[Stephen Edgar]

You can try the ‘Remap existing users to default forum roles’ repair tool to see if that fixes the bbPress Roles: https://codex.bbpress.org/repair-forums/

I had a quick look at https://wordpress.org/plugins/role-scoper/ and they make no specific mention of supporting bbPress’ ‘Dynamic Roles’ and that could be where the core of the issue is.

Yes, Role Scooper is the issue and it appears there will be no longer further development or support:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/role-scoper/faq/

With the production release of Press Permit, is Role Scoper still supported?
Basic Role Scoper support (bug fixes but not necessarily plugin conflict resolution) will be provided while WP 3.6.x is the active WordPress version. Compatibility with WP 3.7 and beyond is not assured, as I do not plan any further unfunded development of the Role Scoper code base. Further development and support will be available on a consulting basis as indicated on agapetry.net, but I will encourage migration to Press Permit – a superior platform with a sustainable funding model.

The good news is the new plugin ‘Press Permit’ does support bbPress’ Dynamic Roles 🙂

https://wordpress.org/plugins/press-permit-core/
Customize bbPress forum permissions

[Stephen Edgar]

Cool, glad your taking a look at it.

“It seems to have appended an extre Re: in front of each (so they read Re:Re:Topic)”

The Re: should only be added to the title of a reply, this should not be adding them to the topics and this shows that the SQL in the importer isn’t quite matching up with your database.

The SQL queries below are based on the Kunena1.php importer and use the prefix jos_ as the table prefix for the bbPress importer.

When the importer fails you should see an error message like the following:
WordPress database error: [Unknown column 'kunena_categories.locked1' in 'field list']

In this particular case the importer was looking for jos_kunena_categories.locked1 where jos_kunena_categories is the table name and locked1 is the field name. I used ‘locked1’ as a way to force an error to show the example, so if I knew my version of the database should be looking at the field locked instead of locked1 you can find the 'from_fieldname' => 'locked1' in Kunena1.php and update that with the correct field mapping 'from_fieldname' => 'locked',.

Another way you can go about this is to jump directly into phpMyAdmin and test each of the following SQL queries, there are primarily four queries are as follows:

Again I used prefix jos_ for my database and you will need to change this to match your own database table prefix.

Forums

SELECT 
kunena_categories.id AS id,
kunena_categories.parent AS parent,
kunena_categories.numTopics AS numTopics,
kunena_categories.numPosts AS numPosts,
kunena_categories.name AS name,
kunena_categories.description AS description,
kunena_categories.ordering AS ordering,
kunena_categories.locked AS locked 
FROM jos_kunena_categories AS kunena_categories

Topics

SELECT 
kunena_messages.thread AS thread,
kunena_messages.catid AS catid,
kunena_messages.userid AS userid,
kunena_messages.ip AS ip,
kunena_messages_text.message AS message,
kunena_messages.subject AS subject,
kunena_messages.time AS time,
kunena_messages.locked AS locked 
FROM jos_kunena_messages AS kunena_messages 
INNER JOIN jos_kunena_messages_text AS kunena_messages_text 
ON kunena_messages_text.mesid = kunena_messages.id 
WHERE kunena_messages.parent = 0

Replies

SELECT 
kunena_messages.id AS id,
kunena_messages.catid AS catid,
kunena_messages.thread AS thread,
kunena_messages.ip AS ip,
kunena_messages.userid AS userid,
kunena_messages.subject AS subject,
kunena_messages_text.message AS message,
kunena_messages.time AS time 
FROM jos_kunena_messages AS kunena_messages 
INNER JOIN jos_kunena_messages_text AS kunena_messages_text 
ON kunena_messages.id = kunena_messages_text.mesid 
WHERE kunena_messages.parent != 0

Users

SELECT 
users.id AS id,
users.password AS password,
users.username AS username,
users.email AS email,
users.registerDate AS registerDate 
FROM jos_users AS users

That’s a bit to digest so I’ll leave it at that for now and it is probably as clear as mud unless you are a seasoned SQL junkie.

If anything I wrote above doesn’t make sense just ask away and remember 🙂
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_such_thing_as_a_stupid_question

[ronthai]

As Lynqoid said it all depends on your needs and skills in adding and changing things if the standard + additional plugins, is not enough.

BBPress has the big advantage that it is part of WordPress, but a disadvantage is the limitation in all the bells and whistles that other forum software gives, which most forums don’t need anyway.
BBPress is lightweight compared to other stand-alone software, but that also makes it attractive to use.

You should also think what your readers/members will need and do with it.
My experience with forums is that the majority just comes to read and sometimes posts, if they have questions or answers, but that will be if you are lucky at the most 10% of the readers/members.

Crowd-moderation as you call it is not a real feature on BBPress, a simple report link is there, which does not even sends you an email.
Other software has more complex report systems, but don’t think users will use them, since that is not why they are on your forum.

[Lynqoid]

It might be easier to list out everything that you need a forum software to do and then see if bbPress meets your list.

The thing for me personally is that if bbPress doesn’t currently do something then with the power of WordPress behind it, you can make it work with a little development. Other forum software is not quite as easy in my opinion.

Good luck!

[Rollsjoyce]

Hi,
I am using version 2.5.1 of the bbpress plugin and 3.8 wordpress 3.7.1.
It is not possible for forum role:participant as well as forum role:Keymaster to edit any field in profile in the page with [bbp-register].
There appears an error message:
ERROR: Password couldn’t be empty.
ERROR: Password confirmation couldn’t be empty.

Even when the password area is blank and I also tested it with the password area filled in.
http://www.paragliding-holland.nl/test-registration/

Maybe this is a bug, but I am not sure.

What can I do to fix this problem?

[Stephen Edgar]

Give this plugin a try

bbPress Forum Redirect
Allows you to override the default behaviour of bbPress forums, linking them to an external site. bbPress Forum Redirect requires no real configuration… it simply adds a metabox to the forum edit screen allowing you to specify an override URL.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-forum-redirect/

[netfux]

Hi, there are some forums as Forum Rules or What is this about?, that when clicked I just want the users to see a regular wordpress page where I expose those rules, or thos explanations that’s it. I don’t want they to fins a subforums and then click again and the they will see a topic explainig those details… So, what I need is to know how can I make a Title Forum to become a link to another regular page. Thank’s

[Stephen Edgar]

It does work fine with WordPress 3.8 🙂

We should also update bbPress to also say “Compatible up to: 3.8” rather than the current 3.6.1 😉

[Stephen Edgar]

I have used this plugin to test email, seems to test what’s needed.

Remember to deactivate/delete it after you have done your testing.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/diagnostic-tool/

[nickprebezac]

I’m having the same problem:
bbpress 2.3.2
WordPress 3.6.1.

[Stephen Edgar]

The classes are set by the following:

<body class="topic bbpress single single-topic... <- bbp_is_single_topic
<body class="forum-archive bbpress archive... <- bbp_is_forum_archive
<body class="bbp-user-page single singular bbpress... <- bbp_is_single_user
<body class="bbp-view bbpress... <- bbp_is_single_view

Take a look at the source for any others here

[Stephen Edgar]

When I try and do it manually on the WP admin dashboard, it also forces me to make them a user on the blog, which I don’t want. I want them to only access the forum.

bbPress users ARE WordPress users so as @ronthai points out just make the users WordPress role ‘Subscriber’ to which point you may as well just use the built in users panel in your WordPress admin.

[J]

Hi,

It was lovely of Milan to add hooks to his bbPress Digest (see here: http://blog.milandinic.com/2013/12/15/bbpress-digest-2-1-customizing-emails/)

But I think he does not have much free time for non-developers, which I can understand. I was wondering if anyone can helps with implementation?

I just want to update the From and the Subject.

Thanks

[Stephen Edgar]

– Open up the WordPress admin users section
– Click delete on imported_LinDan94
– Check the box “Attribute all posts to:”
– Select the username LinDan94 from the dropdown
– Click ‘Confirm Deletion’

[ronthai]

https://wordpress.org/plugins/new-user-approve/
There might be other plugins also just do a search

On the WP side you can always just keep them at -No role for this site- or just subscriber, which just means they can read, but not write posts on the WP side.

[LinDan94]

Hi guys,
is there any solution to have same nicks in WordPress and phpBB, which you want to import into bbPress? For example, when I do this with my forum nick ‘LinDan94’, it’ll be overwrited with ‘imported_LinDan94’, because the same user exists in WordPress. How can I link this 2 accounts together?

Thanks in advance

[Remco Beugels]

I want want to remove the permission that moderators can delete topics and posts from the trash. But how can I change the standard permissions from bbPress?

I made this code but it doesn’t work because bbPress roles are separated from WordPress roles:

function changePermissions() {
	$role = get_role('moderater');
	$role->remove_cap('delete_others_topics');
	$role->remove_cap('delete_others_replies');
}
add_action('init', 'changePermissions');

[Stephen Edgar]

As it is used in many spots I would suggest you add the translation now.

Most of these translations only happened in the past two days so I would expect you won’t have to wait long for the translations to be updated.

Once you translate that string fill out this form https://he.wordpress.org/contact/

More info is also here in Hebrew https://he.wordpress.org/translate-wordpress/

[traderhotel]

In the WordPress dashboard on the left side, there was the “Forum” tab which is gone now and I cannot set up anything for the bbpress plugin now.
How can I fix this?

[5ngua]

Anyone is using wordpress seo by yoast and bbpress please confirm that this is not a bug and this is my mistake: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-number-does-not-work?replies=1 . I have been struggling with Yoast and he says this is not a bug of WordPress SEO.

In short: please check to see if %%page%% in wordpress seo titles work for BBpress pages like topics and forums. For me, it does not work anymore.

Thanks,

[Stephen Edgar]

It looks like “Topic Status” has not been translated yet 🙁

Hebrew 91% Translated 943 Strings Translated 92 Strings untranslated

https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/dev/he/default?filters%5Bstatus%5D=untranslated&sort%5Bby%5D=priority&sort%5Bhow%5D=desc

You could help by translating those 91 remaining strings and then fill out the form here and let them know “There are some strings for bbPress waiting to be validated”, once these are approved you can update your translations.

צרו קשר

Note: In the very near future any updated translations will arrive via WordPress’ automatic updates 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

If you are talking about this plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-threaded-replies/ then you are probably correct as “threaded replies” are now build into bbPress.

[mkistler]

I think we solved the issue. I believe the “threaded replies” plugin is not compatible with the latest WordPress update. Thanks!

[Stephen Edgar]

See https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2040

[Stephen Edgar]

This is not even a new test site as you mention above, this is still your old test site from that article I linked to above.

Whatever previous hacks and or workarounds you have added are most likely still in place causing the issue, delete that entire site and database and start with a clean slate, install WordPress with a clean database then install bbPress.