[Shmoo]

It’s difficult to judge from an outside of view but I visit one of the larger bbPress driven websites on a daily base and have my doubts on some parts.

http://www.onemorething.nl/over ( almost 3 million posts )

Those guys have upgraded bbPress V1 -> bbPress V2 about 4/5 months ago and still are fighting troubles + losing people-/visits because of it.
I can’t tell if it’s ‘sloppy’ bbPress Core or less quality developers who have messed things up.

The website + community runs pretty fast on a good server and most of the trouble their facing are custom build features…

[michaelw90]

does anyone know what to name the bbPress language files?

I’ve already gotten Buddypress translated, but I can’t seem to get bbPress translated. I want my forum to be in Norwegian, like the rest of my site…

So, what I’ve done:

I downloaded the language files from glotpress. I then put the language files in wp-content/languages/bbPress/ and named them “bbpress-2.2.nb_NO.po” and “bbpress-2.2.nb_NO.mo”.

What am I doing wrong, is the nb_NO part wrong?

Im using:

Buddypress Version 1.7.2
bbPress Version 2.3.2
and I’m using the theme Engage

Thanks for any help on this 🙂

Michael

*EDIT*

I did the same thing for Buddypress before, and it worked.. I just realized though, that the buddypress translation does not work without the plugin Buddypress Translations. I might be wrong, but it doesn’t feel right that it doesn’t work without that plugin..?

[Sam Rohn]

i am testing the teknik-design plugin alongside members, user role editor and s2 member on a somewhat complex project and they all seem to be playing nice towether, i’ve tried several options to restrict bbpress forums AND the topics and replies they contain to a specific user role, the teknik-design plugin is the first thing i’ve found that so far seems to actually work 🙂

unless i am mistaken or it is a very recent development, s2member does NOT allow restricting bbpress posts and replies by parent forum role permissions, even w url restrictions as topic urls do not contain forum slug or similar

so w teknik, you would use members or URE to create a new role and apply the viewing permissions w members (w teknik installed and activated) and it should all work, leave the forum open and visible otherwise

you can use the user switching plugin to confirm it is all working as expected

teknik plugin author says he intends to make this not require separate members plugin and release it as stand alone wp directory plugin after a bit more testing, so anyone interested should encourage him to develop this further via the links in my first post 🙂

sam

[thanhthanh098]

I take Example in bbpress forum with 3 sections such as installation, troubleshooting, and themes. Everyone can create thread in installation and troubleshooting, but themes section is reserved who pay for membership, so only membership can post thread in themes section.

Do you have any plugin about membership which I can apply for my web?
thanks

[TR Register]

Hi jwind,

You might want to consider S2 Member plugin that can restrict access to certan pages. It is straight forward to set up and there is also some integration with BBpress roles.

For each member you have to set the level of S2 membership, default S2 comes with 4 membership levels and you can assign different access levels to pages and so on.

Another feature is URI access restrictions which should be able to restrict access in the forums.

Instead of an error 404 the users are told that they have to sign in to view the protected contents.

/Lars

[REMAS100]

will be fine, but you’ll likely want to avoid having private or hidden forums. bbPress performs a postmeta query to exclude topics and replies from private and hidden forums, which will be a pretty bad bottleneck.

Hopefully in bbPress 2.4 or 2.5, I’d like to move the last-active-time meta queries to use post_modified in the posts table. That will remove some of our dependency on JOINing tables, and speed things up for you pretty significantly (at the cost of bastardizing the core post schema and its intentions a bit.)

If you have other specific questions as you go, happy to help and be a resource.

[jeteran]

Hello everybody.

I’m very happy with BBPress, it really does the job.

I was going to add other forums in my site and suddenly I saw that the buttons disappear from my main Dashboard (only the bbPress ones: forums, topics, etc)

What happened? I don’t know when this started happening.

Something curious is that, between the second and third group (where the bbPress buttons should be), the separation line appears double.

Thanks so much for your support.

[bbn]

I guess making that change would require

1. adjusting the queries
2. adjusting the post_modified time for the topic whenever a reply is made

possible to do this via plugin?

[lmabe10]

My client has a bbPress/BuddyPress/s2Member forum site with about 400+ members. The site has been running very well for about a year now. This morning I got a call from my client that the Forums are showing Page Not Found on child-forums only. The parent forum pages and topic pages are still displaying accurately. The only change made recently was updating to bbPress 2.3.2, but I can’t say for sure that the problem began immediately after updating.

We are running the following (all up-to-date versions):

• WordPress 3.5.1
• bbPress 2.3.2
• BuddPress 1.7.2
• s2Member Pro v130513

I have tried all of the following with no results:

• Re-saving Permalinks
• Changing Permalinks Structure
• Remapping to Default Roles
• Changing Archive Slugs and Single Slugs
• Flushing Rewrite Rules
• Adding some Capabilities Hacks (removed after they didn’t work)
• Deactivating every plugin (including bbPress and reactivating it)
• No new pages have been added
• No new Custom Post Types have been added

I get the same issue regardless of User Role (Keymaster, Admin, Participant, Moderator, etc…)

I am at a loss and my client is getting frustrated. Please help if you can. Thanks!

[bbn]

Hi,

I recently helped a client convert a large forum from bbpress1 to bbpress2 — about 250,000 topics and replies. The performance difference is really disappointing. It affects the whole site.

Definitely moving the dependence on the _bbp_last_active_time meta would make a huge difference. That join shows up everywhere in our slow query logs.

[lmabe10]

A client of mine uses a bbPress/BuddyPress site with a decent sized user base (400+) and out of the blue (seemingly) we are getting a 404 – Page Not Found on any Child Forum page. Topics still work, Parent Forums still work and it is the same no matter the User Role (Admin, Participant, Moderator, Keymaster…). All plugins are up to date. We did just upgrade to the latest bbPress and noticed the problem shortly after, but not 100% sure that was the cause.

WordPress 3.5.1
bbPress 2.3.2
BuddyPress 1.7.2
s2Member® Pro v130513

I am NOT using any Role/Capability Plugins.
Haven’t added any new plugins recently.
I tried:

• Re-saving Permalinks
• Changing Permalinks
• Flushing Rewrites
• Remapping Roles to Default
• Adding some Capability Hacks (removed after they didn’t work)
• Checking/Unchecking “Auto Role”
• Changing Archive Slugs and Single Slugs
• There have not been any new Pages added

I’m at a bit of a loss and my client is getting frustrated. Please help if you can!

[ZachMatthews]

Here’s my bbPress integration:

http://www.itinerantangler.com/blog/board/forums/

Only problem is the queries are running a bit slow right now. I posted about that in Troubleshooting.

I successfully transferred a 75k post board from Yabb 2.3 –> YaBB 2.4 –> SMF 1.4 –> phpBB3 –> bbPress. I’m kinda proud of that. It took a LOT of work.

[ZachMatthews]

Hey guys –

My bbPress installation is noticeably slower than the rest of my WordPress site. I have WordPress configured in a multi-site install with bbPress running in a daughter blog. Any time you click a page within the bbPress blog, it takes from 4-7 seconds to begin loading. Once loading begins it is fast. Elsewhere on my site there is no such delay and the pages load essentially immediately.

I have talked to my host and they’re claiming the issue is with the bbPress MySQL queries simply being slow. I have about 75k posts on my board software, which is a recent import from another format.

Can anyone help me speed this up for my users? Is there an optimization I should do? Should I limit returned topics per page? (I currently am returning 20 per page).

Thanks,
Zach

Here’s the site: itinerantangler.com. Everything is in WordPress now, so you can compare one section of the site versus the Board area, which is all bbPress.

[Hansaplastique]

Thanks Jared – I very much appreciate the link. Works like a charm! 🙂

Minor issue with the code: it is missing “function” in front of the “ja_filter_bbpress_allowed_tags” definition.

[Jared Atchison]

If you need to alter the tags allowed, see this code snippet:

Modify/change the default allowed tags for bbPress

That should get you started.

[Jared Atchison]

Note that any modifications you make to bbPress core files will be deleted next time you upgrade.

[michael.oeser]

Hi,

is there any chance to migrate data (at least users) from SMF to bbPress? All infos I found about it seem to be older and I hope it´s possible now.

Cheers
Michael

[thanhthanh098]

hello
I want to create forum with membership but I am wondering what plugin is consistent with bbpress. I’m worried about the name of data is different in MY SQL if I don’t choose correct plugin membership.
thanks

[Robin W]

This post may or may not help you

[Jared Atchison]

@hansaplastique Images can already be added. In your case you just need to add style to the approved attributes for the img tag.

@tbermudas bbPress supports oembed (assuming you have it turned on in the settings) just like WordPress. So all you need to do is post the URL of the video (don’t link it) and it should automagically embed it.

[barrowr]

I’ve added the bbpress Recent Topics as a footer widget in my website. I have adapted the layout fairly well to fit with the theme but I need to hide the text author name but keep the avatar. Better still have the avatar separate to the text so I can position them precisely using css.

I’ve taken a look at the ‘Editing widgets.php’ and edited to a degree but I need a little more guidance to accomplish the above.

[Hansaplastique]

Thanks for your response Jared … I don’t mind the change, just would like to know the recommended way to change the allowed tags without having to modify the bbPress files … 🙂

For example;
I allow registered users to place smileys in their text. The smileys are IMG’s with a particular class – the class however will be removed unless I give the user unfiltered HTML.
I trust my users, but just not THAT much 🙂

[Jared Atchison]

It’s a limitation of WordPress.

bbPress does not use anything not native to WordPress. All the functionality is accomplished with custom post types, taxonomies, post meta, user meta, etc – it works really well.

However there are some features, such as this, that just can’t easily be done within the confines for the WordPress schema. I’ve talked to JJJ before about this, and it’s just not something that can easily be done without performance hit or using custom tables, neither of which are really ideal for bbP core.

[Sam Rohn]

there is a new plugin in development to restrict forums>topics>replies by user role, seems to work fine in my testing so far, requires wordpress members plugin

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/members-and-bbpress

https://github.com/ZanderAdam/Tehnik-bbPress-Permissions

http://www.tehnik-design.com

This plugin allows bbPress forums to be filtered and restricted based on the users ranks as set by the Members plugin.
The plugin will hide all forums and subforums the user does not have permissions to access.
It will display a 404 error if the user attempts to access restricted forum/topic

sam

[asterix.steam]

I’ve installed bbpress but i keep receiving this message: You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.

If i look at users, i see: My Name – Administrator- (forum role) keymaster

If i go to plugins/installed plugins and go 2 bbPress settings (cause there is no forum option in the tabs or settings) i get: You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.

What can i do, 2 make use of this forum…?