[@mercime]

@earl_d I made a tutorial for BuddyPress which you could adjust for the bbPress version. e.g. in the B. Full-width Layout section, instead of creating buddypress.php, create bbpress.php at the root of your theme’s folder. Good luck.

Twenty Twelve Theme

[Barry]

On the bbPress side, you’ll probably want to use bbp_insert_topic(). Usage is near-identical to wp_insert_post() – see here if you’re unfamiliar with this:

wp_insert_post()

I’ll leave interaction with the Postmark API for you to figure out 😉

[HalbrookTech]

I’ve finally gotten around to trying again. I lowered the number of rows to 15 at a time, since it seemed to choke on 100 at a time and it’s going well. at 1800 so far. Just looked at the database, this is gonna take awhile.. 35k entries in the DB. I may talk to the client and suggest a fresh start to the forums, since the last post int he forums was 2 years ago last monday. :/ makes me wonder why he doesn’t want to do a major overhaul on the site, since I’m offering it for free, since he’s my last Zikula client, and he’s been with me for years. Shouldn’t be TOO hard to build a new site in WordPress and start fresh..

[thomasjoseph315]

I’ll try it out, but this is pretty annoying that I have to do this manually. If I wanted to learn to code, I wouldn’t be using wordpress to begin with.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi Steve,
And where is your bbPress related question? If your question is general for WordPress then you’re better off in https://wordpress.org/support/
Pascal.

[Robkk]

I don’t think this has anything to do with bbPress either. Remember these support forums are just for the bbPress plugin.

Maybe go into these support forums instead.

https://wordpress.org/support/

[stevebuckley]

Hi,

I’ve had an issue with my site http://www.explainervideocost.com , it was working fine when it was running on WordPress 4.5.2, After upgrading to WordPress 4.5.3 my site is not functioning how it should on the front-end.

I urgently need a fix, so if you have any ideas of how I can fix this, that’d be much appreciated.

Thanks,
-Steve

[TriiXx]

Hi,

Thanks for your answer.

I’ve run the repair tools after importing and before my last post.

I have a error on my log :
“[08-Jul-2016 14:48:02 UTC] PHP Notice: bbp_setup_current_user was called incorrectly. The current user is being initialized without using $wp->init(). Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 2.3.) in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 3897″

I’ve seen it’s not important but i don’t have other error.

[zoekutuit]

I had a problem with my Dutch languge setting.
I just wanted everything in dutch.
My site was already in Dutch (WordPress 4.2.9)
This is what i did and one of those things worked.

– So, my site is in dutch
– Installed bbPress and it was in English.
– In my settings i changed the language to English and back to dutch.
– In home/updates all the way down i ran the language update.

Now my site and forum are in Dutch.
Hope this works for others.

And if not..
Zoekutuit

[LevyImage]

I’m having the same problem, the source of which is because USER IDS aren’t matching between each installation. When importing new users, a new user ID is generated for each account on the new installation, so BBpress is not able to recalculate properly since author ID numbers for forums, topics, and replied do not match. It would be GREAT if BBpress had a recalculation method based on USER EMAIL instead of user ID. IDs change between installations but emails usually do not when transferring between wordpress installations. Very broken atm.

[Robkk]

You are going to have to create this by yourself.

bbPress comprises of custom post types, so you should be able to use post_meta.

https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_post_meta/

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_post_meta

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_post_meta

Here is a good example of using custom post meta with bbPress.

https://wp-dreams.com/articles/2013/06/adding-custom-fields-bbpress-topic-form/

There are some bbPress support forum plugins that you may need to look into that may add something similar of the features you want.

You can create a custom topic form input for the users to explain why this is important, a topic status that indicates where the topic is at and indicate by color, resolution deadline could be time it was closed.

There is also many hooks that might be helpful.

http://hookr.io/plugins/bbpress/2.5.8/#index=a

[Robkk]

I agree with you it seems odd to have it this way, created this ticket in favor to change it.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2970#ticket

[Robkk]

1. An answer to this is really a personal opinion on what you prefer specifically from each.

2. For WordPress you need a theme, Im sure its the same for others.

3. Just so you know WordPress is the CMS and bbPress is just piggybacking and using APIs from such. WordPress is updated quite frequently. You can allow bbPress to update automatically if you want through some plugin.

4. I don’t know why you brought up phpbb here, but bbPress can be automatically updated using a plugin. WordPress is updated automatically for security releases, and sometimes hosts cann allow you to just allow it to update automatically all the time.

5. Blog functionality comes packaged with WordPress, you can add other features using plugins or themes.

6. Read this for hardening WordPress.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress

7. For captcha plugins that work with bbPress check out this guide.

https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started/forum-moderation/dealing-with-spam/#registration-spam

8. Use a plugin, or online service, or check your hosting provider.

https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started/before-installing/backing-up-your-database-and-files/

9. Yes this forum has more than 100k topics. Users you will be fine.

Also which plugins will be better for users and forums so that their updation does not affect the live site once it is launched.

IF you are talking about plugin/theme/WordPress updates. Try to avoid automatic updates so you do not come across issues during an update and check to see if the update does not have any issues below rolling it out. Or just take frequent backups to avoid update issues and just roll back to a previous state.

[Nik_S]

Yes, I tried all the repair tools sequentially.

To clarify, by manual import I mean I added each topic and reply by hand from the WordPress dashboard and a plugin to change the post authors.

Main issue now is I that I don’t know how to change the permalinks to match the ones corresponding to the “Published Date” I retroactively selected for each post, rather than the date I created those posts.

[kkpb8084]

Hi all
this is my (new) website: http://psychiatryadvice.com

When someone attempts to submit a new topic the following message occurs:

ERROR: Your topic cannot be created at this time.

Under settings>discussion I do not have any words in the blacklist or comment moderation. I also disabled the most recent plugin I installed (btw creating new topics was no problem after I initially installed this plugin).

Any advice how to fix this please?
Thanks!

Wordpress v 4.5.3
bbpress v 2.5.9-6017

[veerendradarakh]

Greetings all ye WordPress gurus,
This is pertaining to the site http://www.dentistrytoday.info ( made in drupal 6.34 )

Drupal 6.34 is now outdated. Support for Drupal 6 has been withdrawn and furthermore drupal development is expensive.

So I have decided to migrate the forums from drupal to some other CMS. I also want to move away from Drupal since I find Drupal development is expensive.

To migrate the site from drupal to some other CMS I have some queries.

My queries to this esteemed forum.
1. Which CMS is the best for a discussion forum?
2. I want to migrate to a CMS which is easy to use, mobile friendly, responsive and easy to modify and refine.
3. Plenty of developers must be available for the forums for that particular CMS so that maintaining, refining and upgrading the forums can be done at a reasonable cost.
4. The CMS must get updated automatically. Will the phbBB forum get updated automatically? I am told that wordpress sites get updated automatically. Will the forums made in wordpress get updated automatically?
5. We want conduct all activities on the forum that are usually done on educational sites like webinars, email newsletters, email newsletters with case presentations, blogs etc.
6. If we migrate it to wordpress forums what kind of security precautions shoud I take, pre and post migration. I am told that wordpress sites are more vulnerable to hacking than Drupal sites.
7. Besides the forums must be secure and if possible I want to have the registration form without a captcha challenge.
8. My staff must be able to take offline and online backups of the site easily.
9. Can wordpress forum can support forums of bigger sizes (80,000 forum articles and 30,000 users). Also which plugins will be better for users and forums so that their updation does not affect the live site once it is launched.

Hope to see a lot of responses and many thanks in advance for the same.

Regards,
Dr. Veerendra Darakh

[Robkk]

You can use this plugin to move topics in other forums.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-move-topics/

[Robkk]

Maybe something like this, not sure of what you are after.

Put the custom CSS in a custom CSS plugin or place it into a child themes style.css if you already created a child theme.

#bbpress-forums li.bbp-body ul.forum {
  border-top: 1px solid #E91E63;
}

[roshansachan]

I am running bbpress(Version 2.5.9) + buddypress(Version 2.5.3) on wordpress version > 4.5.1.
In bbpress there are users with Forum Role as Participant and site role as Participant. I have observed that any participant can delete tags created by any other participant. For example if participant-A creates a topic-A with tag-a, when participant-B replies to Topic-A, then participant-B can see tag-a created by participant-A in tag input field and if participant-B removes it from the input field and submits the reply then tag-a is deleted from Topic-A. I this behaviour normal. I . Any help will be great as I have been trying but could not find any reference to this use case.

[Stephen Edgar]

Did you run the “bbPress repair tools” after importing?

If not, go to the WordPress Dashboard -> Tools -> Forums and run each of the repair tools

[davidnator]

Hello,

I was wondering is there any way to change the background image of only bbpress pages? This is because if I change the background image of my theme through the customizer, then my home page, about page, blog posts page, etc. will all have that background image, which doesn’t look very good.

I am currently running wordpress version: 4.5.3, bbpress version: 2.5.9, and my website is http://www.purposeshare.com/forums, which is using the sydney child theme.

Thanks,
David

[Stephen Edgar]

I think this is it: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2785

[Nik_S]

WordPress Version: 4.5.3
bbPress Version: 2.5.9
Website Link: http://www.sva.bc.ca/newforums/

Hello,

After setting up bbPress I “imported” forum posts manually from an older system, setting the “Published On” date to match the date of each original topic/reply. I then found that bbPress’s “freshness” ignored this date and used the date/time I had manually added these posts.

So I installed the bbPress last post plugin ( https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-last-post/ ) and modified it a little. The following code is what is currently being used, and is almost what I want:

<?php

//this function changes the bbp freshness data (time since) into a last post date for forums
function change_freshness_forum ($forum_id = 0 ) {

// Verify forum and get last active meta
		$forum_id         = bbp_get_forum_id( $forum_id );

			$reply_id = bbp_get_forum_last_reply_id( $forum_id );
			if ( !empty( $reply_id ) ) {
				$last_active_date = get_the_date( '', $reply_id );
			} else {
				$topic_id = bbp_get_forum_last_topic_id( $forum_id );
				if ( !empty( $topic_id ) ) {
					$last_active_date = get_the_date('', $topic_id );
				}
			}

			if ( !empty( $reply_id ) ) {
				$last_active_time = get_the_time( '', $reply_id );
			} else {
				if ( !empty( $topic_id ) ) {
					$last_active_time = get_the_time('', $topic_id );
				}
			}
			
		$last_active_date = bbp_convert_date( $last_active_date ) ;
		$last_active_time = bbp_convert_date( $last_active_time ) ;
		$date_format = get_option( 'date_format' );
		$time_format = get_option( 'time_format' );
		$date= date_i18n( "{$date_format}", $last_active_date );
		$time=date_i18n( "{$time_format}", $last_active_time );
		$active_time = sprintf( _x( '%1$s at %2$s', 'date at time', 'bbp-last-post' ), $date, $time );  
		return $active_time ;
		}
add_filter( 'bbp_get_forum_last_active', 'change_freshness_forum', 10, 2 );

//this function changes the bbp freshness data (time since) into a last post date for topics
function change_freshness_topic ($last_active, $topic_id) {

$topic_id = bbp_get_topic_id( $topic_id );

		// Try to get the most accurate freshness date possible
		if ( empty( $last_active_date ) ) {
		$reply_id = bbp_get_topic_last_reply_id( $topic_id );
		if ( !empty( $reply_id ) ) {
			$last_active_date = get_the_date( '', $reply_id );
		} else {
				$last_active_date = get_the_date( '', $topic_id );
			}
		}

		// Try to get the most accurate freshness time possible
		if ( empty( $last_active_time ) ) {
		$reply_id = bbp_get_topic_last_reply_id( $topic_id );
		if ( !empty( $reply_id ) ) {
			$last_active_time = get_the_time( '', $reply_id );
		} else {
				$last_active_time = get_the_time( '', $topic_id );
			}
		}
		
		
		$last_active_date = bbp_convert_date( $last_active_date ) ;
		$last_active_time = bbp_convert_date( $last_active_time ) ;
		$date_format = get_option( 'date_format' );
		$time_format = get_option( 'time_format' );
		$date= date_i18n( "{$date_format}", $last_active_date );
		$time=date_i18n( "{$time_format}", $last_active_time );
		$active_time = sprintf( _x( '%1$s at %2$s', 'date at time', 'bbp-last-post' ), $date, $time );  
		return $active_time ;
		}
add_filter( 'bbp_get_topic_last_active', 'change_freshness_topic', 10, 2 );

//This function changes the heading "Freshness" to the name created in Settings>bbp last post
function change_translate_text( $translated_text ) {
	$text = 'Freshness' ;
	if ( $translated_text == $text ) {
	global $rlp_options;
	$translated_text = $rlp_options['heading_label'];
	}
	return $translated_text;
}
add_filter( 'gettext', 'change_translate_text', 20 );

The only problem now is that from the forum index view, the “Last Post” column will show the date of the most recent reply, even if there is a newer topic.

Is there a way to compare the dates and make sure the Last Post column displays the most recent topic or reply, whichever is newer?

Thanks!

[haddly]

Hi,
When searching through the forum and not being logged in, a message appears at the bottom saying you must be logged in to post a reply……
Is there any way you can send me the code, so that there is a direct link to the forum login from this message or next to the message.

bbPress version is up to date. and wordpress version is a unique one created by web dev company.
Thanks in advance for your help

[Robkk]

You will need a plugin for this, there will be a few plugins to choose, her is just one of them.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-notify-nospam/