@varsitysmack — yeah it’s incredibly frustrating. This is the last thing I need to fixed before I can release the new version of my site with BP 1.5 and BBpress 2.0
Just checked this plugin out to upgrade from bbPress 1.x and found two minor (but very relevant) problems.
1) The date of all posts was set to the current date. All posts were ‘less than a minute ago’.
2) German Umlauts were broken. Looks like a utf8-latin1 encoding problem. This might be due to my bb tables being utf8 while my wp tables are latin1. I knew this would bite me some time.
The same bug appears btw. in the official importer – although the official tool sometimes sets the topic to an emtpy string then.
Hello all, I got the exactly the same problem but I found a way that may be help.
I was install the WP on my Mac using MAMP, then BP and BB and they both work and integrated well. Activity stream showed. And then, I moved the test to the web server, do the same thing, activity stream not working but I noticed the @ mention stuff did work. The only thing that is different from my local setting is, the visibility of WP. I set the web server one to “block from search engine” while the local one “visible”. And then, I turn on the “visibility” to open and it works!!!
That’s it, simple and easy. It helps me but I am not sure whether it will be helpful for the rest of you!
WOW. That worked perfectly. Thank you so much!
When I enter the default sidebar.
The line there is actually: When I enter the forums, it displays the default sidebar.
Something must have went wrong when I posted the message,
Howdy!
I recently just installed the bbPress plugin into the Swatch Theme, from wooThemes – everything went great, I love how they interfere, but there’s a little issue.
When I enter the default sidebar. May I please ask, what should I do to make the forum page full width, along with the profile page, because that way the forum it will look a lot more better!
Thanks in advance!
@Erlend it is asking for your bbPress table prefix – typically bb_
Fantastic, will start testing right away. A couple questions & suggestions right off the bat:
– Some very simple step-by-step tutorials for the different kinds of set-ups would go a long way. I’m assuming bbPress 1.x also includes BuddyPress, but it’d be nice to know if there’s any kind of distinction where the conversion is concerned.
– In the bbConverter settings you ask for a Table Prefix. Which one do you want, the WordPress prefix (commonly wp_ ) or the forum prefix (e.g. bb_ , wp_bb_ , etc.)?
– In the case of a BuddyPress forum migration, do we really need to keep bbConverter activated for passwords? They should all be compatible already.
Hey, John:
Yes, I could see the forums and figured out that this is an issue with the URL. The way that I have my forums set up is that there are hard coded links in the WP pages that link to each forum. With the old setup the link structure went to groups and then the last part of the URL was /forum. I figured out that the new bbPress isn’t integrated in with groups and that I will need to do a batch upload of new URL’s for all of my WP pages to update the links. I have over 1,800 individual forums and use the WP pages to ‘drill down’ so the site users can easily get to where they want to go.
This leads to my next question – when will bbPress 2.0 be fully integrated with buddypress forums and when it does integrate, will I be able to use my old link structure like it was set up when I had the old bbPress running?
@kriskl a poll of sorts has been done already. You just have to look at a plugin’s rating & comments (can we see # of downloads anywhere?) to get an idea of how many people are invested in it.
Because the information it was displaying was wrong.
At first glance it doesn’t seem to look like a forum at all but it was cleanly done and more appealing to the genre your website attracts.
At first glance it doesn’t seem to look like a forum at all but it was cleanly done and more appealing to the genre your website attracts.
Why would you remove the “Freshness” code from public views by the way?
would suggest the same thing Andre has advised but there were still options left on your side to think about that will work to your preference and advantage.
Hoping this tool will be worth importing and keeping. Thanks for sharing this info.
Hi,
Is there a plugin that allows users to select or type a “mood” in BBPress? I’ve been searching for this functionality but haven’t been able to find it.
Thx.
~P
If you plan on integrating bbPress with WordPress, you’ll have much better luck using 2.0. While its very possible to do in 1.0/1.1, you’re going to have a hard time finding anyone to help you with how.
Are you able to see your forums in wp-admin? If so, is your bbPress 1.0 install in a subfolder of your WordPress install?
Any progress on this?
Here is a screen shot of the dashboard showing the issue.
my timezone is “Pacific” and that is set in the wordpress settings.
system clock says 12:21,
post time stamp is 12:06 and
the freshness say 7 hours ago.
http://www.westsac.com/bbpress_timezone_bug.png.
The forums are going live next week and I am in the process of removing the “Freshness” code from the public views.
@intimez
We can add vanilla forums to the list.
As to url’s, no, the converter has nothing to do with url’s. It simply gets your data into the format that WordPress expects to see. Now because it is WordPress, you are able to write your own custom permalink redirects in order to match your old system. Of course a lot is going to depend upon what your old system was like. If the old forums had pretty permalinks, then it is much easier to match with custom rules.
Getting the following when trying to view the Forum or Topic using BBPress at this site: http://thechannelatbowen.com/residents
It directs me to the forum and topic pages but then states that there are no Forum or Topic entries. They are clearly there (in the sidebar) and i put them in on the back end but they don’t show up.
I’m using BuddyPress and BBPress for the forums and i think i have them set-up properly but not positive.
Any suggestions?
Any and all help is greatly appreciated. I’ve been struggling with this for 3 days now.
i had bbpress installed and as far as i know this was working
then in stalled buddypress… took the check off the buddypress forums and now this is my problem
http://site.com/wp/members/member-name/
this page turns up blank
In bbPress times of posts and topics are like Twitter, like 20 minute ago and etc. Then, when the time be very long ago it will shown like what is in General setting date and time field 
I’m with you @highexistence. Been having a lot of issues with bbpress 2.0… when going to one of my 1,900 forums (yes, I have that many individual forums) I get a 404 error – Page not found.
My site (a discussion site that relies on bbpress to deliver content to users) has essentially been down for the last 3 days since I’m installed the new bbpress 2.0. This is too long for my site to be down and would also like the steps on how to revert back to the old version of bbpress since that worked with no problems.
