[John James Jacoby]

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.

[hlwinkler]

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.

[John James Jacoby]

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.

[John James Jacoby]

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.

[hlwinkler]

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!

[Martino Solo]

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.

[Martino Solo]

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.

[zeaks]

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.

[zeaks]

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.

[Anointed]

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.

[Daniel Juhl]

@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?

[kai920]

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

[John James Jacoby]

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.

[stentorian]

the link https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/zaerl-wordpress-3-integration/ works fine for me

[stentorian]

the link https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/zaerl-wordpress-3-integration/ works fine for me

[John James Jacoby]

@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.

[Espen Espelund]

Can this be used with wp role manager or similar? I would like to set up a closed forum for authors.

[kai920]

@kai920 – Go to the tools/recount area of your stand alone installation, and run all of the recount functions there (just to be on the safe side.)

I wrote a quick script (took me a lot longer than it should have) to re-populate the post_position column. If anyone needs it let me know. My ’empty first post’ problem is solved. Thanks everyone who helped!

[wsokc]

Hi,

I dont know what happen, currently I found my bbpress (1.0.3) admin could not open the user admin page with error “You are not allowed to do this here”.

Currently my bbpress template was integrated with wordpress they installed separately.

You can look the page here: http://teknoinfo.web.id/forum

previously it works fine, after i do some changes regarding bug in the count bbpress from here http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/problems-on-recount-tools-after-upgrade-102-to-103, not sure its related or not.

From the error_log i found:

[28-Apr-2011 02:36:13] ERROR: bbPress database error – “Table ‘latqueir_teknoforum.bb_privatemessages’ doesn’t exist” for query “SELECT * FROM bb_privatemessages” via caller “bb_activate_plugin, include, bbPM->bbPM, bbPM->update”

[28-Apr-2011 10:33:17] ERROR: bbPress database error – “Table ‘lat_teknoforum.tekno_users’ doesn’t exist” for query “SELECT * FROM wp_users WHERE user_login in (‘raffaell’);” via caller “require_once, require_once, require_once, bb_current_user, bb_get_current_user, WP_Auth->get_current_user, WP_Auth->validate_auth_cookie, WP_Users->get_user”

[03-May-2011 06:24:52] PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function get_terms() on a non-object in /home7/latqueir/public_html/teknoinfo/forum/bb-admin/includes/functions.bb-recount.php on line 167

Is there anyone experience this ?

[scylderon]

Pretty please!

[scylderon]

Really, no way to redirect to non-bbpress profile?

[Anointed]

I don’t want to hijack the thread where JJJ and I were talking about the template locations filling up my theme root, so here is a new post.

I was playing around with an idea, and before I go to far with it, I was curious what you think.

You had mentioned that this type of system was expressly forbidden by wp, due to having to search all folders for files before proceeding. That would be a nightmare, but here I am defining the folders up front, so it ‘should’ be just as fast, though I am unsure of how to bench test it.

If we could get a system in place like this, then it would clean up the theme area considerably.

I am using the same logic on a number of client sites and it works perfectly, though they are not using bbpress or buddypress. I simply use it for my own custom post-types.

example:

public function template_include( $template ) {

if ( get_query_var('post_type') == $this->post_type ) {



if ( is_single() ) {

if ( $single = locate_template( array( $this->post_type.'/single.php') ) )

return $single;

}

if ( is_paged() ) {

if ($paged = locate_template( array( $this->post_type.'/archive.php') ) )

return $paged;

}

else { // loop

return locate_template( array(

$this->post_type . '/index.php',

$this->post_type . '.php',

'index.php'

));

}



}

return $template;

}

This would completely change the structure of bbpress template names, but could potentially allow me to store everything inside 3 folders ‘forums/topics/replies’.

I’m sure there would be much more to it than that….

What do you think of this type of approach?

*right now it is quite generic and would effect all custom post_types, which would not be good. Changing to be bbpress specific would prob just be a matter of defining types in the array vs. all

I’m really asking because even though I know I could get this to work, I am quite curious how this would end up effecting buddypress when combined with bbpress.

Would a system like this be a deal breaker?

Good idea or bad?

[Kalman Labovitz]

John,

Question (not advance user so this might not be the smartest question) –

I have a standard wordpress install (just added bbpress) and using a child theme, based on what you wrote above (focusing on option 2), which files and/or folders should I copy into which folder?

bbp-twentyten into themes?

some files into my current child theme?

Another option?

Thanks in advanced and keep up the amazing work.

Kalman

[kmessinger]

Go to the wp dashboard/pages and create a page. On the right side is a box for attributes/template. Scroll until you find the template you need.

[kmessinger]

Go to the wp dashboard/pages and create a page. On the right side is a box for attributes/template. Scroll until you find the template you need.