Hi Alex,
at line 21 you use: SHOW TABLES FROM db_name in order to retrieve bbPress tables. This is a wrong approach cause you assume that in the database there are only bbPress tables which is not guaranteed.
You should only backup the tables with the bbPress prefix. Check the $bb_table_prefix global variable.
Hi everyone. I am very happy to see there is again certain activity in the future of bbPress and that the “plugin version” is already release in alpha.
I understand much has been put into it and I’ve seen Gautam’s converter script.
We have and old forum we managed to convert to bbPress 1 hooked together with a WordPress installation (2.
but we got stack with the theming integration and it was never released. We now want to go ahead with the project but we are a bit uncertain which route to go with.
I would really appreciate from developers or someone who’s had the experience comments on:
– bbPress have a long tradition of “working alphas” is this the case again? I mean can I consider now that once beta and final version are released it won’t mean reconverting everything again from scrath?
– would I better off waiting for the final release and importer, specially if we plan to integrate buddypress on this installation afterwards.
Many thanks in advance and thanks to the development team for maintaining the project.
I still can’t figure out how to get to the add plugin form, so here’s my new plugin.
It’s called Alex bbPress Backup, it makes an SQL backup of your bbPress database and allows you to copy and save it.
it can be downloaded at http://anthonyzb.users.sourceforge.net/?page_id=31
What happens if you wrap that code in a proper code element?
No worries about posting security stuff here. Live and learn. 
I’m going to put up a sticky post here with more clear directions, and when/where to do what/why.
OK whew, that’s a bit of a relief. I just tried the same thing from a normal member level account and the dangerous stuff was removed so… relieved.
Of course I’m not sure even admins should be able to post what I was able to post, or at least require it be wrapped in some special tag like <raw> or something. I am often going to need to display code for my members and obviously I can’t have it executing! I need some sort of efficient way to have it be sanitized.
Thanks for the clarification, and sorry for posting security related stuff improperly.
(Oh and also sorry for the multiple account posts, I didn’t realize earlier I had been logged into that other account.)
Jonathan
@jvanclute – I deleted your posts because they are security related. The way it works now, is if you are the site admin you have the unfiltered_html capability, which allows you as a trusted site administrator to post whatever you want to. What you described isn’t allowed for non-admins.
I’ll look through things again and probably incorporate more aggressive filtering, even for admins.
@jjj
I see… I’m afraid I have never used gravatar and don’t know anything about it. Since my site is a membership site (as many forums are), the membership script has its own profile image support that obviously doesn’t show up in bbP. I think that’s going to be a pretty common situation for people doing members-only forums.
Is there any guidance you could give someone who wants to replace the bbP avatar image, with one from out membership site? Like what file governs them and is currently displaying the little snowman image? I’m thinking of creating a plugin to do just that.
Thanks,
Jonathan
First pass at RSS2 feeds is now in the plugin. Surprisingly, not as easy as I thought they were going to be, so be sure to test these. They are accompanied by 2 new settings options to control the per page count of their RSS feeds.
Starting to run out of room in the theme to put links to feeds, so still working that out. Until then you can access topic/reply feeds by appending “/feed” or “/feed?type=reply” to single topics and forums.
It’s come up a few times now, where people have been using
add_theme_support( 'bbpress' );
incorrectly. As a result, I’ve added some extra checks and failsafes to make sure that even if you incorrectly report that your theme supports bbPress, it will still fall back to the theme compatibility files. This kind of change is pretty late in the game, so be sure to update your installations and report if anything breaks.
They don’t. Gravatar. Or use BuddyPress if you need real profiles, images, etc…
OK, possibly dumb question here… how do users upload an avatar image for bbP?
Jonathan
Don’t use “add_theme_support()” unless your theme actually supports it.
add_theme_support() doesn’t automatically add bbPress support to your theme, but the opposite – it tells WordPress and bbPress that your theme already supports bbPress. If you don’t have a /bbpress folder in your theme full of bbPress template files, then your theme does not support bbPress.
There isn’t a core updater yet, but there will be soon. These questions are all answered numerous times in the sticky topic at the front of these forums.
Don’t use “add_theme_support()” unless your theme actually supports it.
add_theme_support() doesn’t automatically add bbPress support to your theme, but the opposite – it tells WordPress and bbPress that your theme already supports bbPress. If you don’t have a /bbpress folder in your theme full of bbPress template files, then your theme does not support bbPress.
There isn’t a core updater yet, but there will be soon. These questions are all answered numerous times in the sticky topic at the front of these forums.
1. Thanks, that was my initial thought.
2. Where can I find this bbPress plugin and is it an official plugin by the creators of bbPress, or the community?
3. When you say “anything of WordPress to be shown in bbPress”, what does that actually include?
Thanks for the reply Gautam.
1. Thanks, that was my initial thought.
2. Where can I find this bbPress plugin and is it an official plugin by the creators of bbPress, or the community?
3. When you say “anything of WordPress to be shown in bbPress”, what does that actually include?
Thanks for the reply Gautam.
@Rick – Can you create a new topic with these questions please? They are starting to pertain specifically to helping you with your site, and not with bbPress. Thanks
I just wanted to give some feedback on what I have experienced while trying to figure out the issues with links not working.
first, you can not have group forums activated and use this at the same time. Atleast I couldn’t. The base for the group forums is FORUMS. Note the S so if you try and use Forums for your page and/or forum base you are not going to get the BBP forum.
I had to turn the global group forum directory off and use forum as the base in order to get the links pasted the forum index page to work. Otherwise all links redirected to my homepage.
Currently though I have this structure —
index page – using shortcode
http://crosseyedgaming.com/forum/
the other links have a double forum/forum
http://crosseyedgaming.com/forum/forum/welcome-committee/
If I remove the forum slug it changes those links to
http://crosseyedgaming.com/forum//welcome-committee/
Outside that things seem to be working ok. Probably need to clean up the look a little.
How do I get the widgets working on these pages so I can list recent posts and so on?
One last question, is using the alternated page template and theme support a better option?
I appreciate the help.
Hi
Testing the new plugin atm here bfstuff.se/forum but have alot of problems to get it to integrate with the theme.
I tried to add the add_theme_support( ‘bbpress’ ); to my thmes function.php but that just make my forum disappear completely.
Also is there a way to use my old database with the new plugin, i have and old bbpress forum with posts etc etc
Cant find a database with the new plugin, maybe it doesn’t use one?
/r00p
@jjj – I must say I’m incredibly impressed with bbPress, and what you have here. I eagerly want to use the bbPress / BuddyPress plugin combo in conjunction with a few wordpress sites that I work on.
Do you have any idea what a rough timeframe on launching the plugin would be?
Also, what could I do to help move the process along? I don’t code myself but I do work with guys that do. We figure its a waste of time to get a bbPress standalone working only to have the plugin released soon after.
Has anyone found a solution? I am ready to shut by bbpress installation down. I did use mass edit to get rid of some of the spam registrants but I would like an option to approve all new users. As it stand now, anyone can register and start posting…
Has anyone found a solution? I am ready to shut by bbpress installation down. I did use mass edit to get rid of some of the spam registrants but I would like an option to approve all new users. As it stand now, anyone can register and start posting…
