a user, WordPress will prompt you and ask you what to do with all of their existing posts.

[aleXka]

I found an answer for 2 – In the last bbPress version it is disabled by default. It can be activated by using following plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-enable-tinymce-visual-tab/

After installation of the plugin I got Visual redactor on New topic and Replay. It forks fine but in case of Replay, Text mode still hasn’t buttons: http://pumpshooter.com/qH7GGcxR

So, please help me to fix it.
Thx,.

[aleXka]

Hello,
I installed the last version of bbPress.
In the plugin configurations I checked
“Use the fancy WordPress editor to create and edit topics and replies”.
In the result I have editor panel on new topic creation area: http://pumpshooter.com/EcAUdJfM
But on the Reply area there is no editor: http://pumpshooter.com/yRDEno0E

1) How do I activate editor on reply text area?
2) How do I switch editor to be in “Visual” mode?

Thx!

[dubbinz]

bbpress Version 2.3.2
wordpress Version 3.5.1
Hi, I am looking for a way to order all forums (not topics) alphabetically. I read some posts here and they refer to a bbp-forum-template.php in the includes folder but this file is no longer inside this file. Can anybody tell me which file to edit and line number to do this?

[tibmix]

Hi again,

I still have this problem. Because I deactivated all other plugins and the problem persists, my conclusion is that it’s an bbPress issue.

So, my question goes to someone from bbPress: do authenticated forum visitors (participants) need access to /wp-admin directory in order to browse topics and posts?

Thank you for any answer.

[DFC005]

I assume this is a simply function but I can’t seem to find any clear documentation on how to do it.

I’d love to have my forum homepage show the latest x amount of replies across ALL forums. Pretty much like the forum homepage of bbPress’ own forum.

Can someone point me in the right direction? Using the latest version of WordPress and bbPress.

[John James Jacoby]

Probably need more information to be helpful here. What’s actually happening? Are you familiar with debugging WordPress, using WP_DEBUG and such?

[pimpanoob]

Hi,

I am using the latest buddypress version with wordpress but a different theme (from rockettheme.com).

The “register” link on the frontpage is not linked to the “register” page. I can fix that in the admin dashboard by going to settings–>buddypress–>pages.

Here I need to create a site called “register” first.

My problem now is that this site is indeed called “register” but has no registration function whatsoever.

Can someone help me?

Thanks a lot for your support,
Fabian

[athalas]

I’m attempting to convert a phpBB2 forum to bbPress version 2.3.2.

I’ve selected the option to convert users, but it’s failing with the following error:

WordPress database error: [Unknown column 'users.user_form_salt' in 'field list']
SELECT convert(users.user_id USING "utf8") AS user_id,convert(users.user_password USING "utf8") AS user_password,convert(users.user_form_salt USING "utf8") AS user_form_salt,convert(users.username USING "utf8") AS username,convert(users.user_email USING "utf8") AS user_email,convert(users.user_website USING "utf8") AS user_website,convert(users.user_regdate USING "utf8") AS user_regdate,convert(users.user_aim USING "utf8") AS user_aim,convert(users.user_yim USING "utf8") AS user_yim,convert(users.user_icq USING "utf8") AS user_icq,convert(users.user_msnm USING "utf8") AS user_msnm,convert(users.user_jabber USING "utf8") AS user_jabber,convert(users.user_occ USING "utf8") AS user_occ,convert(users.user_interests USING "utf8") AS user_interests,convert(users.user_sig USING "utf8") AS user_sig,convert(users.user_from USING "utf8") AS user_from,convert(users.user_avatar USING "utf8") AS user_avatar FROM users AS users LIMIT 0, 100

Is there anything I can do the resolve the issue?

Thank you

[andersontherapy]

Hi there,

I’m new to WordPress and BB Press so if this is a stupid question I am asorry!

My website forum is located here: http://www.clinicalrecoveryspecialists.com/forums/

2 questions:

Is there a way to Create a Header or Welcome Announcement at the top of the page above the forum itself?

Also, it loooks like the name of the Forum is pulling from the Title of the Website, is there a way to change that? I would like to rename it if possible.

Just a note: I am using most updated versions of WordPress and BBpress as well.

I appreciate the help!!

Ashley

[tharsheblows]

Oh no, poor you! Jack should be able to re-set them via the database as here – https://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password . I’m guessing your WordPress admin password and username are different to those for the control panel for account with the hosting company.

He can’t log in either, can he? I realise that’s a pretty obvious question but thought I’d ask. Good luck and congrats on the wedding! 🙂

[tharsheblows]

Hi – I’d like the same tags allowed in my WordPress comments – <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong> – to be allowed in my bbPress posts. In particular, I’d like people to be unable to link to images in their posts. I think the allowed tags in WordPress comments are determined by the wp_filter_kses so was trying to use that.

I’ve tried many many different things and have the img tinymce (which I’ve enabled) button disabled and the html editor disappeared, so the only way to get an image is to type in <img src="whatever" /> to the visual editor, but I’d still like it to just not be possible.

I thought this would work but it hasn’t (I’ve also tried making a custom filter function which, of course, didn’t work, so I think it’s something here):

remove_filter( 'bp_get_the_topic_post_content', 'bp_forums_filter_kses', 1 );
add_filter( 'bp_get_the_topic_post_content', 'wp_filter_kses', 1 );

Anyone know? Or just stripping the img tags somehow would be great.

I have bbPress 2.3.2 installed and WordPress 3.5.1. Thanks. The site’s not live so I don’t have a link, apols.
(have edited so I can tick “follow up replies via email”)

[doxaliber]

Hi everyone.
First, my system:
wordpress 3.5.1.
buddypress 1.7.1 (with bbpress 2.3.2 integrated).

I’ve changed my site from buddypress group forums to bbpress 2.3.1. The transition went fine, but now I have this problem:

Users can’t edit their own messages.
I have also set option “Disallow editing after” to 15 minutes, but still users can’t edit their own posts.

Then, I have some difficulties to understand how forum visibility settings of bbpress (public, private, hidden) correlates to group visibility settings (public, private, hidden). If I set a group as hidden and than bbpress settings to “private” or “public”, new topics of groups forum appears in “latest topics”. Users that are not members of group that try to enter the forum get 404 error, but they still can read the topic, and this is not a good thing. If a users sets his group as hidden I think he don’t want to see it visible in latest topics, don’t you? 🙂

[DNBrawler]

Hello!

I’ve been having this problem for so long I didn’t really notice it until some members on my site complained about it. Apparently, my forums page’s load time is quite long when you’re loading mysite.com/forums. I have buddypress running and I’m not able to configure my wordpress page to buddypress forums, I guess since bbpress is running. Everything is updated to the highest update. My breadcrumbs directly links most of my pages to the forum index; is there a way to have my page not redirect to itself?

[zeaks]

Great thanks, i never even thought of using the import/export options.

Is there any way to clean up the original sites database after moving the forums? Looks like forum information is within the WordPress tables instead of its own wpbb_ whatever tables, I don’t know much about databases so I could be wrong.

[dubbinz]

I am also facing this problem. At first I thought it was the various programs I had to deal with spam and general bad behaviour (akismet, wanguard and sucuri) but I disabled all the plugins and I also increased the amount of links in a post to 10 before it gets moved to pending in discussion settings. All settings for discussion have removed any need for moving posts to pending or marked for approval. Settings for akismet are unchecked in forums settings and comments blacklist and moderation list have empty fields. Topics or replies should not be going to pending but they are still going to pending and this is destroying my community. There is no message to the user saying that his reply or topic is awaiting moderation (unlike the OP) and the user continues to edit his topic or reply and post again which also ends up in the pending queue and then I have a load of the same topic edited in the pending queue.

Whatever is causing this is inside bbpress core. I need to know which setting to disable to ensure no topic or reply goes to pending. Yes I know the risks, this is another issue. Can anyone please tell me how to stop this happening. which files in bbpress do I have to edit.

BBPress 2.3.1
Wordpress 3.5.1

[Robin W]

Yes

Just set up the new area, and add the bbpress plugin

Then export (dashboard>tools>export) from the old area – you’ll want post and forums as minimum, but you can take everything if you want.

Then import into the new area. You will need to install the wordpress importer, but that is part of the process, so just say yes when prompted.

Part of the import process will ask you who to assign imported posts to, and you can decide to allocate them to admin, an existing user in the new site or (if you exported everything) to the imported users.

[zeaks]

Is it possible to move bbPress to another (new) WordPress install and keep all existing posts and forum content? I don’t care about users, I just want to keep the information on the forums.

[drobato]

The [bbp-topic-tags] shortcode works fine in my custom theme…but all the tags come out with the same font size. How do I get it so the tags display with different font sizes like on this forum?

Sorry for such a basic question…I’ve looked but can’t find an answer that applies to bbpress 2.0+.

I’m using wordpress 3.5.1 and bbpress 2.3.2

Thanks.