I had a phpBB forum that I was trying to migrate into my WordPress MU blog.
I used the bbConverter WP Plugin and found that when I tried to migrate the phpBB Forum it imported everything but the users.
So I thought I would do the migration in two stages.
1. Migrate phpBB forum to Standalone WP Blog (with bbPress Plugin obviously)
2. Move standalone WP Blog to MU WP Blog
Stage 1 worked fine so my issue (and question) is NOT with phpBB or bbConverter
Stage 2 however didn’t work, when I tried to import the WP backup into a blog in my MU set-up none of the users, forums, topic or replies would import.
So, is there an easier way of migrating a WP Blog using the bbPress plugin INTO a WP MU Blog ?
Cheers
David
To my knowledge, bbPress 2.1 would not yet be integrated into BuddyPress groups, as indicated by this punted ticket. Yet in the settings of bbPress 2.1 RC3, there’s a BuddyPress heading, sub-titled “Forum settings for BuddyPress”.
It gives me the option to “Allow BuddyPress Groups to have their own forums”, as well as setting a parent forum for these group forums. I’ve tried playing around with these settings but they don’t seem to have any effect. Am I not understanding its intended use or is the functionality not actually present yet?
That’s fairly accurate.
You don’t have to create a child theme or any of that unless you want to customize the default bbPress theme (bbp-theme-compat). In that case just copy the files you want to customize into your WordPress theme directory and bbPress will use those instead.
Does 2.1 RC2 remedy slowness issues on installations with more than a million posts?
Bump for help. Thanks in advance.
I have to go to my bluehost control panel to delete the bbpress plugin and then I can access my dashboard again.
My wordpress account is new so there isn’t much on it. So would memory still be the problem? If so, how would I fix this?
Create a WordPress page, and use the new topic shortcode: [bbp-topic-form]
I already have Buddypress installed on my wordpress theme. After I install bbpress, I can’t access my dashboard anymore. When I click on dashboard I get this message:
Server error
The website encountered an error while retrieving http://www.
. It may be down for maintenance or configured incorrectly.
How do I fix this?!
You need to increase the memory limit for PHP as it is being exhausted from a script.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Increasing_memory_allocated_to_PHP
I have installed Buddypress and enabled Forums feature in my wordpress website (using NEWS child theme).
I’m getting following error:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 50331648 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 122880 bytes) in /home/travels/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/bb-admin/includes/functions.bb-admin.php on line 922
— SoundManager 2 failed to load (security/load error) —
soundManager.disable(): Shutting down
soundManager: Failed to initialise.
soundManager: Verify that ./soundmanager2_debug.swf is a valid path.
soundManager: No Flash response within expected time. Likely causes: Loading soundmanager2_debug.swf may have failed (and/or Flash 8+ not present?), Flash blocked or JS-Flash security error.
soundManager: Getting impatient, still waiting for Flash…
soundManager::initMovie(): Waiting for ExternalInterface call from Flash..
soundManager::initMovie(): Got EMBED element (created via JS)
soundManager::createMovie(): Trying to load ./soundmanager2_debug.swf
— SoundManager 2 V2.97a.20110123 (AS2/Flash 
, normal polling —
Can any1 help by this??
Regards,
Ankur
thought i had this figured out. I was able to see forum and topics and forum.pureoffroad.com/discuss/
thought i might set wordpress to redirect to that as the home page and that might solve my problem, but before i could do that i get error 500 and nothing works at all now. Whats the deal? I’ve always loved wordpress because it’s so easy to use. figured bbpress would be the same
I’ve searched all day for a solution that works for me to no avail. I have WordPress 3.4.1 installed. I then installed buddy press 1.5.6. After which i selected the sitewide forums which initiated the auto install of bbpress.
i then changed the slugs to make sure they are different.
i created a sample forum.
http://forum.pureoffroad.com/discuss/forum/atv-tires-and-wheels/
then created a sample topic:
http://forum.pureoffroad.com/discuss/topic/yamaha-atv-tires-and-wheels/
If i browsed to the website there are no forums or topics visible, even though following the direct link from the admin… those pages do exist.
i deleted the original ‘forums’ page created by the buddy press install, then created a new page called discussion boards and affiliated the forums with that page under the buddy press settings – thinking maybe a fresh page might show the forums and topics. Still nothing there:
http://forum.pureoffroad.com/discussion-boards/
i can’t get forums and topics to show up on the live site. Any ideas. I’ve searched all over the place and installed and uninstalled about 10 times today trying to get an installation that works.
xmasons: Fixed. I incorrectly unbumped the version back to 2.0.
Anyone having issues with 2.0.3 should try bbPress 2.1 RC2.
Since BBpress is now a plugin to wordpress, how do I set it up so that bbpress is really the only thing running. In other words, I want to run bbpress as the index and have the look and feel look like bbpress v1?
I’ve looked all over the forums, and am not sure the answer is listed.
What happened to the 2.0.3 plugin in the WordPress plugin directory?
Thank you for the explanation Jaja.
Unfortunately I have a very cheap provider. I can try and ask them to increase the limit, but before that I’d like to be sure that this is actually the issue.
The thing I don’t understand is why this was working well a few hours ago, and now it’s needing more memory. I didn’t add any plugin. I even removed the existing forums and re-started bbPress from the beginning. It currently has just one forum with just one topic in it.
What I did today (between the moment it was working and the moment it was broken) is try various plugins (all uninstalled now), especially Buddypress, Mingle Forum, Simple:Press, Role Scoper and Groups.
Note that the individual forum page and the topic page work fine. It’s only the main page with the list of forums that generate the error message.
@Docchewbacca
Contact your hosting-provider and ask them to upgrade the PHP memory. Give them an example of your Error and they’ll know what to do.
http://ocaoimh.ie/2012/05/16/fatal-error-allowed-memory-size-of-67108864-bytes-exhausted/
Those memory bumps only work if your hosting-provider let you increase this memory. If they don’t and have blocked this feature you have to contact them and ask them friendly to increase it for you.
Most providers don’t care and help you with this problem but sometimes the very cheap M.F&#krs providers don’t and start complaining about everything that is wrong in this world.
I’m having the same error but not after upgrading anything.
It worked just fine this morning, throughout the day I installed and uninstalled various plugins (after testing their features and feeling unsatisfied). My site has the same plugins set as this morning, same bbPress and WordPress versions, no other plugin has been updated, but now when I’m trying to reach the main bbpress forums page, I have this error message.
“Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 72 bytes) in /home/users5/a/asceeceteo/www/wordpress/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 137”
url: http://nantes.ascee-ceteo.fr/forums/
@jaredatch: I tried the memory bump plugin but it didnt fix the problem
If you are using the bbPress plugin, try my plugin at https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/forum-restrict//
Hi JJJ
Thanks for your reply.
I asked this question mainly as I am not sure which bbPress forum style I like best-bbPress 2010 style or bbPress Kakumei style and wondered if I could somehow use both styles on the same blog.
I’m sure it is possible to do this but it is not really practical or a good idea!-I should decide which bbPress style I want/prefer and stick with one! Much simpler/easier!
I suppose if I had the time I could theme up my own bbPress theme as a cross between 2010 & Kakumei but this could take me too much time so I will not try that now!
My blog actually runs with WordPress multisite so I could always do a new site but this was not really what I meant (but thanks for mentioning it).
Lastly I’m not really sure what you mean by running bbPress 2 & bbPress 1 side by side like BuddyPress users do? I originally set my blog up for BuddyPress but as I couldn’t seem to get group & sitewide forums to work together I have disabled BuddyPress forum and now am using bbPress forum only.
Best wishes
It’s possible, but I don’t see why you’d want to run bbPress 2.x and bbPress 1.x side-by-side if you didn’t have to (like BuddyPress users currently need to do.)
It’s much easier to do this with bbPress 2.x, and WordPress multisite. Just create a new site, and activate bbPress on it, too. Boom; two forums.
Best changelog I have is in our trac. It outlines every ticket and code change since 2.0 was released.
Thanks for your offer to help. What do you want to do? You can basically write your own ticket. If you’re familiar with IRC, you can join #bbpress on freenode; many of us idle there together to chat about what we’re working on.
2.0.3. bbPress 2.1 will be out soon? Do you have a changelog I can look over? I’m excited to see it.
Also, I’m putting my site on hiatus. I’m tired of it for a while. But you know what I would like to do? I’d like to help with bbPress. I think the total integration with WordPress that bbPress has is one of the best things ever accomplished for the blogging platform. I would love to assist, do some testing, give some of my thoughts, help promote bbPress, and even help with some new features that I have been hoping or wishing I could see in bbPress’s future.
I don’t know how much help you guys get, but it doesn’t seem like a lot. I wouldn’t ever want to see bbPress die. I want to help, if I may. I know very little about PHP or HTML, but every coder should have a team, to help with the things that coders aren’t best at. I want to help!
Maybe very stupid to ask but where can i view a list of what’s new for bbPress 2.1 ?
Thanks,
