Hi
I can’t seem to get my forums working. I’ve downloaded a modified twenty eleven theme that is already set up for BBPress, and have downloaded and activated the BBPress plugin. I’ve created the forums page and create a forum, which appears to all users when not logged in, but as soon as they log in and click on the forums page, they get the “Well this is embarrassing…” message. What am I doing wrong?
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@jiapei100 From the codex docs https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/#getting-there
- Log in to your WordPress Admin Dashboard
- Select the ‘Tools’ tab select ‘Forums’ from the navigation menu
- Select the ‘Import Forums’ tab at the top of the screen.
You then need to follow the next steps in the docs linked above for your settings.
Don’t forget to read the docs on Mingle and let us know any issues you find.
https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/mingle/
Hi, ugic:
Where is the START button? I downloaded Mingle.php and put it into the mentioned folder, however, I still don’t know how to proceed the conversion?
I couldn’t see the START button.
Cheers
Checkout the ‘bbPress Post Ratings’ plugins mentioned in this topic
Introducing plugins for Quotes, Ratings and Unread Posts
The Vanilla.php you posted at https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2179 worked fine. Thanks alot for the help getting this dialed in and submitting it for inclusion in the coore build. I’m sure there’s a few people out there itching to get off of Vanilla.
Thanks for adding that to the codex, I am not sure we should go that route though, I think we should not advise anyone to modify their existing forum directly with SQL. I think we are better off stating that all users including banned and deleted users are imported into WordPress and after importing you should manually delete these users through the WordPress Users admin panel.
As to the correct code/syntax for the password, honestly I have no idea! Give me a code example and I can hack around and make stuff work but code from scratch I am at noob level 😉
I started learning PHP when I started playing with bbPress not that long ago and along with WordPress they are my only PHP learning resources and a testament to @johnjamesjacoby coding with awesome inline docs.
With all that said though I think it would probably be best if you want Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, OpenID etc etc logins for WordPress/bbPress it will be much easier to install one of the many WP plugins that offer this. Then have the end users link their existing user profile to Facebook, Twitter or whoever, otherwise there will be all sorts of values we are trying to migrate from Vanilla to support a vast array of different user plugin implementations that are available for WordPress.
Cool, I’ll add this back in `‘from_expression’ => ‘WHERE User.Deleted = 0′`.
I removed it as if there is a `‘from_expression’` in the template it takes precedence and ignores any `‘join_’` expressions. So I need to dig around `converter.php` and find why it is ignoring the `’join_’` expressions when converting the users.
The `callback_savepass` & `authenticate_pass` is where we add any extra password algorithms if needed for non WordPress passwords (phpBB.php importer is a good example)
I deleted my Facebook account a couple of years ago so I won’t be doing any FB stuff 😉
Stephen,
I’m not sure what you mean by “Once bbPress core converter is updated we can filter the users imported”. I believe we need to add the ‘from_expression’ => ‘WHERE User.Deleted = 0’ back into the first user section, but if your saying the core converter can do it, how does the core know who’s deleted?
Also, is there a way we can check for the password type in the User table, and then if the type is not Vanilla, do something else? I didn’t dig into how you guys handle passwords you can’t convert, but I’m pretty sure a Facebook auth token will be one of those off cases. I would be happy to help test and work on this more to produce a finished product.
The docs are now up also,
@brokentwig Key changes from your great work getting this started
- Topic tags are now included
- Once bbPress core converter is updated we can filter the users imported
- Added Topic Closed Status
- Inline docs consistent with other importers
- Whitespace and code formatting improved
- Uses parser.php to convert HTML & Smilies
- Reply status not needed, defaults are built into converter.php
- Reply Order removed, this is calculated during the import
The to do list:
- Remove the `callback_savepass` & `authenticate_pass` as you rightly point out they are not needed and Vanilla uses the same hash as WordPress for passwords so this is too easy.
If you see any bugs with the converter `Vanilla.php` please post these to the trac ticket here.
If there is anything else that needs doing before or after the import that I have not already listed in the codex docs if you could add/update these that would be great.
https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/vanilla
(Use the same bbpress.org username and password to login)
Introduce Forum Importer template for use with importing from Vanilla 2.0.18.1
bbPress Core Trac Ticket: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2179
Codex Docs: https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/vanilla/
I have made quite a few tweaks 😉
You can see the revisions I made up until last night here
https://gist.github.com/4633175/revisions
(It is a fork or your gist with my changes)
I have just added ‘topic tags’ and just cleaning up the code ready to submit for bbPress core 😉
What else have you changed? If you update your original gist, I can look at any differences and merge those also.
Hi,
I just migrated from sp4 to BBpress thanks to plugin sp_to_bbPress.php made by Mark Barnes 🙂
All my users have en empty little square juste before their name. Obviously it is supposed to be their icon/image/avatar.
Where could they add this image ? I saw nothing related to that in their profile nor mine.
Thanks
This is a continuation of another thread, but it is a separate problem. I was trying to get bbPress to recognize a CSS document. To check that my current CSS document actually worked, I deactivated bbPress. The document indeed works. So, I went to reactivate bbPress and once I did that I looked at my forums and everything was gone. I go to check Forums > All Forums on my Dashboard and everything is still listed. Why are my forums not showing up? I am still using the original bbpress.css document, so I know that is not the reason why. Thank you in advance!
I have a multinetork / multisite with Buddypress installed and BP-Multinetowrk active on some of the sites, while other sites do not have the plugin active; thereby sharing the Buddypress members, groups, group forums, etc. I also need these sites to share the same bbPress file for the main site forums. How do I configure a sites bbPress install to look to the same install as another site’s bbPress?
Okay, so I physically replaced bbpress.css located in bbpress/templates/default/css/ with the newly named style-forums.css and the styles are working fine. But I immediately replaced it with the original bbpress.css because my forums are still not appearing properly. So…first problem solved! Yay. Now, how do I make my forums appear once again? Thank you for your help thus far!
Nope. That did not do it. It reverts back to style.css rather than bbpress.css and I know this because the two styles are two completely separate colors. Also, I just realized something. I deactivated bbPress to see if I had coded style-forums.css correctly (now named bbpress.css) and when I reactivated bbPress, my forums have disappeared. So, I went to Forums > All Forums and it still shows them as being there, but they are not appearing on my Forums page like they were before. So, I guess I now have two problems.
Edit: And I just deleted bbPress and reinstalled it. The various forums still appear in Forums > All Forums, but they are not showing up on my Forums page. Sigh.
I bet there are quite many here that would like a translation for their bbPress, but the translation files are not complete. Why don’t you help a little? There are quite a lot to translate (almost 1000 sentences), but if we all contribute it will not take that long. Go to http://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/2.2.x and help to complete the translation into your language!
You can remove “plugins” from the topic. The standard TinyMCE does not work either. Only admin can change color of the text, align right, etc. Looks like my bbPress has a general issue with TinyMCE.
I got this great TinyMCE plugin, Ultimate TinyMCE, that works just great with WP. It does everything you want, but the most used functions for me is uploading images and inserting smileys.
When you turn on the “Use the fancy WordPress editor to create and edit topics and replies” it shows up in bbPress too, but only admin can use the extra functions enabled. Take the smileys for instance. If you make a post of just smileys it tells you “ERROR: Your reply cannot be empty.”. If you write som text and include a smiley, it posts the text without the smiley. It is the same with images.
What is happening? It does not matter what forumrole the user has. He can be key admin, makes no difference. Only WP Admin can post smileys and images on my forum, and I would like to change that. Does anyone know what is wrong here?
@netweb When you you think images uploading problem will be fixed? I mean that default users can’t upload images now using TyniMCE editor.
I’ve the same problem.
User Role: Super Admin
Setup: Multisite
WPVersion: 3.5
BBPVersion: 2.2.3
When activating bbpress form my own site I’m not propagated as a subscriber to the other sites.
When I activate bbpress for the main site, the admin site, I become member of that site but no other sites. BUT when I as the network admin list out all the sites I become members of all the sites. So I’m guessing it is a bug.
Rename your CSS file from style-forum.css to bbpress.css in your themes root directory.
