[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!!!

[John James Jacoby]

Try again.

The sequence to tag bbPress to the WordPress plugins repo is a bit wonky, so you probably got an out-of-date zip.

I just tested it now, and it appears to be fine.

[Thorsten :-)]

Hi,

I updated within BuddyPress the bbpress plugin v2.0.3 to v2.1 for three times but your plugin says to update again – did you forget to update the version number?

Thanks for support, I use BB 3.4.1

[douglerner]

I was looking for some basic information about bbpress, its concepts and structure, etc. I couldn’t find anything in the docs, so if somebody could point me to something it would be great.

In the meanwhile, I have a basic question about users. Are the users regular wp users? Or are the bbpress users managed separately?

And what about email notifications for the users? Is that handled separately from other plugins which deal with email notifications and subscriber management? Is there a place to see who is subscribed to what?

Thanks,

doug

[douglerner]

At http://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/ it says:

Upon activation, bbPress will make additions to three areas of the WordPress Administration Screens:

1. bbPress creates three custom post types and adds them to the navigation menu: Forums, Topics, and Replies. Use these menu items to create and manage your forums.

2. A sub-menu found at Settings > Forum. Customize these settings for greater control over bbPress.

3. A dashboard widget – Right Now in Forums – which shows recent bbPress-related activity. Use the widget to quickly monitor your forums.

I see items 1 and 2. But where might I find item 3? I don’t see it in my dashboard anywhere. I do see a few bbpress-related widgets available though.

Thanks for any pointers here.

doug

[douglerner]

Well, it’s not quite that simple.

I installed bbpress and was pleased that it worked well with my Weaver II theme. Then I felt I wanted more of a “social network” so installed buddypress on top of that. Then I realized bbpress was included with buddypress, so I uninstalled them both and just installed buddypress. I was finding buddypress to be a bit confusing – not to mention slow – and it didn’t work well with my Weaver theme, so I uninstalled it and installed just bbpress again.

When I was done, I was left with just a white page when visiting my site.

I’m guess there are some things left in my database from the previous installation pointing to some page or something which no longer exists?

I uninstalled bbpress for now and can see my site with the Weaver II theme again. But anything I can do to get bbpress working again?

Thanks,

doug

[hlwinkler]

Hi John,

Thanks very much for the super-quick answer. Yeah, I already hedged and asked them there at the same time since I couldn’t tell whether it was the new bbpress RC or the new Canvas release. I also think Canvas is a little more likely since v5 is a big overhaul — I’ll let them know they can ping you.

[John James Jacoby]

Sounds like the theme just doesn’t enable bbPress to hook in and take care of things. You’ll want to talk to Woo about bbPress compatibility. Tell them to ping me (here is fine) if they have questions.