[Tbermudas]

I have read here: https://codex.buddypress.org/user/buddypress-site-administration/migrating-from-old-forums-to-bbpress-2/ how to do the first step.

But I don’t know if its possible to convert the group forums into “normal” forums (site wide).

THANKS for your response!

[John James Jacoby]

BuddyPress 1.2.10 is an extremely old version. You’ll want to update incrementally to the current version of BuddyPress first, then bbPress, and then run the migration scripts.

You’ll want to backup your data, in case something goes wrong. You’ll also probably end up doing some manual work and guessing about what needs to happen, since every installation has its quirks.

[Tbermudas]

Anyone please? In the codex there is no info about this…

[John James Jacoby]

Check for javascript errors, or plugin incompatibilities. In the case of a plugin conflict, let us know what you find so we can try to address it in a future version of bbPress.

[aleXka]

I found an answer for 2 – In the last bbPress version it is disabled by default. It can be activated by using following plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-enable-tinymce-visual-tab/

After installation of the plugin I got Visual redactor on New topic and Replay. It forks fine but in case of Replay, Text mode still hasn’t buttons: http://pumpshooter.com/qH7GGcxR

So, please help me to fix it.
Thx,.

[aleXka]

Hello,
I installed the last version of bbPress.
In the plugin configurations I checked
“Use the fancy WordPress editor to create and edit topics and replies”.
In the result I have editor panel on new topic creation area: http://pumpshooter.com/EcAUdJfM
But on the Reply area there is no editor: http://pumpshooter.com/yRDEno0E

1) How do I activate editor on reply text area?
2) How do I switch editor to be in “Visual” mode?

Thx!

[dubbinz]

bbpress Version 2.3.2
wordpress Version 3.5.1
Hi, I am looking for a way to order all forums (not topics) alphabetically. I read some posts here and they refer to a bbp-forum-template.php in the includes folder but this file is no longer inside this file. Can anybody tell me which file to edit and line number to do this?

[tibmix]

Hi again,

I still have this problem. Because I deactivated all other plugins and the problem persists, my conclusion is that it’s an bbPress issue.

So, my question goes to someone from bbPress: do authenticated forum visitors (participants) need access to /wp-admin directory in order to browse topics and posts?

Thank you for any answer.

[Cartographer]

Hi community,

I have a couple of questions on bbpress translation.

1) I notice that there are some words that are missing from the .po file and so I can’t translate them. For example the wordings : 1 day ago, last post by and some more). How can I translate those words?

2) I translated bbpress but I have some worries about the future bbpress updates. So if there will be a new update, including some new features, how we will be able to translate the new words? What about the all ready uploaded .po and .mo files?

Thank you very much!

[andriuss]

My suggestion, take new version of bbpress and look in core files, and you will find what you need 😉

[DFC005]

I assume this is a simply function but I can’t seem to find any clear documentation on how to do it.

I’d love to have my forum homepage show the latest x amount of replies across ALL forums. Pretty much like the forum homepage of bbPress’ own forum.

Can someone point me in the right direction? Using the latest version of WordPress and bbPress.

[John James Jacoby]

Probably need more information to be helpful here. What’s actually happening? Are you familiar with debugging WordPress, using WP_DEBUG and such?

[chengdu-living]

I would like to know about this also!

[billy-not-happy]

Using bbPress 2.2.4 bbPress 1.7

This seems so basic I can’t believe it isn’t a core feature.

I used the (bbPress) Forums list Widget dropped in a sidebar to show all my forums. I wish to have this list always be alphabetical and update when forums are added or deleted. Ditto for the widget that lists recent topics.

[garfy]

How is that possible, my forum went off line suddenly and I retested all plugins and the problem was in All in one seo plugin

My forum is not working if I have that plugin installed. I get error no permissions when I try to click on bbpress settings link

Any idea why is this happening?

[Alexander Bell]

I need to be able to make parent and child forums with bbPress, but I can’t. I assume this should be an easy thing to do. I go to create forum and add a new forum (it can be a category or a regular forum). Then I go to create another one, but where it says Parent: there is no drop down or anything. It simply says, “No forums available.” Does anyone know what is going wrong?

[Jared Atchison]

If you need messaging, activate BuddyPress and enable the messaging component.

We have no plans to bring private messaging to bbPress.

[panagos13]

The changes on visual editor (2.3.1, 2.3.2) breaks ultimate tinymce compatibility.

[Nate]

[bbp-topic-form] – Display the ‘New Topic’ form where you can choose from a drop down menu the forum that this topic is to be associated with.

https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/

[Nate]

Add me to this list of bbPress needing the messaging functionality. We have over a thousand users and just moved from forum software built 9 years ago to bbPress, and messaging was considered a fundamental feature. Every other piece of competing forum software out there includes messaging.

I’ve been running this successful forum for close to 15 years and I’m a digital marketing manager for a living. It could be argued that I know what I’m talking about.

I fully understand that bbPress wants to keep it lean & mean, yet we have odd, little-used features built into core like Twitter & YouTube embedding. But really obvious items, like quoting, signature files and private messaging, require separate plug-ins? There’s some logical missteps in there. What’s up with Yahoo, Jabber and AIM still having fields? NO ONE USES THOSE SERVICES ANY MORE. Even dropping the Visual editor (in 2013?) in the latest release is a step back.

(A note on Avatars: Listen guys, this expectation of users to register an account with another service like Gravatr, and then return to their account with our site, is clumsy and far-fetched at best. Again, a separate plugin for Avatar? C’mon)

With that said, I switched to bbPress because I think the code is more pure and I think it has better longevity due to its affiliation with WP. It isn’t clunky and bloated. The SEO options for WP sites in general are more impressive, and there’s a wide support community – and I knew it would be intuitive and relatively painless for myself and my team.

Would love to get JJJ’s take and that of others.

[Laughing Cat]

I managed to fix the issue in a strange way… Went to bbpress plugin settings, temporarily set default role to keymaster (was still showing there), updated options – from then on, I was able to see “keymaster” role also in edit users panel. I assigned “Keymaster” to my admin and problem was fixed.

[sertefi]

Hi, It might sound silly to ask, but I want to have a page where users can create new topic and select which forum they assign their topic to.
Exactly like this page https://bbpress.org/forums/new-topic/
I can’t find how to do it.
Thanks you

[andriuss]

Nobody knows ?

I just saw in bbpress new version. In profile where are :

https://bbpress.org/forums/profile/andriuss/replies/
https://bbpress.org/forums/profile/andriuss/favorites/
https://bbpress.org/forums/profile/andriuss/subscriptions/

how can I make my custom ?

[andriuss]

In user profile I want to add custom pages is it possible ?

To edit profile there is the link: http://www.example.com/users/username/edit/

Is it possible to get custom page for example?

http://www.example.com/users/username/myphotos

http://www.example.com/users/username/aboutme

Where should be template files for these pages ?

I dont know how permalinks is working and how to create additional custom page…

Sorry for bad english, hope you understood.

[athalas]

I’m attempting to convert a phpBB2 forum to bbPress version 2.3.2.

I’ve selected the option to convert users, but it’s failing with the following error:

WordPress database error: [Unknown column 'users.user_form_salt' in 'field list']
SELECT convert(users.user_id USING "utf8") AS user_id,convert(users.user_password USING "utf8") AS user_password,convert(users.user_form_salt USING "utf8") AS user_form_salt,convert(users.username USING "utf8") AS username,convert(users.user_email USING "utf8") AS user_email,convert(users.user_website USING "utf8") AS user_website,convert(users.user_regdate USING "utf8") AS user_regdate,convert(users.user_aim USING "utf8") AS user_aim,convert(users.user_yim USING "utf8") AS user_yim,convert(users.user_icq USING "utf8") AS user_icq,convert(users.user_msnm USING "utf8") AS user_msnm,convert(users.user_jabber USING "utf8") AS user_jabber,convert(users.user_occ USING "utf8") AS user_occ,convert(users.user_interests USING "utf8") AS user_interests,convert(users.user_sig USING "utf8") AS user_sig,convert(users.user_from USING "utf8") AS user_from,convert(users.user_avatar USING "utf8") AS user_avatar FROM users AS users LIMIT 0, 100

Is there anything I can do the resolve the issue?

Thank you