[agMedia34]

Yes, it was a remote server and for some reason would not work with the IP … said “no forums found” or something like that.

Then I moved it (wordpress) to the same server as phpbb because I needed it for the bridge (wp-united) … which I tried, but got mixed up on the MOD installation. Im not a phpbb guy, and know nothing about MODS – also did not want it bridged … but rather pulled over to bbpress.

So I thought … well try the import now with localhost since it is now on the same server.

The bridge plugin is deactivated and deleted.

phpbb settings match exactly with the config file. Though in the database there is both phpbb_ and phpbb3_ for prefixes … phpbb3_ is the one listed in config. But I did try with both just to see and ended up with the same response of starting … but then nothing at all.

Ive been working on this site now since February, back and forth to fine tune everything and the “very last” piece is to just get his current phpbb into bbpress for “1” platform / admin / user interface vs having 2 separate sites, users, logins, etc.

Just need to get this wrapped up and find it impossible to get any of the import functions to work via the built in forum import, or the plugins I have tried.

[Stephen Edgar]

Have you played with bbp_parse_args() yet? This is used ~100 times in bbPress to allow you to change array arguments ‘before’ or ‘after’.

BuddyPress introduced bp_parse_args in BuddyPress 2.0, and as they have some good docs and we don’t yet here for bbPress check this out:

https://codex.buddypress.org/plugindev/using-bp_parse_args-to-filter-buddypress-template-loops/

So for the bbPress function bbp_list_replies() you’d use bbp_before_list_replies_parse_args

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.5.4/includes/replies/functions.php#L2192

Does this get you on the right track? I hope so as I’ve never played with custom walkers 😉

[Stephen Edgar]

Whenever a change is made to bbPress — update the plugin, change a setting, etc — the WordPress user roles in wp_options->wp_user_roles are erased

I have a theory as to why this ‘may’ happen with a plugin update, I’ll have to go find what I’m thinking of that may have been included in a recent bbPress release (2.5.3 or 2.5.4) but the roles being erased by changing a bbPress setting I have not seen, nor can I think of any reason why this would be happening.

Could you test this part for me please:

1. Open up WordPress Users admin panel
2. Verify the listed users on the first page have both a WordPress and bbPress role
3. Open bbPress Settings page and change a couple of settings and save
4. Go back to WordPress users, do the same users still have both WordPress and bbPress roles?

The closest I have seen to this is detailed in the following ticket, but this issue is when changing users roles via the bulk actions, #2597.

[Stephen Edgar]

At a guess, it’s hard to guess without a link or screenshots I’d say your themes including some template content you don’t actually want.

Depending on your theme you need to make a copy of your page.php file and rename it bbpress.php.

To add new fields to a users profile you can add new fields, see this plugin for an example and the relevant WordPress Codex docs:
https://gist.github.com/ntwb/c70caf5a0aa9d3062a6d
https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/user_contactmethods

[Stephen Edgar]

Is the database on the same database server? Your trying to get a remote database are you?

There is also a phpBB/WordPress plugin to bridge phpBB to WordPress, are you using that? If so this can be problematic due to modifications it does for phpBB members.

[Stephen Edgar]

I have no idea what you are referring to, bbPress does not include any icons for anything but the bbPress ‘Forum’, ‘topic’ and ‘replies’ sections in WordPress backend.

Some screenshots and a link to your site would be helpful.

[mostlyjan]

I am going crazy and would love to get help here or hire someone. Am using bbPress but no emails are being sent to users.

We are hosted on MediaTemple’s Gridservice.
We use theme AVADA
We created a forum in Admin and another using the frontend (read somewhere this may matter).
Added all our users via Admin: 73 Participants, 3 Moderators, 2 Keymasters
We tried the BBpress Digest Plugin but it never worked. Developer seems to be MIA.
We tried BBpress Email notifications but that did not work either.
We added the SMTP plugin; the “test emails” using it arrive fine but again, no subscription emails are ever sent.
WordPress admin emails DO work fine (eg ‘pswd changed for user XYZ’).
Activated Plugins:

• bbPress,
• GD bbPress Attachments
• bbPress auto subscribe for new topics and replies,
• Black Studio TinyMCE
• Custom Login
• Simple Members only
• WP-Mail-SMTP
• Fusion Core (Avada theme)

We have a single Forum. At the top of that forum, there is no subscription/favorite link either.

this very well may be the host but i am not 100% sure of that as the other emails work.

i would happily pay someone to figure this out. i have spent hours and hours on this and am ready to look for alternatives. But unfortunately i have topics and 73 users…

thanks to anyone who can give me new things to try. I am losing it here. And as said, i am all open to hiring someone; not sure what the policies are to that effect on this site…

[Robmcclel]

Team bbPress,

I have a multi-site install with BuddyPress (http://thirdscribe.com), and we use bbPress to power the BP forums. Recently, we’ve been seeing a very specific, and unusual, problem. Whenever a change is made to bbPress — update the plugin, change a setting, etc — the WordPress user roles in wp_options->wp_user_roles are erased. The bbPress roles (keymaster, participant, etc) are preserved, but the WP roles (admin, editor, contributor, etc) are completely gone.

Do you know what is causing this?

Thanks,
Rob

[desiamerican26]

@Stephen

Thanks for your reply. I will try to look for something through wordpress as per your suggestion 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

Your first question you can easily do with a WordPress page and link to it and any other FAQ’s you may want to have on your site.

To extend your profiles you will need a plugin, search the plugin repo’s for either a plugin compatible with bbPress or check out BuddyPress our sister project that includes this functionality out of the box.

Twitter/Facebook sharing is also plugin territory

Your 3 sections, just make 3 forums or 3 categories each with a forum.

https://bbpress.org/plugins/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/

Other than that take a look at some of the sites people are linking to here or check out some of the example sites https://bbpress.org/about/examples/ and some of bbPress’ docs https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/ https://codex.bbpress.org/

[Stephen Edgar]

It sounds like everything is working fine…

bbPress includes a redirect to the home screen after logging in whereas WordPress takes you typically to the WordPress dashboard.

The primary reason for this is because we don’t want your sites users being redirected to the WordPress Dashboard.

[gonzalotre2]

Hi,

I would like to integrate a forum in a wordpress page, and obviously I was thinking about bbpress, but I have major worries about themes moderation. Before installing, I have 4 specific questions regarding this:

May I include a button to denounce a commentary –bad language, publicity, whatsoever-? I think it is a key issue for developing a forum and the harmony between members.

May I include a profile of the user –company, linkedin profile, etc.- in the registration form?

I would like to have 3 sections, with different permissions in each of them –being able to post mainly-. Is it possible?

May I insert a twitter/facebook sharing button in each post?

If this is not possible do you know if I can do anything to solve these issues?

Thanks in advance

[Stephen Edgar]

I don’t know of any plugin that does this for bbPress, you could try searching for a WordPress plugin that does this for comments then contact the author to see if they could add support for bbPress.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/

[Robkk]

@marximusmg yeah i know you got this whole topics idea from high existence

im just saying if you find a wordpress theme that is compatible with bbpress either on the wordpress free theme repository or on like themeforest and it has a placeholder in the reply area tell me.

if you find it before me then update this topic with the name of the theme.

[desiamerican26]

Sure no problem @Robkk….it would be great help if you can and you can surely take your time. I did try that plugin you told me last time, not a big help and also I read on one of the forums before it used to work with WordPress & BBpress together, but not anymore. I just wonder why they did that.

Well, anyways thanks for you help and time towards this issue. Greatly appreciated 🙂

[Robkk]

i can tell you its not in form-reply.php , its most likey in a template.php file.

but hey if you can find a wordpress theme that has this , ILL try to find a way to get this functionality.

[omg123]

i asked that question because the theme i wanted to use, uses both bbpress & buddypress, and i also wanted to use both the softwares together (this is not a problem as it is done on other forum CMS’S)

wordpress is definitely compatible with the 2 softs

[omg123]

Thanks for your response,

but
“Each of those products would have to add support for bbPress though”

is this something skimlinks & viglinks would have to do ?
because i was curious as there was no mention on the net of anyone using both the CMS’S with both the software,
and yet thousands (if not more) sites use skimlinks or viglinks with wordpress.

skimlinks & viglinks were/are primarily targeted at forums – they say on there websites that the best clickthroughs + conversions are from forums
hence bbpress & buddypress is the same as the clickthough is coming from a recommendation (same as a forum) – so a high conversion rate.

the top 3 links are this thread

wordpress is definitely used and compatible with the 2 softwares

so i couldnt understand why no-one has used it with bbpress/buddpress when that is what they are intended for ?

[desiamerican26]

Hi Stephen,

But the posts that I am trying to share is from the forums that I have. I will still try to get in touch with the wordpress support as per your suggestion.

thank you

[defcon1186]

Let me know if theme’s authors reply to you… I hope to find a solution for that.

Anyhow I thank you for the support.

How can I avoid those kind of problem in future? I mean, should I look for specific themes builded with specific frameworks, or should I consider learning how to build a personal theme with wordpress?

I came from joomla and I’m very very new on WP solutions. Anyway I like WP ’cause it’s more lightweight (expecially backend module) and blog-like then a true CMS like Joomla.

Thank u again

[Stephen Edgar]

Try creating a new user and setting their bbPress role to “keymaster” and WordPress role to “Admin”, can this user access http://www.maldiveschina.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=reply ?

[Hanlin1Q85]

Thanks Stephen, i tried it out but not work. In the meantime, i find another problem. In my WordPress Administration Screens navigate to Reply > all the reply, it should be a list of all reply, but actually this page doesn’t exist, it turn back 404 error. I don’t kown how to fix it. And i guess maybe there would be some connection between these two problem.

http://www.maldiveschina.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=reply

[pfswss]

Jimi, yeah that is looking promising. I think you are a great asset for this project and you speak a lot of sense and know your stuff. I hope people listen to you and take your thoughts seriously and onboard.

I reverted my main forum back to phpbb unfortunately last night. it’s a bit of a mess right now as I also have no internet working properly and I still have files to upload. I wasted quite a few days on that but I have no one to blame but myself for not researching enough. I wanted to move forward but I went backwards. I like wordpress so I feel a bit disappointed with all this.

We only progress when we can listen and learn! Constructive criticism should be welcomed not shut out or taken personally. There is great potential here but a little lack of acceptance of what people really want.

thanks and all the best!

[Stephen Edgar]

Strange, try resetting your permalinks. In your WordPress Administration Screens navigate to Settings > Permalinks, select a different permalink structure and save. Then select your preferred permalink structure and save again.

[Stephen Edgar]

Cool, thanks for kicking this off 🙂

Lets start with the layout structure and a “Table of Contents”, I added these recently and these are a good place to start and closely match not just the BuddyPress Codex layout guides but also much of WordPress also (Links to these below).

Getting Started, Theme Development ,Plugin Development, Participate & Contribute and Developer Resources

The Codex is now fully setup with an ‘Automated Table of Contents’ sidebar, see this section on how to acheive this, also the “breadcrumb” will also ‘sync’ up with this table of contents structure.

For now ignore the ‘related posts’, these should also update based on the table of contents plus we are going to move the functions from their current location in the codex, I’ll detail those plans later.

Links to topics on the forums for each section/page of the codex is a great idea, we can do this fairly easily. 🙂

The ‘About’ page is part of the blog, the categories are the categories of the blog posts on the site and this is an automatically generated list, same with tags. Also many of the visible (and there are many not visible) of links from the ‘About’ page is from before we had the codex setup, thus much of the content throughout those links is either duplicated or redundant. A third set of duplicated content is our Trac home page https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org that we need to redo and sync up with the same content (or at least links) to the correct content on the bbPress codex. A fourth location will be the actual source code of bbPress which primarily is on the plugin homepage https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/. The fifth source would be basically identical to the fourth though is contained in a separate file and that will be for the plugin homepage on GitHub https://github.com/bbpress/bbpress.

BuddyPress has a Google Docs “Table of Contents” here and I have just forked and edited that spreadsheet for us here on bbPress. I have set the permissions so anyone with this link can edit the spreadsheet, with some luck it won’t be vandalised, if this happens we can change this setting to “edit only” for verified editors.

Before we change any of the existing URL’s for documents in the codex (e.g. Moving the FAQ into the “Getting Started” section) we will need to make some redirects behind the scenes so existing links will be forwarded to the new links.

A good place to start would be extracting the sections from the awesome guides Robin has already contributed to build up our “Table of Contents” and once we are happy with what we have for starters in the “Table of Contents” we can then start updating the actual codex pages.

A few references where we can reuse content and build up our table of contents can be found throughout existing WordPress and BuddyPress projects:

BuddyPress Codex

https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/
https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/
https://make.wordpress.org/docs/tag/handbooks/

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