[Robkk]

Just so you guys know WordPress comes with its own emoticons and also since the latest version you can post emojis.

wp-monalisa is a good plugin for custom smilies and stickers though.

It also has a cool feature to import some phpBB smiley packs.

[Stephen Edgar]

Two functions bbp_update_reply_position() and bbp_get_reply_position_raw() are what you need to look at:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/2.5/includes/replies/functions.php#L2113
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/2.5/includes/replies/functions.php#L2149

The two functions above are what calculates the reply position in the database as it doesn’t actually exist in the database until either a) a new reply is added to a topic or b) the repair tool is ran to calculate the reply order.

[Stephen Edgar]

You would want to do a search and replace in your database to change it from a BBCode link to a compatible link e.g. http://youtube.com/video_url.

I’m not familiar with “Aeva media” so can’t really help in that regard.

Using a search and replace plugin like the following might be what you need:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/search-and-replace/

You would search for the “Aeva media” BBCode, eg. [aver_video]video_url[/aver_video] and replace it with http://aver-vidio-domain.com/video_url

[Stephen Edgar]

Found the patch, it needs lots of testing and I haven’t had the time to take even a cursory look at it yet https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2731, so lets leave that aside for now.

The code is here, I’m not sure your level of PHP knowledge but I’ll just add the link to it for now and will follow up after you’ve had a look at the code:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/2.5/includes/admin/tools.php#L1134

[pandreas]

Is there an easy way to add custom fields to the front-end of bbpress?

I am using some custom fields (file, image attachments) with the help of this plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/ so I add them to support bbpress forums and topics as well.

But these custom fields are available only to back-end of topics and forums and not to the front-end.

How can this change?

Thank you in advanced!

Andreas

[Robkk]

I’m not really sure you have to worry about the post meta table?? Nevermind it is most likely important for post IDs and such.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Database_Description#Table:_wp_postmeta

And as for sql code to check DB for consistency , I do not know what to tell ya there either.

[mmice]

@robkk oh, G-d! I know that ))) I have been using a bb_ prefix for my WordPress install )))
So yep, – i have all posts in bb_posts (if i used wp_ prefix, it would be wp_posts).

[Robkk]

@mmice

bbPress v2 does not have a bb_posts database table , that is in bbPress v1 standalone. Which is what @netweb is referring that you are trying to import into the old v1 version even though your suppose to import to the latest version.

All of bbPress data is stored inside of the WordPress database tables.

In this guide I explain it.

Stored Database Data

[Robkk]

Its custom code to this site.

There might be some tutorial, I think someone linked to it before on here but I can’t remember where ti was.

This plugin has something close , but it has no styling.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-info-widgets/

[nicnack]

Hi There ~ How can I make a forum only available to those who log in to the membership part of the site (using (wp-members plugin)? normally I can set which pages/post are private, but since the BBforum seems to dynamically create a page, Im not sure how to do this…?

WordPress 4.2.2
bbpress Version 2.5.7
link: http://www.laadda.com/2015/forums/forum/adda-forum/

Thanks!

[Stephen Edgar]

So I edited the post and copied the SQL code to a gist on GitHub:

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/8d1cb71e69d52ac69f5d

First, it looks like you are importing the phpBB into bbPress 1.x, bbPress 1.x is not supported anymore.

Per @robkk post immediately above you should checkout that link to our docs on the codex on importing to bbPress 2.x, and in general look toward using the bbPress 2.x plugin for WordPress https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/

I’d suggest taking a look at our phPBB v3.x importer and making any change to match the phpBB v1.x database schema changes you would need:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/2.5/includes/admin/converters/phpBB.php

[thierryyyyyyy]

I’m also interested.

I actually don’t need the wordpress blog at all, I would prefere to have a separate installation for my forum… and then, I don’t want to have a “/forum” in the URL.

I tried to put my “bbpress.php” template as the “index.php” template in the theme : stupid idea !
I got the blog posts inside the forum template (as actually one might expect…)

I also tried to configure the “forum root” parameter (the folder name) as “”. did not work (Yeah, I also doubted, but I had to try)

it should exists something linked with permalinks to do such a thing, isn’t ?

[bexinul]

Hello,

I am trying to import my Kunena 3 forum to bbPress when switching from Joomla to WordPress.

The import always fails with this error:

WordPress database error: [Table 'bcbrainois2.jos_kunena_topics' doesn't exist]
SELECT convert(kunena_messages.id USING "utf8") AS id,convert(kunena_messages.catid USING "utf8") AS catid,convert(kunena_messages.thread USING "utf8") AS thread,convert(kunena_messages.ip USING "utf8") AS ip,convert(kunena_messages.userid USING "utf8") AS userid,convert(kunena_messages.subject USING "utf8") AS subject,convert(kunena_messages_text.message USING "utf8") AS message,convert(kunena_messages.time USING "utf8") AS time FROM jbcb_kunena_messages AS kunena_messages LEFT JOIN jbcb_kunena_messages_text AS kunena_messages_text ON kunena_messages_text.mesid = kunena_messages.id LEFT JOIN jos_kunena_topics AS kunena_topics ON kunena_messages.thread = kunena_topics.id WHERE kunena_messages.parent != 0 LIMIT 0, 100

My table prefix is jbcb_ I don’t know why the importer tries to import a jos_ table which doesn’t exist…

And the result of the import is a forum without any post, just the topics are imported.

Can someone help me on that one?

Thanks a lot,

Nicolas

[stevenwb]

Hi Robkk

Thanks for your message. I have tried to upload both of the fixes you mentioned but they will not load. I did it through the plugin dashboard on wordpress, and both caused an error.

Steve

[Robkk]

@galador

Please go through some of the troubleshooting steps listed here.

Troubleshooting

and What schmoo and I were saying is that you can use both of the plugins we mentioned to extend/show the visual editor.

to display the visual editor make sure you have configured the setting in settings > forums in the WordPress back-end.

[Robkk]

@billreefer

If you do write a guide or start to write a guide.

You can email me your ideas , or if you want to start writing it out soon you can write in a Google Doc Spreadsheet and email it to me , so I could put it in the codex.

Email anything you want in the COdex, you find my email in this link.

Contact

[Robkk]

@flyden

this just looks like a CSS issue.

I think it is just that your buttons text are white by default in your theme and it is overriding the bbPress styles.

you can try this CSS and see if it works but you would need to find the issue using some developer tools in your browser or you can create me a subscriber/participant acount to look at it.

If you want to create me an account you can send the login details to my email here.

Contact

[patrix87]

I modified a little script I found inside a plugin named “bbp signature” https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-signature/
That plugin actually does not work with Buddypress, it is a bbpress plugin
[modified by moderator]

But the code wasn’t too terrible. even though I only kept a few line of it.

So here’s the solution;

make sure you have buddypress with xprofile enabled *(extended profiles)

1. Create a new text box field in Xprofile and name it “Signature”. *(caps is important, no quotation mark.)

Then add that code to the function.php of your child theme.

//Add Signature

function bbp_reply_content_append_user_signature( $content = '', $reply_id = 0, $args = array() ) {
	// Default arguments
	$defaults = array(
		'separator' => '<hr />',
		'before'    => '<div class="bbp-signature">',
		'after'     => '</div>'
	);
	$r = wp_parse_args( $args, $defaults );
	extract( $r );

	// Verify topic id, get author id, and potential signature
	$reply_id  = bbp_get_reply_id       ( $reply_id );
	$user_id   = bbp_get_reply_author_id( $reply_id );
	$signature = xprofile_get_field_data( 'Signature', $user_id );

	// If signature exists, adjust the content accordingly
	if ( !empty( $signature ))
		$content = $content . $separator . $before . $signature . $after;

	return apply_filters( 'bbp_reply_content_append_signature', $content, $reply_id, $separator );
}

add_filter( 'bbp_get_reply_content', 'bbp_reply_content_append_user_signature', 1, 2 );

That’s it !

PS. If you want to enable HTML in xprofile there is a way but it’s risky.
you can read about it here : https://buddypress.org/support/topic/html-in-profile-field-again/

[shaquana_folks]

To Whom It May Concern,

I’m trying to configure forums properly for my site and for some reason the forum samples that I created from my back end are not showing up on my http://www.myloopnetwork.com website under the “Forums” tab. So I went to check out the Error Log from my hosting plan back end and saw this message:

20150609T144202: http://www.myloopnetwork.com/index.php
WordPress database error Table ‘wordpress_iomdefe35a.wp_jgts_bb_forums’ doesn’t exist for query DESCRIBE wp_jgts_bb_forums; made by require(‘wp-blog-header.php’), require_once(‘wp-includes/template-loader.php’), do_action(‘template_redirect’), call_user_func_array, bp_template_redirect, do_action(‘bp_template_redirect’), call_user_func_array, bp_screens, do_action(‘bp_screens’), call_user_func_array, bp_forums_directory_forums_setup, do_action(‘bbpress_init’), call_user_func_array, bp_forums_load_bbpress

There were a lot of other errors listed on that log but I already spoke to a representative of my hosting plan service and he said that he doesn’t see any other errors on that log from his end, except this one and another error (which I’m currently trying to resolve with the BuddyPress plug in moderators). So is there a reason why the above message is showing up? Please let me know what necessary steps I must take to get this resolved.

I’m currently testing everything out on the latest version of the Twenty Fifteen theme (ideally, I want to use this Magnus WordPress Theme [1.6 Version] for my site), I only have the BuddyPress plug in (now running a 2.3.1 version), the bbPress plug in (now running a 2.5.7 version) and a W3 Total Cache plug in (running a 0.9.4.1 version) currently activated. My hosting provider is with iPage, which is running a 5.0 PHP version and is running NGINX for their server. I hope all this info will be helpful in figuring out what’s going on. Any feedback or any other suggestions you may have will be greatly appreciate it.

Thank you in advance.

[Robkk]

@mmice

you should have posted that on gist.github.com or at least pastebin so that users do not have to scroll through all that.

As for importing have you tried a creating a custom import using the example one in the bbPress plugin
https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/custom-import/

And for Karma system you might have to look into a WordPress plugin like MyCred.

And for importing private messages , I am not sure how that is going to work, but there is a lot of Private messaging plugins for WordPress like BuddyPress.

[Robkk]

once i went into bbpress settings and set a register page and activation page.

This sounds like you went to BuddyPress’s settings, you can use BuddyPress’s register form.

For a login page you can place the bbPress login shortcode in a page and it should work.

For a lost password page I guess you can use the lost password shortcode but I do not know if it works correctly or not, or it just redirects to the WordPress lost password form.

[Robkk]

You can also use this plugin too, but works best without BuddyPress installed.

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

[Robin W]

https://wordpress.org/plugins/restrict-content/

should do the trick

[jnezon]

Running bbpress 2.5.7 and buddypress 2.3.1 and a couple of extensions wordpress version 4.2.2- the issue I am seeing is that posts from other groups (all of which are set to be private) are now showing in each others posts.

Site is developer-ims.alcatel-lucent.com (I’ll need to pm with account)

I cant figure out why / what more to check / how to repair (tried all the tools)

[grayson_marik]

Hi there,

on my page i use the wordPress function to do some automatted posts. however, they do not show up. Only after doing the repair tools they are available.

This is how i do it :

`
$post = array(
‘post_title’ => $topic,
‘post_content’ => $message2,
‘post_type’ => ‘topic’,
‘post_status’ => ‘publish’,
‘post_author’ => $authorId,
‘comment_status’=>’closed’,
‘post_parent’ => $parentID,
);

$topicid = wp_insert_post( $post, $wp_error );
`

The post_meta is not set properly. So what do i have to do to make it work?