[bradlis7]

Spam is hard to deal with in bbpress, WordPress itself does a much better job. For one thing, I would like to see replies to see if it is really spam, but it doesn’t seem like I can view it without marking it as “Not Spam”.

Also, I would like to see a “Delete permenantly” button in the Spam list for both topics and replies.

I think that bbPress also needs better notification, or a setting for “Topics/Replies must be approved the first time”. I had 20 topics that were spam that had showed up in my forums, but I don’t get much traffic, so I didn’t realize they were there.

[FrosyD]

http://www.kristarella.com finally got it working!!!!

Go and DONATE her some cash!!

[MishaOLS]

Hello guys, thank you Adam for all the work you put into this converter! I really can’t wait for the updated version! Now I would like to ask all of you one maybe stupid question but is it somehow possible to convert the author’s of the posts without creating an entry in the wp_users database? My problem is that I have converted my whole site (I was previously using blog:CMS and punbb forum) into WordPress and now I decided that I will ask all my free users to create a new account for WP (to have fresh password, etc.) but I obviously can’t do this until I delete all the users that have been created by the converter. Yet once I delete them, their posts get deleted as well. I also tried to convert the forum without the users but the problem is that the forum then gets converted without the authors of the posts . So I am in a dead end here… I would basically need to keep forum’s authors (only name is sufficient) without creating an entry in the wp_users database (so that my users may register for WP using the same e-mail). Thank you very much for your help/advice/suggestions. All the best from Misha

[David100351]

@Hagandasz

I had problems finding this, too.

Go to Forums on Dashboard.

Hover the mouse over the title of the forum, and a link comes up at the bottom of the page. (In Opera it does, anyway)

e.g. http://pour-your-heart-out.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=36&action=edit

in this case, $forum_id is 36

you don’t use the $

The same principle works with the rest. I know it says “post=36” but I guess that’s just how wordpress stores stuff.

[go3721]

My website has already installed WordPress 3.2 at mydomain.com/blog/. Recently I installed the bbpress 2.0 plugin, trying to set up a forum for my site. However, from what I can see, I can set up the forum as mydomain.com/blog/forums/. But what I really want to do is set it up as mydomain.com/forums/, which means I want to let the blog and fourm appear to be in separate and parallel directories (not one inside another). Can somebody tell me how to do it?

Thanks!

[Adrian23]

Since the WordPress discussion boards increased along with bbPress underneath the cover, bbPress had been examined in order to it’s complete capability, resulting in a number of custom remaking as well as tweaking to support the actual development as well as development associated with WordPress right into a world-wide acclaimed running a blog system.

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bp oil spill claims

[liyucmh1314]

@logart Hi, thanks for this useful information.

[mamikaze]

I am working on a bbpress forum in a WordPress site for a client and it needs to be one forum only. the focus is to be on the topics list.

I’m using the bbp-twentyten theme.

Thanks!

[MellyVille]

Somehow, I believe there are to be more settings than just the two known to me. I’m using WordPress 3.2.1 and have installed bbPress through BuddyPress…

Now i can only make minor settings through:

1. wp back end -> BuddyPress -> Preferences (5 checkboxes and thats it)

2. wp back end -> Settings -> Forums (couple of minor per page settings + slugs).

That can’t be it right? bbPress is a powerful forum, there have to be more settings right? Am I missing anything?

p.s. for example, I want the ‘start new topic’ field gone and move it to it’s own page in stead of being underneath the forum/topic list…

[Dominik Traskowski]

Someone resolve that problem?

[Dominik Traskowski]

Hello.

When i install bbpress for buddypress (for groups) the theme get nice javascript button “Add Topic” what show and hide add topic/reply form.. I want to create that on normall bbpress, normall bbpress forum. Now it’s static form, witchout this show/hide.. Can anyone help me?

[MishaOLS]

Hello, I would like to create a special forum for my paid members. I am using the Your Members http://yourmembers.co.uk plugin for my user management. I thought that I would simply create a new forum called “members” with some topics and I would put this forum using a shortcode to the members page, which would have restricted access for members only (using the Your Members plugin).

Yet it seems not to work this easy way. The logged in member can’t see any forum on that page and there is only a line of text with latest forum news and a form for a reply. Once he clicks either on the news or writes a reply, he gets a 404 page. Do you have any idea why is that?

I was trying to make the forum private or hidden, but I don’t understand at all how these features work and I wasn’t able to find any documentation for bbPress yet:(. Could someone please advise me on how would it be the best way to create the paid member’s only forum? Just to make clear, I also do have a normal forum for my free users (who have to be logged in to be able to post into it). Thank you very much for your help! All the best from Misha

[DiannaM668]

Hi Chrisella, I gave it one more college try on that Forumconverter plugin and it even mentioned needing to use bbpress 2.0 rc4 version. I installed the older version of BBpress but still no go. I’m getting stuck when I get a 500 internal server error and I believe I’m timing out.

When I get the error page after about 2 minutes of conversion, it then makes me log into my wordpress installation as if it’s trying to install itself. I put my login info as it asks and it then gives me a long list of the errors that occurred. It does say “…… has exceeded the ‘max_questions’ resource (current value: 75000)].

When I go to my forum, I do have the forum and topics, but no actual posts. So close yet so far.

If I knew how to further fix my timeout issue, I may try to call my web-hosting to see if they could guide me on the issue or maybe give me more conversion time just for this issue…I’m just grasping at straws.

If no luck on this last attempt with calling my web-hosting, I’m at the mercy of AWJunkies guys for when they have time to possibly finish the plugin for a phpBB conversion. They will totally make my day.

I’ve pretty much tried every route one can possibly try to get my forum over to bbpress. I’ll just wait with crossed fingers and toes.

[Anointed]

bbPress works on virtually any theme out there. It may take a little tweaking of the css to get it to look right, but it should still work just fine.

[andeeh]

I found what I was looking for here:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbp_wp_login_action-question

There’s a bug in bbp-common-template.php

[Lisa]

Hi-

I have been messing around with bbpress plugin version 2.0.2 at least 4 times in the last 2 days. I can install the plugin, set the forums up and view the forums just fine.

But when I try to log into my WP admin section (using wp-login.php) — it takes me directly to my home page instead of the WP dashboard.

What am I doing wrong?

[bbuser12345]

I have a BBpress 1.1 stand alone installation and would like to up grade.

Q1: Should I install Buddypress or WordPress+BBPress 2.0. I have been using BBPress for about 4 years and I still really have no idea what the differences are.

Q2: Given your answer to Q1, is there a step by step guide to migrating my current 1.1 forum?

Thanks,

BBUser1234

[SK]

Surely this is one of the most frequently asked question by noobs? But I couldn’t find it in the FAQ (in docs), not in the forums, so had to ask.

I am currently running WordPress with Weaver theme, and wondering if bbPress can directly utilize that theme, as that would be one of the big thinks I’d be seeking to achieve by moving from phpbb to bbpress…

[SK]

I don’t know the answer.

But the way to go is certainly to install bbPress separately and integrate with WP with https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-integration/ ?

[liyucmh1314]

Thanks a lot, perfect solution.

[liyucmh1314]

very useful video, thanks for sharing…

[tnwinn]

I’m definitely not up to par (re: computer/coding knowledge) with everyone that has been posting on this thread, but I’m not a total idiot, either… in other words, I can follow directions, but be gentle on me!

I don’t know if one of these plugins mentioned might be the fix for my problem. From what I can tell, I am having minor problems since downloading the bbPress plugin (I have version 2.0.2 currently installed) but previously had a WP-bbPress forum integration set-up. It wasn’t fully integrated into my theme, but I at least had seamless logins, etc. You can see from my homepage here: http://www.gogo-gringo.com/ and my forums here: http://gogo-gringo.com/forum/.

However, now when I try to access or edit forum topics and replies from the WP dashboard, it doesn’t affect anything at http://www.gogo-gringo.com/forum. Much to my dismay, I’ve realized there is also now a http://www.gogo-gringo.com/forums which pulls up within my site, but looks pretty awful. I will have to try and edit the style to get it to work.

I would rather have the latter, more integrated one(www.gogo-gringo.com/forums/) working and looking stylish.. and get rid of the older one (gogo-gringo.com/forum/) but of course keep all my users and posts.

Could someone point me in the right direction? Thanks a million in advance!

[Flaneurblog]

Hi,

I have set up a BBpress forum using the WordPress plugin. You can see the installation at:

http://flaneur.me.uk/forums/

Can I use BBpress plugins to extend this or do they only work with a stand-alone installation?

If I can do they go in the normal WordPress plugin directory?

Thanks

[tnwinn]

I can’t seem to get any of the bbPress widgets to work properly… the shortcodes function, but they aren’t formatted or anything, so if I try to use them in a text widget I just end up with messy text that is about 100 lines long, and get a bunch of Page Not Found errors when clicking on it.

I think I am having trouble because I originally installed bbPress separately, then added the plugin when it became available. I’m not sure what to do.. it is all a big mess

[Devon Steel Fabrication]

Thanks to the OP for this thread! Searched….serached….found the answer!

Again, many thanks…