[AWJunkies]

Well for starters what do you have the process rows at?

Also can you provide server details and your current limits. It may be easier to do that as I have test environment that I can mirror yours and test. It would go a lot faster that way. So php limits and mysql limits and server details. Also site stats and platform.

[Erlend]

When we tried to do some testing with bbConverter we ran into memory issues. We’re running on a dedicated server so there’s a good chance the problem lies on our end.

Seeing as you’ve successfully converted a 2-million-posts forum without issues, I’d be very interested in knowing more about any server settings that might have been pertinent to your success.

A basic runthrough of best practice server setup relevant to a major forum conversion would be great. Things like php-limit, caching, Apache modules and so forth. Not looking for anything in depth, just some DOs and DON’Ts.

[Per Carlen]

Please look at this:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/i-cant-find-bbpress-admin-panel-two-more-issues-help-really-needed

[Per Carlen]

Hi!

I run a blog on which I’d like to have a BBPress forum alongside the regular blog and some other pages. But I have ran into a few problems.

Step-by-step background:

1. Installed WP

2. Installed Mingleforum

3. Created a page called “forum” for Mingleforum (myblog.com/forum)

4. Set the forum up and people started posting stuff on it

5. Concluded that Mingleforum lacked several features

6. Installed BBPress but did NOT uninstall Mingleforum or delete the page “forum”

7. Did NOT chose any template for BBPress because I don’t know how

8. Created a paged called “new forum” on which i simply wrote [bbp-forum-index]

9. Created what I like to call categories, but I guess really are different “forums”

Problem 1:

After working on my BBPress forum for a couple of days and looking thru tutorials, I realis that there’s supposed to be an admin panel for BBPress!? I can’t find it.

Within the regular WP admin panel I do have a menus called “Forums”, “Topics” and “Replies”. And under “Settings” in the regular WP admin panel I’ve got another menu called “Forums”. In these menus there’s really not that much to do. From what I have understood there’s a admin panel specifically for BBpress, which I can’t find.

Problem 2:

If I get the admin panel for BBPress to work, I will probably want to install a theme since the forum looks like crap when I just add [bbp-forum-index] to the page “new forum”. Can I use a theme specifically for BBPress or will that theme also affect my main blog and all the other pages? When I change to Twentyten under Appearance->Themes (Not sure if it’s called that in the EN version of WP. I use the swedish version) in the regular WP admin panel, my whole blog get that theme.

Problem 3:

Since the old forum, Mingleforum, has about 100 posts in it, I’d like to transfer these posts and their respective categories etc to my new BBPress forum. Is that possible?

I can not express how much I would appreciate it if someone helped me with this. It’s almost 1:00 at night here and I’ve spent yesterday and the whole day today trying to get this stuff to work. I’m going crazy here, so please help me

Thanks!

[AWJunkies]

No eta at the moment sorry trying to see why a few people are getting mismatched thread stuff. I have ran more and more tests and never happens for me. Tried 10 different boards of all sizes even one that has 2 million posts and no issues. It would be nice if someone provided me some login info or server info to test locally this is not public www. Just to see if I am getting same issue as you do.

Please don’t hesitate to contact me at:

Skype: AWJunkies

AIM: AWJunkies

Yahoo: AWJunkies

Email: aellis@awjunkies.com

[tindalos]

I have a new installation of bbPress 2.0 working great, and it’s really nice.

However, I’m trying to migrate data from a plugin called WP-Forum 1.7 which apparently is listed as ForumPress. I can’t find much detail about this at all.

It looks like this may be a fork off WP-Forum-Server, but I can’t find much help online anywhere on how to migrate this. SimplePress has a WP-Forum 2.2 converter, but it doesn’t appear to be online. The WP-Forum plugin creates a different structure of tables:

INSERT INTO wp_forum_posts (id, text, parent_id, date, author_id, subject, views) VALUES

and

INSERT INTO wp_forum_threads (id, parent_id, views, subject, date, status, closed, mngl_id, starter, last_post) VALUES

for example.

Although I’m somewhat familiar with the database, I haven’t found an EASY way to manually export/import to the bbPress use of Posts, etc.

Anyone know more about this or have any pointers? Thanks!

Brandon

[folgerj]

I’m over there now, thanks

[maziyar]

Well I’m sorry john for any inconvenience.

And yes, here is the community support for BuddyPress, you can find anything about BuddyPress here:

https://buddypress.org/support/topics/

[folgerj]

@Maziyar That’s fine but I’m sure when John see’s these entries he will be unhappy. (BBpress only here) So is there another place to discuss how to set it up. I liked what little I saw before it trashed my WP website which I think was my fault for not making my theme the default…

But as I said if there is another place dedicated to this plugin then we can chat there…

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Both [bbp-single-forum id=ID] and [bbp-single-topic id=ID] include a reply form at the bottom.

The code wasn’t that hard, but there doesn’t seem to be a need, since you’d really want context to your ‘make a new post in the forum’ in that thread, wouldn’t you?

[maziyar]

@folgerj Here people discuss bbpress plugin but the reason I brought this here was because there is an integration between these two plugins. It means you install BuddyPress, after that you install bbpress in it’s all working out. Whatever you do in bbpress it shows up on your buddypress activity stream.(In both latest version).

But I saw for some people like me it’s not working and there is no solution for fix this.

That’s why I came here to ask people in bbpress, I’m doing the same thing in BuddyPress community to find something to solve this problem or at least understand the problem.

[folgerj]

System is back up and I’m back in reconfiguring the theme and so forth.. I didn’t get singed to badly but it wasn’t fun…

@John, Is Buddy press a separate plugin the needs to be discussed in it’s own space?

@Maziyar I think a how-to on how to slide into buddy press more gently is called for. Is there a plugin page on a forum where this is being discussed or is it done here? Obviously I’ve been seeing it discussed here so I assume this is the place for it… But I could be wrong…

[spigi]

Hello everyone

I’ve got a little problem with bbpress theme install. My dashboard looks like this:

http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/1038/bbpress.jpg

Where is my “Chenge themes” button? I create “my-templetes” in directory:

wp-content/plugins/bb-press and give 755 permission.

Any help, please?

PS. Sorry for my english

[ebharding]

Yes, I know, new posts still have the wrong timezone

[folgerj]

Well I went through and liked the plugin and then kept it plain vanilla but when I got to the theme change I was going to keep my theme but clicked save and finish and now I have a buddy press themed blog but with no way to get into the back-end of my site… I take it back now I can’t get to the front end either… Oh fun… Now I have to do a rebuild from outside the system…

Now I have to go and rebuild from last nights back up…

I get this error

John is this one of those other plugins conversations that I need to take elsewhere?

I reuploaded from last nights backup and it still won’t let me into the site. I can see it for a minute with the BBpress theme running but if I try to log in or anything It won’t let me go any further?

I would have thought when I overwrote all the files it would have changed back… Does the plugin change the database also?

[maziyar]

Hi folgerj

Activity Stream is a feature that you can have when you install another plugin named BuddyPress. It gives you the community features which one of them is activity stream. Whatever you do or other members do will show up in activity section.

Check this out: https://buddypress.org/community/activity/

Best example of what an activity stream does.

[folgerj]

Maybe I should ask what an activity stream is? and where does it show up? Maybe I’m supposed to be seeing something but since I never used this before I don’t know what I’m missing. But since I don’t run a native BBPress compatible theme maybe I don’t see it for that reason…

[Ed]

any eta for phpbb or punbb? thanks!

[Themes Community]

More explanation..

Your forums_index page is located at myblog.com/forum and displayed full-width or no sidebar. That is what you want and displays perfectly.

But when you accessing a topic or reply it will show sidebar, it happen due each forum specific page is using specific ‘page template’ that belong to bbPress theme.

Here example:

myblog.com/forums – default forums will using ‘single-forum.php’ page template

myblog.com/forum – your custom page that you use now (in my case I create custom template ‘page-forum-home.php’ to show page without sidebar. On your case just using ‘No Sidebar’ template page)

But when you browse into (forum)

myblog.com/forums/forum/general/ – it will using ‘single-forum.php’ page template

When you browse more (topic)

myblog.com/forums/topic/rules-and-ethics/ – it will using ‘single-topic.php’ page template

And that also applies when you edit something or doing something else, it will use different page template that belong to bbPress theme.

How to solve this?

I want you to understand that your WordPress theme (not bbPress theme) have page templates, such as

page.php - default page

page-full.php - page to show full width or no sidebar

page-blog.php

page-contact.php

page-gallery.php

page-login.php

page-search.php

page-sitemap.php

page-template-portfolio.php

etc ... (the number varries and depend on each WP theme)

You need to copy page-full.php or whatever page to show full width or no sidebar content (html and php styles) and replace (about 75%) for your others bbpress theme.

That what I going to by owning your the content of “No Sidebars” page template of yours.

So your forum will display the same layout and styles.

[Themes Community]

I’m not sure I’m getting you. If I’m creating a new page I can chose “No Sidebars” as template, which I have done for the page where I’ve put my bbpress shortcodes (myblog.com/forum) That page looks fine.

Yes, that what I meant and you already do that.

The problem is when I click on a topic or whatever on that page and gets taken to another page. Like myblog.com/forums/forum/topic/

Then the sidebars show up.

Its using another page template that I will describe later if you can provide me the content of “No Sidebars” page template. It will be modified to suit another template for use in bbPress.

Did I just answer your question?

I really appreciate that you’re taking your time to answer me!

Please don’t give up on me yet

For your notes, English was not my mother language. I’m Indonesian and I do love to help, since it took my two days to understand bbPress (and I still confused a lots) and able to start my own forum site. I browse this forum, since this is the only help available.

[miruru]

Thank you however this has not made any difference.

I am using the actual bbpress (2.0) plugin not the standalone and it still displays the 1970 date. It doesn’t matter what date format I use. I have a feeling it made be due to the $post->post_id that is causing this.

[Per Carlen]

I’m not sure I’m getting you. If I’m creating a new page I can chose “No Sidebars” as template, which I have done for the page where I’ve put my bbpress shortcodes (myblog.com/forum) That page looks fine.

The problem is when I click on a topic or whatever on that page and gets taken to another page. Like myblog.com/forums/forum/topic/

Then the sidebars show up.

Did I just answer your question?

I really appreciate that you’re taking your time to answer me!

Please don’t give up on me yet

[Themes Community]

If your php code work and displayed the date as “THU JAN 1970”, it happen due php code ‘D M Y’

You should refer this page http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php to change code that will suit your display need.

<?php global $post;

$lalaposttime = date( 'CHANGE THIS', strtotime( $post->post_id ) );

echo $lalaposttime; ?>

[Themes Community]

AFAIK when posts (or pages, forums, topics or replies) were saved on specific timezone, and the you change to another timezone your post date won’t be changed.

Those new timezone only affect the next posts, and your previous post will have same post date. So when you visit your forum, it still showing old date.

[maziyar]

Hey man

Thanks for reply,

I just did what you said. Install a clean WP and after that I installed BP from plugin directory. I tested the activity stream, it worked. I install bbpress plugin and the activity stream still not working.

If I do this in WPMU, it’s a same situation but the other blogs(site) if they use bbpress it show on activity stream in the main website.

I’ve done this in varity of environment. Like I said, Ubuntu+XAMPP, Ubuntu+LAMP, Windows+WAMP and MAC OS X + MAMP.