[hamsterdj]

I’m having the same problem here. When user enters nickname and email address to register, they get redirected to the “default_site_domain/wp-signup.php“, where they have to re-enter everything. It’s very confusing for users wanting to participate on forums to say the least.

This situation also creates a problem for when a site with forum uses different language than the default site, as mentioned here.

Can one of the bbPress developers please give us some pointers, or at least tell us that this is not a common problem and we’ll have to figure out why this is happening on our own? We love bbPress and we’re hoping now to get some love back. 🙂

@jeffacubed Have you made any progress with this matter? I’m still researching…

Oh, and I’m running WordPress 3.9 Multisite, bbPress 2.5.3.

[Stephen Edgar]

Here is our ‘Official’ stance on the ‘Unread’ feature/functionality:

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1937

The primary issue is performance, we have not seen a plugin that will work well for larger sites, if we implement this as a feature it must work for everyone who uses bbPress.

I just updated the list of ‘Unread’ type plugins I know of here:

Feature Plugins Tracking

[Stephen Edgar]

Set WP_DEBUG to false define('WP_DEBUG', false); in your wp-config.php file, this is a known issue.

More info on this:

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2309 https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/24169

[inventor1]

See example: http://thehousingforum.com/forums/users/lisaperez/

The user can’t edit any personal settings such as signature etc.

Any suggestions? I think the only change I made to cause this was the wordpress theme change?

[JBBoY]

Hello again!

I read a lot about create new forum roles with capabilities. I’ve found a solution with some hardcoding functions.php file:

Add forum roles

But, is there a plugin to do the same much clearer? I need to add some new roles and edit his capabilities.

I’m using “user role editor” but this plugin only changes WordPress roles, not bbpress.

Thank you so much for all your help. 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

One more thing, when making a custom importer always base it of the Example.php importer, I keep that updated with examples and any other changes I make for bbPress.

The latest (updated 3 days ago) is here:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/includes/admin/converters/Example.php

As Robin points out, you just delete/remove the sections or fields that are not applicable to your import e.g. ‘tags’ or if your database doesn’t include the ‘counts’ for topics in forums then remove that part in the forum section.

[Bard]

Can someone tell me is there a plugin doing this now?(This has been asked over 6 years)

I have tried lots of plugins but no one does exactly what I need,
1) An easy WYSIWYG editor in bbpress for normal users(frontend).
2) With an image “upload” feature, but is not working like an attachment like “GD bbPress Attachments”.
3) All the uploaded images will be separated by folder(user name or individual name for an user).
This is to avoid user use images from other users.
I am also happy to know the reason if this is impossible this meanwhile, like wordpress official has a consideration on it’s risks.

[Ali Siddique]

Notice: bbp_setup_current_user was called incorrectly. The current user is being initialized without using $wp->init(). Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 2.3.) in E:\SERVER\xampp\htdocs\WP-PLUGIN\wp-includes\functions.php on line 3245

Notice: bp_setup_current_user was called incorrectly. The current user is being initialized without using $wp->init(). Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 1.7.) in E:\SERVER\xampp\htdocs\WP-PLUGIN\wp-includes\functions.php on line 3245

[Robin W]

The bbPress philosophy is :

‘We’re keeping things as small and light as possible while still allowing for great add-on features through WordPress’s extensive plugin system. What does all that mean? bbPress is lean, mean, and ready to take on any job you throw at it.’

see

About

There are literally hundreds of bits that could be added, which some/many/all forums either need or don’t need !

Plugins are written by the community to add features to bbPress, and maintained where the author is both able and willing.

Remember all this software is free, and relies on volunteers to make it all work – it takes many hours to write and as long to maintain a good plugin.

You could try ‘mark as read’ as a possible solution.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-mark-as-read/

[nirgalo]

Hi, I would like the unread posts for a given user to display distinctively so the user quickly knows what to read. Also I would like threads which have new replies to also display distinctively. Not necessarily through colors, maybe using icons.
There is a plugin bbPress Unread Posts doing close to what I am looking for, but it is not maintained anymore. Why such a basic feature needs to be done through a plugin and is not part of the bbPress stock features? Any idea of other plugins or custom code I can use?

[NikolajR]

Hi,

I have seen that in some of the topics in my forum. The usernames on the posts moves out of position. I think it’s because they move to the right, but i’m not sure about it.

Topic where the problem is: [url]http://danskyt.net/forums/topic/nyt-grafikkort/[/url]

Site: [url]http://danskyt.net/[/url]
Theme: Point
Wordpress Version: 3.9.1
BBpress Version: 2.5.3

[Stephen Edgar]

It sounds like you are looking for a plugin like Stream, I’m not sure if Stream supports bbPress but is the only plugin I can think of that sounds like what you are looking for.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/stream/

[bsilverop]

Hello. I recently deployed WordPress on my site and am using the twenty fourteen theme. I installed bbPress 2.5.3 first, but am missing the toolbar buttons in the forum (ie – the toolbar above where I’m typing now that lets me format my text). I’ve done no theme customizations or plugin customizations. The gray space where the buttons should be in the toolbar is there, but the buttons rae missing.

I made sure that “Add toolbar & buttons to textareas to help with HTML formatting” is enabled in Settings, but I still don’t see the buttons. I feel like the forum is just not wide enough on the page, as it does not span anywhere near the edge of the page. This could be the problem but am not sure how this happens on a new install or how to fix it. Any suggestions? Thanks!

[Stephen Edgar]

Sorry my dump wasn’t successful in helping you out here…

Your dump was fine, it was just for quicker for me to install the plugin and have the examples included, if I wasn’t so tired the other night I would have done that in the first place and not asked. 😉

Slug vs. stub, I missed that one, I tried your version on my test install and it works !! It converted forum / topics / replies. Thanks! Couple of issues, questions, comments…

Awesome

In WPS terminology, there’s one forum made of categories. They can be nested. Along with subforums, they may contain topics with replies. One of these cats may be made the “default category” which users will be prompted with when posting in the forum frontpage, that’s ‘symposium_cats.defaultcat’. If not set, the first of the list will be the default. I’m not sure what happens if two or more cats are made default…

Cool, for example per this picture is what you are saying if I understand correctly is that I could choose the ‘Sun Dreesses’ forum to be the default forum selected when clicking ‘New Toipic’ from the WPS forums hopme page it will default to showing the ‘Sun Dresses’ forum as the destination for my topic unless I select another forum?

If that is the case then we can ignore this as we do not have that functionality in bbPress.

‘Allow new topics’ will basically close the category to new topics. Likewise, in a topic there’s a checkbox to allow new replies or close the topic.

I already implemented this for topics and partially for forums, I will fix this for forums shortly.

‘remote_addr’ is for monitoring spammers, I don’t think it deserves much interest in importing forum content as it’s mainly a short-time asset.

We do use IP addresses for Akismet and spam protection, we have some upcoming updates for this that will also take into account the users existing history on the site and from emory this can include the users IP address so I will take a look and see what can be done to add support for IPv6 as currently we only support IPv4.

I’ll go through your callback functions tomorrow, but a quick comment about values in WPS: they are either ‘on’ or anything else, possibly not set, so it’s better to revert the switch and test against the “case ‘on’” and any other “default” ?

That is what I have done for closed topics and will do the same for closed forums.

The group forum post from my demo install was converted. In the list of topics it is indicated as ‘no forum’ which is true (as per my previous post). We should either create a forum (named like the group itself for instance) or discard group forums topics altogether (WHERE symposium_topics.topic_group != 0).

phpBB has a similar sceanrio for a special sticky post, it is not assigned a forum. bbPress supports topics not having a forum so this technically doesn’t break things but we don’t have a ‘view’ that can show us topic s that are not in a forum.

I haven’t tried the WPS groups but I will create one and see what we can (or cannot) do with them.

About importing users, you raise an interesting point. I’d like to understand if this tool is a converter or an importer. Being located in a folder called /converter/ I had assumed it should work within the same WordPress install and convert it from one plugin to another, but you seem to move it towards the import of data accross platforms. Incidentally, I have been wondering why I need to fill the ‘Database Settings’ with db name / user / password / prefix, while I’m converting an existing forum within the same base. I’m happy with both, although I would tend to consider that most WP-to-WP imports will be performed within the same site…?

I would say it is more importer than converter though interchanging those terms is not much of a stretch as we do not only import stuff we also convert stuff then import :/

In total aside from WPS the only other importers that are also plugins ontop of WordPress are Mingle and SimplePress, the other 23 in most sceanarios would be a seperate database from the WordPress database. To extend the same issue I stated previously on how to handle users the same case applies, you are not explicitly limited to adding the bbPress plugin to your existing WP/WPS install and importing your data, you can also create a fresh WordPress install with a fresh database and import your data into that. So in theory we could ‘hide’ the database settings IF we knew your intented scenario before the fact. It would be nice in a future iteration to make the importer a ‘step by step wizard’ and we could then do such things and many more things to make the process a little less daunting…

The other topics I’d like to bring at some point in our discussion are the attachments and the avatars. I’m not sure yet how bbPress handles attachments, for WPS they are physically stored in a location set from the “params” tab, and displayed either online or as links (depending on a setting). As far as avatars, once WPS is deactivated they are all gone, is anything possible or is this too dependent upon the plugin the admin may install for avatars ?

There is a post in the Kunena importer thread where @cybnet has written an attachment importer with details on how to change it for your own Kunena forum. The source is here and no doubt could be adapted for WPS.

Kunena converter for bbPress 2.4

Kunena converter for bbPress 2.4

https://github.com/cybnet/kunena-attachments-to-bbpress/blob/master/kunena-attachments-to-bbpress.php

Edit: I should have added that bbPress does not include support for attachments, there is one or two plugins that do add support for attachments so I would look to using one of those and use that plugins architecture to facilitate how the attachments are handled. We’d like to support attachments in bbPress ‘one day’ though we have some bigger implementation details to work out before we have a crack at this.

Avatars are a bit trickier as bbPress nor WordPress do not support custom avatars for user profiles out of the box. There are many plugins for this so at the moment this is not something we can support. We can’t make avatar import support the hundres of avatar plugins available.

[lagrou]

Sorry my dump wasn’t successful in helping you out here…

Slug vs. stub, I missed that one, I tried your version on my test install and it works !! It converted forum / topics / replies. Thanks! Couple of issues, questions, comments…

In WPS terminology, there’s one forum made of categories. They can be nested. Along with subforums, they may contain topics with replies. One of these cats may be made the “default category” which users will be prompted with when posting in the forum frontpage, that’s ‘symposium_cats.defaultcat’. If not set, the first of the list will be the default. I’m not sure what happens if two or more cats are made default…

‘Allow new topics’ will basically close the category to new topics. Likewise, in a topic there’s a checkbox to allow new replies or close the topic.

‘remote_addr’ is for monitoring spammers, I don’t think it deserves much interest in importing forum content as it’s mainly a short-time asset.

I’ll go through your callback functions tomorrow, but a quick comment about values in WPS: they are either ‘on’ or anything else, possibly not set, so it’s better to revert the switch and test against the “case ‘on'” and any other “default” ?

The group forum post from my demo install was converted. In the list of topics it is indicated as ‘no forum’ which is true (as per my previous post). We should either create a forum (named like the group itself for instance) or discard group forums topics altogether (WHERE symposium_topics.topic_group != 0).

About importing users, you raise an interesting point. I’d like to understand if this tool is a converter or an importer. Being located in a folder called /converter/ I had assumed it should work within the same WordPress install and convert it from one plugin to another, but you seem to move it towards the import of data accross platforms. Incidentally, I have been wondering why I need to fill the ‘Database Settings’ with db name / user / password / prefix, while I’m converting an existing forum within the same base. I’m happy with both, although I would tend to consider that most WP-to-WP imports will be performed within the same site…?

The other topics I’d like to bring at some point in our discussion are the attachments and the avatars. I’m not sure yet how bbPress handles attachments, for WPS they are physically stored in a location set from the “params” tab, and displayed either online or as links (depending on a setting). As far as avatars, once WPS is deactivated they are all gone, is anything possible or is this too dependent upon the plugin the admin may install for avatars ?

[Robin W]

The approach should be to get to a ‘clean’ site – ie one that works, and then add back theme, and then plugins until you find which is conflicting with bbPress.

Some plugins and themes delete database stuff when they are deleted, but many/most just leave it behind, so deactivating should do it.

If you have a local dev, then I’d deactivate ALL plugins, and change to a default theme.

Then test if this works. if it does then you have a good start point.

Then add bbPress and see if this produces an issue.

a) If it does, then come back with what theme, and confirm versions of bbpress, wordpress and theme and exactly what you are doing to test – ie user set to… go into… select…. and I’ll try to replicate.

or

b) If your base version above works, then add theme next. Don’t worry about the extend plugin, as you’re seeing if the issue is with a post, not bbPress !

Then add extend and re-test

Then each plugin and retest

[Robin W]

‘I might be missing something, but if deactivating the bbPress plugin solves the problem, the bbPress plugin is probably causing it.’

Depends how you define ’cause’

bbPress is tested against the default themes (twentyten, twentyeleven etc.) and latest versions of wordpress, and should be fully functional against that.

Since bbPress is just a plugin, it ranks equally alongside all other plugins and all non core themes. All of these have the capability to conflict with each other as theme and plugin authors use tweaks and add-ons to WordPress. The ability for two authors of plugins/themes to try to change an element is actually quite large, and changes can have unexpected results.

So if two authors both make a change and one overwrites the other, both can argue it is the other’s fault.

So I cannot get bbPress with a default theme to have your issue for authors or above.

If without any other plugins, and using a default theme, you get this issue, then please come back with what levels of access and I’ll look further.

[Stephen Edgar]

Created a pull request https://github.com/Lagrou/wps_extends_bbp_converter/pull/1 🙂

WPSymposium – 1st pass update …
* Cleans up PHPDoc for WPSymposium Converter
* Fixes Forum slug field mapping
* Add Topics section
* Adds Reply Section
* Adds callback_topic_status for open or closed topics
* Adds callback_sticky_status for sticky topics
* Adds reserved callback callback_forum_type to be implemented
* Adds reserved callback callback_forum_status to be implemented

Per my previous comment we should be able to determine forum type and forum status.

I haven’t added a users section yet, need to think about this a little, there are two use cases, if you add bbPress to same WordPress install as you have used for WPS vs importing into a fresh WordPress install where WPS has never existed.

[john peel]

Hi,
I just installed a new bbpress form as plugin with wordpress theme named Dicovery. Somehow it is not working. On the main page once I logged in as any user I can’t see any place to start a new discussion or comment. It seems that only admin can create a new discussion.

Also, when I try to log in using my admin account and try to create a new topic, I am not able to select the Discussion group/category, it seems that it is disable somehow.

Can anyone please help me rectifying this.

Thanks
JOhn

[ThemeTon]

I can’t wait until next version of the plugin. Therefore I’ve changed something here for my need.
The problem is same as Stephen’s explain, parent post gets reply id.

And I’ve removed treated (sub) reply possibility from posts and added page_walk sub function into BBP_Walker_Reply class (bbpress/includes/common/classes.php).

Those changes won’t allow sub replies but now my forum shows correct ordering 🙂

Thanks a lot

[Stephen Edgar]

Ah cool… In a future I dream of it would be nice to migrate these importers to standalone WordPress importers so when you import Joomla to WordPress if you also want Kunena to bbPress then check a box… Not going to happen anytime soon, but one day once the core WordPress import and export gets some loving updates this should be a little easier to implement. 🙂

[Robin W]

new version 1.5 with unlimited groups just added to website

bbp Private Groups

and will be uploaded to wordpress plugins in the next few days !

[Nathan]

@robin-w thanks for the function. This is not going to be as easy as I expected.

It was easy to hook into the new user creation with “user_register”, but WordPress is gives me a “Fatal error: Call to undefined function” when I try to call bbp_add_user_forum_subscription from this hook (my theme’s function.php).

I saw somewhere else that some functions need to be run within a bbpress loop?

@iclimb, I’ll be happy to share if I get it working.

[arunondeck]

Hi,

Basically I am looking t for a plugin that would monitor the forum for some predefined keywords and if they are entered, in a topic or reply, mark that as pending, show a message to the user who entered that and send a mail to the administrator notifying of the same.

Wordpress discussion settings do mark any comment as pending, but if I could edit it to send a notification mail to the administrator as well it could help. Any input on how to accomplish this would be helpful.

Thanks

[Stagger Lee]

You people if you dont mind paying little over 50 € you can try this converter:

Kunena add-on

I would not advertise commercial plugin here if i not tested theirs K2 to WordPress converter. It is simply brilliant. Imported absolte everything, custom fields, attachments, dates, page views, and aranged whole WordPress so that i didnt have any work to do with organizing content.