[TiiuK]

Thanks guys, I had the latest bbPress installed but my converter.php looked different so now I am using the converter.php file which Stephen posted and did not do any change to it. Then I tried the phpBB3 import again but know I am stuck at “Starting conversion” … it just won’t stop and there is no error message. How can I finally get this to work?

[Martin J]

Hopefully I got the right forum here.

I want to add a heading when on the “forums” archive home page of the bbpress forum. Right now I have this for jetpack’s portfolio…note this is just a snippet of my code:

if (is_post_type_archive()) :
echo '<h1 id="bts-page-title">' . __( 'WordPress Themes', 'bts' ) . '</h1>';

…but the bbpress forum header area is loading that title as well. I’ve tried so many variations and conditionals, none work. I did manage to get the “forum” titles to show for individual forums with:

elseif (is_bbpress('forum') ) :
echo '<h1 id="bts-page-title">' . __( 'Support Forum', 'bts' ) . '</h1>';

But does anyone have an idea how to get the conditional to show a custom header title for the bbpress home page?

[Stagger Lee]

Will try to see discussion on Slack, thank you. We can chat about it here too, why not.

@Robin W, our analogy with newspapers and similar commercial services is a bit wrong, I think anyway. No law can force them to delete everything in their database(s), simply because they need those data to pay VAT, to pay to state what they had in income. They are exceptions, and has to be. Amazon will never be forced by this law to delete your profile. On the other side Twitter, Facebook will be forced by this law a lot, that is why I mentioned them.

As I get it, it is like this:

– Robin W asks for this law to be respected here on this domain “bbpress.org”, and all (identifiable) personal info about him to be deleted.
– After this is done, can Admin of this domain, webmaster, owner, or I as Stagger Lee find anything, anything on this domain, to threaten Robin W, find his physical post address, kill him, threaten his family, etc…etc…

colourful example, but I believe it is it.

[Stephen Edgar]

Here’s the exact change in that code that was added for the next bbPress release

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/6129/

[Stephen Edgar]

If you haven’t joined up for WordPress’ Slack please do 🙂

https://chat.wordpress.org

Please remember though, the discussions on WordPress’ Slack will be about adding GDPR to WordPress Core, as bbPress and BuddyPress are official “sister projects” of the WordPress project we’ll be for the most part following and implementing the solution WordPress Core decides upon, this will be implemented across these bbPress.org, buddypress.org, and wordpress.org support forums and shipped in an upcoming bbPress release 🙂

[krioteh]

Sorry, English is not my native language, I can distort phrases. I’ll try differently:

After importing a new site in …wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=topic and wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=reply is there anything?
Perhaps the topic and answer did not receive the correct post_type when importing

You can try to update the old site.
You can backup the database (in order to roll back in case of something), then:
Disable all plugins.
Update WordPress (if you can not get to the latest version, then you can add intermediate ones – they are available at https://wordpress.org/download/release-archive/)
After updating WordPress update bbPress.

P.S.Your links require authentication 🙂

[Robin W]

ok, so we need to look at exactly what this law does.
The law is here :

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/en/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32016R0679

and from my reading you can pretty much forget the scare stuff in google !

Ignore the recitals (they are not part of the law) and skip to the actual articles
So first scope :
Article 3 says :

This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data wholly or partly by automated means and to the processing other than by automated means of personal data which form part of a filing system or are intended to form part of a filing system.

So what is processing?
Article 4 (2) says

processing’ means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction;

and what is personal data ?
This is defined by article 4(1) which states

‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’);

And goes on to define what identifiable means (as opposed to say anonymised data)

an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;

So personal data is information relating to a ‘data subject’ and is processed. So NOT comment written by that data subject, or other people’s views on either the data subject himself or other people’s views on the data subject’s views. If it is wrong, defaming or libellous then this is already covered by existing law.

There is no requirement to delete topics or replies as far as I can see.

A good analogy would be if I had a newspaper subscription. If I cancel the subscription to their on-line service, then I would expect them to delete my name, address, bank account details or anything else they hold in connection with that subscription. The legislation as far as I can see does not require them to delete their on-line coverage of my wedding, nor the comment I put in the comment box under that news story about Madonna adopting another child. Neither of those is personal data. Nor is someone else’s @mentions of my name. Otherwise we could all just write to every paper, and no-one could publish anything about us ever again !!!

If this law really gave you the right to have posts removed, then this would be huge and making headlines. For instance the newspapers would be all over the fact that after April Facebook, Instagram twitter etc. would have to delete all posts made by me, or about me or where I could be identified. This would be a MEGA story – and we would all know about it by now.

It IS appropriate for website owners to consider – as if asked to delate a user, you would need to totally remove their existence not just from the current wordpress database (which deleting a user does) but also from any membership plugins, woocommerce plugins etc, etc.

But I see no way that bbpress needs to worry about this law.

But I’m not a lawyer.

[Robin W]

I haven’t read this thread in detail, so am not endorsing the suggested change, but the file is in

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/convertor.php

[6piston]

Hi all, I have converted my vbulletin forums to bbpress (a heavily pruned version of my big db)

– The conversion completed perfectly
– I ran the all repair jobs perfectly (except for user roles)
– The users are all imported perfectly
– the forum runs perfectly except..

The Problem:
All replies in every topic shows anonymous instead of user

is there any way to fix this?

thanks

[Pascal Casier]

We will have weekly meetings on slack in the #gdpr-compliance channel. So if you are on slack, feel free to join. Core will be the discussion, but bbPress and others will follow based on that outcome of course.

[Robin W]

sorry, but we can’t open every plugin to see why it doesn’t work with bbpress 🙁

[crookie]

Unfortunately it depends from bbPress.. so far no one could add a Custom Button to TinyMCE

[crookie]

Hi, I am using this Plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbspoiler/

The button ‘spoiler’ is not visible in bbpress frontend. Only in admin backend.

[krioteh]

Are themes and answers displayed in the console?
Type of record when importing has not changed?

Perhaps the topics were imported as posts, then this plugin can help: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-move-topics/

You can also try to put bbPress 2.6RC5, in it there are some additional tools …

[ronh5]

I’ve inherited a WordPress site (v3.2.1) running bbPress v2.0. I’d like to update everything to current releases and then see about adding some features. I’ve run into roadblocks at every turn.

Because of custom plugins, I can’t upgrade anything, as it all breaks right away, so I thought I’d start with a fresh install of WordPress (v4.9.4) and bbPress (v2.5.14) and try to re-create the site.

I can’t get the old posts out of the old site and into the new one.

I tried “bbPress Import & Export”, which doesn’t do anything (blank screen when I try to export), but was able to get an XML file out of the Tools->Export page.

When I tried to import it on the new site, I was asked to match up all the users (a pain with over 200 to do one-by-one), which seemed successful, but I ended up with a main forums page that looks right as far as Topics and Posts go, but the Freshness column says “No Topics” and clicking into a thread results in a “Oh bother! No topics were found here!” message.

Any ideas? Thanks!

http://newvht.ronhiggins.com/forums
u/p: vhtbb

[walama]

I currently have both bbpress and buddy press installed on my page. I have setup some private forums on the bbpress sites.

Right now, registration is manual as we want to control who can be a member.

What I would prefer is:
— Users submit their information and membership is approved.
— A nice to have here would be that either user names were just email addresses OR when approving the membership, the admin then assigned the user name

We would also like to restrict the access to the forums so that there are 3 sets of users — One that can read all boards, one that can read a subset of boards, and one that can only read a single board.

Are there plugins that people recommend for this? Also, while I originally thought we would be using the social media aspects of buddy press, we don’t seem to be. Is there any reason to leave it installed?

[Robin W]

ok, not sure if I can help further, something funny with your site.

The final thing I’d suggest is that you change to a default theme

If a public forum, with a default theme and just bbpress running doesn’t show topics, then there is something wrong with your site or database.

[kryl2575]

Hi,

I still get the same problems, that have mentioned above.
No solutions worked for me, to switch the forum into german language.
Language file (*.mo, *.po) Syntax double checked (bbpress-de_DE), path on server, plugin (WPT Custom Mo File) to use a custom language.

Please fix it!

I’m using WordPress 4.8.1 with Enfold Child theme and your product in version 2.5.14

Any help would be appreciated.

Best regards,
John

[locutus1]

I just deactivated ALL my plugins except bbpress. bbpress is the only active plugin. I then restarted my browser, loaded the site and entered a forum with 3 topics (the FPS forum that my first post above links to). I logged out from my site as admin. The three topics disappeared. I can still see the forums but I can’t see any topics in any forum.

[6piston]

Anyone please?

To make it easier, i’d just like to know if I can merge multiple bbpress conversions (topics and replies only)

Thanks

[sasenzon]

Hello. I just started using a new forum with my bbpress.
bbpress – 2.5 14-6684
wp 4.9.4
The site is members.institutechiro.com

A user just forwarded me his email and it is full of code. Example.
<p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″>Great first week content.</span></p>
<p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″>I was interested to know that an intellectual generation has 33 integers; making me a 4th gen chiro.</span></p>

please help.
Thanks.
Simon

[Robin W]

Right now everyone that has a user account on the website is getting email notifications from all forum posts

bbpress does not notify unless users have subscribed to forums

what other plugins do you have that might be doing that ?

[sasenzon]

I am trying to use this plugin. I put brackets around words in the fields.

But when I to to “view” profile – and click the words I get a page not found.

I don’t see any suggestions on the plugin help page.

If I click on a profile item that was “mandatory” then it takes me to the proper member search page. But the optional profile items that the plugin is designed to turn into search terms – leads me to page not found.
bbpress – 2.5 14-6684
wp 4.9.4

The site is members.institutechiro.com

[6piston]

Hi BBpress people!

Okay, it’s taken me days to go through with the conversion between vbulletin and bbpress. Until now, I have yet to see my complete forums in bbpress. The process stops eventually every time I restart.

180K Threads
4.2m Post
170 Users

What I have done is:
– copied the vbulletin site to vbulletincopy
– prune it down to 100K post (replies)
– start the conversion
– it’s taken me 8hrs and i’ve only got 18,000 replies converted.

Question 1:
How else can I do this conversion? I really want to get bbpress working.
Can I try this?:
– copy 4 or 5 copies of vbulletin db
– prune posts according to date (eg: 2018 – 2015 / 2015 – 2014)
– go through the conversion again with every “batch” and let it overwrite somehow?

Question 2:
How can I copy it in stages and let the forums operate with the latest data and I can overwrite with more old threads later?

Thanks!

[Robin W]

But i have a question it is correct solution? No performace issue ?

yes it has a performance issue, every line of code has a performance issue.

No idea by what you mean ‘is it the correct solution’ This is a help service for bbpress not a free bespoke website service. I have already gone beyond the usual to help you.

It is up to you to decide the balance of SEO against performance, not me.