[Stephen Edgar]

I have updated the SMF Importer and you can download the latest again via the same links in my original post above.
Fixed:

• Forum parent hierarchy
• Imported Replies now import correctly
• User Display Name

Outstanding:

• User Passwords
• Custom BBCode for Topic & Reply Content

NOTE: If you are importing ‘users’ during the import you will see multiple instances of the following two error messages:-

• Notice: Undefined variable: user_pass in /home/webhost/public_html/wp-includes/user.php on line 1305
• Notice: Undefined index: salt in /home/webhost/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converters/SMF.php on line 566

These can both be ignored and only relates to the current non-working state of converting user passwords. If you need to login (or users login) they will just need to reset their WordPress password to be able to login.

[danny2104]

When I insert links into a reply for a topic via the the link option or by inputting html directly, it never shows up in the reply. In fact if my reply consists only of a link and no text apart from it, ll i get is an empty\blank reply to the topic. I’ve tried this with different user roles too, since i suspected the ability to post unrestricted html might’ve been the problem, but no such luck. I’m relatively new to wordpress, so i apologise if this has an obvious fix or an apparent reason.

Wordpress 3.6
BBpress 2.3.2

[capacitron]

Nice! Just finished using your importer on a test site. Everything went great, no problems. I’m almost sad I didn’t have an error. How can I help you more?

The feature I’m dying for is to import MyBB user profile data into BuddyPress profiles. Any plans for that feature?

If not, do you have any suggestions for me?

[capacitron]

For your private messaging problem, have you considered Pippins bbPress Private Replies Extension

[elpju]

I get this error on the main forum page where all the topics are listed:

Warning: in_array() expects parameter 2 to be array, null given in /home/public_html/wp-content/themes/genesis/lib/functions/general.php on line 293

It started after I upgraded to Genesis 2.0. I have no other plugins installed so it must be a genesis2.0-bbpress compatibility problem.

Is anyone else experiencing this?

[Anonymous User 12933267]

So right now the entire forum is using the standard page template (Default Template). Here is an example of the template.

But I would like bbpress to use the Full-Width Template as used here.

Is there a way to change the page-template used by bbpress?

Kind regards,
Luc

[Techknowledgic]

Hey

I have installed bbpress on my website and it’s pretty easy to use it but I just have a question about adding sub categories.

I have create a category for example How to and a forum as a parent in this category for example phones but i just want the users now to see all the sub categories from the forum home page but when they click on How to they will see all the sub categories so can that be done?

BTW, idk if this is repeated or not but I searched and found some old topics like from 3 years but nothing new

Thanks!

[NeilJ]

Hmmm something odd going on and I beginning to think it is to do with the number rows being processed for the replies. Running a test where I have set processing of 100 rows at a time it is showing in the status box as the following:

Converting replies (1500 - 1599)

Looking at the number of wp_posts where the post_type is equal to reply it shows 1652:

mysql> select count(*) from wp_posts where post_type = "reply";
+----------+
| count(*) |
+----------+
|     1652 |
+----------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

I was checking the processlist whilst the import was running and the inserts just completely stopped with no errors.

[NeilJ]

Been giving this a try today and yeah there seems to be a problem with importing replies (which we know is not working yet). So to help out the OP I give an example of replies not importing. For instance, this is the total number of SMF messages on SMF database I wish to convert to BBPress:

mysql> select count(*) from smf_messages;
+----------+
| count(*) |
+----------+
|     2663 |
+----------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

Running the importer it seems to get stuck and stops importing:

mysql> select count(*) from wp_posts where post_type = "reply";
+----------+
| count(*) |
+----------+
|     2252 |
+----------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

I am doing this on my own machine and looking at the apache logs I don’t see any errors related to the import. I also checked if there was a query stuck so I checked the process list and it was empty.

Going to debug the relevant scripts and see what I can find.

[Marcus (aka @msykes)]

Probably best directed at @johnjamesjacoby, any suggestions welcome!

Already read your post here (love the concept, makes sense) and have a question : http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/roles-and-capabilities-in-bbpress-2-2/

I’m the developer of Events Manager and in this plugin you can assign custom capabilities to existing roles. Unfortunately your recent update regarding caps is preventing our plugin from adding custom caps to your roles.

I’ve figured out a way around this, but this requires at least 1 extra database query each instance since I can’t load wp_user_roles via get_option due to your hooks.


function em_bbp_get_caps_for_role( $caps, $role ){
global $em_capabilities_array, $wpdb;
//get the non-dynamic role from the wp_options table
$roles = maybe_unserialize($wpdb->get_var("SELECT option_value FROM {$wpdb->options} WHERE option_name='wp_user_roles'"));
//loop through the original role if it exists and add our em caps to the bp role
if( !empty($roles[$role]) ){
foreach($roles[$role]['capabilities'] as $cap_name => $has_cap ){
if( array_key_exists($cap_name, $em_capabilities_array) ){
$caps[$cap_name] = $has_cap;
}
}
}
return $caps;
}
add_filter('bbp_get_caps_for_role', 'em_bbp_get_caps_for_role', 10, 2);


What it does is load our caps into your caps by referencing the original wp_user_roles array

So, my questions are:

• Is there a better way to do this, preferably avoiding extra DB queries?
• Since you seem to be assigning a second role to the user, would an alternative solution be to prevent EM from assigning caps to bbpress user roles and let the primary/secondary role inherit the relevant caps?

thanks for reading!

[ZachMatthews]

I’ve read all the support threads. I know the current advice is to activate BuddyPress.

That’s not a very clean solution. BuddyPress, with all due respect, is kind of a mess. I’ve worked and worked with it and I cannot get it to integrate with my theme (Pinboard–which incidentally wasn’t easy to integrate with BBPress either).

I now have a fully capable copy of BBPress. I’ve got a very long set of CSS amendments in my theme page, but it works.

If I activate BuddyPress I get major issues; initially it was breaking the whole site, then I built it a separate copy of the CSS file in a /css/ subdirectory and it at least ran. Theme integration was a disaster but I spent the time and got the profile pages looking ok. Then I tried to send a PM: fail. Fail on multiple levels, mostly in the PHP files — this is beyond theme integration. This is broken functionality.

What we sorely need is a simple set of plug ins that do two things:

(1) Allow private messaging. This really does not have to be complicated.

(2) Allow moderators to customize profile fields.

That’s it. No need to lay a very heavy second plugin over everything. (And BuddyPress takes up as much load time as BBPress itself per the Performance Profiler plug in).

Are there any plug in developers out there with the knowledge to pull this off? Maybe we could pool some money and get someone started?

Thanks,
Zach

[koawinter]

I have SMF version 1.1.16 and am very curious to see how far you get and if it could then work for my version. Forum has lots of users and posts and it would be a shame to lose it all when moving over. Would like to see if it is at all possible to get this working.

[Benjamin]

Hi,

I’m currently trying to adjust the styles of my bbpress install and am running into a bit of difficulty. I’m running bbPress 2.3.2 and WP 3.6, using my own theme which is based on “Twenty Twelve.”

I noticed some big spaces in the header on each page and went to reduce the space. It turns out there are a bunch of different paragraph tags in the header for each “topic” on my site, but these tags do not appear on example sites listed on bbpress.org.

This first snippet is the code I’d like to have so I can style it (taken from http://www.dalluva.com/member-area/forums/topics/resources-where-to-get-your-sommelier-certification/):

<li class=”bbp-header”>
<div class=”bbp-reply-author”>Author</div><!– .bbp-reply-author –>
<div class=”bbp-reply-content”>Posts</div><!– .bbp-reply-content –>
<!– .bbp-header –>

This is what my site is generating:

<li class=”bbp-header”>
<div class=”bbp-reply-author”>Author</div><p><!– .bbp-reply-author –></p>
<div class=”bbp-reply-content”><p>Posts</p></div><p><!– .bbp-reply-content –></p>

Why is my site putting paragraph tags around the comments, as well as the word “Posts”? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Benjamin

[Bencuri]

I installed BBpress, the newest version to the newest version of WordPress. So I used this plugin version of BBpress. The forum installs, I can load the XML export file that is an export of a recent forum that I have to manage elsewhere, it is accepted by the new installation. From the dashboard, if I click view the Forum in tha forum management section, it takes me to the forum, everything is visible, cathegories, posts, member. But, the only problem is that the forum is not accessible on any link from my WordPress frontpage. Why is it so? How can I make it visible on the front page? I just want to make this new site to be a forum, so the forum frontpage should be ont he WordPress core site frontpage, but it is not there. Also if I type /forum after my domain name, the browser reports error, as if the forum doesn’t exsist. But from the dashboard, I can open the forum. What can be the problenm?

[Tux Kapono]

Thanks Stephen, would you know if these are the instructions? https://codex.buddypress.org/user/buddypress-site-administration/migrating-from-old-forums-to-bbpress-2/

[Seanerin72]

Hello all, I am currently setting up a website for my classroom (school starts in a month). I would LOVE to set up a class forum for each class. If you look at my site (http://www.blackboarddreams.com) you will see that I have forum links under my sophomore and human condition classes. I can post with no problems! But a couple of issues beyond that:
1. I see in “menus” there is a bbpress sidebar. I have no idea how to actually make that show up on my webpage (ideally homepage).
2. Giving up on the above, I can post the bbpress login widget (currently have it in a footer). Yet, when I logout and simply visit my page, upon clicking the register link I am taken to the wordpress login page with the following in red: “User registration is currently not allowed.” How can I allow registration? Further, this registration is simply to allow my students to access the forum, correct?
Thank you so much!

[Stephen Edgar]

Introduce Forum Importer template for use with importing from AEF (Advanced Electron Forum) v1.0.x (Tested on v1.0.9)

http://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/ & ​​http://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/aef

Working: Forums, Topics, Replies & Users
Not Working Yet: User Passwords & Custom BBCode for Topic & Reply Content

Attached to bbPress Trac Ticket #2384 is the 1st pass patch for AEF importing into bbPress.

To test the importer download the latest patch from the link above and copy/ftp the file into the /includes/admin/converters/ folder of your bbPress plugin.

I hope to get the remaining outstanding items done ASAP.
(User passwords will be a little trickier and will take a bit more time)

Any feedback and/or testing that you can provide will help me out tremendously.

Cheers,

Stephen 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

Introduce Forum Importer template for use with importing from Phorum v5.2.x (Tested on v5.2.19)

http://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/ & ​​http://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/fluxbb

Working: Forums, Topics, Replies & Users
Not Working Yet: User Passwords & Custom BBCode for Topic & Reply Content

Attached to bbPress Trac Ticket #2383 is the 1st pass patch for FluxBB importing into bbPress.

To test the importer download the latest patch from the link above and copy/ftp the file into the /includes/admin/converters/ folder of your bbPress plugin.

I hope to get the remaining outstanding items done ASAP.
(User passwords will be a little trickier and will take a bit more time)

Any feedback and/or testing that you can provide will help me out tremendously.

Cheers,

Stephen 🙂

[caruso94]

Hello everyone I’m new in the forum and I do not speak English well, I hope you understand what it means, I speak Italian. I wanted to ask if it was possible to hide the plugin bbPress forum categories to unregistered users. I also needed to know if it was possible to make sure that if a user opens a discussion in the category (example doctor) the email notification arrives only to the doctor. Another example if a user opens a discussion administrator can ‘to get the notification only to administrators (example admin@namesite.it)

[jzn123]

I am using this version, but it’s not working with bbPress v1.1

Has someone a clue?

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: Target Blank

Description:  append target="_blank" to all links

Plugin URI:  http://ckon.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/bbpress-plugin-bb-tweaks/

Author:  _ck_

Version: 0.04

*/

//add target=_blank to post links

function bb_target_blank( $text ) {

$text = preg_replace('|<a (.+?)>|i', '<a $1 target="_blank">', $text);

return $text;

}

add_filter('pre_post', 'bb_target_blank');

?>

[KorvinM]

I’m having the same problem, see

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-2-3-2-now-available/#post-135855

[KorvinM]

I’m having the same problem as kiagua and Andy Smith
WordPress 3.6
bbPress 2.3.2

exactly the same error message, referencing line 1199. Interestingly the warning shows up twice.

Anyway, here’s the whole function which contains that line:`/**
* Adds ability to include or exclude specific post_parent ID’s
*
* @since bbPress (r2996)
*
* @global DB $wpdb
* @global WP $wp
* @param string $where
* @param WP_Query $object
* @return string
*/
function bbp_query_post_parent__in( $where, $object = ” ) {
global $wpdb, $wp;

// Noop if WP core supports this already
if ( in_array( ‘post_parent__in’, $wp->private_query_vars ) )
return $where;

// Bail if no object passed
if ( empty( $object ) )
return $where;

// Only 1 post_parent so return $where
if ( is_numeric( $object->query_vars[‘post_parent’] ) )
return $where;

// Including specific post_parent’s
if ( ! empty( $object->query_vars[‘post_parent__in’] ) ) {
$ids = implode( ‘,’, array_map( ‘absint’, $object->query_vars[‘post_parent__in’] ) );
$where .= ” AND $wpdb->posts.post_parent IN ($ids)”;

// Excluding specific post_parent’s
} elseif ( ! empty( $object->query_vars[‘post_parent__not_in’] ) ) {
$ids = implode( ‘,’, array_map( ‘absint’, $object->query_vars[‘post_parent__not_in’] ) );
$where .= ” AND $wpdb->posts.post_parent NOT IN ($ids)”;
}

// Return possibly modified $where
return $where;
}`

line 1199:`
if ( in_array( ‘post_parent__in’, $wp->private_query_vars ) )
return $where;`

This might sound like a wild hack in the dark but I thought I’d have a go at simply making the second parameter an array, like so:

// Noop if WP core supports this already
	if ( in_array( 'post_parent__in', array($wp->private_query_vars) ) )
		return $where;

and much to my surprise this seems to have solved the problem in as much as the error warning is gone and as far as I can tell so far, the two (private) fora I have set up seem to be running as normal.

[Stephen Edgar]

Introduce Forum Importer template for use with importing from Phorum v5.2.x (Tested on v5.2.19)

http://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/ & ​​http://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/phorum

Working: Categories, Forums, Topics, Replies & Users
Not Working Yet: User Passwords & Custom BBCode for Topic & Reply Content

Attached to bbPress Trac Ticket #2382 is the 1st pass patch for Phorum importing into bbPress.

To test the importer download the latest patch from the link above and copy/ftp the file into the /includes/admin/converters/ folder of your bbPress plugin.

I hope to get the remaining outstanding items done ASAP.
(User passwords will be a little trickier and will take a bit more time)

Any feedback and/or testing that you can provide will help me out tremendously.

Cheers,

Stephen 🙂

[stevie77n]

Hi,

I was hoping that someone could tell me if there is there a way to display a list of child forums for specific parent using a shortcode?

For example, I have a number of private member forums that visitors need to login to view. I want to have a page that they visit to logon with the list of private forums below.

http://www.blueclouditsolutions.com/asap/
Wordpress version: 3.6
bbpress version: 2.3.2

Thanks for your help.

Steve.

[Tanya]

I would like some help on how to improve the pagination for my bbPress forum. At the moment, on the latest posts on my forum, it goes:

1 2 …. 1963 ->

Which is not entirely useful if you want to skip to page 3 straight away. Really, the numbers are not very useful since you can only skip one ahead.

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