[Erlend]

When you you think images uploading problem will be fixed? I mean that default users can’t upload images now using TyniMCE editor.

I think that’s intentional for now. See this:
bbPress dev chat summary Jan 9, 2013

[weboozle]

Clean wordpress, buddypress and bbpress install (again) and I still can’t get a ‘forums’ tab on the site.

I know this is an extremely basic step, and I’ve spent hours and several re-installs to attempt the ‘forums’ or ‘forum’ or ‘board’ or anything tab to link to a sitewide forum.

I’ve never understood the heirarchy of wordpress (obviously) but I seem to always manage. This one is really has me. I can directly navigate to it in the browser but all I can ever get is a blank page when any tab might appear.

I’m also aware that this isn’t listed in the bbpress codex since I’m sure it’s on page 2 of beginning wordpress.

Any help? Many thanks in advance.

[peripatew]

Perhaps my brain is just fried, but when I search for bbPress themes, TONS of stuff comes up, but is this all mostly for an older version of bbPress that wasn’t a WordPress plugin?

I’m trying to replace a Vanilla Forum’s installation, but so far the process hasn’t been super-smooth.

I’ve found a few standalone wordpress themes that are aimed at bbPress users, but I want to integrate bbPress into my current site. Typically, I’d find a theme that is “close”, and then dig through it to make it fit within my site.

Am I approaching this the wrong way? I feel like there’s something simple I must be overlooking, as every other forum has had a simple theme installation process.

[Lynq]

If you need to create a register page, then you can add a new page via wordpress and then put this shortcode inside it: [bbp-register] – this will allow people to register for the forum.

[Jack Tarantino]

I seem to be having an issue with how the converter itself works? I run the converter and it tells me “No forums to convert” as well as no anything else. I copied the SQL in the title attribute and ran that in phpmyadmin and it returns a proper data set as expected. I experimented with entering incorrect values for the db information and that didn’t actually produce any errors or any difference at all. I’m thinking there’s some sort of problem connecting to the db and no error handling for that issue.. Any idea what could be going wrong? This is on WordPress latest and a fresh install of bbPress with just that Vanilla file added.

[Michael]

Wordpress: 3.5.1

bbPress: 2.2.4

Website: http://www.dalluva.com/member-area/forums/

 

I just noticed a rather annoying problem for bbPress users try to post a new topic to my Forum.  Here’s the sequence of events:

• A registered user tries to create a new topic by typing in their topic text in the editor window
• The user forgets to enter in a Title for the topic
• The user clicks the Submit button
• bbPress redisplays that Forum page with the error message

  Your topic needs a title.

• The text that the user had previously entered has vanished.

Now, granted the user can click his Back button and get back to the text he entered, but not all users are that enlightened.  They simply get frustrated that all of their text has disappeared, likely giving up or at least irritated at my Forum.

Any idea why this is happening? I can’t tell if this is a bbPress problem or a WordPress problem.

Thanks.
Michael

[choibc]

I am pleased to release this clean theme for non-tech people.
It is basically bootstrap child theme and bbpress styling of default bbpress template.
I have hard time to figure out new bbpress plugin and theme. Now I have some clue…with lots of googling. One thing I couldn’t do is “Previous/Next Topic” navigation while seeing single topic.

Please refer here to download theme.
WordPress Bootstrap + bbPress

Any suggestion welcome.

[Stephen Edgar]

@jiapei100 From the codex docs https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/#getting-there

• Log in to your WordPress Admin Dashboard
• Select the ‘Tools’ tab select ‘Forums’ from the navigation menu
• Select the ‘Import Forums’ tab at the top of the screen.

You then need to follow the next steps in the docs linked above for your settings.

Don’t forget to read the docs on Mingle and let us know any issues you find.
https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/mingle/

[brokentwig]

The Vanilla.php you posted at https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2179 worked fine. Thanks alot for the help getting this dialed in and submitting it for inclusion in the coore build. I’m sure there’s a few people out there itching to get off of Vanilla.

[Stephen Edgar]

Thanks for adding that to the codex, I am not sure we should go that route though, I think we should not advise anyone to modify their existing forum directly with SQL. I think we are better off stating that all users including banned and deleted users are imported into WordPress and after importing you should manually delete these users through the WordPress Users admin panel.

As to the correct code/syntax for the password, honestly I have no idea! Give me a code example and I can hack around and make stuff work but code from scratch I am at noob level 😉

I started learning PHP when I started playing with bbPress not that long ago and along with WordPress they are my only PHP learning resources and a testament to @johnjamesjacoby coding with awesome inline docs.

With all that said though I think it would probably be best if you want Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, OpenID etc etc logins for WordPress/bbPress it will be much easier to install one of the many WP plugins that offer this. Then have the end users link their existing user profile to Facebook, Twitter or whoever, otherwise there will be all sorts of values we are trying to migrate from Vanilla to support a vast array of different user plugin implementations that are available for WordPress.

[Stephen Edgar]

Cool, I’ll add this back in `‘from_expression’ => ‘WHERE User.Deleted = 0′`.
I removed it as if there is a `‘from_expression’` in the template it takes precedence and ignores any `‘join_’` expressions. So I need to dig around `converter.php` and find why it is ignoring the `’join_’` expressions when converting the users.

The `callback_savepass` & `authenticate_pass` is where we add any extra password algorithms if needed for non WordPress passwords (phpBB.php importer is a good example)

I deleted my Facebook account a couple of years ago so I won’t be doing any FB stuff 😉

[Stephen Edgar]

The docs are now up also,

@brokentwig Key changes from your great work getting this started

• Topic tags are now included
• Once bbPress core converter is updated we can filter the users imported
• Added Topic Closed Status
• Inline docs consistent with other importers
• Whitespace and code formatting improved
• Uses parser.php to convert HTML & Smilies
• Reply status not needed, defaults are built into converter.php
• Reply Order removed, this is calculated during the import

The to do list:

• Remove the `callback_savepass` & `authenticate_pass` as you rightly point out they are not needed and Vanilla uses the same hash as WordPress for passwords so this is too easy.

If you see any bugs with the converter `Vanilla.php` please post these to the trac ticket here.

If there is anything else that needs doing before or after the import that I have not already listed in the codex docs if you could add/update these that would be great.

https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/vanilla
(Use the same bbpress.org username and password to login)

[Stephen Edgar]

Introduce Forum Importer template for use with importing from Vanilla 2.0.18.1

bbPress Core Trac Ticket: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2179

Codex Docs: ​https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/vanilla/

[steilenhang]

I bet there are quite many here that would like a translation for their bbPress, but the translation files are not complete. Why don’t you help a little? There are quite a lot to translate (almost 1000 sentences), but if we all contribute it will not take that long. Go to http://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/2.2.x and help to complete the translation into your language!

[steilenhang]

I got this great TinyMCE plugin, Ultimate TinyMCE, that works just great with WP. It does everything you want, but the most used functions for me is uploading images and inserting smileys.

When you turn on the “Use the fancy WordPress editor to create and edit topics and replies” it shows up in bbPress too, but only admin can use the extra functions enabled. Take the smileys for instance. If you make a post of just smileys it tells you “ERROR: Your reply cannot be empty.”. If you write som text and include a smiley, it posts the text without the smiley. It is the same with images.

What is happening? It does not matter what forumrole the user has. He can be key admin, makes no difference. Only WP Admin can post smileys and images on my forum, and I would like to change that. Does anyone know what is wrong here?

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress 2.2.4 (now available for download) is a maintenance and security release, and a safe and easy update for all previous bbPress 2.x versions.

Version 2.2.4 includes some security hardening inside the Forum Importer/Converter tool, and improves post form output sanitization. These issues were responsibly disclosed by Maty Siman.

Download 2.2.4 now or visit Dashboard → Updates in your site admin to update now.

[choibc]

I have reviewed bbpress plugin source, but can’t find clue to add link for next, previous topics in templates file (/bbpress folder)
Is this going to be future bbpress development plan?

I am curious how you can easily navigate topics while reading it.

[cedriclocqueneux]

Hello,

I use Simple Press 5.2.2 with WordPress 3.4.2, and I want to migrate my forum to bbpress 2.2.4 (on the same installation of WordPress).
My forum currently has 29 forums, 768 topics and 4324 posts, which is not so huge.

I try to migrate with the plugin “SimplePress 5 Import”, but the process stops at 490 :/ In fact it created the forums, a lot of the topics and posts, but it miss all the Reply.
I do not know where it blocks or why.

In addition, I can’t restart the process: I deleted all the bbpress forums, I even made a reset bbpress, but import around in circles in the first stage.

Can you help me, I really want to migrate to bbpress?

[jaykilleen]

Hi I am running a WordPress site with Genesis and the bbPress forum with the Genesis extension. For some reason my avatars are displayed weird and my links are getting the same formatting as the avatar links to peoples profiles. Any ideas what is causing this?

http://www.brisbanegojukarate.com.au/forums/topic/iherb-orders/#post-766

[julienborne]

Hi all,

I’m starting using bbpress on a wordpress network (using also buddypress)
Everything seem fine, but there is no avatar in any off the bbpress pages :'(

I also tried using a different template.. same thing…

[vulneratum]

Ok so here is my story:
I currently have:
Wordpress 3.5
Bbpress 2.2.3
Buddypress 1.6.3
History:
Back in December everything was working great (all my bbpress forum “posts” were showing up in Google searches). I had a couple of issues with my host, and decided to deactivate the bbpress plugin for a couple of weeks.
Several weeks ago I reactivated the forum and integrated it with buddypress (merged the two forums). I had absolutely no problem doing it.
I also used google webmaster tools to point to a new sitemap created by a plugin (WordPress SEO) 3 weeks ago.
Problem:
So here is my problem. When I do an advance search on google, I only get my sites topic pages, topic tag pages, and forum pages… not the forum posts!
What can be the issue?

Here is my site: http://otakuspace.com/forums/

[MJ]

Hi,

We have another forum plugin called “simple press”. And these two forum plugin both work fine except that when we try to search in our “simple press” it gives us a 404 error. Is there a way to fix this? If not, is there a way to disable the bbpress plugin on a specific page? I already tried “plugin organizer” but not working.

note: When I disable bbpress, search function for “simple press” is working fine.
Wordpress version: 3.5

Thanks!

[Stephen Edgar]

– Name BDD : The name in my wp-config (i use the same base for forum and a wordpress installation)

– Name user BDD : The user in my wp-config

– Pass : The Pass in my wp-config

These are your WordPress settings, you need to use your phpBB database name, database user & database user password.

[Angelheart29]

I tried to import Phpbb forum to bbpress, with the import tool :

http://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/

I disable Forums and start the process, and i have this :

“Repair any missing information: Continue

Conversion Complete

No replies to convert

No tags to convert

No topics to convert

No forum parents to convert

No forums to convert

No passwords to clear

No users to convert

Starting Conversion
”

My informations :

– phpBB

– Port : 3306

– Name BDD : The name in my wp-config (i use the same base for forum and a wordpress installation)

– Name user BDD : The user in my wp-config

– Pass : The Pass in my wp-config

– Prefix : PhpBB3

and Start.

I show all the informations many times and they are all right… I don’t understand where is the problem.

Thanks for your responses

[captjones]

There does not seem to be a step by step manual.

`To customize bbPress:
The directory “wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/” contains the directories “bbpress”, “css”, “extras”, and “js”, and the file “bbpress-functions.php”.

“bbpress” contains template files; copy any you want to modify into a directory named “bbpress” in your theme’s root. eg. /wp-content/mytheme/bbpress/
“extras” contains optional page templates and things to make life a little easier when customizing; copy any you want to use or modify into the same ‘bbpress’ folder. eg. /wp-content/mytheme/bbpress/
“css” contains style sheets; copy any you want to modify into a directory named “css” in your theme’s root. eg. /wp-content/mytheme/css/
Edit the new files for complete control over bbPress display in your theme.`

^ I did all this and the forum stopped working at all. No other option?
Thanks.