[Razva]

Any update for 2.3.X? Thanks!

[Seanerin72]

Hello all. So I am having layout issues with my forums under the “sophomore english” and “the human condition” menu items. (http://www.blackboarddreams.com) I thought that accessing the repair option under bbpress main settings may help, yet everytime I try accessing the repair option I get this message: “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.”

Thoughts? Thank you.

[NeilJ]

Yeah there is something up with Apache. Reverted to the old script and I am getting the same thing happening:

View post on imgur.com

I’ll have a look and see what is causing it because it wasn’t happening yesterday.

[NeilJ]

Now having an issue where Apache on Windows 7 appears to crash and the conversion process stops when processing the replies with latest script. I’ll need to get a SS of the dialogs that appear which I will attach when I get the chance. It stops/crashes at around 1370 replies. Funny thing is apache and all the other services such as mysql etc. are still running.

Also noticed that we still seem to have the issue where the count is out by the same amount we set to process i.e. it says we are processing 100 – 200 rows when in fact we are processing 200 – 300. This goes for both topics and replies.

Going to run the previous script to see if this causes the same issue.

Neil.

[Alph]

Hello,
I am a newbie in WP and bbP.

I want to give to the user of my site the possibility to include a reference (a link, a quote or something else) of a post or page in a new created topic in bbPress.

There is a plugin “bbPress Topics for Posts” : it include a topic for all posts or pages. That is not what I want. I want the possibility of the following scenario :
– the user create a new post in bbPress
– after or before the text of the topic it should have the possibility to insert a reference to a post or page.

I find nothings that could help me. Do you have any idea to do that ?

Thanks

AP

[NeilJ]

Good stuff. Will give it a test out. Thanks.

Neil.

[Stephen Edgar]

Latest Attachment PunBB.php

Fixed:

• Topics
• Replies
• User Nice Name ‘user_nicename’ & Display Name ‘user_displayname’ import fields
• User PunBB MSN

Outstanding:

• Forum/Category? hierarchy (currently parent forums/categories are imported ‘flat’)
• User Passwords
• – Custom BBCode for Topic & Reply Content

NOTE: If you are importing ‘users’ during the import you will see multiple instances of the following error message:-
– Notice: Undefined variable: user_pass in /home/webhost/public_html/wp-includes/user.php on line 1305
This can be ignored and only relates to the current non-working state of converting user passwords. If you need to login (or users login) they will just need to reset their WordPress password to be able to login.

[Stephen Edgar]

@capacitron Thanks a bunch for testing it out, glad it worked.

bbPress & BuddyPress use the same WordPress user table so everything should be common across both plugins and WordPress itself.

That said, any extra profile data I can get from the source forum, in this case MyBB we are storing the extra data in the WordPress ‘usermeta’ table so this data can be manipulated/imported/whatever at a later time.

With MyBB I only see 3 extra user profile fields to store (ICQ, MSN & Signature), the rest WordPress includes by default (AIM, Yahoo etc) .

Looking at the current version of MyBB.php importer at Line #474 you will see the three entries I have (summarized below):

• // Store ICQ (Stored in usermeta)
  ‘to_fieldname’ => ‘_bbp_mybb_user_icq’
• // Store MSN (Stored in usermeta)
  ‘to_fieldname’ => ‘_bbp_mybb_user_msn’
• // Store Signature (Stored in usermeta)
  ‘to_fieldname’ => ‘_bbp_mybb_user_sig’,

Thus under each imported user in the wp_usermeta table under each user id the above data will also be stored…. So for example if you wanted to install a bbPress/BuddyPress signature plugin to extend either of these plugins you could then copy the data from this stored field to the field that the plugin uses f or storing user signature data. As any of this can be done in numerous ways by plugin authors each site admin will need to decide what plugin to use and how to shift around any relevant data.

[Stephen Edgar]

Latest Attachment MyBB.php

Fixed:

• User Nice Name ‘user_nicename’ & Display Name ‘user_displayname’ import fields

Outstanding:

• User Passwords
• – Custom BBCode for Topic & Reply Content

NOTE: If you are importing ‘users’ during the import you will see multiple instances of the following error message:-
– Notice: Undefined variable: user_pass in /home/webhost/public_html/wp-includes/user.php on line 1305
This can be ignored and only relates to the current non-working state of converting user passwords. If you need to login (or users login) they will just need to reset their WordPress password to be able to login.

[Stephen Edgar]

@ricov4 Thanks, to help out if you can download the importer and setup a test environment to see how well it works that would be great.

@koawinter I have not tried SMF 1.1.16 and only downloaded the latest version of SMF. Are you able to update your SMF to v2.0.4? You could also try the importer and see if it does or does not work and we can go from there.

@NeilJ Thanks a bunch for testing it out… The previous versions of the counts would have been off as the original reply query was adding the original topic as its own reply, I have now fixed this and from my testing the counts are now correct for topics and replies.

As far as I can tell it is now only the user passwords and some custom regex strings to fix some converted BBCode and ‘Smilies’ and we will have a perfect SMF importer 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

I have updated the SMF Importer and you can download the latest again via the same links in my original post above.
Fixed:

• Forum parent hierarchy
• Imported Replies now import correctly
• User Display Name

Outstanding:

• User Passwords
• Custom BBCode for Topic & Reply Content

NOTE: If you are importing ‘users’ during the import you will see multiple instances of the following two error messages:-

• Notice: Undefined variable: user_pass in /home/webhost/public_html/wp-includes/user.php on line 1305
• Notice: Undefined index: salt in /home/webhost/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converters/SMF.php on line 566

These can both be ignored and only relates to the current non-working state of converting user passwords. If you need to login (or users login) they will just need to reset their WordPress password to be able to login.

[danny2104]

When I insert links into a reply for a topic via the the link option or by inputting html directly, it never shows up in the reply. In fact if my reply consists only of a link and no text apart from it, ll i get is an empty\blank reply to the topic. I’ve tried this with different user roles too, since i suspected the ability to post unrestricted html might’ve been the problem, but no such luck. I’m relatively new to wordpress, so i apologise if this has an obvious fix or an apparent reason.

Wordpress 3.6
BBpress 2.3.2

[capacitron]

Nice! Just finished using your importer on a test site. Everything went great, no problems. I’m almost sad I didn’t have an error. How can I help you more?

The feature I’m dying for is to import MyBB user profile data into BuddyPress profiles. Any plans for that feature?

If not, do you have any suggestions for me?

[capacitron]

For your private messaging problem, have you considered Pippins bbPress Private Replies Extension

[elpju]

I get this error on the main forum page where all the topics are listed:

Warning: in_array() expects parameter 2 to be array, null given in /home/public_html/wp-content/themes/genesis/lib/functions/general.php on line 293

It started after I upgraded to Genesis 2.0. I have no other plugins installed so it must be a genesis2.0-bbpress compatibility problem.

Is anyone else experiencing this?

[Anonymous User 12933267]

So right now the entire forum is using the standard page template (Default Template). Here is an example of the template.

But I would like bbpress to use the Full-Width Template as used here.

Is there a way to change the page-template used by bbpress?

Kind regards,
Luc

[Techknowledgic]

Hey

I have installed bbpress on my website and it’s pretty easy to use it but I just have a question about adding sub categories.

I have create a category for example How to and a forum as a parent in this category for example phones but i just want the users now to see all the sub categories from the forum home page but when they click on How to they will see all the sub categories so can that be done?

BTW, idk if this is repeated or not but I searched and found some old topics like from 3 years but nothing new

Thanks!

[NeilJ]

Hmmm something odd going on and I beginning to think it is to do with the number rows being processed for the replies. Running a test where I have set processing of 100 rows at a time it is showing in the status box as the following:

Converting replies (1500 - 1599)

Looking at the number of wp_posts where the post_type is equal to reply it shows 1652:

mysql> select count(*) from wp_posts where post_type = "reply";
+----------+
| count(*) |
+----------+
|     1652 |
+----------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

I was checking the processlist whilst the import was running and the inserts just completely stopped with no errors.

[NeilJ]

Been giving this a try today and yeah there seems to be a problem with importing replies (which we know is not working yet). So to help out the OP I give an example of replies not importing. For instance, this is the total number of SMF messages on SMF database I wish to convert to BBPress:

mysql> select count(*) from smf_messages;
+----------+
| count(*) |
+----------+
|     2663 |
+----------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

Running the importer it seems to get stuck and stops importing:

mysql> select count(*) from wp_posts where post_type = "reply";
+----------+
| count(*) |
+----------+
|     2252 |
+----------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

I am doing this on my own machine and looking at the apache logs I don’t see any errors related to the import. I also checked if there was a query stuck so I checked the process list and it was empty.

Going to debug the relevant scripts and see what I can find.

[Marcus (aka @msykes)]

Probably best directed at @johnjamesjacoby, any suggestions welcome!

Already read your post here (love the concept, makes sense) and have a question : http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/roles-and-capabilities-in-bbpress-2-2/

I’m the developer of Events Manager and in this plugin you can assign custom capabilities to existing roles. Unfortunately your recent update regarding caps is preventing our plugin from adding custom caps to your roles.

I’ve figured out a way around this, but this requires at least 1 extra database query each instance since I can’t load wp_user_roles via get_option due to your hooks.


function em_bbp_get_caps_for_role( $caps, $role ){
global $em_capabilities_array, $wpdb;
//get the non-dynamic role from the wp_options table
$roles = maybe_unserialize($wpdb->get_var("SELECT option_value FROM {$wpdb->options} WHERE option_name='wp_user_roles'"));
//loop through the original role if it exists and add our em caps to the bp role
if( !empty($roles[$role]) ){
foreach($roles[$role]['capabilities'] as $cap_name => $has_cap ){
if( array_key_exists($cap_name, $em_capabilities_array) ){
$caps[$cap_name] = $has_cap;
}
}
}
return $caps;
}
add_filter('bbp_get_caps_for_role', 'em_bbp_get_caps_for_role', 10, 2);


What it does is load our caps into your caps by referencing the original wp_user_roles array

So, my questions are:

• Is there a better way to do this, preferably avoiding extra DB queries?
• Since you seem to be assigning a second role to the user, would an alternative solution be to prevent EM from assigning caps to bbpress user roles and let the primary/secondary role inherit the relevant caps?

thanks for reading!

[ZachMatthews]

I’ve read all the support threads. I know the current advice is to activate BuddyPress.

That’s not a very clean solution. BuddyPress, with all due respect, is kind of a mess. I’ve worked and worked with it and I cannot get it to integrate with my theme (Pinboard–which incidentally wasn’t easy to integrate with BBPress either).

I now have a fully capable copy of BBPress. I’ve got a very long set of CSS amendments in my theme page, but it works.

If I activate BuddyPress I get major issues; initially it was breaking the whole site, then I built it a separate copy of the CSS file in a /css/ subdirectory and it at least ran. Theme integration was a disaster but I spent the time and got the profile pages looking ok. Then I tried to send a PM: fail. Fail on multiple levels, mostly in the PHP files — this is beyond theme integration. This is broken functionality.

What we sorely need is a simple set of plug ins that do two things:

(1) Allow private messaging. This really does not have to be complicated.

(2) Allow moderators to customize profile fields.

That’s it. No need to lay a very heavy second plugin over everything. (And BuddyPress takes up as much load time as BBPress itself per the Performance Profiler plug in).

Are there any plug in developers out there with the knowledge to pull this off? Maybe we could pool some money and get someone started?

Thanks,
Zach

[koawinter]

I have SMF version 1.1.16 and am very curious to see how far you get and if it could then work for my version. Forum has lots of users and posts and it would be a shame to lose it all when moving over. Would like to see if it is at all possible to get this working.

[Benjamin]

Hi,

I’m currently trying to adjust the styles of my bbpress install and am running into a bit of difficulty. I’m running bbPress 2.3.2 and WP 3.6, using my own theme which is based on “Twenty Twelve.”

I noticed some big spaces in the header on each page and went to reduce the space. It turns out there are a bunch of different paragraph tags in the header for each “topic” on my site, but these tags do not appear on example sites listed on bbpress.org.

This first snippet is the code I’d like to have so I can style it (taken from http://www.dalluva.com/member-area/forums/topics/resources-where-to-get-your-sommelier-certification/):

<li class=”bbp-header”>
<div class=”bbp-reply-author”>Author</div><!– .bbp-reply-author –>
<div class=”bbp-reply-content”>Posts</div><!– .bbp-reply-content –>
<!– .bbp-header –>

This is what my site is generating:

<li class=”bbp-header”>
<div class=”bbp-reply-author”>Author</div><p><!– .bbp-reply-author –></p>
<div class=”bbp-reply-content”><p>Posts</p></div><p><!– .bbp-reply-content –></p>

Why is my site putting paragraph tags around the comments, as well as the word “Posts”? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Benjamin

[Bencuri]

I installed BBpress, the newest version to the newest version of WordPress. So I used this plugin version of BBpress. The forum installs, I can load the XML export file that is an export of a recent forum that I have to manage elsewhere, it is accepted by the new installation. From the dashboard, if I click view the Forum in tha forum management section, it takes me to the forum, everything is visible, cathegories, posts, member. But, the only problem is that the forum is not accessible on any link from my WordPress frontpage. Why is it so? How can I make it visible on the front page? I just want to make this new site to be a forum, so the forum frontpage should be ont he WordPress core site frontpage, but it is not there. Also if I type /forum after my domain name, the browser reports error, as if the forum doesn’t exsist. But from the dashboard, I can open the forum. What can be the problenm?

[Tux Kapono]

Thanks Stephen, would you know if these are the instructions? https://codex.buddypress.org/user/buddypress-site-administration/migrating-from-old-forums-to-bbpress-2/