Just knocked up a little proof of concept and it seems to work well. I’m using the inbuilt WP post meta functionality to record a count that gets incremented each time the page is viewed.
As mentioned above, who knows if this would be a big performance hit and how it would work with cache plugins etc??
Anyway, I just need to display the counts somewhere and then I’ll pop the plugin into the repository. If it gets some traction we could look at making it better, although perhaps this is something that will be put into bbpress core at some point?
That site is the old bbPress 0.9/1.x version… The bbPress 2.x plugin does not support number of or users online.
For the other stats you can use the bbPress shortcode [bbp-stats] To display the forum statistics on any page or the widget for your sidebar.
Private messages are not imported as bbPress cannot handle PM’s at this stage…
It would be nice to import them into a compatible format for BuddyPress down the track 😉
@cashman wrote:
Yes, just tedious with hundreds/thousands of imported_users.
Agreed, I can only hack the URL of the WordPress admin dashboard to get me ~250 users at a time and yes it is tedious and in the past I have done most of this directly in phpMyAdmin with SQL.
@leahcar8/
Great news that the conversion finished 🙂
The post counts in the backend and frontend should match so that has me a little curious to what is going on with that… Any chance you could post a couple of screenshots showing those numbers?
Thanks for the testing offer, I’ll let you know 🙂
Ahh, I didn’t realize that. Thank you.
I’m looking for a way to give users the option (while creating a forum post) to change a few things, such as give a post a light blue background, or put a star in the upper corner. This would be very useful to find if a plugin could provide such functionality.
I just found this out myself and am pretty excited. I’m looking for a way to give users a few options while creating a forum post, which changes the look of the post or other small changes in functionality (post gets a light blue background, or includes a star in the upper corner).
I wanted to enable a WP shortcode I have written within bbpress, it seems the common way to do this is to use do_shortcodes($content) on the post, this works fine and I’ve seen it in a number of published plugins.
The problem with this is that it enables all shortcodes including the bbpress ones such as login, stats etc. In fact a number of published plugins suffer from this issue (oops).
The best solution I’ve come across is using the whitelist plugin:
http://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress2-shortcode-whitelist/
But I was wondering if anyone had any other ideas?
Could a new bbpress action for registering shortcodes be added? Then any plugin author just has to register their own new one and not have to worry.
My other idea is to do a find/replace on “[” before my do_shortcodes call, switch them to something else, and then switch them back after, but leaving my own shortcodes unchanged.
Anyone else had this prob? Anyone using a plugin that hasn’t taken this into consideration?! (try adding a bbpress shortcode to a post and seeing what happens!)
Big thanks to the Ians then, I rely on this, keep up the good work.
It depends on what you need done in order to properly quote someone a price. We do quite a few BBPress and WHMCS theme integrations with WP.
Ultimately, you should pick someone that you’re comfortable with after they have thoroughly looked at your site and gathered the required information about the changes you want.
We are a California based company with all staff located in the US. If you’d like us to take a look at your site and talk to you about changes we be more than happy to do so.
https://tscadfx.com/support/contact-us/
The approach in bbPress core is slightly different than what @jmdodd’s plugin originally did. You’ll want to test and let us know how it fares.
Just as a follow-up… my conversion did complete successfully! and I got it moved back to my hosting server. Everything seems to be working fine. I ran all the repair tools and that certainly fixed all the mis-matched posts…so that’s good. I’m not really sure how long it took, but I’m guessing it was about 8-10 hours. …and it seemed to go at a pretty stable pace throughout. I didn’t really notice a slow-down. I ran it on a macbook pro i7 w/ 4gb ram.
I have noticed that the post counts shown in the admin cp do not necessarily match what is shown on the user side, with the user side being correct (even after running the re-counters). It’s not that big of a deal, it just almost gave me a heart attack since I thought a whole group of posts was missing. But they’re there safe and sound after all. So I’m not sure what’s up with that.
So now I’m just trying to figure out what type of theme I want to use…and hopefully I can get the site active again.
@Stephen Edgar – if you are making changes to the vBulletin importer and would like to have someone test on a larger db, I would be glad to do it.
Thanks!
Rachael
@stephen Again great work on the importer. Are MyBB PM (Private Messages) included in the import process?
I did a search, but didn’t see anything recent.
I’m shocked that such a staple of forums isn’t included with bbPress. Any recommended plugins would be great.
bbPress 2.4 introduces hierarchical replies, allowing you to pick between paginated topics or a hierarchy (similar to WordPress’s comments.)
FirmaSite is already supporting bbPress with hierarchical replies! Its free and approved by official theme reviewers in wordpress.org
Example Forum: http://demo.theme.firmasite.com/forums/
Example Threaded Topic: http://demo.theme.firmasite.com/forums/topic/example-threaded-topic/
You can read user’s reviews!
If you willing to use https://wordpress.org/themes/firmasite theme for bbpress, i can make customization for it.
Default forum example: http://demo.theme.firmasite.com/forums/ (You can change style from top-left icon)
There is a customized version of bbpress style: http://social.theme.firmasite.com/forums/
Before i start to build your theme, you have to provide some things:
▶ Your custom website design ideas. All details. You cant change this one after i start to build your theme.
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I can finish this in 10~days with 3 revision for 700$ and 1 year bug fix support. You can pay from paypal. If you want to keep your theme up-to-date after 1 year, you can pay 200$ per year.
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I’ve just installed bbpress 2.3.2 and created a forum and some topics.
I tried to search the forum and it results no results with the message “Oh bother! No search results were found here!”
I tried all the different words from both the title and topic message without any result.
Is there something I need to enable in bbpress to allow the forums to be searchable?
James.
Hi community,
I need to setup the ckeditor for bbpress.
I have install the ckeditor plugin (v4.0) for wordpress
http://wordpress.org/plugins/ckeditor-for-wordpress/
It works in the post area, but not in bbpress replies and topics.
Is any setup that I can do, an enable function like tinyMCE made?
My instalation:
WPMU 3.6
Bbpress 2.3.2
buddypress 1.7.2
other plugins
Thanks
Yes, just tedious with hundreds/thousands of imported_users.
Cool… I Try to subscribe to all the importer topics here but occasionally miss some.
As to any ‘imported_username’ this is a feature of the importer so if a user already exists with that username an additional username is created with the prefix ‘imported_’ in front of the username. If you go to the WordPress User admin and select the ‘imported_username’ user and select delete on that user you will then be prompted to delete the user but attribute all posts to another user, select the original (i.e Non ‘imported_’ username) and all their posts, topics, replies etc will then be attributed to that user.
Stephen, if you want admin/test access to a mostly working import from vbulletin to phpbb to bbpress, let me know if it would be helpful. There are quite a few users that have import_ in from of their usernames and duplicate users.
Hi, I need some help. I have a BBPRESS installation but when I create sticky or super sticky posts its going to the bottom of the forum rather then the top. Can anyone help?
Hey y’all
I’ve got a problem with BBPress where it won’t add any new forums.
I have even installed the admin bar, when I press add forum through that I get a page saying “cheating eh”.
Does anyone know how to fix this and how I can add a new forum?
Thank you,
Dean
@mchl Excellent that you now have a working migration. I don’t know of any outstanding issues for any {{{wp_insert_post}}} memory leak, now could I see any issue regarding this in WP Trac.
@leahcar8 Looks like your getting closer and closer to getting there too 🙂
I am doing lots of work on all ~20 importers at the moment that with all this feedback I will try to look at optimizing both the importer and the SQL queries used for inclusion in bbPress 2.5.
All these little gotchyas, tips, tricks and feedback is extremely helpful so I will also get the docs updated to include as much of this info to. 🙂
No, by default bbPress does not have a ‘post preview’ feature at this stage.
There are various plugins for using different editors and some are compatible with bbPress and some have a post preview.
Take a look around https://wordpress.org/plugins/ and see if anything is suitable.
I have a bbpress installed and have someone who has done some basic customizations, but I am looking for a little more advanced work. Anyone know of a user here or a place where I can request some custom work for hire?
