[jinwha]

Hi everybody.

Just got bbpress sorted out.
But as always I need a bit more functionality.
Can any one point me in the right direction to put a query together to extract the last two posts made on bbpress to display on the site home page.

been digging about in the db but can’t find any clues there..Anyone?

thanks

[vv1500]

I am having the same exact problem as above. I am using emembers http://members.vinny.com. I have tried deactivation and reactivation a number of times and that has not fixed the issue. Thanks for your help.

Vinny

I’m using WP 3.5.1 and bbpress 2.3.2

[mynameismonkey]

Hi all, we absolutely love the Ideas section of WordPress.org, an example of an idea is at http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/topic/multiple-languages-blogging-a-core-solution

This appears to be a bbPress post with a “Rate This” widget and a “Status” category.

We’ve plugged in about a dozen different possible plugins trying to recreate this functionality, and keep hitting a brick wall. Does anyone or has anyone successfully created something similar?

[jrman]

I don’t know if this is possible, but I was wondering if there was some way to automatically “close” or “hide” threads/posts after a certain period of time with no activity. I currently have about 8 pages of threads/topics on my site, sorted by freshness, and some of the older ones haven’t had a new comment/post in over a month.

Instead of manually closing or trashing all of the older posts, I would love it if there was a piece of code that would automatically do that.

*I found a way to do this by age of the topic, but not by freshness.

(All up-to-date)
Wordpress 3.5.1
bbPress 2.3.2
BuddyPress 1.7.1

[chrishe]

Hi, I am using bbPress as part of a wordpress site. I would like to show “recent activity” in a sidebar widget without using too much screen space. In other words a combination of the “recent topics” and “recent replies” widgets, e.g. as below (1 topic, 1 reply, but able to set number would be good also)
“Recent Forum Activity”
Latest Topic…
Latest Reply…

Is that possible with shortcodes? else maybe a way to combine the output of the two current widgets?
Thanks

[Stephen Edgar]

I moved your reply in this topic to a new topic as they are separate issues.

You shouldn’t have a problem with your setup if you follow the docs:
https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/

[Stephen Edgar]

Currently the phpBB import script only supports phpBB v3

https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/phpbb/

You could upgrade phpBB v2 to phpBB v3 and then import to bbPress.

You will still have issues with user passwords though and each user would need there password manually changed. This is due to different password algorithms between phpBB v2 & v3.

[appliedsd]

I remember how impressed I was the first time I saw a bbpress standalone installation. It was so clean and easy to navigate–things weren’t buried in places I couldn’t find them, the threads were clean and the UI was simple. I couldn’t resist using it on my next project.

After installing it, I got into the admin interface and it was just like using wordpress! It integrated with Akismet, there was a plugin architecture, it was fantastic! I was sold.

Then.. I started to run into a few issues here and there… a couple of the plugins didn’t work, and I couldn’t find support for them.. I couldn’t find a way to integrate a good wysiwyg editor.. and then bugs started to show up in the admin panel.

“No problem” I thought.. “I’ll just upgrade”.

Over to the bbpress.org page, and now it’s a wordpress plugin.. “OK.. guess I’ll give that a try”. after half an hour of working with it, I realized it wasn’t for me, and now I see that the standalone version appears to be permanently mothballed.

That is unacceptable. That standalone software was awesome… we can’t let it die.

Let’s bring it back!!

I am raising my voice for resurrecting the bbpress standalone software. Who here will support this effort? I’m a developer.. that’s one.. who else is going to help me?

[Stephen Edgar]

1. can more than 110 000 users be imported

This should not be a problem.

2. My website runs a specific version of phpbb SEO for allowing permalinks for every forum – will this be imported ? (so that there is not a lot of redirect)

No, these will NOT be imported and you will need to manually set your permalinks and make some redirects using .htaccess

3. My website stores custom profile fields for every user (more than just ICQ, but also custom ones). How could I have the same kind of functionalities using bbpress ?

Currently when importing from phpBB we are importing and storing the default phpBB user fields as outlined here. You could modify the import script to include any of your custom user profile fields so they also get stored in wp_usermeta.

After that you would need to find a WordPress plugin that supports extended user profile fields to utilize that data. I am not sure of any specific plugin that can really do that out of the box with bbPress at the moment but at least you ‘would’ have all of your users advanced profile data stored.

4. What about performance – will it be better than phpbb. I know bbpress is very powerful for small forums, but I have no idea regarding huge ones. Can wp caching plugins work for bbpress as well ?

There are some large sites running bbPress and I would suggest you setup a test site to see how it works for yourself personally.

As to caching it appears that ‘WP Super Cache’and ‘W3 Total Cache’ do not work well with bbPress as discussed in this topic though there is ‘Lite Cache’ which appears to work with bbPress as per this topic.

5. Is the entire UI translated in French – it doesn’t seem to me, but maybe I’m wrong.

The current status of the French translation is at 11% translated with 879 strings untranslated though 734 of those strings have been translated and are waiting for the fr_FR translation validator to validate the translations.

https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-in-your-language/

6. Can I use any plugins writter for wp for bbpress ?

I am not sure what you mean for this question

Any more questions please ask away…

[Stephen Edgar]

Can you please create a ticket in trac and we can test this and find a fix:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/

[Stephen Edgar]

The strings you mention from what I can see are all currently able to be translated.

Take a look at this to get started with bbPress Translation files

https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-in-your-language/

[methods1]

I am installing a bbPress (2.3.2) forum on a WordPress (3.5.1) and I simply need to make my “reply” and “submit” buttons bigger, so they stand out. I am a newbie to WordPress and am sure this is an easy fix.If somebody could please point me in the right direction.

[pkl]

I have a members only area on my website, and this is where the bbPress forums are (will be) located. Is there a way to have all forum pages have the “member area” page as a parent?

[Alexander Bell]

I was wondering the same thing. I can’t figure out how to add bbPress to the main navigation in WordPress. I would prefer to not have to create a custom menu just for that.

[wcnomad]

Hi.

I am having the blank page issue. I tried adding a shortcode to it, but it stayed blank.

I am using Widezine theme with a BBpress Child theme.

website: westcoastnomads.com

Can someone help, please?

I’m a coding newbie, so please dumb it down. 🙂

Jill

[Jared Atchison]

The previous version of bbPress used the WordPress array of allowed tags. This meant when you installed a TinyMCE plugin for WordPress it also worked in bbPress.

We changed that now, which is why your plugin doesn’t work. bbPress now has it’s own allowed tags setting and doesn’t necessarily use what WordPress is using.

While it breaks some implementations (such as the plugin you’re using), in the long run it was the way to go. Now bbPress and WordPress can have different tag settings, before they were stuck using the same, which in some cases would be a huge problem.

You need to whitelist any tags your uses will be using via the filter mentioned above. That will fix the issue you’re having.

[koreancandy]

Before the upgrade I was using a TinyMCE plugin on my forum that was recommended by other BBpress users.

Using that, the members could post videos and change font colour etc via the visual editor, but since the upgrade, when they do this, it just shows the html code and doesn’t display well.

Is there any way to fix this? it’s highly frustrating as it was working perfectly before this upgrade.

Thanks! 🙂

[kitchin]

My theme uses index.php in the main directory for most pages, by the way. (In other words, my theme does not have page.php, single.php, etc.) So you can sorta see what happened, it got overridden as in a subtheme.

[kitchin]

I added a bbpress subdirectory to my theme and got a blank screen. I was using a “silence is golden” index.php file in the subdir and removing that fixed it. I guess the subdir acts as a subtheme or something (though it has no style.css file).

Interesting thing is I could also fix it by dropping in the files from plugins/bbpress/templates/default/extras to my main theme directory, following the instructions here: `http://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

Posting this in case it helps anyone else.

[sonnymanou]

bbpress 2.3.2 and WordPress 3.5.1. Link to site.

Hello,

I have a multi-site set up and a problem with users automatically being added to other blogs (sub-sites) on their network. Upon visiting a sub-site, the user gets assigned a “participant” role. This is then shown in their “My Sites” drop down in their Admin bar.

In the forum “settings”, there is a check box with this next to it:

Automatically assign default role to new, registered users upon visiting the site.

I have toggled this off and on several times, in the hope that it would fix my problem. It doesn’t.

Please help: why is my multi-site installation still adding users (“participants”) to every sub-site they visit?

Thank you.
Sonny

[Jared Atchison]

As of ~2.3, the “allowed tags” are filterable within bbPress.

Look for the filter bbp_kses_allowed_tags. It’s in includes/common/formatting.php.

[mogu]

Hi there, im moving from bbpress1.1 to bbpress 2.3, into a wordpress multisite environment.
I already import all data, i can see it in mysql.
Also, i can see the topics in the site admin dashboard (Topics->All Topics).
The issue is that i cant see the actual topic/post, if i click on view | edit, it always send me to a 404 error page.

How do I debug this?

Best regards
mogu

[blg002]

I’m wondering how I can make the 14×14 avatar images that are in the loop of topics on a forum landing page. I know I could just go into loop-single-topic.php and change the 'size' => 14. But I’m wondering if/how I could use an add_filter? in my functions.php (so it’s not blown away with an update) to make this change.

I have a pretty basic understanding of add_filter but I’m not able to figure out how to get this working. Any help is appreciated

[Jared Atchison]

There is a bbPress signature plugin. Search the WordPress.org plugin repository and you should find it.

[tharsheblows]

Ah, ok, I understand what you want (I think). I have a page like that where I use the [all-recent-topics] shortcode : https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/ . I’m going to try using it in a text widget* but when that doesn’t look like I want, will copy / paste / edit and make a new shortcode to use. (I like shortcodes.) I’ll probably get to it sometime this week and can post it if you’d like, with the caveat that you’ll need to adjust the styling for your site.

*if you want to use shortcodes in text widgets add

// Use shortcodes in text widgets.
	 add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');

to your functions.php file.