[Robin W]

forum colors – try

bbp style pack

sidebars – see item 8

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1

[Robin W]

yes, you need my private groups plugin, an to enable topic permissions, which let you determine which groups can create topics and replies

Private groups

[edwardtheunicorn]

My goal is to create a login and registration for my forum. I go to wordpress admin page > Appearance > Widgets. Although, when I do this no “bbpress sidebar” is available to put widgets into it. What do I do?

[Mike Costanzo]

Hi there!

I’m importing forums from Rainmaker into WordPress 4.8.2 and BBPress 2.5.14. On first glance, it looks like all has done well; a quick glance at a sample Forum, for example, tells me:

“This forum contains 74 topics and 698 replies.”

However, my Topics and Replies are not being “found” when a Forum is clicked on:

“Oh bother! No topics were found here!”

This appears to be because the post_parent in wp_posts for all these Topics and Replies is set to “0” in the database. And what’s worse, the “Repair” tools like “Recalculate the parent topic for each post” or “Recalculate the parent forum for each post” do not fix the problem; post_parent remains at value 0.

The only way I have found to populate a Topic with the correct post_parent value is to open that topic in the Editor and click Publish. But since I have hundreds of Topics and thousands of Replies, manually saving all these Posts is hardly a workable solution.

Does anyone know of a better way to solve this problem that doesn’t involve nearly infinite man-hours of drudgery and toil?

Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to give. Long live BBPress!

[vegascoug2]

It was close to 10 years ago we did this.

The reason why passwords work better for us here is that we can arrange a class for paid members, several classes each month. The instructions and curriculum will be in private/locked forum. This will change every month and we will have multiple classes each month.

If we can simply add a password, we can email that out to the class lists. Using private groups someone would have to modify all those users and that is time consuming. Also what if a person pays for 2 of the 4 classes offered, how would groups handle that? The user would have to be a member of multiple groups. There will be new offerings every month so the list of groups would grow to an unmanageable task.

It may have been a mod I did to allow the passwords before, I don’t remember. This was long before WordPress.

[Robin W]

there are none, basically bbpress is a plugin under wordpress, so if your wordpress site works, then bbpress should, with any in support versions of php and wordpress

[Robin W]

ok, so it’s more a site than a bbpress issue.

so more fault finding needed.

try this

Check Email

[John James Jacoby]

The problem of conditionally loading the PHP files will go away when we can start to officially support autoloading for versions of PHP greater than 5.2.

With BuddyPress, we did move to supporting autoloading when it’s available. bbPress has fewer files, and is a simpler piece of software, so my preference would be to keep it a bit more pristine and not include the same conditional support until it’s a general requirement for running WordPress.

Anything we can do to make bbPress more performant is definitely encouraged, so I appreciate you noticing, and taking the time to start the discussion here.

[Fabian]

1) It is true and I’ll show you some more precise benchmarks on this for a concrete example. Take the filter bbp_map_meta_caps, it’s within a filter recursion, where the filter fires it self again. The recursively fires 4 times with bbpress only. Now if another plugins does the same, it could get up to 16. Plugin run times include each other through the filter api. In worst case you can’t just add them to each other, they bias by some non-linear function that is definitely not O(n).
Your point is true, that you can’t blame a plugin for being slower in conjuntion to others. But, you as a developer, should avoid that other plugins can slowdown your own plugin, by minimal intrusion into the WordPress plugin API. And bbPress does not have this minimal intrusion. Of course it is a big software product, but there is high potential to conditionally hook into WP only on pages it needs to.

2) No its not completely irrelevant. I wasnt clear enouh here, I’m not referring to file count, but yeah -how you said- file size or LLOC. Were not talking about vulcanizing scripts. You’re right, the PHP interpreter got very fast and it should not matter, but consider:

a) Only the inclusion of bbpress main file makes PHP allocate about 600 KB. Thats a lot, considering 0 output bytes. And this happens on every request, every REST.

b) Think about who runs a WordPress site, not people that have a dedicated high performance server. Usually its a webspace in a VM. These systems can power hundreds of sites, so the webserver does not just read 500 files at the same time, but lets say 10000. This lowers the chance to find the same PHP code in some cache between subsequent requests. The code size per request starts to matter here.

b) It is a style thing, I dont want my programs to load 1MB code without using it. And yeah, there are many plugins that just follow WordPress style to include everything, but this does not mean it is a good style to follow. Unfortunately, there is no well known code metric that covers this. WP was created in darker times of PHP, without autoloaders. Why do we have them now? I dont get it why so few plugins properly use them, it takes a day to refactor your plugin and another to test.

bbPress is not doing bad. It could just be more minimal if the forum is just a smaller part of your website. I dont expect 25 plugins to allocate 0 memory, but I expect 25 plugins not to clog my dashboard and frontpage, where I do not want them to load. I want them to do what they are supposed to do on specific pages within the front- and backend.
Its true that woocomerce is the worst.
I could optimize it though. It only loads on the shop frontpage, on the checkout page, on product pages, specific ajax actions and REST endpoints. The cart can be XHR, or one can keep on loading the plugin once a cookie is set. This technique makes the wp-admin dashboard fast too.

(I’ll back with the benchmarks)

[Robin W]

bit of a cop out answer (ie ‘we can’t be bothered’), but yes you can manually do this using

bbP Toolkit

[MakarkinPRO]

I have 10 forums. I want restricted access from Guest/NotPaid users. And if user want access to, he paying via CreditCard (PayPal ATM processing).

I installed:

WooCommerce
YITH WooCommerce Subscription (free)
bbPress Private Gorups

But I can’t connect things together. I thinking it that way:
1) I create a privite gorups where wordpress’s User Roles is PaidSubscripber. BTW:When user just login/signup to my BBpress he have a User Role named just a Subscriber.
2) After he addint subscription item to the card and paid for that, his WordPress Role is SHOULD change from Subscriber to PaidSubscriber, but I cannot find that option into YITH WooCommerce Subscription (free).

Questions:
Am I thinking in the right direction?
May be YITH WooCommerce Subscription (free) doesn’t support of changing user role for a paid period of time (I set 1 month)?

THx

[websmyth]

We’ve been experiencing an email issue on a bbPress forum for a while. The forum is setup to notify all users (around 700) of new topics and replies and uses the bbPress No Spam plugin to handle this.

We’ve performed lots of troubleshooting and, after having spoken to WPEngine, have narrowed it down to the email causing a timeout on submission of a new topic or reply. The site uses Mailgun which was installed by the previous developer in order to try and tackle this issue, but it looks like the timeout is being triggered before the emails are hooked up to Mailgun so it doesn’t look like changing the Mailgun configuration would solve the issue either.

WPEngine have suggested that we might need to throttle the email batches from bbPress as that might prevent the timeout. I’ve been searching for a plugin that might do this but I’ve only found generic WordPress mail plugins and it seems this is more bbPress specific.

Has anyone come across this issue and found a way to resolve it?

[Milan Petrovic]

1. That is simply not true. I developed many plugins for bbPress, and I always do extensive benchmarking of bbPress and various plugins, and if you have 25 plugins or if you have 5 plugins, bbPress has the same impact on WP regardless. If two websites add 0.1 seconds slowdown, you can’t blame one of the plugins for what other is doing.

2. That is completely irrelevant to loading performance. It is possible to merge all files any plugin has into one huge file. A number of files don’t have too much impact on the loading, and it is even recommended to have a lot of smaller files to help with the code organization, improve loading of what is needed when it is needed (for the most part). WordPress loads about 200 files on average for each page request, and even more on the admin side, and I have seen plugins that load 100 or more files. Size of files have more impact on performance, then the number of files. And with modern servers using SSD discs and a lot of memory, files loading is negligible.

The biggest impact of performance of any plugin has to work with the database in any way (getting posts, filtering). And yes, bbPress up to version 2.5 was not best optimized, and it was on the slower side when dealing with large topics or large forums. Version 2.6 (currently in Beta/RC stage), has significant performance improvements related to database operations, loading posts and processing them.

PHP has Opcache, and other performance related tools for a reason: PHP is not compiled, it is interpreted, and that is always a slower method for doing things, and PHP needs help to make things faster. It is a good thing to have and use Opcache or Memcached. For instance, my website without Opcache uses 60MB for PHP process on average, with Opcache that goes down to 12MB. WordPress without Opcache uses about 20MB on its own, bbPress adds about 5MB, WooCommerce adds closer to 10MB, BuddyPress around 6-7MB. Huge and complex plugins always need memory to work, you can’t expect to run 25 plugins and keep memory to a zero. That is why we have systems to optimize PHP, we have cache plugins.

Once the bbPress 2.6 is released, I will do a new benchmark to compare 2.5 to 2.6 and see how much gains are there when using bbPress with a forum having a large number of topics and replies. But, from current testing I am doing with 2.6, it is much faster than last 2.5.

Milan

[theacademicperson]

Hi friends,

I know I’m posting on a topic that was asked many times on this forum before (including my post from the last year).

There need to be a voting option (upvote and/or downvote) in the forum topics. It is a must to have a functionality to automatically arrange the topics based on voting by viewers.

Almost all the popular interactive forums on the web contains this feature…Stackexchange, Reddit to name a few. Others have a voting system without any rearrangement of the posts based on it…Google plus, Facebook etc.

I admit bbPress is a great forum builder on the greatest CMS at this moment (WordPress)…but it (and all forums build on it) lacks this critical feature.

As I already said this feature is being requested for a very long time, but it wasn’t added on the updates of bbPress.

So it is my earnest request to please add this feature.

You can see how many people has been requesting this by just doing a quick search in this forum – https://bbpress.org/forums/search/vote/

[Robin W]

which version of bbpress and wordpress?

[Fabian]

Hi,

I have bbpress installed with a url prefix, everything is under /forums/. I noticed when I just access my frontpage, the plugin causes a site slow down of ~100ms. I have 25 plugins in total and I compared bbpress page load time with the page load time with the other 24 plugins activated.

bbpress does not render anything outside /forums/, so 100ms, I’d say even 20ms, CPU time per request is not justified.

I did a profile of my WordPress setup, which revealed that the main file ‘bbpress.php’ include()s 36 others scripts, takes up to 4MB of memory. Most of the time is waste in the ‘init’ hook, ~40ms.

Can you please fix this?
I tried conditional Plugin loading with Plugin Organizer, but it seems to break the rewrite to the /forums/ URL and it just redirects to the frontpage.
So basically, if the request it not within /forums/, bbpress should only set the rewrites, and this should be done within a couple of milliseconds.

Thanks!

[janallsopp]

Hi, I’ve set up the lost password page with shortcode [bbp-lost-pass] but when users click on ‘forgot password’ and fill in the form they aren’t receiving an email with link to create new password.

Using BBPress Version 2.5.14 and BBP Private Groups Version 3.5.9. Using WordPress 4.8.1. The website is private so I can’t share.

Thanks in advance.
J

[lhowill]

Users are currently unable to sign up for a new account on our bbpress forums now. I’ve double checked this myself, and I’m getting the same problem.

It tells you that you’ll get a confirmation email, but that email never arrives (not in spam either). I tried doing ‘forgot password’ after attempting to register (but not getting the confirmation email) and that doesn’t work either.

The only way I’ve successfully been able to create a new account is making an account on wordpress.com, then attempting to login with it on the forums and choosing ‘forgot password’ and getting a password reset email.

[jomila]

Our customers who have enrolled in a course are entitled to access a few forums in bbPress, but the problem is that even though they can access the forums and see the name of the topics in each forum, they can’t have an access to topics (can’t read, comment etc.). All the settings should be correct and I really don’t know how to proceed next. Only people with the highest admin rights can see the comments under different topics. Is anybody else experiencing the similar problem?

Wordpress version is 4.8.1 and bbPress Version 2.5.14. We are using Lifter LMS as a online course platform.

[pmatteudi]

Hi there,

I’m writing because I have trouble to understand how templates are managed in BBPress (and wordpress I guess :)).
I’d like to have a specific template on the main forum page (the one displaying the different forums). And another template for the page displaying the different topics.

Currently in the wordpress page where I pasted the short code [bbp-forum-index], I call the template bbpress.php, which is presented in the bbpress codex (See example at the end of the topic).

But how can I create a specific template for my forum index (listing all my forums), for instance “forum-display.php”. And another template, listing my topics (for instance “topic-display.php”).

Maybe my file bbpress.php is not appropriate to do so ? or need to be customized a bit ?

NB : I’m using twenty twelve theme

I hope my question is clear,
Thank you for your help,
Pierre

<?php
 
/*
Template Name: index-forum
*/
 
get_header(); ?>
  
<div id="primary" class="site-content">
 
		<div id="content-forum" role="main">
	 
	 
		<?php
		/*
		Start the Loop
		*/
		
		while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
		 
		 
		<?php
		/*
		This is the start of the page and also the insertion of the post classes.
		 
		Post classes are very handy to style your forums.
		*/
		?>
		 
			<article id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>
			<?php
			/*
			This is the title wrapped in a header tag
			and a class to better style the title for your theme
			*/
			?>
		 
			<header class="entry-header">
			 
			<h1 class="entry-title"><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
			 
			</header>
			 
			 
			<?php
			/*
			This is the content wrapped in a div
			and class to better style the content
			*/
			?>
		 
			<div class="entry-content">
			<?php the_content(); ?>
			</div>
			 
			<!-- .entry-content -->
			 	 
			</article>
			 
			<!-- #post -->
			<?php endwhile; // end of the loop. ?>
		 
		</div>
	 	<!-- #content -->
	 	
	 	<div class="login-sidebar"><?php dynamic_sidebar('forum_login_zone');?></div>

</div> 
	<!-- #primary -->
  
<?php
/*
This is code to display the sidebar and the footer.
Remove the sidebar code to get full-width forums.
This would also need CSS to make it actually full width.
*/
?>
		 
<?php get_footer(); ?>

[Divvy]

Hello guys,

I’m migrating from vbulletin to wordpress.
In vbulletin, I have a feature showing under user avatar, that shows a image “My photos”, and when someone clicks there, goes to a list of topics created by the user in forums ID X and Y.
If no topics created there, the image “My photos” doesn’t show.

Is it possible to do this with bbpress?
Can someone give me a little help?

Thank you in advance 🙂

[u_Oi]

Check out this plugin

bbP Toolkit

Regards,

[Pascal Casier]

For anybody arriving on this topic and looking for the same solution, the plugin can be found on https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-post-first/

If it serves, leave a review!

Thanks.

[Robin W]

bbpress just uses much of your theme’s style

additionally you can use

bbp style pack

to improve it’s look

[Robin W]

you set the default role in dashboard>settings>forums and when the users first log in the will get it allocated.

or go to

Dashboard>users>and amend their profile

or if you want to do it programmatically or directly in the database, then in usermeta you additionally set

wp_capabilities which already has their wordpress role, so you just add it to the array

to say

a:2:{s:13:”administrator”;s:1:”1″;s:13:”bbp_keymaster”;b:1;}

a:2:{s:10:”subscriber”;b:1;s:15:”bbp_participant”;b:1;}

a:2:{s:6:”editor”;b:1;s:13:”bbp_moderator”;b:1;}