[Stephen Edgar]

$content_dir (from the constant ‘WP_CONTENT_DIR’) resolves as:
/var/lib/openshift/hexkey/app-root/data/current/wp-content

content_url gives mydomain/wp-content

and the file location starts out as :
/var/lib/openshift/hexkey/app-root/data/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/js/editor.js

That last path, I’d expect that to be /var/lib/openshift/hexkey/app-root/data/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/js/editor.js

i.e. after data is wp-content which is before plugins

Plugins are “typically” installed unto the wp-content directory, WordPress has some constants available to change these, typically WP_CONTENT_DIR and WP_CONTENT_URL are used, WP_PLUGIN_DIR and WP_PLUGIN_URL are not used anywhere near as much, maybe the Openshift configuration has these defined in the wp-config.php file in the root directory?

https://codex.wordpress.org/Determining_Plugin_and_Content_Directories#Constants

This probably needs further investigation by bbPress, mainly to check the constants WP_PLUGIN_DIR and WP_PLUGIN_URL so these can be used standalone when WP_CONTENT_DIR and WP_CONTENT_URL are not used at all.

@oldshaghat can you check in your wp-config.php if any of the above constants are defined please?

[Pascal Casier]

Hi, just given my thoughts: Is your original forum (the first one) also running on a local machine or on shared hosting? I had a bbpress site that locally was running very slow. The moment I moved it to a provider, it was running great…

My checklist:
Please note that WordPress requirements/recommendations are on https://wordpress.org/about/requirements/

Some things to check:

– Have you run all the repair tools of bbpress after import to be sure your structure is optimized ?
– Have you deactivated any not-needed plugin ? Is your theme ready for bbPress ?
– Did you try to run performance tools like the P3 plugin performance profiler to narrow down the possible slow parts ?
– Did gtmetrix.com indicate something ? Or what did you see using the Pingdom Tools ?
– Is it for all people in the world the same ? Check with Sucuri performance.

Plugins:

– Are you using any cache mechanism to improve speed where possible ?
– Plugins like W3 Total Cache, Batcache, WP Super Cache or other ?
– Did you check for CloudFlare or the autoptimize plugin ?

Some further reading: https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started/improving-performance/

If it would come to database queries, then check these plugins:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/query-monitor/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/query-monitor-bbpress-buddypress-conditionals/

Also note that in the upcoming bbPress v2.6, a lot of focus went on possible performance issues.

Hope it helps,
Pascal.

[simonmnt]

Hi,

on my wordpress website I have 2 private groups, and i would like a common forum for this groups. But the problem if the user 1 is in the first group he can’t access to topic created on the second group.

How to do that ?

Sorry for my english.

Thx.

[akkuakku]

Dear All,

In my new forum, I am finding out that as replies are given, the default indent space is eating in to the post space rather than the post adjusting the text to fit it within the available width (after reducing the indent space). You can see that clearly in the second reply post #942 (posted by Fazil) in the below link

http://solarwindconsultants.com/forums/topic/economic-viability-of-solar-energy-at-any-given-location-latlong/

My versions are: WordPress 4.5.3 & bbPress 2.5.10. Also, my “Reply Threading” tick box is not enabled.

Please let me know what it is that I could be doing wrong?-

[Robkk]

Its not available for download. Besides its just a custom made theme made for the bb sites (bbpress.org and buddypress.org and their respective codex subdomains, possibly trac too )

Choose a theme from here.

[oldshaghat]

I’m seeing this in WordPress 4.5.3 and bbPress 2.5.10.

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress queues up its CSS stylelsheet using WordPress’ standard functions wp_enque_stylesheet() so it shouldnn’t cause any issues.

I’ve never tried Redhat’s Openshift, nor even knew it was a thing until now.

Do they use a “standard” copy of WordPress or is it modified somehow?

What versions of WordPress and bbPress are you having this issue with?

[oldshaghat]

Redhat’s Openshift has a nice WordPress option which was how I found bbPress. However, I am seeing that when deployed on openshift, the URL that the page ends up using to obtain the default bbPress theme data seems to be looking in the wrong spot.

The root page is looking at mydomain/var/lib/openshift/longHexKey/app-root/data/plugins …
This yields a 404 for the bbpress.css file and editor.js.

whereas if I change that to mydomain/wp-content/plugins …
The file comes back correctly.

I’m just starting to get things going here with this stack so I’m not sure if this is a bbPress thing, a WordPress thing, or an OpenShift thing, but other plugins seem to be doing it ok. Is there a straightforward edit I can make to the bbPress files?

[Robin W]

This plugin may be what you need

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

[Robkk]

This plugin might be what you are looking for.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-members-only/

[Robkk]

Did you make sure the hidden groups forum was also hidden? You can edit the forum in the WordPress backend and just change the post visibility to hidden.

[Robkk]

Follow this. If you theme has a specific way of creating a child theme follow any of their own guides.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

The categories and topics are all weird. I just wish it looked standard like every other major forum out there.

It may be how the default category and forum layout bbPress uses. Maybe consider using this loop-forums.php file in a child theme.

https://github.com/robkk/bbPress-Hierarchical-Forum-and-Category-Layout

[@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.