[vysis]

How deeply integrated is 2.0+ version of BBPress?

Will I be able to use WordPress functions (ie get_post_meta()) in bbpress?

[Scott]

WordPress 3.6
bbPress 2.3.2

I have bbPress and BuddyPress setup on a multisite network with sitewide and group forums. Is it possible to integrate the group forum with a multisite site?

ie.-
XYZ BuddyPress Group = http://mainsite.com/groups/xyz/forum
XYZ Blog = http://xyz.mainsite.com

Can the group forums integrate to the site? So if a post is made on the site it will show back on the group page or if on the group page it will go back to the site?

If that is not possible, is it possible to at least display the group forum data on the subsite with a shortcode or something?

Thanks for any help!

[JosiahW]

I am having the same problem. I get this error while creating a group from website admin area. When I create group from there it takes me to the front end of website. I gives the error on “Step 3 Forum”.

Here is my setup:
Wordpress 3.6
BuddyPress 1.8
bbPress 2.3.2
BuddyPress Docs 1.4.5
BuddyPress Links 0.8.2
BuddyPress Social 2.0
BuddyPress Wall 0.8.2

Error Source Details:
Type Plugin
Name bbPress
Version 2.3.2
Author The bbPress Community
Path /wp-content/plugins/bbpress
File includes/extend/buddypress/group.php

Full Error Details
Type Fatal Error (E_ERROR)
Message Using $this when not in object context
File /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/extend/buddypress/group.php
Line 461
Type Description This type of error indicates that PHP cannot continue to run the code. Typical causes of this type of error are code bugs that have typos, missing or incomplete files (such as a file that was only partially uploaded), and the code using more memory than it is allowed.

[kannued]

Did you follow these directions?

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/introducing-bbconverter-convert-your-current-forums-for-use-with-bbpress-2x

or tiny url
http://tinyurl.com/kaw5pjp

[kannued]

Follow this directions

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/installation/

[kannued]

Using wordpress is not overkill. Think of wordpress as an overall operating system where you have registration and login abilities, different roles for different users, spam filters like Wangguard. Then you use bbpress as a plugin for your forum.

How can you not want the user system if you have a forum?

WP is not overkill.

[amitlin96]

Hi there!

I’m in a bit of a dilemma, here are my circumstances:

1. I want to use bbPress, but as a forum alone – My website is going to be a static homepage and a forum, no more and no less, and i would really hate to use a wordpress to accomplish such a simple task, it would really be an overkill, im not going to use ANY forum of cms, so id really hate to install wordpress ONLY so i can use bbPress, is there any way to get bbPress as a forum alone, not as a plugin?

2. In the homepage, i want there to be two boxes:
Box1 – shows the latest topic from a certain forum(the announcement forum), including the title, and content, number of comments and user that posted it.

Box2 – shows a featured topic. I know there is a plugin for this, im just curios if i could use functions from bbPress, outside of bbPress, as in, in the homepage page, which is not a wordpress page.

So these are my circumstances. What do you think? should i install wordpress JUST so i could use the forum(if so, is there any way to really trim it down? i dont need the users system, comments, pages, posts, etc. Almost everything revolves around the forum)? If not, what are the alternatives?

bbPress is a really great software, and would really want to use it 🙂

[liminjun88]

Now I have installed the bbPress successfully.But I want to use it as a bbs.Because it base on the WordPress,I want to custom the style of it, so that it looks like a bbs,or it is a blog.

[MartinS87]

Hey there!

I used PHPbb3 the last 4 years now. The Foums is grown.
But now I created a new Website with WordPress and want something what is
integrated in there. I found bbPress and bbConverter. I installed both in my
WordPress but I cant run the bbConverter. Is there anyone who could give me some Detail
Information?

Thanks.

[Thank you]

Hi,i just installed BBpress on to my under construction site.I have WordPress 3.6 and i am using twenty thirteen theme.

whenever a new user signup for the forum,he recieve an email addressed from wordpress@my domain address.

Is it possible to change the name from wordpress to my domain name.

Thanks.

[wpobs]

Hi guys, im using the latest WP 3.6 + bbPress 2.3.2 + buddypress 1.8

All works fine until you try to either Edit a forum of an existing group (front end) or when creating a new group and then at step 3 adding a forum to this group, when then the page get broken.

The page will remain visible but the header and footer will disappear.

see image below:

I have disabled ALL plugins as well as switched theme to the WordPress / buddypress default one but still the issue remains.

Page end Source code finished without closing this are the last lines:

<form action="http://[domainname]/group1/admin/extras" name="group-settings-form" id="group-settings-form" class="standard-form" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" role="main">

Inspect Elements reports error:
Uncaught TypeError: Object [object Object] has no method ‘sortable’

This was also report on the Buddypress forum:
http://buddypress.org/support/topic/admin-bar-and-footer-broken/

Please help.
Dan

[therune]

I have a forum setup as private, when logged in you can view the forum just fine. But when not logged on and you try to view the forum page /forums/forum/forum-name it takes you to the standard wordpress 404 page. I’ve tried creating that page structure in the page manager but that didn’t seem to work, I created a forums page, a forum page as a child, and a forum-name page as a child. When I tested the page on a logged in user it took me to the forum page but when not logged in the page still takes me to the 404. How can I control this page?

Thanks

[markkelly1982]

I got the same error but i think it is related to the latest version of NextGEN Gallery by Photocrati(http://www.nextgen-gallery.com/wordpress-gallery-plugin/). I deactivated that plugin and the error goes away.

[akgt]

Why haven’t bbPress 2.3.3 2.4 been released yet both look to be finished?
tickets for the milestone are closed
wordpress 3.6 is now out and so is buddypress 1.8

[hitkid]

Hi guys, I’m having trouble showing the shortcode for recent posts on my home page after I entered in code to get my recent blog posts to show up on my home page.

Here is the code I used for recent posts:

$args = array( 'numberposts' => 3 );
$lastposts = get_posts( $args );
foreach($lastposts as $post) : setup_postdata($post); ?>
	<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
	<?php the_content(); ?>
<?php endforeach; ?>

I saw in another topic how to get 10 recent topics on your home page with shortcode, but it didn’t work after the above code. Could someone please help me with the code to get 10 recent topics to appear on my home page?

Using the current versions of wordpress, bbpress and buddypress. Working with a buddypress default child theme. I’m also newer to php, so go easy please 🙂

[nanodust]

@johnjamesjacoby awesome.

thanks BBPress for such a well designed and useful plugin !!

[kiagua]

I’m having an issue with bbpress. I’m not sure why this has started, but when the bbPress plugin is active, these two lines of text appear at the top of the screen when viewing the Dashboard and/or the website pages:

Warning: in_array() expects parameter 2 to be array, null given in /data/15/2/29/3/2518166/user/2758606/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/functions.php on line 1199

Warning: in_array() expects parameter 2 to be array, null given in /data/15/2/29/3/2518166/user/2758606/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/functions.php on line 1199

We’ve updated our WordPress to version 3.5.2 and also updated bbPress to 2.3.2. We ran several other updates at the same time, and then the forums function stopped working.

Any ideas of how I can fix this?

[Pippin Williamson]

This feature is planned for bbPress 2.5: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2299

[Ian Stanley]

Has anyone created a sample dataset like WordPress’ “Theme Unit” Test data for bbPress to quickly knock up a sample bbPress site for testing themes, plugins etc?

[erikm27]

http://llamaverse.com/community/topic/test/

I am using the most recent version of wordpress and bbPress, with the theme my login and user avatar plugins.

Avatars show up fine in the first post, but any additional posts have the avatars thrown down to the bottom.

Activating TwentyTen or TwentyEleven does seem to fix this problem. I have contacted the theme developer, but wondering if anyone could provide some insight for me to fix this quickly myself.

I have strong html/css and basic php knowledge.

Thanks!

[Daniel Mason]

We recently went through a major upgrade with one of our clients, and as part of that upgrade moved them to a new host. For some reason, no forum posts older than the start of the upgrade (6 weeks ago) have come through from the old site.

I’ve noticed on the new site, in the table bp_posts, the new forum posts (from the old site) are visible, but after some experimentation, for that the posts are duplicated in wp_posts which is where the data is coming from. None of the new forum posts are in wp_posts which seems to be why they didn’t come through.

Apart from building the server itself, I didn’t have much to do with the upgrade, so I’m not entirely sure why this is. I’ve run the repair scripts which didn’t seem to do anything and spent over an hour trudging round all the options I can find in WordPress but can’t find anything that seems appropriate.

I’ve searched the forum and google and don’t seem to be able to find anyone with the same problem (though my google-fu may not be the best). Is anyone aware of why this has happened, or how I can fix it?

[Stephen Edgar]

I have just tweaked your Drupal Importer @vogelsang and updated it with a few tweaks for formatting and a couple of extra fields that you wern’t importing.

Details are in trac here https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2375
(You can download my updated version directly from here)

There will be an FAQ over here https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/drupal

• Forum parents/hierarchy is now imported
• Topic/Reply counts are also imported to help out bbPress counts
• Open or Closed topic status is imported
• Drupal users are also imported BUT passwords need to be manually reset **

** See the FAQ and or Trac Ticket #2375 for details on the imported user passwords issue.

Lastly thanks a heap for doing 99% of the heavy lifting in matching the Drupal database fields, most excellent work on your behalf 🙂

As to the problems you are having with the importer stopping on you could you try to reduce the load on your server by changing the import values for ‘Rows Limit’ and/or ‘Delay Time’ to see if it is a server resource issue or if it stops at the same point there might be some funky data being imported that the importer is getting caught on during import.

Cheers,

Stephen

[mindblender]

@fontadoni – Thanks for the info. I have tried several times and not having any luck.

Here are somethings I have tried and still have not been successful:
1. install bbPress 1.2 as a standalone without WP integration on a local test domain (bbpress.dev)

2. Install WP with bbPress 2.3.2 on a local test domain (wordpress.dev) and then tried to do an import from bbPress1, using separate DB tables.

3. installed WP and bbPress 1.2 in another local test domain (wordpressbbpress.dev), using the same DB, and selected the WP integration when I installed bbPress. Then I installed bbPress 2.3.2 and tried to do the import and no joy.

In all the scenarios above, I get the yellow “Starting Conversion” box but then it shows:

Conversion Complete
No replies to convert

Converting topic tags (0 - 99)
Converting topics (0 - 99)
No forum parents to convert

Anyone have any other suggestions? I do have test data entered and forums created for testing but I don’t understand why it doesn’t find them. And yes, I did verify the prefix as bb_

Thanks,
Jeff

[LevyImage]

I’ve been a MyBB forum owner/administrator for 2+ years now and really want to convert to BBpress because of it’s easy wordpress integration/compatibility. It seems there’s not been any updates on this for a little bit. MyBB is a huge community but the software is still in the stone ages.. even with the current conversion to jquery and html free core.
Would really love to jump ship asap and move to BBpress on all my MyBB forums. What solutions are out there right now as I’m not a database tech… not incompetent.. but by no means an expert.

[dice2dice]

Hi guys,

Firstly my site is http://www.whichinvestmenttrust.com
I have the latest version of both WordPress & BBPress.

I have set up BBPress on my website but it’s not quite right. I haven’t set it up in a way that is good enough and I need to do more.
I have spent the last hour reading through forums on this site but I can’t find the answers to my questions and problems. Granted I am probably a bit thick, I’m certainly nowhere near as smart as some of you guys on here, judging from the responses I’ve read in other comments.
So what is wrong with my set up? Well the forum is separate from posts. Users or members can also comment in posts and the comment function comes from Jetpack. The Jetpack comments doesn’t show up on the BBPress forum member activity and I don’t even get notification of comments, I just find them if I’m lucky.
It is obviously silly to have two systems and I need to switch off the Jetpack comment feature but I don’t know what BBPress add-on or Pluggin I should use. Can you help?
Also, I think I’d like people to have the option of registering with their social media login (Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn), is that possible?
I have a BBPress Member login Widget which handily goes in a sidebar but it doesn’t allow users to register instead of logging in and I kind of think it should because they usually do. Is there a solution to this?
Lastly, I think I should have a separate page on my WordPress site for Forums. That just makes sense to me, is this feasible?
I know I’ve raised too many points here I think. If you have any suggestions on any of them, doenst need to be all I’d very gratefully love to read them.
To recap my queries are:
– BBPress Pluggin for posts to replace Jetpack
– Social Media Login – Is this possible?
– BBPress Member login widget – can it include register?
– Forum Page – Can I set one up?
If you have suggestion for any of these issues, doesn’t have to be all of them I’d love to get your feedback.
Many thanks, Dice