no simple way to do this in your functions file, the bbpress widgets are pretty unforgiving in allowing you to tinker with them.
two immediate choices – fork the widgets code into your functions file and rename it – requires some php and WordPress knowledge or
Just amend it in the bbpress file – AND make a note to need to change it on bbpress upgrades.
The latter upsets the purists, but it’s only codes and you can’t be arrested for changing code !
Strange, can you open bbpress-cs.po in a text editor and confirm that these exist in the .po file:
The original string:
• Your username must be unique, and cannot be changed later.
The “waiting” string for the “dev” (2.6-alpha) translations
• Vaše přezdívka musí být unikátní a nejde později změnit.
The “waiting” string for the “stable” (2.5.x) translations
• Vaše uživatelské jméno musí být jedinečné, a nelze ho měnit.
and i dev version have error even though the prefix is standardized and previously worked (phpbb_)
Repair any missing information: Continue
WordPress database error: [Unknown column ‘forums.forum_topics_approved’ in ‘field list’]
SELECT convert(forums.forum_id USING “utf8”) AS forum_id,convert(forums.parent_id USING “utf8”) AS parent_id,convert(forums.forum_topics_approved USING “utf8”) AS forum_topics_approved,convert(forums.forum_posts_approved USING “utf8”) AS forum_posts_approved,convert(forums.forum_name USING “utf8”) AS forum_name,convert(forums.forum_desc USING “utf8”) AS forum_desc,convert(forums.left_id USING “utf8”) AS left_id,convert(forums.forum_type USING “utf8”) AS forum_type,convert(forums.forum_status USING “utf8”) AS forum_status FROM phpbb_forums AS forums LIMIT 0, 100
No forums to convert
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Yes you can do this, but without checking lost of coding I’d suggest you try
https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-access-manager/
which lets you control who can see what in the backend.
Hello, I have spent 5 years on my site and downloaded bb press today because of all the great things they said about it on this site.
Now I can no longer access my dashboard to edit anything.
I have been deleting plugins from my file manager in cpanel but it’s not helping.
I have found some things in the forums and tried to change all my wordpress user roles and capablities to the defaults but it’s not doing anything.
I noticed that registration was disabled too so i re-enabled it in the database.
Now my site and database are a complete mess and I have no idea how to fix it.
Why would you ever release this software?
No one will answer me either.
5 years of nonstop hard work and it’s not looking good.
I just saved up for 4 years and did a 20k ad campaign too.
For others I was able to remove the widget by adding the following line to [wp docroot]/wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php
remove_meta_box('bbp-dashboard-right-now', 'dashboard', 'core');
Specifically line 55, just above the line
// WordPress News
I try to move a forum of users, topics, etc. Forum Invision v.2.3.6 is bbPress 2.5.8. I display the following messages:
No stickies to stick
No topics to convert
No forum parents to convert
No forums to convert
No passwords to clear
No users to convert
No data to clean
What I did.
1) I exported MySQL database from the old server
2) ive loaded the mysql database on the target server with the installed version of WordPress / bbPress
3) I turned on the importer
Can you advise me something?
suggest you try their support forums, as they have experience of bbpress (they use it for their support forum), whereas I doubt if any of the mods on here have looked at their plugin.
https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/event-espresso-decaf
and
https://eventespresso.com/support/forums/
I think for Czech the files should be bbpress-cs.mo and bbpress-cs.po
When you export the translations from translate.wordpress.org you should also change a couple of the defaults:
• Make sure the filter Current/waiting/fuzzy + untranslated (All) is showing the waiting translation
• Select the only matching the filter and then click export to export the .po .mo (This way you’ll get the those strings that have not yet been approved)
Theres some docs here that should help you in troubleshooting these issues:
Import Troubleshooting
Can I also suggest you use the development version of bbPress, there are some pretty big improvements for the importer in this upcoming version 😉
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/developers/
https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bbpress.zip
Hi Naerean,
Are you running WordPress 4.4 ? Then wait a little bit for the 4.4.1 fix as the current version has some issues with hidden forums.
If you cannot wait, then check the following discussion: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/oops-that-page-cant-be-found-on-sub-forums/page/3
Pascal.
SUMMARY OF ISSUE AND TEMPORARY FIXES
So summary to save people needing to read this whole thread
There is an issue with WordPress 4.4 and bbpress which should (hopefully) be fixed by WordPress 4.4.1 when it is released.
The issue only affects sub forums that are private or hidden, when you will get a 404 error as the url cannot be correctly interpreted.
For those interested:
The root cause of the issue is hierarchal post URL’s with custom post statuses, so in bbPress case if we have a “private” forum that uses a custom post status “private”, as such when we expect our URL to be e.g.: https://example.com/forums/forum/my-private-or-hidden-category/my-forum
If the forum or category my-private-or-hidden-category is private or hidden then the URL generated for the my-forum excludes the my-private-or-hidden-category part of the URL and the resulting url is https://example.com/forums/forum/my-forum which is incorrect, bad and makes us sad
To fix in the meantime you have 4 choices
either
a. Stay with 4.4 then implement the following
open wp-includes/post.php, scroll to about line 4300 to find function get_page_uri( $page )
In that function replace
if ( 'publish' === $parent->post_status ) {
with
if ( ! empty( $parent ) ) {
If you try this, please advise if this doesn’t fix for you.
or
b. Change your sub forums to main forums – it is only sub forums that are affected
or
c. In theory you could just make your private forums public, but suspect you have them private for a reason !
or
d. Revert to 4.3 and then for each forum affected change the status from private/hidden to public, save and then change back to how you want it and save.
I must admit I’m a newbie to WordPress and php in general. I have a wordpress/woocommerce site I’m building, and it is membership controlled. I’m using the FEuser plugin to control membership. It has a lot of features we wanted, such as email confirmation, and admin approval. Plus it keeps members separate from the wordpress user database, as we don’t want to give customers access to the dashbboard. We recently decided to add a forum to the site, and I’m having a problem getting bbPress to use the membership data from FEuser, instead of the wordpress user database. I don’t even know where to look to change this. I know the fields in the database I want it to use, but I don’t know what file, or where, I have to modify to point bbPress at that instead of at the normal wordpress fields. Can someone point me in the right direction?
There is a new fix, rather an alternate that better detects and reflects the root cause of the issue:
Replace if ( 'publish' === $parent->post_status ) { with if ( ! empty( $parent ) ) {
The full details can be viewed in the WordPress ticket:
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35084
And the latest patch:
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/35084/35084.5.diff
Also please refrain from email, the bbPress team can only respond to issues we can read here in the public forums or our bug tracking and reporting system. If the current fix here is not working for you please add that here with as much detail as you can so that we can try and configure our forum configuration to match yours and reproduce the issue.
I run a multisite installation of WordPress 4.4 and bbPress 2.4 installed with the Twenty Twelve theme.
I exported “all current” bbpress-cs_CZ.mo and bbpress-cs_CZ.po files at https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/bbpress/dev/cs/default?filters%5Bterm%5D=Your+username+must+be+unique%2C+and+cannot+be+changed+later.&filters%5Buser_login%5D=&filters%5Bstatus%5D=current_or_waiting_or_fuzzy_or_untranslated&filter=Filter&sort%5Bby%5D=priority&sort%5Bhow%5D=desc
The first thing is, that all strings in exported files are in english. I manualy changed the string “Your username must be unique, and cannot be changed later.” to “Vaše přezdívka musí být unikátní a nejde později změnit.” in the bbpress-cs_CZ.mo and inserted that file via ftp to these folders:
/matia.info/wp-content/languages/bbpress
/matia.info/wp-content/languages/plugins
/matia.info/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/languages
None of them works though. My site is at http://www.objasnujeme.cz/registrace/
There is a string “Your username must be unique, and cannot be changed later.” instead of the czech translation.
@robin-w, I have FTP access but GoDaddy only gives read access to core files. This is their “Managed WordPress” account. It’s optimized for speed with a caching proxy designed for WordPress and is faster than a regular hosting account. One of the few drawbacks I suppose.
Hello,
I am completely new to WordPress and bbpress. I have installed the Theme Forest Cinematix theme on my website. It was working fine with bbpress, but it was only displaying 50 forums and I have 62. I was told to go in and change that to the number I needed using the bbpress/includes/forums/template.php and I did this without any problem. It worked fine for a few days, but now it takes forever to load the forums page and it will only show blue links when it does finally load. http://www.nurseboards.com/forums/
If you access the forum through the buddypress groups pages then they look fine. This is really frustrating for me because I don’t know anything about coding. I emailed the theme author, but have had no response. Please help?
Thanks in advance!
Thanks Stephen, I appreciate the feedback. All great suggestions. Unfortunately GoDaddy has made it clear that they will absolutely never update a core WordPress file, nor can they roll back an update even if I wanted to restore the DB on top of a rolled back version. I’ll have to wait for the next release or make my forums public in the mean time.
Hi
We are using bbPress plugin for our forums. We also have the bbPRess-wp4 installed and activated. When we create a private forum the forum topics show up properly. However when we click on the individual topics, it loads contents of the first topic in the forum. For example I have the following private forum called FEA Team. Under it are topics
Test1
Test2
Test3
bbpress Version:2.5.8-5815.
wordpress Version 4.3.1
Clicking on Test3/Test2 does not open the correct topic. It opens Test1- the first topic always. This happens only in private forums. I appreciate any help / info.
Rrusa
Here a solution that worked perfectly for me, from ‘Tylersoden’
If anyone stumbles upon this thread and is interested in a css solution, here is the code I use. It goes in the ‘Appearance’ -> ‘Editor’ section on the wordpress control panel or in ‘~/<your theme folder>/style.css’:
.bbp-template-notice.info { display: none; }
@bsilverop I’ve asked a couple of people for there feedback:
A suggestion was that you could send the following link to GoDaddy that explains the cause of the issue and the fix that will ship as part of WordPress 4.4.1, maybe they’d be prepared to then consider allowing this:
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35084
Further, you could take a backup of your current database in its current state, roll back the site to the last 4.3.x version backup you have, then merge in the database changes for the backup you just made. This of course is easier said than done and is far from the easiest of tasks unless you are proficient in MySQL 😉
The 3rd option was to switch to a host that allows some flexibility 😉
I’ll try to get an update from the WordPress Core folks on an approximate timeline of when WordPress 4.4 will ship and post that back here once I know.
So does this change just get rolled in to the next version of WordPress? My hosting provider (GoDaddy) wont allow me to change this file as it is a “core” WordPress file, nor can they roll back without rolling the whole site back to the way it was before the update. They have no exception process that allows me to update the file, so I imagine that means I wont be able to fix this until the next version of WordPress is released?
Thanks!
For any others that may need help:
In the latest wordpress installation the “BBloggin Widget” is called “BBpress Login widget” and you drop it in the “Primary widget area” which is located on the right of the middle.
Hello,
I’m pretty new to wordpress+bbpress (been working with it for a few days now). In the past I have used other forum boards, but since I’m using wordpress now I figured while the hell not try out bbpress ?
So far I like it, I’m still working things out but I managed to do what i wanted using google when I was hitting a wall.
Now, what i’d like to do is change bbpress layout from this :
to something like this :
Even with some research I don’t know what/how to modify this. I have read the “Layout and functionality – Examples you can use” in the codex (and actually used one to get the forum list to be block instead of inline) but it doesn’t mention this kind of modification.
My html/css/php knowledge is really basic, and obviously not enough to do this on my own.
If someone could point me in the right direction I’d gladly appreciate it. Thanks !
Wordpress version : 4.4
bbpress version : 2.5.8-5815
theme used : vantage
There is no answer from the specialists
It is the holidays where I am from.
The currently browsing each post functionality, I am not sure, there is not a plugin that I am aware of that can do this for bbPress specifically or for WordPress custom post types. There are user online plugins that display all users online on the site as an alternative to this. You may need to hire a developer to create this currently browsing functionality for you.
– bbPress Advanced Statistics
– WP – useronline
The images by each forum, follow this topic.
add a "Featured Image" to a forum
