[manni1970]

Can someone help me?
I just downloaded and installed bbpress.
I have set language in wp_config.php to de_DE.

In WordPress unter Settings/Language is set also to German.

Why does backend and frontend still show up in English?

What else do I need to configure?

[Joseph Di Pasquale]

The title pretty much says it all. I would like to replace the forum role (ex: Participant) with the WordPress role (ex: Member) when a user starts a new a topic or replies. I want the bbPress roles to barely be seem by any of my members. Keep in mind, I am very limited with my coding skills so please be as detailed as possible, thanks!

[hannah.headrick]

Hi,

I am building a forum (http://144.130.51.45/~bslifestyle/forums/forum/bespoke-lifestyles-forum/) with BBPress Version 2.5.7 and can’t get the sidebar to show up on either the page listed or what may be the forum index (http://144.130.51.45/~bslifestyle/forums/). I have contacted the support team for the theme I am using (Dante) and they have said:

“Hi,

Just checked and the same is happening with the other WordPress themes.
You have the latest version of the plugin but looks something is wrong.

Try to upload the plugin files again, if it don’t work you should contact BBPress support to help you to show the sidebar.”

Can I have some help getting the sidebar to display?

Also, as an aside, how can I get sidebars to show up on other forum pages? I have tried multiple plugins and so far none have worked (may be related to the original issue).

Thanks

[raytronx]

Just a follow-up

I was recently able to solve the BCC showing problem by using the plugin – https://wordpress.org/plugins/postman-smtp/

[pandreas]

Thank you all for your replies.

I have found this solution https://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-bbpress-attachments/screenshots/ which works perfectly!!

Regards,

Andreas

[ecorey]

I just saw this reply because I didn’t get an email for some reason. It is the “All Replies” page in the WordPress dashboard.

I will move my most recent image to staging and try the plug-in deactivation. I have a highly customized theme and I am not sure what will happen if I try to switch that. I already ran the repair processes to no avail.

I have noticed that one of my replies has disappeared and I am wondering if it is causing the problem. Is there any other way to see all replies without that page on the WordPress dashboard? Is there something I can do behind the scenes to see it?

[darlingstewie]

I am pretty much out of ideas as to what to do.

Our website is http://www.geekgirlpenpals.com

We have Godaddy managed wordpress hosting. I call their customer support and they have no idea what’s wrong.

We were using the Hueman theme for a long time, and suddenly yesterday the BBpress plugin began acting up and causing a 500 internal server error. It caused those errors on both Posts and Forums. The error only appears to people who are logged in.

Once I deactivated BBpress, the error was gone (but so were the forums)

Since I knew it was BBpress, I uninstalled and reinstalled BBpress plugin. That did not fix it

I turned on the Twenty Fourteen theme and that seems to show the forums fine. So I went ahead and installed a new theme, thinking it must be a theme issue.

The theme worked great for about 5 hours and showed the forums and blog (while logged in, which is when the problem was occuring) but now as of 5 minutes ago – exact same problem.

Feel free to use username jimbob and password jimbobsauce to test the Internal Server Error

HELP 🙁

[Doctor Psyringe]

Revival!

It gets hilariously worse when running a MultiSite – Calling a SubSite “Forum” – then working around this issue. The bigger your site, the less you want everything to weigh for User loading and Server handling. There’s now an option in the bbPress Settings called ‘Prefix all forum content with the Forum Root slug (Recommended)’ – I’ve unchecked it. I’m willing to bet I run into *at least* one hundred different user issues now that I’ve done so. This was definitely designed for the smaller blog, even with it’s latest updates I’m having unrelated issues not addressed in documentation.

I’m an advanced User, too. As cool as BuddyPress is, it’s pretty much useless without bbPress integration. As much as people would like to pretend (yep, you’re dreaming) their running their own “social media website”, it’s an unrealistic dream compared to running a Forum. Financing that dream over the Forum is poor form, but w/e.

By the time it gets addressed, the advanced users with thousands of of hits a day wont change it. Why? Because of the Social Media Integration like Facebook, Twitter, and G+ – NOT BUDDYPRESS (which I run for other much different *fluffy* reasons). Likes and Shares are gold, it’s networking and sales. We will weigh our links; SHARING LINKS and LIKES; over making the url pretty for SEO at that point… no matter how terrific the fix.

8 years too late pretty much. I know it’s community driven – and that’s respectable. Doesn’t change the bigger picture, though, and imo this plugin outweighs BuddyPress in importance concerning the current evolution of WordPress itself.

[Robkk]

WIthout mysql though

Use something like this , or wait til 2.6 when this feature should be added to core.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-topic-count/

[Robkk]

@rashedfoundation

Also, small second question. It happens often that I’m on a site that I *think* I’ve registered on, but haven’t. If someone enters a login that is not correct AND that username doesn’t currently exist, is there a way to redirect to the registration page WITH that username?

So, for example, I type in username: MyFaveUser pw: 1234, and it doesn’t exist in my user table, so the user is redirected to “Hey, MyFaveUser doesn’t exist, but you can register with it! It’s available!” and then autofill the username field with MyFaveUser and leave the pw field blank?

This is some custom development , I suggest you hire a developer if you need help.

As for the login shortcode issue , it might be best for you to link to the default WordPress login page if you are experiencing issue with it. Or just use a better front-end authentication plugin.

[Robkk]

@kellygree

You can use https://wordpress.org/plugins/basic-user-avatars/

or let your users change by directing them to gravatar.com and make sure they use the same email they used on your site.

[Robkk]

Just so you guys know WordPress comes with its own emoticons and also since the latest version you can post emojis.

wp-monalisa is a good plugin for custom smilies and stickers though.

It also has a cool feature to import some phpBB smiley packs.

[Stephen Edgar]

Two functions bbp_update_reply_position() and bbp_get_reply_position_raw() are what you need to look at:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/2.5/includes/replies/functions.php#L2113
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/2.5/includes/replies/functions.php#L2149

The two functions above are what calculates the reply position in the database as it doesn’t actually exist in the database until either a) a new reply is added to a topic or b) the repair tool is ran to calculate the reply order.

[Stephen Edgar]

You would want to do a search and replace in your database to change it from a BBCode link to a compatible link e.g. http://youtube.com/video_url.

I’m not familiar with “Aeva media” so can’t really help in that regard.

Using a search and replace plugin like the following might be what you need:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/search-and-replace/

You would search for the “Aeva media” BBCode, eg. [aver_video]video_url[/aver_video] and replace it with http://aver-vidio-domain.com/video_url

[Stephen Edgar]

Found the patch, it needs lots of testing and I haven’t had the time to take even a cursory look at it yet https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2731, so lets leave that aside for now.

The code is here, I’m not sure your level of PHP knowledge but I’ll just add the link to it for now and will follow up after you’ve had a look at the code:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/2.5/includes/admin/tools.php#L1134

[pandreas]

Is there an easy way to add custom fields to the front-end of bbpress?

I am using some custom fields (file, image attachments) with the help of this plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/ so I add them to support bbpress forums and topics as well.

But these custom fields are available only to back-end of topics and forums and not to the front-end.

How can this change?

Thank you in advanced!

Andreas

[Robkk]

I’m not really sure you have to worry about the post meta table?? Nevermind it is most likely important for post IDs and such.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Database_Description#Table:_wp_postmeta

And as for sql code to check DB for consistency , I do not know what to tell ya there either.

[mmice]

@robkk oh, G-d! I know that ))) I have been using a bb_ prefix for my WordPress install )))
So yep, – i have all posts in bb_posts (if i used wp_ prefix, it would be wp_posts).

[Robkk]

@mmice

bbPress v2 does not have a bb_posts database table , that is in bbPress v1 standalone. Which is what @netweb is referring that you are trying to import into the old v1 version even though your suppose to import to the latest version.

All of bbPress data is stored inside of the WordPress database tables.

In this guide I explain it.

Stored Database Data

[Robkk]

Its custom code to this site.

There might be some tutorial, I think someone linked to it before on here but I can’t remember where ti was.

This plugin has something close , but it has no styling.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-info-widgets/

[nicnack]

Hi There ~ How can I make a forum only available to those who log in to the membership part of the site (using (wp-members plugin)? normally I can set which pages/post are private, but since the BBforum seems to dynamically create a page, Im not sure how to do this…?

WordPress 4.2.2
bbpress Version 2.5.7
link: http://www.laadda.com/2015/forums/forum/adda-forum/

Thanks!

[Stephen Edgar]

So I edited the post and copied the SQL code to a gist on GitHub:

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/8d1cb71e69d52ac69f5d

First, it looks like you are importing the phpBB into bbPress 1.x, bbPress 1.x is not supported anymore.

Per @robkk post immediately above you should checkout that link to our docs on the codex on importing to bbPress 2.x, and in general look toward using the bbPress 2.x plugin for WordPress https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/

I’d suggest taking a look at our phPBB v3.x importer and making any change to match the phpBB v1.x database schema changes you would need:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/2.5/includes/admin/converters/phpBB.php

[thierryyyyyyy]

I’m also interested.

I actually don’t need the wordpress blog at all, I would prefere to have a separate installation for my forum… and then, I don’t want to have a “/forum” in the URL.

I tried to put my “bbpress.php” template as the “index.php” template in the theme : stupid idea !
I got the blog posts inside the forum template (as actually one might expect…)

I also tried to configure the “forum root” parameter (the folder name) as “”. did not work (Yeah, I also doubted, but I had to try)

it should exists something linked with permalinks to do such a thing, isn’t ?

[bexinul]

Hello,

I am trying to import my Kunena 3 forum to bbPress when switching from Joomla to WordPress.

The import always fails with this error:

WordPress database error: [Table 'bcbrainois2.jos_kunena_topics' doesn't exist]
SELECT convert(kunena_messages.id USING "utf8") AS id,convert(kunena_messages.catid USING "utf8") AS catid,convert(kunena_messages.thread USING "utf8") AS thread,convert(kunena_messages.ip USING "utf8") AS ip,convert(kunena_messages.userid USING "utf8") AS userid,convert(kunena_messages.subject USING "utf8") AS subject,convert(kunena_messages_text.message USING "utf8") AS message,convert(kunena_messages.time USING "utf8") AS time FROM jbcb_kunena_messages AS kunena_messages LEFT JOIN jbcb_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

My table prefix is jbcb_ I don’t know why the importer tries to import a jos_ table which doesn’t exist…

And the result of the import is a forum without any post, just the topics are imported.

Can someone help me on that one?

Thanks a lot,

Nicolas

[stevenwb]

Hi Robkk

Thanks for your message. I have tried to upload both of the fixes you mentioned but they will not load. I did it through the plugin dashboard on wordpress, and both caused an error.

Steve