[John James Jacoby]

@acoburn4 – Sadly you won’t be able to. Because all of WordPress is being rewritten to /blog, it would take some server level rewriting to make your forums work below it. Even then, I am not sure it would really work. You’ll want to make your entire site run at website.com, create two pages: /blog and /forums, then setup each the way you want them to be.

[ArronC]

Is there a way to Create a corresponding Forum post when you create a WordPress post? With cross- Commenting capabilities?

[zachshallbetter]

Also, users are able to edit the admin’s profile.

I upgraded to 3690 and then back down to 2.02 with no results.

I defaulted the WordPress theme to twenty_ten no results.

Installed capability manager and verified that users were able to view forum information.

[zachshallbetter]

I’m having a problem where Admin is able to see their user information and all forum data but all other accounts are directed to a blank page.

This is the “local” address users get sent to http://pcocs/forums/users/skingsford/

This is where admins are directed. http://pcocs/forums/users/admin/

They have “gform_full_access”

I’m using the latest version of wordpress(3.3.1) and bbpress (2.02). I nuked everything related to bbpress including the db entries. reinstalled, and the same issue is occurring.

Disabled all plugins, and re-activated the plugin. Still unable to access user profile as another user. Able to access profile in dashboard.

Rebuilt the permalinks.

No themes, no plugins, just default data.

Any thoughts on what would cause this to occur?

[acoburn4]

I have WordPress installed on my server in a directory “wordpress.” My users can access this installation by going to http://website.com/blog

I would like to have the same effect happen for the bb-press plugin when someone accesses http://website.com/forums

How can I set this up?

[acoburn4]

I have WordPress installed on my server in a directory “wordpress.” My users can access this installation by going to http://website.com/blog

I would like to have the same effect happen for the bb-press plugin when someone accesses http://website.com/forums

How can I set this up?

[tippetipp]

Hi,

I tried to change some settings on the BP plugin today, and suddenly I lost access to the admin area of my site. This happened when I tried to change settings for the Register page, I tried to activate it (as Register and Activate pages were not activated).

I get access to the site if I delete the plugin, but the same error if I try to reinstall with a completly new version of the plugin.

By using the WP-DEBUG I get two errors:

Notice: Constant WP_MEMORY_LIMIT already defined in /home/noess/domains/kenta.no/public_html/idrett/wp-content/themes/canvas-buddypress/functions.php on line 4

Notice: wp_enqueue_script ble kalt feil. Scripts og stiler bør ikke være registrert eller “enqueued” foran wp_enqueue_scripts, admin_enqueue_scripts eller init. Vennligst se Debugging i WordPress for mer informasjon. (Denne meldingen ble lagt i versjon 3.3.) in /home/noess/domains/kenta.no/public_html/idrett/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3587

Anyone know what to do? Can I manually reset the setting for Pages in the BP plugin?

[bingles]

I found my problem. I had created a forums page in wordpress when I was testing some things. I had trashed it, but not permanently deleted it. Looking in the database, I noticed the entry. Once I permanently deleted it from my pages list, my forums list showed back up.

[ben_allison]

This seemed like a brilliant solution, but I’m sure I’m doing something wrong.

I already had a “forums” page, with the short code in place. The page slug is “forums.”

So, I figured I would make a template called page-forums.php, thinking that WordPress’s template hierarchy would take over… no such luck.

I will watch the vid when I get off the train. I’m sure the answer appears within the first 30 seconds…

[wasimansha]

Does this plugin convert the comments to Topics?

OR

it converts the posts to topics?

I really need to convert my comments to topics and have discussion over there.

my url is palestinefacts.org

you can see there is very long homepage so i need to convert them to forums.

[elizeb]

I think you should install Capthcha plugins. Search one for in Google.

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http://www.websiteoutfit.com/downloads/wordpress

[Anointed]

@OC2PS

1. Yes

2. Yes

3. Yes, uses the WordPress/bbPress permalink setup, so whatever you use for that, is what is used for the conversion.

4. nope 301’s are your job

5. Username/password and I think a couple other fields are imported, don’t remember exactly. If you are looking for full blown imports, which is different for each installation as you have different plugins installed than I do… then that would be a custom import job which AWJunkies does provide services for. Check the http://bbconverter.com site and send in a custom quote request.

@ED

No idea. Frankly the interest in converting things has been much less than we anticipated. I have no idea what AWJunkies plans are at this point. I do know he does provide custom import services if you need it.

[Erlend]

Just a quick mention: Wouldn’t it be cool to reblog posts from around the web via any bbPress forum? Much like BP Links (and Facebook of course), just better for proper discussion since it’s on a forum.

If WordPress.com’s reblogging feature could be adapted for bbPress, I think it’d be a killer feature.

[mga2]

im using a multisite installation of wordpress… by super admin, the network administrator was meant

today made a fresh install of wordpress 3.2.1 and bbpress 2.0.2, all default settings…

i created only a forum with one topic… the userprofile(and edit) does not work…

on non multisite wordpress everything worked as expected…..

what information should i provide to help investigation?

[SK]

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-bbconverter-whither-phpbb

I’m quite surprised that you started off with platforms (vbulletin and invision) that are jointly less popular than phpbb. But I suppose one of the plugin developers had forums that used those platforms and I’m glad to be able to benefit from your hard work.

You have mentioned in the plugin description that conversion for phpbb is coming *soon*, and I was wondering if you might be able to provide some updates on that.

Finally, am I correct in assuming that bbconverter

i) imports topics and forum hierarchies into bbpress

ii) including the relations between topics and forums

iii) and slugs for topics and forums

iv) generates an .htaccess to place in the old forum directory so that old URLs are 301 redirected to new ones.

v) imports users including profiles, passwords, signatures and roles

[bingles]

I have installed the bbpress plugin into my WordPress site (my site uses a child theme of twenty-ten). I created a couple of forums leaving the defaults for showing “forums” as my base forums slug. Navigating to http://mysite/forums was showing my list of forums as I expected. I made some changes but then reverted them and now the base page is empty. I can still get to my individual forums, but I can’t seem to get the listing to show back up on my base forums page.

Things that I changed

* temporarily disabled base slug but then re-enabled it

* temporarily switched to the twenty-eleven theme but then switched back to my twenty-ten theme

[LabSecrets]

We’ve done a little tutorial video to show how you can setup either a BuddyPress Group Forum, a SiteWide bbPress 2.0 Forum, or a custom hybrid forum page using shortcodes. You can have all three at one time. Hope this helps

http://labsecrets.com/2012/01/23/buddypress-and-bbpress-forums-made-easy/

Cheers!

Spence

http://labsecrets.com

[HCharles Beil]

I have a WordPress Blog and want to link to a bbPress forum site through a button in the main menu of the blog template (Forex Titan). I can’t figure out how to do this. I change the html code but it changes back to the original WordPress permalink. Is there a plugin to change the link URL’s in the permalinks?

[patking76]

I have integrated bbpress in to my existing wordpress and everything is working great except it’s impossible to read the comments stuff. The background is white and the writing is yellow and sometimes white which you cant read at all.

How do I change these colors

Any help is appreciated. Thanks

Pat

[sarcar]

Hi

In my case that user/pass was the same. Both places it says, that the user does not exists.

What could I do?

[HH4K]

Ok… so I just found a previous post addressing this. I was afraid that I’d have to create the pages. I can go to Add Page in WordPress, but what do I do with the page to make it what I need?

[giati01]

I’ve got a forum with over 5,000 posts. It’s stand-alone version of BBPress. Should I move to WordPress version (v2.1)? The reason I’d like to move to v2.1 is that I’d like to create pages in top menu (so there are WP pages + BB forum as one page).

[christap]

supporting info:

This may be a quasi-novice question but here goes. I currently set up bbpress on a page in wordpress. This page is password protected. I’ve installed bbpress on the page so that users who have this password can post as “guest” because this is a private/trusted community, rather forcing them to have to create a profile and login to use the forum.

dilemma:

If I copy and paste the url of one of the forums (e.g: http://www.example.com/page/forum/topic) to another user outside of the community, they are able to view that topic and post to it. I would love if there was a way to redirect all the bbpress permalinks to the main page (e.g: http://www.example.com/page/) in case they are not apart of the community (here is where the user has to plugin the password to access the content).

Man, I hope this was clear enough.

Many thanks in advance!

[mccawphoto2]

If I am logged in to bbpress and then in log in to wordpress when I return to the bbpress dashboard and try to do something it logs me out of bbpress. Also, if I am logged into wordpress and then log in to bbpress when I return to wordpress dashboard and to do something it logs me out of wordpress.

How do I fix this so I can go between the two and be logged into both?

[freequency]

I love bbPress for it’s simplistic design, but setting it up can be a bitch especially if you don’t care for standard sidebars & widgets like me, so:

Getting bbpress to work wonders is as easy as 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12!!

On 2012-01-19, this is what I did to originally setup my forums for a free wireless network:

0) Pre-clarification: [???] means some number, like twenty[???] means twentyten or twentyeleven

1) Downloaded most recent WordPress, setup database and installed it.

2) Installed bbpress:

go to http://yoursite.dom/wp-admin/ > Log in to admin > Plugins > Add New > search for “bbpress” > Install Now

3) Copied contents of bbpress theme folder to wordpress theme folder:

/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twenty[???] to /wp-content/themes

(this is done ONLY so that we can select the bbforums theme and it’s handy templates: Please note that you should only make modifications in the /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twenty[???] folder NOT the /wp-content/themes/bbp-twenty[???] folder as the bbpress plugin will not read those)

4) Switched to the bbpress theme

Log in to admin > Appearance > Themes > under the “Available Themes” section I activated the “bbPress (Twenty [???])” Theme

5) Created my home page, login page, register page, and lost password page:

Log in to admin > Pages > Add New > set title to “Home” | right hand column > Page Attributes > set Templates to “bbPress – Forums (index)”

Log in to admin > Pages > Add New > set title to “Login” | right hand column > Page Attributes > set Templates to “bbPress – User Login”

Log in to admin > Pages > Add New > set title to “Register” | right hand column > Page Attributes > set Templates to “bbPress – User Register”

Log in to admin > Pages > Add New > set title to “Lost Password” | right hand column > Page Attributes > set Templates to “bbPress – User Lost Password”

6) Switched WordPress frontpage from the blog to my home/forums page:

Log in to admin > Settings > Reading > Front page displays > Clicked “a static page…” > set front page to “Home” (and left posts page blank)

7) Allowed New Users to Register

Log in to admin > Settings > General > Under Membership I checked “Anyone can register”

Created and Modified my header, footer, and sidebar files:

All theme modifications MUST be done within the wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twenty[???] folder and not the folder you just copied to the wordpress theme folder as bbpress will only read files within in it’s own local plugin (see #3).

The theme doesn’t come with these files installed, so copy them from another theme like twenty[???]:

wp-content/themes/twenty[???]/header.php to wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twenty[???]

wp-content/themes/twenty[???]/footer.php to wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twenty[???]

wp-content/themes/twenty[???]/sidebar.php to wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twenty[???]

I then stripped them to my satisfaction making sure to keep WordPress’ header action hook, wp_head();, and then styled them accordingly.

One of the things I added to the header.php was my menu and such:

<?php

$text .= '<options>';

if(is_user_logged_in()) {

global $current_user;

get_currentuserinfo();

$text .= 'You are logged in as '.$current_user->display_name.'
Your Profile | Your Topics | Your Replies | Logout';

}

else $text .= 'Login | Register | Lost Password';

$text .= "
" . get_search_form(false);

$text .= '</options>';

echo $text;

?>

If a visitor is not logged in the above menu will show links to the pages I just created in #5, but make sure that the page_id matches the correct page. You can do this by checking the Permalink of that page:

Log in to admin > Pages > All Pages > select the page your interested in > notice the page_id in the permalink & make sure it matches in the header file.

If a visitor is logged in, it will show who you are logged in as, give you a link to:

your profile (/wp-admin/profile.php)

your profile (/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=topic)

your posts (/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=reply)

and a link to logout ( wp_logout_url() )

This menu will then print a search form.

9) Installed Search bbPress plugin:

Log in to admin > Plugins > Add New > search for “search bbpress” > Install Now

If you don’t do this, wordpress’ search form won’t search your forums.

10)wordpress avatars & bbPress Avatars:

As of 2012-01-19, the latest version of WordPress (and therefore bbPress) has Gravitars support built in. So, if you sign up at https://en.gravatar.com/site/signup, you can associate an email address with your avatar. And if you also use that email address as the one you used for your wordpress/bbpress account then bbpress and wordpress will automatically show that avatar associated with the email address you supplied to gravitar.

Simple Local Avatars:

If you’re like me, you don’t want to force your visitors to sign up with gravitar, so the simplest avatar solution I found was to install the “Simple Local Avatars” Plugin:

Log in to admin > Plugins > Add New > search for “Simple Local Avatars” > Install Now

An avatar section will now display at the bottom of your profile page at /wp-admin/profile.php

11) Consolidating bbPress profile pages

bbPress gives you the choice of editing your profile in two places, but since avatars only show up at /wp-admin/profile.php and not index.php?bbp_user=[???]&edit=1 we will consolidate the profile editing to just /wp-admin/profile.php . To do this, we add the follwoing code to the end (but before the ?> ) of the wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twenty[???]/functions.php file:

add_filter('bbp_get_user_edit_profile_url', 'my_bbp_get_user_edit_profile_url', 10, 0);

function my_bbp_get_user_edit_profile_url () {

return "/wp-admin/profile.php";

}

This basically overwrites the bbp_get_user_edit_profile_url function whereever it’s used.

12) I’m done! For now at least. Hope that helps. Those were the things I cared about.