[freax]

I did the ‘display:none’ in catch-box theme but didn’t work for me. I need to remove the’get_sidebar’ from your template, BBpress, or catch-box theme ? Thanks.

[Lynq]

The best way to remove a sidebar is probably to just use CSS to .sidebar { display:none } (depending on your themes markup) – it is quick and allows you to quickly add the sidebar back in should you need it later on.

Or you can go through all of the theme files and remove get_sidebar.

Good luck!

[freax]

I have the same problem too. I tried to find get_sidebar function to delete it from the code but I only find them in ‘extra’ directory and it is showing again. Any help ?
Thanks in advance.

[Sunidaze]

Nice theme, thank you… this is the first BBPress theme I’ve installed… 🙂

How do I make it into one column? (no sidebar)

[wisemonkey]

Aha! This totally worked. Thank you.

[Mal]

How about forum-only WordPress theme? This sounds like easily doable.

Or a theme that theme developers can integrate with their own theme if they copy things like register_sidebar() etc. to their functions.php? No need for child themes and things like that in this case.

I can think of many acceptable and convenient solutions 🙂

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It is very easy to modify BBPress 1 if you have theme in /bb-templates/ or /my-templates/ folder. You have to spend hours on going through BBPress files (because there is no documentation like in case of WordPress) but that’s fine with me.

I would like to move to BBPress2 because of a bit better documentation, more functions that I’m often missing, custom fields and if it’s made as custom post type then it’s actually easy to integrate with any theme in any way – very cool.

BBPress beats any solutions like PHPBB thanks to your simple, clever and therefore highly customizable project structure. Too bad that it’s evolving slowly because it’s a great thing 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

Here is the answer you are looking for https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/assign-topics-to-another-user/#post-118793

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress 2.x includes its own phpBB converter (It was based on bbConverter)

https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/

The next release of bbPress will also include further improvements of the phpBB importer (I am working on these right now)

[wisemonkey]

Here is a related post (no solution stated)

Topic author names prefixed with "imported_"

[wisemonkey]

Hello…

(I have searched the forums here for a solution for this, apologies in advance if I missed a relevant post).

I just installed the most current bbPress and imported a phpBB forums (3.0.10). I now have users with “imported_” prepended to their names. I am guessing that these are the names of users with pre-existing WP accounts who had the same phpBB username. (eg johndoe and imported_johndoe).

How can I merge these two accounts into one. (ie imported_johndoe -> johndoe)?

TIA,
fernando

[beervanger]

Hi everyone,
I need your help. I wanna migrate from phpbb to bbpress.
I use bbConverter. I got this error :

[…again and again…]

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE id =

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE id =

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE id =

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE id =

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE id =

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE id =

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE id =

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE id =

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE id =

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE id =

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE id =

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE id =

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE id =

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE id =

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE id =

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE id =

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE id =

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE id =

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE id =

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE id =

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE id =

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE id =

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE id =

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE id =

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE id =

Convert forums (0 – 99)-
Not clearing default passwords-

Not Converting users Selected-

Not Cleaning Data-

Conversion Complete-

Starting Conversion…

Could you help me?
Thank you.

[Lynq]

@anointed This uses the same functions that teamoverpowered.com uses, plus it only creates a couple of custom functions, these custom functions all use built in bbPress functions to retrieve any data, no custom queries.

@dramaticbaby This is something I am currently looking into, unfortunately it is not as easy as it sounds, i’ll keep you informed if I get round to updating the theme with this.

I will probably look at re doing the whole theme for the main forum view, sub forum view and topic view, make that nice and slick and fluid then move onto some profile pages and stuff.

[DramaticBaby]

Great base to start off with, I’ve done it like this myself. Too bad I didn’t start with it now, it could’ve saved me a lot of hours x)

Anyway, I have one problem. How do I add the forum descriptions beneath the forum headers? I’ve tried adding the_content() in a few places but no matter what I do the category description shows up.

So under the category and the forums the same description pops up. Any ideas?

Sincerely,
Tobias

[gasaixyuno]

It looks pretty good.

[Doezer]

Thanks actorjml, this wasn’t very clear and there isn’t any explanations about the installation in the codex.

[Anointed]

Is this the base of what teamoverpowered was built with to get the hierarchical forums setup?

I’ve been keeping an eye out on #1958 and was curious if this theme solves those issues as I have been trying to replicate a vb style bbPress theme for some time now. As I have 400k topics, I have to be extremely careful on the efficiency of the queries used.

[Geezerjim]

You need to put the files inside the theme for your site – eg: http://www.example.com/wp-content/themes/your-theme/{the contents of bbPress-starter-theme-epicwebs-master file}

[Doezer]

Hi, I tried to install your them but it doesn’t change a thing.
I have put the files in the right folder : wordpress/wp-content/themes/bbPress-starter-theme-epicwebs-master

But nothing changes after that and in the themes windows it says that the theme is corrupted because it lacks the style.css file.

[Stephen Edgar]

I am not exactly sure what you are saying here!

Did you use the bbPress Import Tool to import your old phpBB forum into bbPress?

https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/

[aerokat]

I am so frustrated with bbPress. I wanted to be rid of my phpbb forum…. when I found that wordpress had its own sort forum, I was excited. I loaded it, got it all set up…. I made several posts… over 70 posts for a matter of fact…now I am having a problem.

I am reposting a lot of old logs from the previous phpbb forum onto the bbpress. And I have hit a block to where bbpress will no longer make new posts. I imagine that this is a problem on my mysql/database side…. but I can’t find any info on it and don’t know how to figure it out….as I am still learning databases and such.

I still have over a years worth of logs to load….. but yet it seems as though bbpress or wordpress has hit is limit of what I can post?

Does anyone know what I can do? Is there a setting on wordpress, bbpress or mysql database that can be make to allow me to continue? Or should I just stay with the old phpBB forum that I already have and leave bbpress alone?

I am using bbpress 2.2.3 and wordpress 3.5

[freax]

It’s working now ! Thank you for your help.

[Lynq]

You might find this helpful: http://www.epicwebs.co.uk/content/bbpress-theme-invision-or-phpbb-feel

[Lynq]

You need to copy it to the root theme folder and not inside a bbpress folder.

[Stephen Edgar]

Ahmmm… OK… A couple of things to get started with…

I created a new page under Import Forums called Custom Import where we can start documenting how to go about actually customizing this file.

I also created a ticket #2134 as an update for Example.php is really needed to help improve the inline docs and code formatting to line up with the current bbPress1.php, phpBB.php and SimplePress5.php converters for improved readability will also help things along.

Now onto doing this… If we keep the discussion about Mingle here and update the codex as we go with any relevant information, steps and whatever else we bump into hopefully we will end up with some docs for customizing the included example importer.

I have the first few bits on the codex now, so go check that out 🙂

ps. Anyone anyone can edit the codex docs pages using your bbpress.org credentials.

[freax]

Hi Lynq.
I’m trying to run your code but seems to not work. I have wordpress 3.5 and CatchBox Theme. I copied the contents of “bbPress-starter-theme-epicwebs-master” folder to “/public/www/wp-content/themes/catch-box/bbpress/” but it seems not working yet.

Because forums lists the topics as:

FORUM1
Topic1(0,0), Topic2(0,0)
FORUM2
Topic1(0,0), Topic2(0,0)

But want to make changes to do as:

FORUM1
Topic1 (0,0),
Topic2 (0,0)
FORUM2
Topic1 (0,0)
Topic2 (0,0)

Please, can you help ?
Thanks in advance.