[John James Jacoby]

You’ll need to install the bbPress plugin, and convert your old bbPress 1.x forums to bbPress 2.5 (soon to be 2.6.)

Then you can disable the BuddyPress legacy forum component, and continue using the newer better faster stronger bbPress plugin.

bbPress 2.0 and higher comes with a (pretty great) conversion tool to help you migrate from several different forum softwares, including bbPress 1.x. We used that exact same tool all across WordPress.org, so we are confident that it works very well.

[TiiuK]

Hello,

I try to import my phpBB 3.2.0 (latest stable version) to bbPress (latest version 2.5.12) using the default import tool in the WordPress 4.7.2 backend. The phpBB is clean, no mods / plugins or custom styles. I get this error:

Repair any missing information: Continue

WordPress database error: [Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes]
CREATE TABLE MNmAD_bbp_converter_translator ( meta_id mediumint(8) unsigned not null auto_increment, value_type varchar(25) null, value_id bigint(20) unsigned not null default ‘0’, meta_key varchar(255) null, meta_value varchar(255) null, PRIMARY KEY (meta_id), KEY value_id (value_id), KEY meta_join (meta_key(191), meta_value(191)) ) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci;

No data to clean

Starting Conversion

I don’t know any MySQL so I don’t understand what to do. If relevant here the collations used: utf8_bin (phpBB) and utf8mb4_general_ci (WordPress).

Any suggestions?
Tiiu

[corne.smit@gmail.com]

I deployed the bbpress plugin.
on the Lost Password page, using the Lost password shortcode, I cannot finalise the action to do a lost password. get an error message that says that captcha has not been entered.
Problem: captcha is not even on the screen.
Note: it is however on the WordPress Lost Password screen.

Any help on how to get the captcha feature on the Lost password bbpress functionality?

[JamieLe]

Hi, can’t provide link to page because it’s a private / paid site: fapsa.org.uk

When I try to go to Forums I get ‘HTTP ERROR 500’ and this in my error log:

[30-Jan-2017 18:21:55 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class WP_Taxonomy in /home/fapsa******/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/bb-includes/backpress/class.wp-taxonomy.php on line 17

Any suggestions?

BuddyPress: 2.7.4
WordPress: 4.7.2

I think the problem is that I’ve been using legacy Forums in BuddyPress. Is there any way to transfer them across to bbPress?

[Robin W]

this is all handled by wordpress and presumably cleantalk. bbpress just uses what wordpress has. Suggest you post on the wordpress/cleantalk support sites

[Robin W]

Thanks for your post, and your kind comments.

I am glad that you found a fix for your problem.

There are many reasons why the bspstyle.css can have issues, a few relate to caching software trying to combine my css, some are theme related and some server issues.

Anyone coming across this thread who has issues, please do post on my plugins support page

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbp-style-pack

[Stephen Edgar]

In bbPress 1.x there was a feature called “bozo”, what that did was hide any topics and replies from users that had been “bozo’d” though the bozo user would continue to see their own topics and replies.

This feature has not been migrated to bbPress 2.x, there is a discussion in ticket #2755 on some potential ideas and suggests a couple of plugin and plugin ideas that might pave the way for some future bbPress 2.x enhancement.

[mattiejas]

I’m running a website with two private groups, and I’ve run into a snag. It turns out that all logged in users can also see topics posted into private forums in the “recent topics” widget, even if they are not member of a private group. Naturally if they click on these topics, they cannot see the contents of the thread, but the topic titles occasionally do leak information that they shouldn’t be able to see.

Is this a known bug with the bbpress “recent topics” widget? Is there a way of fixing this?

I’m running wordpress 4.7.2, buddypress 2.7.4, and bbpress 2.5.12 (also jetpack, askimet, and wordfence, at their latest versions). Happy to provide more information if need be.

Thanks in advance for any help!

[Robin W]

so is this just a specific topic or topics you are trying to hide?

and when you say ‘access’ do you mead read?

I’d suggest you look at my private groups plugin, just set all the forums you need to to a group, and all the ‘normal’ users to this group, and they will see these.

Don’t set the category of user to this group, and they won’t see posts from these forums

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-private-groups/

[horizon70s]

I should note, I do allow registrations via WordPress….so that shouldn’t be the problem

I left the defaults for user permissions as well.

[Pascal Casier]

Okay, I have put my first version on https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-api/
Please help me test it (replies should be added in the next days).
For all further questions/remarks concerning this plugin, please use the support forum of the plugin.
Pascal.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
You are referring to ‘posts’, so maybe you mean standard WordPress blog posts ? In that case you better ask the question on https://wordpress.org/support/

If you mean bbPress ‘Topics’ or ‘Replies’, then your admin panel should only show you some topics or replies at a time, so you should be able to see them under the corresponding headers in your menu and delete them.

Topics and Replies are stored in the database as standard posts, so they should be there.

[Robin W]

if you are happy with css codes then

bbPress Styling Crib

Otherwise the bbp style pack will let you change it, and much else besides

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbp-style-pack

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,

If you need support for a specific plugin, please post your question on the support forum of the plugin (https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbp-style-pack in this case).

Regards,
Pascal.

[Robin W]

not exactly what you are after, but you can have a featured image before the forum names using my style pack plugin

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-style-pack/

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>forum Display>item 10

[Barry]

2.6 (beta 2) is available for testing (if you haven’t already seen the announcement post) – so things are happening!

[Martijn]

Hi,

We had the plugin running in Dutch, with dutch forum roles etc.
And now it changed back to English.

WordPress language is set to Dutch, the .po and .mo are in the language/plugins folder.

I have no clue why it is showing all in English.

Kind regards,

Martijn

[ecodemy]

Hi!
I have a problem concerning Wishlist Member and group forums.
The custom post types forums, topics and replies are protected by Wishlist Member and the respective WLM levels are applied to them. Regarding general forums (bbPress) the pagination and protection works very well as expected but not in Buddypress group forums.

Unfortunately members can not access the second or any other than the first page of a group forum topic (in Buddypress groups). If a member (who has no admin rights) clicks on [2] or [->] of the pagination, they always get the first page displayed although the permalink is correct and the URL states that they are apperantly on page 2.

As soon as I deactivate wishlistmember, the pagination in the group forums works as expected and all pages of a topic can be accessed.

As group forum is a key feature in my closed community, I kindly request help to get this fixed. I already asked in the Buddypress Support forum for help, but they said that BuddyPress is not implicated. So here I am…

I tested it on a subdomain with Twenty sixteen and all plugins disabled except:
WordPress 4.7.1
bbPress 2.5.12
BuddyPress 2.7.4
WishList Member 2.91.3153

I know that Wishlist Member is a paid plugin and I already contacted their support. I just think, that this may not be solved by one party 🙂

I appriciate your afforts and any information I can pass to the WLM developers why this isn’t working as it should be.

Thank you very much

Philipp

[Md Sadiqur Rahman]

Hi @storyminded,
1)Most probably, your notification emails are going to spam, as it happened with me. You can use Easy WP SMTP to resolve this problem.
4) You can use buddypress to allow private messaging.
5) You have to activate search functionality from bbpress setting (Allow forum wide search).

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
This forum is for bbPress. You question seems to be related to WordPress and BuddyPress, so I think the places would be https://wordpress.org/support or https://buddypress.org/support/
Pascal.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,

My bbP Toolkit should have an option in ‘Global’ to change it to any character.

Pascal.

[RenaiSens]

Yes @casiepa

You can choose how to display the user name into the wordpress user page.
see : https://www.screencast.com/t/vh9tRo1vNWe

Regards
Ludovic

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,

That’s something to be checked with the General Translation Editors ( https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/?locale=cs_CZ )

I will forward the link here to them.

Pascal.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi @pavelevap,

Strange behaviour indeed, if not yet done, I would suggest to create a ticket : https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/newticket

Pascal.

[lynz1960]

This is what is seen at the top of my forum
Home › Forums › General › New Forum softwareTrustees Only[L]

I don’t want, or need, the “Trustees Only[L]” part, how do I stop this from happening?

I am very new to using bbPress (installed it 3 days ago) and will probably need baby steps to understand what to do.

I am using WordPress 4.7.1 running Salient theme and bbPress 2.5.12-6148. the link to my site is http://www.addup.co.uk
I don’t have a clue if I am using a non-bundled theme or not as I’m not sure what that means!!