[Stephen Edgar]

I’m not seeing this on any of my installs, try running the ‘Repair BuddyPress Group Forum relationships’ repair tool https://codex.bbpress.org/repair-forums/

I am not that familar with mod_fcgid but a quick search landed me here if that might help
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/500-internal-error-when-creating-package?replies=6#post-4873684

[Stephen Edgar]

Dropbox are using the old bbPress ‘Standalone’ 1.x version with some custom theming, though I wouldn’t recommend installing this old version as I am quite sure they have lots of customizations in the backend to get around the known numerous issues with the old version.

Go with the new version https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/installation/

Then start customizing the templates to the style you want
https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

[Stephen Edgar]

Same problem, it’s just hanging.

What stage do you get to though now?
(As you shouldn’t be seeing “Delete users WordPress default passwords Deleting previously converted data” etc)

“Deleting Conversion Table… Failed”

This is fine, it just depends on if bbPress used a conversion table to do the conversion or it used the source database tables correctly.

As well as the actual users there are a lot of bots etc. (e.g. AdsBot Google, Ask Jeeves Bot)

These are special phpBB user accounts that I haven’t found a way to ignore importing just yet and must be manually removed after importing, see the follwing for a list of them all.
https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/phpbb/

[zilveer]

Hello,
I have WP 3.7.1 installed with bbPress 2.4.1.

When I create a user in frontend the user role is not set.

I need to use repair forum function in order to sync every time I create a user,
WordPress Dashboard -> ‘Tools’ -> ‘Forums’ -> ‘Repair Forums’

I am using the default twenty eleven theme.

Can someone please help me with this?

[5ngua]

Currently the Forum Root is titled Forum Archive by default and there is no way to change it from the back-end. This is still impossible even when the Forum Root is partnered with a wordpress page optimized with a SEO pluggin like All In One SEO or WordPress SEO By Yoast.

So I think I going to modify the code to get this done, but I need your instruction, please help.

And how can I request this possibility as a default feature in the next BBPress realease? I think many people will thank it.

Thanks in advance,
Hung.

[FreeWPress]

Ok, open content-archive-forum.php

Sorry i understand what you want.. h1 title before id bbpress is made by wordpress, is title page, i think you find it in your page template!!

[Sculp]

Robin,
1) Files deleted.
2) Searching for BBpress…
3) Received warning: This version of BBpress is not tested yet with this current version of WP (or something like that)
4) Installing…
5) On screen:

Plugin bbPress 2.4.1 wordt geïnstalleerd. (will be installed)

Downloaden installatiepakket van https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bbpress.2.4.1.zip…

Uitpakken van pakket… (unzip file)

De plugin installeren… (install plugin)

Plugin bbPress 2.4.1 is succesvol geïnstalleerd. (Successfully installed)

6) activate plugin
7) Warning: You don’t have permissions to access this page.
8) Back in browser to address -> Dashbord -> Plugin..
9) Plugin is activated now (Somehow).
10) Settingsbutton: “Warning: You don’t have permissions to access this page.”

[Stephen Edgar]

Are you using the WXR Importer?

There was a ‘Google Summer of Code’ project recently and the WordPress importer was forked and updated, if you have issues with the standard version maybe give that a try.

Details and links can be found via https://make.wordpress.org/core/author/frederickding/

[wolverineguy7575]

Hello,
I’m trying to do the convert from mingle to bbpress. I found the post

Importing Mingle Forums into bbPress?

Which Stephen Edgar was assisting someone on and was able to get it to work. I put in the information to start the convert and got this error:

Repair any missing information: Continue
WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘\”wp_forums_\”forum_forums AS forum_forums LIMIT 0, 100’ at line 1]

SELECT convert(forum_forums.id USING “utf8”) AS id,convert(forum_forums.parent_id USING “utf8”) AS parent_id,convert(forum_forums.name USING “utf8”) AS name,convert(forum_forums.description USING “utf8”) AS description,convert(forum_forums.sort USING “utf8”) AS sort FROM \”wp_forums_\”forum_forums AS forum_forums LIMIT 0, 100No forums to convertStarting Conversion

I’m not a database expert by any means and I don’t want to screw up anything. If anyone could help me with getting this done I would appreciate it very much. Mingle is slowing down my site and I need to get to something better.

Thank you,
Scott

[AlexKach]

Yes you are right ability to put swf into the wordpress forum is crucial. I’ve got how to do it. Looking stupid but it works. Here is the code:

<object width=”399″ height=”270″>
<param name=”movie” value=”http://dev4ata.com/aa/Seasons.swf”&gt;
<embed src=”http://dev4ata.com/aa/Seasons.swf&#8221; width=”399″ height=”270″>
</embed>
</object>

here is the result:
http://dev4ata.com/?topic=woman-is-angel&paged=3#post-12575

[april]

I’m having some issues with this plugin. Hopefully someone here can help.

I’ve installed on a local installation, using Instant WordPress.

I’ve read everything on here about this error and it’s all about ports but I do not know how to make a change to a) Instant WordPress or b) bbpress to fix the issue.

My error is ERROR: Are you sure you wanted to do that?

Yes. Yes I am.

Can anyone offer some insight? Explain it like I’m 5, because the existing answers do not seem to work for me.

I have the most recent versions of WordPress and bbpress installed. I can create forums and topics with the WordPress dashboard, but not replies. I cannot create forums, topics or replies using the plugin at all.

Thank you!

[testowa]

I have the same problem.
I instaled your plugin ob new wordpress version 3.7.1
this info was show after instaling plugin.

On frond-end website forum looks fine [http://…./forums]
but I’m not abble to open settings. Everything not working. It only shows info, you haven’t access to this – or something simillar.

It’s not working:
Forums> New
Forums> Edit
Forums> Settings
Forums> Tools

[Stephen Edgar]

That theme you are trying to install ‘Static-Blue-BB’ is for the old standalone version of bbPress and will not work with the current version of bbPress 2.x Plugin for WordPress.

bbPress now use’s your WordPress theme, i.e. your ‘main theme’, if you want to tweak the templates of your theme click the ‘themes’ link at the top of this page and follow the link there.

[Stephen Edgar]

Closing this topic as it relates to the old standalone bbPress v0.9/v1.2x version of bbPress.

None of this information is valid for the current bbPress v2.x Plugin for WordPress.

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress uses WordPress ‘Custom Post Types’ so there are not any bbPress tables to index.

That said we are looking to improve the performance with bbPress in a few areas, take a look at Trac Ticket #1925 for further reading 🙂

[j w]

Hey all. The “Next Page >>” & “<< Previous Page” links do not seem to be working correctly on the Forums page. We should have 2 pages of Forums, but instead have 11 and they all show the same first of the two pages. We are never able to see the second page (the Forums that begin with the letter toward the end of the alphabet: o, p, q, r, s…etc.). Any ideas about what could be causing this?

WordPress 3.7.1
bbPress 2.4.1

[Robin W]

Yes, and I totally agree, the documentation is woeful, unfortunately those that know the answers won’t update, and the rest of us work out bits that function, but are never sure whether these are the best ways.

Anyway onto your question.

bbPress is a plugin, and out of the box it works well with twentyten, and I understand twentyeleven.

Beyond that you’ll need to style it.

This consist of two elements :

Functionality
Styling

Functionality

I create a page called “forums”, and then put whatever forum text at the top followed by the forum shortcut [bbp-forum-index]

See http://www.gospbc.co.uk/forums/ for an example

Then loading a plugin called bbPress WP tweaks adds a forum sidebar to your widgets area.

I have loaded this with a login widget, forum list, recent topics and recent replies, as well as some other stuff from my website. See link about for what is in there.

This then gives you a basic forum area.

Then onto

styling
bbPress using the default bbpress.css as it style doc unless you tell it otherwise

You can customise look and feel – fonts, colours, background quite easily by using one of two methods, knowing what to change is the hard part !

If you have an existing child theme, you can override the bbpress default for elements by adding them to your own child theme style.css BUT you need to put !important into them to prevent the bbpress plugin from loading later and overwriting them with the default

As an example if you wanted to change the font-size of the forums list you’d put the following into your css

#bbpress-forums .bbp-forums-list li {
	font-size: 11px !important;
	}

The alternate method, and perhaps better if you want to make lots of changes, is to copy the default bbpress.css from /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/css
to /wp-content/themes/%your-theme%/css/

you can then edit it there to your hearts content, and you don’t need the !important bit.

OK so how do I know what to edit?

You’ll need to get familiar with using something like firebug with firefox. This lets you examine sections of your website and see precisely what css element is styling it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdIk2PztcL0 gives the start of a tutorial on this

When I get a moment, I’ll start to add this to the bbpress documentation.

I only started with WordPress and bbPress in March, and am still learning the basics !

[thirtyfivemill]

I would say you’re spot on Bobby. 2 years down the line from this thread and I’m beggared if I can find clear, concise documentation on how to install and activate a simple bbpress theme. I just don’t get the point of spending all this time and effort to create forum software and then refuse to properly help people to use it. Like you said, more people will just give up than actually install and use at this rate.

I can honestly say it was easier to integrate phpbb3 with wordpress using a complex modification than it is to properly set up a bbpress forum, which is meant to be seamless.

Might be time to look for another solution if this is the future. Not wishing to be snappy and I know this is free software, of which I’m sure we’re all appreciative, but this has to be one of the most frustrating installs I’ve ever encountered.

[Daniel Lemes]

Anywhere in your theme (i put on a custom page template), use this:

$wp_roles = new WP_Roles();
$wp_roles->remove_role("bbp_role");

…where “bbp_role” can be “bbp_keymaster”, “bbp_participant”, etc. This worked for me.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/remove_role

[inspirationally]

After moving my bilingual 200,000 posts forum from Woltlab to bbPress, I realized, that the completely English forum with English forum descriptions etc. is too difficult for some of the German members, so I would like to somehow filter the German topics.

Already before importing, I created a custom field bbp_language and when creating the topic, they can chose a language, so that in the topic overview, you can see either of the flags – see http://deppheads.com/forums/new-posts/

With qTranslate, I can add German Forum descriptions, but maybe there is an easier possibility with just adding such a field to the Forum descriptions, not the whole site. I will have to write a little custom fields plugin for that.

I have no idea yet, how to set the language…if to display one language only or all – if it is in the profile, Cookie, if it is a little extra-URL like /de/ or a drop down?!?

My bigger problem is, how can I make, in the sub forums, that only threads with German or only English threads will be shown? Is there some filter / hook that I can use?
Any file or function or short code?

Like in „normal WordPress“ it would be

<?php query_posts('meta_key=bbp_language&meta_value=German‘);  ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

[JMG]

Hello, is there any way for my forum members to click the topic and view it’s answer in a drop-down style below the topic/question itself(accordion style) ? I do not want the answer to show up on a different page. Either the answer slides down the question itself or shown in lightbox style upon click. Is this possible ?

I am asking this because my forum is not a discussion forum but Q an A forum where there is only 1 answer to the question asked by members.

Using latest wordpress and bbpress build
Kindly help.

[the one b]

Hey @purplep,

Thanks for this. I have just gotten into WordPress and I’m working my way through learning what’s going on. Your directions were easy and to the point.

Thanks,
B

[Robin W]

Great, glad you’re fixed

[austinator414]

@robin-w I actually fixed it.
I installed bbPress when the Twenty Thirteen theme for wordpress was also installed.
When I changed to “Clean Black” Theme, bbPress was still using the Twenty Thirteen style. So I uninstalled it and reinstalled it so that it would gather its styles from ‘Clean Black”. All fixed now. 🙂

[FreeWPress]

One solution… If you have modified in error function.php, you must access via ftp, download the file in local…. Download original frontier theme from wordpress, open it with winzip or winrar and find original function.php and upload it on same of older function.php …

Only solution is to access via f.t.p no other!!