[Robkk]

now added buddypress notification count bubble

wordpress profile dropdown in the admin bar vs mine.

[Rasteri]

Hey, how i can disable this option in bbpress forum settings; Disallow editing after x minutes, if i type 0 or leacve it blank, it still uses default setup (5 minutes)?

WordPress version 3.9.2–fi
bbPress Version 2.5.4
My site

[Tom Dyer]

I had a similar issue when running a migrate with a large amount of posts. I believe it’s usually related to a session timeout in WordPress.

When it starts happening, click ‘Stop’ on the importer, then refresh the page and click ‘Start’ again (after you’ve ensured all the database and conversion settings are correct first). The importer should carry on from where it left off as long as you DON’T tick the ‘start a fresh import’ or ‘purge failed import’ options.

If that doesn’t seem to work, another way (which is a little tedious, but worked for me) is to keep a separate WordPress admin page open (not the one your running the import on) and refresh that every few minutes to make sure the session doesn’t expire.

[archiseek]

Phpbb installation – Total posts 113266 • Total topics 7052 • Total members 10711
All versions wordpress and phpbb current.

Just hanging at posts 70299 and displaying
———– etc adding a – every couple of minutes

[vipnt]

Wordpress version : 3.9.2
bbPress version:2.5.4

[Kermit51]

Hello,

Wordpress version : 3.9.1
bbPress version:2.5.4

When i translate the plugin in french, the forum translation works but install the translation broke the admin part.

I can’t publsh any article or access to the parameter, i have a “server problem” when i try to access these part of the admin.

To translate the forum i sent the .mo in : /wp-content/languages/plugins.

Thank’s for your help.

NB: Sorry for my english, if some point are not clear dont hesitate to ask me more information/explanation.

[K-Path]

I used Method 1
a. In Dashboard>settings>forums look for what is set in the forum root under the forum root slug heading. The default is ‘forums’ but you can set this to anything

b. In Dashboard>settings>permalinks check that the common settings check is set to ‘postname’ If it isn’t and you don’t want to change it, then use method 2.

Now just create a wordpress page that has the heading that was found in a. above eg if the root slug is ‘forums’ create a page with the title ‘forums’, and save.

Once the permalink has been created, you can rename the page to whatever you wish eg ‘mysite forums’ (as the permalink will stay the same, and it is this permalink that bbpress looks for)

Save this page, add it to a menu if you are using custom menus, or decide its order if you have automatic menus. Then publish it to your site.

Job done!

I don’t know what information you need to help me. All I know is that when I publish a forum I can see it for example . . .
http://ecopsi.org/forums/forum/general-discourse/

But when I follow the breadcrumbs to home of the forum I get a totally useless page from which I can’t get to any forums. If you look you can see that there is some text that suggests there are other forums but no live links to them. Can you think of what is wrong?
http://ecopsi.org/forums/

Thank you for trying to help Robin.

[Robin W]

ok, lets work this through

You say you’re a superadmin – does this mean its a multi-site installation? they’re not my forte, but if this is just a single site then….

First of all bbpress is a plugin, so you’ll still need wordpress (and it holds the users), and since the existing theme has all the styling that you users are used to, then it would be sensible to use that as well.

So in effect what you need to do is just import a full copy of the installation, and then take out the pages and posts, and you have a forum without the rest of the site !

Since you have a test site, then follow the guidance in

https://codex.bbpress.org/creating-a-test-site/

and then just go into posts and pages to delete those (apart from the forum page), and amend the custom menu if you have one.

[K-Path]

WordPress 3.9.2 running Montezuma theme.
bbPress 2.5.4
There is no “Forums” landing page and the breadcrumbs don’t work for either forums or topics. You can see the individual forums from inside the admin and clicking view and then post a topic but you can’t see the forum from the public face of the blog. Follow the link and you’ll see what I mean.
http://ecopsi.org/forums/topic/the-codex-of-aman/

Very frustrating. Is there something that I forget to do?

[ymd143]

Hello – I have successfully installed the plugin and created my forums, however i am having trouble getting the user roles set. When I try to save a user role such as moderator instead of participant, it will not save and just reverts back to participant.

Can you please help. bbpress Version 2.5.4, wd press WordPress 3.9.2 : Safarica theme version 1.5.0,

Thanks for your help!

[thebardkyo]

ok guys nice to meet you all and forgive me about my poor English.

my site is http://www.lotyr.cc/ and It’s a Chinese one, bbPress entrance is http://www.lotyr.cc/bbs/.

I’m using WordPress 3.9.2, Customized Thematic 1.0.4 theme and bbPRESS 2.5.4.

Here comes my problem:

I want my bbs users to upload and insert images before submitting a topic, so I used a plugin named [bbPress Enable TinyMCE Visual Tab], I enabled the media upload button through it and it works.

The default role of my site is contributor so [upload_files]capability is on, I double-checked it through another plugin.

And that contributor have the access to “media” in dashboard, upload works.

but when the contributor uploads through the button in the forum, it said “An error occurred in the upload. Please try again later.” I checked the upload folder and there’s no new files.

is there any solution to it?

[korzay]

Here’s my setup:

WordPress Version: 3.8
bbPress Version: 2.5.2
Operating System: Linux
Web Server: Apache
Theme: Twenty Twelve child theme
PHP Version: 5.3.3

Thanks for looking into this!

I am editing now my website cepinfo and windowshata

[Killerrabbit2]

We have a couple of topics that have punctuation in them.

One of them: “Hello, I,m…”

If people are subscripted to this forum or post this is what they get in the subject line for the notification:

Hello, I'm…

Wordpress or bbPress is converting those characters to the html equivanant.

So, “‘” converts to &#039 and “…” converts to m…

This makes it really hard to read. Any way to fix this issue?

[Robkk]

Do whatever you can to speed up your website.

click the link

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+to+speed+up+my+wordpress+website

[Robkk]

haha i found the topic your talking about

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-ask-question-in-bbpress-forum-wont-post-help-1?replies=8

@netweb meant if your question pertains to bbpress

post your topic here https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting#postform

and how wordpress works on posting support forums , if its plugins or themes they have their own support forums, but its just any other wordpress stuff post in some of these forums in this link

Support Forums

[Stephen Edgar]

This is not a bbPress issue, please post your WordPress issues on the WordPress support forums:

Support Forums

[Stephen Edgar]

Another (most likely dumb) question I forgot to ask. This could be the answer to the missing(?) topics/replies. At the end of the conversion, the program shows in short intervals ‘-’ on the screen. This takes forever and lasted almost as long as the initial part of the conversion which grabbed the Rows. I thought the conversion was finished when the ‘-’ stopped appearing on screen ‘————’ etc. Was I supposed to wait for some kind of other message which indicates the conversion ended?

This is basically WordPress losing the connection with the MySQL database and is a right pain, once this occurs “nothing” is now happening, the import is essentially stopped.

So in answer to your question, most likely this is the result of the missing topic/replies.

So yes, at the end of the conversion, you’ll see “Conversion Complete” with a link to the repair tools.

With most of the databases I have had to test to get compatibility with the importers many of the sample databases I have been sent (I don’t have a license for most of the commercial forum packages) I make a copy of the database and then prune/delete all but ~10 topics, the topics replies, the topic and reply users. This makes testing a breeze as it completes in a couple of minutes, once I know all is good then I give it a whirl on the full database.

[Robkk]

what is caching software?

a caching plugin like w3 total cache , wp super cache

https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/

[luisc9]

Stephen:

Bad news 🙁

I got the message: “Recalculating reply menu order … No reply positions to recalculate!”

But the replies are not in order…

Any ideas? Should we apply the fix at https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2586 ?

Thanks in advance
Luis

[David_PR]

I had the same problem with a trial WP site I have running locally on my Mac, using MAMP.
The problem disappeared after I did…

[1]
Dashboard / Settings / Permalink = Post Name.
Dashboard / Settings / General: Anyone Can Register = Y; New User Default Role = Subscriber.
Dashboard / Settings / Forums: Default User Role = Participant; leave other settings at default.

[1]
Dashboard / Settings / General Settings
Two fields to edit, called “WordPress Address (URL); Site Address (URL).
http://localhost:8888/wordpress ORIGINAL…PROBLEM
http://localhost:80/wordpress REVISED… STILL PROBLEM
http://localhost/wordpress REVISED… NO PROBLEM!

[3]
At the MAMP control panel click on Preferences; click on button “Set Apache & MySQL ports to 80, 3306. Log in again to WP.

– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
Worked for me!

David

[divyesh25]

Hi Stephen,

Can You tell me which forum software that has pagination for the categories/forums? I have no idea about much in wordpress so.

thanks

[Stephen Edgar]

No magic wand, as each topic or reply is imported it is matched to the old user ID.

Thus you really need to import the users and the forums, topics and replies at the same time.

The reason you can do this separate is because bbPress 1.x, BuddyPress Group Forums, SimplePress, Mingle to name a few are WordPress plugins and thus the users already exist in the WordPress database.

I also can’t see a reason as to why importing the users, then the forums as separate imports would work and a single import for everything would not work. Essentially the way the import works is in steps, it imports each section, once finished moves to the next step.

Up for trying again? If you do please post back here any errors you see and I’ll help work through those with you.

[Stephen Edgar]

Sorry for the delay, life has been getting in the way.

Thanks for listing those tweaks you made, they make sense, we already bump the PHP timeout and up the memory limit to 256M but that is all we can really do safely before we cause grief in shared hosting environments.

I linked this post from our Import Troubleshooting docs so when I get the time we can expand that section (or a dedicated section) on tweaking ‘all the things’.

It doesn’t look I have asked this previously, what version of MyBB are you importing from?

All my tests have been with MyBB v1.6.10

Some topics are not combined correctly. All replies are separate topics. The ‘Recalculate the parent topic for each post’ does not fix this. I ran all repair queries btw. An option in the Topics interface to combine these, would be ace 😉 Is it possible to correct this with a query? My SQL skills are too limited unfortunately.

I just ran an MyBB import of my ‘standard’ MyBB database and without running any repair tools replies are correctly associated with their parent topics.

As to the possibility of correcting this with a MySQL query, it could be, it’s hard to say without knowing what data is mismatched.

Run the following query in phpMyAdmin:
– 83 is my topic ID
– 97,99,100 and 102 are the reply ID’s I know should be part of the topic ID 83
– A single topic and a couple of replies should be all I need to see what’s going on

SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE ID IN (83,97,99,100,102)

Once you’ve executed the query, click ‘Print View’ and the results should open in a new browser tab, select all the text and paste them into a GitHub Gist and select SQL from the language dropdown (You don’t need an account for this)

https://gist.github.com/

It should look similar to this (this is based on my above screenshot)
https://gist.github.com/ntwb/04ed1cf9cf5f67528fcb

The Repair Forums option ‘Recalculate the position of each reply’ does not work. It creates a white screen. Load problem?

Yes, sadly, this is because of the size of the forums, kind of a know issue so that is good, sortof. Anyway the best thing is is that you do not need to run this tool. This is for only repairing ‘threaded replies’ which MyBB did not have so you can just skip running this tool. I’ll update the verbiage for this text in the next release and make some improvements when used with ‘large’ sites and some error handling.

myBB accepts spaces in the login name. Unfortunately WordPress does not. The conversion leaves the spaces in the login name. Is it possible to correct this with an SQL? Is there another workaround? Correcting them one by one is not my preference

I’ll work out a fix for that shortly, second time I’ve hit this issue today, @Halo-DieHard also did on BuddyPress.org.

Two forums are created double. The copies do not contain any topics or replies, so it is easy to remove them. Just thought you should know

That shouldn’t be the case, though as you point out easily fixed, most likely one of two things, either those forums were still there from a previous import OR there is something funky with the forum categories versus the forum forums though checking my import I just did, everything is fine for me 😉

The original myBB forum contained 1mlj+ messages and 36k+ discussions. The converted forum contains 109k subjects. That can be explained because of the first issue. But it only contains 830k replies. It could be that myBB adds subjects and replies to messages, but the difference is a bit too big. Is it possible to do an SQL checksum to check the expected output?

It does sound a little off, some forum software combine the total topics and replies to create a total post count.

On my MyBB I have:

Our members have made a total of 22 posts in 10 threads.
We currently have 6 members registered.

After importing using the [bbp-stats] shortcode I have
Topics 10, Replies 12

So that works out correct in my case, total of 22 posts = 10 topics + 12 replies 🙂

It’s hard to match up yours because the issue above as you state, ball park 109k + 830k = 93k which is a few short of the 1m, this will be due to those issues above and we can take another look after they’re fixed.

[Stephen Edgar]

Add the following CSS to your custom CSS and you should be good to go:

#bbpress-forums span.bbp-author-ip {
word-wrap: break-word;
}

I have added word-wrap: break-word; to bbPress CSS in #2675

span.bbp-author-ip {
	font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif;
	font-size: 11px;
	font-weight: bold;
	word-wrap: break-word;
	color: #aaa;
}

[theuniversitygal]

Hi,

I deleted all the widgets from my sidebar except for categories and added a search bar and email subscribe widget. All of this is showing up correctly in my sidebar, but isn’t reflecting on my website. I believe I have the latest version of wordpress. I don’t knowing any coding or html. I have tried multiple times to delete or add widgets, with no luck.

Thank You