bbPress needs to face the fact that most people who want a forum, have already had a forum. The *new* market for forums is much smaller than the *installed base* of forums.
Consequently, most of the people who would want to use bbPress probably are already using another forum script and need help migrating. It is collossal mistake to leave this for community plugins.
If I have a forum software in a production environment, then one of the major factors influencing my decision regarding migration is whether or not there is a robust, stable, tried and tested and reliable migration path to the target software. This is extremely important for me. In fact, I would suffer a somewhat inferior software willingly rather than move to a better software if there is no clear migration path or there is a high degree of risk in migration.
It is a mistake on part of bbPress to leave migration to community plugin developers. Even if there were some plugins out there that did the job, it would be much less reassuring to prospective users compared to a migration/import path created by the bbPress team. As it happens there are only 2 import plugins ( https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/forumconverter/ and https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbconverter/) out there and both of them are broken and not supported.
WordPress does it right in building an importer directly into the core.
Over the next 18-24 months, I expect to see a mass exodus from phpBB as they rewrite the software from ground up ( http://area51.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=75&t=41583). If bbPress provide a good migration path, it stands the chance to capture some of fleeing population.
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I think it would be greatly beneficial to the project if the bbPress team build a bbPress importer that supports the top 4 forum software: phpBB, Invision, SMF and vBulletin.
Such a migration tool, importer or converter will:
i) import topics and forum hierarchies into bbpress
including the relations between forums, topics and replies
and slugs for forums, topics and replies
ii) generate an .htaccess to place in the old forum directory so that old URLs are 301 redirected to new ones.
iii) import users including profiles, passwords, signatures and roles
@jjj You have mentioned at https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1740 that this is more appropriate for a plugin and that bundling that code in the core of bbPress seems needless for many users that are starting off fresh.
I believe that this function is too important to be left to the mercy of others. There is a huge trust issue…if I have to entrust my data to someone, I want to make sure that they are reliable, trustworthy, good enough, and understand the software well.
I take your point about not bundling the function in the core. How about a migration plugin by the bbPress team?
I read all the documentation before installing buddypress but the got the same issue many others are facing. I couldn’t find any fix in any discussion thread here at buddypress site and other forums.
I followed the same procedure written in buddypress codex. I am using both the group forums and site wide forum using bbpress.
But when I post a new thread in site wide forum, the activity isn’t displayed in buddypress activity stream and my profile activity.
Here is the site http://www.environmentabout.com/community
Hello,
I have a BuddyPress, Multisite with bbPress installed. We want to use bbPress on the main site and the subsites. I activated bbPress on one of the subsites and have a “possible conflict” message under “Archive Slugs” for “Forums base”. The message is “Possible BuddyPress conflict: Forums page”. What do I do regarding this message?
Each subsite has a different theme. Can bbPress be setup in subsites with a different theme?
Thanks,
Rhek
I have a brand new wordpress site. I have successfully (?) installed bbPress, and created my forums just like in the instructions. When I go to my site, the bbPress forums do not show up. I do not have any pages named “forum”, although I tried making one to see if that would help and it didn’t, so I deleted it.
I can see it on the dashboard. I can configure it. I just cant see it from the website.
Any suggestions?
Hi everybody
I tried to separate title of subforums and these counters.
Unfortunatly bbp_list_forums() doesn’t take an arg like “show_title” to give the possibility to set in false.
So i fork the bbpress plugin to add this arg (i know it’s wrong).
Anyone know a troubleshooting smarter ?
Hi friends,
in Private Forums / i selected “Registered Members” so many times, but after a while, it switches to “Open to All” again..
do you know the solution ?
thanks in advance
For my website, running on Genesis framework using Minimum theme, I am using two diff custom body classes to define the header images of certain pages. The interior forum pages are only showing the default home page site header and I do not see where I can add my custom body class to those pages. Does anyone have a suggestion for how/where I can define/change the header images of the forum pages?? I would really appreciate it!
Website www.nurturematernity.com
How do I change the avatar size in bbpress 2.0? It’s currently 80×80 and I want to change it to 60×60.
I’m a professor & I’m planning to use bbPress as my a grad school class hub. I have bbPress working as I want, except I need 2 types of forums. One is for Required Discussions (assignments) and the other is for Open Discussions (non-required). Anyone can start a discussion in the Open Discussions Forum, but only I can start new discussions in the Required Discussions Forum.
I converted my SNS from Ning. So far so good except for this one issue about controlling who can start discussions in these 2 forums.
Is there a way to control who can start discussions in specific forums?
THANKS for any info!
carmin
is there a way to just disable the forums (for archival purposes) without completely deleting them?
for instance, we no longer want new users or the login form but would like for people to be able to access the topics to view (without posting)
thanks.
