[twiz911]

WordPress 4.3
bbPress 2.5.7

My forums have topics but no topics are showing. It is correctly showing:

“This forum contains 1 topic, and was last updated by…”

but also displays

“Oh bother! No topics were found here!”

an no topics are listed.

I checked /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=topic and no topics are associated with any forums. However, I re-associated each topic with the correct Forum and these changes were persisted on /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=topic but does not make any difference to the error above and no topics are listed within any forums.

Please advise where in the code I should start debugging?

Thanks

Example forum with 1 topic not showing:
http://www.trenerrycrescent.com/forums/forum/potential-electrical-fire-risk-bathroom-fan-timers/

[elovkoff]

Hi, sorry if this has been asked a lot of times, but I couldn’t find relevant information.
I need to be able to upload images without placing any text at all in the text field. Just need to upload images. Please let me know how to achieve this.

Wordpress 4.1.10
BBPress Version 2.5.8

Please let me know.
Thank you!

[Robin W]

ok, so now I think I understand your issue. I am presuming that you mean the options menu, which works fine on a pc as using the mouse to hover lists the menu items and closes them as the mouse moves away.

with a smartphone you need to click rather than move a mouse? (I don’t have a smartphone!)

Since having the menu expand is not part of the normal bbpress function (it just lists the menu items rather than having a dropdown list), I presume that either your theme is doing this, or you have added some js to do this?

You could try

http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/

[jezza101]

Yes I’m only aware of an old plugin. Not sure there is a recent one that does what you want.

For what it is worth I believe it is in the development roadmap for core bbPress so should be added one day.

Is it this ticket?
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2498

Unfortunately bbPress development seems to have stalled a little with buddyPress taking much of the attention these days (?). I did actually contribute to a crowd funding campaign in the hope to kickstart bbPress development but no release came out of that sadly.

I’d love this feature too, if my PHP skills were up to it I would work on it myself – maybe one day!

[sambodinho]

When I go to the replies section in the back end of my WordPress site I see that there are 45 replies listed as spam (https://www.dropbox.com/s/i4jqrt6oyeba5y1/Screen%20Shot%202016-03-22%20at%2012.48.28.png). However, when I click on the spam link to view these 45 replies I get a 500 internal server error (https://www.dropbox.com/s/znim99czexln15d/Screen%20Shot%202016-03-22%20at%2012.48.32.png).
Has anyone else come across this issue?

[talhawp]

Hi Everyone,

I finally upgraded my bbpress 1.x to bbpress 2.5.6 after running it for 7 years. The import process took almost a day with 0.5+ million posts.

Now I am facing issue with slow performance, despite running on physical server with 16 core CPU and 16 GB RAM. The upgrade ran fine for few hours has but been very slow from last 12 hours.

The wordpress and bbpress are both so slow that sometimes even the site fails to load. HTOP shows all CPU cores running mysql up to 90%.

I enabled slow query on mysql (mariadb) and it is giving the following output:

[root@server]# mysqldumpslow -t 5 -s at /var/log/mariadb/mysql-slow.log 

Reading mysql slow query log from /var/log/mariadb/mysql-slow.log
Count: 7485  Time=25.48s (190747s)  Lock=2.85s (21328s)  Rows_sent=10.0 (74810), Rows_examined=1582056.1 (11841689862), user[database]@localhost
  SELECT   wp_posts.ID FROM wp_posts  INNER JOIN wp_postmeta ON ( wp_posts.ID = wp_postmeta.post_id ) WHERE N=N  AND ( 
  ( wp_postmeta.meta_key = 'S' AND CAST(wp_postmeta.meta_value AS SIGNED) NOT IN ('S','S') )
  ) AND wp_posts.post_type = 'S' AND ((wp_posts.post_status = 'S' OR wp_posts.post_status = 'S')) GROUP BY wp_posts.ID ORDER BY wp_posts.post_date DESC LIMIT N, N

I tried disabling other plugins but it did not make any difference, however the CPU returns to low if I disable bbpress plugin.

Can anyone guide me on what could be the issue here?

Regards,
T

[Robin W]

ok, I presume you have a website running wordpress that you want to add this to?

[Unicornis]

Please refer to the step-by-step instructions on my site.

Plugin page

[Pahkiller]

How can I delete a post or threads from my forums?
I am new to WordPress and coming from IPB finding it very difficult to delete a post or thread
I can see anywhere to delete a post but apparently there a few steps to do this
any reason why its not like IPB for example?
just select delete and then delete ?
thanks

[Robin W]

In a word – no !

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

[loveslight]

I ran the repairs and the problem still remains.

This is perplexing. When I compare the slow forums to the not slow forums I don’t see a difference. Both are under multiple “category” forums… (I was originally thinking maybe it’s slow because it’s two categories deep… but the faster forums are too.)

Slow:
HOME / FORUMS / ACIM LESSONS / LESSON 1 / LESSON 1 – INSIGHTS

Fast:
HOME / FORUMS / ACIM TEXT / PREFACE & INTRODUCTION / PREFACE & INTRODUCTION – INSIGHTS

————-

I was wondering if it’s a database issue? I looked to see if we had similarly titled pages that could be confusing WordPress. We do have similar pages:

Slow Forum:
HOME / FORUMS / ACIM LESSONS / LESSON 1 / LESSON 1 – INSIGHTS

WordPress page:
HOME / ACIM LESSONS / LESSON 1 /

— So, I changed those to the following:

Slow Forum:
HOME / FORUMS / ACIM LESSONS / LESSON 1 FORUM / LESSON 1 – INSIGHTS

WordPress page:
HOME / ACIM LESSON INDEX / LESSON 1 /

After changing I deleted old revisions and optimized database. The slow forums remained slow.

————-

You could just say to try to delete and recreate the slow ones… but there’s 365 top level category forums and each category has two categories within for a total of 1,095 forums to recreate.

(Before I get beat up on that, these are forums for a lesson book with 365 lessons and we wanted two categories within each lesson (sharing and Q&A))

————-

Thank you for continuing to help me figure this out!

[dasboo125]

Hi there

I am using WordPress Version 4.4.2 and BBPress v2.5.8. I am using a magazine theme called Soledad which allows a number of custom sidebars.

After setting the forum root to community (and I removed the shortcode from a page) and seeing that I did not have a sidebar, I created a new bbpress.php in a child theme to enable it.

At first the sidebar was showing as the default one on the main forum index and the individual forums and topics were showing a custom side bar that I had assigned to posts (it shows the author bio)

After I installed BB WP Tweaks, the main forum index page is showing the correct side bar after adding in the widgets into the BBPress sidebar. However, individual forums and topics are still showing the sidebar assigned to post.

Any help much appreciated. I have read the how to page on setting up specific sidebars, but not luck.

Thanks
Laura

[TKServer]

I’ve been puzzled as to how useful showing the user how many “empty topic tags” there are in the bbPress stats widget. I also don’t really care to show the user how many topic tags there are either. SO, I decided to make my own bbPress stats plugin, which I just published in the WordPress plugins repository here:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/tk-bbpress-stats/

This stats plugin allows the admin to choose which stats to show, which is nice. I’m still trying to figure out how to get screen shots to appear in the WP SVN, but you can see the stats live on one of my bbPress deployments at Ute Hub.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
Is this the standard /forums ? Then start creating a standard WordPress page and add the [bbp-forum-index] on it. Now you can add any other shortcut or text on this same page.

Pascal.

Shortcodes: https://codex.bbpress.org/features/shortcodes/

[loveslight]

Hello!

Our site is getting ready to launch soon and I’ve built out the forum structure to our liking but in testing we see that posting a new topic or replying to a topic in CERTAIN FORUMS can take up to 20 seconds after hitting submit for the post to save and appear. In all other forums it takes only 3 seconds. While I wish both were faster, how do we figure out what the 20 second delay is about?

Add this to the mix: Deleting a reply on the backend for the slow forum also takes 20 seconds compared to 3 seconds to delete for other forums…

20 second to post topic and delete reply forums:
https://www.myacim.com/sharing/forum/acim-lessons/

3 second to post topic and delete reply forums:

ACIM Text

Thank you for your help 🙂

Stats:

bbpress 2.5.8
wordpress 4.4.2
Jupiter theme, tested with generic 2015 theme too with no improvement
Disabled all plugins and problem remains
High speed VPS server using SSD drives, pre-launch / no traffic yet

[alfio8788]

Hello,

I am trying to import a vbulletin 4.2.2 installation into bbpress and it fails importing the replies without leaving me errors, it just hangs and keeps posting dashes (-) into the progress logs even after stopping it and resuming.

Wordpress and bbpress versions are the latest available as of today 20th of March 2016.

Our vbulletin database has around 11000 users, 600 sub-forums, 30000 threads and around 800000 posts

As the work is being done in local before atempting it on the server i am unable to give links.

If in need of more informations let me know

Thanks in advance for the support

Regards

[Stephen Edgar]

2.6 is incredibly stable, its nearing, and has been, pretty close to being ready for release for quite some time, bbpress.org and wordpress.org are using 2.6 perfectly if that helps.

[Pascal Casier]

Is that on a public site ? Then a link would be great.
I need to understand is that is the bbPress search or the WordPress search.

Pascal.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi Adri,
Sorry to come back on this thread, but I have some Dutch WP colleagues that can discuss WPML with you if you want to join on slack. Short procedure:
• Login with your wordpress.org account on this link: https://wordpress.org/support/bb-login.php?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fmake.wordpress.org%2Fchat%2F
• Scroll on that page (https://make.wordpress.org/chat/) to “Joining the WordPress team on Slack” and enter your email address
• Check your email and you will have a “user@chat.wordpress.org” account
• Activate your account on https://wordpress.slack.com/
• Use that created account on https://wpnl.slack.com/signup to signup to the Dutch WordPress community

Pascal.

[Stephen Edgar]

@ sziban Cool, 1st up, you should use the development version bbPress 2.6-alpha, it has some improvements for anonymous users, you can get it from https://bbpress.org/download/

Take a look at the phpBB and SMF importers for good examples:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/includes/admin/converters/phpBB.php
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/includes/admin/converters/SMF.php

In particular, the following was added to add support to import topics and replies from “anonymous” users.

So rather than trying to import each of your legacy anonymous users as WordPress users the changes above will assign each of them to the built in bbPress anonymous user, and assign the “legacy” “nickname” to the imported topic or reply, its kind of cool and I’m pretty sure it will do what you are after.

Let me know how it goes or any other questions you may have 🙂

[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

[Leg3ndAry]

Hello,

i have the following problem. When i try to enter a topictitle, the topictitle stays empty.

Wordpress Version: 4.3.1
BBPress Version: 2.5.8
PHP 5.5.9
I hope you can help me.

[Pascal Casier]

Great to hear.

For slack:
– Login with your wordpress.org account on this link: https://wordpress.org/support/bb-login.php?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fmake.wordpress.org%2Fchat%2F
– Scroll on that page to “Joining the WordPress team on Slack” and enter your email address
– Check your email and you will have a “user@chat.wordpress.org” account
– Use that created account on https://wpnl.slack.com/signup to signup

[Robin W]

load my style pack, and you’ll find a shortcode to do just this

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

[Pascal Casier]

Unfortunately not.
Do you have the possibility to switch to a standard wordpress theme ?
Or deactivate all plugins except bbPress ? Then reactivate one by one
Pascal.