[seandawes]

Chris

It has bbpress integration in buddypress according to the admin panel

thanks

Sean

[chrishajer]

You say “groups”: are you running the forums that were installed with BuddyPress?

[zaerl]

bbPress has forums and sub-forums. Just edit the front-page.php template file.

[seandawes]

I am looking to have my bbpress forum mimic how a vbulletin forum works from a management standpoint.

I would like to be able to set main categories with sub headings underneath. Then within each sub category or just the main category, users can create threads.

Right now users can just create threads that must sync with a group in order for it to show up.

So I would like to be able to do something like this http://www.3si.org/forum

thanks

[pagal]

@Kralletown this search will also useful for you.

[edited by chrishajer]

Happy Searching.

Thanks,

Pagal

[zaerl]

Please do it then. I got spamblocked for having sent out a mass email to all my members.

A couple of months ago I wrote:

“I mean that you will likely be banned. You should hire an email marketing service. “

and then you replied:

“Thats the stupidest advice I have gotten in all of 2010. “

It seems that my advice wasn’t that stupid.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Hi Kralletown,

You will lose some data in the transfer (attatchemnts as I recall was a biggie for some folks), but in theory none of the important data.

It also depends on how much you want to integrate with WordPress whether this is a good idea or not.

I’d loook at:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/phpbb3-gt-bbpress-converter-beta-release

A phpBB to bbPress database converter

Good luck

[Kralletown]

Hello.

I searched the forum for an answer, but I couldn’t find any up-to-date answer to my question. I’m doing a website for a mate who has a phpBB-forum which I’d like to integrate with a WordPress theme – and my first choice would be to import everything into bbPress. Is this possible without losing any information?

Thanks in advance,

Kralle

[kevinjohngallagher]

Who knows, its not like we get told anything, we just give up our time trying to help and answer support requests – and every 6 months Matt turns up and tells us we should have known everything all along ( usually, by Magic or telepathy, i guess we’re meant to know which ;-] ).

[Gautam Gupta]

You may like to see the official announcement by jjj on BuddyPress blog – https://buddypress.org/2010/08/buddypress-and-bbpress-the-future/

[mikkelsen]

I spotted this blogpost from WPMU.org in my RSS-feed today.

“bbPress 1.2 (the plugin) is said to be stable enough to start testing as soon as September 15 and the full release will most likely coincide with that of BuddyPress 1.3.”

http://wpmu.org/bbpress-forums-will-be-removed-from-buddypress-download-packgage/

Is there any chance that will happen?

[kevinjohngallagher]

I’m a big fan of gremlins (well of Mogwai anyway)

Just real happy it’s working for you.

Kev

[SusanJohnstone]

OK, you’re not going to believe this….

Everything is working perfectly again!

I didn’t look at the forum all day and just saw your list of questions and registered a new user successfully on bbPress to see if it could be done.

When I got in there as a new user, I was showing as “Member” and when I looked at one of the main forums and the posts there, all the other users were showing as members too.

So I quickly logged out and logged back in as the keymaster and everything is right back where it was – admin link, comment boxes and all!

I’m going to get some of my students to try logging in and make sure it’s working for them too.

(Don’t know if you go in for this stuff, but I actually did some energy work this afternoon and sent it to the forum. That’s the only explanation I have for why it’s working again) = >

Otherwise, it can only be gremlins.

If my students are back up and running, I’ll come back and resolve this thread. Thanks everyone for your help.

[Techpad1]

This may not be the same issue at all, but I thought it best to share just in case. I’ve experienced a similar incident to Susan’s when I first setup the User database sharing in the integration area. For the User database table prefix option, I had put in the prefix used with my WordPress install. As soon as I saved changes, I was logged out and could not log back in again until I went into the bb_meta table, found it under a meta_value field and deleted the prefix from that field. That immediately fixed my issue.

[Shane Pitman]

I’m running bbpress 1.0.2 for a small group. I’ve been asked to make it so that all current and future users are automatically subscribed to everything, and would have to unsubscribe from anything they didn’t want to receive notification of. I’m using the plugin Subscribe to Topic Version 0.0.6 by _ck_ to manage subscribing now, which would allow them to unsubscribe, but I’m looking for a way to make it so that all exiting users are subbed to everything and for any new users to be subbed to everything when they are added. Any ideas would be appreciated.

[chrishajer]

2) – no, bbPress is not a WordPress plugin. It should be inside a folder which is inside your WordPress installation. So, if your WordPress is at

/var/www/wordpress/

your bbPress will be at something like

/var/www/wordpress/forums/ where the word “forums” will be part of your URL. If your WordPress site is http://www.example.com, then your bbPress installation will be at http://www.example.com/forums/ if you called the folder “forums” as I did above.

3) create the folder my-languages at the same level as bb-templates, bb-plugins, my-templates, my-plugins. All those folders should have permissions of 755.

Step two is your biggest problem right now. You don’t activate it like a WordPress plugin because it’s not one. It has a separate installer. It doesn’t even require WordPress.

[lid3r]

Hi, i have some questions about installation. I am very new @ WP, but still.

1. Download bbPress from the download page – Completed

2. Upload the uncompressed files to your server – Folder wp-content/plugins? (completed)

3. Optionally upload language files to “my-languages” – Where should i create this dir?

4. Visit the intended URL of the bbPress site

5. You will be greeted with the bbPress installer

6. Follow the instructions in the installer

7. Visit “Settings” in the admin area to customise your installation

8. If you have any questions, ask in the forums

At the moiment i tried the installation through the standart module install, and i got an error, about wrong header or smth. I would appreciate any help my problem. Thank u

[RedBull]

Here’s another one I happened upon.

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/members-online/

[chrishajer]

Rescued gerikg’s post from Akismet

[jebro]

Awesome,

Thanks a lot, I will try them out.

[RedBull]

@ jebro,

I noticed this post got spammed over night. Here are some “actual” plugins you can try that fit your criteria.

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-ratings/

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/best-answer/

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/support-forums/

[Samuel Wood (Otto)]

It wasn’t all that complicated. Only took maybe 20 minutes. I just wrote a plugin to do the work and put it on the forums here.

Here’s the bbPress plugin if you want to see it:

http://pastebin.com/0StjFxzM

[thenbrent]

Zaerl, thanks for that. Very handy little fix!

I also just noticed, courtesy of Kevin’s post on the WP Forums, that users registering on the WordPress side aren’t being allocated a role in BBPress.

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/30-change-to-registration-screws-bbpress?replies=2

Argh. Any ideas how to fix that one Zaerl?

[pcheick]

Hi,

don’t know if this is the right place to post this – but I just made the huge mistake to give the table prefixes identical values in both bbpress and wordpress config files. This resulted in 400 post from my blog being deleted.

I think this should be mentioned in the integration guide as it is a pretty easy mistake to do.

cheers

Paul

[kevinjohngallagher]

It’s really unlikely a single user could have done something.

Excuse the obvious nature of the questions, and i aprecaite that you’ll have answered them in teh text above, but this isn’t a normal everyday bug, so we’re starting from scratch:

1) What version of WordPress?

2) What version of bbPress?

3) Are they integrated (share login cookies)?

4) Are they “deep integrated” (can call functions in the other program)?

5) Do you have the latest version of akismet on both WP and bbP?

6) Can you log into WordPress?

7) Can your other users log into WordPress?

Can people register with WordPress?

9) Can people register with bbPress?

10) Can people log into bbPress?

11) Have to tried disabling all plugins and trying again?

12) If so, have to tried switching to the default theme?

13) Are you using a premium (paid for) theme?

14) Are you using buddyPress?

15) What has changed since Friday?

16) What WordPress plugins are you using?

17) Are you using WP MultiSite?

18) Did you know that “registered users only” plugin has been marked by others as not working for WP3.0.1 on the plugin repository?

I know it’s a load of info, sorry, but it will help.

Very few, if any, bbPress plugins change the “role” for bbPress users, simply due to it’s rather convoluted nature.

Hopefully, we’ll get this fixed