[SportinSS]

I have the Chameleon theme from ElegentThemes. And i am trying to find out what to do to make bbpress work. I have it installed and works great on my mobile device. So i know it’s something to do with the theme i have. But i’m not sure where to start to make it work. This is really all i need so if there is a better way of doing it I am all ears! This site is for a small staffing company (365worx.com). They post a lot of things on Craigs List. But, they want to start posting things on there site. They don’t do a lot of it. So i don’t need anything special like phpBB. But i have thought about it and just don’t care for it much. Since i am so new to this it’s a little frustrating lol. Anyway, they will only post things to one forum, and no one will reply to it. it’s just to let people know it’s there.

Thank you all for your help! Sorry if it’s a dumb question!

[MishaOLS]

Hello Adam, well, to be honest, I don’t remember, I have done the first conversion like two months ago. Now I have just used the tables from the database. But it should be the standalone version 1.1. And yes, I do have the bbconverter_translator table. Do you want me to send you my tables? thank you very much for your work and time!

[aravoth2011]

Hi everyone. I’ve been trying to display posts from the forum on a static home page so that it gives the appearance of a blog. Basically, I’m using the tewntyeleven theme and I’m using the showcase.php template to display the forum entries.

you can see what I’m going for here.. http://test.objectsinmotion.org

So far, I’ve managed to modify it so that super stickies are put in the featured slideshow. The forum posts are displayed properly, and I’ve managed to pull the topic tags. One of the things I’ve been having a lot of trouble with is displaying the forum a topic is posted in as a category. Normally there is a line of text below the topic excerpt that says, “posted in (category name)” . But it seems that nothing I have tried so far is working. In fact, whenever I try to call the forum title, is displays the topic title instead.

I’m not a programmer, and I know next to nothing about php, I’ve been doing a lot of reading, and trying to learn as much as I can, but I’m just running into a brick wall here. Any help anyone could offer would be much appreciated.

Showcase.php uses content.php to display all that meta data. right now it looks like this..

<?php

/**

* The default template for displaying content

*

* @package WordPress

* @subpackage Twenty_Eleven

* @since Twenty Eleven 1.0

*/

?>



<article id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>

<header class="entry-header">

<?php if ( is_sticky() ) : ?>

<hgroup>

<h2 class="entry-title"><a>" title="<?php printf( esc_attr__( 'Permalink to %s', 'twentyeleven' ), the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ) ); ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>

<h3 class="entry-format"><?php _e( 'Featured', 'twentyeleven' ); ?></h3>

</hgroup>

<?php else : ?>

<h1 class="entry-title"><a>" title="<?php printf( esc_attr__( 'Permalink to %s', 'twentyeleven' ), the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ) ); ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h1>

<?php endif; ?>



<?php if ( 'topic' == get_post_type() ) : ?>

<div class="entry-meta">

<?php twentyeleven_posted_on(); ?>

</div><!-- .entry-meta -->

<?php endif; ?>



<?php if ( comments_open() && ! post_password_required() ) : ?>

<div class="comments-link">

<?php comments_popup_link( '<span class="leave-reply">' . __( 'Reply', 'twentyeleven' ) . '</span>', _x( '1', 'comments number', 'twentyeleven' ), _x( '%', 'comments number', 'twentyeleven' ) ); ?>

</div>

<?php endif; ?>

</header><!-- .entry-header -->



<?php if ( is_search() ) : // Only display Excerpts for Search ?>

<div class="entry-summary">

<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

</div><!-- .entry-summary -->

<?php else : ?>

<div class="entry-content">

<?php the_content( __( 'Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>', 'twentyeleven' ) ); ?>

<?php wp_link_pages( array( 'before' => '<div class="page-link"><span>' . __( 'Pages:', 'twentyeleven' ) . '</span>', 'after' => '</div>' ) ); ?>

</div><!-- .entry-content -->

<?php endif; ?>



<footer class="entry-meta">

<?php $show_sep = false; ?>

<?php if ( 'topic' == get_post_type() ) : // Hide category and tag text for pages on Search ?>

<?php

/* translators: used between list items, there is a space after the comma */

$categories_list = get_the_category_list( __( ', ', 'twentyeleven' ) );

if ( $categories_list ):

?>

<span class="cat-links">

<?php printf( __( '<span class="%1$s">Posted in</span> %2$s', 'twentyeleven' ), 'entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-cat-links', $categories_list );

$show_sep = true; ?>

</span>

<?php endif; // End if categories ?>

<?php

/* translators: used between list items, there is a space after the comma */

$topic_tags = bbp_get_topic_tag_list( '', __( ', ', 'twentyeleven' ) );

if ( $topic_tags ):

if ( $show_sep ) : ?>

<span class="sep"> | </span>

<?php endif; // End if $show_sep ?>

<span class="tag-links">

<?php printf( __( '<span class="%1$s">Tagged</span> %2$s ', 'twentyeleven' ), 'entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-tag-links', $topic_tags );

$show_sep = true; ?>

</span>

<?php endif; // End if $topic_tags ?>

<?php endif; // End if 'topic' == get_post_type() ?>



<?php if ( comments_open() ) : ?>

<?php if ( $show_sep ) : ?>

<span class="sep"> | </span>

<?php endif; // End if $show_sep ?>

<span class="comments-link"><?php comments_popup_link( '<span class="leave-reply">' . __( 'Leave a reply', 'twentyeleven' ) . '</span>', __( '<b>1</b> Reply', 'twentyeleven' ), __( '<b>%</b> Replies', 'twentyeleven' ) ); ?></span>

<?php endif; // End if comments_open() ?>



</footer><!-- #entry-meta -->

</article><!-- #post-<?php the_ID(); ?> -->

Other things on my to-do list include making the comments section show number of forum replies instead of number of wordpress comments, and changing the author link so that it goes to the bbpress profile of that user instead of a wordpress post archive.

For now though, I’m hoping that someone out there can help me with the “category” issue. Anyone have any ideas?

[MishaOLS]

Hello Adam, congratulations to you wedding! I really appreciate that you work in the converter even thought you have so much other stuff to do! Wow!

I have upgraded the converter just now and tried twice to convert the standalone bbpress 1.0 forum. But I had a problem – all the posts were converted as topics instead of posts . Do you have any clue why is that and how can I fix it? I had no such problem with the previous version of bbconverter (there I had the problem with the duplicate first post/reply on topics).

Regarding the wp_users, I just tried to delete the e-mail addresses in the database and convert the users without the e-mail address. I hope that in this way the authors of the posts will be shown but at the same time my users might register again to my new site using their e-mail address. Hope it will work… thank you very much for your help! All the best from Misha

[ice9web]

hi @Mark Barnes i tried your codes, saved to file and upload it on plugin folder then activated it..

after activation i am looking for the import button or something like that … i can’t find it… can you please help me where to find it?

thank you

[ice9web]

hi @Mark Barnes i tried your codes, saved to file and upload it on plugin folder then activated it..

after activation i am looking for the import button or something like that … i can’t find it… can you please help me where to find it?

thank you

[AWJunkies]

Hey Justin the IP stuff is old I tested _bbp_author_ip which is the meta for storing for bbpress. But it doesn’t work. That code you see is error on my part for got to push that edit live but it is tested on my end. So I need to look into it further.

Also make sure to run all the bbpress counters. After the conversion is done it has a link to do so. If you do not do so it will not link up all the forums/topics/posts you are saying is an issue with assigning. So make sure to run counters and should have 0 issues.

[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

[will_c]

I have a fresh BP 1.5.1 install with the bbPress 2 sitewide plugin installed. I have tried a number of different configurations (ie installing forums through the BP installer, then adding sitewide forums and disabling the forum component, keeping the forum component installed and using the sitewide plugin, or simply forgoing the forum install in the wizard and adding the plugin manually), but wasn’t able to get the activity stream integration with any of them.

However, I was able to write my own hacked version of the functionality into my functions.php file and it works. I modeled my code off the /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-extend-buddypress.php file starting at line 399. Because I am basically copying the functionality of the bbp-extend-buddypress.php file, I am wondering if maybe the bbp-extend-buddypress.php file simply isn’t being called, or if it’s a larger issue.

For those that are having similar issues, here’s the code I put together (warning, it’s quite hacked together and may not work for everyone). You can follow the same model for a new topic post by using the bbp_new_topic hook:

function bpt_reply_activity($reply_id = 0, $topic_id = 0, $forum_id = 0) {

$reply_id = bbp_get_reply_id($reply_id);

$user_fullname = bbp_get_user_profile_link(bbp_get_current_user_id());

$topic_link = '<a href="' . bbp_get_topic_permalink($topic_id) . '" title="' . bbp_get_topic_title($topic_id) . '">' . bbp_get_topic_title($topic_id) . '</a>';

$forum_link = '<a href="' . bbp_get_forum_permalink($forum_id) . '" title="' . bbp_get_forum_title($forum_id) . '">' . bbp_get_forum_title($forum_id) . '</a>';

$my_content = bbp_get_reply_content($reply_id);

$reply_url = bbp_get_reply_url($reply_id);

$user_id = bbp_get_current_user_id();



$max_length = 500;

if(strlen($my_content) > $max_length) {

$my_content = substr($my_content, 0, $max_length);

$my_content = $my_content . "[...]";

}



$the_action = " posted in the topic ";



bp_activity_add(array(

'user_id'               => $user_id,

'type'                  => 'new_forum_post',

'action'                => ''. $user_fullname . '' . $the_action . '' . $topic_link . ' in the forum ' . $forum_link . ':',

'item_id'               => $topic_id,

'secondary_item_id'     => $forum_id,

'content'               => $my_content,

'primary_link'          => $reply_url,

'component'             => 'bbpress',

'recorded_time'         => bp_core_current_time(),

'hide_sitewide'         => false

));



return;

}

add_action('bbp_new_reply', 'bpt_reply_activity');

[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.