[Scott Bolinger]

Hi, I have a bug where normal forum participants are showing as the keymaster. It happens randomly with different users, I can’t see any similarities.

I am using bbpress 2.3.2, and WP 3.5.2. I tried remapping the user roles under the Tools menu and updating all plugins, nothing seemed to help. Here’s a screenshot of the issue: http://johnspencerellis.com/innercircle/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/bbpress-user-bug.png

I would give the url but the site is protected with wishlist member.

Any ideas of what I could try?

Thanks

[Stephen Edgar]

I have just tweaked your Drupal Importer @vogelsang and updated it with a few tweaks for formatting and a couple of extra fields that you wern’t importing.

Details are in trac here https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2375
(You can download my updated version directly from here)

There will be an FAQ over here https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/drupal

• Forum parents/hierarchy is now imported
• Topic/Reply counts are also imported to help out bbPress counts
• Open or Closed topic status is imported
• Drupal users are also imported BUT passwords need to be manually reset **

** See the FAQ and or Trac Ticket #2375 for details on the imported user passwords issue.

Lastly thanks a heap for doing 99% of the heavy lifting in matching the Drupal database fields, most excellent work on your behalf 🙂

As to the problems you are having with the importer stopping on you could you try to reduce the load on your server by changing the import values for ‘Rows Limit’ and/or ‘Delay Time’ to see if it is a server resource issue or if it stops at the same point there might be some funky data being imported that the importer is getting caught on during import.

Cheers,

Stephen

[jooda]

is the phpbb3 fixed?

[jooda]

Can someone convert my phpbb3 forum for me to bbPress? Im having trouble doing it, and could really use some help!

If you can my skype is zubzstep

[jooda]

Can someone convert my phpbb3 forum for me to bbPress? Im having trouble doing it, and could really use some help!

If you can my skype is zubzstep

[ianhaycox]

Hi Ian,

Thank you for the offer, much appreciated.

If you’d like to email me ian.haycox at (gmail ) .com we can organise the handover and access to the WP repository.

Thank you.

Ian.

[mindblender]

@fontadoni – Thanks for the info. I have tried several times and not having any luck.

Here are somethings I have tried and still have not been successful:
1. install bbPress 1.2 as a standalone without WP integration on a local test domain (bbpress.dev)

2. Install WP with bbPress 2.3.2 on a local test domain (wordpress.dev) and then tried to do an import from bbPress1, using separate DB tables.

3. installed WP and bbPress 1.2 in another local test domain (wordpressbbpress.dev), using the same DB, and selected the WP integration when I installed bbPress. Then I installed bbPress 2.3.2 and tried to do the import and no joy.

In all the scenarios above, I get the yellow “Starting Conversion” box but then it shows:

Conversion Complete
No replies to convert

Converting topic tags (0 - 99)
Converting topics (0 - 99)
No forum parents to convert

Anyone have any other suggestions? I do have test data entered and forums created for testing but I don’t understand why it doesn’t find them. And yes, I did verify the prefix as bb_

Thanks,
Jeff

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress includes a Vanilla Forums importer

The basic instructions are here https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/

And specific info for Vanilla here https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/vanilla/

[LevyImage]

I’ve been a MyBB forum owner/administrator for 2+ years now and really want to convert to BBpress because of it’s easy wordpress integration/compatibility. It seems there’s not been any updates on this for a little bit. MyBB is a huge community but the software is still in the stone ages.. even with the current conversion to jquery and html free core.
Would really love to jump ship asap and move to BBpress on all my MyBB forums. What solutions are out there right now as I’m not a database tech… not incompetent.. but by no means an expert.

[Ian Stanley]

I’d be happy to take over if you like

Let me know if you don’t have any better offers

[SiliconBard]

his is just a test
ha!

[dice2dice]

Hi guys,

Firstly my site is http://www.whichinvestmenttrust.com
I have the latest version of both WordPress & BBPress.

I have set up BBPress on my website but it’s not quite right. I haven’t set it up in a way that is good enough and I need to do more.
I have spent the last hour reading through forums on this site but I can’t find the answers to my questions and problems. Granted I am probably a bit thick, I’m certainly nowhere near as smart as some of you guys on here, judging from the responses I’ve read in other comments.
So what is wrong with my set up? Well the forum is separate from posts. Users or members can also comment in posts and the comment function comes from Jetpack. The Jetpack comments doesn’t show up on the BBPress forum member activity and I don’t even get notification of comments, I just find them if I’m lucky.
It is obviously silly to have two systems and I need to switch off the Jetpack comment feature but I don’t know what BBPress add-on or Pluggin I should use. Can you help?
Also, I think I’d like people to have the option of registering with their social media login (Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn), is that possible?
I have a BBPress Member login Widget which handily goes in a sidebar but it doesn’t allow users to register instead of logging in and I kind of think it should because they usually do. Is there a solution to this?
Lastly, I think I should have a separate page on my WordPress site for Forums. That just makes sense to me, is this feasible?
I know I’ve raised too many points here I think. If you have any suggestions on any of them, doenst need to be all I’d very gratefully love to read them.
To recap my queries are:
– BBPress Pluggin for posts to replace Jetpack
– Social Media Login – Is this possible?
– BBPress Member login widget – can it include register?
– Forum Page – Can I set one up?
If you have suggestion for any of these issues, doesn’t have to be all of them I’d love to get your feedback.
Many thanks, Dice

[Ricardo]

in case anyone is interested you can disable bbpress plugins/jquery from loading on wordpress blog pages by using “plugin organizer ”

https://wordpress.org/plugins/plugin-organizer/

[chengdu-living]

I have a bbPress 2.3.2 plugin installed which has recently stopped posting. You can browse the forum without problems but when posting, the browser goes white on /new-topic after pressing submit.

Any idea what the problem could be? It’s been like this for a few days and is driving me nuts.

My forum is at http://www.chengduliving.com/forum/ thanks in advance for any guidance!

[leanderbraunschweig]

I know this not necessarily is a bbPress-bug but it is closely tied to bbPress so I’ll post it here first, hoping that you have got an idea on how to debug / fix it.

>> WHAT IS HAPPENING?

My users get locked out of single topics after they access the link to their subscribed topic (“Notify me of follow-up replies via email”). I use a plugin called “bbPress Custom Reply Notifications” in order to easily modify the email’s output and thought of this one to cause the issue but I had to rule it out…

But from the start:

>> SYSTEM SPECS / INFO

Base_
// WP 3.5.2
// bbPress 2.3.2

The site in question is a membership-site which uses a membership-plugin in order to make our content accessable only after payment. We incorporated bbPress there and things are going OK (although the usage it is not offically supported by the membership-plugin’s authors – but that doesn’t say much). I use a plugin named “Theme My Login” in order to style the account-pages. We us OptimizePress as template.

Membership_
// WishList Member 2.7.1
// Theme My Login 6.2.3
// Optimize Press 1.5a (German version)

Although I am listing “Theme My Login” f.ex., I think this most likely has to do with the membership-plugin & bbPress.

>> THE BUG

The issue only happens with singular users & singular topics (= the other topics and forums are functioning as intended). We have had numerous complaints so this ain’t due to a certain system-environment. How it happens:

– User A creates topic X, sets subscription via mail to “on”
– User B replies
– User A gets an email saying “User B replied to your post, go see it here: “http://mysite.info/thema/neuer-post-ohne/#post-5812”
– User A (state: not logged-in (!) // works when already logged-in…) clicks on link
– link “http://mysite.info/thema/neuer-post-ohne/#post-5812” shows “you are not allowed to view this” (because User isn’t logged in yet)
– User A clicks on “login”, enters credentials, gets redirected to our default start-page (weak Usability, I know…)
– User A then navigates to the forum where he/she got the reply

— ERROR —
“you are not allowed to view this” (but user is logged in!)

>> WHAT I HAVE DONE SO FAR

– emptied the cache(s) (W3 Total Cache in use)
– deleted all the site’s cookies (problem persists!)
– (double-)checked the permission-settings fot the topic with the membership-plugin

>> HOW YOU CAN HELP

Maybe you have got an idea on how to fix / debug this – any help is greatly appreciated. I can provide to test-accounts within our development-system so you can check it out for yourself.

Again – thanks a lot & I am hoping for some insights on how to tackle this.
Regards!

[Rachel Biel]

Well, when you have a forum that is image based, it is a pain to have to use image urls only. We are an art group and showing images is necessary for everything we do. It seems to me like the administrators of each forum should have the ability to decide whether to trust their users or not. I really wish that we could have the TinyMCE for all participants. I tried a couple of different plugins and some could see the editor and others couldn’t. Then, I tried RT-Media’s plugin and test each update of theirs, but it doesn’t work.

A big problem with using image urls (if you can’t load them into wordpress as the admin) is that that image could disappear if the hosting post is deleted or if the site goes down. We are using the GD BBPress Attachments plugin for attachments, which is a nice thing to have, but it does not do well if you are explaining something and showing several images which would be best embedded inside of the text.

I looked everywhere for an explanation of what the symbols mean in this bbpress editor and couldn’t find anything, so I did a demo for our members: http://www.tafaforum.com/user-groups/tafa-forum-help/forum/topic/text-editor-or-wysiwyg/

It’s not intuitive and a couple of the buttons seem to be useless. Most of our members will have no clue as to what they mean and using symbols that are commonly around on text editors would have been helpful.

Things are finally working pretty well, but it’s been quite the long road in getting this set up. I think there should be a warning in documentation on bbpress: “Non-coders beware! You will need coding experience to make this work!”

[vfowler]

It makes sense to show the topic title but not the forum title when in BuddyPress group forums. Plain old CSS won’t do the job of hiding just the Forum title as the same HTML is produced for both forum and topic title.

<div id="bbpress-forums">
<h3>forum or topic title here</h3>
...
</div>

I guess this might require creating child theme files of the relevant section…

[vfowler]

Using BuddyPress 1.8 and bbPress 2.3.2 I need to know how to keep Forum Titles in sync with the BuddyPress group names. Occasionally my BuddyPress group names need to be changed/edited/corrected. I’ve tried the Tools > Forums > and hit the Repair Items button after checking the boxes for:

• Recalculate the parent topic for each post
• Recalculate the parent forum for each post
• Recalculate private and hidden forums
• Repair BuddyPress Group Forum relationships

However, none of these repairs have synchronised the Forum Title with the BuddyPress group name.

Here’s a screenshot to make it clearer.

Any ideas what I can do, greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Vernon

[uniqcon89]

Hello,

When I click favorite or subscribe button in bbpress, it doesn’t work with showing “undefined”

But, when I click these buttons by right click “open new windows” then it works.

you can test it in this website http://romentor.com/topics/test1/

thanks you very much.

[Faramarz]

Hi,

I am having a problem with bbpress forums and buddypress groups. I have activated bbpress and buddypress on a sub-site on my sub-domain (http://community.example.com). In bbpress settings, I selected the checkbox “Allow BuddyPress Groups to have their own forums”. Now in buddypress when I am creating a group, in step 3, I should be able to select a checkbox (Yes, I want this group to have a forum.) to enable forum feature for my group, but for some reason the checkbox is not showing up and I cannot proceed by clicking “Next Step” button. I am using the latest version of BP (1.8), bbpress 2.3.2 and WP 3.5.2. The same setting works just fine on my local XAMPP but it doesn’t work on production server.

Here are some screenshots, this is how step 3 looks now: http://i.imgur.com/sT8jRv9.jpg

And this is how it should be (local is fine): http://i.imgur.com/6mKn4uE.jpg

After this error, when I click on my groups, I can see the group is created with no avatar (because I never got to step 4) and when I click on the group and go to Admin > Forum > Now I see the check box but when I enable it and then select one of my forums from the dropdown and click save, I get this error “Are you sure you want to do this? Please try again.”

When I check my error_log file, I get this error:

[28-Jul-2013 22:51:11] PHP Fatal error: Using $this when not in object context in /public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/extend/buddypress/group.php on line 461

I followed these instructions step by step to create a sitewide forum and forum for my buddypress groups: http://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/

Does anyone have the same issue with buddypress?

Thanks

[Nathan Pinno]

I’ve encountered the two following errors:

Fatal error: Using $this when not in object context in /home/cangamer/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/extend/buddypress/group.php on line 461

Fatal error: Using $this when not in object context in /home/cangamer/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/extend/buddypress/group.php on line 308

Can these two errors please be fixed soon?

BTW, I’m using the FunGames template and the MyArcadePlugin Pro plugin if that helps.

[peowdie]

Update. Okay, so I’ve tried to reverse the “adding no-follow” guide I’ve found, and found these two strings;
add_filter( ‘bbp_get_reply_content’,’bbp_rel_nofollow’, 50 );
add_filter( ‘bbp_get_topic_content’,’bbp_rel_nofollow’, 50 );

Found them here; bbpress/includes/core/filters.php
How do I go around and change the nofollow from it? If I remove the string ‘bbp_rel_nofollow’, it gives an error. If I remove the ‘no’ part in nofollow, it gives an error.

Okay, trial and error worked out.
Just for anyone in the future who wants it dofollow, outcomment the lines. So
//add_filter( ‘bbp_get_reply_content’,’bbp_rel_nofollow’, 50 );
//add_filter( ‘bbp_get_topic_content’,’bbp_rel_nofollow’, 50 );
That’ll work. If for some reason you want the links to the userprofiles, reply button and all that stuff to be dofollow too, simply search for ‘nofollow’ (without the brackets) in the bbpress/includes/core/filters.php file, and outcomment the strings. I’m no php wizz, so if this interrupts something else somewhere, please tell. 🙂

[peowdie]

I’m running a small community for blogowners, and would like all links in posts to be dofollow. I’ve googled around for a while, and mostly found people who wanted to make all links nofollow. Nothing I could use. I’ve seen some guy say that all links are dofollow normally, well, mine ain’t. Here’s a link to a post with a link in, http://gaesteblog.dk/forums/e/gaesteblog-pa-gaesteblog-dk/, and that link is nofollow. I got a plugin which removes all no-follow tags, but that doesn’t seem to affect BBpress.

Can someone please help me? 🙂

Thanks in advance,
Jonas.

[ozgurpolat]

I installed bbpress on a default wordpress theme, and it works fine, I have a feeling that this an issue with my theme. But I don’t know where to even start to solve the problem.

[ozgurpolat]

I searched the forums again and I found this post which seems like the same problem I am having, but I am not running a multisite,

User profile pages not working (apart from for first administrator)