[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress shares WordPress’ users settings, you an see an example of it for your own bbPress.org and WordPress.org profiles here:

https://bbpress.org/forums/profile/darrenbergman93/
https://profiles.wordpress.org/darrenbergman93/

When logging into bbPress it is just logging into WordPress with the same username and password so you should be good to go there also 🙂

[Robin W]

less shouty with the title, and a little bit of patience would be great !

bbPress is tested with wordpress default themes. It maybe a conflict – you need to check plugins and themes

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[parker012]

Installed BBpress Forum plug in. cannot see it anywhere on my wordpress site. Any help would be great, John

[mod note: fixed title]

[lincelot]

I have updated WordPress but still have the same problem. When I change my admin roles I can briefly see the BBpress options in the wp menu. But after one click they disappear form the menu…

Seems like a bug to me or a malfunction with an other plugin?

[NES Portal Management]

Hello, My name is Darren. I am the Team Leader of the New Eden School Student Portal Team. I have been looking to add a forum for our students into our Portal. We had a forum before but had to shut it down for some reasons i will not go into. However we now want to re-initialize our forum idea and place it into our portal. My question is this:
We need a forum that has all the features that a forum system includes, such as:
Adding/Creating Threads by both Student and Admins. Instructors also need to be able to create them.
We do not want external links like Share to facebook and such. As this is a forum in a portal and do not want anyone but Students having access to it.
We do not want a profiling. We already have a profile system where the profile in wordpress is their student profile which includes their address, email, username, phone number and also their student id. This information cannot be visible to other students.
So either if this plugin gives an external profile system where it does not interact with the profile already made in the USERS area of wordpress it would work, but if it works with the USERS part of wordpress then the clickable link to view a profile, edit profile would need to be removed for our sake.
We also do not want another log in. We want them to be able to log into their profile in our student portal and that is it. They have access to the forum aswell and no additional login or registering, as right now we pre-create their profiles, no one registers.

Let me know if the above is possible to customize in this plugin,
thanks,
-NES Portal Management Team Leader

[Robin W]

You may need to juggle a bit, but my Private Groups plugin filters forums for specific groups

so a user belongs to a group or groups
Forums belong to a group or groups

users can see forums of the same group or groups.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-private-groups/

Post a topic on that plugins support desk if you need coding help

[milliways2650]

Thank you for your help. Unfortunately I think I have reached a dead end.

I decided to give another try. I created a new phpbb database, and a new WordPress installation, just in case I had caused some damage.

Attempting the import produced the following error. Presumably it is objecting to something in my phpbb database. I can not find ‘forum_topics_approved’ anywhere (but have little experience with MySQL).

WordPress database error: [Unknown column ‘forums.forum_topics_approved’ in ‘field list’]
SELECT convert(forums.forum_id USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_id,convert(forums.parent_id USING “utf8mb4”) AS parent_id,convert(forums.forum_topics_approved USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_topics_approved,convert(forums.forum_posts_approved USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_posts_approved,convert(forums.forum_name USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_name,convert(forums.forum_desc USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_desc,convert(forums.left_id USING “utf8mb4”) AS left_id,convert(forums.forum_type USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_type,convert(forums.forum_status USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_status FROM phpbb_forums AS forums LIMIT 0, 100

No forums to convert

Starting Conversion

My comment about lack of stats was that there was no positive feedback e.g. x forums imported, which would be helpful.

I did not understand the comment “If you also view the source of the page, right click and “inspect” will also bring this up, you should see some debug code showing the SQL queries being performed during the import:”

[vitto2013]

Ok i understan how work,
i have try to import, so at that time i have import User and Discussion and forum…
But now give me that error

Errore sul database di WordPress: [Table ‘pke070112.jos_kunena_topics’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT convert(kunena_messages.id USING “utf8mb4”) AS id,convert(kunena_messages.catid USING “utf8mb4”) AS catid,convert(kunena_messages.thread USING “utf8mb4”) AS thread,convert(kunena_messages.ip USING “utf8mb4”) AS ip,convert(kunena_messages.userid USING “utf8mb4”) AS userid,convert(kunena_messages.subject USING “utf8mb4”) AS subject,convert(kunena_messages_text.message USING “utf8mb4”) AS message,convert(kunena_messages.time USING “utf8mb4”) AS time FROM rtzen_kunena_messages AS kunena_messages LEFT JOIN rtzen_kunena_messages_text AS kunena_messages_text ON kunena_messages_text.mesid = kunena_messages.id LEFT JOIN jos_kunena_topics AS kunena_topics ON kunena_messages.thread = kunena_topics.id WHERE kunena_messages.parent != 0 LIMIT 0, 100

pke070112 it’s the table of the old database,
Please can you help me?

[Doug Smith]

@robkk, That would be to allow additional tags, right?

In this case it looks like tags are getting into the content that already are not allowed by default. The screen shot shows a span tag, which is not included in the bbPress allowed list in bbpress/includes/common/formatting.php.

I have also seen this happen with TinyMCE activated. It seems to be iOS users and they claim that they haven’t pasted anything, but I have not observed this for myself yet.

[Stephen Edgar]

It does give stats as it imports, you should be something similar to:

If you also view the source of the page, right click and “inspect” will also bring this up, you should see some debug code showing the SQL queries being performed during the import:

The forums, if imported will be in the wp_posts table of your WordPress database, if you filter the posts and search the post_type column for forum, topic, or reply you should see any imported posts.

[senatorman]

i understand what you say and do that exactly
removed al mods and use a basic pbpbb 3.1.9 database
I use for all the latest verions

-bbpress 2.6 alpha
-phpBB 3.1.9
-phpBB Converter file 5795

As i said earlier in this topic, there is a problem with the latest version of the phpbb converter https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/includes/admin/converters/phpBB.php?rev=5795

After converting all the passwords, at the beginning converting posts or topics i there is an error.

[Stephen Edgar]

Cool, hopefully that will fix any issues, and we switched wordpress.org/support to bbPress 2.6-alpha a couple of weeks ago 🙂

[milliways2650]

I am running phpBB 3.1.9 and bbPress 2.5.10

As I am still a relatively new WordPress user, and have never used bbPress, I installed the latest version, but I normally avoid alpha and beta software.

As this is an offline installation for learning/experimentation I guess there is no risk so will try 2.6

[milliways2650]

I imported a sql backup of my database to my local system and phpMyAdmin shows this with 6 forums with prefix “phpbb_”

Database Server localhost
Database Name iabi1038_phpb1
Database User <myuser>
Table Prefix phpbb_

This chugs along, with no obvious errors, (but no real report of what it did) – although the “No forums to convert” error no longer appears.

Unfortunately I cannot seem to find the Forum in my WordPress installation.

[wolfpup64]

I really dig the look and execution on the face of the Support area of the wordpress.org sites, with forums delineated on one side and support threads from all the different forums displayed on the other. It is in fitting with the design I am trying to achieve for my current project and I haven’t seen it elsewhere.

Anyone have a direction to look in for a setup similar?

I’m new to this wordpress website building stuff, so please excuse all current and hopefully not much future ignorance.

Cheers,
Andrew

[Stephen Edgar]

It looks like you have not imported the phpBB database into the same MySQL instance WordPress is using.

You cannot use a “remote” database to import from.

[Robkk]

Robin made the plugin awhile ago. bbPress devs made a fix awhile ago, but slated it into 2.6 instead of a 2.5 point release.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2607

[Robkk]

Install the other wpfix 2 plugin. It should have the same code snippet you are trying to use, without having to place any code anywhere.

I recommend users who are beginners to not edit bbPress core files. Or any other plugin/theme/wordpress core files unless you know exactly what you are doing code wise.

[Robkk]

Okay, yeah this site does have an interesting layout.

http://eat.at/swap/forum1/251729_Help_Need_recipe_for_fig_jam_ASAP

From what I can see real quick.

Your not going to edit the loop-single-reply.php file like @netweb suggested, because after clicking the reply title link you are redirected to a normal layout single reply. So to get this layout you are going to edit content-single-topic.php, remove the pagination, and place a custom template instead of loop-replies..php so that you won’t mess with replies in a forum profile.

<?php if ( bbp_has_replies() ) : ?>

	<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'pagination', 'replies' ); ?>

	<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'loop',       'replies' ); ?>

	<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'pagination', 'replies' ); ?>

<?php endif; ?>

Replace the above code with this for example.

<?php if ( bbp_has_replies() ) : ?>

	<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'loop',       'classic-threads' ); ?>

<?php endif; ?>

The code that will be in loop-classic-threads.phpwill be a copy of loop-replies.php and a very minimal loop-single-reply.php. Wherever say <?php bbp_get_template_part( 'loop', 'single-reply' ); ?> is called in the new loop-classic-threads.php file, I would just copy the whole loop-single-reply.php template where that get template function was and keep only the code you need.

The code that is going to be in the area you put the loop-single-reply.php code is only going to have the username, date, maybe the reply positions, and reply title. The reply title is going to mostly come from a customized version of the bbPress reply title plugin. But you are going to output the reply title in the template as a link. A link (I think bbp_reply_url() is the right function ) to the single reply template, which is only 1 reply isolated, which bbPress can do.

Does this help enough??

I’m gonna see if I can recreate most of this layout later

[Robkk]

@johnnya23

On a separate issue, I do notice the the topic counts don’t reset when topics are deleted.

Try recounting the topics by running the nessessary repair jobs in Tools > Forums.

@pauldamas

If you want contact me personally and I will check on this and see if I can come up with anything.

https://robkkdev.wordpress.com/contact/

[Pascal Casier]

Good afternoon,
This is more WordPress related I think, because bbPress is using the WordPress environment for authentication. Just check that on your /wp-admin page, under ‘Settings -> General -> Membership’ you have the ‘Anyone can register’ correctly checked.
Pascal.

[mboelen]

Hello,

i just instal bbpress but people can not registrer to the forum. when they do that, they see
a wordpress page with: registrer is not allowed.

you can see what i mean on: http://thelittleone.nl/forum/registreren-forum/

can someone help me?

[milliways2650]

I have setup WordPress on a computer (Raspberry Pi3 running Ubuntu MATE 16.04) and it is working.

I installed bbPress and am trying to import my phpBB Forum http://binnie.id.au/BulletinBoard/index.php

It is unclear exactly what I need to enter in the “Import Forums” dialog.
I have tried many different options. I am assuming that this is asking for MySQL details.

My CPanel reports
Server: Localhost via UNIX socket
Server type: MySQL
Server version: 5.5.48-cll – MySQL Community Server (GPL)
Protocol version: 10
User: iabi1038@localhost
Server charset: UTF-8 Unicode (utf8)

MySQL® Databases shows
Database Size Privileged Users
iabi1038_phpb1 2.32 MB iabi1038_phpb1

I have tried

Database Server binnie.id.au
Database Name iabi1038_phpb1
Database User iabi1038_phpb1
Table Prefix phpbb_

This chugs along, with no obvious errors, except it seems to find nothing.

No reply_to parents to convert

No replies to convert

No tags to convert

No super stickies to stick

No stickies to stick

No topics to convert

No forum parents to convert

No forums to convert

No passwords to clear

No users to convert

Starting Conversion

[Stephen Edgar]

See the menus used here on both bbPress.org/forums and BuddyPress.org/support:

These are both menus, both use said “parent” menu items to arrange the items, both these menus are open source and pretty good examples and slightly different of how you can add bbPress and BuddyPress functionality to menus

https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sites/trunk/buddypress.org/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress-org/toolbar.php

https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sites/trunk/buddypress.org/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress-org/toolbar.php

Take a look around and look out for “parent” and see what you find…

[P4R4NORM4L]

i have the same problem as you

i have 1 forum and 1 topic associated to it but i can’t see the topic using WordPress 4.6.1