[John James Jacoby]

@christopher-jon – Fixed.

[welshmullen]

I am really struggling with adding plugins

[welshmullen]

I am really struggling with adding plugins

[christopher jon]

“Glad (sortof anyway to hear I’m not the only one who saw the missing Forums in the menus page.”

The quick fix is changing line 514 in bbpress.php to…

‘show_in_nav_menus’ => true,

It’s currently set to false.

[tooltrainer]

Yeah I didn’t exactly expect a “yes” to #1. I just wish it had SOME kind of unique moniker we could all adopt to refer to it ass… “bbPp2” maybe, or something. ANYTHING! There’s actually more stuff about it than you might expect, it’s just super duper hard to find.

Deactivating the forums could work I suppose, hadn’t thought of that. Maybe temporarily re-slug the page containing it and put up a “Down for Maintenance” page instead under the old slug. That would probably work nicely now that I think about it.

Glad (sortof anyway to hear I’m not the only one who saw the missing Forums in the menus page. I’m potentially days away from my site going live and I really need to add a few forums to my nav, so I hope you might be able to track this one down fast.

Thanks as always for the speedy response!

Jonathan

[John James Jacoby]

1. No. The stand-alone 1.x branch of code will still be actiely maintained as needed, and is still a great piece of software. The plugin version will (most likely) get inflated to 2.0 to give us something better to refer to it as. A new generation of bbPress doesn’t change the spirit of the project, just the ease of integration with WordPress.

2. If you deactivate the plugin, your forums will essentially be deactivated too. A dedicated maintenance mode sounds like a good idea for a plugin though.

3. I’ll take a look at this. Noticed it myself a few days ago, so it’s on the radar.

The bbPress plugin for WordPress isn’t showing up on search results because there just isn’t a lot of buzz about it yet. That will (hopefully) change after it’s released into the plugins repo and is available to a larger audience.

[John James Jacoby]

For topics, you’ll want to do a meta_query using ‘_bbp_forum_id’ as one of the keys. The code could probably use some cleaning up to simplify this, but that’ll come with time.

[John James Jacoby]

For topics, you’ll want to do a meta_query using ‘_bbp_forum_id’ as one of the keys. The code could probably use some cleaning up to simplify this, but that’ll come with time.

[christopher jon]

It works but it might not be the ideal solution.

I’m still working my way through the core forum code to get a better understanding of how it all works.

Ideally, I’d like to be able to grab topics from specific forums along with some additional query options. Similar to what the current widgets are doing but with greater flexibility.

Digging through the bbp-includes, all of the pieces are there, I just need to figure out what does what.

[christopher jon]

It works but it might not be the ideal solution.

I’m still working my way through the core forum code to get a better understanding of how it all works.

Ideally, I’d like to be able to grab topics from specific forums along with some additional query options. Similar to what the current widgets are doing but with greater flexibility.

Digging through the bbp-includes, all of the pieces are there, I just need to figure out what does what.

[John James Jacoby]

Awesome

[John James Jacoby]

Awesome

[christopher jon]

Thought I’d update the fun.

Made a couple of custom loops to grab the forums and topics. Plain ‘ol wordpress custom queries, nothing new or special and added support for post thumbnails.

Working like a charm.

With the queries I’m able to list forums or topics anywhere on the blog and the thumbnails just add in some extra coolness, similar to how buddypress uses images for groups but I’ve extended it so any forum or topic can have it’s own thumbnail using default wordpress features.

Now, I need to remember how to write a filter so I can modify the custom post types through the theme functions and not mess with the core plugin code.

[christopher jon]

Thought I’d update the fun.

Made a couple of custom loops to grab the forums and topics. Plain ‘ol wordpress custom queries, nothing new or special and added support for post thumbnails.

Working like a charm.

With the queries I’m able to list forums or topics anywhere on the blog and the thumbnails just add in some extra coolness, similar to how buddypress uses images for groups but I’ve extended it so any forum or topic can have it’s own thumbnail using default wordpress features.

Now, I need to remember how to write a filter so I can modify the custom post types through the theme functions and not mess with the core plugin code.

[Gautam Gupta]

Jaja: I think it would work in the way BuddyPress works, i.e. placing plugins for BuddyPress in wp-content/plugins too.

[whitehats]

Awesome!!! Thanks a lot. I think I am going to spend new few hours adding custom fields the way I want it!! And yeah, I LOVE THIS PLUGIN!!! (after a hair splitting day that is )

[whitehats]

Awesome!!! Thanks a lot. I think I am going to spend new few hours adding custom fields the way I want it!! And yeah, I LOVE THIS PLUGIN!!! (after a hair splitting day that is )

[whitehats]

Could you please post the link? I know this is something I am going to laugh myself at for later, but for the life of me, it might be staring at my face and I can’t find the link to download the plugin.

[whitehats]

Could you please post the link? I know this is something I am going to laugh myself at for later, but for the life of me, it might be staring at my face and I can’t find the link to download the plugin.

[Gautam Gupta]

Just a note for all: There are importers for phpBB from almost anything, so just import your forums to that, then use the converter for phpBB -> bbPress standalone and then convert bbPress standalone -> bbPress plugin. That’s the way it could work right now, but can be simplified later.

[Rick Lewis]

I am sure there will be new ones but there is one out there which does work.

That can be located in the

http://code.google.com/p/phpbb3-to-bbpress1-converter/downloads/detail?name=phpbb3-to-bbpress1-converter_v2.zip&can=2&q=

I found that when looking for a solution to move a vbulletin forum to bbpress beings I was in the midst of changing to wordpress for all of my sites functions.

That link is here – http://www.ericm.ca/2010/05/31/vbulletin-4-to-bbpress-and-wordpress-integration/

As long as you are doing it per the instructions, it works perfect. I have done it twice now on test sites. The only glitch I hit was on my new site the WP and BBP integration is already there so I don’t have a bb_users table which is the first thing the converter is looking for. I was going to ask for some help with that from the maker as I have by forums and users stuck now in a PHPBB forum and can not get them into WP or BBP as far as I can tell.

I have no idea how all that will play with the new plugin but I am hoping to get my site on track and then move to the plugin at some point.

Hope this helps.

[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.