[Rick Lewis]

I am thinking I want to give this thing a whirl. I got the zip downloaded, change the name and uploaded the directory. Currently I have a standalone bbpress forum with the BP group forums integrated. I have activated the plugin and see my options in the admin panel. I added a forum which I only see the Title for at the /forum page. I know there was a converter from the stand alone but can’t recall where that thread is or what to do with it once I get it.

Is there a quick what to do next somewhere or is it to early on to be asking for some help getting it setup?

I will point out that I am come from the hell of vbulletin world and converted everything to phpbb then to bbpress on my tests sites and now looking to finish it all off with this plugin. Truly not something I want to ever have to do again!

Thanks for all the help and support here and elsewehre on these forums.

[tooltrainer]

Yes I really don’t see this as a real solution, but we are at a loss as to what is causing the problem. And it’s been very difficult for me to stay up on the latest bbP trunk because every time it updates I have to re-integrate all my changes.

Do you have any pointers at all on what we might need to look at? Right now starting over from scratch and figuring out how to re-integrate bbP with my theme isn’t really an option as it will take too long and potentially break too many things. But I have absolutely got to get topic creation working again, and fast…

Thanks,

Jonathan

[answerthink]

I am a beginner with a beginner question: On the front page in the “Latest Discussions” section, there are columns for Last Poster and Freshness. However, in the “Forums” section, there are no such columns.

I would like to add this information in the “Forums” section as well (and then eventually delete the “Latest Discussions” section). I have added the two column headers (actually combined into one column that has both pieces of info in it), but I have no idea how to get the correct data (which I want to search all the topics from within each forum and pull the latest poster and time details).

The code I currently have is below (for the site http://heathoops.net/forums). It’s formatted how I want it, but I have no idea what post data it is pulling (I want it to pull the latest post from any topic within each forum)… Can anyone help?

<?php if ( bb_forums() ) : ?>

<h2><?php _e(‘Forums’); ?></h2>

<table id=”forumlist”>

<tr>

<th><?php _e(‘Main Theme’); ?></th>

<th><?php _e(‘Topics’); ?></th>

<th><?php _e(‘Posts’); ?></th>

<th><?php _e(‘Last Post’); ?></th>

</tr>

<?php while ( bb_forum() ) : ?>

<tr<?php bb_forum_class(); ?>>

<td><?php bb_forum_pad( ‘<div class=”nest”>’ ); ?>“><?php forum_name(); ?><small><?php forum_description(); ?></small><?php bb_forum_pad( ‘</div>’ ); ?></td>

<td class=”num”><?php forum_topics(); ?></td>

<td class=”num”><?php forum_posts(); ?></td>

<td class=”num”>by “><?php topic_last_poster(); ?>
on <?php echo date(“D M j, Y g:i a”, strtotime($topic->topic_time)); ?></br></td>

</tr>

[John James Jacoby]

Also, you shouldn’t need to use your franken-theme anymore. bbPress comes with some pretty cool theme compatibility now. Make sure you *don’t* have

add_theme_support( 'bbpress' );

in your custom theme, and bbPress *should* still work and fill in the blanks. You’ll just need to style your CSS to taste.

As an example, http://testbp.org/discussion/ is using the standard bp-default BuddyPress theme, with no template files moved or shifted around. bbPress is just putting itself where it thinks it should be. I’m using some short-codes on the front page to display everything, and some custom CSS to make it match a little more nicely.

[tooltrainer]

Hah simultaneous post. It is a commercial theme, ProfitsTheme, that has had the twentyten bbP elements ripped out and put into it. I lovingly refer to it as FrankenTheme. But for the most part it’s working like a champ. Except for this…

It was working before just fine, then it didn’t so I updated to the latest trunk and re-integrated all my changes… then it worked great. Till today when it suddenly stopped again. Very confused…

Jonathan

[Ryan]

New vanilla WordPress 3.1.2 install,

Downloaded zip from trac, branches_plugin-3138.zip

Unzipped and uploaded everything to /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/

Activated. Added a forum, added topics. No problems.

Broken Themes

The following themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a stylesheet and a template.

Name 	Description

bbp-twentyten 	Stylesheet is missing.

Does exist: /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten/css/bbpress.css

Is this a problem, or should I be moving files around?

—Also, I’m the village idiot b/c thought you meant something about testing BuddyPress. I haven’t used bbp so I’m not much help, but figured I’d install it and try anyway.

[Daily Anarchist]

I’m getting confused by the buddypress and bbpress thing. Are they like apples and oranges? Or granny smith and golden delicious? Should I just wait until 1.1 comes out? When will that be?

Is there any way to migrate my SMF database to bbpress?

Is there a way to test install bbpress and then switch to it if I like it? I’m kind of a noob, so a link to anything that explains how to do that would be great. Thanks for the help, John!

[Daily Anarchist]

I’m getting confused by the buddypress and bbpress thing. Are they like apples and oranges? Or granny smith and golden delicious? Should I just wait until 1.1 comes out? When will that be?

Is there any way to migrate my SMF database to bbpress?

Is there a way to test install bbpress and then switch to it if I like it? I’m kind of a noob, so a link to anything that explains how to do that would be great. Thanks for the help, John!

[John James Jacoby]

Right now probably the best example of the plugin in action is over at http://testbp.org/discussion. It’s using some of the shortcodes and minimal CSS tweaks to mimic the look of the forums here at bbpress.org.

[John James Jacoby]

Right now probably the best example of the plugin in action is over at http://testbp.org/discussion. It’s using some of the shortcodes and minimal CSS tweaks to mimic the look of the forums here at bbpress.org.

[kpzion]

The topic in front page is ordered by the latest comment.

When a member post comment in old topic.It’s view in first topic.

It’s hard to know about real latest topic.

Can I re-order the topic from latest comment to topic started date?

Help me, please

[tooltrainer]

@JJJ

Awesome, passing that on to my designer now. Thanks so much, you rock

Jonathan

P.S.

Updating to latest trunk now, and so far my “can’t post new topics” problem appears to have gone away.

[John James Jacoby]

@padams – Feeds a must, but since we hijack the normal flow of custom post type archives, they aren’t as straight-forward easy as I wish they were. They most likely will not make it into the first round of beta testing, but will make it into the 2.0 release.

[pineapple-pp]

Hi zaerl

Is it possible for you to send me the latest version of this plugin? It would be greatly appreciated.

[pineapple-pp]

Hi zaerl

Is it possible for you to send me the latest version of this plugin? It would be greatly appreciated.

[acoburn4]

I am moving my forum over from a Drupal 6 install to a WordPress 3 install.

Taking a look at this thread, it seems as if the bbpress plug-in is still being tested? Would you recommend this plug-in for a production site yet?

[John James Jacoby]

@tooltrainer – Looks like it’s working okay to me. Tested on 3 different installations, incuding over at testbp.org.

I did put quite a few changes through in the past 10 hours, so it’s not completely impossible that something changed and is causing this. Can you try the latest revision of the plugin and see if that fixes it?

[Ricardo]

i downloaded the last free WPML version and i was able to create a po file with all the english strings (158 entries), we can start translating…

@JJJ

can we use the mo files with the latest bbpress?

[Ricardo]

i downloaded the last free WPML version and i was able to create a po file with all the english strings (158 entries), we can start translating…

@JJJ

can we use the mo files with the latest bbpress?

[Tzrlk]

I downloaded the bbpress app and deployed it on my Turnkey LAPP VM. Navigating to /bbpress nets me the bbpress installer page, but when I press the ‘Go to step 1’ button, I get no response, and no errors. I’ve tested the page on chrome and IE, the same thing happens.

I’ve thought of creating the ‘bb-config.php’ file myself and doing a manual configuration, but I wouldn’t know where to start.

Does anyone know either why the install isn’t working, how to find the error logs, or how I can build a config manually?

Much appreciated,

– Peter

[darkhog]

Note topic. While it may be misconfiguration on my side, and I think it is, it is very bad think.

I have portal based on WordPress and bbpress. New users on WP are registered as subscribents and for bbPress I have userDB integration (author, contributor and subscribent are translated to member). And while I can send PMs from/to key masters (made several test accounts), for “normal” users messages aren’t available.

So what I should do about that?

[whitehats]

Is it something that can be done with the to-be-released BBpress plugin? If yes, is the beta release available for testing?

[whitehats]

Is it something that can be done with the to-be-released BBpress plugin? If yes, is the beta release available for testing?

[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.

[Ricardo]

@citizenkeith:

if i type “wp-admin” i’m redirected to “wp-login.php”, no problems here with maintenance mode pluggin, using latest build.

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