[Ocelot0526]

On this page http://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/ they say “To use any of the shortcodes simply insert the desired shortcode into any WordPress page.”

So far I’ve tried these three

[bbp-forum-index]
[bbp-single-forum id=1]
[bbp-topic-index]

nothing happens except they show up as text. Why?

[Lesa]

I recently upgraded to WordPress 3.6. In 3.5, I was able to add Forums to the menus but this feature doesn’t seem to be available in 3.6. Can you tell me how to add a forum to a menu? This is an important feature for my site.

[Sven]

Howdy everyone,

I want to migrate an old bbPress forum 1 to bbPress 2.3.2. I used the importer tool to import the old topics an so on. But I am missing the attachments and the user-avatars. The attachments shortcode is shown, but not the image and no avatar. Can anyone help me please?

Wordpress 3.5.1 and bbPress 2.3.2

Kind regards,
iGoras

[Shane Gowland]

The email account associated with your WordPress account determines which Gravatar is loaded.

[SickSquirrelTwo]

Thank you but where in your WordPress profile do you copy one or link to your own? I see the six choices in the admin and then this

For users without a custom avatar of their own, you can either display a generic logo or a generated one based on their e-mail address.

Now, having signed up to test, I created a hash of my email address to do the procedure and write it down, but there is no place to paste my hash.

[SK]

@boonebgorges
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-you-make-it-work-with-buddypress-xprofile-custom-fields-type

Buddypress Xprofile Custom Fields Type http://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-xprofile-custom-fields-type/ plugin is fantastic. It adds field types date, email, number etc.

Would be great if BP Better Directories allows searches for (e.g.):
– age less than/more than/between (when there is a birthdate field)
– height less than/more than/between (when there is a number field)
– years of experience less than/more than/between (when there is a number field)

Please, please, pretty please 🙂

[Shane Gowland]

bbPress/WordPress automatically uses Gravatars. It’s built into the discussion settings.

[Tecca]

I’d easily go for IP Board or Xenforo before vBulletin. But since we’re using bbPress here and it seems silly to change software solely for private forums, we should probably stick with bbPress suggestions.

I’m sure there’s a way to implement this with some fiddling, but have you considered an alternative? I don’t find that forum software is the best method of communicating with staff members, so for my new project I’m going to use something similar to CollabPress (if not CP itself): https://wordpress.org/plugins/collabpress/

You can also load it on the front end, so your staff members can communicate without going to their WP Dashboard. I find solutions like this to be best, since you can manage all sorts of things and add milestones/accomplishments — which may motivate staff to work harder.

[terungwa]

Wordpress version: 3.6
bbPress 2.3.2
site url: http://www.rubycore-ng.com/blog/
Hi, i am getting this error message on my site backend. I have created a custom bbpress child theme. The error is “bbp_setup_current_user was called incorrectly. The current user is being initialized without using $wp->init(). (This message was added in version 2.3.) in /hermes/bosoraweb132/b1582/ipg.virtualweb/https/blog/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3012”

What is may be wrong?

[Scott Tyner]

I would like the pages for the forums to NOT have a sidebar and to fill up the page (and sidebar area). There’s not sidebar showing, but the area is white space. I want the forum pages to fill up the entire page. Did that make sense?

I am using Version 2.3.2 bbPress and WordPress version is 3.6

A link to the forums is http://bleckleycountygop.org/forums/forum/general-news-flash/

[Anand]

They are spam registrations for sure. Use a plugin like WangGaurd and see the difference. 😉

[Stephen Edgar]

I haven’t seen a plugin to do this…

There is this one https://github.com/jmdodd/bbpress-topic-post-converter but that does topics to posts… Maybe you could fork it and make it go the other way 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

Have a look/search in the plugin section https://bbpress.org/plugins/

There are a couple from memory.

[Stephen Edgar]

If you can set WordPress up that way then bbPress should also work fine using the WordPress setup as bbPress uses WordPress for all user authentications.

I would suggest searching around the WordPress support forums and/or plugins for a solution

https://wordpress.org/support/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/

[Stephen Edgar]

I am sure there are a few in the WordPress Plugins

https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=user+switching

[Nitac]

I’d like to know if you have any success with this, i posted a similar issue here but i havent had any luck rectifying it.

The last time test i tried i got to >300k (forum has ~400k) posts after the convertor stalled and requiring a restart a couple of times, until the most recent time tried to restart I got this error in the output window:

Repair any missing information: Continue
WordPress database error: [Table 'db_name.pbpbb_posts' doesn't exist]
SELECT convert(posts.post_id USING "utf8") AS post_id,convert(topics.topic_id USING "utf8") AS topic_id,convert(posts.forum_id USING "utf8") AS forum_id,convert(posts.topic_id USING "utf8") AS topic_id,convert(posts.poster_ip USING "utf8") AS poster_ip,convert(posts.poster_id USING "utf8") AS poster_id,convert(posts.post_subject USING "utf8") AS post_subject,convert(posts.post_text USING "utf8") AS post_text,convert(posts.post_time USING "utf8") AS post_time FROM pbpbb_posts AS posts LEFT JOIN pbpbb_topics AS topics USING (topic_id) WHERE posts.post_id != topics.topic_first_post_id LIMIT 304200, 100
Starting Conversion

Im currently running this on AWS (Amazon Servers) and had upgraded to the server to something with a bit more grunt but its not helping.

Ive also discovered, not sure if this is related, that none of the replies that are imported are assigned to a forum or a topic and when viewing a topic only the first post appears and none of the related replies.

looking forward to response.
mchl

[John James Jacoby]

Not yet, but we’ll be open sourcing more and more pieces of the wordpress.org network in 2013.

[Oken]

Wordpress 3.6
BBPress 2.3.2
Buddypress 1.8.1

Is there anyway to custom implement a Freshness, Topic, and Post counter for subforums in the front page in the same styling that parent forums have? I know this is a common question.

I’ve been looking into this issue for a while and even found older forum post about it, but those were from 3-4 years ago and bbpress has very much changed since then. There seems to have been plugins in development to address this issue as well, but I couldn’t find anything on them.

Any advice on this issue would be greatly appreciated, At least to get me on my way!

Thanks in advance!

[vogelsang]

I got this problem as well, but I move my reply to https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2327

[SickSquirrelTwo]

I created the file and it is dated 7/11 so nothing is writing to it, I created it based on a recommendation at a security website or wordpress.org (forget which). I have an .htaccess.old file I’ll paste below.

The email removes the forums/topics/etc, which are set in WordPress under Settings/Forums/Slugs Obviously I don’t remember coding but y’all know where the email picks up the actual post URL. Somehow it is stripping the Slugs. But just in Approval emails … so what differs between Approval and Subscribed emails in pulling the URL? I think that would be the place to start to find the error/problem/issue/annoyance.

(I go to Dashboard and look for a number next to Replies and Posts, so I DO have a way around the email discrepancy. I just like to fix things like this before it causes more errors/problems/issues/annoyances).

.htaccess.old (I didn’t compare them side by side to see if anything differs. I know if I FTP a file already there it adds.old to the old file)

#
# Uncomment the statement below if you want to make use of
# HTTP authentication and it does not already work.
# This could be required if you are for example using PHP via Apache CGI.
#
#<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
#RewriteEngine on
#RewriteRule .* – [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization},L]
#</IfModule>

<Files “config.php”>
Order Allow,Deny
Deny from All
</Files>

<Files “common.php”>
Order Allow,Deny
Deny from All
</Files>

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

[leahcar8]

I am in the process of converting my vBulletin 4.x site over to WordPress/bbPress and it’s not going as smoothly as I’d hoped.

Using the built-in converter, it has stalled several times…although when I stop and restart it, it seemed to pick up where it left off.

It looks like it did the users, forums, and topics fine (approx 100,000 topics) but when it went through the replies, it only got up to the 1500 – 1599 range and now it’s putting dashes across the output box. If I stop it and restart it, it goes back to outputting dashes.

I’ve done a lot of searching here, but I can’t seem to find info on what exactly the output messages mean. Do the dashes mean it’s still doing something? or should I trash this import and start new? maybe with lower limits?

Background info:

There’s approximately 600,000 posts on my vBulletin installation.
Running Apache 2.2.17, MySQL 5.0.67, and PHP 5.2.17
WordPress 3.6
bbPress 2.3.2

Thanks,

Rachael

[kb0000]

Hi,

Is there a way or some plugin available to link wordpress posts and bbpress topics? So that a post in wordpress has a link to bbpress topic.

[kb0000]

Can I import/copy categories from wordpress installation (Same installation have bbpress installed) in bbpress as Forums/Category? Is there any plugin available for this?

Also, if posts can be imported as topics?

[MediaSVI]

I ran into to some server problems and it turned out to be my test site was opening up tons and tons of connections to the server, all php5, and the only way to stop it was to uninstall WordPress not even deactivating bbpress worked…very odd.

I will do some more tests this weekend and and get back to you… I am thinking the convert vb.php maybe did not close connection when it was done? Just a gut feeling plus I know nothing about coding.

[terungwa]

Thanks, My theme can now read my bbpress.css file based on the directory structure you advised.
One observation and question though:
I noticed that when i created a blank bbpress.css file in my child theme, it wiped off the default styles created by the parent!! So, do I copy the complete parent bbpress.css file or do I make a child bbpress.css file.

If i am to make a child bbpress.css file, then how do i reference the parent css file, as it is done in wordpress child theme design?

Regards