[Stephen Edgar]

Everything is still going fine, I ran some phpBB imports yesterday whilst implementing a few minor updates.

Details are here https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2467

Feel free to download the latest from here:

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/includes/admin/converters/phpBB.php

[Stephen Edgar]

You should have this file on your server /public_html/smf/Settings.php

Open up that file in a text editor

########## Database Info ##########
$db_server = 'localhost';
$db_name = 'db_smf';
$db_user = 'db_user';
$db_passwd = 'abcdefghigh';
$db_prefix = 'smf_';

They are the settings you need to use for your import.

[Darcy Peal]

bbPress 2.4.1
WordPress 3.7.1
Theme: ZeeNews

The colors used in the Topic Listings are very pale grey text and very pale yellow background. This is very difficult to read but I cannot find how or where to change it.

Have a look yourself on my site Emergency Retirement

Ideas anyone?

Thanks for reading this!

[Matoca]

I should mention that this setting is properly checked in the bbPress settings and has been since it was installed, as it appears to be the default setting:
Akismet Integration
Forum settings for Akismet
Use Akismet: Allow Akismet to actively prevent forum spam.

In most cases if a plugin was acting like this I would just un-install and then re-install but with the forum very active I don’t think I should be doing that?

[Techknowledgic]

I am so sorry for bumping but it’s really bothering me that issue that’s why i asked again here and i have disabled the registration so I lost many users and the second I enabled it again I got around 5 spam users in few minutes only

Thanks

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/

[sachinsud]

@manuxel

Thanks for replying!
Yes they are under same server. I m using cpanel
so the directory of smf is
public_html/smf and for wordpress is public_html/forum.

I entered the previous db details and and put the limit as 100 for Row Limits
This server is shared though but its very fast,

[manuxel]

@sachinsud you need to post more info about your situation my friend.
For example, is you WP on the same folder of your SMF? for example
www/wordpress
www/smf

How did you input your info in the converter fields?
How long did you wait? Depending on your server it might work reeeeeeeally slow.
What did you input in ROWS LIMIT and DELAY? If you for example input 2000 rows and your server is slow or your in a shared host, it may take several minutes to show something…

Cheers

[sachinsud]

I need some help here.

I want to convert my forum from smf to bbpress.
So what exactly i did is
1) Installed wordpress and then installed bbpress.
2) Then i copied the converter file as mentioned https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/2380/SMF.3.php to the location where it was mentioned,
3) I went to my wordpress menu > tools > forum > import forum and i choose SMF.3 from there and filled all the required options. And when i click on convert the bar just stays at Starting Conversion and nothing happens.

What am i doing wrong here 🙁

[Matoca]

I installed bbPress about 3 weeks ago on an existing wp 3.7.1 installation that is kept up to date. It is working fine, but I noticed this morning when I look at replies in my dashboard that there is a field below the reply that says “Akismet: No recorded history. Akismet has not checked this post.” All replies and topics are not being checked by Akismet.

I have searched through every possible setting in the dashboard but I cannot find where I tell Akismet to actually check the forum topics and replies.

Can anyone provide me with a little more information? I tried searching the Akismet help files but they don’t reference bbPress or forum use.
Thank you, Matoca

[manuxel]

Thank you Stephen, so close to finally having my full site in WP, really, thanks for the hard work…

have a nice weekend.

[james2080]

hi there,

is there a way to hide the forum menu from other user visitors on the user’s profile, we feel its a privacy issue and really need this feature hidden so only the user can see their forum menu on their profile and not friends.followers and other members.

will be grateful for any help on this

thanks again

James

[Stephen Edgar]

Just uploaded a new version of SMF.php, the core changes of the forum import have not changed. The main changes are the regex (regular expressions) to convert SMF’s BBCode.

It is a start and only a few tweaks are left to do, alas it’s 10pm Friday night and I’m done for the night 😉

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/2380/SMF.3.php
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2380#comment:7

[Jonathan D. Johnson (jondavidjohn)]

WP: 3.7.1
bbPress: 2.3.2

I’m hitting a 302 redirect when trying to edit a forum reply

trying to go to a link like this

http://example.com/forums/reply/reply-some-slug/edit/

302 redirects me here

http://example.com/forums/topic/this-is-a-topic-title/#post-34117

Curl output

~ ▸ curl -I http://example.com/forums/reply/reply-some-slug/edit/
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 23:07:39 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.24 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.3.27 mod_ssl/2.2.24 OpenSSL/0.9.8y
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.27
Set-Cookie: wc_session_cookie_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
X-Pingback: http://example.com/wp/xmlrpc.php
Location: http://example.com/forums/topic/this-is-a-topic-title/#post-34117
Cache-control: private, max-age=0, must-revaliate
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

[lkudlacek]

Hello,

Is it possible connect to external database?
I have two separately wordpress instances, instance “A” and instanace “B”.
I have installed BBpress plugin in both instances, but I need connect to only one database.

Is exists any configure file only for bbpress plugin?

thanks for ideas…

[ggwarpig]

It appears that scripts and styles in the default theme are being added regardless of whether I’m viewing the forums or not.

For example: I have bbpress setup at /forums/ but I’m seeing /bbpress.css in the header of /blog/ and other pages.

At a minimum, head_scripts() is outputting a jQuery document ready call that I can’t be having all over my site.

[rsix08]

hey thank’s a lot for your help. I’ve added the code but it doesn’t look like it worked.

this is the file I had to modify

/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/loop-single-reply.php

[Robin W]

ok, so you’ll need to edit

web/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/loop-single-reply.php

line 45 shows the avatar, so try adding a line 46

<?php echo bbp_get_user_post_count( $user_id ); ?>

haven’t tried it !

[Robin W]

OR !!

You could change the bbpress background to match your site, so that the lettering can stay the same

If you like that better, I’ll work out what needs changing !

[Halo Diehard]

First up, make sure you have run the phpBB recount tools which ‘should’ make sure phpB database is in good shape before you get started.

I’m also having a problem importing from phpbb, can you please tell me where I find the phpbb recount tools?

Thanks

You should find it on the first page of your phpBB ACP, scroll down a little.

phpBB3 has had some updates in the last year, I wonder if those updates are making the bbPress importer not be able to do it’s job? Maybe different coding now?

[Robin W]

Not sure I understand what your problem is, but let’s try this in case !

When you create a new user, then only the blog role shows. If you save and then go back in and edit that user, you’ll see the wordpress roles at the bottom of the page which you can then set.

[harpeml]

Hi,

I would like to automate the use of the feature in the topic title. Would someone point me to where in the bbPress code I should look to get assistance? Is there some tool already available to do this?

By way of background, I am going to write and external program to WordPress that adds new posts periodically to an existing forum. I then need to somehow trigger automatically the forum repair process.

thanks,
mike

[RB2108]

Hi .. As a volunteer, I’ve created and run a website for a local dental charity http://www.dentaid.org which uses WordPress and a custom theme. The charity have asked me whether its possible to add a forum within the existing site to allow the dental volunteers who go on organized trips to developing countries to get together before the expeditions and discuss topics, ask questions of the organizer etc. Clearly bbPress is a natural candidate for this but having spent a few hours searching the web, I’m not 100% sure of the right way to proceed (and of what I’ve read, there seems to be several different ways to implement bbPress .. maybe depending upon the level). I would like the forum to work as a self-contained subsystem within the existing web site with one entry URL (www.dentaid.org/forums) which can be added to the nav bar and maintaining the existing header/nav bar and footer, so using the one column full screen width content for bbPress. I think that bbPress will need it’s own styling as I’m sure that the existing style.css won’t be optimal for forums.

I’ve tried putting bbpress shortcodes into new pages as recommended in some of the web articles but although it appears to work, the styling is not ideal and functionally it seems very basic. What I’m aiming for is to put something like the bbPress forum page that I’m using right now into the content of a page on our website while keeping the rest of the website exactly asis. (I would also like to allow new folks to register and/or existing users retrieve their lost passwords from within the bbPress ‘subsystem’ i.e. provide complete forum functionality from within the bbp system.

Any help as to how I go about this would be much appreciated as the charity have decided that this is an urgent requirement for a trip to Uganda coming up soon and I don’t want to go off at a tangent and waste a whole load of time climbing the learning curve. At the moment, I’m confused as to whether I should be using widgets, creating child themes, using shortcodes with my own pages or anything else.

Pointers to web pages, documents, videos or just some good old-fashioned advice will be very welcome.

Thanks in anticipation.
Ron

[jsalomone]

Wordpress 3.7.1, bbPress 2.4.1

Users (all roles except Administrators) cannot see the first post in any topic, regardless of it being their own post or not. Changing forum role doesn’t do anything. Only making them Administrator on the wordpress site does. Tried setting default theme and disabling other plugins to no avail.

Not using Wishlist Member and never did. Unsure how to debug, and seen other topics strand with no solution.

[Nova]

Im aware of this plugin and as you can see i’m talking about INLINE IMAGES (so within posts, using bbpress and not external services like imageshack and co.) not basic attachments at bottom of the posts (which is in my opinion absolutely useless for images purposes)

Don’t understand that concept of creating a forum for wordpress if it’s not supported in any way and doesn’t have ultra basic features that any forum plateform has since 300 years BC.

Anyway, already uninstalled bbpress, such a useless plugin.

[KatieKat]

I am using the latest version of bbpress and on 3.5.2 of WP and not sure if this is a bug or not.

When viewing a user’s profile, the user’s username does not display next to the About tag heading when you are viewing the Profile itself and also when viewing topics, replies, subscriptions, favourites when the contents of those pages are empty.

It will only display “About KatieKat” on the forum/users page heading if there is something in topics, replies etc. Nothing shows at all when you get the front Profile page apart from the word About.

Is this a bug and if not is it possible to display the username even if there is nothing on that page in the About heading and especially on the front Profile page.

Kind Regards

KatieKat