[Justin Tadlock]

Feedback on version 1.2:

I moved my database from my live site to my computer so that I could test this out. All of the forums, topics, posts, and tags transferred just fine. The three issues I ran into are:

1) Topics don’t get assigned a forum.

2) Replies don’t get assigned a forum.

3) Replies don’t get assigned a topic.

From what I can tell, this is because the plugin is using _bbc_* as the post meta keys when it should be using _bbp_*. Also, the author IP meta key has an additional underscore in its prefix: __bbc_author_ip.

[Anointed]

@Misha

Not really possible as it goes completely against the way that WordPress works. Not having an author assigned to a topic would leave it helplessly orphaned.

Even if it were somehow possible, would take some serious magic from Adam, I am certain this would be a paid project. You can always fill out the contact form for a bid over on bbconverter, but as I said, it’s so edge case that I’m not certain it would happen.

[ebiznet88]

Adam, congratulations on your upcoming wedding and marriage!

Many thanks for continuing to help us all here with your work on the phpBB converter. Your post is so tantalising to me and I’m sure others as well, and I’m just wondering when “updated real soon” might be…!

I’m also interested to hear your reply, as well as anointed’s, to MishaOLS’s question on converting another forum’s users to bbpress without also converting to WP’s database of users. I’m not exactly sure why I might also want that for my own forum (now and in the future), but I’m interested to hear your views on this anyway

[AWJunkies]

New update is available now version 1.2. Please test it out. I will have phpbb3 tested and updated real soon. Sorry again for the delays guys. Getting married on the 27th of December so been slammed with wedding stuff.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbconverter/

1.2

Fixed Cleaning slow down.

Much Faster importing now if mysql table editing is available.

Fixed duplicate first post/reply on topics

Fixed Issue with Different charset from UTF-8

Added more info messages

[yuliang]

I installed bbpress 2.0.2. It works fine with wordpress. However, I cannot see the editor bar when creating/editing topics and replies. I am wondering whether there is a way I can use the editor in wordpress or something similar?

Appreciate any help and information.

[Pairmybeer]

Looking for the same and will follow this thread to see if we can get an answer. Thanks for posting the question.

[Pairmybeer]

created a log in page as well using the same process

1) created a new page named “Log in”

2) added the following code in HTML:

[bbp-login]

<h1>To Register</h1>

[bbp-register]

3) added that page to my secondary menu

http://pairmybeer.com/log-in-to-pair-my-beer/

Still working on a layout for the forum homepage/landing page and having issues with some of the other short codes for forum and topic indexes

[drewdavid]

Hi there!

I have created a new user on my new bbpress installation, with the role of ‘forum participant,’ which I assume means access to the forums.

However it doesn’t seem to be working out! (see screen capture at http://simplemethod.ca/wp-content/uploads/forum-not-working.jpg)

Thanks wondering what I’m doing wrong! Appreciate this great plugin so far it has been a joy to use.

Best Regards,

Drew

[Wallach]

Amazing, Pairmybeer, a simple and elegant answer — it works — many thanks!

[Anointed]

Got your twitter message but could not reply back. Need to send you private links. New vs. is much improved.

I’ve done a site with 300k posts, and I know Adam has one with over a million so 100k should be just fine.

[Pairmybeer]

See this post for your answer. I had the same issue and resolved it with this. Just a couple of steps.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/page-in-menu#post-88982

[Justin Tadlock]

Sounds good. I haven’t started my third test yet.

My plan is to convert the Theme Hybrid forums over in the near future. There’s something like 100K+ posts on there, so I’m running this locally to see how it goes.

[vatoloco2]

I am using WP 3.3-RC2 + latest nightlies of bbpress 2.1 and BuddyPress 1.6. I am trying to get BuddyPress’s group forums replaced by bbpress. Once I disable “Discussion Forums” settings in Buddypress then bbpress settings will show me the option “Allow BuddyPress Groups to have their own forums”.

I can’t get it to work. Is this still in development or am I doing something wrong? Following trac timeline I thought this should work now.

Can someone please clear me up or guide me through the process to get Buddypress group forums working with this bbpress setting???

Unfortunately I don’t like BuddyPress Group forums…

[neontrauma]

Hi,

I’m running a bbPress 2 within BuddyPress, so bbp_reply_author_link(); links to the BuddyPress profile – domain.com/members/username. I’d like to change that link so that the username links to the WordPress author page (domain.com/author/userame). Changing the user slug in the bbPress settings to “author” didn’t help.

So – how is it possible to change that link or alternatively to display the username only, without any link?

Thanks,

neontrauma

[Wallach]

I installed bbpress on my WordPress site. I am able to define forums and topics within my admin area in WordPress, however the forum doesn’t show up in my menu bar.

[sravankumardv]

Hi i tried using the code [bbp-single-forum id=$forum_id] as

[bbp-single-forum id=$Introduction] where Introduction is the forum id, but it is not working. Please help me. Can you exactly mention what is the forum id here, is it the title what we provide for the forum .

[Anointed]

@Justin

Turns out I messed up and did not upload the latest vs. of the converter. Give me a minute and I’ll get everything straightened out.

Sorry about that, my fault entirely

[il_dandi]

Excuse me for this simple question… can you tell me the differences in WP and BBPress between:

Pages

Posts

Categories

???

Categoy is a group of post? (not pages) OK?

In mean I can insert: pages and categories (not post) OK?

I’ve this simple problem

[il_dandi]

I’ve installed bbpress and WP

I’d like to know if users forum, can create new post attaching photos??

How many??? Can I create a forum post with many photos (not only 1) and allow users to reply?

Thanks

[will_c]

I have a fresh BP 1.5.1 install with the bbPress 2 sitewide plugin installed. I have tried a number of different configurations (ie installing forums through the BP installer, then adding sitewide forums and disabling the forum component, keeping the forum component installed and using the sitewide plugin, or simply forgoing the forum install in the wizard and adding the plugin manually), but wasn’t able to get the activity stream integration with any of them.

However, I was able to write my own hacked version of the functionality into my functions.php file and it works. I modeled my code off the /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-extend-buddypress.php file starting at line 399. Because I am basically copying the functionality of the bbp-extend-buddypress.php file, I am wondering if maybe the bbp-extend-buddypress.php file simply isn’t being called, or if it’s a larger issue.

For those that are having similar issues, here’s the code I put together (warning, it’s quite hacked together and may not work for everyone). You can follow the same model for a new topic post by using the bbp_new_topic hook:

function bpt_reply_activity($reply_id = 0, $topic_id = 0, $forum_id = 0) {

$reply_id = bbp_get_reply_id($reply_id);

$user_fullname = bbp_get_user_profile_link(bbp_get_current_user_id());

$topic_link = '<a href="' . bbp_get_topic_permalink($topic_id) . '" title="' . bbp_get_topic_title($topic_id) . '">' . bbp_get_topic_title($topic_id) . '</a>';

$forum_link = '<a href="' . bbp_get_forum_permalink($forum_id) . '" title="' . bbp_get_forum_title($forum_id) . '">' . bbp_get_forum_title($forum_id) . '</a>';

$my_content = bbp_get_reply_content($reply_id);

$reply_url = bbp_get_reply_url($reply_id);

$user_id = bbp_get_current_user_id();



$max_length = 500;

if(strlen($my_content) > $max_length) {

$my_content = substr($my_content, 0, $max_length);

$my_content = $my_content . "[...]";

}



$the_action = " posted in the topic ";



bp_activity_add(array(

'user_id'               => $user_id,

'type'                  => 'new_forum_post',

'action'                => ''. $user_fullname . '' . $the_action . '' . $topic_link . ' in the forum ' . $forum_link . ':',

'item_id'               => $topic_id,

'secondary_item_id'     => $forum_id,

'content'               => $my_content,

'primary_link'          => $reply_url,

'component'             => 'bbpress',

'recorded_time'         => bp_core_current_time(),

'hide_sitewide'         => false

));



return;

}

add_action('bbp_new_reply', 'bpt_reply_activity');

[Justin Tadlock]

Some feedback:

The first test run didn’t convert the forums from bbPress 1.x. So, the topics and replies didn’t have a forum.

I tried a second test run and the forums were converted. I stopped the process at this point.

I’m going to give it a third test run to see if it’ll work.

[benfrain]

Hi Raphaelsuzuki – no, making a page (with full width template) and setting it as the base slug doesn’t work I’m afraid.

I’m not using TwentyTen, I’m using a child theme based on Thematic. I ended up just filtering the sidebar away with the following in my main theme’s functions.php:

function remove_sidebar() {

if(function_exists('is_bbpress') && is_bbpress()){

return FALSE;

} else {

return TRUE;

}

}

add_filter('thematic_sidebar', 'remove_sidebar');

Hope that helps someone in future.

[will_c]

I’m using bbPress 2 sitewide forums with BuddyPress 1.5. I am using the bp-default theme and the bbp-twentyten default theme for bbPress. I can favorite existing forum topics, but they don’t show up in a user’s favorites tab in their activity stream/profile. When I click on the “This topic is one of your favorites” link, I just get redirected to the profile page.

Favorites in the activity stream itself are working fine.

Edit: specified using BP 1.5.1

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[tnwinn]

When I first installed the plugin, after using the standalone version of bbPress, it appears as though some but not all of the posts on the standalone ‘converted over’ to the plugin. We still have the standalone live, as we work out kinks in the plugin, but how can I move the posts over to the plugin version?

You can see the standalone here: http://www.gogo-gringo.com/forum/

and the plugin version here: http://www.gogo-gringo.com/forums/

I hope to get some help ASAP.. I want to take down the old forum as soon as I can!

Thank you very much and thanks for all the hard work on the new plugin! (BTW I am using version 2.0.2 of the plugin)

[will_c]

I am wondering if there is a way with bbPress 2 to close forums to new topics, but allow users to reply to existing forum topics within that forum (or subforum). Ideally this would emulate the functionality of this bbPress standalone plugin:

http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/read-only-forums/

Currently, closing a forum restricts users’ ability to create topics and reply to existing topics (including topics in open subforums).

I found someone else raising this issue in the WordPress forums, here, but wasn’t sure that it was the most appropriate place to ask the question.