[Robin W]

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[jsteckler1]

Hi @casiepa,

Thank you for jumping in!

Some additional details about my situation:

Upon submission of a specified Gravity Form, I am attempting to create a new topic under a specified forum (Forum ID: 31086).

While creating the new Topic was simple enough with the Custom Post add-on—which successfully created the Topic, including the body of the topic post, accordingly—the topic was being listed under “No Forum.” @cjerrells post got me closer, encouraging me to add another custom field named _bbp_forum_id with a default value of 31086 (the forum ID). After doing that, the assigned forum seemed to display correctly on the backend, but:

1) The breadcrumb would only display the forum after editing and resaving the post again

— It still will not, however, show on the front-end forum among the other forum topics

2) The topic would finally display correctly on the front-end among the other forum topics only after adding a reply to the topic post.

Here is a screenshot of my Gravity Form settings, as well as the code cjerrells kindly provided within my functions.php file. My ability to write php is still very elementary, and it seems a bit difficult to find a full list of bbPress actions and hooks, so I wasn’t sure exactly what needed to be altered to fit my needs.

I would be beyond appreciative if you could give it all a look and get back to me with any thoughts or ideas you may have.

[Robin W]

ok, let’s see if this works

This just adds an action on any post save and if it is a forum and has no post parent, we add your default one

AGAIN THIS IS UNTESTED !!

add_action( 'save_post', 'add_forum_id' );

function add_forum_id( $post_id ) {
	//get post type and post parent id
	$post_type = get_post_type($post_id) ;
	$post_parent = wp_get_post_parent_id ($post_id) ;
	//if it's a forum and has no post parent (allows for normal topic creation, and other posts type creation etc.)
	if ($post_type == bbp_get_forum_post_type() && (empty ($post_parent))) {
		// Update topic (post) 1234  forum (post) 321
		$my_post = array(
			'ID'           => $post_id,
			'post_parent'   => 31086,
		);

		// Update the post into the database
		wp_update_post( $my_post );
	}

}

[jsteckler1]

Using Gravity Forms and bbPress, I am attempting to create a new topic, within a specific forum, upon form submission.

I have tried to incorporate the Gravity Forms Custom Post Type add-on to accomplish this, but, presumably due to the non-heirarchial structure of bbPress forums, I only seem able to either:

A) Create a new FORUM with the submitted data
or
B) Create a new TOPIC that goes unassigned to any forum

So, basically, unless a topic can be created as a child of a forum, I’m not sure there’s a way to get this working with that add-on.

Is there any way I can force the topic to be created within a specified forum using php? Any other thoughts or alternatives? Maybe a workaround that forces all topics created via Gravity Forms submission to default to a specified forum?

For what it’s worth, I am using Gravity Forms for users to submit event proposals. My idea is to then have the submission data routed into a forum like bbPress where the powers that be may vote on and discuss each proposal.

[avaiya]

Wordpress Version:4.9.2
bbPress Version: 2.5.14
Site: http://www.avaiya.com

I have a couple of questions related to the default emails that get sent when people post to forums, follow topics, etc.

1. These emails show up as being sent from our admin email address, with the name Avaiya Media. I’d like to edit the name and the email address sending the emails. Do you know how I can do that?

2. These emails send a notification to the person who subscribed to that forum post, but they also
automatically send an email to noreply@avaiya.com. This is bouncing. How can I remove this email address when these emails are sent?

Thanks!

[Robin W]

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[Robin W]

never seen that before, and like you all I can find on a google is reference to Mojo Marketplace

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[max143]

This plugin is independent from default function(link in topic https://prnt.sc/i1vufg). I want controll this function and show lead topic in one branch(topic), but hide at another. But this plugin can not do this.

[Robin W]

It wasn’t until I started googling this that I notice it is a recurring issue with bbpress sites using smtp, and hasn’t got a definitive answer.

As far as I can see two things seem to help.

1. amending the from address
2. not sending bulk emails

this plugin seems to address these two issues

Can you try it and report back

AsynCRONous bbPress Subscriptions

also there is a code snippet that lets you change the from address that smtp may well need -I don’t think it is needed as the plugin does this I hope (I haven’t tested the plugin), but quoted just in case 🙂

However, something causes that in the forum post notifications the “From” is set back to the default <noreply@domain.com>, although it is set to different/custom address by the WP Mail SMTP plugin. My web hosting service blocks the PHP mails sent from unknown addresses, so that’s the reason why the e-mails are not delivered.

/*BBPress email fix*/
add_filter( 'wp_mail_from_name', 'email_sent_from_name' );
function email_sent_from_name( $name )
{
    return 'SITE NAME';
}
add_filter( 'wp_mail_from', 'email_sent_from' );
function email_sent_from( $email )
{
    return 'email@example.com';
}

[urbexjordan]

EDIT: I’ve gotten half way! I’ve set “no sidebar” as the default option… now this is where I am stuck! https://image.prntscr.com/image/HONffga5SYq3DA6wi_CcxA.png

[Robin W]

ok, It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[liderxlt]

Thanks for answering…
As I mentioned in the open topic today https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/do-not-see-the-topic-in-forum/ What I did was prepare an xml file with the information to upload in the forums , topic and replies.

I am using the plugin all import to load because it allows me to use cron tasks daily, not overload the server and not rewrite what is already loaded.

I can do the import and visualize it correctly in the dashboard. The problem is that it is not displayed in the frontend. As far as I could see the post_parent of the topic is 0 … It must be equal to _bbp_forum_id.

These are the parameters for the topic:
_bbp_topic_id = 2231
_bbp_forum_id = 2229
_bbp_reply_count = 0
_bbp_voice_count = 1
_bbp_forum_parent_id = 2229

Parameters replies:
_bbp_topic_id = 2231
_bbp_forum_id = 2229
the_reply_parent_topic_id = 2229

The other parameters, such as Post Status, are already automated.
The good thing about the import plugin is that it allows you to introduce functions in import http://www.wpallimport.com/documentation/advanced/execute-php/

I leave an extract of the topic export, there you can see how it takes the values but not the post_parent one

<title>2586/15</title>
		<link>http://localhost/expedientes/forums/topic/2586-15/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2018 03:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[liderxlt]]></dc:creator>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://localhost/expedientes/forums/topic/2586-15/</guid>
		<description></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="text-align: start;">
<strong>CAUSA:</strong> JUICIO EJECUTIVO]]></content:encoded>
		<excerpt:encoded><![CDATA[]]></excerpt:encoded>
		<wp:post_id>2113</wp:post_id>
		<wp:post_date><![CDATA[2018-01-19 00:22:16]]></wp:post_date>
		<wp:post_date_gmt><![CDATA[2018-01-19 03:22:16]]></wp:post_date_gmt>
		<wp:comment_status><![CDATA[closed]]></wp:comment_status>
		<wp:ping_status><![CDATA[closed]]></wp:ping_status>
		<wp:post_name><![CDATA[2586-15]]></wp:post_name>
		<wp:status><![CDATA[publish]]></wp:status>
		<wp:post_parent>0</wp:post_parent>
		<wp:menu_order>0</wp:menu_order>
		<wp:post_type><![CDATA[topic]]></wp:post_type>
		<wp:post_password><![CDATA[]]></wp:post_password>
		<wp:is_sticky>0</wp:is_sticky>
		<category domain="topic-tag" nicename="2586-15"><![CDATA[2586/15]]></category>
		<wp:postmeta>
			<wp:meta_key><![CDATA[_bbp_activity_id]]></wp:meta_key>
			<wp:meta_value><![CDATA[10]]></wp:meta_value>
		</wp:postmeta>
		<wp:postmeta>
			<wp:meta_key><![CDATA[_bbp_author_ip]]></wp:meta_key>
			<wp:meta_value><![CDATA[120.000.001]]></wp:meta_value>
		</wp:postmeta>
		<wp:postmeta>
			<wp:meta_key><![CDATA[_bbp_last_active_time]]></wp:meta_key>
			<wp:meta_value><![CDATA[2016-02-03]]></wp:meta_value>
		</wp:postmeta>
		<wp:postmeta>
			<wp:meta_key><![CDATA[_bbp_reply_count]]></wp:meta_key>
			<wp:meta_value><![CDATA[0]]></wp:meta_value>
		</wp:postmeta>
		<wp:postmeta>
			<wp:meta_key><![CDATA[_bbp_voice_count]]></wp:meta_key>
			<wp:meta_value><![CDATA[1]]></wp:meta_value>
		</wp:postmeta>
		<wp:postmeta>
			<wp:meta_key><![CDATA[_wp_page_template]]></wp:meta_key>
			<wp:meta_value><![CDATA[default]]></wp:meta_value>
		</wp:postmeta>
		<wp:postmeta>
			<wp:meta_key><![CDATA[_bbp_forum_id]]></wp:meta_key>
			<wp:meta_value><![CDATA[1327]]></wp:meta_value>
		</wp:postmeta>
		<wp:postmeta>
			<wp:meta_key><![CDATA[_bbp_forum_parent_id]]></wp:meta_key>
			<wp:meta_value><![CDATA[1327]]></wp:meta_value>
		</wp:postmeta>
		<wp:postmeta>
			<wp:meta_key><![CDATA[post_parent]]></wp:meta_key>
			<wp:meta_value><![CDATA[1327]]></wp:meta_value>
		</wp:postmeta>
		<wp:postmeta>
			<wp:meta_key><![CDATA[wp_get_post_parent_id]]></wp:meta_key>
			<wp:meta_value><![CDATA[1327]]></wp:meta_value>
		</wp:postmeta>
		<wp:postmeta>
			<wp:meta_key><![CDATA[parent_id]]></wp:meta_key>
			<wp:meta_value><![CDATA[1327]]></wp:meta_value>
		</wp:postmeta>
	</item>

Can it be solved with the correct function?
Thanks for your time @netweb

[Robin W]

all the templates are held in

templates/default/bbpress

the main forum is displayed using

content-archive-forum.php

and that then calls pretty much the rest in a hierarchy, so start there

[Robin W]

ok, I can’t help you with winscp, but what you need to achieve is the following.

create a directory on your theme called ‘bbpress’
ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/loop-single-forum.php
Make a copy of this file, and put in in the directory called bbpress that you created above, so you end up with
wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/loop-single-forum.php
bbPress will now use this template instead of the original
and you can amend this

so line 38 says

<div class="bbp-forum-content"><?php bbp_forum_content(); ?></div>

delete this and in its place put these lines

<div class="bbp-forum-content">
		
		<?php setup_postdata(bbp_get_forum_id()) ; 
				
		$excerpt = get_the_excerpt() ;
		
		echo $excerpt ;	?>
		
</div>

This will then put the first 55 characters of your content.

Once you have achieved that, come back and I’ll show you the second part.

[tarao]

I created two forums as category (named ‘dog’ and ‘cat’).
and I want to show pages which belongs to each category in completely different layout and design.
So, I hit on a following idea as a solution.
1)create a new bbpress theme (./plugins/bbpress/templates/new-template)
2)when users see pages which belongs to ‘dog forum’, activate default theme.
and when users see pages which belongs to ‘cat forum’, activate new theme.

In other words, switching bbpress theme and templates　depending on forums that users are currently seeing.
But I don’t know how to put it into practice.

help please.

sorry for my poor english!

[richterd]

Hi,
if I click on “reply” for a comment I would expect the form to appear below that comment. This currently does not work due to a bug in reply.js (bbpress/templates/default/js/reply.js) in line 19.
reply.parentNode.appendChild(respond);
If you change it to the following, everything works fine:
reply.parentNode.appendChild(respond, null);

Best Daniel

PS: Would be great to see development happen on github… 😉

[Stephen Edgar]

Apologies @tesicg, I presumed you were using IIS because Windows 2008 Server R2 😉

Ignore the IIS suggestion I made, you’re using XAMPP so they would be useless.

For translations check your WordPress updates page for any available translation updates, both bbPress 2.5.x (the current release) and upcoming 2.6.x releases are 100% translated into Russian: https://translate.wordpress.org/locale/ru/default/wp-plugins/bbpress

There might have been a fix for “port conflicts” in the upcoming bbPress 2.6, could you try that and see if it is fixed please? https://bbpress.org/download/

If 2.6 doesn’t fix it could you add details on whats different between your 2008 Server and Windows 7 install, strange that XAMPP works on one and not the other

[DaniClemente]

Hi,

I need to change path URL to load bbPress resources because default domain is not “real” domain for users. For example:

To admin bbPress I have to go to http://www.my-admin-domain.com/wp-admin/ but, for the users, website is http://www.users-domain.com. The problem is that bbPress want to load resources from admin domain instead of users domain and first one is not accesible to load them.

How can I change this and configure it with users domain??

Thanks!

[Robin W]

ok, I worked out an easy way to do that

create a directory on your theme called ‘bbpress’
ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/loop-single-reply.php
Make a copy of this file, and put in in the directory called bbpress that you created above, so you end up with
wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/loop-single-reply.php
bbPress will now use this template instead of the original
and you can amend this

so replace line 61 which reads

<div class="bbp-reply-content">

with

<?php
	//now check if it is the topic author
		$author = bbp_get_reply_author_id(bbp_get_reply_id()) ;
		$current_user = get_current_user_id() ;
		if ($author == $current_user) {
			echo '<div class="bbp-reply-content bbp-author">' ;
		}
		else echo '<div class="bbp-reply-content">' ;
	?>

then just add the bbp-author css styling to your theme’s custom css

eg

.bbp-author {
background : green ;
}

you might require

.bbp-author {
background : green !important;
}

depending on where you put the css.

[Darko Dinic]

Hi dear support,

we have installed your plugin on our website and apparently it’s not working properly.

If we use the shortcodes to place it on some page:

Forum TEST

It shows list of forums but once you try accessing some forum it shows empty page:

Muske Carape

Also, the default forum page is not working:
http://jadran.paprikart.rs/forums/

We already tried disabling all the plugins to rest assured that plugin conflict is not making some conflict there and it’s still not working.

WP version 4.9.1.

Can you please take a look at it and advise?

Thanks in advance!

[sdeeds]

SMF to BBPress – error utf8mb4

SMF to BBPress – error utf8mb4

I am getting the same error as this post identifies:

WordPress database error: [Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes]
CREATE TABLE wp_bbp_converter_translator ( meta_id mediumint(8) unsigned not null auto_increment, value_type varchar(25) null, value_id bigint(20) unsigned not null default '0', meta_key varchar(255) null, meta_value varchar(255) null, PRIMARY KEY (meta_id), KEY value_id (value_id), KEY meta_join (meta_key(191), meta_value(191)) ) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;

But for Vanilla. It looks like an update to the importer is all that it took to fix this,

@netweb , @johnjamesjacoby

Thoughts?

Thanks for your time!!

— sdeeds

WP Version 4.9.1
Vanilla Version 2.3.1
bbPress Version 2.5.14

[Robin W]

ok, no idea why this is happening – it could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[bstephenmitchell]

Hi all – I am not having any luck getting my forums page to work full width. Have tried all sorts of css and function.php and nope – no luck.

See the forums page here:

https://hopevisionaction.org/forums/

… and any help would be very much appreciated.

Using 2017 default theme. Also using BuddyPress now.

Thanks.

Steve

[makingcircuits]

I have found a way of implementing this, in fact this facility becomes readily accessible once you install and activate the plugin “bbpress topics for posts”.

here are the procedures to migrate your existing wordpress comments into bbpress forum interface, below each posts 🙂

install and activate plugins: bbpress, and bbpress topics for posts

go to settings > Discussions > bbPress Topics for Posts Defaults….now select the forum which you have created under “Create a new bbPress topic in”

and finally press SAVE at the bottom of the page.

wait it is not yet over.

go back again to bbPress Topics for Posts Defaults
and click on the new option which asks: “apply settings to existing posts”.

As soon as you do this all your existing wordpress comments will disappear, and you will see a bbpress forum box under each of the posts.

DON’T PANIC!!!!!!!!!!

Go to your wordpress dashboard

click on posts > all posts > tick on the box named “title” just below “Bulk Actions”

this will select all the posts on that page.

now select “Edit” and Apply

a new window will open (we all know about this)…now simply PRESS the “update” button at the right hand side corner of this window.

Repeat this for each and every page in case you have a small number of posts on each page….or if you want to execute this at once, make sure to first select all the posts on the same pageby going to the screen options and selecting the total number of posts you prefer to include on that page

BINGO!!!!

Go and check your posts you will find all your wordpress comments have been transferred into bbpress…

But will this have any SEO implications? I don’t know…

[makingcircuits]

I have found a way of implementing this, in fact this facility becomes readily accessible once you install and activate the plugin “bbpress topics for posts”.

here are the procedures to migrate your existing wordpress comments into bbpress forum interface, below each posts 🙂

install and activate plugins: bbpress, and bbpress topics for posts

go to settings > Discussions > bbPress Topics for Posts Defaults….now select the forum which you have created under “Create a new bbPress topic in”

and finally press SAVE at the bottom of the page.

wait it is not yet over.

go back again to bbPress Topics for Posts Defaults
and click on the new option which asks: “apply settings to existing posts”.

As soon as you do this all your existing wordpress comments will disappear, and you will see a bbpress forum box under each of the posts.

DON’T PANIC!!!!!!!!!!

Go to your wordpress dashboard

click on posts > all posts > tick on the box named “title” just below “Bulk Actions”

this will select all the posts on that page.

now select “Edit” and Apply

a new window will open (we all know about this)…now simply PRESS the “update” button at the right hand side corner of this window.

Repeat this for each and every page in case you have a small number of posts on each page….or if you want to execute this at once, make sure to first select all the posts on the same pageby going to the screen options and selecting the total number of posts you prefer to include on that page

BINGO!!!!

Go and check your posts you will find all your wordpress comments have been transferred into bbpress…

But will this have any SEO implications? I don’t know…