[John James Jacoby]

I don’t know why it’s a challenge.

They are two different pieces of software with two totally different purposes. bbPress isn’t “fully featured” forum software, just like WordPress isn’t a fully featured CMS. If you want bells and whistles, there are plugins for that.

[John James Jacoby]

What theme are you using? It’s possible that it just isn’t compatible with bbPress. Do they work if you switch back to another theme?

[bollocks187]

Dave,

I don’t think its a vote issue, just an opinion. I too would like to have bbpress as a forum, but seriously out of the box it is weak, very weak. It is geared towards ‘developers’ and “cake makers”

As for the other “big” forums software you suggest, well I am sure they are great but why on earth would you want to do WP integration work. Thats like creating more work instead of the original folks doing the work.

The simplicity of SimplePress is it is already a WP plugin! It comes out of the box with FULL features in less than 5 minutes.

I would challenge anyone out there to do an install of bbpress and SimplePress and compare.

[Porsche914]

I have installed the bbpress plugin into wordpress. After the activation, I get the plugin activated message. However, no tables are created and on the path where the plugin is installed the page is just blank. Anything else I need to do?

Thanks

[kenrichman]

So is it possible to use any of the bbpress plug-ins e.g. for moderation, with a buddypress site? Not necessarily using the buddypress forums – could be site-wide forums, I don’t care.

[kahuitel]

Hello !

I’ve recently converted my phpBB forum to BBpress and it worked well for a while.

But recently, checking pages, I’ve discovered that now all topics are blank.

I really don’t know what happened and I still can access topic pages that are indexed in google by typing site:leclectic.org

Examples :

Topic index : http://www.leclectic.org/forums/

Empty page : http://www.leclectic.org/forums/forum/presentation/

Topic from google : http://www.leclectic.org/forums/topic/k-net-05-pfp-liquid-nightmares/

May someone help me ?

Thanks a lot !

[John James Jacoby]

The server your clients site is on doesn’t have enough memory allocated to PHP. If they are paying you to fix it, they are trusting you to know how to fix it. A google search for PHP memory issues will be the most helpful to you.

[John James Jacoby]

Yes.

[John James Jacoby]

Yes.

[Stephen Edgar]

bbConverter FAQ/Known Issues 1.3 phpbb – bbpress

– Post URL’s (**From post above this post)

The URL’s from phpbb I thought were not getting migrated correctly when in fact they are, it is just that phpbb in its table lists the URL’s rather oddly. When looking at URL’s in the raw tables of phpbb they are in the following format:

<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://example.com">http://example.com<!-- m --></a>

Need to strip the <!– m –> & ‘ class=”postlink”‘ before conversion either with bbconverter or firstly converting the links in phpbb before conversion

– Poster IP Address is not migrated.

see this post.

– Images and Attachments (and smilies) are not migrated.

see this post.

– Existing Users

If a username already exists in wp_users the imported user will be named imported_username eg. If ‘john’ already exists will import as ‘imported_john’

– User Post Counts are not imported

When viewing /wp-admin/users.php each user post count is ‘0’

Ideally adding support to bbPress Core /wp-admin/tools.php?page=bbp-recount would fix that.

(I couldn’t find where WP/BBP is keeping the total post count for a user though it is stored in phpbb_users user_posts)

– Ophaned/Deleted User Posts:

If the user has been deleted from phpbb when bbConverter runs these posts will be imported into bbPress as userid ‘1’ (i.e. ‘Admin’)

– Time Zone

Ensure you have your WP install is set to the same Time Zone as phpbb to get correct post times

– User Profile data AIM & YahooIM fields are migrated by Jabber is not

add the following code for ‘jabber’ to ‘/** User Section **********’ of phpbb.php script below aim/yim

<br />

// User jabber.<br />

$this->field_map[] = array(<br />

'from_tablename' => 'users', 'from_fieldname' => 'user_jabber',<br />

'to_type' => 'user', 'to_fieldname' => 'jabber'<br />

);<br />

– ‘Quotes’

I haven’t fully looked into how quote behavior works just yet, needless to say a workaround of sorts needs to be found for this.

– Additional User Profile fields

Ideally would like to import phpbb_users user_from (phpbb User Localtion) field to wp_usermeta description (Thus eg. Melbourne, Australia is added to the WP user BIO). Unless of course there is a funky way to import ‘User Location'(user_from), ‘Signatures'(user_sig), ‘occupation'(user_occ) & ‘interests'(user_interests) all together into WP Bio?

– User Stuff not migrated (No big deal IMHO)

User Subscribed Post, Favorite, Bookmarks, Private Messages, Rank

(I dont see much of that as a very big issue in my case, users can just start this stuff from scratch)

And that’s about all I have for now… Any ideas or other workarounds would all be well received and again thanks guys for this plugin and hope that now phpbb is there I can help contribute something back.

Cheers,

Stephen

[freque.unce]

I ended up making the changes to buddypress. I set registration.php to display profile group 3 instead of 1, to hide the required display name option on signup, which forces it to clone username data. I then removed the ability to change names in xprofiles’ edit.php. Those 2 steps take care of all future occurances, so I then went in and changed all of my users display names to match their usernames manually, via the dashboard.

Problem solved.

[Corsari]

They talk about one “standalone importer” plugin.. but it is some kind of ghost plugin

it is not present in the bbpress.org plugins

it is not present in the wordpress.org plugins

but it does exists

I’m too in your situation.

I’ve installed and activated the bbpress 2.0.2 plugin in my wordpress… now what?

Thank you for any tip

Cor

[Corsari]

One kind explanation…

where is this plugin?

I mean, I own a standalone bbpress forum (Version 0.9x)

I also own a wordpress forum

I’ve installed and activated the bbpress 2.0.2 plugin

How to import the standalone bbpress into the WP plugged-in bbpress installation?

Searching “standalone importer” on both wordpress.org and bbpress.org plugins sections, doesn’t return any plugin named “standalone importer”

One additional tip. once I’ve imported the standalone’s data, how is it supposed to be accessed the “new” forum? (from the blog’ visitors point of view)

Thank you for any advice and hint

Cor

[trailmix5]

Hello,

I’m sure this is an easy question for you, but I can’t figure it out…

I’m trying to get rid of the text shadow that my theme probably put on the text of bbpress. I went through bbpress.css and inserted “text-shadow: none;” into every field that looked like a text field.

I was able to get rid of all shadows except for the text in the forum topic reply box. Including: Author, Posts, “Add this topic to your favorites”, Subscribe, The date, The reply text.

Can someone please tell me where the settings for this info is? Thanks so much!

[Kasparas]

(After 9 months.)

And now ? As i’m understand WP plugin (bbPress 2.0.2) is best solution to work with wordpress ?

[Kasparas]

(After 9 months.)

And now ? As i’m understand WP plugin (bbPress 2.0.2) is best solution to work with wordpress ?

[Stephen Edgar]

Version 1.3 Released:

phpBB3 now supported

punBB is started and should be early next week.

Brilliant!

Not sure why nor do I care at this stage, just converted 30,000 posts, 6,000 topics & 2,000 users from phpbb to bbPress.

I haven’t looked at users (or any db tables) just some posts and links are getting converted funkily:

Edit: Removed examples as formatting makes the issue extremely unclear

[MikeTime360]

Where does the standard bbPress 2.0.2 plugin place the database/tables inside the WordPress structure? I am a novice and I can not find the database/tables to remove completely from my site so I can re-install in a different configuration. Can anyone tell me where to look and what the typical naming is for the database/tables with the actual data in it? Thanks. (I tried looking in the forum, but I had no luck.)

[AWJunkies]

I would check out the “Example.php” file for info on how to create a converter. It is pretty self explanatory to any developer. We made it extremely easy to create conversion files. All you have to do is create the mapping and the system does everything else for you.

[phoenix_risen]

In bbPress, after I set the time zone to UTC-5 in “Settings” ->”General Settings”, it gave me the following error

and now whenever I go to “Settings” it only shows this error and won’t show my settings to make changes.

How do I fix this?

I don’t know if it matters, but my bbPress is integrated with WP.

This is the error:

Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘Exception’ with message ‘DateTimeZone::__construct() [datetimezone.–construct]: Unknown or bad timezone (UTC-5)’ in /data/16/1/21/63/1836226/user/1992360/htdocs/wordpress1/bbpress/bb-admin/options-general.php:180 Stack trace: #0 /data/16/1/21/63/1836226/user/1992360/htdocs/wordpress1/bbpress/bb-admin/options-general.php(180): DateTimeZone->__construct(‘UTC-5’) #1 {main} thrown in /data/16/1/21/63/1836226/user/1992360/htdocs/wordpress1/bbpress/bb-admin/options-general.php on line 180

[Aechus Tea]

Is there a schematic for the bbpress forum/post/userlog/etc databases? I have a custom forum with a lot of posts that I’d like to import into bbpress but I’m going to be doing it myself. Is the code in your importer script clear enough so that I could do something?

It would be cool if there was a simple universal xml file one could create with all the data for bbpress and import it that way.

Thanks.

[tommym123]

Anybody can answer this? I got a list of users in my db, password is md5 encrypted, can this be used as the user database for bbpress as well, so my users dont have to signup for the forum as well as the main site?

Thanks

[tommym123]

Anybody can answer this? I got a list of users in my db, password is md5 encrypted, can this be used as the user database for bbpress as well, so my users dont have to signup for the forum as well as the main site?

Thanks

[ebiznet88]

Woohoo! Thank you, Adam! I’m going to now convert my phpBB3 forum to bbpress2.

I’ll report back on how it went.

Thanks again, Adam

[Martin]

Hmmm, can I do that into another WP / bbPress site or does it have to be into the same installation that my current WP installation with the posts is running in?

And can it only convert a particular category as well I.e I’ve already set a ‘Forum’ category for the posts I’d like to convert.

Thanks for your help thus far too