[Kaliceos]

Hi,

I’m in the process of migrating a phpBB forum to WordPress with bbPress. I don’t know if the bbPress style is better but my users are used to the phpBB style for displaying Forums on the main page. So I tried to reproduce that layout in bbPress using categories. With the default theme, I was not happy with the way it looked. After a quick search in these forums, I saw some interesting topics from @lynq (here and there) but it didn’t work as intended in the last bbpress release and ticket #1958 has been moved to 2.6.

So after a few hours of searching codex, and a lot of tries, I managed to do what I wanted. As there is still some demand in Lynq’s topic, I thought I should share my little work.

I’m not a developper, so my code may be a little messy, but it works as intended. I’ve tried using the bbpress functions, and commented my code. If any PHP expert would like to review it and make it better, any feedback is welcome.

The only file to change is loop-forums.php with this code.
You just need to create it and paste the code. Then upload it to /wp-content/your-theme/bbpress/. Use a child-theme if you don’t want to loose it on next theme update.

The forums are not yet online, so here are some screenshots with descriptions. (In French, because, as you may have noticed, English is not my native language 🙂 )

I’ve tested many situations (even a category inside a forum, which bbpress doesn’t consider anymore as a category, probably normal behavior) and I think everything works as intended. Feel free to report any bug.

[Stephen Edgar]

Ahhh… Yes… That would make sense, probably a dedicated ‘User CSV Import’ plugin eg. https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=csv+user plugin that matches your requirements.

You shouldn’t have to assign passwords, users can do this themselves later.

Once you have your users you will want to update your topic.csv & reply.csv files with the new user ID’s.

[matrixd]

btw. did anyone else notice that the latest bbpress killed the display of the date of the latest post/reply as well as the display of the post author?

Its simply not showing anymore even though I checked the box in the widget settings

Your answer is here

[Jamil Ahmed]

Hi,

I just used this shortcode [bbp-topic-tags] in widget and also in template file and its showing the tags but with <br> tag after each …. tag. Its means all tag clouds are displaying in a long list style and not displaying like wordpress default Tag cloud are displaying.

Is this bug or please help to fix thanks

[Sven]

Update: When I switch the editor in the WordPress backend, it will shown in the bbPress frontend, too. But when I switch from visual to text and back, then again the above error is shown and I have to switch back in the backend.

[Stephen Edgar]

Firstly, thanks for looking further into this, it gave me enough info to run a quick test import.

bbPress uses WordPress tables and doesn’t create any of its own and not having answers to something you don’t know doesn’t make anyone dumb. 😉

Ok…. Here we go….

I installed this plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-ultimate-csv-importer/

I realised the csv file had to be split into 3, one for the forum, one for topics and one for replies. Here is a copy of the 3 CSV files I used https://gist.github.com/ntwb/6532360

Next jump into WP Admin and and open up the WP CSV Tool and select ‘Custom Post’ to import from and select your forum.csv file to upload and click import.

Set the options and field mappings as per this:

Import Data Configuration

Select Post Type = forum
Import with post status = publish
post_author = post_author
post_date = post_date
post_content = post_content
post_title = post_title

And click import.

Topics is up next and you will notice that it includes the field ‘post_parent’ so this is the forum ID that the topic will be imported into. As we do not know the forum ID you will need to open up the bbPress forums panel in wp-admin. Select the forum you want the topics to be imported and this will take you into the forum edit section, look at the URL in your browser and it should be similar to /wp-admin/post.php?post=348830&action=edit what we want here is the ‘348830’ as that will be the parent forum for each topic imported. Update your topic.csv file with this number as per my sample linked above.

Back to the CSV importer to import your topics.csv

Set the options and field mappings as per this:

Import Data Configuration

Select Post Type = topic
Import with post status = publish
post_author = post_author
post_date = post_date
post_content = post_content
post_title = post_title
post_parent = post_parent

The replies section is basically the same as the topics section, you need to get the ID orf each topic ID for each reply and update your reply.csv file for each entry.

Lastly run each of the ‘Recalculate’ and ‘Count’ bbPress ‘Repair Tools’ from wp-admin-> Tools- Forums -> Repair Forums (more info here https://codex.bbpress.org/repair-forums/)

And I think that’s it, there is a bit of juggling your data around, give it a bash and let me know how it works out for you and here’s the result 🙂

[John James Jacoby]

The reason it doesn’t exist is because the audience for this is relatively small compared to users asking for other things. Right now, I see 3 people that need this. That’s not saying it’s trivial, but it’s non-urgent.

The actual clean-up of this is not super straight forward, unfortunately. There is an uninstall script located in Tools > Forums that will permanently purge most data, but it doesn’t remove user roles yet.

Open a feature request at http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org, and we’ll put in a milestone and work towards getting it in.

[CC-Cailin]

I am integrating bbpress files into my own wordpress theme. But, I don’t get why there is so many loop files?

“content-archive-forum.php” links to “loop-forums.php”, and inside that, it links to “single-forum.php”.
Why on earth is there one loop linked to another, and then another, and then another? It sees confusing to me…

Can’t I just leave out files like “loop-forums.php” and add that code directly in “content-archive-forum.php and do the same with the other files? Or is it necessary to keep them broken up?

[harpeml]

Hi Again, I looked at the plug-ins and it seemed that WP Ultimate CSV Importer would do the job. I tried importing one of their example CSV files. It lets me choose the post type “forum” although I see no way to provide a forum title. It appeared to work with no errors. However, looks like it took each post entry and created a new Forum with it. I see no way to have the posts come in as topics under an existing or new Forum. Is there a way to change this once the import is done?

Sorry I am not a PHP person and not familiar with the inner workings of WordPress.

[akasocrates]

Hi Daniel,

Actually, I didn’t. In fact, after I installed bbPress, I got hacked and my site went down. In an effort to get to the root cause, I uninstalled bbPress. My host doesn’t think it’s related to bbPress though.

Either way, I’m stabilizing things before I install bbPress. Moreover, I’m probably going to move to a host that specializes in WordPress security/optimization etc…like WPEngine or Synthesis.

Hope this helps.

[stevendo]

Hi,

I found my own solution to this requirement.
All I need to do is to add a custom filter to this WordPress hook: posts_orderby_request.

Steven

[Xevo]

You can just use the wordpress function in the widget.

current_user_can

[MickeyRoush]

Try using this plugin:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-markdown/

[joejozwowski]

I am modifying a site to enable this simple snippet of code to the bbPress login Widget. Once a user is logged in, I would like to check the user’s role (WordPress Role: admin, editor, author) and allow only those three access to the site’s dashboard by simply displaying the link there. I do not know how to translate the bbPress roles to the WordPress roles.

Any insight would be most appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

[Nizam]

Thanks God..

Wishing something like this for years. Done search, but it was 6 years ago solution and not relevant anymore.

I even try myself but yet it’s too hard for me.
Owning a big forum of 8K user, 14K topics, 400K posts. SMF wasn’t suit me anymore since I used WordPress (my mainpage is wordpress, forum SMF). I’m intend to do something like WordPress + BBpress + Buddypress 😀

Im looking forward for this. 🙂

[Autumn Macarthur]

Hi, I’ve just set up a new website to creat a private forum for a small group. I’m using at as a stand alone site, separate from my WordPress blog. I installed bbPress via Softaculous, and the version it’s given me is 1.2.

My main concern is that there’s NO option to set forums as visible to members only, as shown in the documentation. I really need that.

Will upgrading to a newer version fix that? I’m not sure how to manage the upgrade.

Sorry to sound like a complete moron!

[koendb]

I’m using the plugin bbPress Topics for Posts to be able to display all comments on a forum as well. I want anonymous users to be able to post comments on all my WordPress posts, but want them to register in order to reply to (other) forums.

Would this be possible? Any other solution? Thanks!

[koendb]

Apparantly it’s an issue with user capabilities.

I just started using bbpress myself, but this might help you: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cheatin-uh-3?replies=5

[miracleren]

i have updated to 2.4,I find a problem for search.
when the wordpress Permalink Settings use Numeric like(http://localhost/test/archives/123),
use the bbPress forum search form, It will not result always.

[Stephen Edgar]

@hamed-hosseini Thanks, take a look at these resources to get started translating bbPress:
https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-in-your-language/
https://translate.wordpress.org/getting-started

[acekin]

For a page you write, you can choose the type of layout you want given that your theme offers that. However, bbPress runs on a page created on the fly, three is no page called “forums” unless you create one and then use shortcodes to bring up the forum.

Every theme has a CSS file which can be edited within WordPress. Go to Appearance/Editor and your theme CSS should load. I edited my theme’s CSS and added the code I gave in my previous post.

[gaborpor]

Is there a way to enable a BuddyPress group to have multiple forums? Right now it is a one-to-one connection, but I need multiple forums. FYI:

– I saw the subgroups plugin, but that wouldn’t work for me.
– I also read the subforum discussion, where the ;last word from about 5 months ago was “Multiple forums per BuddyPress Group is started in bbPress, but likely won’t be finished for several months.”
– I also read the subforum discussion here, but that’s not ideal either.
– I also the “Multiple main forums on one site” topic here and I suspect the answer might eb the same that was given there, but wanted to make sure.

[USteppin]

Sorry for bumping an old thread but I’ve been messing with this for hours and ripping my hair out. I just installed WordPress and I’m using the Arras theme. I also just installed bbPress and I’m trying to follow this tutorial (I don’t have forum “page templates” available) but I don’t seem to have this “/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten” folder anywhere? What could I be doing wrong?

[Xevo]

@sysfailure0x5a
Go to https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/2.3 and press “Zip Archive” at the bottom.

[Xevo]

Well seeing how bbPress is just a custom post type, you could add probably add any rate plugin of wordpress, though it would need some modifying to show up correctly.