[jpanizzoli]

That did it! Thanks so much! I thought the ‘Table Prefix’ was the subfolder / slug name you wanted for your forum. In the docs I read it provided a table prefix for PHPBB, but I didn’t see one for bbPress1. Glad that was easy 😉

[Darren1981]

Hey all,

As the title suggests… Would it be safe to begin working on my localhost using BBpress 2.3 Beta 2 and then update to 2.3 Final once it becomes available ? I really have no reason for this but am aware 2.3 brings a lot of new changes and i really don’t want to start digging into templates for the current latest stable version only to update to the new version and have to edit a bunch of templates again..

I am looking at getting my project live within 2 weeks give or take a few days.. will 2.3 Final / non Beta be out by then ?

Any advice on this matter is greatly appreciated.

Regards, Darren

[Darren1981]

Hey again..

I mucked around with BBpress a while back and managed to use the WP “featured Image” to insert a icon for each different forum.. Now since about one month ago ive actually forgotten how i managed that.. Could anyone assist me with this again.

Thanks in advance.

If it helps i am trying to build a custom forum page (forum home page).. still unsure how i am going to achieve this, whether i use shortcodes or create a custom page im still not sure what the best method would be.. but i would like to be able to add forum title headers with custom images for each forum category.

[windaub]

Hi!
I’m running WordPress 3.5.1 with BBPress 2.2.4.
I’ve got a problem:
as a moderator or even a keymaster in bbpress, and Subscriber in WordPress(which I’d like not to change), I don’t have access to the WordPress admin panel to Add forum or Delete forum. In the admin panel I only have “New – Topic” Or “Reply”. The only way I can add a forum is creating a specific page with the add forum shortcode, and there is no way to delete a forum. Would you have an idea for me? Thank you!

[Bryan Eggers]

Unfortunately, writing some custom code is beyond me.  The question is, is bbPress converting the username or is it WP?

I just tried creating a user called “1 2 3” directly through WP and it converted the usersname to “1-2-3”.

Creating a username is pretty much the first interaction that people have with bbPress and the way it’s set up now there’s a highly probability of a problem. Even if they try to use a name like “John Smith” it’s not going to work. They’ll be unable to log in and most likely will give up and go away.

[Lynq]

Depending on where they are you will want to remove them with CSS something like…

#bbpress-forums li { list-style-type:none; }

[Lynq]

Yes, sorry I was originally using drupal for EpicWebs.co.uk and I didn’t get on with it very well for what is essentially a blog, so I am redoing it in wordpress.

The best link is github: https://github.com/EpicWebs/bbPress-starter-theme-epicwebs

[Stephen Edgar]

What did you use for the ‘Table Prefix’?

The default for bbPress 1.x is `bb_`

You can find that either with phpMyAdmin or from bb-config.php in your bbPress install folder.

`$bb_table_prefix = ‘bb_’;`

[Stephen Edgar]

Did you intentionally misspell the title of your post? 🙂

That said, this is not a bbPress issue, I think you will find it is an attachment plugin you’re using.

[jpanizzoli]

To upgrade to the newest version of BBPRESS, I added a fresh install of WordPress and included the BBPRESS plugin. I followed all the instructions to import my old bbPress1 (1.1) posts (Tools > Forums > Import Forums), but I get the following error:

`
WordPress database error: [Table ‘database_name.forumusers’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT convert(users.ID USING “utf8”) AS ID,convert(users.user_pass USING “utf8”) AS user_pass,convert(users.user_login USING “utf8”) AS user_login,convert(users.user_nicename USING “utf8”) AS user_nicename,convert(users.user_email USING “utf8”) AS user_email,convert(users.user_url USING “utf8”) AS user_url,convert(users.user_registered USING “utf8”) AS user_registered,convert(users.user_status USING “utf8”) AS user_status,convert(users.display_name USING “utf8”) AS display_name FROM forumusers AS users LIMIT 0, 100
`

I know I have the correct database information (name, user, pass, etc.), but I can’t get it to work. Please help! Thanks in advance..

[MarjoriesDaughter]

I have a client who would like to keep participants from creating new topics. I have checked out the file bbp-core-caps.php, but when it comes to giving Participants capabilities, the code is
// bbPress Participant Role
case bbp_get_participant_role()
instead of defining the capabilities list like it does for Adminstrator, Moderator and default.

I could use a clue where to go to shut off the topic creation capability for participants.

Thank you!

[Stephen Edgar]

What versions of WordPress & bbPress are you using?

[Stephen Edgar]

Details how to setup bbPress in your local language are here:
https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-in-your-language/

[prokoudine]

Hi,

Are there some kind of best practices re moving content between two installations of WordPress/bbPress with matching versions?

Let’s say I need to move users and their bbPress posts from one host to another. Naturally, I’d go for WXR. Except it doesn’t work exactly as expected.

After importing all users, forums, topics and replies I get a forum where all counts are correct, but content isn’t displayed (“This forum is empty.”, “Oh bother! No topics were found here!”).

OK, I’ve seen that before with other engines where I need to recreate indices. So I go to forum repair, but as soon I click “Recalculate last activity in each topic and forum”, all counts go to zero, and “Freshness” for each forum becomes “No Topics”. No matter what repairs I run next, all counts are at zero.

In the admin console the list of topics is blank indeed, but all replies are listed and not assigned to any topic.

Obviously, I’m not the first person to try doing this. How did you solve that?

Or maybe there’s a better way to merge databases?

Both hosts have WordPress 3.5.1 and bbPress 2.2.4. Recipient host has WordPress Importer 0.6.

Thanks in advance.

[zilveer]

As @johnjamesjacoby mention above bbPress doesn NOT come with any advertising.
Please check the plugins/themes you have installed and disable the banners.

[zilveer]

The links doesnt work for me.
Can you please paste the working ones here?

[zilveer]

As @xmasons mentioned above you could use the plugin
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-unread-posts/
for that purpose.
YOu can set the background image for the unread posts and put there an icon.
Do you have CSS knowledge?
regards

[xmasons]

Perhaps this is what you require – bbPress Unread Posts

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-unread-posts/

[akgt]

Turns out i was installing in the wrong place,

I’ve just installed on bp 1.7beta & bbpres and it works.

[akgt]

Turns out i was installing in the wrong place,

I’ve just installed on bp 1.7beta & bbpres and it works.

[BenRacicot]

Hello, After months of going back and forth I think I’ve come to understand why BBP doesn’t work in the theme I’m using.
The Author has a pre_get_posts function defining how posts get queried. While this is necessary for the theme it’s ruining BBPress (which won’t display it’s topics unless the pre_get_posts filter is commented out)

`if(!is_admin()) {
//if ( ‘forum’ != get_post_type() ) { //conditionals WILL NOT work to stop the filter here…
add_filter(‘pre_get_posts’, ‘query_post_type’);
//}

function query_post_type($query) {
global $oswcPostTypes;

if(empty( $query->query_vars[‘suppress_filters’] ) ) {
$post_type = get_query_var(‘post_type’);
//get theme options
global $oswc_reviews;
if($post_type) {
$post_type = $post_type;
$query->set(‘post_type’,$post_type);
return $query;
} elseif(!is_page() && !is_preview() && !is_attachment() && !is_search()) {
$post_type = array(‘post’);
foreach($oswcPostTypes->postTypes as $postType){
array_push($post_type, $postType->id);
}
$query->set(‘post_type’,$post_type);
return $query;
}
}
}
}`

Could someone help me understand what options I have since I cannot conditionally fire that pre_get_posts function and it’s breaking BBPress?

[akgt]

I hadd the following error installing on wp 3.5 and buddypress 1.7 The package could not be installed. The theme is missing the style.css stylesheet.

[akgt]

I tried your the in buddypress but i get the following error

The package could not be installed. The theme is missing the style.css stylesheet.

[rengith]

Hi,
I install the plugin bbPress and thru widget in side bar, but when i am accessing the page the error is coming “500 – Internal server error”

Version 2.2.4
http://traderbus.com/traderbus/ (side you can see “general”)

thank you

[John James Jacoby]

bbPress doesn’t come with any advertisements. Can’t tell if this topic is spam or not, since it doesn’t include any details.