Thanks! I”m going to have to go a different route altogether.
sorry to hear that.
Cannot suggest anything else – hope someone else will come along and help !
That’s a whole other install of another forum and that will screw up that forum. It’s not easy to change it. It’s totally installed under that subdomain and changing it would require 1000s of mysql changes. Not worth the trouble.
Can only suggest you try it in the base ie change your current forum page, and try it witgh forums as the web address.
First off, I’m an idiot when it comes to this stuff but I’m trying to learn.
I’m not sure where I went wrong, but iI have both Simple: Press and bb_press as plugins. I want to import my Simple:Press forum to the bbPress forum and delete Simple:Press. I tried following these instructions:
https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/
But when I tried to do the conversion, I didn’t know where to find the name of the database info, so I left it blank.
Tried the conversion anyway and it said there are no topics, forums, users, etc to convert.
Where can I find the name of the database, etc so I can fill that form out correctly OR..
Is that even what I should be doing?
Thanks in Advance!
I am pursuing the noted issue as if it is a conflict between titles, slugs, etc; but I am just not able to find the solution.
Yes, that’s correct. They have nothing to do with each other and I did set the base to iiforums.
Everything works fine for me, the administrator, but anyone else has issues.
I just got my WordPress site marginally working and I need forum software.
I am looking at Mingle, Simple, and bbPress.
bbPress seemed a good choice because it was supposedly easy to install and was done by the WP team and has nice features.
bbPress is anything but easy to install when it comes to themes. The instructions I found are almost universally out of date.
Are there no themes for bbPress ready to install and modify? I can’t find anything, and none of the intructions/guilds I have found so far help or work.
I am using Suffusion right now, and I just want bbPress to use its style.
I am having the same issues.
They say bbpress has simple and easy as its advantages, but I don’t see that. Nearly every other forum program is easier.
However bbpress has a lot of nice plugins and features so I’d like to use it.
So far I’ve made zero progress after some days making it look nice in my dark Suffussion theme.
Caming,
Given that you work in digital marketing for a living, I would have thought that you understood the difference between being paid for something, and getting it for free.
BBpress is FREE – if you want instant support – go pay for something, otherwise accept that this FREE software, with non-instant support provided for by a community who try to help and improve the FREE product – you know then one you didn’t pay for.
Yes it’s really great of you to flag up security flaws, that is the COMMUNITY thing to do, and thanks for doing that.
Finally I think you should seriously consider some anger management course, it’s not good for your blood pressure 🙂
Schmoo, presume you mean this forum https://bbpress.org/forums/ – try coming here direct rather than via bbpress.org and let us know if that makes a difference.
Normally bbpress looks for it’s forum under the website followed by “forums”, but you’ve got that link allocated to Mybb software.
I presume your forums base in settings is set to “iiforums” ?
I can confirm this issue, and I believe it to be a bug with how forum threads are looked up. Perhaps one of the team here can confirm the issue?
Steps to reproduce:
1. Create a thread using greek characters
2. Right click, and “copy link” then paste in new tab. This WORKS.
3. Now copy the URL directly out of the address bar and paste in new tab. This DOESN’T WORK
The difference I’m seeing is that the outputted forum URLs are encoded using lowercase a-f characters, but if you copy from the address bar (depending on browser or OS) the encoding letters are A-F uppercase.
For example:
ce%bf – accepted by bbPress and given the correct page
CE%BF – goes to 404
Normal WordPress pages can handle either just fine.
I’ve tested this for a bit and got the same results in both Chrome and Firefox on OS X. It really looks like a bug where bbPress can’t tell the difference, or it’s not an exact match. Either way, this could be a big issue! To users, the links look exactly the same, and they can have issues sharing links.
Thanks! Hoping to get some more feedback here.
Best regards
Hi,
I have wordpress with version 3.4.2 and Buddypress Version 1.6.1 and bbPress version 2.2.3.
I have installed BuddyPress Moderation version 0.16. I have integrated it to group page and member profile page but is it possible to implement it on forum topic posts?
Spanish Translation for FirmaSite theme, BuddyPress and bbPress plugins:
http://theme.firmasite.com/spanish-translation/
Any ideas at all?
Ok simple question. Can anybody tell my what MySQl table the “imported” data is held in when I migrate from 1.2 to 2.3 using the BBpress importer tool?
Thanks
Ed
I’m using wordpress 3.5.1 with bbpress plugin 2.3.2.
Although I have users already registered, those users cannot login to bbpress. When they go to the default forum page, it gives the wp login page and then when they add in their credentials, it just redirects back to the same page stating they must be logged in to see the page.
They have the roll of participant and I’ve even downloaded the members plugin and added all of the participant functions to the subscriber roll yet still the same issue.
The only person who can view the forum is the administrator.
Any ideas? I’ve been trying to fix this now for hours and it’s driving me crazy. I’ve searched the web and haven’t found any solutions except for installing the member plugin, but still, it has no effect.
I’d hate to have to use another forum software, but if I can’t get this to work, I’ll have no other recourse.
website is http://teachforjune.com and forum page is http://teachforjune.com/iiforums
Thanks!
Scott
Hello,
I am currently using Simple:Press for my website’s forum, but I am not satisfied because they have made it so that one must pay for a monthly membership to gain access to plugins such as an image uploader or font options. After doing some research, I have decided that I would like to switch to bbPress for my website’s forum, but I am not quite sure how to do this.
I am not a programmer, so I am wondering if it is simple enough for me to do or if I would have to hire someone to do it for me? I want to import my theme and all of the posts from my forums to bbPress. Is this difficult to do?
I need the forum to be limited to members only for posting, and I want there to be the ability for users to insert images and format text.
I would appreciate any help or suggestions as I am a complete newbie!
Thanks!
Hi, actually I’m trying to develop a WP plugin that will let users create a post and a forum with same title.
You can check and fork my code on GitHub https://github.com/maisdesign/MDPostEforumsCreator
As you can see actually one of the features I’m looking for is the equivalent for wp_dropdown_categories in BBPress.
With this drop down I’ll be able to let the user choose the parent forum for the forum he is creating.
I can’t find any documentation about it, am I missing something?
I am having a bit of trouble integrating my WooTheme “canvas” with bbpress. I have read the “Theme Compatibility” article. I understand what it says but i am not sure when looking at the template PHP files that comes with bbpress where in my code i need to put the template code, and which part of the bbpress template code to use.
I also switched to the “TwentyEleven” theme and it worked fine. I tried comparing the WooTheme code to TwentyEleven using Firebug, and i can see there is an obvious difference in the code. But i am lost as to what to change.
I have setup all the correct settings in the Dashboard area.
Any help would would be greatly appreciated.
I am using WordPress 3.5.1
and bbpress Version 2.3.2
EDIT: I am having a bit of trouble with too much website traffic shutting my site down when i post the page address. So maybe if someone can point me in the direction of more info on intergrating bbpress with different themes. As stated above i have read the Theme compatibility article.
Testing reply speed on larger topic. Please ignore this post.
I’m having the exact same issue, but instead of importing the vbulletin database directly from vbulletin server, I have exported the vbulletin database as a sql file and imported it over to a new database that I have created on my server where my WordPress and BBPress installation exist. I have entered the following to each of the import fields:
Platform: vBulletin
Database Server IP or hostname: localhost
Database Port Use: 3306
Database Name: [entered correct db name]
Database User: [entered correct db user]
Database Password: [entered correct db password]
Table Prefix: blank
Once I click the start button, it will show “Starting Conversion” but just hangs there, any idea what I’m doing wrong?
Robin W,
I don’t have a “bbPress Sidebar” Widget. I guess that means it’s a Theme issue, huh?
Learning…to customize bbPress!
I have noted one additional thing about the inconsistently described above. When I click the edit link from the page topic in the sidebar, the breadcrumbs display: maoutdoors.com/forums/classified. When I click the edit link from the forums topic in the sidebar, the breadcrumbs display: maoutdoors.com/forums/fourm/classified. Obviously there is an inconsistent link, but I don’t know how to resolve it.
Thanks for your help.
In your widgets toolbar you should see a “bbpress sidebar” – drop your items theer and they’ll appear in the sidebar on forum pages.
