[isopaha]

Ty 🙂

Aye, the forum search widget works like a charm, but the default WP search widget doesn’t search the forums. I’d like to use the default widget so it would go through blog posts and forum posts for that keyword, now the forum search widget only goes through forum posts.

[Robin W]

Unfortunately it’s css and php files that you will need to amend

Quickest change would be to add the following to your style.css

#bbpress-forums .bbp-forums-list li {
display: list-item !important;
font-size: 11px;
}

or to amend the display line in wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/css/bbpress.css line 121

That’ll get your list vertical.

Add descriptions to your forums (dashboard>forums>edit and put something in content) and you’ll have the next part.

Then if you want to alter the display, you’ll need to look at loop-single-forum.php

or the main forum display loop-forums.php

[willandmae]

The Forum Recent Replies widget is showing the wrong time and date:

For Example:

guardianwill on Welcome
8 years, 5 months ago

The site has been in design for less than 2 months. When I look at this entry the right time and date is displayed

November 4, 2013 at 9:30 AM and then the reply message.

Thanks for any help.

using wp 3.7.1
buddypress – 1.8.1
bbpress – 2.4.1
buddypress-default theme

the forum recent topics is working correctly and showing the proper time.

Thanks in advance for any help concerning this issue.

you can view at http://tvbari.org and scroll to the bottom footers to the right.

William

[Robin W]

It’s quite simple to get ti up and running – just work you way through the following resource

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1

If you are using a default core theme, it’ll be going in a couple of hours. if you have a custom theme, the functionality will be there, but the look and feel might be a little different from your theme, and you’ll need to style it – not that hard to do, but does require some knowledge of using FTP and a code editor.

I’ll be finishing this article during the next week.

[Stephen Edgar]

Typically the ----- dashes occur once you are no longer logged into your site, opening up another page and refreshing it every 2-3 hours eg. http://example.com/wp-admin/index.php should get you around this issue.

As long as you don’t hit memory issues drop the delay time from the default 1 second down to 0.1.

I’d have at a guess the 5,000 & 10,000 settings you tried might have actually been too much, I’d love to be able to get some more SQL debug messages into the output display though to achieve this much of the importer needs to be rewritten so that will happen in a future release.

Down the track I’d like to write some bash scripts to do this directly (using WP-CLI) but this is a way down the track and is not planned at this stage.

[matrixino]

Hi all. I’m having some problems importing my phpBB forum into bbPress. My forum is quite big, those are my stats:
Posts: 576133 | Topics: 32722 | Users: 12306

I first tried a default import with 1000row/1sec setting. It ran for an entire day, however after around 60000 posts it just started giving me dashes (‘-‘ char) and I really didn’t know what to do or if it was normal. So i just stopped it.

After this I wanted to try more rows, assuming it was going to be faster. So I started (2 tries) a 5000 and a 10000 row imports. However I had it on starting conversion for an hours or more, and never actually started converting. I don’t have memory problems or errors, it’s just very slow I guess.

So my question is: Is there a way to import all together, maybe directly with some bash script, from shell without using a webserver. Or something else to speed it up instead of waiting days in my browser?

Thanks.

[javierduce]

You should check if the table wp_bb_posts has been created in your database. Otherwise, you should create it manually:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS wp_bb_posts (
post_id bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment,
forum_id int(10) NOT NULL default 1,
topic_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default 1,
poster_id int(10) NOT NULL default 0,
post_text text NOT NULL,
post_time datetime NOT NULL default ’0000-00-00 00:00:00′,
poster_ip varchar(15) NOT NULL default ”,
post_status tinyint(1) NOT NULL default 0,
post_position bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,
PRIMARY KEY (post_id),
KEY topic_time (topic_id, post_time),
KEY poster_time (poster_id, post_time),
KEY post_time (post_time),
FULLTEXT KEY post_text (post_text)
) ENGINE = MYISAM;

Hope it works.
It did for me.

[Stephen Edgar]

Same problem, it’s just hanging.

What stage do you get to though now?
(As you shouldn’t be seeing “Delete users WordPress default passwords Deleting previously converted data” etc)

“Deleting Conversion Table… Failed”

This is fine, it just depends on if bbPress used a conversion table to do the conversion or it used the source database tables correctly.

As well as the actual users there are a lot of bots etc. (e.g. AdsBot Google, Ask Jeeves Bot)

These are special phpBB user accounts that I haven’t found a way to ignore importing just yet and must be manually removed after importing, see the follwing for a list of them all.
https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/phpbb/

[zilveer]

Hello,
I have WP 3.7.1 installed with bbPress 2.4.1.

When I create a user in frontend the user role is not set.

I need to use repair forum function in order to sync every time I create a user,
WordPress Dashboard -> ‘Tools’ -> ‘Forums’ -> ‘Repair Forums’

I am using the default twenty eleven theme.

Can someone please help me with this?

[5ngua]

Currently the Forum Root is titled Forum Archive by default and there is no way to change it from the back-end. This is still impossible even when the Forum Root is partnered with a wordpress page optimized with a SEO pluggin like All In One SEO or WordPress SEO By Yoast.

So I think I going to modify the code to get this done, but I need your instruction, please help.

And how can I request this possibility as a default feature in the next BBPress realease? I think many people will thank it.

Thanks in advance,
Hung.

[bbp-fan]

I thought it is possible because I have the default bbPress CSS in use. Nothing special, just the CSS that have probably all bbpress-user. But if it is not possible to find the solution, I will contact you as soon as I’ve finished the site so that I can release it.
Thank you again.

[squid1974]

Hi all,

I can’t find where the title output is coming from. I want to wrap it in a <h1>. In the default templates it starts with <div id="bbpress-forums"> and the title’s output is before that. But where is it coming from? I can’t find it.

[Lynq]

Issues with trying to manage a forum can sometimes be resolved by going to Tools > Forums > Remap existing users to default forum roles

Tick that and click repair items, this can solve some issues with forum admin. Once you have done that and refreshed you should be able to see forums, topics and replies to the left hand side.

Good luck!

[ralcus]

I had an issue with the profile pages 404’ing.

In my case it was down to the ‘Forum Root’ i had set in the forum settings. I set a ‘Forum Root’ with a preceeding / like this ‘/forum’.

I then ticked the ‘Prefix all forum content with the Forum Root slug (Recommended)’ box.

This resulted in rewrite rules for the user pages like this
[/forum/users/([^/]+)/?$] => index.php?bbp_user=$matches[1]

which did not correctly match. I removed the proceeding slash from my ‘Forum Root’ so it looked like this ‘forum’ and then the rewrite rules that were created looked like this:
[forum/users/([^/]+)/?$] => index.php?bbp_user=$matches[1]
(no proceeding slash) and it worked.

Maybe the ‘Forum Root’ should have any proceeding slash removed by default to account for this scenario?

[Robin W]

ok, would be worth a double check with firebug as to which css is being used.

is it definitely bbpress.css? and on what directory are you using it (ie is it the default directory or a copy you have made, and if the latter which directory have you put it in?

[jeffmax]

I imported a huge forum from PHPBB (Over 1M posts and 100K users). It’s very slow to load and submit posts. Any suggestions on the indexes that should be created? It doesn’t look like the default BBPress indexes are sufficient for forums this size. I thought BBPress would be able to handle it with it’s default structure. Thanks in advance.

[Robin W]

Yes, and I totally agree, the documentation is woeful, unfortunately those that know the answers won’t update, and the rest of us work out bits that function, but are never sure whether these are the best ways.

Anyway onto your question.

bbPress is a plugin, and out of the box it works well with twentyten, and I understand twentyeleven.

Beyond that you’ll need to style it.

This consist of two elements :

Functionality
Styling

Functionality

I create a page called “forums”, and then put whatever forum text at the top followed by the forum shortcut [bbp-forum-index]

See http://www.gospbc.co.uk/forums/ for an example

Then loading a plugin called bbPress WP tweaks adds a forum sidebar to your widgets area.

I have loaded this with a login widget, forum list, recent topics and recent replies, as well as some other stuff from my website. See link about for what is in there.

This then gives you a basic forum area.

Then onto

styling
bbPress using the default bbpress.css as it style doc unless you tell it otherwise

You can customise look and feel – fonts, colours, background quite easily by using one of two methods, knowing what to change is the hard part !

If you have an existing child theme, you can override the bbpress default for elements by adding them to your own child theme style.css BUT you need to put !important into them to prevent the bbpress plugin from loading later and overwriting them with the default

As an example if you wanted to change the font-size of the forums list you’d put the following into your css

#bbpress-forums .bbp-forums-list li {
	font-size: 11px !important;
	}

The alternate method, and perhaps better if you want to make lots of changes, is to copy the default bbpress.css from /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/css
to /wp-content/themes/%your-theme%/css/

you can then edit it there to your hearts content, and you don’t need the !important bit.

OK so how do I know what to edit?

You’ll need to get familiar with using something like firebug with firefox. This lets you examine sections of your website and see precisely what css element is styling it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdIk2PztcL0 gives the start of a tutorial on this

When I get a moment, I’ll start to add this to the bbpress documentation.

I only started with WordPress and bbPress in March, and am still learning the basics !

[thirtyfivemill]

Guys, I’ve searched goodness knows how many threads, read the two standard documentation posts and I cannot for the life of me fathom how to activate a simple bbpress theme. Every thread I read tells of others with the same problem or notes that the documentation is out of date.

Has anyone written a concise and easy to follow step my step instruction post on how to install and activate a theme using the current release of bbpress? Or a video? I just can’t figure how I can spend an entire day googling and searching the site for something which virtually every new user would look for within the first phase of bbpress installation and setup? Have a I missed it?

As far as I’m aware I’ve done everything asked for in these two posts:

http://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

http://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-creating-a-custom-bbpress-theme/

yet having followed them to letter as best I could I can’t quite see how the newly installed “blue static” is to be called into play as functions.php is calling for the default theme?

The two posts above seem to get you about 90% there and then fail to explain the last few steps required to actually make everything work. Or it could be I’m going senile very early in life, in which case please for give me but could someone help me anyway? 🙂

Many thanks in advance for any help you might offer.

[Cars10]

Urgh…..by default the Screen Options swallow the forum bars and you need to activate them manually.
A slim bar could be activated by default, so that is my suggestion for a default setting in upcoming releases.

Close it

[Robin W]

Not sure how much help I can be, but can you post a link to a forum thread where this is happening?

and say which replies they can’t see – eg is it all their own replies, or just the first one?

I’d also suggest eliminating conflicts by disabling all the plugins (except bbpress of course!) and seeing if the problem goes away. If it does, re-enable the plugins one by one to see which is causing the conflict.

if the plugins are not the issue, then change to a default theme such as twentytwelve and see if it still occurs

[salvador21]

Thanks very much

It’s a tiny database 455KB, the forum has only one forum, 70 topics. So it seems I can safely assume it’s just not working.

I have all the correct vales, exactly as on the config.php

This is what I see:

“Delete users WordPress default passwords (0 – 99)
Converting users (0 – 99)
Deleting previously converted data (0 – 99)
Starting Conversion”

After an hour or so of this (with the spinning wheel thing) I can go to Forums in the admin dashboard and sometimes there will appear to be a forum with 70 topics, but on the fornt page only a forum with 0 topics.

Other times I try the import and there is just no forum at all.

Is there a premium support for this? I would be happy to pay for some help.

[tristanojbacon]

Hi guys, still looking for a solution to this rather big problem. I’m shocked that it’s this difficult to integrate bbPress with what is actually a fairly straightforward theme in terms of the coding hierarchy.

[Stephen Edgar]

At what point do I give up and start again. Should it take over four hours?

You should see it start and offer you some sort of notice that it has within seconds.

Via FTP or your web host cPanel admin etc, open your phpBB config file /public_html/phpbbv3/config.php and make sure these are the values you are using on the bbPress importer screen.

<?php
// phpBB 3.0.x auto-generated configuration file
// Do not change anything in this file!
$dbms = 'mysqli';
$dbhost = 'localhost';
$dbport = '3306';
$dbname = 'my_phpbb_database';
$dbuser = 'my_user_name';
$dbpasswd = 'abcdefgh';
$table_prefix = 'phpbb_';

(The $dbhost & $dbport may be blank as thats the default so use the settings I list above which are the default on the bbPress importer anyway)

[Matoca]

I should mention that this setting is properly checked in the bbPress settings and has been since it was installed, as it appears to be the default setting:
Akismet Integration
Forum settings for Akismet
Use Akismet: Allow Akismet to actively prevent forum spam.

In most cases if a plugin was acting like this I would just un-install and then re-install but with the forum very active I don’t think I should be doing that?

[KatieKat]

I removed the original default avatar from the heading but please see the links below. The site is still in test and I am doing some styling but you should be able to see from the following.

http://spotlightjustice.co.uk/forums/users/willowtop/ – just says About in the Heading
http://spotlightjustice.co.uk/forums/users/willowtop/topics/
http://spotlightjustice.co.uk/forums/users/willowtop/replies/
http://spotlightjustice.co.uk/forums/users/willowtop/favorites/ – just says About in the Heading unless I make a topic a favourite

Please note that the subscription page below can only be seen when you sign in but it is similar to the favourites page.
http://spotlightjustice.co.uk/forums/users/willowtop/subscriptions/

Hope this helps.