OK, it seems that bbPress must solve this that it uses GetText for their strings.
I’m really hoping someone can help me figure out some sql queries I would like to run (especially spwestwood). I have been working on migrating a forum for a number of days now and would love if I could get some help on this last piece. I started out with a Phorum > migrated to SMF > migrated to phpBB3 > migrated to bbPress. The first 3 conversions were all successful. I would stay with phpBB3 but even after I loaded WordPress I could not get all my PHP to work properly on the forum page and I really like the bbPress integration into WordPress. But, I have the same anonymous error on the majority of my posts (55k) because, I believe, these are actually anonymous users who were not required to sign-up in order to post. The problem seems to be that bbPress uses only an ‘id’ to attach the name of the poster to the post and phpBB3 uses a ‘username’ field that actually contains the name within the table. All of these unregistered users simply default to user id = anonymous (1998 in my case). Here’s my solution… only, I don’t really know how to implement it as I have limited mySQL experience.. so please bare with me as this is all theoretical and I have no idea if it will work… and how to write it out in sql commands.
Step 1: I want to take phpbb_posts.post_username and assign new users in wp_users for each unique user name (I want to avoid duplicates obviously!). I would like that user_name assigned to both wp_users.user_login and wp_users.display_name. Now I have user accounts for all these anonymous posters.
Step 2: Convert the date format in phpbb_posts.post_time from an integer to the ‘datetime’ php format using the from_unixtime sql command… or something. That way I can accurately match the date/time field in both databases since they currently use different encoding.
Step 3. When wp_posts.post_date = phpbb_posts.post_time match phpbb_posts.post_username to wp_users.user_login GET id and assign to wp_posts.post_author
Does this make any sense? Or am I completely off the ball here? THANK YOU SO MUCH for any help!!
Go into wp-admin>settings>forums. You can set the slug there for the different levels within the forum and then create a custom menu link to that slug. By default the root slug for bbPress 2.2 is yourdomain.com/forums. …In case anyone runs across this forum…
I noticed in the ‘old’ version of bbPress that there was a function called get_forums(). I was wondering if there is anything similar in the new version (2.x).
I just basically need a list of active public forums.
For anyone else looking for this info:
First forum page (if using [bbp-forum-index] shortcode): wp-content>plugins>bbpress>templates>default>bbpress>content-archive-forum.php
Second forum page (if using forum categories and click on a category): wp-content>plugins>bbpress>templates>default>bbpress>content-single-forum.php
Hi There,
We’re working on a clients website at the moment. Their forum is currently running on BB Press and has nearly 86,000 users on, 4500 topics, 25,000 posts and is relatively active. A large number of the users are likely to be spam, but it is a fairly active forum with about 60ish users using it each day.
We want to update the forum to the latest version so that we can make use of all the newer social media implementations, security fixes and also the spam plugins to help reduce a lot of the manual work going on.
Is there anyone on here who can handle the whole upgrade process, or is there a conversion kit to get it from 1.0.2 up to the latest version? I assume going from this version all the way to 2.2 is likely to be a fairly big task, so any help here would be fantastic.
Thank you in advance.
Kind regards,
Lewis
aaclayton, couple things:
1) Justin Tadlock just updated Members plugin to address the fatal error warning. Should work now.
2) If you have custom WP roles, we’ve found you can use Members plugin (Role Editor) to add the appropriate capability to an existing custom role. Participate and Spectate being the relevant capabilities for most visitors. This is how we gracefully merge WooCommerce (which has default role of “Customer”) with bbPress. We modify the Customer Role to add “participate” to it, so that anyone who visits site and purchases as a customer or registers free with WP (because we’ve set this as our our default role for WP under General/Settings) has the ability to post to bbPress.
1) Create a new page
2) Add the bbPress ShortCode for forum index: https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/ which is [bbp-forum-index]
3) Save the page
4) Go to Settings/Reading and choose this new page as the default home page (instead of your blog).
This will get you a bbPress Forum index on your home page.
To make a “mix” of your bbPress and blog posts, you need to modify your home page template file. This differs per theme, but may be called home.php or index.php (it’s in your theme folder). You would add the bbPress shortcode above the WP loop that displays blog posts. Use the do_shortcode method shown here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/do_shortcode
so it would be (within php tags): do_shortcode('[bbp-forum-index]')
If you do this, then you won’t need to create a page and modify your Settings/Reading as elaborated in steps 1 to 4 above.
Good luck!
I just want to know which files in bbPress create the layout on the first page of a forum and which files create the layout on a forum category page, can anyone tell me?
Is there any method to display bbpress forum as the home page?, All I want is to display bbpress forum on the top of my home page and latest blogs at the bottom of my home page.
WordPress: 3.4.2
bbPress: 2.2.2
Site: http://goo.gl/Nz7Tm
I am not sure how to register new users for my forum. I don’t want to have an open registration at all. I just want to add new users after they manually submit their info to me. How can I do this?
Hi Sydney,
I’ve beendoing extensive testing this week to prepare anupdate to the video, and find I get similar results regarding group forums. I will be releasing my results and suggestions in a new video here ASAP.
In the meantime, I suggest you consider leaving legacy group forums “as is” for now.
Hi Jared,
Just what I was looking for thanks.
David
Hi
doesn’t work for me either, although I see the tinyMCE on forum posts, I can not upload pics and place them inline afterwards. This is crucial to my project. I tried the bbpress GD attachements-plugin but that won’t allow for inline-placing images.
Please please help!!!
Raphael
Same issue here after updating to 2.2.2.
The roles are quite confusing, because they all seem to have more or less the same permissions. I tried to change permissions using the User Role Editor plugin, but it didn’t work. After saving my changes and reloading the page, the permissions seem to have been reverted somehow.
I have some private forums which should be invisible to standard users (participants). This works fine with bbPress 2.1.
You can subscribe by RSS to any bbPress install if that is of any help
https://bbpress.org/forums/feed/ & https://bbpress.org/topics/feed/
Thanks for the tip. I didn’t realize that there were this much of plugins available for bbPress. The one you mentioned is not that practical. I’ve found “bbPress Notify”. Not ideal either, but it saves me from having to add all users myself. It would be nicer if people could subscribe themselves to the notifications. But for now I’m happy.
Hi Stephen,
I downloaded the theme zip file from here…
http://www.awesomestyles.com/bbpress-themes/view/businesslike
What files do I setup and where? Could you please help?
Thank you!
I am a newbie, just installed wordpress and bbpress plugin. How do I install theme in bbpress 2.2.2???
I tried placing the theme files in /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/ but I dont see how I can change or activate this theme…
Can someone please help..I’ve spend 6 hrs and still cant figure this out. Much appreciated!!!
Thanks!
On a multi-site network with Buddypress, intending to use site-wide forums only, should bbPress be network activated or activated only on the parent domain level?
I cant setup bbpress forum also. There is no option in menu!
Please check as blog.
I just tired from try set up it. Other forum WP plugins looks not so pretty as this one, but still trouble to make it working.
Adding memory to the WordPress config will not work for every host. Again, it is best you ask your host to bump this up for you.
– Create a page in WP called ‘new-topic’
– Check the page slug/permalink is what you are after eg. http://example.com/new-topic/
– Add the bbPress shortcode [bbp-topic-form] to the page
– Click Publish
– Publish a link to the new page where needed
