[John James Jacoby]

Use the WordPress one. It’s just posts and taxonomies.

[SeizedPropaganda]

Hey everyone.

We’re using the new 2.0 plugin and we’re running into a couple issues that are making it a bit difficult for us to use BBPress in the way we were intending to.

We have two separate forums right now, one for any user and a second customer only forum. Originally I set it up so that these customer-only forums were private, with read/write access restricted to a particular user-role that our customers get assigned to.

One of the things I’m struggling with the plugin is why these private forums/topics send non-customers to the 404 page instead of actually displaying that particular forum/thread with a message warning that person viewing that is it a private forum, or some other kind of message.

Seeing how integrated 2.0 is with WordPress, I’m rather surprised that there isn’t some kind of built-in association with user roles so that you can set certain forums to have restricted access based on these roles other than using a user role managing plugin.

Is there something fundamental about BBPress 2.0 that I am missing here? Is this a feature that is being planned? As it stands it is a bit difficult to do what we are trying to achieve right now.

Thank you in advance for any advice/feedback related to this matter.

[nuobodu]

Nope, im not using buddypress.

All the Forum settings are default, i didnt change anything after instalation.

Archive Slugs

Forums base forums

Topics base topics

Single Slugs

Forum Prefix checked

Forum slug forum

Topic slug topic

Topic tag slug topic-tag

Reply slug reply

User base users

View base view

I tried to access the forum via the original link http://www.8ball.lu/wordpress/?p=3448. But that links changes the line in the address bar to the nice address http://www.8ball.lu/wordpress/forums/forum/one-new-test-forum and it still gives 404 error.

regarding the other plugins, true i have 26 plugins active, which i all use.

Are there any known conflicts with other plugins? Just to know before i will make a clean install.

Thank you

[Anointed]

@eraleks

Let’s assume that you created a new sidebar called ‘bbpress’ via your functions file. This means that when you go to the sidebar manager, that you can see one called bbpress.

Next, take the sidebar.php file from your theme and make a copy. Name it bbpress-sidebar.php.

Here is an example of my bbpress-sidebar.php code.

<div id="sidebar" role="complementary">



<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('bbpress') ) : ?>

<?php endif; ?>



</div>

Finally there are a number of bbpress templates that call the sidebar. Replace those calls with:

<?php get_sidebar( 'bbpress' ); ?>

Wrapping up:

1. You registered a new sidebar called ‘bbpress’

2. You created a new template file called bbpress-sidebar.php

3. You edited the bbpress-sidebar.php file to ask for the bbPress sidebar.

4. You replaced all the calls to the sidebar with the new call to the bbpress sidebar.

That’s about it. If it is still causing you problems then I suggest reading a few resources.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_sidebar

http://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/11/08/sidebars-in-wordpress

*Author avatars.

JJ already thought about this and added in a filter where you can choose to display just the username and not the avatar.

<?php bbp_topic_author_link( array( 'type' => 'name' ) ); ?>

You will see a lot of functions like the one above throughout the bbPress templates. Anywhere you find an avatar that you want to remove and just show the username, simply add the ‘type’ => ‘name’ and your good to go.

**There may be a global way of doing this, but I did not look as I didn’t need it myself.

[travis.hill]

Are you using BuddyPress? If so, are you using the forum component?

What are your settings in Dashboard > Settings > Forums for Archive Slugs & Single Slugs?

Are there any potential BuddyPress link errors (if BP is indeed installed)?

Have you (un)prefixed your forum with the forum slug/changed any settings in this area?

Have you tried accessing the forums/topics via the original fuglylink? (http://www.8ball.lu/wordpress/?p=### [where ### is the ID of the forum/topic]).

Lastly, are there any other plugins activated?

[eraleks]

Hi!

I have created custom sidebars.

And I see in the .php files that there’s always the <?php get_sidebar(); ?> in the bottom. Somewhere I read that I should inside the () add the name of the forum, but where do I find this name/adress to the sidebars I have created?

Also: I have a wordpress plug-in “user image” that lets users have profile pictures. The problem is that bbpress inserts the profil picture everywhere it inserts the username which makes the forum look really messy. Any suggestions?

Best regards

Aleksander

[nuobodu]

I’m using numeric permalink structure.

Well, i installed my test environment into that subdirectory. But the links see to be created nicely and logically:

to the forum

http://www.8ball.lu/wordpress/forums/forum/second-new-test-forum

to the topic

http://www.8ball.lu/wordpress/forums/topic/testing-topic-2

even if i add a trailing slash at the end of a link, it doesnt work anyway.

I am completely lost here. I have read every post in this forum about the similar problems, but never saw an insuring answer

[David Decker]

You can use a new plugin for that to re-store the behavior with different user profile pages for BuddyPress and bbPress:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/disable-bbpress-profile-override/

Hope this works for you, Dave

[travis.hill]

This is just a stab in the dark, but it looks like there is a URL problem.

The URL to your forums topics are missing a trailing slash /.

What permalink structure are you using? It may be because you’ve installed into a subdirectory also (8ball.lu/wordpress/).

Any further detail may help.

[nuobodu]

Lucky

And for me it didnt fix itself. I am not using Buddypress, but i still get the same error 404, when trying to open any forum or topic.

http://www.8ball.lu/wordpress/forums

[bardo]

Also looking for the solution, I resorted to reading the code and found it. Quick version: bbPress inherits WordPress’ locale string. Suppose it’s ‘it_IT’. Then you will have to put your language file in wp-content/languages/bbpress/bbpress-it_IT.mo

In-depth version: in bbpress.php you can find the load_textdomain() function (line 524 ATM). There you can see it gets the WordPress locale, then uses it to compose the language filename in the $mofile variable. $mofile in our example case is set to ‘bbpress-it_IT.mo’, and this filename is looked for in the ‘wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-languages’ directory first (which, as index.php says, should not be used), and then in the ‘wp-content/languages/bbpress/’ directory. Just put it there named like we found before and you’re done.

[0xDE1E7E]

Hello everyone!

I am new to bbPress but am pretty excited about it! I run a few gaming websites, each with its own userbase and forum. I now want to move to WordPress Multisite to create a network of my sites, merge all users into a single userbase and have a common forum for all sites. This all should not be a problem from what I have read, but I am still wondering about the multisite features of bbPress… What I’d like to do is having a forum on the main network site with one subforum for each site in the network. Now, to have a consistent user experience regarding the look of things, would it be possible to display said sub forum on a network site? If not, is it possible the other way round, i.e. displaying forums from network sites on the main network site?

[nuobodu]

Hello,

I hope i have successfully installed bbpress into wp using the child theme (BJ’s walkthrough (http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-theme-compatibility/page/3#post-92099).

I can see the title page of the forums at http://www.8ball.lu/wordpress/forums,

but when i try to go to a particular forum or a topic, i get “Paged not found” error.

I suspect there might be a problem with the templates. Or might this be something else. I didnt change any bbpress settings.

I can see every forum or topic i create, but i cannot access their pages. Please help

[Vayu Robins]

Hi Moddey.

To download your language file from glotpress

https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin

You have to be logged in.

Click into your language section. At the bottom of the page you can export the language file.

[Vayu Robins]

Thanks John, but I am still not getting any translation on the bbPress forum plugin.

I have my WordPress translation files here: /wp-content/languages/ and my WP installation is translated perfectly.

I have placed my bbPress plugin language files here:

/wp-content/languages/bbpress/da_DK.mo

/wp-content/languages/bbpress/da_DK.po

I have this in my wp-config.php:

define(‘WPLANG’, ‘da_DK’);

I have downloaded the language file from Glotpress.

https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin/da/default

Wonder what can be going wrong??

Thanks

Vayu

[John James Jacoby]

@highexistnence – What version of bbPress are you using? If using 2.0, put your WordPress translation files in:

/wp-content/languages/

your bbPress translation files in:

/wp-content/languages/bbpress/

and then:

define('WPLANG', 'es_ES');

in your wp-config.php, replacing es_ES with your language code.

If you’re language is English, then you don’t need to do anything.

[selise]

andre, thanks for your reply. i didn’t realize that bbpress and buddypress still had a ways to go wrt to integration.

… based on your info, i took a look at trac tickets and dev notes and will post the links here in case anyone else has the same (or similar) question:

http://bpdevel.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/5th-october-dev-chat-notes/

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3177

http://buddypress.trac.WordPress.org/ticket/3598

looks like jjj is on it and if we’re lucky there may be something in bp 1.6 and/or bbp 2.1. fingers crossed!

[selise]

bbpress 2.0 was working pretty well until i installed buddypress 1.5 (test site) and now, instead of the old bbpress profiles (w favorites!), there is the buddypress profile, which is nice, except… the problem i’m having is that as far as i can tell the forum (bbpress 2.0) topic favorites are not showing up in the buddypress profile under favorites or anywhere else that i can see.

i’ve googled around and found other mentions of conflicting profile issues, but so far no definitive answers as to how bbpress and buddypress profiles are supposed to work together.

maybe i’m missing something? i haven’t tried using buddypress before. are the user bbpress 2.0 forum topic favorites available in buddypress somewhere and i’m just not seeing them?

or do the bbpress 2.0. forum topic favorites go missing when buddypress is installed? if that the case, is there a work around?

bbpress 2.0

buddypress 1.5

wordpress 3.2.1 (single user)

[nuobodu]

Hello all,

I am trying to setup bbpress on my test site. I want to replace Simple forum.

I followed BJ’s walkthrough and got it showing on the “forums” page.

From admin interface i created couple of forums, and couple of topics.

I can see the forums on http://www.8ball.lu/wordpress/forums

But when i click on any forum name i get a “page not found” error.

What am i doing wrong?

My parent theme is a custom theme created with Themeframe (im astill working on it, and currently i have only changed the menu). I did not touch yet the default templates.

Thank you.

[Stephen Edgar]

Not exactly what I planned on doing today whilst sitting in the back of a car! Though whilst browsing these forums I bumbed into this thread and have kicked it off on my iPad with a bbPress test site importing from 30,000 post PHPBB site, been running now for around 30 minutes.

I’ll add some follow ups on how the data Looks in bbPress when I have the right tools

EDIT: ~90 minutes after above

After ~60 minutes I have stopped it and had a look at the WordPress tables with myphpadmin and I cannot see any new posts in ‘wp_posts’ or ‘wp_users’

Is the ‘PhpBB_Not_Complete’ import tool active? i.e. Should I see more than nothing, nil, null as a result of trying this?

Cheers,

Stephen

[taesheren]

What I want people to see:

http://pride.mmbr.no/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/bbpress2.png

What people really see:

http://pride.mmbr.no/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/bbpress3.png

Only stickys show up in the forum. Also: notice how it says the forum has 2 topics, but viewing only 1.

http://pride.mmbr.no/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/bbpress5.png

http://pride.mmbr.no/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/bbpress4.png

Here is the actual pages so you can see for yourselves:

http://pride.mmbr.no/forum/delforum/minecraft » the forum

http://pride.mmbr.no/forum/emne/1-9-og-apaxia-nova » the topic

I installed bbPress via the WordPress Plugins tab and I have copied the template files to my custom theme and customized them (basicly just removed the sidebar) and added the add_theme_support( 'bbpress' ); line in functions.php.

It’s like the topics are set to hidden.

I have checked and double checked that the publish status is set to published. What do?

Thank you for any help.

[Erlend]

Bugs/inconsistencies:

– “Assign topic to” appears on all forums. That’s okay I guess, but should be an option, not mandatory.

– If a “Resolved” or “Urgent” topic is moved to a non-support forum, the prefix will stay, but there’s no way of removing it as the extra controls don’t exist in this forum. When moving support topics to non-support forums, I would suggest stripping away all extra features entirely.

I seem to remember the first time I did it the process was clean, but in all my last attempts I’ve received this error when moving a topic out of the troubleshooting board:

( ! ) Fatal error: Call to a member function get() on a non-object in C:wampwwwwordpress-singlewp-includesquery.php on line 27

Call Stack

# Time Memory Function Location

1 0.0019 676480 {main}( ) ..index.php:0

2 0.0030 681376 require( ‘C:wampwwwwordpress-singlewp-blog-header.php’ ) ..index.php:17

3 0.0043 702424 require_once( ‘C:wampwwwwordpress-singlewp-load.php’ ) ..wp-blog-header.php:12

4 0.0059 720680 require_once( ‘C:wampwwwwordpress-singlewp-config.php’ ) ..wp-load.php:29

5 0.0083 848040 require_once( ‘C:wampwwwwordpress-singlewp-settings.php’ ) ..wp-config.php:90

6 0.2526 29401072 do_action( ) ..wp-settings.php:206

7 0.2567 30235488 call_user_func_array ( ) ..plugin.php:405

8 0.2567 30235520 bbps_setup( ) ..plugin.php:0

9 0.2571 30236240 bbps_includes( ) ..bbps-premium-support.php:43

10 0.2593 30455272 include_once( ‘C:wampwwwwordpress-singlewp-contentpluginsbbpress-vip-support-pluginincludesbbps-support-functions.php’ ) ..bbps-premium-support.php:94

11 0.2594 30460320 bbps_move_topic( ) ..bbps-support-functions.php:405

12 0.3092 30240600 bbp_update_forum( ) ..bbps-support-functions.php:155

13 0.3092 30243984 bbp_update_forum_last_topic_id( ) ..bbp-forum-functions.php:778

14 0.3171 30283584 bbp_is_topic_published( ) ..bbp-forum-functions.php:426

15 0.3171 30283584 bbp_get_topic_id( ) ..bbp-topic-template.php:963

16 0.3171 30283584 bbp_is_single_topic( ) ..bbp-topic-template.php:361

17 0.3171 30283872 bbp_is_query_name( ) ..bbp-common-template.php:169

18 0.3172 30283872 bbp_get_query_name( ) ..bbp-common-template.php:1322

19 0.3172 30283952 get_query_var( ) ..bbp-common-template.php:1338

[Erlend]

I took it for a spin, and here’s my feedback thus far:

A lot of functionality should be in its own plugins.

– Move forum:

I’m surprised this isn’t in core already; I thought it was. In any case, this would make much more sense as a stand-alone plugin, as its useful for all topics, not just support topics.

– Forum Ranks:

As far as I can tell, it doesn’t tie directly in with support topics; it’s a completely separate feature. Maybe you have plans for it, but if that’s the case I still think you should just have two plugins communicate, as this is something many support forums won’t need. I personally dislike forum ranks. I consider it unwarranted labeling. On the jMonkeyEngine forum we frequently see first time posters with 10+ years of Java experience, which is the type of experience that holds weight in our community, not # of forum posts.

– Please separate your settings from bbPress’ options page. Your plugin offers so many options (which by itself is great) that it ends up bloating the options page.

– I think the default setting should reflect the one in this screenshot:

https://s.w.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-vip-support-plugin/screenshot-3.png?r=448946

That part slipped by me in the settings screen, and when I tested the plugin I was puzzled by how I couldn’t change my test support topic to “resolved”.

– What about a widget for the resolved/not resolved drop-down? (Same goes for Assign topic, and possibly some others I haven’t noticed yet). This would make it easier to fit it in with custom themes. This also means admin should have the option to turn off the in-built drop-down.

Oh and as recommended, add the bbpress tag to your plugin. It’s the default bbPress plugin tag, and currently the most convenient way of keeping up with the latest bbPress 2 plugins.

[John James Jacoby]

Having language files for bbPress 2.0 isn’t enough. The proper translation files need to exist for WordPress also.

[Anointed]

Are you running WordPress 3.2 or 3.3nightly?

I’m running 3.3 and noticed this issue, but not sure when it first popped up.