Thanks a lot, but once I install that plugin, my forum goes down 
I’m using the plugin version of bbpress.
I’m using WP-Syntax plugin to display some program codes on my blog.
It uses this syntax:
“Syntax highlighting using GeSHi supporting a wide range of popular languages. Wrap code blocks with <pre lang=”LANGUAGE” line=”1″> and where LANGUAGE is a geshi supported language syntax. The line attribute is optional.”
I want to use the same syntax even on my forum.
Thanks Anointed. I am using nightly.
Forum looking good now. Just need to edit css abit.
Forum: http://beta.jav-mediafire.com/forum/
Screenshot1: http://imgur.com/4R5QT
Screenshot1: http://imgur.com/oVh1i
These codes eg. “:twwr5fiw” are NOT added by the converter, they are actually in the raw phpbb database tables, phpbb strips these codes before rendering on the page display.
The converter is copying the content correctly and in essence before running the converter you need to strip these from your phpbb installation first.
I haven’t found an easy way to do this yet but that is what stage I am up to before trying my next conversion. More info can be found by looking around phpbb.com for “Magic URL” & “Short URL” though I haven’t found much that could actually help us out here. It looks like I will try replacing the eg. “:twwr5fiw” & “<! — m –>” info manually with search and replace SQL Update queries directly into the phpbb database tables before conversion.
Thanks for your help in this, Anointed One 
Happy New Year 2012, everyone here! May the new year be a good and happy one for all!
If that extra info is being added during the conversion then something is wrong with the bbcodes converter that bbconverter is using. I will let AWJunkies know about it when he gets back in the office.
thanks for the heads up
One solution I can think of to correct this issue is to go through the SQL file and do a search and replace of this string of characters.
But, as I said in my post earlier, I tried removing the characters so that the original bbcode is restored, in this case the [img]tags, but the post still did not display the image correctly.
Any thoughts on this, anyone?
It kind of helps to know what plugin you are talking about.
There are a couple of plugins that might help though:
http://bbpressbbcode.chantech.org/
http://bbpressbbcode.chantech.org/shortcode-whitelist/
those allow you to use shortcodes in bbPress, and also choose which ones you allow users to use.
*allowing all shortcodes for users is dangerous, asking for trouble.
**I didn’t write the plugins, and don’t know much about them other than I tried them once and they worked. Just trying to help
I believe that bjj’s example shows the converted code. The original should be:
Stacks:
The converted added the characters “:twwr5fiw” to the post.
Just like in my example:
The original bbcode post:

The converted code:
[img:33mwiaq9]http://www.swafineart.com/images/30.4.07/images/NightOfHeros_lr.jpg[/img:33mwiaq9]
The converter added the characters “:33mwiaq9” to the bbcode tags.
I hope that clarifies the issue we are facing here.
For the most part, that is about how bbPress looks out of the box. I see a few table issues, but nothing major.
Try downloading the nightly vs. and see if that helps out.
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/plugin
The bottom of the page in the center is the link to download.
The new vs. does not use tables and ‘might’ help make it look a little better out of the box.
*keep in mind:
that is the nightly beta vs. although it does seem pretty stable to me.
Under the wp-admin Settings -> Forums
http://screensnapr.com/v/fg2dNB.png
notice the last choice? check that, and if you are running WordPress 3.3 and bbPress 2x, it should show up.
The bbcode is going to take a special process to convert. I mean what in the world does ‘b:twwr5fiw’ mean anyhow? Notice that when you paste it in here, bbPress is not converting it?
Just like with WordPress where anyone can register anything as a ‘bbcode’ there is no standard between software packages, much less between single sites even. Other than a few standard ones my bbcodes are totally different than yours for example.
In those instances, I can almost guarantee it would require a custom setup. I know AWJunkies was offering this service at one time.
I personally have no idea how it would even work because what are the definitions for the original bbcodes?
My best guess is that AWJunkies would have to go through each persons install one at a time in order to check for bbcode definitions, plugin by plugin, and then create a custom translator.
I did send him a message, but I’m guessing that his office is closed for the holidays as I didn’t hear back from him.
bjj and I have the same concern here. I too have posted above similar results with the conversion. My board has been converted and the strange codes remain.
I tried editing the post to the original bbcode but it doesn’t work.
Does bbPress use bbcode at all? I thought it does…
Is it normal that Converter completely destroys all the phpbb3 bbcode ??
Example:
[b:twwr5fiw]Stacks:[/b:twwr5fiw]
[b:twwr5fiw]UTG nuskei ([color=#0000cc:twwr5fiw]$100[/color:twwr5fiw]) [/b:twwr5fiw]
[b:twwr5fiw]CO 52823824 ([color=#0000cc:twwr5fiw]$136.25[/color:twwr5fiw]) [/b:twwr5fiw]
BTN buckeystevez ([color=#0000cc:twwr5fiw]$113.50[/color:twwr5fiw])
SB Schuks000 ([color=#0000cc:twwr5fiw]$57.75[/color:twwr5fiw])
BB fsnzr ([color=#0000cc:twwr5fiw]$106.75[/color:twwr5fiw])
Well, does anyone know how to fix such things?
Hi Guys,
I’m having css trouble for bbpress forum on delicate theme.
I try few method but I cant get them fixed. Anyone here can guide me?
Thanks in advance.
Forum: http://beta.jav-mediafire.com/forum/
Theme: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/delicate
Screenshot 1: http://imgur.com/JA7fe
Screenshot 2: http://imgur.com/rJ8Pc
I was testing the bbPress because I was dissatisfied with BuddyPress … I give up of bbPress too.. you must have confidence in a forum script to put into production .. I do not trust in bbPress… do not recommend..
please help.. it’s critical form me #please
Hi peeps,
I have once before integrated an older release of bbPress 2 which worked fine, i was able to get all the templates to inherit from the activate WordPress theme but in the latest release that inheritance seems to have stopped working for me. Here’s a rundown of what i have done:
- Copied all the files from within
/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten to the current theme i have activated
- I have merged the activate themes functions.php file with the functions.php file from bbp-twentyten and removed the extra 2 occurrences for style.css
- Re-named all occurrences of Twenty-Ten to %THEME_NAME%
- Ensured
add_theme_support('bbpress') exists at the top of my activate themes functions.php file
I have tried everything i physically can, i can modify the files within my themes bbpress folder but just am unable to get the page-* files to respect my changes. I have more then likely overlooked something but i have spent a good 1-2 hours reading through thread after thread and have come up empty handy.
Thanks in advanced.
I wanted bbPress moderation, so just hacked up an ugly set of filters to mark new topics/replies as pending rather than published.
It may be sufficient for your needs.
See https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-bbpress-no-required-registration-to-reply-but-moderation-step
Ian.
I installed the bbpress okay without incident. I created a forum, looked at it in preview, updated it so the forum was created. I created a page so the permalink would show the same as the forum but it won’t pull up the identical url. I manually entered it. Not working. Any suggestions. I just need to link a menu tab/button to my forum. Wondering why the settings doesn’t create the page and link it.
Thanks. nationalpreppersassociation.org
I’d love to know more on this too.
I figured that you’d be able to override default bbpress pages with custom pages containing shortcodes and changes to the permalink structure.
I haven’t been able to achieve this and I’m struggling to find information on the logic behind all this.
Hi all.
I started trying to import my bbpress and upgrade to 2.0. However I get :
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/www/roskilde-open.dk/forum/bb-includes/functions.bb-forums.php on line 84
No forums found
Any suggestions? I tried googling and reading other topics, but they didn’t seem to apply to my problem
Does anyone know whether it’s possible to solve this /blog/forum/ issue and eventually how to setup bbPress plugin?
Does anyone with BuddyPress+bbpress experience have any insight on this issue? BuddyPress 1.6 is a long way off…
I’ll ask AWJunkies to jump in and take a peek at these requests for you guys.
I am now in the midst of converting my phpBB3 forum to bbpress using this converter. I am having to keep refreshing the page every few hundred posts as it keeps stalling. I’m now at around post 15000 being converted. I have 47,000 posts, so there’s still some ways to go.
I have checked the converted posts results in the meantime and noticed that for posts with images, using phpBB’s BBCodes [img]tags, these posts contain strange characters. An example:
[img:33mwiaq9]http://www.swafineart.com/images/30.4.07/images/NightOfHeros_lr.jpg[/img:33mwiaq9]
Night of Heroes – The Dambusters by Philip West.
The original phpBB post would have read:

Night of Heroes – The Dambusters by Philip West.
I would like to ask if the Converter doesn’t retain the bbcodes as is, but introduces these strange characters? Or is this part of the conversion process and after it is completed, I should see it return to normal?