[Robin W]

you’ll need to disable the bbpress plugin

https://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_deactivate_all_plugins_when_not_able_to_access_the_administrative_menus.3F

Just deactivate the bbpress plugin for starters.

then you’ll need to figure out why it isn’t working for you.

I’d start by uninstalling bbpress, and reinstalling it in case there was a corruption as it downloaded

Then if it still doesn’t work, I’d disable all the other plugins and if it then works add them back one at a time to see which is causing the issue.

If not plugins, then I’d try switching to a default theme to prove that you WP installation is ok.

if all that fails, come back

[vfowler]

Embedly used to help for SoundCloud but I recently had to deactivate it as I believe a recent version of WordPress now directly supports URLs to soundcloud.com

I’m using WordPress 3.7 and bbPress 2.4.x and there appears to be no problem dropping the soundcloud URL on a line by itself.

Hooray! 🙂

[alle50]

Sorry, I think I wasn’t clear: the site is a wordpress site and the forum is just an addiction, so the dashboard is the normal wordpress admin pages. What I can’t see is the forum dashboard, which I don’t know how to get to.

Thanks again Robin

[Stephen Edgar]

Apologies, snow & under are a couple of terms that come to mind.

I just imported your data into a clean MySQL database and everything imported correctly.

(The one side note is a couple of BBCodes, [align & [flash weren’t converted to WordPress ‘safe’ HTML, but that is another issue.)

Where to from here I am not sure as ‘your’ content appears fine at my end and isn’t causing the importer to miss/fail etc.

I think the next step would be for you to try this on a local install:
MAMP if you use Mac http://www.mamp.info/en/mamp-pro/index.html
XAMPP if you use PC http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

Setup and install WordPress & bbPress in this install.

Export your entire phpBB database and import it into your local setup and give that a go.
https://www.phpbb.com/kb/article/transferring-your-board-to-a-new-host-or-domain/

My theory here is there could be ‘something’ going on with your web hosts configuration and if the local import works we can then export this data from WordPress on your local host and then import this into your remote host.

[Robin Beveridge]

Managed to resolve this myself, using another plugin, Page Security: http://www.contextureintl.com/wordpress/contexture-page-security-for-wordpress/

I would have thought that either this sort of functionality could be built in to bbpress, or bbpress documentation could include clearer help and advice that such a plug in might be needed.

i would mark this topic as closed, but can’t see how to do so…

[Robin W]

I have never used these guys but you could try

http://gconverter.com/website-toolbox-to-bbpress/

or try putting an ad on

http://jobs.wordpress.net/

[RiGoRmOrTiS_UK]

I’ve noticed under permalinks wordpress is complaining about access to the .htaccess file; could this cause the problem considering everything else is ok? or am I barking up the wrong tree?

[unklee]

Hi. I have 2 questions please.

1. I want to install bbpress as part of a larger website to replace an old Vanilla forum, which has a subdirectory structure I have defined, with links from over a hundred web pages. But when I start to set up the forum, I can choose my name for the forum root, but I seem to be forced to use a subdirectory structure that begins with mydomain/blog/forum root/forum. This doesn’t match what was there before, and so I will have to change the links on a hundred+ pages. Is there any way to change the root of the forum to something simpler like mydomain/myname?

2. I use a WordPress theme with several options for sidebars ( one each side, two on the right, only one, etc). Each post I can choose which option I want. But when I begin a new forum for each topic, I don’t get that choice, I just get the main sidebar, which is on the right on the blog, on the left as a default. Is there some way I can change this?

Thanks.

[RiGoRmOrTiS_UK]

Hi All,

Hoping you can help; running WordPress 3.5.1 with Buddypress 1.7.1 and bbPress 2.3.2

I’ve been running sitewide forums for quite a while without issue; but recently we have needed to enable groups and group forums. I have done this successfully and I’m able to create groups and add forums to them; these show up correctly under the Group Forums Category and also within people’s profiles and the group itself.

However the problem arrives when trying to create a topic in a group forum (sitewide are still fine). You can create the topic and it is listed in the group forum after the fact; however when you click on topic to view it you get a http 500 error saying the page can’t be displayed.

additionally topics posted in both privite and hidden forums also show up in the bbpress “recent topics” widget for everyone to see (even logged out people) which defeats the purpose of being private or hidden.

I’ve tried using the forum repair option and this didnt help, anyone got any ideas what the problem might be?

Thanks!

[Cristian Antohe]

I just noticed the same thing my self.

Basically Yoast WordPress SEO: XML Sitemaps automatically adds ALL reply url’s to the existing sitemap. This means google will index them all.

> What I’m looking for are where the single reply URL’s are being used in your theme, making them accessible and allowing them to be crawled.
I doubt they are exposed by default, however a quick fix could be adding a rule in robots txt as well as excluding them from your sitemap.

[Robin W]

no problem, glad you’re sorted

[modbunker]

Awesome I seemed to have fixed it then, thank you so much for your help.

[Robin W]

Shapeshifter – Glad you are now working

Atuno – your site is infected with malware, suggest you clean it first, then if the problem persists post a new topic on this site

Virus report

http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/www.hookemreport.com/

Resources you should work through

You really need to go through all of these to fully clean up the site and make sure any “backdoors” have been closed:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/268083#post-1065779

How To Completely Clean Your Hacked WordPress Installation

http://ottopress.com/2009/hacked-wordpress-backdoors/
Additional Resources:
http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/scanner/
http://www.unmaskparasites.com/
http://blog.sucuri.net/2012/03/wordpress-understanding-its-true-vulnerability.html

[koendb]

This might help you.

[Robin Beveridge]

Hi, I have created a private forum for members of my Board and staff to share news and views. I’ve also created user accounts for the people I want to have access. My (stupid) question is this: how do those users get to the Forum? Where do they login and how?
No code please, I won’t understand it!
Using BBPress Version 2.4.1, WordPress 3.6.1, Theme is Graphene Version 1.9.2, website is http://www.yourbackyard.org.uk.

[Robin W]

I’ve just registered with you, and logged on with no problems via the forum widget. Went straight back to the forum page as it should do. Didn’t see a wp-login page at all.

[atunio]

i have set bbpress forum in my site here is link http://www.hookemreport.com/forum-2/

the problem is when i am clicking any forum nothing is opening
here is like of click http://www.hookemreport.com/forums/forum/discussions/ and getting error, any one can encounter it i am waiting for

[modbunker]

Thank you so much Robin for taking the time to help. The lost password link worked!

Although I do not really know about all that Page Template and CSS stuff, so I would be aerie to mess with that. I basically just want to make the login page the page under http://modbunker.com/forums/ so it doesnt take them to that WordPress page. It seems even if their login is correct it still directs them to the wordpress page to login again and then directs them to http://modbunker.com/forums/ which I want in the first place. Id just hate for my users to have to login twice basically, and have them be directed to a WordPress login which might confuse them.

But if it works it works may just have to stick it out and see. Thank you again

[Robin W]

or change the lost password url to http://modbunker.com/lost-password/ – that seems to work

[Robin W]

had a look

You login works fine. If you fail then you will be taken to the default wordpress login page. If you want to change this page see

https://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_the_Login_Form

For the lost password, try resetting your permalinks dashboard>settings>permalinks and just click save.

[modbunker]

ok I switched it back and entered the Register URL and Lost Password URL. The register URL works great but my Lost Password gives me a 404 error.

My login is still bringing me to a WordPress Login screen though. : (

[skylinez17]

Hi,

I am trying to install a BBPress Forum to a website I am working on. However, after installing the plug-in the only page I can access is the edit page. Settings, Activate, and About bring me to a blank page with text that states “You Do Not Have Sufficient Permissions to Access this Page”

After installing the plug in, I clicked activate plug in from the page that shows it has been installed. I received the error message, but it still appears that the plug in has been activated, because it now says “deactivate” underneath it on the plug ins list.

The theme is Bretheon version 2.0.1, and WordPress version 3.6.1. Everything is up to date, and everything else is running smoothly. I do not have any other problems besides this plug in.

All I want to do is install a simple forum where people can communicate with each other.

Any more information I will gladly give. I am teaching myself web development, and want to be the best that I can possibly be. This installation however is giving me headaches!! Please help!!

[glenweb97]

hi can anyone tell me how to use the bbpress plugin i have installed on my website im using runo lite as a lyric sharing website, i have set up a forum page but it doesn’t look right and no one seems to be able to use it with ease?
even i find it hard to use?
any help or guidence would be very welcome…
when i go on other forums they seem to run smooth, am i missing something?
check out my site and you will see
http://www.lyrichappy.com
i just want to set up a simple forum where people can go on without logging into wordpress and share their lyrics…:-)
oh and although using askimet im getting spam on forums all the time?

[Vitor Moya]

Hi Guys,

I’m using WordPress 3.6.1 and BBpress 2.4.1 , but i having the same problem after installing and unistaling the BBpress plugin. I can’t create topics and a message “Error : Are You Sure you want to do this?” appears, please someone give me a solution for this

[Robin W]

If you’ve installed bbpress WP tweaks plugin (in addition to the bbpress plugin) then there are two login widgets.

the one you want is called “bbpress login widget” rather than the “bbpress login links widget” that you have used.