[geertvdijk]

Hello community,

I am doing some work for a client (www.autoedizione.nl), unrelated to bbpress, but all of a sudden, after updating bbPress, links to categories are very strange.

In the menu, there are links to category pages which are (simply put) site.domain/category, and these worked fine before update. After the update, they are redirected to site.domain/forums/forum/category.

The links in the menu are generated by WordPress, using get_category_link($id), with the correct $id.

Is there any way to fix this? It’s wreaking havoc for the site. By the way, links to pages that are formatted similarly (site.domain/page), still work.

[leew4jc]

I have been searching for a solution to this problem for days…and I’ve managed to find a solution only hours after posting this message – I find that quite ironic.

The way that I found which works really well for me is to use the Page Security by Contexture plugin. It creates groups very simply and restricting a forum to a given group/groups restricts all the topics in that forum as well replies and so on. It’s exactly what I needed.

[leew4jc]

I am trying to find a way to create groups of users in WordPress and allow only certain groups access to certain forums.
Can anyone suggest a way of doing this using bbPress and other plugins only? I don’t want to use BuddyPress.

[Le Duy Quang]

Welcome to bbPress forums!

To convert bbPress 1 to plugin version select Tools/Forums menu on Import Forums tab

Screenshot : https://dl.dropbox.com/u/90154006/wpvn/bbpress_tool.png

Regards,

[Stephen Edgar]

The very first setting on the ‘Import Forum’ page has a drop down to select which forum software you are wanting to import from bbPress, phpBB etc,

And to clarify bbPress1 is the same as bbPress Standalone

[markusbb]

Hi guys

I am installing the bbpress plugin, deactivating all other plugins, go to Tools > Import but I cannot find the BBpress Standalone tool there. Any ideas ?

Thank You

[matiasgt]

omg thanks a lot.

i waste a lot of time trying to translate this plugin.

For spanish use:

https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin/es/default

and after donwload the archives rename them as follow:

bbpress-es_ES

bbpress-es_ES

Now i have my forum working in spanish

http://www.campingchile.cl/Forums/

[Stephen Edgar]

Add the ‘bbPRess Recent Topics’ widget to a sidebar

https://codex.bbpress.org/widgets/

Or use the [bbp-topic-index] shorcode

https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/

[ryanburgeriowa]

I want to show latest threads from our bbpress installation in the first forum on our homepage http://www.3xwrestling.com/new in a widget if possible and also on http://www.3xwrestling.com/new/3xw-interact/

Can someone please help me on how I do that integration between wordpress and bbpress.

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress 2.1 includes a conversion tool to import forums/topics/replies/users from some of the popular forum packages eg. bbPress or phpBB

There is an ‘example’ file also included as a ‘reference template’ that if Mingle is using a SQL database then you could easily modify this to be a custom importer by matching the correct database tables/fields etc

The file is called ‘example.php’ and is located in /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-admin/converters

If you look at converting Mingle it would be great if contributed this back to bbPress for other Mingle users https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/

[Stephen Edgar]

Confirmed Bug https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1891

[presspressperson]

@Lynq:

In the example you came up with, you seem to have come up with your own structure. As far as I can tell, Bbpress’ structure is Forums > Topics > Posts.

So the current hierarchy eliminates the possibility of the duplicate URL in your example. If you had a forum “General Chat” and two separate topics called “chat” they’d have to be in separate forums.

EXAMPLE:

Preferred:

http://www.domain.com/general-chat/topic-one/chat

http://www.domain.com/general-chat/topic-two/chat

Current:

1. http://www.domain.com/forums

changes to

2. http://www.domain.com/forums/forum/general-chat/

when you click a forum, and then changes to

3. http://www.domain.com/forums/topic/topic-one

@Mr Jacoby:

I appreciate your response, and I’ve seen some very helpful posts by you in these forums. Thanks. In this instance, however, are missing our point. In my example above, you can see that the URLs look nothing like wordpress permalinks. End users (and our visitors) are not concerned with how the back end might be similar. We only see that the URLs look silly and lack continuity (specifically switching from forums to forum to topic). They do not reflect the simple forum > topic > post hierarchy. When I said ‘useless,’ I was, of course, speaking in terms of end users and our visitors. I get that bbpress developers use it. I also get that it’d be possible to change (especially since wordpress is already doing what we want).

If wordpress URLs looked like bbpress URLs, I suspect they’d look something like:

http://www.domain.com/pages/page/page-one OR

http://www.domain.com/posts/post/post-one OR

http://www.domain.com/page/page-one

My guess is that this isn’t something that’s going to be possible with bbpress’ plugin unless someone develops it on the side (as you suggested), but please try to at least understand our inquiry instead of pretending like we simply don’t know what we’re talking about.

If anyone has any helpful hints on where one might get started on changing the url structure, it would be greatly appreciated. I see this being an issue that many, many more wordpress users will seek a solution for.

For SEO, and for advertising purposes, it’s much better to remove unnecessary /word/words/more-words-that-dont-help-identify-page-content/ from URLs.

[ayeweb]

The new registered can’t create a new topic with url wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=topic

Help me please?

wordpress=latest version

bbpress=latest version

[Stephen Edgar]

If/when you do you can create a ticket/bug here

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

[John James Jacoby]

http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org

If you Google “bbpress trac” and hit “I’m feeling lucky” it should also take you right to it.

[Anonymous User 5853594]

You’d miss basically everything, because since 2.0 bbPress is dependent on WordPress. You can’t install it as a stand alone application anymore.

[wpmhweb]

I just upgraded to bbPress 2.1 with WordPress 3.4.1 and now I cannot connect to the my website I am getting: Server Error (HTTP Error 500)

Please help!

[Stephen Edgar]

A ‘Forum’ will contain topics, whereas a ‘Category’ contains forums.

You might have a category ‘Open Source Software’ and then have forums ‘WordPress’ and ‘bbPress’ in that category.

Status – Yes, a ‘closed’ topic is still visable just no more replies can be posted to that topic.

Visibilty:

Public – Anyone can see these forums

Private: Only logged in registered users can see these forums

Hidden: Only Moderators/Admins can see these forums

And also https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-user-roles-and-capabilities/

[Stephen Edgar]

Sorry, posted the wrong link though it is still useful:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Multilingual_WordPress

The current state of bbPress language translations are here:

https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin

[Stephen Edgar]

“WordPress does not support a bilingual or multilingual blog out-of-the-box. There are however Plugins developed by the WordPress community which will allow you to create a multilingual blog easily.”

https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_in_Your_Language

[Stephen Edgar]

As Anointed points out bbConverter is no longer being maintained but the code was used as the base for the freshly pressed bbPress v2.1 with many improvements to the conversion process.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress/

That said though, I have not tested the Invision import process, only bbPress & phpBB but you could definitely try the import with bbPress 2.1 and let us know how it goes

[Stephen Edgar]

Have a read of the doc’s here

https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/

And the shortcodes you can add to WordPress pages here

https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/

[neondev]

Hey there! Just as the topic says

I’m looking for a plugin for WordPress or bbPress that will allow my forum users to create an image showcase.

I feel like they’re going to use it a good bit, as the site in question is all about collections of glass art.

Is there anything out there that will serve my needs? Does anyone know? I know that vBulletin has an addon that allows users to do this, and I believe phpBB does as well.

[John James Jacoby]

Try again.

The sequence to tag bbPress to the WordPress plugins repo is a bit wonky, so you probably got an out-of-date zip.

I just tested it now, and it appears to be fine.

[douglerner]

At http://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/ it says:

Upon activation, bbPress will make additions to three areas of the WordPress Administration Screens:

1. bbPress creates three custom post types and adds them to the navigation menu: Forums, Topics, and Replies. Use these menu items to create and manage your forums.

2. A sub-menu found at Settings > Forum. Customize these settings for greater control over bbPress.

3. A dashboard widget – Right Now in Forums – which shows recent bbPress-related activity. Use the widget to quickly monitor your forums.

I see items 1 and 2. But where might I find item 3? I don’t see it in my dashboard anywhere. I do see a few bbpress-related widgets available though.

Thanks for any pointers here.

doug