[Hard Seat Sleeper]

I was using a standalone bbpress for many years, but the latest WordPress update did something to mess up cookie integration. The writing was on the wall for my old standalone forum, I decided to move forward and upgrade and migrate.

A sleepless week later, it is done.

First, it imported all posts, even years-old spam, so I deleted that migration and figured out how to really delete spam in the standalone, and then imported again.

Then I found out that tags were not integrated, rather if tags were in the forum, they simply deleted any tags or custom taxonomies with the same name in the wordpress install. The site relies heavily on these tags, so we we spent a few days re-tagging everything and re-checking.

Now this morning I see that one entire category of the wp install was deleted. Luckily it was not a heavily trafficked section of the site. At this point we’ve put days of work into this data, so rather than roll back, we’ll recreate that category.

bbpress has given our site community many things over the years, I can’t complain at all. But the new version is much slower than the standalone version, and much harder for us to edit and modify. My viewers actually have a diminished experience now.

The tide has turned over the years. While WordPress fumbled with bbpress and buddypress, Facebook came to the fore and basically sucked all the community out of the wp platform. It’s a shame, and not likely to turn around for any of us here. I applaud the hard work of the devs who worked on this platform over the years, but it has been an exhausting experience this last week, and I am not done yet. It will be another sleepless night.

[Robin W]

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 twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[Robin W]

yes I believe it will be fixed in wordpress 4.0.1 (it was a wordpress change), but no idea when that is coming out

[chero123]

no way to make it without widget? :\

something like this in SMF: Advanced Recent Posts

and below recent post, the forums as normally appear, with widget the wordpress is not pleasing to the eye

kind regards 🙂

[Robin W]

Many plugins are not ‘maintained’ as this take time, and if no functionality is being added, the authors can be working on other things, or have just got bored! I think it is a shame.

However many still work fine, and if not there are usually alternatives.

I haven’t tried it, but take a look at

https://wordpress.org/plugins/export-user-data/

[Stephen Edgar]

@tehred Go to SMF’s website to find details on how to install SMF, you probably want to install the same version that the database backup is from (if you know it).

You should have a MySQL database backup, typically these are named filename.sql, filename.sql.zip or filename.gz, this is an actual export of the database data rather than the actual files used as part of the website.

You should be able to import (once you find it) that file into MySQL as a new database, then you point bbPress’ import to that database name in the import settings along with username and password and table prefix (most likely smf_).

Once you start running the import it copies the data from your old SMF database into the WordPress database you are using with bbPress, your original SMF database is not altered in anyway, it is still best practice to make sure you have backups of your SMF and WordPress database all the same.

[tehred]

@stephen, a couple things to know:
– I am using a backup from SMF. I no longer have access to the server that SMF was installed on. I don’t know if a backup and an export are the same thing. I feel like they probably are not.

– Assuming they are not, I am looking at instructions on how to install SMF on a temp server so I can import the backup, and then export the database.

– Assuming I get the export done, what I feel like you are telling me is that I need to import that file into the MySQL running on the server WordPress is on. I am assuming that I create a new database to import the data into. Once that is done, i run the converter on that new database.
– Does this convert that new database, or create a new database that has the bbPress info in it?

[jugoretz]

Yeah, not trying to be discouraging, @nathanegraham, but this is a bug–and I am already running WordPress 4.0 and still experiencing the problem.

Activating network-wide also has the consequence that sites that do not need bbPress, but do need other plugins, sometimes have trouble with those other plugins because of conflicts with bbPress (I’m suspecting that as a problem now with Join My Multisite plugin).

Would be great to see a fix soon, if possible! @netweb? Anyone?

[23kulpamens]

Like in title. I can’t figure out how to load theme surroundings. This is all I see when i enter profile site like: example.com/forums/user/user_name

I assume that wordpress call template user-details.php, but I can’t figure out whole path that it makes to get view done.

Could anybody direct me to right part od documentation or some tutorial?

[Robkk]

maybe your wordpress upload size is 2mb , or a cdn/security solution is limiting the upload size of your site from other users ??

dont know contact plugin author.

[Robkk]

if you really want the replies and topics to be on the products page.

this would require custom development

http://jobs.wordpress.net/

#1 outsourcing service for WordPress

if you want bbpress/woocommerce integration

i think there is some plugins that would help, cant think of them right at the moment.

[Robkk]

search up wordpress oembed , maybe you have images that arent supported by oembed so you cant click them and go to the image source.

also if you dont have auto-embed links checked in settings>forums oembed wont work at all.

and im just going to say lightbox functionality would require custom development , if you want functionality like that.

[Robin W]

probably several ways you could do this.

Quickest I can think of is to alter the loop-single reply template

You should really do this in a child theme, as otherwise theme upgrades will overwrite this – google wordpress child theme video for lots of useful videos on how to do this – it’s quick and simple.

Create a bbPress folder in your theme :

Wp-content/%yourthemename%/bbpress

Where %yourthemename% is the name of your theme.

Then go into

Wp-content/plugins/templates/default/bbpress/loop-single-reply-php

Copy this file into the bbPress folder in your theme. bbPress will now use this file instead of the default, and you can amend this file.

line 61 does the content styling, so quickest to alter the background of this file.

so you would put a check I their for keymaster, and if so, use a different class that has a different background.

How up on coding and css are you, so that I don’t spend hours typing what you already know?

[Robkk]

buddypress and bbpress are plugins for wordpress, so they need wordpress to work.

bbpress does have an older standalone version of itself, it can work by itself.
Using it with newer versions of wordpress might cause issues.

About

About bbPress

bbPress is forum software, made the WordPress way.

Have you ever been frustrated with forum or bulletin board software that was slow, bloated, and always got your server hacked? bbPress is focused on ease of integration, ease of use, web standards, and speed.

We’re keeping things as small and light as possible while still allowing for great add-on features through WordPress’s extensive plugin system. What does all that mean? bbPress is lean, mean, and ready to take on any job you throw at it.

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Now that bbPress is all grown up, we’re certain of a few things:

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[Bestru]

in the attachment are two screenshots.
one is from wordpress
the other is from my mysql database.

http://epvpimg.com/FQxTe
http://epvpimg.com/s34Pg

[Bestru]

Hello,

i’ve the same problem as tehred.

The database from the smf forum and from the wordpress / bbpress is on the same mysql server.

What make i wrong?

[Stephen Edgar]

@ tehredThe database needs to be exported from any existing MySQL install and imported into the same MySQL server you are using for WordPress, you should be able to find details on importing and exporting MySQL databases from your webhost support or knowledgebase help sections of their website.

[Stephen Edgar]

I haven’t taken a close look for a while at attachment importing has some limitations that we really can’t do at this stage until some improvments upstream in WordPress Core are added.

For now the best solution I have seen would be to adapt the following for Vanilla 2.1

https://github.com/CybMeta/kunena-attachments-to-bbpress

Kunena converter for bbPress 2.4

Kunena converter for bbPress 2.4

Out of curiousity which attachment/file upload plugin are you using with Vanilla as I believe it doesn’t include one in the standard install.

[Stephen Edgar]

The code /includes/admin/converters/SMF.php#L717 is replacing [tt] and [/tt] respectively with <tt> and </tt> and a quick lookup of the “teletype” HTML tag shows we should not really be using it all 😉

http://www.w3.org/wiki/HTML/Elements/tt

Can you post the HTML raw source of the post from SMF for me, this will allow me to see if it is currently doing it correctly, which I think it is per the details and screenshot below.

SMF Source: [sup]superscript[/sup]<br />[sub]subscript[/sub]<br />[tt]teletype[/tt]
bbPress Converted Source: <sup>superscript</sup><br><sub>subscript</sub><br><tt>teletype</tt>

https://i.cloudup.com/jnMQwRKTXA.png

We probably should rather than converting them <tt> / </tt> convert them to a span and/or p HTML elements:

e.g.

<span style="font-family: monospace;">
This is a sample.
</span>

[Stephen Edgar]

Ticket created on Trac: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2698

[Stephen Edgar]

Thanks for the ticket in Trac, we will work on adding either of the plugins mentiooned in the Trac ticket to bbPress.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2698

[Rolf Allard van Hagen]

Searching the internet, I found https://github.com/pippinsplugins/bbPress-Export-and-Import

This plugin is designed to create an CSV export file per forum and allows you to import it to another forum.

1. Download the zip from github and install it like a regular plugin on both sites.

2. On the donor site, open a forum for editing and find the Export link on the right under Forum Attributes. Click it and you will receive the CSV file.

3. Go to the recipient site and create a new forum. Now on the right side under Forum Attributes (again) you’ll find the Choose File and Run Import buttons.

This does import topics and replies and on the front end, all seems to work well except for the number of posts per topic is too high. On the back end, Topics appear to be disassociated from the forum — it says (No Forum) — and the All Replies page turns up blank again.

Happily, heading over to Tools > Forums and running the top two “Recalculate…” and the “Count replies in each topic” options fixed things this time instead of making it worse 🙂

I really hope bbPress can be fixed to work with the normal WordPress Export/Import at some point but until then, the above steps should get you some good results.

[Rolf Allard van Hagen]

Hi @treb0r23 – I just ran into the same issue. Wanting to move bbPress forums from one WordPress 4.0 to another 4.0 site, I tried WordPress’ own Tools > Export feature to create three export files, one with forums, one with topics and one with replies.

After importing them in the same order, it looked like everything was fine. All forums, topics and replies where imported successfully and seemed to be correctly assigned to their ‘parents’.

However, when visiting the front end, it turned out that only a two topics where visible in one forum. All other topics where missing and all other forums where empty. Replies where nowhere to be found either.

Even though topics and replies are marked as correctly associated in the back end, it does not appear to be the case at all.

I went to Tools > Forums to try to fix that. First, I tried “Recalculate the parent topic for each post” but even though it responds with “Recalculating the topic for each post … Complete!” after that, I can’t even open the All Replies list anymore. I get a blank page…

Then I tried “Recalculate the parent forum for each post” but this simply removes all evidence of association between all topics and their forum 🙁

This is just awful.

[Omiya Games]

Here’s a weird question: is it possible to create a new topic via a script run by a continuous integration server? To provide more context, I’m trying to create a private forum so selected playtesters (users I manually entered, as you can’t register to this forum) can test my games. Ideally, I’d like to configure my Jenkins server to upload a Unity webplayer to my server, then create a new topic with the first post being the webplayer and the change log to a specified forum. I’m wondering if there’s an automated way to make this happen. Preferably, I would not like to rely on WordPress posts, since again, I’d like to keep these work-in-progress private.

Thanks for the help!

Quick stats:
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[Jamie]

Hi there,

I have been reading through the forums, and can’t find anything for more recent versions so was wondering if I could request some help.

I am working on a project called GameDevelopers.ie, a 12 year old site. We recently ported over their old, bespoke CMS into WordPress, and the our forums which were on phpbb after paying cms2cms which did a great job.

The forum has 60,000 posts among several thousand threads and two thousand users. Our server is woefully underresourced, and the site is crashing when bbpress is enabled. So we have it disabled, and are just organising to get a better server with more cpu’s, tons of ram and space.

I was wondering what else we can do to help reduce the load? Is there some way that we can mass archive parts of the forum, or other tactics to help make things run a little better?

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

Cheers

Jamie