[Robin W]

use my style pack plugin that will let you change lots of things

bbp style pack

[daoist]

Hi,

I am very new to BBpress and any coding of anything. But I have edited wordpress through trial and error.

How do I start editing changing bbpress font easily? is there a plugin I can add? Please speak in simple terms – I have looked at the guides, but they are way too complex for me – and information overload.

I just want to play with the way the forum looks – and major part of it for me is font size and font type.

Please help.

[highgatecreative]

Hi,
I’m currently running bbPress 2.6-beta-2 and WordPress 4.8 (I switched to the beta because it solved an issue that I ran into earlier during development).

I’m attempting to import bbPress forum content from an old SQL database into bbPress forums using a hand-rolled Perl script that maps the exported CSV fields to the fields in wp_posts and key/value pairs in wp_postmeta.

The Results and Issue
1. On the admin Topics page, my Topic is shown connected to the correct parent forum.
2. I can also view the topic page and comment on the topic.
3. But the imported Topic doesn’t appear in the forum when displayed on the site.

Here are the fields that I’ve successfully imported data into:

FOR FORUMS wp_posts:
post_author
post_date
post_date_gmt
post_content
post_title
post_status
post_name
post_type

FOR TOPICS wp_posts:
post_author
post_date
post_date_gmt
post_content
post_title
post_status
post_name
post_type
post_parent

FOR TOPICS wp_postmeta:
_bbp_forum_id
_bbp_topic_id

When I update the Topic and the forum, WordPress creates additional meta_keys/values for each entry, but the Topic still doesn’t appear in the forum.

Questions: Are there other meta-keys/values I need in wp_postmeta, or any other key/values in any other table to get the Topic to appear? What am I missing?

Thanks in advance

Angela

[Droidism]

WordPress version 4.8
bbPress version 2.5.12
Site URI: Localhost (I can create a temp vpn tunnel to the site if needed.)

Hi,

I am confused about the following setup and theme page template/bbPress weirdness.

I have installed bbPress and set the forum root to “support” and saved changes.
Then I created a page with the exact same name “support“. The slug matches the page name and reads: www.mysite/support/
In this page I have added the bbpress short code [bbp-forum-index]

With the current theme I have the option to choose a page template with or without a sidebar. When I set the page template to “sidebar“, the sidebar does NOT display.

When I change the “forum root” from “support” to “forums” and leave the page name and template choice as is, the sidebar does display.

The same applies when I do not change the Forum root and leave it as “support“, but I remove the bbPress shortcode [bbp-forum-index]. The page “support” does show the sidebar.

I am wondering if I am doing something wrong with either setting the Forum root slug and the page name to the exact same; “support“.

Maybe this is not possible and leads to url/permalink confusion in WP/bbPress and it instead uses the “standard” page template (which doesn’t utilises any sidebars in the current theme I am using.)

In the end what I would like to see is the following (if possible at all.);

When you visit the site’s support page the url/slug read: www.mysite.com/support/
The page title matches the slug: “Support” and it uses the sidebar page template.

In this page the support questions are shown by freshness and the breadcrumb actually displays “home >> support“, not “home >> forums“.

Thanks in advance for any help in explaining the Forum root and page name scheme/setup.

[timsilva_]

@michaelachung This is an excellent plugin that has a list/counter of online users: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-improved-statistics-users-online/

[netixel]

Thank you @robin-w, sad that BBpress does not offer it of origin…

Thank you @pinkishhue, but this plugin tested up to : WordPress 4.0.18
now the wordpress version is 4.8…

[Robin W]

bbpress just uses wordpress login, so you can display the number of wordpress users online

eg

WP-UserOnline

http://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-show-real-time-online-users-in-wordpress/

but as to how many are in a forum, I don’t know of anything that would be clever enough to do that

[ScottyChoc]

WordPress version 4.8
Genesis Theme version 2.5.2
bbPress version: 2.5.12
Site URL: http://staging.c-rad.org/

My site has a members section for which all of the pages in it have a template applied to it with this simple logic:

	if ( ! is_user_logged_in()) {
		wp_login_form();
		return;
	} else {
		// add the members only sidebar and show the content
	}

Is it possible to install bbPress such that I can apply this template logic to all forum pages?

I also want all forum pages to exist under a parent page. e.g. c-rad.org/members/forums.

I can place my forum there (c-rad.org/members/my-forum) using a shortcode, but then all other forum pages go to their default locations (c-rad.org/topic/my-topic).

I tried changing the Forum Root to ‘members’, but then when I visit that page, the page template with my logic is removed.

[ncrocketry]

I’ve disabled all of the un-related plugins, still same behavior.

All of my plugins are at the latest version, running the latest version of wordpress as of July 1, 2017.

Plugins that are active:
bbPress Version 2.5.12
bbPress Messages Version 2.0.7

Currently disabled:
gd bbPress Version 2.4

[aldobelus]

Wordpress version: 4.8
Bbpress version: 2.5.12
https://sisepuedelaredo.com/wp

I want to know if there is a plugin or a simple way to let new people to write at the Bbpress forum I have without delivery of data about them or else. I want the people can start writing right at the moment they arrive, with or without email.

I could use, maybe, an aproval method to stop spam or bots, but I want that people who might not have electronic knowledge could write and tell me what they wanted to tell.

Is this possible? Thanks for your time.

[lrmo]

I had only thought that this is perhaps a bug, or I did not see a setting. I then started with the adjustments, only I have determined, the adjustments take no end …

There are so many things missing – and so much code which must be added to make it “usable”.

The worst is the lack of proper moderation and the fast possibility to delete spam, as well as a fast support possibility. It is unfortunately not optimal always to be afraid I need help or not. Here is perhaps a payment support for bbpress optimal, which provides quick help.

That is why I have now decided to use Xenforo, which is good with Xenword in WordPress. Does not work with Buddypress, but this is not so bad.

Thanks for that I received at all from someone an answer 😉
And I know that the support does this in his spare time, so as I mentioned above perhaps a payment support set up!

[PinkishHue]

@aminazadi There is a plugin for ajax replies:

https://github.com/aliso/bbpress-ajax-replies

And a plugin for ‘load more’ topics, if that’s the sort of thing you mean:

bbpress-loadmore-topics

Hope that helps.

[PinkishHue]

@creative-nomad Maybe something like this would work for you?:

Hustle – Pop-Ups, Slide-ins and Email Opt-ins

[PinkishHue]

@lalitavalon I haven’t tested it but you could try the ‘display posts shortcode’ plugin, set the post type to replies and the category to the forum ID? Not sure if that would work exactly but worth a try.

Display Posts Shortcode

[Brandon Allen]

@balloonsc

I can confirm your widget issue. I’ve created at ticket: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3123.

You can follow the progress there.

[PinkishHue]

2) https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-report-content/

?

[itayasa]

I successfully managed to post messages into the forum by including WordPress in my php script and calling bbp_insert_topic.
However, it seems like when I call bbp_insert_reply bbPress actually inserts a topic parented to another topic and these appear like replies in the site itself.
Tried repairing the forums and it didn’t work.
Any idea why?

[Papat0k]

That’s a good suggestion. I’ll look into it. Thanks. In the interim I’ve been changing “post_type” to “post” and using bbP Move Topics to migrate one chunk of topics at a time. It’s not a “clean” way of doing things, but it’s solved the issue for now.

[Robin W]

1. https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-topic-count/

[nizami]

Thanks for the reply Robin…
Sorry my PHP knowledge is near-zero.
Are the three fixes you specify alternatives? (i.e. do one, not all of them?)
Can you say if BBPress will realign with WordPress core PHP requirements within 2 months?

Thanks

N

[PinkishHue]

I see, to make the font on the sub-forums larger you can use:

.bbp-forums-list .bbp-forum a {
font-size: 18px;
}

Also if you want an easier way to alter sizes and styles etc. you could try Robin’s handy plugin:

bbp style pack

[Skyrie]

I found a bug with bbPress RC3 and BuddyPress. Tested with a fresh install using WordPress 4.8, and with only bbPress 2.6 RC3 and BuddyPress 2.8.2 activated. On the activity page the drop down box has duplicates. I’m running PHP 7.0.

[christianbritto]

Hey Guys,

I have installed BBPress 2.6 RC3 because my host upgraded PHP version to 7.1.6. I’m using WordPress 4.7.5.

The problem is that I cannot create forums anymore. The “save” / “Update” Button disappeared from the page along with the editor options. As you can see here:

http://prntscr.com/foxoun

Please, can you help me?
Best regards

[Papat0k]

Hello,

I am using WordPress 4.8 and bbPress 2.6-beta-2.

I had to do a batch import of topics from csv, and all went well enough. The only aspect I was unable to cover was the parent forum field. I have found my parent forum id and used a mysql command to insert the forum ID (which is 290 in this case) into all rows where post_excerpt meets a condition. This all worked. For reference here is the mysql command:
update wp_posts set post_parent=’290′ where post_excerpt=’CONDITION’;

The issue I’m having is that although post_parent displays the correct parent forum ID within the database, on the frontend of my site none of these topics register as having a parent forum. Under “Topics” they still all say “No Forum,” and they are not listed on the forum page. Funny enough, the breadcrumbs show the correct path when looking at the individual topics (i.e., PARENT FORUM >> POST_TITLE).

Any and all advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time.

[nizami]

Just lost and regained forums on one of my sites. Host support wrote:

We had upgraded php to 7.1 earlier this week. It appears that BBPress may not currently be compatible with the latest PHP. We have rolled back to PHP 5.6 and the forums are working again. However, to make sure that all sites are working on the suggested standards set by the WordPress core team, we will be upgrading all instances to PHP 7.1 within the next two months. It is possible that BBPress may make updates improving the compatibility in that time, but it is never a bad idea to be proactive on that front.

So what’s the deal with BBPRess PHP version compatibility please?