[Justin Tadlock]

Feedback on version 1.2:

I moved my database from my live site to my computer so that I could test this out. All of the forums, topics, posts, and tags transferred just fine. The three issues I ran into are:

1) Topics don’t get assigned a forum.

2) Replies don’t get assigned a forum.

3) Replies don’t get assigned a topic.

From what I can tell, this is because the plugin is using _bbc_* as the post meta keys when it should be using _bbp_*. Also, the author IP meta key has an additional underscore in its prefix: __bbc_author_ip.

[ebiznet88]

Adam, congratulations on your upcoming wedding and marriage!

Many thanks for continuing to help us all here with your work on the phpBB converter. Your post is so tantalising to me and I’m sure others as well, and I’m just wondering when “updated real soon” might be…!

I’m also interested to hear your reply, as well as anointed’s, to MishaOLS’s question on converting another forum’s users to bbpress without also converting to WP’s database of users. I’m not exactly sure why I might also want that for my own forum (now and in the future), but I’m interested to hear your views on this anyway

[Pairmybeer]

created a log in page as well using the same process

1) created a new page named “Log in”

2) added the following code in HTML:

[bbp-login]

<h1>To Register</h1>

[bbp-register]

3) added that page to my secondary menu

http://pairmybeer.com/log-in-to-pair-my-beer/

Still working on a layout for the forum homepage/landing page and having issues with some of the other short codes for forum and topic indexes

[neontrauma]

Hi,

I’m running a bbPress 2 within BuddyPress, so bbp_reply_author_link(); links to the BuddyPress profile – domain.com/members/username. I’d like to change that link so that the username links to the WordPress author page (domain.com/author/userame). Changing the user slug in the bbPress settings to “author” didn’t help.

So – how is it possible to change that link or alternatively to display the username only, without any link?

Thanks,

neontrauma

[sravankumardv]

Hi i tried using the code [bbp-single-forum id=$forum_id] as

[bbp-single-forum id=$Introduction] where Introduction is the forum id, but it is not working. Please help me. Can you exactly mention what is the forum id here, is it the title what we provide for the forum .

[il_dandi]

Excuse me for this simple question… can you tell me the differences in WP and BBPress between:

Pages

Posts

Categories

???

Categoy is a group of post? (not pages) OK?

In mean I can insert: pages and categories (not post) OK?

I’ve this simple problem

[benfrain]

Hi Raphaelsuzuki – no, making a page (with full width template) and setting it as the base slug doesn’t work I’m afraid.

I’m not using TwentyTen, I’m using a child theme based on Thematic. I ended up just filtering the sidebar away with the following in my main theme’s functions.php:

function remove_sidebar() {

if(function_exists('is_bbpress') && is_bbpress()){

return FALSE;

} else {

return TRUE;

}

}

add_filter('thematic_sidebar', 'remove_sidebar');

Hope that helps someone in future.

[FrosyD]

Oh well we got it working in Thesis eventually

[MishaOLS]

Hello guys, thank you Adam for all the work you put into this converter! I really can’t wait for the updated version! Now I would like to ask all of you one maybe stupid question but is it somehow possible to convert the author’s of the posts without creating an entry in the wp_users database? My problem is that I have converted my whole site (I was previously using blog:CMS and punbb forum) into WordPress and now I decided that I will ask all my free users to create a new account for WP (to have fresh password, etc.) but I obviously can’t do this until I delete all the users that have been created by the converter. Yet once I delete them, their posts get deleted as well. I also tried to convert the forum without the users but the problem is that the forum then gets converted without the authors of the posts . So I am in a dead end here… I would basically need to keep forum’s authors (only name is sufficient) without creating an entry in the wp_users database (so that my users may register for WP using the same e-mail). Thank you very much for your help/advice/suggestions. All the best from Misha

[David100351]

@Hagandasz

I had problems finding this, too.

Go to Forums on Dashboard.

Hover the mouse over the title of the forum, and a link comes up at the bottom of the page. (In Opera it does, anyway)

e.g. http://pour-your-heart-out.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=36&action=edit

in this case, $forum_id is 36

you don’t use the $

The same principle works with the rest. I know it says “post=36” but I guess that’s just how wordpress stores stuff.

[David100351]

Alicehelen is a spammer, not a fellow soul!

I have found a resolution/work-around.

The topic title is clearly visible if it isn’t Sticky.

Instead of using a sticky post, I placed the text of the post on the Forum Page, above the shortcode for that forum, with, if applicable, a link direct to the topic for replies.

see http://pour-your-heart-out.com/forums/

Also, as you can see onsite, the forum description allows quite a lot of space for any essential information particular to a forum.

Between the two, I’ve made the essential information visible.

End of problem.

[MishaOLS]

Hello, I would like to create a special forum for my paid members. I am using the Your Members http://yourmembers.co.uk plugin for my user management. I thought that I would simply create a new forum called “members” with some topics and I would put this forum using a shortcode to the members page, which would have restricted access for members only (using the Your Members plugin).

Yet it seems not to work this easy way. The logged in member can’t see any forum on that page and there is only a line of text with latest forum news and a form for a reply. Once he clicks either on the news or writes a reply, he gets a 404 page. Do you have any idea why is that?

I was trying to make the forum private or hidden, but I don’t understand at all how these features work and I wasn’t able to find any documentation for bbPress yet:(. Could someone please advise me on how would it be the best way to create the paid member’s only forum? Just to make clear, I also do have a normal forum for my free users (who have to be logged in to be able to post into it). Thank you very much for your help! All the best from Misha

[DiannaM668]

Hi Chrisella, I gave it one more college try on that Forumconverter plugin and it even mentioned needing to use bbpress 2.0 rc4 version. I installed the older version of BBpress but still no go. I’m getting stuck when I get a 500 internal server error and I believe I’m timing out.

When I get the error page after about 2 minutes of conversion, it then makes me log into my wordpress installation as if it’s trying to install itself. I put my login info as it asks and it then gives me a long list of the errors that occurred. It does say “…… has exceeded the ‘max_questions’ resource (current value: 75000)].

When I go to my forum, I do have the forum and topics, but no actual posts. So close yet so far.

If I knew how to further fix my timeout issue, I may try to call my web-hosting to see if they could guide me on the issue or maybe give me more conversion time just for this issue…I’m just grasping at straws.

If no luck on this last attempt with calling my web-hosting, I’m at the mercy of AWJunkies guys for when they have time to possibly finish the plugin for a phpBB conversion. They will totally make my day.

I’ve pretty much tried every route one can possibly try to get my forum over to bbpress. I’ll just wait with crossed fingers and toes.

[ficam]

buuuump! Still looking to remove

You may use these HTML tags and attributes:

<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

[tnwinn]

I can’t seem to get any of the bbPress widgets to work properly… the shortcodes function, but they aren’t formatted or anything, so if I try to use them in a text widget I just end up with messy text that is about 100 lines long, and get a bunch of Page Not Found errors when clicking on it.

I think I am having trouble because I originally installed bbPress separately, then added the plugin when it became available. I’m not sure what to do.. it is all a big mess

[DiannaM668]

chrisella, I’m at the phpbb3 to bbpress converter notes on the phpbb3 support forum and the gentlemen writing the code has mentioned passwords and something to do with MD5 hashing. I don’t know what that means, but there is a link to some coding to correct the problem with passwords. Not sure if that is what you may need, but take a look.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/phpbb3-gt-bbpress-converter-beta-release

The password plugin they mention is at:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/md5-insecurity-for-bbpress/

[benfrain]

Where are the default theme files stored? I’m using a Thematic based wordpress theme and bbPress tells me ‘Your active theme does not include bbPress template files. Your forums are using the default styling included with bbPress.’

Having installed bbPress 2.01 I am trying to edit the layout to make it full width. It seems this must be handled by editing the PHP files. However – the docs suggest the default theme Kakumei is the default – where are the files for this template?

I see only a bbp-twentyten folder in my FTP?

I’d like to simply comment out <?php get_sidebar(); ?> on the relevant files.

I’ve tried making changes in these files but nothing changes frontend.

[rich]

just a file parser looking for all the hooks/filters then some reverse calls to bring up source code references – then data is pushed into custom post types w/various taxonomies. (needs some work still but waiting until next round of bp/bbp/wp updates)

[chrisella]

mmm today I managed (successfully I believe) to use this script (with some edits) : https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/importing-from-phpbb#post-313

to convert my phpBB3 to bbPress v1.0, and then I used bbConverter to convert the bbPress v1.0 to v2.1

and all seems to have copied fine

one Issue I’m having is the passwords.

When I try and login with a user and the correct old password it continously fails .

It seems (after going through the code a bit and the database) that it’s looking for _bbc_class in the user meta table in this code but that isn’t there in my table atall.

/**

* Convert passwords from previous forum to wordpress.

*/

public function convert_pass()

{

global $wpdb;

$username = $_POST;

if( $username != ” )

{

$row = $wpdb->get_row( ‘SELECT * FROM ‘ . $wpdb->users .

‘ INNER JOIN ‘ . $wpdb->usermeta . ‘ ON user_id = ID ‘ .

‘ WHERE meta_key = “_bbc_class” AND user_login = “‘ . $username . ‘” LIMIT 1’ );

if( $row )

{

$converter = newBBConverter( $row->meta_value );

$converter->translate_pass( $username, $_POST );

}

}

}

Any ideas ?

I know this is quite vague so I can give any more details if needed.

Cheers

[raphaelsuzuki]

Hello, again.

Every slug related to bbPress gives me page not found:

http://www.nelioguazzelli.com.br/rede-de-negocios/

I’ve heard that changing permalinks can mess with bbPress slugs, needing to hit save button in it settings to it start displaying form listings again. Maybe it’s the case, but that’s not working too.

I’ve also heard that maybe my WordPress setup is not aware of bbPress existence (this is more common in version 1.0) and need some extra work, but in this case I don’t have a clue.

[DiannaM668]

Hi ebiznet88, I agree, it does seem phpBB is the most commonly used board. In my attempts to try to get my conversion done, I looked into Invision and vBulletin to see if I could get my SMF or phpBB versions of my forum over into Invision or vBulletin and then use the converter. I’ve tried everything.

For those who have SMF, the conversion over to phpBB is very easy and clean cut and no issues. It’s a plugin for phpBB from their site that you use. I had no problems. So if the phpBB converter comes out, those who have a SMF forum like I did, can convert to phpBB and then use this converter for bbpress.

Yes, I totally agree with you.

I’m waiting with baited breath (or whatever that expression is…LOL)

So excited to see it come out if they (Adam, AWJunkies and/or whoever else is working on it) are able to have time to work on it.

I would be very indebted to them!

[ebiznet88]

I believe there’s a huge installed based of phpbb forum owners looking to convert over to bbpress because of the attraction of integrating seamlessly with WP. I believe the number is even bigger compared to the other forum platforms such as Invision and vBulletin as phpBB is free.

SMF is also free but its newer than phpBB and so I believe there are fewer of such boards around.

Because of this, I hope the bbpress crew can see where they want to put in their efforts to create or complete the converter for phpbb.

It would be a great step forward for the community of bbpress users, don’t you agree

[DiannaM668]

Let me also tag along on the latest thank yous. I’m so excited about this converter and hoping desperately that the phpbb converter will come out really soon.

I have an SMF forum and tried with some of the notes on this thread but with no luck. I got a bit lost in the notes of it. I’ve been working for a few days straight trying to get something figured out to get this client’s forum into bbpress.

I’ve converted my SMF forum into a phpBB forum. There is another WP plubin for phpBB to BBpress conversion, but it’s in huge beta mode I believe. I’m able to pull everything but the actual posts themselves. So close but yet so far.

So I have 2 forums ready for whichever way that I can find the first available options to convert.

If anyone has fine tuned the SMF conversion as well, let me know.

I’ve tried everything I can and keep running into issues.

I’ve been watching this forum for a few days now for updates.

This is great stuff! Can’t wait to get my hands on the phpbb conversion option.

Thank you so so so so much in advance!

[raphaelsuzuki]

Hello.

After upgrading to 2.0.2, my bbPress plugin stopped working.

It still works with shortcode, but not ‘natively’ out-of-the-box.

I’ve tried everything. Reinstalling it several times, reseting all configs, deleting every file and databse entry related to bbPress. Nothing. Even, all the settings, forums, topics and replies are still there, intact.

I’ve came from version 1 to 2, and everything was always fine.

What am I missing?

[enderpal444]

I’ve been searching through all the template files and can’t find the code for the image avatars of a topic post and replies that’s 80px/80px. Where is that?