[maryreyes]

I am in the process of migrating a site from ning to WordPress/BBPress, including all of the past forum discussions (important to my users). There is no working migration tool, so the only way I can see to accomplish this is to manually copy all of the discussion to the BBPress forums. Is there a way that I can change the dates of the posts to reflect the original dates of posting instead of the dates that I manually copy them?

[Robin W]

neither is standard in bbpress, maybe in buddypress or buddyboss, I don’t know.

for the handle, you’ll need to add

/**
* Add @mentionname after bbpress forum author details
*/

add_action( 'bbp_theme_after_reply_author_details', 'mentionname_to_bbpress' );
function mentionname_to_bbpress () {
$user = get_userdata( bbp_get_reply_author_id() );
if ( !empty( $user->user_nicename ) ) {
$user_nicename = $user->user_nicename;
echo "@".$user_nicename;
}
}

Put this in your child theme’s function file –

ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/functions.php

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

or use

Code Snippets

[Robin W]

ok, maybe look at

dashboard>settings>forums and look at editing time.

If that doesn’t fix, then standard fault finding applies viz :

it could be a theme or plugin issue

Themes

As a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwenty, and see if this fixes.

Plugins

If that doesn’t work, also deactivate all plugins apart from bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

If you cannot do this to your site (say because it is live) then use the ‘troubleshooting’ features of this plugin to let you test without affecting other users

Health Check & Troubleshooting

Then come back

[deborahdavidson]

WordPress: Version 5.8.3
bbPress: Version 2.6.9

Home

A couple of our members are having an issue when submitting a post or replying to one. When they press submit nothing happens so they then try again and they find they have a duplicate post. From one member: “If you press backspace after you press submit you can then see your post”. Another member sent this: “whenever I submit a discussion the gateway times me out and I have to log back in”. It’s not happening to everyone though …

Any advice/insight gratefully received.

[Robin W]

Thanks – a few questions please

one ‘post’ – or all posts?

edit from front end (what the user sees) or backend (wordpress dashboard)?

Topics/replies – or both?

what is your bbpress role?

[Robin W]

I’d suggest you contact their support forum

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/image-upload-for-bbpress/

[Robin W]

bbpress just uses the wordpress username and password.

If you google around, you can probably find a wordpress plugin that will be close to what you want

[Robin W]

you can get to a vertical list and tidy up by using this additional plugin

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>forum templates

and

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Forum Display

[Robin W]

1. use this plugin

bbp style pack

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>forum Display – item 11

or 2. using code

to set to say 60

add_filter ('bbp_before_has_forums_parse_args', 'rew_number_of_forums') ;#

function rew_number_of_forums ($args) {
	$args['posts_per_page'] = 60 ;
return $args ;
}

Put this in your child theme’s function file –

ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/functions.php

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

or use

Code Snippets

[Robin W]

best I can offer is

bbPress Topics for Posts

[Robin W]

it could be a theme or plugin issue – I know you have already switched themes but try a default one 🙂

Themes

As a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwenty, and see if this fixes.

Plugins

If that doesn’t work, also deactivate all plugins apart from bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

If you cannot do this to your site (say because it is live) then use the ‘troubleshooting’ features of this plugin to let you test without affecting other users

Health Check & Troubleshooting

Then come back

[Robin W]

on you last point, bbpress just uses the WordPress gravatar system, so users can use gravatar to have their image

https://en.gravatar.com/

But there are a number of plugins that allow users to upload avatars, and any plugin that allows this should work with bbpress. Just google ‘wordpress upload avatar’ and you’ll find a wealth of resources.

On you other points, these are related to LMS and Memberpress I suspect, both of which are paid plugins, so suspect you should start there.

[Robin W]

or you can install

bbp style pack

which has the fix in it

[Robin W]

Put this in your child theme’s function file –

ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/functions.php

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

or use

Code Snippets

add_filter( 'bbp_get_caps_for_role', 'rew_amend_role_caps', 10, 2 );
 
function rew_amend_role_caps( $caps, $role ) {
    if ($role=='bbp_participant' ) {
            $caps = array(

				// Primary caps
				'spectate'              => true,
				'participate'           => true,

				// Forum caps
				'read_private_forums'   => true,

				// Topic caps
				'publish_topics'        => false,
				'edit_topics'           => false,

				// Reply caps
				'publish_replies'       => true,
				'edit_replies'          => true,

				// Topic tag caps
				'assign_topic_tags'     => true,
			);
	}
			
	return $caps ;		
 
}

[grilledmedia]

Thanks for your reply Robin. I will do another test with all other plugins disabled and a standard theme (the last thing I’ve already tested). I have also contact the hoster, since it doesn’t look like a WordPress message at all.

I’ll post me findings.

Thanks.
Jelte

[Robin W]

‘spam email blocklist’ is not a bbpress phrase, can you test with just wordpress and bbpress active, and a default theme.

[docmartinhk]

For the above, I’d also used FG drupal to wordpress plugin, maybe mixed up a bit; couple of other plugins too, inc for categories.

I figured might be an issue in this.

Went to bbpress; and chose option to clear the forum.
Then, re-imported.

I got loop on item 16; found others had experienced this with import. So, stopped it; looked at forum.

Initially, forum showing 0 posts, topics; even though posts and topics actually present.
I ran the tool for repairs; seemed the same.
But, went away, returned to site and the forums page has the numbers of topics and replies.

[Robin W]

ok,
so I think you have 2 choices

1. not show your forum page unless logged in. If all your forums will be private, then this is probably a good option.
You can create a forums page (https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum/ item 3) and then use a restriction plugin such as ‘restrict content’ to make this a login page – see https://usersinsights.com/wordpress-private-page/ and/or https://kinsta.com/knowledgebase/wordpress-private-page/

2. you could use my ‘private groups’ plugin to do this, and still show that these forums exist

Private groups

[Robin W]

ok,
so I think you have 2 choices

1. not show your forum page unless logged in. If all your forums will be private, then this is probably a good option.
You can create a forums page and then use a restriction plugin such as ‘restrict content’ to make this a login page – see https://usersinsights.com/wordpress-private-page/ and/or https://kinsta.com/knowledgebase/wordpress-private-page/

2. you could use my ‘private groups’ plugin to do this, and still show that these forums exist

Private groups

[Robin W]

bbpress just uses custom post types and worpdress login, your issue is how restrict content pro is dealing with custom post types. It also looks like you have your forums set as public hence why they appear in the forum list.

The page you get to is a bbpress template, but given that you should not be getting to this page, is probably a red herring.

As restrict content pro is a paid plugin, you first port of call is to them.

You might also wish to look at

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-private-groups/ which might help you in your set up, but might not – I don’t know what you are trying to do 🙂

[redelefant]

Website: https://jewishwomenofwisdom.org
wordpress version: 5.8.3
bb press version: 2.6.9

I have a WordPress website with Restricted content pro (membership plugin), bbpress and buddy press. There are some forum pages, that are pages with bb press shortcodes and blocked with Restricted content pro and its locked message for logged out users appears(such as https://jewishwomenofwisdom.org/forum/ OR https://jewishwomenofwisdom.org/new-topic/). That is working fine. However, pages generated from the post type such as the archive page https://jewishwomenofwisdom.org/forums/, aren’t blocked and can be accessed (and a list of categories can be seen). Then when a logged OUT user tries to click on a topic to see topic content, it send them to a funny login (not restricted content pro) and then when they click the “log in” button, (whether or not the username and password fields are filled in) in they are redirected to the regular RCP login. That is an extra step. How do I get rid of the middle step?

(not sure if this info is relevant: Under Restrict – buddypress , I set that “Redirect to page” to a page called “locked content”.)

Thank you in advance.

[Robin W]

Back end: under Forums it shows the ‘Last Post’ as 3 hours, 30 minutes ago when I just added a test post. However, under ‘Replies’ it shows the correct time in the ‘Created’ column.

Can you test this with a page or post – bbpress is just a custom post type and uses wordpress code for the backend

[Robin W]

bbPress Notifications

[docmartinhk]

Hi:

Thanks for creating the importer [and forum].

Just done an import from Drupal 7 forum, to bbpress 2.6.9 on WordPress 5.8.3.

It seems to have worked well.

Just odd that in listings like forums, forum topics, get 0 posts and 0 topics listed; even tho can click through and see the posts and replies.

I’ve tried running the Repair Forums tools [all of them, just in case! – didn’t get any reports from them, in case there should be]. But not helped.

Also added a test post; and sure enough this was counted.
– so I can carry on with the forum, just an oddity to have the Drupal posts/topics not counted.

Currently wpress.drmartinwilliams.com/forums
Soon to http://www.drmartinwilliams.com

[Robin W]

I don’t know if this will help

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