Looks like it is possible to register new users with a link like this:
http://riftlabs.com/wp/wp-login.php?action=register
This displays a page saying “WordPress – Register for this site” which is a bit confusing 
Is there a way to register new users in such a way that it looks like users are signing up to the forum and not to WordPress?
Also, the email confirmation roundtrip takes the users back to the homepage. It would be super if it took the user back to the forum.
Cheers,
Morten
I ran the upgrade yesterday from the import menu after installing the plugin, and it worked great. I had some issues where topics lost the topic_author field, but I think that may have happened when converting from phpbb to bbpress, not from bbpress1 to bbpress2.
I ran the upgrade yesterday from the import menu after installing the plugin, and it worked great. I had some issues where topics lost the topic_author field, but I think that may have happened when converting from phpbb to bbpress, not from bbpress1 to bbpress2.
Hi
The forum plugin is amazing and I love it. Huge kudos!
I’m trying to get a forum up and running at http://www.riftlabs.com
I’m using bbPress with an existing Woo template.
The (only?) thing I can’t seem to add is user registration. There is no widget or shortcode for it.
I tried adding bbPress – TwentyTen as a child theme, but that messes up the layout, which is to be expected, I guess.
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Morten
Most likely because it used your WordPress user tables and not your bbPress ones. So all of your topics and posts technically don’t have user accounts connected to them anymore
Is that an expected result of using the integration tool in 1.0.3?
Oh, I just noticed this:
Since you have two sets of user tables (WordPress/bbPress) there’s no way to automate the merging of them. You’ll either need to do it manually, or pick one set over the other.
I don’t actually care what happens to my WP users TBH — there is only one account attached to all of the blogging and page creation and I can recreate that account (that account’s pages and posts, not so much). Is there anything I can do in this scenario if I don’t care about maintaining my WP users or don’t mind recreating them? I’ll still need to have one WP admin user at the end of it all so I can actually log in, of course.
Most likely because it used your WordPress user tables and not your bbPress ones. So all of your topics and posts technically don’t have user accounts connected to them anymore
I guess that would be easier if I could make WP integration work on my existing install, since I’d be able to look at a bbpress database that was already mapped to WP roles. Do you know why my integration attempt resulted in all of my bbpress user accounts being turned into anonymous? There was no error, I just had no more accounts when it completed. They keymaster was also logged out and removed.
There’s not a clear path honestly, since everyone’s installations can be markedly different. To guess at exact SQL queries you would need to run would do more harm than good.
If it was me, I would spend a lot of time analyzing the data in the 2 databases with something like phpMyAdmin, and come up with a plan on how to combine the two databases and WordPress/bbPress users tables together into 1.
Hi John,
Thanks for following up. Can you give me a very granular definition of ‘manually’? You mentioned that in the plugin discussion but it isn’t clear to me at all which parts need to be done manually and via what interface (i.e., am I creating accounts in the WP front end and then running SQL commands on the WP database, or doing something in phpMyAdmin, or?) which is the reason I started a topic for it.
The file_exists() checks increase exponentially with each miss in the hierarchy when a file isn’t in the first/second/third position, etc… So depending on the configurations that other theme developers would choose to adopt for their needs, it may or may not be an issue.
All of the options you’ve mentioned are what I’d suggest. Since you have two sets of user tables (WordPress/bbPress) there’s no way to automate the merging of them. You’ll either need to do it manually, or pick one set over the other.
Either way you’ll need to spend some time manually finishing what the importer cannot.
Hello,
I would like to be able to move over to the bbpress 2.0 plugin. Unfortunately, a year ago when I created my forum, I chose to put it on a separate database from my WordPress database since there was no reason to integrate them.
Now it seems as if there is no path to bringing over a bbpress forum (with both users and posts) that is on its own database into a bbpress 2.0 plugin install, is this correct? Is there a method for me to get my separate-database bbpress install useable for import into the 2.0 plugin install or am I out of luck entirely? I have tried the following:
1. Doing a user import using the 2.0 plugin import tool (fails drastically, not surprisingly since it is not intended for that purpose)
2. Doing a forum import using the 2.0 plugin import tool (works great but all posts are anonymous)
3. Trying to do WordPress integration in bbpress to prepare to try #1 again (this just resulted in all posts in bbpress being set to anonymous and the keymaster account being removed despite having mapped the user roles, and no user accounts were added to WP in the process so I don’t quite know what happened there but I had a backup so it was no big deal).
One (very unattractive) option seems like it would be to somehow manually create all of the bbpress users in WP, and then try option 2 again, and then somehow manually assign all of the correct posters to the anonymous posts, but I don’t really have that kind of time to be honest. I guess I’d probably do it if it were the only way, since I don’t want to be permanently stuck with a legacy forum version and there are a couple of aspects of the plugin that prefer to the 1.0 implementation.
Anyway, I hope someone can give me some help, especially since I’m sure this is not an uncommon issue since there wasn’t a strong impetus to choose to use the same database previously.
Thank you!
I think about transforming my blog in to a good working forum and I was thinking about useing a BB Press to do so. If it is as friendly as a WP Im going to do so.
I think about transforming my blog in to a good working forum and I was thinking about useing a BB Press to do so. If it is as friendly as a WP Im going to do so.
I wasn’t able to get this to work. I removed the <?php get_sidebar(); ?> from the 3 files, which are the bbpress twenty ten theme, doesn’t seem to have any effect when I’m using a Twenty Ten child theme though.
I’ll have to read up on it more.
I wasn’t able to get this to work. I removed the <?php get_sidebar(); ?> from the 3 files, which are the bbpress twenty ten theme, doesn’t seem to have any effect when I’m using a Twenty Ten child theme though.
I’ll have to read up on it more.
My concept was to have template files defined just as directly as native wp does it, only using a folder system instead, thus keeping file_exists() to the same level.
As you can tell by the snippet, it is very basic. It works perfectly for standard post_types, as there are only a few template files to define.
A system like bbpress and buddypress is much more involved, thus requiring many new rules. Unfortunately I don’t know either system well enough yet to come up with a rock solid routing platform. I guess by the time I finish with bbpress that I will then have a strong enough understanding to pull this off.
Theoretically it should not break existing installs, as nothing really changes other than file locations, which would be defined anyhow. When plugins come into play it could become an entirely different situation though.
If you don’t beat me to it, I will try to come up with a complete system for bbpress when I finish my project site.
*I don’t think anything would actually have to change within bbpress itself. A custom function would simply reroute the wp template_include() to the new locations. But then again, I am sure you are aware of many other possible problems than I am.
Glad to hear you think it may be feasible.
@JJJ, what exactly is it idea for Hidden and Private forums? As I can see, it’s only the administrator who has access to them, and there is no way to add user groups or users to a hidden or private forum. Or am I missing something?
Thanks John. That’s what I had expected the forums to look like by default.
Is the best way to get the ‘latest’ version downloading the zip from here? https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/plugin
I don’t think using something like that is a bad idea at all. I’d reverse the logic a little bit, and predefine the template hierarchies for the single, archive and else scenarios, and allow them to cascade as needed from several locations.
The long term performance issue is: the more possible files it looks for, the more file_exists() checks PHP runs, which is more access to the file system, and when those get into the hundreds of requests is going to be a pain point. Like many things it’s a balance between flexibility and performance, and finding the best times to make those compromises.
I could see something like this happening for BuddyPress 1.4, and possibly for bbPress 2.1. I’ll play with the idea after Beta 2 drops to see if it’s worth making the adjustment. It’s a bit late in the beta phase to make a change this large, but if the overall benefit is worth the change and it doesn’t break any existing installs, then it’s a possibility.
@johan & depex – Similar answers to both of your questions. You should be able to use some kind of plugin to provide those capabilities, yes. But, nothing in the core of bbPress to allow you to set the scope of them yet.
Can this be used with wp role manager or similar? I would like to set up a closed forum for authors.
