[CraigElias]

OK so I got lucky and remove the line of code in my config file and was able to get back into the directory location and move things back to the way they were.

Now I just need to give this to someone who knows what they are doing to move it where I want.

Craig

[johnhiler]

Start a new thread here, or contact one of these guys:

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/topic/bbpress-professionals-advertise-in-this-topic

Good luck!

[CraigElias]

I tried that now I can see anything when I try to go to the page.

I am in way over my head and pulling my hair out. I’ve been working on this instead of my work stuff for the last three days and I’m getting incredibly frustrated by the whole experience.

Where is the best place to post a need for a programmer to do this for me?

Craig

[johnhiler]

Do you know how to drop tables using phpMyAdmin?

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/uninstall-forum

[johnhiler]

Try turning permalinks off and seeing if that helps… if so, it’s probabaly a rewrite/htaccess issue.

[CraigElias]

Thanks

I tried what I found at the bottom of https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-move-my-bbpress-location – changing the location in the general settings section and the first page comes up nicely but when I click on any links I get a 404 – Page not found error.

What next?

Craig

[johnhiler]

Here are some threads that may help!

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-move-it-to-the-root-of-forums

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-move-my-bbpress-location

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/help-i-renamed-my-bbpress-file-directory-name

[CraigElias]

I have very basic programming skills and I currently have bbPress in the directory shiftselling.com/forum.

So I can use my existing template I embedd the forum inside a page called discuss – http://www.ShiftSelling.com/discuss – that has an iframe that contains the forum.

But I want to use shiftselling.com/forum for the actual page where I send people to.

If I just use FTP to move my existing bbPress install into a new directory – say shiftselling.com/files/bbpress/ – what changes do I have to make to what files so this will work?

Is this an easy thing to do or is it a fair bit of should I just leave it the way it is?

Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

Craig

[Shagalaga]

A very simple Portal for News/Updates/Extra Pages/Statistics would be very cool.

I know i could use WordPress, but it’s overloaded and mostly useless for me. Furthermore it’s too confusing with the intgration, different roles, admin-dashboards, userprofiles etc

it also would solve the wordpress/bbpress-theme problem for the most users (i guess)

[johnhiler]

Ah got it. The checkboxes are a way for you to tell bbPress which stats to recount… once the recount is done, all checkboes are unchecked – so you can specify once again which stats you’d like to be counted next time.

If you have any more questions, please create a new thread and we’ll try to help you out there!

[ZoiX]

InvTrdr, look:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/style-rtlcss

https://bbpress.org/documentation/themes/

You need just style.css. style-rtl is used in case of languages written right to left.

[johnhiler]

This lets you apply css to unread threads… it might do the trick?

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/unread-posts/

[johnhiler]

I had this *exact* same problem, so I’m surprised to hear the plugin didn’t fix it!

After you activated the plugin, did you get a chance to make the following changes from the installation guide?

* ‘If you’d like to add pagination (page numbers) on the front page, simply add to your front-page.php template <div class=”nav”><?php front_page_pages(); ?></div> AFTER <?php endforeach; endif; // $topics ?> </table>’

* ‘If you use rewrite slugs you MUST add the following rule to your .htaccess file RewriteRule ^page/([0-9]+)/?$ /forums/?page=$1 [L,QSA] anywhere before </IfModule> where /forums/ is the path to your bbpress install.’

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/front-page-topics/installation/

[Josh Leuze]

Hi sbricchiLIN, I did come up with a solution to migrate a forum from YAF to bbPress.

But I had to do a 3 step migration to do it: YetAnotherForum to vBulletin to phpBB to bbPress.

It’s a tedious process, and not perfect, but I got the forums converted!

Basically, in all my research the only converter for YetAnotherForum.NET that I could find it vBulletin. So that’s the first step. unfortunately it is commercial, and closed source, but a $100 is much cheaper than paying someone to convert it for you!

vBulletin has a tool called ImpEx that can import a YAF forum into vBulletin. But it is tricky since YAF uses MSSQL, and you want to convert to MySQL on vBulletin. I did all this on my local machine running Windows, with a MSSQL server to run the YAF database and WAMP to run vBulletin.

I did not have YAF installed locally and running, just the database. You probably want to get your YAF forums running on a local Windows machine as a first step. The YAF to vBulletin importer is old and totally unsupported, so it is crude, but better than nothing. I was only able to import about 80% of my forum content, and I lost a user account. But one user out of 600 seemed a small price to pay.

I think the loses were due to funky characters and long titles, so if you have a local install of YAF, you can fix those things before you import.

After you get the data into vBulletin, it is a much smoother process. There is of course a lot of converters for phpBB, and converting from phpBB to bbPress is pretty easy.

In the end, the migration went ok, I had some issues with the HTML code in the posts, had to convert some characters in the database, and install some plugins so that the HTML content in the old posts would work in bbPress. But it was all worth it to get away from YAF, the forum members all seem to be happy with the new forum, no complaints, just a few feature requests.

I have really been meaning to do several blog posts explaining how to do all this cause it’s one hell of a project, but who ever has the time to do everything they want to?

If anyone else takes the plunge and tries to migrate from YAF to bbPress and has any specific questions, let me know and I’d be happy to try and give a hand!

[johnhiler]

I haven’t seen any plugins like that.

bbPress isn’t super great at storing metadata for post-level data… although you could probably commission a custom plugin that did just that. It’s definitely possible – it’s just not super easy. It’d probably be easier to do for version 1+, since that version has a meta table built into the core…

[starkje]

Hi there,

I am thinking about migrating my huge phpBB forum (2,000 users and 60,000 posts) to bbPress. There is a thing I absolutely need before doing that – and I still haven’t found it.

I have tried the bb-ratings plugin and it works good, but I would like a plugin that allow users to rate the single posts, and not the whole threads.

Is there any plugin doing this? Did anyone think about that?

thanks

Stefano

[johnhiler]

Are you using the frontpage topics plugin?

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/front-page-topics/

The plugin used to have the exact problem you mentioned, but the latest version of the plugin fixed it right up!

[ZoiX]

Hi all!

I have a bbPress instalation at http://foro.inkframe.com

If you click the page number 2, everything fine, but, if you click in the number 1 or “Anterior”, the forum show page 2 again, like a F5. The only way for come back to the first page is clicking in the title.

I am not expert in bbPress theme development, but anyway I think that is not the problem, the only option I change, is the number of posts to 10, I am not sure, but, by default is 20. Thank you for your help

[Gautam]

Here – https://trac.bbpress.org/changeset/2378/tags/1.0.2/bb-templates/kakumei?old_path=%2F&format=zip

[johnhiler]

There’s no official docs… so this is as good as we’ve got here:

https://bbpress.org/forums/tags/xml-rpc

[Greg]

Can someone please point me to any information that is available on the bbPress XML-RPC API and how to use it?

Many thanks.

[Erik]

I’m in the middle of my first bbpress theme design and have a couple hopefully simple questions.

1) How can I change the size of the Avatar size?

2) I’m using the default themes basic layout structure and then theming my design around that. The somewhere and I can’t seem to find it there is a style that makes the odd number row a light gray and the even number rows white. I’m just looking for a way to make both of them a shade of gray but were they are still different colors. I would also like to do this to the topics and forums list on the front page of the bbpress install but haven’t figured out how make it happen dynamically and it sure looks like there is a way.

[chrishajer]

Sounds like something you could do with JQuery.

Check the forum list at the bottom of this page:

http://www.lawserver.com/forums/

That’s bbPress and done with JQuery I believe.

[chrishajer]

It’s part of the download. You can just make a copy of all the files and rename it to something else.

Or, just grab all the files here for 1.0.2:

https://trac.bbpress.org/browser/tags/1.0.2/bb-templates/kakumei

[InvTrdr]

Is there a way to download the stock theme “Kakumei” or is it part of the bbPress download? I want a copy of it to try out changes without disturbing the original. Thanks.