If things look fine doing the import locally then just do the import again on your live site as migrating your local install to a remote install is not the best of experiences at the moment.
Ok, that’s pretty weird, your other forums appear to work fine as do topics even in that forum.
Can you try switching to the Twenty Thirteen theme and see if it still occurs.
Also can you try changing the ‘Topics per page’ setting for bbPress down to 2 or 3 and see how that behaves (try this with both your theme and the Twenty Thirteen theme).
You probably want to use bbp_get_user_profile_url rather than comment_author_url
bbp_get_user_profile_url
Your issue will be that you are trying to import a ‘remote’ database, you need to make a copy of the database and add it to your local MySQL instance.
Open up your database in phpMyAdmin, hit ‘Check All’ to select all the tables then select ‘Export’ from the dropdown.
https://i.cloudup.com/MVzze12453.png
On your local MySQL phpMyAdmin open up the ‘Databases’ page and create a new database with the same database name as your remote database, just type the name and hit ‘Create’
https://i.cloudup.com/ISiSMdHDDS.png
Open up this new database and select ‘Import’ and click ‘Choose file’ to grab the file you exported above and you now have a local copy of your database.
Let me know if you hit any other snags 😉
Take a look the codex for all the options available for bb_list_forums also.
bbp_list_forums
An advanced way of doing this is also in this gist https://gist.github.com/ntwb/3133449 which is based on @lynq topic here https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/customising-bbp_list_forums-last-poster-block/
This should do the trick 🙂 Then just add some styling via CSS or the HTML markup in the function below and add it to your themes functions.php file.
function ntwb_forum_link() {
?>
<a class="bbp-forum-title" href="<?php bbp_forum_permalink(); ?>"><?php bbp_forum_title(); ?></a>
<?php
}
add_action( 'bbp_template_after_replies_loop', 'ntwb_forum_link' );
Update: Or just download the gist here and install it as a plugin 😉
https://gist.github.com/ntwb/8295783
Oops, my bad 😉 This is the link:
Non-functional index page when bbpress 2.1RC4 is used with WooThemes Canvas 5.05
In particular the last couple of posts ‘supposedly’ link to some info over at Woo Themes so you should be able to look into some of the suggestions in that topic and the links mentioned there.
You shouldn’t be seeing this, I just tried to reproduce this and can’t.
The repair tool ‘Recalculate last activity in each topic and forum’ explicitly does the repair on this when things get out of sync.
We’ve been tweaking this particular section of bbPress for the next release and I have been up to my eyeballs in this particular piece of bbPress :O
So speaking of ticket #1925 I have to have another look in the next few days in regard to imported topics and replies and I will see if I can find anything related to your issue whilst I’m at it.
I am pretty sure this is NOT a PHP issue, WordPress only requires PHP v5.2.4 or above and bbPress follows WordPress’ requirements.
As to future versions of PHP v5.4 & v5.5 are supported and the only known issue I know of at the moment is a MySQL warning with PHP v5.5.
I am still not sure what the issue actually is but I follow it up further with you on the other thread where I have already written a reply.
This is extremely and most likely related to your previous issue here.
There is a discussion here on bbPress with the Canvas theme that might help you get it fixed.
It looks like the ‘Freshness’ column has been removed from your templates or your theme has custom bbPress templates that have removed the ‘Freshness’ column.
What theme are you using and/or have you modified the default bbPress templates?
You can also make a copy of your themes page.php file (or page-no-sidebar.php) and rename this file to bbpress.php and your forums will now use that same template giving you a full width forum. 🙂
The default ‘freshness’ is calculated by the last reply.
Have you run each of the repair tools after your import?
https://codex.bbpress.org/repair-forums/
Give this plugin a try 🙂
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress2-shortcode-whitelist/
This plugin is designed to safely allow bbcode shortcodes and other safe shortcodes to be embedded in bbpress topics and replies and also blog comments. You don’t wan’t users entering shortcodes such as [bbp-login] in the middle of their reply.
I am getting a 500 Server error when I try to view page 10 of the replies. What is interesting is that I can see those replies in the forum and I can edit them there. I just can’t get into that one page of replies in the dashboard. I tried the forum repair tools with no luck. I am not sure if this is a big issue that I need to worry about? Any idea what this is?
That’s an odd one that I haven’t seen before, most likely it is an issue with a posts title somehow causing the rendering of the list to throw an error. Does going to page 11 work?
Do you think it is worthwhile to use the “kill all forums” and start again with the “all” export/import?
I’s probably suggest pausing your current work so you don’t lose what you have done thus far.
I would suggest you install another copy of WordPress either locally or on your web host using a backup copy of your current database, nuke those forums and try the exporting/importing everything scenario using the ‘All content’. If that works repeat the same for your primary site, if that doesn’t continue from where you left off.
I had hoped this would go easier but I would not recommend this to anyone who is considering moving a forum to another WP installation.
I agree it would be nicer when things ‘just work’ and I think the vast majority of the time it does, but when it doesn’t it is not the best experience going around. 🙁
Thanks for all the reports and not as I hoped in that it doesn’t look like there is a common denominator between you all except to say you all use WordPress & bbPress 🙁
I still can’t reproduce the error and share your frustration and we’ll keep trying to find this nasty little bug and get it fixed 😉
From what I can see if you use just ‘ar’ it should work for both as per https://ar.wordpress.org/
Try contacting the Arabic translation via https://ar.wordpress.org/contact/
You could also ask the question on https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/
I removed the user/pass from your post as that adding public Admin logins is not the best thing to do here publicly.
At a quick look though it looks like you have a plugin conflict as bbPress is activated yet there is no trace of it in the dashboard for the ‘Forums’, ‘Topics’ or ‘Replies’ or even Tools -> Forums or Settings -> Forums.
To try and resolve conflicts with other plugins please disable all your plugins except bbPress to see if the error persists. Re-enable each plugin one at a time and if things break again you should be able to now know which other plugin is causing the conflict.
Wooo… Hang on a second… Why are you using the ‘unsupported’ old bbPress v1.x? (This was retired ~2 years ago)
And to quote you “I know this is going to sound defeatist and lazy but I simply cannot believe that in this day and age of automation that BBP makes you have to do all of this technical stuff.”
You should be installing WordPress and using the bbPress v2.x Plugin and that IS supported and instructions I gave were for the bbPress 2.x plugin.
The extra info I had in my original reply was for ‘if’ you wanted to add some extra styling by adding the thumbnail pics of the YouTube videos as custom images to your topic descriptions. It was meant to just be a pointer that ‘if’ you wanted this type of look for your forums ‘it’ could be done with some custom customizations.
The ONLY thing you need to do is make sure embeds are turned on for bbPress, that’s it and it is I believe enabled by default (I thought there was a setting in WordPress for this but the setting was removed and is enabled by default)
Essentially you shouldn’t have had to do anything, just post a YouTube link in a topic or reply in your forum and it should work as you expect it should.
Here’s the permalink to the translation ‘Search’ in GlotPress for English Australian.
If you click ‘Details’ (you might have to be logged in) you will see each place ‘Search’ is listed for translation, one of those is templates/default/bbpress/form-search.php:17 and that is the one you are looking for.
Did you export and import each ‘forum’, ‘topic’ and ‘reply’ separately or did you use the ‘All content’ option?
I haven’t tried them separately for a while and typically find that doing it all in one hit and removing any duplicated blog posts or pages after the import works quite well.
@tnts That sounds like the right way to go, I’d also suggest testing all this in a local XAMPP/WAMP setup to get comfortable with all the processes before performing this on your live site.
