[John James Jacoby]

@monoman – If WordPress is installed in a physical folder named ‘blog’ you won’t be able to easily put bbPress in any other folder. There are advanced ways of making this work, but you’d want to hire a pro to make it go (or do some digging into moving your WP install and/or sharing user tables between installs.)

[John James Jacoby]

Something in your theme’s CSS is coded for comment replies and bbPress is picking it up. This has happened to a few others, and I’ll be tweaking the default theme to prevent this in 2.1.

[goodmacc]

Hi, checked around and didn’t see anything about this so I thought I’d ask. I’m trying to use Google custom search as a one-stop search engine for my buddypress/bbpress site but for some reason topics don’t show up as results, only the forums.

Anyone else experienced this/know what may be up?

Thanks, any help is greatly appreciated!

Chris

[AWJunkies]

Thank you so much I received it from both of you so I have databases so please don’t send anymore. I should be able to work on these tomorrow and will give an update.

[Andre]

I just sent a phpBB3 DB. It was originally phpBB2 and migrated to official way.

[SportinSS]

I have the Chameleon theme from ElegentThemes. And i am trying to find out what to do to make bbpress work. I have it installed and works great on my mobile device. So i know it’s something to do with the theme i have. But i’m not sure where to start to make it work. This is really all i need so if there is a better way of doing it I am all ears! This site is for a small staffing company (365worx.com). They post a lot of things on Craigs List. But, they want to start posting things on there site. They don’t do a lot of it. So i don’t need anything special like phpBB. But i have thought about it and just don’t care for it much. Since i am so new to this it’s a little frustrating lol. Anyway, they will only post things to one forum, and no one will reply to it. it’s just to let people know it’s there.

Thank you all for your help! Sorry if it’s a dumb question!

[AWJunkies]

I received it and ran some tests the issue is: “I have firstly migrated the punbb to bbpress 1.1 so all the tables reflect that migration”. Well the data in the table is wrong compared to a fresh bbpress and posts in it. The “post_position” column is always 1 on your site this is not accurate and causing part of your issues. I see “topic_poster” and “topic_last_poster” all 0 as well.

If you can send me your punbb database I can make a conversion file for it and will solve everything.

Anyone who is doing a two step process this to that to this please refrain from using my script and ask for the direct conversion file. Everything I have tested is fresh copies of each forum platform without ever being converted into and I haven’t been able to get any issues.

Right now I have requests for phpbb3 and punbb. I need databases for these if you want to help speed up the process. I just need to test the phpbb3 and I can go live with it so if anyone has test data would be appreciated.

[Wallach]

Thank you. For some reason, the page worked, but did not have the correct formatted look.

I just found that the bbpress widgets actually place the forum and the log-in in the right column, which may be even easier to use, and the page seems to be formatted correctly as well, so I will mainly use those.

The pairmybeer site looks good, and is very concisely branded.

[AWJunkies]

Can you send it to me aellis@trinnovations.com I will run test on it.

[MishaOLS]

Hello Adam, well, to be honest, I don’t remember, I have done the first conversion like two months ago. Now I have just used the tables from the database. But it should be the standalone version 1.1. And yes, I do have the bbconverter_translator table. Do you want me to send you my tables? thank you very much for your work and time!

[aravoth2011]

Hi everyone. I’ve been trying to display posts from the forum on a static home page so that it gives the appearance of a blog. Basically, I’m using the tewntyeleven theme and I’m using the showcase.php template to display the forum entries.

you can see what I’m going for here.. http://test.objectsinmotion.org

So far, I’ve managed to modify it so that super stickies are put in the featured slideshow. The forum posts are displayed properly, and I’ve managed to pull the topic tags. One of the things I’ve been having a lot of trouble with is displaying the forum a topic is posted in as a category. Normally there is a line of text below the topic excerpt that says, “posted in (category name)” . But it seems that nothing I have tried so far is working. In fact, whenever I try to call the forum title, is displays the topic title instead.

I’m not a programmer, and I know next to nothing about php, I’ve been doing a lot of reading, and trying to learn as much as I can, but I’m just running into a brick wall here. Any help anyone could offer would be much appreciated.

Showcase.php uses content.php to display all that meta data. right now it looks like this..

<?php

/**

* The default template for displaying content

*

* @package WordPress

* @subpackage Twenty_Eleven

* @since Twenty Eleven 1.0

*/

?>



<article id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>

<header class="entry-header">

<?php if ( is_sticky() ) : ?>

<hgroup>

<h2 class="entry-title"><a>" title="<?php printf( esc_attr__( 'Permalink to %s', 'twentyeleven' ), the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ) ); ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>

<h3 class="entry-format"><?php _e( 'Featured', 'twentyeleven' ); ?></h3>

</hgroup>

<?php else : ?>

<h1 class="entry-title"><a>" title="<?php printf( esc_attr__( 'Permalink to %s', 'twentyeleven' ), the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ) ); ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h1>

<?php endif; ?>



<?php if ( 'topic' == get_post_type() ) : ?>

<div class="entry-meta">

<?php twentyeleven_posted_on(); ?>

</div><!-- .entry-meta -->

<?php endif; ?>



<?php if ( comments_open() && ! post_password_required() ) : ?>

<div class="comments-link">

<?php comments_popup_link( '<span class="leave-reply">' . __( 'Reply', 'twentyeleven' ) . '</span>', _x( '1', 'comments number', 'twentyeleven' ), _x( '%', 'comments number', 'twentyeleven' ) ); ?>

</div>

<?php endif; ?>

</header><!-- .entry-header -->



<?php if ( is_search() ) : // Only display Excerpts for Search ?>

<div class="entry-summary">

<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

</div><!-- .entry-summary -->

<?php else : ?>

<div class="entry-content">

<?php the_content( __( 'Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>', 'twentyeleven' ) ); ?>

<?php wp_link_pages( array( 'before' => '<div class="page-link"><span>' . __( 'Pages:', 'twentyeleven' ) . '</span>', 'after' => '</div>' ) ); ?>

</div><!-- .entry-content -->

<?php endif; ?>



<footer class="entry-meta">

<?php $show_sep = false; ?>

<?php if ( 'topic' == get_post_type() ) : // Hide category and tag text for pages on Search ?>

<?php

/* translators: used between list items, there is a space after the comma */

$categories_list = get_the_category_list( __( ', ', 'twentyeleven' ) );

if ( $categories_list ):

?>

<span class="cat-links">

<?php printf( __( '<span class="%1$s">Posted in</span> %2$s', 'twentyeleven' ), 'entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-cat-links', $categories_list );

$show_sep = true; ?>

</span>

<?php endif; // End if categories ?>

<?php

/* translators: used between list items, there is a space after the comma */

$topic_tags = bbp_get_topic_tag_list( '', __( ', ', 'twentyeleven' ) );

if ( $topic_tags ):

if ( $show_sep ) : ?>

<span class="sep"> | </span>

<?php endif; // End if $show_sep ?>

<span class="tag-links">

<?php printf( __( '<span class="%1$s">Tagged</span> %2$s ', 'twentyeleven' ), 'entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-tag-links', $topic_tags );

$show_sep = true; ?>

</span>

<?php endif; // End if $topic_tags ?>

<?php endif; // End if 'topic' == get_post_type() ?>



<?php if ( comments_open() ) : ?>

<?php if ( $show_sep ) : ?>

<span class="sep"> | </span>

<?php endif; // End if $show_sep ?>

<span class="comments-link"><?php comments_popup_link( '<span class="leave-reply">' . __( 'Leave a reply', 'twentyeleven' ) . '</span>', __( '<b>1</b> Reply', 'twentyeleven' ), __( '<b>%</b> Replies', 'twentyeleven' ) ); ?></span>

<?php endif; // End if comments_open() ?>



</footer><!-- #entry-meta -->

</article><!-- #post-<?php the_ID(); ?> -->

Other things on my to-do list include making the comments section show number of forum replies instead of number of wordpress comments, and changing the author link so that it goes to the bbpress profile of that user instead of a wordpress post archive.

For now though, I’m hoping that someone out there can help me with the “category” issue. Anyone have any ideas?

[monoman]

My website is based on static files located at the root level and later I have added WordPress blog set up in subfolder with permalink at /blog. After installing bbPress plugin, I’m not able to separate blog and forum in permalinks. I don’t know how to setup bbPress to have forum at /forum, instead of /blog/forum, which is the default setting and looks strange.

Do you know how to setup bbPress plugin correctly to solve this issue?

Thanks in advance!

[monoman]

My website is based on static files located at the root level and later I have added WordPress blog set up in subfolder with permalink at /blog. After installing bbPress plugin, I’m not able to separate blog and forum in permalinks. I don’t know how to setup bbPress to have forum at /forum, instead of /blog/forum, which is the default setting and looks strange.

Do you know how to setup bbPress plugin correctly to solve this issue?

Thanks in advance!

[monoman]

@acoburn4

You should look at: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/introducing-bbconverter-convert-your-current-forums-for-use-with-bbpress-2x#post-92732

[monoman]

@acoburn4

You should look at: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/introducing-bbconverter-convert-your-current-forums-for-use-with-bbpress-2x#post-92732

[AWJunkies]

are you on latest bbpress 1x? My tests are working so may need another set of sample data to test to see what is going on. Also check to see if you have a table called bbconverter_translator

[acoburn4]

Congrats on the stable release! I myself have been waiting to download it until all the kinks have been worked out. Downloaded this morning, and everything is better than I expected. GREAT JOB!

Quick question – sorry if it was already covered. I am currently using BBPress (standalone) version 1.1 and WordPress 3.2.1. I wanted to start using the BBpress plug-in. Are there any migration tools that allow an import from the standalone software to the plug-in?

Thanks for any information!

[acoburn4]

Congrats on the stable release! I myself have been waiting to download it until all the kinks have been worked out. Downloaded this morning, and everything is better than I expected. GREAT JOB!

Quick question – sorry if it was already covered. I am currently using BBPress (standalone) version 1.1 and WordPress 3.2.1. I wanted to start using the BBpress plug-in. Are there any migration tools that allow an import from the standalone software to the plug-in?

Thanks for any information!

[MishaOLS]

Hello Adam, congratulations to you wedding! I really appreciate that you work in the converter even thought you have so much other stuff to do! Wow!

I have upgraded the converter just now and tried twice to convert the standalone bbpress 1.0 forum. But I had a problem – all the posts were converted as topics instead of posts . Do you have any clue why is that and how can I fix it? I had no such problem with the previous version of bbconverter (there I had the problem with the duplicate first post/reply on topics).

Regarding the wp_users, I just tried to delete the e-mail addresses in the database and convert the users without the e-mail address. I hope that in this way the authors of the posts will be shown but at the same time my users might register again to my new site using their e-mail address. Hope it will work… thank you very much for your help! All the best from Misha

[freque.unce]

Hi, I’m running the current versions of wordpress/buddypress with the current bbpress plugin. I’d like to return usernames instead of real names in the forum, or user_login names instead of user_id names. I’m not sure where to make the adjustments. Any advice?

[Kaenim]

Is anyone familiar with a Like button for bbPress/BuddyPress? I’m looking for one that lets users “Like” posts on the forums (liking pages and blog posts would be nice, too, but I’m not picky). I’ve looked around on the plugin forum here and I’ve tried multiple searches, but the results are always the same: It’s either a Facebook like button or its the BuddyPress Like (which appears to be all but dead in the water). If anyone is familiar with an option that I’ve somehow overlooked, I would greatly appreciate a point in the right direction.

In summary: I’m looking for a “Like” button that does not use Facebook and allows users to like individual forum posts.

[neontrauma]

Hi yuliang,

there’s a plugin called Wysiwyg CKEditor (https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/wysiwyg-ckeditor/), but I’m not sure if it will work with bbPress 2.

[John James Jacoby]

Not finished yet, so don’t expect them to work until beta.

[AWJunkies]

Hey Justin the IP stuff is old I tested _bbp_author_ip which is the meta for storing for bbpress. But it doesn’t work. That code you see is error on my part for got to push that edit live but it is tested on my end. So I need to look into it further.

Also make sure to run all the bbpress counters. After the conversion is done it has a link to do so. If you do not do so it will not link up all the forums/topics/posts you are saying is an issue with assigning. So make sure to run counters and should have 0 issues.

[Anointed]

Thanks for the info, will get right on it.