[chrishajer]

I’ve never done it, but I think the normal route is to go from phpBB3 to phpBB2 then go from phpBB2 to bbPress.

Here is some of the discussion:

https://bbpress.org/forums/tags/phpbb

[michaelp16]

Basically I’d love to move all of my content from wordpress format and have those blogs be bbpress topics. I read about bbsync but I’d like to convert current content to bbpress what are the options?

[Chris Andersen]

I’d like to move from phpbb3 to bbpress. Do you have any import function?

[lstelie]

Hello,

Notice : there is no pun intended in what follow, no troll intended, no critic, no aggressive talk and so on.

Pat1953 question is an interesting one, a question that I asked to myself sometimes.

The « problem » with BBpress is that for an average user (perhaps it’s different for developers) there is no clear direction about where the software is going.

I was very early WP user (and I’m still a very happy WP user) so when BBPress appears a lot of years (in internet time) ago, i tried it.

Then I used several other package more polished, more feature packed and so on.

I came back to BBPress learning that Automattic was founded hopping this could mean a strong development for the forum software and hopefully a real integration with WP.

What is strange with BBPress is that despite it’s a rather old forum software, it is still (from a user perspective) far behind scripts that are developped by a single guy (for example in the WP world, Simple :Press is far more sophisticated and integrated) and it has a very strange way of describing it self.

For example reading The Philisophy it’s written “Put the user first”… despite the fact BBpress is now probably the only forum script without any editor (even a BB code functionality requires a third part plug in), the only one which end users are supposed to know a little bit of HTML.

The integration with WP is also a very strange aspect. By integration I’m not talking about sharing users base and connection, but real semantic integration.

WP lacks a forum part. I maintain a personal website since now close to 10 years and it’s clear for me now (it was not clear at first) that comments, and forum discussions are not the same things, and that they address different needs.

A comment will be buried in the weblog archives after a few days so finding it will be near impossible for a classic visitor.

On the other hand, forum post are better ordered, easier and more natural to find out and son on.

So if I write a blog post about my holidays and two readers answer “cool, it seem it was great”.. comments are exactly what I need.

If I write a blog post about a very interesting thing that will be still of a great interest two years later (even two months later) its better to redirect people to a forum topic, because the discussion will be interesting and deserve to be kept and easy to find out.

So after many years of WP use, I think BBpress is a required integrated part of WP.

But nothing is very clear in BBpress documentation about where the project is heading.

Luc

[meitershaker]

Hi,

with this plugin: http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/live-comment-preview/

with the 1.0 alpha, the ajax effect doesn’t work, i have only the button

the author is here?

i think it is necessary to put a “last visit” field in the profile of developers here lol

Bye!

[_ck_]

Also if possible please include the version of PHP and your type of server environment (linux with apache or windows IIS). This is less critical than the bbPress version but helps with more obscure problems sometimes.

[_ck_]

You can get an idea of the timeline by following TRAC bug reports: https://trac.bbpress.org/query

I suspect there will be a beta in a month and maybe gold by November. It all depends how much time Sam and MDA can put into it.

Everyone can help the process by putting the alpha through it’s rounds and writing up quality bug reports in TRAC.

[thion]

So how do you think, when Official 1.0 will be ready?

[thion]

> What do I get with bbPress?

The most coder-friendly Engine Core I ever seen . If you know how to code of course – coding plugins for bbPress is a pure pleasure.

[chrishajer]

> What do I get with bbPress?

Free forum software that is under active development

> Is it secure?

Yes.

> Will it get spammed to death?

No. It comes with Akismet to prevent spammers from posting, and you can use the Human Test plugin to prevent them from registering in the first place.

> Is it stable?

Yes. Even the latest Alpha version has been stable for me.

> Is it designed for personal sites or can businesses

> use it with confidence?

It’s designed for people who need forums. Businesses and individuals alike use it. Check out these people using bbPress.

[pab1953]

In vBulletin, if I want to pay $180, I could get the Porsche (reportedly) of message boards. In phpBB, if I want to grapple with a sizable infrastructure, I could get perhaps the most seasoned of the free forum systems.

What do I get with bbPress? Is it secure? Will it get spammed to death? Is it stable? Is it designed for personal sites or can businesses use it with confidence?

Here’s one very specific question: How do I add a link to bbPress to take people back to my WordPress home page?

BTW, the installation was a breeze.

[malaiac]

I have a bbpress setup on a subdomain : support.domain.com ( directory /home/domain/forum/ )

on -www.domain.com a WP setup (directory /home/domain/blog/ )

I tried to activate Permalinks.

/bb-admin/options-general.php : Pretty Permalink set to Numeric ( /forums/1 )

I created a /home/domain/forum/.htaccess with Options +MultiViews

bbpress pages are still 404 ( -http://suppport.domain.com/forum/1 )

I paste /bb-admin/rewrite-rules.php lines into the .htaccess. Still 404.

-www.domain.com is ok, permalinks working (same hosting)

It seems that no .htaccess works with my bbPress install…

bbPress 0.9.0.2

[keppy]

Take a look at https://bbpress.org/documentation/themes/#templates

That is a list of all the template files and when each of them is called. You’ll have to edit each applicable file to hide the things you want to hide.

[haagendazs1]

thanks! the Joined thing was done from a plugin, very simple!

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/post-count-plus/ check it out

[haagendazs1]

Come check out my bbpress forum for lucid dreamers!

http://dreampush.com is the main site

http://dreampush.com/forums/ is the bbpress forum

Tell me what you think!

[geekymom]

More about this—When I click on the New Topic link, I get this error:

Warning: ldap_search() [function.ldap-search]: Search: Operations error in /var/www/html/bbpress/my-plugins/ldap-authentication.php on line 337

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /var/www/html/bbpress/my-plugins/ldap-authentication.php:337) in /var/www/html/bbpress/bb-includes/pluggable.php on line 188

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /var/www/html/bbpress/my-plugins/ldap-authentication.php:337) in /var/www/html/bbpress/bb-includes/pluggable.php on line 228

But if I go into a topic and at the bottom, it says, you must log in to post, when you click on the login link, which goes to bb-login.php, a blank user is created and they can do anything.

[geekymom]

Hello, since everyone’s been so helpful here, I thought I would give a little back. This seemed like the place to post this. I spent the last few days working with my system administrator to get the ldap plugin to work with our AD. We had done this successfully with WordPress and we were going to integrate bbpress with WordPress, but that layer of complication with ldap on WPMU made it too complex.

So we decided to leave bbpress on its own and use the ldap plugin posted here. Only we couldn’t get it to work at first. When we finally got it working, the local logins, specifically the Key Master account, could no longer log in. So here’s what we changed to make it work:

(1) in function connectUser, where $uid is set (line 327), change the first chunk of the string from ‘uid=’ to ‘cn=’ (this change may be specific to Windows/AD LDAP).

(2) in same function, comment out line 344 (ldap_unbind) because it is both redundant with line 345 and is using the wrong parameter (wants a connection object but $result is just a boolean value).

(3) in function newUser, add the user_nicename field to the database insertion and set it to the variable $user_login. This is a unique key in the database, and if it’s not set, all user additions after the first one will fail because of a duplicate (blank) key field.

We still don’t have local logins working, but that’s okay for us because we don’t want them. It might be something we’ll want to use in the future. I hope this helps anyone who might want to use this.

[mimicvii]

And it looks like the fix to that is to logout and sign back in through the bbPress site (instead of your wordpress site). Once you do that, wordpress recognizes you are logged in and you can access the Admin section of both sites.

[mimicvii]

Might have spoken too soon. That at least fixes the login integration and being able to login to my wordpress site, but now, while I show as logged into my bbPress site, I cannot access the Admin section.

[mimicvii]

I’ve fixed my particular problem. So this is more or less to point out what the problem is so anyone else having the problem can fix it as well.

Once I installed 1.0 Alpha and logged into it, I was unabled to login to my wordpress site. The only way I was able to log back into my wordpress site was by deleting all the cookies for my domain (had to repeat this each time I logged into my bbPress site).

I believe the problem was due to me installing 1.0 Alpha over an 0.9.0.2 install that had wordpress integration already enabled (0.9.0.2 of course wasn’t working since I had also already upgraded to wordpress 2.6). Once I installed 1.0 Alpha, the *_salt values between wordpress and bbPress did not match.

After some cookie juggling to get logged into my wordpress site so I could see it’s *_salt values, then logging into my bbPress site (in another tab), I was able to set the correct *_salt values, delete my cookies once more, and log into my wordpress site. At this point the integration is working again and my bbPress site recognizes that I’m already logged in.

[_ck_]

Technically you’re not supposed to have more than one H1 on any given html page (though browsers don’t care and will render anyway). The trailing BR is a problem with bbPress’s parser.

Why don’t you use the built in ability of BBcode to do SIZE instead?

Large Text

[size=+1]text larger than default size[/size]

default size

[size=-1]text smaller than default size[/size]

[lstelie]

Hello,

I didn’t search enough.

In case it could help, this plugin :

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbpress-latest-discussion-for-wp/

Works like a charm

Luc

[lstelie]

Hello, is there a plug in that allow to display in WP sidebar latest BBpress messages ?

Thnks in advance

[chrishajer]

There is no rich text editor right now. There are quicktags.

There are several versions of a quicktags plugin for bbPress: not sure which one is best or still works.

For images, if people can host it somewhere, you want the Allow Images plugin.

If you want to allow people to upload attachments (including images) you want the bbPress Attachments plugin.

If you read the instructions for the bbPress Attachments plugin, you will see how they can attach an image first, then embed that image in their post.

[artcoder]

Does bbPress have a rich text editor or an post entry where the user is able to embed a photo or graphic to their forum post? I’m looking for something where ideally, the user would be able to browse and pick out the photo from a file on their local disk, and up it goes to the post without needing to upload the photo in some photo share first.