[hlwinkler]

Hello,

My bbpress install seems to be unintentionally hurting my Google health a bit by having a different domain from the rest of my site, which it links back to a couple of times on every page due to its navigation. My site’s canonical domain is http://www.domain.com and I think that bbpress was installed at http://www.domain.com/forum (it was a while ago and I wouldn’t swear to this), but when I take a look with Webmaster Tools, Google picks it up as living at domain.com/forum and counts any links to other parts of my site from a bbpress forum page (such as navigation or an answer to a support question that recommends reading a particular page on the rest of the site) as being one of many heavily-repeated links from an outside site.

I have gone to the bbpress admin settings page and set the field “bbPress address (URL)” to the fully-qualified URL.

At this point I would like any requests for domain.com/forum/* to be 301-redirected to http://www.domain.com/forum/*. I have a working 301 redirect at the root level of my site that successfully does this to all other pages on the site, but it doesn’t get applied to the forum directory, presumably because it has its own htaccess with bbpress-specific settings. I tried adding the following to the bbpress htaccess:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com

RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

But this just causes requests for the forums to be redirected to the root page of my site.

I have checked into the bbpress config.php and there doesn’t seem to be anything in there which controls this.

Can someone help me out getting everything working/perceived by Google as being at the same domain and subdomain so my forum navigation that goes to the non-forum part of my site isn’t counted as vast numbers of repeated links from a different site?

Thank you very much.

[ImpossibleMe]

Is there a solution for conversion the other way around?

[justmichael2]

I am using 1.1x. I was able to successfully convert to phpBB. You can see the converted forum here:

http://leftcoastlogic.com/forum/phpbb/

I have full admin access to this, and checked that the tables, topics, posts and users were all successfully converted to phpbb.

I then downloaded the phpbb-to-bbpress script from code.google.com (per other posts here):

http://code.google.com/p/phpbb3-to-bbpress1-converter/

Following instructions, I began the conversion and it stepped through the process. It appeared to have completed the “converting posts” step, although the last step had some strange text:

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I then proceeded to the next step, “convert users data”, and got this error message:

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I then tried to run the script a second time, and got this error message:

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So, I guess I’m not having much luck converting my phpBB forum to bbPress. Any suggestions?

[justmichael2]

I am using 1.1x. I was able to successfully convert to phpBB. You can see the converted forum here:

http://leftcoastlogic.com/forum/phpbb/

I have full admin access to this, and checked that the tables, topics, posts and users were all successfully converted to phpbb.

I then downloaded the phpbb-to-bbpress script from code.google.com (per other posts here):

http://code.google.com/p/phpbb3-to-bbpress1-converter/

Following instructions, I began the conversion and it stepped through the process. It appeared to have completed the “converting posts” step, although the last step had some strange text:

View post on imgur.com

I then proceeded to the next step, “convert users data”, and got this error message:

View post on imgur.com

I then tried to run the script a second time, and got this error message:

View post on imgur.com

So, I guess I’m not having much luck converting my phpBB forum to bbPress. Any suggestions?

[justmichael2]

This did not work for me. The first time I tried it, I got as far as “Convert Posts” then got this:

GENERAL ERROR

SQL ERROR [ mysqli ]

Data too long for column ‘user_url’ at row 1 [1406]

I then tried again (having no idea what to do), and got this error message:

SQL ERROR

Duplicate entry ‘1’ for key ‘PRIMARY’ [1062] followed by a bunch of text that seems to replicate the key.

[justmichael2]

This did not work for me. The first time I tried it, I got as far as “Convert Posts” then go this:

GENERAL ERROR

SQL ERROR [ mysqli ]

Data too long for column ‘user_url’ at row 1 [1406]

I then tried again (having no idea what to do), and got this error message:

SQL ERROR

Duplicate entry ‘1’ for key ‘PRIMARY’ [1062] followed by a bunch of text that seems to replicate the key.

[Gautam Gupta]

Here is the phpDoc – http://phpdoc.ftwr.co.uk/bbpress-plugin/ (courtesy westi)

[Gautam Gupta]

Here is the phpDoc – http://phpdoc.ftwr.co.uk/bbpress-plugin/ (courtesy westi)

[Gautam Gupta]

You can either use bbPress 0.9 with the Subscribe to Topic plugin or install the yet-to-be-released bbPress 1.1 alpha which has that feature built-in. The Subscribe to Topic Plugin by _ck_ doesn’t work with the current version of bbPress, i.e. 1.0.

[Gautam Gupta]

You can either use bbPress 0.9 with the Subscribe to Topic plugin or install the yet-to-be-released bbPress 1.1 alpha which has that feature built-in. The Subscribe to Topic Plugin by _ck_ doesn’t work with the current version of bbPress, i.e. 1.0.

[rahmetli]

Where you can download and get more information:

http://rahmetli.info/forum/topic/bbpress-103-turkish-turkce

Direct link:

http://www.rahmetli.info/translation/bbpress-turkish-103.zip

You can also automatically set up your Turkish language file from here:

http://rahmetli.info/forum/topic/bbpress-oto-turkce-otomatik-turkcelestirme

(It’s called Oto-Turkce / Auto-Turkish)

[rahmetli]

I just explained in my forum but you can visit here to see an easier way to set up your language file: http://rahmetli.info/forum/topic/bbpress-oto-turkce-otomatik-turkcelestirme

[John James Jacoby]

The bbPress Trac and SVN repositories have moved.

Trac: http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org

SVN: http://bbpress.svn.wordpress.org

The old URL’s should redirect you to their new locations.

[Yukon Cornelius]

Hi there,

I have looked through many posts on this topic, but I can’t find an answer.

All I need to know is: is email notification now built into BBpress?

If not, which plugin definitively works for email notification?

I can’t get @thomasklaiber ‘s email notification plugin to work, and judging by the threads, the best bet is ‘subscribe by email’. That one shows above threads, but does nothing once selected.

Surely there is a way to follow topics by email. This has been asked for at least 4 years… is it just my theme?

J

[John James Jacoby]

Hi

Nothing exists yet, but there is an approximate game-plan for the bbPress plugin once it’s released. We’ve tried to keep everything phpDoc’ed in the plugin, so step one will be getting developers to reference that + trac. Step two will be getting bbPress.org to use the plugin version of bbPress, and then use a multisite instance of WordPress to manage the individual languages and codex. That’s probably a few months out though, realistically.

[John James Jacoby]

Hi

Nothing exists yet, but there is an approximate game-plan for the bbPress plugin once it’s released. We’ve tried to keep everything phpDoc’ed in the plugin, so step one will be getting developers to reference that + trac. Step two will be getting bbPress.org to use the plugin version of bbPress, and then use a multisite instance of WordPress to manage the individual languages and codex. That’s probably a few months out though, realistically.

[manifestcreative]

I’m new to bbPress, but a longtime WordPress developer. One of my favorite things about WordPress is the extensive Codex and documentation of the core functions. My question is two-fold.

First, does any documentation of the built-in functions exist? Second, how can I contribute to the documentation? I know the plugin version is about to go into Alpha release, so perhaps I’m better off contributing when that comes out?

[natalee32]

I think bbpress better

[Gautam Gupta]

Jaja: The plugin in the WordPress Plugin repository has not yet been updated. You can svn checkout it via this link: http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress/branches/plugin or click the download as zip archive link here.

[Gautam Gupta]

Theoretically, it sounds easy. You set up a bbPress forum and let users register on it. Then when you setup a WP blog, make it use the bbPress tables and then integrate the cookies by the normal process. Never tried it practically.

[Gautam Gupta]

Theoretically, it sounds easy. You set up a bbPress forum and let users register on it. Then when you setup a WP blog, make it use the bbPress tables and then integrate the cookies by the normal process. Never tried it practically.

[Jaja..]

@JJJ

Thanks,

This means i could download it tonight from this location?

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress/

At this point it says: Last Updated: 2010-4-30

[petbom]

Hi,

I have the following scenario: Members of my club is crying for a forum to offload our mailinglist. In the works is also a new club blog platform but that is going to take a while. So what I want to do is:

1. Install/Set up bbPress standalone.

2. Let users register

3. Use the bbPress forum

3. When the new WP based blog is good to go, Install WP and share the db with bbPress. The main thing here is that users should be able to continue using their credentials in WP too.

4. Use WP and bbPress in harmony happily ever after

From what I have gathered (reading docs and forum posts) this is at least theoretically possible. But is it plausible? Has anyone done it this way (bbPress first, then WP)? Please feel free to tell my why it is a really bad idea (if it is).

I always have the option to argue that the club should wait with the forum until the WP blog is up an running. But if it is possible I would like to start the forum asap.

All input is welcome

[pkiula]

This is awesome. Can’t wait! Thanks.

Another question. Some of us run websites with big user databases ourselves. Is there an easy way to integrate external databases with BBpress?

I mean, something like this:

1. User registers

2. Data is put in MYDB

3. Same data is also put into BBPress DB (need to know exact tables, and other info such as cookie hashes or SHA1/MD5 principles for password etc)

4. When user logs in, I set my cookies etc, but also BBPress cookies

5. User feels that he has logged into my website (based on my cookies) and also BBPress (based on BBP cookies)

Is this easy to do? Tried searching for some instructions, but couldn’t find anything.

Thx

[pkiula]

This is awesome. Can’t wait! Thanks.

Another question. Some of us run websites with big user databases ourselves. Is there an easy way to integrate external databases with BBpress?

I mean, something like this:

1. User registers

2. Data is put in MYDB

3. Same data is also put into BBPress DB (need to know exact tables, and other info such as cookie hashes or SHA1/MD5 principles for password etc)

4. When user logs in, I set my cookies etc, but also BBPress cookies

5. User feels that he has logged into my website (based on my cookies) and also BBPress (based on BBP cookies)

Is this easy to do? Tried searching for some instructions, but couldn’t find anything.

Thx