[Stephen Edgar]

The actual bbPress role is not assigned to the user until they login for the first time.

[Stephen Edgar]

Forum import – The documentation states that stickies will not be imported, however I after doing the import I have around 20 ‘super-stickies’ which, looking at the old forum, are a mixture of announcements and stickies. I’d rather these weren’t converted to anything, and as far as I’m aware they shouldn’t be (https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2126)

The above ticket you reference was the ‘issue’ being created to track the changes and progress of implementing this feature.

In comment 12 that is where the ticket was to updated to ‘fixed’ and ‘closed’ via changeset r5170. Trac can be a little daunting at first trying to understand everything that goes on in a ticket 😉

With only your ~20 ‘stcikies’ it shouldn’t take more than a couple of minutes to ‘unstick’ the ones you do not want after your import has finished and the repair tools run.

I have updated the docs to reflect that also https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/phpbb/

Stickies – is there a way to ignore stickies during the import? They don’t appear to have come through correctly so it would be nice to simply ignore them (as was previously the case).

How so, could you explaing that a little more please? Do the topics ‘look right’ and are just not ‘stuck’ or something else going on?

User import – During the import, I (the main WordPress admin user) seem to have had quite a lot of forums, topics and replies linked to my user. I wasn’t a user on the previous phpBB forum at all so I’m not sure why I’ve adopted these posts. Or any posts for that matter.

If there is a username match the importer will try to match the posts being imported with any current WordPress user, thus if phpBB has a user named ‘admin’ and you use the default the default WordPress username ‘admin’ that will be the cause.

The best work around for this would be to rename the phpBB username in the database bvefore importing.

Users – looking at the phpbb data, the amount of imported users seemed to match up, but I wonder if I’ve been assigned posts that were previously changed to the ‘Anonymous User’ that phpBB has at user ID 0… the amount of posts don’t seem to match up with that theory but a ‘majority’ of the posts that have been assigned to me seem to match the logic to an extent (ie, posts that have been moved into a ‘moderators only’ forum for further discussion about actions to be taken).

You should notice that you now actually have a WordPress username ‘Anonymous’, so any ‘Anonymous’ posts should be attributed to that user.

Your ‘moderators only’ forum after import you should change the bbPress forum permission to ‘hidden’ and that will make that forum the equiv bbPress ‘moderators only’ forum.

Repair tools – All the repair tasks seem to work ok, except for two:
– Recalculate the position of each reply
– Remap existing users to default forum roles
These two tasks end up white-screening with no status messages at all.

What size is the phpBB database your importing? (Approx. Forums, Topics, Posts & Users please 🙂 )

User Login Conversion – User logins are converted correctly when using the standard wordpress login screen but now when using my custom frontend ajax login – does anyone know if there’s a way to get that to work? A seperate topic has been started about that here: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/user-login-authentication-migrated-phpbb-users/

I’ve pretty much still got the same opinion as I wrote last night here.

User Login – that’s correct – I’m just using the wp-signon method so I guess I’ll need to add some kind of do_action() call or something to trigger the conversion? If you can point me in the right direction, that would be great 🙂

There is nothing to point you to sorry, when a user logs in for the first time after the import their legacy salt and hash password get’s converted to the native WordPress password format. Without knowing each legacy password their is no way to do this programmatically.

bbPress’ login forms actually are hooked into the WordPress login forms, so theoretically it shouldn’t be too difficult for either the plugin you are using to add support for bbPress or possibly look for another similar plugin that already supports bbPress.

Passwords and all their associated algorithms are hard and this an area where I just manage to skate by with the basics, actually doing any of what I mentioned in the previous paragraph is way beyond my skill level and pay grade 😉

[dzung]

@leonyipa, thanks for that but I’ve done it already. “in bbPress setting, the default role is “Participant” I meant I set the auto default role to be Participant.

So here are steps that I do:
– In stall, WP and Go to Dashboard-Setting-General – Set New User Default Role to “Subcriber”
– Install bbPress, go to Dashboard – Setting – Forums – Check the option for Auto Role and set it to “Participant”
– On front end- I create an account for test!

– In Dashboard – Users List: The Forum Role of the newly created user is “Participant” – The Site Role value is “Participant” which I expect should be “Subcriber”.

If I un-check/disable the Auto Role in bbPress setting, then when someone create an account the Site Role value of that user would be “none” and the value for Forum Role would still be “Participant” – I don’t know what wrong!

[Topher Jamero]

Using the most recent version, able to order topics by latest posted topic and not by latest topic activity

bbpress>includes>topics>template : (line)154

I didn’t remove it but commented it as I don’t know what to replace with the _bbp_last_active_time to achieve ordering by the latest posted topic.

[Robin W]

or put

/**
* Add @mentionname after bbpress forum author details
*/

add_action( 'bbp_theme_after_reply_author_details', 'mentionname_to_bbpress' );
function mentionname_to_bbpress () {
$user = get_userdata( bbp_get_reply_author_id() );
if ( !empty( $user->user_nicename ) ) {
$user_nicename = $user->user_nicename;
echo "@".$user_nicename;
}
}

in your functions file.

Functions files and child themes – explained !

both methods are valid, if you use @robkk’s method, remember to create this as a separate file within your theme
https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum-part-3/ section 3

[Robin W]

ok, use this template, but follow the instructions in https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum/#8-make-sure-bbpress-uses-the-page-template-we-want

in the copy that you have renamed bbpress then remove

<?php
 if ( ! is_active_sidebar( ‘sidebar-2′ ) && ! is_active_sidebar( ‘sidebar-3′ ) && ! is_active_sidebar( ‘sidebar-4′ ) && ! is_active_sidebar( ‘sidebar-5′ ) )
 return;
 ?>

and replace it with

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

and then ensure that bbpress tweaks is saying to use bbpress.php

[Robkk]

How to add a @username like BBPress forum

<?php $user = get_userdata( bbp_get_reply_author_id() );
if ( !empty( $user->user_nicename ) ) {
$user_nicename = $user->user_nicename;
echo "@".$user_nicename;
} ?>

you add this to your loop-single-reply.php template

[Topher Jamero]

@sandyrig was hoping for sorting a topic not replies

I guess bbPress developers have so much stuff in their hands. Been searching for solutions for days but still no luck. I find this software a bit constrained.

Has anybody tried muut?

[Leonyipa]

How to add a @username like BBPress forum(this), see example in red bracket.
How to change the user role from Words to image?

Example:

[dzung]

Hi,

I have a site with bbPress intalled. I have set the New User Default role in Setting/General to a Custom Role that I made. in bbPress setting, the default role is “Participant”.

The issue is when a new user created their Site role auto set to “Participant”. does anyone know, how to fix this so that new user will have site role as the value set in Setting/General?

[Robin W]

probably a theme or plugin problem

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, switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[EigerT]

Hi, I’ve created a number of forums within a bbPress forum. When a new topic is posted inside a forum on a web page it doesn’t appear in that forum although it does appear in the topics list in the dashboard…

In order to get the topic to appear in the correct forum it has to be set manually in the dashboard.

Why is this happening?

[Robin W]

wordpress is post software and has posts and comments

bbpress is forum software, so it has forums, topics and replies

so people will reply to topics, not comment on them !

so I would

1. deactivate buddypress
2. switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve and see if people can now reply to topics, you are only doing this to see if your theme has an issue with replies.
3. let us know whether you are allowing anonymous posting, or whether you onlt want topics/replies from registered users?

Also, how do I just let people see the topics and not the forum?

umm, not sure what you mean, either you have a forum or your have posts and comments, you can’t have forum topics with post comments 🙂

[Ineedbbhelp]

I first installed bbpress for the forums to be on a discussion page of my website. Not for the entire website to be forums. Everything seemed to be working fine, but people can’t comment on the topics. After researching more I installed buddypress too, and now i’m more confused because its a whole different look and now there is no forums. I think i’m going to deactivate it for the moment.

But how do I get bbpress to let people comment on the topics? It lets people create topics, but thats about it.

Please help!!!!

[Robin W]

Personally I hate the toolbar – it should only be there for admins !

I switch it off and use a menu item

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

[Robin W]

not sure what you’ve done, but it will be as simple as a comma or ; missing somewhere

I’d suggest you

download a copy of bbpress to your PC

Download

and then FTP the functions file to overwrite what you have messed up 🙂

Then nose around the files on your PC rather than your site !

Don’t worry I used to do what you’re doing until I did much the same, now I look at a copy not live !

[Stephen Edgar]

Cool, whack your issues here and I’ll check than out tomorrow.

Quick answers:

– stickies are now converted so I’ll update the docs for that.

– Repair tools, as I stated in the other thread shouldn’t do this, will look closer tomorrow

– Users is odd, seems maybe some users aren’t getting imported, job for tomorrow also

– User login, bbPress doesn’t actually convert the phpBB password until the migrated user logs in for the first time. This will most likely be the issue in that the ajax login is stepping around this. Presumably after an imported user has logged in and their password converted the Ajax login will work.

[Tom Dyer]

Brilliant, thanks @netweb. I’ve actually started my own which is related to this (as well as a few other issues) here:

phpBB Import Error(s)

I’m happy to edit my post and link to this topic in regards to the repair tasks (if that’s preferable to you?) but there are other parts to my new topic that are not related to this single issue.

[Tom Dyer]

Hi,

After reading the importer
I’ve recently migrated my phpBB forum to bbPress, but I have noted a few issues with the import/repair process. Does anybody have any suggestions as to what’s going wrong with any/all of these:

Forum import – The documentation states that stickies will not be imported, however I after doing the import I have around 20 ‘super-stickies’ which, looking at the old forum, are a mixture of announcements and stickies. I’d rather these weren’t converted to anything, and as far as I’m aware they shouldn’t be (https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2126)

User import – During the import, I (the main WordPress admin user) seem to have had quite a lot of forums, topics and replies linked to my user. I wasn’t a user on the previous phpBB forum at all so I’m not sure why I’ve adopted these posts. Or any posts for that matter.

Repair tools – All the repair tasks seem to work ok, except for two:
– Recalculate the position of each reply
– Remap existing users to default forum roles
These two tasks end up white-screening with no status messages at all.

User Login Conversion – User logins are converted correctly when using the standard wordpress login screen but now when using my custom frontend ajax login – does anyone know if there’s a way to get that to work? A seperate topic has been started about that here: http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/user-login-authentication-migrated-phpbb-users/

Any advice on any of these steps would be very much appreciated.
Thanks!

[dububiscuit]

Hi,
I’m very new to both WordPress and bbPress, so my apologies if this is a very easy problem to resolve!

Whilst poking about trying figure stuff out in the bbpress/includes/admin/functions.php, I received the following error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘}’ in /home/content/65/5240765/html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/functions.php on line 303

I’ve checked through the code to try and find the ‘}’ but couldn’t spot it (there is no line 303 – it only goes up to 294), and tried to fix it by replacing the wrong code with the original code but it still gives the same error. I’m not entirely sure what I’ve done even after extensive google/forum searches, so I’ve copied the code into paste bin in case anyone can help me out.

http://pastebin.com/X9FsvsR1

The website doesn’t appear to be broken from the front end in any way, it’s just the back end that’s messed up.

I’m using WordPress vers 3.9.1 and bbPress vers 2.5.4, the theme is BigFeature.

Thanks in advance!

[sainfoinc]

Dear John,

I have issue on Bbpress forum.
Can you help me for resolve it?

At bottom of this website http://www.zroor.com/ there is a forum list widget.
Click on last two forums, i) Site Announcements ii) Help & Suggestion

I divided these forum in two child category.

Is it possible to restrict these both forum to appear in this widget and show its only child category?

[Robin W]

ok, so now you need to go into

wp-content/themes/divi

and look through the page templates, hopefully one is called ‘left sidebar’ or ‘right sidebar’ if not you’ll need to open them up and look for

*Template Name: left sidebar

This is the template that you now want as bbpress, so follow the instructions

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1

[Robin W]

bbpress has a number of templates which you can alter

these are found in

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress

Start with

content-archive-forum.php

this is the index page.

you will see that it calls other templates

eg

<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'loop', 'forums' ); ?>

which calls loop-forums.php

a look through and you should be able to work out what most of it is doing.

If you want to alter any of these, make a new directory in the root of your theme and copy any of these template files to it (only the ones you want to alter)

so for instance if you wanted to alter content-archive-forum.php you’d create a copy to get
wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/content-archive-forum.php

you can then alter these copies, and bbpress will use them instead

They will also show you what css is being used, so that you can amend your style.css file with those that you want to change, or you can copy the whole bbpress style file viz https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum-part-2/#5-copyingcreating-a-bbpress-stylesheet-in-your-child-theme

at the finer level you may need to use something like firebug to work out how to say ‘bold’ the forums names to see what css each part is using, so that you can alter it.

Firebug is downloaded to go with the Firefox browser. There are loads of firebug tutorials eg see

[Stephen Edgar]

If you’d like to get Montezuma working then an answer to my questions in my previous post would be helpful as if they are the links being emailed something else is not quite right, maybe a conflict with some ‘mail’ type plugin you might be using.

I just installed the Montezuma theme myself and the email links I get appear correct.

eg. http://example.com/?topic=topic-with-hidden-replies/#post-472

I also had to folow the steps on this page to get bbPress looking kind of right, there are still a few theme issues such as > being displayed in the header and footer.

http://forum.bytesforall.com/showthread.php?t=19192&highlight=bbpress

[Alan Koh]

Hi Moderator,

I am currently using Mingle forum and it has been giving me alot of Respond 500 error. I wish to change to bbPress. However, I am facing issue of importing.

I go to tools, import forums. However, I do not know what to key in for the following fields

1) Database Name
2) Database User
3) Database Password

Where can I get them?

Please help as its urgent.