[Stephen Edgar]

Hi @roozbehrah, we try to fully support RTL languages.

The bbPress translations are an indicator of that, Hebrew and Arabic are also RTL languages and as far as I am aware there is no issues with URLs with these RTL languages.

https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/bbpress

There is also this plugin that uses numeric permalinks, i.e. “topic/forum ID”:
https://github.com/korobochkin/bbpress-permalinks-with-id

If you could add some further explanation and examples of how bbPress could support RTL locales and URLs better I’d be happy to add these improvements to bbPress 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

Thanks, Ill take a look at this shortly.

[Stephen Edgar]

I’m pretty sure you’d be able to get what you’re after 🙂

Once bbPress is activated, enable “threaded replies” in the settings.

Use bbp_show_lead_topic(), grab the snippet from https://codex.bbpress.org/bbp_show_lead_topic/ and create a custom plugin using that code snippet.

Then I’d suggest hoping over to the docs and do some reading:

Theme Compatibility

[Stephen Edgar]

This behaviour changed in WordPress 4.6, it now loads WP’s translations first by default

See https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/37819 as there is a proposal that will address the issue, if you like you can also click “Watch this ticket” and you’ll get emails when there are new updates on the ticket.

[Stephen Edgar]

This is fantastic @idlamalif, I’ve added it to https://bbpress.org/about/examples/

[Stephen Edgar]

Maybe try deleting any bbpress-es_ES.po files, and then get new translations by going to http://example.com/wp-admin/update-core.php and click “Update Translations”

[Stephen Edgar]

@rateyourway The “freshness” term has been removed from bbPress 2.6 (/dev) so you will not see it in the translation files, it is still there for the current bbPress 2.5.x see:
https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/bbpress/stable/es/default?filters%5Bterm%5D=freshness&filters%5Buser_login%5D=&filters%5Bstatus%5D=current_or_waiting_or_fuzzy_or_untranslated&filter=Filter&sort%5Bby%5D=priority&sort%5Bhow%5D=desc#

Edit: The string may also be coming from your theme, switch themes to one of the included “Twenty” themes to double check.

[Stephen Edgar]

You can only raise the value of how many topics per page to ~250.

I didn’t know you had a topic with 300,000 replies, can’t you just delete that topic?

[Stephen Edgar]

2,500 is a lot less than 30,000 posts 😉

If you click “Screen Options” from the topics dashboard you can change the number of topics displayed per page from the default 20 to around 250, you can then select all those 250 topics with one click by checking the checkbox immediately under “Bulk Actions”, then select the drop down “Move To Trash” and “Apply”, this will remove 250 topics at a time?

Do that 10 times and your issue will be resolved?

[Stephen Edgar]

Did the counts update to reflect the topic count of the forum is now 20 less?

[Stephen Edgar]

The last version of the import has problems and lost the relation between post and owner.

That’s because the current version only supports phpBB 3.1.x as I stated above.

As you don’t need to worry about any custom modules as bbPress doesn’t support these anyway I still think you are best of upgrading your phpBB database schema to 3.1.x, but here is a 3.0.x alternative for you to try, though no guarantees and I won’t be making any 3.0.x changes etc.

This here is the 3.1.x version: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/includes/admin/converters/phpBB.php?rev=5795

This here is the 3.0.x version:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/includes/admin/converters/phpBB.php?rev=5770

You’ll still need to use bbPress 2.6 alpha with that 3.0.x version.

[Stephen Edgar]

Can you remove a page of topics at a time?

Go to the bbPress topics dashboard: http://example.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=topic

From the dropdown select the forum you want to delete the topics from and click filter, now select the 20 topics from that forum and in the “Bulk Actions” dropdown select “Move to trash” and click apply.

Going back to the repair tools and running those has the forums topic and reply count now been reduced by the number of topics you just deleted?

[Stephen Edgar]

The dashes ———— usually indicate that the database connection has been lost, sadly this one bug I’ve not been able to nail down with the importer to fix and give a decent warning/error message.

Basically a workaround is to open another tab in your browser to the dashboard page and refresh it every hour so and by doing so WordPress doesn’t “lose” the database connection

[Stephen Edgar]

I’ve only ever had a handful of people ask and/or help on importing Xenforo to bbPress, I’ve been lucky that I’ve been given copies of the raw database to work on, thats the only reason the bbPress Xenforo importer exists.

There are some bbPress forum tweaks that can be made to improve performance, and as pointed out some of those will ship with bbPress 2.6 (hopefully sooner rather than later), there are also further tweaks that won’t ship with bbPress 2.6 but can be added to further improve performance.

Edit: This site is running on bbPress 2.6, by the end of the week so will wordpress.org/support, over the past couple of weeks bbPress 2.6 has been used to roll out ~25 international (Non English) forums across w.org see: https://make.wordpress.org/meta/2016/07/29/rosetta-forum-upgrades-in-progress/

bbPress 2.6 is very stable right now 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

Strange, I’ll try to take a look at this next week @moedan9

When I do look at it though I’ll be using SMF 2.0.11 as it is the latest release.

[Stephen Edgar]

@aeneas1 I’ve split this into it’s own topic, things can be hard to track otherwise.

Did you do the import with bbPress 2.5.x or 2.6 alpha?

The 2.6 alpha now supports importing from phpBB 3.1.x which fixes quite a few issues with phpBB users, you can get it from https://bbpress.org/download

[Stephen Edgar]

Right, I suspect this might be more like 30 seconds?

Typically if PHP cannot complete a task within 30 seconds you receive a “time out” error

If you run the “Count topics in each forum” and “Count replies in each forum” repair tools you should get an accurate count of how many topics and replies remain in the forum you wish to delete. Now try deleting the forum again, once PHP times out, go back, run those same two repair tools again, are the counts different? how many topics and replies did it delete before timing out? If it’s 1,000 topics removed, you’d need to repeat those steps 30 times, get my drift? Keep doing this until the forum and all its topics and replies are deleted.

So the above is a bit hacky, but it should get the job done 😉

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress 2.6 has dropped support for importing from phpBB 3.0.x, you need to upgrade your phpBB database to 3.1.x before importing into bbPress 2.6

[Stephen Edgar]

Maybe this? https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2204

[Stephen Edgar]

Can you add some more information on how to reproduce the error?

e.g.

1. Click this
2. Do this.
3. Now click this
4. etc etc

A list of plugins you are using would also be helpful, at the moment it looks like for sure a conflict between one or two of them

[Stephen Edgar]

Have you tried deleting the forum from the dashboard?

If you delete a forum it will also delete all topics and replies in that forum

[Stephen Edgar]

I’d suggest switching your “password protect child pages” plugin to a “membership” type plugin:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=members

I’m sure one of them will support what you are looking for and allow you to continue using a single password where bbPress is also behind that.

[Stephen Edgar]

Try also having the user flush/clean their browser cache.

You can also test things by creating a test user yourself and making sure everything works as expected

[Stephen Edgar]

Try importing using the beta of bbPress 2.6, it includes heaps of import enhancements, let me know how you go 🙂

You can get it from https://bbpress.org/download

[Stephen Edgar]

This is an aMember issue around supporting bbPress’ roles

A quick search of their forum shows many bbPress users asking the same question, but never getting a reply http://www.amember.com/forum/search/330361/?q=bbpress&o=date

The current suggestions seem to be if you have a license is to create a support ticket for help from aMember.