[Fartlek]

I tried to help you out by going to my own WP install and attempted to use the plugin and got an error “The plugin does not have a valid header.” which, when researched, the answers say that the bbpress plugin is not actually a plugin, so color me confused! What step did you use to incorporate your bbpress with your WP?

[Rick Lewis]

@anointed it does not work with bp group forums. I learned this from testing and breaking everything twice. Then JJJ confirmed earlier in this post when iasked about it.

I had setup groups with forums and integrated with bbpress. Work and looked nice. Converted by vbulletin sitr to phpbb the bbpress. Destroyed my integrated group forums and while all the data and users were there it looked terrible. No category structure at all. It also deleted all my WP users with the imported ones. Locked me out from admin as well. Not fun.

Since that I did it two other times with minor changes in how I did it and knowing what was goint to happen. I got the groups back working which for me is something I want for the groups. The forum will be a seperate componet once I get a handle on how to modify the phpbb to bbpress converter. I need it ti not import users. Or do so without killing my wp users.

Cleaning the forum data prio to import is also on the list. Once done I will use bbp to bbpress converter to make the final connection. That is where I am now with trying figure out the plugin and conversion process.

I actually tried converting bbpress to bbp with the integrated group forums. Got a page of notices and errors that could fill a novel. Surely I didn’t do it correctly as well as various other factors.

If we get a little guidance on the category and overall flow of things it will be helpful. I personally can wait to see this thing working on my site as some vbulletin reps were not very kind when I mentioned my move 6 months a go. They said you will never get your data moved and if you did it will never be as good.

My site is not even close to being up to par but is already better thab it was.

[maarjav]

When I went to phpMyAdmin there is a tabele with id 1 called Default forum. I also had another row which i deleted..it came from a topic i made with buddypress. I tried adding a new row but it did nothing. And when I opened the forum file from the list that i saw when changing index to default I could also see that topic but the layout of the page was wierd.

[maarjav]

When I went to phpMyAdmin there is a tabele with id 1 called Default forum. I also had another row which i deleted..it came from a topic i made with buddypress. I tried adding a new row but it did nothing. And when I opened the forum file from the list that i saw when changing index to default I could also see that topic but the layout of the page was wierd.

[Anointed]

++1 on more directions pertaining to categories.

suggestion:

I noticed that when I create a new category, I give it a title, and also type in a description into the wp post box. The description does not show up on the front end templates.

this does however work for sub-forums, where the description subtext shows up.

I do realize this is simply because the_content() is not called for categories on the template, but it would be a nice core addition.

*Some of us are going to be converting HUGE existing forums, where descriptions of even categories is kind of important.

also:

I am slowly starting to understand the template structure that the plugin uses. Needless to say it is quite different than I expected, and really takes template parts to a whole new level for me.

It would make bbpress life 10x easier, if there were a visual template guide reference available somewhere.

Nothing fancy, just a diagram showing each bbpress page, and the templates used to generate each area of the page.

I know a project like that is kind of a pain in the butt, however it would make life much easier for those of us making huge modifications.

finally:

Does this plugin currently tie into buddypress to replace the existing group forum structures?

-my ultimate goal is to use buddypress with the bbpress pluin. I’m waiting on bp 1.3 before I even attempt to add in bp to my site.

[Fartlek]

Oh gosh! I have no idea… but if you can get into PHPMyAdmin then this thread might have helpful info: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/forum-could-not-be-created#post-19836

which basically says to insert info into the first table which will create the first thread and get everything started going the way it should.

[Fartlek]

Oh gosh! I have no idea… but if you can get into PHPMyAdmin then this thread might have helpful info: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/forum-could-not-be-created#post-19836

which basically says to insert info into the first table which will create the first thread and get everything started going the way it should.

[Rick Lewis]

@Fartlek Our move comes based on BuddyPress and the issues within the company behind vbulletin. I ran a large (50,000 member) gaming community but was not part of the ownership there. After many years of frustration with their lack of doing anything for the gamers especially on their website I was going to just walk away. A friend asked about doing a new venture which was to be based on a social network for gamers. Not a new idea but there wasn’t and isn’t from what I see anything like the entire organization which we have. What I mean by that is, the ones out there are just housing for tons of gamers versus being a true social network and community with connections to those gamers direction on their platforms they play on. We also sponsor teams for PRO events as well as have classes for leadership to help train people to be good leaders of large groups of people.

I am in fact a member at WPMUDEV and it’s also because of them that I decided to make the move. they have been very helpful and without their support I probably am sitting on a very ugly forum based vbulletin site wishing I had something better.

It has been a learning experience for sure with making this move. It’s still not done and may never be perfect but as I learn the capabilities of WP, buddypress, BBPRess and everything else around them, it does get easier and close to that utopia we are trying to achieve.

The support on this site and the other WP sites is also a great thing!

[Rick Lewis]

@Fartlek Our move comes based on BuddyPress and the issues within the company behind vbulletin. I ran a large (50,000 member) gaming community but was not part of the ownership there. After many years of frustration with their lack of doing anything for the gamers especially on their website I was going to just walk away. A friend asked about doing a new venture which was to be based on a social network for gamers. Not a new idea but there wasn’t and isn’t from what I see anything like the entire organization which we have. What I mean by that is, the ones out there are just housing for tons of gamers versus being a true social network and community with connections to those gamers direction on their platforms they play on. We also sponsor teams for PRO events as well as have classes for leadership to help train people to be good leaders of large groups of people.

I am in fact a member at WPMUDEV and it’s also because of them that I decided to make the move. they have been very helpful and without their support I probably am sitting on a very ugly forum based vbulletin site wishing I had something better.

It has been a learning experience for sure with making this move. It’s still not done and may never be perfect but as I learn the capabilities of WP, buddypress, BBPRess and everything else around them, it does get easier and close to that utopia we are trying to achieve.

The support on this site and the other WP sites is also a great thing!

[maarjav]

I tried the link and also tried to open the file from the list and this is the result:

Oh dear!

bbPress is already installed.

Perhaps you meant to run the upgrade script instead?

How can it be installed if I haven´t even seen the installation page.

[maarjav]

I tried the link and also tried to open the file from the list and this is the result:

Oh dear!

bbPress is already installed.

Perhaps you meant to run the upgrade script instead?

How can it be installed if I haven´t even seen the installation page.

[Fartlek]

Try going to this URL: /forum/bb-admin/install.php

[Fartlek]

Try going to this URL: /forum/bb-admin/install.php

[Rick Lewis]

@JJJ yeah for sure something has gone a muck there. Going to back track a bit. I started by going through the posts here and I keep seeing mentioned of setting up a page using a specific template. I don’t have that option when I setup a page and was sure I saw also somewhere that it was no longer needed. I did setup a page – Forums but without a template for it I doubt it is going me any good.

Also as James is asking above, I wouldn’t mind a little 411 on how the categories are suppose to work as well.

Coming from Vbulletin world for many years I was thinking category would be above the forum such as — Community Forums – Gaming forums — General Forums and so on. Then you setup Forums under those which house the topics. Doesn’t seem like it flows that way though.

Going to put some time into getting this corrected today as my users are finally making their way over from the old site and after years of having a forum many of them are lost.

Thanks for all the help and support.

[Notnasiul]

Thanks! I tried Vanilla2 before bbPress. I don’t know if that solution would work with bbPress (I guess it won’t). But I just renamed rss.php and rss2.php so the forum system can’t find them and it works.

I guess I could edit them so that they return nothing, but this solution was faster and our forum is just for five people X) Thank you, anyway!

[Notnasiul]

Thanks! I tried Vanilla2 before bbPress. I don’t know if that solution would work with bbPress (I guess it won’t). But I just renamed rss.php and rss2.php so the forum system can’t find them and it works.

I guess I could edit them so that they return nothing, but this solution was faster and our forum is just for five people X) Thank you, anyway!

[Jamie Marsland]

Hi,

Is there any documentation to explain how categories work?

I want to add a new topic to a category i have created but the category is greyed out in the dropdown and I can’t select it?

Here’s my demo forum http://www.dareboy.co.uk/forum/dareboy-forum

tks

james

[John James Jacoby]

Duplicate and related to https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1469

[John James Jacoby]

Duplicate and related to https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1469

[John James Jacoby]

@Rick – No idea what you have going on there. Looks like /forum is loading your “General Discussion” forum, and then some stuff under it. Some kind of canonical redirect with a shortcode and a page slug maybe? It’s really hard to tell.

[tooltrainer]

Reported here:

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1516

Jonathan

[tooltrainer]

Reported here:

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1516

Jonathan

[maarjav]

Adding index.php to the URL didn´t do anything. Changing index to default..well now I see a list of all the files that I have under that folder:S

[maarjav]

Adding index.php to the URL didn´t do anything. Changing index to default..well now I see a list of all the files that I have under that folder:S

[Jan David Hanrath]

Does the BBpress plugin scale, to make it also interesting for our huge BBpress forum on http://www.onemorething.nl/community?

2M+ posts

60K users

160K topics