[LDP-154]

I am running the theme Twenty Thirteen, WordPress 3.61 and bbPress 2.5. The Forum Sidebar widget does not replace the Secondary Widget Area on the Forums page. Any suggestions? Thanks. Unfortunately, our site requires a login to our Forum so I cannot provide a link.

[icu0755]

Thank you for the link. I’ve created the ticked https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2500
Nice ticket number in the new years eve 😛

[Stephen Edgar]

Create a new ticket on Trac and we can take a closer look at it 🙂

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

[Stephen Edgar]

I haven’t come across this situation before as I have never used the WP United bridge.

I suspect it is because of the now shared users, presumably how the users are getting mapped presumably WordPress users.

If you are able to get all your users correctly mapped in the phpBB user table that should give you a workable import scenario.

Is there a way to have WP United readd all the WordPress users back into the phpBB table?
(Kind of like an uninstall of WP United it restores everything back to standard)

[Stephen Edgar]

I haven’t seen any recent reports of what you describe.

What versions of WordPress & bbPress are you using?

It could also be an issue with your rewrite rules. To fix this 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]

Hi, What if I do not delete an user but just want to attribute his posts to other one?

The only way to do this at the moment is one by one manually.

Maybe have a look in the WordPress Plugins for a plugin that supports ‘Custom Post Types’ to change posts authors if you have to many to do individually.

[Stephen Edgar]

Under the WordPress ‘Users’ panel does your administrator account have the bbPress ‘Keymaster’ role?

[Stephen Edgar]

I also do not know what changes you have made so until you update both WordPress & bbPress you are basically out of luck.

This is the reason why you should never change the core files in WordPress or bbPress.

I would suggest you create yourself a test install of WordPress locally, add your theme and plugins and compare the changes and start to implement the changes you need in an upgrade friendly way such as child themes and custom additions to functions.php etc.

[jdawglosurdo]

is there anyway to change the font color, it doesn’t look very good with my theme

i am using the latest version of wordpress
theme is hueman

[e-motion]

OK, I had a success!
Sort of.

What I did was…

1. backup everything.
2. in your current wordpress, export all data to xml file
3. if your bbPress was deeply integrated like mine, you will not have a separate bb_users table. If so, export wp_users table via phpMyAdmin and save it.
4. upgrade bbPress from v1.0.3 to v1.2 as per <fontadoni> instructions
5. log into bbPress admin panel and let it upgrade the database. I got an error there, but whatever.
6. install clean WordPress with same user/pass. Make sure to keep old wp-config.php file.
7. if you had integrated users as per #3, go to phpMyAdmin, delete the only (admin) user from wp_users and import your original wp_users table. Check if you can log in. You should to.
8. in WordPress admin page, import xml backup of your previous posts. Let it download all media… You will need to install importer plugin. You should be able to see all your blog posts now. On first run, some posts were missing… If so, delete all posts and repeat.
9. install bbPress plugin.
10. Go to admin page -> permalinks and set “date and name” (at least for me it was needed to be able to access forums at /forums/ instead of seeing 404)
11. Go to tools -> Forums -> Import. Provide database login info. It should convert and import your old posts…
12. Your forums and all users should be available now. Check if posts have corrects users.
13. If this worked, thank me in comments below…

[e-motion]

I am still all full at it. What I discovered is that converter DOES work on fresh wordpress and bbpress installations. Of course I have discovered that all imported bbpress posts are by “Anonymous”, because of lost user data… So now I am working on solving that.

[milenine]

Hi. I just added a bbpress forum to my site. Everything seems to be working well. I already have a good number of subscribers to my site who receive new post email notifications via Subscribe2 plugin. Now with the new forum I am asking people to register for the site so they have forum access and once they do they will be getting new blog post notifications from that registrations too (I think). I am anticipating many of my followers getting two emails everytime I post a new blog post now, one from Subscribe2 and one from the forum/wordpress registration. I think that will likely annoy many of my followers. Any suggestions?

[icu0755]

Hello.

If you have a look into the templates form-user-register.php and form-user-login.php you could see they are almost the same beside do_action placement.

<?php do_action( 'register_form' ); ?>

		<div class="bbp-submit-wrapper">

			<button type="submit" tabindex="<?php bbp_tab_index(); ?>" name="user-submit" class="button submit user-submit"><?php _e( 'Register', 'bbpress' ); ?></button>

			<?php bbp_user_register_fields(); ?>

		</div>

<div class="bbp-submit-wrapper">

			<?php do_action( 'login_form' ); ?>

			<button type="submit" tabindex="<?php bbp_tab_index(); ?>" name="user-submit" class="button submit user-submit"><?php _e( 'Log In', 'bbpress' ); ?></button>

			<?php bbp_user_login_fields(); ?>

		</div>

Is it possible to move <?php do_action( 'login_form' ); ?> out of the bbp-submit-wrapper in the next releases? This will greatly help to have the same markup for these templates using the wordpress hooks system.

BR, Vladimir Ivanov

[e-motion]

Forum is quite small, around 5’000 posts.

I am trying to reproduce those errors for some time now, but only now I was able to get an error. It’s like something is wrong with my system, as it is too random…
I have lowered post data limit to 128M instead of 1G (it was so high to allow large sql dump upload).
The error is:

Repair any missing information: Continue

WordPress database error: [Unknown column 'forums.fid' in 'field list']
SELECT convert(forums.fid USING "utf8") AS fid,convert(forums.par_board_id USING "utf8") AS par_board_id,convert(forums.ntopic USING "utf8") AS ntopic,convert(forums.nposts USING "utf8") AS nposts,convert(forums.fname USING "utf8") AS fname,convert(forums.description USING "utf8") AS description,convert(forums.forum_order USING "utf8") AS forum_order,convert(forums.status USING "utf8") AS status FROM bb_forums AS forums LIMIT 0, 100
No forums to convert
Starting Conversion

[Rob Beschizza]

Hello. I’m trying to import a PHPFox forum into bbPress.

The PHPFox database has been installed locally, as has WordPress/BBpress, on my own desktop.

The conversion proceeds at a fair clip until it gets to importing the replies (i.e. the bulk of the posts), at which point it slows badly. I’ve tried it with various Rows Limit settings (between 10 and 1000) and there doesn’t seem to be an appreciable difference in overall speed. I’ve tried various mysql configuration settings, too, including the recommendations of mysqltuner.pl — no appreciable difference there, either. The tables have been optimized.

In about half an hour, it’s gotten through about 4500 rows. As it’s pulling from a 535,500-row database table, it’ll take about 60 hours!

Is this to be expected given the size of the database? Any hints to getting this done faster?

[Robin W]

If you want to put some rules at the top of your main forum display page, then create a normal wordpress page, type your rules in the content and then at the end put

[bbp-forum-index]

Put that page in your menu, and it will show the rules before showing the forum list

[Grant Palin]

I’m running the current versions of WordPress and bbPress on a dev site. Mostly OK, have been able to get some people to test the forum functionality. However, I and another user (both keymasters) are unable to use the Edit or Merge buttons above topics and replies. The other buttons – delete, spam, close, stick, etc – do work, strangely. Yet I have no trouble doing edits from the backend.

I tried the usual routine of disabling all plugins save bbPress, yet the issue remained. We’re not using exotic plugins – ACF, Pods, NavXT, PageNavi and about 10 others. We are building out a custom theme – I also tried switching to Twenty Twelve to no avail.

If it matters, I have set up a custom permalink structure in the bbPress settings. I can’t imagine that being the issue if only two functions fail to work while the others are fine.

Any Suggestions?

[Stephen Edgar]

One other thing I can’t ever get to work is “Purge all information from a previously attempted import”. I’ve let it run for over 48 hours in the past, and it was “Deleting previously converted data” with a number up into the tens of millions before I gave up on the process, and never actually starts converting. Has anyone else experienced similar issues?

This is a known issue as we have two different caching methods we use, and in particular if one is used and not the other this goes on forever, hopefully I will have a fix in the near future for this, as a workaround do as you have and just ‘reset’ bbPress.

It is odd that it stalls, stopis etc at a different point during the reply imports, typicaly it stops because of some mysterious reason on the same reply (or topic) and it appears to be some ‘malformed’ content in that particular post (I can’t prove this though and is not specific to SimplePress) 😉

When it stalls if you click ‘Stop’ then bump the value of _bbp_converter_start by one, then click ‘Start’ again it should continue on from where it left off skipping that troublesome reply.

(A side issue can be you actually get logged out of WordPress so it also pays to open/refresh another admin page to ensure you are still logged in)

[jdredd87]

First of all. New to WordPress and bbPress as of yesterday.
I am liking it very much over all. Different, but good.

Anyways,

When regular users login into WordPress and goto the dashboard

The Panel “Right now in forums”

User can click on “Topics” or “Replies”

They will end up going to this

http://mysite.com/wp/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=topic

And page just comes up with

“Cheatin’ uh?”

Doing searches of similar issues I ended up doing these different steps.

Ive deactivated a member list plugin.
Ive deactivated and reactivated the forum.
Under Tools>Forums I ran “Remap existing users to default forum roles” without issue.
Under Settings>Forums>Auto Role has been checked on and set to “Participant”
I unchecked and rechecked Auto Role

So far no go. Only my admin user can click on these.

Any help for a newb?

[Stephen Edgar]

I’d suggest posting in their support forum https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gd-bbpress-attachments

[Stephen Edgar]

@gwendydd Thanks for the report and it is exactly the same issue.

Could you all in this thread supply the following:

• WordPress Versions eg. 3.8
• bbPress Version eg. 2.5.2
• Operating System eg. Linux/Windows
• Web Server eg. Nginx, Apache, IIS
• Theme eg. Twenty Thirteen
• PHP Version eg. 5.3, 5.4, 5.5

There has to be something common between people having this issue where we can then recreate a test environment to actually fix this.

[Stephen Edgar]

It is kind of a performance issue with some ‘bigger’ forums, we have a pretty awesome fix for this coming up in bbPress 2.6 once a couple of kinks are ironed out.

Details are here if you want to all out technical but I wouldn’t try running this patch just yet, soon, just not yet. 😉

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1925

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress requires at least WordPress 3.6. I would ask the authors of that theme if they can update it for WordPress 3.8, at a bare minimum besides the improvements in the latest WordPress there are bound to be some security issues in running such an old version of WordPress.

[Stephen Edgar]

Yes, this is a known issue and hopefully a fix isn’t far off.
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2493

[Stephen Edgar]

I have not seen anyone else report anything like what you mention.

Have you updated top WordPress 3.8 & bbPress 2.5.2 and tested with the Twenty Thirteen theme?

Also some screenshots would be beneficial