[Stephen Edgar]

This is NOT a database issue, WordPress and bbPress use the same database.

This is a theme issue, visit the website of your theme and see if they have some tips on setting their theme up with bbPress.

[Stephen Edgar]

Try creating a new user and giving them the WordPress ‘Administrator’ role and bbPress role ‘keymaster’ log out and log in with this new user and see what happens.

[lachchuu]

Hello Stephen,
I have installed bbpress forums on my website and it was working fine. Recently I made updates to a wordpress flip book plugin and also activated the Yoast SEO plugin. Not sure if they are related, but now I’m unable to create a new forum.
In the admin panel, I click on New forum, enter the title and some text and click Publish (Note: Type, status, and visibility are already populated). When I click ‘Publish’ nothing happens. The forum is not created.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

[Stephen Edgar]

Can you create a ticket on Trac for this and we can take a closer look:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/

Add as much detail as you can including reproduction steps so that we can recreate the issue.

[Stephen Edgar]

-”Recalculate the parent topic for each post” did nothing

The 3rd bit of code ‘Reply parent topic id (If no parent, then 0)’ will fix that.

-”Recalculate the parent forum for each post” set all of the Topics in Admin panel to “(No Forum)”, where before that was the only text that was actually displaying properly.

The last piece of code I posted above ‘Topic parent forum id’ will fix that.

It just seems strange that before I tried the tools it was properly mapping topics.forum_id to forums.forum_id to retrieve the forum title that was displayed in the Admin Topics page, and only on the Admin Topics page.

bbPress stores all sorts of extra ‘meta data’ in WordPress’ wp_postmeta table relating to each of bbPress’ custom post types. Essentially without the additions of the above bbPress only knows a partial set of the data it needs and as such when the repair tools are run it tries to repair all this data but if some key aspects of the data is missing, in this case post_parent it will end up with the results you are now seeing in the dashboard where each topic is not associated with a forum and each reply is not associated with a topic.

Clear as mud, hey? 😉 I’ve been here many times and am right now writing a BuddyPress importer update and am currently here again 😉

When I view the public Topic page, the forum is excluded in the breadcrumb.

[Stephen Edgar]

The WordPress plugin page for bbPress redirects to this bbpress.org site.

Just post your questions here on this site and search for questions from other users to see if someone else has experienced the same issue.

So what is your question?

[lachchuu]

This is unrelated but seriously, how do I open a support ticket for bbpress forum plugin? I’ve gone to the core wordpress site and this site doesn’t give me an option to start a thread.

Please help.

[Robin W]

for admin see

http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-disable-wordpress-admin-bar-for-all-users-except-administrators/

toolbar is a wordpress level function, not bbpress so it depends on what wordpress level you have your moderators set to.

[adressler]

Hi everyone, this is my first time posting, and I really dig BBPress so far.

I’m running WP v3.8.1 with BBPress 2.5.3. I’ve encountered a problem when converting a custom MYSQL database into BBPress. I have successfully exported a Lotus Notes / Domino DB (yes, it still exists…) into a simple MySQL DB containing just 3 tables.

After a “successful” conversion (of over 35K forums, topics and replies) into BBPress, I can see all of the Forums, Topics, and Replies listed in the BBPress Admin panel. However, there seems to be issues with the Foreign Keys being imported/linked, even though I have double and triple checked the forum_id, topic_id values for the Topics->Forums and Replies->Topics relationships within the Example.php converter included with BBPress. All data has been properly formatted into WordPress friendly values (dates, slugs, etc..) before importing into MySQL.

In the admin panel, under Forums, it lists all forums in their hierarchical order, as expected. It also lists the topic and reply counts, date, and creator next to each parent / child forum. However, under “Freshness” is says “No Topics”. The Topics Admin page is even more intriguing; it lists all of the Topic Titles, the Forum title which that topic is assigned to (!), reply count, author, creation date, and freshness. Browsing to the Replies Admin page lists all reply titles, author, and creation date, however under Forum it says “No Forum” and under Topic it says “No Topic”.

When you browse to the forums (mysite.local/forums/forum/the-forum), the forum title and child-forums are displayed, along with topic and reply counts for each child. However, under “Freshness”, it says “No Topics”. When I browse to a child forum, it lists the topic and reply counts, however it says “No Topics were found”.

When I browse to a topic (mysite.local/forums/topic/the-topic), I see the date, title, content, and reply count. However, there are no replies listed.

When I browse to a reply (by clicking “View” under the reply listed in the Admin Replies page), it directs me to http://mysite.dev/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=reply/#post-######, saying “Invalid Post Type”.

I figured this would be rather straightforward, since I am not importing Users or Tags. Eventually I would like all authors to be “Archived Author”, should I try to tackle this now or after a fully successful import?

I can supply screen shots, converter output (which really says nothing unexpected), or the full source code for the converter if needed. I’ve included my table structure and simplified converter code for reference.

I hope that someone with a bit more experience converting forums for BBPress will be able to shed some light on this, my forehead is really starting to hurt from banging my head against the wall. It seems there is very limited information out there on this converter. Any and all help is greatly appreciated!

My tables to import/convert are laid out as follows:

forums table {
  forum_id  PRIMARY KEY INT(11)
  title
  slug
  parent_id (Self referencing FK)
  last_mod (DATETIME)
  num_topics
  num_replies
}
topics table {
  topic_id PRIMARY KEY INT(11)
  parent_id FK (set to 0 for no parent)
  forum_id FK (matches corresponding <code>forums</code>.forum_id)
  subject (title)
  slug (slug of title)
  body (the post content)
  from
  date
  date_gmt
  num_replies
}
replies table {
  reply_id PRIMARY KEY INT(11)
  topic_id FK INT(11) (matches corresponding <code>topics</code>.topic_id)
  forum_id FK INT (11) (matches corresponding <code>forums</code>.forum_id)
  date
  date_gmt
  subject
  body
}

And now, here’s the converter I’m using (starting at the Forum section Line#26 of /plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converters/Example.php). I’ve removed commented lines for brevity.

/** Forum Section *****************************************************/

		// Setup table joins for the forum section at the base of this section

		 // Forum id (Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			 'from_tablename'  => 'forums',
			 'from_fieldname'  => 'forum_id',
			 'to_type'         => 'forum',
			 'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_forum_id'
		);

		// Forum parent id (If no parent, then 0. Stored in postmeta)
 		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'forums',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'parent_id',
			'to_type'         => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_forum_parent_id'
		 );

 		// Forum topic count (Stored in postmeta)
 		$this->field_map[] = array(
			 'from_tablename' => 'forums',
			'from_fieldname' => 'num_topics',
			'to_type'        => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname'   => '_bbp_topic_count'
		 );

		 // Forum reply count (Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'forums',
 			'from_fieldname' => 'num_replies',
 			'to_type'        => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname'   => '_bbp_reply_count'
		 );

 		// Forum total topic count (Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			' from_tablename' => 'forums',
			'from_fieldname' => 'num_topics',
			'to_type'        => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname'   => '_bbp_total_topic_count'
		 );

		 // Forum total reply count (Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			 'from_tablename' => 'forums',
			 'from_fieldname' => 'num_replies',
			 'to_type'        => 'forum',
			 'to_fieldname'   => '_bbp_total_reply_count'
		 );

		 // Forum title.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'forums',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'title',
			'to_type'         => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_title'
		 );

		 // Forum slug (Clean name to avoid confilcts)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'forums',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'slug',
			'to_type'         => 'forum',
 			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_name'
 		);
		
		 // Forum dates.
		 $this->field_map[] = array(
			 'to_type'         => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_date',
			 'default' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s')
 		);
		 $this->field_map[] = array(
			 'to_type'         => 'forum',
			 'to_fieldname'    => 'post_date_gmt',
			 'default' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s')
		 );
		 $this->field_map[] = array(
			 'to_type'         => 'forum',
			 'to_fieldname'    => 'post_modified',
			 'default' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s')
 		);
		 $this->field_map[] = array(
			'to_type'         => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_modified_gmt',
			'default' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s')
		);

		
/** Topic Section *****************************************************/

		// Setup table joins for the topic section at the base of this section

		// Topic id (Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'topics',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'topic_id',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_topic_id'
		);

		// Topic reply count (Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'topics',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'num_replies',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_reply_count'
		);

		// Topic total reply count (Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'topics',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'num_replies',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_total_reply_count'
		);

		// Topic parent forum id (If no parent, then 0. Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'topics',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'forum_id',
			 'to_type'         => 'topic',
			 'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_forum_id'
		);

 		// Topic content.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'topics',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'body',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_content'
		);

		// Topic title.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'topics',
 			'from_fieldname'  => 'subject',
 			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_title'
		);

		// Topic slug (Clean name to avoid conflicts)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'topics',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'slug',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_name'
		);
		// Topic dates.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'topics',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'date',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_date'
		);

		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'topics',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'date_gmt',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_date_gmt'
		);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'topics',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'date',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_modified'
		);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'topics',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'date_gmt',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_modified_gmt'
		);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'topics',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'date',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_last_active_time'
		);

And skipping to the Replies section (Tags and Users are not converted)

	/** Reply Section *****************************************************/

		// Setup table joins for the reply section at the base of this section

		// Reply id (Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'replies',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'reply_id',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_post_id'
		);
		// Reply parent topic id (If no parent, then 0. Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'replies',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'topic_id',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_topic_id'
		);
		// Reply title.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'replies',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'subject',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_title'
		);
		// Reply content.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'replies',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'body',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_content'
		);
		// Reply dates.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'replies',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'date',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_date'
		);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'replies',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'date',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_date_gmt'
		);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'replies',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'date',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_modified'
		);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'replies',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'date',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_modified_gmt'
		);

[HywelPhillips]

Hi All,

I have the weirdest error. I have a WordPress 3.8.1 installation with Akismet 2.6.0, bbPress 2.5.3 and a couple of other plugins.

It has been running fine for a year or so. We recently moved server, and did a “point” version update to latest versions.

Today I found a problem I’ve not seen before: if one posts a forum post whose titles start with the letters “Se”, you get a 404 error when viewing the post. The post itself shows up in the forum listing and is editable with correct text but won’t show up when you click on the link in the forum listing.

Post title variants like “Secretary”, “Secretary Test” “Sec” all generate the error. A post with title “Sacretary” does not, nor do any other posts test titles I’ve tried.

Has anyone got the faintest idea what could be going on here?

Cheers, Hywel Phillips

[thepcjournal]

I am very excited to start using this for my organization. On my forum page I selected the login widget to show on the sidebar widget area along with a few other widgets. But they only show when Im already logged-in. I’m not sure what setting I’m missing, but I need people to be able to register when they first log-on. WordPress 3.8.1, bbPress 2.5.3, http://northwestleadership.org/forums/

[imjscn]

if not threaded, clicking the bbp-reply-to-link can get #new-post form focused.
But, when threaded, the onClick function seems not working. Instead of moving or creating the post form, it reload the page and add query vars.
I’m with bbpress2.5.3, and wordpress 3.8.1

[batmanfan]

I like this bbPress theme – http://bbpress.org/forums/ especially where user/member can’t access to the standard wordpress backend, but a nice and clean ‘front end’ only. How can I get a theme like this? or can I get any theme but use a special plugin to restrict members/users from access to the backend?
Thank you

[Stephen Edgar]

Robin, the issue here is if you look at his site you also see the text Door

Thus it is not just the image being loaded in ‘whatever’ template is loading bbPress it is also adding that text.

Ahhh.. It’s a Genesis theme…. Are you using the Genesis Extend bbPress plugin?

You need this https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-genesis-extend/ 🙂

See also: http://www.studiopress.com/forums/topic/adding-widget-area-to-page-title-php/

[Robin W]

No bbPress doesn’t have it’s own theme, it uses your wordpress one.

It does have styling and can (but doesn’t have to) use a custom page, so you can make it look as much the same or as different as you like.

[batmanfan]

Hi, new to bbPress. Been doing a lot of reading. Can I confirm if bbPress has its own theme and plugin? does it mean I can’t use the standard wordpress theme and plugin on bbPress? Thanks

[Stephen Edgar]

Start by checking out the docs in the codex.

There are some good examples of what you need to do to achieve this.

First you need to customize your bbPress templates per:

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

The https://pl.forums.wordpress.org/ site is a custom page named page-forums.php with snippets of the code from various bbPress templates.

So start digging around the codex and as bbPress is made ‘the WordPress way’ to customize bbPress templates is the same ideology as customizing a WordPress theme.

[RuFiK]

Hello

I am testing bbPress and WP Symposium.

http://www.virtualolivia.com/forum/

http://www.virtualolivia.com/forums/

My question is how can i set up same template from bbpress in my main site on forum same like.

http://pl.forums.wordpress.org/

I mean on left side some information below tag cloud etc …

I am waiting for quick replay,

[RuFiK]

Hello

I am testing bbPress and WP Symposium.

http://www.virtualolivia.com/forum/

http://www.virtualolivia.com/forums/

My question is how can i set up same template from bbpress in my main site on forum same like.

http://pl.forums.wordpress.org/

I mean on left side some information below tag cloud etc …

I am waiting for quick replay,

[Stephen Edgar]

As bbPress is a plugin for WordPress it uses the exact same database tables so it is either a theme issue of the bbPress plugin is corrupted. Try deleting the plugin and reinstalling it.

[Stephen Edgar]

I am new to bbPress and I’m pretty astounded by how incomplete out of the box this thing is. I’m really trying to love it but at every turn I’m experiencing a disconnect… : (

What do you mean exactly?
I’ll add this for starters, making bbPress templates compatible with every WordPress theme in existence is not possible ‘out of the box’ we do try to do our best though 🙂

I have just had a quick look at the theme authors site and there is very little publicly accessible info available so I can’t link you to that. It would also be worth looking at their support forums to see if any others have had issues and/or fixes when using bbPress

Support

1. How do new users login/find password? I’ve already created pages with the short code and added it to the widgets. Doesn’t work.

For this you will need to make sure bbPress is using a template from your theme that includes a sidebar. If you look in your theme folder you will probably find a file named page-sidebar.php, make a copy of that file and rename it to bbpress.php and now bbPress will use template for all your bbPress pages like forums, topics etc

Once the sidebar is present that will also fix the login issue as you have the login widget set for your sidebar.

[jonas89]

I have problem just with bbPress i think missing database connection with forum. WordPress working great and forum works but he looks strange missing table borders. Can you say why ?

Rgs. Jonas

[Stephen Edgar]

This will be more of a WordPress issue than bbPress.

See this doc to help you get it sorted https://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress

If you have more issues with this part (i.e. Not bbPress) post in the WP Support forums https://wordpress.org/support/

[lkicknosway]

I just installed bbPress on my site. I wanted to change the setting from disallow editing after 5 minutes to 10 minutes but when I click save changes I get a “Cheatin’ uh?” Page. Even if I don’t change anything and click save changes I still get the “Cheatin’ uh?” page. Why is this and how can I get it to save my changes?

I installed bbPress version 2.5.3 and my WordPress version is 3.8.1. I’ve also installed W3 Total Cache Plugin. I have disabled minify of HTML & XML but have JS minify enabled and CSS.

Thanks in advance.

[Robin W]

ok, yes I can probably fix your code above, and if you want to continue down that road, I’ll do some digging when I get a moment – just come back and let me know.

However having looked at a solution for doing this at forum level I’ve sorted a different way to do this which works at topic level and seems much neater for the user, but will require a very small amount of discipline when posting a topic, but which solves both issues above.

It takes a little setting up, and apologies that I sent you down the 404 route before I found this maybe (or maybe not) better way !

So this solution requires that
You have users set at wordpress to subscriber (or above) and at bbpress as participant (or above)
that you have a separate menu item for your private forum – as users don’t see the private forum on the index when not logged in, and that this url is used in messages rather than the direct forum id (logged in users will have both choices – menu item and forum index!)

If that’s ok, then set the forum up as follows – looks long, but is quite easy

This solution

uses the restrict content plugin to create a login prompt if the user is not logged on

sets the forums to private so that they are not seen on the main index

creates a page just for that forum, which the restrict content plugin can then use to display the need to be logged in message and login boxes

Any topics created in the forum that need specific urls in newsletters etc. are set to subscriber – 30 seconds additional work!)

1.Install “restrict content” plugin
Dashboard>plugins>add new
search for “Restrict Content” and it’s then one called just that
Install and activate
2. go into dashboard>settings>restrict content and add the following text (you can tailor it to say what you want) to all the options
Sorry, you need to be a member to see this area. Login if need be [bbp-login]
3. Go into Dashboard>forums>whichever forum and change to visibility ‘private’. This will stop this forum being seen in the main index unless logged in, so we’ll need to add a menu item later on so not logged in users can see it
4. Find out the ID of the forum you have set to private
This link shows you how
http://www.authorcode.com/forums/topic/how-to-get-forum-id-in-bbpress/
5. Create a new page called whatever eg “free speech forum”
and put the following code into it
[bbp-single-forum id=2922] where the id number is the number that you found out in 4. above
6. Within this page you’ll also see below the main text you’ve just entered a new box called “restrict content” set this to subscriber (or higher is you’re really restricting).
7. add this page to your menu’s if need be

ALL THE ABOVE ONLY NEEDS TO BE DONE ONCE !

If a user is logged in, and selects the menu item, they’ll just go straight into the forum.
If they are not logged in and select the menu item, they’ll get the message you set up in 2. above together with the login boxes and having logged in will see the forum

For topics :

where you want a logon prompt to appear – presumably only topics in the newsletter (as it is only these that people will be entering a direct url for) – you need to go into Dashboard>topics and underneath the text you’ll see the restrict content box, change this to subscriber and they’ll get the prompt if not logged on !

give it a go, or come back and say you want to carry down the 404 route and I’ll try and help you further on that !