[karena123]

Wordpress: 3.8.1
bbPress: 2.5.3
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I notice that when viewing a topic post from my bbpress forum on a smartphone, the user avatar increases in size and moves, covering much of the forum and topic title. I would like to know how to fix this.

Thanks for your help.

[Shmoo]

I would like to start this discussions because I have no idea what to think of the adding tags to topics feature in bbPress.

First, Tags are taxonomies like Categories are also. Each Post Type ( or custom PT ) can be added with those taxonomies Categories or Tags right?

Looking that the Core of WP and how they’re designed to work Categories and Tags where always designed to be added by editors or authors on content – people who understand how to own or maintain a website through the WordPress admin.
Somebody who writes a blog post can define what categories and-/or tags they want to add against their blog posts – bbPress also uses Custom Post Types for Forums – Topics and Replies because they’re great for adding those kind of structural elements only there is a huge difference in the way how those work and who uses them.

bbPress Forums have categories as taxonomy attached to them while bbPress Topics have tags attached to them. It seems pretty normal this way but if you look at how Forums and Topics are created at your WordPress site you’ll see that Forums are created by owners of the website ( like Blog Posts ) and topics are created by random users of the website.

Topics are more like comments compared to WordPress Core functionality because their added by external users not editors or authors like Forums are – you don’t want people who write comments to your blog posts also have the ability to add Tags to them , right ?

The main reason why I look at it like this is because I always switch the Tags functionality off in bbPress because it doesn’t work the way it should work to be honest. I think Tags are great for fast navigating and filtering-/grouping specific topics with the same errors at a forum the only difference is people who write topics have in general a problem with ‘something’ , else they don’t start a topic at your site at all. Those people often don’t know anything about blogging or maintaining a website and how Tags and Categories work. A Live example of how bad Tags in bbPress work if you let them get added by users who don’t know how they should work is the Tags Cloud on the sidebar at bbPress.org.

Just look at the Tag Cloud in the sidebar, the bigger-sized words are most often used. BuddyPress + WordPress + Integration + Forum + Plugin + Theme those words are often tagged by people who write topics which is crazy because those are totally not Tag-wards at all.
How could you ever filter WordPress or something like BuddyPress or Plugin at a forum? Those words are too broad or wide to be used as Tags , maybe they’re beter as Categories. Tags should be words you could search for to solve a problem – like bbPress Core function_names() could be great Tags at a forum like bbPress.org but we all know most people who write topics don’t understand this so they add more ‘sloppy’ (with al respect) words as Tags or even more worst they’re used as SEO keywords or something like that.

My main problem with this feature is, IF you enable the Tags feature in bbPress you Moderation-activity goes up very fast because you’re always editing topics, removing bad words and adding better words. Okay we all know this is fun at the start when you’re forums are fresh and not very active yet but after 6 months or one year you don’t become very active at maintaining your topics because it takes up too much time and your Tags Cloud grows to something totally un useful as seen at bbPress.org.

My idea is to keep the bbPress Tags feature for sure, but adding a Filter system who checks at existing Tag-words.
There’s a Plugin called auto-tagger ( or something ) It only works at WP Posts, but what it does is it check for similar words in Post titles, content and excerpts – if a word matches a Tag-word it automatically adds the Tag to the Post.

My opinion is we need this option by default at bbPress. Remove the adding Tags from the front-end – keep them add the back-end where some Moderator or site owner can create a list of Tags and whenever some user writes a topic and X word involves that topic the Tag will be added.
Knowledge boards like Stock-overflow uses those kinda of systems, they don’t let people write their own tags, especially not New users, you need at least X rate before you can add your own Tags.
Some other Great example is Zurb’s new Forum, they also add Tags automatically based on the words in the content. They’ve Pre-Tagged Foundation’s elements so whenever somebody uses one of those elements in their topics because they have a problem with this elements it becomes a Tag without doing anything. People who’s looking for support can click on those Tags and group similar topics together very easily.
http://foundation.zurb.com/forum

It’s a long story, but I believe this would make the Core Tags function inside bbPress a lot better and people could really use it as a great feature instead of disabling it because it’s a pain in the * to maintain in the end.
Maybe we can use excising WordPress Plugins and change them a little bit because Blog Posts and Topics have the same structure, their both Post Types connected with a Tags taxonomy.

What do you think ?
Thanks for reading.

[asprofirst]

Hi All,

I have implemented bbPress (last version) in my WordPress blog (last version too) at the http://www.asprofirst.fr (directly to the forum page at asprofirst.fr/forums-4).(not yet visible by search engine)
I am facing an issue with numbers of topics and articles in bbPress.
I have several forums on my page (the page is called Forums), posting topics on a forum doesn’t show any modification of the topic and article numbers (counters stay at 0). If I click on the line of the forum which is supposed to host topics I can verify the topics I have posted are there. This happens when I am not connected, when I am connected the counters are OK, actually there is a mismatch between these counters in connected mode or in non-connected mode.
This is for me a big issue, with counters showing 0 nobody is going to enter the forum, the forum being supposed to be empty.

Thanks in advance for your help, this is my first bbPress implementation.

Asprofirst

[Morisu]

I think this has to do with the fact that we are developing on a local machine and not on an actual server. I have seen multiple issues opened because of this error, but no one seems to want to resolve this issue at all. I resolved it by just uploading it to an actual server and working from there. Yes it’s more tedious, but until someone comes forward with how to fully resolve this issue on local machines, you’re stuck with that solution. For styling, I ended up doing the above, throwing in a lot of replies and topics, then dumped the html into a stand-alone html file. Then styled from there on the local machine and re-uploaded the css afterwards. It more than triples the time and work, but it works. If you have a client, just let them know that is the only way as for now. As for why you’re getting the error, I understand it that bbPress logs the ip from the user each creation of a topic/reply and does not recognize 127.0.0.1 or localhost as valid ip’s (which is what most MAMP/WAMP installs use). WordPress is fine with it, but not bbPress, or so I understand it.

[Lisa Van Ahn]

Also I’d like to move my other comments that I had in wordpress before I moved to the forums into the forums. I saw a way to do this but the plugin looked really outdated. I’d also like help with this if you can offer it, thanks so much!

[Stephen Edgar]

Yes, you should see ‘Forums’, ‘Topics’ & ‘Replies’ in that same WordPress Export tool.

If you select ‘All content’ it will include WP’s posts, pages, taxonomies and all of bbPress.

[jasoncoffee]

Is there a way to export all forum, posts and replies in a XML file like is available in wordpress for posts, comments and all other content.

I want a one click option for exporting the content. I do not care about preserving logins.

[BrynWRuggiero]

Hi all,

I’m wondering if it’s possible to use the 2.x plug-in version of bbpress and maintain completely separate users from the wordpress site. Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks,

B

[Stephen Edgar]

See this https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2412

[SK]

When I am logged in as keymaster, I get:

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 /home/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3049

[aNi_TFG]

Got a little further

WordPress database error: [Unknown column ‘posts.post_title’ in ‘field list’]
SELECT convert(posts.pid USING “utf8”) AS pid,convert(posts.topic_id USING “utf8”) AS topic_id,convert(posts.topic_id USING “utf8”) AS topic_id,convert(posts.ip_address USING “utf8”) AS ip_address,convert(posts.author_id USING “utf8”) AS author_id,convert(posts.post_title USING “utf8”) AS post_title,convert(posts.post_title USING “utf8”) AS post_title,convert(posts.post USING “utf8”) AS post,convert(posts.topic_id USING “utf8”) AS topic_id,convert(posts.post_date USING “utf8”) AS post_date,convert(posts.post_date USING “utf8”) AS post_date,convert(posts.edit_time USING “utf8”) AS edit_time,convert(posts.edit_time USING “utf8”) AS edit_time FROM posts AS posts WHERE posts.new_topic = 1 LIMIT 0, 100

[aNi_TFG]

I then tried to import via IPB 3.4.6 -> BBPress and again, I am greeted by errors.

This time.

WordPress database error: [Table ‘decerto2_ipb.ipb_members’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT convert(members.member_id USING “utf8”) AS member_id,convert(members.members_pass_hash USING “utf8”) AS members_pass_hash,convert(members.members_pass_salt USING “utf8”) AS members_pass_salt,convert(members.name USING “utf8”) AS name,convert(members.email USING “utf8”) AS email,convert(members.joined USING “utf8”) AS joined FROM ipb_members AS members LIMIT 0, 100
No users to convert-

Does anything WORK?

[John James Jacoby]

That doesn’t seem right. bbp_new_forum will only fire when forums are created outside of wp-admin, like in a BuddyPress Group Forum. If you want to add meta when any new forum is created, you’ll likely need to hook into WordPress’s wp_insert_post action, instead.

[leromt]

For what it’s worth, here is what I ended up doing:

1. I left my “parent” forum as a category.

2. Around line 847 of bbpress/includes/forums/template.php, I added “true” to the if statement to force the “category” parent forum to be shown, as follows:

// No link for categories until we support subscription hierarchy
 // @see https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2475
if ( true || bbp_is_forum_category() ) {
$retval = bbp_get_user_subscribe_link( $r );
}

3. In bbpress/templates/default/loop-single-forum.php I replaced line 44 with the following:

<?php 
		
$subForumList = bbp_forum_get_subforums();
		
if(sizeof($subForumList) > 1){

   echo "<ul style='margin-left: 20px;'>";

   foreach($subForumList as $currForum){

   // Create the arguments
   $r = bbp_parse_args( $args, array('forum_id' => $currForum->ID,
        'user_id' => 0,
        'before' => '',
        'after' => '',
        'subscribe' => __( 'Subscribe',   'bbpress' ),
        'unsubscribe' => __( 'x', 'bbpress' )
         ), 'get_forum_subscribe_link' );

    $isSubscribed = bbp_get_forum_subscription_link($r);

    // see if the returned html has 'is-subscribed' in it
    // if it does, then the user is subscribed to the forum

    if(strpos($isSubscribed, 'is-subscribed') != 0){
    echo "<li>" . $isSubscribed . "&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href='" . bbp_get_forum_permalink($currForum->ID) . "'>" . $currForum->post_title . "</a></li>";
    }
			
   }

  echo "</ul>";
  } // end > 1
?>

Feel free to criticize, pick apart, or provide feedback as you see fit…it works for me.

[Jaina “Jazzy” Jaslyn]

I’m in the “Import Forum” section of bbpress plugin – there’s no option to select for bbPress 2 (only bbPress 1). Or am I going about this the wrong way?

I’ll be making various test imports in the using wordpress’ import/export in the meantime to see how far I can get merging these 2 sites.

[assylumn]

Hi,

The plugin I am referring to is this one:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-topic-thumbnails/

The issue is that this one only pulls the thumbnail from the first image in the post. I want a default image to be used for all posts regardless so that the branding of the site remains consistent.

There must be a way to do this through PHP, just I do not know where to start (and I have a limited knowledge of PHP).

Cheers

[Mike]

Hi,
I have multisite WordPress 3.8.1 and Buddypress 1.9.1, and have just set up separate forums using the bbPress plugin, v2.5.3

Now everyone who is logged in and visits another site in the network is automatically made a ‘Participant’ of the site they are visiting. I don’t want this to happen.

I have set bbp_allow_global_access( false ) in bbPress includes/admin/settings.php, line 532
I have also set '_bbp_allow_global_access' => 0, in includes/core/options.php, line 37

However, when I visit a new site I am still made a participant of it. How can I disable this option in all my sites (there are thousands) without setting Auto Role to unchecked and saving the forum settings page in each individual site?

Thanks.

[chapeauvert]

I exported the database from the old host and imported into the new host I then tried importing the forum in WordPress using the bbPress plug-in. No forum seems to be created.

Am I missing a step?

[shearamariz]

no, it’s not a plugin feature. It’s actually a wordpress issue. I just found it today when I tried changing my password to 2 characters long. I’ll report this bug to them. Thanks Stephen.

[Stephen Edgar]

The details are here :

https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-in-your-language/
https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/dev/es/default
https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/dev/ca/default

[Stephen Edgar]

Are you wanting something like this?

forums/membership-services/view-profile/{username}

If so we already have a support ticket opened:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2496

[Stephen Edgar]

There is a support topic for that in their support forums, hopefully an update Ad King Pro’ will come along soon that resolves the issue.

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bbpress-30?replies=2

[Stephen Edgar]

@@mariz_p This is not a ‘standard feature’ of WordPress or bbPress, I presume you are using a plugin to enable this. What plugin is it?

Depending upon how the plugin implements this it ‘might’ be something bbPress could add support for in the bbPress login widget and form-user-*.php templates, but most likely this we be difficult to do for compatibility of ‘all the plugins’ that enable this feature.

Most likely you will need to customize the form-user-*.php templates to match the plugin you are using.

[Laviic]

Hello,

I am trying to write a plugin that adds some meta-information to a forum when it gets created. I can see that bbPress has a “bbp_new_forum” and a “bbp_edit_forum” hook, yet those never appear to fire, no matter what i do. I even added a php-die directly in front of their respective “do_action” calls inside the bbPress source code just to find out, that the part of the code that should call the new_forum hook appears to never actually be executed. What are those hooks for then, and what hooks DO get called when you create/edit a bbPress forum?

Thank you for your help!

My Version of WordPress is 3.8.1
My Version of bbPress is 2.5.3

[Jaina “Jazzy” Jaslyn]

Here’s the scenario, and I’ll try to be as specific and detailed as possible.

There are two different WP installations:

• The first (let’s call it myforum.com) just holds a bbpress forum install with thousands of members and posts.
• The second (let’s call it myblog.com) is an existing WP blog with thousands of existing posts&pages.

We want to create a fresh bbpress install on myblog.com/forum and want to import all of myforum.com’s bbpressdata. We’re getting rid of the myforum.com site after migration.

I am not a database guy however, and I have no idea how to export and import the forum posts as well as the users. I fear overwriting the existing posts, pages and users of myblog.com.

Is it as simple as importing tables from wordpress onto myblog.com? Will that overwrite what’s already there?

Appreciate any advice 🙂