You need phpMyAdmin. In PHPMYADMIN´s bbPress database choose SQL. Go here. Please backup first!
DELETE FROM *bb_posts* WHERE *bb_posts*.*post_status* =2 ;
DELETE FROM *bb_posts* WHERE *bb_posts*.*post_status* =1 ;
PLEASE CHANGE ALL * TO BACKTICKS `
OK. Spam and deleted posts now deleted from db.
2 = spam
1 = deleted posts
Hi Matt,
I am a twenty–something designer who profoundly enjoys creating efficient and elegant websites, with abilities focused in CSS/XHTML, WordPress/bbPress theming and Photoshop. I also have a great interest in writing. My portfolio.
I would like to be part of developing documentation regarding theme functions: something in which WordPress excels at and which further allows designers to work more fluently. As a theme designer I often had to explore bbPress core files looking for functions and their behavior in order to develop a site. This was done mostly through trial and error due to the lack of a function reference document. Then maybe even contributing with more quality themes or a restyle of bbPress while also promoting the development of things like P2 in WordPress to show the range of possibilities of bbPress. As a reference, you might register in this website I created to check how some aspects of bbPress were enhanced through theming (encouraging posting by displaying it more prominently though non obtrusive) for a particular project.
It’s the Avatars file that I tried…I believe your right about not having the right software to decompress the file. I know Vista can unzip files but I haven’t figured out how so I’m going to filehippo.com and download a zip file program. I’m going to wait a day or so and see what else gets added to this topic first. The Avatar plugin does in end .zip
Also I’ll try the right click and save. Thanks for your reply and “pre thanks” for any more replies!
I’m also wanting to add a stock market theme when I find one and the TOU plugin…after I get the feel for bbpress I hope to make a good bulletin board forum for penny stock traders…Thanks !
(thanks for not laughing in front of me)
I just installed Human Test and can confirm it works with BBPress 1.02.
I deactivated Mass Delete Users, so lets hope these spambots doesn’t know what 4+2 is.
I have used the phpbb script found here to convert smf has made an SQL dump which all looks ok but when I try to run it in phyadmin on the bbpress database it keeps stopping with duplicate errors either on the ” left for empty fields or on the user themselves anyone know why
As summae says, you are missing some folders. There should be subfolders under forum1, but there aren’t any. You need to upload all the files and folders exactly as they are distributed by bbPress. You should at least have these 4 folders once you install, directly beneath the top level forum1 folder:
bb-admin
bb-includes
bb-plugins
bb-template
I’m very new to this, I installed WordPress a few days ago and now I’d like to install bbPress. The installation of WordPress went great, but when I try to install bbPress, I get the “There was a problem connecting to the database you specified.”-error. So there must be something wrong with the data I filled in, what did I do wrong?
Database name: b4_4599254_forum
Database user: b4_4599254
Database host: http://ftp.byethost4.com
Thanks.
Fortunately I’ll not be able to hear people laughing at me but I just bought hosting from Siteground (great service by the way) and they uploaded bbpress for me. I believe I found how/where to upload in the “my plugin” file. It asks where to download from… well….when I try to save the plugin download onto my computer it defaults to save it with notepad (offers internet explorer too). When I save it with notepad and then view the file it looks like wingdings on bad drugs. I know this is a silly question for most here…but how do I save a plugin download with Vista? (go ahead and laugh my speakers are off) LOL …I must to learn more basics before I can do this it appears. oh yeah….my site is pennyforums.com Thanks!
Hi there, jumping in on this discussion. According to your second photo in this last post, you’ve a bunch of files where they shouldn’t be. If you uploaded bbpress via ftp, (I highly recommend Filezilla, and it’s free), it should look something like this:
http://summaestudio.net/images/screenshot-1.png
As you can see, there is no install.php in my forums folder, and there are the folders bb-admin, etc. It seems like you somehow may have uploaded the files w/o maintaining the file structure.
It is working now! Tried with Firefox, Opera, and Safari. All is back to normal. Thank you 
@chrishajer – I’m not sure – I use 1&1 for hosting but I can poke around to see if some logs are available and report back…
@buddha trance – yes, after the <?php but I appreciate the troubleshooting 101
FWIW, I also tried several other things I found in the docs for integrating, such as require_once with the path to wp-blog-header.php but as mentioned everything I try to load WP first so I can access it’s functions causes the 500 error.
I haven’t given up yet, though! I’ll keep trying a few things and report back this weekend….
bbPress is best forum platform. Should not die under any circumstances at any stage.
In this forum is negative posts on one main forum. Any fix? Moderator notified weeks ago.
@hpguru – It looks like it’s a site problem, then. Hopefully, now that the word is out, it will be taken care of. Thanks for replying!
Hi there. I’ve tried with different browsers, but get the same results. It seems that the footer is missing from the Plugins/Extend section on the bbPress site, so the pages are cut off half-way down. Plugins can still be downloaded, but one cannot read the discussions there. What’s going on? Is anyone having the same problem?
Just redid a fresh install of bbPress with integration and everything worked until the error on the last step.
Now I have two problems:
Users can’t post in the forums. Is this because the restore of old posts from an SQL file failed?
Visitors can’t see the pages on the wordpress page without logging in.
Since the database is now shared, how can I clean up the bad bbPress restore?
@vanesta – You have a point. What I am hoping, is that this is only a transition phase after Sam left. Looking at the people interested in helping out with the development of bbPress, I believe that things will keep moving. I doubt that bbPress will die, considering the integration with BuddyPress, WPMU, the supposed merger with single WP, etc.
Hopefully, things will pick up momentum again…
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/help-out-with-bbpress
Automattic is funded and have enough money to hire a lead developer to take charge (same way as wp), what Matt posted really gives me the chill when it comes to bbpress roadmap
“As to where bbPress goes in the future, I’d be curious to hear who wants to help with that.”
When you say you added the line to the top, you mean after the opening tag
<?php
… just in case…
Really? I doesn’t seem abandoned at all, according to this thread, started by Matt (creator of WP)
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/future-of-bbpress
It is truly dead, automattic has sort of abandon this project since Sam left
