[maxc246]

Hi Robin! Thanks so much for your reply. I’ll do my best to answer your questions.

1 – Yes, I’m using the account I used to create the site and the forum, and I’ve double checked to make sure it has Admin and KeyMaster rights.

2 – GoDaddy is hosting my site. I’m vaguely familiar with phpmyadmin, but I just logged in to my GoDaddy account and didn’t see an obvious way to access the database for editing. I don’t see anything in the WP dashboard either. I’m guessing I’m missing something obvious. Everything else in WP is pretty straight forward.

3 – WordPress 4.6.1 and bbPress 2.5.10.

4 – Yes, I can see topics and replies in the Dashboard. I’m able to Edit, Trash or mark them as Spam from the Dashboard. I used to be able to do that with links above each post in the forum, but those links no longer appear.

Hope that helps you help me. Thanks again!

[reedy]

I am having a number of issues with slow posting times. Posts are taking up to 30 seconds to submit in many cases.

I spoke to my webhost who offered the following details:

We have reviewed your case in details. As you probably know the BBPress plugin saves each forum new topic or post to a topic as a new post in the WordPress database. Due to this reason your WordPress’ posts database table and its meta data is getting quite big.

I believe that the main reason for your slow performance is the size of the _posts and _postmeta database tables.

Decreasing their size will speed your website up.

I did actually try the fix suggested at the end of this forum topic by editing the functions.php file.

This way I have managed to post a test topic for about 12 seconds instead of the previous 30-35 seconds time frame.

My forum contains 500,000+ posts, so I accept that the database will be getting large. Is there nothing that can be done to improve the awful performance I am seeing until the much rumored bbPress 2.6 is released?

[Robin W]

bbPress is tested with wordpress default themes. It maybe a conflict – you need to check plugins and themes

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[debodeq]

New. Installed the wordpress theme, installed the plugins but it just never worked.

[Robin W]

Try

http://jobs.wordpress.net/

or contact me via my website

http://www.rewweb.co.uk

[Robin W]

add my plugin

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

and go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>forum templates and select alternate template

[michal_80]

Forum onkologiczne

Wordpress 4.7
bbPress 2.5.12

Hi, I want to create different sections in my forum like on this picture

I’ve tried to make categories and then add forums to it but always the result is not like I want… Do anybody know how to do that?
It is probably very easy;)

[stagezero]

@robin-w
by the way its the bbpress style pack plugin Thanks Rob!
version 3.4

[Robin W]

bit more digging

it would appear that wordpress 4.7 takes out the filter capability

https://github.com/WP-API/WP-API/issues/2964

there is plugin that puts it back

https://github.com/WP-API/rest-filter

Otherwise I think they now want you to filter at the client end.

so http://MY_SITE.COM/wp-json/wp/v2/posts gives you all the posts, and then you pick those that are the right post type.

If you try the plugin above, then I think

http://MY_SITE.COM/wp-json/wp/v2/posts?filter[type]=topic

does it

Please do report progress back !!

[Robin W]

The below is offered as potential help, and in an effort to help, so if it is rubbish, then please come back, and I will try to help further.

bbpress uses the standard wordpress posts, but with post types of ‘forum’, ‘topic’ and ‘reply’ instead of ‘post’ and ‘page’, and bbpress code itself basically uses wp_query to access the database.

The glossary for wordpress api says

GET /wp-json/wp/v2/posts to get a collection of Posts. This is roughly equivalent to using WP_Query.

so I’d imagine that you would just use the same sort of call, and use wp_query parameters to return what you wanted.

So if for wordpress you had a command that gave you say the latest 5 posts, then this same command would work but just changing whatever that code has for post_type=’post’ to post_type=’topic’

If you wanted topics from a particular forum, you would add the equivalent of post_parent = ID where ID was the forum ID

In essence if you can tell me what you want, I can give you the wp_query, and you could hopefully translate this into json.

Does any of that make sense? 🙂

[Gilbert]

Hi,
WP 4.7, latest BBpress. I have a multisite: swissinformatic.org, magazine.swissinformatics.org, [other stuff]swissinformatics.org. My mail server is @swissinformatics.org and the plugin picks up $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] to create the no reply address.
COULD YOU HELP US with a setting box to supersede this value?
Meanwhile I replaced it with my site name in the functions.php code, but mind the next plugin update!
$sitename = strtolower( ‘swissinformatics.org );
Always beware of “Educated guess’ I’m not going to buy a mail server for each subdomain and with the present security of providers,…
I also created a no reply alias of my administrative e-mail address.
Everything is fine now

Subscriptions ***********************************************************/

/**
* Get the “Do Not Reply” email address to use when sending subscription emails.
*
* We make some educated guesses here based on the home URL. Filters are
* available to customize this address further. In the future, we may consider
* using admin_email instead, though this is not normally publicized.
*
* We use $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] here to mimic similar functionality in
* WordPress core. Previously, we used get_home_url() to use already validated
* user input, but it was causing issues in some installations.
*
* @since bbPress (r5409)
*
* @see wp_mail
* @see wp_notify_postauthor
* @link https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2618
*
* @return string
*/
function bbp_get_do_not_reply_address() {
$sitename = strtolower( $_SERVER[‘SERVER_NAME’] );
if ( substr( $sitename, 0, 4 ) === ‘www.’ ) {
$sitename = substr( $sitename, 4 );
}
return apply_filters( ‘bbp_get_do_not_reply_address’, ‘noreply@’ . $sitename );

[Wilbur]

I know nothing of rest, but there’s one for wordpress http://v2.wp-api.org/ does that help?

No it doesn’t support bbpress

[Robin W]

I know nothing of rest, but there’s one for wordpress http://v2.wp-api.org/ does that help?

[Robin W]

bbPress is tested with wordpress default themes. It maybe a conflict – you need to check plugins and themes

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[eliblair]

Hi guys, I will just say first that I do not know much about coding.

I just installed bbpress and now i have this error come up in my wordpress dashboard

Warning: preg_match(): Unknown modifier ‘0’ in /home2/eli/public_html/juniortactician.com/wp-includes/class-wp.php on line 231

Warning: preg_match(): Unknown modifier ‘0’ in /home2/eli/public_html/juniortactician.com/wp-includes/class-wp.php on line 232

the code on those lines are as follows:

if ( preg_match(“#^$match#”, $request_match, $matches) ||
preg_match(“#^$match#”, urldecode($request_match), $matches) ) {

what does this mean and how can I get rid of it?

Thanks in advance.

[Robin W]

the topic index shortcode in my style pack plugin might be what you need

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

go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>shortcodes to see what is available and how it works

[stagezero]

Hello,
I have used Image Upload for BBPress to upload and attach image to forum.
my problem is image is not responsive. It will just shrink its width. I tried playing with firbug and remove image attributes and set max-width to 100%.
It works… Now my problem is which file to edit and how. Im not a coder. I just learned css and have little understanding on php…

[Anonymous User 15184782]

bbPress tell me error with the WordPress version (4.6.1), when I install crashes the site and view the error page. Why does this happen?

[ipf]

I am in the process of creating a bbpress forum.

How can I remove the admin toolbar and deny dashboard access to members? Is there a setting that I am missing? If not, are there any plugins that you recommend?

Is it possible to integrate wordpress, bbpress and buddypress so that a user’s profile shows
1. wordpress posts
2. wordpress comments
3. Forum topics
4. Forum replies
5. Buddypress status updates.

How can I achieve this?
Thank you.

[CMB70]

I am having trouble importing from SimplePress to bbpress. I’m not sure what the table prefix is supposed to be. I tried wp_ and that didn’t import anything. I tried wp_sf (I think that is the beginning of tables for SimplePress but get this error

Repair any missing information: Continue
WordPress database error: [Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes]
CREATE TABLE wpzu_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;

Is there anything I can do to get this import done?

[mcshane1962]

Hi guys,
I followed the above advice, however, when I go to the import function in wordpress there is no SMF option, am I looking in the wrong place? I can see other options, blogger, twitter wordpress CSV etc, but no SMF.
Please help

[Robin W]

ok you will need my plugin

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

once installed and activated then go to

dashboard>settings>bbp private groups

and you’ll find a bunch of tabs

At a simple level, you would set up one group (say group 1) in ‘group name settings’ tab for users, and another group (say group 2) for admins and join all users to the users group 1 using the ‘user management’ tab, and all admins to group 2.

Then go to ‘Topic permissions’ tab and activate

Then go to each forum in turn, join it to both groups, and then set the appropriate permissions. Group 1 would just have reply permission and groups 2 full permissions.

[Hirshy]

Hi,

I want to use bbPress for a forum on a site running WordPress 4.7 with the 2016 theme. I have a problem with the space that is (not) used by the forums: there is unused white space to the left of anything created by bbPress.

It can be seen here: Forums
If you compare this to e.g. this page, you can see the unused space.

This happens wether I use the sidebar or not. I don’t know what causes this, but maybe anyone can help?

[Robin W]

ok,

to separate into categories use

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

and go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>forum template and select the alternate template

Then go to

Dashboard>settings>forums>forum root

and note what that is called – usually ‘forums’

then create a page called whatever the forum root says eg ‘forums’ and into the content of this put

[bbp-forum-index]
[bbp-topic-index]

That should all work, but come back if you have queries

[Robin W]

ah – ok, suggest you post on their support site

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gd-bbpress-tools