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As somewhat of a novice in the mysql world, all I really know is what works for me. However, I do think that your suggestion would work.
One concern would be that some wp-specific data would be missing from the bbp-only users. Again, I don’t exactly know what that would be.
I don’t know if there is a quick and easy way to modify the user IDs in WP, since they are going to be associated with posts, comments, and so on. That might be more trouble than it is worth. It might be easier to just create new users in WP and change their ID numbers before they are associated with anything else. Then, delete the “old” users one by one in WP, and each time make sure you set the “Attribute posts and links to:” option to the new, highly-numbered user it should correspond to. At least that way you could add the bbp users in without conflicts.
There may be a fancy, streamlined way to do this, but I don’t know what it is.
Thank you very much for the detailed response. I’m sure this will help out many folks who have this issue. Let me ponder a lazy man’s approach. That lazy man being me, since I already have said bye to phpbb and have bbpress up and running. Couldn’t I run mysqldump to extract the bb_users table, then go in and modify the first few user ID’s (across the data I know
) and then just import that table into wp_users?Or since my WP install is still fresh with only a couple users, it might be easier to change their ID’s in the database, then import bb_users into wp_users?
Unfortunately you’ll need someone with some Javascript mojo to do that. It’s been done often enough before, but I presume it still requires some knowledge.
Ok this worked for me, here’s how I actually reset the auto_increment counter.
NOTE: If you’ve already integrated WP and bbpress and/or if you’ve already had a bunch of new users register, this wont be so easy for you. If however, you’ve performed a fresh installation and conversion then this will be simple.
1. make sure one of my existing users in the normal ID range is a Key_Master (this is very important). For me, I made one of my users with ID =5 the Key Master.
2. login with the new Key Master, and delete all the users who are registered with a number => 999999999. For me this wasn’t a problem because “admin” was the only user, I haven’t had any new user registrations. If you do have new users in the 1000000000 range you’ll need to reset their ID’s (I’m not a MySQL guy so I dunno how)
3. Once all users in the ugly high number range are deleted, you can run the command to reset the counter on your *_users table, for me it was:
ALTER TABLE bb_users AUTO_INCREMENT = 400I just added a few new users and they indeed started at ID 400.
BTW, here’s the code in the phpbbtobbpress.php converter that sets this very high ID:
//Let's clean up the trash.
//Your admin user will be given the biggest possible ID (I tried the biggest BIGINT but it didn't work inside bbPress)
//If you have more than 999999999 users on your forum, you may have problems...
@mysql_query ("UPDATE " . $bbpress_tables['users'] . " SET ID=999999999 WHERE ID=1");
@mysql_query ("UPDATE " . $bbpress_tables['usermeta'] . " SET user_id=999999999 WHERE user_id=1");
@mysql_query("TRUNCATE TABLE " . $bbpress_tables['forums']);I’d love to have the emoticons available from a pop-up menu, that way you only load them when needed.
Camino hates all the emoticons on my screen at once.
The nice thing is you don’t actually need any of that. People can still read your posts if you don’t.
But I know what you mean; a truly polished interface would be intuitively sensible. I’m not sure what you’re thinking of when you say a plugin to improve it beyond the Quicktags plugin? Obviously minor improvements are always possible, but can you think of a change to make it much easier?
That’s not rhetorical
I’d have to read the forums, once again, to figure out what you mean.
Or you could just ask us here.
A large part of these forums is just for help making it work. You’d be happier with bbPress in the long run.The markup thing for example is quite simple; I struggled with it initially but a random guess worked out, and the quicktags certainly help. Any text between two backticks (on a European/English keyboard, the button just above tab) will be rendered as code. The ‘markup’ thing refers to HTML, so to make that work you do this:
<em>makes your text italic</em><br />
like so will create a single new line.<ul>or<ol>will create a ‘list’ structure. Simply put<li>and</li>around each seperate list element. End the list by putting</ul>or</ol>.To create links, you do this:
<a href="www.example.com/linklocation">link text</a>.Topic: Learning Curve Too Large
I admire the idea of bbpress … I really do. After several hours of work, I’ve finally got a forum up and running on my site. There is so much more work to be done to make it usable for my visitors, though, that I just don’t think I can do it. Every installation has been a struggle for me. I don’t know php. The config file took me an entire day to get right. Each and every plugin I installed required further tinkering.
Here’s a small example that represents my large frustration:
Allowed markup: a blockquote br code em strong ul ol li.
Put code in between
backticks.That’s not enough information for me. I can’t make that work. I’d have to read the forums, once again, to figure out what you mean. And I’m just too exhausted to do that, so I’m going to install another forum for now.
I’ll keep checking back to see the improvements that you make and, when you get everything worked out and as easy to use as WordPress, I’ll try again.
But, for now, installing bbpress requires too large a learning curve for me.
Good luck and carry on,
C.R. the Exhausted
Topic: Numbered Posts
I’d like to have the post number shown for each post. I’m hoping that bbPress already has this functionality, and I would need to do is insert some code into my template. Or do I need a plugin?
Topic: Quote Plugin Weirdness
I’m running bbPress 0.8.1 with the Fix bbPress Plugin. I installed Michael Nolan’s Quote plugin, version 0.2.
It works fine if you quote simple post. But when you quote a post that already has a quote in it, things get weird. This is what my edit box looks like when I do that:
<blockquote></blockquote>
<blockquote>
This is text that was quoted in the post that I am quoting.
</blockquote>
This is the text that I am quoting directly.It looks as though the plugin doesn’t like nested blockquotes.
My forum is here:
Okay, so turn off pretty links and take that out from your .htaccess file so we can find out if that’s the problem.
Yo.
Open your folder containing all your bbPress stuff, including the
config.phpfile. Make a new folder and call itmy-templates, if it doesn’t exist yet! Openmy-templatesand make another new folder, and call it anything you like. This folder will house your forum’s theme.Now go back to the main bb folder, and open
bb-templates>kakumei. Copy thestyle.cssfile into the folder you created a minute ago.Open
style.css, and look for this (it’s right at the top):body {
margin-bottom: 50px;
background: #fff;
font: 62.5% 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial;
}Those are the fonts that will be used, in order from left to right (if someone doesn’t have, for example, Trebuchet MS they’ll then try to use Lucida Grande). The font they use here is Georgia.
Change that part to:
body {
margin-bottom: 50px;
background: #fff;
font: 62.5% Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;
}Save it and put the
my-templatesfolder and everything in it on your server in the main bb folder.Now, open your forums, go to the admin panel, go to Presentation, and click on your theme’s name. Your forum should look the same as before, but with the new font.
