Robin W (@robin-w)

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  • @robin-w

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    bbpress is very scalable, wordpress with around 55,000 plugins (each one with it’s own forum) uses it for their support.

    bbpress just uses the wordpress custom post type and posts table in the database.

    issues on a very large site will be due to the time to perform database searches, and this is really down to server performance rather than bbpress inherent issues.

    @robin-w

    Moderator

    you can download the other one from

    bbpress moderation tools

    @robin-w

    Moderator

    50 is only the maximum no. forums per page, there is no maximum no. forums or topics, or replies. This support forum has over 150,000 topics !

    @robin-w

    Moderator

    The max 100 is the number of displays. It doesn’t close the board, and keep to open the board.
    Comments after 101 are hidden, and I want to delete it automatically.

    sorry, you use of words is confusing

    please state whether ‘board’ is ‘topics’ or ‘forums’
    and ‘comments’ are ‘topics’ or ‘replies’

    @robin-w

    Moderator

    dashboard>settings>forums>Forum Features and then Subscriptions

    @robin-w

    Moderator

    so have you enabled subscriptions in dashboard>settings>forums?

    and are you subscribed to the forum(s)?

    @robin-w

    Moderator

    sorry, I’m not sure if you are using a translation, but I do not understand what you wish to achieve.

    by comments do you mean replies?

    if so how can you have them set to ‘100’ in question 1 and at the same time to ‘unlimited’ in question 2?

    @robin-w

    Moderator

    ok, but it is over 2 month since I looked at this, and I have no memory of what I did or what I wrote. If you can’t make the effort to test promptly free stuff other people write for you, then my enthusiasm to get re-engaged with this is very low πŸ™

    @robin-w

    Moderator

    yes, but beyond free help

    @robin-w

    Moderator

    so I would fix it like this in this order

    for all these, by default worpdress/bbpress will usually display 20 items per page. if you look at the top right of the edit topics/replies/users page, you will see a dropdown box labelled ‘screen options’ – you can then set the no. items a page – so set this to say 50 or 100 to be able to do the process more quickly.

    1. REPLIES

    If you haven’t already marked the replies as spam then do 1.a if you have marked them as spam then do 1.b

    1.a
    in
    dashboard>replies>all replies you will see a box to the left of each reply. Tick those you want to mark as spam – you can use the box left of the ‘replies’ title to select all of them.

    Then click the ‘bulk actions’ top left under the replies heading and select spam and click apply.

    This will move the spam replies to the spam folder.

    1.b

    Once you have all the replies as spam, then click the ‘spam’ link where it says

    All (xxx) | Mine (xx) | Published (xx) | Drafts etc…. |Spam (xx)

    then delete using the same method select all the spam replies (box to the left of the replies list heading) and use the bulk actions to ‘move to trash/bin’ all the spam replies.

    1.c then you can leave them there in spam, or delete them permanently by selecting the ‘trash’ or ‘bin’ option in

    All (xxx) | Mine (xx) | Published (xx) | Drafts etc…. |Spam (xx)

    2. Repeat this process for topics

    3. USERS (the bit I think you want to really know about)

    In dashboard>users>edit users – you can use the same method to bulk select you spam users, and then using bulk actions choose ‘delete’ and ‘apply’ (as you did for topics and replies). When you do so, it will ask who you want to assign any content to. It normally (from memory) defaults to the first user in the list. If you have deleted all content in 1 and 2 above, then there will be nothing to assign, but if you have spam entries they will get assigned to whoever you say – that can for instance be to assign to ‘admin’

    However I have seen sites where admins who use this method create a user called ‘spam user’ with a dummy email address who they assign content to. The logic of this is that if you have missed marking as spam and/or deleting a topic or reply it shows the user as ‘spam user’, rather than making ‘admin’ look like they are spamming their own site πŸ™‚

    The explanation above has probably taken longer to type than it should you to do this once you understand πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

    In reply to: Instructions?

    @robin-w

    Moderator

    a category is just a bunch of forums, so if you create a ‘forum’ as a category then it has no topics or replies of it’s own, but has forums belonging to it

    forums can also have sub forums, but will have topics/replies of it’s own.

    in dashboard>forums>all forums>edit forum> and edit a forum

    if you look on the right hand side you will see forum attributes and under that ‘parent’ where you set the parent to make a forum a sub forum – by setting it’s parent to the category or forum you want it to belong to.

    @robin-w

    Moderator

    bbpress doesn’t have an upload facility, so must be another bbpress related plugin that is doing this?

    @robin-w

    Moderator

    add this plugin

    bbp style pack

    once activated go to

    dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>bug fixes

    and if there is no keymaster, it will say so and let you set one.

    once done, you can decativate and delete the plugin, or have a look at the useful features πŸ™‚

    @robin-w

    Moderator

    so leaves it where on the forum?
    or what remaining issues do you have?

    @robin-w

    Moderator

    but I still won’t be able to tell you which is better πŸ™‚

    @robin-w

    Moderator

    you will when I get back from holiday

    @robin-w

    Moderator

    you’re asking whether a 4×4 is better than a sports car – it all depends in what you want it to do !!

    In reply to: Private groups forum

    @robin-w

    Moderator

    everything impacts performance – the weight of your car’s headlights affects the performance of your car, but you balance the ability to drive at night against losing a tiny tiny bit of speed.

    This plugin does 2 quick db lookups when displaying forums/topics/replies – you’ll not see anything that is measurable

    πŸ™‚

    In reply to: Date format

    @robin-w

    Moderator

    πŸ™‚

    In reply to: Private groups forum

    @robin-w

    Moderator

    essentially yes,

    users belong to groups and forums belong to groups. so this plugin looks at every time a display of forum/topic/reply is about to happen, and checks that the user is allowed to see the forum/topic/reply because the user is a member of the group that the forum belongs to.

    In reply to: Private groups forum

    @robin-w

    Moderator

    nit knowing what your ‘ecommerce theme profiles’ does code wise, I cannot guarantee, but suspect it should be ok, this plugin affects what is displayed, not how it looks

    In reply to: Date format

    @robin-w

    Moderator

    bbp style pack

    once activated go to

    dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Freshness Display

    @robin-w

    Moderator

    try this one

    bbPress Moderation

    I also have a version of the one above that I might publish when I get back from holiday

    @robin-w

    Moderator

    πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ we’ve all been there πŸ™‚

    @robin-w

    Moderator
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