[kerryg]

I am currently running 1.0.3 in standalone mode. If I install the v2 plugin, as soon as I activate it I lose all access to the wordpress admin system. The only way to fix it is to remove the plugin folder. Do I need to do some kind of conversion first? Posts in the forums say there is a conversion tool included but I haven’t seen how to use it.

[SK]

I use phpBB at the moment. It used to be pretty bad but version 3 is acceptable.

The 3 things I hate about phpBB are:

1) Lack of SEO URLs/ pretty URLs/ custom permalinks structures

2) There are no plugins. There are MODs – meaning installation is a pain in the back and code is changed. Forget about updations completely – it is excruciating. Contrasts with the rather pleasant one-click installs and upgrades that WordPress has made me accustomed to.

3) Lack of multilingual capability. WordPress has WPML…though I am getting increasingly disillusioned with it (critical features missing, basic things like Canadian flag, Slovak language etc missing, not using international conventions in naming, arrogant and unhelpful support etc). I run a multilingual site and need multilingual forums. If that’s not possible, then to begin with I need a Google Translate gadget so that people can read in multiple languages at least.

It’s not just the lack of these features that cheeses me off…it’s the unwillingness of the developer community to consider these for 3.1/3.2

And there is a major rewrite underway v4. I believe v4 will be the wipeout of phpBB…they are writing from the ground up, which is never a great idea (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html)

So excellent opportunity for bbPress.

I would switch as soon as I see the aforementioned 3 in bbPress…

[astrolosophy]

I had the same problem and could not log back into my wordpress. Not only am I locked out but when I go to the myphp admin, the tables have been modified and I cannot figure out how to get everything back to normal. Any suggestions?

[cultofiphone]

I just installed the bbpress plugin for wordpress:

http://cultiphone.com/forums

What I was wondering is how to install bbpress plugins like bbPM inside the bbpress plugin for wp 3.1.3?

I hope that makes sense.

[antonchanz]

It appears in the normal wordpress admin section. It doesn’t have its own separate admin any more.

[antonchanz]

Hi. Got an install of the bbpress 2.3 beta on a WordPress multisite with Buddypress on the main site. Its hidden from users for the minute while I set it all up. Yeah, I know its a beta and ‘Thar be dragons’ and all that, but really the forum is backed up anyway, and as I say, it isn’t actually visible to users yet.

Just one thing, in the existing site I’m migrating from (which wasn’t multisite but just a single site BuddyPress with integrated single site bbPress), I had set some forums to be visible to members only using a bbpress plugin. Now it looks like in this new bbpress you can set certain forums to ‘Private’ and in the help it says ‘Private (seen only by chosen users)’. Has the bit to choose these users been implemented yet? I can’t find how to chose the users that can see a private forum.

Maybe I’m missing something obvious. Any help appreciated…

[lostgarage]

I am trying to install a few different plugins into bbPress, however i have no clue where to actually go in the admin pannel to install them. on this site in the docs it says go to the bbPress plugins section however i dont see any section like that. I currently just have my normal plugins section and after making “my-plugins” folder and adding things…. nothing shows up in the plugins section of my wordpress admin.

the path is /plugins/bbpress/my-plugins

other than that whats the next step, am i missing something?

the specific plugins im adding are bb-attachments, bb-smilies, bbpm

thanks for any help

Ryan

[Nyhm]

Just a suggestion to clarify the login options for bbpress.org.

Upon registration, my username was taken. Figuring I had forgotten I had already registered, I requested a password reset email. Sure enough, I received such an email from bbpress.org including a password reset link. Following the link, I was told that I may not change my password.

Now I’m stuck with no way to submit for any assistance. I tracked down the most active user here to his buddypress.org page, which indicates I can login with my wordpress.org account, which works (same username).

So, I try my luck with my wordpress.org account at bbpress.org, and here I am. Single-signon with wordpress.org is fine… but not clear to new visitors (reflects poorly on the state of bbPress as a first impression).

Please understand, I’m not trying to be critical, and I like what I’m seeing from bbPress. I’m just giving this use-case to help improve the experience. Best wishes.

[seoguy81]

I installed the bbpress plugin into my wordpress installation. I cannot access the bbp-admin folder to install further plugins. Is this possible?

I tried http://www.mydomain.com/forum/bbp-admin as well as http://www.mydomain.com/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-admin

Please help!

[brassblogs]

Okay – spam reply above is… not helping. (and really has nothing to do with the price of eggs in China…)

But anyway.

I suppose I should RTFM, no? I just saw the sticky post on this subject, and I fall under the category of “ur doin it rong.”

In case anyone else needs to know, when you create a child theme, it goes in your themes directory, not as a subfolder in the WordPress parent theme. Duh.

More coffee in the morning would be a good habit for me to take up.

[brassblogs]

Hey all –

I’m hoping I’m just missing something here, but I’m trying to create a new template (to match a WordPress theme I’m working on). I’ve created a folder within the bbp-themes folder, and added a stylesheet and one file (I’m just testing it right now to get a feel for how the theming system works): page-front-forums.php.

The thing is, when I do this, ALL of my themes in the WordPress back end (under appearance > themes), save the twenty Ten (default WP theme and the bbPress version) go away. ALL of them. Now, the current theme is still working on the front end of the site, but on the back end, there’s no themes at all – they are all gone.

So can anyone tell me what I’m doing wrong here? Am I putting the bbPress theme files in the wrong place? Or is this some kind of bug?

[Swaree]

Got thru installation procedure, but one error when tried to create ‘bb_allposts’ table. Error seems to be syntax error??? How do I fix or how do I re-install? If I have to re-install, do I need to remove anything first?

Hope you can help

Regards

S

SQL ERROR!

>>> Database: seoirse_eg_wordpress (localhost)

>>>>>> CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS bb_allposts (

post_id bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment,

forum_id int(10) NOT NULL default 1,

topic_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default 1,

poster_id int(10) NOT NULL default 0,

post_text text NOT NULL,

post_time datetime NOT NULL default ‘0000-00-00 00:00:00’,

poster_ip varchar(15) NOT NULL default ”,

post_status tinyint(1) NOT NULL default 0,

post_position bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

PRIMARY KEY (post_id),

KEY topic_time (topic_id, post_time),

KEY poster_time (poster_id, post_time),

KEY post_time (post_time),

FULLTEXT KEY post_text (post_text)

) TYPE = MYISAM DEFAULT CHARACTER SET ‘utf8’;

>>>>>> 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 ‘TYPE = MYISAM DEFAULT CHARACTER SET ‘utf8” at line 16

Key master email not sent!

[bimaljr2]

Hello,

I have just started to study BBPress structure. I am familiar with WordPress.

I like to know how can we apply “resolved” or “not resolved” status to any Topic?

Thanks.

[master5o1]

I’ve asked for hosting and it’s approved. I removed the zip because i need to figure out which one of my copies is the best to put into the browser.

Currently I’ve just been editing the live plugin on my Tartarus test site, and then copying to test-and-edit on a more default WP+bbP on my dumping ground.

Tartarus = http://beta.tartarus.co.nz

dumping ground = http://dump.master5o1.com/wpbb/

[John James Jacoby]

You should get this into WordPress Extend. If it works as advertised, it could be quite popular.

[abdessamad idrissi]

hi zaerl, thanx for the fix, but it didn’t work on my case:

I wrote in my htaccess file

<VirtualHost *:80>

DocumentRoot “/public_html/forumcine.ma/wordpress”

ServerName forumcine.ma

ServerAlias http://forumcine.ma

</VirtualHost>

this results in a 500 internal server error.

I don’t have access to httpd-vhosts.conf

[abdessamad idrissi]

UPDATE:

I went deep to try to find out what is causing this problem then I noticed that; topics with long titles are the ones who suffer from this issue.

for example;

a topic with a name السينما “تقرأ وتشاهد will show, but a topic with a name like: السينما المغربية تعيش طفرة رغم أزمة قاعات العرض won’t show! instead a 404 error is outputted.

PS: I opened a ticket @http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1564

[abdessamad idrissi]

I used to run v1.0.3 then I decied to go plugin version..

I did an import but since my forums contains arabic topics; some topics didn’t make into the new version, also, even if they show in my forums when you click on a topic title to view it, it leads you to 404 page.

I noticed articles contains characters such as; ! , ? are not handled by the WordPress importer.

another thing is the search field provided in the twenty ten theme: it doesn’t search inside the forum but inside the blog -how to enable forum searching?

Thanx for the great work and keep on moving

PS. you can compare Arabic and Latin written topics on my forum here: http://forumcine.ma/forums/forum/forum-general/koi-d-9/

[master5o1]

FYI. You can’t ignore yourself or anyone who can moderate.

[abdessamad idrissi]

go import your old bbpress in from (tools menu)

[master5o1]

It’s a plugin for WordPress + bbpress 2.0.

It allows users to ignore other users by way of hiding their posts and topics.

It’d be great if anyone with spare time could test and give feedback

http://dump.master5o1.com/files/bbpress-ignore-user.zip

[M66B]

This happened:

bbPress Standalone Importer



Warning: set_time_limit() [function.set-time-limit]: Cannot set time limit in safe mode in <removed for privacy>/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-admin/importers/bbpress.php on line 668



Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at <removed for privacy>/wp-admin/admin-header.php:35) in <removed for privacy>/bad-behavior/bad-behavior/screener.inc.php on line 8

Importing Users



We’re in the process of migrating your users...



Renamed the wp_users and wp_usermeta tables to bb_wp_users_tmp and bb_wp_usermeta_tmp respectively.



WordPress database error: [Table '<removed for privacy>.bb_users' doesn't exist]

CREATE TABLE wp_users ( <code>ID</code> BIGINT( 20 ) UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY, <code>user_activation_key</code> VARCHAR( 60 ) NOT NULL DEFAULT '', KEY ( <code>user_login</code> ), KEY( <code>user_nicename</code> ) ) SELECT * FROM bb_users ORDER BY <code>ID</code>

There was a problem duplicating the table bb_users to wp_users. Please check and re-run the script or duplicate the table yourself.

After that I only got:

WordPress database error: [Table 'md220579db167769.wp_users' doesn't exist]

SELECT * FROM wp_users WHERE user_login = '<removed for privacy>'



WordPress database error: [Table 'md220579db167769.wp_users' doesn't exist]

SELECT * FROM wp_users WHERE user_login = '<removed for privacy>'



Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at <removed for privacy>/wp-includes/wp-db.php:940) in <removed for privacy>/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 934

I delete the tables bb_wp_usermeta_tmp and bb_wp_users_tmp trying to fix this problem: stupid of course …

[jared211]

I am trying to Install the Forum in WordPress but cannot get the Forum to be accessed through the menu bar. I checked all the settings and can add forums and topics, but cant access is. How can I add this to a page in my site which will show up in my menu?

[canada87]

It’s too bad. Lots of people want help with this issue but that forum seems to be down for me.

[Syniq]

OK, if you change line 189 of forum/bb-includes/backpress/class.wp-auth.php to this:

$key = wp_hash( $username . $pass_frag . ‘|’ . $expiration, $scheme );

It works.

The standard is this:

$key = call_user_func(backpress_get_option(‘hash_function_name’), $username . $pass_frag . ‘|’ . $expiration, $scheme );

Which doesn’t work. Has the algorithm changed in the latest version of WordPress?