[Robin W]

Ok, on your first :

This is to do with your theme and it’s page templates, not bbPress directly.

what you will need to do is create a bbpress.php file and into that put the page layout

see

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1

for creating a bbpress page to use

Then see

http://brookswebdesign.net/how-to-create-a-wordpress-template-with-left-sidebar/

for creating a left hand sidebar.

On your second, this is either

related to your theme and how it is displaying content. Switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve for a moment and see it is it then displaying – in default all with not be indented.

or

maybe because you are using threading on dashboard>settings>forums>reply threading

Let me know which, and I’ll take a lokk to see how to get all to ident

[lizat]

I want to change the default look of my forums.

1. I like the way this forum and the index looks. The Index has a summary of the forums and the forum threads page has a summary of forum stats. In both cases these are in a left sidebar. How can I achieve this?
2. Currently the first item in the forum is justified left. The first reply under it is also justified left, rather than indented. Subsequent replies are then indented as I would expect. How can I get the first reply indented…. a CSS change?

Thank you……….liz

[lizat]

I want to change the template used for my forums index and the forum itself – currently it is using a default that has a sidebar that I don’t want.

I think they live in …/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress. So I can create new ones in my child theme if I only knew which to copy?

Is there a list anywhere of which is what…. the codex doesn’t seem to have it. Right now I need to know the ones for:

• Forums Index page
• Forum list of threads page
• Thread Page

Thank you

liz

[batmanfan]

Thanks Robin.
I could see something… /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/js/editor.js?ver=2.5.3-5249

what does this mean? which theme/template they use?

[kvr28]

copy loop-forums.php from plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress into your theme directory, overwrite whats in the file with this code. bbpress will look for the file first in your theme before it looks in the bbpress directory, that way if bbpress updates, you won’t lose the file update. Should get the look you want

    <?php
     
    /**
     * Forums Loop
     *
     * @package bbPress
     * @subpackage Theme
     */
     
    ?>
     
    <?php do_action( 'bbp_template_before_forums_loop' ); ?>
     
    <?php while ( bbp_forums() ) : bbp_the_forum();
                   
                    /* We print the header only if we want to show a category or if it's the first item of a no-parent forum list */
                    if (bbp_is_forum_category() OR !$bbp_forums_noheader)
                            { ?>
     
                            <ul id="forums-list-<?php bbp_forum_id(); ?>" class="bbp-forums">
     
                                    <li class="bbp-header">
     
                                            <ul class="forum-titles">
                                                    <li class="bbp-forum-info"><?php if(bbp_is_forum_category()) { ?><a>"><?php bbp_forum_title(bbp_get_forum_parent_id()); ?></a><?php } else { _e( 'Forum', 'bbpress' ); } ?>
                                                    <li class="bbp-forum-topic-count"><?php _e( 'Topics', 'bbpress' ); ?>
                                                    <li class="bbp-forum-reply-count"><?php bbp_show_lead_topic() ? _e( 'Replies', 'bbpress' ) : _e( 'Posts', 'bbpress' ); ?>
                                                    <li class="bbp-forum-freshness"><?php _e( 'Freshness', 'bbpress' ); ?>
                                            
     
                                    <!-- .bbp-header -->
    <?php           } ?>
     
                            <li class="bbp-body">
           
    <?php           /* If the forum is a category, we're gonna make another loop to show its subforums and sub-subforums as if those were forums */
                            if(bbp_is_forum_category())
                                    {
     
                                    $temp_query = clone bbpress()->forum_query;
                                    bbp_has_forums('post_parent='.bbp_get_forum_id());
                                    while ( bbp_forums() ) : bbp_the_forum();
                                    bbp_get_template_part( 'loop', 'single-forum' );
                                    endwhile;
                                    bbpress()->forum_query = clone $temp_query;
     
                                    }
                                            else /* Otherwise, we print the forums the normal way */
                                    {      
     
                                    bbp_get_template_part( 'loop', 'single-forum' );
                                    $bbp_forums_noheader = 1; /* This prevents the header part to be printed again on next post in the loop */
     
                                    } ?>
     
                            <!-- .bbp-body -->
     
    <?php           /* Prints the footer only if :
                                    - it's a category
                                    - or if it's the last forum of a no-parent forum list
                                    - or if the next forum in the loop is a category */
     
                            if(     bbp_is_forum_category()
                            OR      (bbpress()->forum_query->current_post+1) == bbpress()->forum_query->post_count
                            OR      bbp_is_forum_category(bbpress()->forum_query->posts[ bbpress()->forum_query->current_post + 1 ]->ID))
                            { ?>
     
                            <li class="bbp-footer">
     
                                    <div class="tr">
                                            <p class="td colspan4">&nbsp;</p>
                                    </div><!-- .tr -->
     
                            <!-- .bbp-footer -->
     
                    <!-- .forums-directory -->
     
    <?php   unset($bbp_forums_noheader); /* Needed if we have 2+ no-parent forums with at least 1 category between them */
                    }  ?>
     
    <?php endwhile; ?>
     
     
    <?php do_action( 'bbp_template_after_forums_loop' ); ?>

[Robin W]

ok, you need to eliminate whether it is a plugin or theme issue

Check other plugins

Check that no other plugins are affecting this.

Turn off all other plugins apart from bbpress, and see if that fixes the problem. If the problem is resolved, add back one at a time to see which is causing the conflict.

Check themes

If plugins are not the cause, then it may be a theme issue. Switch to a default theme, such as twentytwelve, and test.

and come back and let us know

[Robin W]

Check other plugins

Check that no other plugins are affecting this.

Turn off all other plugins apart from bbpress, and see if that fixes the problem. If the problem is resolved, add back one at a time to see which is causing the conflict.

Check themes

If plugins are not the cause, then it may be a theme issue. Switch to a default theme, such as twentytwelve, and test.

[Xn2]

It works on default theme, so should come from the theme.

But how to fix it in the theme ? i dont understand the origin of the conflict. I read something about single-topic.php files but my theme doesnt use this name.

thx for the quick answer

[Stephen Edgar]

Yes, bbPress uses the same system as WordPress, how to do that is explained here:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Combating_Comment_Spam#Default_Comment_Spam_Tools

You can and should also enable and use the Akismet plugin.

[SubstreamAI]

Ok… forgive me. It appears this is already the default behavior. Man, I can’t express how much grief I’ve had over this thing. I can’t believe its already doing this – dunno how I missed that.

[Robin W]

Check other plugins

Check that no other plugins are affecting this.

Turn off all other plugins apart from bbpress, and see if that fixes the problem. If the problem is resolved, add back one at a time to see which is causing the conflict.

Check themes

If plugins are not the cause, then it may be a theme issue. Switch to a default theme, such as twentytwelve, and test.

[adressler]

Hi everyone, this is my first time posting, and I really dig BBPress so far.

I’m running WP v3.8.1 with BBPress 2.5.3. I’ve encountered a problem when converting a custom MYSQL database into BBPress. I have successfully exported a Lotus Notes / Domino DB (yes, it still exists…) into a simple MySQL DB containing just 3 tables.

After a “successful” conversion (of over 35K forums, topics and replies) into BBPress, I can see all of the Forums, Topics, and Replies listed in the BBPress Admin panel. However, there seems to be issues with the Foreign Keys being imported/linked, even though I have double and triple checked the forum_id, topic_id values for the Topics->Forums and Replies->Topics relationships within the Example.php converter included with BBPress. All data has been properly formatted into WordPress friendly values (dates, slugs, etc..) before importing into MySQL.

In the admin panel, under Forums, it lists all forums in their hierarchical order, as expected. It also lists the topic and reply counts, date, and creator next to each parent / child forum. However, under “Freshness” is says “No Topics”. The Topics Admin page is even more intriguing; it lists all of the Topic Titles, the Forum title which that topic is assigned to (!), reply count, author, creation date, and freshness. Browsing to the Replies Admin page lists all reply titles, author, and creation date, however under Forum it says “No Forum” and under Topic it says “No Topic”.

When you browse to the forums (mysite.local/forums/forum/the-forum), the forum title and child-forums are displayed, along with topic and reply counts for each child. However, under “Freshness”, it says “No Topics”. When I browse to a child forum, it lists the topic and reply counts, however it says “No Topics were found”.

When I browse to a topic (mysite.local/forums/topic/the-topic), I see the date, title, content, and reply count. However, there are no replies listed.

When I browse to a reply (by clicking “View” under the reply listed in the Admin Replies page), it directs me to http://mysite.dev/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=reply/#post-######, saying “Invalid Post Type”.

I figured this would be rather straightforward, since I am not importing Users or Tags. Eventually I would like all authors to be “Archived Author”, should I try to tackle this now or after a fully successful import?

I can supply screen shots, converter output (which really says nothing unexpected), or the full source code for the converter if needed. I’ve included my table structure and simplified converter code for reference.

I hope that someone with a bit more experience converting forums for BBPress will be able to shed some light on this, my forehead is really starting to hurt from banging my head against the wall. It seems there is very limited information out there on this converter. Any and all help is greatly appreciated!

My tables to import/convert are laid out as follows:

forums table {
  forum_id  PRIMARY KEY INT(11)
  title
  slug
  parent_id (Self referencing FK)
  last_mod (DATETIME)
  num_topics
  num_replies
}
topics table {
  topic_id PRIMARY KEY INT(11)
  parent_id FK (set to 0 for no parent)
  forum_id FK (matches corresponding <code>forums</code>.forum_id)
  subject (title)
  slug (slug of title)
  body (the post content)
  from
  date
  date_gmt
  num_replies
}
replies table {
  reply_id PRIMARY KEY INT(11)
  topic_id FK INT(11) (matches corresponding <code>topics</code>.topic_id)
  forum_id FK INT (11) (matches corresponding <code>forums</code>.forum_id)
  date
  date_gmt
  subject
  body
}

And now, here’s the converter I’m using (starting at the Forum section Line#26 of /plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converters/Example.php). I’ve removed commented lines for brevity.

/** Forum Section *****************************************************/

		// Setup table joins for the forum section at the base of this section

		 // Forum id (Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			 'from_tablename'  => 'forums',
			 'from_fieldname'  => 'forum_id',
			 'to_type'         => 'forum',
			 'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_forum_id'
		);

		// Forum parent id (If no parent, then 0. Stored in postmeta)
 		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'forums',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'parent_id',
			'to_type'         => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_forum_parent_id'
		 );

 		// Forum topic count (Stored in postmeta)
 		$this->field_map[] = array(
			 'from_tablename' => 'forums',
			'from_fieldname' => 'num_topics',
			'to_type'        => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname'   => '_bbp_topic_count'
		 );

		 // Forum reply count (Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'forums',
 			'from_fieldname' => 'num_replies',
 			'to_type'        => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname'   => '_bbp_reply_count'
		 );

 		// Forum total topic count (Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			' from_tablename' => 'forums',
			'from_fieldname' => 'num_topics',
			'to_type'        => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname'   => '_bbp_total_topic_count'
		 );

		 // Forum total reply count (Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			 'from_tablename' => 'forums',
			 'from_fieldname' => 'num_replies',
			 'to_type'        => 'forum',
			 'to_fieldname'   => '_bbp_total_reply_count'
		 );

		 // Forum title.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'forums',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'title',
			'to_type'         => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_title'
		 );

		 // Forum slug (Clean name to avoid confilcts)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'forums',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'slug',
			'to_type'         => 'forum',
 			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_name'
 		);
		
		 // Forum dates.
		 $this->field_map[] = array(
			 'to_type'         => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_date',
			 'default' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s')
 		);
		 $this->field_map[] = array(
			 'to_type'         => 'forum',
			 'to_fieldname'    => 'post_date_gmt',
			 'default' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s')
		 );
		 $this->field_map[] = array(
			 'to_type'         => 'forum',
			 'to_fieldname'    => 'post_modified',
			 'default' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s')
 		);
		 $this->field_map[] = array(
			'to_type'         => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_modified_gmt',
			'default' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s')
		);

		
/** Topic Section *****************************************************/

		// Setup table joins for the topic section at the base of this section

		// Topic id (Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'topics',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'topic_id',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_topic_id'
		);

		// Topic reply count (Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'topics',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'num_replies',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_reply_count'
		);

		// Topic total reply count (Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'topics',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'num_replies',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_total_reply_count'
		);

		// Topic parent forum id (If no parent, then 0. Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'topics',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'forum_id',
			 'to_type'         => 'topic',
			 'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_forum_id'
		);

 		// Topic content.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'topics',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'body',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_content'
		);

		// Topic title.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'topics',
 			'from_fieldname'  => 'subject',
 			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_title'
		);

		// Topic slug (Clean name to avoid conflicts)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'topics',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'slug',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_name'
		);
		// Topic dates.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'topics',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'date',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_date'
		);

		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'topics',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'date_gmt',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_date_gmt'
		);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'topics',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'date',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_modified'
		);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'topics',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'date_gmt',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_modified_gmt'
		);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'topics',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'date',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_last_active_time'
		);

And skipping to the Replies section (Tags and Users are not converted)

	/** Reply Section *****************************************************/

		// Setup table joins for the reply section at the base of this section

		// Reply id (Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'replies',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'reply_id',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_post_id'
		);
		// Reply parent topic id (If no parent, then 0. Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'replies',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'topic_id',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_topic_id'
		);
		// Reply title.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'replies',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'subject',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_title'
		);
		// Reply content.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'replies',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'body',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_content'
		);
		// Reply dates.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'replies',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'date',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_date'
		);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'replies',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'date',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_date_gmt'
		);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'replies',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'date',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_modified'
		);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'replies',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'date',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_modified_gmt'
		);

[jesseaaron]

Sorry to bump this, I’m having same “Cheatin’ Uh” error but the “remap existing users to default forum roles” did not work for me. The results were “0 users modified”. Any other ideas?

[Sho-Down]

I have 79,280 members on my website. I imported from SimplePress forum (that worked ok) but only 19,000 members were labeled Participant. I ran ‘Remap existing users to default forum roles’ and after a while the page went white/blank. I went back to admin and it indeed worked a little bit because the Participants jumped to 37,486. Tried to remap again and the page went white/blank but this time no more members were added to Participants.

Will this work itself out once members log into my website or I’m gonna have to manually change the roles? I use a separate log in/register plugin to handle log in so will they automatically be a Participant in the forum if they log in to my website?

[Robin W]

Can only suggest you start with eliminating plugin and theme conflicts viz :

Check other plugins

Check that no other plugins are affecting this.

Turn off all other plugins apart from bbpress, and see if that fixes the problem. If the problem is resolved, add back one at a time to see which is causing the conflict.

Check themes

Whilst you on a “clean” child theme, the main theme may have issues.

If plugins are not the cause, then it may be a theme issue. Switch to a default theme, such as twentytwelve, and test.

[amandafrench]

I had this same problem on a site in my Multisite network (the only site with bbpress activated). I fixed it by checking the “Auto role: Automatically assign default role to new, registered users upon visiting the site” option in Settings –> Forums. The default role was set to “Participant.”

[Robin W]

ok, interesting, whilst altering that file on a permanent basis is not a good idea, it should have worked.

I’m not familiar with the role editor, does it let you change the default participant role, or did you create a new one with the delete topic capability?

I’d eliminate plugin and theme issues by

Check other plugins

Check that no other plugins are affecting this.

Turn off all other plugins apart from bbpress, and see if that fixes the problem. If the problem is resolved, add back one at a time to see which is causing the conflict.

Check themes

If plugins are not the cause, then it may be a theme issue. Switch to a default theme, such as twentytwelve, and test.

Let us know how you get on

[Stephen Edgar]

Seems like the bbPress user role ‘keymaster’ is trying to make you have a bad day.

Open up bbPress’ Repair Tools from the Dashboard -> Tools -> bbPress (/wp-admin/tools.php?page=bbp-repair)

Run the Repair Tool “Remap existing users to default forum roles”

How’d did that go?

[Robin W]

maybe a plugin or theme conflict

Check other plugins

Check that no other plugins are affecting this.

Turn off all other plugins, and see if that fixes the problem. If the problem is resolved, add back one at a time to see which is causing the conflict.

Check themes

If plugins are not the cause, then it may be a theme issue. Switch to a default theme, such as twentytwelve, and test.

[Stephen Edgar]

That actually appearing from your themes template and not bbPress’ templates.

If you open up your page.php template of your theme (Or whatever the primary temmplate is) you will see something similar to this code:

<div class="entry-author-meta">
  <p class="author-name">Published by 
  <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="#" title="#">#</a></span>
  </p>
  <p class="author-description">
  </p>
</div>

Now make a copy of your page.php template (or again the main template your theme uses) and rename the this to bbpress.php open up the bbpress.php in a text editor and remove the section of code that I listed above.

bbPress will now use this template rather that your themes default template.

[Robin W]

quite possibly a plugin or theme conflict

try

Check other plugins

Check that no other plugins are affecting this.

Turn off all other plugins, and see if that fixes the problem. If the problem is resolved, add back one at a time to see which is causing the conflict.

Check themes

If plugins are not the cause, then it may be a theme issue. Switch to a default theme, such as twentytwelve, and test.

[Stephen Edgar]

Sorry for the late reply, this seems to be closest info I can find about the error but nginx/php5-fpm configs are not my strong suit, I use either the defaults or what my web host picks for me 😉

That said, when you hit stop, it stops (obviously) but when you click start it does just resume from where it left off.

[gjwarez]

Hey Robin,

I add the line in this php file location
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/core/capabilities.php

		// Participant/Default
		case bbp_get_participant_role() :
		default :
			$caps = array(

				// Primary caps
				'spectate'              => true,
				'participate'           => true,

				// Forum caps
				'read_private_forums'   => true,

				// Topic caps
				'publish_topics'        => true,
				'delete_topics'         => true,
				'edit_topics'           => true, 
				
				// Reply caps
				'publish_replies'       => true,
				'edit_replies'          => true,
				
				// Topic tag caps
				'assign_topic_tags'     => true,
			);

			break;
	}

In this case the delete_topic does not work,
if i put delete_others_topics there it will work for all users.

[locke742]

I’m using bbpress and also a plugin called Pods (for implementing custom post types)

The problem I’m having is that the “Forums” page in the admin shows only items of the “articles” custom post type, and not the actual forums. Is this type of conflict common? I haven’t altered the default post type of bbpress.

[Stephen Edgar]

From what I can see of your site just now is you still have those plugins enabled and your still using your theme. Disable your plugins and switch to a default WordPress theme like Twenty Thirteen and you won’t have a problem deleting those replies.

Once your done that activate your theme and check if the problem still exists.

Next enable one other plugin and check the problem again.

Next, your next plugin, check again.

Keep doing this one by one and you will find the conflict and we can go from there.