[Leandro Amorim]

Solved it. It’s a incompatibility issue with Another WordPress Classifieds Plugin (AWPCP). I deactivate AWPCP and bbPress started work again.

[Leandro Amorim]

Hi, I’m creating a new website and I installed bbpress. At first it worked, then it simply started showing “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.” when I try to change the plugin settings in the administration. Also, the Forum option in the sidebar of the administration didn’t show anymore. I uninstalled the bbpress and installed again. It worked. About one hour later I tried to access the forum settings and the same problem was happening. I tried again to reinstall bbpress but this time didn’t worked.

I saw cases where the message “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.” was shown in the whole administration, but didn’t find a case where it was shown only in the pages related to bbpress. Also the forum works in the front-end, but I’m unable to create a topic, showing “ERROR: You do not have permission to create new topics.”

I’m using WordPress 3.6.1(in PT-BR) and bbpress 2.4.1.

[Theopt]

Well some editor reported me this, then I’ve checked the error log and I’ve found this:

[13-Oct-2013 21:22:03] WordPress database error Table ‘diytech1_wor5.zhb_bp_groups_groupmeta’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT group_id FROM zhb_bp_groups_groupmeta WHERE meta_key = ‘forum_id’ AND meta_value = ‘2874’; made by require_once(‘wp-admin/admin.php’), do_action(‘load-tools_page_bbp-repair’), call_user_func_array, bbp_admin_repair_handler, call_user_func, bbp_admin_repair_group_forum_relationship

Since the last update on bbpress editors cant login on wp-admin, they see a blank page.

How to fix it?

[wbuist]

I’ve installed BBPress plugin with WordPress on a brand new install of both. Everything worls fine, except that when the topic authors name or image is clicked the system directs to /forums/users/[username] and that gives a 404 error. Including for me as the administrator.

I’ve searched for a solution but can’t find one. I see lots of people with an issue that the users get 404 but admin doesn’t but I don’t even get that.

[j01anda]

I’m hoping someone can help me.

I have installed bbPress on a wordpress-website where there are several usergroups. All groups have their own forum, and there is an overall forum. The problem is that when a user has made a new topic on a forum, only the title shows, not the content. The content is there though. If you edit the topic (as user) you can see and edit the title ánd the content. But no user can see it in the normal way. All replies are visible, but not the original content of the topic. Only if logged in as admin you can see the first content of the topic.

WordPress version 3.5.2
bbPress version 2.2.4
theme Twenty Twelve Child

I think it is a conflict with User Access Manager 1.2.2 (which I use for making the usergroups) but I have read about people having the same issue with bbPress in combination with other user acces manager plugins. Unfortunately I cannot find a solution 😉

[Darcy Peal]

I have been receiving a steady stream of the following error message (using Deprecated Call plugin)

Incorrect Use of bbp_setup_current_user()

The current user is being initialized without using $wp->init().
This message was added in version 2.3.

bbPress – 2.4.1
WordPress – 3.7-beta2-25760

[Stephen Edgar]

No, it doesnt do anything, just spinning. Maybe it needs to be start from beginning next time without “Purge Previous Import” checked. Seems as it try now to do all from very scratch.

Sometimes the ‘Purge previous import’ gets a little confused 😉

You can Reset Forums which will remove all forums, topics, topic tags & replies from the WordPress database giving you a ‘clean’ bbPress to start again.

Dont want to be rude, but make plugin little bit verbose, put some info around, dont be leasy.

As the converter is constantly being improved in bbPress we will get more verbose/debugging information in there in future versions. Generating this type of information supporting the ever growing ~35 different forum conversion scripts is no easy task and we are trying not to be vague yet at the same time not be to verbose either.

[Stephen Edgar]

@inspirationally Nice, I didn’t really think about doing things this way even though I’ve been debugging WordPress Multisite’s the past couple of days.

Your way uses a single WordPress site with multiple domains and it looks like that works quite well for your use case.

Another way would be to go WordPress Multisite using sub domains, your primary site would be http://example.com and with an extra site created using a sub-domain install at http://forums.example.com

So overall it looks like there is a few different ways to achieve the end goal and it’s just a matter of now working out which option is best for your use case.

[inspirationally]

I just installed my forum at http://mydomain.com/forums, which is the same as http://myseconddomain.com/forums – and used

1. the multidomain plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/multidomain/

2. templates and menus based on the domain you see – this includes a different index loop file and different custom menu.

This also works with subdomains.

Here the code of index.php:

<?php
/**
 * The main template file.
 *
 * This is the most generic template file in a WordPress theme
 * and one of the two required files for a theme (the other being style.css).
 * It is used to display a page when nothing more specific matches a query. 
 * E.g., it puts together the home page when no home.php file exists.
 * Learn more: https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy
 *
 * @package WordPress
 * @subpackage Twenty_Ten
 * @since Twenty Ten 1.0
 */

get_header(); ?>

<?php if ( $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == 'mydomain.com' ) { ?>

			<?php
			/* Run the loop to output the posts.
			 * If you want to overload this in a child theme then include a file
			 * called loop-index.php and that will be used instead.
			 */

			 get_template_part( 'loop', 'index-mydomain' );
			?>
<?php } elseif ( $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == 'myseconddomain.com' || $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == 'sub.mydomain.com'  ) { ?>

			<?php
			/* Run the loop to output the posts.
			 * If you want to overload this in a child theme then include a file
			 * called loop-index.php and that will be used instead.
			 */

			 get_template_part( 'loop', 'index-myseconddomain' );
			?>			
<?php } ?>

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Then there is loop for the main site, and one for the forum including the forum overview.

In the header I have

<?php if ( $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == 'mydomain.com ) { ?>
<?php wp_nav_menu( array('container_class' => 'menu','menu' => 'Mydomain.org' )); ?>
<?php } elseif ( $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == 'myseconddomain.com' || $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == 'sub.mydomain.com'  ) { ?>
<?php wp_nav_menu( array('container_class' => 'menu','menu' => 'Myseconddomain.com' )); ?>
<?php } ?>

(the same for sidebar widgets etc.)

Of course you could work with special forum templates for the forum sites.

(real example see johnny-depp.org/deppheads.com)

I think, I will have to add some kind of rewrite to not have duplicate content in the future.

[Halo Diehard]

Yep, as mentioned, I tried it with WP-United disabled and recalculated in phpBB3 first then in WordPress bbPress after the import, each one. My next step is removing it altogether and trying it then. I’m not sure what changes WP-United might make on the database, but phpBB3 does have an Auto Mod package that is part of the process so I’ll have to remove it from phpBB3 too before I can try again. I’ll try to come back and report what I learn! 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

This cannot be done at this stage…

The only way I can think of doing this would be to install WordPress as forums.gamingtracks.com and then you would have URL’s like this:

http://forums.gamingtracks.com/forums/topic/bbpress-forums-to-subdomain-included-with-domain/

[Stephen Edgar]

Are you running the ‘Repair Tools’ after importing to recalculate the counts?

As the importer is running SQL queries grabbing ‘all the things’ directly from the phpBB MySQL database this should not be an issue.

It should not be missing anything, but, thinking about this for a moment, do you know if WP-United alters any phpBB or WordPress database tables? If so do you know what changes it makes?

What happens if you disable WP-United plugin before importing?

What happens if you delete WP-United plugin? Does it uninstall any changes it made?

(If you try deleting WP-United make sure you have website and database backups)

[reyman]

Hi, maybe someone know help.

I have a forum with some child forums inside. When I open a child forum not only the releted topic are showen but also topics from other child forums.

E.g. this child forum “natural-fiber-bio-resin”:

http://auto-nomo.com/forums/forum/forum/natural-fiber-bio-resin/

Three topcs are displayed but only one belongs to this child forum. Any idea how to manage that only the related topics are displayed?

WordPress 3.6.1
bbPress 2.4
BuddyPress 1.8.1

Thanks for any idea …

Arne

[Nashwan D]

bbPress gets popular everyday.. with new users, new questions and new bugs! as you know bbPress is an open source project developed by a great volunteers from all over the world.

Which means many bbPress users can’t write in English and can’t ask support from the official forums, for this reason I suggest to add links in Codex(or any place), to all support forums that give a good support for bbPress in other language.

Maybe something like this:
http://codex.wordpress.org/L10n:Localization_Teams

for now bbPress start to gets popular in the Arabian Community, with a lot of questions from the new users, so we decided to give bbPress a special support, see:
http://www.ar-wp.com/forums/section/bbpress/

What you think?

[joyceswiss]

Hi, when I click on the forum tab in my menu, the page that loads is “Opps, page not found”. I have tried pasting the shortcode [bbp-forum-index] into my forum page. But Still doesnt work. Please advise. Thank you.

Wordpress version: 3.6.1
bb press version: 2.4.1
http://artyconnections.sg

[Stephen Edgar]

First up, make sure you have run the phpBB recount tools which ‘should’ make sure phpB database is in good shape before you get started.

The importer is designed to import your users from phpBB and that is where your problems will now be as you already have some users in WordPress…

During the import the importer if it finds a username already exists eg ‘username’ it will create a new user with a prefix ‘imported_’ eg ‘imported_username’.

After the import is finished you can use WordPress’ user admin panel to delete (one by one) each ‘imported_’ user and as you do you are presented with the option to reassign all posts to another user, select the user you want from the dropdown list and your done.

This gets painful very quickly if you have 1,000 users to do this to one by one.

You may be surprised to see my bbPress forum

“Internal Server Error” 😉

[Halo Diehard]

Hello, I am once again seeing if I can switch over to bbPress, since WP-United does not play well with so many phpBB3 and WP social extras, and upon import I am only getting posts up to four months ago, with nothing for the last four months. Also, somehow the import process is switching some authors. I’m not sure if I should be importing the users or not (I think I’ve tried both), or what the best practice is since I already have a WP userbase of the same people who made the posts that I’m importing from phpBB3. In fact, because of WP-United, they are linked in some way.

Any help would be appreciated! I’ve been at it for a number of days. My WordPress version is 3.6.0 and my bbPress version is 2.4.

You may be surprised to see my bbPress forum: I’m currently altering the css to make it look like my phpBB3 one, using @Lynq’s bbPress starter theme and Daniel St. Jules’ CoDFaction phpBB3 theme.

Forums

[Da Jules]

Hi,
can we setup bbpress to save all attachments and serve media files from Amazon s3?

Is this done via a WordPress plugin like: http://wordpress.org/plugins/amazon-s3-and-cloudfront/screenshots/

Thanks.

[Stephen Edgar]

You won’t need this text and/or value that you imported.

You will have to create your own templates by copying bbPress templates to your theme directory:

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

You would then use the_excerpt rather than the_content to output only ‘x’ words from each topic/reply

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_excerpt

There are a few people who have played around using the_excerpt and bbPress, have a good look around the site to see how and what they did:

https://bbpress.org/forums/search/the_excerpt/

[niuserre]

You can allow them to use images hosted elsewhere via HTML or BBCode. e.g.

Or there are plugins (GD bbPress Attachments) to add a way for them to upload an image on your site.

There isn’t currently a plugin, I think, that will let them upload an image and place it somewhere the way you do with a WordPress Post using the Media Library but it’s on the roadmap for the rtMedia plugin.

[niuserre]

There is a bug in 2.4 causing this (https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2405), it’s been fixed for patch 2.4.1 but this hasn’t been released yet. The bug did not exist in earlier versions, hence it works on one for you but not the other. If you need it urgently you could apply the patch in the trac item yourself.

ETA: Damn, he beat me to it 😀

[Stephen Edgar]

This is a known issue and a fix is in #2405 for release with bbPress 2.4.1

[RaSol]

bbPress plugin messing with Meta Data – Website Title and Tagline
Can anyone help me figure out why the bbPress plugin is doing this on one of my websites but not the other.

Permaculture and Community Resilience

WordPress 3.4.1 — bbPress Version 2.1.2
http://transitiontopermaculture.org/about-us/what-is-permaculture/
WordPress 3.6 — bbPress Version 2.4

On one… the browser page title shows the title of the page, and the other shows the url.
I’d really love to fix the problem but having a hard time figuring out what the solution could be.

Would love it to look normal and show website title and tagline at the top of browser when on homepage, and other pages..

Also as I’m posting to Facebook its also ruining the metadata and just wants to post the url as both the title and the description.
If I deactivate the plugin the problem goes away.

Thank you

[niuserre]

It appears that it could be this bug which is fixed for 2.4.1 but not yet released: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2429

Perhaps try patching with the change (https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/5109) and see if it works.

[niuserre]

You’d need to ask the Genesis folks about bbPress compatibility 🙂 Are you using https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-genesis-extend/ ? No idea if it’d help though.