[brm-dev]

I run a fairly active PHPBB3 forum. I’ve been playing with bbPress a bit, I really like it, and am looking forward to this launch of bbPress as a WordPress plugin (The biggest headache with a PHPBB3 forum is it’s complexity when it comes to add-ons and upgrades, which WordPress and bbPress have made simple.)

The big question on my mind, and probably many others… Will there be a plugin/tool for converting from PHPBB3 to bbPress?

[John James Jacoby]

@jaja – Thanks

@christopher jon – Still haven’t decided which way to go with that yet. The need isn’t quite there yet I don’t think, but soon.

[Jaja..]

I solved my problem for the bbPress plugin not showing up in my wp-plugins directory.

(local MAMP)

When i changed localhost -> localhost:8889 in my wp-config.php file it works.

I don’t know if that was the correct error but it working for me at this moment.

define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost:8889’);

Good job everybody that is working on this code.

Looks pretty good so far..

Only one little ‘problem’ report..

I think everybody will be able to install a WP site + bbPress forum in the feature in just a few clicks

[Ladyelav]

Thanks so much! It did take away the deprecated errors, but I’m getting a 404 on the actual link page now.

[Ladyelav]

Thanks so much! It did take away the deprecated errors, but I’m getting a 404 on the actual link page now.

[John James Jacoby]

@christopher jon – Very good to hear!

I just put the final touches on theme compatibility for user profiles and topic/reply editing, so now they won’t look as wonky.

All that’s left to finish with theme compat are views, and I don’t expect them to be a problem at all.

We are now 8 tickets (and only a few more labor hours) away from putting this into WordPress Extend. Sadly it’s behind schedule (weird eh?) but wanted to keep everyone posted.

If there are any technical writers out there, the contextual help screens that WordPress has could use some bbPress specific content. You’d be doing me a nice favor to take a look at https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1510 and drop some prose in there.

[christopher jon]

I’ve been playing around with the plugin for a couple of hours now and have had absolutely no problems. It’s fairly simple to customize as well. I’m already tweaking it.

Now, lets get some new plugins and really get this thing rocking.

My wish list,

TinyMCE editor

Messaging system between members

The signature plugin that was mentioned earlier in this thread is also working perfectly.

I’m liking it.

[jassing]

Is there a way I can set up a forum so that an individual (or group of individuals) can:

A) Post new topics, where anyone can post followups.

and/or

Post new topics where no one else can post (ie: readonly to everyone else)

[John James Jacoby]

Thanks for testing that. I’ll take a look at what’s going on. I think I know wha’s up.

[justmichael2]

#2 How do I remove the long URL? I have no idea where to find that.

#3 How do I delete topics and posts from the database?

Sorry, I’m not a developer.

[justmichael2]

#2 How do I remove the long URL? I have no idea where to find that.

#3 How do I delete topics and posts from the database?

Sorry, I’m not a developer.

[John James Jacoby]

@miruru – Yep, same as before.

I fixed some issues with conflicting $post globals and multiple queries and loops tonight. Was a regression from some $wp_query clean-up I did a few days ago. Apologies.

Aiming for alpha release going in WP plugin repo and available in your dashboards on Wednesday, barring any unforeseen disasters. So test!

[miruru]

As the bbp theme is now a child theme, will the code: add_theme_support( 'bbpress' ); still work?

Edit: I’ve managed to answer my own question. I thought the bbpress folder was in my theme but it wasn’t. It’s now there and working.

Keep up the great work on this as so far it’s fantastic.

[jonkristian]

I went ahead and installed the plugin, also migrated from a standalone forum, it’s looking pretty good but I get a Internal Sever Error when visiting Replies, anyone else have this problem?

Also, none of the replies comes up in any topics, is this a migration issue or is it just that the code isn’t finished?

[John James Jacoby]

General update – bbp-twentyten has been converted back into a child theme of twentyten. It was previously made a parent theme to make development easier, but now that theme compatibility is mostly finished, it’s no longer necessary. This cuts down on the size of the installable by almost half, avoids inadvertently forking the TwentyTen theme (we shouldn’t need to keep on top of updates) and should set a better example on how to make a compatible bbPress child theme for your existing theme.

Theme theme theme… theme.

[Spiralspeaks]

Good Evening,

Hey there… I wanna ask how can I fix this thing…

I recently found bbPress plugin, it is great to be installed in a wordpress blog it promotes more interaction for the site. so i installed bbPress in my blog.. but my problem is…

The url for the forums is too long… when the forum base is present..

:bbpress.org/ forums/ forum/ tutorial-guide/

I want to shorten it

from :bbpress.org/ forum base/ forum/ tutorial-guide/

to :bbpress.org/forum base/ tutorial-guide/

plus my concern is if I use

:bbpress.org/ forum base/ forum/

creates duplicate content with

:bbpress.org/ forum base/

and the user profiles

How can I put Latest user post and topics in wordpress profiles??

Any help thanks… I’ll be waiting

Correction its subdomain install

[Ricardo]

@JJJ

regarding the wordpress/bbpress theme compatibility… it kind of works with that code in the functions.php file, it works but only for individual pages, look forward for developments on this.

Keep up the good work guys!

[Gautam Gupta]

binhdo: When you install bbPress, you need to set up some pages using the Page Templates. Login is one of them. We should probably change this.

slobizman: That question is like the icing on the cake, especially after all the GPL debate. Theoretically, bbPress has some theme compatibility features which would work good with most of the themes. If it doesn’t with Thesis, then probably you can go to their support forums and ask them to add bbPress support.

[Arjun S Kumar]

@binhdo

I’ve had similiar issues on my XAMPP server like when the permalink structure is changed I get 404 error. Its just a mod rewrite error of the local server installation. Even with the kind of permalink you said, you wont be able to view a post too, you’ll be getting same error. The default permalink works fine on local server. There is nothing wrong with bbPress.

[yoyopop]

Hiya,

I just worked it out for myself!

If you download the bbVideo plugin, then edit the file provider.inc.php and add the following at the end :

'soundcloud' => array(

'width' => '620',

'height' => '81',

'pattern' => 'soundcloud.com/(.*)/(.*?)/',

'index' => 1,

'code' => '<object height="[HEIGHT]" width="100%"> <param name="movie" value="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http://soundcloud.com/[ID]/"></param> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param> <embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="[HEIGHT]" src="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http://soundcloud.com/[ID]/" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%"></embed> </object>',

'page_url' => 'http://www.soundcloud.com/'

)

[yoyopop]

Hiya,

I just worked it out for myself!

If you download the bbVideo plugin, then edit the file provider.inc.php and add the following at the end :

'soundcloud' => array(

'width' => '620',

'height' => '81',

'pattern' => 'soundcloud.com/(.*)/(.*?)/',

'index' => 1,

'code' => '<object height="[HEIGHT]" width="100%"> <param name="movie" value="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http://soundcloud.com/[ID]/"></param> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param> <embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="[HEIGHT]" src="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http://soundcloud.com/[ID]/" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%"></embed> </object>',

'page_url' => 'http://www.soundcloud.com/'

)

[justmichael2]

I am using 1.1x. I was able to successfully convert to phpBB. You can see the converted forum here:

http://leftcoastlogic.com/forum/phpbb/

I have full admin access to this, and checked that the tables, topics, posts and users were all successfully converted to phpbb.

I then downloaded the phpbb-to-bbpress script from code.google.com (per other posts here):

http://code.google.com/p/phpbb3-to-bbpress1-converter/

Following instructions, I began the conversion and it stepped through the process. It appeared to have completed the “converting posts” step, although the last step had some strange text:

View post on imgur.com

I then proceeded to the next step, “convert users data”, and got this error message:

View post on imgur.com

I then tried to run the script a second time, and got this error message:

View post on imgur.com

So, I guess I’m not having much luck converting my phpBB forum to bbPress. Any suggestions?

[justmichael2]

I am using 1.1x. I was able to successfully convert to phpBB. You can see the converted forum here:

http://leftcoastlogic.com/forum/phpbb/

I have full admin access to this, and checked that the tables, topics, posts and users were all successfully converted to phpbb.

I then downloaded the phpbb-to-bbpress script from code.google.com (per other posts here):

http://code.google.com/p/phpbb3-to-bbpress1-converter/

Following instructions, I began the conversion and it stepped through the process. It appeared to have completed the “converting posts” step, although the last step had some strange text:

View post on imgur.com

I then proceeded to the next step, “convert users data”, and got this error message:

View post on imgur.com

I then tried to run the script a second time, and got this error message:

View post on imgur.com

So, I guess I’m not having much luck converting my phpBB forum to bbPress. Any suggestions?

[Gautam Gupta]

Here is the phpDoc – http://phpdoc.ftwr.co.uk/bbpress-plugin/ (courtesy westi)

[Gautam Gupta]

Here is the phpDoc – http://phpdoc.ftwr.co.uk/bbpress-plugin/ (courtesy westi)