[irenehofer]

I’m using the newest version of bbpress. Today I wanted to change some topic names, but there is no more link to that in the backend. Tried to reach the site for editing through the main dashboard page (where the number of posts, forums, topics etc. is listed). but a error-message shows up (it says something like “cheating?!”). it’s not possible that i don’t have any permission for that since i’m an administrator. what to do??

[Cristian Antohe]

What I did found is that in 2.3 the class .bbPress got transformed to .bbpress (notice the capital letter).

What that meant was that my full width archive pages got transformed into two column ones, so my immediate thought was that bbPress broke support for archives in my theme.

While I couldn’t replicate the above, perhaps it will help someone and it’s somewhat related to the symptoms.

[rolandvogt]

Conserning: http://www.svendborgjudo.dk

After installing bbpress I setup a forum

When I access it, frontend, it looks like this

http://www.svendborgjudo.dk/forum/snik-snak/

How come I don’t have a normal forum-like look, like this bbpress.com forum…?

[thedocs@anesthesiamyths.com]

WP version 3.5.1
BBPress version 2.3.2

On our blog, none of the links in our replies show up. The third reply in this thread should have two links that display. What gives?

Thanks,
Joe

http://www.anesthesiamyths.com/forums/topic/anesthesia-problem/

[chuckingit]

Hi – i’m experiencing similar strangeness as Sami in that my child theme on a multisite network shows the bbPress forums and topics great except when going to the default permalinks of forums and topics … in those cases, the forums go away and turn into a default blog page with the forums as psuedo excerpts appearing with page numbering at bottom – even a featured image gets inserted somehow to boot … none of the other site content gets mixed into this “blog page” – just all the forums run together without looking like forums (but like excerpts) and with no links to forums or topics …

thus mydomain.com/forums = broken as is mydomain.com/topics … yet mydomain.com/forums/my-forum-01/ and/or mydomain.com/forums/my-forum-01/topic-01 are great …

i tried rolling bbPress versions back to 2.2.1 and 2.2.4 but earlier versions have same effect as current 2.3.2 … and while i could create a hack by creating an archive-forum.php file and placing it in my child theme root (based off the archive-forum.php in the templates\defaults\extras folder) it lost a ton of info – e.g., the alerts like “the forum is empty” is gone as are the other alerts like “Oh bother! No topics were found here!” and ditto with the corresponding “Create a New Topic” form …

actually in thinking about themes were bbPress works fine, part of me wonders why the create a topic form even shows on the default forums page – meaning, i have 14 forums and only two of them have test topics yet when looking at the /forums/ default page, it is asking me to create a new topic for forum #2 which is the first forum that is empty (note forum 1 and 3 have test content, forums 2, 4-14 are empty) … maybe that is fine but my point is still valid …

thus with a theme that is having issues, the form and the alerts do not make it in my archive-forum.php file (even the css is a bit different) so i believe there is something fishy with topics and forums defaults that is getting in the way with some themes ..??.. note i tested this with Theme Hyrbrid Prototype and Twenty Twelve with no problem but with Theme Hybrid Shell Responsive Child theme is when my problems stemmed … and i know Sami has created some themes over at Theme Hybrid as well … thus i share his pain :>) (theme compat wise that is)

thanks in advance for any pointers, insights, help that can be shared … cordially, chuck scott

[jwilleck]

I imported the forums from bbpress version 1.0.2 to the lastest version 2.3.2. Everything looks great, EXCEPT the authors of the posts did not work. All the posts have the same author, which is the Admin. The previous version was the standalone bbpress with the BBintegration plugin.

Please, can anyone help me figure out how to import the authors?

[Chris Prakoso]

Versions:
Wordpress 3.5.1
Buddypress 1.7.1
BBpress 2.3.2
Members (Plugin) 0.2.2

Dear All,

I am trying to setup BBpress forum for my Buddypress website. I think I have all the latest version of each software as you can see above. The website is mostly member only, including the forum. This forum is set as a global forum, I don’t have forum for BP Group, in fact I turn off BP Group functionality all together as we don’t need it.
The goal is to set the forum so only registered and logged-in member can view and interact with it.

My main problem right now is as follows:

1. I logged-in as an Administrator and created a Category (or Forum) and I set it as Private.
2. I checked if this user can see the forum, and it does.
3. I logged out and logged in as one of the member, which has WP Role as an Editor.
4. I went to the Forum and expecting that the user can see the Category that the admin had created. But instead I got ‘Oh bother! No forums were found here!’ message.
5. Then I went to check the capabilities of the Editor role using the Members plugin, and confirm that Editor has read_private_forums checked.
6. I went to the Users management page (having relogin again as Admin) and change the member’s Forum Role to Keymaster.
7. Went back in as the member, still can’t see the category. Admittedly this was a long shot because I read somewhere that Forum Role doesn’t have any effect these days.
8. Then I went to the Users management page (having relogin again as Admin) and change the member’s Role to Administrator.
9. Went back in as the member, and now I can see the Category.

Obviously this in not the behaviour that I expected. I searched high and low on the net, and didn’t seem to find an answer for this.

Anybody has any idea what might causing this? I’ve been on this problem for almost a week now, and still haven’t found a solution. Asking in this forum is my last resort, so any pointer would be very much appreciated.

Thanks in advance for your help!
Chris Prakoso

[ignasg]

Same for me, only longer story.

Installed bbPress, made all forums, and just before releasing to public suddenly magic began. Instead of forums – 404 pages for all users, even Admin couldn’t post new topics. First I blamed all localization and customization stuff I done to bbpress, but now I deleted WordPress database, created new one, made fresh install of WP 3.5.1 and bbPress 2.3.2 – everything wrong from beginning –
1. Created Forum nr 1
2. On creating Forum/Category nr 2 – Can’t select parent forum (‘No forums avilable’) – but they ARE in forum list, just nobody can’t see them even bbPress itself 🙁

[Asif Somy]

I tried many latex plugins but they work with normal posts and pages. I want to use latex code in topics and forums.

Wordpress Version 3.5.1
bbPress Version 2.3.2

[jinwha]

OK.

Just in case anybody else is looking..

BBPress uses a post_type “topic” so you can pull the post using a get_posts() with one of the args being ‘post_type’ => ‘topic’.

hope this points someone in the right direction.

[beardydan]

Hi everyone

I’m one of those novice newbies i’m afraid.
Trying to create a simple forum site.
Have selected great theme – Spun
Using bbPress as forum plugin.
When I redirect the permalink for post selected to contain the forum I get this view: but when I use the shortcode for the forum index it displays just as I’d like Though this isn’t navigable.

It looks to me like it’s trying to fit the forum in one column. Could anyone tell me what code I’d need to create what I see using the shortcode on the /forums page so it’s usable? Or is there a way of running the forums using the shortcodes?

Many thanks

[rolandvogt]

It seems me FORUMS menu is not exsisting in my dashboard? I have just installed and actiatet bbpress….

[Njaka]

Hi,
I’ve put this plugins for a Tiny MCE for bbpress … http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-enable-tinymce-visual-tab/screenshots/

But it seems have an error, my screen shoot is like that!
http://pumpshooter.com/yL4V4b79

How can I fix it please?

Thanks

[Njaka]

Hi, I have the same problem… with this plugins
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-enable-tinymce-visual-tab/

My apearance is like that!
http://pumpshooter.com/yL4V4b79

[fencer_x]

It’s possible, and you probably could’ve found it with some searching, like I did: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-2-plugin-forum-order-doesnt-work-not-appearing-in-correct-order/#post-112828

The file that’s referenced isn’t in the same place anymore–I believe it’s in plugins/bbpress/includes/forums/template-tags.php these days.

Keep in mind it’ll get written over with the original code with each update, though.

[TrishaM]

Forgot to add that when I try to access the front or back end, all I get is this weird unstyled (no css) page for GlotPress with a search box and a bunch of links…for login, preferences, help guide, trac, etc….NOT my bbpress installation….but the links don’t have a domain associated so they go to non-existent pages on my site.

[TrishaM]

Aaarrrgh!

I did everything exactly as specified in the other post, to upgrade from 1.0.2 to 1.2, and now when I try to login to the bbPress admin area to “upgrade” the database I get this message:

Fatal error: Class ‘Translations’ not found in …/Forum/bb-includes/functions.bb-l10n.php on line 484

I DO have the /bb-includes/backpress/pomo folder with a translations.php file in it so I don’t know why I’m getting this error, but I cannot login to the forum nor access it (front or back end)….

I backed up all my files/folder and sql db, then I deleted all the files in my /Forum folder – everything *except* my bb-config.php file and my /my-plugins and /my-templates folder and my .htaccess file…..then I uploaded all of the bbPress 1.2 files including the backpress and pomo stuff just as described…..

What now???

[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?