[Stephen Edgar]

https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/vBulletin/

What version of vBulletin are you converting from?
What part is it stuck on or is it just not starting?

That is the key is to ensure you have the correct values for each of these:

Select Platform – vBulletin
Database Server IP or hostname
Database Port Use default 3306 if unsure
Database Name Name of the database with your old forum data
Database User User for your database connection
Database Password Password to access the database
Table Prefix

Have a look in your vBulletin config file which should be in your vb install /includes/config.php

[Todd Pettee]

My site is, http://www.forgreenpeas.com.

And here’s my setup…

Wordpress: 3.5.1
Theme: TwentyTwelve
Buddypress: 1.7
bbPress: 2.2.4

I’ve done a clean install of everything. (via FTP)

I’ve created a forum with one topic.
When I go to the forums index page, all I see is…

“Index of /forums”

I’ve tried creating a “Forums” page (with the shortcode [bbp-forum-index]), but I always get the same result when I go to that page.

Another thing to note is that the individual forums show up fine, as you can see here…

http://www.forgreenpeas.com/forums/forum/group-forums/

Also, I’ve looked in the database, and was unable to find any tables with the prefix “wp_bb”.

I can’t help but think I’m doing something seriously wrong here.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

Todd

[Stephen Edgar]

Before you cleanup your old bbPress stuff lets clean up your import…

The quickest and easiest way to get around the failed ‘Purge previous import’ without diving into phpMyAdmin custom SQL queries would be to perform a ‘Forum Reset‘ via http://example.com/wp-admin/tools.php?page=bbp-reset

What this will do is remove forums, topics, replies, topic tags etc (almost everything) from your install of bbPress. You will need to manually delete the users though /wp-admin/users.php as at this stage as we haven’t quite got this bit ironed out yet.

Grab bbPress 2.3 RC1 https://bbpress.org/blog/2013/03/bbpress-2-3-release-candidate-1/ and perform your input again.

This should give you a nice clean bbPress and then once you are happy and have backups of your site and database then you can start removing the old bbPress 1.x bits and pieces.

[Shopmaster]

I think it’s probably there but aligned to the right like mine and was not showing.

Add this to your CSS:

div.bbp-submit-wrapper {
float: left;
}

That piece of code helped me, hopefully it will help you.

[Lynq]

You could create a php widget will allows you to input code and then insert that as a separate widget to the bbPress login. Or you could code it into the top or bottom of your sidebar and add all the code you require to create the bbPress login widget and alter it slightly to have an edit profile link.

Good luck!

[Robin W]

This is probably a dumb question, and you’ll point me to a much easier solution!

Also I am still very new to wordpress, so understand a little of css and php’s but not tons. I’ll use thing and thingy a lot as well, so as not to embarrass myself with the wrong technical terms.

I am using bbpress 2.2.4 on WordPress 3.5.1 with a twentyten child theme that does a few minor mods.

Welcome

I am setting up a forum, but don’t want users to see the WordPress toolbar, as this is outside the theme.

But I do want users to be able to change their password and details.

I am using the bbpress login widget in the bbpress sidebar, and by clicking the avatar or their username, users can get to a theme friendly profile page that lets them do just this.

However clicking the avatar is not instinctive, and I’d like (in the absence of a more obvious solution) to add a thingy to the bbpress sidebar that says “amend profile/change password” which when clicked takes you to the same place that clicking the avatar does (or some similar solution)

From searching on the forums, I have found the line within the widget that does this for the avatar (around line 140) which looks like

a href=”” class=”submit user-submit”><?php echo get_avatar( bbp_get_current_user_id(), '40' ); ?
But have no idea how to then use this or other code to achieve the goal.

Any good ideas, or is there a very basic solution I’ve missed.

Thanks

[Robin W]

This is probably a dumb question, and you’ll point me to a much easier solution!

Also I am still very new to wordpress, so understand a little of css and php’s but not tons. I’ll use thing and thingy a lot as well, so as not to embarrass myself with the wrong technical terms.

I am using bbpress 2.2.4 on WordPress 3.5.1 with a twentyten child theme that does a few minor mods.

Welcome

I am setting up a forum, but don’t want users to see the WordPress toolbar, as this is outside the theme.

But I do want users to be able to change their password and details.

I am using the bbpress login widget in the bbpress sidebar, and by clicking the avatar or their username, users can get to a theme friendly profile page that lets them do just this.

However clicking the avatar is not instinctive, and I’d like (in the absence of a more obvious solution) to add a thingy to the bbpress sidebar that says “amend profile/change password” which when clicked takes you to the same place that clicking the avatar does (or some similar solution)

From searching on the forums, I have found the line within the widget that does this for the avatar (around line 140) which looks like

a href=”” class=”submit user-submit”><?php echo get_avatar( bbp_get_current_user_id(), '40' ); ?
But have no idea how to then use this or other code to achieve the goal.

Any good ideas, or is there a very basic solution I’ve missed.

Thanks

[Rennofen]

I would like to change the way the forum page is displayed.
Hi Ari,

I don’t wan to change the colors or so I want to change the content.

it was:

Catregory1 topics reply freshness
Forum11(t,r), Forum12(t,r), …

Categoty2 topics reply freshness
Forum21(t,r), Forum22(t,r)…

I want it to be

Category1
Forum11, Newest Topic / Reply
Forum12, Newest Topic / Reply
.
.
.

Category2
Forum21, Newest Topic / Reply
Forum22, Newest Topic / Reply
.
.
.

ih hacked the bbp_list_forums to get a linebreak but now I’m stuck
can someone give some help me? Even some codesnippets or a link to documentation would be helpful.

Thanks

[zhuanquan]

@_ck_
I want to create some form of custom query for displaying topics, such as get one forum, I don’t want to use shortcode, due to it will get most useless information. I mean that just like wordpress code as below:

                         <li><a href=&quot;" title=""></li>

How can I do this?

[rcafe]

I am using Premise 2.4 and have installed the Premise bbPress Connect plugin. I do not see how they link to each other and have been unable to have a forum work from within Premise. I have used the shortcodes to put pieces in my Premise pages, and they show up there, but as soon as I click a link, it takes me outside of the Premise site into my root site. They look different, and I don’t want this for my members.

Is there a way to (pardon my limited use of the language) imbed the forum into my Premise site? Does anyone know how the connect plugin is supposed to work? I have not found any way to configure it to work. Any way of getting my bbPress forum to live within my Premise page is welcomed. Thank you all for your suggestions.

Premise can be found at http://www.getpremise.com.

[Henry]

You could always create your own BP child theme and use a framework such as Twitter Bootstrap to easily make BP responsive

http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/

https://codex.buddypress.org/legacy/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

This approach worked well for me.

[David Neff]

Hello guys,

I am using the latest version of WordPress and BBPress and this following shortcode is not working:

[bbp-forum-index]

Here is the page with the problem: http://doubtingdave.com/forums/

[Multimediaex]

Hi, I have exactly this Problem. Visitor can see the forum, normaly registered user got an 404 page if they try to open the forum. The next problem is, that I, with admin rights can´t create any topics. I got the message “you don´t have rights to do this”. At the dashboard I´m not able to edit topics or replies, there is no point to edit this, it´s missing. In the profile I can see that I should have admin rights. This problem is since 4 days suddenly.
What I have changed at my comfiguration is the AddHandler, I disabled it, because I had problems with the registration of Buddypress. Perhaps this could have to do anything with the problem, I don´t know.
The plugins I use are:

AJAX Thumbnail Rebuild
Antispam Bee
AntiVirus
bbPress
bbPress Antispam
bbPress Moderation
bbPress Unread Posts
Blubrry PowerPress
Broken Link Checker
Buddy-bbPress Support Topic
BuddyPlug
BuddyPress
BuddyPress Activity Plus
BuddyPress Extended Friendship Request
BuddyPress Google Plus
BuddyPress Like
BuddyPress Live Notification
BuddyPress Media
BuddyPress Template Pack
BuddyPress Twitter
cforms
CodeStyling Localization
D64 LSR-Stopper
Download Manager
Flattr
GD bbPress Tools
Google Analyticator
Google XML Sitemaps
NextGEN Gallery
Optional Content Plugin
Semisecure Login Reimagined
Simple Local Avatars
Theme My Login
Uji Countdown
User Role Editor
Welcome Pack
WordPress Ping Optimizer
WordPress Social Login
WP CleanFix
wpSEO
WP Super Cache
WP to Twitter

I hope it helps, you are my last chance to fix this problem, I asked in a lot of other forums but nobody could help me.

[Stephen Edgar]

It should work 😛

Though there are vast improvements in bbPress 2.3 for importing vBulletin aso grab bbPress 2.3 RC1 for starters https://bbpress.org/blog/2013/03/bbpress-2-3-release-candidate-1/

Here is the known issues with regard to vBulleting imports

https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/vBulletin/

You probably want to double check your vBulletin Username, Password, Database Name and Database Table Prefix if you are getting errors such that you list above as having one of these wrong is typically what causes what you list above.

[Stephen Edgar]

I cannot think of why this may be the case but you could create a new WordPress page and call it ‘forums’ so the URL would be mysite.com/forums and use whatever shortcodes you want on this WP page and fingers crossed Google will index this new page.

[Stephen Edgar]

You would need to write some custom code or a plugin for this as currently bbPress’ forum order is determined by the order set of the forums in wp-admin.

[Stephen Edgar]

This definately looks like an issue with your theme.

Try using WordPress Twenty Eleven to ensure bbPRess works as designed and then contact the theme author to see if they can give you some tips on getting the theme to support bbPress.

In the meantime create a WordPress page called ‘forums’ (or ‘forumi’) and add the bbPress ‘shortcode‘ `[bbp-forum-index]` to this page and this should get you going.

[Stephen Edgar]

Check out the steps outlined here https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

You don’t need to create a ‘Child Theme’ you only need to copy the files you want to edit to a subdirectory of your theme called ‘bbpress’ eg `/wp-content/mythemename/bbpress`

Aslo this new plugin by @MZAweb is also rather awesome to help you know what templates you should be editing.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/debug-bar-bbpress/

[Stephen Edgar]

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

Also checkout the bbPress Debug Bar by @mzaweb https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/debug-bar-bbpress/

[Robin W]

and it trashed my code, try again without the ‘s

a href=”” class=”submit user-submit”><?php echo get_avatar( bbp_get_current_user_id(), '40' ); ?

[Robin W]

This is probably a dumb question, and you’ll point me to a much easier solution!

Also I am still very new to wordpress, so understand a little of css and php’s but not tons. I’ll use thing and thingy a lot as well, so as not to embarrass myself with the wrong technical terms.

I am using bbpress 2.2.4 on WordPress 3.5.1 with a twentyten child theme that does a few minor mods.

I am setting up a forum, but don’t want users to see the WordPress toolbar, as this is outside the theme.

But I do want users to be able to change their password and details.

I am using the bbpress login widget in the bbpress sidebar, and by clicking the avatar or their username, users can get to a theme friendly profile page that lets them do just this.

However clicking the avatar is not instinctive, and I’d like (in the absence of a more obvious solution) to add a thingy to the bbpress sidebar that says “amend profile/change password” which when clicked takes you to the same place that clicking the avatar does (or some similar solution)

From searching on the forums, I have found the line within the widget that does this fro teh avatar (around line 140) which looks like

‘<a href="” class=”submit user-submit”>

But have no idea how to then use this or other code to achieve the goal.

Any good ideas, or is there a very basic solution I’ve missed.

Thanks

[Justinoperable]

I am fairly miserable at web design, so I did the visuals and had another person do the bulk of the code and technical stuff for my website. I have a WordPress site with forums on the site using bbPress. My issue is that I seem to only be capable of having 5 topics in the forum at any given time. At the top it will indicate it is showing topics 1-5 of 8, but there is no link to any page where the older topics can be found. It’s fairly useless to have a Forum where only the most recent 5 topics can be seen. So my question is, is there a simple fix I am overlooking, or is this more likely something the person I had work on the site previously set up aside from bbPress? The site is live, and can be seen here:

Black Flag Games Forums

[afjsystem]

Eureka…!!! sorry, i don’t mean to spam this thread. but finally i made it fixed.

hope this help for others
these is my installation : WP 3.5.1 (multisite subdir)+ BP 1.7 rc1 + Bbp 2.3 rc1
by default it should work to any themes..

my trouble previously : (look above)

Managed fullwidth : (thanks to @jaredatch)
– identify your theme’s file with fullwidth.php
– rename that file to bbpress.php
– you’ll get no sidebar, meaning your forum is fullwidth

Removing dot list style : (thanks to @jaredatch again)
– put the code below into your main theme css. ussually called style.css

#bbpress-forums li {
margin: 0;
list-style: none;
background: none;
padding: 0;
}

– you SHOULD put under #main area and not in #sidebar or other IDs.

that’s all.
cheers

[Stephen Edgar]

Grab a free theme from WordPress https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/ and see how well it integrates with bbPress some themes support bbPress others just work.

https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/

[Daniel Dvorkin]

get_userdata already returns you the WP_User object. This should do it:

`
$user = get_userdata( bbp_get_reply_author_id( bbp_get_reply_id() ) );
if ( !empty( $user->roles ) && is_array( $user->roles ) ) {
echo $user->roles[0];
}
`