[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….

[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 🙂