[Jaina “Jazzy” Jaslyn]

Well perhaps I was being silly to begin with – the bbPress import/export tool didn’t seem to list bbPress 2.x on their options. There is a slim chance I did a lot more work than I needed to. However, at the end of the day, the hard work is complete. Over 8,000 threads + replies imported, as well as over 2,200 users. All users properly associated with topics.

The key step was importing users as a separate process — do it BEFORE you import forum threads+replies! When I relied on Pippin’s plugin to do this, it associated the users to admin. It was very messy. Using an existing plugin (make sure you tweak the import plugin to *NOT NOT NOT* send WP notification!) I was able to do this process very fast.

I used the plugin “Export Users 2 CSV” by Yoast ( https://wordpress.org/plugins/users-to-csv/ ) to import users.

Then I used a modified version of Import Users by DagonDesign ( http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/import-users-plugin-for-wordpress/ ) to import the users.

Again, you will need to instruct your users to fill out the Lost Password form, as these plugins do not preserve MD5+salt.

[Halo Diehard]

I too am trying to import an existing bbPress into another WordPress site, and as a note I must say that the reason I have to do this is because the bbPress importer does not play well with my server (or I SHOULD say my server does not play well!) and I get a similar result you speak of, @specialtactic, where the majority of the posts are attributed to the admin. This has been verified as not being a bbPress importer issue, but a server issue, as I was able to use the importer successfully on my local test server.

Now that I know I can import onto my local, I need to be able to import that local bbPress (converted from the phpBB3) into my live WordPress site, but alas I haven’t had the time to try and wrap my brain around how to accomplish it and so have been waiting for an importer to be written.

Just wanted to clarify for you that it’s possible that the PippinsPlugins is not at fault, if you were attempting to use it in similar circumstances to my own.

[traemccombs]

Heh, stop being so awesome in your replies. 🙂

Anyway, me, the non-coder, still doesn’t understand why it(bbpress plugin) can’t simply have an option to use styles from other themes. If nothing else, the CSS etc would be a nice “base” for things like link colors, font sizes, whatever.

*sigh*

I tried bbPress Tweaks. Meh.

I’ll read the link you posted. Hopefully it doesn’t suck.

bbPress has such a non-WP feel about it though in everything I’ve come to expect from WordPress. Part of it is my frustration with PHPBB, and part of it is my frustration with not being able to get a non-sucky looking forum with bbPress.

And, I have yet to see a non-sucky bbPress based forum. Most are fairly crappy in how they present and deal with the content.

Easy of me to throw stones in a glass house when I don’t code I guess. I just wish there were more sane defaults in bbPress that looked better out of the box.

[Robin W]

bbPress by default tries to use your themes default templates as it’s base. So it is already using your theme’s page template, maybe not the particular one you’re after, but it will be for your theme, or one you have created.

It will look for the following files in your theme in this order, and use that for it’s forums

plugin-bbpress.php
bbpress.php
forums.php
forum.php
generic.php
page.php
single.php
index.php

See https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum/ for more detail and how to get it to use a particular template.

Since some theme writers create a bbpress template, and some have variously named page templates, it would be kinder hard to get bbpress to work out which of your themes files are page templates, and which you want to use.

Yes, getting the right template to display forums can involve you in renaming and moving some files, but that’s because you have decided to use a non-default theme (no criticism), and so your theme writer and the writers of bbpress would need to be telepathic to know how the other one is going to code. As I said some themes actively allow for bbpress, for others it is just one of thousand of plugins.

The plugin bbPress Tweaks

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-wp-tweaks/

In dashboard>settings>bbpress tweaks allows you to select from available templates as a dropdown, so partly achieves what you are after.

I fully appreciate that WordPress and plugins can cause a lot of frustration, and no you’re definitely not a troll (yet!), but less heaven and hell in your posts would be better!

[joneslloyd]

The WordPress plugin “404 Redirected” was actually responsible for this redirection and lack of pagination.

All solved!

My apologies for wasting anybody’s time.

[Robin W]

Laurie,

Would need some code to do this

If you’re into coding, suggest you download

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

and crack open the code

It should give you a good idea on how to create your own code.

if not try putting it on wp-jobs

http://jobs.wordpress.net/

and see if someone will pick it up for you

[Stephen Edgar]

@synaptic It’s not always obvious but the links in your post that link to old discussions or sites (which I just edited) regarding the old ‘standalone’ bbPress and not the current bbPress v2.x plugin, circa anything over 2-3+ years of age won’t be relevant.

As to meeting some kind of demand quota, bbPress v2.x Plugin is sitting at 1,125,146 downloads as I write this, so whatever the magical formula is it would appear it has not reached tipping point.

Edit: That said, has anyone tried the code in the link you posted?
http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/77441/how-to-edit-bbp-forum-freshness-link-format

[Robin W]

Ok, you need to do the following

If you have a child theme, then do this in there

If you don’t have a child theme, then seriously consider creating one, it’s very quick and easy, and will ensure that changes you make don’t get lost on theme or bbpress upgrades. Just google wordpress child theme videos and you’ll get lots of help.

In your theme create a bbpress directory
wp-content/themes/yourthemename/bbpress

then copy

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/loop-single-topic.php to this directory so that you have
wp-content/themes/yourthemename/bbpress/loop-single-topic.php

Edit this file to delete line 60 which says

<span class="bbp-topic-started-by"><?php printf( __( 'Started by: %1$s', 'bbpress' ), bbp_get_topic_author_link( array( 'size' => '14' ) ) ); ?></span>

and save.

bbPress will now use the file in your theme’s bbpress folder instead of the default, and you won’t lose your change on bbpress upgrades – but will it it is in your main theme, so if you don’t create a child theme, keep a note of what you changed, as if your theme updates, then you may/will lose the bbpress folder and file.

[Robin W]

Did you disable the stylepress plugin, as it seems to be pointing to that?

This plugin is no longer maintained viz

https://wordpress.org/plugins/style-press/

I’d also post a query on the yootheme suppprt site, as they may have come across this

[Asynaptic]

there is an existing ticket but it is awaiting popular demand to be fixed:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2031

I’m not sure exactly how ‘demand’ is measured by the dev team. There certainly has been multiple requests for help to make this change both on the forum and elsewhere on the internet.

How difficult would it be to allow for bbpress admins to toggle between a freshness date format and a date/time format? wordpress already allows for this type of dating for posts so I can’t see this as being a complicated issue.

the freshness tag shows previous conversations about this issue:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic-tag/freshness/

Here are a few previous forum postings asking for help in changing the freshness format to a static date:

Freshness Date, Instead of ongoing Time frame

Edit or delete freshness

Change freshness to date after 24 hours

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-do-you-change-the-freshness-of-post-date-format/
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/show-exact-date-of-post-not-freshness/
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/timestamp-posted-m-d-y-time/

there are also discussions outside of the bbpress.org forums:
http://bbshowcase.org/forums/topic/exact-timedate-in-forum-last-poster
http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/77441/how-to-edit-bbp-forum-freshness-link-format

Is this enough to meet the ‘demand’ quota? most people have been searching for this going back many years without any resolution.

If this isn’t enough demand, then what would be?

[Mycelus]

While I appreciate your work, this is not a viable solution.

The fact that bbPress comes out of the box with a box that says “forum” makes no sense.

Any forums I’ve seen (IPB, XenForo, phpBB, etc etc etc) have boxes for each category, and then the forum names, not a box that says forum, then the categories, then the forums underneath, bbPress’ layout makes no sense and I am not looking to download a child theme and then have to customize it because I don’t currently possess enough CSS and WordPress knowledge to do so.

I am learning, Im not sitting around or anything, but bbPress should look like the other forum layouts because it’s current layout makes 0 sense.

Are there any repositories with some example images of how to go about styling bbPress? I don’t know if it’s just me but bbPress has been around for years if I’m not mistaken and there’s a surprising lack of documentation on it for how popular it is.

[Karnifexx]

bbpress has a large number of do_action() statements. I am familiar with this at the wordpress level but I am unable to locate where bbpress registers a large number of these actions. Specifically I would like to change the behaviour of:

do_action( ‘bbp_template_before_forums_loop’ );
If someone could point me in the right direction that would be greatly appreciated.

[Lynqoid]

This is what you will need to use to actually add a class to the body class. You could look at getting the post by the get_queried_object(); function in WordPress and then getting the title of that object. After that you could then use the sanitize_title_with_dashes($forum_title); to get a safe class name.

Please note I haven’t fully tested the code below and i’m not sure the $forum_object->post_title; will work but it get’s you moving in the right direction 🙂

<?php
$forum_object = get_queried_object();
$forum_title = $forum_object->post_title;
$forum_class = sanitize_title_with_dashes($forum_title);
?>
<body <?php body_class($forum_class); ?>>

Good luck!

[lukas_doubek]

Hi, everywhere, i mean everyone on every tutorial is mentioned, that you must install the plugin like this

1) Visit the WordPress Administration Screen and navigate to Plugins > Add New.
2) Search for bbPress
3) Locate the bbPress plugin and click install
4) Activate the plugin

But i dont want people to have to install it, i want the plugin to be allready integrated in my custom theme im building. But when i copied it to my plugin folder (in my custom theme folder, not the “wp-conetnt/plugins” !!), and i required it in my functions.php. after this, the web get stacked, it kills my browser, because there is hundreds of error messages:

Warning: ksort() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /www/doc/domain/www/wp-content/themes/theme/plugins/bbpress/includes/core/template-functions.php on line 316

Warning: reset() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /www/doc/domain/www/wp-content/themes/theme/plugins/bbpress/includes/core/template-functions.php on line 321

………….

Does anybody know how to integrate it? it would be great if there is some tutorial. everywhere i find how to use it, or the 4 steps to install it by zip uploading.

thanks for help

[Lynqoid]

You can use the wp_logout_url.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_logout_url

<a href="<?php echo wp_logout_url(); ?>">Logout</a>

Good luck!

[NikolajR]

Hi,
I have a little problem in my bbpress forum.
I am using a theme, and the theme is moving the links in the forum to the right side.
It does the same with the avatars of the users. It does not happen with the first post. But alle the others.
I hope someone can help me out.

Forum link: http://danskyt.net/forums/
Screenshot of the problem: http://gyazo.com/9f5db4301317e75ad87525c56f5fa09b.png
Screenshot of the first post in topic: http://gyazo.com/c346d1565561621cfa42a674fde6a6d5.png

WordPress v. 3.8.1
BBPress v. 2.5.3
Theme: Point
WebSite: http://danskyt.net/

[WPDragon]

Hi, I have the bbpress Login Widget on my homepage and throughout site — however, I noticed that if i click the “Log In” button with a wrong password, or if i leave it blank – that it redirects me to the generic wp-login.php wordpress page.

Is there a way to keep the user on the same page the widget is on, so that clicking “Log In” will not redirect a user…I would ideally prefer everything to stay within the widget…if a user types the wrong password, then it would alert them on the widget…or if the “Log In” is pressed with a blank username/password then rather nothing happen, than to redirect to the basic wordpress login page.

Hopefully, this makes sense….Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[tom211221]

Hello,

i have had a wordpress website designed for me which included bbpress, i have some knowledge of wordpress but im not a pro at it.

I have added a couple of widgets to the bbpress sidebar and they are displaying at the bottom of the page. is there a way to adjust the margins and width of the forum itself without changing the website widths???

i have left it at the bottom let me know what you can do to help.

http://www.yourfriendshipcircle.com/forums/forum/general/

[exploder]

I have the same issue.

To solve this i have implemented the fix of barnabe in small plugin. This way I don’t have to edit the core of WordPress.

The plugin is available here:
http://www.exploder.org/bbpress-qtranslate-fix.tar.gz

[rlitts]

I set the debugging in the config.php file to true and this message appeared immediately while logged in.

Notice: bbp_setup_current_user was called incorrectly. The current user is being initialized without using $wp->init(). Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 2.3.) in /home/njhopz/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3049.

When trying to log out it gave me
Notice: bbp_setup_current_user was called incorrectly. The current user is being initialized without using $wp->init(). Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 2.3.) in /home/njhopz/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3049

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/njhopz/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php:3049) in /home/njhopz/public_html/wp-login.php on line 415

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/njhopz/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php:3049) in /home/njhopz/public_html/wp-login.php on line 427

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[Stephen Edgar]

I’m not sure what the original motivation was for this decision but it has been this way now for over 7 years.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/0.7

[Stephen Edgar]

As per your post ~2 years ago https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/last-post-date-time-instead-of-freshness/ and the Trac ticket you created:

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2031

Valid, though easily handled in a theme; there are functions to support this if you want this on your own site.
Closing as wontfix. If it turns into a popular request, we can reopen and revisit this then.

[futiles]

When a user tries to edit their reply, the “Edit” button links to: http://www.achievementfest.com/index.php/forums/topic/%5BTHREAD NAME]/edit/

Which goes to a 404 error. I am using WordPress 3.6.1, and bbPress 2.5.3-5249. I had been using a previous version of bbPress, with the same issue, and tried updating it to see if the problem resolved.

I cannot find anything about setting up the edit page, so, I don’t know if I missed a step.

Does anyone have a suggestion, please?

[SK]

Ticket https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2031

One feature that I struggle a bit in why bbPress broke from the norm is Freshness. It is customary to have the last column for “Last post” which includes the date-time of last post (topic/reply) and the author of last post.

bbPress has decided to use “Freshness” instead of “Last post” as title. Instead of date-time, it displays time-since.

Perhaps time to move to the more convention approach here. Probably good for performance too – won’t need to calculate freshness.

[PinkishHue]

I’m very new to bbpress but have been working with WordPress for quite a while. I have a WordPress form (displayed using a custom page template) to post solution here: http://pinkishhue.com/an-alternative-to-tdo-mini-forms-for-wordpress/#workingsolution

Perhaps this code could be altered to insert the post as a forum post instead of a regular post? Sounds like it shouldn’t be too complicated (maybe!)

Hope that helps.