[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.

[ajdinb]

“It can be accomplished with bbPress, with a little elbow grease, but I definitely don’t think it should rate on the list of core upgrades included in the next release. “

Google Wave supports threaded dicussions, cos threads are out of date, stupid, no purpose to them etc. ????

To be able to iron out a point raised during a discussion it is critical to discuss the same point in a branch and not someware 50 comments away. If you have threads the you can choose to use them or not.

Users want bbpress cos it integrates with WP not cos it’s a great product. It’s crap. Lacks basic functionality like private forums, threaded discussions. If you add to that comments like Ola’f “I don’t get you, if you’re looking for a different kind of forum software, why don’t you ask the other forum what software he is using… ” then no one should use bbpress and it should be pulled out.

“There was a plugin to allow for a threaded forum. It’s almost a year old though:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/threaded-posts/ “

Doesn’t work with bbpress v1.0.

Check out http://simplepressforum.com

[Adam Harley (Kawauso)]

By the looks of it, it’s an action that’s called as bb_deactivate_plugin_$plugin, so the action hook’s name is specific to the plugin. The $plugin value is shown in the URL for activating a specific plugin.

[Peter A. Gebhardt]

Does anybody have an idea how to implement a plugin, which reacts upon a click on a ‘+’ or ‘-‘ sign within (at the end of) a category header within a forum list (say on frontpage) to display or hide the respective forums listed below the category header?

Eventually extending _ck_’s solution(s):

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/hiding-subforms-on-your-home-page

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-request-exclude-specific-forum-topics-from-front-page-latest#post-9018

with a JavaScript?

[bb-gian]

@technotip: apparently you got the same problem as me with images not working with TinyMCE and Allow Images installed. D you find a solution for it?

If so, it’d be nice if you could share. I posted a specific topic, so in case you got a solution, you may want to post it there.

Thanks a lot.

[federicotallone]

Hello,

I’m developing a bbpress plugin and I have a task to execute on plugin activation.

I’ve seen that the bb_register_activation_hook functions is deprecated, while i can found the definition of the wp function: register_activation_hook.

however when i use this function inside a plugin, the function cannot be found.

What do I have to do?

here is the code:

<?php

/*

Plugin Name:XXX

Description:XXX

Version 1.0

*/

register_activation_hook(__FILE__, ‘mp_activation’);

register_deactivation_hook(__FILE__, ‘mp_deactivation’);

function mp_activation() {

…

}

function mp_deactivation() {

…

}

?>

[bb-gian]

Isn’t there anybody that was able to make images work with TinyMCE intagrated in bbPress? I can’t believe that such a basic funtion like images in posts is so coplicated with bbPress. I know it’s LIGHTWEIGHT, but basic feaures like that should not be considered luxuriuos options that are so hard to get and to make work.

Can anybody tell if at least IS possible to have images to work with TinyMCE in bbPress?

[bb-gian]

I installed both TinyMCE 3.2.7 and the Allow Images plugin on a bbPress 1.0.1, but images and emoticoms (which are images as well) don’t work.

I don’t know what problem it might be. Any hint or help?

(I did fix the annoyance with the <p> tag that TinyMCE has, now I need images to work.)

[Adam Harley (Kawauso)]

I find looking at a bbPress install database pretty unnerving with all the relational IDs around the place

[InvTrdr]

Thanks. Also I was looking at this bbPress theme in the showcase and it is sort of narrow. How do I make it as wide as this one?

Thanks.

[InvTrdr]

Will try. Not too good at it yet. Am learning from the great WP and bbPress community as I go. Thought there might be a default stock theme with a navigation bar on it. Or can you guide me as to what code needs to be added in the CSS and header.php files?

Thanks.

[InvTrdr]

What I meant was a navigation bar similar to the one in this template above and just below the bbPress logo.

Thanks.

[johnhiler]

Oh no… please don’t test it unless you are on 0.8.x!!

It’s definitely not recommended for 0.9 or 1.0… I just linked to it so you could check out the code, in the event that you were interested in adapting it to support more recent bbPress versions!