[Robkk]

@darrenbergman93

We also do not want another log in. We want them to be able to log into their profile in our student portal and that is it. They have access to the forum aswell and no additional login or registering, as right now we pre-create their profiles, no one registers.

Like @netweb said bbPress and WordPress share user data, so as long as your student portal is compatible with WordPress it should be fine. You do not need a separate login for the forum as long as the student login, logs into your WordPress site.

We need a forum that has all the features that a forum system includes, such as:
Adding/Creating Threads by both Student and Admins. Instructors also need to be able to create them.
We do not want external links like Share to facebook and such. As this is a forum in a portal and do not want anyone but Students having access to it.

Ok, you can manually create users and assign different forum roles if need be. And you can create custom forum roles with help form a code snippet. You definitely need private forums, but I am not sure how private. Do you want private user groups for specific forums, only logged in users can see the forums, or only logged in users can see the whole site.

We do not want a profiling. We already have a profile system where the profile in wordpress is their student profile which includes their address, email, username, phone number and also their student id. This information cannot be visible to other students.
So either if this plugin gives an external profile system where it does not interact with the profile already made in the USERS area of wordpress it would work, but if it works with the USERS part of wordpress then the clickable link to view a profile, edit profile would need to be removed for our sake.

There is a php code snippet around these forums to remove the author link in replies and topics from going to their profile and instead show up in the forum as text. Removing profile links in descriptions and a widget might need another code snippet, or it could be easily avoidable by not using a widget and removing the descriptions.

bbPress doesn’t add any additional user meta fields if I remember correctly.

Removing the profiles, I haven’t looked at what code you could possibly need, but it could be possibly avoidable by redirecting any user forum profiles (if users somehow reach them) to somewhere else.

[Robkk]

Email address is required to post using anonymous/guest posting.

In this stackoverflow topic, there is a php codesnippet/plugin you can use that might be helpful.

http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/131550/how-do-i-set-up-real-anonymous-posting-in-bbpress-forums

[Robkk]

I think what you are looking at is specifically for blog posts.

I think there is a plugin to display bbPress forum post counts there if you want that feature. I am going to try to find it right now. I think it may not be on the WordPress plugin repository.

[denisecontent]

I have a client with a request that seems simple but I am having a dilly of a time figuring it out.

They want to be able to charge users for premium posts. These posts will *not* appear at the top. Instead they will look different from other posts – bolded links, different color font – not at the users choice simply coded in by us. This will be a one time thing for a user – the users should not be able to do any other posts this way. I already set up the forum so that the client will approve all posts – he wants to be able to go in and click a button that will then style that post a different way.

I can style the sticky to do this easily and have done so on my demo but am unsure how to proceed with his request. I do have a child theme.

I know enough code to add stuff into functions and php pages. I am much better at HTML5 and CSS (can do animations).

I have tried a few things I came up with on my own but they do not work and rather than show them I would rather hear your thoughts.

Here is my demo – it is still pretty primitive… http://www.contentandsolutions.com/njywf/

I am using
Wordpress Version 4.6.1

Customizr theme using child theme. Customizr Version: 3.4.23

BBPress Plugin Version 2.5.10

Code or a plugin (even a paid for plugin) if possible. Thank you!

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
If you confirm that WordPress is correctly sending out emails for other WordPress tasks, then it’s most probably one of the other plugins blocking something. Did you try to deactivate plugins like bbPress – Private Replies, bbPress – Report Content and bbPress Protected Forums ?
Pascal.

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress shares WordPress’ users settings, you an see an example of it for your own bbPress.org and WordPress.org profiles here:

https://bbpress.org/forums/profile/darrenbergman93/
https://profiles.wordpress.org/darrenbergman93/

When logging into bbPress it is just logging into WordPress with the same username and password so you should be good to go there also 🙂

[Robin W]

less shouty with the title, and a little bit of patience would be great !

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.

Then come back

[parker012]

Installed BBpress Forum plug in. cannot see it anywhere on my wordpress site. Any help would be great, John

[mod note: fixed title]

[lincelot]

I have updated WordPress but still have the same problem. When I change my admin roles I can briefly see the BBpress options in the wp menu. But after one click they disappear form the menu…

Seems like a bug to me or a malfunction with an other plugin?

[NES Portal Management]

Hello, My name is Darren. I am the Team Leader of the New Eden School Student Portal Team. I have been looking to add a forum for our students into our Portal. We had a forum before but had to shut it down for some reasons i will not go into. However we now want to re-initialize our forum idea and place it into our portal. My question is this:
We need a forum that has all the features that a forum system includes, such as:
Adding/Creating Threads by both Student and Admins. Instructors also need to be able to create them.
We do not want external links like Share to facebook and such. As this is a forum in a portal and do not want anyone but Students having access to it.
We do not want a profiling. We already have a profile system where the profile in wordpress is their student profile which includes their address, email, username, phone number and also their student id. This information cannot be visible to other students.
So either if this plugin gives an external profile system where it does not interact with the profile already made in the USERS area of wordpress it would work, but if it works with the USERS part of wordpress then the clickable link to view a profile, edit profile would need to be removed for our sake.
We also do not want another log in. We want them to be able to log into their profile in our student portal and that is it. They have access to the forum aswell and no additional login or registering, as right now we pre-create their profiles, no one registers.

Let me know if the above is possible to customize in this plugin,
thanks,
-NES Portal Management Team Leader

[Robin W]

You may need to juggle a bit, but my Private Groups plugin filters forums for specific groups

so a user belongs to a group or groups
Forums belong to a group or groups

users can see forums of the same group or groups.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-private-groups/

Post a topic on that plugins support desk if you need coding help

[milliways2650]

Thank you for your help. Unfortunately I think I have reached a dead end.

I decided to give another try. I created a new phpbb database, and a new WordPress installation, just in case I had caused some damage.

Attempting the import produced the following error. Presumably it is objecting to something in my phpbb database. I can not find ‘forum_topics_approved’ anywhere (but have little experience with MySQL).

WordPress database error: [Unknown column ‘forums.forum_topics_approved’ in ‘field list’]
SELECT convert(forums.forum_id USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_id,convert(forums.parent_id USING “utf8mb4”) AS parent_id,convert(forums.forum_topics_approved USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_topics_approved,convert(forums.forum_posts_approved USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_posts_approved,convert(forums.forum_name USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_name,convert(forums.forum_desc USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_desc,convert(forums.left_id USING “utf8mb4”) AS left_id,convert(forums.forum_type USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_type,convert(forums.forum_status USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_status FROM phpbb_forums AS forums LIMIT 0, 100

No forums to convert

Starting Conversion

My comment about lack of stats was that there was no positive feedback e.g. x forums imported, which would be helpful.

I did not understand the comment “If you also view the source of the page, right click and “inspect” will also bring this up, you should see some debug code showing the SQL queries being performed during the import:”

[vitto2013]

Ok i understan how work,
i have try to import, so at that time i have import User and Discussion and forum…
But now give me that error

Errore sul database di WordPress: [Table ‘pke070112.jos_kunena_topics’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT convert(kunena_messages.id USING “utf8mb4”) AS id,convert(kunena_messages.catid USING “utf8mb4”) AS catid,convert(kunena_messages.thread USING “utf8mb4”) AS thread,convert(kunena_messages.ip USING “utf8mb4”) AS ip,convert(kunena_messages.userid USING “utf8mb4”) AS userid,convert(kunena_messages.subject USING “utf8mb4”) AS subject,convert(kunena_messages_text.message USING “utf8mb4”) AS message,convert(kunena_messages.time USING “utf8mb4”) AS time FROM rtzen_kunena_messages AS kunena_messages LEFT JOIN rtzen_kunena_messages_text AS kunena_messages_text ON kunena_messages_text.mesid = kunena_messages.id LEFT JOIN jos_kunena_topics AS kunena_topics ON kunena_messages.thread = kunena_topics.id WHERE kunena_messages.parent != 0 LIMIT 0, 100

pke070112 it’s the table of the old database,
Please can you help me?

[Doug Smith]

@robkk, That would be to allow additional tags, right?

In this case it looks like tags are getting into the content that already are not allowed by default. The screen shot shows a span tag, which is not included in the bbPress allowed list in bbpress/includes/common/formatting.php.

I have also seen this happen with TinyMCE activated. It seems to be iOS users and they claim that they haven’t pasted anything, but I have not observed this for myself yet.

[Stephen Edgar]

It does give stats as it imports, you should be something similar to:

If you also view the source of the page, right click and “inspect” will also bring this up, you should see some debug code showing the SQL queries being performed during the import:

The forums, if imported will be in the wp_posts table of your WordPress database, if you filter the posts and search the post_type column for forum, topic, or reply you should see any imported posts.

[senatorman]

i understand what you say and do that exactly
removed al mods and use a basic pbpbb 3.1.9 database
I use for all the latest verions

-bbpress 2.6 alpha
-phpBB 3.1.9
-phpBB Converter file 5795

As i said earlier in this topic, there is a problem with the latest version of the phpbb converter https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/includes/admin/converters/phpBB.php?rev=5795

After converting all the passwords, at the beginning converting posts or topics i there is an error.

[Stephen Edgar]

Cool, hopefully that will fix any issues, and we switched wordpress.org/support to bbPress 2.6-alpha a couple of weeks ago 🙂

[milliways2650]

I am running phpBB 3.1.9 and bbPress 2.5.10

As I am still a relatively new WordPress user, and have never used bbPress, I installed the latest version, but I normally avoid alpha and beta software.

As this is an offline installation for learning/experimentation I guess there is no risk so will try 2.6

[milliways2650]

I imported a sql backup of my database to my local system and phpMyAdmin shows this with 6 forums with prefix “phpbb_”

Database Server localhost
Database Name iabi1038_phpb1
Database User <myuser>
Table Prefix phpbb_

This chugs along, with no obvious errors, (but no real report of what it did) – although the “No forums to convert” error no longer appears.

Unfortunately I cannot seem to find the Forum in my WordPress installation.

[wolfpup64]

I really dig the look and execution on the face of the Support area of the wordpress.org sites, with forums delineated on one side and support threads from all the different forums displayed on the other. It is in fitting with the design I am trying to achieve for my current project and I haven’t seen it elsewhere.

Anyone have a direction to look in for a setup similar?

I’m new to this wordpress website building stuff, so please excuse all current and hopefully not much future ignorance.

Cheers,
Andrew

[Stephen Edgar]

It looks like you have not imported the phpBB database into the same MySQL instance WordPress is using.

You cannot use a “remote” database to import from.

[Robkk]

Robin made the plugin awhile ago. bbPress devs made a fix awhile ago, but slated it into 2.6 instead of a 2.5 point release.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2607

[Robkk]

Install the other wpfix 2 plugin. It should have the same code snippet you are trying to use, without having to place any code anywhere.

I recommend users who are beginners to not edit bbPress core files. Or any other plugin/theme/wordpress core files unless you know exactly what you are doing code wise.

[Robkk]

Okay, yeah this site does have an interesting layout.

http://eat.at/swap/forum1/251729_Help_Need_recipe_for_fig_jam_ASAP

From what I can see real quick.

Your not going to edit the loop-single-reply.php file like @netweb suggested, because after clicking the reply title link you are redirected to a normal layout single reply. So to get this layout you are going to edit content-single-topic.php, remove the pagination, and place a custom template instead of loop-replies..php so that you won’t mess with replies in a forum profile.

<?php if ( bbp_has_replies() ) : ?>

	<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'pagination', 'replies' ); ?>

	<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'loop',       'replies' ); ?>

	<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'pagination', 'replies' ); ?>

<?php endif; ?>

Replace the above code with this for example.

<?php if ( bbp_has_replies() ) : ?>

	<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'loop',       'classic-threads' ); ?>

<?php endif; ?>

The code that will be in loop-classic-threads.phpwill be a copy of loop-replies.php and a very minimal loop-single-reply.php. Wherever say <?php bbp_get_template_part( 'loop', 'single-reply' ); ?> is called in the new loop-classic-threads.php file, I would just copy the whole loop-single-reply.php template where that get template function was and keep only the code you need.

The code that is going to be in the area you put the loop-single-reply.php code is only going to have the username, date, maybe the reply positions, and reply title. The reply title is going to mostly come from a customized version of the bbPress reply title plugin. But you are going to output the reply title in the template as a link. A link (I think bbp_reply_url() is the right function ) to the single reply template, which is only 1 reply isolated, which bbPress can do.

Does this help enough??

I’m gonna see if I can recreate most of this layout later

[Robkk]

@johnnya23

On a separate issue, I do notice the the topic counts don’t reset when topics are deleted.

Try recounting the topics by running the nessessary repair jobs in Tools > Forums.

@pauldamas

If you want contact me personally and I will check on this and see if I can come up with anything.

https://robkkdev.wordpress.com/contact/