its better if you have some kind of community already like from users commenting on your site a lot , or facebook/twitter users.
but i have seen people pay for other people to make the site look active.
i have also saw a video about the creators of the reddit.com site use to make a bunch of dummy accounts that they would switch to , to make their site seem active.
if you are going to switch to a bunch of accounts
this might help
https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-switching/
well a good idea would be to have a tinymce button that pops up a modal when clicked and shows an upload button to add images and then you would accept the uploaded pictures and post it in the content with an anchor tag wrapped image. but we do not have anything like that.
for now you can use this plugin to upload pictures
https://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-bbpress-attachments/
and oembed would automactically embed any links to images from imugur and flickr.
you could also use the img button to show an image from external sources too.
@vinzen
you can create a new widget based off of the default recent topics widget and customize it to your liking. or you can edit this
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-advanced-recent-topics-widget/
and add the topic tag thing you want.
s2member will allow creating a paid membership bbpress site and restrict access to specific forums by user role (membership level)
https://wordpress.org/plugins/s2member/
paid membership pro works with bbpress as well, requires (free) optional add-on plugins to restrict forums per member levels and/or per user role
https://wordpress.org/plugins/paid-memberships-pro/
sam
Hi,
I am currently converting over a fairly large Xenforo forum to bbPress.
Something like 14,000 users – 41,000 topics – 250,000 replies.
I managed to move everything over without much effort or problem; let it run overnight..
The problem I’m having is running repair.
I managed to run ALL repair functions (one at a time) except:
[Recalculate the position of each reply]
Is this really required? I’m 6 hours into my 3rd attempt.
I keep having to adjust this or that, increase this or that, and raise Execution time, etc.
Even got a white screen a few times which I assumed was a timeout.
My server has virtually unlimited resources. It has 64gb of memory and 12 cores I believe. It is divided up into two seperate VMs. 8GB Ram for the database server and the remaining for the web server. Only using SSD drives. Only 4 wordpress sites running on server.
I’ve read that some imports don’t require the [Recalculate the position of each reply] to be run but I don’t know if Xenforo imports require it.
Really appreciate some insight.
Thanks,
Tim Ehrenkaufer – Tomorrows Retail, LLC.
Hello,
I’d like to find a way to have all users on the forums be able to upload images and have them embedded in a post. I’ve tried both solutions below and Enable TinyMCE Visual Tab only links the image and inserting the code from the second link doesn’t work.
bbPress Enable TinyMCE Visual Tab
Add media upload button to bbpress
Any new insight on achieving this? The media button would be perfect for what I’m looking for.
Thanks!
thanks I follow your instruction has u said, but when I try to register it direct me to my wordpress login page click here and here also please am new to wordpress, help me
Hey,
Rob Dyson looked over my site and finally came up with a plugin to use:https://wordpress.org/plugins/asyncronous-bbpress-subscriptions/
This solved my problem immediatly, so Thanks alot to him!!:)
Hi,
I haven’t changed anything to my wordpress or BBPress, but for some reason, people can’t post long forum posts.
They click post, the page refreshes, they’re at the top of the page, and then scroll down and see the post in the posting area, unposted.
Weird.
Can anyone help?
Regards,
Simon
Indeed we use the user ID, an integer, the only work around for this would be to make a custom user table in one of two ways:
1) A a table with a unique ID linked to each email and join this table in the the user section of the import script
2) Similar to the above, but add a column to each of your four databases with a unique ID for each email address that will be common across all four DB’s.
Thinking out loud both above and now, option 1 is kind of out, to keep performance reasonably quickly each forum, topic, and reply uses an integer ID for the post and bbPress uses this same method for all 25 importers except one, only one includes the email address of the poster in the topic and reply tables and each topic/reply is imported based on the original topic/reply author ID.
In the end (or the beginning) you need to “normalise” your data from 4 databases to match 1, thinking the other way round, do your import into 4 separate WordPress installs and then merge the 4 WP install DB tables into a single DB. The benefit of this is that all your data will be now “normalised” in the WordPress format and then it’s a matter of updating the duplicate user ID’s to the primary user ID and remove the now redundant user ids.
@thesocialrefugee
you can use bbPress profile code on Woocommerce templates if you know what you are doing.
it could just be copying the user-details.php file from the bbPress templates and adding a simple link to your my account page from wwocommerce.
i suggest you hire a developer if you want anymore customization and possible merging templates of bbPress and Woocommerce.
http://jobs.wordpress.net/
Hello , i just installed bbpress on my wordpress , i opened new Theme page and echo shortcode [bbp-forum-index] , i can see the forum , but when enter the test forum , it’s not enter inside it , what to do i don’t know bbPress much , here a link to my forum page :
http://xn—-7hcbracas6eta3ak.tv/forums/
sorry for Language but you should understand because forums is at middle there and i am sure you can see it clearly , Thanks in advacned.
well you can have wordpress at the root of your whole site and not just have it in a folder.
if you do that all you would have to do is create a seperate blog page and a static home page.
your blog page would show all your recent posts like it would by default.
if you install bbPress while WordPress is not in a subfolder , by default the forum archive url will be yoursite.com/forums but you could change the forum slug to ‘forum’ or remove the ‘forums’ slug because your url will look like yoursite.com/forum/forum/forum-name instead of the default yoursite.com/forums/forum/forum-name.
Does that work out for you?? or is there a specific reason you want wordpress to be in a blog folder.
@jayd94
do not create duplicate topics , and do not bump a topics especially with just a period.
Because i hate trying to guess what could cause the issue , you can send me login details to a new Admin account so i can overview your site to find what may cause the issue. Im not going to change any setting but just look over everything, if i think something could be causing the issue i will email you what it is. When I’m done overlooking everything i will email you that im done , then you could delete the Admin account you created for me.
Contact
When a user activates the plugin, they get three new items on their wp-admin board. Forums, Topics, and Replies.
Then in the tools section we have tools to solve basic issues with the plugin.
Finally in the Settings tab we have the Forums menu again to allow us to control basic settings of the plugin.
The problem with this layout… It’s TOO much and it’s very scattered. I would think the admin structure would be better if we took all the different items and put them under 1 category. Forum or bbPress whichever sounds better I guess.
From there we would have the main landing page which would either be the latest update information or the settings page.
Across the top we would have replies, forums, topics. (in any order I suppose). Then from there we would have the ability to create new or edit past pages in those categories.
Pros
– Much Cleaner administration board
– Easier to find what you are looking for.
Cons
– More clicking to get to certain sections.
Just an idea I had because WordPress administration boards seem to be getting cluttered these days.
@marjons
However, the auto mentions only work from the text tab (not the visual), is this a bug?
i think the functionality to make the script work for the TinyMCE visual editor is not possible now. You see that we are basically just borrowing the script from BuddyPress to work for bbPress forums , and also that neither bbPress and BuddyPress have the visual editor in their default installations without some plugins or functions added.
It is possible to make it work for TInyMCE though, you would probably have to use some of the code of this auto-complete plugin for TinyMCE.
https://github.com/abrimo/TinyMCE-Autocomplete-Plugin
If you want to develop some custom functionality to make it work for your client ,only thing i can suggest is look over how this plugin is developed and see how they make it work for TinyMCE and of course add on to the script from the BuddyPress plugin.
wordpress.org/plugins/mentionable/
Other than that maybe decide to disable the visual editor for bbPress to make it work fine.
Also, it seems that some users get a notification, but some are not.
If you are talking about the notifications users get when @mentioned , then go to the BuddyPress Support forums for help on this.
https://buddypress.org/support/
Hello
I installed Wpress in a Windows host, with IIS and I am having this message for create new topics and reply existing topics on bbPress Plugin for wordpress.
My wordpress is the 4.2.2 and the bbPress plugin is 2.5.6.
Someone could help-me? I did search for a long time in the web but didnt find solution for this.
Thanks for all!
Hello,
My solution will only work if your SMTP is working fine.
I am using
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/
with mandrill and my forums never has issues. I have 10k+ active members and no hiccups till now
I have spent days trying to only show the topics created by the user. Using the user-topics-created.php and my own template. All my result shows is “This user has not created any topics.”. What am I missing?
My goal is to create my own wordpress page template to show the user’s created topics without having the entire bbpress profile menu.
Please help!
Hi Robkk,
Thanks you for your response. I tried what you instructed me but that didn’t worked out because I am using a framework, Genesis framework.
I resolved the issues by just installing this plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-genesis-extend/ and it worked like a charm! 🙂
@sina_mech
if your looking for something custom post a job and maybe a developer would create this functionality for you.
http://jobs.wordpress.net/
you can do new page.
just create a new page in wordpress called new-topic or something.
put the shortcode [bbp-topic-form] in it.
then change my function to this instead.
function rk_new_topic_button() {
echo '<a href="/new-topic/" class="bbp-new-topic-button button btn input[type="button"]" >New Topic</a>';
}
add_action('bbp_template_before_topics_loop','rk_new_topic_button');
if your client is really keen, suggest
http://jobs.wordpress.net/
I want to use post tag in topic tag. I do not want to create all tag again
how to do that?
wordpress v4.1.1
bbpress v2.5.6
bbpress uses custom post types in wordpress.
Every wordpress post gets a unique number, as do edits and other stuff.
so if you posted a forum topic it might get say id #1000, then a wordpress blog would get the next number #1001, the say a reply to a different forum topic orum topic #1002, then if you create a new page that would get #1003, then the first response the actual forum topic would get #1004
You’d need to write a whole new numbering system to make your request work !
