[Nina Morena]

Hello All,

I just installed bbPress on my dev site for a potential client. It was pretty straight forward out the box. I was wondering if there is a way to have the forum handle the comments for my blog posts. The idea is to create a blog post and then upon submission, the post would create a topic in the forum for my users to comment on. Hopefully someone has done this and I can get a little help in this area.

Thanks!

[bodhi_mcgee]

Apology, correction to above the “Blog” text is not located in h1 it is located in Blog

[bodhi_mcgee]

The website has a heading 1 for the page title and breadcrumbs. Both the page heading and the breadcrumbs think that any page within the bbpress forums is within the “blog” section. So the heading 1 says “blog” and the breadcrumbs say home > blog > topic name

Note: the breadcrumbs that come with bbpress work fine.

The site is located here: http://healthmeditating.com/forums/topic/how-do-i-meditate/
Running WordPress 3.5.1.
Running bbpress 2.2.4
Using theme Sterling from themeforest -http://themeforest.net/item/sterling-responsive-wordpress-theme/2320578

One other problem that may be related is that wordpress also triggers the Blog menu item link as the current_menu_item (thus highlighting it in the main menu). I can override this with css so I am not overly worried about it but thought it worth mentioning. I notice that this problem is actually a reported bug in bbpress and is being worked on.

Thanks in advance to anyone who as any ideas,

Bodhi McGee

[j0k]

Oh damn, here is the good syntax:

`
if (!is_post_type(‘forum’) && !is_post_type(‘post’) && !is_post_type(‘topic’) && !is_post_type(‘reply’)){
if (function_exists(‘my_breadcrumb’)) my_breadcrumb();
}
`

Now it works, I just have to find the “else” part with the bbPress breadcrumb to display in the theme and my problem will be resolved.

[sorry for the multi-posts, but I can’t edit my last reply]

[shauntwl]

hi, i really need help. i am very new to wordpress and bbpress. i installed wordpress today and installed bbpress.

i did downloaded your theme and placed it in wp-content/themes/my-theme

in wordpress -> Appearance -> Themes. it says

“Broken Themes

The following themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a stylesheet and a template.
Name Description
my-theme Stylesheet is missing.”

my test site is http://therightclique.sg/jeepforum/forums/
can anyone guild me to create a proper working forum?

[Stephen Edgar]

Congrats, the site looks good and looks like you finished the bbPress Arabic translations 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

The instructions are here: https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-in-your-language/

That said I cannot see any Greek (el) translations for bbPress in GlotPress for the 2.2 or 2.3(dev) branches of bbPress https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress

I suggest you try asking some of the Greek WordPress communities listed here:
https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_in_Your_Language#Greek_.28el.29

In particular on their forum http://wpmania.gr/forum/
(You could also ask when they are planning on switching to bbPress ;))

[Lynq]

If you go to: https://codex.bbpress.org/ and look for shortcodes, there is a register and login shortcode. Create two new pages for register and login, insert the shortcodes, then link to them from your site.

[Lynq]

I would say its definitely possible, but not everything will be easy and done already, so it could take some time to fully customise to your needs.

[Lynq]

bbPress is a wordpress plugin, for me personally I love it, everything I can do in wordpress I can then bring into my forum. If you have ever developed any wordpress plugins then bbPress will be a good choice for developing something custom inside a forum.

Some small things aren’t quite there yet as default, but there is usually a way to solve it using plugins or community suggestions. I would say the biggest selling point for me using bbPress is the way you can customise it using the power of wordpress, you don’t get that with many if any other forum solutions.

[Lynq]

@golfer300 You will need to put the contents of the zip file inside your theme folder, once you have done this you should see a bbpress-functions.php inside your main theme directory. For this theme to fully work you will need to have the wordpress classes attached to the body tag.

@akgt I haven’t tested it using buddyPress, let me know if you use it.

[fencer_x]

I’m having the same problem — brand new bbpress installation, no Akismet, no other bbpress-related plugins whatsoever, and topics/replies from (so far) two users have to be manually approved every time. It’s frustrating for them not to be able to engage in conversation and annoying for me to have to remember to check my dashboard every hour or so–and there’s no reason for it to be limited to just these two users that I can see.

Other users are marked ‘pending’ for their first post (and even then, only occasionally–I’d like to turn that off as well, but it’s equally impossible) and flow through fine thereafter, but this is really frustrating. Any support? Several people have reported this issue in the past year or so, as I’ve seen from going back through the archives, and yet no one’s been aided in solving the issue.

[James Geiger]

Any idea how he got his forum to display all posts like this – http://themehybrid.com/support/ . My bbpress page just shows the forum titles then you have to click to get to the different topics, etc.

– James

[Stephen Edgar]

Good idea re: resyncing the database. I don’t think this DB was maintained properly and upgrading from phpbb 2.x to 3.0.11 may have introduced some errors.

Does phpBB now have your “50K+” posts after the repair or still ~27K?

Unfortunately, the outcomes were all the same. the import seemed to hang, although it did get further this time (converting forums 100 – 199)

You only had ~10-15 phpBB forums when I looked earlier and it now looks like you have removed phpBB from your site so I can no longer confirm this.

The last message you should have seen during the import ‘forums’ step should have been `(converting forums 0 – 99)` before it moved onto the next step `Calculating forum hierarchy (0 – 99)`.

I used the stop/start suggestion, let it run for an hour, and it seemed that everything was imported.

Why do you presume that? Did you see your 50K+ posts somewhere?

Then when you go to view a forum or category or topic, and most of it is missing. Most recent posts were from 2004.

I stated in my previous post any counts you see before running the repair tools will be inaccurate.

This was before running any repairs. Running the repair functions depleted the counts further.

I’ll reiterate this again, any counts you see before running the repair tools after the import is finished are inaccurate and should not be relied upon.

The repair tools nor any part of bbPress will delete content from your WordPress database unless you explicitly do this via ‘forum reset’ or ‘purge previous import’.

I’m not sure I can troubleshoot this in time for my client’s deadline but if further suggestions or upgrades come up, I’m game for trying them out in the future.

At this stage yours is the ONLY phpBB forum that has NOT been successfully imported, there are virtually no future upgrades planned for the phpBB importer because they are not needed as it has thus far worked with every single phpBB import that I have been asked to test or help out with.

The output of the converter should be similar to this (They should match your phpBB stats to the nearest 100)
Did the import end up looking like this below? If not which step did it stop at?
`
Repair any missing information: Continue
Conversion Complete
Converting replies (2000 – 2099)
…
Converting replies (100 – 199)
Converting replies (0 – 99)
Converting topics (1200 – 1299)
…
Converting topics (200 – 299)
Converting topics (100 – 199)
Converting topics (0 – 99)
Calculating forum hierarchy (0 – 99)
Converting forums (0 – 99)
No data to clean
Starting Conversion
`

As I stated in the comments of the review you posted for the bbPress plugin at WordPress.org I am more than happy to take a look and help you get it imported.

If there is a bug with the importer and why your phpBB is not playing nice like all the other phpBB forum imports I can write a patch to fix it but I will need accurate detailed information from you to do this.

Cheers,

Stephen

[Rasheed Bydousi]

Hello,

We are pleased to introduce our redesigned site.
http://www.ar-wp.com/forums/

We are satisfied that we have a forums integrated nicely with WordPress.

We will continue to help as much as possible in the development and promotion of bbPress.

Thanks!

[bob marteal]

Oh, sorry just kinda answered my own question by finding the bbpress login widget.

[George]

I got the edit/spam/delete buttons to show up again. It was a permission error.

Now, trying to restore the trashed bbpress topic and I get this:

Wordpress Failure Notice

Are you sure you want to do this?

Please try again.

Any ideas?

[akgt]

can this theme be used with buddypress 1.7  groups forum ?

[George]

I currently no longer have options for editing, trashing, spamming, etc any topics or replies on the forum. I also have one topic that somehow moved to the trash bin in the bbpress. When I click topics, I see the topic, but it won’t let me select it to restore it.

Any ideas why this could be happening?

I have user role editor enabled, but disabling it or giving admin all the ability in the world still doesn’t let me edit or delete or restore anything.

[akgt]

is it possible to make bbpress look & work like a traditional forum with plugins?

with the easy to read/find threads, read/unread posts, polls, moderation features, Reputation, rating, User Promotionsposition (admin, mod, ext) Warning System, ext.

[Stephen Edgar]

Cool…. Lets start fresh and see what happens….

Firstly make sure phpBB is running smoothly…

You state that phpBB has ‘1400 users and at least 50K posts’ though the phpBB forum itself states ‘Total posts 26878, Total topics 3468 & Total members 1263’ so there could be some issues with your actual phpBB install and/or database.

Run these checks which should clear up any potential database issues with phpBB from the phpBB admin tools (ACP) /phpbbv3/adm/index.php

• Resynchronise statistics
• Resynchronise post counts
• Resynchronise dotted topics

Now resync all of the phpBB forums which again should clear up any phpBB issues and in particular any issues for when bbPress starts to ‘calculating board hierarchy’

• Click the ‘Forums’ tab in phpBB ACP
• You should now see a list of category/parent forums
• For each one of these over to the right is an option to ‘resynchronize’ the forum
• Do this for each of the category/parent forums then drill down through each of those to any child forums and do the same for each

That should take care of any phpBB database issues…

Now go and try the import again with the same settings you have used previously but also check the following two options.

• Start Over – Start a fresh conversion from the beginning
• Purge Previous Import – Purge all information from a previously attempted import

If you believe the importer starts to hang at any point and is not moving along simply click ‘stop’ to pause the import process and give your webhost a bit of time to catch up on any other tasks that might be running and click ‘start’ to resume the import.

Don’t run any of the repair tools whilst the importer is importing and wait until the import has completed before running each of the tools individually.

So how did it go?

[Kevin M. Schafer]

Update

I’ve placed one bbPress Forums List widget in both my left and right sidebars. On the left, I have assigned Forum ID 58 to display, and on the right, I have assigned Forum ID 56 to display. When I go to my homepage, neither of these widgets display at all. If I set either of the widgets to “any” then the widgets show and both forums are displayed in them.

Shouldn’t I be able to use Forum IDs to specify one particular forum to show in that widget? Is this a permalink issue? I know I have the right ID# because it’s what shows at the bottom of my monitor when I hover over the particular forum title in “All Forums.”

Any insight would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Kevin

[askmediy]

Hi, I’m somewhat new to WP and for sure bbpress. I installed bbpress. Went to activate and then all the white screens. Can’t get into admin panel unless I remove the bbpress dir.
Any ideas ?

[chicadieta]

Same problem here. Also, when clicking the Edit profile link, the page is blank, showing header and footer and everything but nothing inside, not even the little sidebar at the left with the avatar picture and the other links (Subscription, Topis started, etc.), all empty and not even present in the source code.

WP: 3.5.1
bbPress: 2.2.4

Using the Thesis Theme and s2Member plugin.

[Pippin Williamson]

Do this:

1. Delete the new Forums page you created
2. Go to Appearance > Menus
3. Create a new Custom Link and enter the URL of the bbPress forums page.