You both ask very reasonable questions 
Basically, my forum is such that people tend to sign up just to ask 1 question and disappear. So over the years it has amassed about 700 users with 1-2 posts, tops.
My current setup is pretty much a mirror of the old forum (it’s at my site at /bbpress if you want to see the design in progress), which can of course work fine, but being the anal type I was thinking of starting this forum with a “clean slate”, as it were. Maybe 2-3 users would be returning and bear the burden of re-registering.
But I guess I’ll leave it be. As new posts come in the old ones will “flush” off the front page anyway. Thanks for the insights.
This is very interesting to me. How about these ideas?
For the close a forum, I don’t know how you would do that. There’s nothing I know of in the bb_forums table that marks it open or closed. The best I think you could do is mark the topics closed. To do that with SQL, you could do something like
UPDATE bb_topics
SET topic_open=0
WHERE topic_id IN
(your comma separated list of topic_ids)
You could drop the WHERE part if you wanted to mark all existing topics as closed. Before you do anything with SQL though, be sure you have a backup of the data.
I can see why you want to take a snapshot of the old forums and mark them “archived/old” but, I would assume if you are moving things from phpBB to bbPress that your forum structure is going to be similar, so closing the forums to new topics wouldn’t make sense anyway.
Another option is to create a new forum called “phpBB Archive” or something then move all the topics and posts over to that “archive” forum, then create your forum hierarchy again in bbPress like it was in phpBB (i.e. World News, World Labs, Support, etc.)
For the users, why not just change all the passwords? That would make the usernames still valid, so no one else could re-register as an existing name, no one could log in with the old name, and all the existing posts would still be attributed to the original poster.
Just my thoughts: maybe they’ll be useful. Good questions though…
I have a few things I’d like to do, and not sure if it’s possible:
I’ve migrated a phpBB forum over to bbPress. What I want to do is twofold:
1. Lock or close a given forum so it’s read only. Basically to call this the “archive of the old forum”
2. Delete the bulk of users that migrated with phpBB while maintaining the usernames on the original posts. If I just delete users, all those old posts become “anonymous”.
Thanks…
Steve
If this is in the wrong place, my bad. I couldn’t find all the answers I needed, so I decided a new thread would help.
* Can I import my data from an Invision Power forum?
* bbPress can integrate with my WordPress blog, right? Meaning users make a profile and use an avatar that would show up in the forums as well as in comments on the blog?
* Is there a WYSIWYG editor for bbpress?
* What about signatures for posts, as you would find with phpBB, Invision Power, etc?
* Is there a quick reply feature?
What I’m looking for is a forum to integrate with WordPress, but Invision can’t do that, so it would be ideal if bbPress had features like it.
Thanks!
Hi..
I’v installed bbPress correctly (i guess) and intergrated it with WP, and it words fine. The problem is, that the link: http://stasi.se/forum/?new=1
that comes up, when I push “Add new / Tilføj ny (danish) » “
The a form should appear (like the one i then buttom), but all that appears is a info “Hello user” edit etc.. no form..
Someone how know whats wrong, or do you know another link/file that I could redirect the link to, so I will word?
I’v created a user: testtest pass: 0b28fc
– so you can try to login at se the faoult with you own eyes..
I hope someone has a golden solution
//And sorry, that the page is translated to danish
I update my profile after the fact to try and get rid of it; ya know, clearing that field, putting in a “0” etc.
The really strangest part to me is that there is no bozo in my usemeta table at all. So where the *heck* is the flag coming from?
I’ve never seen it as a checkbox, it’s always been a text area for me. Look here: http://forums.loinhead.net/profile/fel64/edit ~ Err, you probably can’t edit accounts on my forum. Nevermind. 
But really, I have the same HTML output as you.
You have Update Profile‘ed, haven’t you?
I keep getting flagged as a Bozo.
You shouldn’t be flagged again if Akismet is not running. Strange.
I might do it sometime, but for now I’d say just use the Comment Quicktags – press a button and the code is inserted, if your problem is remembering the codes.
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/14?replies=6
Demo here: http://forums.loinhead.net/topic/the-purty-image-associator/page/2?replies=52
My default is actually http://www.example.com/topic/topicnumber.
It is possible to have topic-title in the link instead of the number, but you need to be running the very latest version of bbPress from SVN, which is likely to be buggier than the official releases. The Download page has both.
http://forums.loinhead.net/
Done quite a lot of stuff, running 1.0-alpha at the moment (which includes the possibility for forums to be children of other forums – could be useful, although I’m not using it right now) and a bunch of plugins.
- Page links
- bbPress Integration
- Allow Images
- Comment Quicktags for bbPress
- bbEmoticons
- Show Post Count
- Online List
- WP Posts
- Quote
- WordPress Integration
I get these errors:
bbPress database error: [Table ‘mpmorg2_bbpress.bb_online’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT * FROM bb_online WHERE user_id = 1 LIMIT 1
bbPress database error: [Table ‘mpmorg2_bbpress.bb_online’ doesn’t exist]
INSERT INTO bb_online (user_id, activity) VALUES (‘1’, ‘2007-03-24 06:06:37’)
read me says:
“You’ll maybe get an error if you browse your forum the first time after you’ve installed the plugin. This is normal.
If you keep getting errors, try setting $mysql41 to false maybe it works then, otherwise don’t hestitate to contact me.”
How do I set this to false?
forum is here: http://www.mpm.org.au
EDIT: It’s okay, it just took some time for the errors to disappear.
Yes, you are right; some people will not want to use this.
But i mean, this would be an option, like in WordPress.
As bbPress’ structure is very similar to WordPress; adding that option to bbPress won’t be so hard, i guess.
Is shared logins the only benefit?
Can bbpress use any of the wordpress plugins?
What are some of the practical benefits of integrating a blog with a forum?
Can you make the comments from wordpress go directly to the forum? Not just appear in the forum but ONLY appear in the forum?
My wordpress blog is http://300.mpm.org.au, a community charity illustration blog but I’d like the community aspect of the commenting system to be part of our forums with all our other forum topics/projects at http://www.mpm.org.au.
Ideally I would like the root of our site (http://www.mpm.org.au) to use something relatively simple like Nulls BBportal to pull and display open forum topics from a couple of specific categories (in our forums case our ‘newsfront’ category and our company specific category) and then have our wordpress blog also linked into the forums from a subdomain.
http://www.lne97.com/bbpress/
user name: just a test (note the spaces)
password: justatest (no spaces)
This is a WP/BBP installation for my upcoming 10 year class reunion. I originally launched the site as static pages and a phpbb board. However, about a month ago I put WP behind it to manage updates, add payment collection capabilities, and rotating ads. After that I added a bbpress installation, which is integrated with WP. I used the phpbb import plugin, with some minor tweaks, to bring all of the posts and users over from phpbb. I’ve made minor changes here and there to the default template, and I am using most of the available plugins. So far my classmates haven’t had any trouble with anything, and it has been much easier to manage and moderate the boards, especially with MUCH less spam and bogus user registrations than on phpbb.
Cheers!
@fel64 – You don’t have to copy the styles into another style sheet, just edit the styles in the file page-links.css
@wittmania – I’ve updated the plugin to be compatible with “Front Page Topics”, it’s more a design problem with that plugin, but I’ve worked around it.
@Null – All that has to be done is copying the three files, one php, one css, one image into the my-plugins folder. If you want to change the styles then just edit them in the CSS file. I couldn’t have made it any easier given I wanted it to be easily styled for different layouts without having to modify templates.
Hmm take out the images and put the page numbers between (..), makes your plugin easier to install (no difficult stuff with images, extra uploading etc)… just my 2 cents
http://www.sourceskins.com/bbpress is my area 51 where i test my plugins (bbmenu, bbportal,bbwysiwyg)
My bbpress is exclusively for only authors who write on the attached WP Blog. Recently I found that on the home page of my bbpress, I can see latest posts in threads… which when I click on – go to the thread of the lastest post – scroll down – the latest post isn’t there. I check Akismet filter and the post is not there either.
I don’t use blocking or bozos for authors. Could someone advise what could be going wrong and how can I rectify them.
On a seperate note, how can I turn Akismet for bbPress off?
None of these tricks work for me. I’m using latest bbPress and fix plugin. Even with a clean install, my keymaster user will randomly become a bozo. I have a either a “1” or ny login name in the profiles bozo field (yes, it’s a field, not a checkbox). Akismet is not enabled.
Also, there is no “is_bozo” in my usemeta table at all, and sure enough it’s not listed in the admin bozo section.
Is there a fix for this? It’s a big mess.
the .htaccess file is:
Options +MultiViews
(That’s the entire file. I havebbpress sharing a database with wordpress.)
How to make is so, that it wont filter between the code tags? Cause we dont want smilies in code parts
Sam, I am on .8.1, but it is working fine now.
This plugin doesn’t play nicely with the Front Page Topics plugin. I had it set to show 25 posts per page on topics pages, so I would only have 2 or 3 pages, whereas your plugin would count 5 or 6. When I would click on a link to a page that was beyond the actual pagination, I would get a “This topic is closed” message. I went ahead and just deleted the Front Page Topics plugin and it is working fine now.
Would there be a way to change the number of posts per page in your plugin from the default 10, or better yet to look for the front page topics and count based on the options in that plugin? Just curious.
Thanks.
Hi, I’m having a bozo nightmare. I installed bbPress a few days ago, and I keep getting flagged as a Bozo.
1. I’m running latest bbPress, and this Fix bbPress plug-in.
2. I disabled Akismet per the other Bozo thread.
And yet:
In my keymaster profile page, I have a large text field with the contents of my admin name, and I’m stuck as a bozo. Changing “1” to “0” in PHPMyAdmin does nothing. Deleting my name from the bozo field does nothing.
I understand this is supposed to be a checkbox, but I have this:
<tr>
<th scope="row">This user is a bozo:</th>
<td><input name="is_bozo" id="is_bozo" type="text" size="30" maxlength="140" value="" />
</td>
</tr>
Cheers Sam, worked beautifully. I put your CSS in my style.css and played around with it until eventually getting rid of all extra styling But it works great. That was a major annoyance. Thanks. 
What version of bbPress are you using. I have to admit that I haven’t tested against 0.8.1, only against the latest 1.0 alpha
I think I know what went wrong though. Download and try again, I’ve updated the version to 1.0.1
The links are text-only. If you don’t want the images/styles just remove them from the CSS file.
