[John James Jacoby]

A few last minute gifts are now in the bbPress plugin.

First, shortcodes. Now you can insert forums and topics into blog posts and pages. This is awesome because it will let you insert a river of forums or replies anywhere that the_content(); is used and shortcodes are supported.

Second, theme compatibility. This one is huge, could use some testing, and is potentially a game-changer. If you’re not using a theme that actively supports bbPress by setting add_theme_support( 'bbpress' );, bbPress is going to serve up its own default set of templates and styling from whatever is set as the theme compatibility layer (which defaults to bbp-twentyten.) There is a little more work to be done here, but so far it’s working a treat.

As a plugin developer, theme compatibility with new features is something I’ve wrestled with for a really long time, and recent changes in WordPress core have made this easier. For BuddyPress and now bbPress, this is years in the planning stages, and I’m really happy, excited, and proud that it’s in and loosely working.

[Gautam Gupta]

Hello folks,

I along with Ben L. aka Nightgunner5, have created a bbPress standalone to plugin converter which already does a good job converting your bbPress forums.

To use it, upload the file bbs2p.php to your server. Now let us assume that / is the place where you have placed the script, /blog/ is the WordPress directory and /forum/ is the bbPress standalone directory. So, you would edit bbs2p.php, scroll down to line 36 and change

define( 'BBS2P_WP_PATH', '' ); /** With Trailing Slash, if required */

define( 'BBS2P_BB_PATH', '../forum/' ); /** With Trailing Slash, if required */

To:

define( 'BBS2P_WP_PATH', 'blog/' ); /** With Trailing Slash, if required */

define( 'BBS2P_BB_PATH', 'forum/' ); /** With Trailing Slash, if required */

Similarly, if you have script and WordPress blog in / and the forum in /forums/, then change those lines to:

define( 'BBS2P_WP_PATH', '' ); /** With Trailing Slash, if required */

define( 'BBS2P_BB_PATH', 'forums/' ); /** With Trailing Slash, if required */

Then run the script and the converter would guide you. Some points to note:

• Needless to mention, if it isn’t your test run, please have a backup. We cannot be held responsible for any data loss.
• Run it on your localhost as the converter is heavy.
• Supports the Subscribe to Topic plugin by _ck_ and bbPress 1.1 alpha+ subscriptions import too. Have that plugin activated if you want to migrate subscriptions from the plugin, else it will check for the alpha version.
• Have the bbPress plugin activated, revert to default themes and disable any other plugins.
• Currently, there are three situations:

  1. You have a new WordPress blog, to which you are migrating to and an established forum. Then, you would go to user migration section first and then proceed to forums, topics, posts migration section. In this process, all your WordPress users would be deleted (well, renamed to another table) and in place of those, bbPress users would be added. A keymaster will be WP admin, bb admin and moderator will be bbPress plugin moderators, rest all would be converted to the default WP role (which can be set in your WordPress settings).
  2. Your WordPress and bbPress user tables are integrated. You don’t need the user migration process and you can directly go to forums, topics, posts migration section. No worries.
  3. You have a established WordPress blog, with a good number of users and can’t afford to lose those. This is currently not supported as it is hard to merge two conflicting user sets.

• After converting, do recounts, delete the script and delete the bbPress standalone section if not needed.

Download: http://code.google.com/p/bbpress-standalone-to-plugin/downloads/detail?name=bbs2p-beta2.zip

Cheers! Hope that helps.

Regards,

Ben L. & Gautam G.

bbPress Geeks

ps. Special thanks to John James J. for developing the bbPress plugin, without which, of course, this converter wouldn’t have been there.

[Gautam Gupta]

You should browse into your active theme directory, if you’re using the default theme i.e. Kakumei, that would be /bb-templates/kakumei/. There, you would find the files register.php and register-success.php. You can edit those. Hope that helps.

[Gautam Gupta]

You should browse into your active theme directory, if you’re using the default theme i.e. Kakumei, that would be /bb-templates/kakumei/. There, you would find the files register.php and register-success.php. You can edit those. Hope that helps.

[LogicWeb]

How can I add the buttons myself, unless you have an updated copy? Thanks again for your assistance.

Also, how do I edit the default width & height of the toolbar/editor?

[LogicWeb]

How can I add the buttons myself, unless you have an updated copy? Thanks again for your assistance.

Also, how do I edit the default width & height of the toolbar/editor?

[asboyd]

I have created a test site and added several topics to a forum.

I have set the number of items in reading to 10.

When I access the forum (which has 32 topics) I see the first ten topics, but when I click the page navigation for page 2, I simply get the add new topic form and no existing topics are shown.

I am using the default theme and even when I change between the built in themes this is still a problem.

Could someone please advise of a fix?

I am not overly skilled in PHP code. But can find my way around to make changes under direction.

Cheers,

AlexB

[memnunfor]

I want to change the header and add a png image instead of the title.

any help would be great.

Thanks.

http://memnunmusun.com/

[web2m]

Hi Gautam, I have the converter installed, but have a quick question for you.

My wordpress is in the root directory, my bbpress forums are in

http://www.sitename.com/forums2

Here is the part of your code:

define( ‘W2BC_WP_PATH’, ” ); /** With Trailing Slash, if required */

define( ‘W2BC_BB_PATH’, ‘/forums2/’ ); /** With Trailing Slash, if required */

define( ‘W2BC_CONVERT_PINGBACKS’, true ); /** Convert pingacks too? true or false */

*** Continue my question ***

I keep getting “bbPress loader file (bb-load.php) doesn’t exist in the path specified!”

I have tried defining the w2bc_bb_path to ./forums2/ I have left it as the default like you had it and I have tried it as it is in the example above … it still tells me the path doesn’t exist

Could you let me know what path I need to define, if my forums are located at

http://www.sitename.com (this is where wordpress is installed)

http://www.sitename.com/forums2 (this is where my bbpress is installed)

Thank you again for the help and for the file. I am hoping I can get it to work:-)

[Kurt Glen]

hey asboyd do you have phpmyadmin or any other database management? if so select the database and go to execute and execute the same exact code that gave u the error… should be the same as mine. Only this time change the last line to:

ENGINE = MYISAM DEFAULT CHARACTER SET 'utf8';

basically changing TYPE to ENGINE. That will correct everything. good luck.

PS thanks to Super Artsy in the topic below for posting the solution.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/db-posts-table-not-installing?replies=4#post-86225

[Kurt Glen]

hey asboyd do you have phpmyadmin or any other database management? if so select the database and go to execute and execute the same exact code that gave u the error… should be the same as mine. Only this time change the last line to:

ENGINE = MYISAM DEFAULT CHARACTER SET 'utf8';

basically changing TYPE to ENGINE. That will correct everything. good luck.

PS thanks to Super Artsy in the topic below for posting the solution.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/db-posts-table-not-installing?replies=4#post-86225

[lorenzo12]

Hello, I’m interested in installing bbpress in the wordpress plugins folder. Is this possible?

/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/

Then I want the forums to run on : http://website.com/forums/

I also want to integrate it with wordpress afterwards.

[Kurt Glen]

hey guys its a database problem where the table for posts arent being created any1 have any ideas why? this is the error im getting:

SQL ERROR!

>>> Database: xxxxxxxx (127.0.0.1)

>>>>>> CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS bb_posts (

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

[Kurt Glen]

hey guys its a database problem where the table for posts arent being created any1 have any ideas why? this is the error im getting:

SQL ERROR!

>>> Database: xxxxxxxx (127.0.0.1)

>>>>>> CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS bb_posts (

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

[kate.t]

I have a site which I would like to set up both a forum and blog.

I intend to set up the forum first and I’m thinking of using bbpress forums.

Subsequently I want to add in the blog.

I’d like to ask for some opinions:

Should I put the bbpress forums under a subdomain or subdirectory?

Whether I put the forum under subdomain or subdirectory, how do I put it as the default page in the meantime? Like if I go to http://www.xyzdomain.com it will go straight to the forum page?

While I work on the blog, before its ready, I want to keep it hidden from public eyes.

How do I make it the main page without it being shown while its still in construction, and when its ready, I can unveil it easily?

[skunkertx79]

Is it possible to setup bbPress and use it with buddypress as a global forum, rather than just for groups?

I want to do both:

1.) Use bbPress for forums within groups (I know it does this out of the box)

But also…

2.) Use bbPress as a stand-alone forum outside of groups for basic things like ”Site Feedback” and ”General Topics”.

I’m using the default buddypress theme. Thanks.

[expose]

I wonder if anyone can help please. I have run an update to a WordPress site (created by someone else) that had bbpress integrated. I didn’t upgrade BBpress. Before the WP upgrade, the forum was working fine. However since the wordpress upgrade (from 2.9.2 to 3.1) we are having the following problems:

1) I cannot access the bbpress admin panel

2) The Forum is showing posts and topics but the reply form is missing (only the heading shows)

3) I cant see any way of creating posts, topics or threads so I presume something else is missing…

I had to rewrite the WordPress theme files as the original custom theme had been so badly coded / core hacked etc. I haven’t touched the custom bbpress theme so thought it would be something to do with that. So first thing I did was disable it and enabled the default bbpress theme (through phpmyadmin) but have exactly the same set of problems – which to me rules out a theme issue.

Anybody have any ideas where to start? Sorry I am not sure of bbpress version. Where do I find that?

[miruru]

Thank you for this fantastic plugin, even if it is still under development. Great work so far and well done.

However I just have one small problem and cannot work out why it’s happening.

I left the slugs as default in the Forum setting and went to view the admin profile. All data is being displayed correct, however the Page Title displays, “Nothing found for User Admin”. I’ve looked everywhere but cannot find where it is going wrong. I’ve tried a different theme to no avail. This is really annoying me.

I’ve checked all the other pages and they are fine just the user page. Is there something that is causing this? I’ve tried disabling the All In One SEO plugin and then the page title says “Not Found” and the data is still being displayed correctly.

Any help would be most appreciated.

[LPH2005]

I decided not to re-open ticket 1487 but wanted to share the actual resolution: site collapses after uploading latest files.

1. The theme was returned to WP default.
2. The bbpress plugin was deactivated.
3. The 2908 files were removed from the server.
4. The 2968 files were uploaded.
5. The bbpress plugin was reactivated.
6. Permalinks were resaved.
7. The “discussions” index page was resaved with the new template for index.
8. ALL forums were re-saved.

Now, the important distinction in the process is that the 2908 files were removed rather than simply over-writing files. Otherwise, errors are tossed all over the place.

Hope this helps others playing around with the bbpress plugin.

[stipto]

Hello there,

Anyone know this one:

WordPress Multisite, Buddypress properly installed. Installing BBpress, all goes well. After changing default user roles in the backoffice of BBpress, I can’t log in with the keymaster account. I’ve looked in the database, there’s only one user with ID 1 in bb_users. When I look in bb_usermeta the user with ID 1 has the meta value of a:1:{s:9:”keymaster”;b:1;}

I can log in with previously created users, but when I try the keymaster it keeps on saying “User does not exist”.

Anyone?

[christof w]

Hello I have installed bbpress and I got this error. I think in the folder includes/functions.bb-admin.php the file is there.

Any suggestion to solve this problem?

Thank you very much

Manage Themes

Default theme is missing.

Current Theme

Warning: file() [function.file]: Filename cannot be empty in /home/itw-oberstufe.ch/htdocs/intern/eltern/wp/forum/bb-admin/includes/functions.bb-admin.php on line 1199

Warning: implode() [function.implode]: Invalid arguments passed in /home/itw-oberstufe.ch/htdocs/intern/eltern/wp/forum/bb-admin/includes/functions.bb-admin.php on line 1199

by

All of this theme’s files are located in the “” themes directory.

[danzo123]

Not sure why I can’t change the theme to my bbPress at the moment.

I have created a new root directory called ‘my-templates’ and the permission is set to ‘755’

Yet, the theme doesn’t show up in my bbPress CMS.

I was able to change the theme yesterday, but not today for some reason. And my current theme (custom) isn’t even showing up in the root directory right now with the default kakumei themes where I uploaded it.

Any ideas?

[alexchenco]

The default works OK:

http://localhost/taiwantalk/?bbp_forum=technology

But setting the Permalinks to Month and name gives me a no found page.

http://localhost/taiwantalk/forums/forum/technology/

mod_rewrite is working as usual.

Any suggestions?

[_ck_]

Upgrade the same way you upgrade wordpress.

You can install the new version over the old copy, just don’t delete anything.

Just make sure your template directory is not the same as bbpress default (kakumei) which you seem to be using “mytheme” so that’s fine.

[_ck_]

Upgrade the same way you upgrade wordpress.

You can install the new version over the old copy, just don’t delete anything.

Just make sure your template directory is not the same as bbpress default (kakumei) which you seem to be using “mytheme” so that’s fine.