I still have problems on my wordpress 3.5.1 site here http://www.truckstop24.no/truckerforum/
With the most recent botnet attack on WordPress powered websites, I’m (once again) reviewing the measures I take to secure my WP installations.
Most WP admins understand the importance of not using the default “admin” username when setting up a site. Many WP admins do not realize that simply using a different main admin username is not enough. That username should be “obscure” (not easily guessed) and it certainly should not be the same as the publicly displayed “nickname” that is associated with the user account. Those need to be different – this helps to prevent bots and bad people from getting the first part of your login credentials = your username.
While I been taking action to ensure this is the case on the WP sites I manage, I’ve noticed a problem with the way that bbpress displays username information. Even if a user has a “nickname” that is different from the actual username – when you hover over a link to the user’s profile the URL will show the actual username (the one you are trying to hide through obscurity).
There is an older thread on the WP forums that seems to suggest that this is not a WP core issue, but rather a plugin/theme coding issue. I don’t know if that is correct, or not. But, it is an issue in any case and needs to be addressed.
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Seemingly trivial and minor of a change, yet actually a huge change with no notice.
The bbPress body class has changed from bbPress to bbpress (losing the capital P). Depending on how much you’ve customized bbPress or if you’ve created a bbPress theme integrated right into a WordPress theme, all customizations will be broken.
This also breaks backwards-compatibility except for doubling up and references both .bbPress and .bbpress which will have to be done in my case.
Luckily, I discovered this issue in my testing environment. As you’ll find from the many topics that will be piling up over broken customization confusion over the next several days, others won’t be so lucky to catch the issue without learning the hard way.
Thanks, Bryan
@alex-ye wordpress +bbpress +Buddypress
Great, thanks for the new release. Always exciting to see new bbpress updates :)! Couple of comments from me.
Search
I’ve traditionally used Google search to search across my whole site, is there an easy way to switch the new form off? It appears to be forced upon the main forum list page.
It is also not looking great on my sites main forum page, what’s the easiest way to style this, what can I add to my CSS file to change the look? See here.
Stats
For those looking, the Stats shortcode is [bbp-stats], there is also a widget. https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2052
Is it possible to style the output?
Can I control which stats are shown? For example “empty tags” isn’t something I really want to boast about on my forum!
Hi,
I’ve been trying numerous times to convert from vBulletin 3.8.1 to bbPress 2.3.
I get most of it converted until I get this message:
***** = database username
`WordPress database error: [Table ‘******.tagcontent’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT convert(tagcontent.contentid USING “utf8”) AS contentid,convert(tagcontent.tagid USING “utf8”) AS tagid,convert(tag.tagtext USING “utf8”) AS tagtext FROM tagcontent AS tagcontent INNER JOIN tag AS tag USING (tagid) LIMIT 0, 100`
Any ideas what it means and how to fix? I can’t get pass this step and it screws the forum up, even if I repair the forum.
and as a result, it won’t allow the users replies to transfer either.
bbPress plugins work identically to WordPress’
Everything you’ve listed is entirely possible with bbPress, but as several of those features aren’t yet available for bbPress. You will need to do a lot of custom work, especially if you want to get a private messaging system working. That work will, obviously, require some coding expertise.
I’m not a website developer. I’m just a user of WP for two sites. I have a third site that I had a developer set up which is a forum and it is run with phpbb (he said this is what I should use).
What frustrates me is the huge DIFFICULTY in installing a “mod.” I don’t want to have to contact my web developer to install a mod every time I need one. That’s why ALL my websites (except this forum one) are run on wordpress – I can install/change just about anything on it myself within seconds.
What I’m wondering is, if I switch to bbpress is the installation of plugins just like wordpress? I don’t have any problem with that because it’s just click on a couple of buttons. Phpbb on the other hand, requires me to edit files and write code for a “mod” installation. It’s time-consuming and drives me nuts.
My forum is http://www.ForumJudo.com if that matters to your recommendations. I just basically want a site where users can send/receive private messages, vote on posts, post video/audio files, start topics, mods can delete posts & ban users, etc., and possibly a chat feature in the future.
I just know that phpbb is too difficult to install “mods.” I don’t want to learn code.
Thanks for any advice on this!
Hi,
My website recently went live, and despite experiencing problems with bbpress in the past, I decided to use it to host my forums.
Everything’s working out so far (knock on wood), except that the unique post anchors (http://website.com/forums/topic/topic-title/#post-1234) that show up, for example, in the ‘recent replies’ widget are giving the following error:
`Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/74/10646774/html/index.php:1) in /home/content/74/10646774/html/renewal/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 876`
Caveat: I have permalinks set to numeric and have installed WP in a subdirectory (in this case, “renewal”) which I now use as the wordpress URL while keeping the site URL as http://domain.com so that I didn’t have to move the wordpress directory.
All forums work fine, and navigating topics isn’t an issue–it’s only these unique post IDs that are throwing the error (and rendering the above-mentioned bbpress widget useless).
Any suggestions?
Hi Patti,
Sounds like you may be a bit confused. bbPress.org is the support forums specifically for bbPress, which is a sister project to WordPress.
Unless your sites are hosted on WordPress.com, any issues you’re having logging in are specific to your installations, and not to any central server anywhere.
i have to pay for this?
Hopefully not. A quick Google search found this plugin, though I’m not sure how well it works.
bbPress disables shortcode execution within it’s output, so that non-privileged users can’t gain access to all of the shortcodes available within WordPress. The problem is that shortcodes don’t come packaged with role/capability restrictions on their usage, allowing anyone that can create topics or replies to use any available shortcode. This is risky, so we globally disallow them.
I’m running the latest version of everything…
bbpress 2.2.4
BuddyPress 1.7
WordPress 3.5.1.
Hi. is there something wrong with the servers somewhere? I have 2 wordpress accounts and I keep timing out trying to signin to them.
Help
Patti Jacko
I went to #freenode’s IRC channel for #wordpress and I tried to find help there.
They directed me to :
https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-creating-a-custom-bbpress-theme/
But on Step 6 where it says to copy everything in wp-content > plugins > bbpress > bbp-themes > bbp-twentyten into your child theme folder I’m stuck.
There is no wp-content\plugins\bbpress\bbp-themes directory in the latest bbpress.
Outdated instructions… 🙁
I wish someone would step in and clear things up.
This page seems a little more udpated with the correct file structure. I guess I’m going to delve into this a bit more:
https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/
I have installed bbpress, and I can use everything in the dashboard to set up the forum and create topics, etc. But when I go to forum I created there is nothing there. I am using the Mercato Premium WordPress Theme. Can you help me find out how to get the forum to show in my template.
I think I know what’s going on. Created a ticket in trac https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2302
Hi Guys,
I am moving a medium sized forum from one WordPress site to another existing site.
Everytime I use the WordPress exporter / Importer it works, but is missing the Topics. I have tried doing it on a database level but keep over writing existing data on the current site.
I’ve noticed there is a specific forum importer but doesn’t offer any import from current bbpress 2 forums.
Any advice?
Thanks
Ok, we figured it out. The problem comes from the french version of bbPress. The latest version is over a year old and it’s based on an older version of bbPress, so it doesn’t show replies…
This puts us in a bit of a bind, but at least now we know what the problem is.
Btw clickmac, I noticed I couldn’t see the replies in the link you posted for your site, just a bunch of empty space. I had the same thing happen when I tested bbPress on a clean install of WordPress. My collegue had me try it with IE and there they were. So with Firefox you don’t see anything. For more info :
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/user-profiles-topics-created-and-replies-dont-show-up-for-me-either/
I guess i have the same problem as you my file is different from moebis´ and so i could not find the correct lines.
I´m not a coder but i can assure you that i know how to copy and paste 🙂
But you´re right, maybe i´ll start with BP 1.6.5 and use this Nice PLug to get the project as I wish for now. I have a similar project as Yours but very smaller
A district site ( with maybe 4 to 10 ) and with subforums like Health, Education, Secutity, Traffic, etc.
So for instance:
Brooklyn:
–Health
–Education
–Traffic
Queens:
–Health
–Education
–Traffic
But i still have some concerns about future updates, you know. i´m a bit stucked 🙂
At least one response Fraternity 🙂
It seem that matter are kind of…forgotten
For my kind of site/ project this would be perfect.
Also i´d like to mention a hidden (at least for me) fact: on a new install of bp 1.7 + bbpress we have no choice to stay with the now “retired” bp forum compnent.
I´m telling you that because with the old forum component + we can achieve buddypress subgroups and subforums aswell.
moebis…where the hell are you ? 🙂 we need your hack. please elaborate a bit more …
Exactly, it’s 1.2 version… Sorry, I’m a bit new to wp & related so I don’t know the history…
Thanks
Optionally you can restrict access through functions.php using a function with !current_user_can( ‘publish_pages’ ) and add_action( ‘admin_init’, ‘no_admin_access’, 1 )
https://bbpress.org/download/legacy/ – has info on older versions
Its probably 1.2 which i think is that last standalone version. bbpress is much better if its running inside of wordpress, it eliminates issues with members.
I would install WordPress and then activate bbPress through the plugin version.
Yes, sure
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