[docchewbacca]

Thank you for your reply, however I noticed that 2.1 has now been released, therefore I won’t need to install a RC package.

Thanks !

[5ngua]

I just upgraded to bbPress 2.1 and I realize that some old replies are missing. They are not going anywhere, still in the database, just not attached to their topics. Why? Anyone has same problem with me?

[winray]

Regarding bbpress 2.1

I have anonymous posting turned on and after the latest update, anonymous poster can use rich text editor and html. Is it safe?

Need help from some expert.

[hlwinkler]

I let them know. To follow up, it also breaks user profile pages: http://www.politepix.com/forums/profile/halle-2/

[manuelmasia]

Hi everyone…

since BBPress 2.1 has removed bbp_get_breadcrumb_pre filter, can anyone provide a quick solution to get the same result as above?

Thanks

[douglerner]

I tried BuddyPress but it took over my site – it was completely incompatible with my theme. I can give it another look though.

It wasn’t clear to me why one might want to have both forums and groups (i.e. why does BuddyPress include bbpress?).

Also, when I installed it I ended up with both groups and discussion tabs, and thought that was confusing (and there was no real explanation of that in their docs either).

Plus buddypress’s site is extremely slow – unlike this site. It makes me wonder if buddypress itself is very slow. It was also harder over there to FIND stuff, like my own support posts! That makes me wonder about the overall organization of buddypress.

But having friends and extended profiles is an attractive feature that I would hate to give up. Plus the buddypress groups have group pictures/avatars, which is nice. It would be nice to have forum pictures in buddypress.

Thanks,

doug

[Starejosel]

bbPress 2.1 brought the fancy editor to topics and replies, which is great, but the link function is broken. In the Visual tab, if you click it, it does nothing. In the HTML tab, it generates invalid code that disappears if you switch to the Visual tab. The code it generates is, e.g.,

<a href="http://poetryroundup.us/whup/?topic=editors-please-comment" title="Link"></a>

instead of

<a href="http://poetryroundup.us/whup/?topic=editors-please-comment"> Link </a>

There are a couple of other problems–can one set the Visual tab to be the default? I am sure that many users would appreciate that. Also, in Visual mode, a return inserts an extra line–can one turn that off? For my purposes (posting poetry) that is a real killer.

Thank you in advance!

[Stephen Edgar]

A ‘Forum’ will contain topics, whereas a ‘Category’ contains forums.

You might have a category ‘Open Source Software’ and then have forums ‘WordPress’ and ‘bbPress’ in that category.

Status – Yes, a ‘closed’ topic is still visable just no more replies can be posted to that topic.

Visibilty:

Public – Anyone can see these forums

Private: Only logged in registered users can see these forums

Hidden: Only Moderators/Admins can see these forums

And also https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-user-roles-and-capabilities/

[Stephen Edgar]

The easiest way would then be to export your data to a CSV file (or other flat file format) and setup a MySQL database to match your current user data fields, import that data and customize the bbPress import template to match.

Cheers,

Stephen

[douglerner]

Hi, Netweb.

I’m very interested in trying bbpress. Actually, my current site is a social network, so I was initially interested in trying buddypress. While interesting, I noticed it was slow (even on their site) and it wouldn’t work with my Weaver II theme.

So I’m thinking maybe for my purposes that something faster, that also seems to work from within my Weaver II theme, like bbpress might be sufficient for my purposes.

I guess the only thing that would be a shame to lose are the “friend connections.”

Thanks,

doug

[Stephen Edgar]

Each forum has an ‘order’ attribute in the ‘Forum Attributes’ and the forum list widget should display the forums in that order.

[Stephen Edgar]

Sorry, posted the wrong link though it is still useful:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Multilingual_WordPress

The current state of bbPress language translations are here:

https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress 2.1 includes a conversion tool to import forums/topics/replies/users from some of the popular forum packages eg. bbPress or phpBB

There is an ‘example’ file also included as a ‘reference template’ that if your 10,000 users are in a MySQL database then you could easily modify this to be a custom importer by matching the correct database tables/fields etc

The file is called ‘example.php’ and is located in /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-admin/converters

[douglerner]

I have about 10,000 users in a social network I run, in a proprietary format. I can, however, script an export from that system into any other format.

Is there a way I can import the users into bbpress and preserve as much as possible, like username, email, creation date (very important since some users go back over a decade!) and whatever else I can take along. User avatar?

Thanks,

doug

[douglerner]

Hi, Trifon. Nice avatar.

So to clarify, what bbpress does as far as users go is just add extra “roles” regarding forums, in addition to the standard wp roles, right?

I will have to add some test users to see how email notifications and subscriptions are handled I guess.

The system looks quite interesting, but the documentation is sort of thin. There is a lot on PHP coding/development, but not much on actually using the system, as far as I can see in the Codex anyway.

For example, how about user profiles or avatars?

Thanks,

doug

[Stephen Edgar]

As Anointed points out bbConverter is no longer being maintained but the code was used as the base for the freshly pressed bbPress v2.1 with many improvements to the conversion process.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress/

That said though, I have not tested the Invision import process, only bbPress & phpBB but you could definitely try the import with bbPress 2.1 and let us know how it goes

[Anointed]

Did you run the recount function after the import?

The old bbConverter plugin is virtually defunct now. We didn’t find it worth maintaining. I believe JJ has done a lot of work on the converter itself but am not sure if he has any plans of extending it to work with anything beyond the bbPress 1x importer.

[chuckingit]

Hi – the order of forums in the Forums List widget seems arbitrary and does not sort by alpha (a-> z) or by forum id (lowest -> highest) … accordingly, is there a way to force the order to appear alphabetic ..??.. i have tried using Parent Forum ID to “0” and then to “any” but both give same result of random listing of titles …

perhaps these forums are listed by most activity or posts ..??.. currently i have a default install (using latest WP and bbPress) with only one forum with some dummy data so maybe this is a setup thing – meaning it gets wierd showing list if no data ..??.. either way, i’d still like to force an alphabetic listing (a-> z) … accordingly, big thank you for any pointers that can be shared … cordially, chuck scott

[Stephen Edgar]

Have a read of the doc’s here

https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/

And the shortcodes you can add to WordPress pages here

https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/

[Stephen Edgar]

Have a read of the doc’s (work in progress)

https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/

[neondev]

Hey there! Just as the topic says

I’m looking for a plugin for WordPress or bbPress that will allow my forum users to create an image showcase.

I feel like they’re going to use it a good bit, as the site in question is all about collections of glass art.

Is there anything out there that will serve my needs? Does anyone know? I know that vBulletin has an addon that allows users to do this, and I believe phpBB does as well.

[2yearsinvegas]

I need to set up a Message Board for use by a NFL fan base whose club I run.

Specific Info- We’re a major city group of about 500 fans who would like a place where the conversations are public but where we are able to only allow our own members to join. This could be on either side of the process- we could either have an “invite only” with emails to our people allowing them to sign up using the existing email we have for them, or we could open it to the public and work backwards by eliminating anyone we don’t know, obviously the former would be far easier to manage.

The other thing that we intend to do is require that each user post either a picture of themselves in their profile that shows publicly, or a link to their Facebook page. We don’t want any anonymity on this Message Board is we want our members to recognize who in our club they are having a discussion with.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated-

Thanks

[Starejosel]

Now I can’t even access the site–I get:

Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘*wp-contentpluginsbbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-core-hooks.php’ (include_path=’.;C:php5pear’) in *wp-contentpluginsbbpressbbpress.php on line 431

I haven’t done any tinkering or modifying–just straight plugins.

I’m using the graphene theme.

[Starejosel]

I updated to 2.1–and am getting

Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘*wp-contentpluginsbbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten/loop-single-topic.php’ (include_path=’.;C:php5pear’) in *wp-includestemplate.php on line 392

everywhere! How can I revert to the previous version as soon as possible?

Thanks!

[Thorsten :-)]

Great!

Now it worked. Thank you!!!