[kopperwoman]

I’m having a similar problem to dustinarmstrong. But its not exactly the same.

I’m trying to fix a broken forum set up for a client. I did not do the forum installation (he did it himself) AND the forum is installed on a live site that gets lots of web traffic so I don’t want to do anything that might impact the website overall.

Here’s my situation:
1) BBPress was installed (I don’t have details about when and how),
2) a page was created with the [bbp-forum-index] shortcode on it
3) the forum didn’t work, so my client contacted me to fix it
4) I went into settings > forums and changed the forum root slug from the default “forum” to “travel-forums” (the name of the page where the shortcode lives. The error message “Possible bbPress conflict: Forum slug” showed up next to the slug field after saving the settings.
5) I also changed the single forum slug from the default “forum” to “travel-forums”. The error message “Possible bbPress conflict: Forums base” showed up next to the slug field after saving.

In my case, the forum page DOES show up at http://foobar.com/travel-forums but it is empty except for the welcome text that I had entered into the forum main window. (So it just says “Welcome to our forum” without any of the discussion topics showing up.

Also, I have the “Recent Topics” widget enabled on my sidebar and my three test discussion topics DO show up there. When I click on any of them they take me to the correct URL but the pages are blank. So, for example, when I click on “test topic” in the widget I land on http://foobar.com/travel-forums/topic/test-topic/ and the page displays the topic header “Test topic” and the topic question “what do you think about travel?” but it doesn’t display any of the posts.

I’m not sure if this behavior is related to the slug conflict error messages or if something else is wrong.

I’m trying to follow the advice that Stephen Edgar gave.

First up, I think this is probably true in my case:

most likely you have something else either titled or using the slug discuss and this includes any items in trash as even though they are in the trash they still reserve that slug and it is not released until the item is removed from the trash.

This is probably a stupid question but How do I empty the trash to make sure that the old slug is removed?

Second, I’d like to try this:

To fix this try resetting your permalinks. In your WordPress Administration Screens navigate to Settings > Permalinks, select a different permalink structure and save. Then select your preferred permalink structure and save again.

but since my website is live and has been for a long time (and has lots of blog posts using the custom structure already) I’m concerned that this could permanently break the existing links. Any thoughts on this?

[ttmt]

Ok so I see in the back of wordpress bbpress settings I can deselect subscription to post and tags but this deletes it for all users.

How can I allow subscription and notification emails is only allowed for Moderators

[khansariamirreza]

Hi to everyone and sorry for my English
I installed bbpress on my site and now wondering is there this futures i wan’t:
1) Is there any user role plugin or tweak for posting restrictions i wan’t to let all peoples ask their questions on my site but the topic or their reply not published until i approve (somthing like contributer role in wordpress)

2) Is there any captcha for bbpress?

[Stephen Edgar]

Can I bring with me the anonymous posts from deleted and anonymous users?

I have just added support for this to a handful of bbPress’ importers, I hope to finalize some bits for compatibility with all of bbPress importers by the end of the week and release the code for people to test out. 🙂

Importing Avatars

This is kind of a complex issue because of PHP timeouts, if we can’t find an avatar via ftp/http how long do we wait, what if the remote avatar no longer exists.

@cybmeta Has written a Joomla Kunena Forum Attachments converter for the GD bbPress Attachments plugin.

I’d like to play around one day when I have some time up my sleeve to base an avatar and attachment importer that we could use as a separate plugin to import these into WordPress media library for use with bbPress.

https://github.com/CybMeta/kunena-attachments-to-bbpress

Kunena converter for bbPress 2.4

Kunena converter for bbPress 2.4

[Robin W]

Should the user get a message if the post contains a word in the moderation list. If not is it possible to do this.

no it just goes into moderation.

I don’t know how to change this, as it’s fairly core to wordpress

[rzelnik]

I have a WP+BBP installation for few months. The forum subscriptions worked well until recently – it sent e-mail notifications for users subscribed in a particular forum or topic as expected. Now it doesn’t send any e-mail. Any other e-mail notifications (user registration, password change etc.) are working well. I tried to create two bare new installations of WordPress with bbPress and no other plugins. It is working like my existing WP+BBP – all e-mail notifications are working well, except the new forum/topic notifications.

BTW, where can I find the subscriptions/notifications setttings? I can not find it. I can just check this one checkbox in Forum Features:

Subscriptions [] Allow users to subscribe to forums and topics

[ttmt]

Hi all

I have bbPress installed and everything is working fine.

I would like to use wordpress’s moderation tools.

This post states that bbPress uses the same moderation tools as WordPress.

Moderation and BlackListing

I have entered test words in the moderation text box:

Dashboard > Settings > Discussion > Comment Moderation

If I use these words in a post nothing happens and the post is added to the forum.

I’m logged in as admin and the words are used in the post not comments.

Does the user effect the moderation?

Is the moderation only on comments?

[Robkk]

turns out there is this theme that has this function working

check out https://wordpress.org/themes/wp-knowledge-base

put it on a test site and see that i has what i need in that theme

now all i need is to scrape that code out and i think wrap it in an if user is logged in function and thats it

after that this topic should be done.

[sktrader]

I am using this theme https://wordpress.org/themes/wp-knowledge-base
try this theme.
i am also using https://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-bbpress-tools/
plugin

[Robkk]

@chakelan you probably need to go to wordpress.org ‘s support to see whats up with your wordpress mail functions or something to.

[Chakelan]

Thank you for the help!

I did fix the issue a bit after posting. I used this plugin.

By the way, is it an easy way to fix what shows after “to:”? For me it now says “to:noreply@www.mydomain.com”, instead of to:”the user’s email-adress”. It isn’t really a big issue, but it would be cool to know how to change that.

Peder

[Robin W]

no, we can carry on here !

I have to say I’m not sure whether it can take two, the codex seems to think it can be passed 2in the examples.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_shortcode

However you are passing an array $attr to the function, so why cant you just pass two elemenstb within that array

$attr[‘id’]
and
$attr[‘id2’]

[PinkishHue]

Yes support is a little short here but we just have to deal with that. I think support will improve as the plugin becomes more and more popular but it’s just taking a while 🙂

As bbpress is a WP plugin, your question is more WP specific, so – as you’ve mentioned – you just need to use the WordPress Codex to find out how to do things like move your installation. This is a valuable tip for everyone – if you’re having trouble finding an answer here, try the WordPress Codex or support forums as many answers can be found there.

[Robkk]

if one registers to wordpress they also are capable of posting on forum topics.

all registration is around wordpress.

bbpress may come with a register shortcode to place on a page ,but all the information still goes to wordpress.

[Robkk]

Hi Robin, so you don’t like feedback here? I seemed to have hit a sensitive nerve with you! I did try to make some positives as well as what I thought were honest concerns. I looked on the support forum and there were also other older threads with no replies, not just mine, If you can’t take feedback about what you do then I’m sorry to say you will never learn or grow. As for it been free, well I’m not going to go into a debate about that. But I believe there would be ways to make money out of this like here: http://www.packtpub.com/bbpress-complete-comprehensive-guide/book

bbpress is open source , i dont think the community is going to try to make money off of something thats open source, thats probably why there is no ads on this site too.

that book was just written by some guy thats not really affiliated with bbpress. Its like if i myself made a book of all that i know from reading all the documentation. (i dont work for bbpress, i am a volunteer )

topics with no replies, people are busy , there is like only 2 official people that check out this forum occasionly , robin and stephen

jjj might check out the forums though but he also works on wordpress core i think i am not sure.

Other than that the others are volunteers like myself , which i am helping out people because robin helped out me , idk i feel i got to repay them somehow haha

Your own layout looks promising, I hope it goes well.

im on the fence if i should put it on github or not, i feel like i dont want people jacking my forums style sometimes

As for examples

Just any thing that looks like a forum:

bbpress looks like a forum ,its just a really simple one.

which is great because not all people need extravagant features, but if they want they can add wordpress plugins, and also custom functions that you may find on this forum.

if we compare features in bbpress compared to other forum software there is not much of a difference.

All i can see that is different is shortcodes on bottom, which i showed a user how to do in a topic before. using bbpress forum statistics shortcode, and the do shortcode function.

forum icons, which is possible there is a function somewhere if you search this forum.

category and hierarchy layout , if you search the bbpress trac people have shared how to do this if users want that specific layout.

ip boards topic sorting you can create something similar using bbpress views in simple html links.

and the rest is just styling with css, in the documentation it explains… go to this https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum-part-2/

[pfswss]

Just in case anyone else wants to know what I did:

I just searched for moving WordPress from blog to root. I followed the instructions for a simple way written in the last year.

I backed up everything first. I changed the site and url settings in wordpress.

I then used Cpanel file manager to clean out the root but left the blog and forum folders, then copy the contents of the blog folder to the root and copied the forum folder to the root. I renamed the old folders for backup purposes.

[gold1]

I added the shortcode [bbp-register] for a new register page but when I click on register I end up on a page saying:
Leave a Reply
Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *
and a button saying post comment. I have no idea what’s wrong…

bbPress Version 2.5.4
bbPress WP Tweaks Version 1.3.1
wordpress Version 3.9.1

[Nicolas Korobochkin]

bbPress permalinks by default is:

• /forums/topic/TOPIC_SLUG/
• /forums/forum/FORUM_SLUG/

How to replace topic- and forum- slugs to their ID’s?

• /forums/topic/TOPIC_ID/
• /forums/forum/FORUM_ID/

I need this because I have cyrillic letters in topic names (and slugs).

Current link:

http://ru.forums.wordpress.org/topic/Пустая-страница-1?replies=3

After copy and send on Twitter, Facebook..:

http://ru.forums.wordpress.org/topic/

I try fix it and write rewrite rule (and flush, yep).

add_rewrite_rule('^/forum/topic/(\d+)/?$','index.php?topic_id=$matches[1]','top');

But after visiting /forum/topic/814 (814 topic id is exists) redirect to home page happening.

[Robin W]

try my plugin

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

[Capital]

Hello,

I do like to know how I am able to display the total amount of replies and topics a member created on my WordPress website. There is a (text) sidebar present where the statistics are displayed of a certain user. Is it possible to display the amount of forum topics and replies a certain user has created?

Thanks

[Robkk]

@pfswss

all i could say more is search for them

wordpress.org plugin repository

https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=social+login

code canyon plugin repository (cost money)

http://codecanyon.net/search?category=wordpress&direction=desc&order_by=best-match&term=social+login&utf8=%E2%9C%93

[Robkk]

1./ Lack of Support – check out this topic, not one reply as I waited for several days. In the end I had to do it myself on hope and lucky for me I puled it off. I hope this improves.

i saw this and had no idea what you were talking about, and i didnt have a correct answer, and since you solved it you could share so that people in the future that came across the same problem can find your topic and help themeselves in the future.

2./ Lack of dedicated Styles and themes.

phpbb inpsired forum theme by lynq

https://github.com/EpicWebs/bbPress-starter-theme-epicwebs

envatos support forum theme-is actually a wordpress theme in whole on github, idk if copying templates will work because this relies on 5 other plugins also

https://github.com/syamilmj/Supportte

I might make a better mobile responsive forum theme in the future and post it on github

here is how my theme kind of looks like , the bbpress theme i will post on github will be loosely based on this

My Forum Layout (in progress)

It was impossible to find anything like a normal forum from Invision, Vbulletin or PhpBB.

what would you like specifically like other forums??

[pfswss]

I was excited to find a wordpress forum that had good reviews and seemed the best solution after comparing a few.

I’m happy I was able to import my old PhpBB forum without much problems due to what I believe is an improved importer.

but I’m disappointed with 2 things:

1./ Lack of Support – check out this topic, not one reply as I waited for several days. In the end I had to do it myself on hope and lucky for me I puled it off. I hope this improves.

2./ Lack of dedicated Styles and themes. It was impossible to find anything like a normal forum from Invision, Vbulletin or PhpBB. There is nothing available that can make your forum look like those types of forums. There is one very basic template thing that does not do much but that is it from my many hours of research. Even the Themes section has nothing at all basically. I was expecting to find many dedicated BBPress themes. The good thing is most new themes will work with BBPress but they all look the same, simple with no organization etc.

Despite all this I am excited to have moved my PhpBB forum to wordpress and I can now make use of plugins etc.

I hope in the future BBPress improves these 2 issues.

[Robin W]

try my plugin

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-profile-information/

[Robkk]

From my experience this worked best

But requires an account from a website

only works for 2000 users only , to have more than that you would have to pay for a premium version of the service

https://wordpress.org/plugins/oa-social-login/

This didnt really work for me , and is also a free/premium service

requires an account to their website also , and is limited on users that can use the social login feature.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/loginradius-for-wordpress/

I tried this plugin before it was called super socializer

and it didnt work at all on my site

https://wordpress.org/plugins/super-socializer/

I havent really gotten into trying all the social login plugins on codecanyon.

other than my opinion , do a google search try to find other peoples opinions on the best social login plugin , and make a very decisive decision on your plugin choice.