[Stephen Edgar]

Go and do a search of the plugin repo https://bbpress.org/plugins/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/

[noirdesign]

hej,

When someone enters example XML in an anser like:
<Binary>0E02800001000000000000000B0004C003010000000000000000000000082D0000000000000000004EFF140000000000FFFFFFFF0600000058000000000000000000061208000010000000003C0000000000000000000000803A011480FAFFFF0000000000000000B09B741280FAFFFF0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000</Binary>

There are no more line breaks and the sidebar seems to go over the content area.

or within the code tag:

<Binary>0E02800001000000000000000B0004C003010000000000000000000000082D0000000000000000004EFF140000000000FFFFFFFF0600000058000000000000000000061208000010000000003C0000000000000000000000803A011480FAFFFF0000000000000000B09B741280FAFFFF0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000</Binary>

it alters somehow the html structure of the page.
Can I somehow fix that?

You can see the falty Topic and answer here:
http://www.apw-wiegand.de/support-forum/topic/apw-und-windows-7/

I’m using bbPress Version 2.5.4 on WordPress 3.9.1

Thanks in advance,
Eric

[yoshimitsu1234]

Normal WordPress posts allow to set an image as featured image so that when i share that post on social networks that featured image will show as post image.
How can i do similar thing with bbpress topics? There is no option to set featured image in new topic.
I want featured image only in post meta and not in post itself, so that it will appear only when a post is shared on Facebook etc.

[Rescue Themes]

Fix is here if you’d like to manually change the current version (works for me):

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/2620/2620.patch

[Rescue Themes]

Found the trac ticket for this error:

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2620

Looks like the fix is going into the bbpress 2.6 release.

[sebgates]

OK, thanks for the reply. I am looking at my options at the moment. I may suggest to the charity they leave the forum in Drupal on a sub domain and let me build their website in WordPress. I will come back to you when I spoke to someone at the organisation.

[Robin W]

Yes,

If you have a forum page ie a wordpress page that has [bbp-forum-index] in it, (ie you’ve use method 2 rather than method 1 in this link

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1

then go into edit on your forum page

Switch to text from visual and put

Create a new topic before the [bbp-forum-index] to get it at the top or after it to put it at the bottom.

or you could use

[bbp-topic-form] after the [bbp-forum-index]

or

[bbp-topic-form forum_id=$forum_id] to display a single forum topic form.

Lots of possibilities.

If you don’t have a set wordpress forum page, then you can create one, see method 2 in the link above

[Stephen Edgar]

Just add the bbPress plugin to your WordPress install would be my tip 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

There is two parts to this:

1. The ‘moderator’ role cannot be currently set to only disable moving topics to another forum currently, to change this though a couple of tweaks to the form-topic.php template would achieve this end result.

2. There is also a bug where moderators can move a topic to a group forum that they are not a member of that we are looking into in #2639

[Stephen Edgar]

Thanks extra sets of eyes with all of this ‘import’ stuff is always handy, boat loads of data all just starts to look the same after a while 😉

Indeed, ‘Reset Forums’ will remove everything bbPress, as long as you also check the ‘Delete Imported Users’ they will also be removed.

The wp_bbp_converter_translator is not explicitly required, if your site can create this table bbPress uses it as part of the import process, if not it will just use the ‘out of the box’ WordPress database tables. It also gets deleted when resetting the forums. It also relates to the bugs I found yesterday that I am working on fixing and as I stated above I am pretty sure your imports are not using wp_bbp_converter_translator as if you were you wouldn’t have had any stickies.

As to redirects you shouldn’t need that table for those, depending on your old phpBB permalinks
some simple right up to some advanced .htaccess will get you what you want.

A week or so back whilst messing about with splitting and merging topics I happened upon a WordPress feature for 301 redirection of old URL’s to new URL’s. I am yet to try this as it has only popped into my head as I wrote the previous paragraph that this may be something that could work so that imported topics and replies include full redirect support.

So much so I just gave it a whirl, if I store and old topic slug e.g. viewtopic.php?f=3&t=9 I can query on the fly that topics new post ID and 301 redirect to it’s new permalink e.g. phpbb-v3-standard-topic 😉

It still doesn’t quite work though due to some URL weirdness presumably with one or a combination of the .php, ? and & characters, I am quite sure we can do something here though 🙂

[Rescue Themes]

I was able to locate bbp_single_user_details_avatar_size in bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/user-details.php which eventually lead me to the following function that accomplishes what I needed (resizing the avatar):

function my_bbp_change_avatar_size($author_avatar, $topic_id, $size) {
    $author_avatar = '';
    if ($size == 14) {
        $size = 24;
    }
    if ($size == 80) {
        $size = 110;
    }
    $topic_id = bbp_get_topic_id( $topic_id );
    if ( !empty( $topic_id ) ) {
        if ( !bbp_is_topic_anonymous( $topic_id ) ) {
            $author_avatar = get_avatar( bbp_get_topic_author_id( $topic_id ), $size );
        } else {
            $author_avatar = get_avatar( get_post_meta( $topic_id, '_bbp_anonymous_email', true ), $size );
        }
    }
    return $author_avatar;
}

/* Add priority (default=10) and number of arguments */
add_filter('bbp_get_topic_author_avatar', 'my_bbp_change_avatar_size', 20, 3);
add_filter('bbp_get_reply_author_avatar', 'my_bbp_change_avatar_size', 20, 3);
add_filter('bbp_get_current_user_avatar', 'my_bbp_change_avatar_size', 20, 3);

Increase avatar size in bbpress

[Robin W]

ok try

Deactivate bbpress tweaks
Dashboard>plugins>bbpress tweaks>deactivate

Go into widgets
Dashboard>appearance>widgets

And look at the bottom of the left hand side. You’ll see an “inactive sidebar”, with your entries on
Below this is an “inactive widgets”
Drag all the entries from the inactive sidebar to the inactive widgets area.
This then allows wordpress to delete the sidebar
I normally log out and in again at this stage – probably not needed, but I’ve never bothered to check
Then basically reverse the above
Re-enable bbpress tweaks
You see the bbpress sidebar returns
Drag the entries back from the inactive widgets area to the sidebar

As soon as you’ve got the site vaguely going again, you need to STOP !!!! YES STOP!!!!!!!!!!

Then take a breath, and create a test site – you cannot continue to develop your site in live, and you need a child theme. So you’ll need to read.

Functions files and child themes – explained !

https://codex.bbpress.org/creating-a-test-site/

Once you have a test site, you can change things there first and then when you are happy put it into live.

[dutchpuzzle]

WordPress 3.8.3 running Headway theme 2.0.15
bbPress Version 2.5.4

Link: http://www.herefordequestrian.co.uk/forums/

I tried following your instructions: “In dashboard>pages, go to add new page. Call this ‘Forums’ or whatever you want your menu item to be. Then in the content section, you may want to have some introductory words “welcome to the forum” etc. then add the following bbpress short code [bbp-forum-index]
Save this page.”……. but it didn’t make any difference, so I deleted the page.

I can’t work out what template my current pages with sidebar are called.
I therefore can’t work out how to add the sidebar to the page.
Can you advise?
Thanks

[Leonyipa]

i have participant (bbpress)
and subscriber (wordpress)

[Stephen Edgar]

What WordPress role does the user have?
What bbPress role does the user have?

[Type Historian]

I *need* a plug-in for my bbPress-driven forums site that lists/links topics with the most recent replies [Hottest Topics]. For this purpose, I have tried both the “Recent Replies” widget and the “Recent Topics” widget configured to display/link “Topics with Recent Replies” selected from the drop-down menu.

First I tried the Recent Replies widget. It worked perfectly for several months, successfully weathering upgrades of both WordPress and bbPress to the latest versions. Suddenly [outta Nowhere!], it broke the visitor experience: Content of the main navigation sidebar following the first “hot topic” disappeared, and a second [variable] sidebar disappeared completely.

Even worse, admin access to replies went nuts [more below]. When I disabled the “Recent Replies” plug-in, the problem disappeared instantly.

Next I tried some “third-party” plug-ins that either didn’t work or required coding beyond my experience.

Then I tried the Recent Topics widget configured to list only “topics with recent replies.” This solution worked [with reservations, more below] for several weeks until July 1. Just as suddenly, this choice created some of the same problems experienced with the “Recent Replies” widget.

So I’m trying the Recent Replies widget again.

When I use it now, the visitor front-end works as it should.
However, admin access to replies has the same problems as before:

The dashboard link to this function is
http://forums.typeheritage.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=reply

When I click it, this is what I see:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/78278455/bbPress/Replies-01.png

Note that the “Filter” button has disappeared. By selecting June 2014 and clicking the “Apply” button instead, I can view all replies PUBLISHED last month.

What I CANNOT view:

ALL replies regardless of publication date or status
Complete lists of replies published in months before June 2014
Private replies including my own input in progress
Drafts
____

In terms prioritizing visitor experience vs admin control, it seems safer to use the Recent Topics widget configured to list “Topics With Recent Replies” selected from the drop-down menu. My complaint with this option is that it lists/links to brand-new topics with NO responses.

Is there a way to tweak either the Recent Replies or Recent Topics With Replies plug-ins to do the job?

Many thanks for your help, Anna

[pazis]

Thanks. It was Paid Memberships Pro 1.7.11 causing this.

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/buddypress-bbpress-conflict-with-paidmembershipspro

[chrissss]

I run bbpress 2.54 on wordpress 3.9.1. After activating bbpress I noticed that gallerys inside my blog articles gallery pictures don’t show up anymore. Instead of the pictures I only see a blank line. You can see this here…

http://linuxundich.de/allgemein/flixtor-popcorn-time-alternative-android-chromecast/

As soon as I deactivate bbpress the gallerys are back again. Is there a generell problem with gallery plugins and bbpress? Is there a quick way to fix this?

Thanks for your help!
Christoph

[Robin W]

yes there’s lots to learn, my css is probably at your php level !

I found a way to have a search box that is persistent on every level of the bbPress forums. Now I have to get rid of the second search box that is at the top of the forums. I can’t find where that is in the code to remove it.

You could try just turning off the forum search

dashboard>settings>forums and look for allow forum wide search

Is there anyone that comes around regularly that would either donate the time for these couple of tweaks or let me pay them over time?

you can put an ad on wordpress jobs

http://jobs.wordpress.net/

just post it as a project and detail what you want

But I’d play with the css first, as I think much of what you want is stylable.

[Robin W]

no problem, using the wordpress editor will not work, you’ll need to use ftp or cpanel

see the following

Functions files and child themes – explained !

on FTP and notepad++ which will get you the tools.

then you want to
ftp the file to your pc
open it using notepad++
then save it to your pc as the new filename
the edit it for the sidebar
then save it on your pc
the ftp the file back to your host

lots to learn, but you’ll find this useful for future as you customise you site

[Stephen Edgar]

I haven’t used any of those above plugins except BuddyPress of course so I really can’t help you there except to say that ‘bbPress Roles’ are separate to ‘WordPress Roles’ and most likely the ‘Student’ role you refer to above (and the plugins) are all manipulating WordPress’ roles for you and NOT bbPress roles.

[Stephen Edgar]

I have not tried these recently though I still believe both work, that is of course if you want some Ajax topcs bits also 😉

bbPress – Ajax Replies and bbPress – Ajax Topics

[pazis]

After upgrading to bbPress 2.5.4, none of my topic contents are being showed anymore! The topic page loads and everything is visible but the topic content and replies! I use WordPress 3.9.1 and here are the list of my active plugins:

All In One SEO Pack 2.1.7
BackWPup 3.1.2
bbPress 2.5.4
bbPress Enable TinyMCE Visual Tab 1.0.1
BuddyPress 2.0.1
Capability Manager Enhanced 1.5.1
CloudFlare 1.3.14
Disable Feeds 1.3.1
Dynamic Widgets 1.5.8
iQ Block Country 1.1.10
Membership 3.4.4.1
myCRED 1.4.7
Paid Memberships Pro 1.7.11
Quick Chat 4.13
Register IP 0.1
Share Buttons by AddToAny 1.3.3
Shortcodes Pro 1.1.5
Shortcodes Ultimate 4.9.0
Sidebar Login 2.6.0
Sweet Captcha 3.0.8
WordPress Google +1 Button – Advanced Plugin, Includes Redirection 1.9
WordPress Importer 0.6.1
Wordpress Poll 35.0
WP-Ban 1.62
WP Admin No Show 1.4.3
wpMandrill 1.33
WP SlimStat 3.6.4

I tried disabling and enabling bbpress plugin and resubmitting settings, but none fixed the issue. I don’t know how to fix it!

[Stephen Edgar]

Sorry, it’s pretty hard to tell exactly what you mean 🙁

Could you post some screenshots? That would help with pointers to the issue 🙂

Also you have a few permalinks ending in -2
e.g. http://mutriku-gaming.com/wordpress/forums/forum/juegos-2/

Make sure you do not have any slug conflicts, you might have some pages or forums in the ‘trash’ that you if you empty rhe trash you should again be able to use the link without the -2

e.g. http://mutriku-gaming.com/wordpress/forums/forum/juegos

[Stephen Edgar]

Forum import – The documentation states that stickies will not be imported, however I after doing the import I have around 20 ‘super-stickies’ which, looking at the old forum, are a mixture of announcements and stickies. I’d rather these weren’t converted to anything, and as far as I’m aware they shouldn’t be (https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2126)

The above ticket you reference was the ‘issue’ being created to track the changes and progress of implementing this feature.

In comment 12 that is where the ticket was to updated to ‘fixed’ and ‘closed’ via changeset r5170. Trac can be a little daunting at first trying to understand everything that goes on in a ticket 😉

With only your ~20 ‘stcikies’ it shouldn’t take more than a couple of minutes to ‘unstick’ the ones you do not want after your import has finished and the repair tools run.

I have updated the docs to reflect that also https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/phpbb/

Stickies – is there a way to ignore stickies during the import? They don’t appear to have come through correctly so it would be nice to simply ignore them (as was previously the case).

How so, could you explaing that a little more please? Do the topics ‘look right’ and are just not ‘stuck’ or something else going on?

User import – During the import, I (the main WordPress admin user) seem to have had quite a lot of forums, topics and replies linked to my user. I wasn’t a user on the previous phpBB forum at all so I’m not sure why I’ve adopted these posts. Or any posts for that matter.

If there is a username match the importer will try to match the posts being imported with any current WordPress user, thus if phpBB has a user named ‘admin’ and you use the default the default WordPress username ‘admin’ that will be the cause.

The best work around for this would be to rename the phpBB username in the database bvefore importing.

Users – looking at the phpbb data, the amount of imported users seemed to match up, but I wonder if I’ve been assigned posts that were previously changed to the ‘Anonymous User’ that phpBB has at user ID 0… the amount of posts don’t seem to match up with that theory but a ‘majority’ of the posts that have been assigned to me seem to match the logic to an extent (ie, posts that have been moved into a ‘moderators only’ forum for further discussion about actions to be taken).

You should notice that you now actually have a WordPress username ‘Anonymous’, so any ‘Anonymous’ posts should be attributed to that user.

Your ‘moderators only’ forum after import you should change the bbPress forum permission to ‘hidden’ and that will make that forum the equiv bbPress ‘moderators only’ forum.

Repair tools – All the repair tasks seem to work ok, except for two:
– Recalculate the position of each reply
– Remap existing users to default forum roles
These two tasks end up white-screening with no status messages at all.

What size is the phpBB database your importing? (Approx. Forums, Topics, Posts & Users please 🙂 )

User Login Conversion – User logins are converted correctly when using the standard wordpress login screen but now when using my custom frontend ajax login – does anyone know if there’s a way to get that to work? A seperate topic has been started about that here: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/user-login-authentication-migrated-phpbb-users/

I’ve pretty much still got the same opinion as I wrote last night here.

User Login – that’s correct – I’m just using the wp-signon method so I guess I’ll need to add some kind of do_action() call or something to trigger the conversion? If you can point me in the right direction, that would be great 🙂

There is nothing to point you to sorry, when a user logs in for the first time after the import their legacy salt and hash password get’s converted to the native WordPress password format. Without knowing each legacy password their is no way to do this programmatically.

bbPress’ login forms actually are hooked into the WordPress login forms, so theoretically it shouldn’t be too difficult for either the plugin you are using to add support for bbPress or possibly look for another similar plugin that already supports bbPress.

Passwords and all their associated algorithms are hard and this an area where I just manage to skate by with the basics, actually doing any of what I mentioned in the previous paragraph is way beyond my skill level and pay grade 😉