[Sven]

Update: I found some old plugins working in the old bbPress installation:

Avatar-Upload
Allow-Images
bb-attachments

All these Plugins were made for bbPress up to 1.0. Do you have any suggestions for me, how to import these images in the new installation? And which new plugins should I use?

[Sven]

Howdy everyone,

I want to migrate an old bbPress forum 1 to bbPress 2.3.2. I used the importer tool to import the old topics an so on. But I am missing the attachments and the user-avatars. The attachments shortcode is shown, but not the image and no avatar. Can anyone help me please?

Wordpress 3.5.1 and bbPress 2.3.2

Kind regards,
iGoras

[Shane Gowland]

bbPress/WordPress automatically uses Gravatars. It’s built into the discussion settings.

[tamilcselvan]

Nice to heard

[lilmsjenn]

Hi – I have the bbPress “Recent Topics” widget on the homepage of the site that I am working on (http://heattreatforum.flyten.net/). I want the parent forum that the topic was entered in to show up below the topic in this widget. How can I make this happen?

The version of WP I’m working with is 3.6, the bbpress verions is 2.3.2

Any help would be appreciated – thanks!

[Stephen Edgar]

No there is not, bbPress does not support attachments.

Edit: If the image was part of the original post with using the BBCode [img] then that IS imported as part of the post, if the image was an attachment to the post then it is not imported.

[Tecca]

I’d easily go for IP Board or Xenforo before vBulletin. But since we’re using bbPress here and it seems silly to change software solely for private forums, we should probably stick with bbPress suggestions.

I’m sure there’s a way to implement this with some fiddling, but have you considered an alternative? I don’t find that forum software is the best method of communicating with staff members, so for my new project I’m going to use something similar to CollabPress (if not CP itself): https://wordpress.org/plugins/collabpress/

You can also load it on the front end, so your staff members can communicate without going to their WP Dashboard. I find solutions like this to be best, since you can manage all sorts of things and add milestones/accomplishments — which may motivate staff to work harder.

[najum]

I am having trouble trying to resize my forums table cells widths.

The “topics” and “posts” cells that only contain a number don’t need to be the same width as the “forum” and “freshness” cells that contain words and wrap to the next line.

When I look at the table through firebug I just see “.article th, .article td” which is part of my sytle.css and not bbpress.

Any ideas how I can make the cells widths change?

Here is an example of 1 forum I am talking about http://lifeafterlondon.com/forums-2/

Many thanks

[terungwa]

UPDATE:
I have carried out the following troubleshooting activities:

1. Deleted my bbpress child theme (problem did not go away)
2. Changed my theme to the default twenty thirteen then twenty twelve but still noticed the same error when i attempt to use the theme customizer.

[najum]

ok

[terungwa]

Wordpress version: 3.6
bbPress 2.3.2
site url: http://www.rubycore-ng.com/blog/
Hi, i am getting this error message on my site backend. I have created a custom bbpress child theme. The error is “bbp_setup_current_user was called incorrectly. The current user is being initialized without using $wp->init(). (This message was added in version 2.3.) in /hermes/bosoraweb132/b1582/ipg.virtualweb/https/blog/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3012”

What is may be wrong?

[Scott Tyner]

I would like the pages for the forums to NOT have a sidebar and to fill up the page (and sidebar area). There’s not sidebar showing, but the area is white space. I want the forum pages to fill up the entire page. Did that make sense?

I am using Version 2.3.2 bbPress and WordPress version is 3.6

A link to the forums is http://bleckleycountygop.org/forums/forum/general-news-flash/

[janhoos]

Hey guys!

I’ve added a custom role to BBpress with this piece of code in a functions.php file in my theme:

function add_custom_role( $bbp_roles ) {
$bbp_roles[‘my_custom_role’] = array(
‘name’ => ‘ACN Lid’,
‘capabilities’ => bbp_get_caps_for_role(bbp_get_participant_role()) // i just want them to have the same capabilities as moderators

);

I also have a private forum that only this member can access. Right now it works through a member groups plug-in that shields it. But it still let the off limits posts show up in search results.

So I want to try and work within the BBpress system of private and hidden forums. Making the forums private won’t solve a thing, because for some weird reason, participants can also view that… Why is that?

But oh well! I’d like to include the list of capabilities found in the capabilities.php file with this custom role. Instead of the custom role taking the capabilities from the participant. I want to make the members only forums hidden, and make the ACN lid role be able to see the hidden forums.

How do I change the above code, to make it use the following capabilities:
$caps = array(

// Primary caps
‘spectate’ => true,
‘participate’ => true,
‘moderate’ => false,
‘throttle’ => false,
‘view_trash’ => false,

// Forum caps
‘publish_forums’ => false,
‘edit_forums’ => false,
‘edit_others_forums’ => false,
‘delete_forums’ => false,
‘delete_others_forums’ => false,
‘read_private_forums’ => true,
‘read_hidden_forums’ => true,

// Topic caps
‘publish_topics’ => true,
‘edit_topics’ => true,
‘edit_others_topics’ => false,
‘delete_topics’ => false,
‘delete_others_topics’ => false,
‘read_private_topics’ => false,

// Reply caps
‘publish_replies’ => true,
‘edit_replies’ => true,
‘edit_others_replies’ => false,
‘delete_replies’ => false,
‘delete_others_replies’ => false,
‘read_private_replies’ => false,

// Topic tag caps
‘manage_topic_tags’ => false,
‘edit_topic_tags’ => false,
‘delete_topic_tags’ => false,
‘assign_topic_tags’ => true,
);

[Stephen Edgar]

I haven’t seen a plugin to do this…

There is this one https://github.com/jmdodd/bbpress-topic-post-converter but that does topics to posts… Maybe you could fork it and make it go the other way 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

Have a look/search in the plugin section https://bbpress.org/plugins/

There are a couple from memory.

[Stephen Edgar]

If you can set WordPress up that way then bbPress should also work fine using the WordPress setup as bbPress uses WordPress for all user authentications.

I would suggest searching around the WordPress support forums and/or plugins for a solution

https://wordpress.org/support/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/

[Stephen Edgar]

I am sure there are a few in the WordPress Plugins

https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=user+switching

[Stephen Edgar]

You kind of only have two options, the default bbPress behaviour like this:

• My Parent Category/Forum

• My 1st Child Forum (78, 425), My 2nd Child Forum (18, 107)

Or using the <br /> as the separator:

• My Parent Category/Forum

• My 1st Child Forum (78, 425)
• My 2nd Child Forum (18, 107)

Each element is returned as a whole so My 1st Child Forum (78, 425) and My 2nd Child Forum (18, 107) CANNOT be broken down further for multiple columns like this (which I think you are alluding to:

• My Parent Category/Forum

• My 1st Child Forum – 78 – 425
• My 2nd Child Forum – 18 – 107

[Stephen Edgar]

Thanks 🙂 The latest v1.8 update is looking good 🙂

[Nitac]

I’d like to know if you have any success with this, i posted a similar issue here but i havent had any luck rectifying it.

The last time test i tried i got to >300k (forum has ~400k) posts after the convertor stalled and requiring a restart a couple of times, until the most recent time tried to restart I got this error in the output window:

Repair any missing information: Continue
WordPress database error: [Table 'db_name.pbpbb_posts' doesn't exist]
SELECT convert(posts.post_id USING "utf8") AS post_id,convert(topics.topic_id USING "utf8") AS topic_id,convert(posts.forum_id USING "utf8") AS forum_id,convert(posts.topic_id USING "utf8") AS topic_id,convert(posts.poster_ip USING "utf8") AS poster_ip,convert(posts.poster_id USING "utf8") AS poster_id,convert(posts.post_subject USING "utf8") AS post_subject,convert(posts.post_text USING "utf8") AS post_text,convert(posts.post_time USING "utf8") AS post_time FROM pbpbb_posts AS posts LEFT JOIN pbpbb_topics AS topics USING (topic_id) WHERE posts.post_id != topics.topic_first_post_id LIMIT 304200, 100
Starting Conversion

Im currently running this on AWS (Amazon Servers) and had upgraded to the server to something with a bit more grunt but its not helping.

Ive also discovered, not sure if this is related, that none of the replies that are imported are assigned to a forum or a topic and when viewing a topic only the first post appears and none of the related replies.

looking forward to response.
mchl

[leahcar8]

yeah… I’ve ended up doing it locally too. I tried the Vanilla conversion from the migration I did previously and ended up getting tons of SQL errors. So I ended up just pulling out the tables from my vBulletin db that the bbPress converter actually uses and am using those to run the conversion locally.

So far so good on the local conversion. I’m up to about 225,000 on the replies with no stalls yet just using the default set of 100 and 1 sec delay.

Rachael

[casiotron]

I’m having similar issues. I actually had to convert an old ikonboard to vbulletin. Then vbulletin to bbpress. It’s a massive one too (180k users, 1.8mil posts). I’m doing this all locally with the memory set very high.

All the users managed to get converted but the posts died at 600k. I’m having difficulty continuing the conversion, it won’t start back up. It says it’s working but just sits there.

[John James Jacoby]

Not yet, but we’ll be open sourcing more and more pieces of the wordpress.org network in 2013.

[gphp]

What’s the name of bbPress.org’s theme?
Is it possible to download?

Thanks a lot!

[Oken]

Wordpress 3.6
BBPress 2.3.2
Buddypress 1.8.1

Is there anyway to custom implement a Freshness, Topic, and Post counter for subforums in the front page in the same styling that parent forums have? I know this is a common question.

I’ve been looking into this issue for a while and even found older forum post about it, but those were from 3-4 years ago and bbpress has very much changed since then. There seems to have been plugins in development to address this issue as well, but I couldn’t find anything on them.

Any advice on this issue would be greatly appreciated, At least to get me on my way!

Thanks in advance!