[peripatew]

Perhaps my brain is just fried, but when I search for bbPress themes, TONS of stuff comes up, but is this all mostly for an older version of bbPress that wasn’t a WordPress plugin?

I’m trying to replace a Vanilla Forum’s installation, but so far the process hasn’t been super-smooth.

I’ve found a few standalone wordpress themes that are aimed at bbPress users, but I want to integrate bbPress into my current site. Typically, I’d find a theme that is “close”, and then dig through it to make it fit within my site.

Am I approaching this the wrong way? I feel like there’s something simple I must be overlooking, as every other forum has had a simple theme installation process.

[aberglas]

Thanks, but I’m not sure how that helps. (I prefer to avoid direct db queries, but it is obvious how to make them.)

I did discover get_pages, which seems to be similar to get_posts but with a completely different implementation. The following now works.
return get_pages( array( ‘post_type’ => bbp_get_forum_post_type(), ‘numberposts’ => 99,
‘post_status’ => array(‘publish’, ‘private’)) );

I would still like an answer to the other part of my question, if anyone knows. Ie where is the output generated for things like Admin All Forums in bbpress. These provide good places to look for API examples.

But silence is better than noise.

[aberglas]

(By “plug-in” above I mean bbpress-new-topic-notifications/. Do not seem to be able to edit my entries any more?

[Stephen Edgar]

Turn on ‘anonymous’ posting in bbPress settings /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=bbpress

People can then post anonymously and signup as a member if they want to.

[Lynq]

Hey all, great to hear people are working with the theme more and more, I will work on an updated version for you all to get stuck in. Hopefully I will get more of the issues resolved and sort out some of the profile pages too.
Generally the main forum page is the only one that is done to give you a good start, but I have changed a lot on teamoverpowered.com/forums so I will try and bring that across into a better starter theme, hold tight!

[Lynq]

In your theme you have some CSS which is targeting
.reply a { // some css styles }

This is turning all of your links inside .reply into blue buttons, which I guess is somewhere else in your theme.

[ngoegan]

Hi, our bbpress sitewide forum has WYSIWYG editor on it, but when I go to the private group forums, there are not option to Bold, Italic, Link, attach a picture or anything. Is there anyway I can extend this functionality to the private group forums? Private groups are where people would communicate most in our situation.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Stephen Edgar]

A couple of options:

• Add a link in your menu to http://www.amanofreason.com/forums/
• Add some widgets to your sidebar https://codex.bbpress.org/widgets/
• Add some shortcodes to your WP pages https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes

[Stephen Edgar]

Nice, looks good, thanks.

[Jack Tarantino]

I seem to be having an issue with how the converter itself works? I run the converter and it tells me “No forums to convert” as well as no anything else. I copied the SQL in the title attribute and ran that in phpmyadmin and it returns a proper data set as expected. I experimented with entering incorrect values for the db information and that didn’t actually produce any errors or any difference at all. I’m thinking there’s some sort of problem connecting to the db and no error handling for that issue.. Any idea what could be going wrong? This is on WordPress latest and a fresh install of bbPress with just that Vanilla file added.

[choibc]

Hi, I have homepage with recent posts of bbpress.
But the page navigation is not working properly.
Page navigation is working fine within each forum.

Any idea?

[Michael]

Wordpress: 3.5.1

bbPress: 2.2.4

Website: http://www.dalluva.com/member-area/forums/

 

I just noticed a rather annoying problem for bbPress users try to post a new topic to my Forum.  Here’s the sequence of events:

• A registered user tries to create a new topic by typing in their topic text in the editor window
• The user forgets to enter in a Title for the topic
• The user clicks the Submit button
• bbPress redisplays that Forum page with the error message

  Your topic needs a title.

• The text that the user had previously entered has vanished.

Now, granted the user can click his Back button and get back to the text he entered, but not all users are that enlightened.  They simply get frustrated that all of their text has disappeared, likely giving up or at least irritated at my Forum.

Any idea why this is happening? I can’t tell if this is a bbPress problem or a WordPress problem.

Thanks.
Michael

[Michael]

Okay, I think I figured this out on my own, though I don’t quite have the list of usable html matching what the default TinyMCE editor offers.  I’ll have to play with that separately.

What I did was add a function in my functions.php file that changed the allowed markup for all bbPress (and blog) posts to include what I think is a reasonable list AND is still safe. I’ve added the IMG tag as well — for my Forum that’s a useful feature, and I’ll just have to monitor what people post in terms of image links.

Here’s the code I added to my functions.php file:

add_action('init', 'my_html_tags_code', 10);
function my_html_tags_code() {
        define('CUSTOM_TAGS', true);
        global $allowedposttags, $allowedtags;
        $allowedposttags = array(
                'p' => array(
                        'style' => array()),
                'strong' => array(),
                'em' => array(),
                'i' => array(),
                'del' => array(),
                'h1' => array(),
                'h2' => array(),
                'h3' => array(),
                'h4' => array(),
                'h5' => array(),
                'hr' => array(),
                'blockquote' => array(),
                'q' => array(),
                'pre' => array(),
                'span' => array(
                        'style' => array()),
                'div' => array(
                        'style' => array()),
                'ul' => array (),
                'ol' => array (
                        'start' => array()),
                'li' => array (),
                'a' => array(
                        'href' => array (),
                        'title' => array (),
                        'rel' => array()),
                'img' => array (
                        'src' => array(),
                        'width' => array(),
                        'height' => array(),
                        'alt' => array())
        );
        $allowedtags = array(
                'p' => array(
                        'style' => array()),
                'strong' => array(),
                'em' => array(),
                'i' => array(),
                'del' => array(),
                'h1' => array(),
                'h2' => array(),
                'h3' => array(),
                'h4' => array(),
                'h5' => array(),
                'hr' => array(),
                'blockquote' => array(),
                'q' => array(),
                'pre' => array(),
                'span' => array(
                        'style' => array()),
                'div' => array(
                        'style' => array()),
                'ul' => array (),
                'ol' => array (
                        'start' => array()),
                'li' => array (),
                'a' => array(
                        'href' => array (),
                        'title' => array (),
                        'rel' => array()),
                'img' => array (
                        'src' => array(),
                        'width' => array(),
                        'height' => array(),
                        'alt' => array())

        );
}

[Michael]

I’ve noticed this problem as well.

I’m running WP 3.5.1 and bbPress 2.2.4.  My bbPress area is here: http://www.dalluva.com/member-area/forums/

When a non-Admin user attempts to post a Topic or Reply using the Visual mode (built-in TinyMCE support), they’re led to believe that they can use do things like create ordered/numbered lists, etc.

The visual editor does show it, but when they Submit it, bbPress strips this out.

No surprise there: while the visual Editor bar shows these editing capabilities, the little box below the editor that says “You may use these HTML tags and attributes:” doesn’t list ol, ul, li etc.  Doh!

I noticed that posting to this bbPress site, it shows in the little box that I can use ol, ul, li, and it does work.

QUESTION:  How can I expand the available HTML tags and attributes (ideally without hacking the bbPress code) to include other tags like ul, ol, li, br, hr, etc?

Thanks.

Michael

[choibc]

Here is live demo (Korean language):
Bootstrap home page: http://montgomerykmc.org/
bbPress home page: http://montgomerykmc.org/forums

[choibc]

I am pleased to release this clean theme for non-tech people.
It is basically bootstrap child theme and bbpress styling of default bbpress template.
I have hard time to figure out new bbpress plugin and theme. Now I have some clue…with lots of googling. One thing I couldn’t do is “Previous/Next Topic” navigation while seeing single topic.

Please refer here to download theme.
WordPress Bootstrap + bbPress

Any suggestion welcome.

[2ben]

+1

🙂

[Golly72]

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?

The website is here

[Stephen Edgar]

See this thread for some tips

Display list of topics under specific forum

[Stephen Edgar]

@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/

[jiapei100]

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

[Stephen Edgar]

Checkout the ‘bbPress Post Ratings’ plugins mentioned in this topic

Introducing plugins for Quotes, Ratings and Unread Posts

[brokentwig]

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.

[Stephen Edgar]

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.

[Stephen Edgar]

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 😉