[@ChrisClayton]

Havent tested the plugin, but most of the standalone bbpress plugins are not being actively updated any more.

Is upgrading to bbpress 2.0 out of the question? Their is alot of facebook connect plugins that will work.

The ‘simple facebook connect’ plugin over at the wordpress extend was updated last month… but, it wont work on the stand-alone version of bbpress.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-facebook-connect/

if using bbpress 2.0 is not an option, i’ll have a look at the plugin tonight and see if anything can be fixed.

EDIT: The plugin not doing anything seems to be a facebook issue, alot of people seem to have the same issue.

[@ChrisClayton]

One of the worst things about a major update like this, is that we lose alot of great plugins – But, it’s better finding out now that their not actively updating it anymore than use it for a while and find out one day that everything’s broken

what type of html did you want your users posting?

Post toolbar allows alot of great functionality – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-post-toolbar/

It seems to do the same thing as ‘easy video embed’ by allowing users to post videos using a ‘[video]‘ or ‘[youtube]’ shortcode.

Also, because bbpress is now using WordPress post-types. you could also easily create other shortcodes to achieve what you want.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API

Instead of letting users do img src and giving them complete control over the output of the image, you can allow them to do ‘[image]cat.img[/image]’ to achieve the same affect in an easier way, as an example.

I do honestly think that using shortcodes (search the wordpress extend, theirs alot of shortcode plugins) would be a better option as it allows you to control it’s use properly, as i’m sure you know, some humans enjoy causing trouble – and their are afew html codes that can causing a hellish experience for your users if it gets into the hands of the wrong user.

It’s one of the reasons wordpress.com doesn’t allow some html codes

[benfrain]

Here is the site I’m working on: http://testtrack.tv/forums

It’s WordPress site using a custom child theme of the Thematic wordpress theme/framework.

As you can see, I have used the WordPress functions.php to filter away the sidebar to get a full width layout. Other than that, I have just the styles.css of my theme to restyle the forums slightly.

However, as far as I can tell bbPress doesn’t have a built in login/register link anywhere on the forums – why on earth not? Did I miss something?

Therefore, can anyone tell me how I add a simple login/register link within bbPress? As I’m not using the sidebar, I can’t add a widget there.

Any help hugely appreciated.

[will_c]

I was having the same issue and found some information here: https://codex.wordpress.org/AJAX_in_Plugins.

I’m using BuddyPress, so I added the following to my functions.php file. If you are using regular WordPress I believe you’d need to substitute site_url(‘wp-load.php’) with admin_url(‘admin-ajax.php’):

function ajaxurl_fix () {

?>

<script> var ajaxurl = '<?php echo site_url('wp-load.php'); ?>';</script>

<?php

}

add_action( 'get_header', 'ajaxurl_fix');

Edit: I changed the action hook from init to get_header because I was experiencing problems logging in.

[tflight]

Looking for some conversion advice. Here is my current setup.

Server1: http://www.example.com – WordPress 3.3 only… no forums, no bbPress, no BuddyPress, etc..

Server2: forums.example.com – phpBB 2.0.23. No integration with WordPress.

Server3: db.example.com – The database server for both WordPress and phpBB.

I’m looking to migrate from phpBB2 to bbPress. However I do *not* want my WordPress user table and my forums user table to commingle. After reading up on the conversion scripts available, the fact that bbPress 2 is a plugin and not standalone, etc I’m thinking that the following would be my best course of action.

1) Do a straight conversion from phpBB2 to phpBB3.

2) Install a new copy of WordPress on server2, get it up and running basic.

3) Install the bbPress plugin for WordPress on server2.

4) Run bbConverter to convert the (now) phpbb3 database to bbPress.

Does this sound like the best course of action? Anything anyone would suggest different?

[John James Jacoby]

I don’t know why it’s a challenge.

They are two different pieces of software with two totally different purposes. bbPress isn’t “fully featured” forum software, just like WordPress isn’t a fully featured CMS. If you want bells and whistles, there are plugins for that.

[Porsche914]

I have installed the bbpress plugin into wordpress. After the activation, I get the plugin activated message. However, no tables are created and on the path where the plugin is installed the page is just blank. Anything else I need to do?

Thanks

[kenrichman]

So is it possible to use any of the bbpress plug-ins e.g. for moderation, with a buddypress site? Not necessarily using the buddypress forums – could be site-wide forums, I don’t care.

[John James Jacoby]

The server your clients site is on doesn’t have enough memory allocated to PHP. If they are paying you to fix it, they are trusting you to know how to fix it. A google search for PHP memory issues will be the most helpful to you.

[Stephen Edgar]

bbConverter FAQ/Known Issues 1.3 phpbb – bbpress

– Post URL’s (**From post above this post)

The URL’s from phpbb I thought were not getting migrated correctly when in fact they are, it is just that phpbb in its table lists the URL’s rather oddly. When looking at URL’s in the raw tables of phpbb they are in the following format:

<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://example.com">http://example.com<!-- m --></a>

Need to strip the <!– m –> & ‘ class=”postlink”‘ before conversion either with bbconverter or firstly converting the links in phpbb before conversion

– Poster IP Address is not migrated.

see this post.

– Images and Attachments (and smilies) are not migrated.

see this post.

– Existing Users

If a username already exists in wp_users the imported user will be named imported_username eg. If ‘john’ already exists will import as ‘imported_john’

– User Post Counts are not imported

When viewing /wp-admin/users.php each user post count is ‘0’

Ideally adding support to bbPress Core /wp-admin/tools.php?page=bbp-recount would fix that.

(I couldn’t find where WP/BBP is keeping the total post count for a user though it is stored in phpbb_users user_posts)

– Ophaned/Deleted User Posts:

If the user has been deleted from phpbb when bbConverter runs these posts will be imported into bbPress as userid ‘1’ (i.e. ‘Admin’)

– Time Zone

Ensure you have your WP install is set to the same Time Zone as phpbb to get correct post times

– User Profile data AIM & YahooIM fields are migrated by Jabber is not

add the following code for ‘jabber’ to ‘/** User Section **********’ of phpbb.php script below aim/yim

<br />

// User jabber.<br />

$this->field_map[] = array(<br />

'from_tablename' => 'users', 'from_fieldname' => 'user_jabber',<br />

'to_type' => 'user', 'to_fieldname' => 'jabber'<br />

);<br />

– ‘Quotes’

I haven’t fully looked into how quote behavior works just yet, needless to say a workaround of sorts needs to be found for this.

– Additional User Profile fields

Ideally would like to import phpbb_users user_from (phpbb User Localtion) field to wp_usermeta description (Thus eg. Melbourne, Australia is added to the WP user BIO). Unless of course there is a funky way to import ‘User Location'(user_from), ‘Signatures'(user_sig), ‘occupation'(user_occ) & ‘interests'(user_interests) all together into WP Bio?

– User Stuff not migrated (No big deal IMHO)

User Subscribed Post, Favorite, Bookmarks, Private Messages, Rank

(I dont see much of that as a very big issue in my case, users can just start this stuff from scratch)

And that’s about all I have for now… Any ideas or other workarounds would all be well received and again thanks guys for this plugin and hope that now phpbb is there I can help contribute something back.

Cheers,

Stephen

[Corsari]

They talk about one “standalone importer” plugin.. but it is some kind of ghost plugin

it is not present in the bbpress.org plugins

it is not present in the wordpress.org plugins

but it does exists

I’m too in your situation.

I’ve installed and activated the bbpress 2.0.2 plugin in my wordpress… now what?

Thank you for any tip

Cor

[Corsari]

One kind explanation…

where is this plugin?

I mean, I own a standalone bbpress forum (Version 0.9x)

I also own a wordpress forum

I’ve installed and activated the bbpress 2.0.2 plugin

How to import the standalone bbpress into the WP plugged-in bbpress installation?

Searching “standalone importer” on both wordpress.org and bbpress.org plugins sections, doesn’t return any plugin named “standalone importer”

One additional tip. once I’ve imported the standalone’s data, how is it supposed to be accessed the “new” forum? (from the blog’ visitors point of view)

Thank you for any advice and hint

Cor

[Kasparas]

(After 9 months.)

And now ? As i’m understand WP plugin (bbPress 2.0.2) is best solution to work with wordpress ?

[Kasparas]

(After 9 months.)

And now ? As i’m understand WP plugin (bbPress 2.0.2) is best solution to work with wordpress ?

[MikeTime360]

Where does the standard bbPress 2.0.2 plugin place the database/tables inside the WordPress structure? I am a novice and I can not find the database/tables to remove completely from my site so I can re-install in a different configuration. Can anyone tell me where to look and what the typical naming is for the database/tables with the actual data in it? Thanks. (I tried looking in the forum, but I had no luck.)

[phoenix_risen]

In bbPress, after I set the time zone to UTC-5 in “Settings” ->”General Settings”, it gave me the following error

and now whenever I go to “Settings” it only shows this error and won’t show my settings to make changes.

How do I fix this?

I don’t know if it matters, but my bbPress is integrated with WP.

This is the error:

Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘Exception’ with message ‘DateTimeZone::__construct() [datetimezone.–construct]: Unknown or bad timezone (UTC-5)’ in /data/16/1/21/63/1836226/user/1992360/htdocs/wordpress1/bbpress/bb-admin/options-general.php:180 Stack trace: #0 /data/16/1/21/63/1836226/user/1992360/htdocs/wordpress1/bbpress/bb-admin/options-general.php(180): DateTimeZone->__construct(‘UTC-5’) #1 {main} thrown in /data/16/1/21/63/1836226/user/1992360/htdocs/wordpress1/bbpress/bb-admin/options-general.php on line 180

[Martin]

Hmmm, can I do that into another WP / bbPress site or does it have to be into the same installation that my current WP installation with the posts is running in?

And can it only convert a particular category as well I.e I’ve already set a ‘Forum’ category for the posts I’d like to convert.

Thanks for your help thus far too

[dguerin]

Hello, I’ve been trying to install bbpress and I keep getting this message.

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 122880 bytes) in /home/assoc786/public_html/wp-admin/admin-header.php on line 122

What should I do to fix this? I promised client he could have a forum with his BuddyPress site.

Thankt you.

Danielle

[MikeTime360]

Goal: Add BuddyPress with GROUP forums using bbPress.

Situation: Current WordPress has bbPress installed as a SINGLE forum. BuddyPress is not installed yet.

Problem: (on a test WordPress site) When I add BuddyPress, bbPress uses existing files and shows up as a SINGLE forum and will NOT show up as a GROUP forum.

Q1. How do I remove/restructure bbPress so I can add BuddyPress with bbPress as a GROUP forum? (I am ok with losing current bbPress data, but would prefer to backup for a different use.)

Q2. WHERE is current bbPress forum DATABASE so I can copy (then remove) it before I install BuddyPress with Group Forums using bbPress?

Thank you for help!

[monoman]

@johnjamesjacoby

Thanks for info!

Actually as WordPress allows it, I installed files in physical folder domain.com/wp, while users access the blog via domain.com/blog.

In such setup, is it possible to separate the forum from blog and access it via domain.com/forum?

[monoman]

@johnjamesjacoby

Thanks for info!

Actually as WordPress allows it, I installed files in physical folder domain.com/wp, while users access the blog via domain.com/blog.

In such setup, is it possible to separate the forum from blog and access it via domain.com/forum?

[Gautam Gupta]

Rastarr, you may try converting your WordPress blog into bbPress standalone forums via http://code.google.com/p/wordpress-to-bbpress-converter/ and then use the bbPress plugin importer to import from the bbPress standalone. Please have a backup, cheers!

[Martin]

Well, it’s 7 months since the last comment and I’m wondering whether anything official did actually ‘come down the pipe’?

I’ve just converted my Drupal site over to a locally running WordPress / bbPress installation however all previous forums from my Drupal site are currently WP Posts since they’ve retained the comment structure.

I’m able to convert the Posts to Topics however the comments remain elusive, presumably since Replies are a custom content type and, for whatever reason, comments aren’t a content type. At least nothing that’s recognised by the converting plugin that I found.

Being able to convert a WP Post with comments to a Topic with Replies is about the only thing now that’s stopping the converted site from going live.

Any suggestions would be hugely appreciated.

Thanks

Martin

[John James Jacoby]

@monoman – If WordPress is installed in a physical folder named ‘blog’ you won’t be able to easily put bbPress in any other folder. There are advanced ways of making this work, but you’d want to hire a pro to make it go (or do some digging into moving your WP install and/or sharing user tables between installs.)

[John James Jacoby]

@monoman – If WordPress is installed in a physical folder named ‘blog’ you won’t be able to easily put bbPress in any other folder. There are advanced ways of making this work, but you’d want to hire a pro to make it go (or do some digging into moving your WP install and/or sharing user tables between installs.)