[Detective]

I’ll release this plugin tomorrow. Check this profile to see how it looks.

[Detective]

I made a few changes in the layout. I’ll release the theme tomorrow

Remember it needs some knowledge, because without customization (through plugins) it’s kind of ugly …

[alexleonard]

Ah brilliant,

Thanks so much for the clarification. I was getting the feeling that quite a few things had changed all right. The main development site has had quite a lot of work done so far, but on bbpress all I had really done was set it to use the header and footer from the WP theme.

It’ll be easy to dump it and start again.

Actually on that point. In installing the old version I stored the bb_press database tables in this site’s WordPress database, eg:

| bb_forums              |

| bb_posts               |

| bb_tagged              |

| bb_tags                |

| bb_topicmeta           |

| bb_topics              |

| wp_comments            |

| wp_ig_caticons         |

| wp_links               |

| wp_options             |

| wp_postmeta            |

| wp_posts               |

| wp_term_relationships  |

| wp_term_taxonomy       |

| wp_terms               |

| wp_usermeta            |

| wp_users               |

Should I delete each of the tables prefixed “bb_” before continuing?

Cheers,

Alex

[rogermbyrne]

hi chrishajer

after your suggestion i tried to think of a diff way so i installed phpbb via fantastico on a different domain iimported the odl database and then looked through phpmyadmin to see if i could find the posts, success! exported as .csv file and now i have all the data and email addresses

thanks for your help!

[bobbyh]

Thanks, benbeltran, for the heads up! I just nominated it for the same categories…

[benbeltran]

Hello, as some of you might know already, Sourceforge.net hands out awards annually to the best open source projects. I’m inviting the community to nominate one of my favorite forums system (and possibly yours too). Of course, bbpress.

Just Click Here to Nominate BBPress

I Nominated it for best project and best new project.

[chrishajer]

I would install bbPress latest which is 0.9.0.2 and WordPress latest which is 2.5.1. The big change with WordPress 2.5.* and bbpress 0.9.* was with the cookies. If you have only a few test posts, I would just install WordPress fresh (or upgrade your WordPress installation) then install bbPress fresh. Integration is totally different now, no more plugins.

Good luck.

[chrishajer]

If you have direct access to the database with something like phpMyAdmin, you can view the existing posts. Sounds like the phpBB is not running now, otherwise I would just copy the text from there. Without the software running, you’re going to need to view the posts in the database and copy them from there and paste into bbPress. With a small number of posts, I wouldn’t bother with export and import, just copy them and post new at bbPress.

[rogermbyrne]

Hi Guys and Gals

I have a very small phpbb database but not up and running as many problems i have installed bbpress everything is working fine! (except I forgot about moderation and akismet and within 27 mins of going online it had four spam comments )

Is there a way I can just see the posts from that phpbb database and then i will copy and paste into my new bbpress installation?

or is their an easier way? I have xampp runnin locally but tried to move the phpbb files and import the db using phpmyadmin but i get errors.

Like i said its a v small database and I just need the post text!

Thanks in advance

Roger

[alexleonard]

Hi there,

I started development on a wordpress + bbpress site quite a while back. Development stalled and I’m only coming back to it now.

I had integrated wp + bbp fairly successfully but I have a feeling upgrading to WP2.5.1 might have broken a lot of that cross compatibility.

The bbpress installed version is 0.8.3.1, but essentially it’s an empty forum (a couple of test posts from myself).

Regarding upgrading to the latest version, I get a feeling I might almost be better off completely wiping the original forum version and starting again – I might run into less problems? I had a look through the trac but couldn’t really work out how much substantial change there has been between current and my older version.

Any suggestions?

Is uninstalling and reinstalling reasonably easy?

[bubblebla]

hi, detective..

nice job!! i’m looking forward for the release too.

[cordoval]

This sounds a past issue, yet I would like to add fuel to this thread. Please make me aware if there is already a plug in for this feature. I saw a note of _ck_ requesting this enhancement but I doubt it has gone through over these months yet.

To txrediakov: I want to enable the user to choose their password, not because of email anymore but because I believe we cannot just deny our users this capability. It is expected in any reasonable website that the user can type her own password.

To chrishajer: Good information. Now thinking logically: If one can display the password in a window returned after registration I think it could be possible to perform one additional step in the php code to take a password fetched from a custom field in the registration page, then take the bbpress generated password and replace it with the new value.

However, there is a slight problem. The user can only change her password after she is logged in. Granting the new user access to the account to post right away after registration may pose some kind of security thread to the system and to the accounts of all users. So how could we go about doing this without compromising the security of the system?

Please you are welcome to contact me as I need to work and solve this issue.

Encouragements,

[timskii]

As the code stands at the moment, it is a little too easy to lock yourself out. There may be a cleaner solution, but the following worked for me:

Try to login to BBPress with the WP admin. If that fails to give admin access to BBPress, the user mappings were either not set, were set at the wrong stage during integration, or were set such that nothing mapped to the Keymaster.

Backup the database (just in case a bad situation accidentally becomes terminal while you’re trying to fix it).

Using SQL access to the database (eg PhpMyAdmin), open up bb_topicmeta and delete the last few lines with meta_key starting wp_. That should reset everything, allowing you to get back into BBPress on the old Keymaster account and start again.

I found the order in which the integration settings were applied was critical. Your mileage may vary, but for me that was:

1. Edit User role map (ensure Admin is linked to Keymaster), and save.
2. Add “wp_” under User database table prefix and save.
3. Hit the User role map button again.
4. Finally complete the cookie setting and save.

[creativeherb]

Well I didn’t break it, I think… I’m currently using the latest version Support-Forums plugin (3.0.4), and the latest BBpress (0.9.0.2)

On the front page, most topics displays fine, with the status bubble ahead of the topic title, but for certain topics I get this error… this error code replaces where the color bubble would have been.

Warning: sprintf() [function.sprintf]: Too few arguments in /home/blog/public_html/forums/my-plugins/pb–support-forum/support-forum.php on line 657

help would be much appreciated, thanks!

[jameson42]

I am also very interested in this. I have an install of WPMU and bbPress integrated, and I’d like all logins to go through WP, and redirect to the previously seen page upon login.

[gabx82]

Hello,

I integrated bbPress with WordPress, soooooo, now bbPress is using WordPress database… that means I have no Key Master nor Administrator for bbPress,

How can I manually convert my WordPress’ admin to a bbPress’ Key Master?

So I can change bbPress settings and stuff.

Please help, thanks!

[dem0o8]

WP and BbPress integration…

WP: http://www.pinoywebstartup.com/

BbPress: http://www.pinoywebstartup.com/forum/

i used external stylesheet, images, scripts for both wp & bbp…

use php include for the sidebar on the bbpress…

will put the latest discussion on the homepage soon…

and maybe post a tutorial about it… feel free to subscribe on the feed… there are some interesting insights about web startup even if you’re not from around

[mciarlo]

How can this be done in bbPress 0.9.0.2?

[cordoval]

After spending some days I found a clear well laid out solution here: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/profile-user-specified-fields#post-2670

[chrishajer]

Does any of this help?

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/cookie-sharing-between-wp-and-bb

I think since you’ve moved stuff around, you probably want to delete your cookies or try a new browser without any of the old cookies in it already.

[italways]

sorry it is on my local test machine. furthermore, it happens when you try to delete the tag from one topic, you must be a admin user.

The only thing special is that my bbpress is integrated with my wpmu, I logged in using my wpmu admin account (mapped to bbpress admin group already), when I try to delete the tag from one topic, the error occurs, but it is ok when I manage the tags on bbpress backend, I can delete any tag there.

[timskii]

All the integration code assumes you start with a blog and want to add a forum. However, if you start with a forum, chances are the forum’s user database will be far larger than the blog. The technique below outlines how I did it. This is entirely at your own risk. I’ve not gone over the standard things, like shared secret keys: I’m assuming you’ve read the basic integration guides.

0. You’ll need to be familiar with .htaccess, SQL at raw database level, and template hacks. If your level of expertise is “pressing buttons”, stop reading here. This is very easy to mess up, so make plenty of backups. Ideally test the whole conversion first, and probably prepare scripts to run if a lot of database changes are needed.

1. Block public access to the blog and forum for all except your IP using .htaccess.

2. In the database, rename wp_users and wp_usermeta. These won’t be used, but you will need them later to cross-reference old posts to new authors. I’m assuming a standard install that uses wp_ and bb_ as prefixes.

3. Copy bb_users and bb_usermeta to wp_users and wp_usermeta respectively. Keep the original tables for now.

4. Add the missing column via SQL: ALTER TABLE wp_users ADD user_activation_key varchar(60) NOT NULL default '';

5. Delete the WordPress install, but keep the old database tables (and plugins and themes). Install WordPress in its former position. Use an entirely new user name as your new WordPress admin. (The purpose of deleting and then installing WordPress is to create a genuinely new admin user in the table. For me, this was faster than manually adding an admin user and making sure all the correct permissions were set. You mileage may vary.)

6. How much extra work you need to do to your old WordPress tables depends on the number of authors that were active on WordPress: Using SQL, you’ll need to change all the old author IDs in wp_posts and wp_comments to match that author’s ID from the forum. It is possible there are other user references deep in the system, so be careful. I had little complexity to deal with. If your were the first to register for both your forum and blog, the important IDs may match perfectly already.

7. Most WordPress templates use the user’s display_name. This is unfortunately, because BBPress tends to use user_login. The result is that most WordPress references to user names will appear blank. You’ll either need to populate the display_name column, or hack around with your WordPress templates so that they use user_login. Template call get_the_author_login() is perfect for authors, but for comment references I had to use get_usermeta($user_id,’user_login’) or comment_author_link() where $user_id was 0. Messy. Since the admin side of WordPress uses display_name anyway, it is probably a lot easier to populate that column.

8. Your WordPress install should be now more-or-less working. Let’s return to the forum!

9. It is very easy to accidentally destroy the forum Keymaster, locking yourself out of the forum before integration is complete. If this happens, edit the table bb_topicmeta by deleting the final few lines with meta_key starting “wp_”.

10. On the forum admin, under WordPress Integration: Set the User role map such that Admin links to Keymaster and everyone else is a subscriber, and save. Add “wp_” under User database table prefix and save. Hit the User role map button again. Finally complete the cookie setting and save. The order is important – simply filling in all the boxes and saving can wipe out the old Keymaster access before the new one has been set up.

11. In WordPress, check the user list. I found that some user types did not convert automatically – notably moderators. Hopefully 99% of users will have been automatically assigned as subscribers. If you use a lot of plugins, take care that nothing conflicts. For example two separate plugins trying to write user meta data using the same key name. You may also wish to test a dummy registration and profile change.

12. Remove the old bb_users and bb_usermeta, and the copies of your original wp_users and wp_usermeta.

13. Remove the .htaccess blocks, and celebrate your newly integrated setup.

I’m now having fun trying to marry a second forum to the first WordPress-Forum pair. Everything is easy, until one tries to alter the admin permissions…

[os0wski]

i just want all old entries and comments in wordpress bein changed to topics on bbpress

is it possible mate?

[os0wski]

ok I changed the absolute path to bbPress but

when i klick migrate it still doesnt copy old entries to my bbpress!

why?

[chrishajer]

Does this do what you’re looking for?

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbsync/