[Malfunction]

Awesome JJJ, Guatam and the rest of the contributers! What I’ve seen so far on Guatam’s page looks really good.

Can’t wait to test it when it’s in the WordPress plugin repository.

One question though: It’s been brought up in this topic before, but does the plugin keep track of what has been read and what not at the moment? There was some talk about a seperate plugin too… If the bbpress plugin doesn’t have it, is that seperate plugin available somewhere?

[wildkyo]

Going to be cleaning up the trac tickets for the plugin over this weekend and uploading a 2.0-alpha-1 to the WordPress.org plugin repository in the next few days. This should make downloading, installing, and updating the plugin easier for everyone now that it’s ready for more testing.

Hell, yes!!

[John James Jacoby]

Going to be cleaning up the trac tickets for the plugin over this weekend and uploading a 2.0-alpha-1 to the WordPress.org plugin repository in the next few days. This should make downloading, installing, and updating the plugin easier for everyone now that it’s ready for more testing.

The original alphas won’t include Gautam and Nightgunner5’s converter, but I’ll spend some time with it before launch and see about fitting it into core.

Getting close!

[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.

[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!

[Real Estate Transaction Management]

I am really surprised by those numbers. One issue I always have is upgrading my platforms to the latest and greatest. We are looking at using bbpress for a community portion of our product and I am encourage my the forward progress from its members.

Steve

[Real Estate Transaction Management]

I am really surprised by those numbers. One issue I always have is upgrading my platforms to the latest and greatest. We are looking at using bbpress for a community portion of our product and I am encourage my the forward progress from its members.

Steve

[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)

[markusdrake]

Right now, for some reason unknown to me, the database IS showing roles for users now. I’m going to try and revist any steps I’ve done prior to this and post them here.

I didn’t get a chance to test out your steps above before it (by magic) decided to work.

Though I don’t understand why this would have resolved any issues I was experiencing, the last thing I did to the site was:

https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/ and changed my wordpress values in the config.php file and admin section of the site, then copied the values (again) to bbpress’s config.php file.

** I found this via another post while searching Google, so reluctantly I performed the steps. **

[markusdrake]

Right now, for some reason unknown to me, the database IS showing roles for users now. I’m going to try and revist any steps I’ve done prior to this and post them here.

I didn’t get a chance to test out your steps above before it (by magic) decided to work.

Though I don’t understand why this would have resolved any issues I was experiencing, the last thing I did to the site was:

https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/ and changed my wordpress values in the config.php file and admin section of the site, then copied the values (again) to bbpress’s config.php file.

** I found this via another post while searching Google, so reluctantly I performed the steps. **

[jabbamonkey]

Cool. It worked. Thanks for the help.

[jabbamonkey]

Cool. It worked. Thanks for the help.

[zaerl]

“Why do I need to change forum.php? “

Nevermind, my fault.

[zaerl]

“Why do I need to change forum.php? “

Nevermind, my fault.

[jabbamonkey]

Looked around. There is a plugin called “Approve User Registration” but it doesn’t work. I ran a bunch of test registrations, and never received any emails. Guess it’s outdated.

I also tried the “Private Forums” plugin, but I couldn’t get that to work either.

So, I downloaded the plugin ROLE MANAGER.

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/role-manager/

Using that, you can create many roles for people. I duplicated my “member” role, then changed some of the restrictions.

So, I have a “member” who could read everything, but not post.

And a “verified member” who could post. So, when I get someone that registers, I can change their role manually and make them verified.

I’m checking to see if this plugin works well with the “New User Notification Email” plugin. If that works, then I will get a new email whenever someone registers.

[jabbamonkey]

Looked around. There is a plugin called “Approve User Registration” but it doesn’t work. I ran a bunch of test registrations, and never received any emails. Guess it’s outdated.

I also tried the “Private Forums” plugin, but I couldn’t get that to work either.

So, I downloaded the plugin ROLE MANAGER.

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/role-manager/

Using that, you can create many roles for people. I duplicated my “member” role, then changed some of the restrictions.

So, I have a “member” who could read everything, but not post.

And a “verified member” who could post. So, when I get someone that registers, I can change their role manually and make them verified.

I’m checking to see if this plugin works well with the “New User Notification Email” plugin. If that works, then I will get a new email whenever someone registers.

[jabbamonkey]

Gotcha. I changed front-page.php … and that worked.

Why do I need to change forum.php? Didn’t see anything related there. Doesn’t that just list the topics in a specific forum?

[jabbamonkey]

Gotcha. I changed front-page.php … and that worked.

Why do I need to change forum.php? Didn’t see anything related there. Doesn’t that just list the topics in a specific forum?

[zaerl]

Anyone else have a suggestion? One that is useful?

It’s spam buddy.

You must edit the files:

bb-templateskakumeifront-page.php

bb-templateskakumeiforum.php

if your theme is kakumei, or

bb-templates*your theme name*front-page.php

bb-templates*your theme name*forum.php

if you use a custom theme. Move the table “forumlist” above table “latest”. Try to not mess up with the PHP portion of code cause nasty things can happen.

[zaerl]

Anyone else have a suggestion? One that is useful?

It’s spam buddy.

You must edit the files:

bb-templateskakumeifront-page.php

bb-templateskakumeiforum.php

if your theme is kakumei, or

bb-templates*your theme name*front-page.php

bb-templates*your theme name*forum.php

if you use a custom theme. Move the table “forumlist” above table “latest”. Try to not mess up with the PHP portion of code cause nasty things can happen.

[jabbamonkey]

hailang, not very helpful.

Anyone else have a suggestion? One that is useful?

[jabbamonkey]

hailang, not very helpful.

Anyone else have a suggestion? One that is useful?

[Anonymous User 7670885]

@JJJ: really compliments for latest update

In past i’ve request user signature but i don’t remember if i’ve already asked for topic/post promotion (i think, like vbulletin/ipb, is a good idea to have a way to promote – or move – an article in blog/category/homepage).

[jabbamonkey]

Just curious, on the main page of the forum, how I can move the list of Forums above the Lastest Discussions. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

[asboyd]

I have created a test site and added several topics to a forum.

I have set the number of items in reading to 10.

When I access the forum (which has 32 topics) I see the first ten topics, but when I click the page navigation for page 2, I simply get the add new topic form and no existing topics are shown.

I am using the default theme and even when I change between the built in themes this is still a problem.

Could someone please advise of a fix?

I am not overly skilled in PHP code. But can find my way around to make changes under direction.

Cheers,

AlexB