[shrewdies]

OK, here are the redirects, but first some background.

Your move takes some planning, and the redirects are specific to your old Simple:Press Forum structure and your new bbPress settings (Admin-Settings-Forums). I describe how I approached my conversion, but you may need a different approach. If you need specific help with a different set of objectives, then please just ask. I did not use tagging in Simple:Press, as it was more trouble to implement than the benefit it gave. None of this refers to tagging, and I notice that the r4638 version of SimplePress5.php has them commented out.

If your forum has little search and external referral traffic, then save yourself the bother of all this, and just get on with building your new forum.

Before I explain the permalinks, you need to be aware that I took this opportunity of simplifying my forum structure. I used to believe in different forums for different subject areas, but I’ve come to realize that most forum users do not understand my theme, so they cannot decide which forum to post in. I noticed the same thing here when I looked around for the best place to post. I decided to simplify my forums to two main choices, with the rest as child forums. I did this by manually editing the Forums parents in bbPress after the conversion. That explains my choice of Topic slug in bbPress settings, but redirects should handle any choice.

In Simple:Press, topics get permalinks in a hierarchy under their forum, and all forums lie within the WordPress forums page in the Simple:Press settings. Thus, a topic will be referenced domain/wp-forums-page/sp-forum-title-slug/sp-post-title
In bbPress, permalinks are built from your WordPress root, with prefixes set in the bbPress settings under slugs. Thus a topic will be referenced domain/bb-forums-base/bb-topic-slug/bb-post-title

The post titles are the same in bbPress and Simple:Press, so redirects have to account for the changed forum slug structure.

The first bbPress setting, Forums base, is the equivalent of your Simple:Press WP page, so I used exactly that. If you made bad choices when setting up your Simple:Press forum, I guess you could change it with the redirects, by specifying different destination URLs. I kept it the same, and simply renamed my old Simple:Press page (be aware this auto changes in WP menus, so you may need to manually delete old forum menu pages and add new custom menu links)

In bbPress settings Single Slugs, the Forum Prefix should be left switched on.

Forum slug has no Simple:Press equivalent, so I opted for something theme related. The default is probably OK, but I’m slug-fixated as a result of a bad SEO upbringing. I have not redirected these pages, but I will assess the impact over the next few days, and come back with these if I see they are necessary.

I set topic slug to my most popular forum, which is very general, as per my introduction. Redirects will handle whatever you put here.

The rest of the bbPress settings do not affect conversion.

At last, @netweb here are the requested redirects. Are you glad you didn’t ask for my life story? 😉

The general construct is:
Old
^ begin with
/wp-forums-page
/sp-forum-title-slug
(.*) store the rest

New
//domain
/bb-forums-base
/bb-topic-slug
/$1 whatever * stored

RedirectMatch 301 ^/gout-pal-forum/gout-symptoms(.*) http://www.gout-pal.com/gout-pal-forum/please-help-my-gout/$1
RedirectMatch 301 ^/gout-pal-forum/gout-cures(.*) http://www.gout-pal.com/gout-pal-forum/please-help-my-gout/$1
RedirectMatch 301 ^/gout-pal-forum/gout-diet(.*) http://www.gout-pal.com/gout-pal-forum/please-help-my-gout/$1
RedirectMatch 301 ^/gout-pal-forum/colchicine-campaign(.*) http://www.gout-pal.com/gout-pal-forum/please-help-my-gout/$1
RedirectMatch 301 ^/gout-pal-forum/united-states-colchicine-sources(.*) http://www.gout-pal.com/gout-pal-forum/please-help-my-gout/$1
RedirectMatch 301 ^/gout-pal-forum/gout-related(.*) http://www.gout-pal.com/gout-pal-forum/please-help-my-gout/$1
RedirectMatch 301 ^/gout-pal-forum/uric-acid(.*) http://www.gout-pal.com/gout-pal-forum/please-help-my-gout/$1
RedirectMatch 301 ^/gout-pal-forum/your-gout(.*) http://www.gout-pal.com/gout-pal-forum/please-help-my-gout/$1
RedirectMatch 301 ^/gout-pal-forum/tech-stuff(.*) http://www.gout-pal.com/gout-pal-forum/please-help-my-gout/$1
RedirectMatch 301 ^/gout-pal-forum/wish-list(.*) http://www.gout-pal.com/gout-pal-forum/please-help-my-gout/$1
RedirectMatch 301 ^/gout-pal-forum/gouties-water-trough(.*) http://www.gout-pal.com/gout-pal-forum/please-help-my-gout/$1

One potential complication lies with multi-page topics. I’m still assessing if it is worth bothering with these, as traffic rarely hits anything after the first page. Google WebMaster Tools is currently complaining, but experience tells me it will soon re-index unless there are other sites that link to specific pages.

Disclaimer: Before you try this at home, you might like to wait a month or so. I’ll be back to tell you if I killed my forum traffic or not. 😮

[Will Brownsberger]

Just wish to report that I have confirmed to my satisfaction that W3 Total Cache is not working with BBPress — using latest versions as of this date, January 8, 2013. I installed both in the last week.

I have an active forum thread going on my website and as I observe it carefully, I can see that new replies are not generating page refresh for the topic. So, an anonymous user coming would not see latest replies. So, either there is an incompatibility or W3 just isn’t working right, which is possible — see this comment on that plugin:

I am liking BBPress but lost some confidence in W3 total when it brought down my site fully on a minify error yesterday (nice enough to send me an error message but then everything went white and had to uninstall and reinstall to complete the fix). Now realizing that it is incompatible with BBPress, I’m going to have to pull it and try to run without caching for a while and see how it goes.

[Stephen Edgar]

Thanks for letting us know and confirmed as a bug, we were partially there with trac ticket #2085

You can use the following workaround for now until we get the bug patched.

• Create a new forum with forum attributes ‘category’ and ‘private’
• Create two new forums using the above forum as the ‘parent’ and visibility ‘private’

Now as long as you don’t move or edit the forum or category descriptions things should work as expected, if you do move the forums or edit the descriptions you will encounter the same issue.

[Salvatore Formisano]

Hello everyone,

as per subject I think I might have found an issue with the topics pagination.

Here are my steps to reproduce:

1) Install the bbpress plugin
2) Create a few topics, enough to have some topics pages to test. For my example I have 48 topics.
3) Go to the forum settings admin page and set the number of topics per page to a low number. I set it to 5
4) Go to the wordpress reading settings admin page and make sure that the “Blog pages show at most” number is *lower* than the topics per page number you defined during step (3). In my case, I set it to 10.
5) Finally, reach the forum topics page, e.g. http://yourwebsite.com/topics (url may vary depending on your forum settings), and start browsing page after page

When I follow these steps using the specific numbers I mentioned, as soon as I reach http://mywebsite.com/topics/page/6 wordpress loads the 404.php template.

As far as I can tell, this is what happened:

1) Up to page 5, everything was good: I saw the right topics and the right number of them per page (i.e. 5)
2) Under the hood, on the other hand, WordPress was paginating using the “Blog pages show at most” number as reference.

Proof of point (2) is that I had 48 topics, which at 10 items per page would give you 5 pages. And WordPress returned the 404.php template on page 6.
When “Blog pages show at most” is equal or smaller than “topics per page”, this issue does not present itself.

If this is in fact a bug, I guess it could have gone uncaught because there’s hardly anyone around who would display less topics per page in their forum than posts per page in their blog.
In case nobody else manages to reproduce this, I’d be happy to share more details about my setup, although it is pretty basic.

Thanks.

[Mal]

How about forum-only WordPress theme? This sounds like easily doable.

Or a theme that theme developers can integrate with their own theme if they copy things like register_sidebar() etc. to their functions.php? No need for child themes and things like that in this case.

I can think of many acceptable and convenient solutions 🙂

==========================
It is very easy to modify BBPress 1 if you have theme in /bb-templates/ or /my-templates/ folder. You have to spend hours on going through BBPress files (because there is no documentation like in case of WordPress) but that’s fine with me.

I would like to move to BBPress2 because of a bit better documentation, more functions that I’m often missing, custom fields and if it’s made as custom post type then it’s actually easy to integrate with any theme in any way – very cool.

BBPress beats any solutions like PHPBB thanks to your simple, clever and therefore highly customizable project structure. Too bad that it’s evolving slowly because it’s a great thing 🙂

[Lars Henriksen]

When I try to post a new topic I get “Too many redirects” and the post doesn’t show up in the forum directories?

However, the post is showing up in my frontpage widget with new posts.

Screendump from control panel: https://www.sugarsync.com/pf/D8989921_62533303_02322

Site url: http://www.itigymnasiet.dk

Wordpress 3.5
BBpress 2.2.3

[Mike McNamara]

I have just installed bbPress onto a brand new WordPress install and have what may be a very basic question, but I seem unable to work it out!

How do I allow new users to join the Forum that I have created so that they can create topics and/or comment on existing forum topics?

Many thanks

[Stephen Edgar]

Thanks for this, it would be great if these could be added here:
https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress

If you are interested in doing this post a message on the Polyglots blog here:
https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/

[Stephen Edgar]

I think having a look at the following trac ticket that has some changes in the upcoming bbPress 2.3 might give you some pointers or it might be enough for you to just use as is when 2.3 is released.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1799

[Stephen Edgar]

There is this comment via @JJJ

Try bumping the converter start (_bbp_converter_start) up 1 or 2, and see if it continues on.

I am trying to wrap my head around this and this may or may not help 😉

Once the import stops at that magic ~31000 number open up your WordPress `wp_options` table in phpMyAdmin and find the following three entries (or values similar):

• `_bbp_converter_step | 6`
• `_bbp_converter_start | 31100`
• `_bbp_converter_query | SELECT convert(topics.topic_id USING “utf8…`

These translate to ‘step’ is the step the conversion was up to (Importing forums, forum hierarchy, topics etc), ‘start’ is the last set of rows the converter was importing when it stopped from the current ‘step’ and ‘query’ was the last SQL query executed.

I think from some calculated guesswork yours will be around step=6 & start=31000

What you can now try is to change this ‘start’ value directly in the `wp_options` table and increase the value to hopefully allow the importer to skip the problem and finish importing the remaining topics and onto importing the replies.

The default setting for the importer is to import 100 rows at a time as defined by ‘Rows Limit’ on the import options main import tool. Thus the importer could be failing on any of those 100 rows so if it was row 31000 that it stops on changing this to 31001 would continue on and finish the import. The reality is though that it could be any number from 31000 to 31099.

I would suggest on the forum import settings change ‘Rows Limit’ to ‘1’ and in `wp_options` change `_bbp_converter_start` to 31001 and click start. This will resume the last import starting at the same ‘step’ it left off with and starting at row 31001 and then proceed 1 row at a time.

If the import stops again you can look up the values in `wp_options` and increase by 1 again and resume the import again.

Now with that said the import will continue to only import 1 row at a time for the remainder of the import process which with 30,000+ topics I expect you will have quite a few tens or hundreds of thousands of replies to also import and this will be much slower than importing 100 rows at a time.

[will_c]

One other thing to be aware of is that currently activity feed integration doesn’t seem to be working if you’ve made your site private (using Settings->Reading or Settings->Privacy). Try allowing your site to be indexed and see if that solves the integration problem. There’s an open ticket for this issue if anyone is interested:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2151

[Aneox]

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mingle/

Wp Mingle. In theory, there are no possible conflicts with bbpress.

[Stephen Edgar]

You didn’t state the full plugin name 😉

bbPress tries to be as compatible as it can with as many WordPress plugins as possible and I suggest you post in the Mingle Support Forum to see if any others have had the same issue and/or know of a work around. https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/mingle

[Stephen Edgar]

Are you referring to Mingle Forums?

If so I could not repro this with bbPress 2.2.3 and Mingle Forums 1.0.33.3

• WordPress Role = Administrator | bbPress Role = Keymaster
• WordPress Role = Subscriber | bbPress Role = Moderator
• WordPress Role = Subscriber | bbPress Role = Participant
• WordPress Role = Subscriber | bbPress Role = Spectator

The above was all I tested but each works as expected:
https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-user-roles-and-capabilities/

[kraigg]

I’m having problems with my forum, where only Administrators can see topics (new and old) in the forums. Everyone else with non-Administrator user roles cannot see topics, only replies. If I log in as a normal user and go into a forum topic, it shows only topic title, replies (if any), but no initial topic content.

I’m using BuddyPress 1.6.2, bbPress 2.2.3, WordPress 3.5, and I’m also using the User Role Editor plugin.

If I give all users the same user roles as the Administrator, they can now see topics, but obviously I don’t want to give everyone admin access. Do you know what role I need tick in User Role Editor so that all users can see topics?

Here are the user role I currently have set for a normal user: http://imgur.com/XsWPg

[beervanger]

Hi everyone,
I need your help. I wanna migrate from phpbb to bbpress.
I use bbConverter. I got this error :

[…again and again…]

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 ” at line 1]
SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE id =

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 ” at line 1]
SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE id =

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 ” at line 1]
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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 ” at line 1]
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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 ” at line 1]
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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 ” at line 1]
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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 ” at line 1]
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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 ” at line 1]
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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 ” at line 1]
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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 ” at line 1]
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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 ” at line 1]
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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 ” at line 1]
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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 ” at line 1]
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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 ” at line 1]
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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 ” at line 1]
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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 ” at line 1]
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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 ” at line 1]
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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 ” at line 1]
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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 ” at line 1]
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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 ” at line 1]
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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 ” at line 1]
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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 ” at line 1]
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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 ” at line 1]
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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 ” at line 1]
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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 ” at line 1]
SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE id =

Convert forums (0 – 99)-
Not clearing default passwords-

Not Converting users Selected-

Not Cleaning Data-

Conversion Complete-

Starting Conversion…

Could you help me?
Thank you.

[Stephen Edgar]

It appears that bbPress Sweedish translations are a bit all over the place:

bbPress Dev – 87% Complete https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/dev/sv/default
bbPress 2.2x – 0% Complete https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/2.2.x/sv/default

Also WP Sweeden had previously operated there own translations here
bbPress 2.1 http://wpsv.se/oversattning/projects/bbpress/21
bbPress 2.0 http://wpsv.se/oversattning/projects/bbpress/20

I think the best idea would be to contact WP Sweeden and ask about bbPress translations

http://wpsv.se/kontakta-oss/

[rossagrant]

I’ve noticed this for a while, and I’m not sure what is causing it.

Whenever I use an @mention in my forum posts I get a DB error reported in my server’s error log.

Here is an example:

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 ‘http://www.mysite.com/members/dave/’ rel=’nofollow’>@cdave is’ at line 1 for query SELECT ID FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type = ‘reply’ AND post_status != ‘trash’ AND post_author = 11 AND post_content = ‘ @cdave is this still happening Dave?’ AND post_parent = ‘11990’ LIMIT 1 made by

Any idea if this is actually my DB or is it BBPress at fault?

My site title also has an apostrophe in it, and this appears as raw HTML in all notification emails.

Any idea on these 2 things guys?

[fagiano1973]

Some my user with Samsung galxy s3 can’t user “star topic” in bbpress forum (version 2.2.3)
buddypress v.1.6.2 + WordPress 3.5

[distjoyo1]

actually no, i’m runnin the v1.3 of the theme, and please what are the steps to update any theme cos i noticed that the update link only shows for wordpress default themes, thanks so much for your time

[pramodbhalerao]

hey i install bbpress to my domain.so i found domain.com/forums as forum section
in a while time i found bbpress is excellent feature as forum so i created a subdomain as forum.domain.com. i install wordpress in my subdomain and bbpress plugin in it but i need your help to explain how to make forum.domain.com/forums into just forum.domain.com ??
thanks

[Stephen Edgar]

Did you run the bbPress 1.1 admin recount tools /bb-admin/tools-recount.php before importing?

You can try importing again now and if that fixed it, good, if not onto phpMyAdmin:

To check the integrity of the bbPress 1.1 database and repair/optimize any tables if needed. The instructions in following are written for WordPress but are the same for any database so follow the two steps ‘Optimization using phpMyAdmin’ and ‘How to Repair WordPress Tables’ here:

http://wpmu.org/wordpress-maintenance-101-how-to-optimize-and-repair-database-tables/

[muyilleum]

I’m not sure what is happening here but can’t seem to make a post in this support forum. Here’s my problem again:

I uninstalled bbPress from my blog but found that the additional roles (e.g. Keymaster, Spectator etc) remain. How can I get rid of these additional forum roles now that bbPress has been uninstalled? Thanks

WordPress version: 3.5, bbPress version: 2.2.3

[Tanya]

This one maybe?

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpressmoderation/

[Will Brownsberger]

For some strange reason, the list of “topics started” in the user profile does not work in Firefox. It works in IE, Safari and Chrome.

To see the problem, try this link in the several browers.

http://willbrownsberger.com/index.php/forums/users/rich-carlson/topics

In firefox, nothing is visible below the header “Forum Topics Started”, while in the other browsers, a topic list appears as expected.

The behavior is the same for the replies list. In this example, the user has no Favorites and the statement that there are no favorites does appear. In the case of a user with favorites, nothing shows.

So, I guess there is something in the source that generates list for this page that Firefox doesn’t like.

I’m on bbPress 2.2.3 and WordPress 3.5. I have a few theme modifications to bbpress in place, but not for this template and I had noticed that the problem was occurring before I made the modifications.

Baffled. Presumably, the source served to the browsers is all the same.

Any suggestions?