[HorrorUK]

Is it possible to transfer a freeforums.net forum to bbPress?

I am working with an organisation who created a freeforums.net account a short time ago and have convinced them to use WordPress, but we need to get it transferred over.

Thanks.

[van24]

There seem to be some errors in this file:
/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/css/bbpress.css

Specifically, lines 1137-1139 get highlighted by CSS debuggers.

I was using a third party tool to generate Critical CSS for mobile optimization. These lines prevented the CSS from being parsed properly. I had to remove them temporarily, run the tool, then add them back afterwards. Perhaps these lines can be fixed/changed in the next version?

[evanevans333]

I came across this in a thread.
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-working-for-bbpress-rolesWould that be somehow useful? Probably not.

/**
 * FORUM - Role map
 * bbPress has its own internal ("dynamic") Roles, so we map our real wp roles to bbPress.
 */
add_filter('bbp_get_user_role_map','my_bbPress_role_map');
function my_bbPress_role_map($role_map){
	$role_map['student'] = bbp_get_participant_role();
	return $role_map;
}

[evanevans333]

I don’t know if I gave you this link before, but it does shed some light on to the reasoning of this “issue” and maybe that will help you know better how to circumvent/modify it to the way we’re looking for:

Roles and Capabilities in bbPress 2.2

[xmanca]

I’m returning to WordPress after years and found bbPress as a potentially good option to convert an old forum while converting the site to use WP. What I specifically need because of user mandate is threaded topics but they need to be in a specific layout. The default for bbpress when I enable threading, is kind of a hybrid flat/threaded. What I’d like to achieve is to have the individual posts display on a page with the thread below in the form of a thread of links to those posts/replies within the thread. This is specifically what my established users are accustomed to and what they demand. The forum goes back almost two decades (original threaded forum styling) and many of the users are original members so they don’t want any fancy, newfangled flat forums…

I’m confident that I can create the database script to do the forum migration of posts/thread/users into WP/bbPress but need some insights for achieving layout issues. Can I get some help / insights for achieving this layout? Thank you in advance.

Paul

[sakthidasan]

Hi,

I’m trying to import my phpbb 3.1.6 forum to bbpress wp 4.6. Nothing is happening on my import. Please find below my setting and the message I got from Import option.

Database Server – localhost
Database Port- 3306
Database Name – tamilpot_DB (My phpbb DB name)
Database User – tamilpot_DB (My phpbb DB Username)
Database Password – xxxxx (My phpbb DB User Password)
Table Prefix – phpbb_ (This how my prefix in phpbb database).
Rows Limit – 100
Delay Time – 1
Convert Users – Checked
Start Over – Checked
Purge Previous Import – Checked

In response, I got as,

Repair any missing information: Continue
Conversion Complete
No reply_to parents to convert
No replies to convert
No tags to convert
No super stickies to stick
No stickies to stick
No topics to convert
No forum parents to convert
No forums to convert
No passwords to clear
No users to convert
No data to cleanStarting Conversion

Can you please help me to import my forum to bbpress?

[Robin W]

bbPress is tested with wordpress default themes. It maybe a conflict – you need to check plugins and themes

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[Roozbeh Rahmani]

i tried activating bbpress on may website but every time i activate it all the pages on my website go missing (except for home page!) i have buddypress activated without a problem and i couldn’t find a solution for this problem.

i also tried changing the address of all bbpress pages in setting but couldn’t help.

here is the website if it help:

بیاموز

[kkpb8084]

Hi, can anyone help?
I cannot find the answer to my query from searching this forum and google.
At the moment, people need to enter a name and email to post a topic, or reply to a topic, on my forum (http://psychiatryadvice.com/).

I would like to replace that with what they have at this forum: http://www.econjobrumors.com/
They seem to generate a random 4-digit code for each person posting. I am aiming for anonymity in my forum too.

Does anyone know how I can do this please?
Thanks very much!

I’m using:
Wordpress v 4.5.3
bbpress v 2.5.9-6017

[smartIt]

Hi
I created a forum here http://radiotounsi.com/?page_id=4862 at the bottom of the page.
When I resize the browser window, there is a responsiveness problem, I have seen that bbpress forums in other websites are responsive, can you please help me to fix this ?
Thanks in advance.

[Robkk]

Okay your topic is closed and stickied, so adjust this css. Use a custom css plugin, or modify and place this css into a style.css file in a child theme.

#bbpress-forums .status-closed,
#bbpress-forums .status-closed a {
 color: #ccc;
}

.bbp-topics-front ul.super-sticky,
.bbp-topics ul.super-sticky,
.bbp-topics ul.sticky,
.bbp-forum-content ul.sticky {
 background-color: #ffffe0 !important;
 font-size: 1.1em;
}

[Robkk]

What theme are you using?

EDIT: Forgot that I did make this guide for a user experiencing a similar issue.

https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started/troubleshooting/search-redirects-to-front-page/

Although this might help, I would like to know your theme just in case it doesn’t so I could do some troubleshooting.

If its not the theme, we have to do some plugin troubleshooting.

[senatorman]

Is there somebody with the same versions (phpbb to 3.1.9 and use BBpress 2.6 alpha) with a working import from a pbpbb database?

If yes, can you send me your the phpbb.php file please

[Robkk]

It says here you can add custom post type support. bbPress uses three custom post types, reply, topic, forum.

https://jetpack.com/support/publicize/#custom-post-types

[Robkk]

Here is a setup that might work. Although not really for a ticket system in my opinion and just a support forum.

A free theme to use.

WP Knowledge Base

Plugins that could help.

bbPress Resolutions or Buddy/bbPress Support Topic

bbPress Notify (no spam)

bbPress Auto Close Topics

[Robkk]

I am trying to remove that from showing on the forums page and instead show a a login for bbpress.

This forum page you say, is it just the original forum index page at /forums, or is this a page that you inserted the forum index shortcode to create “forum page”??

The is_bbpress() conditional may not work if you went the shortcode in a page route.

Well unless you made sure the pages slug was the same slug as the forum root, but even with that I feel like that odd procedure could cause issues.

[jagarolik]

Hello,

I’m looking to use one of my forums as a support system. Some key elements that I require include an ability to track open/closed tickets, automatic notifications of users, etc. The basic sort of features you find with any support system.

All the plugins that I’ve seen to provide this functionality are many years old and I can’t seem to find anything current or clear to setup these critical features.

Suggestions? Thanks!

[crayc]

I finally got it to go away like this

if (is_bbpress ())

if ( is_active_sidebar( ‘social-icons’ ) || is_active_sidebar( ‘click-here’ ) || is_active_sidebar( ‘split-sidebar-left’ ) || is_active_sidebar( ‘split-sidebar-right’ )) {

but it removes it sitewide

[Robin W]

ok, so you need to determine if it is the is_bbpress that is the issue. If you just have the other code does it work – ie is the issue with the other code or the conditional?

[crayc]

thanks. I tried that and it did not work.
I also tried
if (!is_bbpress ())
remove_action ( ‘genesis_after_header’, ‘the_411_extras’, ‘genesis_after_sidebar_widget_area’ );
if ( is_active_sidebar( ‘social-icons’ ) || is_active_sidebar( ‘click-here’ ) || is_active_sidebar( ‘split-sidebar-left’ ) || is_active_sidebar( ‘split-sidebar-right’ )) {

and
if (!is_bbpress (‘forums’))

if ( is_active_sidebar( ‘social-icons’ ) || is_active_sidebar( ‘click-here’ ) || is_active_sidebar( ‘split-sidebar-left’ ) || is_active_sidebar( ‘split-sidebar-right’ )) {

with and without the forums part. nothing seems to remove it.

[Robin W]

ok, I think it is because your theme has a search with the same name.

Try this

create a directory on your theme called ‘bbpress’
ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/form-search.php
Make a copy of this file, and put in in the directory called bbpress that you created above, so you end up with
wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/form-search.php
bbPress will now use this template instead of your theme’s

[Merida]

Hello. I need help. On my site not work search on bbpress. When search only go on index this site and all…what not wrong? Thank you.

[Robin W]

The file is form-topic.php

create a directory on your theme called ‘bbpress’
ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/form-topic.php
Make a copy of this file, and put in in the directory called bbpress that you created above, so you end up with
wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/form-topic.php
bbPress will now use this template instead of the original
and you can amend this

However the form has an action hook you can link to

<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_after_topic_form' ); ?>

[Robin W]

ok, thanks for confirming.

Without spending considerable time testing, why not just take out that entire section for bbpress (and if needed juts put back the bits you want) eg

//* Hook social icons and click here widget areas
 add_action( ‘genesis_after_header’, ‘the_411_extras’, ‘genesis_after_sidebar_widget_area’ );

 function the_411_extras() {
if (!is_bbpress {
if ( is_active_sidebar( ‘social-icons’ ) || is_active_sidebar( ‘click-here’ ) || is_active_sidebar( ‘split-sidebar-left’ ) || is_active_sidebar( ‘split-sidebar-right’ )) {

echo ‘<div class=”site-extras”>’;

genesis_widget_area( ‘social-icons’, array(
 ‘before’ => ‘<div class=”social-icons”>’,
 ‘after’ => ‘</div>’
 ) );

genesis_widget_area( ‘click-here’, array(
 ‘before’ => ‘<div class=”click-here”>’,
 ‘after’ => ‘</div>’
 ) );
 genesis_widget_area( ‘split-sidebar-left’, array(
 ‘before’ => ‘<div class=”split-sidebar-left”>’,
 ‘after’ => ‘</div>’,
 ) );
 genesis_widget_area( ‘split-sidebar-right’, array(
 ‘before’ => ‘<div class=”split-sidebar-right”>’,
 ‘after’ => ‘</div>’,
 ) );

echo ‘</div>’;

}
 

}

}

I’m also not sure why your add action has two functions

add_action( ‘genesis_after_header’, ‘the_411_extras’, ‘genesis_after_sidebar_widget_area’ );

all the coding I have ever done has one, and then maybe some arguments on priority etc.

[Robin W]

so did you try it as that, or as
if (is_bbpress( ‘forums’ ) ) {

is_bbpress doesn’t take arguments