[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?

[jamiehutber]

certainly am. But sitting down and trying to come up with a template like this is no easy task

[big_bass]

I would like to test code before posting since my forum has only one hour edits

I would like to be able to check for errors before posting

Joe

this link is only provided to explain what I mean

I am in no way associated with them

http://www.bbcode.org/playground.php

[David Decker]

@bollocks187

I don’t agree here. SimplePress has do many features for a lot of users/use cases. Yes, it works, it’s active developed and maintained. I tested the new 5.0 beta two weeks ago and it’s still feature overload and a totally different user interface different from “normal” WP… And regarding translation they don’t go with WP standards here and so until they fix some things I could not get it into German. Old 4.x branch is no option because I need optimized code for a new project and also future-proof with WP 3.3+

bbPress — I only mean the plugin version 2.x — on the other hand is really simple but has all I need. It works with almost any theme/framework and I could easily tweak it via CSS. This is a big advantage. Performance-wise it’s really leightweight and future-proof with WP because of custom post types for forum contents.

YES, I know it has not so many features – a few could be added via plugin add-ons – and I assume a lot more will come in the next weeks or month.

IMHO bbPress 2.x is best for small to middle-range communities, best for simple support forums and such. If I need a full packed forum solution with ALL the many and big features I almost always will use a third-party solution like Vanilla, IPB or new XenForo. These have clean style and great UI in frontend AND backend. And with some work of integrating could be work together with WordPress too. — Just look at the newly launched support forum by iThemes.com – they use IPB Forums and it’s great for such a big community.

However, there are some great new bbPress forums out there, see at devpress.com, wpcandy.com, support.pippinsplugins.com, getshopped.com etc. So the bbPress plugin has already proven to manage such communities and they’re doing great.

I vote for bbPress and at the same time have much respect for the work of the Simple:Press devs but just would not use their system!

-Dave

[David Decker]

This plugin adds useful admin links and resources for the bbPress 2.x Forum Plugin to the WordPress Admin Bar.

Info & Download here:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-admin-bar-addition/

Description from Readme:

This small and lightweight plugin just adds a lot bbPress 2.x related resources to your admin bar. Also links to all setting/ tab pages of the plugin are added making life for forum administrators/ moderators a lot easier. So you might just switch from the fontend of your site to ‘Topics’ or ‘Main Settings’ page etc.

As the name suggests this plugin is intended towards forum admins/ webmasters and moderators. The new admin bar entries will only be displayed if the current user has the bbPress/ WordPress cabability of moderate. (Note: I am open for suggestions here if this should maybe changed to a more suitable cabability.)

Plugin/ Theme Support:

At this time the plugin out of the box supports also links to settings pages of some bbPress 2.x specific add-on plugins!

Special Features:

Not only supporting official bbPress 2.x sites ALSO third-party and user links – so just the whole bbPress 2.x ecosystem

Link to downloadable German language packs – only displayed when German locales are active (de_DE, de_AT, de_CH, de_LU)

Link to official German bbPress forum – only displayed when German locales are active (de_DE, de_AT, de_CH, de_LU)

NOTE: I would be happy to add more language/locale specific resources and more useful third-party links – just contact me!

Localization:

English (default) – always included

German – always included

.pot file (bbpaba.pot) for translators is also always included

Have fun with this little add-on!

I am open for feedback of course!

-Dave

[jamiehutber]

Hey dude,

lovely template. Its what I’ve been after, after finding out it wasn’t that simple

I’m going to assume that its a custom template and not one you downloaded? If it is one you downloaded could i grab the template from you?

[Anderson Mak]

Well, if someone what show most recent signed up users on footer of your bbpress forum, you can use my function below:

function show_recent_users($howmany=10, $show_avatar=false){

global $bbdb;



$recent_users = $bbdb->get_results( "SELECT * FROM $bbdb->users ORDER BY ID DESC LIMIT $howmany" );



if($show_avatar){

$users = array();

foreach($recent_users as $user){

$users[0].= '<td>' . bb_get_avatar( $user->ID, 48 ) . '</td>';

$users[1].= '<td><anc href="' . get_user_profile_link($user->ID) . '">'. $user->display_name . '</td>';

}

echo "<table id='tb-users'> ";

echo "<tr>" . $users[0] . "</tr>";

echo "<tr>" . $users[1] . "</tr>";

echo "<table>";

}else{



echo "s| ";

foreach($recent_users as $user){

echo '<anc href="' . get_user_profile_link($user->ID) . '">'. $user->display_name . ' | ';

}

}

}

Replaces anc to a, of course, I used and to bbpress don’t treat it as a markup code.

To show just name uses:

show_recent_users(10);

To show gravatar and name, uses:

show_recent_users(10,true);

And now, just put the code above in top of the file footer.php that can be found on your theme

[hmTodd]

Hate to answer my own question, but in case anyone wants to try this here is some sample code to start with –

<html>

<body>

This is it.

<?php

// include WordPress

define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);

require('./blog/wp-load.php');



// Handle INSERT if data is Posted

if( 'POST' == $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] && !empty( $_POST['action'] ) &&  $_POST['action'] == "bbp-new-topic") {

$new_topic = array(

'post_parent'    => $_POST['bbp_forum_id'], // forum ID

'post_content'   => $_POST['bbp_topic_content'],

'post_title'     => $_POST['bbp_topic_title']

);

$topic_meta = array(

'forum_id'           => $new_topic['post_parent']

);



$topic_id = bbp_insert_topic($new_topic, $topic_meta);

echo('<br>Topic ID = '.$topic_id . '<br>');

} // end INSERT



// Use Shortcode to show New Topic Form.

// Could also create your own form.

echo do_shortcode('[bbp-topic-form]');

?>

Thats it.

</body></html>

[andeeh]

Hi guys,

First of all thanks for your continued efforts to build bbPress. I’ve followed the HowTo video and that got me up and running with the templates reasonably quickly. I created my own child theme of 2010 and re-skinned it. All seems to have worked well.

My only remaining issue so far as I can see is that there is no way for the user to know that they have registered. The email gets sent out but there really needs to be something like “Thanks for registering, you’ve been sent an email.”

On my system when you register the registration form doesn’t change so it looks like nothing happened.

Inspecting the POST submission with fiddler I can see that there’s a “redirect-to” field. I suppose that’s what I need to change to redirect and give the message, but what message should I display?… considering that the mail server could be down or something, I wonder if there’s a status code or whatever? What do you normally do?

thanks,

AndyH

PS: After trawling the forums for tips I found these plugins helpful and complimentary to a bbPress install…

Members (for fine grain permissions)

SB Welcome Email Editor (to edit the registration emails, works well)

WP-reCAPTCHA (captcha at registration)

Private Messages for WordPress (for a basic pm system)

[0xDE1E7E]

Provided you are talking about the integrated multisite solution and bbpress 2 (not the standalone versions): yes, that should work. In multisite mode, you always have one main site which holds all the users. All sites in the network work with this network-wide userbase, so a bbpress installation on any network site will also do so.

[spiritfly]

Hello to all

I have multiple WP blogs on different domains. I would like to unite all of them in one WP MU installation. I know it’s possible and I think I can manage to pull that of.

After that, I would like to install bbPress on another X.com domain. Is it possible to connect all of the WP MU domains users with the users at bbPress? So if someone registers at bbPress can log in at any WP MU domain, and vice versa.

Actually I’m pretty sure that can be done, but I need to know how and if there would be any drawbacks to that solution? Will it remain stable and so on?

Thanks

[tgiokdi]

I was going through my mental checklist of possible problems, and I realized that I’m sharing the user table with two or three subdomains that are using separate installations of wordpress. I’m assuming that your code has no way to see if there’s comments or posts on those other wp-posts tables?

[maxfaction]

Thanks moderator

[maxfaction]

@tony lies… sorry for sounding so medieval lol, but i installed it on a non-twenty ten theme and it works just fine.

mind you, it took jackie chan style css kungfu to make it look right, but its doable

[Onore]

Hiya!

Use WP Plugin – codestyling-localization.

[sinklar]

I updated the plugin this morning but it doesn’t solve the problem here…

[dmoz]

Hi,

I’m trying to get new-topics-archive to show on my forum front page and to show all my forum pages in a simple left-aligned-sidebar structure, a structure that’s the opposite of the rest of the WP site(right-aligned sidebar).

I created a bbpress.php file with this structure, but it’s not being recognized. Instead, it’s defaulting to my template page.php file. I tried bbpress.php and forum.php, but neither works.

And once I get all that working, a shortcode on the forum front page should make it show the new-topics-archive, right? But that isn’t working either.

Any thoughts?

[dmoz]

I just wanted to post, and suggest or see if these options existed already.

I’d love for the widgets that come along with bbPress to have some (any) custom display features (ie. Forum List widget allowing show/hide the number of topics within, etc.)

Also, a few more widgets would be great (ie. popular topic tags, topic info)

These options might be able to be accomplished by a shortcode, but I don’t believe the current shortcodes allow any parameters such as: [bbp-topic-index number-of-topics=5 pagination=false]

Anyone know of plans for these sorts of things, or if they already exist and I’ve just overlooked them?

Thanks.

[ebiznet88]

Thank you to wmnasef for this script!

I used the updated script provided by Abdessamad Idrissi at http://code.google.com/p/phpbb3-to-bbpress1-converter/downloads/list on my phpBB3 forum.

The conversion went smoothly and I could see the posts from my old forum appear in my bbpress forum.

However, all the posts had the authors listed as Anonymous, which means none of the users accounts were ported over.

Can someone help with this please? How did this happen and how can I fix this?

[Trobee]

in your bbpress theme file bbpress/content-single-user.php is what calls all the different sections of your forum profile, so you should be able to find the calls in there.

Incase you are having trouble locating it

<?php do_action( 'bbp_template_notices' );



// Profile details

bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/user', 'details'        );



// Subscriptions

bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/user', 'subscriptions'  );



// Favorite topics

bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/user', 'favorites'      );



// Topics created

bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/user', 'topics-created' );

[yellowwinter]

Hello bbPress forum owners,

Need some help from you – we at Tapatalk (the forum app) has finally able to worked on the bbPress support and will be releasing a plugin for bbPress 1.1 soon. We are looking for testers to give it a spin on their forum, if you are a forum owners and has either iPhone/iPad or Android devices, you are welcome to join us!

Just want to gauge the interest – if you are interested, please response to this post and we will figure out the best way to move forward.

For those you don’t know what Tapatalk is, check out our website at http://tapatalk.com – Looking forward hearing from you!!