[Stagger Lee]

Problems with other forum scripts are (if we forget about WP integration for a moment) like this, and i have seen it more than often.

People come to forum, relax, discussing, forget about time. But they forget about main portal too. It doesnt exist for them. I have seen many popular and crowded forums and people behind main portal lose money, time, energy to write editorials and news. Nobody is reading this, nobody “knows” about portal when they are on forum. And all try to make other forum scripts look a like something near CMS are madness, better not to go this way.

Here you have old brother WordPress, so popular in the world. You discuss in the forum, suddenly sidebar widget display new article from portal, as it says “did you forget to read news”. Just one example of many of them.

All is here, all exist to make bbPress (or BuddyPress) most popular forum script. To follow steps of WordPress.
Smart core coders, wish exist, older brother WordPress is there to push bbPress in the front of other forum scripts.

[Stagger Lee]

I read somwehere (or was it for BuddyPress, but it is the same logic), that you avoid new options and functions in core to reduce support. It is OK and understandable.

I this sentence i said you can do much with only CSS and styling. To “sell” bbPress to WP beginners.
It is very behind other forum software right now.

WordPress has its own “demo” websites, all those nice and fancy themes around web. BbPress has it not.

[Robin W]

try

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

This should stop bbpress forum entries displaying when they shouldn’t.

[Stagger Lee]

Old topic but. This can help. Check just if it doesnt interfere with sorting in backend and frontend for other things. Such plugins can do it sometimes and give undesired results. Watch your widgets too how they behave.

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

[Robin W]

the filter is just applying to the reply content.

You probably want to amend a template – How php code/wordpress knowledgable are you?

[drakas]

Hello, i have same problem, https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-on-forums-broken-permalinks still didint got anwser what to do from wcml plugin creators.

[Robin W]

ok, that isn’t really that helpful.

Presume the error only occurs with the moderation plugin?

If so try their support site

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbpressmoderation

although it looks as though someone has already posted that problem

[Robin W]

You can use

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

to achieve this.

[wewillc]

Wordpress 4.1 // bbPress 2.5.3 // bbPress SubScriptions 0.4dev // GD bbPress Attachments 2.0

I see where the data is being prepared before use of send_email():
self::$handler->send_mail($user_ids, $subject, $text, compact(‘topic_id’, ‘reply_author_name’));

Where I am stuck is what to include in send_email() so that the GD image file (d4p_attachment[]) is included in the reply email, as well as the reply post.

All thoughts and ideas appreciated.

Thanks.

[cbalke]

How do I go about getting into and editing the coding for the “img” button?

Currently the code that is applied is (img src=”xxxxxxxx” alt=”ffs” /) with the ( ) being < > and the xxx’s being the images URL.

I want to change the coding to (url=xxxxx)(img)xxxxx(/img)(/url) with the parentheses replaced with square brackets and xxxxx with the photo’s url.

By doing so, the images can be clicked which would open a lightbox

Thanks in advance for the help.
Wordpress 4.1
bbPress 2.5.4-5380

[spespam]

Hello Stephen,

I’m trying to convert my punbb forum into WordPress 4.1, and I have a problem.

I used the integrated punbb converter inside WordPress 4.1, and it imports everything but the members’ posts are all assigned to me !

When I try to import the users, the users are not imported at all.

Can you help ?

[Touda]

After some tests, I tried to deactivate one-by-one the last plugins I’ve installed. And after deactivating Google Anlytics by Yoast, it made the trick!

Forums are back now! All are listed. Widget is back on all the pages, I can reply and create topics… I hope this helps other people. This plugin seems to be incompatible with bbPress plugin!

[Robin W]

presume you are using

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-genesis-extend/

[UgoDimma]

I want to add ShareThis sharing button at the top and bottom of every posts, but I dont know which file to edit and where exactly to add the code. Please someone guide me through. Am using bbpress 2.5.4 wordpress 4.1

you can have a look at this screenshot to understand what I really need,
http://s1382.photobucket.com/albums/ah248agbams/?action=view&current=sharethis_zps1df4998b.png

[Robin W]

This is a wordpress question rather than bbpress. bbpress just uses wordpress and allocates a role on first login.

so google something like

‘wordpress user registration plugin’

I did and got, and plenty of other references

20+ WordPress Plugins for Improved User Login and Registration

[Food Research Collaboration]

Hi there,

I’m looking for an option to hold new topics by non-admin users in moderation for approval before they are visible. I’ve tried looking at this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpressmoderation/ but it deals with topics and replies together- you have to moderate both or not moderate both. I’m not interested in moderating replies, just topic starters.
Could anybody by any chance suggest a different plugin, a code snippet to use etc. to work around this issue?
(I’m running the latest versions on WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress).
Thank you very much!

[Stagger Lee]

I do it with this snippet. For WordPress and bbPress together. Local links are opened normally, only extern are target blank. Dont forget to change your domain line.

// Make URL Clickable In WordPress, bbPress (plus target=”_blank”)
add_filter( 'the_content', 'make_clickable');

function autoblank($text) {
$myurl = 'http://your-domain.com';
$external = str_replace('href=', 'target="_blank" href=', $text);
$external = str_replace('target="_blank" href="'.$myurl, 'href="'.$myurl, $external);
$external = str_replace('target="_blank" href="#', 'href="#', $external);
$external = str_replace('target = "_blank">', '>', $external);
return $external;
}
add_filter('the_content', 'autoblank');
add_filter('bbp_get_topic_content', 'autoblank',255);
add_filter('bbp_get_reply_content', 'autoblank',255);

Remove nofollow if you need to !

function mtn_weekly_fix_rel_follow( $content ) {
    // Find rel="nofollow", replace with empty space.
    $content = preg_replace( '/rel="nofollow"/', ' ', $content);
    return $content;
}
add_filter( 'the_content', 'mtn_weekly_fix_rel_follow', 20 );
add_filter('bbp_get_topic_content', 'mtn_weekly_fix_rel_follow',255);
add_filter('bbp_get_reply_content', 'mtn_weekly_fix_rel_follow',255);

[Ben Hansen]

yes actually the problem finally went away I’m trying to remember what it was that fixed it…
it was either an upgrade or this thing i think:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-capabilities/

[Novadrake1111]

I am using a wordpress skin that integrates BBPress very nicely. One thing I am looking to do, however is make the bbpress forums have a hierarchy like any other software out there currently. I am not that amazing at coding and would appreciate if someone could explain in an easy to understand way. If it’s something that I would have to code completely over, i’d be willing to pay someone to help me code that.

Thank You

[Carl Fox]

@robkk

why would you want to import the newest version of a bbPress posts into WordPress when they should already show up fine, like a regular bbPress install??

The above makes no sense to me, anyone else? Did you read what I wtrote, or just the headline?

I am trying to import an entire forum (forums/topics/replies) from one WordPress install to another.

This should be simple, as Stephen Edgar wrote, it should be a standard option on the ‘Import Forums’ tab under ‘Tools’, but it’s not.

He also wrote that it would soon be implemented and really should be a simple process…. months ago!

@robin-w

Apologies Robin if I wasn’t clear.

I have a forum on a WordPress 4.1 install located on a live test server.
(oxymoron? – I know, but that’s how I develop, consider it a sandlot)

I am running version 2.5.4 of bbpress, and am trying to move it to a different WordPress installation, also 4.1.

I did not do:
Dashboard>tools>forums>export from the WP 4.1/bbPress 2.5.4 because there is no such option

I did do:
As advised on this forum and elsewhere, Dashboard>Tools>Export-Forums/Topic/Replies individually.(I did also try them all together, but this didn’t work at all..)

Then I imported them individually in order Forums/Topic/Replies.

This imports everything to the backend perfectly fine, but nothing shows on the front end.

I then followed the Forum repair procedures in many different forms (e.g.: one at a time/different order/all together) and still nothing shows on the front end.

As I said, I have tried this entire procedure in many ways now, both to standalone single site WP installs, Multisite setups, local WP installs and subdomains/subfolders, and regardless of how I do it, I never see anything on the Front End of the site I import to – but everything is perfectly visible and editable on the back end.

As for the ‘four months’, it has taken me that long, on and off, to follow all the various scraps of advice from around this forum on importing/migrating bbPress to different locations/installs, there are a lot of threads here covering many scenarios, and I tried most of them.

It is my experience that this is best practice on a support forum, otherwise I would rightly be told not to post about something that has already been discussed/solved.

I can now confidently inform you that there is no solution on this forum for my particular issue and would greatly appreciate your advice/help in finding a solution.

May I suggest two things though, which I feel would solve this issue for anyone going forward.

1) Please do develop the promised import option for bbPress 2.x forums in the Tools>Import Forums tab.

2) Please also post a step-by-step guide for manually adding bbPress tables via phpMyAdmin

Can you help me ?

[omigosh]

Using WordPresss 4.1 and bbPress 2.4.5-5380

The Subscribe link doesn’t seem to work. There is no response when I hover over it and I certainly don’t get emails when a new post is created.

Any help appreciated

[Robkk]

@carl-fox

why would you want to import the newest version of a bbPress posts into WordPress when they should already show up fine, like a regular bbPress install??

i understand importing the standalone version of bbPress which is 1.0x and to import that into the newer version so that it could work better with WordPress.

are you trying covert topics to actual blog posts?? or something to that nature??

Is bbPress dead now?

no its not dead , consider it in the shadows ….like Batman haha

[Carl Fox]

I have tried EVERYTHING!

Nothing works!

All forums/topics/replies/users are imported, nothing shows up anywhere on the front end.

All forum repair tools do NOTHING.

I have tried this on single site, multisite and local site, I have rebuilt everything from scratch and tried it, I have rolled back the original forum (also WP 4.1/ bbPress 2.5.4) and reinstalled it’s backup, then tried exporting/importing again, NOTHING WORKS!

As you can guess, I’m pretty fed up.

I started trying this in October, still trying. Followed all the threads here, most of which trail off with no solutions, or end with ‘I got it to work!’, and ‘We’re glad you solved it.’ type postings – which is really infuriating.

Stephen posted months ago that an import option for bbPress 2 would be easy to implement and quickly done, no sign of it – or Stephen anymore.

Is bbPress dead now?

Seriously, most of the documentatation relates to ancient WordPress versions, and bbPress 1.

Really, I’m not kidding, have you guys read the bbPress installation guide lately?

Anyway, I know I’m ranting, but I am extremely pee’d off. I’m no novice, all I want is correct documetation. A guide that finishes maybe? How about a proper step-by-step guide on how to manually do an importation via phpMyAdmin – as none of the current tools manage to work.

Somebody, for the love of all mankind, please help!!!

[Robkk]

@fatbat

as an alternative of going to the plugins section in bbpress.org you can just go to the WordPress plugin repository and search bbpress/bbp and you should find some bbpress plugins.

also just going through any plugins tagged bbpress should do it too.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/bbpress

[Robkk]

you could also just activate the visual editor too.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-enable-tinymce-visual-tab/