[BlinkyBill01]

Ok, I think I ran into a snag.

My WordPress/BuddyPress site is HEAVILY modded with plugins. I use a RocketTheme theme that runs off of the Gantry Framework along with Gantry-BuddyPress (which allows BuddyPress to be compatible with the RocketTheme and Gantry Framework.)

The bbPress plugin worked, but only partially. The Forum page set up by bbPress is visible but instead of seeing the “directory” of forums it shows:

Home › Forums Forum Topics Posts Freshness General Discussion SO? what now? 1 1 26 mins Admin

It’s all just plain text with no links. But, the forum I made for General Discussion is viewable when I go to the forum page it made.

For reference, here are the demo page links:

http://bp.daevas.com/forums/

http://bp.daevas.com/forums/discussion/na-general-discussion/

I still have to edit the .css to match the theme design, but I wanted to find out what was wrong with the default forums page and why it wasn’t showing up correctly.

Thanks and hope you can help.

[S Ram]

Hello all,

This is my first time here. My bbpress install went fine on a wordpress site thats exists for a while now. I was able to log in to …/bb-admin and edit options.

Next, I changed the cookies as described in the process to match those of wordpress.

I saved the changes & got logged out.

Now I am unable to log in to …/bb-admin and it says “admin” is not a user.

Appreciate any help,

S Ram

[Jared Atchison]

Unfortunately I don’t have one.

Judging by all the problems listed on https://wordpress.org/tags/network-publisher?forum_id=10 I would say this plugin is not coded well or up to standards. In fact I would avoid using it all together.

If you find a plugin that is done properly it should likely work with out any issues.

[abaumg]

I’m struggling with the new theme support in bbPress 2.1-dev. My goal is to modify the original bbPress theme and include it into my regular WordPress child theme (wp-content/themes/halftone-child) which is derived from Halftone theme (wp-content/themes/halftone).

I failed to figure out which files at which location I have to copy/modify in order to reach my goal. Things seem to change in every version (1.x/2.0/2.1), and it is hard to find information/documentation. Didn’t find anything in the forums (and yes, I read http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-theme-compatibility and http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-21-theme-compatibility).

So my question is:

Which files from the current 2.1-dev, available under http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3769/branches/plugin?old_path=%2F&format=zip do I need to achieve my goal? Where do I have to copy them?

[BlinkyBill01]

Ok, I think I ran into a snag.

My WordPress/BuddyPress site is HEAVILY modded with plugins. I use a RocketTheme theme that runs off of the Gantry Framework along with Gantry-BuddyPress (which allows BuddyPress to be compatible with the RocketTheme and Gantry Framework.)

The bbPress plugin worked, but only partially. The Forum page set up by bbPress is visible but instead of seeing the “directory” of forums it shows:

Home › Forums Forum Topics Posts Freshness General Discussion SO? what now? 1 1 26 mins Admin

It’s all just plain text with no links. But, the forum I made for General Discussion is viewable when I go to the forum page it made.

For reference, here are the demo page links:

http://bp.daevas.com/forums/

http://bp.daevas.com/forums/discussion/na-general-discussion/

I still have to edit the .css to match the theme design, but I wanted to find out what was wrong with the default forums page and why it wasn’t showing up correctly.

Thanks and hope you can help.

[Jared Atchison]

bbP 2.1 has TinyMCE.

You can download 2.1 by clicking Zip Archive on this page: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/plugin

[Jared Atchison]

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-custom-css-file/

bbPress will use bbpress.css from your theme folder.

So to recap:

1. Copy the master bbPress css file to your theme directory and rename it to bbpress.css.

2. Go to the plugin page in the admin. Activate bbPress Custom CSS File.

3. profit.

[John James Jacoby]

Jared is correct. There is a migration plugin already. Also, this is a duplicate post of one from several weeks ago that you posted here and then cross posted to WordPress.org. The more time we spend moderating the forums of duplicate content is the less that’s spent writing code.

[Jared Atchison]

The problem with this is that bbPress is maintained by @jjj and a few other contributors. So the time and features have to be prioritized.

Writing an importer is a *lot* of work. Right off the bat a forum importer is going to be at least twice as much work as, say, a MovableType -> WordPress importer.

Now you have to take into account how many, ultimately, separate importers you would have to write. Let’s see here… vBulletin, phpBB, Vanilla, punBB, SMF, IPB… and those are just some of the popular ones. So 6 importers *might* cover most off people’s needs.

Then you have to keep in mind that the importers are constantly breaking because of software updates to the original forums packages. I’d say ever 2-4 months you can expect breakage due to an update.

Bottom line? You are looking at 6 importers (at least) to cover the popular forum suites, that not only would take a huge time investment to get off the ground, but would have to be constantly maintained and updated so they don’t break or get out of date.

Is it do-able? Sure. However, if you want @jjj to tackle this don’t expect to ever see another bbPress update or feature again – it’s just a matter of time.

This is really where contributors need to step in and help out. This would ideally be written and maintained by different contributors.

[SK]

@residentmeevil

bbpress should already match your site’s look and feel if you have installed bbPress plugin for WordPress. bbPress ships with a TwentyTen child theme which is used to lay out the bbPress pages within the wrapper of your active theme (if the active theme is not already bbPress-supporting)

[SK]

bbPress needs to face the fact that most people who want a forum, have already had a forum. The *new* market for forums is much smaller than the *installed base* of forums.

Consequently, most of the people who would want to use bbPress probably are already using another forum script and need help migrating. It is collossal mistake to leave this for community plugins.

If I have a forum software in a production environment, then one of the major factors influencing my decision regarding migration is whether or not there is a robust, stable, tried and tested and reliable migration path to the target software. This is extremely important for me. In fact, I would suffer a somewhat inferior software willingly rather than move to a better software if there is no clear migration path or there is a high degree of risk in migration.

It is a mistake on part of bbPress to leave migration to community plugin developers. Even if there were some plugins out there that did the job, it would be much less reassuring to prospective users compared to a migration/import path created by the bbPress team. As it happens there are only 2 import plugins ( http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/forumconverter/ and http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbconverter/) out there and both of them are broken and not supported.

WordPress does it right in building an importer directly into the core.

Over the next 18-24 months, I expect to see a mass exodus from phpBB as they rewrite the software from ground up ( http://area51.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=75&t=41583). If bbPress provide a good migration path, it stands the chance to capture some of fleeing population.

Task

I think it would be greatly beneficial to the project if the bbPress team build a bbPress importer that supports the top 4 forum software: phpBB, Invision, SMF and vBulletin.

Such a migration tool, importer or converter will:

i) import topics and forum hierarchies into bbpress

including the relations between forums, topics and replies

and slugs for forums, topics and replies

ii) generate an .htaccess to place in the old forum directory so that old URLs are 301 redirected to new ones.

iii) import users including profiles, passwords, signatures and roles

@jjj You have mentioned at http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1740 that this is more appropriate for a plugin and that bundling that code in the core of bbPress seems needless for many users that are starting off fresh.

I believe that this function is too important to be left to the mercy of others. There is a huge trust issue…if I have to entrust my data to someone, I want to make sure that they are reliable, trustworthy, good enough, and understand the software well.

I take your point about not bundling the function in the core. How about a migration plugin by the bbPress team?

[David Decker]

You should also try this great free plugin: “bbPress Antispam”

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

It works similar to the awesome “Antispam Bee”:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/antispam-bee/

Greetinx, Dave

[Jared Atchison]

If you want to hide the menu item completely from non-logged in members there is no easy way to do that using the WordPress menu system except using CSS.

[MikeonTV]

There are no more plugin conflicts. I have disabled them. I have also enabled a different theme and forums are present and working.

It’s odd because I have transfered wordpress folders before and I made sure in all the files and the DB that there is no evidence of the previous directory.

This is very stressful.

Thanks for your help.

[dosch]

Sure, I used zBench

See how I modified it here: http://all4xs.net

[smiga]

Dosch, could you please share theme name? Im currently using WP Mimic, but it does not work with bbpress 2.x, so Im still running on 1.x version.

I did not sucseeded searching alternative.

[Jimfire]

I have a brand new wordpress site. I have successfully (?) installed bbPress, and created my forums just like in the instructions. When I go to my site, the bbPress forums do not show up. I do not have any pages named “forum”, although I tried making one to see if that would help and it didn’t, so I deleted it.

I can see it on the dashboard. I can configure it. I just cant see it from the website.

Any suggestions?

[MikeonTV]

Thanks … here is what I found

Notice: Undefined variable: position in ……/wp-content/plugins/really-simple-facebook-twitter-share-buttons/really-simple-facebook-twitter-share-buttons.php on line 940

Notice: Use of undefined constant WP_SITEURL – assumed ‘WP_SITEURL’ in ……/wp-content/plugins/share-and-get-it/shareandgetit-plugin.php on line 31

Notice: Use of undefined constant siteurl – assumed ‘siteurl’ in ……/wp-content/plugins/share-and-get-it/shareandgetit-plugin.php on line 31

Notice: wp_enqueue_style was called incorrectly. Scripts and styles should not be registered or enqueued until the wp_enqueue_scripts, admin_enqueue_scripts, or init hooks. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 3.3.) in ……/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3587

Notice: register_sidebar_widget is deprecated since version 2.8! Use wp_register_sidebar_widget() instead. in ……/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3467

Notice: wp_deregister_script was called incorrectly. Scripts and styles should not be registered or enqueued until the wp_enqueue_scripts, admin_enqueue_scripts, or init hooks. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 3.3.) in ……/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3587

Notice: Constant WP_MEMORY_LIMIT already defined in ……/wp-config.php on line 94

[ben_allison]

It’s been a few weeks, but I think the process was:

1) add child theme declaration to your theme’s function.php file

2) Make a file called bbpress.php in your theme folder; this is the template used for the forum index (in the same way that index.php is the default for the blog in wordpress).

3) create a bbpress folder in your them folder

4) COPY any bbpress template files you want to customize into this folder from pluginsbbpressbbp-themesbbp-twentytenbbpress

SOOO easy it hurts.

Don’t forget, you might need to grab functions from the 2010 functions.php file, and you’ll also need to make sure you pay attention to styles that scripts uses (like the ajax loading style, etc).

[David Decker]

…you might also try that plugin for sidebar placement:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/content-aware-sidebars/

[David Decker]

The plugin section on bbpress.org is only related to the old standalone branch, for all things bbPress 2.x look at WordPress.org repository:

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

Also, support questions for bbPress 2.x plugins are better placed in the specific plugin support forums for each plugin! The chance the authors see it and respond is much higher than here!

For the sidebar issue with “bbPress WP Tweaks” plugin:

These issues are more THEME-related than plugin-related! The problem some theme do a little crazy things with their sidebar management or registration so we have sometimes a hard time to get such things working.

Have you any URLs to your sites or could give the theme names/URLs?

For the above mentioned plugin you might also have a look at the plugin specific support forum here:

https://wordpress.org/tags/bbpress-wp-tweaks?forum_id=10

[David Decker]

Maybe also “bbPress Moderation” might help a bit:

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

[David Decker]

You can also maintaining plugin and theme translations with the awesome “Codestyling Localization” plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/codestyling-localization/

“fi” is the correct locale for Finnish!!

Placing the language files in /wp-content/languages/ is already prepared in bbPress 2.x but unfortunately it does not work yet (since 2.x branch!) – it would be nice seeing that fixed as overriding language files via updates is no fun at all!

Thanx, Dave

[baldg0at]

Yep. I found wp-reportpost ( https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-reportpost/ )

Looks pretty good. Just looking for other ideas/recommendations or if there is anything out there specifically for bbpress.

[Jared Atchison]

Did you search on the WordPress.org plugin repo?