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Greetings – I originally posted my plea for help in the troubleshooting sub-forum but not getting any replies there…..I really need help with two cleanup items after updating from 1.0.2 to 2.2.4 (I did not use the bbConverter, I just followed the instructions to use the Tools>Forums>Import Forum)….

BUT I am left with twice as many topics as I should have…..each one is duplicated, one is correct with the right parent forum, and the extra item has (No Forum) showing as the parent Forum. I had encountered an error on the first import, but I checked the box that says “Purge all information from a previously attempted import” on the second attempt…..looks like it did not purge……

SO I am comfortable with using phpMyAdmin to fix things, but I don’t know how to write a SQL query to delete the duplicates (there are thousands of them or I’d just do it manually)… I could use help with that.

SECONDLY, is it now safe to drop the old tables that previously held all the topics/posts/replies/users, etc? The ones that start with bb_ ? I really want to keep my database cleaned up……AND can I *delete* the subfolder (/Forum) installed with the old version – the one that held the bb_config.php and all those old files, templates, etc?

Any help would be most appreciated!

It looks like the issue can be created by:

1. Converting my vbulletin database to bbpress
2. Turning on buddypress
3. Make a new parent forum for the groups. ( Usually called it “The Nation”)
4. Select group forums to be placed in “The Nation” in the buddypress options
5. Create 2 groups.
6. Move/create topic in each group.

You will see each group will share the same topics. If I make a new group, that group will have all the topics of the previous groups.

It’s not duplicating the topics, but rather the group forums just contain every thread from other group forums.

BBpress 2.3-rc1
Buddypress 2.7 beta 2
Wordpress 3.5.1
Multi site

Hi friends,
Hope you are doing great. Just came across a simple problem with bbPress that How do I Generate a Sitemap for My bbPress Forum? Is there any way to make it happen? I want to generate a sitemap in which all the topic categories and tags to be listed.

My site: softstribe.com which is using custom permalinks %category%/%postname%/.

Thanks in advance.

Im kind of confused at how the HTMl tags work with bbpress.

For admin users all the tags work, but for other users a majority of the tags dont work, specifically the underline tag. ive also noticed that for the ol and ul there is no style, IE: dots or numbers.

• test
• test
• test

It seems to work fine on this forum.

Hi all,

I need to get the user ID of the profile being viewed. How can I achieve this on the bbpress profile page?

Thanks!
~Mike

I have a snitz forum on an access database, which I am trying to import into BBpress. (basically I am taking over an old website and redoing it in wordpress)

WordPress is 3.5.1 and BBpress 2.2.4
site is www.gospbc.co.uk)

I have tailored the example convertor and saved it as smitz.php in the right folder (it is coming up on the list)

q1 where in my my site do I put the .mdb that I have. I have tried the root but the import doesn’t seem to find a database,
q2 in the import what do I answer to
database server -do i leave as localhost or do I need to put a directory path in?
database name : do i put xx.mdb or just xx?
Database user and password – the access database has no username or password – do i just leave these fields blank?

At the moment all I get is :

Conversion Complete

No replies to convert

No tags to convert

No topics to convert

No forum parents to convert

No forums to convert

Starting Conversion

so it can’t be finding the database

Any ideas to progress please?

Hi,

While trying to convert my Vbuliten forum into bbpress when i hit the conversion button the starting conversion appears but unfortunally nothing accully happeneds. I could have entered bogus database connections detials and still get the same results. With correct results its stuck on the same part with no database progress.

Thank you for any ideas.

Joe.

This is probably a dumb question, and you’ll point me to a much easier solution!

Also I am still very new to wordpress, so understand a little of css and php’s but not tons. I’ll use thing and thingy a lot as well, so as not to embarrass myself with the wrong technical terms.

I am using bbpress 2.2.4 on WordPress 3.5.1 with a twentyten child theme that does a few minor mods.

Welcome

I am setting up a forum, but don’t want users to see the WordPress toolbar, as this is outside the theme.

But I do want users to be able to change their password and details.

I am using the bbpress login widget in the bbpress sidebar, and by clicking the avatar or their username, users can get to a theme friendly profile page that lets them do just this.

However clicking the avatar is not instinctive, and I’d like (in the absence of a more obvious solution) to add a thingy to the bbpress sidebar that says “amend profile/change password” which when clicked takes you to the same place that clicking the avatar does (or some similar solution)

From searching on the forums, I have found the line within the widget that does this for the avatar (around line 140) which looks like

a href=”” class=”submit user-submit”><?php echo get_avatar( bbp_get_current_user_id(), '40' ); ?
But have no idea how to then use this or other code to achieve the goal.

Any good ideas, or is there a very basic solution I’ve missed.

Thanks

This is probably a dumb question, and you’ll point me to a much easier solution!

Also I am still very new to wordpress, so understand a little of css and php’s but not tons. I’ll use thing and thingy a lot as well, so as not to embarrass myself with the wrong technical terms.

I am using bbpress 2.2.4 on WordPress 3.5.1 with a twentyten child theme that does a few minor mods.

Welcome

I am setting up a forum, but don’t want users to see the WordPress toolbar, as this is outside the theme.

But I do want users to be able to change their password and details.

I am using the bbpress login widget in the bbpress sidebar, and by clicking the avatar or their username, users can get to a theme friendly profile page that lets them do just this.

However clicking the avatar is not instinctive, and I’d like (in the absence of a more obvious solution) to add a thingy to the bbpress sidebar that says “amend profile/change password” which when clicked takes you to the same place that clicking the avatar does (or some similar solution)

From searching on the forums, I have found the line within the widget that does this for the avatar (around line 140) which looks like

a href=”” class=”submit user-submit”><?php echo get_avatar( bbp_get_current_user_id(), '40' ); ?
But have no idea how to then use this or other code to achieve the goal.

Any good ideas, or is there a very basic solution I’ve missed.

Thanks

Hello

I’m migrating from ning to word+buddy+bbpress and I’m looking for a visual editor like the example on the attached image. It is very simple but let the logged members to upload images and insert it in the post or reply.

It is possible to have anything similar in bbpress? What about the compatibility with smartphones browsers?

Thanks