[EzYRiDaH]

Hi there,
First of all I am not a hardcore coder. Used to code 20 years ago, so I can read a lot of the syntax, but am quite new to the javascript, php etc. Can handle myself a bit in sql though.

I am trying to migrate a very big MyBB forum to bbPres (1,7 mlj posts and 63k discussions). Tried to do it directly on my VPS, but it took way too long. Ages…

After some trial and error I was able to make a complete dump of the MyBB as SQL and imported it on my Mac’s MAMP. I was one happy muppet and kicked of the conversion.

Whatever I do I keep getting the same messages. No error messages, just that there is nothing to convert. I have tried every scenario I could think of that could go wrong. Localhost port, userid/pass on database, prefix etc etc. Whatever I do, even leave blank fields to get some kind of error message, I still get the same result. Absolutely nothing to convert.

I’ve checked the code but could not find any error handling. Could be there, but I am not too familiar on linking php code files.

I get the feeling this is some kind of MAMP issue because I got it to run on my VPN.

Any help / suggestions are more than welcome.

Thanks in advance!

[Robkk]

@marximusmg yeah i know you got this whole topics idea from high existence

im just saying if you find a wordpress theme that is compatible with bbpress either on the wordpress free theme repository or on like themeforest and it has a placeholder in the reply area tell me.

if you find it before me then update this topic with the name of the theme.

[desiamerican26]

Sure no problem @Robkk….it would be great help if you can and you can surely take your time. I did try that plugin you told me last time, not a big help and also I read on one of the forums before it used to work with WordPress & BBpress together, but not anymore. I just wonder why they did that.

Well, anyways thanks for you help and time towards this issue. Greatly appreciated 🙂

[Robin W]

Apologioes if I’m being thick, but line 29 of bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/form-reply.php says

<legend><?php printf( __( 'Reply To: %s', 'bbpress' ), bbp_get_topic_title() ); ?></legend>

Is that not the line you want to get rid of/change?

[peter-hamilton]

With some elbow grease BBPress can look and work better then many forums, it does require some creativity and time but can be done.

have a look at the BBPress forum I am styling, I call the theme BBFacelook.

BBFacelook

[Robkk]

yeah there is alot that goes into making a successful website.

it may not be making a good looking forum.

or even be creating a forum at all.

Like 4chan is an ugly looking forum , but it still has a ton of weird users.

That doesnt mean you can say the support forums are useless.

The bbpress.org support is doing there best to help everyone the best they can.

They are not suppose to hold your hand and tell you step by step on how to create a really successful website. I mean come on!!! Its all on them and their decisions on what to do with it.

And sometimes, people arent that great at making websites, sometimes its just a project at first then they realize its not really for them.

Sometimes they just cant get enough attention and users on it to create a successful website so they see they are wasting money on it they quit on it.

[Robkk]

read some of this

My Thoughts on BBPResss

[Robkk]

yeah just remove the “topics” and “posts” words in the header by the “latest post” word

it should be in loop-forums.php

the rest i guess you can look at the default bbpress stylesheet and use that to help you get it looking right.

[Robkk]

enhancements should most likely go to freelancers , if its something somebody can find out in a less than ten minutes why not share it with the rest of the bbpress community.

if its something that might take time , then it will take time.

you dont always get your question answered in an hour of posting it might take more time.

so it is dumb to start complaining on how you dont get your questions answered lightning fast.

[cybarmitzvah]

I think you are misunderstanding what I am saying, I understand a lot of people will feel a bit of a backlash from the post, just because they have put a lot of time into the forums.

I wont debate the above with you, but, if BBpress provides support, then where does one go for enhancements?

[Robkk]

Ok, The BBpress.org support forums are pretty useless

this picture should sum up how i feel about your entire topic.

and try to know the difference between a problem and an enhancement.

Forum search in menu is an enchanement.
adding color coordinated user roles is an enhancement
post rating only on certain subforums is an enhancement
custom styled submit button is an enhancement

[tmc5005]

I have been able to link in my past comments but now the box that lists the forums and topics does not fit properly and looks awful and the colors look bad. I went and the bbpress website for a description and how to change this and although I am college educated with a masters degree these explanations are incredibly complicated Is there an easier way to make these changes hopefully without css
I temporary disabled bbpress because it looks so bad.
Thank you for your help

[cybarmitzvah]

Hi guys, I think i should clear up my title. First off, the community of helpers and supporters here is great, and this is why I am pretty annoyed.

Ok, The BBpress.org support forums are pretty useless and let me explain why. The main problem with them, is if you are serious about setting up a forum that will become big/look professional, you would need professional help. It is nearly impossible to teach yourself/post questions here and get answers.

This is my other problem. Every day I seem to get about one problem with my site that I need being changed… I post it here, but most of the time I don’t even get an answer. I have about 6 open threads right now. Plus, if you have a big forum and need help quick, the support forums are way too slow to help you. At best, they are good for forums that are not yet live, or that are really small.

What I am trying to re-iderate is that sadly, these support forums are pretty much useless. Don’t get me wrong, starting a forum is no walk in the park, if it was, everyone would be doing it. I just really wanted to get the message out because it has been something that has been annoying me lately. It becomes pretty clear when you go back on old messages here that I would say just about every site has disappeared and the domain is for sale.

What am I suggesting as an alternative? Not sure, all I know is that I cannot do this myself and need outside help.

Ok thank you for listing,
JB

On another note, I know a lot of the supporters here do coding on a side job. I have quiet a few things I need help with on my forum and if anyone has some time, I would love the help. Potentially we could talk via google chat or something live about what I need done in my forum.

[omg123]

i asked that question because the theme i wanted to use, uses both bbpress & buddypress, and i also wanted to use both the softwares together (this is not a problem as it is done on other forum CMS’S)

wordpress is definitely compatible with the 2 softs

[omg123]

Thanks for your response,

but
“Each of those products would have to add support for bbPress though”

is this something skimlinks & viglinks would have to do ?
because i was curious as there was no mention on the net of anyone using both the CMS’S with both the software,
and yet thousands (if not more) sites use skimlinks or viglinks with wordpress.

skimlinks & viglinks were/are primarily targeted at forums – they say on there websites that the best clickthroughs + conversions are from forums
hence bbpress & buddypress is the same as the clickthough is coming from a recommendation (same as a forum) – so a high conversion rate.

the top 3 links are this thread

wordpress is definitely used and compatible with the 2 softwares

so i couldnt understand why no-one has used it with bbpress/buddpress when that is what they are intended for ?

[kurosama]

Thanks for your reply and sorry that you are “lost in translation”. Following your advice, I have; changed the theme to twenty fourteen, revised a forum page with the text and [bbb-forum-index], added this to the menu, recreated another forum and a topic as well as changing the permalink setting to “default”. What else do I need to do so that the bbpress features finally appear when clicking “forum” on the menu bar ? Thanks again.

[Fxam]

Hi Guys,

“what you want to do is as easy as making a bbpress.php template in the root of your theme. It will act as the wrapper for all bbPress content.”

Can you please help me understand exactly how to do this?

I’ve been trying to figure out how to display all my forums the same as the forum-index

Index: http://kwetufilminstitute.com/rmp/classes/
forum1: http://kwetufilminstitute.com/rmp/classes/module/design-of-video-and-audio-products/

and just cant seem to get it to work 🙁

Do I copy bbpress.php from ? to the root folder and edit it or must i creat a new bbpress.php?
What code do I need to edit?

Many Thanks in advance!

Max

[TheDarkboy]

im find this good page for try this modify!

me go to try…

[Stephen Edgar]

There are only a handful of themes that I know cause constant issues and out of thousands this is pretty good. Genesis themes are also OK as there is a custom plugin to add support for Genesis themes. I’ll go out and say that the Hybrid Core themes have full bbPress functionality built into the core framework, just some theme authors do not add this support to their theme.

Lets give it a couple more hours, at the time of writing this there ~2 hours until their support opens:

We’ve received your message!

We are outside office hours right now, but will get back to you ASAP in the morning!

Our office hours are 8am-8pm Eastern Standard Time (GMT -4).

[Stephen Edgar]

I actually took a peek at the code to see if there was an easy to do this, if we could override or add a custom function or filter to achieve this. No was the result 🙁

We have some moderation changes coming in bbPress 2.6 in that individual users can be assigned a single forum (or multiple forums) to be a moderator rather than the current behaviour where if they are a moderator they can moderate all forums.

I have note scribbled down for when I next checkout this feature to check what if how we can add/modify bbPress to allow what you have asked above 😉

[Stephen Edgar]

Try creating a new user and setting their bbPress role to “keymaster” and WordPress role to “Admin”, can this user access http://www.maldiveschina.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=reply ?

[Stephen Edgar]

A couple of things to also check and try:

– Try creating a new user, assign the participant role, login as that user and post a topic or reply and try editing.
– If that didn’t work, disable all your plugins and switch to the Twenty Fourteen theme and try again.
– Ensure you are trying to edit the topic/reply before the default 5 minute allowed time setting in bbPress settings.

[Stephen Edgar]

Cool, thanks for kicking this off 🙂

Lets start with the layout structure and a “Table of Contents”, I added these recently and these are a good place to start and closely match not just the BuddyPress Codex layout guides but also much of WordPress also (Links to these below).

Getting Started, Theme Development ,Plugin Development, Participate & Contribute and Developer Resources

The Codex is now fully setup with an ‘Automated Table of Contents’ sidebar, see this section on how to acheive this, also the “breadcrumb” will also ‘sync’ up with this table of contents structure.

For now ignore the ‘related posts’, these should also update based on the table of contents plus we are going to move the functions from their current location in the codex, I’ll detail those plans later.

Links to topics on the forums for each section/page of the codex is a great idea, we can do this fairly easily. 🙂

The ‘About’ page is part of the blog, the categories are the categories of the blog posts on the site and this is an automatically generated list, same with tags. Also many of the visible (and there are many not visible) of links from the ‘About’ page is from before we had the codex setup, thus much of the content throughout those links is either duplicated or redundant. A third set of duplicated content is our Trac home page https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org that we need to redo and sync up with the same content (or at least links) to the correct content on the bbPress codex. A fourth location will be the actual source code of bbPress which primarily is on the plugin homepage https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/. The fifth source would be basically identical to the fourth though is contained in a separate file and that will be for the plugin homepage on GitHub https://github.com/bbpress/bbpress.

BuddyPress has a Google Docs “Table of Contents” here and I have just forked and edited that spreadsheet for us here on bbPress. I have set the permissions so anyone with this link can edit the spreadsheet, with some luck it won’t be vandalised, if this happens we can change this setting to “edit only” for verified editors.

Before we change any of the existing URL’s for documents in the codex (e.g. Moving the FAQ into the “Getting Started” section) we will need to make some redirects behind the scenes so existing links will be forwarded to the new links.

A good place to start would be extracting the sections from the awesome guides Robin has already contributed to build up our “Table of Contents” and once we are happy with what we have for starters in the “Table of Contents” we can then start updating the actual codex pages.

A few references where we can reuse content and build up our table of contents can be found throughout existing WordPress and BuddyPress projects:

BuddyPress Codex

https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/
https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/
https://make.wordpress.org/docs/tag/handbooks/

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[Hanlin1Q85]

guys, i met a very wired problem. Everything is ok until this morning. My english is not good. BbPress forum page and category page shows 500 internal error. But all other pages including my home page, post page, and even the topic page, users’ profile page are working.

(working)Homepage http://www.maldiveschina.com/
(working)topic page http://www.maldiveschina.com/topic/被毁的中央格兰德岛假期

(500 error)forum page http://www.maldiveschina.com/forums
(500 error)forum category page http://www.maldiveschina.com/forum/after/complain

WordPress: 3.9.2
bbPress Plugin: 2.5.4-5380
theme: SmartMag 1.5.1
Apache 2.2.25
Php 5.2.17

[Wed Aug 13 01:56:54 2014] [error] [client 91.207.4.58] Premature end of script headers: index.php, referer: http://www.maldiveschina.com/forums
[Wed Aug 13 01:56:55 2014] [error] [client 91.207.4.58] Premature end of script headers: index.php, referer: http://www.maldiveschina.com/forums
[Wed Aug 13 01:56:57 2014] [error] [client 91.207.4.58] Premature end of script headers: index.php, referer: http://www.maldiveschina.com/forums
[Wed Aug 13 01:56:58 2014] [error] [client 91.207.4.58] Premature end of script headers: index.php, referer: http://www.maldiveschina.com/forums

[Wed Aug 13 10:10:41 2014] [error] [client 202.111.50.76] Premature end of script headers: index.php, referer: http://www.maldiveschina.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=forum
[Wed Aug 13 10:10:42 2014] [error] [client 202.111.50.76] Premature end of script headers: index.php, referer: http://www.maldiveschina.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=forum

I have reinstalled the bbpress plugin, but the problem is still there.

pl give me some suggestion, thank you so much!

[Stephen Edgar]

Your using the same theme as trhe following topic, I have asked the theme author to come by with some tips so subscribe to this topic also if there are any updates:

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