dingles and OC2PS I’m having this very same exact problem.
BBPress has a converter but I cannot get anything to work right there and no one seems to be around to help me directly with my issue. I’ve been trying to get my forum converted for a month and a half now. I’m at my wits end.
So I’m coming back to Orson’s plugin in last desperate attempt to try once again even though I’ve always gotten the same conversion failed messages.
Dingles, could you share in more detail what you did to get it to work?
Or OC2PS if you figured it out?
I would be forever indebted!!!
Dianna
The edit from atiminou3 worked for me. Thanks!
I’m curious to know how well bbpress scales. As it stands right now, I’m beginning to think that WordPress is a bit of a dog despite being good for a number of things, relatively speaking. I haven’t seen many using bbpress other for simple support type sites – does anyone use it on a larger scale?
Hi @pkiula,
How Sean_A say, WangGuard is a WordPress Plugin but works with bbPress 2.x
Install WangGuard is as simple as going to Plugins tab -> Add New -> search for WangGuard and install it.
Ones you install WangGuard, you will need an API Key.
Regards
Hi Pkiula,
WangGuard actually will ONLY work with 2.x versions of bbPress, so you’ll be fine to use it. It won’t work with the standalone versions.
To install it you would just install it as though you were doing any other WordPress plugins, go to your admin panel, plugins section, and install.
Hi Crisium,
What version of bbPress? If it’s 2.x then what you need is this plugin for wordpress:
http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/09/17/members-wordpress-plugin
I currently have it installed on WordPress 3.3.1 and bbPress 2.0.2 with no problems.
Thanks so much! These look pretty good. Will give them a try..
The plugin directory overhere is pretty much outdated. They were made for the original version of bbPress.
Newer plugins can be found in the WordPress plugin directory:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=bbpress
Will WangGuard work with the “BB WordPress Plugin” version? (Not the standalone version of BBPress). I am using 2.0.2 Plugin.
If yes, then where should I install this plugin? Which folder?
Hi. I have downloaded the BBpress plugin for WP. In this version how do I install plugins for BB? There is no “my-plugins” folder.
Thanks!
Documentation is limited. A lot of information found, is pointing to the old version of bbPress.
Fact is:
– There is limited documentation about where to start (other than installing bbPress)
– There is limited documentation about how to enable theme support
– When you run into problems, you are on your own.
Somebody at Automattic should decide that some people should work dedicated on bbPress and bbPress only, otherwise nothing will change.
My 2 cents…
The theme I have uploaded in my main wp themes folder or the theme I have uploaded in the bbpress theme folder?
Hi,
I installed bbPress 2.0.2 on WordPress 3.3.1. Embedded it in the site of a customer. There are some forums created. All are Forum, Open and Public. Some topics are added by an Administrator. So far everything ok.
When a user with role Forum Participant logs in, it can access the forum, but no topics are shown:
This forum contains 4 topics and 0 replies, and was last updated by xxx 1 min ago.
Oh bother! No topics were found here!
Administrators do see the topics. What is happening here?
as basic integration you can duplicate your index.php file in your theme direcotry and name it bbpress.php. then make changes in that file. it is wrapper file that bbpress will use. bbpress checks for wrapper file in given order: ‘bbpress.php’, ‘forum.php’, ‘page.php’, ‘single.php’, ‘index.php’
If you want custom sidebar for bbpress pages then use “bbPress WP Tweaks” plugin from wordpress plugin repository.
If you want different sidebar to be displayed instead of blog sidebar in your theme then you can use this plugin that replaces your blog sidebar with forum specific sidebar.
On forum sidebar you can list forums, login box or login and register links, latest topics. While on blog you would list latest posts, categories, pages etc.
Also you can select default forum wrapper using this plugin.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-wp-tweaks/
Also you can use it to display login link for not logged in user. usually bbpress will say you need to login and not display link or form for login.
bbpress checks for ‘bbpress.php’, ‘forum.php’, ‘page.php’, ‘single.php’, ‘index.php’ files in your theme directory. uses first file that exists in this order.
You can copy your index.php as bbpress.php and make changes on it.
Is there documentation on how you can integrate your current them to bbpress? I see all these replies yes you can but no documentation. I mean I have dropped my theme into the bbpress folder etc etc.. and no luck. If anyone can help me out I would appreciate it.
Hi djoep, the converter would be awesome, but I had actually tried the manual instructions that you wrote up here in this thread. I got a good ways through it but then got stuck. 
I meant AWJunkies. I had offered to try to make the smf converter if only I could get a little help figuring out how to use their database query system. It is still a bit baffling to me why they chose to add a layer on top of SQL but there is where I ran into my roadblock.
I’m afraid I cannot help with the smf conversion until I can get some answers regarding use of the converter’s internal query mechanisms.
and… you just pointed out an error in my profile… should be bigtreestech.com.
joe
Hi djoep, are you meaning me that you tried to email about my SMF forum or are you talking the AWJunkies?
If you mean me, I never received it and would LOVE LOVE LOVE to contact you about how you converted your SMF forum. I’ll email you now to touch base with you. I originally have an SMF forum and had converted it to phpBB and waited on this phpBB converter. But I’m just having no luck and not sure what I’m doing wrong. I’ve thought of going back to the SMF forum and looking your instruction over again.
I hope you don’t if I contact you and try it again. Thx!
IF AWJunkies/Alex did make the SMF converter next, that might very well solve my problems so I’m not double converting to get it to bbpress.
ETA: djoep, your profile doesn’t have an email in it. I tried your site link but it doesn’t seem to be a working website anymore. My email is dianna@diannamangus.com if you would or want to contact to help me with the my SMF conversion. I did get pretty close with it, so I’m sure it’s just something stupid that I’m not doing correctly.
Thanks a lot, yeah I figured that out. I was confused between the 1.x and 2.x versions. Then I realised the 2.x version is basically a completely new thing that just kept the name, and is no longer stand alone.
Just finding that 2.x needs more plugins!
When you are actively using the plugin already, the bbPress admin area is under Settings/Forums. When you initially wish to install bbPress sitewide forums, you do that from the BuddyPress Tab, under Forums.
Setup is rather easy, and you can actually use both bbPress sitewide as well as the original BuddyPress Group Forums. Follow these important step however:
1) Install Group Forums as usual, from BuddyPress. Instead of using the original slug of “Forums”, please instead create a new page called “Group Forums” (or anything other than “Forums”), and select that as the active page to host Group Forums;
2) Go to your Pages area in WP and DELETE any “Forums” page. Be SURE to also delete it permanently from the TRASH because otherwise the slug is still being reserved and can’t be used by sitewide forums;
3) If you have not done so yet, go into BuddyPress tab and the Forums sub menu, and click on the option to install bbPress Sitewide Forums;
4) Go into your Appearance / Menus menu and manually create new menu item that has “/forums” as the url and whatever name you prefer (such as “Forums”). Save this menu item and add it to your primary or other menus.
5) Go into Settings/Permalinks and hit “Save” to be sure you have updated your permalink structure.
When you reload your page you will find that you now have bbPress AND BuddyPress Group Forums. Voila!
Cheers!
Spence
http://LabSecrets.com
I just installed the bbpress plugin and it seems to work great. I am working on stylizing it to match my site. How do I get it to use a specific page template for the forums? Can I make the forums pull into a specific page that I create and then set a page template?
What ever happened to SMF? I tried using the contact info given but have never received a response.
joe
