Ok. But in my case I was using custom table prefixes, so instead of editing the plugin I directly run a sql query 
Problem is solved now!
Thanks for your help!
ash, I was talking about the exact same plugin you were. Read the very first post on the plugin page.
This plugin is only meant as a simple way to fix roles for users doing reverse integration of bbPress with WordPress without having to resort to using phpMyAdmin but it may have other uses if a primary admin role gets corrupted or wiped out for some reason.
So really, unless your admin role is being wiped out somehow, this shouldn’t be needed in the situation you describe.
We can see out of the box integration in upcoming releases but that can be done even now although it requires much of manual work.
You can integrate WP + bbPress as per my guide : http://blog.ashfame.com/2009/05/integrate-bbpress-forum-with-your-wordpress-setup/
and using both the registration page wont be a problem but you can redirect it to one if you want. There was a plugin for it, I guess else it can be done manually too.
@chrishajer, not sure where the original instruction about the need for ‘$bb->bb_xmlrpc_allow_user_switching = true; ‘ came from, besides seeing it referenced in all BB and ppB integration instructions, I came across it first on the BuddyPress.org site’s ‘Installing and setting up bp-forums’ article (step 11). The URL is <https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/trunk/bp-forums/installation-readme.txt>.
I dnt kn0w much about db .Is there any script?
John, XML-RPC is (was) turned on in both WPMU/BP and bbP. Also ‘$bb->bb_xmlrpc_allow_user_switching = true;’ is (and always was) at the end of the bb-config file just before the closing PHP statement. I even check again that XML-RPC was working properly via Burt’s XML-RPC-sayhello plugin.
Sam, taking your note ‘about re-applying the role map does not change the roles users already have’, I applied John’s suggestion to ‘purge the bb_capabilities and apply the role map once everything is lined up’.
The end result is the same, user switching works, admin has the correct bb_capabilities in the wp_usermeta table (no need this time for manual correction), and all users can create new groups with forums, add topics and relies to all discussions. The ONLY thing still not working is the recreation (activation) of old exiting groups with forums that exited before upgrading from BP 1.0 to 1,0,1 and bbP 1.0-Alpha-6 to 1.0-RC2.
I guess I have to delete them and create them as new groups. I should be able to export the topics and replies first and import them after the creation, unless one of you has another suggestion. Regardless, thanks to both of you for all the help so far.
onel0ve, I converted a phpbb2 forum to bbpress 1.0a6 awhile back and it was quite a bit of work. You’ll need to export the entire db, then figure out which forum/topic/post ids correlate between phpbb3 and bbpress. The easiest way I found to rebuild the db in bbpress is to write some regexes that take the exported phpbb3 forum data and format it into correct sql statements to preserve the old id associations between posts/topics etc. Of course, phpbb3 and bbpress 0.9.5 are probably totally different from phpbb2 and bbpress1.0 in terms of db table format, but I remember having to combine data from several phpbb2 tables into single bbpress tables to accomplish the task. Make sure you have a test environment to build the new bbpress db on as you’ll probably need to give it a few tries and test out a few things before attempting to rebuild the entire thing.
Unless you own your server, you’ll also want to be sure to do the actual regexing (if you decide to run it in a php script for example) on your own computer (XAMPP or LAMP), because if your forums are large, that is quite a load on the server to run the regex routines that format your sql insert statements (and your hosts may not be too happy about that). I also ended up having to split up my data into several files to get it to work with a php regex.
[EDIT – I posted this AFTER atsutane posted, but that reply was in the spam queue erroneously, so this probably looks weird now that atsutane’s reply is visible ]
Did you ask for help on the plugin page?
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbcode-buttons/page/5/
Plugin authors typically see requests there even if they don’t see them here.
But if I remember correctly, that plugin just provided the buttons. You still need to provide a bbcode plugin for your installation. Something like this? https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbcode-lite/
The theme and version of bbPress are not causing the problem. Thanks.
@johnjamesjacoby – where does this bit of info come from:
$bb->bb_xmlrpc_allow_user_switching = true;
I’ve never installed WMPU or BuddyPress, so maybe it’s in the instructions or a config file already, but I’ve seen it referred to here a couple times and wonder where it comes from. Thanks.
@john well now i’m curious 
Hey, that’s very nice indeed!
Hi Chrishhajer,
I am using the below plugin of version for bbcode : BBcode Buttons Toolbar 0.0.9
I am using the below Theme of version:
Kakumei0.01 theta-beta by Bryan Veloso
The “revolutionized” new face of bbPress.
Installed in: Core themes -> kakumei
I am using this version of BB Press : bbpress-0.9.0.5
Please let me know if you need more information.
Thanks,
-Vikram
There is a possibility to do this now. Something is in the works to do this even more neatly eventually.
Tis true. I usually purge the bb_capabilities and apply the role map once everything is lined up, even though it’s like rinsing the dishes and then washing them in the machine.
ITguy, couple of things to check RE-buddypress. XML-RPC is turned on in both WP and BBP? Also, don’t forget to put
$bb->bb_xmlrpc_allow_user_switching = true; somewhere near the end of your bb-config.php file. That will make sure that xmlrpc can switch to your keymaster user to communicate back and forth between the two installs.
What plugin are you using to provide bbcode, and what version of bbPress are you using, and with what theme?
Just a note in passing… re-applying the role map doesn’t change the roles of any users that already have a role.
Nice, if you need help fixing your integration just let me know.
This is a bug in the RC 2 release. Grab the latest nightly build instead.
https://bbpress.org/nightly-builds/bbpress-latest.zip
i wana convert my phpbb 3.0.5 forum to bbpress 0.9.5
please help me
I thought I would show off my first completed bbPress project:
dinetoread.ie
dinetoread.ie/forums
(Note: currently the forum login integration is actually broken (see this thread) due to my hastiness to upgrade WordPress to 2.8 without finishing checking everything first.)
User registration and logging in/out is all handled through bbPress. Integration worked perfectly first time when following the invaluable basic integration screencast by sambauers.
Customisations include:
- A bbPress theme written from the ground up, to match the rest of the site.
- Extended user profiles showing “Currently reading” and favourite books (example of a full profile).
- Private profile fields for private information needed when signing up for events.
- Additional meta information on topics to optionally display the book being discussed (example on this topic).
- Reverse thread ordering option, to allow visitors and users to reverse the order of posts in a thread (persistent).
- Custom avatar uploading functionality (defaults to Gravatar).
- Basic but surprisingly effective protection against spam user registrations in the form of blocking any registration which includes a value in the URL profile field (this field is not used on the site nor shown on the registration form). It works on the premise that any registration submission that includes a value in the URL field must be an automated spam bot registration and can simply be blocked.
- A second level of spam registration protection using the StopForumSpam.com API.
All the customisations have been achieved through custom plugins, the core hasn’t been touched. All the book images and links are automatically pulled in from the Amazon Web Services API.
I’m planning on releasing a couple of the plugins I wrote for the site once I’ve tidied them up and added some comments. I’ll probably wait until bbPress 1.0 though.
Any feedback appreciated!
John, Yes, I did so (refreshing the User Role map), especially when I detected that the bb_ entries in the wp_usermeta table related to the user capabilities were ‘a:1:{s:6:”member”;b:1;}’. It did not make a difference. I had to do it manually changing user id’s role to ‘keymaster’.
ITguy, did you remember to do the user-role mapping in your bbPress WordPress integration after you had everything all lined up? I read through your above steps twice and didn’t see it there except for in step 3 before everything was working, but I did also just wake up from a pretty epic nap.
