[Robin W]

if it worked before, then something has changed.

If you want to stop it using the template then create a ‘bbpress’ folder in the root of your theme, and copy

wp-content/pluigins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/loop-single-reply.php across to this new folder.

The edit to remove the code that displays this – lines 47 to 55 have an if(keymaster) statement that display this info

[sanjaynegi]

Here are the answers…..

1. Yes bbPress is fully working, except that when i go to Dashboard>replies i get an internal server error mentioned above.

2. this is an old installation, few days back it was working fine from 10 days back i am getting this error in Dashboard>replies.

3. This error is always been there.

4. Nothing has changed on the site except i installed some plugins i needed.

5. I am running these wordpress pulgins are BackUpWordPress, bbPress Genesis Extend( beacuase bbpress has problems with genesis framework and it helps), bbPress Moderation, Broken Link Checker, Contact Form 7, ContestHopper for WordPress, Eggplant 301 Redirects, Genesis Simple Edits, Google Analytics for WordPress, Jetpack by WordPress.com, Nofollow for external link, SEO Friendly Images, W3 Total Cache, WordPress SEO, WordPress SEO News, WP-No-Tag-Base and Google Publisher Plugin.

6. Yes using W3 Total Cache as a caching software but i don’t think it is the issue.

7. Yes this problem is also there with ALL plugins except bbPress deactivated AND a default theme such as Twenty Thirteen installed i still get this error? and the default theme i used is Twenty Thirteen.

Thanks for your help…..

[Robin W]

ok, lets see if it is a conflict problem

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.

[Robin W]

yes, but you do need to

a) show some patience – we are all volunteers here and have lives outside of bbPress
b) answer fully questions asked – these are not random or standard, they are specific to your problem. All are asked for a reason.

To help me to help you, I need information to get to a problem definition, and from there to a solution.

Please respond to each question below

1. I now understand your problem as follows :
bbPress is fully working, except that when you go into Dashboard>replies you get an internal server error.
Is this correct? If not precisely when/how do you get the error
2. Have you just installed bbpress, or is this an old installation?
3. Has this error always been there, or has it appeared?
4. What else has changed on the site
5. What other plugins are your running?
6. Are you running any caching software?
7. can you confirm that with ALL plugins except bbPress AND a default theme such as twentytwlelve installed you still get this error? and which default theme you used.

Thanks

[Stephen Edgar]

I was on Simple:Press v5.3.4 and have just now upgraded to v5.4.1

Tested the current bbPress v2.5.3 import using the SimplePress5 importer and everything worked fine.

Repair any missing information: Continue
Conversion Complete
No reply_to parents to convert
Converting replies (0 - 99)
No tags to convert
No super stickies to stick
Calculating topic stickies (0 - 99)
Converting topics (0 - 99)
Calculating forum hierarchy (0 - 99)
Converting forums (0 - 99)
Delete users WordPress default passwords (0 - 99)
Converting users (0 - 99)
Starting Conversion

This is the SQL query that runs the step you are stuck on:
SELECT post_id AS value_id, meta_value FROM sp_postmeta WHERE meta_key = '_bbp_forum_parent_id' AND meta_value > 0 LIMIT 0, 100

This shouldn’t really cause any issues, worst case scenario you no longer have your forums grouped in their previous hierarchal structure.

The only other thing I can think of is maybe a SimplePress plugin/extension may have modified the database setup beyond the basic ‘out of the box’ setup I use.

You could also try reordering your SimplePress forums to force an update of their values in the database. Also try removing the forums from the groups and delete the groups. You can easily add the groups/categories again on the bbPress side once the import is completed successfully.

[Robin W]

Ok, I am also confused !

If http://www.techgreet.com/ is your site, it seems to be working fine on the client side, I can access and see the forums.

So for the server error – when exactly do you receive this error?
Are there particular actions that you take to create this?
Have you contacted your server administrator, and what did they say?

for the tab error – I presume this is in the dashboard?
Have you just installed bbpress, or is this an old installation?
What else has changed
What other plugins are your running?

It may be a plugin or theme conflict – not sure whether you tried deactivating all plugins except bbPress viz

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.

[Robin W]

I’d try and eliminate any conflicts

Deactivate any other plugins and see if a disappeared topic reappears. If so, re-enable the plugins one at a time to see which is causing the issue.

If that doesn’t help, then try switching to a default theme such as twenty twelve and see if it’s a theme issue.

Come back and let us know how you get on

[Robin W]

elegant – depends !

If you simply alter this file then on any bbpress version update you’ll lose the changes, so make a note of them.

There are alternatives

1. Add the css styling change to the style.css file within your child theme.

If you have a child theme, then this is ideal, as neither plugin nor theme update will affect your change. Simply add the code below to your style.css

/*Styling for forum description */
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-content {
clear:both !important;
margin-left: 0px !important;
padding: 0 0 0 0 !important;
	}

2. If you only have a main theme, then consider using a child theme – it’s quick and easy to create one, basically it’s just a theme that you create that says “use this main theme, but then add these bits”. Google child theme video and you’ll get loads of help.

3. Add this to the style.css in your main theme
But you’ll need to keep a note of it for theme upgrades, so this is really no better than changing in the bbPress template, and neater to do it in bbPress than your theme

4. Make a directory called css in your theme (either child or main) and copy the bbpress.css file into it. Then make changes there. this then won’t be overwritten on upgrades, but you will not get the benefit of changes to the default bbpress.css that may be in upgrades.

Overall 1. is by far the best choice, as you keep the code no matter what happens. Otherwise keep a note of your changes (which are fine, and are what I did to test prior to putting the end result in my style.css), so that you can replicate them on upgrades.

[oweniverson]

i’m not a developer by any means, but this seems to work (there’s probably a better way 🙂
in my bbpress.css file here “wp-content\plugins\bbpress\templates\default\css”
i just broke out “div.bbp-forum-content” from this:

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-content,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-content,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-content {
	margin-left: 130px;
	padding: 12px 12px 12px 0;
	text-align: left;
}

to this:

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-content {
	margin-left: 0px;
	padding: 12px 12px 12px 0;
	text-align: left;
}

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-content,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-content {
	margin-left: 130px;
	padding: 12px 12px 12px 0;
	text-align: left;
}

and set that left margin to 0 px rather than 130.
let me know if there’s a better or more elegant way!

[Robin W]

bbpres uses gravatar as it’s photo system.

load you photo to gravatar and it will appear

I have a page on my site that explains this to users viz :

This site uses Gravatar to display avatars. if you already have a Gravatar account with your email for this site, then it will display on your forum posts; it can take a few hours before the link is established the first time.

What is an Avatar?
 When you post, you'll see the default avatar beside your name. You can change this to any image you wish (providing it's decent!).  Many people have a picture of themselves, or anything that represents your ego or character.

Changing from the default avatar.
The site uses Gravatar.  The Gravatar site stores you avatar against your email address.

This allows you to have a single image that many websites can use without you needing to add it or change it on each site.

Since this site knows your email address (through your profile), this site can pick up the avatar stored with Gravatar.

If you're not already signed up with Gravatar, then follow this link [https://en.gravatar.com/site/signup] to register your email address and avatar with them.  This site will then pick up that avatar and display it against your post. It can take a few hours before the link is established the first time.

Confused?
 Don't worry - if you're happy with the default avatar against your name, you need to do nothing further !

 

[Robin W]

@1lizcollins

Don’t know why it happened. try Dashoboard>tools>forums.reapir forums and run one at a time to see of this fixes your links.

It could also be worth checkint that you haven’t got a plugin or theme issue, although neither would cause a plugin to disappear.

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.

@adenslayer

This seems to be a known issue with this plugin viz :

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wpsc-support-tickets-bbpress-conflict?replies=1

I see you’ve also posted to the plugin site, so hopefully the plugin author will come back to you.

[Stephen Edgar]

You should be using a string for permalinks category base, NOT %category%

Eg. If you like, you may enter custom structures for your category and tag URLs here. For example, using stuff as your category base would make your category links like http://example.org/stuff/uncategorised/. If you leave these blank the defaults will be used.

[Robin W]

Can only suggest you try the following to see if they are causing issues

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.

[Liberty]

Thank you very much for your replys.
I made a lot to get this toolbar work. Here is a list of things I already done to solve my problem:

• deleted every JavaScript
• deleted the code of the functions.php file
• deactivated every plug-in
• changed bbpress.php to page.php
• commented the bbPress-CSS in style.css out
• commented parts of my bbpress.php out
• enable the Visual Editor

…and I changed my theme to the default “Twenty Ten” theme and the toolbar appeared. The problem is my theme but I don’t know why. 🙁

JavaScripts are deleted and I will add header.php and footer.php files. I hope this is the solution but I don’t think so.

[wpable]

In file template/default/bbpress-functions.php, line 218:

bbp_enqueue_script( $handle, $attributes[‘file’], $attributes[‘dependencies’], $this->version, ‘screen’ );
i think it should replace by this line :
bbp_enqueue_script( $handle, plugin_dir_url( __FILE__).$attributes[‘file’], $attributes[‘dependencies’], $this->version, ‘screen’ );

when using child-theme. I think it works not fine.

[Stephen Edgar]

https://codex.bbpress.org/forum-settings/

Auto Role
Select the default role for bbPress forum members to be assigned, the roles are Keymaster, Moderator, Participant (Default), Spectator and Blocked. For full details of the permissions assigned by these roles please User Roles and Capabilities.

I haven’t actually used S2Member so I can’t help to much here, but S2 supports bbPress and there should be something about this on the S2 site (I tried a search and mainly get results for our forums here at bbpress.org :/)

If you are importing them ‘manually’ I would say you will have to manually assign the bbPress role, though if this is something S2 does on the fly then I presume it should also be adding the bbPress role at the same time and this would be an S2 issue.

Also to note is that bbPress users don’t actually get the full role assigned to them until they have actually logged into the site.

[jollyjollyjolly]

So the wordpress site in question is on 3.7.1 and bbpress is 2.5.3

Problem: None of the users on this site “register”. They are all imported via s2membership import function. As such the import overwrites the user role on each import.

All wp users that exist in the system should be able to by default be a participant. Is there an override?

[Robin W]

On issue no. 1

the &#039 is the code for a quote mark ie the ones either side of this ‘word’

so something is displaying rather than interpreting this.

Not sure why, could ebe a plugin or theme issue

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.

come back and let us know if that helped.

On your issue no. 2, bbp-foums class does the overall border

	.bbp-header, .bbp-forums   {
	
border-top: 1px solid #EEEEEE !important;
border-top-left-radius: 10px !important;
border-top-right-radius: 10px !important;
}

fixed it on my test site

[Robin W]

“deactivating all plugins tangentially related to bbpress ”

The plugin conflict has nothing to do with whether the plugin is related to bbpress – any plugin can cause a conflict.

This is because conflicts are often with common variable names such as $user, where one plugin may set it to be x and the other uses it expecting it to be y.

Disable all plugins, and switching to a default theme proves that both wordpress and bbpress are correctly installed (ie not corrupt). From there you can add back themes and plugin to work out which is causing the conflict.

“There are a number of related threads about this issue on the forum but none have any real solutions provided.”

There are tens of thousands of plugins, and thousands of themes, and conflicts will occur with combinations of these. There is not one common problem here, the symptoms are the same but the causes many, so “real” solutions are individual. In the last few weeks solutions for many including a caching plugin and a theme have been posted.

Your problem is individual to you.

Try again with getting to a root cause by disabling all plugins and going to default theme, and come back if you still have a problem, we’ll try to help you to resolve this.

[Robin W]

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.

[rlitts]

I posted about this issue that I had a couple of weeks ago without any resolution. So I thought I would start at the beginning. I installed a fresh copy of WordPress (3.8.1) with the default themes on a newly created directory. Second I installed BBpress (2.5.3) and kept all the default settings. Upon completion I added the BBpress login widget and tested the login function. When I do this it hangs up on /wp-login.php page with nothing but a single period on the page.

Is anyone else having this same issue? I need help!!!!

[Robin W]

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.

[mjpg]

OK – thought it was a roles problem.
I reset: Remap existing users to default forum roles
Now I have access, and it looks fixed.

[Tim Hardy RRC]

Is there a way to filter search results for non-logged-on users of the website so their results don’t display the contents of private forums which then go to a redirect loop when we try to follow the links?

An example from our testing site:

http://www.resourcescentreonline.co.uk/tim_play/?s=fisticuffs

The search results don’t include topics that have individually been made ‘private’ but I can’t find a way to set this to default for topics within a private forum – I can batch edit them afterwards but it would be good if, failing a solution to the search problem, this could happen automatically.

We’re running WordPress 3.8.1 and BBPress 2.5.3 (as part of a Commons In A Box setup) on an entirely custom theme.

If there’s any more information I need to provide, please let me know – thank you.

edit: glaring typo

[BuckyOHare]

Yeah I did. It’s been so long though I’m trying to remember what I had to do. I know that I ended up not using the BBPress login widget and instead went with the “WP Login Box” widget. I had to do some configuring on the settings I think but was able to set the whole thing up to where users were only able to login to their BBPress account and not have backdoor access to the wordpress site itself.

I think it had something to do with wordpress making an update where they screwed up default cookie configurations. I went looking in my wp-config file and found that I put this there. Truth is I can’t remember if this was for the same problem or something else, it’s been a while since I was last working in wordpress. Try putting this in your wp-config.php file after your last set of “defines” near the top. Hope that helps.

/**wordpress 3.x cookies error solution**/
define(‘ADMIN_COOKIE_PATH’, ‘/’);
define(‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, ”);
define(‘COOKIEPATH’, ”);
define(‘SITECOOKIEPATH’, ”);