[GamingTracks]

Hello. I am the owner of http://www.gamingtracks.com, Pingal Pratyush.
I wanna ask how to get BBPress on work to forums.gamingtracks.com instead of http://www.gamingtracks.com/forums?

Thanks

Regards
Pingal

[FreeWPress]

I’m first!!.. Provide to upgrade now!!

[Stephen Edgar]

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.

The importer is designed to import your users from phpBB and that is where your problems will now be as you already have some users in WordPress…

During the import the importer if it finds a username already exists eg ‘username’ it will create a new user with a prefix ‘imported_’ eg ‘imported_username’.

After the import is finished you can use WordPress’ user admin panel to delete (one by one) each ‘imported_’ user and as you do you are presented with the option to reassign all posts to another user, select the user you want from the dropdown list and your done.

This gets painful very quickly if you have 1,000 users to do this to one by one.

You may be surprised to see my bbPress forum

“Internal Server Error” 😉

[Halo Diehard]

Hello, I am once again seeing if I can switch over to bbPress, since WP-United does not play well with so many phpBB3 and WP social extras, and upon import I am only getting posts up to four months ago, with nothing for the last four months. Also, somehow the import process is switching some authors. I’m not sure if I should be importing the users or not (I think I’ve tried both), or what the best practice is since I already have a WP userbase of the same people who made the posts that I’m importing from phpBB3. In fact, because of WP-United, they are linked in some way.

Any help would be appreciated! I’ve been at it for a number of days. My WordPress version is 3.6.0 and my bbPress version is 2.4.

You may be surprised to see my bbPress forum: I’m currently altering the css to make it look like my phpBB3 one, using @Lynq’s bbPress starter theme and Daniel St. Jules’ CoDFaction phpBB3 theme.

Forums

[John James Jacoby]

Please discuss bbPress 2.4.1 here. Thanks!

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress does not include ‘attachments’, if you are using a plugin to allow attachments in bbPress then it is up to that plugin to have attachments uploaded to S3.

[Da Jules]

Hi,
can we setup bbpress to save all attachments and serve media files from Amazon s3?

Is this done via a WordPress plugin like: http://wordpress.org/plugins/amazon-s3-and-cloudfront/screenshots/

Thanks.

[John James Jacoby]

Please welcome Stephen Edgar to the bbPress core team!

Introducing Stephen Edgar

[TobiasHartmann]

Hello there,

I can’t find any way to edit answers to posts or delete single answers to posts. Are my settings wrong or is this feature not implemented?

Many thank!

Tobias

[RaSol]

How do I apply the patch in the trac item myself??

Thanks

[Stephen Edgar]

You won’t need this text and/or value that you imported.

You will have to create your own templates by copying bbPress templates to your theme directory:

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

You would then use the_excerpt rather than the_content to output only ‘x’ words from each topic/reply

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_excerpt

There are a few people who have played around using the_excerpt and bbPress, have a good look around the site to see how and what they did:

https://bbpress.org/forums/search/the_excerpt/

[niuserre]

You can choose the order than forums appear in by giving them an Order value. I usually give mine order values like 10, 20, 30, 40 so that if I add another forum later I don’t have to reorder them I can just add order 25 to put it in between 2 existing forums.

I don’t think there’s an easy way to have forums change order by activity but if activity is important to you then you should consider having Latest Topics as your default view instead of categories (like https://bbpress.org/forums/).

[zilveer]

I have been searching to find such a plugin but haven’t found any.
Perhaps this could be implemented in the bbPress.

I will check it up and try create a solution for this since it is a good idea.

[harpeml]

Hi, the import went reasonably well for me. Thanks for all the guidance.

I imported values for the “excerpt” field for each topic under a forum post. They do not seem to show up yet in the forum view. What can I do to have them display along with the topic titles in the view listing?

Thanks

[zilveer]

Thanks for your reply.

That is exactly what I mean, but I want it to be built in bbPress.

I hope that the bbPress theme will implement this hierachial feature very soon.

[niuserre]

You can allow them to use images hosted elsewhere via HTML or BBCode. e.g.

Or there are plugins (GD bbPress Attachments) to add a way for them to upload an image on your site.

There isn’t currently a plugin, I think, that will let them upload an image and place it somewhere the way you do with a WordPress Post using the Media Library but it’s on the roadmap for the rtMedia plugin.

[webism]

I would like posters to be able to add images to a post.
Is this possible in bbpress?

Thanks in advance.

D

[RaSol]

I’m unclear as to how to patch it myself.

Please advise.

Thank you for prompt responses.

[niuserre]

There is a bug in 2.4 causing this (https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2405), it’s been fixed for patch 2.4.1 but this hasn’t been released yet. The bug did not exist in earlier versions, hence it works on one for you but not the other. If you need it urgently you could apply the patch in the trac item yourself.

ETA: Damn, he beat me to it 😀

[Stephen Edgar]

This is a known issue and a fix is in #2405 for release with bbPress 2.4.1

[RaSol]

bbPress plugin messing with Meta Data – Website Title and Tagline
Can anyone help me figure out why the bbPress plugin is doing this on one of my websites but not the other.

Permaculture and Community Resilience

WordPress 3.4.1 — bbPress Version 2.1.2
http://transitiontopermaculture.org/about-us/what-is-permaculture/
WordPress 3.6 — bbPress Version 2.4

On one… the browser page title shows the title of the page, and the other shows the url.
I’d really love to fix the problem but having a hard time figuring out what the solution could be.

Would love it to look normal and show website title and tagline at the top of browser when on homepage, and other pages..

Also as I’m posting to Facebook its also ruining the metadata and just wants to post the url as both the title and the description.
If I deactivate the plugin the problem goes away.

Thank you

[Uberche]

I installed bbpress on my website http://www.ethansenglishcafe.com/ and the forum is working fine, I was in process of styling it when I noticed all my websites other pages are no longer found. They are all there in the Pages admin section but none will show when I go to the url. If I disable bbpress in the Plugin menu the pages all work fine again.

I assume I’m doing something really foolish, is this a permalinks problem or something (using postname style for my site)?

[niuserre]

content.php seems like a weird place to be swapping an image, is this a header image or something?

From the way you’ve worded it I think maybe you need an if else statement around the specific image?

if( is_bbpress() ) {

// bbpress image

} else {

// default image

}

Is that the issue? If not, could you describe a bit more what you’re expecting to happen and what is happening instead please? It could also be that you actually need a BuddyPress if call rather than bb.

[shanebp]

Thanks much for the pointer re genesis extend plugin.
Will give it a whirl.

Meanwhile, relying on the good ole bbpress-threaded-replies plugin.

[niuserre]

It appears that it could be this bug which is fixed for 2.4.1 but not yet released: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2429

Perhaps try patching with the change (https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/5109) and see if it works.