[Gautam Gupta]

Hello folks,

I along with Ben L. aka Nightgunner5, have created a bbPress standalone to plugin converter which already does a good job converting your bbPress forums.

To use it, upload the file bbs2p.php to your server. Now let us assume that / is the place where you have placed the script, /blog/ is the WordPress directory and /forum/ is the bbPress standalone directory. So, you would edit bbs2p.php, scroll down to line 36 and change

define( 'BBS2P_WP_PATH', '' ); /** With Trailing Slash, if required */

define( 'BBS2P_BB_PATH', '../forum/' ); /** With Trailing Slash, if required */

To:

define( 'BBS2P_WP_PATH', 'blog/' ); /** With Trailing Slash, if required */

define( 'BBS2P_BB_PATH', 'forum/' ); /** With Trailing Slash, if required */

Similarly, if you have script and WordPress blog in / and the forum in /forums/, then change those lines to:

define( 'BBS2P_WP_PATH', '' ); /** With Trailing Slash, if required */

define( 'BBS2P_BB_PATH', 'forums/' ); /** With Trailing Slash, if required */

Then run the script and the converter would guide you. Some points to note:

• Needless to mention, if it isn’t your test run, please have a backup. We cannot be held responsible for any data loss.
• Run it on your localhost as the converter is heavy.
• Supports the Subscribe to Topic plugin by _ck_ and bbPress 1.1 alpha+ subscriptions import too. Have that plugin activated if you want to migrate subscriptions from the plugin, else it will check for the alpha version.
• Have the bbPress plugin activated, revert to default themes and disable any other plugins.
• Currently, there are three situations:

  1. You have a new WordPress blog, to which you are migrating to and an established forum. Then, you would go to user migration section first and then proceed to forums, topics, posts migration section. In this process, all your WordPress users would be deleted (well, renamed to another table) and in place of those, bbPress users would be added. A keymaster will be WP admin, bb admin and moderator will be bbPress plugin moderators, rest all would be converted to the default WP role (which can be set in your WordPress settings).
  2. Your WordPress and bbPress user tables are integrated. You don’t need the user migration process and you can directly go to forums, topics, posts migration section. No worries.
  3. You have a established WordPress blog, with a good number of users and can’t afford to lose those. This is currently not supported as it is hard to merge two conflicting user sets.

• After converting, do recounts, delete the script and delete the bbPress standalone section if not needed.

Download: http://code.google.com/p/bbpress-standalone-to-plugin/downloads/detail?name=bbs2p-beta2.zip

Cheers! Hope that helps.

Regards,

Ben L. & Gautam G.

bbPress Geeks

ps. Special thanks to John James J. for developing the bbPress plugin, without which, of course, this converter wouldn’t have been there.

[Gautam Gupta]

Darkwold.it: Because comments are own their own, it is not a post type.

studioleland: You can’t.

[Anonymous User 7670885]

This is great

I think is a good point to start my migration (after of this i need only to convert my actual newsboard inside wordpress)

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Edit: ok, i can migrate some topic to blog thanks to fixed custom post switcher: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-post-type-switcher-broken-after-31 but it don’t convert replies.

[Gautam Gupta]

Edit your theme’s register.php and it should contain the line <?php do_action('extra_profile_info', $user); ?>. Move it to the place where you want the captcha to be displayed.

[Gautam Gupta]

Edit your theme’s register.php and it should contain the line <?php do_action('extra_profile_info', $user); ?>. Move it to the place where you want the captcha to be displayed.

[Gautam Gupta]

You should browse into your active theme directory, if you’re using the default theme i.e. Kakumei, that would be /bb-templates/kakumei/. There, you would find the files register.php and register-success.php. You can edit those. Hope that helps.

[Gautam Gupta]

You should browse into your active theme directory, if you’re using the default theme i.e. Kakumei, that would be /bb-templates/kakumei/. There, you would find the files register.php and register-success.php. You can edit those. Hope that helps.

[Arjun S Kumar]

@DarkWolf.it

Gautam Gupta and Nightgunner5 have made a script for moving bbPress standalone to bbPress plugin. Its available here.

http://code.google.com/p/bbpress-standalone-to-plugin/

Though, an importer will be bundled with the bbPress plugin in the stable release AFAIK.

[justmichael2]

Umm, I can’t get to the bbPress admin page, that’s the whole problem

[justmichael2]

Umm, I can’t get to the bbPress admin page, that’s the whole problem

[Anonymous User 7670885]

Just a question for dev.

I hate my actual website and i attend this plugin to migrate to wordpress (+forum).

Just for info please: any eta for converter – bbpress to bbpressPlugin? (i can use alpha in live website but i can’t lost users and actual forums)

Maybe it’s time to start with development?

[tooltrainer]

OK, strike my previous… I see that users can in fact mark items as favorites or subscribe, but only from within the actual topic replies themselves. I was looking for a higher-level icon/button of some kind like I had found previously when poking around in the code.

Now that I know better how it actually work, this will do the basic job. Would be nice to be able to mark actual forums as favorites too though.

Thanks!

Jonathan

[tooltrainer]

Now that I’m looking into this again, I don’t even see a loop-topics.php file so I’m not sure what I was talking about back then. Still, my desire to enable these features is the same.

Jonathan

[GYNGA]

Try this plugin:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/fix-admin-access/

After you install and activate the plugin then go to bbPress admin page and set User Role Map settings. WordPress administrator should be set as your bbPress admin’s role, probably ‘Key Master’ or ‘Administrator’. Mine was Key Master.

If you don’t know what to set up in other roles (WP Editor, WP Author, WP Contributor, WP Subscriber) I suggest you to set all of them as bbPress member.

Well, it helped for me

[GYNGA]

Try this plugin:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/fix-admin-access/

After you install and activate the plugin then go to bbPress admin page and set User Role Map settings. WordPress administrator should be set as your bbPress admin’s role, probably ‘Key Master’ or ‘Administrator’. Mine was Key Master.

If you don’t know what to set up in other roles (WP Editor, WP Author, WP Contributor, WP Subscriber) I suggest you to set all of them as bbPress member.

Well, it helped for me

[jabbamonkey]

I want to customize the text on the registration form page…

… and also the text on the confirm page (once they hit submit on the registration).

I checked register.php, but I didn’t see any text to change there. (it was all PHP code). And I don’t even know where to look for the confirm page.

Please help. Thank you!

[Gautam Gupta]

Andre: It is already in the repo. /branches/plugin/

[tomcat23]

JJJ – I came here looking for the current code and to see if you needed any beta testers. I found the code in the svn and see you are at alpha-2. I can also see that your code is really clean and readable. I’m sure that’s taken a lot of work, so thanks. The proof is in the pudding, and you’ve got you’ve got me dancing around like Bill Cosby here.

Looking forward to seeing this finally released!

[Arjun S Kumar]

@tooltrainer , @DarkWolf.it

Most welcome!

[foochuck]

Hello!

Is there a way that I can add target=”_blank” to all website links that are inputted on forum posts?

Is this an option or will this need to be hard coded?

Thanks!

[Anonymous User 7670885]

@Arjun S Kumar: Thank’u for plugin, i’ll try it in localserver

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Maybe is a good idea also a “spacial forum” with all articles by blog (just link to view article) and bridged comments. Hardwareupgrade.it use this structure and is more appreciated by many user.

Eg: blog > *hwupgrade.it/blog/221.html

forum > *hwupgrade.it/forum/showthread.php?threadid=2041458

(an user can comment from blog and/or from forum but i think this can be more complicated)

[knet99]

If using a theme where pages contains subjects and user names of other pages, using Google to find pages in the forum will give lots of false hits. Like if I use in Google

site:terapisnack.com social fobi knet99

this will not only give pages with my nick about the subject, but also lots of false hits on pages where I at the time the crawler was there, I was listed in the section “Senaste inläggen” (most recent posts) at the bottom of the page.

So how is this solved, and are there mutiple options how to solve this?

I assume one would be to have a separate “clean theme”, that only contains what we want the web crawler to see, and switch theme on user agent? Is this support built into bbPress, or is there a plugin that can do this?

Or is there some meta tag that can control what part of a page a crawler will ignore? I.e. just change the existing theme some?

Or some other solution?

Any advice is welcome!

knet99

[tooltrainer]

@Paul –

Good point about Super Stickies, and I may actually go the route of a WP page instead. I just figure if a feature is in a piece of software, it should actually work. Otherwise just take it out and not confuse folks!

Anyway, I still love the seamless integration of bbP and quite frankly I have it working pretty well in an absurdly complex arrangement, and it’s behaving admirably!

bbPress plugin running http://www.profitstheme.com as my theme

with a ton of other plugins including, free, custom, and commercial:

CDNVault

WP-eMember

WP-Affiliate

WP-eStore

Avia Feedback Box

User Messages (for private messaging)

Shortcode Exec PHP

Capability Manager

and a whole lot more!

So far bbP has been among the smaller of my problems to deal with.

Keep up the great work JJJ and crew!

Jonathan

[Anonymous User 7670885]

@JJJ: Ok, thank’u very much

My actual forum is with smf but i want migrate to wordpress + forum (and bbpress plugin promises[?] very good)

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But i’ve many topic that need to move inside blog. My future work is: smf to bbpress to bbpress_plugin + migration of many topic in blog – maybe thanks to: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-type-switcher/

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PS: you can call me if you need a betatester

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Small bug: i’ve maked a forum and put a new topic in it. After of this i’ve changed this forum in category and maked a new sub-forum inside it. Finally i’ve move topic from category[when i’ve changed forum in category no topics deleted or migrated] to forum and counter results with two topics and two posts (in realty i’ve just one post in one topic)

[Gautam Gupta]

Good that it is working now.