[veerendradarakh]

Greetings all ye WordPress gurus,
This is pertaining to the site http://www.dentistrytoday.info ( made in drupal 6.34 )

Drupal 6.34 is now outdated. Support for Drupal 6 has been withdrawn and furthermore drupal development is expensive.

So I have decided to migrate the forums from drupal to some other CMS. I also want to move away from Drupal since I find Drupal development is expensive.

To migrate the site from drupal to some other CMS I have some queries.

My queries to this esteemed forum.
1. Which CMS is the best for a discussion forum?
2. I want to migrate to a CMS which is easy to use, mobile friendly, responsive and easy to modify and refine.
3. Plenty of developers must be available for the forums for that particular CMS so that maintaining, refining and upgrading the forums can be done at a reasonable cost.
4. The CMS must get updated automatically. Will the phbBB forum get updated automatically? I am told that wordpress sites get updated automatically. Will the forums made in wordpress get updated automatically?
5. We want conduct all activities on the forum that are usually done on educational sites like webinars, email newsletters, email newsletters with case presentations, blogs etc.
6. If we migrate it to wordpress forums what kind of security precautions shoud I take, pre and post migration. I am told that wordpress sites are more vulnerable to hacking than Drupal sites.
7. Besides the forums must be secure and if possible I want to have the registration form without a captcha challenge.
8. My staff must be able to take offline and online backups of the site easily.
9. Can wordpress forum can support forums of bigger sizes (80,000 forum articles and 30,000 users). Also which plugins will be better for users and forums so that their updation does not affect the live site once it is launched.

Hope to see a lot of responses and many thanks in advance for the same.

Regards,
Dr. Veerendra Darakh

[Robkk]

You can use this plugin to move topics in other forums.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-move-topics/

[Robkk]

Maybe something like this, not sure of what you are after.

Put the custom CSS in a custom CSS plugin or place it into a child themes style.css if you already created a child theme.

#bbpress-forums li.bbp-body ul.forum {
  border-top: 1px solid #E91E63;
}

[roshansachan]

I am running bbpress(Version 2.5.9) + buddypress(Version 2.5.3) on wordpress version > 4.5.1.
In bbpress there are users with Forum Role as Participant and site role as Participant. I have observed that any participant can delete tags created by any other participant. For example if participant-A creates a topic-A with tag-a, when participant-B replies to Topic-A, then participant-B can see tag-a created by participant-A in tag input field and if participant-B removes it from the input field and submits the reply then tag-a is deleted from Topic-A. I this behaviour normal. I . Any help will be great as I have been trying but could not find any reference to this use case.

[Stephen Edgar]

Did you run the “bbPress repair tools” after importing?

If not, go to the WordPress Dashboard -> Tools -> Forums and run each of the repair tools

[davidnator]

Hello,

I was wondering is there any way to change the background image of only bbpress pages? This is because if I change the background image of my theme through the customizer, then my home page, about page, blog posts page, etc. will all have that background image, which doesn’t look very good.

I am currently running wordpress version: 4.5.3, bbpress version: 2.5.9, and my website is http://www.purposeshare.com/forums, which is using the sydney child theme.

Thanks,
David

[Stephen Edgar]

I think this is it: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2785

[Nik_S]

WordPress Version: 4.5.3
bbPress Version: 2.5.9
Website Link: http://www.sva.bc.ca/newforums/

Hello,

After setting up bbPress I “imported” forum posts manually from an older system, setting the “Published On” date to match the date of each original topic/reply. I then found that bbPress’s “freshness” ignored this date and used the date/time I had manually added these posts.

So I installed the bbPress last post plugin ( https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-last-post/ ) and modified it a little. The following code is what is currently being used, and is almost what I want:

<?php

//this function changes the bbp freshness data (time since) into a last post date for forums
function change_freshness_forum ($forum_id = 0 ) {

// Verify forum and get last active meta
		$forum_id         = bbp_get_forum_id( $forum_id );

			$reply_id = bbp_get_forum_last_reply_id( $forum_id );
			if ( !empty( $reply_id ) ) {
				$last_active_date = get_the_date( '', $reply_id );
			} else {
				$topic_id = bbp_get_forum_last_topic_id( $forum_id );
				if ( !empty( $topic_id ) ) {
					$last_active_date = get_the_date('', $topic_id );
				}
			}

			if ( !empty( $reply_id ) ) {
				$last_active_time = get_the_time( '', $reply_id );
			} else {
				if ( !empty( $topic_id ) ) {
					$last_active_time = get_the_time('', $topic_id );
				}
			}
			
		$last_active_date = bbp_convert_date( $last_active_date ) ;
		$last_active_time = bbp_convert_date( $last_active_time ) ;
		$date_format = get_option( 'date_format' );
		$time_format = get_option( 'time_format' );
		$date= date_i18n( "{$date_format}", $last_active_date );
		$time=date_i18n( "{$time_format}", $last_active_time );
		$active_time = sprintf( _x( '%1$s at %2$s', 'date at time', 'bbp-last-post' ), $date, $time );  
		return $active_time ;
		}
add_filter( 'bbp_get_forum_last_active', 'change_freshness_forum', 10, 2 );

//this function changes the bbp freshness data (time since) into a last post date for topics
function change_freshness_topic ($last_active, $topic_id) {

$topic_id = bbp_get_topic_id( $topic_id );

		// Try to get the most accurate freshness date possible
		if ( empty( $last_active_date ) ) {
		$reply_id = bbp_get_topic_last_reply_id( $topic_id );
		if ( !empty( $reply_id ) ) {
			$last_active_date = get_the_date( '', $reply_id );
		} else {
				$last_active_date = get_the_date( '', $topic_id );
			}
		}

		// Try to get the most accurate freshness time possible
		if ( empty( $last_active_time ) ) {
		$reply_id = bbp_get_topic_last_reply_id( $topic_id );
		if ( !empty( $reply_id ) ) {
			$last_active_time = get_the_time( '', $reply_id );
		} else {
				$last_active_time = get_the_time( '', $topic_id );
			}
		}
		
		
		$last_active_date = bbp_convert_date( $last_active_date ) ;
		$last_active_time = bbp_convert_date( $last_active_time ) ;
		$date_format = get_option( 'date_format' );
		$time_format = get_option( 'time_format' );
		$date= date_i18n( "{$date_format}", $last_active_date );
		$time=date_i18n( "{$time_format}", $last_active_time );
		$active_time = sprintf( _x( '%1$s at %2$s', 'date at time', 'bbp-last-post' ), $date, $time );  
		return $active_time ;
		}
add_filter( 'bbp_get_topic_last_active', 'change_freshness_topic', 10, 2 );

//This function changes the heading "Freshness" to the name created in Settings>bbp last post
function change_translate_text( $translated_text ) {
	$text = 'Freshness' ;
	if ( $translated_text == $text ) {
	global $rlp_options;
	$translated_text = $rlp_options['heading_label'];
	}
	return $translated_text;
}
add_filter( 'gettext', 'change_translate_text', 20 );

The only problem now is that from the forum index view, the “Last Post” column will show the date of the most recent reply, even if there is a newer topic.

Is there a way to compare the dates and make sure the Last Post column displays the most recent topic or reply, whichever is newer?

Thanks!

[haddly]

Hi,
When searching through the forum and not being logged in, a message appears at the bottom saying you must be logged in to post a reply……
Is there any way you can send me the code, so that there is a direct link to the forum login from this message or next to the message.

bbPress version is up to date. and wordpress version is a unique one created by web dev company.
Thanks in advance for your help

[Robkk]

You will need a plugin for this, there will be a few plugins to choose, her is just one of them.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-notify-nospam/

[Robkk]

@sergekata Here is the area you should be in for this kind of issue.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Common_WordPress_Errors#Allowed_memory_size_exhausted

[karim16]

hello
sory but i want to ask that how i can move the side bare to max right and chek the bbpres forum auto max lenth
i use wordpress 4.2.2

can i get the solution please?

[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

[benjieblock]

Hi All,

Issue: I have the age old issue of notifications not sending to admins.

URL: http: // www . homecarekn . ca/
Theme: Enfold
Wordpress: 4.5.3
bbPress: 2.5.3 (rolled back from 2.5.9)

What I tried:
– I know emails are sending when I requested a password reset on my account and it sent.
– 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
– Plugin – AsynCRONous bbPress Subscriptions – didn’t work
– Plugin – bbPress Notify (No-Spam) – didn’t work
– Plugin – Reply Subscribed – forces reply email from new topics and replies

Tried the plugins one at a time – created new topics and replied
Tried plugins all together – created some new topics and replied
Tried varying plugins activated /deactivated – created new topics and replied
No emails to editors, keymasters, or admins

Edited the database and added multiple addresses in the wp_options field for admin – still no notifications.
Did anyone ever figure out what and why this happens?
-Ben

[Stephen Edgar]

Thanks, that should be enough info for now, it eliminates fucky things that can happen with MAMP and XAMPP working with localhost, most likely there is a PHP restriction that is triggering this, can probably be worked around/ignored I think.

The importer restarting is a pain, can you check via phpMyAdmin or equivalent if you actually have a wp_bbp_converter_translator table? (Maybe a different prefix to wp_ if you use a custom prefix, e.g. myprefix_bbp_converter_translator.

What I actually expect here rather than restarting the import is:

Conversion Complete
Repair any missing information: <a href="https://example.com/wp-admin/tools.php?page=bbp-repair">Continue</a></p>');

Instead of:

Conversion Complete
Started process again with Converting forums (0 – 99)

For my notes, after displaying “Conversion complete” (src) it should then read that message and link to the “Repair tools” (src)

For now, can you run through each of the repair tools via and see how everything looks, it should fix up the counts of forums, topics, replies etc

https://example.com/wp-admin/tools.php?page=bbp-repair

[Stephen Edgar]

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.

Hmmmm, that is weird, especially the forum duplicates

Is there any logs or debugging that I can turn on

Right click, “inspect element” will show you the actual MySQL queries in the raw web page source code that are taking place that importer uses for each step.

If there is mods installed on IPB could this mess with the importer at all?

Possibly, I’ve not tested any of the importable forums with any mods, there are simply far too many permutations and combinations, the MySQL debug above should help with determining if this is a factor or not.

The ini_set is bbPress’ attempt at bumping PHPs memory limit to 256mb if it can during import, you can ignore this.

The WordPress database error Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes for query CREATE TABLE wp_bbp_converter_translator issue I still need to fix, I’ll try to get that fixed today, see https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2936

[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.

[Robkk]

Technically it is not a bug, it is that you just do not want the feature (I am not a fan of it either).

I swear as long as you have enable embeds in the bbPress forum settings and just installed the Disable Embeds plugin, you should not see those specific WordPress post/page embeds that you explained in your earlier post or the ones that are displaying correctly in this post https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/free-wordpress-theme-that-are-bbpress-ready/#post-176073.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
Your WordPress and bbPress version work well together, so I don’t think the issue is on that side. As bbPress is just using WordPress registered users, it is probably a conflict in your theme or one of the other plugins.
Pascal.

[Robkk]

So the plugin you linked to doesn’t really have anything to offer (other than stopping embeds in WP).

Did you try it? That plugin is specifically for those new WordPress post embeds.

THe setting I mentioned in the bbPress forum settings removes all embeds (youtube, flickr) including the WordPress post embeds.

You do not have to use CSS to hide the little post id number.

Did you try the disable embeds plugin? It may not do the forums specifically, just site wide.

[Robkk]

Also, can you explain what you meant by “… or use a plugin like functionality. “.?

This plugin its called Functionality, its like a plugin that can hold custom php code snippets.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/functionality/

Thanks for the code. unfortunately it doesn’t work for my website

Both of the code snippets I posted should show the forum search above a single topic, single forum, and in search results. Well unless your custom theme has custom bbPress templates with all the available hooks I am using in my code removed.

can you tell me if its actually worth adding a child theme, if the parent theme is an individually created one by a web design company?

I mean you do not have to.

[haddly]

Hi Robkk,

Thanks for the code. unfortunately it doesn’t work for my website. Well, I have a vagrant set up on my computer with a copy website and i test everything there before i make real changes.
I made a child theme and a style.css file (this works as my wordpress site recognises it) and i made a functions.php file and added the code you gave me. The thing is, i tried some other code that exists on https://codex.bbpress.org/layout-and-functionality-examples-you-can-use/#23-show%c2%a0the-bbpress-forum-search-everywhere and they didnt work either.
any suggestions?
would greatly appreciate any help.
thx
Dan

[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]

You can disable threaded replies for now to fix the issue, there is currently an issue with some of the responsive styles and some markup that is broken somewhere while activating threaded replies.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2757

There is also a way to keep threaded replies and just changing your layout to a more mobile first layout, but threaded replies has some other issues that users might encounter like not having pagination.

[Robkk]

There are a few WordPress themes that you can use.

WP Knowledge Base

Stargazer Colloquium

Eighties

There are also other free themes that add functionality for bbPress here and there.

And there are a few good premium themes on themeforest.