[kellyt]

bbPress Version: 2.5.10
Wordpress Version: 4.5.3

Hello,

The plugin was installed and activated, worked fine until I updated my theme. The plugin is there in the plugins list activated. However, I cannot locate its settings and “forums” to add new forums. All current forums are gone. So, basically when people click on “forums” on my site, it states “there are no forums”. I have even tried deactivating, reinstalling and reactivating but to no avail. How do I fix this issue? I am hoping someone can help me as my site is live and the forums page is not working. I have even contacted the theme developer but before they can help me i am required to pay for support which i am not so sure whether they can help with the problem.

Thank you and much appreciate.

[mobilportal]

Hi,
I have instaled wordpress in folder http://www.mydomain.com/wp
I have instaled bbpress plugin in folder http://www.mydomain.com/wp/wp-content/plugins/bbpress
After install
BBpress list of my forums is working at URL http://www.mydomain.com/wp/forums
and sigle forum “disqus1” is working at URL http://www.mydomain.com/wp/forums/forum/disqus1
and sigle forum “disqus2” is working at URL http://www.mydomain.com/wp/forums/forum/disqus2

I need change URL adress for “disqus1” to http://www.mydomain.com/forum/disqus1
How can I do it?

Thanks Peter

[moedan9]

Hi folks,

Trouble with SMF 2.0.7 to bbpress 2.6 beta import
Wordpress version 4.5.3

I’ve just imported the SMF forums here on my server –

http://www.holistic-counseling.ca/Forums/index.php

to bbpress here on my server:

http://nutopia.cc/Holistic-Counseling-WP/holistic-counseling-community-forums/

you’ll need to login to see.
user [redacted]
p/w [redacted]

At first glance, everything appears fine, although the number in the Posts column seems to be a product of adding the number of topics to the number of replies in a given forum. I don’t mind this.
Freshness shows zero, but that’s not a big deal either bc A) I can fix the freshness (but it results in losing posts and replies in the forums. B) Once new forum posts happen, it will repopulate.

now here’s the main issue
Upon clicking on a forum, it says:

This forum contains 8 topics and 15 replies.

Viewing 4 topics – 1 through 4 (of 4 total)

So the top area states how many topics there are accurately but then only 4 are actually displayed.
This problem is consistent across the other forums. (sometimes only 3 or 2 are displayed when more are stated above)

Any idea what that is about? It’s the main issue.

note: i did a repair Recalculate last activity in each topic and forum
and then the bottom forum dropped to 0 and 0.
Any of the forum repairs that I use that involve Topics creates problems in the number of topics and replies and doesn’t fix anything.

HELP is much appreciated.

since my forums are quite small and seem to be largely well imported, I would be willing to manually fix the incorrect topics and replies in the database. But I have no idea how to do that. At this point, I am satisfied with any solution to get all the topics and posts from the other SMF forum up and running.

[reders]

Hi, sorry for the late reply.

We have our forum index which I’ve created by adding a shortcode to a WordPress page: http://red-ferndevelopment.co.uk/FootballMedic/forums/

This page displays fine as I’ve been able to add a H1 and padding, but clicking into any of the other forum pages has no padding or H1 title tag.

Is there any way of doing this without manually editing each PHP file?

On a side note, I have a couple of questions about general customisation that I can’t seem to find answers for in the documentation, or in the forum. Should I start a new thread or post within this one?

Many thanks in advance.

Many thanks,
Austin

[joshgb93]

Hi,

I’m having some issues between bbpress and Ultimate Member plugin.
Ultimate Member has a feature that lets us add custom permissions on the menu’s links, allowing X user role to see Y links on the menu. It always works well, except when I’m on the forums root (smilang.com/forums), where all logged-in users see the website menu as group X, no matter their current role. If they go on a specific forum or topic, the issue goes away and the menu gets back to normal.

See the images for an example:

On the forums root (Not OK)

Elsewhere on the forums (OK)

I’ve also contacted Ultimate Member’s support team about this, I just did a plugin and theme conflict test, it doesn’t seem like it’s my theme nor any other plugins than UM and bbpress. I’m waiting for their answer now but I was wondering if you could find anything that would cause this.

I’m using bbpress 2.6-alpha, I just updated in hopes it would fix things but it doesn’t change anything. WordPress 4.5.3
Thanks!

[Robin W]

ok, on font/style that link doesn’t have a reply – can you create one so that I can see the issue.

on the topic/reply order – try this plugin – I haven’t used it but it seems to do what you want !

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-sort-topic-replies/

[Robin W]

1. Removing the breadcrumbs

if you are fine with code then :

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

if not then use my style pack plugin to turn them off

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

[Nik_S]

Hi Robin, no change when I disabled all other plugins but switching the theme to the 2015 WordPress default corrected the problem.

So, something in my theme is hiding it, and only hiding it when someone is logged in. Any ideas what could be doing this or where I should look? I can’t find anything that looks significant in the theme’s functions.php file but I suppose I don’t know what I’m searching for.

Thanks for your help!

[Robin W]

bbpress uses much of the theme characteristics so if the theme is compliant then bbpress should be there.

you can also use my style pack

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

to style to get improved fonts etc.

[Robin W]

Nothing immediate that I know of.

direct messaging is a buddypress thing, so suggest you post on their forum in case someone knows a hook you could use.

Forum visibility can be controlled by using

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

which may give you some features you want

[Robin W]

ok, so for the header you have

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-header
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-header

and on content you have

#bbpress-forums .bbp-topic-content,
#bbpress-forums .bbp-reply-content

You could also download my style plugin

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

and either use that or look at the styles.php file in the css folder for styling css and use what you need.

[adanoski]

I have WordPress 4.5.3 running AccessPress Pro theme on my site with the latest version of bbpress at 2.5.10.

I have the Search Function in my forum unfortunately the forum is not public. When I try to search, it only searches through the WordPress posts that I’ve created and not through the forum. I’ve searched with words that I know are included in the topics and topic names.

The search is doing the literal opposite of what I want it to do and what it says it should be doing.

[Nik_S]

WordPress Version: 4.5.3
bbPress Version: 2.5.10
Website Link: http://www.sva.bc.ca/newforums/

Well, this is a strange one. The formatting toolbar (above each editor area with the bold, italics, link, etc. buttons) disappears when someone is logged into my forum.

I have already tried disabling all other plugins, to no avail. No change from clearing my browser’s cache or trying different browsers either.

Any ideas what might be causing this?

[Fuskeduske]

Hi Lara,

You could use https://da.wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-private-groups/ for this functionality.

-Mads

[Fuskeduske]

Hi Mkpolo,

I think you mean a quoting function, which can atleast be found in https://da.wordpress.org/plugins/gd-bbpress-tools/ both paid and free version.

-Mads

[davelr1]

Based on my experience.. my advice to big forums is to use opcache + apply 1925.4.diff patch and be careful with long threads and too many topics under the same group/section.

I have a website that is 1 yo but already have 27 million posts and is only online because of the 1925.4.diff that bbpress staff/helpers provided here: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1925

(BTW Thank you @netweb for looking at this ticket)

Even with the patch… I have some trouble with long threads using too much cpu… so I’m always closing threads because of that.

I also got in trouble with high cpu load when we have too many topics under the same forum… because of this problem.. from time to time I create new forums and make the old one a “museum”.

My CPU consumption usually varies from 8 to 30. 40-50 on peak days.
Without doing this “hacks” my website can’t survive… because the cpu consumption goes up to 500 until everything crashes.

[moedan9]

Hi folks,

SMF 2.0.7 to bbpress 2.5.10 import
Wordpress version 4.5.3

I’ve just imported the SMF forums here on my server –

http://www.holistic-counseling.ca/Forums/index.php

to bbpress here on my server:

http://nutopia.cc/Holistic-Counseling-WP/holistic-counseling-community-forums/

you’ll need to login to see.
user test
p/w 123456

At first glance, everything appears fine, although the number in the Posts column seems to be a product of adding the number of topics to the number of replies in a given forum. I don’t mind this.
Freshness shows zero, but that’s not a big deal either bc A) I can fix the freshness (but it results in losing posts and replies in the forums. B) Once new forum posts happen, it will repopulate.

now here’s the main issue
Upon clicking on a forum, it says:

This forum contains 8 topics and 15 replies.

Viewing 4 topics – 1 through 4 (of 4 total)

So the top area states how many topics there are accurately but then only 4 are actually displayed.
This problem is consistent across the other forums. (sometimes only 3 or 2 are displayed when more are stated above)

Any idea what that is about? It’s the main issue.

note: i did a repair Recalculate last activity in each topic and forum
and then the bottom forum dropped to 0 and 0.
Any of the forum repairs that I use that involve Topics creates problems in the number of topics and replies and doesn’t fix anything.

HELP is much appreciated.

note 2: here are the messages from the import
(I think nothing appears out of order to me, but maybe there are some issues with this)

Conversion Complete
No reply_to parents to convert
Converting replies (50 – 99)
Converting replies (0 – 49)
No tags to convert
No super stickies to stick
No stickies to stick
Converting topics (0 – 49)
No forum parents to convert
Converting forums (0 – 49)
Starting Conversion

[Robin W]

It sounds like it would be possible with this plugin

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

[Robin W]

This plugin may help you, dependant on your exact need

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

[Stephen Edgar]

FYI https://wordpress.org/plugins/eighties-bbpress/ is a fantastic example of overriding bbPress templates using a plugin 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

https://wordpress.org/support currently runs bbPress 1.x, the plan to upgrade to 2.x is expected to be finished by the end of August.

w.org has ~8 million users, ~2 million topics, and ~7 million posts, we don’t expect any issues here, bbPress 2.6 includes lots of performance tweaks and as @siparker mentioned lots of importer improvements also.

[superaven]

Hi Siparker,

Thanks for taking time out to reply and pass along insight. I think I’ll likely hold off a bit longer as I’m weary about whether this is ready for prime time on a really big forum (6.5m comments, 150k+ users). Honestly I don’t need all the bells and whistles so long as the links and pages are SEO friendly and there are robust moderation tools. Rest is just simple comment posting with some options for emoji’s, links, and photo / video embeds and uploads. Oh, and import tools!

I would truly love to migrate over to BBPress. The lack of a performance optimized forum option is a huge void in the WordPress platform IMO. I believe once they get this sorted out and stable, that along with WooCommerce, it makes WordPress the only real player out there for the most part.

Look forward to see this project mature, but can’t say it hasn’t been difficult remaining patient for the last two years as I wait for this to evolve to a point that it’s usable for us.

[siparker]

I recently moved VB to bbpress for my forum.
i pruned a lot before moving.
9k users now.
20k topics
115k replies

I managed the import ok. the key to this is pateiance to a certain degree. the 2.6 alpha i am running worked better for the import than 2.5

However. if moving from VB your in for a bit of a shock. as it does not work the same way. so please do double check everythign before you move. one of my other posts has a plugin to create VB like urls as i came from vbseo across to bbpress which has a very different hierarchy.
however it does put your forum into wordpress which opens up amny other options. which is why i did it.

If you need any help let me know and i will do what i can to advise what i ahve done / used to make bbpress more like vb.

Two major things to not do
Do not leave the default notifications enabled when you move the forum. mine sent every notification ever out again. somethign like 250k emails got sent every time i did the import.
And on top of that i had several test versions so by the time i realised i had well and truly pissed a lot of people off.
Secondly the basic spam filters bbpress uses are different to how vb works and will possibly block some users. I know new moderation stuff is due in the near future but its not in yet so the spam options available are a bit difficult to work with.

[NormadSoul]

Hello

English is not my forte. I will try to write you understand what I mean and what I want and something advise.

We’re going to be a big project. We establish mmporg page in which guild will have its pages, posts and also their forum and all in one website.

BbPress will do together with Budypress.

I set up the group in Buda press and there a separate forum, but can not add multi layer one major forum in the forum. It has to do administration on the bulletin board in WordPress.

Assign rights administrators with limited options, but the problem is that it can delete all topics and I do not want it. It may read topics.

I want to set that could delete your own topics and dirty.

I adjusted the law in the bbPress code, such as false and true, may well lubricated.

I just want that each guild had their own separate forum and in which their users and manage this forum only. The others can not do.

Thank you

[superaven]

Wondering if there’s been any progress with this? Sort of bummed that version 2.6 isn’t out even though it’s mentioned as a solution in this thread I started 2+ years ago.

Been struggling with WordPress x Xenforo integration and have literally bought every commercial bridge addon / plugin and have spent thousands of dollars hiring sys admins and developers to try and make it work. Best case scenario is it works until the next update and then it’s borked again. Most are one way bridges so they force logins / registrations through Xenforo, which also sucks.

Honestly BBPress is the last hope as far as the exhaustive reserach I’ve done on the subject, but it’s dead on arrival for anyone running a high traffic forum. Almost tempted to drop WordPress, but nothing else with forum integration comes close.

Anyone have any type of news beyond try the alpha version and report issues?

Thanks.