[busterbox]

i jus dont want to use wordpress but i am using wordpress in one of my site and want to create sumthing else

[Martin]

Just to chime in here, I used the gComvertor guys and the experience and assistance was great.

I migrated my Drupal based forums over to bbPress last Xmas, with their help.

Great service and fast conversion process – and you pay once it’s done and you’re satisfied too!

[SK]

You can change the look of it with CSS and by editing template files. I can’t comment much because the link you provided http://fotosputnik.com/wordpress returns 404

[POS2012]

I would suggest you talk to the people at http://gconverter.com/

I will use these next week to migrate my Joomla + Kunena to WP + (most probably) bbPress.

Price is $95 for forum to forum migrating usually.

May I ask:

I am looking at simple:press versus bbPress. So I am interested in: WHY would you like to go for bbPress over simple:press?

[PaulieP]

Has anyone successfully migrated from Simple:Press to bbPress without issues?

I need to be able to migrate all my posts / threads and the forum names. I dont need PMs migrated, I dont need stickies or flags, likes, or anything else. Just the important stuff:

Posts

Threads

What user posted

Date/time stamps and posts/threads in correct chronological order

Forum it was posted under

Forum names

From what I have seen some of the scripts out there fail at importing the poster data – i.e. the posts are not attributed to the actual poster, they are all attributed to the user running the importer plugin.

Has anyone found a clean way to do this? I’d be willing to pay for someone who has done this successfully without issues, to help me with this. THanks

[purplesea]

I’m new to wordpress and bbpress.

I’m trying to build up my company site with wordpress and I need to have two different forums with different templates.

So I installed bbpress and I created two different pages in wordpress and in each page I used shortcode “[bbp-single-forum id=$post_id]” to create a single forum page.

Each single forum page should use different template or theme, but I couldn’t find any way to use different templates for different forums simultaneously.

Does anyone know if this is possible to do with bbpress?

Thanks in advance.

[grahamgrocho]

Hm. OK.

Is there any way for me to just make the plugin bbpress look like the standalone? I really can’t stand how going to http://fotosputnik.com/wordpress is the way to browse to my forums, etc. And they look like blog posts, etc.

As opposed to my phpbb3 forum: http://fotosputnik.com/phpBB3

I much prefer a traditional message board but this wordpress/bbpress plugin does not seem like the right answer. The bbpress plugin did, and I much prefer it over phpBB3, but I can’t seem to transfer my phpBB3 database into the standalone bbpress w/o totally messing it up. Transferring to plugin version worked just fine though.

[pagal]

@POS2012 bbPress.org/forums using standalone cms version which is much better and more comprehensive then current bbPress plugin.

I can design a custom bbPress theme like bbPress.org/forums layout for you.

Contact me via http://scr.im/pagal

Thanks!

[locomo]

in 2.1 is it possible to disable the HTML tab in the rich editor on a role-by-role basis – i’d like to only give the HTML tab to moderators

[POS2012]

Yes, I understand that the surrounding layout (WP theme) can be changed, but I would like a forum set up that is more like this one.

So I am more thinking of the setup of the forum that is “rendered” inside the WP layout’s page.php.

[SK]

Check out free ones here: https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/search.php?q=bbpress

You’ll have to search for paid themes on Google.

But really, almost any WordPress theme should work with bbPress

[SK]

Manually:

Create new forums in standalone.

Create users in standalone with some particular password.

Create new topics, copy pasting content and predating etc

Email all users of your plugin, asking them to reset their passwords.

[SK]

+1

Added to Trac https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1815

[grahamgrocho]

fair enough. what’s the process to transfer manually?

[SK]

You can use the “old” standalone version. But that’s not recommended as it’s not being developed anymore.

Why do you not want WordPress? Even if you don’t use WordPress, it provides a great framework for bbPress. You should try it.

If you absolutely, positively don’t want to install WordPress, then you should look for another forum software.

[SK]

Bated breath, etc

[SK]

It’s a retrograde step. Standalone version is not being developed anymore. So, nor are its plugin. If you do move to it, you will be stuck with what’s available right now.

I am positive there is no automated tool to downgrade from plugin to standalone. You will need to either write some database queries yourself or do the transfer manually.

[POS2012]

I have installed bbPress today and been looking around in the files, and have started to get a grip on the theme and how it works.

But I am no designer, and I would like to buy a theme that is either exact alike – or close to – what I would like to get.

I do like the simplicity / setup of the theme used here in bbPress.org/forums – but would like have a little more icons etc.

Do you know any place where I can buy theme(s) for bbPress when using it as a WP-plugin?

I mean themes placed here:

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/

Thank you

[POS2012]

I am actually fresher than you as a bbPress user, but have pretty long experience with doing themeing.

As far as I understand these are the parameters in which bbPress is themed:

Your WP theme’s page.php is used to display the bbPress. So all layout surrounding the bbPress itself is done in the main theme of your WP site.

BUT

there are many bbPress-templates too, and they are placed here:

/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/

in a defaul install there is this theme: /bbp-twentyten/

You’ll find it here:

/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten/

Inside this you’ll see files like:

page-front-forums.php

single-topic.php

etc

In these files you’ll see the setup for each single bbPress page layout as far as I understand it.

Any bbPress users that can confirm this?

[bantayso02]

Yes, i think like martin_style

Please help me

[trissietris]

Reinstalled more then one.

And tryed installiing bbpress from plugins and from buddypress

[editor@australianbluegrass.com]

Perhaps then I do not know what I am doing.

I have created a site that has bbPress as its members only forum component with a user name and password login.

The last software I used had an option on each Forum to receive new forum posts and Topics via email amd/or RSS. bbPress , does not appear – to me – to have that option.

From what I am reading in these forums it is a much sort after feature but does not seem to get satisfactorily addressed.

[harnold007]

The modifications in step 3 and 5 depend on your theme/layout.

In step 3 I made css modifications to “theme” the forum colors mostly. These modifications are unique to each site. I just use firefox to inspect elements then locate that element in the bbpress.css file and change it to how I want it to look.

In step 5 I modified page.php to remove the sidebar. Again this is specific to your site however this is how my page.php looks

Code:

<?php get_header(); ?>

<!– BEGIN MAIN WRAPPER –>
<div id=”main-wrapper”>

<!– BEGIN MAIN –>
<div id=”main3″>

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<!– BEGIN POST –>
<div id=”post”>

<h3 class=”section-title”><?php the_title(); ?></h3>

<div class=”post-entry”>

<?php the_content(); ?>
<?php wp_link_pages(‘before=<span class=”page-links”>Pages: &after=</span>’); ?>

</div>

</div>
<!– END POST –>
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

</div>
<!– END MAIN –>

</div>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

[editor@australianbluegrass.com]

I am surprised that this RSS issue remains unresolved, given the history and number of questions on getting RSS feeds out of bbPress.

I have been unable to find a solution and am now thinking that bbPress was the wrong choice.

[trissietris]

Hi, im using the latest version of buddypress+bbpress.

I installed sitewide forums.

Used the shortcode [bbp-forum-index] on http://portal.thedrughouse.eu/forum/

It works, but after you click on a sections you cant do anything anymore. cant start a topic, it just puts the description in the page