[John James Jacoby]

Exactly like you’d expect:

• Create a page with the slug ‘topics’
• Use the ‘bbp-topic-index’ shortcode in the page content.
• Done.

[le-gentilone]

Hello

Here I want to migrate my forum as xoops CMS, to my new wordpress site.
Is this possible, and if possible how to proceed.
Thank you in advance

Bonjour

Voila je veux migrer mon forum sous le CMS xoops, vers mon nouveau site wordpress.
Est-ce possible, et si possible comment procéder .
Merci d’avance

[Halo Diehard]

Howdy, can someone please check out the first page of my bbPress forums and tell me if it’s supposed to look like this? I can certainly tweak it with CSS, but I need an example, so if someone could provide a link to what it’s supposed to look like that would be great! BTW, I don’t mean colors, which I’ve begun tweaking already, I’m referring to the layout.

I’m using:

WordPress Version: 3.4.2
bbPress Version: 2.2.2
Theme: Custom Community

Link to my bbPress test forums: http://themetest.halodiehards.org/hd-forums/

[Michael]

For what it’s worth, I’m looking for whatever function is calling content-archive-forum.php.  I can edit this file in my child theme per the Codex, but I’m trying to figure out which function is calling this, and in particular, what function generates the code above the <div id=”bbpress-forums”> at the start of content-archive-forum.php.

Does bbPress simply use the default post display template, and if so, where is the call to load and execute content-archive-forum.php  made?

I tried a grep for content-archive-forum in the entire wordpress tree from wp-content on down, and I can’t find where this is called from.

Many thanks

Michael

 

and not just this template file

[Michael]

Did you ever get an answer for this?

Michael

[John James Jacoby]

If they are on the same multisite WordPress installation, yes.

* Visit Tools > Export on the site you want to move.
* Export your data.
* Visit Tools > Import on the destination site.
* Import the data.

[John James Jacoby]

@sooskriszta – What happens if you comment out lines 657 and 658:

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.2.2/includes/core/theme-compat.php#L657

[SK]

Created ticket https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2031

JJJ says no need yet, but will consider if it is a popular request.

[John James Jacoby]

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress/developers/

[tilmanjo]

Hello,

I have the following problem:

In the form-topic.php in somewhere aroung line 43 there is written:

bbp_is_single_forum() ? printf( __( ‘Create New Topic in “%s”’, ‘bbpress’ ), bbp_get_forum_title() ) : _e( ‘Create New Topic’, ‘bbpress’ );

Now on my website it shows: Forum_titleCreate New Topic in “”. Somehow it is not working that %s is replaced by the bbp_get_forum_title() information!

Anther problem that occured:
When starting a Forum as private and then changing it to public the topics that were created as in the “private mode” still remain private and I could not find a way to change that back.

Thanks for working on bbpress!

Tilman
actual wordpress and bbpress version

[Pippin Williamson]

The usermeta table is one of the core WordPress tables, so usually it will be the one that looks like this: wp_usermeta. Sometimes, however, the “wp_” prefix will be different.

[Halo Diehard]

WordPress Version: 3.4.2
bbPress Version: 2.2.2
Theme: Custom Community

Hello, I am considering changing my site from phpBB3 forums to bbPress to better integrate with my WordPress home page.

I’m attempting to Import my forums into my test site, on another database, to test bbPress’ “Import Forums”. I’ve filled out all the necessary information, but the first time I ran it I got messages at the bottom that 0 Members had been imported 0 posts, etc all the way down the line. I tried running it again and I get this message:

“Fatal error: Class ‘Example’ not found in /homepages/33/d410891000/htdocs/THEMETEST/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converter.php on line 1291”

I’ve attempted to reset the process by choosing to Purge Previous Import and save, then Start Over and save, but I continue to get the same message when I try to import.

I tried to resolve this on my own, but I searched for an hour online before I even found that bbPress has an importer built in! Unfortunately stuff from the last five years had priority in the search. Also, I could not find a search on this site, so I started Googling “bbpress.org import forums” but still no answers, so any help would be appreciated.

One more thing: I don’t have so many members that I couldn’t create their accounts myself if I *had* to, so if anyone knows of an easier way to just import the forums and posts, that might work.

Thanks in advance for your time.

[ndsailor]

To add standard wp post_tag support for BBPress – Post Type – Topic… I added the following code starting about line 557 to bbpress/bbpress.php


// Topic Taxonomies
$post_type['taxonomies'] = array(
'post_tag'
);

// Register Topic content type
register_post_type(
bbp_get_topic_post_type(),
apply_filters( 'bbp_register_topic_post_type', array(
'taxonomies' => $post_type['taxonomies'],


To get the topics to show on regular wordpress tag pages I used the snippet from Justin Tadlock edited for tag pages and post type topic.

After limited testing, everything seems to work as I wanted – bbpress topics show up on regular post_tag archive pages – as long as the tag is added to the topic from the Admin side.

Because I know enough abut wordpress to occasionally be dangerous, my questions:

1. Is this a bad idea for some reason I don’t know about?
2. Provided it’s not a terrible idea, Is there a way to future proof this hack? I tried creating a bbpress directory in my themes main directory and adding the edited bbpress.php there, but it didn’t work.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated,

JW

[John James Jacoby]

It’s a bit difficult to wrap your head around at first, but the reason theme compatibility exists, is because you should not modify code/templates that come with plugins or themes. When using a plugin like bbPress, and a theme that isn’t yours, you need some other way to introduce code into WordPress.

You can use either a plugin, or a child theme to do this.

You’ll want to research both methods, and figure out which one suits your situation and needs.

[nickzee]

Dear community.

I have spent the last few (5) hours reading the various posts, trying to get bbpress to integrate with my custom WP theme. Unfortunately, I don’t have the knowledge (or enough) to figure out how to make the two work together.

Info
Wordpress: 3.4.2
Site link: http://www.restorationcoach.com/restoration_coach/forums/
Using this theme: http://www.templatemonster.com/wordpress-themes/39849.html
bbpress: 2.2

My main issue seams to be css related. I think bbpress is and the theme are sharing css files, causing a funky appearance. Overall forum function seems to be working fine.

So far I’ve done the following.

Completely removed bbpress and installed new 2.2 version.
Read: http://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/ (this is for customizing the bbpress theme, if you want? And if you don’t, then leave the install as is?)
Watched: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB2Oodx2GJw (not sure if this applies with 2.2)
Switched to Twentyeleven: Looks better, side bar is missing, and footer contact form, map and links are over top one another.

I can see in firebug where both style.css and bbpress.css are being used to style the forum. Most specifically #page-content ul li. This, I believe, is causing the issues but not quite sure how to fix it.

Thank you in advance for the assistance.

[John James Jacoby]

That’s true. Unfortunately before bbPress 2.2, users had to go digging to assign forum moderator capabilities to users with existing WordPress roles, so we indirectly drove users towards that solution already. :/

[psiggy]

Hi,

I would like to ask – is there any function that returns the current forum description. By “forum description”, I mean the string that you can specify in WordPress GUI when creating new forum.

Thanks!

[John James Jacoby]

The editor here is the basic WordPress editor with some CSS tweaks; something anyone with a spare hour should be able to put together.

[Shane Gowland]

This editor used on bbPress.org is essentially the same as the one that will appear by default. The only difference is the tabs have been changed into textual links and added to the toolbar.

I agree that an interface to hotlink (or upload) images would be a welcome addition. There are some good plugins that will give you this functionality, including bbPress Post Toolbar and GD bbPress Attachments.

 

[htz77]

Hi. My site has a custom WP_Query (outside the main loop) in the header (in header.php), and another in the footer (in footer.php). On all/only my bbPress pages, the paragraph breaks in this content are missing, because wpautop is not applied as it normally is.

That’s because bbPress REMOVES THE FILTER “the_content”. I tracked it down to bbp_remove_all_filters( ‘the_content’ ); in bbpress/includes/core/theme-compat.php, line 633.

In that same file, I also see bbp_restore_all_filters(), which looks like it should fix the problem. But it’s not actually working on my custom queries.

So how can I apply bbp_restore_all_filters() to my custom WP_Query calls?

Thanks for any help here!

MY WORDPRESS INFO:
Wordpress v3.4.2
bbPress v2.2.1

RELATED POST:
I also had a similar issue a month ago (http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/conflict-with-custom-wp_query-in-header-php/) where bbPress conflicted with these same WP_Query calls in my header and footer. But in that case, the main content from bbPress was REPLACING the content from my WP_Query. I somehow solved that problem by just changing my slugs. But I now see it was probably caused by add_filter( ‘the_content’, ‘bbp_replace_the_content’ );, also in this theme-compat.php file.

[John James Jacoby]

Partially. The roles and capabilities in 2.2 have all the filters and hooks in place to allow for this to happen in future versions, though there’s no UI for it currently.

Forum VS Role VS User permissions are going to be tricky to handle in WordPress. We’ll most likely need to get creative with where the relationship data is stored, using the taxonomy table or something similar.

[bbuser12345]

I’m confident you’ll figure it out.

I wish I was as confident…

It’s fine to be frustrated, but your tone towards the volunteers trying to help you is pretty crappy.

My tone is one of exasperation (maybe desperation). I have been using BBPress for 5 years, and stuck with it through “the dark years”. I have read all the help pages, and I know my way around a command line, yet this converter, built ostensibly to help non-experts, does not work and I cannot find help. I have a message board that is falling apart, and being overrun by spam, and I have spent countless hours trying to migrate the database using the converter. Which is just the first step in migrating the forum.

If you don’t like the documentation, change it. It’s a WordPress site where everyone is an Editor, and you can be part of the solution just like every other volunteer, or you can be upset because the amazing free software you’re using isn’t as polished as we all know it could be. If only we had more volunteers… Paradox.

I am not sure whether to laugh or cry. If I knew what was wrong with the documentation, I would change it. Of course if I knew what was wrong with the documentation I would likely not have a problem in the first place and would never have sought out the documentation. There is your paradox. People who seek out documentation are by definition having trouble and are likely not expert users. They are the last people who are qualified to improve the documentation.

We brought the old bbConverter into bbPress in 2.1. bbConverter development stopped, and I took it over and brought it into bbPress core along with several much needed fixes. Trying to use software that you know is abandoned and others have not succeeded with is generally a bad idea.

Thats great information!! Why does it not appear either on the bbconverter plug-in page or on the https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/ page?

I should note that I don’t see any way for me to add this information to the documentation of either the old deprecated plug-in (which gets downloaded and installed many times a day apparently) or on the codex page for the converter.

The connection failure doesn’t provide the feedback you’re wishing for. There is no “your password was incorrect but the username is okay” level of feedback, so you’re on your own. Based on how capable and experienced you are, let’s assume it’s correct anyway.

Wait! You said connection failure… how do you know it is a connection failure? Is there something in the message (or that is not in the message) that tells you that? If so why does the console not report:

“You have failed to connect to the server. At least one of these three things is wrong: The Old Database’s Server Name, The Database’s User Name or the old Database’s User Password. Unfortunately, this converter cannot tell you which one or more of these things is wrong”

Instead the error I get is one I would expect if I had the name of a table in my database wrong in a query.

Look, I know that you cannot pass on information to the user that the server does not report. But when I access mySQL databases and servers the wrong way with a mySQL client or R or python or myPHP I get error messages with error codes. Things like “#1045 Cannot log in to the MySQL server”. This lets me know what I have screwed up so I can fix it. Is it a missing table or the wrong database name? Or am I not even connecting to the server at all? Again if for some reason you are not getting these messages then I guess I am “on my own”.

So… you’ll have the best luck if your bbPress 1.1 tables are in the same database as your current WordPress installation. Maybe try exporting those tables out of the other database, and importing them into the current one, and give it another shot.

Even more good information! Thank you. I would edit the documentation to let others know about this, but every time I try to log in to the codex site for BBpress, I get taken to the buddypress site.

=======================================================================
For what it is worth:

My tone is also one of frustration. BBPress is an awesome bit of code and you guys have spent a great deal of time making it do really awesome things, but as is the case with many opensource projects, no one seems to care if anyone can actually use the awesome product.

I am a part of a pretty big opensource community, and bad documentation is a systematic problem. People make amazing things then fail to help users actually use the code. I write lots of code that I end up releasing to that community. I spend a good bit of time making my documentation work for people who are newbies to using the program. I assume they picked up the program just to use my package/functionality and I write my help with that in mind. Why?, because I want them to use my code, I want them to learn about the program, and I eventually hope they will become a part of the community and contribute.

[John James Jacoby]

Revert back to a default WordPress theme. Update your permalinks.

[John James Jacoby]

It’s fine to be frustrated, but your tone towards the volunteers trying to help you is pretty crappy.

However, it is the sentiment one gets when trying to follow the BBpress’ documentation: (…)

If you don’t like the documentation, change it. It’s a WordPress site where everyone is an Editor, and you can be part of the solution just like every other volunteer, or you can be upset because the amazing free software you’re using isn’t as polished as we all know it could be. If only we had more volunteers… Paradox.

Which is it? Why are there two different ways? Is one applicable to one situation and the other to another?

We brought the old bbConverter into bbPress in 2.1. bbConverter development stopped, and I took it over and brought it into bbPress core along with several much needed fixes. Trying to use software that you know is abandoned and others have not succeeded with is generally a bad idea.

I am just told that the database does not exist. Well it does, I can log-in using myPhp and there it is.

The connection failure doesn’t provide the feedback you’re wishing for. There is no “your password was incorrect but the username is okay” level of feedback, so you’re on your own. Based on how capable and experienced you are, let’s assume it’s correct anyway. If the converter still can’t connect, the server can’t access the other server you’re trying to point it to.

So… you’ll have the best luck if your bbPress 1.1 tables are in the same database as your current WordPress installation. Maybe try exporting those tables out of the other database, and importing them into the current one, and give it another shot.

It’s worth adding, that while you say it’s an easy process, the data migration for bbPress.org took 8 hours, with 200k posts, 5 million users in the WordPress.org shared tables, and generous query limits and timeouts between them. The converter itself, works great.

I’m sorry you’re having trouble, and I’m confident you’ll figure it out.

[Archer117]

So I made the update to 2.2.1 (everything was working fine on 2.2), and the plugin successfully installed and activated. However, when I went to look at the forums, they looked like this

I deactivated bbpress and re-activated it, and now it gives a 404 page, like so

Direct links to posts go to wordpress “pages” with a stream of text.

Any ideas? Anyone else having this happen to them?