BBpress Forum Redirect ties the page of content and the forum topic used for ‘Topics for posts’ together better.
E.g. https://www.adventureridingnz.co.nz/gps-tracks-rides/north-island-tracks/makairo-track/
This page ‘uses ‘topics for posts’ to have a BBpress forum topic instead of WordPress comments underneath the page content.
The BBPress topic for the above page also appears on it’s own in the BBpress forums, in my case at https://www.adventureridingnz.co.nz/forums/topic/makairo-track/
‘BBpress Forum Redirect’ provides a URL field in the forum topic admins screen to redirect the forum url to. In my case I redirect the forum url to the page url so that when the forum topic is accessed directly via the BBpress forum, the user is redirected to the content page with the forum topic underneath. You can see this in action where https://www.adventureridingnz.co.nz/forums/topic/makairo-track/ redirects to https://www.adventureridingnz.co.nz/gps-tracks-rides/north-island-tracks/makairo-track/
Without ‘BBpress Forum Redirect’ if the user accessed the forum topic the user would be able to read the forum topic but would have no visibility of the page the topic was in regard to.
We have WordPress version 4.9.4 and tried to install bbPress on our site yesterday. Our site is http://www.oen.org
I have successfully created a forum index using shortcode and populated one forum with a topic. However, when I click on the Forum name from the index, I get taken to a page that merely includes our nav menu and footer (see screenshots below). I cannot get to a page that displays the forum topics. Any ideas what might be going on?
Forum index:
Forum page:
lots of questions !
1. ◾Each time i push a picture, this code appears : “[Caption id=”xxxx” align=”aligncenter” width=”468″> xxxxxxxxxx (…) [/caption]“, but if i keep this, this will be printed online. I need to delete this caption insert for better visuals. Is it normal ?
I don’t know what you are doing to create the picture – please describe your steps
2. ◾The user avatar in forum list (for example) is smaller than it will be. Normal ?
yes that is normal. To amend it you would need to amedn a template. If you confirm that you have and know how to use FTP, I will give you some instructions
3. ◾Each post modification is notified under the post… But if i edit 15 times a post, it will be 15 rows about this modifications ?
if you install my style pack plugin
bbp style pack
then once activated go to
dashboard>settings>bbp Style Pack>topic/reply styling item 12 you can limit the number shown and if you go to
dashboard>settings>bbp Style Pack>topic/topic/reply form items 7 & 8 let you switch off this feature
4. ◾In responsive mode (mobile), the post height is mid-screen only… It’s difficult to read… any idea ?
I tried it – it seemed easy to read to me – please explain exactly what you want
my style pack plugin let you do that
bbp style pack
dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>topic order tab
and then you can set an alternate for one or more forums
you can export topics and replies using wordpress to an xml
go to
dashboard>tools>export>and select topics and replies
or if you want csv, this plugin may work (it is quite old, but as you’re exporting might be worth a try)
DB Tables Import/Export
We were all newbies once, so please don’t worry about not being able to explain in technical terms !
The problem of course is that I can’t see your site, so it is like you phoning me up and saying your car is making a funny noise, what’s wrong? 🙂 🙂
I’d suggest we get to something you can publish, and then when you have I can give better help once I can see the site.
So try this :
install
bbp style pack
and activate
Once activated go to
Dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>login and you’ll see setting that will let you add a login and register in the menu rather than a widget.
You will also see that you can style lots of things, so the text size on the forum page is changed by
Dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Forums Index Styling>5. links
The above link goes to a page with 2 closed and 1 open topic. You can even see “This forum contains 3 topics”. I logged out as admin and now I can’t see them. So you need to be logged in to see them. I’m new to WordPress so I don’t know why it’s like that.
Hi,
So my client says that their site currently runs on Microsoft Dynamics 365. We are currently in process of designing a WordPress site for them. They would like their forum/message board to be redesigned and to use another forum software instead (like bbPress, for example). I am by no means familiar with the inner workings of Microsoft Dynamics or bbPress and haven’t had the chance to poke around in the client’s current website (we are not at this stage yet).
Does anyone know how I can export all of the current posts and users from Microsoft Dynamics to the new forum software like bbPress? I assume there is a file I need?
If I sound like I have no clue what I’m doing, then it’s because I really don’t right now. This is new territory for me. I apologize.
Thank you!
if you want to restrict to just registered users, then simply set the forum to private
dashboard>setting>forums>all forums>edit forum and just set to private on then right hand side.
If you want something more complex, then my private groups plugin gives lots of granularity
Private groups
WordPress version – 4.9.3
Theme – Generate Press Pro
bbPress version – 2.5.14
link to your site – nuatv.com
Simple WordPress Membership – 3.6.0
I use Simple WordPress Membership to secure member only pages on our site, including the BBPress Forum index. The Forum is on a protected page with the shortcode:
[bbp-forum-index]
The index page is listed in the WordPress pages.
However, if I open a forum post page like:
General discussion
this page does NOT appear in the list of WordPress pages and therefore I cannot apply access settings to the page.
Where ARE the various forum pages and how can I get to them to set access permissions? I want to restrict forum access to site members only.
You can use the standard WordPress import and export tool, no need for a bbPress to bbPress importer
Using the default wordpress export/import tool:
The problem started when importing the topics, they would import fine but would not display or show up in the parent forums. This was easily fixed if I resaved them. But this is an issue due to having over 2,400 topics and 15,000 replies.
I ran into another problem, because we have imported the user and usermeta table first, when importing topics and replies it asked to assign them to the user account. I manually have to select the user to assign them to, if I do not it would assign them all to my admin account. So I tried that with the topics and assigned them all to user account. However this did not assign all topics to the user account, some (about 150) topics were still assigned to me.
So what I tried was doing a raw forums, topics and replies data dump of the posts and postmeta and importing to the existing NEW tables. This was almost flawless with 0 data loss except for the fact that there are duplicate ID’s, about 1400 in the posts table and thousands more in the postmeta table.
Do you know of a way that we can run a script on the 2 tables and give all unique ID’s starting at a specific number that would match both the id on posts and post_id on postmeta table. I have extracted the forums, topic and reply data and imported them to their own table. If I gave new id’s I could easily import them without duplicate errors. What do you think of this? This is the way we really prefer to do it for 0 data loss. Keeping the forums, topics and replies exactly as they are now.
version bbPress 2.5.14
We’re going BBPRESS TO BBPRESS both same version.
ok, I’ve done a very basic version in my style pack plugin, which would let you use a shortcode in say a widget.
bbp style pack
once installed go to
dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>shortcodes and see the last one
In our case, we have only 5 forums and we were thinking it would be nice to show the same information available in the “Forums” section in the backend of WordPress where it displays a column of the number of subscribers for each forum.
Pascals tollkit will show the number of sucsbribers in the backend as a column
bbP Toolkit
I need to do much more to do what you want for the rest.
Using default wordpress exporter/importer. Moving forums, topics and replies from one database to the other. BBPRESS to BBPRESS.
Also found that I have to resign users to their topics and replies on the import, which is very time consuming. If I just click import, the topics and replies get assigned to my account, when the other users account do exist.
I finally found out that if I just do a raw mysql dump I can import all the data with 0 loss and they get tied to the correct account but the problem with that lies in the ID – I get duplicates because of the data that is already existing from pages and blog posts. Do you have a script that I can run to easily changes ID’s across 2 tables “posts” and “postmeta”? I think that would be the best way of handling a migration.
I imported forums and that went fine.
I imported topics and they do not show in any forums. I re-save topics and they show up in forums. But having to save over 1,400 topics is a problem.
I have not yet imported replies but based on other people’s problems this is also going to be an issue. I cannot re-save over 15,000 replies to have them show up in topics.
This is using the WordPress built in export and import.
I have tried disabling all plugins except bbpress. I have tried saving permalinks. Nothing has worked.
I have tried the latest bbpress version, I have tried the RC version and I have tried the beta version. All with the same results.
There’s actually some information on the updates that need to be made to the Post by Email plugin here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/working-with-newer-wp-releases/
I’d be very happy if maintenance of this plugin resumed somewhere. I’m working on migrating an email group to bbPress and this is a core functionality the users don’t want to lose.
So, the developer for the moderation plugin provided a fix for this (you can see it here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moderated-topics-dont-send-new-topic-notifications-on-approval/). Their plugin adds a front-end option for managing topics, so this works through the front-end. They mentioned that it could also work through the back-end/Dashboard by using “transition_post_status”. Anyway, thanks again for your feedback and help with this.
Matt
when they first log on they are allocated the default role that you set in dashboard>settings>forums.
you can use the bbpress logon widget in a sidebar, use the shortcode [bbp-login] on a page or post, use any wordpress logion plugin or technique, or add a login to your menu using
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-style-pack/
1. bbpress uses wordpress post database, so these are wordpress post numbers, so no, you cannot have different numbers for bbpress (without completely re-writing bbpress !).
2.
I also wanted to ask if there was a plugin that supported sharing bbpress topics.
None that I know of
The official WordPress job board is https://jobs.wordpress.net and they have a Migration category that seems like this would fall under.
When AMP plugin just update to Enable for bbpress,
But my website got 404 error with bbPress Permalinks with ID plugin
(https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-permalinks-with-id/)
Has anyone solve this problem?
Thank you.
Thanks in advance Robin!
In our case, we have only 5 forums and we were thinking it would be nice to show the same information available in the “Forums” section in the backend of WordPress where it displays a column of the number of subscribers for each forum.
For the frontend, we were thinking this would be the main /forums/ page. And, if it’s not too taxing on the system, to show it at the top of the individual forum page beside “Subscribe” to help suggest you to subscribe.
However, if it’s too taxing on the site to display the subscriber count, we completely understand. We assumed WordPress might already have a way to calculate it on the fly since it’s always displayed in the backend but completely understand things are not simple.
Appreciate your time in between other projects!
bis bold
I is italic
B-quote puts a wordpress block around the text – exactly what is set by your theme
Del – is delete quotes
img is an image
ul is an unordered list
ol is an ordered list
li is a list item
code is code – stops the display from executing, just displays it
close tags – closes all open tags
this plugin will help you style the forum pages
bbp style pack
