Hi, thanks for the reply!
I actually used this revision first, https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2380 (smf.3) Is that correct? I tried the other afterwards thinking it was more recent. (I don’t think well after 9pm ha) In any case neither worked for me. 🙂
I retried all the steps this morning. I checked the database info…
I have the prefix right, it’s smf_; I had found your earlier post when someone posted the same issue, so I checked that before posting. For the revised converter, you mean once you upload the patch, pick the correct revised converter from the drop down…? I checked that too…deleted the previous and uploaded the new patch along in case it wasn’t overwriting.
I’m out of ideas – could the database be too big? We have about 8K users.
Thanks again, truly appreciate the help on the forum. Theresa
Just wondering what the future of bbPress holds?
I’ve been following BuddyPress and bbPress development for years now and while both plugins always have to rely on the same small group of people I’m just curious if this would bring the future of bbPress development in danger?
BuddyPress is a far more popular plugin than bbPress, more people those days need community functionality attached to their WordPress sites than support forums but still, if you look at the bbPress trac it say 64 closed tickets for a very long time.
I don’t want to make this a bash or negative talking topic about bbPress, I respect the people who have done so much for bbPress at this moment and in the past.
It’s just what’s next..
I am sorry, I am not writing custom plugins for people for free, let alone your assumption that that is what you expect, not going to happen.
If you need some custom code written post an advert on http://jobs.wordpress.net
Yes, it was a remote server and for some reason would not work with the IP … said “no forums found” or something like that.
Then I moved it (wordpress) to the same server as phpbb because I needed it for the bridge (wp-united) … which I tried, but got mixed up on the MOD installation. Im not a phpbb guy, and know nothing about MODS – also did not want it bridged … but rather pulled over to bbpress.
So I thought … well try the import now with localhost since it is now on the same server.
The bridge plugin is deactivated and deleted.
phpbb settings match exactly with the config file. Though in the database there is both phpbb_ and phpbb3_ for prefixes … phpbb3_ is the one listed in config. But I did try with both just to see and ended up with the same response of starting … but then nothing at all.
Ive been working on this site now since February, back and forth to fine tune everything and the “very last” piece is to just get his current phpbb into bbpress for “1” platform / admin / user interface vs having 2 separate sites, users, logins, etc.
Just need to get this wrapped up and find it impossible to get any of the import functions to work via the built in forum import, or the plugins I have tried.
Have you played with bbp_parse_args() yet? This is used ~100 times in bbPress to allow you to change array arguments ‘before’ or ‘after’.
BuddyPress introduced bp_parse_args in BuddyPress 2.0, and as they have some good docs and we don’t yet here for bbPress check this out:
https://codex.buddypress.org/plugindev/using-bp_parse_args-to-filter-buddypress-template-loops/
So for the bbPress function bbp_list_replies() you’d use bbp_before_list_replies_parse_args
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.5.4/includes/replies/functions.php#L2192
Does this get you on the right track? I hope so as I’ve never played with custom walkers 😉
Whenever a change is made to bbPress — update the plugin, change a setting, etc — the WordPress user roles in wp_options->wp_user_roles are erased
I have a theory as to why this ‘may’ happen with a plugin update, I’ll have to go find what I’m thinking of that may have been included in a recent bbPress release (2.5.3 or 2.5.4) but the roles being erased by changing a bbPress setting I have not seen, nor can I think of any reason why this would be happening.
Could you test this part for me please:
1. Open up WordPress Users admin panel
2. Verify the listed users on the first page have both a WordPress and bbPress role
3. Open bbPress Settings page and change a couple of settings and save
4. Go back to WordPress users, do the same users still have both WordPress and bbPress roles?
The closest I have seen to this is detailed in the following ticket, but this issue is when changing users roles via the bulk actions, #2597.
At a guess, it’s hard to guess without a link or screenshots I’d say your themes including some template content you don’t actually want.
Depending on your theme you need to make a copy of your page.php file and rename it bbpress.php.
To add new fields to a users profile you can add new fields, see this plugin for an example and the relevant WordPress Codex docs:
https://gist.github.com/ntwb/c70caf5a0aa9d3062a6d
https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/user_contactmethods
Is the database on the same database server? Your trying to get a remote database are you?
There is also a phpBB/WordPress plugin to bridge phpBB to WordPress, are you using that? If so this can be problematic due to modifications it does for phpBB members.
I have no idea what you are referring to, bbPress does not include any icons for anything but the bbPress ‘Forum’, ‘topic’ and ‘replies’ sections in WordPress backend.
Some screenshots and a link to your site would be helpful.
I am going crazy and would love to get help here or hire someone. Am using bbPress but no emails are being sent to users.
We are hosted on MediaTemple’s Gridservice.
We use theme AVADA
We created a forum in Admin and another using the frontend (read somewhere this may matter).
Added all our users via Admin: 73 Participants, 3 Moderators, 2 Keymasters
We tried the BBpress Digest Plugin but it never worked. Developer seems to be MIA.
We tried BBpress Email notifications but that did not work either.
We added the SMTP plugin; the “test emails” using it arrive fine but again, no subscription emails are ever sent.
WordPress admin emails DO work fine (eg ‘pswd changed for user XYZ’).
Activated Plugins:
- bbPress,
- GD bbPress Attachments
- bbPress auto subscribe for new topics and replies,
- Black Studio TinyMCE
- Custom Login
- Simple Members only
- WP-Mail-SMTP
- Fusion Core (Avada theme)
We have a single Forum. At the top of that forum, there is no subscription/favorite link either.
this very well may be the host but i am not 100% sure of that as the other emails work.
i would happily pay someone to figure this out. i have spent hours and hours on this and am ready to look for alternatives. But unfortunately i have topics and 73 users…
thanks to anyone who can give me new things to try. I am losing it here. And as said, i am all open to hiring someone; not sure what the policies are to that effect on this site…
Team bbPress,
I have a multi-site install with BuddyPress (http://thirdscribe.com), and we use bbPress to power the BP forums. Recently, we’ve been seeing a very specific, and unusual, problem. Whenever a change is made to bbPress — update the plugin, change a setting, etc — the WordPress user roles in wp_options->wp_user_roles are erased. The bbPress roles (keymaster, participant, etc) are preserved, but the WP roles (admin, editor, contributor, etc) are completely gone.
Do you know what is causing this?
Thanks,
Rob
@Stephen
Thanks for your reply. I will try to look for something through wordpress as per your suggestion 🙂
Your first question you can easily do with a WordPress page and link to it and any other FAQ’s you may want to have on your site.
To extend your profiles you will need a plugin, search the plugin repo’s for either a plugin compatible with bbPress or check out BuddyPress our sister project that includes this functionality out of the box.
Twitter/Facebook sharing is also plugin territory
Your 3 sections, just make 3 forums or 3 categories each with a forum.
https://bbpress.org/plugins/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/
Other than that take a look at some of the sites people are linking to here or check out some of the example sites https://bbpress.org/about/examples/ and some of bbPress’ docs https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/ https://codex.bbpress.org/
It sounds like everything is working fine…
bbPress includes a redirect to the home screen after logging in whereas WordPress takes you typically to the WordPress dashboard.
The primary reason for this is because we don’t want your sites users being redirected to the WordPress Dashboard.
Hi,
I would like to integrate a forum in a wordpress page, and obviously I was thinking about bbpress, but I have major worries about themes moderation. Before installing, I have 4 specific questions regarding this:
May I include a button to denounce a commentary –bad language, publicity, whatsoever-? I think it is a key issue for developing a forum and the harmony between members.
May I include a profile of the user –company, linkedin profile, etc.- in the registration form?
I would like to have 3 sections, with different permissions in each of them –being able to post mainly-. Is it possible?
May I insert a twitter/facebook sharing button in each post?
If this is not possible do you know if I can do anything to solve these issues?
Thanks in advance
I don’t know of any plugin that does this for bbPress, you could try searching for a WordPress plugin that does this for comments then contact the author to see if they could add support for bbPress.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/
@marximusmg yeah i know you got this whole topics idea from high existence
im just saying if you find a wordpress theme that is compatible with bbpress either on the wordpress free theme repository or on like themeforest and it has a placeholder in the reply area tell me.
if you find it before me then update this topic with the name of the theme.
Sure no problem @Robkk….it would be great help if you can and you can surely take your time. I did try that plugin you told me last time, not a big help and also I read on one of the forums before it used to work with WordPress & BBpress together, but not anymore. I just wonder why they did that.
Well, anyways thanks for you help and time towards this issue. Greatly appreciated 🙂
i can tell you its not in form-reply.php , its most likey in a template.php file.
but hey if you can find a wordpress theme that has this , ILL try to find a way to get this functionality.
i asked that question because the theme i wanted to use, uses both bbpress & buddypress, and i also wanted to use both the softwares together (this is not a problem as it is done on other forum CMS’S)
wordpress is definitely compatible with the 2 softs
Thanks for your response,
but
“Each of those products would have to add support for bbPress though”
is this something skimlinks & viglinks would have to do ?
because i was curious as there was no mention on the net of anyone using both the CMS’S with both the software,
and yet thousands (if not more) sites use skimlinks or viglinks with wordpress.
skimlinks & viglinks were/are primarily targeted at forums – they say on there websites that the best clickthroughs + conversions are from forums
hence bbpress & buddypress is the same as the clickthough is coming from a recommendation (same as a forum) – so a high conversion rate.
the top 3 links are this thread
wordpress is definitely used and compatible with the 2 softwares
so i couldnt understand why no-one has used it with bbpress/buddpress when that is what they are intended for ?
Hi Stephen,
But the posts that I am trying to share is from the forums that I have. I will still try to get in touch with the wordpress support as per your suggestion.
thank you
Let me know if theme’s authors reply to you… I hope to find a solution for that.
Anyhow I thank you for the support.
How can I avoid those kind of problem in future? I mean, should I look for specific themes builded with specific frameworks, or should I consider learning how to build a personal theme with wordpress?
I came from joomla and I’m very very new on WP solutions. Anyway I like WP ’cause it’s more lightweight (expecially backend module) and blog-like then a true CMS like Joomla.
Thank u again
Try creating a new user and setting their bbPress role to “keymaster” and WordPress role to “Admin”, can this user access http://www.maldiveschina.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=reply ?
Thanks Stephen, i tried it out but not work. In the meantime, i find another problem. In my WordPress Administration Screens navigate to Reply > all the reply, it should be a list of all reply, but actually this page doesn’t exist, it turn back 404 error. I don’t kown how to fix it. And i guess maybe there would be some connection between these two problem.
http://www.maldiveschina.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=reply
