[John James Jacoby]

A few last minute gifts are now in the bbPress plugin.

First, shortcodes. Now you can insert forums and topics into blog posts and pages. This is awesome because it will let you insert a river of forums or replies anywhere that the_content(); is used and shortcodes are supported.

Second, theme compatibility. This one is huge, could use some testing, and is potentially a game-changer. If you’re not using a theme that actively supports bbPress by setting add_theme_support( 'bbpress' );, bbPress is going to serve up its own default set of templates and styling from whatever is set as the theme compatibility layer (which defaults to bbp-twentyten.) There is a little more work to be done here, but so far it’s working a treat.

As a plugin developer, theme compatibility with new features is something I’ve wrestled with for a really long time, and recent changes in WordPress core have made this easier. For BuddyPress and now bbPress, this is years in the planning stages, and I’m really happy, excited, and proud that it’s in and loosely working.

[Malfunction]

Awesome JJJ, Guatam and the rest of the contributers! What I’ve seen so far on Guatam’s page looks really good.

Can’t wait to test it when it’s in the WordPress plugin repository.

One question though: It’s been brought up in this topic before, but does the plugin keep track of what has been read and what not at the moment? There was some talk about a seperate plugin too… If the bbpress plugin doesn’t have it, is that seperate plugin available somewhere?

[wildkyo]

Going to be cleaning up the trac tickets for the plugin over this weekend and uploading a 2.0-alpha-1 to the WordPress.org plugin repository in the next few days. This should make downloading, installing, and updating the plugin easier for everyone now that it’s ready for more testing.

Hell, yes!!

[John James Jacoby]

Going to be cleaning up the trac tickets for the plugin over this weekend and uploading a 2.0-alpha-1 to the WordPress.org plugin repository in the next few days. This should make downloading, installing, and updating the plugin easier for everyone now that it’s ready for more testing.

The original alphas won’t include Gautam and Nightgunner5’s converter, but I’ll spend some time with it before launch and see about fitting it into core.

Getting close!

[bryzo]

The benefit of bbPress is that it is very easy to customized and integrates with WordPress without any problems (Took me about 30 seconds to integrate.) The problem is that there are several very good features missing. And not many decent themes either.

bbPress is stable and will be supported for a long time, but right now the developers are focused on turning bbPress into a plugin for WordPress instead of being a standalone application.

[bryzo]

The benefit of bbPress is that it is very easy to customized and integrates with WordPress without any problems (Took me about 30 seconds to integrate.) The problem is that there are several very good features missing. And not many decent themes either.

bbPress is stable and will be supported for a long time, but right now the developers are focused on turning bbPress into a plugin for WordPress instead of being a standalone application.

[bryzo]

Not entirely sure where this post should go, so I placed it here.

I setup bbPress along with WordPress to make WordPress the master. However I would like to use the bbPress profile instead of the WordPress profile, but I can’t find where in the code to enable that. Any ideas?

[Anonymous User 7670885]

@Gautam: ok

PS: I’ve try converter (in trunk) but i’ve found many problem with it (is in trunk – maybe you already know all – i don’t know).

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Anyway, i hope in a future plugin to convert topic (with replies) in wordpress articles (with comments). It’s very important for a good conversion of my actual website.

[Gautam Gupta]

Hello folks,

I along with Ben L. aka Nightgunner5, have created a bbPress standalone to plugin converter which already does a good job converting your bbPress forums.

To use it, upload the file bbs2p.php to your server. Now let us assume that / is the place where you have placed the script, /blog/ is the WordPress directory and /forum/ is the bbPress standalone directory. So, you would edit bbs2p.php, scroll down to line 36 and change

define( 'BBS2P_WP_PATH', '' ); /** With Trailing Slash, if required */

define( 'BBS2P_BB_PATH', '../forum/' ); /** With Trailing Slash, if required */

To:

define( 'BBS2P_WP_PATH', 'blog/' ); /** With Trailing Slash, if required */

define( 'BBS2P_BB_PATH', 'forum/' ); /** With Trailing Slash, if required */

Similarly, if you have script and WordPress blog in / and the forum in /forums/, then change those lines to:

define( 'BBS2P_WP_PATH', '' ); /** With Trailing Slash, if required */

define( 'BBS2P_BB_PATH', 'forums/' ); /** With Trailing Slash, if required */

Then run the script and the converter would guide you. Some points to note:

• Needless to mention, if it isn’t your test run, please have a backup. We cannot be held responsible for any data loss.
• Run it on your localhost as the converter is heavy.
• Supports the Subscribe to Topic plugin by _ck_ and bbPress 1.1 alpha+ subscriptions import too. Have that plugin activated if you want to migrate subscriptions from the plugin, else it will check for the alpha version.
• Have the bbPress plugin activated, revert to default themes and disable any other plugins.
• Currently, there are three situations:

  1. You have a new WordPress blog, to which you are migrating to and an established forum. Then, you would go to user migration section first and then proceed to forums, topics, posts migration section. In this process, all your WordPress users would be deleted (well, renamed to another table) and in place of those, bbPress users would be added. A keymaster will be WP admin, bb admin and moderator will be bbPress plugin moderators, rest all would be converted to the default WP role (which can be set in your WordPress settings).
  2. Your WordPress and bbPress user tables are integrated. You don’t need the user migration process and you can directly go to forums, topics, posts migration section. No worries.
  3. You have a established WordPress blog, with a good number of users and can’t afford to lose those. This is currently not supported as it is hard to merge two conflicting user sets.

• After converting, do recounts, delete the script and delete the bbPress standalone section if not needed.

Download: http://code.google.com/p/bbpress-standalone-to-plugin/downloads/detail?name=bbs2p-beta2.zip

Cheers! Hope that helps.

Regards,

Ben L. & Gautam G.

bbPress Geeks

ps. Special thanks to John James J. for developing the bbPress plugin, without which, of course, this converter wouldn’t have been there.

[Gautam Gupta]

Have you installed that WordPress plugin for cookie integration and edited your wp-config.php as needed?

[Gautam Gupta]

Have you installed that WordPress plugin for cookie integration and edited your wp-config.php as needed?

[studioleland]

Hey guys love the new plugin. Can anyone shed some light on how to use all of the existing bbpress addons, plugins, etc with the wordpress version of this? Thanks.

[Anonymous User 7670885]

This is great

I think is a good point to start my migration (after of this i need only to convert my actual newsboard inside wordpress)

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Edit: ok, i can migrate some topic to blog thanks to fixed custom post switcher: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-post-type-switcher-broken-after-31 but it don’t convert replies.

[Anonymous User 7670885]

Just a question for dev.

I hate my actual website and i attend this plugin to migrate to wordpress (+forum).

Just for info please: any eta for converter – bbpress to bbpressPlugin? (i can use alpha in live website but i can’t lost users and actual forums)

Maybe it’s time to start with development?

[GYNGA]

Try this plugin:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/fix-admin-access/

After you install and activate the plugin then go to bbPress admin page and set User Role Map settings. WordPress administrator should be set as your bbPress admin’s role, probably ‘Key Master’ or ‘Administrator’. Mine was Key Master.

If you don’t know what to set up in other roles (WP Editor, WP Author, WP Contributor, WP Subscriber) I suggest you to set all of them as bbPress member.

Well, it helped for me

[GYNGA]

Try this plugin:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/fix-admin-access/

After you install and activate the plugin then go to bbPress admin page and set User Role Map settings. WordPress administrator should be set as your bbPress admin’s role, probably ‘Key Master’ or ‘Administrator’. Mine was Key Master.

If you don’t know what to set up in other roles (WP Editor, WP Author, WP Contributor, WP Subscriber) I suggest you to set all of them as bbPress member.

Well, it helped for me

[tyz0101]

I have wrote article about it

[mecors]

Hi guys,

I installed the bbpress but I didn’t the integration with wordpress. So I tried to do now but not work. How do I do to reset installation of bbpress and to get the integration with data of wp-config.php file? Anyone please? Thanks.

[Arjun S Kumar]

In past i’ve request user signature

@DarkWolf.it

The user signature plugin is now available in the plugin repository!

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbp-signature/

The plugin currently supports a max length of 500 char and allowed tags.

This is the basic release, so more updates will come soon

[arpowers]

We are having a similar issue, all of the sudden the sync between bbPress and WordPress stopped working.

Debating regenerating salts, but we have several systems integrated, would have to switch em all, and don’t know if this would fix the problem..

Ap

[arpowers]

We are having a similar issue, all of the sudden the sync between bbPress and WordPress stopped working.

Debating regenerating salts, but we have several systems integrated, would have to switch em all, and don’t know if this would fix the problem..

Ap

[ReviewInfobase]

I remember I had similar issue before a while back, not exact the same, I end up reinstalling the whole thing several times coz I had thought it was my installation problem. Finally I just gave up. I may try it some time later again.

[ReviewInfobase]

I remember I had similar issue before a while back, not exact the same, I end up reinstalling the whole thing several times coz I had thought it was my installation problem. Finally I just gave up. I may try it some time later again.

[Anonymous User 7670885]

@JJJ: Ok, thank’u very much

My actual forum is with smf but i want migrate to wordpress + forum (and bbpress plugin promises[?] very good)

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But i’ve many topic that need to move inside blog. My future work is: smf to bbpress to bbpress_plugin + migration of many topic in blog – maybe thanks to: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-type-switcher/

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PS: you can call me if you need a betatester

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Small bug: i’ve maked a forum and put a new topic in it. After of this i’ve changed this forum in category and maked a new sub-forum inside it. Finally i’ve move topic from category[when i’ve changed forum in category no topics deleted or migrated] to forum and counter results with two topics and two posts (in realty i’ve just one post in one topic)

[markusdrake]

I don’t know why, but changing my salts in the config file and through the admin portion of the site to match new ones got things rolling for me.

“https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/ and changed my wordpress values in the config.php file and admin section of the site, then copied the values (again) to bbpress’s config.php file.”