[Stephen Edgar]

This could 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]

If this is a new WordPress site and a new forum you should be using bbPress 2.2.4 plugin

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

[Stephen Edgar]

See the docs on ‘Creating your First Forum’ here and you set the order from withion the WordPress Admini Forum Panel.

https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/#creating-your-first-forum

[Stephen Edgar]

Can you run through these steps:

1. Make sure you are using WordPress 3.5.1 & bbPress 2.2.4
2. Run each of the bbPress 1.x recount tools /bbpress1/bb-admin/tools-recount.php
3. Perform a forum reset on your bbPress 2.x /wp-admin/tools.php?page=bbp-reset
4. Start a fresh import with the ‘Start Over’ option checked

The “Purge all information from a previously attempted import” is a known issue and it will run endlessly if the `bbp_converter_translator` table is empty and has nothing to purge or it cannot find the table. It is a bit funky but does not affect the actual import as there are other fallbacks in place if it cannot use this table. If you have to start over performing a ‘forum reset’ this does basically the same thing so in between import tries doing a forum reset ensures bbPress 2.x has no forums, topics or replies before you start your import.

[aberglas]

The title says it. I have mutliple sites, and I need users that are registered to a site to be able to participate in the private forums of just that site. The problem seems to be bbPress’s totally confused capability model.

By default private sites are hidden to users. There is a weird “Auto Role” option that can adds bbp_participant to all users. But that means that users get access to all forums on all sites.

So turn that off. Try to add bbp_participant role explicitly using action ‘add_user_to_blog’
$user->add_role(“bbp_participant”);
However, that failed to add the user. WordPress really only supports one role per user, certainly set_role only accepts a single role and purges any others. So I think something is resetting it.

Then I try simply
get_role( ‘author’ )->add_cap( ‘read_private_topics’ ); // for bbpress.
That successfully updates the database, but has no effect on bbpress. I suspect because one of the three(!) capability.php files in bbpress has
case bbp_get_spectator_role() … ‘read_hidden_forums’ => false,
rather than just leaving it out. So capabilities do not merge properly between roles.

There is something called Dynamic roles whatever they might be.

Maybe I need to abandon capabilities altogether and hook somewhere else? Maybe one of the numerous plugins works multisite?

Regards,

Anthony

[dapress]

I am using bbpress 1.0.2 installed with a iBlog Pro Forum Theme on wordpress version: 3.5.1
The problem is that I can’t make the forum to look like a forum page and it is shown as a blog page. If I create a Forum it is shown in categories. I just want to make my page looks like a forum. Please help me. http://iosbg.freeiz.com/forum/

[Hesam]

Hi guys

I am translating bbPress 2.2.4 plugin for WordPress. Unfortunately wp-jalali plugin doesn’t convert the dates related to bbPress topics and replies.

How can I solve this problem?

Thanks in advance.

[J. Christopher Guritz]

Strange it works in wordpress admin forum backend but not in public area.

J. Christopher

[matrixd]

Thanks JJJ that was it! The most common mistake!

I was already update wordpress, buddypress, bbpress and my plugins, and then I follow these steps:

1. I deactivate every plugin, except Buddypress and BBpress,

2. I change my theme to the default buddypress theme, (without 082net’s fix on my function.php),

3. I run the Tools > Forums > Remap existing users to default forum roles

4. I change moderator users to moderator role, and then everything works! The moderator has his privileges and everyone can see my forums!

5. Then  I change back to my child theme (still working without 082net’s fix on my function.php),

6. and starting activate my plugins one by one, while I was checking if everything works.

At the end, my upgrade forums works fine and the moderators too has there privileges.

My installation is now:

WP Multisite 3.5.1 (was 3.4.2)

Buddypress 1.6.4 (was 1.6.1)

BBpress 2.2.4 (was 2.1.2)

+420k posts, 11k members

Thanks for your help and for your time!

 

[peripatew]

Not to wake the dead (topics), but has there been a way to address this issue? Specific roles for specific hidden forums?

[peripatew]

In searching the forum, it seems that I can use the Member’s plugin to allow users and user roles to access the private/hidden forums. But, most of the posts (all over a year old) indicated that this couldn’t be specific to one individual forum within bbPress.

I have multiple groups that each need their own forum, but, I only want them to access one specific forum that’s completely private for only that group of users.

I read that this can be accomplished with BuddyPress groups and forums, but BuddyPress is overkill for what I’m trying to do, as I only need a simple forum.

Thoughts? Options? I have this functionality right now within Vanilla Forum’s, it’s quite easy, but I need tighter integration with WordPress.

[Stephen Edgar]

All this is handled by the WP plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-importer/

Typically a WordPress site would not have ~3,700 authors…

I would suggest posting on https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordpress-importer and see what feedback you get and we can go from there.

[Stephen Edgar]

Sounds like we need a bbPress widget for topic tags…

https://codex.bbpress.org/widgets/

Maybe create a ticket in trac https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/

[Stephen Edgar]

Ask your host Hostpaedia if they have any instructions on installing WordPress (if not here is the generic Softaculous info) and once you have WordPress running then you add bbPress as a plugin.

Full instructions on installing bbPress are here:
https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/

[Stephen Edgar]

Create a new WordPress page called ‘New Topic’ and add the shortcode [bbp-topic-form] to the page content.

https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/ & https://codex.bbpress.org/widgets/

[Stephen Edgar]

I think this plugin will do what you want.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-string-swap/

[Stephen Edgar]

It is planned for a future release see trac ticket #2055.

If you search the WordPress plugin repo you should find something that works for you though…
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ try searching for author and/or authors as bbPress users are just WordPress users after all.

[kshade]

We’ve got a problem on our site where random logged in users without the read_private_forums capability can still view and post in stickied topics (not super stickied) in private forums if they know the URL. We’re using s2member, but that probably isn’t relevant to the issue. Also I’ve disabled reading private forums for the Participant role using Capability Manager Enhanced.

bbpress version 2.2.4, wordpress version 3.5.1

[ckpepper02]

I installed BBPress 2.2.3 on wordpress 3.5 and the admin panel doesn’t display a Forum button for me to add forums and topics. When I go to settings, I can see the Forum settings, but nothing else.

I’m using a custom theme, but when I reverted back to twentytwelve, it was the same issue.

Any ideas?

[tred1975]

Hi there,

I am using a WordPress site and i want to use the Plugin WP-Members to get Members registered. The Forum only becomes visible when you are a registered user. As i saw in WP-Members, i can add custom fields to the registration (required or not) I want that users allready kinda have to fill in some more information about theirselves = Profile at the registration

My question is: Can all this information username/password and the whole Profile information submitted while the registration in WP-Members automatically added to BBPress. So the user is also autmaitcally registered at the forum BBPress and allready have a Profile with some info which he filled in at the registration in WP-Members.. ??

Thanks for any help
tred

[ry0ta.ma2da]

Please teach me how to display search button on page only for bbpress posts.
Is it required any plugin?

* WordPress Ver : 3.5.1
* Theme : Twenty Twelve
* bbPress Ver : 2.2.4

[moebis]

Created ticket within buddypress trac: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4797

[John James Jacoby]

It’s nice to see a few CSS tweaks providing deep integration into an existing WordPress site.

Thanks for sharing!

[matrixd]

Sorry, I was talking about the bbpress-unread-posts plugin!

[chasernl]

This has been fixed in the WordPress plugin of deckbox.org.. can be closed