@aravoth2011
No, the converter is not currently setup to convert posts to forum topics.
Thinking about it, it would actually be a rather large undertaking.
1. Do you create a new forum for each post category to put the post into the right forum?
2. If so, what about posts with more than one category, do you put the post into multiple forums?
3. what do you do with the comments? Do they become replies?
4. What do you do with threaded comments? They would be way out of order in the scheme.
5. What do you do for comment authors as most people who comment are not members? Do you create accounts for them and simply not let them know it? Do you send them password to access a site they never signed up for?
Bottom line is it is possible, but really should/would remain in the realm of a custom job as everyone would want a different setup.
@aravoth2011, that would be a cool feature indeed! AWJunkies, can you add in this functionality?
can this convert wordpress posts into bbpress posts? Cause that would be a pretty sweet idea.
I’m having a tough time finding a plugin that will do what I’m trying to accomplish. I have bbpress that I would like restricted – one forum that is open to the public (even anonymous users can post) and other forums that are restricted to registered users. I’ve tried the Members plugin but I can’t seem to figure out how to set an anonymous user, and even when I only allow certain roles to access forums, they are still visible and open to post to everyone, even non-registered users.
Any suggestions?
http://www.endless-waltz.com
I think you should merge your wp styles with the bbpress.css
Hello bbpress forums,
Firstly, thanks for a gr8 plugin!
I’m writing regarding an issue installing a bbtheme (kakumei).
Problem: I have uploaded the theme kakumei to the bbpress-themes folder but can’t find my next step. Where in wp-admin do i activate the theme?
Thanks in advance,
/Tin
Maybe you should use another plugins such as “Members” or “User Role Editor”.
Maybe you should use ‘User Avatar’ as your member profile photo upload system.
Visit: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-avatar/
Desc: Allows users to associate photos with their accounts by accessing their “Your Profile” page that default as Gravatar or WordPress Default image (from Discussion Page).
I’ve now submitted this on trac. Here’s the ticket:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1709
The support warning means the theme doesn’t natively support bbPress. You can add support or use shortcodes and still use bbPress. Here’s a link to shortcodes you can insert in a page. https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes
I don’t understand your question about plugins.
I run a community for bloggers and the theme I use allows users to log in, submit and favorite posts. It also include the ability to upload your own profile photo, I simply need to know how to connect this image to the BBPress avatars. All of the other information seems to pull from the same place. I would appreciate any help with this, my site is http://blogtrendschat.com. Thanks!
bbPress 2x REQUIRES WordPress as bbPress is now a true WordPress plugin. There is no way at all to run bbPress without WordPress.
You could always install WordPress in a subdirectory ‘community’ and then have the plugin base as forums, so you end up with site/community/forums/forum….
You may then be able to do some crazy fancy url rewrites to remove the community from the url, though that is also an area I am not familiar enough with to help out.
I’m not sure though if you run into other issues with installing WordPress in a subdirectory as I have never tried it before. I do seem to remember reading somewhere that people were having issues with subdirectory installs, though I could be wrong.
Hello guys,
I’ve tried to search the forum, but i couldn’t find a similar question. I’m sorry if this is a double post anyway.
At the moment i’m having a website that runs WordPress with a mingle forum. I’m no longer happy with this forum, so my decision was to make use of bbPress and I’m checking this out now.
The problem i run into, is that i cannot have the same slug for pages, as I use for forums. Let’s say the slug i want to use is called ‘gaming’. The permalink displayed here is http://www.domain.com/forums/forum/gaming/. Now i want to add a page to WordPress about gaming. In this case it will rename the slug to gaming-2, as if the slug was already used by another page.
When i enter the URL http://www.domain.com/gaming/ it does redirect me to http://www.domain.com/forums/forum/gaming/. But I want the WordPress page to show up on the first URL and this specific forum only on the later.
I tried to look some further and found out both WP pages as BBP forums were saved in the ‘wp_posts‘ table. Editing the ‘post_name‘ column here solves my problem, but it would be nice if other administrators, without database permissions could get this done too.
I hope I just miss something obvious here, would be great if someone can help me out!
Cheers,
Hedgehog
hi, what version of PHP is that wordpress using?
Great video tut, it help me a lot.
AWJunkies – Merry Christmas/Congratulations/Happy New Year! 
I look forward to your help here with our respective issues with bbconverter.
Thank you Andre. But Atahualpa don´t “support” bbpress themes. Can I install a new one? Or only modify the css file.
Is the same “problem” for plugins? I would like to install a new ones.
Thanks a lot,
Alex
@tnwinn
The numbers represent topics/replies for each forum so if it says (3,4) that means there are 3 topics and 4 replies in that forum.
Also, I would suggest maybe upgrading bbPress to the latest nightly vs. as it does not use tables.
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/plugin
download link is on the bottom of the page.
***BACKUP YOUR SITE***
The nightly beta has been just fine for me and others, but as always backup first.
Your right, your forums look horrible. I’m kinda hoping that the new theme built into the new vs. of bbPress might help you out.
Also, your theme is from a decent company, I’d also go over there and ask them for a little bit of help with the styles. There is nothing conflicting that I see, but for some reason your tables are all evenly spaced which is why the homepage looks so bad. The new theme does not use tables, so it might help.
Neolo7, try setting your permalinks to something other than default. You should at least have %postname%.
To add /forums/ to your menu, use the custom links option. Or create a page and use the [bbp-forum-index] shortcode, then add that page to the menu.
There is a glitch that is not bbpress related, but rather it’s custom post types related. If you theme relies on the class “current_page_parent” to highlight the current page, WordPress things any post type should keep your blog page highlighted, if you have one. Here’s a piece of code you can drop in functions.php to help:
// fix menus
function support_menu_item($menu){
global $post;
if (get_post_type($post->ID) == 'forum' || get_post_type($post->ID) == 'topic' || get_post_type($post_id) == 'reply')
{
$menu = str_replace( 'current_page_parent', '', $menu ); // remove all current_page_parent classes
$menu = str_replace( 'menu-item-169', 'menu-item-169 current_page_parent', $menu ); // add the current_page_parent class to the page you want
}
return $menu;
}
add_filter( 'nav_menu_css_class', 'support_menu_item', 0 );
Be sure to change “169” to the id of your menu item.
I just installed fresh latest WordPress + latest bbPress + several plugins (I have deactivated now) + Members plugin (a role manager plugin).
Create new roles of
– Forum Newbie
– Forum Member
The problem is when I trying to manage limit access to specific forum / post’s content it not work.
As sample for Forum A I limit access only to Admin, but others still can get it. Anyone have this problem before? I still trying some possible solutions.
bbPress 2.x doesn’t use the my-templates folder. 2.x uses the same theme your WordPress installation uses.
Basic question: Now that everything is installed and I’ve created my first forum (Welcome), where is my forum site? I’d like to point to it in my blog menu. Thanks
Basic question: Now that everything is installed and I’ve created my first forum (Welcome), where is my forum site? I’d like to point to it in my blog menu. Thanks
Just a note… I installed ver 2.1 (over the 2.0.2 install) of bbPress and I’m getting the same error.
