[sarahhic]

I am not tech savvy by any means, we had a programmer develop a WP based site about a year ago, we want to incorporate a bbpress blog into this, so I created a new test site so I didn’t botch it (thank god because I DID botch it).

The test site is http://www.hersheyicecream.com/forum

I installed bbpress (www.hersheyicecream.com/forum/bbpress) and went through the integration process because I want it to pull from my WP user listing, unfortunately right after I did this all hell broke loose.

At this point I am not only showing up on the forum I created as Anonymous Unregistered, it also will not allow me to retrieve my password saying no user exists, and I have NO other users. It also will not allow me to log in to my site http://www.hersheyicecream.com/forum, instead it redirects me (not sure how) to my actual site http://www.hersheyicecream.com/dealers…

I have no way to access my “.com/forum” WP site and no way to log in to my “.com/forum/bbpress” forum.

HELP!

[Milan Petrovic]

Ah, I didn’t see that one. Thanks.

[Milan Petrovic]

Ah, I didn’t see that one. Thanks.

[Daniel Juhl]

Have you used the tool in the administration to recount bbPress?

[Daniel Juhl]

Have you used the tool in the administration to recount bbPress?

[Milan Petrovic]

I have tested imported with latest bbPress plugin version, but after import, counts of replies and topics for all forums are incorrect. If a forum has 0 topics, count shows 0, but if a topic has more than 1 it always shows 1. I checked in postmeta table, and the wrong counts are written there.

[Milan Petrovic]

I have tested imported with latest bbPress plugin version, but after import, counts of replies and topics for all forums are incorrect. If a forum has 0 topics, count shows 0, but if a topic has more than 1 it always shows 1. I checked in postmeta table, and the wrong counts are written there.

[John James Jacoby]

Rock solid.

[hlwinkler]

Gotcha. Any pointers to where I should start reading in order to do the manual labor? Even if I don’t switch over now with the beta, it’s pretty important to me to switch over eventually so I’d like to start that db migration process.

[John James Jacoby]

@Halle – The importer can’t merge two sets of user tables together, it can only pick which set to use. In situations where both WP ad bbPress have two different sets of users, you’ll need to do some manual labor in the DB to make things exactly how you want them.

[Susan Hope]

Starting a new thread here at the request of John James for any issues with iThemes Builder.

Some information from my previous report:

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Yes, the actual shortcodes themselves appear on the published page on the site and I think I should have said, I am using iThemes Builder with a child theme, up to date version of WP..

Also, the actual forum when you click to view it from the main index one (which is appearing fine and where it should) is appearing at the top of the site above the header, which is why I am trying the shortcode route. In my case though I have used “Widget Content” which comes with builder to create the header area.

I have two other plugins that produced the same kind of thing, in that they appeared fine where they were meant to, “sexybookmarks” at the end of a post BUT also would appear in any location I had used “Widget Content” which was the header area and sidebar areas and also a paypal plugin and to get around that I added this code to the end of my child css:

.widget-content .paypal-form {

display: none;

}

Which stopped it appearing in content widget areas, so the first thing I tried for this was the same code but changing the “.paypal-form to one for bbPress – I had used firebug lite (chrome) to try and find the correct name that should go there and I don’t think I found the right name.

Yep shortcode helper would be good, thanks John.. do you need any more info?

Sue

UNQUOTE

Hope that is enough information for my particular problem John?

Thanks

Sue

[hlwinkler]

Thank John. Will I be able to import my users if I first do bbpress/WP integration? Or will that not change the fact that my bbpress users are on the separate bbpress db?

[John James Jacoby]

@jarledb – One of the unique challenges of creating a plugin with a large volume of users is catering to the 80% of users that want to turn it on, and not really mess with it. Different people will want different kinds of login and registration areas on their sites, and everyone with an opinion about where to put them why, is right. Some say sidebar, some say in the content area to draw attention to it, some say tuck it in a drop down menu, etc… All great ideas, but what’s the majority? The majority want it easy, and I think widgets are the easiest way to go right now without making everyone have a login/register page on the forum index of their sites.

Regarding ip-banning/anti-spam, you’re probably safe to hold off for a little bit. There’s no doubt these solutions are going to be needed eventually, and if someone takes the liberty of making an awesome plugin to help out, I’m all ears on how I can help bbPress core work better with it.

[John James Jacoby]

@jarledb – One of the unique challenges of creating a plugin with a large volume of users is catering to the 80% of users that want to turn it on, and not really mess with it. Different people will want different kinds of login and registration areas on their sites, and everyone with an opinion about where to put them why, is right. Some say sidebar, some say in the content area to draw attention to it, some say tuck it in a drop down menu, etc… All great ideas, but what’s the majority? The majority want it easy, and I think widgets are the easiest way to go right now without making everyone have a login/register page on the forum index of their sites.

Regarding ip-banning/anti-spam, you’re probably safe to hold off for a little bit. There’s no doubt these solutions are going to be needed eventually, and if someone takes the liberty of making an awesome plugin to help out, I’m all ears on how I can help bbPress core work better with it.

[John James Jacoby]

@Halle – Sorry for your frustrations! That’s a good idea. We’ve made some changes to the importer that *should* help prevent that from happening, but I’ll specifically attempt to duplicate your install and prevent that from happening to anyone else.

@Morgan & DanielJuhl – Getting the importer dialed in correctly for the varying types of installations we all might have is a unique challenge, and we’re going to need to iterate on it through beta releases to get it up to snuff. Some changes have already been made that should improve the chances of it finding an existing installation and importing everything. These adjustments will be in the Beta 2 release, which should be available in the next few days.

@DanielJuhl – Thank you for creating those bug reports. I’ll take a look at them this week and get them sorted.

[Daniel Juhl]

@Morgan Wick: I can’t say it can’t be one of those.. I’ve tried both Chrome and Firefox on Mac OS X, and both fails. I can be server settings, but I’m running a dedicated server with full access, and no settings has been made strict (safe mode etc.), so it would surprise me, if that was the case.

[hlwinkler]

Hi John,

Great work, I am really looking forward to being able to migrate my forums over to the plugin. Here is my experience so far: I installed the plugin (install went fine on 3.1.2) and then I tried to run the importer on my standalone install. I selected migrate users option and I received the following error as the second line of feedback during the import process:

“There was a problem duplicating the table bb_users to wp_users”

After which, my WP admin users were no longer in existence and when I tried to go back to the WP tools tab I was asked for a new admin login, which was rejected (slightly alarming because my WP install with all the themes and plugins off doesn’t do a heck of a lot). I rolled back to my database backup.

Edited: now I see that this was my fault because I overlooked the fact that the bbpress and WP databases have to be the same database. If the outcome of missing this info is breaking WP, would it be possible to do a check for whether bb_users are in the database before attempting to migrate them?

Thanks,

Halle

[morgan-wick]

Is it possible that DanielJuhl’s browser isn’t working with the importer, or (more likely) that his server’s permissions or other settings are interfering?

[jarledb]

@john james jacoby – Thank you for a throughout explenation and update.

I am using template integration mode (so no actual templates for the theme I am using, although I am trying to push Woothemes to make child themes for bbPress

I might end up copying the files over and integrating it myself, especially if that is the only (and easiest) way to get all functionality over.

It seems to me that even with the Twentyten theme the first page for the forum does not include things like login, register and search. Which seems a bit odd to me. Is it supposed to be like that?

I am not using WordPress multisite, are there plugins you would recommend looking at for ip-banning and anti-spam features that will work with bbPress? Or can I just forget about that for a while until bbPress is released as a stable version?

[jarledb]

@john james jacoby – Thank you for a throughout explenation and update.

I am using template integration mode (so no actual templates for the theme I am using, although I am trying to push Woothemes to make child themes for bbPress

I might end up copying the files over and integrating it myself, especially if that is the only (and easiest) way to get all functionality over.

It seems to me that even with the Twentyten theme the first page for the forum does not include things like login, register and search. Which seems a bit odd to me. Is it supposed to be like that?

I am not using WordPress multisite, are there plugins you would recommend looking at for ip-banning and anti-spam features that will work with bbPress? Or can I just forget about that for a while until bbPress is released as a stable version?

[Daniel Juhl]

@JJJ: I’ve now created some bug reports, hope this will helps you find the bug location.

[John James Jacoby]

@SHope – You’re okay. It sounds like you’re using the shortcodes correctly, but that something else isn’t working. I think I’m going to build in a shortcode helper, because I realize finding the ID isn’t the easiest thing to do.

On the pages you’re using the shortcodes on, does anything appear where the shortcodes should be?

[John James Jacoby]

@SHope – You’re okay. It sounds like you’re using the shortcodes correctly, but that something else isn’t working. I think I’m going to build in a shortcode helper, because I realize finding the ID isn’t the easiest thing to do.

On the pages you’re using the shortcodes on, does anything appear where the shortcodes should be?

[tooltrainer]

Has anyone run into the situation of users not being able to edit their own topics?

I’m still running alpha 3167 as my site is now live and I don’t want to risk updating until I’m OK with potentially taking it down for a day or two, in case there are issues migrating to the beta.

But even so, has anyone seen this or have there been any changes that might have affected this capability?

Admins can edit their own topics just fine, but regular users just see a blank page when they try.

Thanks,

Jonathan

[vishnuks]

Halo guys, i tried all sorts of SMTP plugins for BBPRESS but none are working. So is there any way to disable the email verification registration. I want a direct registration method. No verification