[Cars10]

Temp fix as we don’t know if we get a fix any time soon:

file: /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/core/template-functions.php
at 173, INSERT
		//Temp fix
		$located = str_replace( "//", "", $located );
		$located = substr($located, strpos($located, "/"));
before:
// Enqueue the style

[Robin W]

I have thought several times about building a bbPress styling plugin, but not had time yet !

There’s plenty about styling in the documentation

Codex

including a styling crib

bbPress Styling Crib

and instructions on how to style

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – part 2

[Robin W]

ok, try

http://www.rewweb.co.uk/alternate-bbpress-index-page/

This should give you most of what you want.

[Solidify]

My theme comes with an option in the settings to add my own CSS codes. I love it because I’m just starting out and learning a lot about CSS by just putting snippets of code in there and seeing what it does. Of course none of it fazes my forum and that really really sucks because I’ve read a lot of great reviews about bbPress and I’d like to use it on my site.

Why doesn’t bbPress have the same feature? Is there an up to date plugin I can use, or do I have to create a custom style sheet?

[Stephen Edgar]

It sounds like you are looking for a plugin like Stream, I’m not sure if Stream supports bbPress but is the only plugin I can think of that sounds like what you are looking for.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/stream/

[MediaSVI]

The new file does not work I still can not get into the forum, I get this even after repairing files…see pic.

[bsilverop]

Hello. I recently deployed WordPress on my site and am using the twenty fourteen theme. I installed bbPress 2.5.3 first, but am missing the toolbar buttons in the forum (ie – the toolbar above where I’m typing now that lets me format my text). I’ve done no theme customizations or plugin customizations. The gray space where the buttons should be in the toolbar is there, but the buttons rae missing.

I made sure that “Add toolbar & buttons to textareas to help with HTML formatting” is enabled in Settings, but I still don’t see the buttons. I feel like the forum is just not wide enough on the page, as it does not span anywhere near the edge of the page. This could be the problem but am not sure how this happens on a new install or how to fix it. Any suggestions? Thanks!

[Stephen Edgar]

Sorry my dump wasn’t successful in helping you out here…

Your dump was fine, it was just for quicker for me to install the plugin and have the examples included, if I wasn’t so tired the other night I would have done that in the first place and not asked. 😉

Slug vs. stub, I missed that one, I tried your version on my test install and it works !! It converted forum / topics / replies. Thanks! Couple of issues, questions, comments…

Awesome

In WPS terminology, there’s one forum made of categories. They can be nested. Along with subforums, they may contain topics with replies. One of these cats may be made the “default category” which users will be prompted with when posting in the forum frontpage, that’s ‘symposium_cats.defaultcat’. If not set, the first of the list will be the default. I’m not sure what happens if two or more cats are made default…

Cool, for example per this picture is what you are saying if I understand correctly is that I could choose the ‘Sun Dreesses’ forum to be the default forum selected when clicking ‘New Toipic’ from the WPS forums hopme page it will default to showing the ‘Sun Dresses’ forum as the destination for my topic unless I select another forum?

If that is the case then we can ignore this as we do not have that functionality in bbPress.

‘Allow new topics’ will basically close the category to new topics. Likewise, in a topic there’s a checkbox to allow new replies or close the topic.

I already implemented this for topics and partially for forums, I will fix this for forums shortly.

‘remote_addr’ is for monitoring spammers, I don’t think it deserves much interest in importing forum content as it’s mainly a short-time asset.

We do use IP addresses for Akismet and spam protection, we have some upcoming updates for this that will also take into account the users existing history on the site and from emory this can include the users IP address so I will take a look and see what can be done to add support for IPv6 as currently we only support IPv4.

I’ll go through your callback functions tomorrow, but a quick comment about values in WPS: they are either ‘on’ or anything else, possibly not set, so it’s better to revert the switch and test against the “case ‘on’” and any other “default” ?

That is what I have done for closed topics and will do the same for closed forums.

The group forum post from my demo install was converted. In the list of topics it is indicated as ‘no forum’ which is true (as per my previous post). We should either create a forum (named like the group itself for instance) or discard group forums topics altogether (WHERE symposium_topics.topic_group != 0).

phpBB has a similar sceanrio for a special sticky post, it is not assigned a forum. bbPress supports topics not having a forum so this technically doesn’t break things but we don’t have a ‘view’ that can show us topic s that are not in a forum.

I haven’t tried the WPS groups but I will create one and see what we can (or cannot) do with them.

About importing users, you raise an interesting point. I’d like to understand if this tool is a converter or an importer. Being located in a folder called /converter/ I had assumed it should work within the same WordPress install and convert it from one plugin to another, but you seem to move it towards the import of data accross platforms. Incidentally, I have been wondering why I need to fill the ‘Database Settings’ with db name / user / password / prefix, while I’m converting an existing forum within the same base. I’m happy with both, although I would tend to consider that most WP-to-WP imports will be performed within the same site…?

I would say it is more importer than converter though interchanging those terms is not much of a stretch as we do not only import stuff we also convert stuff then import :/

In total aside from WPS the only other importers that are also plugins ontop of WordPress are Mingle and SimplePress, the other 23 in most sceanarios would be a seperate database from the WordPress database. To extend the same issue I stated previously on how to handle users the same case applies, you are not explicitly limited to adding the bbPress plugin to your existing WP/WPS install and importing your data, you can also create a fresh WordPress install with a fresh database and import your data into that. So in theory we could ‘hide’ the database settings IF we knew your intented scenario before the fact. It would be nice in a future iteration to make the importer a ‘step by step wizard’ and we could then do such things and many more things to make the process a little less daunting…

The other topics I’d like to bring at some point in our discussion are the attachments and the avatars. I’m not sure yet how bbPress handles attachments, for WPS they are physically stored in a location set from the “params” tab, and displayed either online or as links (depending on a setting). As far as avatars, once WPS is deactivated they are all gone, is anything possible or is this too dependent upon the plugin the admin may install for avatars ?

There is a post in the Kunena importer thread where @cybnet has written an attachment importer with details on how to change it for your own Kunena forum. The source is here and no doubt could be adapted for WPS.

Kunena converter for bbPress 2.4

Kunena converter for bbPress 2.4

https://github.com/cybnet/kunena-attachments-to-bbpress/blob/master/kunena-attachments-to-bbpress.php

Edit: I should have added that bbPress does not include support for attachments, there is one or two plugins that do add support for attachments so I would look to using one of those and use that plugins architecture to facilitate how the attachments are handled. We’d like to support attachments in bbPress ‘one day’ though we have some bigger implementation details to work out before we have a crack at this.

Avatars are a bit trickier as bbPress nor WordPress do not support custom avatars for user profiles out of the box. There are many plugins for this so at the moment this is not something we can support. We can’t make avatar import support the hundres of avatar plugins available.

[jbuesking]

Apparently having a few broken attachments lingering from a phpbb3 to Kunena migration several years ago is what is giving me a problem now migrating attachments to bbPress.

The error I’m seeing in my logs is:

[15-May-2014 22:32:08 UTC] PHP Warning:  copy(http://www.mydomain.com/media/kunena/attachments/phpbb3/Cabs%201.jpg) [<a href='function.copy'>function.copy</a>]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found
 in /home/username/public_html/dev002/kunena-attachments-to-bbpress.php on line 45

I looked to see if there was a “Kunena fix for broken attachments” script but nothing popped up yet.

[lagrou]

Sorry my dump wasn’t successful in helping you out here…

Slug vs. stub, I missed that one, I tried your version on my test install and it works !! It converted forum / topics / replies. Thanks! Couple of issues, questions, comments…

In WPS terminology, there’s one forum made of categories. They can be nested. Along with subforums, they may contain topics with replies. One of these cats may be made the “default category” which users will be prompted with when posting in the forum frontpage, that’s ‘symposium_cats.defaultcat’. If not set, the first of the list will be the default. I’m not sure what happens if two or more cats are made default…

‘Allow new topics’ will basically close the category to new topics. Likewise, in a topic there’s a checkbox to allow new replies or close the topic.

‘remote_addr’ is for monitoring spammers, I don’t think it deserves much interest in importing forum content as it’s mainly a short-time asset.

I’ll go through your callback functions tomorrow, but a quick comment about values in WPS: they are either ‘on’ or anything else, possibly not set, so it’s better to revert the switch and test against the “case ‘on'” and any other “default” ?

The group forum post from my demo install was converted. In the list of topics it is indicated as ‘no forum’ which is true (as per my previous post). We should either create a forum (named like the group itself for instance) or discard group forums topics altogether (WHERE symposium_topics.topic_group != 0).

About importing users, you raise an interesting point. I’d like to understand if this tool is a converter or an importer. Being located in a folder called /converter/ I had assumed it should work within the same WordPress install and convert it from one plugin to another, but you seem to move it towards the import of data accross platforms. Incidentally, I have been wondering why I need to fill the ‘Database Settings’ with db name / user / password / prefix, while I’m converting an existing forum within the same base. I’m happy with both, although I would tend to consider that most WP-to-WP imports will be performed within the same site…?

The other topics I’d like to bring at some point in our discussion are the attachments and the avatars. I’m not sure yet how bbPress handles attachments, for WPS they are physically stored in a location set from the “params” tab, and displayed either online or as links (depending on a setting). As far as avatars, once WPS is deactivated they are all gone, is anything possible or is this too dependent upon the plugin the admin may install for avatars ?

[jeffacubed]

@cobraeyes – I’ve wondered about this exact same bbPress multisite user-registration issue (re-directing to wp-signup.php on the root site regardless of which site the user is registering on…)

Did you ever find a reasonable solution/resolution?

-Jeff

[jeffacubed]

I’m having what I ‘hope’ to be a major over-site as far as how bbPress new user registration functions on a WP multisite environment. I’m using bbPress 2.5.3 & WP 3.9.1 with three sub (directory) sub-sites:

example.com (site1 or the root)
example.com/site2
example.com.site3

I have ‘site2’ & ‘site3’ setup & working 100% with two separate, distinct bbPress forums: site2 = english, while site3 = french. Now the user registration ISSUE:

When new users try to sign-up for either site2 or site3, say using [bbp-register] the bbPress registration process sends then automatically to the ‘root’ site (site1) at example.com/wp-signup.php – which is very problematic as example.com uses a different theme & content-wise a completely different site than site2 or site3

I’m not stranger to digging into the php &/or template files – but I’m a bit confused around:

1. If I’m missing something that’s entirely obvious that immediately resolves the new user registration issue w/ bbPress on multisite

2. If not ‘1’ – what might be the ‘code-path’ of least resistance to resolve this specific issue

Any input/ideas/suggestions would be fantastic,

-Jeff

[JBBoY]

Hi community,

My forum in BBpress It’s working properly and It’s awesome! congratulations! nice job guys!!

But hope you can help me with a little problem. If I access the forums normally styles are ok, but when I show the forums via shortcodes like [bbp-forum-index] then the text fonts are different from what they should be. Is there a way to show the same font using the forum directly from url and with the shortcodes application?

Thank you in advance for your help and time.

[ultimatearenagame]

Hi,

After migrate my site to an IIS8 I got exactly the same problem:

http://www.ultimatearenagame.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/bbpress.png

Using BBPress 2.5.3.

Need help.

[Robin W]

The approach should be to get to a ‘clean’ site – ie one that works, and then add back theme, and then plugins until you find which is conflicting with bbPress.

Some plugins and themes delete database stuff when they are deleted, but many/most just leave it behind, so deactivating should do it.

If you have a local dev, then I’d deactivate ALL plugins, and change to a default theme.

Then test if this works. if it does then you have a good start point.

Then add bbPress and see if this produces an issue.

a) If it does, then come back with what theme, and confirm versions of bbpress, wordpress and theme and exactly what you are doing to test – ie user set to… go into… select…. and I’ll try to replicate.

or

b) If your base version above works, then add theme next. Don’t worry about the extend plugin, as you’re seeing if the issue is with a post, not bbPress !

Then add extend and re-test

Then each plugin and retest

[mbenven]

Sorry to all aft you if this seems stupid but i really cannot figure it out. I would like to create my new forum with bbpress. I want to divide my forum in category and it has to look like my old one:

http://www.tractordev.com/italiano/forum/

How can i have forum with a category on top and the forum on the button like on my old one. So on the main page i can see al the category and all the forums in each?

Please help me and thank you in advance.

[Stephen Edgar]

I just checked the difference between the current version included with bbPress and that version you linked above. The version included with bbPress has quite a few enhancements, password support, forum categories, author IP, closed topics, sticky topics and topic tag slugs.

The difference that you need is the BBCodes:

// This is what is currently included with bbPress for YouTube:

$vbulletin_markup = preg_replace( '/\[video\=youtube;(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/video\]/', '$2', $vbulletin_markup );

//And this is what we had in that custom linked version:

// Replace '[video=youtube;$1]$2[/video]' with '$2"
$vbulletin_markup = preg_replace( '/\[video\=youtube;(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/video\]/', '$2', $vbulletin_markup );
		
// Replace '[video=youtube_share;$1]$2[/video]' with '$2"
$vbulletin_markup = preg_replace( '/\[video\=youtube_share;(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/video\]/', '$2', $vbulletin_markup );
// Replace '[SOUNDCLOUD]$1[/SOUNDCLOUD]' with '$1"
$vbulletin_markup = preg_replace( '/\[SOUNDCLOUD\](.*?)\[\/SOUNDCLOUD\]/', '$1', $vbulletin_markup );

So the addition of these two BBCodes:

[video=youtube_share;$1]$2[/video] and [SOUNDCLOUD]$1[/SOUNDCLOUD]

Do you know if both of these BBCodes are included with all vBulletin versions or are these custom BBCodes you manuallly created in your vBulletin install?

Either way I just updated that gist with the above BBCode that you should be able to download and test as you did 8 months ago, it has ‘all the things’ above included in it. 🙂

https://gist.github.com/ntwb/513187363f36b56ec77d

[Robin W]

‘I might be missing something, but if deactivating the bbPress plugin solves the problem, the bbPress plugin is probably causing it.’

Depends how you define ’cause’

bbPress is tested against the default themes (twentyten, twentyeleven etc.) and latest versions of wordpress, and should be fully functional against that.

Since bbPress is just a plugin, it ranks equally alongside all other plugins and all non core themes. All of these have the capability to conflict with each other as theme and plugin authors use tweaks and add-ons to WordPress. The ability for two authors of plugins/themes to try to change an element is actually quite large, and changes can have unexpected results.

So if two authors both make a change and one overwrites the other, both can argue it is the other’s fault.

So I cannot get bbPress with a default theme to have your issue for authors or above.

If without any other plugins, and using a default theme, you get this issue, then please come back with what levels of access and I’ll look further.

[Stephen Edgar]

Created a pull request https://github.com/Lagrou/wps_extends_bbp_converter/pull/1 🙂

WPSymposium – 1st pass update …
* Cleans up PHPDoc for WPSymposium Converter
* Fixes Forum slug field mapping
* Add Topics section
* Adds Reply Section
* Adds callback_topic_status for open or closed topics
* Adds callback_sticky_status for sticky topics
* Adds reserved callback callback_forum_type to be implemented
* Adds reserved callback callback_forum_status to be implemented

Per my previous comment we should be able to determine forum type and forum status.

I haven’t added a users section yet, need to think about this a little, there are two use cases, if you add bbPress to same WordPress install as you have used for WPS vs importing into a fresh WordPress install where WPS has never existed.

[Stephen Edgar]

Turns out when I said it was late, it was, I downloaded and installed the plugin 😉

Firstly for most forum importers I use a set of categories and forums based on the ‘Nested Set Model’, this gives a great hierarchy layout to test with.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nested_set_model#Example

First issue (question) is, why the converter doesn’t find forums. Or at least doesn’t convert them.

For the ‘Forum slug’ you have slug it should be stub

Does WPS ‘pretty permalinks’ even work? I am guessing that’s what these are?

Once I changed that the forums imported fine with correct title, desc, parent, order, slug.

We don’t need to worry about counts as the bbPress repair tools will do this for us

Categories or Forums I am not sure of, to set a category in WPS I set the Allow new topics? field to no we can use this to decide if the bbPress forum will be a forum or category if this is indeed the intended purpose of this field.

I’ll go take a look at the topics and replies now…

[jimlongo]

I have set up a new forum.
My intention is that there will be a private forum that will only be available to Board Members.

I can give all the users who I wish to have access to this forum the bbPress role of Keymaster.

However, that doesn’t help as it seems that any Participant can see this private forum.

I read about and installed the plugin bbPressAdvancedCapabilities.
I see that this will allow me to change any Participant so that they cannot view Private forums.

QUESTION: Does this mean I would have to manually edit each new Participant? That’s not an acceptable approach.
How can I automate this so that this private forum is not open to anyone except Keymasters?

Thanks,
jim

[rbbouman]

I might be missing something, but if deactivating the bbPress plugin solves the problem, the bbPress plugin is probably causing it.

So I did some further tests. If I deactivate ALL plugins except for bbPress, the problem is still there. If I then deactivate bbPress as well, the problem doesn’t occur.

I think this narrows it down to bbPress. Do you have any suggestions?

[Chad]

Wow… I set up a forum using bbPress a few years ago and I don’t remember it being that way… 🙂

Thanks for the reply! Very much appreciated!

[Robin W]

depends on your view, and to a large extent what theme you’re using 🙂

You can view the forum as light and customisable, or choose one that has loads of presets but not easily changeable.

Anyway I hope you are either able to stick with bbPress or find a you you like.

And remember it’s free, so if you think it’s crap, it’s free crap, so you can’t really complain !

[fasttimes]

Hello,

I am in the process of importing my current phpbb forum to bbPress. Most of the data seems to have migrated but Convert reply_to parents failed. So any topic with multiple pages is not formatting correctly or is missing posts.

According to the sources the migration script does the following steps:

STEP 1. Clean all tables.
STEP 2. Convert users.
STEP 3. Clean passwords.
STEP 4. Convert forums.
STEP 5. Convert forum parents.
STEP 6. Convert topics.
STEP 7. Stick topics.
STEP 8. Stick to front topics (Super Sicky).
STEP 9. Convert tags.
STEP 10. Convert replies.
STEP 11. Convert reply_to parents.

The steps from 1 through 10 were successful. Migration script failed on the 11th step.

Site that we are importing from is: http://www.ridingfeelsgood.com/forum/index.php

The phpbb forums where resynchronized prior to import.

Being imported to WP 3.9 on testing server with new theme.

Can you please offer some help to correct this.

Thanks,