[superaven]

Hi,

We’re contemplating moving our website to WordPress and are looking at integrated forum options to replace an older version of vBulletin we’re running now. I know vBulletin to WordPress bridges exist, but I’m hesitant as its been a nightmare bridging it to our current CMS and hoping to also not have to maintain two separate scripts, never mind theming them both as well.

Anyhow, I was informed that BBPress shares the same database table as WordPress and that migrating a forum as large as ours would have a massively negative effect on our WordPress install and properly affect our posts pretty bad.

Our vBulletin forum has approximately 180,000 members, 100,000 threads and roughly 6.5 million comments.

Any suggestions on how we might best proceed in a forum solution should we go the WordPress route for the rest of our website? I did see Simple:Press and saw it runs off a different table… Hate to be superficial, but looking at the website, it doesn’t really inspire confidence. (no offense)

Thank you in advance for any input or insight that can help us make a decision.

[Jerry]

I have been working for about 5 days to get topics from a forum on one site to show on my main page, which is a separate site. I’m running current versions of wordpress multisite, bbpress, and buddypress on my main page.

I found some code via my searches and created a simple plugin. It works to display topics from a separate site on my main page. That was a victory for sure. The problem I am now having is the formatting! Arrghh! I cannot get it to format correctly.

I know that others have been wanting to do this, so perhaps someone else can get me to the final step and we can publish a good plugin. Here is the code:

<?php
/* 
		Plugin Name: Recent bbpress Topics
		Plugin URI: http://whosgotbooks.com/wp-content/plugins
		Description: A plugin to display recent bbpress topics across the network
		Version: 1.0.0
		Author: Jerry Caldwell
		Author URI: http://whosgotbooks.com
		License: Open Source 
*/ 

function recent_bbpress_topics_shortcode() {                  
  recent_bbpress_topics(); }
  add_shortcode( 'recent-bbpress-topics', 'recent_bbpress_topics_shortcode' );

// ! // Add Recent Topics to BBPress
function recent_bbpress_topics() {
  if ( bbp_has_topics( array( 'author' => 0, 'show_stickies' => false, 'order' => 'DESC', 'post_parent' => 'any', 'posts_per_page' => 8 ) ) ) { 
      //bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/loop', 'topics' );
      bbp_get_template_part( 'loop', 'topics' );
      }
// Hook into action
add_action('bbp_template_after_forums_loop','recent_bbpress_topics');

} ?>

I have been trying to get this to format with bbpress.css. I managed to changed the css on one of my sites to get things how I want, but I can’t with this function. Here is a link of how I want things to look: http://whosgotbooks.com/book-reviews/
And here is the link of the main page, where I can’t quite get it the way I want it: http://whosgotbooks.com/

Here is the bbpress.css that worked on the review page, but doesn’t work for the main page:

li.bbp-topic-title {
	float: left;
	text-align: left;
  overflow: hidden;
	width: 75%;
}
#bbpress-forums li.bbp-body ul.topic {
/*	border-top: 1px solid #7D573A; */ 
  border-top: transparent;
	overflow: hidden; 
  display: inline-table;  
	padding: 8px;
  width: 22%;
}

To get the books somewhat organized on the main page, I had to change width to 20% on the bbp-topic-title class above, and the bbp-body ul.topic changes do not help on the main page.
This is the extent of my abilities. I would love to get rid of those annoying dots as well. Hopefully someone can help me get the rest of the way.
Thanks…

[Miatsu]

Hello,

I’m actually using WordPress 3.9.1, BuddyPress 2.0.1 et bbPress 2.5.4 .

For my website I have created differents forums for each user group. This forums will directly be displayed in the main menu as submenus.

Is there a way to choose to display each forum submenu ONLY if the user is log in and a members of the group ?

I have found some solution to filter menu by role, but in my case it will be the group that should be used to filter the menus elements.

Thanks in advance !

[mattmatt88]

Hello,

I have a WP multisite with different blogs but i want a single forum that is used by every blog. So every forum and post should be visible for every site.

There was a topic 3 years ago: http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-multisite-single-forum/

Look like that is still no feature?

Thank you.

[Stephen Edgar]

This is expected, to embed YouTube videos or any of the other WordPress embeds such as Twitter, Flickr etc the URL must be on its own line with no other text.

[Rami Yushuvaev]

I think this is a WordPress question, not bbPress.

[Robin W]

bbpress has its own roles

so user not registered would see all public forums but not able to post, but would not see private forums
registered users with wordpress roles would be able to do all wordpress things but with ‘no role’ in the user profile under forum would not be able to post in the forum.
registered users with forum roles (eg participant, moderator) would be able to see public and private forums, and if wordpress roles set would be able to carry out wordpress roles
registered users with spectator role would be able to view both public & private forums but not participate.

you should be able to achieve whatever you want with a role based solution.

come back with further details if this is not what you are trying to achieve

[Robin W]

@saphadmin

I have now fixed the issue, and posted the new version to my website

I have posted the new version in

bbp Private Groups

I will post this to the wordpress plugins page in the next few days.

Robin

[davidslessmaccom]

Hi,

Looking at our error log, we get a recurrent error generated by bbpress which has led to 502 errors. We are using WordPress 3.9 and bbpress Version 2.5.4. would you please advise us on this:

Thank you. http://communication.org.au

The error log looks like this:
[Sun Jul 06 00:49:32 2014] [error] [client 124.191.29.124] LONG QUERY (1540 characters long generated in /nas/wp/www/cluster-1417/davidsless/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/users/functions.php:1531):

SELECT 
COUNT(NULLIF(meta_value LIKE '%"administrator"%', false)), 
COUNT(NULLIF(meta_value LIKE '%"editor"%', false)), 
COUNT(NULLIF(meta_value LIKE '%"author"%', false)), 
COUNT(NULLIF(meta_value LIKE '%"contributor"%', false)), 
COUNT(NULLIF(meta_value LIKE '%"subscriber"%', false)), 
COUNT(NULLIF(meta_value LIKE '%"bbp\\_keymaster"%', false)), 
COUNT(NULLIF(meta_value LIKE '%"bbp\\_spectator"%', false)), 
COUNT(NULLIF(meta_value LIKE '%"bbp\\_blocked"%', false)), 
COUNT(NULLIF(meta_value LIKE '%"bbp\\_moderator"%', false)), 
COUNT(NULLIF(meta_value LIKE '%"bbp\\_participant"%', false)), 
COUNT(NULLIF(meta_value LIKE '%"shop\\_accountant"%', false)), 
COUNT(NULLIF(meta_value LIKE '%"shop\\_worker"%', false)), 
COUNT(NULLIF(meta_value LIKE '%"shop\\_vendor"%', false)), 
COUNT(NULLIF(meta_value LIKE '%"customer"%', false)), 
COUNT(NULLIF(meta_value LIKE '%"shop\\_manager"%', false)), 
COUNT(NULLIF(meta_value LIKE '%"s2member\\_level1″%', false)), 
COUNT(NULLIF(meta_value LIKE '%"s2member\\_level2″%', false)), 
COUNT(NULLIF(meta_value LIKE '%"s2member\\_level3″%', false)), 
COUNT(NULLIF(meta_value LIKE '%"s2member\\_level4″%', false)), 
COUNT(NULLIF(meta_value LIKE '%"s2member\\_level5″%', false)), 
COUNT(NULLIF(meta_value LIKE '%"s2member\\_level6″%', false)), 
COUNT(NULLIF(meta_value LIKE '%"s2member\\_level7″%', false)), 
COUNT(NULLIF(meta_value LIKE '%"s2member\\_level8″%', false)), 
COUNT(NULLIF(meta_value LIKE '%"s2member\\_level9″%', false)), 
COUNT(*) 
FROM wp_usermeta 
WHERE meta_key = "wp_capabilities", referer:

Communication Research Institute

[Stephen Edgar]

Uncheck the bbPress setting “Forum Prefix – Prefix all forum content with the Forum Root slug” will be as close as you get giving you mydomain.com/blog/forum/

The thing here is bbPress is a WordPress plugin so it ‘runs under’ WordPress.

I am quite sure with a few tweaks of how your WordPress install is configured (you might also need some .htaccess rewrite rules) I think you could achieve what you are looking for though.

See the following link on where I would start, will take a bit of planning and backups or course

https://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

[Stephen Edgar]

I understand your frustrations throughout your posts above, but this is not bbPress, WordPress nor even Windows Azure fault, this all stems from somewhere along the line you were given bad advice that stated you have to use MSSQL and that is simply not true and is not supported by any of these parties.

So based on your previous post to mine above, I suggest you delete WordPress from your Windows Azure site, create a Windows Azure MySQL database and install phpBB or whatever, I wish you luck.

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress’ system requirements are the same as WordPress’ system requirements:

Requirements

https://wordpress.org/about/requirements/

PHP version 5.2.4 or greater – MySQL version 5.0 or greater

Using ‘Project Nami’ or whoever suggested it to you to use it I do not know, I would not recommend it and nor do the Microsoft Azure team recommend it.

You should use a MySQL database and that is also what Microsoft Azure recommend and have ‘one click install’ for Windows Azure, Microsoft work with the WordPress Core team to include compatibility with each release of WordPress for both Windows IIS installs and Azure installs.

The majority of bbPress ‘in theory’ should work with ‘Project Nami’ but there are specific parts of bbPress that never will, if WordPress Core supports MSSQL one day then we will update bbPress to also work with MSSQL, until that day though bbPress will only work 100% using MySQL.

Here is my Windows Azure bbPress test site and it is using MySQL
http://azure.netweb.com.au/forums/topic/this-is-bbpress-running-on-windows-azure-with-mysql/

You should look to backing up your site including files and database and then export your WordPress content and start again using MySQL.

Details on setting up WordPress with MySQL on Windows Azure are here:
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/web-sites-php-web-site-gallery/

[Michael Bryner]

Not really threatening, its a fact, even if it is volunteers working on it. Its WordPress.org project, but what makes no sense to me is that people say to use less plugins to make WordPress run better with less resources, but then we install a bbPress plugin for a forum to integrate with WordPress, but we are not using an all in one forum software like the others that are all out there for MySQL. So we have to add tons more plugins to get features you would get in a all in one forum software, and reduce the resources by doing it.

I know what open source is, and really open source is not the best. It just give people that have no money to participate in helping with the project if they want, which to me does not sound promising. Paid using means better support and a more promising working solution. Not saying I am going to go out and buy one.

Take a look at myBB, and phpBB. They are all in one forum softwares, and I would use them if I had MySQL option, but I don’t and the best out of hours of searching for a forum for my site at this time and I got 3 years free with Bizspark for my website at $150 month for that 3 years, and no separate income to just move over to another host with MySQL. I am stuck with bbPress, and I am just saying this is not much of an option to me, even if I just hoped that some day my topic and post just magically appeared out of the blue.

I think I will skip waiting until 10 pm, and just take it off. Thanks for some help, but in reality nothing got done. I did what you asked me anyways, because I remembered doing them when you asked me to. So to just sit and hope a solution to hop right by with a forum on my site that no one that visits is trying to use, and can’t to me is pointless. Just a waste of website space.

Facts here, and sometimes facts are hard to take. To me would make more sense that a WordPress.org project would be integrated into a all in one WordPress forum built in with no extra plugins, and then users have the option still to either use bbPress built in or turn it off and use another forum software, but looking to see a simpler solution through WordPress is not going to happen.

Sorry, but what I just put is feedback, and I noticed now a days, companies no matter if they are making money or not, they rather not do anything with feedback, and just do it they way they want. I am surprised Microsoft is some what listening to their customers, but today not much is going on with feedback. Look how long bbPress has been available, and still is a separate plugin with more plugins for features.

[Michael Bryner]

I will give until 10 pm, which is around 6 and half hours, and then I am removing bbPress and never putting a forum on my site again until I can somehow get the income to move from getting free azure account from Microsoft with Bizspark to pay for other hosting that has MySQL. For bbPress supposed to work with WordPress out of the box, it sure isn’t doing it. Way too many bugs.

[Robin W]

bbpress has a separate set of capabilities, so you can set permissions for the wordpress part of your site totally separately to the capabilities for bbpress.

see

https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-user-roles-and-capabilities/

and if needbe

Custom Capabilities

[Michael Bryner]

Just one topic is added now, and I had two before that, but I been trouble shooting after removing everything from refresh to cleaning the forums and topics, and recreating them after, and I just added one topic only. I even tried a reply to the topic to see if it showed too, and no go, and removed it after that.

Here is list of plugins I have:

all in one seo pack pro

all in one wp security

bbpress

disqus comment system

easy smtp mail

fusion core

infolinks

private messages add on for userpro

user role editor

VK.com Social Connect for UserPro

WordPress User Bookmarks plugin for UserPro

WP-Optimize

WP Smush.it

[Michael Bryner]

I noticed that I don’t have this in my WordPress dashboard (Dashboard -> Settings -> bbPress).

Would that have anything to do with this? I read a post in these trouble shooting threads about someone asking the guy about checking that, and I don’t even have that at all.

[Robin W]

Try

http://www.trickspanda.com/2014/03/auto-redirect-users-login-wordpress/

[AlvaroFG]

Hi,

This is my current settings

mydomain.com/ <– a Q2A site
mydomain.com/blog <– WordPress

I want bbpress to be

mydomain.com/forums <– Desired Uri

yet I installed bbpress as a via the plugin section in wordpress and I’m getting

mydomain.com/blog/forums/forum/

is there a way to change this to my desired uri?

Thanks

website: http://respuestas.ca/
(Just imported my current vanilla forum )
WordPress 3.9.1
bbPress Version 2.5.4

[Stephen Edgar]

Yes, it should NOT go there, you should add it to your child themes functions.php file.

Remove it from where you added it.

See https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes on creating a child theme.

And this is where you add that code https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes#Using_functions.php

[lyhiz]

that was help https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-bbcode/ and topic https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-2-0-bbcode/

[Leonyipa]

ok, I now switched the post in:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gd-bbpress-tools-signature-set-maximum-size?replies=1

[Stephen Edgar]

Probably the best ‘step by step’ guide I know of at the moment is this one, though sssshhh, it’s not quite ready to published to the world and is still getting a few tweaks and updates 😉

https://make.wordpress.org/training/modules-in-progress/child-theme-module/

[Stephen Edgar]

Do it the same way you would for WordPress and use the bbPress custom post types, forum, topic, and reply.

[Stephen Edgar]

I don’t see anything wrong in either the code you added above or in your post you linked to.

I see that long lines of solid text do not ‘wrap’ but this isn’t really a WordPress/bbPress issue, if you need to support code/content like that you should look at adding a plugin that will format this type of text for you.

Maybe Crayon Syntax Highlighter….