[Anointed]

I am not currently aware of a way of mass moving topics and replies.

[amirsaam]

Before anything read this all:

bbPlugin Shortcodes | bbPlugin Theme Compatibility

[AWJunkies]

Please provide feedback and future features and platforms. I will be happy to assist anyone.

[John James Jacoby]

For what it’s worth, I’ve seen this in action and it’s pretty awesome.

[Anointed]

Thanks to AWJunkie we are proud to announce the official release of bbConverter, the only tool you will ever need to convert your current forums for use with bbPress 2x.

Currently supported platforms:

1. bbPress 1x

2. Vbulletin 3x – 4x

3. Invision Power Board

Future platform support already in progress:

1. PHPbb 3x

2. Xenforo

Platforms being considered

1. myBB

Download:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbconverter/

Installation:

1. Upload the bbConverter folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory

2. Activate bbConverter through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

3. Go into your WordPress admin under ‘Settings’ and choose ‘Converter’

4. BACKUP YOUR WORDPRESS DATABASE!

5. Choose the platform you want to convert from and fill in the database information. Click start

6. Once the conversion has completed, visit the WordPress Admin ‘Tools’ section and click ‘Recount’

7. Do NOT deactivate the plugin once it is finished as it is needed for user password management.

Did I forget to mention — BACKUP YOUR WORDPRESS DATABASE BEFORE STARTING!

Important Note:

It is important to understand that this script is going to be modifying your wordpress database in order to bring over your forums/topics/replies/tags/ and users from your old forum setup. This means we are directly modifying your database which means backup is paramount.

Ok, now that is out of the way, let’s get to the plugin itself.

Each Forum sofware, whether bbPress 1x, vbulletin, or Invision Powerboard, has its own configuration file. For example vbulletin calls the file config.php

This is the file which contains your database connection information and you need to save this information in order to fill out the plugin start screen.

Required options:

1. Platform you are converting from – dropdown

2. Database server — usually localhost

3. Database port — (example: vbulletin uses 3306)

4. Database Username

5. Database Password

6. Database Name

7. Database Table Prefix — If you installed your forum software using a prefix enter it here. ( example: vbulletin default uses vb_ ) If there is no prefix, then leave it blank.

8. Rows Limit — This represents the number of database rows the plugin will convert during a single cycle. I would start this number at 50 or below at first. Keep in mind that forum conversion takes a huge load on the server mysql so if you are on a shared host, you may want to notify your host before running the script.

If you are on a dedicated server with shell access, then I would suggest opening up a terminal window and monitoring the resources. You can change the ‘Rows Limit’ at any time while the script is running. I have gone as high as 2500 instead of 50 on my servers. ( don’t click stop/start as it is not needed to change the limits )

9. Delay time — Suggested to use 1. This is the number of seconds that the server waits between the conversion cycles. It gives your server a second to catch its breath.

Other Options:

1. Clean — If something actually goes wrong, then you can choose to clean the database. This will effectively remove all the imported data and allow you to start the conversion over.

2. Restart — Restart allows you to pick up where the script left off should you have the need to stop and start the process. Example is when your browser or computer window closes during the conversion process. If you close the browser during conversion for any reason, then the conversion stops.

3. Users — You have the option of choosing not to import your users. If you are using bbPress 1x and have the forums linked to your WordPress install already, then you do not need to import users. Do not check the box. Otherwise you do want to import your users.

Once Import is complete:

1. Recount — Once everything is finished, then go to the wp-admin/tools and choose recount. This is going to present you with a screen full of checkboxes. Check every box and click submit. This is going to line up all the topic/replies/user posts counts etc.

2. Keep bbConverter plugin active after conversion.

bbConverter has a special script which will allow your users to maintain their old forum username and password. In a nutshell, when a user signs in for the first time after the forums convert, the script will check their old password, validate it, and then use the WordPress system to generate the identical password for the user in the appropriate place. This means that you need to keep bbConverter active until every single user has logged into the forums in order to maintain password management. This is not at all resource intensive, and you won’t even notice the plugin running in the background.

That’s it your finished.

O, did I mention… BACKUP YOUR WORDPRESS DATABASE FIRST!

Enjoy!

[nthfamous]

This may or may not be the right forum for this, but technical support seemed the wrong place. Anyway…

I have a template I am using for my website called Habitat (http://www.kriesi.at/themes/habitat/). It allows me to create a new page and use the template in full width without the sidebar. Now… I -can- use shortcodes to put my forum in a new page and set the template without the sidebar, but I cannot find a shortcode for the forum root (I have three categories) and each subsequent link click takes me to the /forum URL and plops the sidebar back in.

To whit, I cannot find an option anywhere in the bbpress plugin that allows me to set the template to use.

Anyone shed some light on this? TIA.

[xmatter]

I have just installed bbPress through my local install of WP and I cannot seem to find where the forum resides on the front-end. I have 2 forums (each have 2 topics) which i created through the back-end. Am I doing someone wrong? Must bbPress be used with BuddyPress?

Please help!

Also… I am very familiar with WP, just never used bbPress, thanks!

[rizwan65]

Well Andre thanks for your reply

But sorry the way you are telling is moving a single topic

With this method I will have to open each topic one by one and change the Forum under Topic Attributes

I can’t find the way to move multiple topics to another forum

Is there any way out there

Regards

Rizwan

[Andre]

Login as an admin. Go to /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=topic and choose the topic you want to move. You should have a topic attributes “widget” (for lack of a better term) on the side or below the main content box. This “widget” will let you change the forum.

If you don’t see this widget click on screen options near the top right and make sure topic attributes is checked.

[xanderr]

Hello,

Thanks John.

Is there a shortcode to get the latest topics from a specific category (forum). If there isn’t, how to get it?

Xander

[rizwan65]

Hi everybody

I have BBPress2 Plugin installed on my WP installation

I was looking for the option if I can move few topics from one forum to another in same installation but could not find the option

May be I have overlooked

Any help will be appriciated

Regards

Rizwan

[travis.hill]

Are you installing/developing locally (localhost)? This is a known issue:

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-bbpress-error-the-active-theme-is-broken-reverting-to-the-default-theme

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1596

Hope you find the white rabbit.

[Vayu Robins]

I mean bbPress plugin.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress/

Cheers

Vayu

[amirsaam]

Dude you mean bbPlugin or bbPress (StandAlone vr.)?

For the StandAlone one you must put your language files into my-languages and for bbPlugin put them into WordPress language directory with name like bbpress-fa_IR.po or .mo. themes and plugins have a directory for translations, if have not code a textdomain for it

[Vayu Robins]

Hi

I am not sure your right about this. In the index.php file in bbpress/bbp-languages/index.php it says the following.

“Do not put custom translations here. They will be deleted on bbPress updates.

Keep custom bbPress translations in /wp-content/languages/”

I first tried to place my language files in bbp-languages folder and it did’t work.

When you do as I explained both the theme and bbpress will be translated. That’s what you want isn’t it?

I did notice the date of the post, but people might find my answer helpful even if migueltavares is not looking for help on this anymore.

Vayu

[amirsaam]

Nope @Vayu. He mean bbPress language not theme or plugin.

Language files must upload in a directory in bbPress root called my-languages

(Also you must look at the post date: 1 month ago!)

[Vayu Robins]

Hi.

Add this to your functions.php file in you theme.

add_action(‘after_setup_theme’, ‘my_theme_setup’);

function my_theme_setup(){

load_theme_textdomain(‘bbpress’, get_template_directory() . ‘/languages’);

}

Then place your language files ind the at folder in your theme folder.

Vayu

[amirsaam]

#1 is fixed too now. looks like bbPress have that bug. I put the topic pages nav upper the post form and now the closed messsege shown under the page last post.

I would like @JJJ fixed this out…

[amirsaam]

@BJ

Yeah dude it’s StandAlone version not the bbPlugin.

I think @ootes worked on it very much

I work on Persian bbPress support site, I would like to have some discussions with you @BJ Can you gimme your mail address?

[amirsaam]

@BJ

Yeah dude it’s StandAlone version not the bbPlugin.

I think @ootes worked on it very much

I work on Persian bbPress support site, I would like to have some discussions with you @BJ Can you gimme your mail address?

[Jaja..]

@Tapefilters url,

I guess this is still bbPress 1.0 ??

Looks very nice, beautiful homepage that doesn’t look like a forum at all.

[Jaja..]

@Tapefilters url,

I guess this is still bbPress 1.0 ??

Looks very nice, beautiful homepage that doesn’t look like a forum at all.

[Green Girl Mel]

Hi there,

I’m really not techo at all and am trying to utilise BBpress on my weaver wordpress themed site. I’ve copied the files over as instructed but I’m completely lost with the info re the child theme. Can you give me instructions on what to do here in a fair bit of detail? Do I make changes under the weaver admin section or do I need to be in my file manager and what exactly do I put where. Thanks heaps

[Jonathan]

We’re using WordPress 3.2.1, BuddyPress 1.5, and bbPress 2.0 and seem to have run across an issue with the forum home permalink not being correctly set, or so it seems. Perhaps I’m missing something . Any help is greatly appreciated!

The Code

We’re attempting to simply output the basename of the permalink and use that in an IF/ELSE statement using the following to generate:

<?php

$gettheslug = basename(get_permalink());

?>

The Problem

For the purpose of this post, we’ll say that we have bbPress set to http://site.ext/community/. We need to grab ‘community’ from the URL, which is what the code above ‘should’ do, but doesn’t. Instead, it’s grabbing the basename for the last forum we created and continues to update as we create new forums/categories.

To get the basename, we’ve simply echo’ed out $gettheslug in the header. This works for all other areas of the website, except with the bbPress portion which is what’s so confusing .

Perhaps we’re doing something wrong, perhaps I’m doing something wrong. As above, any help is much appreciated.

[Anointed]

I think now that BBPress is final and out in the wild, I expect to see a number of plugins starting to hit the market quite soon. The code is a dream to work with and so easy to extend. JJ really rocked this release.