[Lisa]

I’ve made the decision to develop my new websites using WordPress. My goal is to eventually re-write my PHP code as a WordPress plugin, but, until then I need to use what’s available, and bbPress seems like a good option. I need to import/map my current tables to work with bbPRess, but not sure how?

Here is the existing schema along with one parent record, and one child record:

Forum_1962 (
Forum mediumint(8) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
Forum_Title varchar(200) NOT NULL DEFAULT ”,
Forum_Author varchar(100) NOT NULL DEFAULT ”,
Forum_Author_Email varchar(100) NOT NULL DEFAULT ”,
Forum_Text text NOT NULL,
Forum_Parent mediumint(8) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT ‘0’,
Forum_Ancestor mediumint(8) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT ‘0’,
Forum_Category smallint(5) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT ‘0’,
Forum_Approved enum(‘0′,’1’) NOT NULL DEFAULT ‘1’,
Forum_Entered_by varchar(10) NOT NULL DEFAULT ‘0’,
Forum_Date_Created datetime NOT NULL DEFAULT ‘0000-00-00 00:00:00’,
Forum_Last_Changed timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
PRIMARY KEY (Forum),
KEY Forum_Parent (Forum_Parent),
KEY Forum_Category (Forum_Category),
KEY Forum_Approved (Forum_Approved),
FULLTEXT KEY Forum_Title (Forum_Title),
FULLTEXT KEY Forum_Text (Forum_Text)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=1;

Parent thread
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(19261, ‘Can I rent an RV?’, ‘BillB’, ‘bill@web-crafter.net’, ‘I\’d like to give RVing a try, but there\’s no way I\’m going to plunk down thousands of $$ to buy an RV. Is it possible to rent an RV like you\’d a car?’, 0, 19261, 1962, ‘1’, ‘rvcn’, ‘2002-12-12 13:52:29’, ‘2002-12-12 13:53:25’);

Ancestor thread
===============
(19262, ‘Re: Can I rent an RV?’, ‘Mark’, ‘mark@ittelligent.com’, ‘No problem. Just check your yellow pages for a rental agency in your area. I know there are a few national outfits too. Cruise America and El Monte come to mind off the top of my head.’, 19261, 19261, 1962, ‘1’, ”, ‘2002-12-12 13:59:42’, ‘2002-12-12 13:59:42’);

You’ll notice that there are fields for both parent and ancestor, which allows for infinite sub-topic threads (those replies to replies under one parent). Also, I the author name and email are also stored in this table, and not tied to a separate user table (so will need to address that). Each MySQL dump is between 1MB and 3MB.

Need any more information? Please advise.

My goal is one of two options:

1. Import/Map existing table dumps in several websites to WordPress and bbPress using above forum schema as source, OR
2. Convert my existing PHP forum code to be compatible with WordPress and forget about bbPress altogether if I can’t easily map the table (I don’t know WordPress enough to even think about doing this myself, even though the code is simple and fast, and will ne advice on someone who can)

I am doing this so I can better control the mobile templates and have a more robust way of controlling my websites. I need to do this for about 6 websites, and would like the method to do this myself after the first time.

Thanks in advance,

Lisa

[Robin W]

yes

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-style-pack/

[Andrew Breksa]

Check out bbp user online status (https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-user-online-status/) a plugin I recent wrote to add online/offline statues to bbpress topics/replies.

[John James Jacoby]

Check in bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/content-search.php

bbPress employs some “theme compatibility” magic to insert itself into your existing WordPress theme, and that directory is where those template parts live to try and fill in the gaps

[Chad R. Schulz]

I’m building what while be a discussion board style website. I will embed a single forum through a shortcode in each/every post.

This will allow standard WordPress navigation and give each forum its own post/page.

I will not allow users access to any part of the natural bbpress forum hierarchy (categories/forums/subforums/etc.) and will use redirects to ensure that all requests for specific forums end up on the appropriate post/page that uses the embedded shortcode.

My question: Without the need to query numerous (potentially hundreds) of individual forums through traditional forum navigation, do I still need to spread the forums out among multiple categories/sub-categories when building the forums on the backend.

Remember, no user will ever need, nor get, access to the forum hierarchy/structure. ALL forums links will redirect to the appropriate post.

Having to create a needlessly complex hierarchy/structure is daunting and would make a mess for moderators to dig through.

Just curious. Appreciate any guidance in this matter.

Thanks,
Chad Schulz

[screenwavemedia]

I’m extending an existing WordPress theme with bbpress functionality. I’ve gotten everything up and running except I can’t seem to find the base template for search results to customize everything AROUND the BBPress search results code. It looks like by default it’s pulling from page.php or single.php, but I would like to use a more specific template for it. I’m not seeing anything in Extras that fits the bill.

[Stagger Lee]

Take rest with CSS. Dont know how it looks.

Small warning. If your forum is not visited well it could look amateurish. You will have post after post, after post, avatar of one and same User/Topic author.

Same situation is if you use automatic bbPress topic from WordPress Posts.

Making bigger avatars can make things worse if you dont have many Users. For instance another tweak “last commenter avatar”. I tried all this, and if you have just one User who like to comments more than other Users, it looks boring to see enlarged avatar of this User on whole screen everywhere.

I mean easier to take it if avatar is few pixels big.

[Robin W]

sorry for late reply, we don’t always catch all !

This plugin should do it

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

[Stagger Lee]

You can use same function for bbPress part, I believe. It is up to you where do you want to adapt it.

Or maybe “is_user_logged_in()”:

http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/34429/how-to-check-if-a-user-not-current-user-is-logged-in

[Stagger Lee]

Just checked. Ignore User plugin works well even 3 years old:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-ignore-user/

[Robkk]

@aleksderfar

the plugin is still fresh it was uploaded to the WordPress repository 5 days ago.

making the online status location configurable seems to be on the developers to-do list.

i did see that the plugin author did reply back though.

and you did figure how to show the green/red icon , so if you could tell him how you did it to help with future development of the plugin.

[Robkk]

this should be a direct path to the activity.php file that you would need to edit

/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/extend/buddypress/activity.php

follow all the comments in here https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2690

and you should see dans fix for the patch to make it work.

[Stagger Lee]

@Peter-Hamilton man, admin you are lying and trolling us ? 🙂
How it is possible you made something like this without experience in PHP and WordPress.
Mathematically impossible.

[andrew55]

Thanks for the suggestion. I decided to install a separate version of WP and install forums in there – my original WordPress database got huge with bbPress.

I then imported phhBB into this site. Next I will connect this site to aMember, although I’m not sure how that will go. Wish me luck!

[Robkk]

its old but there is this

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-ignore-user/

[admiralmuttonchops]

I appreciate that, but I don’t have FTP access. Someone asked me to put a forum on their site. It’s not my site and they don’t particularly want me messing anything up that currently works. They wanted to stick with WordPress, so bbpress made sense, but it isn’t working.

[admiralmuttonchops]

Hi –

I just installed my first attempt at bbpress and nothing is showing up in the dashboard menu. There is no forum option, no tools and no options under settings. My site role is listed as “Administrator”, secondary and forum roles as “Keymaster”.

It will be complicated to disable all of the plugins or install TwentyThirteen. Does anyone have any other suggestions as to what the problem might be? WordPress 4.1.1 & bbpress 2.5.6, running Bolid Theme (Is that known to have a conflict). Thanks in advance.

[Robin W]

put this in your functions file

add_filter('protected_title_format', 'ntwb_remove_protected_title');
function ntwb_remove_protected_title($title) {
	return '%s';
}
 
add_filter('private_title_format', 'ntwb_remove_private_title');
function ntwb_remove_private_title($title) {
	return '%s';
}

or use

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-style-pack/

which has a setting for this

[alanr1954]

I’m using WordPress 4.1.1 on twentyfifteen them, and bbpress 2.5.6

I’ve created a test forum called ‘A completely spurious forum’ which is set to ‘private’. But when I go there as a logged in user, the heading of the forum is ‘Private: Private: A completely spurious forum’. Where did the two ‘privates’ come from and how do I get rid of them?

Alan

[Ziga Sancin]

I’m running a copy of the website on my laptop (Mac OS X Yosemite, Apache, PHP, MySQL) without a persistent caching plugin. I don’t think logged in users have anything to do with this problem, because we’re talking about the WordPress/bbPress internal caching functions (WP Object Cache).

I’ve also slightly modified the bbp_forum_query_last_reply_id function to accept the value of 0 and run the query and then the wp_cache_get returns the correct value, but after reverting the changes wp_cache_get again returns 0. Do I need to clear the object cache (which is stored somewhere in the options table according to the WP Object Cache docs)?

[tharsheblows]

@t3_rrY — I think you’d use the mandrill_payload filter as explained here: http://blog.mandrill.com/own-your-wordpress-email-with-mandrill.html

You could add it into @korobochkin’s code. I haven’t tried it – I’m not sure how the template is handled (I don’t use them) but that’s where I start. You can also simply add html to the message in the functions above, although for anything the least bit complicated design-wise, a template would be the way to go.

I’ve just started using Mandrill; it’s great, isn’t it?

[Robin W]

without buddypress, then

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

[Hephaestus_Xii]

Grrrrr jetpack wordpress.com stats screwed it up

[Robkk]

if you want use this plugin and provide use some information on how it does for your installation.

it requires Akismet, and basically it rescans all your topics and replies for spam.

the settings should be in tools > bbpress spam cleaner.

https://github.com/lenrsmith/bbpress-spam-cleaner

another tool that might help is wanguard.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wangguard/

[Robkk]

I dont know what to tell you??

do you want to still use the aMember plugin with bbPress and WordPress??

or you want to leave aMember??

All i can recommend now is put all your data back in aMember and just import phpbb cleanly into bbPress.