I’m new to bbPress and I am testing it right now to see if it is a good replacement candiate for a phpbb forum I own.
I’ve set up version 2.0.2 on WP 3.3.
I’ve ‘done’ the extensive installation video on YT, which was very helpful.
Although I really appreciate the cleanliness of bbPress, my forum members really need a few addtional features, like bbCode and PM’s.
I found both plugins, but they claim not to be compatible with bbPress 2.x
Also they’re referring to an installation system I don’t get, where is ppPress ‘myplugins’ directory located?? I cannot seem to find this folder, where should it be?
Thanks for helping me out! (and a version compatible indicator in the plugin section of this site would be very helpful for beginners like me!)
Henri
I am trying to convert phpbb3 database and it goes quite smoothly BUT suddenly stops at some point when converting posts
Screen: http://forumpokerowe.com/obrazki/bbconverter_error_screen.gif
I’ve tried various ‘Rows Limit’ (50, 100, 200)
What am I doing wrong?
I use:
WordPress 3.2.1
PhpBB 3.08
BBPress plugin 2.0.2
BBConverter 1.3
To answer myself and help anyone else looking for a solution, it seems that the bbConverter plugin is able to do the job: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbconverter/
I still have some issues with the conversion, like the first post of every topic showing html code, but at least I’ve made progress.
@kamikazeek I think if you change to the twentyeleven theme it works.. maybe
@bbpress looks like you have been spammed!
niceactor
QTTg
iftomkins
Been there and it does not work – Old threads, old codes.
Found a solution and IT WORKS 
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/user-close-topic-trash-etc-resolved
Hi BBpress.
First, all my posts about closing topics, never got answered by any. Please share!
I found a solution, so i share it.
You can let users close their topics for reply, remove their topics (trash) edit and so on. With bbpress 2.0.2 and User Role editor.
All new users are subscribers -> In User Role Editor mark these fields:
assign_topic_tags
delete_others_topics
delete_topic_tags
delete_topics
moderate
edit_replies
edit_topics
publish_replies
publish_topics
read
Now they are capable to do it! And they cannot /edit/delete/close other topics – only there own.
The “spam” field is still visible – But it is possible to remove it from the .php files somewhere (Notepad++ and Search all files does the magic of finding it!)
Thats all
Hey John. Sorry just spotted your reply….
We’re getting nailed by spam and its not good. Michelle was going to post the following but I decided to copy it here instead:
We have a huge problem with spam! (40+ posts a day) We have tried quite a few things to try and get rid of this problem but nothing seems to be working.
Currently our site is running the latest version of BB-Press we have the Akismet plugin activated and running we also have the Stop Spammer Registrations reCAPTCHA plugin for new user registration.
We have in the past tried the reCaptcha for bbPress 2.0 this didn’t make much difference and we couldn’t use this plugin with the spammer registration one so have removed it for now.
We are running out of ideas and things to try so are reaching out to you guys for some help or suggestions, have we missed something or can anyone recommend a solution to all this spam.
My solution and best thinking involved finding the spammers in the real world and removing their hands as punishment
anyone?? should I delete the plugin and start over??
Hi! I’m a little late on this one. Using bbpress 2.0 but the above code still kinda works. When I add it, I get the edit button, but no delete button. Any tips? I want all users to be able to edit and delete their own posts. Also, I’m confused whether assigning someone the role Forum Participant vs. Subcriber has anything to do with it, but I’ve tried both. Here’s the code I was using from above:
function delete_own_post($retvalue, $capability, $args) {
if ($capability=="delete_post") {return bb_current_user_can( 'edit_post', $args[1]);}
return $retvalue;
}
add_filter('bb_current_user_can', 'delete_own_post',10,3);
Hi Zofar,
Thanks for your guidance.
I was hoping to be able to set this without the use of another plugin, but I will use both for now. 
…Until the documentation is updated this (hopefully) will be a working solution!
Best Regards,
Drew
I don’t think you fully understand what roles and capabilities are. Furthermore, did you try the plugin I suggested? It’s quite different from the “WordPress Access Control” plugin which doesn’t provide you with the ability to modify the capabilities different roles have. The documentation is indeed outdated since the way people register has changed in bbpress 2.x.. The same functionality that the user role map appears to have had (I never used bbpress before 2.x), can now be found under General > Settings > New user default role.
Awesome !
Thanks hscoder
really useful links
best wishes
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Yes i use bbpress for Rpg
because it’s fun to b a young

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any comment
“I think that if someone plays a video game, and then goes out and harms another human being, or themselves because of what they just saw in the video game, they were screwed up in the head long before they got their hands on a controller.”
I’m using BBpress for my L5R writing/roleplaying community, though it’s still under construction. I would also be interested in a dice roller with the kind of functionality Myth-weavers has for theirs. If anyone knows of any, I’d appreciate it as well. Otherwise, I may just have to break down and figure out how to write my own.
Hi again,
…Am I overcomplicating this? Should I just make the default new user a “subscriber”?
Thanks. 
EDIT: Subscriber doesn’t seem to work.
Hi,
Thanks John.
Yes doing three private forums on a single website WP installation.
I’d like to create users who can pretty much only access (and post to) the forums as a part of their user privileges.
How would you tackle this?
Thanks again. 
Drew
Sorry – the file is form-topic.php
and you have to remove the same code from form-reply.php
De po-file lijkt me niet compleet, er zijn nog een hoop teksten die in Engels worden weergegeven. (Of heb ik het mis?)
Ik heb nu zelf een hoop vertalingen gedaan, maar in de code zelf. Dat is natuulijk niet de meest handige oplossing, want bij upgrades van bbPress zou ik die weer kwijt zijn.
Kun je zelf vertalingen aan de po-file toevoegen?
Wil eventueel helpen bij verder vertalen van bbPress, indien nodig!
I just had the same problem but figured it out.
Probably not the cleanest solution but it works
go to the bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten/bbpress/ folder
open forum-topic.php
search for “form-allowed-tags”
select and delete
<?php if ( !current_user_can( 'unfiltered_html' ) ) : ?>
<p class="form-allowed-tags">
<label><?php _e( 'You may use these <abbr title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</abbr> tags and attributes:','bbpress' ); ?></label>
<code><?php bbp_allowed_tags(); ?></code>
</p>
<?php endif; ?>
heres my site
http://de5igno.com/dosebox/
its not letting me post a new topic….. i filled out the topic line with “this is a tester”
and it said
ERROR: Your topic cannot be empty.
also i noticed at the top it said
Warning: call_user_func_array() [function.call-user-func-array]: First argument is expected to be a valid callback, ‘bp_activity_at_name_filter’ was given in /home/content/32/5264432/html/de5igno/dosebox/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 170
its not letting me post a reply… i filled out the text box but still it says
ERROR: Your reply cannot be empty.
and
Warning: call_user_func_array() [function.call-user-func-array]: First argument is expected to be a valid callback, ‘bp_activity_at_name_filter’ was given in /home/content/32/5264432/html/de5igno/dosebox/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 170
another issue im facing is finding the forum index page:
im able to view this page:
http://de5igno.com/dosebox/chatr/general
but this page is broken
http://de5igno.com/dosebox/chatr/
i also noticed it says comments off
GENERAL
Posted on December 18, 2011, in , with Comments Off
Thx for our work. it’s really cool 
i try to import 169 000 post of my phpbb, it’s very very very long
thx again