[michaelrichardmurphy]

Hi all,

Thanks in advance for any help/advice you can provide! I am trying to migrate forum data from another platform (I believe it’s a homegrown ASP.net-based forum). I have all the data in spreadsheets/csv files and am trying to put together the SQL statements I need to move it into bbPress.

I put together a small test import (a single post to a single forum) for ‘wp_posts’ that looks like it mostly worked: the imported data is visible under Topics in the WordPress admin but it doesn’t show up when you browse to the Forum it’s assigned to on the front-end.

I noticed that when I create a topic in the traditional way (through the front-end) that it creates several entries in ‘wp_postmeta’ also (like _bbp_topic_id, _bbp_forum_id, _bbp_author_ip, _bbp_last_active_time, etc).

Does anyone know if it’s the absence of post meta for my imported data that’s causing it not to display on the front-end? If so, how much of this info is required?

I have 4300+ posts across 1400+ topics that need to be imported. Some of the post_meta data (like forum and topic id) will be easier for me to cross reference but other data (like reply_count, last_active_time, etc) would be a very manual process to try to include in my import.

Any suggestions or advice on the best way to get this data into my database?

[Tom]

All my quotes are broken on my forums now, its showing the quote code and not formatting after updating to 4.4

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
Somewhere you will first have to add a timestamp for a user into the DB …
I found this plugin, not sure if it can help you: https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-last-visit/
Pascal.

[meriadoc84]

I forgot to mention I am using the latest wordpress version and the latest iFeaturepro5 theme.

[meriadoc84]

I have followed some of the topics on removing/adding/modifying sidebars in bbPress and tried unsuccessfully to create the desired outcome. I have an index page linking to a number of Forums but I cannot get the sidebar to work despite using bbpress wp tweaks and widget logic. The bbpress sidebar appears in the widgets theme section of dashboard and I can add widgets to it but the sidebar itself will not display. Instead I get a series of widgets I did enter including Pages, Archives, Categories, WordPress, and Subscribe. I have no idea why those particular widgets are appearing instead of the bbpress sidebar ones I have selected.

[bschaich]

Looks like bbpress codes are not computing if they appear on a front page.

Reproduction:
1. Make a new page and name it foo
2. Enter the string “[bbp-forum-index]”
3. Check the preview of page (Everything should work as expected)
4. Save the page and publish
5. Goto settings -> Reading and set the page “foo” as front page
6. Call your site.

What should happen is that nothing appears on the page, except its title.

Versions: WordPress 4.3.1, bbpress 2.5.8
Wordpress is running in MU mode. Dont know if this is really an issue.

Man, this took me a million calls of that front page to get it. It might also have destroyed the structure somehow, as somtimes I had the impression that bbcodes did not work at all. This went away after using the restructure feature/tool.

With best regards,
Benny

[FliP0x]

Using WordPress 4.2.1, bbpress 2.5.8.

The problem I have it the following: (dots are spaces, eg. how many times enter has been pressed)

“Example post
.
.
.
Example post”

won’t keep its original spacing and gets squeezed into:

“Example post
Example post”

I don’t want to increase the default margins, I just want bbpress to recognize spaces in a post.

[joantr]

WordPress 4.3.1 running OneCommunity theme.
bbpress Version 2.5.8
http://driscollning.com/

Obvious newbie, so thanks for any help.
Here is my first problem. When I click on the forums tile it goes to page not found.
When I try to create a page called forums with the forums slug, it renames itself to forums-2 or forums-3. To me this means forums already exists, but I cannot see it in my pages list.

Also, I need a easy to read guide? Any suggestions?

[Robkk]

@tobias-claren

Is there perhaps a plugin for this plugin (bbpress)?
For simple moving the forum order with drag & drop

Not specifcally with bbPress, but for custom post types (bbPress uses custom post types).

https://wordpress.org/plugins/intuitive-custom-post-order/

[Robkk]

@opc0de he is using this theme on his site.

WP Knowledge Base

[opc0de]

Hello.
Do your project, your theme still works? Can I still download it?
I am developing a WordPress theme with roots.io/Sage and I seek a bootstrap theme that I could modify to bbpress.
Thank you very much.

[silversoulstone]

I had the same issue and successfully fixed it. The message I kept getting going to my Trash screen was “an error occurred while processing this directive”.

Here was my solution:
-Backup/export all content on the website as .xml files
-Install the plugin ‘WordPress Reset’
-Reset the website’s database through the plugin
-Import .xml files back into the website
-Editing/trashing/spamming/reporting all worked again

—

What causes the problem in the first place? Using the ‘Restore’ or ‘Delete Permanently’ links underneath the post’s title in the backend menus of Replies and Topics. To avoid having an inaccessible Trash screen, use the ‘Bulk Actions’ drop down menu to ‘Restore’ or ‘Delete Permanently’ by checking the boxes to the left of each post. For some reason bulk actions work, whereas using BACKEND links to directly change the status of each post can break the functionality of the forum.

It’s safe to click the trash/restore links on the frontend of bbpress, but be careful of how you click around in the backend changing statuses of posts. The plugin ‘Quick Empty Trash’ may also be of assistance for those who can’t reach their list of trashed posts.

Hope this helps whoever’s searching through vague support threads looking for a clear answer. Thanks again to the volunteers who helped make bbpress possible. After all the threads I went through to solve each problem that arose building my forums it was only fair to contribute an explanation I couldn’t find anywhere else.

Cheers!

[Cathy Yuki Sophia]

help please?

My group forums suddenly disappeared, but get this, only the active ones (if that gives any clue) I get this message now when I visit the forum:

This group does not currently have a forum.

I tried fresh installs of bbpress, nothing is changing.
When I go to the backend of groups, I can select the forum name, and save settings: but the forum is still not on the front end.

In the dropdown menu on the frontend of the group, the default shows now as “No Forum”, then there are other group forums in the dropdown menu, but none of the ones listed are that group’s forum name.

site: http://planetgirlworld.com/wordpress
everything is updated to latest version.
we use theme “Kleo”.

[galiulinr]

The question is outdated, but I also needed a slider. Today I use “Yet Another Related Posts Plugin” + “Related Posts Slider“. It works for me.I added a shortcode in a page template forum. Maybe it will help someone.

[Stephen Edgar]

The above was spam 😉

It theoretically continue to run at the same speed at reply 1-100 or 90,000 – 90,100.

A recent case of similar behaviour was due to another plugin being active and hooking into pre_get_posts(), this caused every single post being imported to be run through this and was the cause of the slowness.

Check what other plugins are running to see if this is the cause.

And no, *all* bbPress data is stored in the standard WordPress db tables, bbPress does not create any tables of it’s own.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi Jason,
If you experience a bug with a plugin, you better ask on the support page of that plugin directly (in this case https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbp-style-pack)
Pascal.

[Pascal Casier]

If reduced speed is the only topic of concern during an import, then I would say there are no concerns at all 🙂
Improving speed is something that is already ongoing for years (see e.g. https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1925) and will probably never end, but that’s positive in this case.

Let’s just hope the import ends correctly, whatever time it might take.

Pascal.

[Pascal Casier]

If you are looking for paid help, you can always try to post it on http://jobs.wordpress.net/
Pascal.

[Stephen Edgar]

Sorry this isn’t the best of experiences 🙁

Can you try the 2.6 alpha version, available from this page as “development version”
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/developers/
• aka https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bbpress.zip

Also if you “right click” any of the items as they import and select “Inspect element” to view the source code you will see the direct MySQL queries as they happen, you can then use these to help debug directly in phpMyAdmin 🙂

[newdermeo]

Wordpress – 4.4; bbpress 2.5.8; http://www.putznutzcabinfever.com

I am wracking my brain! I have looked all over. My website is http://www.putznutzcabinfever.com and all I need is the functionality of bbpress. I have around 40 family members signed up but so far, those who have tried have not been able to start a topic or reply to anything. I am getting the following message “ERROR: You do not have permission to reply.” I do have Ultimate Member installed if that makes any difference. I have installed Buddypress thinking that it might have something to do with it but have determined it is overkill for my site and that it still does not take care of my problem. I keep thinking there is some place I need to go to change user permissions. Please advise. I am willing to give temporary back door access if necessary.

[tech-pc]

How to keep members in their own forum?

I have a site “mysite.com” with wordpress/bbpress, currently this site has 1 forum for a club-A, all the registered users use this forum. All members are manually activated. All is good. ( I love BBpress! )

HOWEVER -“IF” I were to wish to add another forum for Club-B within “mysite.com” and keep those users seperate from the CLUB-A forum and vice-versa how is that accomplished?

It seems that within wordpress/bbpress all registered users would normally have access to both forums.

Example: “Joe” could be a member of Club-A and Club-B and therefore should have access to both of those forums. “Sally” is only a member of Club-A and therefore should only access Club-A forum.

I do have the following plugins that “may” help- but not sure how to implement them to accomplish this or if it’s even possible.

1 – Capabilities Manager
2 – WP Members
3 – login-logout redirects

Ideas?
Thanks in advance for any help or ideas that you can provide – I’m stumped! So far everything I have thought of to accomplish this has failed- so I thought I’d ask here before I end up breaking something.

[staceyc123]

Hi! i was just looking for some help to customise redirecting my bb press login pages.

Currently when people register with my website using bbpress. it looks part of my website. but if they are met with the “ERROR: This username is already registered. Please choose another one.
or
ERROR: This email is already registered, please choose another one.”

then this message is displayed on a new page. (I have already changed the logo so it does not display the wordpress logo)

but i would like the page to be views inside my website to look part of the website, like the register option is.

The same goes for the “registration complete” page,
Right now those pages look like a seperate website due to the page completely changing, Is this possible to change?

One more thing, is there a way also to allow users to create a password upon registering, it seems a nuisance to have to register, then check your emails, visit a new page to create a password and then log in. Thats 4 steps to take.

Im not great with coding so ideally the less coding the better,

I did have another login plugin which did all this in the settings section but i think i need to use bbprress login as i have the bbpress forum. I don’t think any other login plugin will work to log into the bbpress forum.

[tech-pc]

Hi Robkk -thank you for addressing this – I see you on here all the time and I’m so glad I got you specifically. If anyone can solve this-it is you.

Allow me to first give you a heads up on what I have here:

1. WordPress (current version)
2. BBpress (current Version)
3. I am currently running only one (1) forum with topics
(may be more forums later- but for now its enough)

Goal: to have “Recent Forum Topics” as a scrolling widget rather than a long static list in my sidebar. I am currently displaying 10 most recent, and would like to scroll 3 of the 10 most recent at a time. (Sounds simple enough -but I have experienced otherwise)

I used this plugin as it seemed to be the closest fit, but it only seems to scroll “Posts” not “Recent Forum Topics” http://www.gopiplus.com/work/2010/07/18/vertical-scroll-recent-post/
(can be found in the WP admin plugins directory)

This plugin widget seems to work great for POSTS, if it did “Recent Forum Topics” it would be perfect.

I have had contact with the author, several emails – he has been very gracious, and prompt in his responses, however, there may be a communication problem in differentiating “Posts” from “Recent Forum Topics”. This is why I’ve finally posted here.

Thank you for your efforts and assistance.

I used this plugin http://www.gopiplus.com/work/2010/07/18/vertical-scroll-recent-post/

[Robkk]

@boscagoo

Since this is exporting from bbPress/WordPress to phpBB, I say contact the phpBB community in their support forums.

[Robkk]

How do I add the number of posts under the name and the symbolic images of the user?

Post count is coming to a future release of bbPress. You can use a plugin like this to add the counts for now.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-topic-count/

What exactly do you mean by symbolic images??

How do I change the title to any user of an optional title?
Ex: the title of the current user in the Forum (supervisor) want to have the title of supervisor (supervisor pictures)

You can rename the current forum roles to whatever you want with this php code snippet in this guide. Add the function to your child themes functions.php or in a plugin that can hold custom code snippets like functionality.

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

You can also create custom user roles with custom capabilities and add the custom names there.

Custom Capabilities

How to determine the powers of the supervisors so far have not I transfer Lists Musharraf to it have all the powers modification and deletion of all sections I wanted to be the powers of the supervisor on only a particular section

Assigning a user to a forum is not possible in the default functionality of the latest stable version of bbPress.