[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:

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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.

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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
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[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/

[Robin W]

my style pack plugin should let you achieve what you want

bbp style pack

[Robin W]

This is a 5 year old plugin, which I have never come across before, and only 2000 out of 19.5 million wordpress websites use this plugin.

Can you explain why you installed it in the first place, as that may help undetstand how to get around needing it.

[Robin W]

so in summary

live site with

Buddypress 2.9.4
bbpress 2.5.14
wordpress 4.9.5
elementor (various, 1.9.6, 1.9.8, 2.0.4)

WAS working, but then suddenly stopped. Yes, this was working and then wasn’t as opposed to not working ever on live?

Test Site :

Buddypress 2.9.4
bbpress 2.5.14
wordpress 4.9.5
elementor WHICH VERSION ?

IS working and always has been ?

Is the above all correct?

[Robin W]

The theme is here

https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sites/trunk/buddypress.org/public_html/wp-content/themes/bb-base

[Robin W]

If you are just using bbpress (and not buddypress) then install

bbp style pack

and go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>profile and you’ll see options to block this

[galt]

The info below was submitted to Elementor tech support. They are stumped after several days and iterations and asked me to inquire here if someone had seen something similar and might give us a clue as to what is happening.
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Using bbpress, I have subforums, as defined by the parent child relationship. Now it seems that bbpress is refusing to assign ANY parents to any forum. If I take a child forum (any forum) and try to assign it to a new parent, when I update it it ends up with no parent. Every single time.

Oddly (LOL), I do have two older test sites where it is working okay. I am stumped about what is different.

I did about an hour of trying to track this down. My final step was to disable every plugin except for buddypress and bbpress. That caused it to start working properly again. I next added Elementor 2.0.4 and that immediately recreated the problem

I downgraded back to Elementor 1.9.8 and the problem persists. I also tried 1.9.6

Buddypress 2.9.4
bbpress 2.5.14
wordpress 4.9.5
elementor (various, 1.9.6, 1.9.8, 2.0.4)

I have a site where the parent function is working properly. It is running all the same versions of plugins listed above. The theme in both cases is identical (Astra 1.2.5). The plugins shown are the ONLY plugins activated on the broken site.

I have left my development site with everything disabled for now, but I need to get back to work within a day on this site.

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I have a test site available with the minimal configuration of plugins.

Dispensary Patients

I can share the admin login if needed with someone from the bbpress team if they wish to do some deep digging. You can see the site as a user at

[James Revillini]

For latest fix in WP 4.9 see https://wordpress.org/support/topic/solved-bbpress-topic-editor-breaks-with-autoptimize/

[ku3hn]

Hey folks,

I am losing my mind on this one…

Today I rechecked all settings and also tried the troubleshooting mode in WordPress,
to make sure that its no Plugin conflict.

Scrolled through forums, websites, blogs several hours.

[Robin W]

bbpress just uses wordpress registration – so any worpress registration/login will be fine

[Back to Front]

Hi, I’m trying to illustrate to my community organisation the possibilities of forums in general, and specifically bbPress.

But the examples at https://bbpress.org/about/examples/ are mostly quite old, many broken, or much larger forums such as wordpress.org which doesn’t lend itself to being shown as an example of what we can do as a little organisation with such awesome software.

I could help by letting you know which of those links on that page are broken? But does anyone want to help with links to any current, modern responsive designed community forums so I can convince my little org to get on board?

Also this ‘Showcase’ forum seems like its a general support forum? which isn’t a great advertisement for great forum, TBH, but I did find a couple of examples of forums which are nice on the 1st page, so thanks for those

[richardt111]

Hey guys!
Is it possible to use WP Forms as the user registration and login for bbpress? I know they both use the same wordpress database to store user info so assume it should be ok?
Would love some help as I have been trying to create the perfect forum for so long!!!
Thanks!