[Stephen Edgar]

Thanks for the ticket in Trac, we will work on adding either of the plugins mentiooned in the Trac ticket to bbPress.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2698

[Rolf Allard van Hagen]

Searching the internet, I found https://github.com/pippinsplugins/bbPress-Export-and-Import

This plugin is designed to create an CSV export file per forum and allows you to import it to another forum.

1. Download the zip from github and install it like a regular plugin on both sites.

2. On the donor site, open a forum for editing and find the Export link on the right under Forum Attributes. Click it and you will receive the CSV file.

3. Go to the recipient site and create a new forum. Now on the right side under Forum Attributes (again) you’ll find the Choose File and Run Import buttons.

This does import topics and replies and on the front end, all seems to work well except for the number of posts per topic is too high. On the back end, Topics appear to be disassociated from the forum — it says (No Forum) — and the All Replies page turns up blank again.

Happily, heading over to Tools > Forums and running the top two “Recalculate…” and the “Count replies in each topic” options fixed things this time instead of making it worse 🙂

I really hope bbPress can be fixed to work with the normal WordPress Export/Import at some point but until then, the above steps should get you some good results.

[Rolf Allard van Hagen]

Hi @treb0r23 – I just ran into the same issue. Wanting to move bbPress forums from one WordPress 4.0 to another 4.0 site, I tried WordPress’ own Tools > Export feature to create three export files, one with forums, one with topics and one with replies.

After importing them in the same order, it looked like everything was fine. All forums, topics and replies where imported successfully and seemed to be correctly assigned to their ‘parents’.

However, when visiting the front end, it turned out that only a two topics where visible in one forum. All other topics where missing and all other forums where empty. Replies where nowhere to be found either.

Even though topics and replies are marked as correctly associated in the back end, it does not appear to be the case at all.

I went to Tools > Forums to try to fix that. First, I tried “Recalculate the parent topic for each post” but even though it responds with “Recalculating the topic for each post … Complete!” after that, I can’t even open the All Replies list anymore. I get a blank page…

Then I tried “Recalculate the parent forum for each post” but this simply removes all evidence of association between all topics and their forum 🙁

This is just awful.

[Omiya Games]

Here’s a weird question: is it possible to create a new topic via a script run by a continuous integration server? To provide more context, I’m trying to create a private forum so selected playtesters (users I manually entered, as you can’t register to this forum) can test my games. Ideally, I’d like to configure my Jenkins server to upload a Unity webplayer to my server, then create a new topic with the first post being the webplayer and the change log to a specified forum. I’m wondering if there’s an automated way to make this happen. Preferably, I would not like to rely on WordPress posts, since again, I’d like to keep these work-in-progress private.

Thanks for the help!

Quick stats:
Wordpress 4.0
bbPress 2.5.4

[Jamie]

Hi there,

I have been reading through the forums, and can’t find anything for more recent versions so was wondering if I could request some help.

I am working on a project called GameDevelopers.ie, a 12 year old site. We recently ported over their old, bespoke CMS into WordPress, and the our forums which were on phpbb after paying cms2cms which did a great job.

The forum has 60,000 posts among several thousand threads and two thousand users. Our server is woefully underresourced, and the site is crashing when bbpress is enabled. So we have it disabled, and are just organising to get a better server with more cpu’s, tons of ram and space.

I was wondering what else we can do to help reduce the load? Is there some way that we can mass archive parts of the forum, or other tactics to help make things run a little better?

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

Cheers

Jamie

[cricketoutlook]

Hi guys i want to know that what is bbpres i already have a site on wordpress CMS http://mazahub.com But i how i can make a site on buddypress.com what is this for and it’s closely looks like wordpress.org and signed in from there but what is the meaning of this CMS . Any reply will be appreciated
Thanks

[KostRev]

Somewhat related… anyone else have an issue where no anchor is generated for bbp_topic_subscription_link?

In the loop-replies.php template I have:


<div class="reply-content">
<button type="button" class="btn btn-default btn-sm" title="Set as Favorite"><?php bbp_user_favorites_link(); ?></button>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-default btn-sm subscribe" title="Subscribe to Topic"><?php bbp_topic_subscription_link(); ?></button>
</div>


If you view source on the webpage there is no anchor present.
Subscribing to Forums works as expected.

Probably related to these:

Subscribe to topic link is no longer displayed

BBP: Topic Subscribe Not Working

I think I found a bug in bbp_topic_subscription_link

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2581
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2480

[delvebelow]

I’m getting emails from some of our forum users reporting that the topic page refreshes while they are in the middle of writing a reply. It happens after about two minutes, so many people are finding it difficult to use the forum for lengthy replies/explanations. However, I can’t recreate this problem on any browser. At least one user experiencing this is using Chrome.

Any thoughts?

WordPress 3.9.2, bbPress 2.5.4
http://ccinfo.unc.edu/forums/ (no anonymous posting allowed)

[Robin W]

If you want forums to be visible but not accessible to non-logged in users then you need my plugin

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

which gives you loads of options on how your forums display

The admin bar (called the toolbar) can be disabled apart from admins

add

//disable toolbar for non-admins
if (!current_user_can('manage_options')) {
show_admin_bar(false);
}

to you functions file

Functions files and child themes – explained !

[Ced]

Hello everybody 🙂 !

I have a few questions regarding to how bbPress handles the login/register side and the admin access too.

I’ve just installed bbPress. Right now, There is a Sign Up page and a Sign In page. When people enter wrong credentials, they are redirected to wp-login. If they enter good credentials, they are redirected to the WordPress admin, or they can have access to the WordPress admin.

Here is what I want / don’t want :
– When users enter wrong informations on sign in / sign up page, I want them to stay on the same page. The errors have to be displayed on that page.
– Users will edit their profile directly in the front end.
– People who are not admin can’t access WP admin at all.

How can I do all that things ?

Thank you very much,
Cédric

[Robkk]

The information i gave you is if you wanted to change your theme to another but still keep the way bbpress is styled.

IF you wanted to just be able to change themes while bbpress stays the same throughout all of them this is not possible right now.

where are you lost ?? i basically said its copying the bbpress files from one theme to another.

i mentioned that you might need to copy some functions from function.php.

Stargazer Colloquium child theme uses get_theme_mod (which is added to the customizer area to your theme) to add certain color to your bbpress theme.

You can either delete that function and just added the colors manually to your bbpress.css or hook it up to your new theme which might be a tad more difficult.

the local development area that i mentioned more can be mentioned is great if you want to test things out like transferring files into another theme.

here if you use Windows Pc
http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-install-wordpress-on-your-windows-computer-using-wamp/

and here if you use Apple Mac
http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-install-wordpress-locally-on-mac-using-mamp/

steps umm i guess this.

1. set up local development area

2. download the files you have edited from your current theme on your website to your computer , ftp like filezilla is recommended.

3. transfer those files to your local development area , into the other theme you want to use.

4. start seeing if there is any issues. (the most likely is the get_theme_mod areas that add color) but that’s just color and you can add it to your bbpress.css.

[janfeng]

How to Change Permalink Because It's a Localized Forum

Use WordPress + bbpress , Permalink set to /%post_id% ,but still not work !!!

Damn ,this BUG is two years ago >:-[

@netweb @mercime

[pratik0007]

Hi Everyone,

I am using woocommerce and bbpress for my wordpress website.

I want to display all the topic and replies under product page of woocommerce.

I am getting trouble with topic and reply integration on the product page it’s not working fine may be due to not invoking bbpress hooks or what I am not sure anyone please guide me the steps how I can go for this one? this will be very helpful for me.

Thanks

[mode edit – moved to a new topic as it was entirely unrelated to the one you posted in]

[spektator]

I am using bbPress with Forum Restrict plugin. I am getting the following error when I access a single private forum out of a number of private forums that are set up. Here is the message:

Check TypeError: Unable to get property ‘getElementsByTagName’ of undefined or null reference

I am not able to access the approval page nor see the approved members. I am running WordPress 4.0 with bbPress and Forum Restrict.

Any assistance?

[Mael Shanti]

Hi,

I noticed two bugs occur on my bbPress forum (using last version of bbPress and WordPress), so I just wanted to report them and ask for any support to fix them.

Those are :
– “Subcribe to this forum” link not displayed in a float-right position
– “Private :” language string repeated twice

Here’s a very short video to explain that (sorry for the strange voice, I’m a bit ill) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s1Krn6cLAo

Many thanks in advance for your support, or any tip that would help me to fix that ! 🙂

[treb0r23]

Okay, so I read some more and I can see that there are multiple issues with both import / export and WordPress 4.0. I realise that this is open source software, and I’m sorry if I came across as unreasonable in the above post.

Given that I can see the content in the admin I’m sure a fix will emerge in due course.

Sorry for being a stress head about it, I was just a bit frustrated.

[treb0r23]

Hi All,

I’m having a very frustrating time here.

I’m building a new site, and I need to transfer a BBPress powered forum from the old site.

Both sites are running BBPress 2.5.4.

The new site is running WordPress 4.0, the old site 3.9.2

My first surprise was when I realised that BBPress does not list BBPress in the list of platforms in the Tools -> Forums -> Import Forums dialog.

So I spent a couple of hours reading up and then set out to move the forums across to the new site.

I started out by using WP Migrate Pro to migrate wp_users and wp_usermeta from the old forum.

Then I used the WordPress Exporter to export Forums, Topics and Replies.

Then I used the WordPress Importer to import each of these three files.

As each file imported I manually specified which user should be given authorship of the forum, topic or reply. There are a lot of forums topics and users, this takes more than hour.

This seemed to go well, and at the end of the process I could see all of the forums, topics and replies in the BBPress admin screens of the site.

I went to the forums on the front-end, and I could see all the forums listed, together with the number of topics and replies in each one, and the last poster.

When I clicked through to view a forum, I saw the following message:

“This forum contains 1 topic and 7 replies, and was last updated by xxxx (name removed) 2 months, 2 weeks ago.”

Underneath that, another message:

“Oh bother! No topics were found here!”

So I Googled and Googled. I tried using the Tools -> Forums -> Repair Forums dialog, but this simply deleted all of my replies.

So I ran through the whole process again. Same result. I can see everything in the admin, but only the forums with no topics and no replies in the front end.

I’ve tried downgrading WordPress to 3.9.2, and also switching to the 2014 theme. Still no joy.

I’ve also tried disabling all of my other plugins. No dice.

I’ve also tried this:

bbpress wp4 fix

I would be really grateful if somebody out there might be able to help me with this.

I thought BBPress is a well supported WordPress based forum. Surely the ability to easily move forums between different WordPress installs is a core requirement?

Help!

[23kulpamens]

I had found partial solution, but still it doesn’t support proper plural forms.

http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/71151/bbpress-change-the-word-forum-topic-reply-in-the-forum-to-another-word-i-choos

[ttmt]

Hi all

I have a WP site with bbPress installed and bbPress Like Button (a like button plugin).

I was trying to import a phpBB forum to bbPress.

I’m having problems doing this and in the process must have decactivted bbPress.

Now when I try to log in at wp-admin or view the site I get a page saying.

‘bbPress Like Button needs bbPress installed and activated in order to work.’

This is on QA server and so I can’t get access to the files.

Is there any way to fix this – Is there any way to access the dashboard to re-activate the plugin

[shanebp]

Just a bump for core devs:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2690

[gogitossj34]

So, I had a theme which I tuned to work with bbpress and I really like it. I changed some css and some files to make it work. Now, I switch to a new WordPress theme and as a result, bbpress revert back to its original looks and feel which is not that eye catching. So what I would like to know is is it possible to still keep the old looks with the new theme or in another way, apply the old theme to bbpress ?

[extrablog.hu]

Hi,
https://wordpress.org/plugins/tt-sidebar-login-widget/
Sidebar widget to log into WordPress Account:)

[skyynet]

Thanks, Fee. As of WordPress 4.0 the problem still exists, so I commented out the

//$private_title_format = apply_filters( 'private_title_format', __( 'Private: %s' ), $post );
//$title = sprintf( $private_title_format, $title );

in wp-includes/post-template.php to get rid of the private: in front of private tagged forums which I use.

[blueberrycove]

I’m obviously missing something quite fundemental 🙂
I’ve installed bbpress (WordPress 3.9.2, bbpress 2.5.4), created some forums, and put the forum index on to one of my pages. All of this works fine.
What I don’t have is a login or register button at the top of the forum list? I have a search button but that’s it. It would be handy to have a ‘view profile’ button up there too. How do I get these buttons, is there some extra code I need to add?
Also, which file would I need to change if I wanted to alter the appearance of the forum a little – for example make the font a little larger.

My forum page is here: http://www.blueberrycovebeads.com/forum

Thanks!

[futuristictrap]

yes. The default WordPress playlist. Here’s an example http://www.trapclassics.com/gucci-mane-diary-of-a-trap-god/ when i have it enabled it makes the playlist disappear.