[akkuakku]

Dear All,

In my new forum, I am finding out that as replies are given, the default indent space is eating in to the post space rather than the post adjusting the text to fit it within the available width (after reducing the indent space). You can see that clearly in the second reply post #942 (posted by Fazil) in the below link

http://solarwindconsultants.com/forums/topic/economic-viability-of-solar-energy-at-any-given-location-latlong/

My versions are: WordPress 4.5.3 & bbPress 2.5.10. Also, my “Reply Threading” tick box is not enabled.

Please let me know what it is that I could be doing wrong?-

[oldshaghat]

I dug down into bbpress/includes/core/template-functions.php and inspected a couple of variables there in the enqueue_script call to see what’s going on.

$content_dir (from the constant ‘WP_CONTENT_DIR’) resolves as:
/var/lib/openshift/hexkey/app-root/data/current/wp-content

content_url gives mydomain/wp-content

and the file location starts out as :
/var/lib/openshift/hexkey/app-root/data/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/js/editor.js

So the string replace is going to fail – because that constant content-dir isn’t where you expect it to be – which is maybe something stupid openshift has done. Or goodness knows.

Seems like if I edit this file to trim the “current/wp-content” piece off the content dir location I’ll be in business.

[oldshaghat]

Redhat’s Openshift has a nice WordPress option which was how I found bbPress. However, I am seeing that when deployed on openshift, the URL that the page ends up using to obtain the default bbPress theme data seems to be looking in the wrong spot.

The root page is looking at mydomain/var/lib/openshift/longHexKey/app-root/data/plugins …
This yields a 404 for the bbpress.css file and editor.js.

whereas if I change that to mydomain/wp-content/plugins …
The file comes back correctly.

I’m just starting to get things going here with this stack so I’m not sure if this is a bbPress thing, a WordPress thing, or an OpenShift thing, but other plugins seem to be doing it ok. Is there a straightforward edit I can make to the bbPress files?

[TriiXx]

Hi again,

I’ve created a developpment server and disabled all plugins (without bbpress) and change my template to use default template.

Same issue :/

[Robkk]

Surely there is a way to change the reply author without going into the admin panel?

The devs made it possible in the 2.6 version of bbPress I think.

https://github.com/ntwb/bbPress/blob/master/src/templates/default/bbpress/form-reply.php#L117

Not sure how to do what you want with a filter.

[Robkk]

I rolled back bbPress since I read they changed their mail headers in 2.5.4 – so I went from the latest (2.5.9) to 2.5.3

Update it to the latest version.

Edited the database and added multiple addresses in the wp_options field for admin – still no notifications.

Maybe consider reverting this to what you had previously.

Did you do all what is described below @benjieblock?

Create a forum and subscribe to the forum, and create a topic with your admin account and also subscribe to it on a live test site to test these subscriptions in.

Create a test participant user to just post test posts in that topic you just created to test topic subscription emails, and create topics in the forum to test forum subscription emails.

I guess now just check on your Admin/Keymaster email {your admin user email} to see if any of them sent.

This is just troubleshooting to see if you can even get 1 subscription email, either topic or forum subscription emails using bbPress by default without any new plugins.

If it works without any plugins we can go from there.

IF it doesn’t we need to find a plugin/theme/custom code snippet that might be causing an issue.

Also in the future the larger your forums grow and if you allow both subscription emails for every mod and keymaster in your forum, you will need to consider using smtp and AsynCRONous bbPress Subscriptions.

[Robkk]

Follow this. If you theme has a specific way of creating a child theme follow any of their own guides.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

The categories and topics are all weird. I just wish it looked standard like every other major forum out there.

It may be how the default category and forum layout bbPress uses. Maybe consider using this loop-forums.php file in a child theme.

https://github.com/robkk/bbPress-Hierarchical-Forum-and-Category-Layout

[@mercime]

@earl_d I made a tutorial for BuddyPress which you could adjust for the bbPress version. e.g. in the B. Full-width Layout section, instead of creating buddypress.php, create bbpress.php at the root of your theme’s folder. Good luck.

Twenty Twelve Theme

[abuosama36]

I reper this proplam:

Hey,

It’s pretty simple, install User Role Editor plugin into your WP. Then visit plugin and reset all user roles to default and it’ll work…I had same problem but now it’s working..

Thanks

and

Never mind I just fixed it. In case anybody else experiences this problem, here is what I did:
(back up database first)
1) deactivate BBPress
2) install User Role Editor
3) Click the red Reset button which will reset all roles to WP defaults
4) Re-activate BBPress.

thx

[Dan]

@shoelje this worked great for me. Thank you!
I made a few small tweaks that will make the next person’s set that much easier.

<?php
include "../wp-config.php";

  // If all else fails, use this url.
  $defaulturl = "http://your_domain_goes_here/forums/";

  // Build the query according to url parameters p or t.
  $query = '';
  if (!empty($_GET['p'])) {
      $query = "SELECT {$table_prefix}posts.guid FROM {$table_prefix}postmeta
                INNER JOIN {$table_prefix}posts ON {$table_prefix}posts.ID = {$table_prefix}postmeta.post_id
                WHERE {$table_prefix}postmeta.meta_key = '_bbp_old_reply_id'
                AND {$table_prefix}postmeta.meta_value = '" . $_GET['p'] . "';";
  }else if (!empty($_GET['t'])) {
      $query = "SELECT {$table_prefix}posts.guid FROM {$table_prefix}postmeta
                INNER JOIN {$table_prefix}posts ON {$table_prefix}posts.ID = {$table_prefix}postmeta.post_id
                WHERE {$table_prefix}postmeta.meta_key = '_bbp_old_topic_id'
                AND {$table_prefix}postmeta.meta_value = '" . $_GET['t'] . "';";
  }

  // Set the new url to the default url
  $url = $defaulturl;

  // Check if we need to make a database connection.
  if (!empty($query)) {
    //echo "connecting...<br>";
    // Make a connection
    $mysqli = mysqli_connect(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD, DB_NAME) or die("mysqli connect error: "+mysqli_connect_error());

    // Check the connection.
    if (!mysqli_connect_errno()) {
      // Run the query.
      //echo $query."<br>";
      $result = mysqli_query($mysqli,$query) or die("mysqli query error: ".mysql_error($mysqli));

      // Get the new URL.
      if ($result) {
        $row = $result->fetch_array(MYSQLI_ASSOC);
        $guid = trim($row["guid"]);
        if (!empty($guid)) {
          $url = $guid;
        }
      }

      // Free the result set.
      $result->free();

      // Close the connection.
      mysqli_close($mysqli);
    }
  }

  //var_dump($url);

  // Write the header.
  header("Location: " . $url, true, 301);
?>

[snowcrash101]

Hello

I’m using buddypress with bbpress. When a buddypress group creates it’s own group forum, it is created automatically with a default forum order of 0. This results the group forum to placed near the top of the main forum list.

Is it possible to specify the forum order when a group forum is created? And is it possible to to automatically create the forum as a sub-forum, so it doesn’t mess up the layout/order of the main forum list? Say for example I have 3 main forums:
– Announcements
– General
– Projects

I would like it when a buddypress group creates its own forum, it is located as sub-forum within Projects.

Thanks for any help

[matilda4]

Hello Support Forum
I have a displaying issue I couldn’t find the issue until now and was wondering if someone experienced similar or has a hint what could resolve it.

Issue:
We setup several forums, which are accessible only with corresponding membership (using plugins, see below). Under each forum we created one topic only so far. When accessing a specific forum (example qigong and meditation as per the link below) it lists all topics; even the ones from the different forums. As per my understanding it should only display the topics of that specific forum.

Theme is Newstube, but I changed it to the wordpress latest default theme (twenty sixteen) and the issue persists. I have also deactivated all but the bbpress plugins and the issue persists.

Wordpress: 4.5.3
BBpress: 2.5.9

Is installed in combination with iThemes Exchange / Membership and Membership bb press add-on.

Website: Redacted

Under menu “account”, login. Test user we setup is (since only members can access the forum):
User: Redacted
PW: Redacted

Am I overlooking something simple and obvious, or what could the issue be? Any help is very much appreciated.

Thank you.
Matilda

[darkoned12000]

Just to describe my process in this trial run I am doing with the import of IPB 3.47 to bbpress 2.6a:

– Install latest version of WP
– Download and install latest version of bbpress
– Open ‘Tool -> Forums -> Import Forums’
– Selected ‘Invision’ and put in all my database info. I did set ‘Table Prefix’ to ‘ipb_’ since all of my tables in my ipboard setup start with ‘ibp_’
– Row Limit and Time Delay (set to default), Convert Users is checked and nothing else is checked and I clicked ‘Start’

Here is a listing of the sql code executed, I only listed items that there was something done, ‘no conversions’ for items are not listed:

Code for convert Forum:
<p class="" title="SELECT convert(forums.id USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS id,convert(forums.parent_id USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS parent_id,convert(forums.topics USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS topics,convert(forums.posts USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS posts,convert(forums.name USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS name,convert(forums.name_seo USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS name_seo,convert(forums.description USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS description,convert(forums.position USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS position FROM ipb_forums AS forums LIMIT 100, 100">Converting forums (100 - 199)</p>

Code for Forum Heirarchy:
<p class="" title="SELECT post_id AS value_id, meta_value FROM wp_postmeta WHERE meta_key = &quot;_bbp_old_forum_parent_id&quot; AND meta_value > 0 LIMIT 0, 100">Calculating forum hierarchy (0 - 99)</p>

Code for Topics:
<p class="loading" title="SELECT convert(topics.tid USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS tid,convert(topics.posts USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS posts,convert(topics.forum_id USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS forum_id,convert(topics.starter_id USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS starter_id,convert(posts.post USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS post,convert(topics.title USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS title,convert(topics.pinned USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS pinned,convert(topics.start_date USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS start_date,convert(topics.last_post USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS last_post FROM ipb_topics AS topics INNER JOIN ipb_posts AS posts ON(topics.tid = posts.topic_id) WHERE posts.new_topic = 1 LIMIT 1100, 100">Converting topics (1100 - 1199)</p>

Code for Topic Stickies:
<p class="" title="SELECT post_id AS value_id, meta_value FROM wp_postmeta WHERE meta_key = &quot;_bbp_old_sticky_status_id&quot; AND meta_value = &quot;sticky&quot; LIMIT 0, 100">Calculating topic stickies (0 - 99)</p>

Code for Topic Tags:
<p class="" title="SELECT convert(core_tags.tag_meta_id USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS tag_meta_id,convert(core_tags.tag_text USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS tag_text FROM ipb_core_tags AS core_tags LIMIT 1800, 100">Converting topic tags (1800 - 1899)</p>

Code for Replies:
<p class="" title="SELECT convert(posts.pid USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS pid,convert(posts.topic_id USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS topic_id,convert(posts.ip_address USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS ip_address,convert(posts.author_id USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS author_id,convert(posts.post USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS post,convert(posts.post_date USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS post_date,convert(posts.edit_time USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS edit_time FROM ipb_posts AS posts LIMIT 400, 100">Converting replies (400 - 499)</p>

Conversion Complete
Warning: ini_set() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/darkone/public_html/wp/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converter.php on line 319

<Script started over again with ‘Converting Fourms’

[darkoned12000]

Hello Everyone

I just recently installed bbpress 2.6 alpha build because I heard there was some more improvements to the database importer. I was trying a test run of converting my IPB v3.47 forums to bbpress 2.6a and I put in all of the info into the script and it looks like it was working and I went away for a few hours and came back and it was still running. I thought this was odd because the forums/users are not abnormally large.

I opened up the forums link inside the WP admin and noticed that it had created several duplicates of each forum area and replicated posts more than once. It’s almost like it didn’t know it finished and restarted the process all over.

Is there any logs or debugging that I can turn on that would provide help into troubleshooting this issue as to why the importer never stops processing? If there is mods installed on IPB could this mess with the importer at all?

I did find an error_log file and here is some of the issues I saw in it:

[03-Jul-2016 17:18:48 UTC] PHP Warning: ini_set() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/darkone/public_html/wp/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converter.php on line 319
[03-Jul-2016 17:18:48 UTC] PHP Warning: ini_set() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/darkone/public_html/wp/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converter.php on line 320

[02-Jul-2016 17:10:39 UTC] WordPress database error Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes for query 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, meta_value) ) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci made by do_action(‘wp_ajax_bbconverter_process’), call_user_func_array, BBP_Converter->process_callback, BBP_Converter->sync_table, dbDelta

Any help is appreciated, thanks.

[SignalWarrant]

Forum Root Slug – forums
Single Forum Slug – PCSCalc
Dynamic forum page – http://www.pcscalculator.com/Forum/
My custom page – http://www.pcscalculator.com/forum/
If you look at my custom page, can someone tell me how to unscrew the breadcrumbs? The bbpress breadcrumbs link back to the default dynamic page.
Anyone have any ideas?

[Robkk]

I dont get this logic, despite if it is only WP logic, not bbPress one.
Maybe I missunderstool it all. New Users (Roles = Subscriber, Participant) have access to add new Posts, and attach them to taxonomies.

Forum Users are forum USers, not Portal editors of Articles.

@stagger-lee you may need to track back and look at any custom code you may have and see if any is granting users specific permissions that would grant your users to be able to do this. Of course your new forum users shouldn’t be able to do this by default. Regular subscribers/participants should only be able to edit their profile usually.

[Robkk]

I couldn’t get it to see anything I put in my child theme, because it is accessed through plugins, not themes. I know I’ll have to update the file again manually as soon as I update bbPress.

You don’t need to change anything in bbPress to do this type of thing, just put any template files in a child theme or custom theme package plugin (there is no info on this but this is possible too).

https://codex.bbpress.org/themes/theme-compatibility/

Also, that plugin only allows you to add new fields, not display existing ones. Doesn’t it seem odd that you would be prompted to enter data in fields on user profile edit, but then not have any of them show on view? By default the user fields should be available to show, at least standard ones like description, website, and social media profiles.

This is the only plugin I can think of that might be easy for some users to display content. If you want contact Robin later in the support forum to see if he would add existing fields to it.

How are some people not caring about this? It just seems so fundamental to me.

There is a plan to add certain fields to the profile page in the future, mostly default existing fields for now.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2570

[Robkk]

Actually bbPress does not have a “thank you page” instead I think it mostly piggybacks off of the default WordPress registration process and this issue you are talking about seems sort of common, but I think the whole frontend forms bbPress provides are either incomplete functionality or functionality that has broken along the way through upgrades in WordPress or something.

You do not necessarily have to use the frontend forms anyway, as all your users can just the default WordPress registration forms. Or use another plugin for now for frontend forms like Theme My Login.

[Robin W]

bbPress is tested with wordpress default themes. It maybe a conflict – you need to check plugins and themes

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.

[Robin W]

This is probably because in the bbPress default theme package, there is a template called content-search.php. In some newer themes there is also a template of the same name. And since the bbPress templates don’t necessarily need to be in a bbPress folder, the bbPress plugin is choosing the template from your theme before the template that is actually in bbPress.

Copy content-search.php from the bbPress plugin templates and place it in a child theme in a folder called bbpress.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-search-only-showing-last-item/#post-175880

Functions files and child themes – explained !

So create a directory on your child 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/content-search.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/content-search.php
bbPress will now use this template instead of the original

[Stephen Edgar]

It’s been a while since I tried it, I’ll have to re-attempt it in a couple of days when I have an opportunity to try it again.

Cool

As I recall, it imported the users fine, and then it looked like it was doing the posts, but after, I want to say about 150 posts, it froze there, never indicated further imports. When I checked the database tables, it didn’t appear that it actually brought the content from Dizkus over to bbPress at all.

Ok, so it did something, thats a good sign in that the database name and password were correct.

If you’ve ever used Chrome/Firefox “inspect” debugger, you can right click and select “inspect” or (view the source code of the web page) and there is some extra debugging MySQL statements you will see there, if when testing you have issues take a look at the last query and include that MySQL code here when posting back, it will help determine what went wrong.

As to the localhost problem, I mirrored the Zikula site to my local WIn 10 machine, and then tried to import on a local WP/bbP site and it didn’t do anything. Seems like it just couldn’t find data.

If it can’t find any data it should thrown an error message to that affect, if you don’t select Dizkus from the dropdown menu on the importer screen and use the default AEF that can be one of the causes, another is that the database is not in the same database server as your WordPress install.

Did you import that database to your Win 10 machine or were you trying to connect to it remotely?

[IndigoO]

It took me a ridiculous amount of time to find where to make this change and make it, and even then it is in the main bbPress code. I couldn’t get it to see anything I put in my child theme, because it is accessed through plugins, not themes. I know I’ll have to update the file again manually as soon as I update bbPress.

Also, that plugin only allows you to add new fields, not display existing ones. Doesn’t it seem odd that you would be prompted to enter data in fields on user profile edit, but then not have any of them show on view? By default the user fields should be available to show, at least standard ones like description, website, and social media profiles.

If you use that plugin to manually create some of those fields, your users will see two of each, the original ones that won’t show in view mode, and the custom ones you created. Not workable.

So really I see nothing to do other than manually editing the user-profile.php file to line by line include each field you want to show. How are some people not caring about this? It just seems so fundamental to me. Why go all the way to something like BuddyPress when all you want is field data already being collected to actually show?

[Dan Olson]

I realize this is an old thread, but we just installed Mandrill using the wpMandrill plugin and everything works great for us except BBPress. I’ve been in contact with Mandrill support and the first thing they suggested was actually just making no reply@… a valid email address. So we did that and that took care of the first issue.

But as for sending all emails in the Bcc, Mandrill still does not play nice with that and they really didn’t have any suggestions for me other than one, which I am copying as a screenshot below.

I tried installing Sudar’s plugin, but that did not work for me. I did install Stephen’s plugin to just disable wpMandrill for BBpress notifications and that worked. So that is my stop-gap solution at the moment.

Have I missed any new developments since this discussion started? Any new workarounds? I know that BBPress used to send all the reply emails using the “to” field. Has anyone considered making this an “option” in a future version — in other words, default to BCC but give admins the option to use TO if they’re using Mandrill?

Just struggling to find a solution. Any help would be appreciated.

Dan

[Robin W]

You will need to change a template, so if you can edit a file and know FTP then you can amend this

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-topic.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-topic.phpbbPress will now use this template instead of the original and you can amend this.

Now go to line 68, which says

<span class="bbp-topic-started-in"><?php printf( __( 'in: <a href="%1$s">%2$s</a>', 'bbpress' ), bbp_get_forum_permalink( bbp_get_topic_forum_id() ), bbp_get_forum_title( bbp_get_topic_forum_id() ) ); ?></span>

and delete this and save the file

[Robkk]

@stevecl

The issue also does happen in TwentyFifteen.

The issue is because in the bbPress default theme package, there is a template called content-search.php. In some newer themes there is also a template of the same name. And since the bbPress templates don’t necessarily need to be in a bbPress folder, the bbPress plugin is choosing the template from your theme before the template that is actually in bbPress.

Copy content-search.php from the bbPress plugin templates and place it in a child theme in a folder called bbpress. This fixed the issue you are getting in a free version of your currently active theme.

https://codex.bbpress.org/themes/theme-compatibility/

Also just created a trac ticket for this issue.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2966