[Argonisius]

Hi,

I just converted my phpBB database into bbPress with ForumConverter plugin. Everything works fine, but when I look at the forum widget on dashboard, there is “0 Forums”. But I have 4 forums already. How can I change that to show 4?

Thanks.

[rwhite1986]

As far as I know, bbpress is using the twentyten theme. Sorry, my experience is limited.

[ddlg2007]

Hi I have a question. How can I edit style.css without affecting my theme. So use the firebug to make changes but when I inspect objects the style is wp-content/themes/mytheme/style.css and i dont wanna edit my style of theme, only style of bbpress.

I try this:

Copy Files

If this is not a custom theme under your control (meaning you are not the author) you’ll want to copy the entire “/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten” folder into your “wp-content/themes/%YOURTHEMENAME%” folder, and modify your style.css to make it a custom Child Theme of whatever your current theme is. This is so theme updates don’t wipe

Add Theme Support

Now that you’ve got the files copied over, you’ll need to tell bbPress that you are in control of the theme situation. You do this by adding this to your functions.php file:

add_theme_support( ‘bbpress’ );out all your hard work later.

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But dont work good because some subforums disappear and change the order. I like to stay like this with bbp-TwentyTen and modify aspects of my theme style.css without affecting primary.

[faustie_art]

but I do not understand the wording of a step for stand alone installation of bbPress 2.0. I’ve downloaded it, and added it to my FTP, but I don’t get this step:

4.Visit the intended URL of the bbPress site

what does this mean? I mean, i get the idea of what it means, go to mysite.forum.com if that’s where i want the forum. okay great, but that doesn’t do anything by itself.

Do I need to set up a blank page for the forum? And if so, how does that do anything for the installation process? I feel like there’s more steps here, something obvious I’m missing, but i’m not sure what.

thanks!

[Anointed]

The theme on this website is custom and is not yet running the 2x plugin, so no, there is nothing ‘out of the box’ that will look like it does here.

It is however more than possible to build your own custom theme that looks and behaves like this site does. Not easy but possible. Gotta remember, bbPress uses templates in the same was as WordPress does.

[selise]

rossagrant, are you looking at the buddypress profile? i ran into something that sounds similar and the issue was that some of bbpress / buddypress integration is in progress and planned for next release. here’s the previous topic thread, which might be of use (includes workaround plugin from travishill)

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/user-profiles-in-bbpress-buddypress

[dariopaniagua]

Is there a way to have the main forum page exactly as the main forum page of this website? I mean: two colums:

1) column left: with the “Forums” and the “Hot Tags”

2) column right with the “topics”

Is that a theme that I have to upload or there is another way to do that?

Thanks in advance

Dario

[jez101]

Has anyone been able to get bbPress 2.0 and the Thesis theme to work together?

I have tried a number of things but I just can’t get it to work.

If I do nothing and rely on the default theme the forum is totally unusable. Not only is there no styling but none of the functionality works (no links appear for a start!).

I have tried creating a child theme as per instructions on this forum, tried using shortcodes and I have also tried copying the relevant parts of the default theme over to the thesis theme folder.

This seems to get slightly better results in the sense that I get the forum functionality, but there is no styling. You can see my current attempt here:

http://www.jezza101.co.uk/forums

It seems to me like part of the theme’s framework is somehow breaking bbPress, there must be some fundamental incompatibility in there somewhere – but I really don’t know enough to debug this.

I have asked over at the Thesis support forum but there seems to be little understanding of what’s going on over there. Is there anyone over here who has any suggestions?

[John James Jacoby]

The WordPress core tab UI is built into the header area of the settings page, and consequentially does not have an API to go along with it. The other issue with using tabs instead of new settings pages, the navigation doesn’t appear anywhere else and requires more clicks to get to secondary tabs.

I’m not a fan of nesting options inside so many tabs. bbPress core settings aren’t the place to put theme options. You can use the WordPress settings API if you want to add additional settings that fit side-by-side with bbPress core features. Anything else probably deserves it’s own unique UI and page.

[Clicknathan]

@Andre: Yes, impossible as in “possible”, but on opposite day.

@JohnJamesJacoby: I’d LOVE to contribute to the docs here, and have even been compiling some notes of my own that I was at some point going to put into a blog post…

Much rather add them to this site, but even though I’m logged in (can see that on the Forums pages), and the Docs > Template Tags page says that I can help by “Add[ing] documentation to un-documented functions, by creating sub-pages…”, there is no link to Edit the page to be found.

https://bbpress.org/documentation/template-tags/

Am I missing something?

[silverks]

Hi,

I’m currently implementing bbPress compatibility support for my theme (Graphene). I chose to go the route of using the default theme that comes with bbPress 2.0, and just add additional styles to make bbPress compatible with my theme.

Since I’m not using the add_theme_support( 'bbpress' ) switch in my theme, bbPress displays a persistent nag in the Appearance section of WP Admin:

Your active theme does not include bbPress template files. Your forums are using the default styling included with bbPress.

How can I disable this nag? It doesn’t matter that the forums are using the default styling included with bbPress, since the additional custom stylesheet I implemented in the theme takes care of integrating the styling into my theme’s styles.

Thanks!

[John James Jacoby]

Documentation is vital, but it’s not a job for the only developer on the project to do at the same time. It’s an opportunity for someone to step up, take something over, and contribute to the project.

[Anointed]

bumping it up.

Because the bbPress settings page does not register a starting tab, I have had no luck adding tabs to the page without messing everything up. (standard bbPress options have no ‘home’ tab to attach themselves to).

Any dev’s wanna jump in on this one with me?

[Silverboarder]

Greetings Community,

I have just succesfully installed BBPress and run into a small problem.

Whenever i log out or succesfully log in, i get sent to the wrong page.

this is what the URL is:

http://dev.mysite.nl/blog/blog/?page_id=79

While it should be:

http://dev.mysite.nl/blog/?page_id=79

as you can see it adds “blog/” for an unknown reason (to me).

If anyone knows what may be causing this i would very much like some help.

Regards,

Silverboarder

[djoep]

I’m looking forward to hearing back from Adam regarding my SMF Table question. I’m hoping that based on his answer I may be able to contribute back a prototype smf table conversion file.

joe

[Anointed]

@MishaOLS

Adam is currently working on an improved vs. of the plugin that should resolve this problem.

[Andre]

I want to confirm you guys downloaded a standalone version of bbPress instead of the plugin. I the version you are using 0.x, 1.x or 2.x?

[brandonharshe]

I am having the same exact problem. I don’t understand what it is I’ve done wrong, if anything.

[MishaOLS]

Hello guys, so I was able to convert my punbb forum at last. Firstly I have installed a stand alone version of bbpress 1.1 and then ran the script from this post https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/punbb-gt-bbpress . The conversion was a success with minor errors (in the forum names, etc.), which I corrected manually.

Then I installed your converter while I was still running bbpress 1.1 and the conversion completed but the Replies weren’t linked to the Topics and Forums. I then uninstalled bbpress 1.1 and installed bbpress 2.0, realized the problem and ran the script again with the Clean option. Now the conversion completed without problems and everything was nicely converted! Thank you very much for this tool!

Yet I am still facing a minor problem, which was already described by Ed – at the beginning of every topic I have an empty post by admin.. I didn’t have it in the bbpress 1.1 version so I guess that the mistake must have done during the bbpress1 to bbpress2 conversion. Due to this mistake all the topics are listed as started by admin…

I would very much appreciate if you could advise me on how to get rid of the empty posts as I really didn’t get it yet. Also if you would release a new version of the converter that would face this issue, I would be more than happy to try it. Otherwise I can definitely recommend this way of punbb to bbpress2 conversion as I am a real newbie in all this stuff and yet was able to accomplish everything.

All the best to all of you, Misha

[antonchanz]

Well I can confirm that the latest and compatible versions of both these plugins are now definitely available on wordpress.org

I’ve set up a test forum with pretty much just these two plugins active and you can see the results here:

http://bbpressbbcode.chantech.org/forums/topic/testing-shortcode-whitelist/

[Argonisius]

Hi,

Is there a way to import forums, topics and users from phpBB database to bbPress?

[Trobee]

Hello All

I am currently experiencing an issue where when viewing my forums, every post has no content in it. You can however see the content when you are trying to edit the post, or when you look from the backend admin menu.

I have tried changing themes, deactivating my plugins, using a fresh install of bbpress but nothing so far has helped.

Anyone with any ideas on why this might be happening?

[Ünsal Korkmaz]

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-posts-2-posts-bbpress-and-custom-post-type-relationships-didnt-work

When i try to publish that, website not showing half of site.

Can you check what is problem?

[pagal]

Hi _ck_ I hope you are listening to me!

bbPress attachment is working fine. but

— Is it possible to hide/disable attachment functionalities when a user replying to a topic?

— I mean, When a user creating a topic (post-form.php/bbpressdotorg/forums/?new=1) then only attachments should work.

–Otherwise when topic is open, then plugin should not show in threading. like I don’t want to show attachments in bbpressdotorg/forums/topic/not-allowed-attachments-in-threading-so-create-every-new-topic-to-upload-stuff

Please let me know your thoughts on it. Thanks

–Pagal

[MishaOLS]

Hello, I would like to convert existing punbb forum into bbpress, I already have a script https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/punbb-gt-bbpress but I really don’t know how to import the data when bbpress is now using wp_posts table instead of wp_forum_forums etc. tables .

Is there any way how to configure bbpress to use its standard tables so that the import would be possible? If not, then I would have to do everything manually through excel but I would still appreciate if you could help me with the wp_posts structure for forums, posts, etc. How do I specify what is a forum, what a category, what a topic, etc.?

I have to add that I am absolutely inexperienced in forum conversion, php scripts and have some limited knowledge of the database (was already able to convert data from nucleus to WP). I however really need to accomplish this conversion asap and I am willing to play with the tables, lol.

Would very much appreciate your help! Thank you!