[clickmac]

it seems as though this plugin. 404 simple redirect
does not work correctly with bbpress users,

when a new user decides to click on their profile link. i.e picture or name
to go to their profile, they are redirected to the 404 page

would like to know if their is a exception to this or a quick fix?
and can anyone helpZ! please! urgently!

the link to the plugin site is here:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/404-simple-redirect/

[jhipp]

Hi all,

Currently using WordPress 3.5.1 with bbPress 2.3. You can see my site here: http://jacobhipp.com/mist4620/forums/content-3/

This plugin has been perfect for what I have been using it for, however, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to allow regular users to delete their own posts. I have seen some older topics with info (>1 year old) and have tried to edit user roles to give permissions but have not had any luck. Was anybody able to figure this out? This is a pretty important feature to have..

Cheers

[denvertelecomco]

Okay, and just to make matters weirder, I could log into my WordPress install (same account/password but for some reason you have to login again when you go over to bbpress) on the same iPhone.

AND I could log into the bbpress side on a different iPhone (borrowed one from somebody). But on my own iPhone I suddenly can’t. And I’ve been doing it successfully for years.

Did you try installing a new keyboard on the phone? Are you current with all system updates?

[Stephen Edgar]

There is a known issue with bbPress Moderation plugin.

I raised the issue of bbPress 2.3 compatibility with the plugin author ~2 months ago and for now I suggest you disable this plugin until the author updates the plugin.

[aero.roger77]

I still have problems on my wordpress 3.5.1 site here http://www.truckstop24.no/truckerforum/

[WayneM1]

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.

[Anonymous User]

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

[realhood]

@alex-ye wordpress +bbpress +Buddypress 

[jezza101]

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!

[themattman]

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.

[mtedwards]

Hi,

I thought this topic might help me.

I am trying to export a forum from an existing WordPress that has been running just as a forum and import it into our main site (which is a news site). So everything will be hosted in the one spot.

Everytime I try the built wordpress export / import I get Forums and Replies but I don’t see any of the topics. Any ideas? Or possible work arounds? Happy to do it all in mySQL if that is a solution.

[Shane Gowland]

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.

[JayFoster]

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!

[fencer_x]

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?

[John James Jacoby]

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.

[John James Jacoby]

i have to pay for this?

Hopefully not. A quick Google search found this plugin, though I’m not sure how well it works.

[John James Jacoby]

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.

[WayneM1]

I’m running the latest version of everything…

bbpress 2.2.4
BuddyPress 1.7
WordPress 3.5.1.

[divvajacko]

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

[lasticko]

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/

[Automoglow]

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.

[Daniel Dvorkin]

I think I know what’s going on. Created a ticket in trac https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2302

[mtedwards]

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

[maxime77]

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/

[stickFinger]

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 🙂