[Robin W]

my style pack plugin has a topic order tab, which lets you sort by topic date

bbp style pack

[Robin W]

My plugin private groups will let you have public, private and premium forums

Private groups

[willes]

Hi,

I’m trying to import a phpbb forum (3.0.12) to a new bbpress (2.5.13) installation.

Everything works well, except that I’d like that imported users that exist in the wordpress (4.8) installation are automatically linked to subjects, messages, etc…

As mention in this post, I could delete “imported_…” accounts and choose the existing users. But I have more than 1100 matches. One by one is just terrible…

I tried to modify the “bbpress/includes/admin/convert.php” file but with no success.

Is there any way “automate” this ?
Thank you.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi, do you see the topics in the backend ( /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=topic ) ? Did you run the repairs (one at a time) from Tools>Forums ( /wp-admin/tools.php?page=bbp-repair ) ?

If you have run the repairs and still have issues, please give us some info on previous and new site like WordPress version, bbPress version, etc.

Pascal.

[TrustedOrb]

Hi Robin W,

Will it work on latest WordPress and bbPress versions?

[FionaS]

Kia ora from New Zealand 🙂
Just thought I’d let you know that I am also having problems with this since upgrading to PHP 7.1. To trouble-shoot I have changed my theme to the default 2017, I have deactivated all other plugins and instead of just a blank page I now get the HTTP ERROR 500; I had also changed line 1851 (a couple of weeks ago) but that didn’t work either so I was just hoping that the bbPress upgrade to v 2.5.13 would fix this but unfortunately not. I got my host to roll back the PHP upgrade and everything started to work again.
I am not a PHP programmer so cannot give you all the details that tweichart has.
Version of WordPress is 4.8 but also had the same problem with the previous version.

[MrShawnTierney]

Good afternoon BBPress community,

I’m moving an existing site to a new install, and have successfully exported and imported most of the site.

But when I get to BBPress I run into a problem importing the Topics. The built-in WordPress importer says it was successful, BUT no topics show up in the forum or in the dashboard.

Any ideas?

Is BBPress not compatible with WordPress’s built-in Import and Export routines? This would be quite strange as several free plugins I use work fine, so I’m guessing there is a workaround?

Thanks in advance for your help,

Shawn

[robotwealth]

My users can’t edit forum posts that they’ve posted. When the ‘edit’ link is clicked, users are taken to the text editor, but the text is colored white (and is therefore invisible unless highlighted) and all editing tools are absent, other than ‘Ad media’, which is greyed out.

I can confirm that the timeout option is set appropriately.

My website is https://robotwealth.com and I running WordPress v4.8 and bbPress v2.5.13

Example of an attempt to edit a post below:

Any known issues related to this? Anyone else experience something similar?

[subhendu77]

Hello everyone,

in my site bbpress multilingual is not working properly. in my site, i use wpml for language dropdown. but in english its not showing the other language name into dropdown, but in dutch language dropdown, english is showing into dropdown. i m giving u the two link.

http://webdev.wordpress-developer.us/bbq/forums/

http://webdev.wordpress-developer.us/bbq/nl/forums/

kindly help me about the issue
Regards
Subhendu

[deserthighway]

My database prefix is smf_ I got that from the smf database info on the existing forum

I also updated to bbPress 2.6 Release Candidate 3 to try that

still got the warning: WordPress database error: [Unknown character set: ‘utf8mb4’]

[Webface]

Hello,

WordPress version: 4.8 | bbPress version: 2.5.13

when I try to visit a profile I find myself endig up on the 404 page. It happens with every account but one – mine. Its the oldest account on this installation. But that’s all. I tried it with other Users who got the exact same rights I have and so on but nothing changes.

I tried:
– different themes
– every possible changes in user roles
– deactivating from plugins

But the strange and unique thing in my case is that there is one account that isn’t facing any problems.

I can’t finde a solution. Would be awesome if anybody could help me out with that!

You can test it here: https://netzwerk-schienenlaerm.de/foren/thema/1-phase-der-oeffentlichkeitsbeteiligung-des-eba-im-rahmen-der-eu-umgebungslaermrichtlinie/

Thanks!

Jonas

[bobibrown0]

I’ve been searching for an answer, that I couldn’t find here. It was actually quite easy to find the solution by myself. But just in case someone need do to this too, this is how you do it:

-> Create a new folder named “bbpress” at the root of your wordpress theme:
/wp-content/themes/YOURTHEMENAME/bbpress/

-> Find the file named “content-single-forum.php” located here:
/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/content-single-forum.php
and copy into your newly created folder:
/wp-content/themes/YOURTHEMENAME/bbpress/content-single-forum.php

Now bbpress will use this file instead, if your “YOURTHEMENAME” is in use.

-> Open the file under
/wp-content/themes/YOURTHEMENAME/bbpress/content-single-forum.php
Go to line 48, and you should find this:
<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'form', 'topic' ); ?>
Comment this line this way:
<?php //bbp_get_template_part( 'form', 'topic' ); ?>

And you’re done! Easy and clean!

Of course you might want to add a button to create a new topic.
You can do it, following these steps:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-to-add-new-topic-button/

[tweichart]

i don’t know, just clicked update in my wordpress installation… https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/ shows 2.5.13 too btw, last updated 13 hours ago

[pandraka]

WordPress 4.8
PHP 7
bbpress 2.5.12
buddypress 2.8.2

I’m using group types on my bbpress/buddypress site. I’ve had to get creative when it comes to breadcrumbs. There was one minor changes to the bbp_get_breadcrumb function that I had to make to make the breadcrumbs work. I copied the function into my functions.php and added a filter. I’m getting an error/notice:
Notice: Use of undefined constant mod_bbp_get_breadcrumb – assumed ‘mod_bbp_get_breadcrumb’

The function is doing exactly what I want it to do. but this error is showing up. The functions is originally located in bbpress/includes/common/template.php file

here’s the code:

<?php
function mod_bbp_get_breadcrumb( $args = array() ) {

// Turn off breadcrumbs
if ( apply_filters( ‘bbp_no_breadcrumb’, is_front_page() ) )
return;

// Define variables
$front_id = $root_id = 0;
$ancestors = $crumbs = $tag_data = array();
$pre_root_text = $pre_front_text = $pre_current_text = ”;
$pre_include_root = $pre_include_home = $pre_include_current = true;

/** Home Text *********************************************************/

// No custom home text
if ( empty( $args[‘home_text’] ) ) {

$front_id = get_option( ‘page_on_front’ );

// Set home text to page title
if ( !empty( $front_id ) ) {
$pre_front_text = get_the_title( $front_id );

// Default to ‘Home’
} else {
$pre_front_text = __( ‘Home’, ‘bbpress’ );
}
}

/** Root Text *********************************************************/

// No custom root text
if ( empty( $args[‘root_text’] ) ) {
$page = bbp_get_page_by_path( bbp_get_root_slug() );
if ( !empty( $page ) ) {
$root_id = $page->ID;
}
$pre_root_text = bbp_get_forum_archive_title();
}

/** Includes **********************************************************/

// Root slug is also the front page
if ( !empty( $front_id ) && ( $front_id === $root_id ) ) {
$pre_include_root = false;
}

// Don’t show root if viewing forum archive
if ( bbp_is_forum_archive() ) {
$pre_include_root = false;
}

// Don’t show root if viewing page in place of forum archive
if ( !empty( $root_id ) && ( ( is_single() || is_page() ) && ( $root_id === get_the_ID() ) ) ) {
$pre_include_root = false;
}

/** Current Text ******************************************************/

// Search page
if ( bbp_is_search() ) {
$pre_current_text = bbp_get_search_title();

// Forum archive
} elseif ( bbp_is_forum_archive() ) {
$pre_current_text = bbp_get_forum_archive_title();

// Topic archive
} elseif ( bbp_is_topic_archive() ) {
$pre_current_text = bbp_get_topic_archive_title();

// View
} elseif ( bbp_is_single_view() ) {
$pre_current_text = bbp_get_view_title();

// Single Forum
} elseif ( bbp_is_single_forum() ) {
$pre_current_text = bbp_get_forum_title();

// Single Topic
} elseif ( bbp_is_single_topic() ) {
$pre_current_text = bbp_get_topic_title();

// Single Topic
} elseif ( bbp_is_single_reply() ) {
$pre_current_text = bbp_get_reply_title();

// Topic Tag (or theme compat topic tag)
} elseif ( bbp_is_topic_tag() || ( get_query_var( ‘bbp_topic_tag’ ) && !bbp_is_topic_tag_edit() ) ) {

// Always include the tag name
$tag_data[] = bbp_get_topic_tag_name();

// If capable, include a link to edit the tag
if ( current_user_can( ‘manage_topic_tags’ ) ) {
$tag_data[] = ‘‘ . esc_html__( ‘(Edit)’, ‘bbpress’ ) . ‘‘;
}

// Implode the results of the tag data
$pre_current_text = sprintf( __( ‘Topic Tag: %s’, ‘bbpress’ ), implode( ‘ ‘, $tag_data ) );

// Edit Topic Tag
} elseif ( bbp_is_topic_tag_edit() ) {
$pre_current_text = __( ‘Edit’, ‘bbpress’ );

// Single
} else {
$pre_current_text = get_the_title();
}

/** Parse Args ********************************************************/

// Parse args
$r = bbp_parse_args( $args, array(

// HTML
‘before’ => ‘<div class=”bbp-breadcrumb”><p>’,
‘after’ => ‘</p></div>’,

// Separator
‘sep’ => is_rtl() ? __( ‘‹’, ‘bbpress’ ) : __( ‘›’, ‘bbpress’ ),
‘pad_sep’ => 1,
‘sep_before’ => ‘<span class=”bbp-breadcrumb-sep”>’,
‘sep_after’ => ‘</span>’,

// Crumbs
‘crumb_before’ => ”,
‘crumb_after’ => ”,

// Home
‘include_home’ => $pre_include_home,
‘home_text’ => $pre_front_text,

// Forum root
‘include_root’ => $pre_include_root,
‘root_text’ => $pre_root_text,

// Current
‘include_current’ => $pre_include_current,
‘current_text’ => $pre_current_text,
‘current_before’ => ‘<span class=”bbp-breadcrumb-current”>’,
‘current_after’ => ‘</span>’,
), ‘get_breadcrumb’ );

/** Ancestors *********************************************************/

// Get post ancestors
if ( is_singular() || bbp_is_forum_edit() || bbp_is_topic_edit() || bbp_is_reply_edit() ) {
$ancestors = array_reverse( (array) get_post_ancestors( get_the_ID() ) );
}

// Do we want to include a link to home?
if ( !empty( $r[‘include_home’] ) || empty( $r[‘home_text’] ) ) {
$crumbs[] = ‘‘ . $r[‘home_text’] . ‘‘;
}

// Do we want to include a link to the forum root?
if ( !empty( $r[‘include_root’] ) || empty( $r[‘root_text’] ) ) {

// Page exists at root slug path, so use its permalink
$page = bbp_get_page_by_path( bbp_get_root_slug() );
if ( !empty( $page ) ) {
$root_url = get_permalink( $page->ID );

// Use the root slug
} else {
$root_url = get_post_type_archive_link( bbp_get_forum_post_type() );
}

// Add the breadcrumb
$crumbs[] = ‘‘ . $r[‘root_text’] . ‘‘;
}

// Ancestors exist
if ( !empty( $ancestors ) ) {

// Loop through parents
foreach ( (array) $ancestors as $parent_id ) {

// Parents
$parent = get_post( $parent_id );

// Skip parent if empty or error
if ( empty( $parent ) || is_wp_error( $parent ) )
continue;

// Switch through post_type to ensure correct filters are applied
switch ( $parent->post_type ) {

// Forum
case bbp_get_forum_post_type() :
// PAA – modified
//echo ‘forum title’. bbp_get_forum_title( $parent->ID) ;
$test_title = bbp_get_forum_title( $parent->ID) ;
if ($test_title == ‘Group Forums’){
$base_url = bp_get_root_domain();
$crumbs[] = ‘Groups‘;}
else
{$crumbs[] = ‘ID ) ) . ‘” class=”bbp-breadcrumb-forum”>’ . bbp_get_forum_title( $parent->ID ) . ‘‘; };

break;

// Topic
case bbp_get_topic_post_type() :
$crumbs[] = ‘ID ) ) . ‘” class=”bbp-breadcrumb-topic”>’ . bbp_get_topic_title( $parent->ID ) . ‘‘;
break;

// Reply (Note: not in most themes)
case bbp_get_reply_post_type() :
$crumbs[] = ‘ID ) ) . ‘” class=”bbp-breadcrumb-reply”>’ . bbp_get_reply_title( $parent->ID ) . ‘‘;
break;

// WordPress Post/Page/Other
default :
$crumbs[] = ‘ID ) ) . ‘” class=”bbp-breadcrumb-item”>’ . get_the_title( $parent->ID ) . ‘‘;
break;
}
}

// Edit topic tag
} elseif ( bbp_is_topic_tag_edit() ) {
$crumbs[] = ‘‘ . sprintf( __( ‘Topic Tag: %s’, ‘bbpress’ ), bbp_get_topic_tag_name() ) . ‘‘;

// Search
} elseif ( bbp_is_search() && bbp_get_search_terms() ) {
$crumbs[] = ‘‘ . esc_html__( ‘Search’, ‘bbpress’ ) . ‘‘;
}

/** Current ***********************************************************/

// Add current page to breadcrumb
if ( !empty( $r[‘include_current’] ) || empty( $r[‘current_text’] ) ) {
$crumbs[] = $r[‘current_before’] . $r[‘current_text’] . $r[‘current_after’];
}

/** Separator *********************************************************/

// Wrap the separator in before/after before padding and filter
if ( ! empty( $r[‘sep’] ) ) {
$sep = $r[‘sep_before’] . $r[‘sep’] . $r[‘sep_after’];
}

// Pad the separator
if ( !empty( $r[‘pad_sep’] ) ) {
if ( function_exists( ‘mb_strlen’ ) ) {
$sep = str_pad( $sep, mb_strlen( $sep ) + ( (int) $r[‘pad_sep’] * 2 ), ‘ ‘, STR_PAD_BOTH );
} else {
$sep = str_pad( $sep, strlen( $sep ) + ( (int) $r[‘pad_sep’] * 2 ), ‘ ‘, STR_PAD_BOTH );
}
}

/** Finish Up *********************************************************/

// Filter the separator and breadcrumb
$sep = apply_filters( ‘bbp_breadcrumb_separator’, $sep );
$crumbs = apply_filters( ‘bbp_breadcrumbs’, $crumbs );

// Build the trail
$trail = !empty( $crumbs ) ? ( $r[‘before’] . $r[‘crumb_before’] . implode( $sep . $r[‘crumb_after’] . $r[‘crumb_before’] , $crumbs ) . $r[‘crumb_after’] . $r[‘after’] ) : ”;

return apply_filters( ‘mod_bbp_get_breadcrumb’, $trail, $crumbs, $r );
}

add_filter( ‘bbp_get_breadcrumb’,mod_bbp_get_breadcrumb, 98, 2);
?>

At this point I’m not sure what else to do or if it’s ok to ignore the warning

[deserthighway]

I get the following error when trying to import an existing smf forum using the import tool in the forums.

WordPress database error: [Unknown character set: ‘utf8mb4’]
SELECT convert(topics.id_topic USING “utf8mb4”) AS id_topic,convert(topics.num_replies USING “utf8mb4”) AS num_replies,convert(topics.id_board USING “utf8mb4”) AS id_board,convert(topics.id_member_started USING “utf8mb4”) AS id_member_started,convert(messages.poster_ip USING “utf8mb4”) AS poster_ip,convert(messages.body USING “utf8mb4”) AS body,convert(messages.subject USING “utf8mb4”) AS subject,convert(topics.locked USING “utf8mb4”) AS locked,convert(topics.is_sticky USING “utf8mb4”) AS is_sticky,convert(messages.poster_time USING “utf8mb4”) AS poster_time FROM smf_topics AS topics LEFT JOIN smf_messages AS messages ON topics.id_first_msg = messages.id_msg LIMIT 0, 100

How do I get past this?

WP Version 4.8
bbpress version 2.5.12
http://hbmm-national.org/HBMM-National-2017-Forum/
(Site is just being started to build forum before going live as a subdomain)

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

R. Duane Gryder
HonorBound Motorcycle Ministry

[Robin W]

interesting question

I think bbpress just uses the wordpress pretty permalinks, so might be worth trying this plugin to see if you can change the default

Edit Author Slug

I’ve only read the page above, not tried it !

Please do report back if it works (or if it doesn’t)

[Robin W]

Firstly, when a user registers,

bbpress just uses wordpress, so it should work if qordpress is working.

Can you try using http://www.mysite.com/wp-login and see if that works.

Also, when a user logs in, in the login bbpress widget, it still shows the username and password login boxes, but if I go into a sub forum, the widget then shows the users details.

not sure what you mean here. On what page or post do you have this first widget?

[andrew55]

Sorry for all the confusion. I was guessing this was a bbPress issue. After digging and digging, I discovered the issue is actually from this plugin:

You Have a New (BuddyPress) Message

It appears to be creating the paragraph and break, even when there is no message notice present. This is what’s causing the spacing issue. I really like plugin, so I will experiment to see how I can make it work.

Also, did you get my email earlier? Just checking!

[andrew55]

Correct. I checked the page again though, and there is no paragraph or break below [bbp-forum-index]

But of course, I can’t guarantee WordPress isn’t creating something there.

[lesan]

For anyone with the same problem, this works for me:

bbP Members Only

[andrew55]

I found this plugin which seems to do the job:

Real-Time Find and Replace

[Robin W]

ok, for bbpress roles, then my style pack plugin will let you change role names (and a whole lot more)

bbp style pack

go to settings>bbp style pack>forum roles

[andrew55]

Ok, I see now.

Yes, it’s a role we are trying to change. We are doing some whacky things with roles. On frontend of bbPress, sometimes we display bbPress roles and sometimes standard WordPress roles.

I was looking for a method to change how roles are displayed on frontend, without changing the actual name of the role in the database.

For example, instead of “Participant,” is shows as “New Member”

Or, instead of “Subscriber,” is shows as “Student”

Maybe there are different methods to accomplish this for standard WordPress roles and bbPress roles?

Thanks for any suggestions.

[Robin W]

Subscriber is normally a wordpress role and probably isn’t viewed as ‘text’, it will be taken from a function.

are yours showing on the forum pages?

[rideshareguides]

The site looked fine until we updated to WP 4.8. Topics became cramped under forum and received an error message when trying to create a topic or reply to a topic at front end. Same error when trying to access forums at back end. Topics at back end show no topics.

Deleted the plugin, reinstalled and started fresh with a new theme. Still see the same old content and get the same error. This is the error message:

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: [] operator not supported for strings in /home/rsgtoday/public_html/forum/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/forums/functions.php:1800 Stack trace: #0 /home/rsgtoday/public_html/forum/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(298): bbp_pre_get_posts_normalize_forum_visibility(Object(WP_Query)) #1 /home/rsgtoday/public_html/forum/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(323): WP_Hook->apply_filters(”, Array) #2 /home/rsgtoday/public_html/forum/wp-includes/plugin.php(515): WP_Hook->do_action(Array) #3 /home/rsgtoday/public_html/forum/wp-includes/class-wp-query.php(1683): do_action_ref_array(‘pre_get_posts’, Array) #4 /home/rsgtoday/public_html/forum/wp-includes/class-wp-query.php(3248): WP_Query->get_posts() #5 /home/rsgtoday/public_html/forum/wp-includes/class-wp.php(617): WP_Query->query(Array) #6 /home/rsgtoday/public_html/forum/wp-includes/class-wp.php(735): WP->query_posts() #7 /home/rsgtoday/public_html/forum/wp-includes/functions.php(955): WP->main(Array) #8 /home/rsgtoday/public_html/forum/wp-admin/includes/ in /home/rsgtoday/public_html/forum/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/forums/functions.php on line 1800

At this point, we would like to get rid of the content that is on the site now and rebuild the forum. The forum site is to be part of a multi-site network of three WordPress sites, so it is critical to get it working. Have read your documentation and will need the right sidebar on the forum.