[dvclmn]

Hey guys, thanks for taking the time to look after this.

I know there are a lot of posts dedicated to vBulletin import issues, but after hours of searching I haven’t been able to find a resolution. Hoping you can help!

I have read the known issues page (http://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/vbulletin/) thoroughly and have made sure every detail is correct:

Selected Platform: vBulletin
Database Server: IP or hostname (in my case another-castle.com)
Database Port Use default 3306 if unsure
Database Name Name of the database with your old forum data
Database User User for your database connection
Database Password Password to access the database
Table Prefix (in my case vb_)

I just get ‘no forums/users/etc to convert’.

No data is imported.

I know that you can’t know if I’m getting a password or username wrong, but I am using the details I use to successfully log in to my server/phpMyadmin etc.

I am in such urgent need of this to work that I am happy to pay for further support – whatever it takes. Please let me know if there’s any more information I can give to help this along.

Thanks so much.

Dave.

[vogelsang]

I am working on getting a drupal forum migrated to bbpress. I am using the bbpress importer tool. The forum I am migrating has about 4000 topics and 40000 replies. The migration works fine for a few topics, but seems to get stuck at random places after about a 1000 records are migrated. This makes me think that it is not a data problem. More likely some sort of timeout.

Have any of you experienced something similar? I am running things locally with the most recent stable versions of WP and bbpress.

Here is my script. It is not well-tested. Any suggestions for improvements are welcome and feel free to use it as part of bbpress in whatever way you feel like.

<?php

/**
 * Implementation of Drupal Forum converter.
 */
class Drupal extends BBP_Converter_Base
{
	function __construct()
	{
		parent::__construct();
		$this->setup_globals();
	}

	public function setup_globals()
	{
		/** Forum Section ******************************************************/

		// Forum id. Stored in postmeta.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'taxonomy_term_data', 'from_fieldname' => 'tid', //TODO correct ID??
			'to_type' => 'forum', 'to_fieldname' => '_bbp_forum_id',
		);
		
		// Forum parent id.  If no parent, than 0. Stored in postmeta.
		//$this->field_map[] = array(
		//	'from_tablename' => 'forum', 'from_fieldname' => 'parentid',
		//	'to_type' => 'forum', 'to_fieldname' => '_bbp_parent_id'
		//);
		
		// Forum title.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'taxonomy_term_data', 'from_fieldname' => 'name',
			'to_type' => 'forum', 'to_fieldname' => 'post_title'
		);
		
		// Forum slug. Clean name.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'taxonomy_term_data', 'from_fieldname' => 'name',
			'to_type' => 'forum', 'to_fieldname' => 'post_name',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_slug'
		);
		
		// Forum description.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'taxonomy_term_data', 'from_fieldname' => 'description',
			'to_type' => 'forum', 'to_fieldname' => 'post_content',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_null'
		);
		
		// Forum display order.  Starts from 1.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'taxonomy_term_data', 'from_fieldname' => 'weight',
			'to_type' => 'forum', 'to_fieldname' => 'menu_order'
		);
		
		// Forum date update.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'to_type' => 'forum', 'to_fieldname' => 'post_date',
			'default' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s')
		);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'to_type' => 'forum', 'to_fieldname' => 'post_date_gmt',
			'default' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s')
		);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'to_type' => 'forum', 'to_fieldname' => 'post_modified',
			'default' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s')
		);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'to_type' => 'forum', 'to_fieldname' => 'post_modified_gmt',
			'default' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s')
		);

		/** Topic Section ******************************************************/

		// Topic id. Stored in postmeta.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'forum_index', 'from_fieldname' => 'nid',
			'to_type' => 'topic', 'to_fieldname' => '_bbp_topic_id'
		);
		
		// Forum id. Stored in postmeta.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'forum_index', 'from_fieldname' => 'tid',
			'to_type' => 'topic', 'to_fieldname' => '_bbp_forum_id',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_forumid'
		);
				
		// Topic author.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'node', 
			'from_fieldname' =>  'uid',
			'join_tablename'  => 'forum_index',
			'join_type'       => 'INNER',
			'join_expression' => 'ON node.nid = forum_index.nid',
			'to_type' => 'topic', 
			'to_fieldname' => 'post_author',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_userid'
		);	

		// Topic content.
		// Note: We join the posts table because topics do not have content.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'field_data_body',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'body_value',
			'join_tablename'  => 'node',
			'join_type'       => 'INNER',
			'join_expression' => 'ON field_data_body.revision_id = node.vid', 			
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_content',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_html'
		);		
				
		// Topic title.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'forum_index', 'from_fieldname' => 'title',
			'to_type' => 'topic', 'to_fieldname' => 'post_title'
		);
		
		// Topic slug. Clean name.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'forum_index', 
			'from_fieldname' => 'title',
			'to_type' => 'topic', 
			'to_fieldname' => 'post_name',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_slug'
		);
		
		// Forum id.  If no parent, than 0.	
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'forum_index', 'from_fieldname' => 'tid',
			'to_type' => 'topic', 'to_fieldname' => 'post_parent',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_forumid'
		);

		// Topic reply count
		// $this->field_map[] = array(
			// 'from_tablename'  => 'forum_index',
			// 'from_fieldname'  => 'comment_count',
			// 'to_type'         => 'topic',
			// 'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_reply_count'
			// //,
			// //'callback_method' => 'callback_topic_reply_count'
		// );
		
		// Topic date update.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'forum_index', 'from_fieldname' => 'created',
			'to_type' => 'topic', 'to_fieldname' => 'post_date',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_datetime'
		);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'forum_index', 'from_fieldname' => 'created',
			'to_type' => 'topic', 'to_fieldname' => 'post_date_gmt',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_datetime'
		);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'forum_index', 'from_fieldname' => 'last_comment_timestamp',
			'to_type' => 'topic', 'to_fieldname' => 'post_modified',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_datetime'
		);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'forum_index', 'from_fieldname' => 'last_comment_timestamp',
			'to_type' => 'topic', 'to_fieldname' => 'post_modified_gmt',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_datetime'
		);

		/** Tags Section ******************************************************/
		
		// Topic id.
		// $this->field_map[] = array(
			// 'from_tablename' => 'tagcontent', 'from_fieldname' => 'contentid',
			// 'to_type' => 'tags', 'to_fieldname' => 'objectid',
			// 'callback_method' => 'callback_topicid'
		// );
		
		//Tags text.
		// $this->field_map[] = array(
			// 'from_tablename' => 'tag', 'from_fieldname' => 'tagtext',
			// 'join_tablename' => 'tagcontent', 'join_type' => 'INNER', 'join_expression' => 'USING (tagid)',
			// 'to_type' => 'tags', 'to_fieldname' => 'name'
		// );		

		/** Post Section ******************************************************/

		// Post id. Stores in postmeta.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'comment', 'from_fieldname' => 'cid',
			'to_type' => 'reply', 'to_fieldname' => '_bbp_post_id'
		);
		
		// Forum id. Stores in postmeta.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'forum', 
			'from_fieldname' => 'tid',
			'join_tablename'  => 'comment',
			'join_type'       => 'INNER',
			'join_expression' => 'ON forum.nid = comment.nid',
			'to_type' => 'reply', 'to_fieldname' => '_bbp_forum_id',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_topicid_to_forumid'
		);
		
		// Topic id. Stores in postmeta.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'comment', 'from_fieldname' => 'nid',
			'to_type' => 'reply', 'to_fieldname' => '_bbp_topic_id',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_topicid'
		);
		
		// Author ip.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'comment', 'from_fieldname' => 'hostname',
			'to_type' => 'reply', 'to_fieldname' => '__bbp_author_ip'
		);	
			
		// Post author.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'comment', 'from_fieldname' => 'uid',
			'to_type' => 'reply', 'to_fieldname' => 'post_author',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_userid'
		);
		
		// Topic title.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'comment', 'from_fieldname' => 'subject',
			'to_type' => 'reply', 'to_fieldname' => 'post_title'
		);
		
		// Topic slug. Clean name.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'comment', 
			'from_fieldname' => 'subject',
			'to_type' => 'reply', 
			'to_fieldname' => 'post_name',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_slug'
		);
		
		// Post content.
		// Note: We join the posts table because topics do not have content.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'field_data_comment_body',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'comment_body_value',
			'join_tablename'  => 'comment',
			// 'join_type'       => 'INNER',
			'join_expression' => 'ON field_data_comment_body.entity_id = comment.cid',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_content',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_html'
		);	
		
		// Post content.
		// BRUGES IKKE - SE OVENFOR
		// $this->field_map[] = array(
			// 'from_tablename' => 'post', 'from_fieldname' => 'pagetext',
			// 'to_type' => 'reply', 
			// 'to_fieldname' => 'post_content',
			// 'callback_method' => 'callback_html'
		// );
		
		// Topic id.  If no parent, than 0.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'comment', 'from_fieldname' => 'nid',
			'to_type' => 'reply', 'to_fieldname' => 'post_parent',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_topicid'
		);

		// Topic date update.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'comment', 
			'from_fieldname' => 'created',
			'to_type' => 'reply', 
			'to_fieldname' => 'post_date',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_datetime'
		);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'comment', 
			'from_fieldname' => 'created',
			'to_type' => 'reply', 
			'to_fieldname' => 'post_date_gmt',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_datetime'
		);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'comment', 
			'from_fieldname' => 'changed',
			'to_type' => 'reply', 
			'to_fieldname' => 'post_modified',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_datetime'
		);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'comment', 
			'from_fieldname' => 'changed',
			'to_type' => 'reply', 
			'to_fieldname' => 'post_modified_gmt',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_datetime'
		);

		/** User Section ******************************************************/

		// Store old User id. Stores in usermeta.
		// $this->field_map[] = array(
			// 'from_tablename' => 'users', 'from_fieldname' => 'uid',
			// 'to_type' => 'user', 'to_fieldname' => '_bbp_user_id'
		// );
		
		// Store old User password. Stores in usermeta serialized with salt.
		// $this->field_map[] = array(
			// 'from_tablename' => 'users', 'from_fieldname' => 'pass',
			// 'to_type' => 'user', 'to_fieldname' => '_bbp_password',
			// 'callback_method' => 'callback_savepass'
		// );

		// Store old User Salt. This is only used for the SELECT row info for the above password save
		// todo ???
		//$this->field_map[] = array(
		//	'from_tablename' => 'users', 'from_fieldname' => 'salt',
		//	'to_type' => 'user', 'to_fieldname' => ''
		//);
				
		// // User password verify class. Stores in usermeta for verifying password.
		// $this->field_map[] = array(
			// 'to_type' => 'users', 'to_fieldname' => '_bbp_class',
			// 'default' => 'Vbulletin'
		// );
		
		// // User name.
		// $this->field_map[] = array(
			// 'from_tablename' => 'users', 'from_fieldname' => 'name',
			// 'to_type' => 'user', 'to_fieldname' => 'user_login'
		// );
				
		// // User email.
		// $this->field_map[] = array(
			// 'from_tablename' => 'users', 'from_fieldname' => 'mail',
			// 'to_type' => 'user', 'to_fieldname' => 'user_email'
		// );
		
		// User homepage.
		// $this->field_map[] = array(
			// 'from_tablename' => 'users', 'from_fieldname' => 'homepage',
			// 'to_type' => 'user', 'to_fieldname' => 'user_url'
		// );
		
		// User registered.
		// $this->field_map[] = array(
			// 'from_tablename' => 'users', 'from_fieldname' => 'created',
			// 'to_type' => 'user', 'to_fieldname' => 'user_registered',
			// 'callback_method' => 'callback_datetime'
		// );
		
		// User aim.
		//$this->field_map[] = array(
		//	'from_tablename' => 'users', 'from_fieldname' => 'aim',
		//	'to_type' => 'user', 'to_fieldname' => 'aim'
		//);
		
		// User yahoo.
		//$this->field_map[] = array(
		//	'from_tablename' => 'users', 'from_fieldname' => 'yahoo',
		//	'to_type' => 'user', 'to_fieldname' => 'yim'
		//);	
	}
	
	/**
	 * This method allows us to indicates what is or is not converted for each
	 * converter.
	 */
	public function info()
	{
		return '';
	}

	/**
	 * This method is to save the salt and password together.  That
	 * way when we authenticate it we can get it out of the database
	 * as one value. Array values are auto sanitized by WordPress.
	 */
	public function callback_savepass( $field, $row )
	{
		$pass_array = array( 'hash' => $field, 'salt' => $row['salt'] );
		return $pass_array;
	}

	/**
	 * This method is to take the pass out of the database and compare
	 * to a pass the user has typed in.
	 */
	public function authenticate_pass( $password, $serialized_pass )
	{
		$pass_array = unserialize( $serialized_pass );
		return ( $pass_array['hash'] == md5( md5( $password ). $pass_array['salt'] ) );
	}

}

[jeteran]

Thanks for that Lynq.

THis is the solution:

“Tools” -> “Forums” -> “Remap existing users to default forum roles”

[Rasheed Bydousi]

You have an “export” link at the bottom of the page:
https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/dev/ar/default

[irperera]

guys

I’m new to bbpress, my problem may be simple to other, but its twisting my mind.

anyways

once bbpress is installed, you have the links for forum at domain.com/forums, which shows all the categories. i would like the sidebar to be a different one from the default one. how do i go about doing this.

i cannot get the sidebar to change at all.

thanks

Ian

[Marcin Biegun]

1. create bbpress directory in your theme directory
2. copy there loop-single-forum.php from /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress
3. add wherever you wish the image to appear:
<?php echo get_the_post_thumbnail($post_id, 'full'); ?>

[Timo Reith]

I have the same problem with version 2.3.2. After updating the menu items for topics, forums etc. are missing. All new posts get blocked by the spam settings and I do not know how to activate them without the menu item.
I played around with Settings > Forums as jonboldendesign wrote. The items appeared. Then I put the settings back to default. Now the menu items are gone again and I do not have the permission to access the Settings > Forums page (as WP admin!) Great stuff… 🙁

[filmmannen]

Hi, i have searched different forums here, and tried different solutions but not yet found the right one.

Im now using WordPress 3.5.2, and like many others here i have problems with my bbpress installation for 2.3.2, which started when the new bbpress plugin came out and i found my Forums menu had disappeared, and my admin user where locked out for trying to fix things straight. I tried this solution (“http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/lost-permissions-for-administrator/”)

1) deactivate plugin + delete plugin
2) manually installed older version from SVN (http://bbpress.svn.wordpress.org/branches/2.2/)
3) export forum data (from Tools)
4) reset forum plugin
6) installed wordpress import plugin
7) imported forum data

..and I where able to see my forums in the admin menu once again. However once i did update the plugin again, i where locked out and lost the forums in admin menu once again.

I haven’t been able to administer the keymaster to my Admin, i have tried the solution (before i updated bbpress to 2.3.2) with “Admin \ Tools \ Forums \ Remap existing users to default forum roles” and it says OK – fixed 6 roles, but when i check my Admin user in the users list im still just a Forum Participant. (After update i don’t see Forums under Admin \ Tools)

I try using the User Role Editor (but it may be i haven’t understood it fully yet… – im not able to administer the administrators capabilities through it, at least i havent found out how to do it), my Admin user has also another user name than “admin” – if that make this a problem?

In my forum, i (the admin) and the subscriber/editor users, is able to see the forum and the under-forums, and how many topics and replies/posts there are, but when i click one of the under-forums with ex. 12 topics and 16 posts. I get the message:

“This forum contains 12 topics and 4 replies…
Oh bother! No topics were found here!”

But im able to add new topics, and they seem to work like they should, but im not able to see my old topics, and i only see one reply – when i follow the freshness-link – it also acts in different ways – sometimes i get to a page – that

Im not too used with coding, so please explain carefully what i could/should do?
(And my english may not be all correct, as its not my main language).

My page is at http://www.politiorkester.no (in Norwegian) and the forum is hidden – since its on a membership required page.

[Robin W]

This should be the default position ie not logged in can view, but only logged in reply.

Check your forums (dashboard>forums) and pick any one of your forms to edit

You should have :

Visibility : Public on the top right hand side

[Unsal Korkmaz]

This week’s question about bbPress:
The default display of the current user is the fullname (also here in this forum), but I want to change it into the nickname they have entered. How can this be achieved?

Answer: http://theme.firmasite.com/support/topic/display-username/

[arcandio]

I’m now having this same problem. I’ve been all over the site so far, and all I’ve really found is that I need to fix my mod_rewrites or reset my permalinks. To restate my problem, when I test a post on my forum, it loads a page similar to what ryandoz posted. If I refresh/reload the page, the proper page comes up.

I’m working with a pretty vanilla install here, until this happened, I hadn’t even changed the permalinks from the default install (done by SimpleScripts). I don’t know enough about apache to know how to properly fix my .htaccess file to rewrite the urls, and anyway, I would prefer if I could set it up in WordPress.

So, what’s the deal with the rewriting? What exactly is actually going on? bbPress is asking for a url that isn’t rewritten, then the server tells the client the page was moved? Is that not something that bbPress can handle? I really have to put extra Rewrite rules in my .htaccess if I want to have a vanilla install of WordPress use a vanilla install of the bbPress plugin?

[armando_e]

Hello, I am using the latest version of bbPress (2.3.2), buddyPress and WP 3.5. In the settings-forums, I cannot get the check box to use the fancy editor to stick. I click it on, hit save, and when it refreshes the box is un-checked and not working. I tried to switch to the default themes and it still doesn’t work.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you.

[akapope]

Hey BBPress!

I was wandering if ya’ll can help me out with this. So I have my theme styled so that each Forum gets its own background through the style.css file using the following lines:

.postid-17 {
background: #000000 url(http://alysiaworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/alysiasea.jpg) center top no-repeat fixed;
}

where postid-17 is the correlating WordPress post associated with the Forum.

The problem now is that when you visit a Topic within the Forum, the background goes back to the default image :/

I am thinking that there should be a code to pull the topics Parent Forum “postid” and then force the background to the topic.

I hope that makes sense. I can dig through code, but I am not so skilled with writing my own yet.

Thanks in advance for your help.

WordPress and BBPress are running the latest versions:

Site – htp://alysiaworld.com
Theme – Twentytwelve

[kettlewell]

Update:

I’ve figured it out.

Part of it was my theme using the post_type_archive_title()

Part was needing to set a filter:

function test_support() {
  return 'Support';
}
add_filter('bbp_get_forum_archive_title', 'test_support');

And part of it is needing to modify the default bbpress theme by placing it in my own theme directory, and modifying the hard-coded instances of Forums and Topics.

A future enhancement / feature would be some sort of an options file to allow this text to be modified in one place somewhere…

[rsbenedict]

I’m using wordpress 3.5.1 with bbpress plugin 2.3.2.

Although I have users already registered, those users cannot login to bbpress. When they go to the default forum page, it gives the wp login page and then when they add in their credentials, it just redirects back to the same page stating they must be logged in to see the page.

They have the roll of participant and I’ve even downloaded the members plugin and added all of the participant functions to the subscriber roll yet still the same issue.

The only person who can view the forum is the administrator.

Any ideas? I’ve been trying to fix this now for hours and it’s driving me crazy. I’ve searched the web and haven’t found any solutions except for installing the member plugin, but still, it has no effect.

I’d hate to have to use another forum software, but if I can’t get this to work, I’ll have no other recourse.

website is http://teachforjune.com and forum page is http://teachforjune.com/iiforums

Thanks!

Scott

[Robin W]

Yes, that’s probably the next step – swapping your theme to one of the defaults eg twentytwelve and see if it comes up. If so then it’s a theme issue, suspect your theme is unloading sidebars at the wrong time – this should be correctable, but you need to prove it’s the issue first !

[Amin]

I tried many times, but i couldn’t successfully convert forums from bbpress1 to bbpress2 in a Buddypress installation. So I gave up! That was totally a mess.
I have +10,000 posts in bbpress1, and during migration I allways got timeout errors.
after a partly migration, all forums were empty in buddypress (but in bbpress URLs, they was ok). So nothing worked in buddypress.
Users avatars also changes to the default picture in bbpress2.
AT FIRST, BACKUP YOUR DATABASE.

[Tecca]

I haven’t been able to figure this out either, so I set the “BP_AVATAR_THUMB_WIDTH” in my functions.php file to 120. I figure I won’t been needing small avatar thumbnails anyway, so I’ll just go with slightly larger ones as default.

[kcurlsjr]

When I change a group from public to hidden, the related forum topics still populate the forum index for non-group members. However, clicking on the group link results in “page not found.”

Question: is this a bug inherent to bbPress (i did notice that the recent update mentioned something about hidden groups in the change log)?

or

Could this be something wrong with my forum database. I did recent just convert over to bbPress from default BuddyPress forums. I thought everything went smoothly, but I could be wrong.

[Type Historian]

WP 3.5.1, bbPress 2.3.1
Suffusion 4.4.6 theme with bbPress plugin and child theme support

My site has a long-established definition of “participant,” so it will be confusing to use the same term for the forums.

Is there a way to change the default role to “member”?

Many thanks for your help, Anna
http://66.147.244.145/~typeheri/forums/status/ [sandbox]

[Shmoo]

Yeah but they don’t wish to be like other forum software I guess.

bbPress wants to stay very clean, lean en mean I think. They hope somebody will ever make plugins for bbPress to accomplish all those tasks even history has proven Plugins aren’t the best way to go forward.

Anyway,
The code-snippet should go in the template that handles the form-stuff.

Find the next files.
wp-content / pluings / bbpress / templates / default / bbpress / form-topic.php
wp-content / plugins / bbpress / templates / default / bbpress / form-reply.php

Copy & paste ( don’t drag & drop ) both files to your theme folder inside a new fodler called bbpress.
wp-content / themes / your-theme-name / bbpress / ** paste them here **

Open the files and search for a line that say:
<?php bbp_the_content( …. ); ?>

Line 66 and 92 I think it is.
Change the code and Save it.

Refresh the page and you should see a Media upload button above the toolbar.

[Shmoo]

Yes thats true, first of all you should only copy the files that you need to edit.

Just copying everything works fine but isn’t needed because inside the bbPress core is a function whats called Theme_Support ( i believe thats what its called ) And this function does only one thing, before reading all template-files.

Check if the needed template file is inside your theme folder. If it’s not.. –> use the template file inside the plugin folder.

bbPress plugin template files are the default template files but when you copy them over to your theme the new copied files become default.
It’s serious one of the most beautiful and easy constructions I’ve ever seen used at CMS’s. I’ve worked with manny other forum-software that had many more options and features as bbPress but they never had this easy way of safely -editing template files.

bbpress.css works 100% the same copy the bbpress.css file to a folder called CSS inside your theme folder and it works the same way. The forum.css file at the picture isn’t bbPress, thats something I created manually and has nothing to do with bbPress.

Those are two fast screenshots of what I made without having any PHP skills, I just understand HTML + CSS.

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[HD80]

Thanks for reply, I didn’t know you replied because I didn’t receive any email.
lets say I don’t want to use a child theme.
1. create bbpress folder on my theme folder.
2. copy all files from [wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/defaults/bbpress/All those files are bbPress (forum)] to my created bbpress folder
3. copy all files from [wp-content / plugins / bbpress / templates / defaults / extras / All those files are general Theme] to my /wp-content/theme/mytheme directory.

I wasn’t sure if i need to copy all or just what I need. Also you have bbpress.css and forum.css files…are these also included in bbpress package?

so when i type http://www.mytheme.com/forums the new template should appear?

[Robin W]

Strange works well on mine wordpress 3.5.1 bbpress 2.3.2 theme twentyten

breadcrumbs work fine and get you back to the page

Did you call the page forums plural?

[Lynq]

I had the same problem, go to tools > forums > Remap existing users to default forum roles (I think that is the right one to do).

One of those recount/remap tools did the trick for me, good luck.