[Trent Adams]

Can you export vBulletin over to a phpBB format? That seems to be the best common thread to imort into bbPress from forum packages that don’t have importers written yet. There is a great phpBB importer here in the forums that might be able to bridge the gap!

Trent

[arthurk]

I am not a developer, so that I can’t write something like a converter!

And I also have a paid license for vBulletin. But BBPress seems to fit much better to my needs. That is why, I look forward for somebody to help us switching!

Common, vBulletin (at least in Germany) has 60% market share!

[Trent Adams]

The only place that you specify the domain of your bbPress installation is in the config.php file. If you change over to a domain name, you just change the path in config.php and you should be up and running again. As for installing with an IP address, I haven’t tried it and wonder if anyone else has tried. Might leave it for another to answer.

Integrating with wordpress requires a little work, but if you click on the ‘documentation’ tab in the forum, there is a detailed description of getting it working with the same users and cookies from wordpress. The integration of style has a couple of posts here on the front page that seem to work well. Integrating will not screw up WP at all since the ‘integration’ is really having bbPress use the WP users and metatable in the database and has no real effect on it.

Trent

[bozzy]

I’m not sure I get it… here is what my css file looks like:

/*

Theme Name: K2 for bbPress

Theme URI: http://www.linickx.com/blog/archives/253/k2-for-bbpress/

Description: A port of the famous k2 to bbpress

Version: 0.01 theta-beta

Author: Nick [LINICKX] Bettison

Author URI: http://www.linickx.com

*/

/*

Derrived from Bryan Veloso orriginal style sheet that ships with bbpress, added a little style from the sheet availble from http://getk2.com, copyright of that to the people at http://binarybonsai.com !

*/

/* Globals

=================================== */

* { margin: 0; padding: 0; }

body {

font: 62.5% ‘Lucida Grande’, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif; /* 62.5% sets 1em to about 10px */

background: #EDEDED;

color: #444;

text-align: center;

margin-bottom: 30px;

}

a { color: #27d; text-decoration: none; }

a:hover { color: #27d; text-decoration: underline; }

.alt { background: #fff; }

code { font: 1.0em Monaco, ‘Courier New’, monospace; }

p { margin-bottom: 1.0em; }

.left { float: left; }

.right { float: right; }

.delete:hover {

background: #c00;

color: #fff;

}

h1 { font-size: 2em; }

h2 { font-size: 1.5em; }

/* Structure

=================================== */

#wrapper {

width: 780px; /* controls the main width of the page, if changed also change #content and .sidebar */

margin: 0 auto;

background: white;

text-align: left;

}

#header {

padding: 0;

margin: 0;

position: relative;

height: 200px;

background: #3371A3; /* header color default is #3371A3, for images – background-image: url(example.jpg); */

}

h1, h2, h3, h4 {

font-family: ‘Trebuchet MS’, Verdana, Sans-Serif;

}

#header h1 {

font-size: 3em;

font-weight: bold;

letter-spacing: -1px;

margin: 0;

padding: 75px 0 0 40px;

}

#header p { margin-bottom: 0; }

#header h1 a, #header h1 a:visited { color: #fff; text-decoration: none; }

#header h1 a:hover, #header h1 a:active{ text-decoration: underline; }

#main {

font-size: 1.2em;

width: 760px;

margin: 10px auto 25px;

position: relative;

}

.bbcrumb {

text-transform: uppercase;

font-size: 0.9em;

letter-spacing: 1px;

}

#footer {

margin: auto;

color: #666;

font-size: 1.0em;

letter-spacing: 2px;

text-transform: uppercase;

padding-top: 10px;

clear: both;

text-align: center;

width: 760px;

}

#footer a:link, #footer a:visited { /* more link link color fixes for nav & admin stuff */

color: #777;

text-decoration: none;

font-weight: bold;

}

#footer a:hover, #footer a:active {

color: #000;

text-decoration: underline;

font-weight: bold;

}

.notice {

border: 2px solid #4c9545;

background: #abd8a2;

color: #4c9545;

font-size: 1.1em;

font-weight: bold;

padding: 10px 15px;

margin: 0 0 1.1em;

}

.notice p { margin-bottom: 0; }

/* Login Form

=================================== */

.login {

color: #000;

margin: 10px 40px;

}

.login a, .login a:visited { color: #000; text-decoration: none; }

.login a:hover, .login h1 a:active{ text-decoration: underline; }

.login p { padding: 0 0 5px; }

.login label {

display: block;

float: left;

padding-right: 10px;

}

.login #submit {

font-size: 1.2em;

margin-top: 13px;

float: left;

}

p.login {

font-weight: normal;

font-size: 1.2em;

}

form.login input {

margin-top: 3px;

border: 1px solid #999;

}

/* Front Page

=================================== */

#front-page #hottags {

position: absolute;

top: 0;

left: 0;

width: 150px;

overflow: hidden;

}

#front-page #discussions {

margin-left: 0px;

width: 500px;

float: left;

}

.frontpageheatmap {

font-weight: normal;

line-height: 30px;

padding-bottom: 10px;

}

#front-page #main h2, h2.post-form, #userlogin, #currentfavorites, #register {

color: #333;

border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;

margin: 0 0 10px;

padding: 0 0 5px;

}

#front-page #discussions ul { padding: 0 0 0 14px; }

.sticky {

background: #EDEDED;

}

/* Topic Page

=================================== */

.infobox {

border: 1px solid #ccc;

border-width: 1px 0;

padding: 1em;

width: 500px;

}

.infobox ul {

margin: 10px 0 10px 12px;

padding: 0;

}

.infobox ul li { padding-bottom: 3px; }

#topic-tags {

border-left: 1px solid #ccc;

float: right;

margin-top: -2em;

padding: 0 1em 1em;

}

.nav {

margin: 15px 0;

padding: 12px 0;

}

.nav span { font-weight: bold; }

.nav span, .nav a { padding: 6px; }

#thread {

background: #eee;

list-style: none;

margin: 0 0 0 100px;

padding: 0;

width: 500px;

}

#thread li {

padding: 1.5em 1.0em;

line-height: 1.5em;

}

#thread li ol, #thread li ul { margin-left: 40px; }

#thread li ol li, #thread li ul li { padding: 0; }

.threadauthor {

margin-left: -110px;

overflow: hidden;

position: absolute;

width: 95px;

}

.threadauthor small { font: 11px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; }

.poststuff {

border-top: 1px dotted #ccc;

margin: 10px 0 0;

padding: 5px 0 0;

font: 10px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

text-transform: uppercase;

width: 500px;

}

.num, #forumlist small {

font: 11px Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;

text-align: center;

}

.postform {

background: #fff;

padding: 1em;

width: 500px;

}

.postform textarea {

height: 12em;

margin: 5px 0;

padding: 5px;

width: 500px;

display: block;

}

.postform label { display: block; width: 500px;}

.admin { padding: 10px 0 0; }

#manage-tags {

margin: 10px 0;

list-style: none;

}

#manage-tags li {

float: left;

width: 200px;

padding-bottom: 10px;

}

.submit { text-align: right; }

.topiclink { display: block; }

.topictitle {

font-size: 26px;

font-weight: normal;

display: inline;

}

/* Other

=================================== */

#content .frontpageheatmap a {

font-weight: normal;

text-decoration: none;

}

#content .infobox li { margin-bottom: 2px; }

#content .nav a {

border: 1px solid #ccc;

font-weight: normal;

}

#content .nav a:hover {

border: 1px solid #999;

}

#content a:visited {

font-weight: normal;

}

#front-search {

float: right;

margin-top: -8px;

}

#latest td, #forumlist td, #favorites td { padding: 5px 10px; }

#latest tr:hover, #forumlist tr:hover, #favorites tr:hover { background: #cbd9e4; }

#latest th, #forumlist th, #favorites th {

/* border-bottom: 1px solid #aaa; */

background: #3371A3;

color: #fff;

padding: 5px 10px;

text-transform: uppercase;

font-weight: bold;

}

#latest th a:link, #latest th a:visited, #latest th a:active {

color:#fff;

}

#latest, #forumlist, #favorites {

background: #f7f7f7;

margin-bottom: 2em;

width: 100%;

}

.bozo { background: #eeee88; }

.alt.bozo { background: #ffff99; }

.deleted { background: #ee8888; }

.alt.deleted { background: #ff9999; }

/* Profile Page

=================================== */

#profile-menu {

margin: -35px 0px;

padding: 0 0 30px 0;

float:right;

}

#profile-menu ul {

margin: 0;

padding: 0;

position: absolute;

bottom: 0;

left: 20px;

width: 90%;

}

#profile-menu li {

display: inline;

margin: 0;

}

#profile-menu,

#profile-menu li a {

padding: 5px 15px 6px;

}

#profile-menu li a {

font-size: 1em;

color: white;

margin: 0;

}

#profile-menu li a:hover {

background: #333;

color: #eee !important;

text-decoration: none;

}

#profile-menu li.current a,

ul.menu li.current a:hover {

color: #333 !important;

background: white;

text-decoration: none;

}

#userinfo { margin-top: 10px; }

#userinfo dt { font-weight: bold; }

#userinfo dd { margin: 0 0 5px; }

#useractivity { margin: 15px 0 5px; }

.user-recent { margin: 0 0 10px; }

.user-recent ol { margin: 5px 0 0 28px; }

.user-recent ol li { margin: 0 0 3px; }

/* Profile Edit

=================================== */

fieldset {

border-top: 3px double #ccc;

border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;

border-left: none;

border-right: none;

padding: 10px 0 10px 10px;

margin-bottom: 15px;

width: 500px;

}

legend {

font-weight: bold;

padding: 0 15px;

}

fieldset table {

text-align: left;

margin: 0 15px;

}

fieldset table td { padding: 2px 0; }

fieldset p {

font-size: 11px;

margin: 10px 16px;

}

/* further additions by Nick */

/* this is for my 48 x 48 avatars */

.post {

min-height: 60px;

}

Can you tell me if it’s right?

[stricha]

Can you install BBPress using an IP Subdomain (example: http://111.111.111~directory)? I’m working for a client who wants to get their new site set-up before switching over their existing domain name. I’m wondering: can I install BBPress using the IP address or should I wait for the domain transfer? If I can install now using the IP subdomain, what are the implications for the install when the domain transfer goes through?

I’m planning a BBPress integration with WordPress, which I have installed and customized nicely and don’t want to mess-up at this point or else I’d go for it with BBPress and see what happens. Does anyone have experience with this issue they can share?

Thanks.

[migpilot]

chrishajer,

It’s more the conversion that was the issue. Dunno what it was but when we ran it through the phpBB converter, it basically made a motza of the sql, preventing the posts from being brought into the new DB ( entry double ups, funny characters etc., etc)

While we have got everything else in with only minor work, we are having to totally hand edit the 370,000 lines that make up the bb_posts sql file as all sorts of strange thing have happened to it.

It’s all fixable but just time intensive.

[fel64]

That’s easy enough to do; it’s implemented already in the bleeding-edge not-officially-released version of bbPress (which is actually perfectly stable and bug-free for me). This direct link will give you the currently newest version, revision 817. To activate these super-pretty permalinks, open your config.php and set the pretty permalinks option to 'slugs' instead, then if applicable (you’ll probably know if it is) change the contents of your .htaccess file to whatever /bb-admin/rewrite-rules.php tells you to.

[fredvee]

Hello!

I’ve been working on my first plugin for a while, and I don’t even know if it’s useful! It deals with users with websites to promote for fun or for profit. The concept is this: users can specify tags in their profiles possibly related to their website. Then, in the topics they start, everytime another user use one of those words in their posts inside the topic, these words are wrapped in a link to the topic poster’s website.

Am I clear? Now you too can have annoying intellitxt’s on your forums without the thousands of visitors! And you’re not referring to big advertising companies but to your dudes with a web presence. It is a give and take thing. Cause you might raise their pagerank like this, but they have to come to your site and post good topics and take care the discussion goes along etc. It might even be a socializing exercise in tricking the posters to type the tags you’ve specified! Cause they are not visible to the public.

And here comes the reality check part. I’ve been just “hacking around ” with this thing and I’m aware things should look prittier than they are now. First things first, it requires the ra_custom_profile_keys plugin as an easy way to add a field in the registration. Which is not a so bad thing after all. Good plugin. But more importantly I needed a way to hide the tags field in the profile view and I only managed to do it by modifying one of the template-functions, which I know is absolutely an ugly thing to do, even if I just added a line.

It’s all in the code

and you can see it in function here. (I was hunting for a marketable domain name, sue me).

Btw, if you happen to try it out and things go wrong… I really hope I could help you about it but don’t hold your breath.

Ciao

[arthurk]

Hello!

I use currently vBulletin 3.6.5 and would like to switch to bbpress. 2 questions:

1) Is there an importer? For threads / forums / users?

2) How does it look like with performance? Is it comparable? Especially with larger boards (300-500 users online)?

Thanks!!!

[emildorbell]

“bbPress will not have access to WordPress’ functions unless you manually tell bbPress to load WordPress first. In order to do that, you need to put require_once(‘path/to/wp-blog-header.php’); in bbPress’ config.php (wp-blog-header is in the same directory as WordPress’ wp-config.php file).”

Just uploaded bbpress and tried doing this on http://www.ceciliabjerling.com/wordpress/forum/

You can see the error message there and perhaps tell me what I’m doing wrong.

I changed

require_once( BBPATH . ‘bb-settings.php’ );

to the path where my wp-blog-header.php is

[jessiebirks]

Thanks vilimaunula! I’m going to try this as well.

Honestly, what I really want is for Vanilla Mist to just re-write the Connections theme as a bbpress theme. That would make my life so easy. Someone convince her she needs bbpress on her page.

[Sam Bauers]

Active Directory can be interrogated using the PHP LDAP functions, but it may need to do different things to what this plugin does. I don’t have an AD server to test against, so I won’t be building the functionality into this plugin any time soon. You still need to configure PHP with ldap to bind to active directory.

[bruz]

Hu I’ve been searching this forum before posting, so I thought I had really missed something in first place

Yea, the plugin is for WordPress, I think I will try if I can make it work for bbPress…

[lira]

Erm… hey guys, could you tell me what I’ve done wrong?

I’ve just installed “bbPress Post”, and WordPress is telling me there’s no table called “wp_bbpress_post_options” (which is true). I reckon I should solve this problem before hacking wp’s comments.php template… but how?

ps.: Oh, and you guys are doing a great job here, congratulations

[mierow]

Curious to know if anyone has gotten this to work with Active Directory? We’re looking at getting this authenticated using LDAP and AD, but the plug-in from above hasn’t worked with that. Any insight would be appreciated.

[wmarcy]

Whoops, I was thinking of a WordPress plugin. Maybe you could modify it for bbPress?

[Nola1974]

Anyone see the CLI theme for WordPress?

testing here: http://fearandloathingbbs.com/wordpress/

My dream would be a theme like this for bbpress that would turn it into an old school BBS a la WWIV, VBBS or teleguard. I’ve been trying, but I suck.

No really. how cool could that be?

[gh3]

i have just released the 0.12 version.

in this new version i added the merge topic feature

you can download it on bbpress svn or my site.

hope it could be useful

ps. sooner i’m planning to add split topic feature, but ‘ll have to work on it…

[Duchemin]

Users on my forum posted 1 or 5 messages, they don’t need registration. But in bbpress database there is no field of Name (post linked with user by poster_id). How to make ‘Anonymous post’?

[csl749]

Hi folks,

Here’s my forum at the moment after some theme-tweakery to make it fit the general theme of my wordpress site. Everything’s more or less fine, but there’s just on little section that I can’t seem to solve – when using the ‘- ADD NEW’ topic link on the latest discussions section on the front page I get a gap between the footer and the new post div, yet this gap is nowhere to be found on any other of the pages. Looks a bit incongruous.

Here’s a pic of how the problem looks: http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/7683/bbpresspw3.jpg

Any help on how to solve this little problem would be great – thanks!

[fel64]

Yes. Put the Secondary in Main, get rid of its margin, add the CSS float property to both Secondary and Discussion – one float: right, one float: left. That will make it work.

[bozzy]

Thanks for the help! I have a couple more questions if you wouldn’t mind… I fixed the problem with sidebar on the front page (although I can’t get it all the way to the top, any suggestions?), and I can’t seem to figure out how to fix the sidebar on the other pages (topics, forums, edit profile, etc)… I’ve looked all over the css the file and can’t figure it out…

Thanks again for all your help!

[Trent Adams]

I used phpbb for about 4 years and once I created a test site of bbPress, I converted over all my forums to bbPress and continue to help support a great product. As far as I can tell, almost all the ‘bloated’ features of phpBB that people love have now become plugins for bbPress, so if you like all or most of those features, you will love bbPress.

Trent

[wittmania]

I second that motion… Obviously, on a bbpress board you’re going to get the home team’s opinion that bbpress is great. But, I was a former phpbb-er and I made the switch because I was tired of all of the security holes and spam in phpbb. If you like WordPress (and are proficient enough with PHP to manage a blog), you’ll LOVE bbpress. Plus, with all of the momentum it is gaining, bbpress just keeps getting better.

[fel64]

WP and phpBB … you can probably bend them to your will together if your php mojo is strong indeed.

I would recommend converting your phpBB forum to bbPress using a converter, because WP and bb go together like something awesome with something also very awesome. That’ll make your site look streamlined and funky like anything.