[lshr]

Hey all,

I will be adding a Forum to an existing WordPress site, and I am familiar with both PHPBB and vBulletin, and I would like to use the “Category” features — where Forums are listed under an appropriate category.

I would like to use bbPress for the common look and feel, and single sign on four our users.

Can I set up Categories?
TR

[sbroways]

I was able to complete step 1 with the following sql query:

INSERT INTO wp_users (user_login)
SELECT DISTINCT post_username FROM phpbb_posts


Now I have transferred over the user names and need to work on step 2 which I think can actually be combined with step 3 as one function… but would still love to hear any ideas.

[Halo Diehard]

The shortcode would allow forum owners to display the category and it’s forums with their descriptions, number of topics, posts etc. on a page.

If we had this shortcode, we could set up bbPress forums to look like phpbb3 – with all categories and their forums on one page – which is what I’ve seen a lot of people asking for.

[sbroways]

I’m really hoping someone can help me figure out some sql queries I would like to run (especially spwestwood). I have been working on migrating a forum for a number of days now and would love if I could get some help on this last piece. I started out with a Phorum > migrated to SMF > migrated to phpBB3 > migrated to bbPress. The first 3 conversions were all successful. I would stay with phpBB3 but even after I loaded WordPress I could not get all my PHP to work properly on the forum page and I really like the bbPress integration into WordPress. But, I have the same anonymous error on the majority of my posts (55k) because, I believe, these are actually anonymous users who were not required to sign-up in order to post. The problem seems to be that bbPress uses only an ‘id’ to attach the name of the poster to the post and phpBB3 uses a ‘username’ field that actually contains the name within the table. All of these unregistered users simply default to user id = anonymous (1998 in my case). Here’s my solution… only, I don’t really know how to implement it as I have limited mySQL experience.. so please bare with me as this is all theoretical and I have no idea if it will work… and how to write it out in sql commands.

Step 1: I want to take phpbb_posts.post_username and assign new users in wp_users for each unique user name (I want to avoid duplicates obviously!). I would like that user_name assigned to both wp_users.user_login and wp_users.display_name. Now I have user accounts for all these anonymous posters.

Step 2: Convert the date format in phpbb_posts.post_time from an integer to the ‘datetime’ php format using the from_unixtime sql command… or something. That way I can accurately match the date/time field in both databases since they currently use different encoding.

Step 3. When wp_posts.post_date = phpbb_posts.post_time match phpbb_posts.post_username to wp_users.user_login GET id and assign to wp_posts.post_author

Does this make any sense? Or am I completely off the ball here? THANK YOU SO MUCH for any help!!

[TheDutchGamers]

Hello all,

I have recently created a bbpress forum in a WordPress website. Being used to phpbb I have faced a few issues that seem to be not standard in bbpress or missing but found ways around it. Here comes my issue in place….there is a private forum in the forum, the off topic one where people introduce themselves. This topic is hidden when nog logged in…so far so good. Because the forum is closed, all topics and replies are safe….at least I thought. Until I added the search in forum plugin and realized that all replies made in the private forum/topic where still public?!

As the users enter the reply in the frontend there are not add ons and one should expect that when a parent forum is private that all in the forum is safe. Not I guess? Or is there a way to get this configured?

I found a temporary way around it for now (next to turning of the search totally), I have added the Groups plugin and set the „groups_read_post” filter on forum/topic AND replies now to ensure that the replies are not found in the search. But this is not doable on the long run as it means that I manually need to alter each frontend reply in the backend and mark it as „groups_read_post”.

What can I do to get this permanently fixed and how can I be sure that these replies are not picked up by search engines?

Thanks very much to whomever takes the time to read this and help me figure this out.

Kind regards,
Nikki

365gaming.nl
Wordpress 3.4.2.
bbPress 2.2.2
Theme Respo

[Halo Diehard]

Hello, can anyone tell me which file/s create this page: First page of bbPress Forums
and this page: Second page of bbPress Forums, a category page of forums?

I want to create a page that looks like the second page, but has all categories on it and I think I can figure it out if someone points me to which files I could copy functions out of.

I saw an old thread of people looking to set their bbPress forums up like phpBB3, has it been done? ‘Cause that’s what I’m looking to accomplish here and I’m willing to share the template once I get done.

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress 2.x includes a conversion tool to import forums/topics/replies/users from some of the popular forum packages eg. bbPress or phpBB

There is an ‘example’ file also included as a ‘reference template’ that if your forum software is using a SQL database then you could easily modify this to be a custom importer by matching the correct database tables/fields etc

The file is called ‘example.php’ and is located in /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-admin/converters

[Halo Diehard]

Yeah, I made sure that phpBB was selected. I was just now re-checking over everything again and I see that my database has two User ID’s, one attached to the database and one for FTP. Assuming this process works like FTP I then made sure to run it again with the user name I have for accessing via FTP and I get the first message:

“Repair any missing information: Continue

Conversion Complete

No replies to convert

No tags to convert

No topics to convert

No forum parents to convert

No forums to convert

No passwords to clear

No users to convert

Starting Conversion
”

I’ve even tried it by replacing “localhost” with my database’s Host Name. Same result. I double-checked that Database Port is the default, 3306, yep.

Do you know which User Name I’m supposed to be using? The one that has my database id in it, or the one I use for FTP?

Also, does anybody know what it does if your FTP password is incorrect?

[Stephen Edgar]

Make sure you select ‘phpBB’ with the ‘import forums tool’ option ‘Select Platform’

Check out the brief docs here https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/

The import works pretty well for the base of phpBB migration for users, forums, topics & replies.

[Halo Diehard]

WordPress Version: 3.4.2
bbPress Version: 2.2.2
Theme: Custom Community

Hello, I am considering changing my site from phpBB3 forums to bbPress to better integrate with my WordPress home page.

I’m attempting to Import my forums into my test site, on another database, to test bbPress’ “Import Forums”. I’ve filled out all the necessary information, but the first time I ran it I got messages at the bottom that 0 Members had been imported 0 posts, etc all the way down the line. I tried running it again and I get this message:

“Fatal error: Class ‘Example’ not found in /homepages/33/d410891000/htdocs/THEMETEST/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converter.php on line 1291”

I’ve attempted to reset the process by choosing to Purge Previous Import and save, then Start Over and save, but I continue to get the same message when I try to import.

I tried to resolve this on my own, but I searched for an hour online before I even found that bbPress has an importer built in! Unfortunately stuff from the last five years had priority in the search. Also, I could not find a search on this site, so I started Googling “bbpress.org import forums” but still no answers, so any help would be appreciated.

One more thing: I don’t have so many members that I couldn’t create their accounts myself if I *had* to, so if anyone knows of an easier way to just import the forums and posts, that might work.

Thanks in advance for your time.

[kriskl]

Hi, I am also trying to convert buddypress to bbpress 2.2

but in the select platform (in tools Import forums) I can only see Example, vBulletin, Invision, phpbb. and bbPress1

am I missing something?

what do I choose to convert from BuddyPress?

thanks

Kris

[bibliox]

I’m new to web designing and i want 2 design a website which contains a discussion forum. I heard that using bbpress or phpbb i can create a forum. I want 2 know hw 2 build a website with these things??
and whether they are only for forum or can i build my entire site using only bbpress??

[chibichiii]

The very important difference between these two forums

1) Sitewide forums; adding favorite, creating or replying to any topics in sitewide forums does not show up in Members directory. It does however show up in the activity stream.
But with this it gives no ability to keep track of your created or replied to topics.
2) Sitewide forums allow you to make subforums just like wordpress allows you to adress a parent page. You can adress several Subforum to a Parent Forum, so to create the PhpBB structure most forums contain. Group forums will not allow this kind of structuring. You just have 1 Forum per group containing topics.
3) Group Forums however do show up in member directory so you can easily keep track on your created and replied topics under your members profile page using the subnav Forum.
4) To respond to group forums members must join to the belonging group first, where sitewide forums lets anyone who has registered to your page create topics and reply to them.

[chibichiii]

@do7d

Your site looks amazing! Forum is very beautiful too.
Is it truly a bbpress forum? I can’t seem to get mine to look even half as awesome 🙁
I’d like to have my freshness column just like yours and my sub forums showing like that.

[Phill]

Hi guys,

We’ve recently switched from phpBB3 to BBpress and so far so good. I wanted to personally thank everyone on these forums for their tutorials and hacks that have helped us create the forums we were looking for. I also want to thank all of you that have worked on the BBpress plugin itself. It was difficult at times switching from phpBB3 and customizing BBpress but it was definitely worth it. Our site still has a few bugs like missing Pagination on the Topics pages and missing text when editing replies but those should be fixed soon.

You can check out our new forums at http://ShadowedMare.com/forums.

Thanks again! You guys are great!

[lucianoippolito]

Hello,

I just installed buddypress/bbpress in my site, it is using catalyst/dynamic theme and everything works fine but I really dont like the bbpress forum layout. It displays well but it is just ugly. Is there any way to change the style or look of the forum without changing my theme? I would like something more like vBulletin, phpbb or even this same forum which looks a lot better.

You can take a look at http://www.luchotv.com/foro

wp 3.4.2

bbpress 2.1.2

buddypress 1.6.1

buddypress template pack 1.2.1

catalyst 1.5.3

dynamic 1.1

Thank you for your help,

Luciano

[Phill]

I want to start off by saying for the past 8 hours I’ve tried every recommendation I could find in order to remove my forums sidebar. Here’s what I’ve tried:

• Editing the auth-forum.php file (Pasted in the BBpress root)
• Editing the bbpress.php file (Pasted in the BBpress root)
• removing all instances of “get sidebar” from template files
• BBpress WP Tweak Plugin
• Removing the sidebar with CSS
• Creating a child theme
• Checked Stackoverflow for answers
• Checked Reddit for answers

And for the life of me I can’t get rid of that stupid sidebar. What am I missing? This is the only thing keeping me from launching my new BBpress forums after converting from SMF to phpBB.

I’m desperate for help, anything would be much appreciated.

[Phill]

Figured it out. Used BBConverter and it worked. Not sure what was going on.

[Phill]

Hi,

I’ve converted my forums from SMF to phpBB3 and now I’m trying to finalize this process by converting them to BBpress. I the phpbb3 forum on its own database and have entered the information correctly into the BBpress 2.1 built-on converter. Unfortunately each time I try I get this message:

> Conversion Complete
No replies to convert,
No tags to convert,
No topics to convert,
No forum parents to convert,
No forums to convert,
No data to clean,
Starting Conversion

I’ve searched these forums for an answer but I can’t seem to figure it out. I have phpbb 3.0.11 and here are the forums: http://shadowedmare.com/phpbb/

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress 2.1 includes a conversion tool to import forums/topics/replies/users from some of the popular forum packages eg. bbPress or phpBB

There is an ‘example’ file also included as a ‘reference template’ that if your forum software is using a SQL database then you could easily modify this to be a custom importer by matching the correct database tables/fields etc

The file is called ‘example.php’ and is located in /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-admin/converters

[mazcar]

I am new to WordPress/BBPress and am coming from PHPBB.

I am creating a bulletin board using the BBPress plug-in for WordPress. I’m not planning on really using WordPress (yet) for my website. It’s just a few static pages, a css file, and, soon, a forum.

My board will be for just fifty people and I would like to create all the accounts myself so that I don’t have to worry about spam posts from bogus accounts.

• In PHPBB, there is a control panel option to disable the ability to create new accounts? I don’t see that option in WP/BBPress. How would I do that?
• I think I read on this forum that I can make my board invisible to non-members, but that is not a control panel option. What’s the prefered way for a newbie to do that?

Also, I read an article on WP security, Top 5 WP Vulnerabilities and How To Fix Them.
http://www.esecurityplanet.com/open-source-security/top-5-wordpress-vulnerabilities-and-how-to-fix-them.html

Vulnerability # 1: SQL Injection & URL Hacking.
Vulnerability # 2: Access to Sensitive Files.
Vulnerability # 3: Default Admin User Account.
Vulnerability # 4: Default Prefix for Database Tables
Vulnerability # 5: Brute-Force Login Attempts

3, 4, and 5 seem pretty obvious to me. However, for help with mitigating the threat of Brute-Force Login Attempts, the author refers to two plug-ins: Limit Login Attempts and Better WP Security. Are these the preferred plug-ins? Although, I really must ask you guys why these two plug-ins aren’t written into the core software in the first place? In fact, shouldn’t the control panel also allow me to limit the creation of new accounts, as well?

I know BBPress, as a plug-in, is new, but WordPress has been around for ten years. Are the features that I list above planned for future releases, or is security not really an issue for the WP community, but rather up to each user?

Before I forget, how do I implement the solutions to the first two vulnerabilities? Do I just copy the code that the author lists into my .htacess file?

I don’t want to sound critical of WP/BBPress, or be the guy who is constantly comparing it to PHPBB. I just want to know the mentality behind it and, really, what I am getting myself into. I had a pretty secure PHPBB board that was easy to set-up and manage, but it was boring and looked like every other PHPBB board out there. I was told that WP/BBPress is customizable (some guy on your board showcases a beautiful board about Stratoliner motorcycles) and more secure than PHPBB. I hope to explore these features without becoming a full-time board developer nor becoming a php guru.

Thanks. I really appreciate this forum. I have been reading all sorts of posts. So if these questions have been answered, please don’t flame me; it’s not for lack of searching.

[Shane Gowland]

As much as I hate shameless self-promotion, this is the “Pimp your press” forum so I’m going to let it all out.

I’ve just launched BeeForums, a free hosted bbPress service. It works just like those free forums services for other scripts (SMF, IPB, PHPBB) except it’s all bbPress & WordPress.

Features include one-click forum installation, a selection of (responsive) themes, spam protection, attachments, signatures, CSS editor and more. Plus we have an awesome site mascot 🙂

[Laurens Offereins]

Wanted to say thanks for the patch. Conversion from phpBB works great now 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

If you grab the latest v2.1 branch of bbPress from Trac here that fix is included
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/2.1

[Scorpiux]

Any word on this fix going live or can we get the same fix Durelle did? Thanks for your help in advance.