[Stephen Edgar]

@bestru Thanks, there is a minor bug in the SMF, it has been fixed for the next release.

If you take a look at this https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/5332 and change that mistaken <tt> for <br> in the SMF.php file things should work just fine.

Let me know how that goes for you 🙂

[Robin W]

check out this reference (bbp_has_topics passes the info to wp_query)

https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query

about two thirds of the way down (and it’s a long way down!) you’ll find date parameters and examples

[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 twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[Hard Seat Sleeper]

Stephen my rant was no way a slight against you and your work, assuming you’re the lead programmer? I know it’s been a hard road, I’ve been using bbpress since version .9, and seen a few leads over the years.

Much to my delight, the posts in the wp category were not deleted, just the category itself. So I just recreated the category and put those posts in it again.

But the tags in the wordpress site were definitely overwritten in the migration, including any custom taxonomies using the same slugs.

The community I’m involved with is large and active. Since the forum went live again they are back to posting. We’re kind of tied to bbpress as long as it’s supported and is feasible. Here’s hoping the future is bright.

[Cariva]

Hi everyone, I’ve seen several questions kind of like this one but not exactly, so forgive me if it’s been answered and I’ve missed it!

Wordpress 4.0, bbPress 2.5.4.

What I need is a forum that only a specific group of people (several hundred, increasing annually) can view and use. Because of the numbers involved it’s not practical to manually add them to an allowed list for the forum.

Solution idea 1:
A Forum page which shows you just a Login form, plus a Sign Up form. The Sign Up form has an additional field for a specific code, which we will distribute to our members via a Mailchimp list.

Solution idea 2:
The Sign Up form automatically cross-references with the Mailchimp list, so that only people who are already on the list are able to sign up for the forum.

Your help enormously appreciated!

Cariva

[xprt007]

Hi

I am having quite a strange problem with a test site leading to a re-direction to what appears to be the front page [In firefox, up the browser in page title section, you see “Posts – Site Name”], considering the content, if I try to go to the recommended & set abc/forums main page. Furthermore, if I try to VIEW any created, “published” forum, I get a page not found error.

This site is in a folder /abc. The site in the root folder has no problem with accessing site-in-rootfolder.com/forums. So i assume it is not a server-settings issue.

Other plugins, including 2 or so requiring “post name” permalink settings have no problem with the link settings, except one, “RecipePress reloaded”, whose author also recommends “post name” permalinks. With this, one should be able to access the main recipe page at mysite.com/abc/recipes. Instead, like in the bbforum case, although the url appears correctly, the content is clearly that of the blog front page!
Resetting the permalinks, like he recommends, changes nothing.
After explaining the problem to him, he said it was a bug in the plugin & the code he gave me to try out, partly corrected the problem, because mysite.com/abc/recipes this time correctly showed the main recipes page. The only problem is, it seems to affect other links leading to page not found errors until I either remove the code or disable the recipe plugin.
That code was just for testing, so I guess he is going to improve on it.

Since the bbforum plugin (& this recipepress reloaded), unlike ALL other plugins which are all OK & their respective content can be found in its rightful place, I guess there is an issue also with bbforum.

I have tried to unistall & re-install bbforum/buddy press, deactivated the rest of the plugins, etc to no avail.
This is the .htaccess I have, or get whenever I reset the permalinks:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /abc/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /abc/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

For buddypress, the links to members, groups, etc are all OK.

I hope with the description of the problem, the source of & solution to the issue can be identified & suggested.

I am using the latest version of WordPress & all modules.
Same problem when using twentythirteen theme.

Link

PS: in case a helper finds the conditions on site different from those described, it might be code from the author of recipress reloaded plugin, which has a similar issue is being tested or implemented.

Thank you in advance.

[Robin W]

I want the forum menu link to be visible but nothing else, no forum titles/topics etc simply a login panel and a message explaining that the forum is for members only.

ok, put the following in your functions file

//Stop non-logged in user seeing the forums and show forum login page instead

function lab_logged_in_bbptopics($have_posts){
	if (!is_user_logged_in()){
		header("Location: /forum-login/");
		exit ;
		}
return $have_posts;
}
add_filter('bbp_has_topics', 'lab_logged_in_bbptopics');
add_filter('bbp_has_forums', 'lab_logged_in_bbptopics');
add_filter('bbp_has_replies', 'lab_logged_in_bbptopics');

The create a page called ‘forum login’ and ensure the permalink is set to ‘forum-login’. You can actually use any name or permalinl, but the permalink has to match the one in line 3 above.

into that page you can put something like

You must be both registered AND a member of the club to use the forums.

If you are not a member, why not <a href="/join-us/"> Join the club </a>

Otherwise please login in

[bbp-login]

Then create a ‘join-us’ page that they can go to.

If I disable the toolbar in this way, will I need a plugin to allow users to make basic changes to their profile in an environment that is consistent with the front end of the website?

There are several ways to get an edit profile – this one adds it to your custom menu if they are logged in

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

[Stephen Edgar]

A sleepless week later, it is done.

Been there, done that 😉

First, it imported all posts, even years-old spam, so I deleted that migration and figured out how to really delete spam in the standalone, and then imported again.

Tough gig, but once it is done it is done…

Then I found out that tags were not integrated, rather if tags were in the forum, they simply deleted any tags or custom taxonomies with the same name in the wordpress install. The site relies heavily on these tags, so we we spent a few days re-tagging everything and re-checking.

Tags should indeed work and import as expected, for example, here on bbpress.org this was imported using the same importer you used.

The “profile” tag ~7 year old topics -> https://bbpress.org/forums/topic-tag/profile/page/7/

Now this morning I see that one entire category of the wp install was deleted. Luckily it was not a heavily trafficked section of the site. At this point we’ve put days of work into this data, so rather than roll back, we’ll recreate that category.

WordPress deleted a category or forum? or was the category/forum not imported?

bbpress has given our site community many things over the years, I can’t complain at all. But the new version is much slower than the standalone version, and much harder for us to edit and modify. My viewers actually have a diminished experience now.

We are improving performance for the next release and yes, things are different now that it is a WordPress plugin, I can’t even begin to count the improvements I’d like added to bbPress, there are many, but not so much time to make it all happen quickly. 🙂

The tide has turned over the years. While WordPress fumbled with bbpress and buddypress, Facebook came to the fore and basically sucked all the community out of the wp platform. It’s a shame, and not likely to turn around for any of us here. I applaud the hard work of the devs who worked on this platform over the years, but it has been an exhausting experience this last week, and I am not done yet. It will be another sleepless night.

Thanks for applause and migrating data from one platform to another is not the easiest thing in the world, I’ve tried to help make it easier and more reliable but again more can be done and not enough time to do it.

[Hard Seat Sleeper]

I was using a standalone bbpress for many years, but the latest WordPress update did something to mess up cookie integration. The writing was on the wall for my old standalone forum, I decided to move forward and upgrade and migrate.

A sleepless week later, it is done.

First, it imported all posts, even years-old spam, so I deleted that migration and figured out how to really delete spam in the standalone, and then imported again.

Then I found out that tags were not integrated, rather if tags were in the forum, they simply deleted any tags or custom taxonomies with the same name in the wordpress install. The site relies heavily on these tags, so we we spent a few days re-tagging everything and re-checking.

Now this morning I see that one entire category of the wp install was deleted. Luckily it was not a heavily trafficked section of the site. At this point we’ve put days of work into this data, so rather than roll back, we’ll recreate that category.

bbpress has given our site community many things over the years, I can’t complain at all. But the new version is much slower than the standalone version, and much harder for us to edit and modify. My viewers actually have a diminished experience now.

The tide has turned over the years. While WordPress fumbled with bbpress and buddypress, Facebook came to the fore and basically sucked all the community out of the wp platform. It’s a shame, and not likely to turn around for any of us here. I applaud the hard work of the devs who worked on this platform over the years, but it has been an exhausting experience this last week, and I am not done yet. It will be another sleepless night.

[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 twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[Robin W]

yes I believe it will be fixed in wordpress 4.0.1 (it was a wordpress change), but no idea when that is coming out

[chero123]

no way to make it without widget? :\

something like this in SMF: Advanced Recent Posts

and below recent post, the forums as normally appear, with widget the wordpress is not pleasing to the eye

kind regards 🙂

[Robin W]

Many plugins are not ‘maintained’ as this take time, and if no functionality is being added, the authors can be working on other things, or have just got bored! I think it is a shame.

However many still work fine, and if not there are usually alternatives.

I haven’t tried it, but take a look at

https://wordpress.org/plugins/export-user-data/

[Stephen Edgar]

@tehred Go to SMF’s website to find details on how to install SMF, you probably want to install the same version that the database backup is from (if you know it).

You should have a MySQL database backup, typically these are named filename.sql, filename.sql.zip or filename.gz, this is an actual export of the database data rather than the actual files used as part of the website.

You should be able to import (once you find it) that file into MySQL as a new database, then you point bbPress’ import to that database name in the import settings along with username and password and table prefix (most likely smf_).

Once you start running the import it copies the data from your old SMF database into the WordPress database you are using with bbPress, your original SMF database is not altered in anyway, it is still best practice to make sure you have backups of your SMF and WordPress database all the same.

[tehred]

@stephen, a couple things to know:
– I am using a backup from SMF. I no longer have access to the server that SMF was installed on. I don’t know if a backup and an export are the same thing. I feel like they probably are not.

– Assuming they are not, I am looking at instructions on how to install SMF on a temp server so I can import the backup, and then export the database.

– Assuming I get the export done, what I feel like you are telling me is that I need to import that file into the MySQL running on the server WordPress is on. I am assuming that I create a new database to import the data into. Once that is done, i run the converter on that new database.
– Does this convert that new database, or create a new database that has the bbPress info in it?

[jugoretz]

Yeah, not trying to be discouraging, @nathanegraham, but this is a bug–and I am already running WordPress 4.0 and still experiencing the problem.

Activating network-wide also has the consequence that sites that do not need bbPress, but do need other plugins, sometimes have trouble with those other plugins because of conflicts with bbPress (I’m suspecting that as a problem now with Join My Multisite plugin).

Would be great to see a fix soon, if possible! @netweb? Anyone?

[23kulpamens]

Like in title. I can’t figure out how to load theme surroundings. This is all I see when i enter profile site like: example.com/forums/user/user_name

I assume that wordpress call template user-details.php, but I can’t figure out whole path that it makes to get view done.

Could anybody direct me to right part od documentation or some tutorial?

[Robkk]

maybe your wordpress upload size is 2mb , or a cdn/security solution is limiting the upload size of your site from other users ??

dont know contact plugin author.

[Robkk]

if you really want the replies and topics to be on the products page.

this would require custom development

http://jobs.wordpress.net/

#1 outsourcing service for WordPress

if you want bbpress/woocommerce integration

i think there is some plugins that would help, cant think of them right at the moment.

[Robkk]

search up wordpress oembed , maybe you have images that arent supported by oembed so you cant click them and go to the image source.

also if you dont have auto-embed links checked in settings>forums oembed wont work at all.

and im just going to say lightbox functionality would require custom development , if you want functionality like that.

[Robin W]

probably several ways you could do this.

Quickest I can think of is to alter the loop-single reply template

You should really do this in a child theme, as otherwise theme upgrades will overwrite this – google wordpress child theme video for lots of useful videos on how to do this – it’s quick and simple.

Create a bbPress folder in your theme :

Wp-content/%yourthemename%/bbpress

Where %yourthemename% is the name of your theme.

Then go into

Wp-content/plugins/templates/default/bbpress/loop-single-reply-php

Copy this file into the bbPress folder in your theme. bbPress will now use this file instead of the default, and you can amend this file.

line 61 does the content styling, so quickest to alter the background of this file.

so you would put a check I their for keymaster, and if so, use a different class that has a different background.

How up on coding and css are you, so that I don’t spend hours typing what you already know?

[Robkk]

buddypress and bbpress are plugins for wordpress, so they need wordpress to work.

bbpress does have an older standalone version of itself, it can work by itself.
Using it with newer versions of wordpress might cause issues.

About

About bbPress

bbPress is forum software, made the WordPress way.

Have you ever been frustrated with forum or bulletin board software that was slow, bloated, and always got your server hacked? bbPress is focused on ease of integration, ease of use, web standards, and speed.

We’re keeping things as small and light as possible while still allowing for great add-on features through WordPress’s extensive plugin system. What does all that mean? bbPress is lean, mean, and ready to take on any job you throw at it.

Philosophy

Now that bbPress is all grown up, we’re certain of a few things:

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Speed & security are paramount to a great user experience
Every line of code is written with these principles in mind, and if that sounds good to you get involved!

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About buddyPress

BuddyPress is a powerful plugin that takes your WordPress.org powered site beyond the blog with social-network features like user profiles, activity streams, user groups, and more. Some fantastic uses might be:

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A niche social network for your interest topic.
A focused social network for your new product.
If you’re using BuddyPress in a unique or interesting way, be sure to let people know on the forums; we’re always interested!

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BuddyPress comes with several components that integrate directly with your site, with each other, and even with other plugins (check out bbPress for support forums.) If you only want to use a few features, BuddyPress will automatically adapt, showing only the menu items, pages and buttons for the features you have enabled.

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[Bestru]

in the attachment are two screenshots.
one is from wordpress
the other is from my mysql database.

http://epvpimg.com/FQxTe
http://epvpimg.com/s34Pg

[Bestru]

Hello,

i’ve the same problem as tehred.

The database from the smf forum and from the wordpress / bbpress is on the same mysql server.

What make i wrong?

[Stephen Edgar]

@ tehredThe database needs to be exported from any existing MySQL install and imported into the same MySQL server you are using for WordPress, you should be able to find details on importing and exporting MySQL databases from your webhost support or knowledgebase help sections of their website.