[Stephen Edgar]

I agree we need to look at this a bit more… I was using copy and paste with ‘Note’ on the iPad (3rd Gen) the other day to post here as noted above for Android ‘it will let me type, but nothing appears in the editor’ was the same behaviour I had with the iPad.

Can you create a ticket on trac so we can start to get some detailed device tests on how the editor is behaving for WordPress, bbPress and bbpress.org and go from there… It may be a core issue with WordPress that bbPress then inherits.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/

[goddess_dix]

I’ve seen a lot of talk since the changes in permissions and not being a coder myself, am limited insofar as what I can do to get around the various constraints. I’m also relatively new to bbPress.

Basically, I need functionality that this plugin provides for older versions of bbPress: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/forum-restrict/ – Deciding what users get access to which private forums.

Are there any good or reasonably reliable solutions anyone can recommend? I have Justin Tadlock’s members, I’ve had the user role editor, but honestly I’m hesitant to try a whole lot with them based on my limited understanding of how the capabilities are done and/or what changes to expect.

Suggestions very much appreciated.

[baldg0at]

I see the ticket @Alexandru Vornicescu linked to — https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2121 — was closed and marked as invalid. The response being ‘Run the user role reset tool in: Tools > Forums’

However, I was having the same issue and running the ‘role reset’ tool did not fix the issue for me. So, I’m not sure the issue is invalid.

I could not get this issue fixed until I followed the instructions found on this post – https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/fix-404-issue-for-bbpress-2-2-x/

[on3advertising]

Right now I have a script that connects to an external db outside of WordPress and authenticates a user’s “Customer ID” before showing the bbPress login form, but logging in redirects me to WordPress. This is the process.

1. When they enter the Customer ID, I pass a parameter to the URL like “website.com/?cid=1234” — the “cid” represents the customer id.

2. Then it shows the bbPress login form populated using “add_shortcode([‘bbp-login’]);” which then logs in correctly.

3. For some reason, it redirects them to the WordPress admin panel directly after so… “website.com/wp-login.php” — this then takes me backdoor to “/wp-admin/” because it knows I’ve already logged in.

This only happens when I enter the website with the “cid” parameter already passed in. So if I enter the website with “website.com/?cid=1234”. I do this to bypass the first authentication so the user doesn’t always have to. SO WEIRD!!

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[aklatzke]

Thank you, that was the fix I was looking for.

[Shane Gowland]

You can forums to existing WordPress pages using bbPress various shortcodes.

[Shane Gowland]

Is nobody seing this or..=

Yup, seeing it. But your post it pretty clear and informative, so there really isn’t much to add.

You should look into upgrading to bbPress 2.0, that way proven antispam WordPress plugins (Akismet, Bad Behaviour et al) can provide what’s clearly much-needed  protection to your community.

[Limbobski]

I was using the same database.

Users were already in WordPress, because it was the same installation, so the users could continue using the new forum without problems.

[aklatzke]

Hello,

I’ve installed BBPress (2.2.3) and WordPress (3.5) (site: http://twoblankpages.com). For some reason I cannot get the forums to attach to a WordPress “page” I have set up (named discussion). I’ve set the slug to discussion, but whenever I visit it I just see an empty page. I’m also running buddypress, but when I set the page through buddypress it just causes a redirect to my homepage.

However, if I manually enter twoblankpages.com/discussion/discussion/ it navigates me to the topics.

Any help you can give would be appreciated.

[Stephen Edgar]

At this stage I haven’t seen anyone mention anything about converting to BuddyPress ‘Group Forums’

With some theme customization you could make it appear that you have two lots of forums by putting each into their own ‘parent category’ and using shortcodes to only display each ‘category’ in specific areas of your site.
https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/

The other way is to go WordPress Multisite and have a  separate site for your ‘support’ side of things.

To customize bbPress as a support forum check this great tutorial by @mordauk http://wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/plugins/using-bbpress-as-a-support-forum/

[Stephen Edgar]

Cool….

bbPress does not create any tables of its own, it uses WordPress custom post types for forums, topics, topic tags and replies.

I cleaned up the code layout of Example.php in #2134 so it now matches the coding style of the other importers. If you use SVN you can apply that patch directly or download it directly from here.

I am slowly getting updated and more docs in the codex starting here:
https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/

To customize the Example.php importer I have started this doc which follows this topic on building a new custom importer for the Mingle forums.

https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/custom-import/

This is all a work in progress and has a few moving targets so any questions ask away 🙂

[Jaina “Jazzy” Jaslyn]

Thank you so much for your reply! The information indeed helped me.

I have the database converted to a MySql database and can see the table information. Now it’s a matter of configuring the example.php

My next question: Where can I find a diagram of how bbPress 2.0 works with WordPress’ database structure? I know they share a database and tables. I know WP’s structure, but even Google won’t inform me how BBP interacts with WP. Simply put, I think from here it’s just a matter of linking the 2 together so that import will do the rest.

Thanks again!

[Stephen Edgar]

This is now in bbPress trac https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2163

(All updates will be posted at the above URL from now on i.e. download from trac NOT GitHub)

The docs will be on the codex at https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/mingle/

[rossagrant]

Done:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2162

Thanks!
🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

Yes, thats what I wanted…. Why do you not have any WordPress tables in your old site?
Specificity if your users are not stored in `wp_users` where are they stored?

[srjrol]

Using the older version was successful, but the new file gives me this error when importing with or without the users box checked.

`
WordPress database error: [Table ‘str1210409063589.wp_forums’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT convert(forums.id USING “utf8”) AS id,convert(forums.parent_id USING “utf8”) AS parent_id,convert(forums.name USING “utf8”) AS name,convert(forums.description USING “utf8”) AS description,convert(forums.sort USING “utf8”) AS sort FROM wp_forums AS forums LIMIT 0, 100
`

Before anything appeared on the site I ran a complete repair with all option checked. After this was done and the wp_users table was exported/imported through phpMyAdmin everything is showing up. Before the users were imported it still worked but all except the admin posts were Anonymous.

Working:

• All forums that contained posts are present
• Forum descriptions
• The timestamps
• User account links and info (Forum Role,Topics Started, Replies Created)
• Topic/Voice counts
• bbcode is working for text formatting
• Started By and Freshness authors
• HTML code was imported and is displaying correctly

Not working:

• Parent forums are missing (everything was imported under ‘Forum’)
• There is a blank post by the original author at the start of each topic causing false count
• Custom Smileys “
• Closed Topics are open again.
• Stick Topics are normal topics

[Stephen Edgar]

What’s next? What works and doesn’t work?

• Is the imported forum hierarchy and order correct?
• Sticky topics, eg ‘sticky’ and/or ‘global sticky’ topics?
• Open or closed topics?
• Does Mingle use BBCodes eg [b]blod[/b] and do we need to convert them from custom HTML to WordPress/bbPress friendly HTML? If so what BBCodes does Mingle use?

Are there any other forums, topics or replies behaviour that has not been imported?

[Stephen Edgar]

Ahhh… Yes, if you are importing to the existing install of WordPress that Mingle is using you do not need to import the users as the existing users will have the same mappings.

If you want to import to a separate WordPress install you will need to import the users.

That was the reason I originally had each field as `’forum_forums’` and I have switched all the fields back to this so now and you should use the table prefix `wp_` on the import settings. I also updated user mappings, I just copied them in from the bbPress1.php importer as this is in the same boat.

I also added some extra phpdoc’s to the code and cleaned up some whitespace and changed the code layout style to match the other importers.

You should be able to use the same links above to download and compare the revisions.

[srjrol]

Thank you Stephen you are my hero! It appears to have worked flawlessly for the forums, but the users were not included. Here is the error I see when trying the import including users:

`
WordPress database error: [Table ‘str1210409063589.wp_forum_user’ doesn’t exist]
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.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 wp_forum_user AS user LIMIT 0, 500
`
From what I can tell bbpress uses the same registered users as WordPress so I may be able to import those separately.

On another note, if I import to an existing installation instead of a fresh one would the forums be duplicated or just skipped during the import, so only the topics and replies are added?

[Stephen Edgar]

Can you create a ticket for this over in trac for this please: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/
(Adding some ‘numbers’ would also help eg #subscribers & #posts so we can test this ourselves.)

[Stephen Edgar]

Nice… An extremely good first shot at mapping the MySQL database tables…

I have updated the file with a few things and it should now work…

If your WordPress database uses the out of the box `wp_` table prefix then for the Mingle.php converter we will use `wp_forum_` as the table prefix on the import setting.

• The forum slug is the same process as you did for topics & replies
• A couple of `id` vs `parent_id`
• Dates, WordPress stores four dates for a post in the `wp_posts` table, ‘post_date’, ‘post_date_gmt’, ‘post_modified’ and ‘post_modified_gmt’.
  • Forums – In this case forum creation dates do not exist, this will default to the current date
  • Topics – We map ‘date’ to ‘post_date’ & ‘post_date_gmt’ and ‘last_post’ to ‘post_modified’ & ‘post_modified_gmt’
  • Replies – We map ‘date’ to all four ‘post_date’, ‘post_date_gmt’, ‘post_modified’ & ‘post_modified_gmt’.

So as I said, nice first go at it 🙂

You can view the changes inline I made here and download the full file from here.

[latas]

For all users who couldn’t fix the issue that basic users can not reply or create a new topic, I found at least where is my problem.

It is located in the functions.php file in the line 216. This is for the version 2.2.3. I’m using bbpress as plugin in WordPress 3.5.

File located at bbpress plugin folder -> includes/replies/functions.php

The code that does not allow me to post as a Participant is this:
if ( !bbp_check_for_blacklist( $anonymous_data, $reply_author, $reply_title, $reply_content ) )
bbp_add_error( ‘bbp_reply_blacklist’, __( ‘ERROR: Your reply cannot be created at this time.’, ‘bbpress’ ) );

So it looks some blacklist check is working on. And the question is, where in the setup of WordPress, is located the blacklisted information, to verify why this is happening.

By the way, if that function only does what it looks to do by its name, I commented it.
Everything works now.

Can you give me further info about this?

Thanks.

[srjrol]

I created a new WordPress installation Version 3.5 and installed bbpress plugin Version 2.2.3. Uploaded the Mingle.php file to /bbpress/includes/admin/converters/ and then ran the Tools > Forums > Import Forums tool using the following settings:

Select Platform: Mingle
Database Server: Server IP
Database Port: 3306
Database Name: My database name confirmed with host.
Database User: Same as database name, also confirmed.
Database Password: Confirmed correct password.
Table Prefix: I tried two settings here with the same result (‘wp_’ and ‘wp_forums’)
Rows Limit: 100
Delay Time: 1
Convert Users: Yes (checked)
Start Over: No (unchecked)
Purge Previous Import: No (unchecked)

The result is below:
`
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 convertStarting Conversion
`

I checked after importing and nothing was imported successfully. Any ideas what would cause this? I feel like I have one of the basic import settings wrong (maybe the database table prefix) since nothing is being found at all here.

[srjrol]

Next in the Forum Section for the third database mapping ‘Title’ in Example.php Line#30
`
‘from_tablename’ => ‘forum_forums’
‘from_fieldname’ => ‘name’
`

I was not sure what matched with the fourth mapping for the ‘Forum Slug’ so I have commented that out for now assuming that there is just nothing to import.

For the fifth database mapping ‘Description’ in Example.php Line#43
`
‘from_tablename’ => ‘forum_forums’
‘from_fieldname’ => ‘description’
`

Sixth mapping for ‘Forum display order’ in Example.php Line#50
`
‘from_tablename’ => ‘forum_forums’
‘from_fieldname’ => ‘sort’
`

I also commented out the ‘Forum date update’ in Example.php Lines #56-72 section as there don’t appear to be any corresponding field names.

That wraps up the database mapping for the ‘Forums Section’. Moving along to the ‘Topics Section’ the ‘from_tablename’ appears to be ‘forum_threads’.

The first mapping for the ‘Topic id’ in Example.php Line#76
`
‘from_tablename’ => ‘forum_threads’
‘from_fieldname’ => ‘id’,
`

Mapping ‘Forum id’ in Example.php Line#82
`
‘from_tablename’ => ‘forum_threads’
‘from_fieldname’ => ‘parent_id’
`

Mapping ‘Topic author’ in Example.php Line#89
`
‘from_tablename’ => ‘forum_threads’
‘from_fieldname’ => ‘starter’
`

Mapping ‘Topic Title’ in Example.php Line#96
`
‘from_tablename’ => ‘forum_threads’
‘from_fieldname’ => ‘subject’
`

Mapping for ‘Topic Slug’ in Example.php Line#102
`
‘from_tablename’ => ‘forum_threads’
‘from_fieldname’ => ‘subject’
`

Mapping ‘Forum id’ (again?) in Example.php Line#109
`
‘from_tablename’ => ‘forum_threads’
‘from_fieldname’ => ‘id’
`

For the Topic dates I only found two matching tables instead of four. One is called ‘date’ the other ‘last post’. I assume that bbpress just needs either the GMT time or another format. I confirmed that the format Mingle uses does appear to be GMT based on the database showing “2012-04-29 20:55:59” and checking this. Therefore, I am only editing ‘post_date_gmt’ and ‘post_modified_gmt’ and commenting out the other two as follows.

Mapping ‘post_date_gmt’ in Example.php line#123
`
‘from_tablename’ => ‘forum_threads’
‘from_fieldname’ => ‘date’
`

Mapping ‘post_modified_gmt’ in Example.php line#133
`
‘from_tablename’ => ‘forum_threads’
‘from_fieldname’ => ‘last_post’
`

That completes the ‘Threads’ section, next are the ‘Tags’ which Mingle does not appear to support.

This section has been commented out entirely.

Next up the ‘Post’ Section appears to map to the ‘forums_posts’ table from Mingle. There are only two ID fields present (id and parent_id) but both have the same values. I was not sure whether it would be better to only import one of the bbpress ids (post,forum,topic) or all three, so I have done all three below.

Mapping ‘Post id’ in Example.php Line#156
`
‘from_tablename’ => ‘forum_posts’
‘from_fieldname’ => ‘id’
`

Mapping ‘Forum id’ in Example.php Line#162
`
‘from_tablename’ => ‘forum_posts’
‘from_fieldname’ => ‘parent_id’
`

Mapping ‘Topic id’ in Example.php Line#169
`
‘from_tablename’ => ‘forum_posts’
‘from_fieldname’ => ‘id’
`

No match found for ‘Author IP’ in Example.php Line#176 – Commented out

Mapping ‘Post author’ in Example.php Line#182
`
‘from_tablename’ => ‘forum_posts’
‘from_fieldname’ => ‘author_id’
`

Mapping ‘Topic Title’ in Example.php Line#189
`
‘from_tablename’ => ‘forum_posts’
‘from_fieldname’ => ‘subject’
`

Mapping ‘Topic slug’ in Example.php Line#195
`
‘from_tablename’ => ‘forum_posts’
‘from_fieldname’ => ‘subject’
`

Mapping ‘Post content’ in Example.php Line#202
`
‘from_tablename’ => ‘forum_posts’
‘from_fieldname’ => ‘text’
`

Mapping ‘Topic id’ in Example.php Line#209
`
‘from_tablename’ => ‘forum_posts’
‘from_fieldname’ => ‘id’
`

Mapping ‘Topic Dates’ for ‘post_date_gmt’ and ‘post_modified_gmt’ in Example.php Line#223 and #232 (commented out non-GMT imports)
`
‘from_tablename’ => ‘forum_posts’
‘from_fieldname’ => ‘date’
`

This ends the ‘Post’ section. I did not make any modifications to the ‘User’ Section. Are changes here required to import normal WordPress users?

The ‘wp_forum_groups’, ‘wp_forum_usergroups’, ‘wp_forum_usergroup2user’ and ‘wp_forum_reputation_posts’ tables are all empty so those must have been for other plugins that I have integrated with Mingle Forums.

I don’t see any further changes to make here so if someone would be kind enough to review this for any mistakes before I give it it a try I will let everyone know how it goes. 🙂

[jwrbloom]

I’m using the bbPress plugin for WordPress, and I’m wondering how to go about changing the theme of the bbPress. Is it mostly dependent upon the WP theme I’m using, aside from CSS changes I make?