bbPress _must_ not become a WordPress plugin. First of all because a BBS isn’t always associated with a blog and in my case this never happens. bbPress gain the attentions of a lot of people tired of bloatware engine like phpBB or slow engine like vBullettin. I switched to bbPress on all my sites for these reason.
Seconded a lot of people (as far as I know) chose bbPress because they can access to a WordPress style plugin system. If you have ever written a plugin for WordPress you can edit a bbPress one easily in order to accommodate your needs. But if bbPress will be a plugin of WordPress you will download a plugin… of a plugin? This is kind of confusing IMHO. Obviously I’m not talking about PHP programmers or in general skilled people but of regular users.
Third I think that the bbPress project deserve its own space. It is a too well done piece of code and for being a mere WordPress plugin.
sorry to raise an old topic from the dead, but I think I have found a significant problem with the current version…
If you try to post an empty reply in a topic, you are met with a message saying ‘You need to actually submit some content!’ and bbpress won’t let you reply.
However, if you edit a post, and delete all the information from inside, you can resubmit the post as a completely empty reply, because the filter for new replies does not work for edits.
And because there is no delete post function for normal users, some of my users have been doing this to remove their posts.
This means there are blank replies in some topics, which have to be manually found and removed by moderators!
I suggest there are two possible solutions
1) Allow users to delete their own posts, but within a certain time limit, I don’t want users deleting posts they made 2 months ago!
and/or
2) Have the empty-post filter work for post-edits as well as for brand new posts.
How can I make the edit-post function call the same minimum-character filter as the new post function??
Is it possible to mod the above post-delete plugin to include a time-limit on deleting posts (as found in phpbb)?
Well I can see there’s no shortage of advice and help wanted by folks at the sharp end. All good stuff.
But it strikes me that one thing that is missing, so far, is the ability to simply import databases from other forums like PHPBB etc. Haven’t done exhaustive research but that’s my impression.
The one plugin that *I* would want is the plugin that installs BBPress in the first place. And by the way, it should install it right into my existing WP theme.
What I am ultimately trying to do is allow the users to get back to the home page of the website from this home page of the forum. You’re right! I didn’t think that it should be in the phpBB folder. This is my first website and I guess it shows. When I tried once before to just add link path back to http://oakleafmeadowshoa.net/default.html it gave an error page stating that this url page was not found.
I don’t want the default.html in the forum folder but just need a proper path back to the home page of my website.
The home page link should not be to http://oakleafmeadowshoa.net/phpBB/default.html
but should link to http://oakleafmeadowshoa.net/ right? What do you mean by “Home”? Home of the website? What URL?
If you really want to link Home to http://oakleafmeadowshoa.net/phpBB/default.html then you will need to adjust the path to your CSS and images. I can’t figure out why you want that default.html in the forum folder though. Please explain further what you’re trying to do.
For everyone having trouble with special characters in forum names and descriptions,
FIND (on or around lines 193 and 194 of the original script)
$forum_name = $row;
$forum_desc = $row;
CHANGE TO (adding the addslashes() function)
$forum_name = addslashes($row);
$forum_desc = addslashes($row);
And that should resolve most of the complaints I’ve seen here about the conversion failing.
Notice my “kakumei black” theme:
http://heroesonly.com/heroes/bbpress/
Hi, I have finally converted over from phpBB2. I wanted to do this for a long time, and had done some trial runs in the past, but only now have I committed myself to bbPress. I think it’s for the better. phpBB3 still uses the brain-dead “mod” system of editing the code instead of using a plugin API. (Yes I did write phpBB mods.)
Now I’m hearing all this talk about bbPress going away, etc. etc. I think it’s ridiculous that people are getting worried about this. bbPress is awesome.
I don’t know how to tag this post… any suggestions?
I uploaded it from my hosting company. I got it to work but because it is in this header the path shows my link to exist in phpBB. Because of that, the website home page is rendered that it does not exist. Can I just upload the header.php into hosting and not have to put it back where I got it.
http://www.oakleafmeadowshoa.net/phpbb/
Don’t let the folder I put it in be misleading. I had created a folder for phpBB and then decided to go with bbPress because it was so much simplier. My website is for our homeowner’s association and I don’t expect much traffic so the bbPress was a better choice for me.
I have Windows and can copy and edit it in Notepad but then how do I get it uploaded back to the header.php? Sorry, I’m fairly new to this…. I mean I know how to upload it but will the changes take affect right then or do I need to do something in my file manager?
Hi all,
I am in the process of developing a new site (which is currently in beta and not meant for the public yet…) but I have a few concerns…
Website: http://www.diyextra.com
1) Have I chosen the right forum for the project, I keep hearing bbpress is dead or it will not be developed as much when/if it becomes a plugin… Should I be using a larger scale forum package like vbulletin or phpbb ? … My thoughts on the subject originally was to go bbpress as it may tie in well with the CMS side of the site which is controlled by wordpress, I did look in to buddypress but the whole group forum thing is off putting and the fact it is not SEO friendly and the slugs (urls) are way to long… Anyone have any comments or thoughts on this would be great….
2) Plugins – Ok so I understand the forum is very basic in its core state and you add plugins to achieve options you require, but quite a number of plugins I have tried to use seem not to work, Also I have a concern that there will be a limited number of plugins developed for bbpress when/if it becomes a plugin.
3) Here is a bug I have found – maybe its just on my forum… The freshness (time/date) is incorrect a lot of the test posts I have posted on the forum are from weeks and months ago, but yet they are show up as 3 weeks… yes I have heavily modified the templet files but only the html and header/footer locations… any ideas ?
4) RSS – Also I am getting RSS error – “This page contains the following errors: error on line 10 at column 33: Entity ‘raquo’ not defined
Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.” Anyone else have this problem or any suggestions…
Many Thanks Guys,
Chris
Yeah, I’ve just spent the last 2 hours trying to figure this out… At first I thought I was just reading the instructions wrong. I’ve been trying to read into it and plop code randomly. I’ve gone over the instructions as to which file to put where about 5 times……..
…I’ll let you know if I figure it out, lol.. if I don’t give up shortly and go back to phpbb. 
my users are not converting over but everything else is. anyone have a similar problem? i am using phpbb3 version 7 and bbpress 1.0.
yoyopop,
thanks a million. i will test it out and see if i can get it to work.
tflight – I understand paulhawke is working on his own script, but prior to its release, I am looking to convert those links using the current script, which so far ran successfully for me. So, any feedback on that from anyone who understands it better than I do would be great.
rspowers – try this one https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/phpbb3-gt-bbpress-converter-beta-release
glad to hear you’re still working on this as it will help a lot of people! Do we actually have any concrete information about how close any integration with wordpress is, in order to make the decisions you suggest?
Looks like we’ll have to figure out a workaround then. Email address is our users’ single login for our web site, forums, crm, etc. No getting around it. Wasn’t an issue with phpBB, even though any visitor could get any email address by right-clicking on the “email” button and then doing “copy link address”.
anyone get this to work with phpbb3?
@r-a-y
I hope it will turn out to be just how you say. I’ve been deciding for a while now whether to use bbPress or another forum/board software, and can can finally be sure that bbPress is the way to go.
I’ve tried out SMF and phpBB and those two are so complicated and un-user-friendly, there’s no comparison.
I really hope Automattic doesn’t abandon but rather invests its might and power into bbPress.
Well, I’ve been using phpbb for some time, and as WordPress is so good, I’ve decided to give bbPress a try. And as phpbb is full of spams I just can’t handle… well…
I’ve read the installation instruction, and check if it has the requirements… and it has. So uploaded the bbPress to my directory and when try to run the installer:
“An old config.php file has been detected in your installation. You should remove it and run the installer again. You can use the same database connection details if you do.”
What I’ve tried to to:
Delete the “bb-config-sample.php”
Rename the “bb-config-sampl.phpe” to “bb-config.php”
Nothing happens. Still the same message. Does anyone know how to help me?
Thank you,
Newton Uzeda
So i see there are two versions of this software, a plugin and stand alone version. I guess im wondering if both will continue to be supported or are they moving in one direction?
Also, is there any plan to create importing options for those who have phpbb or vbulletin forums and want to transfer to bbpress?
thx
I have the same problem. Brand new install with phpBB import. The import was a charlie-foxtrot of wild characters substituted for quotation marks, but all new posts insert the before every apostrophe. Looks like this:
I’m looking to…
I’d prefer an appliance
Even after I go in and edit the post to remove the it remains in the text of the post.
yoyopop, that is what paulhawke is doing with his plugin/script where he says:
<blockquote”mapping is maintained between old and new user/post/topic/forum ID values”
With that, you could create some simple redirects from old URLs to new URLs and those old links will work.
Hi guys.
I was looking at this conversion again and one really useful thing it misses out is converting internal links – eg: if someone has posted a link to a certain topic within the forum, the link will no longer work.
If it could convert from the standard phpbb format eg: forum/viewtopic.php?t=7836
to the default bbpress format eg: forum/topic.php?id=7836
or does the smilies conversion only search for standalone text (ie: it wouldn’t convert phrases within a string)??
would adding something like this to the smilies conversion section work?
‘viewtopic.php?t=’ => ‘topic.php?id=’,
I guess you could also write a new viewtopic.php file that could parse those links, although that’s a bit of a workaround.
Cary1221,
The best way to work out if bbpress is right for you is to tell us what functionality you’re looking for; and how hands on you want to be with it.
Also I wouldn’t worry about a theme being “ugly” given the incredibly huge number of theme’s there are for phpBB (especially compared to bbPress).
I echo the above comments – am transferring a phpbb forum to bbpress at the moment and it’s so refreshing!
