[Robin W]

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/developers/

and click the version you want

[jacklhyde]

I got the problem solved. In settings/Gereneral/ WordPress adress I’ve entered “www.” and everything works fine again.

[kkpb8084]

Hello
I’m trying to create a website which is only a forum. Therefore most recent topics posted will be on the homepage. It’s not being used yet, so there are just a couple of test topics.

I wanted to add a column called ‘Views’, so that there are the headings: Topic + Posts + Views +Voices + Freshness

Can anyone help me to do this? As you’ll see from my website (http://psychiatryadvice.com/), I’ve got the ‘Views’ heading in every topic, and not in the grey box where all the other headings are. This is skewing all the info.

I’ve added the Views information by editing loop-single-topic.php and using the plugin WP-PostViews.

I’m presuming it is a CSS issue I’m not addressing?

using:
WordPress 4.5.2 running twentysixteen-child theme
bbPress 2.5.9-6017

Many thanks.

[Robkk]

@khunmax WordPress has smilies and emoji included in it, but if you need a plugin to customize the images used for each text smiley :) or full text output :smile: , then use WP-MonaLisa. So as long as you just use custom images for the default full text and smiley text to output some custom smilies and images, it will fallback to the normal WP emoji, any custom ones will not fall back.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Smilies
https://codex.wordpress.org/Emoji

In the future you might need to use a search and replace plugin to revsolve any custom smiley outputs that might just output something like :custom_smiley:

:) 🙂

[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.

Then come back

[Robkk]

Maybe try this plugin. There are other plugins that will do something similar for other user roles too.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-notify-admins/

[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.

[laurelo]

Hi – on mylogin page in which I’m using the bbpress shortcode to generate the login box, when someone enters the wrong username or password they are redirected to the admin wordpress login. Not only do I not want it to be redirected there, that does make the site secure at all. Can you please advise on how to prevent this from happening so user is never sent to the wp admin login? thank you.

[akkuakku]

Dear All,,

I have recently started a new website. To create a forum, I had installed wordpress and buddypress. However, in the forum registered users whose role is set as “particpant” are unable to create or even view new topics. Through the dashboard when they are trying to view the existing topics it is giving the following message.

You are not allowed to edit posts in this post type.

However, when I changed the user role to moderator or keymaster, the user is able to see the topics posted in the forum. I have seen similar question posted by others in the forum and most of the problems seemed to be about the plugin conflicts. Besides Buddypress & bbpress, I have only Beaver Builder Plugin (Lite Version) & Contact Form 7. I have tried deactivating both plugins but the situation does not change.

Another possibility I have read is that it could be the problem with theme. I am using Tesseract 2 theme. I haven’t checked the theme conflict issue as I am not sure if I can change my theme temporarily to something else (say, twenty sixteen) can I get back my original layout once I change it back to Tesseract 2.

Looking forward to replies.

[smithcreate]

Forgive me for the amount of information in this post, but I could really use some pointers here.

I am redesigning a website on my local drive for a club which has paid membership. Their current website has forums that are running on Simple Machines 1.1.1. My solution was to move everything to WordPress and bbPress. But I want to make sure I am doing this in the most careful and streamlined way. This is where my questions begin.

Locally, I am running WordPress 4.5.2. My theme is a custom Traverse theme which is also a Builder theme from iThemes. bbPress The look and feel is working fine. I created the forums with topics from scratch as I found no way to really migrate Simple Machines to bbPress. So the basics are there, but now I need to find a process for users and memberships. The forums are public, but only members can post and/or reply. Membership goes through a Gravity Form.

I’m using Gravity Forms to create a membership form for new members. This also uses the User Registration add-on which hopefully will add the user as they signup and submit payment via the Paypal add-on. However, an admin will need to update/approve the user registration to “participant” so that the new user can post in the bbPress forums (and hide the WordPress menu).

For current club members, I anticipate that I will need to wait until I launch the website, then manually add every user from a list of email addresses and names. This will kick off an email to the user that they have an account and can login. Time consuming, but I can’t think of any other way to do this.

Another concern I have is how do these users who I enter manually renew membership? Since they are basically being manually added, they are bypassing the new membership form which will be used for new members. Actually, I have a concern with new members as well since membership is only for 1 year, how do I/admins handle alerting users to renew their membership? Perhaps I need a new “Renew” form which would bypass new user creation.

I realise this post probably crosses over several topics and plugins and for that I apologize. Some of these questions are probably better suited for posting in Gravity Forms support forums. But any help or advice, I would greatly appreciate.

[Robin W]

You could use the private groups plugin, which lets you control who sees what forum, and then the widgets that come with that (recent topics, recent replies and latest activity) would display only those topic related to the group.

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

[Robin W]

you should look at how this is working.

The users are sent a link, which goes to a age with a strong password shown as default, but they are not asked to make a note of it, and if they just click reset, then this becomes their password, but then takes then to a login screen which asks for it again.

This is not a bbpress issue, but how you have got wordpress set up.

I registered fine, but I knew what to look for.

[Robin W]

Have you got this installed

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-genesis-extend/

[terrific1]

Hi,
Please I need help and it’s kind of urgent. So many people have reported that they are not able to register on the forum because they are not able to successfully set a password. They enter a username and email to register, then a link for generating a password is sent to their email. On clicking the link, they are asked to log in (not set password), which then says password incorrect, and they are prompted to “get password”. Clicking on this brings up a form for entering username and email, and another link is sent to their email, which does the same thing and the cycle continues.

Can someone help me check this out? It’s a big problem for me.

I am using WordPress 4.5.2, bbPress 2.5.9, the website is http://www.maternitynest.com

[Vitor Madeira]

@thebrandonallen, that would be great news.

I have a vBulletin project waiting for some details to be available in bbPress for more than one year…

I really would like to integrate the whole ‘ecosystem’ on my site based on WordPress but bbPress is still light years away of what some other (even open source) forum scripts let us do.

Hope 2.6 would be “the” giant leap for bbPress.

[Brandon Allen]

Nevermind. I found the issue. This will be fixed in 2.6.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2961

[Kolchak]

I’m trying to import a phpbb forum with about 50,000 posts into a local dev site.

It continually stalls at “Converting topics (4900-4999)”

I’m trying to follow the instructions here:

Import Troubleshooting

which say to make a copy of the db and drop all records except within the offending range and try the import again to isolate the problematic row.

Should I go into phpbb_topics or phpbb_topics_posted to try and look for the offending problem?

Once I have the right table, do I then delete the first 4899 rows that appear in the db?

I’m using the latest WordPress and have tried both bbpress 2.5.9 and 2.6alpha.

Thanks for any help you can give me.

[Erik D. Slater]

The remaining issues will need to be solved via the MemberPress plugin.

Not necessarily. This might work:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-members-only/

I haven’t had the chance to test it yet … but Jared Atchison is the author, so hopefully it should be good to go.

It’s important that BuddyPress/bbPress is capable of protecting itself first before resorting to other 3rd-party/premium plugins.

[DAM]

BBpress feeds pubDate gets translated using wordpress laguange file (wp-content/languages/IT-it.mo) if for example I manually delete “jan”,”feb”,”mar” from that file bbpress pubDate it still in english, but this is not the best fix…

[kcomphlint]

According to this Trac entry, the bbp_before_get_topic_subscribe_link_parse_args function may be delayed until ver 2.7?

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2581

[arnalyse]

Hi you guys,

I’m in the process of importing a rather large vBulletin board. It has around 50’000 topics and more than 3 million posts.

And I’ve got this one question: does bbPress write out or somehowe save topics, which it couldn’t import? So I can get a glimpse at the problem at hand why a certain vBulletin thread has not been imported?

A little more background: I’ve done a few test imports, and so far bbPress is doing a terrific job. To keep import time manageable, I modified the vBulletin converter from bbPress to skip replies, which I import with some more complex SQL queries after the bbPress importer has created users and topics.

Nearly all of my 20’000 users and 50’000 topics get imported, but some vBulletin threads do not shop up with the meta_key named _bbp_old_topic_id. I really tried to spot a pattern there, but had no luck. So I’m hoping there’s a way to gather some more information directly from the bbPress import.

I’m running bbPress 2.5.9 and WordPress 4.5.2

[elainemarleyit]

I want that my Keymaster can change the bbpress roles of the users but not the wordpress role of the same users, it’s possible? The keymaster is not administrator of my wp site. i can create a new role with User Role Editor Plugin.

[Robkk]

Its probably some plugin hooking into the WordPress comment blacklist that is added a custom list of words to filter out. bbPress uses the WordPress comment blacklist too. Read this post I created awhile back to understand what could cause the issue on your site.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/strange-problem-with-profanity/#post-174953

[Robin W]

what wordpress level are users?

[Robkk]

The files from the bbpress folder can work in a theme folder called bbpress, and also could be at the root of the theme, its just recommended to keep things neat.

It should be any bbP Default theme package template files in the “bbpress” folder that should also be in a “bbpress” folder, 1 css file should go in a css folder or 2 if you read right to left, and you can customize the javascript files in the js folder by putting it in a js folder in your child theme.

The files in the extras folder (they are examples for other themes, but should work for some WordPress default theme, I think Twentytwelve?) and these should be in the root of your theme, with the bbpress.php file.