[John James Jacoby]

This is changed in the in-development 2.1 version.

[John James Jacoby]

Create pages, use Shortcodes or Page Templates.

[John James Jacoby]

Create pages, use Shortcodes or Page Templates.

[benfrain]

Here is the site I’m working on: http://testtrack.tv/forums

It’s WordPress site using a custom child theme of the Thematic wordpress theme/framework.

As you can see, I have used the WordPress functions.php to filter away the sidebar to get a full width layout. Other than that, I have just the styles.css of my theme to restyle the forums slightly.

However, as far as I can tell bbPress doesn’t have a built in login/register link anywhere on the forums – why on earth not? Did I miss something?

Therefore, can anyone tell me how I add a simple login/register link within bbPress? As I’m not using the sidebar, I can’t add a widget there.

Any help hugely appreciated.

[philv]

Thanks for the response, Chris.

bbPress forums/topics permits an admin to post html content. Sadly, it appears to be a time in limbo before a member can do the same. It limits the range and ease of discussion.

I will keep searching for a solution. Thanks again.

[@ChrisClayton]

Hi Philv.

The plugin has not been upgraded for BBpress 2.0+

To use that plugin you will need to download the stand-alone version or bribe the plugin developer into updating it

or; finding a new plugin that is compatible for 2.0+.

Hope that helps.

[highexistence]

Thanks for the help @will_c!

Unfortunately that didn’t work for me. Somehow I’m not even getting the above mentioned errors anymore (even before your suggestion) but AJAX is still not working.

AJAX is broken in Buddypress and BBpress and I have tried deactivating all other plugins.

[philv]

Fatal error: Call to undefined function bb_get_option() in /home2/cincomej/public_html/3cincom/wp-content/plugins/easy-video-embed/easy-video-embed-plugin-0.1.php on line 37

What does this mean?

Was able to activate “Allow Images” and “bbPress Moderation Suite” plug-ins, though I have no idea how they function once installed.

[ozyoz]

Hi,

How do i fix this?

Your active theme does not include bbPress template files. Your forums are

using the default styling included with bbPress.

thanks,

Oz

[nativemedia]

Hi, I installed bbpress 2.0.2 on a wp theme called “Nuke” http://www.gallyapp.com/tf_themes/?theme=Nuke from the themeforest website. I have bbpress running on another site but on this one (http://2012.native-media.net/) I get this message when trying to see a new forum;

Catchable fatal error: Object of class WP_Error could not be converted to string in /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/native-media.net/subdomains/2012/httpdocs/wp-content/themes/Nuke-v1-1/Nuke/lib/custom.lib.php on line 157

No forums are working. Any ideas what I need to change to get bbpress working?

Thanks

[tflight]

Looking for some conversion advice. Here is my current setup.

Server1: http://www.example.com – WordPress 3.3 only… no forums, no bbPress, no BuddyPress, etc..

Server2: forums.example.com – phpBB 2.0.23. No integration with WordPress.

Server3: db.example.com – The database server for both WordPress and phpBB.

I’m looking to migrate from phpBB2 to bbPress. However I do *not* want my WordPress user table and my forums user table to commingle. After reading up on the conversion scripts available, the fact that bbPress 2 is a plugin and not standalone, etc I’m thinking that the following would be my best course of action.

1) Do a straight conversion from phpBB2 to phpBB3.

2) Install a new copy of WordPress on server2, get it up and running basic.

3) Install the bbPress plugin for WordPress on server2.

4) Run bbConverter to convert the (now) phpbb3 database to bbPress.

Does this sound like the best course of action? Anything anyone would suggest different?

[AWJunkies]

Just understand very hard to be able to parse everything with all the different formats for every forum. I use a standard off the shelf parser class which doesn’t catch everything. The parser will need to be expanded or edited to cover all cases I need help on this. Need the community to help maintain that. Add it once and it is added for everyone. Right now priority is PunBB then I can take a look at parser updates.

[Steve D]

I’m currently using bbPress 2.0.2 and would also like to see a topics-tags cloud in my sidebar. The existing tag cloud widget doesn’t show forum tags.

Any recent development on this issue?

Thanks ahead of time!

Steve

[bollocks187]

john,

The point is a simple one that is being avoided in my thread. Firstly I and thousands very much appreciate the work of bbpress team.

1) SimplePress is a WP plugin that is “fully featured” out of the box for Forums.

2) bbpress is a WP plugin that requires other plugins to allow it to be featured to your hearts content.

With 1) you get what the developers of the plugin regard as Forums features and capabilities. What you get is fully integrated features by the plugin and ‘dedicated’ plugin developers.

2) provides you basic features. You then depend upon yourself or other plugin developers to ‘enhance’ to get to a featured Forum solution.

A simple analogy is with 1) you get a “showroom” car that works with a set of features. As for 2) you get a “car” which you then customize along with the development community.

My “challenge” was try both out and then compare.

[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.