Just a follow up.
Here is a different plug in that does a reasonable job:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-post-topics/
After installing it, go to discussion settings and then set it to create a forum topic for each post, copy tags, etc. Then you have an option to apply settings to all existing posts.
I tried this on a test site and it worked pretty well. It did not do all the bookkeeping of reply counts correctly, but it did create appropriate topics for each post and import the comments and replies to them.
It is also reversible as it does not delete either the posts or comments — if you deactivate the plug in your posts (which were unchanged anyway) and their comments are intact. You do still have a bunch of new topics in your target forum.
This is a potentially useful plugin, and makes nice use of WP functions.
However, I’ve reviewed this code and I don’t believe that it works.
Unless I’m missing something it doesn’t update the various necessary _bb_press metakeys.
It just simplistically changes the post types for the posts to “topic” and stores the comments as replies.
Possible that I’m missing something, but the documentation for the insert post function includes no indication that it will maintain the necessary bbpress fields.
See https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_insert_post
Although I haven’t run the code, I don’t actually believe that it will even insert the posts into the selected bbpress forum. It will, however, create the topics which can then be moved around manually.
Just a lay person’s read.
M3Participant
hi, I’m a newbie and I really like bbPress forum but I don’t know how can I install to my wordpress. Some information give advise using FTP such as this information, but the wordpress plugin site give information that the instalation is through the plugin as a normal plugin.
So I follow the wordpress plugin way and it work, I can see th forum, modify add some forum and topics, but I haven’t had any clue on how I can change the theme or how to add the theme.
My first question is, did I installed it the right way? and secondly, how I can change the theme? I make a child theme but it didn’t work. My objective is to have my wordpress theme for the posts and as the forum for now I’m hoping to use the static bbPress forum theme.
I’m truly lost and I don’t know how I can manage to do it? Currently I’m using wordpress 3.5 with leaf theme, and latest bbPress forum bbPress 2.2.3.
My wordpress is currently in the subdirectory of my main site.
My website
My bbPress forum
Thank you in advance and sorry for my bad English.
@steilenhang – ironically, the issue you describe is with those role plugins, and WordPress core, not with bbPress directly.
It comes from the use of WP_User::set_role() which ends up nuking bbPress’s roles. That said, bbPress 2.2.3 also has support for mapping to custom WordPress blog roles, so there shouldn’t be anything “broken” there.
If there is, I’d love to see some specific steps to duplicate the circumstances so I can improve what I can in bbPress.
Ahmmm… OK… A couple of things to get started with…
I created a new page under Import Forums called Custom Import where we can start documenting how to go about actually customizing this file.
I also created a ticket #2134 as an update for Example.php is really needed to help improve the inline docs and code formatting to line up with the current bbPress1.php, phpBB.php and SimplePress5.php converters for improved readability will also help things along.
Now onto doing this… If we keep the discussion about Mingle here and update the codex as we go with any relevant information, steps and whatever else we bump into hopefully we will end up with some docs for customizing the included example importer.
I have the first few bits on the codex now, so go check that out 🙂
ps. Anyone anyone can edit the codex docs pages using your bbpress.org credentials.
this code highlighter based on highlight.js seems to work well with wordpress 3.5 & bbpress 2.2, also ignores angle and square brackets etc
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sunburst-code-prettify/
http://softwaremaniacs.org/soft/highlight/en/
sam
Hi!
I just updated to bbpress 2.2.3 I have buddypress using bbpress sitewide forums. Using current wordpress version with buddypress default theme and my own custom made child theme.
Updating caused some style problems. I think I had edited some css and forgotten that I did. So I discovered I should copy bbpress.css into my theme. I have done this and have gotten rid of the awful bullets by setting #bbpress-forums to list-style:none.
I need to align LI.bbp-topic-freshness to the right to get rid of a large margin being caused by it aligning center. I told it to align right and it didn’t cooperate! What should I try now????
The site is http://rheum4us.org however the forum is private using the membership plugin.
Thanks for any help!
Hello,
I am a new user of Bbpress. Currently I have the latest version of WordPress as well as Bbpress. But I am facing an irritating problem. I have created a forum for my site: http://realestateconnectionplace.com/forums/forum/forum/ .I like the url to be http://realestateconnectionplace.com/forum/ . I searched everywhere and found that many a one tried to provide a solution. They made plugins and code for .htaccess file. But all of them make some issues like admin link’s working issue and extra slash in the url.
In a nutshell I am very depressed. Because I am not an expert and found no perfect help anywhere. So I would like to request to John James Jacoby, please consider spending a little time to give us instruction about how to stop Archive Slugs and Single Slugs appearing in the url.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
My website URL : http://crystalseeds.tk/
Latest version of BuddyPress and WordPress.
So, umm well, I made a change in the website from http://crystalseeds.tk/wp-admin/options.php
I changed http://crystalseeds.tk/ to http://www.crystalseeds.tk/ in siteurl and another field with the site’s URL.
When I opened my website after I did that, the title of my website, just went.
I cannot see it anymore.
I also cannot see my site’s title. It’s the site’s URL now.
What can be the possible reasons? How do I fix it?
Thanks in advance
I have this same problem. I am now downloading version 1.2, to upgrade from 1.02.
But I have my forum on a different database. And would like to import it to the WordPress database. I´ve tried using the converter without success. So would appreciate any help on this problem.
Hi Lynq.
I’m trying to run your code but seems to not work. I have wordpress 3.5 and CatchBox Theme. I copied the contents of “bbPress-starter-theme-epicwebs-master” folder to “/public/www/wp-content/themes/catch-box/bbpress/” but it seems not working yet.
Because forums lists the topics as:
FORUM1
Topic1(0,0), Topic2(0,0)
FORUM2
Topic1(0,0), Topic2(0,0)
But want to make changes to do as:
FORUM1
Topic1 (0,0),
Topic2 (0,0)
FORUM2
Topic1 (0,0)
Topic2 (0,0)
Please, can you help ?
Thanks in advance.
WordPress employs some code that limits HTML tags to specific user capabilities, so that only trusted users are allowed to post specific tags. This prevents us from needing to use bbCode or Markdown, just to convert to HTML anyways.
Greetings,
I’m working on my first WordPress page and have selected bbpress as my forum plugin.
However my theme (Montezuma) is not too fond of just installing and using this forum. I found out I had to make new main template PHP files for each page bbpress uses.
I found out that the main page is archive.php… but I’m having problems finding the right page for user profiles.
Can someone help me out here? Maybe an entire list of filenames that bbpress uses?
Thanks. 🙂
Hi
I have a wordpress(3.4.1) installation adb bbpress 2.2.2 plugin.
For some reason whenever any tag like , , , etc… are put in the content of a topic, it get removed while saving the topic. Even the tags allowed by default are removed while saving.
So basically a line like
I am going to and will need
will become
I am going to and will need
after saving.
I have tried putting and surrounding the content, but it does not help.
I have also tried “bbpress post toolbar” plugin but that kind of messes of with my theme
and too many things start breaking so I removed this.
I have already spent few days on this issue. Can someone help ?
thx
-Suresh
@JohnJamesJacoby, Thanks very much for confirming this! I found the ticket you created with a solution: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/4657
I’ll probably go ahead and push this through later today, great work and Merry Christmas!
Hi guys and gals.
Right know I use the BBpress log in widget to log users in, but I would like to integrate it with Facebook login.
The thing I would miss if I give up the BBpress log in widget is that then the user presses his name, it redirect the user to is BBpress profile (Not the WordPress controlpanel)
That is the best way to solve this?
Regards Nicolai.
Hi @rkarel,
Welcome to the forums. If I understand correctly, to do what you want, you’ll likely need to dive into the templates and start writing some custom code.
bbPress comes with a very basic set of templates to get you started, so that you can quickly get started using it. Once you want to customize the look and feel, it’s very similar to WordPress, where you’ll need custom code to do it.
Check out the documentation to get started. There are lots of hints and tips in there.
This isn’t a testing site, so I’m closing this topic.
If you have ideas for improvement to the site, create a ticket and include some details/mocks/CSS.
Thanks for the feedback.
If you go into pages and add a new page called, forum-registration or whatever. Then add the shortcode – [bbp-register] – this will create a page for you containing the forum registration. Then you can link to that page anywhere in your bbPress or WordPress theme.
Good luck!
