[bidhan.baruah]

Hi,

We had a custom forum created through a .NET application. Its a legacy application built in 2006.
Now client is migrating to wordpress / bbpress. For forum migration I have created a application to import data from .NET application (Sql Server database) in a format where I can use mingle importer to import.

The tables we have created are wp_forum_forums, wp_forum_threads; wp_forum_posts;

Table definition are
CREATE TABLE wp_forum_forums (
id bigint(20) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
name varchar(4000) NOT NULL,
parent_id bigint(20) NOT NULL,
description text,
sort int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (id)
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=32 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

CREATE TABLE wp_forum_posts (
id bigint(20) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
parent_id bigint(20) NOT NULL,
subject varchar(2000) DEFAULT NULL,
author_id bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL,
text mediumtext,
date datetime NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (id),
KEY fk_wp_forum_posts_wp_forum_threads_idx (parent_id),
KEY fk_wp_forum_posts_wp_user (author_id),
CONSTRAINT fk_wp_forum_posts_wp_forum_threads FOREIGN KEY (parent_id) REFERENCES wp_forum_threads (id),
CONSTRAINT fk_wp_forum_posts_wp_user FOREIGN KEY (author_id) REFERENCES wp_users (ID) ON DELETE NO ACTION ON UPDATE NO ACTION
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=69731 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

CREATE TABLE wp_forum_threads (
id bigint(20) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
parent_id bigint(20) NOT NULL,
starter bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL,
subject varchar(4000) DEFAULT NULL,
status varchar(100) NOT NULL,
date datetime NOT NULL,
last_post datetime NOT NULL,
closed varchar(50) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (id),
KEY fk_wp_forum_threads_wp_forum_forums_idx (parent_id),
KEY fk_wp_forum_threads_wp_users_idx (starter),
CONSTRAINT fk_wp_forum_threads_wp_forum_forums FOREIGN KEY (parent_id) REFERENCES wp_forum_forums (id),
CONSTRAINT fk_wp_forum_threads_wp_user FOREIGN KEY (starter) REFERENCES wp_users (ID) ON DELETE NO ACTION ON UPDATE NO ACTION
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=9303 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

Through our custom code we populated these tables.

Everything works fine, but while importing the wp_forum_posts (which has got 69K records) the importer hangs between 35600 to 35699. I tried atleast 5 / 6 times but same result every time.

Can you kindly help us in this?

Thanks and Regards
Bidhan

[WhenPaperSucks]

I notice this happens to others too, but appears to not have an absolute solution yet…I’ve experienced this once before but no follow up solution resulted, so I thought I would try once again with this new and recent instance of this ongoing problem.

In a nutshell, when I go to log into the WP Dashboard, it redirects me to the site’s front-end and not to my dashboard. I have to manually type in an admin url location to access it.

I have a fresh install of WordPress that I’ve been developing my theme with. So when this happened yet again, I did the following to troubleshoot:

1. Replaced my WP files with a fresh download
2. Tried two WP default themes
3. Disabled plugins one-by-one
4. flushed my browser’s cache and also used the default permalinks setting

Once again, it points to the bbPress plugin because when I disable it, I can log back into the dashboard just fine. However, enabling it once again, the problem comes back. And before you ask, this happens with the default WP themes too.

Long story short, I did a Google search and this happens to various people over the years, and this is the third time in 2 years for me…the 1st time I just simply dropped bbPress, then the second time, I had to do the same, now this 3rd time, I may have to.

Any ideas what could be doing this?

[jackoslam]

Thanks. However, somehow I am not getting the intended result. Could you please tell me what I might be doing wrong?

I created (for my somewhat silly example) a Chevrolet forum. I hovered over it and saw: http://www.sitename/wp-admin/post.php?post=492&action=edit (where “sitename” is the name of my site).

I then went to the Chevrolet page on my site where the Chevrolet forum is intended to appear after my editorial note on Chevrolets. I entered: [bbp-single-forum id=492]. When I click on Visit Site and navigate to the Chevrolet page, I see the Chevrolet forum, but the login screen of my Home page somehow overlays this forum. How can I prevent this overlay? Perhaps something about the forum defaults to the Home screen since the forum has no parent. The only parent that I could assign to the Chevrolet forum would be another forum.

The Home screen also overlays my other forums. All that works as expected is the GM page that I created from Dashboard . . . All Pages . . . Add New. I then pasted on this page [bbp-forum-index], and when I click on Visit Site and navigate to this GM page, it does what I want–I see links to all the forums. But after clicking on any link to a forum, I see the Home screen overlay.

[Robin W]

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[Robin W]

a /members page is not part of bbpress. Might be buddypress or because you have set a page up, but not default bbpress

[atfpodcast]

I don’t want to add anymore programs to this computer

@atfpodcast maybe there is some setting that you accidently checked that might have caused the issue.

i just tested off of localhost and just using default settings in everything.

try testing on a local development area and see if it works

I have the same settings on another site and its working. same plugins etc…

[Stephen Edgar]

Thanks for the screenshots, indeed it looks like no forums or topics are actually being imported.

A quick look at your forums_forum` table leads me to the following in how the forum section of your custom importer should look like, it is not complete as you have more data that what I could see in the screenshot you posted.

		/** Forum Section *****************************************************/

		// Forum id (Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'forum',
			'from_fieldname' => 'forum_id',
			'to_type'        => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname'   => '_bbp_forum_id'
		);

		// Forum parent id (If no parent, then 0, Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'forum',
			'from_fieldname' => 'cat_id',
			'to_type'        => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname'   => '_bbp_forum_parent_id'
		);

		// Forum title.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'forum',
			'from_fieldname' => 'f_subject',
			'to_type'        => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname'   => 'post_title'
		);

		// Forum slug (Clean name to avoid conflicts)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'forum',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'f_subject',
			'to_type'         => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_name',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_slug'
		);

		// Forum description.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'forum',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'f_subject',
			'to_type'         => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_content',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_null'
		);

		// Forum dates.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'to_type'      => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname' => 'post_date',
			'default'      => date('Y-m-d H:i:s')
		);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'to_type'      => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname' => 'post_date_gmt',
			'default'      => date('Y-m-d H:i:s')
		);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'to_type'      => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname' => 'post_modified',
			'default'      => date('Y-m-d H:i:s')
		);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'to_type'      => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname' => 'post_modified_gmt',
			'default'      => date('Y-m-d H:i:s')
		);

If you modify your forum section per the above I think you will find you will now have forums imported, if you have a more detailed i.e. “full” view of the forum data I can help work out what elese we can add for a more complete import, the same goes for topics, if you can add full screenshots of ALL the rows in your forums_forum and forums_topic tables I can work out what else needs to be added 🙂

[Pavle123]

I have been using this piece of code to call the default bbPress breadcrumbs.

/**
 * Filter to call default bbPress breadcrumbs
 */
add_filter( 'bbp_get_breadcrumb', 'myfix_bbp_get_breadcrumb', 1, 3 );
function myfix_bbp_get_breadcrumb($trail, $crumbs, $r){
        // This will remove wordpress-seo filter to disable bbPress breadcrums by default
        remove_all_filters("bbp_get_breadcrumb",10);
        return $trail;
}

[FrancescoR]

Hi, I have some problems to create my custom layout.

In practice, the problem is that my theme has the feature to create templates through pages.
Now, when I create a new page and use [bbp-forum-index] shortcode, I see the page themplate like I want, but when I click on a topic, the layout change.

This, probably, because URL changes, in fact topics always follow root forum setted on forum settings. And, if i leave the check (that one that set root default root for all contents) I got a 404.
Instead, if I set forum root like page permalink the layout is the standard one.

Maybe is my theme, but the code is really hard to understand, so I just need that all contents follow the page url and template.

my page code:

<?php get_header(); ?>
<?php 

$layout_obj = new C5_theme_layout();

$layout_obj->build_layout('page');

 ?>
			

<?php get_footer(); ?>

I hope that someone can help me, thanks and sorry for my english

[Robin W]

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[Robin W]

sorry wp4.0 changed the way default permalinks worked, and this has broken bbpress child forums, which is I suspect your problem.

There is a trac ticket for this with WordPress.

The interim fix is to go to pretty permalinks (which you say you don’t want to) or only have forums at the top level. In theory this will be fixed in 4.0.1 whenever that comes out.

[Robkk]

@atfpodcast maybe there is some setting that you accidently checked that might have caused the issue.

i just tested off of localhost and just using default settings in everything.

try testing on a local development area and see if it works

PC

http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-install-wordpress-on-your-windows-computer-using-wamp/

MAC

http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-install-wordpress-locally-on-mac-using-mamp/

[Robin W]

you could start by giving us a fuller problem definition

They post a topic and YOU get a warning – when, what exactly does it say, where does it come up and when??

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[Robkk]

@atfpodcast

i already tested it out (on firefox) , and it did work the link moved at first but the second time it did work.

contact your theme author and also gd bbpress tools support and see if they can help on that link moving on the first time thing.

if you feel like gd bbpress tools quote just doesnt work because of your theme , change to a default theme like twenty fourteen then tell me the results.

there might also be other plugins conflicting with it.

so just leave bbpress and gd bbpress tools and see if it works from there.

then reactivate any additional plugins one at a time to find the problem.

[Robin W]

bbPress is tested with wordpress default themes. It maybe a conflict – you need to check plugins and themes

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[Robin W]

yes,

Your ‘experts’ will be participants, or even moderators.

Then for your ‘normal’ you’ll need to set up a custom role

see

Custom Capabilities

https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-user-roles-and-capabilities/

you just need to set up a role where the user can not do any of the reply capabilities

If you are then allowing some form of automatic registration, then set the default bbpress role to this custom one in dashboard>settings>forums auto role

[kendorama]

I’ve tried it on a fresh install. I’ve tried it on my site while changing to a default theme and I have same issue.

Weird thing now too is I have a sandbox and a main site and when I do sub forums one has them side by side, the other on top of each other. Same versions of theme and bbpress… why would it do that?

[CodingMachine]

Hi @andrecgro just do one thing create a folder named ‘css’ in themes/child-theme/ and copy bbpress.css from wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/css and paste the file in the css folder and then edit any element you want to… u can try those css too

https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-styling-crib/

[Robin W]

ok, all I can suggest is a conflict with another plugin or your theme

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[eugenetim]

Hello.
I want to chande default size of text area for new topic creation and reply. Didn’t find any working solutions for that simple task. Can you help me?
Note: I am using bbPress Enable TinyMCE Visual Tab plugin. So I need solution that will work with visual editor too.

[filiip]

Probably plugin is too old for the WordPress version I am using.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-admin/

Now, I am trying to modify bbpress theme. I am using Arras theme for the page and I would like to make some changes with default bbpress theme. I am new in this waters. But I am learning now. 🙂

[kendorama]

Hrmm I’ve tried both methods and neither end up working for me. I’ve also tried it on my theme and one of the default themes. It all makes sense but it doesn’t seem to work for me.

Really appreciate the help Robin, any other ideas?

[Robin W]

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

Come back with the results

[Robin W]

Are you sure it’s just a bbpress issue?

The ‘lastest’ bbpress is quite old now, so if it was an issue, I’m sure it would have been flagged by now.

presume you have

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[Robin W]

create a directory on your theme called ‘bbpress’
ie wp-content/%your-theme-name%/bbpress
find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/form-topic.php
Make a copy of this file, and put in in the directory called bbpress that you created above, so you end up with
wp-content/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/form-topic.php
bbPress will now use this template instead of the original

I was only suggesting you start with looking at lines 42, I haven’t actually looked seriously at the code, I don’t have time at the moment 🙂