[Razva]

Great. Now if only we would have bbPress 2…

[Razva]

Great. Now if only we would have bbPress 2…

[John James Jacoby]

Anything is possible but sadly there isn’t an importer from IPB yet.

[John James Jacoby]

@nate – Seems you’re only following some of the steps outlined above. To start you’ll want to research WordPress child themes and how to make one. If you decide to go that route, then your new theme doesn’t go inside the old one, it goes in the /themes/bbp-empt/ folder that you create. It kinda sounds like you figured that out, but it’s hard to tell from your comment if it’s working for you.

[Nate]

I’m having an issue and not understanding how to fix it is driving me bonkers. I’ve followed the steps above but let me explain how I did it.

Once the plugin was installed I copied the bbp-twentyten folder from the plugin directory;

C:xampphtdocsempt-wpwp-contentpluginsbbpressbbp-themesbbp-twentyten

and put it into my main themes directory and renamed it to bbp-empt.

C:xampphtdocsempt-wpwp-contentthemescostbbp-empt

I opened the bbp-empt style.css and changed the Template name to;

Template: cost

and added an import for the css.

I have every file in the “bbp-empt” folder than was in the original “bbp-twentyten” folder plus files like archive.php, page.php and single.php from my “cost” folder.

I’m confused as to how I get the forums to use the template files in “bbp-empt” and not the files in the “cost” main directory. Which is what is happening right now.

Small update

After some experimenting I changed the bbp-empt folder style.css in the plugins folder to say cost in the template name and changed other details. Noticed the change in the Appearance menu so I clicked to activate the template and now I’m using a child theme of my main theme with the bbpress using the bbp-empt files.

So now I’m honestly just confused, if this works whats the point of moving it to your main themes directory?

[mbiernat]

Am I missing a line of code?

I am using a theme called the ‘Stallion theme’. It is based on the old Talian theme which was popular in WP a few years back. Stallion has a lot of options that I really like, in terms of flexibility, design etc.

However, it does not work with the bbPress plugin.

It creates forums and topics fine.

However: if you look under a topic post or forum (I created some sample ones) – a viewer or user can not reply or create new topics. In fact the only thing you see is my related post plugin underneath the post.

http://peopleandlanguages.com/ is the website I am testing this out on.

It does work with 2010, but not this theme. Is there so line of code that needs to be juggled to make this work with my theme?

Thank you,

Mark

[Treebeard]

I’ve been researching for hours, trying to find a way to import bbpress standalone to bbpress 2.0 in wordpress. First I imported posts from phpBB to bbPress standalone, looks like it worked, then I installed the WP plugin.

I came across this topic but it was closed so I can’t post a question there:

bbPress Standalone to Plugin Converter Beta 2

In the last post you said:

Closing this topic, as the importer is now bundled with bbPress 2.0

I can’t seem to find an importer there anywhere, I checked the Settings under the Settings > Forums menu, and all I can see are the main forum settings. Checked the Readme file with the plugin, there’s no mention of it.

Can you tell me where to find the Importer? I need to get this huge site up and running by 7/1 and I don’t want to use the Standalone version because that means 2 admin pages.

Thanks!!!

[John James Jacoby]

@mbiernat – Since your question is about theme help with your site specifically, would you mind creating a dedicated topic for assistance? bbPress itself appears to be running fine there.

@ejw – I am unable to find bbPress on your site anywhere, which might be a bigger problem. I’d ask that you do the same and open a dedicated support topic for your issue.

[John James Jacoby]

It wouldn’t be anymore bogged down than a site with 1 million blog posts, which is to say that once you have that kind of traffic and data store, you are probably backed by the proper hardware to handle it.

[John James Jacoby]

@bradsucks – So, I’ve put some thought into the situation that you’re in, and RC1 will include some tweaks to how this works which will hopefully help.

The issue, is that we want to make it easy to get forums up and running, without a bunch of configuration, and the easiest way to do that is let WordPress handle things naturally, and display the forum archives when you navigate to:

domain.com/%forum_slug%/

But… everyone wants to customize the way their forums look and work (even me) so that isn’t always optimal, and there is only so much you can do before the real answer involves creating your row custom theme.

Anyways, before the archive templates were created in bbp-twentyten, a page-template was used to let you put your forums anywhere in the page hierarchy of your site that you want, but that wasn’t obvious enough and not everyone wants to use the hardcoded template file either.

So then I introduced shortcodes, which allow you to put your forums and topics in any post or page you choose, but if you do that, there’s no real way for bbPress to *know* where you put your forum root in the breadcrumb without you manually telling it in the forum settings.

As you can see, it’s gotten complicated to try to satisfy the golden 80%, including myself.

Part of the change that is coming in RC1 is a check to see if a WordPress page exists where you have configured your forum index to be. Normally WordPress would override and show the forums archive, but I make it dump out your page instead. This way you’re able to setup a WP page with whatever you want in it, and have it do whatever you tell it to. The potential caveat here is when people try outsmart the software, create a page with the ‘forums’ slug, and wonder why bbPress doesn’t automatically make forums appear there.

Hopefully RC1 and beyond will satisfy the needs of 80% of users. If so, I’m satisfied supporting the other 20% that want something more tricked out.

[Tom Lynch]

i suspect to code it from scratch again?

[Erlend]

I think one of bbPress’ biggest strengths is its potential to extend upon and empower WordPress’ commenting system. Another side of this is the P2 theme used to enable real-time conversations, but that’s a different topic.

‘Distributed conversations’ should facilitate persistent on-topic discussion.

The basis of this idea has already been put to the test on the TED.com website. For an example, follow this link to the Beware online “filter bubbles” video and scroll down to see the “TED CONVERSATIONS”. That is, in essence, what I’m proposing here, along with a new idea (comment conversion).

How would this work?

A) Create conversation directly from a blog post. (TED way)

Create conversation from a blog post’s comment(s). (new way)

See mockup:

https://gomockingbird.com/mockingbird/#tcky31h/qjXSc0

http://i.imgur.com/fS4Yo.png

A:

Every blog post should come with a “start a new topic” link. Clicking this link would start a standard ‘new post’ prompt. The only difference would be the link to the discussed blog post, which could be incorporated in a number odd ways. The easiest way I can think of would be a shortlink with blog post ID. (Although it’s outside of the initial scope, this should also be compatible with forum posts).

B:

Comments can be converted to forum threads. A conversion would:

1) Lock the thread of comments

2) Create a new forum thread with the comments.

3) Link to the new forum thread from the locked comment thread.

This option would only be available to moderators and above.

Maybe not in core, but I could see this being a super handy plugin.

[bradsucks]

Hmm. Well, I came up with a hack for my hard coded archive-forum.php. I threw:

$wp_query->query_vars = null;

in before any of the bbPress code and that seems to make it stop thinking it’s in a forum. It works but it’s ugly.

Thanks again Andre.

[bradsucks]

Okay, new problem:

I made a /forums/ page with those two shortcuts in it and it works fine as long as I rename my forums base archive slug to something other than forums. Otherwise the contents of archive-forum.php display instead of my shortcode page.

This would be fine except it replaces /forums/ in all the URLs with whatever I specify as my forums base archive slug. Any ideas?

[Andre]

I’m not enough of a coder to be much help, but I would start here https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/plugin/bbp-includes/bbp-core-shortcodes.php

[bradsucks]

I hard coded it so I could get some more control over it but perhaps that’s the issue, good to know it’s in there though. I’ll hack around and see.

[Andre]

I created a page and put [bbp-topic-index] and [bbp-topic-form] as the content. It’s letting me choose the forum and topic type. Is this the method you used or did you hard code it?

(I’d give you the URL to the page I created, but I don’t think it would do any good since you can’t login so you won’t see the create a topic form.)

[Don Alex]

work great for me

one question is it possible to make different sizes for height and width ?

i want 120 for width and 160 for height

[funnycat777]

Hello,

I am currently using bbpress 2.0 beta 3b.

When I create a page on wordpress, and use the shortcode [bbp-topic-index], bbpress topics show properly in my page. However, if I set that particular page as a front page, [bbp-topic-index] does not work properly.

For example, I am currently setting “Topics Per Page” to 10, so 10 topics show in page 1. Therefore it will show as “Showing topics 1 to 10.” When I click on page 2, it should show topics 11-20, but it keeps saying, “Showing topics 1 to 10”. I would like to be able to show topics 11 – 20, and so on.

Can you advise?

[cultofiphone]

I have made a custom theme, following the directions posted in the forums here. And have gotten everything to work fine, with the exception of these sidebars.

They appear below the forums making the page extra long. I’ve taken out the php code that calls the sidebar in every forum page in the template .zip file and they are still there.

At this point I just want to get rid of them, but if we can adjust it so that they look the way they do on the blog page it would be nice.

my site: http://cultiphone.com/forum

blog: http://cultiphone.com

[SK]

I use phpBB at the moment. It used to be pretty bad but version 3 is acceptable.

The 3 things I hate about phpBB are:

1) Lack of SEO URLs/ pretty URLs/ custom permalinks structures

2) There are no plugins. There are MODs – meaning installation is a pain in the back and code is changed. Forget about updations completely – it is excruciating. Contrasts with the rather pleasant one-click installs and upgrades that WordPress has made me accustomed to.

3) Lack of multilingual capability. WordPress has WPML…though I am getting increasingly disillusioned with it (critical features missing, basic things like Canadian flag, Slovak language etc missing, not using international conventions in naming, arrogant and unhelpful support etc). I run a multilingual site and need multilingual forums. If that’s not possible, then to begin with I need a Google Translate gadget so that people can read in multiple languages at least.

It’s not just the lack of these features that cheeses me off…it’s the unwillingness of the developer community to consider these for 3.1/3.2

And there is a major rewrite underway v4. I believe v4 will be the wipeout of phpBB…they are writing from the ground up, which is never a great idea (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html)

So excellent opportunity for bbPress.

I would switch as soon as I see the aforementioned 3 in bbPress…

[danddco]

@JJJ

@Gautam

Hey guys. One of the projects I work on has a bbpress forum that is very popular. I am talking recent daily traffic of over 160K page views.

When the traffic gets that crazy requests from bbPress start stacking up until all the memory is exhausted then mySQL shuts down.

Initially, we had the site on a RackSpace ‘cloud sites’ hosting account but it could not support it. The forum/site continually crashed during peak traffic.

Recently we moved the site to VPS.net. With access to the my.cnf we were able to keep the site going but it required us dedicating 3 CPUs and 3 gigs of memory and even at that we maxed out and ssw slow downs.

I am not much of a programmer or mySQL guy so my question to you is this… would you be interested in looking at our log files or anything to see what the root cause of this is and to maybe enhance, modify, whatever… offending code? db queries?

I am looking forward to moving over the bbPress plugin but I am a little apprehensive that it might perform worse during these peak traffic times which we cannot afford.

Perhaps your poking around and doing an analysis could help us both out. Thanks!

[seoguy81]

I’m using a custom menu in my WP installation and want to include a ‘Edit Profile’ that links to a user’s bbpress edit profile page.

I’m using the following function:

bbp_get_user_profile_edit_link()

Which looks like this in the sidebar:

<a href="<?php bbp_get_user_profile_edit_link(); ?>" class="button">"><?php _e('Edit Profile','mytheme')?></a>

But it doesn’t work. Any suggestions on the above?

[Andre]

bbPress 2.0 plugins are installed like normal WP plugins, in the wp-content/plugins folder. The my-plugins folder is only used with bbPress standalone, versions 0.x and 1.x. Most of the plugins out right now, and possibly all of them, were designed for bbPress stand alone and will not work with the bbPress plugin. Please make sure the plugins you are trying to use were made for the version you are using.

There aren’t many options for bbPress 2.x. You can administer:

forums at /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=forum

topics at /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=topic

replies at /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=reply

other settings at /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=bbpress.

If it’s not on one of those pages you’ll have to dive into the code.

[antonchanz]

Hi. Got an install of the bbpress 2.3 beta on a WordPress multisite with Buddypress on the main site. Its hidden from users for the minute while I set it all up. Yeah, I know its a beta and ‘Thar be dragons’ and all that, but really the forum is backed up anyway, and as I say, it isn’t actually visible to users yet.

Just one thing, in the existing site I’m migrating from (which wasn’t multisite but just a single site BuddyPress with integrated single site bbPress), I had set some forums to be visible to members only using a bbpress plugin. Now it looks like in this new bbpress you can set certain forums to ‘Private’ and in the help it says ‘Private (seen only by chosen users)’. Has the bit to choose these users been implemented yet? I can’t find how to chose the users that can see a private forum.

Maybe I’m missing something obvious. Any help appreciated…