[jakbson]

Hi,

I’m writing because I’m trying to find widget or help how to create a widget which will be look as your “Recent Topics” table on main page (bbPress.org) .

I’m newbie in wordpress – I spent last two days looking for solution and finally I’m writing here for your help.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Best regards
Kuba

[kingstringy]

Running WordPress 4.9.5, bbPress 2.5.14, Buddypress 2.9.4

Forums are randomly becoming inaccessible to logged-in users, displaying only the “no topics found” message despite showing the appropriate number of topics in the forum listings. Most forums are rendered inaccessible when the error occurs, but not all. Forums that remain accessible show no obvious difference in configuration or status from the forums that display the “no topics found” message.

Problem persists regardless of theme or plugin configuration.

• I’ve tried both wpfix plugins, neither fixed the problem.
• I tried deactivating and reactivating all plugins on the actual site to no effect, then created a clone of the site and deactivated and deleted all plugins except bbPress, Buddypress, and the wpfix plugins. The problem persists.
• I’ve switched to the latest version of Twentyseventeen and the problem persists.
• I’ve tried using both Forum Tools and Buddypress tools to repair issues, to no effect.
• Also tried resetting permalinks, no effect

The only thing that repairs the issue is switching each forum to public, saving the forum, then returning the forum to private status and saving again. Bulk edit doesn’t work — only updating each forum individually.

After being fixed, the forums sometimes slip back into inaccessibility, even if no change has been made to the forum itself.

Any help in fixing this issue would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[cclemens]

We are using bbPress Version 2.5.14 on our website at http://www.nationalbraille.org/forums using WordPress. Everything is latest version and all is up to date.

I’d like to add a list of site rules on this page just above the list of groups. I thought I’d find it in the list of Pages on our website, but it’s not there, and the Settings for bbPress don’t give me an option either.

Is this just not possible?

[blackriverinc]

After activating bbPress plugin:

– no “Welcome” page appears
– No “Forums” menu appears in admin bar
– No “Forums” appears in Settings sub-menu
– Any “Forum” activity from Dashboard, results in error: “Sorry, you are not allowed to edit posts in this post type.”
– Administrator” accounts are given new role: Keymaster, but Keymaster role appears to have no Forums capabilities; adding capabilities does not change behavior described above.

WordPress 4.9.5
bbPress: 2.5.14-6684

[willallen83]

Hi!

I am trying to make any topics and replies submitted on the front end have a default category (I have extended the custom post type of bbPress to support categories). This works for everything submitted on the back end, but not everything submitted on the front end. I have played around with this a lot, and have not made any progress.

I am using WordPress 4.9.5, bbPress 2.5.14 and the site I am working on (locked so this link probably won’t do any good) is https://gateway.aishasalem.com

    // adding possibilities to have categories for custom post types
    public function gt_custom_post_type_categories() {
      register_taxonomy_for_object_type( 'category', 'topic' );
      register_taxonomy_for_object_type( 'category', 'reply' );
    }
    add_action( 'init', 'gt_custom_post_type_categories', 11 );

And this code to assign the categories as default when a post is saved / published. It works on the back end, but only partially on the front end.

    // setting default post catagory when saving
    public function gt_set_default_category( $post_id, $post, $update ) {

        // Slugs of the custom post types
        $slugs = array('topic', 'reply');
        // current post type
        $current_post_type = $post->post_type;

        // If this post isn't a custom posty type, don't update
        if ( !in_array($current_post_type, $slugs) ) {
          return;
        }

        // Sets the default category depending on the current post type
        switch ($current_post_type) {
          case 'topic':
            $default_category = 'livingroom-topics';
            break;
          case 'reply':
            $default_category = 'livingroom-replies';   // does not hook in on the fron end
            break;
          default:
            return;
        }

        // sets the default category
        $default_term = get_term_by('slug', $default_category, 'category');
        wp_set_object_terms(get_the_ID(), $default_term->term_id, 'category');
    }
    add_action( 'save_post', 'gt_set_default_category', 9, 3 );

I have tried hooking into ‘bbp_new_reply’ but this doesn’t seem to help (maybe I am doing it wrong). Do you have any advice of how to do this? Where to hook into? If it should be a filter and a function of a different form (if so, please give as much info as possible, I am new to php wordpress and especially filters)?

Thank you so much!!

[kkmixs]

Hi Friends

I had recently started a blog on WordPress. Now I want to start a discussion froum that is fully compatiable with the installed wordpress. Right now, the option available with me is SMF forum ( this is because I am already using it for other website). But in this case, forum and website will work seprately.

So, I have decided to drop the plan of SMF forum and look something similar to it and related to WordPress.

To simply, I am looking for the forum which will get easily intergrated with my blog

Of course, it should get fully integrated with the wordpress.

Will bbpress with suffice my purpose. Please guide me in installing it on my wordpress. Sorry for the bad english. English is not my first language.

[caygri]

Hello,

I use Forum Migrator, but when i try to import user.
Appear this error:

Errore sul database di WordPress: [Unknown column 'users.msn' in 'field list']
SELECT convert(users.uid USING "utf8mb4") AS uid,convert(users.password USING "utf8mb4") AS password,convert(users.salt USING "utf8mb4") AS salt,convert(users.username USING "utf8mb4") AS username,convert(users.email USING "utf8mb4") AS email,convert(users.website USING "utf8mb4") AS website,convert(users.regdate USING "utf8mb4") AS regdate,convert(users.usertitle USING "utf8mb4") AS usertitle,convert(users.aim USING "utf8mb4") AS aim,convert(users.yahoo USING "utf8mb4") AS yahoo,convert(users.icq USING "utf8mb4") AS icq,convert(users.msn USING "utf8mb4") AS msn,convert(users.signature USING "utf8mb4") AS signature FROM mybb_users AS users LIMIT 0, 100

it’s just 130 user! Not big deal

[crista007]

Jetpack seems to work; running it dev mod so no login require to wordpress account.

Initially was using because jetpack was causing template formatting issue but now seem that is not the case.

In setting I only selected topics and it worked so far.

[dionadk]

Robin, I installed the bbp-style-pack plugin. But there is not option to edit a single forum link. I saw options to change home link and forums link.

I created a Single forum page with short code: [bbp-single-forum id=12]. I disabled the forums slug on the bread crumbs
step 1: Home Page › Student Forum
step 2: Home Page › Student Forum › Features of Site Wide Forum

From here when I click on the student forum it redirects me to the student forum and not the page I created with the student forum short code in it.

wordpress version: WordPress 4.9.5
bbpress version: Version 2.5.14

[dionadk]

I created a Single forum page with short code: [bbp-single-forum id=12]

from the single forum page I navigate to one of the topics. when I click on the single forum page link it redirects me to the single forum but not to the page I created. I disabled the forums links in the bread crumbs. Is there a way to edit the link for the single forum so that I could point it the page I created.

step 1: Home Page › Student Forum
step 2: Home Page › Student Forum › Features of Site Wide Forum

From here when I click on the student forum it redirects me to the student forum and not the page I created with the student forum short code in it.

wordpress version: WordPress 4.9.5
bbpress version: Version 2.5.14

[ashley41088]

Hi Everyone, I am super frustrated with BBPress… I have been working on my forum and whenever anyone replies, the reply goes to the top of the page in a white box. And, whenever a new reply comes in, it replaces the previous reply at the top of the page with the new reply. I have the threading section of WordPress already enabled so I am confused on why the reply is even going there at all. PLEASE HELP ME!! I cant find any information on any previous questions on the blog here and nobody from wordpress has successfully been able to help me.

here is a link as to what I am talking about.

[Alex Luft]

Hi folks,

Our forum is getting spammed by bots pretty bad, to the tune of 200-300 new spam topics per day. It’s a battle to clean it every hour.

We have Akismet enabled and it’s picking up some of the spam topics on the bbPress forum. I feel like if I mark more of the spam topics as spam, Akismet will do a better job. But here’s the catch.

The bbPress moderation page doesn’t give me the ability to mark topics as spam in bulk. I can only mark new topics as spam one-by-one, which makes moderation extremely more tedious and time-consuming.

Is there a way to mark topics as spam in bulk (selecting multiple topics, and using the moderation drop-down)? I currently my only options in the drop-down are “Move to Trash” and “Edit”. I can mark bulk spam comments on our WordPress blog as spam, but not with bbPress.

bbPress Version: 2.5.8
WordPress Version: 4.4

Thanks so much for any and all help!

[Robin W]

There is a whole wordpress group looking at GDPR compliance.

In all honesty I don’t think anyone knows what ‘compliance’ means – even the regulators in my country (UK) cannot explain it in any terms that mean anything useful. The rest of this response is just my view from a lot of reading AND NOT ANY OFFICIAL BBPRESS OR OTHER VIEW!

In general terms, your as data controller and/or data processor need to explain what personal data you hold, why, and what processes it goes through, and whether it is passed to anyone else and for what purpose, and obtain their positive consent to your holding and processing that data.

So you might on signup want to say that you gather username, firstname, lastname and email in order that you can open a user account, let the user login, be able to identify the user and communicate with them. Usernames, first and last names will be published on the site and in forum profiles, topics and replies, but email addresses will only be visible to administrators of the site. None of this information is shared with other parties, or used for any other purposes.

However I have been sent some sites guesses at a GDPR statement that run to several pages.

But most of that is wordpress related (eg what info you captured as part of registration), rather than an issue of bbpress. You may want to think about letting user a see user b’s profile, so may want to alert users to what profile information is shown, as per my attempt above.

The real bbpress issue relates to the right to be forgotten – and I have frankly given up trying to understand that. So if user x publishes lots of posts, and then asks for all their ‘personal data’ to be deleted – is stuff that they published as topics and replies for all the other users to see counted as ‘personal’, and is stuff that others posted about them ‘personal’. Given that facebook lets you close an account, but doesn’t delete comments you have made, I suspect that this is information that you have put in the public domain, rather than personal data, but I am not a lawyer ! I’d also suspect that since the papers frequently mention celebrity gaffs where they have say tweeted and then deleted some stupid comment, that again that is not personal data.

The only thing that GDPR will do is keep lawyers and consultants busy.

[ForumFusion]

@robin-w I found this: https://wordpress.org/plugins/cms2cms-smf-to-bbpress-convertor/. Does anyone know if it works? I know it’s a partial converter then you have to pay.

Any help is GREATLY appreciated!

[gnfb]

I am looking for a solution to this problem. I want to be able to forward an email to WordPress, as one can do But instead of, or as well as creating a post I want it to create a forum entry. The reason being is the email will be questions that need answering. Hope that make sense

[Andrei Surdu]

I use this function to display the total topics count for a single forum: bbp_get_forum_topic_count

If I change the forum parent to –No Parent —, the topic dissapears from forum section but the count does not change. See the image below:

—————–
bbPress version: 2.5.14
WordPress version: 4.9.5

[CMSDeveloper]

Same here:
Notice: screen_icon is deprecated since version 3.8.0 with no alternative available. in /home/admin/domains/domain.com/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3842

Notice: get_screen_icon is deprecated since version 3.8.0 with no alternative available. in /home/admin/domains/domain.com/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3842

Wordpress 4.9.5

Any release sate for BBpress 2.6?

[Robin W]

I hadn’t seen that plugin before – looks useful.

Pippin is a very experienced plugin writer (better than me!), and I just loaded and tested that plugin and it works error free and fine.

A quick look at the code shows no obvious issues with current versions of wordpress or bbpress.

It is always a problem for plugin writers to maintain their plugins – I have over 6, and whenever wordpress updates, I have 6 to test and update.

I don’t really want to take on anymore, else I’d offer to take that one over.

I’d suggest you use it – worst case at some future stage you may have to stop using it, but as I know of no other plugin that does this, you’ll be no worse off than you are now.

If it does stop working come back, and I’ll look to see how easy it is to fix, but offhand I see no reason why it will become out of date unless wordpress does some very major changes.

[liderxlt]

Hello forum people, this time I need some information about where I can get an Android and IOS app for my forum.

I see that in the forum there is a topic about a user who has his app but there is no information on how to do it. https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/im-building-a-bbpress-ios-and-android-app/

There are also services like apppresser that are paid monthly but I would leave it as the last option.

There is an app like https://appboss.com/ but I have tried to communicate with them more than once but I have not succeeded.

I have seen that Ionic is having integration with wordpress in the last time and that there are many items but 100% are for wordpress post that works with api reset so they are not compatible with Bbpress.

Thanks for your time.
Greetings.

[mockendo]

Hi,

I’d like to remove the header from all bbPress pages on my site, but can’t quite figure it out!

I’m using the theme Total, and advice from the theme creator was to put .ht-main-header{display:none;} in Appearance > Customise > Additional CSS. This worked, but removed the header from all pages across the website and forum. I’d like to keep the header on all main website pages and only remove it from bbPress pages.

The main forum is here: https://economy10.com/f/

I can remove the header from an individual page by adding .postid-994 .ht-main-header{display:none;} but this is only for a specific page. How can I do this for all forum pages?

I’m relatively new to using wordpress/bbpress (and don’t really understand CSS tbh!) so any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers
Mark

[PrintStop India]

You can go to the wordpress dashboard and from there you go to Appearance>Widgets then in widget there will be a option of sidebar.Then click on the sidebar,it will show you about the widget that is included in that sidebar,just remove that widget then your sidebar will be deleted from your website.

[cberry]

To add to this.

Old Kunena forums ver. Kunena 2.0.4 (MYSQL 5.0 – Hosted by GoDaddy)

Below is the error we get when running the import tool that is provided in WordPress/bbPress.

***
Repair any missing information: Continue

WordPress database error: [Unknown character set: ‘utf8mb4’]
SELECT convert(kunena_topics.id USING “utf8mb4”) AS id,convert(kunena_topics.posts USING “utf8mb4”) AS posts,convert(kunena_topics.category_id USING “utf8mb4”) AS category_id,convert(kunena_topics.first_post_userid USING “utf8mb4”) AS first_post_userid,convert(kunena_messages.ip USING “utf8mb4”) AS ip,convert(kunena_topics.first_post_message USING “utf8mb4”) AS first_post_message,convert(kunena_topics.subject USING “utf8mb4”) AS subject,convert(kunena_topics.first_post_time USING “utf8mb4”) AS first_post_time,convert(kunena_topics.last_post_time USING “utf8mb4”) AS last_post_time,convert(kunena_topics.locked USING “utf8mb4”) AS locked FROM jos_kunena_topics AS kunena_topics LEFT JOIN jos_kunena_messages AS kunena_messages USING (id) LIMIT 0, 100

No topics to convert
No forum parents to convert
Starting Conversion
***

[mestrawberry]

I am using the bbPress import tool to try and move my old Joomla Kunena forum to bbPress on our new WordPress site, but on the conversion box it just says there are no users, topics, forums, etc. Any ideas?

New Site: http://www.mythicrealms.com/wordpress_new/forums
Old Site: http://www.mythicrealms.com

Wordpress version 4.9.5
bbPress version 2.5.14

Please help!! Thank you!
Michelle

[Robin W]

bbpress only works on wordpress – sorry !

[Pascal Casier]

This might do it: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-reply-titles/