[Anonymous User 8347663]

I got some help from the author with the full width issue,

I was told to put this into my themes Custom CSS option:

.bbp-forums, .bbp-forums td, .bbp-forums th {

text-align: left;

width: 100%;

}

.bbPress .inner-content {

margin: 0;

width: 960px;

}

Now i will try and get help with making it look better.

[Anointed]

We are wrapping up final beta testing on a brand new plugin which will allow you to migrate your old forums to BBPress 2x. And yes, it does PHPBB3.

We hope to launch the plugin early next week and will notify the forums here when it is ready.

[Anointed]

As a forum Vbulletin is miles ahead of BBPress at the moment. There is no comparing the two systems due to the shear number of plugins and addons available right now for vb.

However, BBPress has built everything around true WordPress standards which I am intimately familiar with. This makes building a custom forum solution much easier for me than what vb offers.

I was running a custom bridge setup to ‘hook’ together WordPress and Vbulletin. While this works great syncing users registration/login/etc there is no deep integration with the data side and frankly I didn’t feel like writing it.

Because BBPress stores everything in the WP db and standard formats, it makes it much easier to pull forum data into other templates than it is with vb.

(say I want a user profile page showing all users posts/topics/replies/custom post-types/etc.. very easy with BBPress)

Given enough time and energy, I don’t believe there is anything that vb does which wp can’t do better.

[Anointed]

So far I have only installed bbpress on a subdomain install. I have not had that particular issue you are mentioning but then again I am not using sub-directories.

If you can replicate this in the default theme setup, then I would create a trac ticket for JJ to confirm.

[Anointed]

Because there are so many possibilities when importing bbpress into all themes, there is currently to ‘automated’ way of removing the sidebar in the theme. (really we can’t control that part)

What you can do however, is follow #3 in the thread:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-theme-compatibility

That will get all the bbpress theme files into your theme where you can then modify them.

At that point you could remove the call to the sidebar in all the templates for bbpress and your good to go.

[Anointed]

We are doing final testing of a brand new importer, which we hope to have released early next week. It takes care of all the conversion including users that is needed.

So far we can import from

vbulletin

Phpbb

Invisionboard

BBPress 1x

Xenforo

Once final testing is complete we will make an announcement post with instructions for download and use.

[Andrew Tegenkamp]

Right now all I’m seeing is going into the DB and changing the post_author field to the right user ID number. But that means you can do it, so just gotta find or make an easier way now…

[wemaflo]

The german language file for bbPress 1.1 is now available as informal version.

1.0.2 and 1.0.3 (old versions) formal and informal

1.1 (current standalone version of bbPress) formal and informal

2.0 (the brand new WordPress plugin of bbPress) formal

Have fun!

Die deutschen Sprachdateien für bbPress 1.1 sind jetzt auch als informelle Version (Du-Anrede) verfügbar.

1.0.2 und 1.0.3 (alte Versionen) formell und informell

1.1 (die aktuelle Standalone-Version), formell und informell

2.0 (die brandneue Plugin-Version von bbPress), formell

Viel Spaß!

[wemaflo]

The german language file for bbPress 1.1 is now available as informal version.

1.0.2 and 1.0.3 (old versions) formal and informal

1.1 (current standalone version of bbPress) formal and informal

2.0 (the brand new WordPress plugin of bbPress) formal

Have fun!

Die deutschen Sprachdateien für bbPress 1.1 sind jetzt auch als informelle Version (Du-Anrede) verfügbar.

1.0.2 und 1.0.3 (alte Versionen) formell und informell

1.1 (die aktuelle Standalone-Version), formell und informell

2.0 (die brandneue Plugin-Version von bbPress), formell

Viel Spaß!

[3sixty]

Has anyone done this successfully? I feel like an idiot. I have 1) installed WP, 2) added and activated BP, and then 3) installed bbPress via BP “Sitewide Forums” option. Then I get a whole series of conflicts – first the forums won’t display in the BP theme, then I adjust the slug names and the Forums tab disappears, then I get the Forums page but there doesn’t appear to be anything there. I can’t crack the secret code. I feel like I’m playing Myst.

[Andrew Tegenkamp]

A wonderful plugin that works great so far in my testing Thanks Milan!

[nvisioncurtis]

Hi, I want to turn off the right column on the bbPress pages.

Previously I was able to turn off the right column by assigning the appropriate template from the page menu. But now with bbPress twenty11 template – the template includes this column.

Where do I find this template so I can edit?

Thanks,

C.

[Jaja..]

I think i have found a Glitch,

When i log-in and log-out the redirecting script isn’t working correctly at WP MultiSite installs.

It copy-/paste the root directory like this.

(this is after i logged in from the home-page)

http://localhost.sites/example.nl/members/example.nl/members/

(this is my home-page)

http://localhost.sites/example.nl/members/

I think it has something to do with this code: bbp_logged_in_redirect();

Nobody else got this problem on WP Multisite installs?

[Jaja..]

You have to follow the loop and delete them from multiple files.

Delete this code: <?php bbp_breadcrumb(); ?> (from all files)

If you don’t understand how it works you can also hide this menu by CSS.

Add the following code at the bottom of the /css/bbpress.css stylesheet.

.bbp-breadcrumb { display: none!important; }

It will hide this menu on every page.

[purplesky]

Hello Anointed, may I ask what were your reasons for shifting from vbulletin to BBpress?

Im still investigating if I should go with BBpress or vbulletin, so it would help me decide if you dont mind,

thankyou.

[Andre]

@agriz – Now that bbPress 2.0 has been released I’d guess people will spend a little more time on enhancements like importers and plugins.

@ed – An importer is in the works, but it didn’t make much sense to make an importer for an unfinished piece of software.

[Andre]

There are some importers in progress, phpbb and vanilla for sure, but the only finished one I’m aware of is from bbPress 1.x.

I’d guess people were waiting for bbPress 2.0 to be done before putting too much work into an importer.

[demonboy]

Hi,

thanks for the guide. There are just a couple of things I don’t quite understand. Please can you confirm for me that this is correct?

1. I have copied the folder bbp-twentyten

2. I’ve renamed it bbp-mythemename

3. I’ve placed that folder into wp-content/themes/mythemefolder/

4. I’ve changed the functions.php in my theme folder to include the line:

<?php // forums

add_theme_support( ‘bbpress’ );

?>

Now I assume it’s the functions.php file in my main theme, and not the functions.php file in my bbp-mythemename? Either way, nothing has changed.

I’m obviously missing something very simple – could you tell me what it is?

[Ed]

I’m also interested in this.

Surely an importer is in the works, right? Cannot be that everyone starts from scratch???

[Ed]

I’m currently using punbb (also have that data exported into phpbb3), but would like to move over to bbpress 2.0

However, I can’t find any working converter.

So – is there any proven path for getting data into bbpress v2.0 from outside?

Thanks!

[Lean Sistema]

oh, thank you so much anointed, had the same issue, it helped!

[smiga]

Same question here! I want to try upgrade to bbpress 2.0, but will WPMimic V.1 work afterwards? I realy love this theme!

[smiga]

Same question here! I want to try upgrade to bbpress 2.0, but will WPMimic V.1 work afterwards? I realy love this theme!

[maziyar]

The problem is not about the updating and how should I update the BP. Right now I have a clean WordPress install without any plugins and I just add these two plugins from the plugin directory and do the instruction. But still, there is no activity stream. I’m wondering how it works at the first place for me.

John could you please tell me with clean install and without updating what would be the reason to having this problem?

thanks

[Anointed]

Now I got ya.

Ok, no, bbpress does not currently output the forums like that as you have found out.

There may be a filter for the forum output to accomplish this (display grandchild forums), but I have not yet checked.