Have you copied the bbPress compat theme files out of the plugin and into your WordPress theme?
Something is broken in your permalink settings. Do you have WordPress installed in a “blog” folder off the root of your site, with pretty permalinks turned off?
My apologies, I meant to write this quite a few hours ago 😉
It has been quite a while since I last configured an IIS server for WordPress so I am a bit rusty in this regard. The details of what I am using at on the install I referred to above:
– Windows 2008 Server SP2, IIS 7.0, MySQL 5.1, PHP 5.2.14
I don’t see the Windows 7 vs Server 2008 R2 being an issue nor IIS 7.0 vs 7.5 as the current version of ‘IIS URL Rewrite Module 2’ is still the most current version.
Here is my web.config file for that site created within IIS (I have made no manual config changes to the file etc) when I created the site above.
On wordpress version 3.5 and bbPress 2.2.3 is there a way to tweak the permalinks on bbPress so they look like
when viewing forum: /forum/”forum name”/
when viewing a topic: /forum/”forum name”/”topic name”/
Having trouble copying over the template. I basically want to use a different header file called get_header(‘bb’) for the BB templates. I read the codex and a few other post and no luck. Here’s what I’ve done:
Uploaded most recent bbPress Plugin and WordPress install
This is what bb plugin tree looks like:
-includes
-languages
-templates
–default
—bbpress FOLDER
—css FOLDER
—extras FOLDER
—js FOLDER
bbpress-functions.php
From my understanding of the bb theme-compatability codex, I copied the contents of the extras folder into a folder in my theme called bbpress.
I added add_theme_support( ‘bbpress’ ); to the after_setup_theme hook
Now it should work!?! Should I be copying the contents of default folder into the bbpress folder of my theme?
This is not in the core of bbPress though there are a few email notification plugins you could have a look at https://bbpress.org/plugins/
I think it sounds like @jaredatch’s ‘New Topics Notifications’ is what you need though.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-new-topic-notifications/
The entire site here at bbpress.org is powered by WordPress and bbPress
Have you looked at using some shortcodes on WP pages to get what you are after?
https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/
Theres widgets too https://codex.bbpress.org/widgets/
Hi Stephen @netweb. I just tried creating a WordPress site from scratch with bbpress. When I clicked on reply it redirected me back to the wrong page again. It seems like its my settings with IIS.
If I use the WordPress default permalink structure (no rewrite) it still does the same thing.
What could be in your IIS that I don’t have? Where would this setting be located?
Also, what version of PHP and MySQL do you have? I have PHP 5.3 MySQL 5.1
Thanks
Hi, I want to replace the admin menu “Forums” to a Japanese expression.
I have found in bbpress.php that labels including “Forums” is replaced with the function ‘__’
but somehow it is not working. The menu remains in English.
I created bbpress-ja.mo from bbpress.pot, and placed the file in the language folder.
It is including “Forums” and its translation.
Any help or suggestions?
BTW, the translation for user pages (“Voices””Posts” etc.) and
for admin settings (messages in includes/admin/settings.php) is working.
Troubles only with bbpress.php.
WordPress: 3.5
bbPress: 2.2.3
Theme: skeleton
Hello,
I want to import a phpbb forum to bbpress, i know there is a tool in Tools>>Forums. My question is about the theme. In Phpbb we have a particular theme, can we adapt the theme to Bbpress ? Is the theme imported with the database ? Or we have to re-create the theme for WordPress and bbpress ?
Thanks in advance !
Maybe, maybe not. Or not really. Let me explain. Say, for example, you had several hundred groups in buddypress and overtime users (if the option is chosen where users can create their own) decided to change their names for whatever reason, 1) bbpress wouldn’t show any of those changes, at least that’s what I’m seeing; 2) using your example of manually doing it, someone would literally have to try to figure out what the former name was to the new name, locate it, change it along with the slug hoping the new name and slug don’t cause any current conflicts -not to mention potential mass headaches, drama, and a well deserved reason to quit; or 3) i’m not sure it’s even worth to continue to use bbpress if there isn’t more of an integration between the two plugins. Is just make any logical sense that a bp group name change doesn’t pass through to bbpress.
So John, are you saying this is all by design? Why is that?
#1958 is more than just markup; it will likely take core bbPress changes to query everything efficiently.
Also, @jaredatch — don’t hijack this topic. 🙂
Or, you could just rename the forum?
I now have a problem where a new topic is not showing in the Forum page. I am using the latest version of WordPress and bbPress. My site is http://mycarquest.com
The Forum page is here and there is a new topic that I created that is not listed: http://mycarquest.com/forums/forum/general
Is anyone else having this problem?
I didn’t know where to post this so I figure I would put it in the troubleshooting forum.
Besides confirming the defect with creating a new group and the forum tab not showing up, but if a moderator can pass along another possible issue within the admin area of a buddypress group, and that’s when making a change to the group name – admin > details where those changes do not get passed along to bbpress and show up in the bbpress forums > all forums section.
In other words, the only way to make bbpress to see any changes to a buddypress group name is to delete the group altogether in buddypress and create a new one, then the changes are passed along to bbpress! As anyone would know, you can’t delete an existing Group without losing all the data, correct? ;(
I may be wrong, it happens lots of time, but I think this may somewhat be tied to the forum tab not showing up since they’re both a buddypress bbpress linkage issue.
If this helps, that’s all that counts.
If you are just trying to copy/move forums/topics/replies from a bbPress 2.2.3 install eg site1.com to a bbPress 2.2.3 install on site2.com you can ‘export’ these via WordPress’ built-in tools (/wp-admin/export.php) and then import to site2.com using the Import (/wp-admin/import.php) tool.
If you are importing from bbPress ‘Stand Alone’ 1.1 or 1.2 you should look for a file named ‘bb-config.php’ and that will contain the correct info you need to import with the bbPress Forum Import tool.
eg.
// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for bbPress */
define( 'BBDB_NAME', 'my_database_name' );
/** MySQL database username */
define( 'BBDB_USER', 'my_database_username' );
/** MySQL database password */
define( 'BBDB_PASSWORD', '1234567890' );
/** MySQL hostname */
define( 'BBDB_HOST', 'localhost' );
And a little further down in that file is the bbPress table prefix
$bb_table_prefix = 'bb_';
They are the values you would use in the bbPress Import Tool setting.
Lynq this is the second awesome theme like this you’ve done. When we get cracking on 2.4 I’d love for you to give us a hand and your expertise with #1958 🙂
Hmm, would you mind adding this to bbPress trac? https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/
I ran into this messing around with a fresh install of bbpress installed on WordPress 3.5. Basically if you follow these steps, you can cause a forum’s permalink to get stuck in a redirect loop:
Create a category
Create a forum
Make the category the parent of the forum
Trash the category without removing the forum as a child
Go to the forum edit page and update it with no parent selected
After doing this the permalink of the forum becomes an infinite redirect loop and you’ll get an error from your server and browser. When you get the error screen, your browser should show the old permalink that includes the category slug, even though the new permalink shouldn’t have it. The bad part is that even if you untrash the category and make it the parent of the forum again, the redirect loop stays the same. This also makes the slug of said forum unusable.
I did this by accident and then was able to reproduce using the previously mentioned steps. Just wanted to let you guys know. Can’t find a way to fix this but to prevent it from occurring, make sure you unlink forums from a category BEFORE you want to delete said category.
Thanks for your reply Stephen. The site is live on Windows Server 2008 with IIS 7.5
All other links seem to work, it is just when people reply to topics that it jumps around…
After resetting permalinks on my dev environment and setting the slugs to the WordPress defaults these are the URLS.
Navigating to a topic from the list of recent topics:
http://localhost/sitename/forums/topic/test-topic/
Navigating to a forum from the list of forums:
http://localhost/sitename/forums/forum/forum-name/
Navigating to a topic after clicking on a forum from above:
http://localhost/sitename/forums/topic/test-topic/ (this is consistent with the first link which is good).
Posting a reply from inside test-topic
http://localhost/sitename/forums/forum/forum-name/#post-158293
Posting a reply from http://localhost/sitename/forums/topic/test-topic/#post-158277:
http://localhost/sitename/sitename/forums/topic/test-topic/#post-158294
Note that it doubled the sitename ^ but this doesn’t seem to affect it and lands back at the topic which is what I want.
Quite sure if you have reset the permalinks as I noted in the previous post if that does not fix it then it is definitely the ‘URL Rewrite’ module settings in IIS. (Thats is if you have it installed as you do need it for rewrites with IIS)
The easiest Windows option is to use the Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Web PI) and follow the guide outlined here:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Easy_5_Minute_WordPress_Installation_on_Windows
http://www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/wordpress.aspx
If you are manually installing IIS, MySQL & PHP then you have some work ahead of you getting your environment configured correctly and need to make sure you have the ‘URL Rewrite’ module installed and working with IIS http://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/url-rewrite#additionalDownloads
I have not tried any of the ‘WAMP’ (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) packages referenced here but that is another option.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#WAMP
Your topic replies URL should be displaying in the format:
http://localhost/sitename/forum/topic/butterflies/#post-158277
When I set my bbPress settings to the same settings you use above these are the URL’s:
Forums base: forum (Note: Default bbPress setting is ‘forums’)
Topics base: topics (Note: Default bbPress setting ‘topics’)
Forum Prefix ticked (Note: Default bbPress setting ‘ticked/checked’)
Forum slug: forums (Note: Default bbPress setting is ‘forum’)
Topic slug: topic (Note: Default bbPress setting ‘topic’)
http://localhost/sitename/forum/forums/butterflies/
http://localhost/sitename/forum/topic/test-topic/
http://localhost/sitename/forum/topic/butterflies/#post-158277
I would 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.
If you have no luck I would read up on the LAMP/MAMP (Linux/Mac, Apache, MySQL, PHP) package you are using on what settings are needed for mod_rewrite to work on your local machine.
There are also a few (and a few broken links here) installing WordPress Locally
https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Installation_Techniques#Installing_WordPress_Locally
Wordpress Version: 3.5
Theme: Optimize Press
Plugins: WishList Member v2.71 and bbPress v2.2.3
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Greetings!
I’ve been tackling this problem for so long now that my mind is turning to mush. I really need some direction on this…please?
Task: My site contains static PAGES for subscribers to view/download content. I have also created some PAGES that are to be DISCUSSION pages, where each PAGE deals with just ONE (1) topic only.
Example: On my site you have a PAGE called FORUM DISCUSSIONS. On this page you will find 4 links representing the TOPICS.
TOPIC ONE
TOPIC TWO
TOPIC THREE
TOPIC FOUR
If you click on the link TOPIC ONE, you arrive at the TOPIC ONE PAGE. Here, I would like to allow my members to post their questions, comments, and even embed a picture if they wish.
Each member that posts on this PAGE would see their comment show up at the very top, pushing previous posts down the page. And of course, the member name, date and time of post is important for each post made.
While I know how to create a PAGE where I want a specific TOPIC discussed (and only that TOPIC), I don’t know how to give it the ability I just described above (allow users to post, include picture, have it show up at the top, etc.)
I’m thinking this is not difficult but I can’t seem to find the answers to my specific needs. I do not want my members creating the topics. I don’t want all the other fluff that shows how many members there are, how many are online, or any other additional information. Just a simple editor box to create the post, and for that post to show up at the top of the PAGE.
Can this be done?
Thank you in advance!
🙂