[irydium]

Hello,

I have just migrated my phpbb3 to bbpress and I need to redirect all my forums and topics using the 301 protocol.

Can you help me?

[chevymanusa]

Hello All,
I am looking for a way to disable users from changing their names from within the bbpress interface (/profile/edit/group/1/). This is located on the page where they choose a forum signature. I do not mind if they have a forum signature. However, I would like to prevent them form changing their name.

The site is currently running wordpress 3.5.1, buddy press 2.2.3 and is on a local test machine.

I did some searching on google and the on this site and was unable to find an answer to this question. If I missed it please let me know and my apologies in advance if this in the wrong area.

Thank you in advance for your help!

Regards,
Chevman

[dapress]

Thank you, Stephen Edgar. Okay I tried to install bbPress 2.2.4 plugin on my wordpress 3.5.1 and i get the 3bars: forums, topics and replies. Okay, but my theme iBlogPro Forum needs deep integration and I don’t know how to make it and where to put my iBlogPro Forum theme folder.

[Stephen Edgar]

I would try contact someone from the http://wp-persian.com/ project or posting on the forums http://forum.wp-persian.com/, you can also try the plugin author directly https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-jalali

[aberglas]

You say “Capabilities are saved in the database, per user, per site”. That is clearly NOT the (normal) case. The wp_usermeta table wp_2_capabilities row stores ROLES, not capabilities. Those roles appear to index into the wp_2_options tble row wp_2_user_roles row which contains a list of capabilities.

I have no idea what “Dynamic” roles are nor why bbpress contains a vast amount of capability fidling code, including no less than three files called capability.php. If someone could explain it in terms of actual table rows and colums that might help.

I want a simple setup where Authors can access Private forums but only in the site which they are an Author. The simple coupled set up that JJJ says is too simplistic. But now it cannot be done at all?

By default private sites are hidden to users. There is a weird “Auto Role” option that can adds bbp_participant to all users. But that means that users get access to all forums on all sites. Is that the “Dynamic role” feature?

So turn that off. Try to add bbp_participant role explicitly using action ‘add_user_to_blog’
$user->add_role(“bbp_participant”);
However, that failed to add the user. WordPress really only supports one role per user, certainly set_role() only accepts a single role and purges any others. So I think something is resetting it.

Then I try simply
get_role( ‘author’ )->add_cap( ‘read_private_topics’ ); // for bbpress.
That successfully updates the database (wp_2_user_roles), but has no effect on bbpress. I suspect because one of the capability.php files in bbpress has
case bbp_get_spectator_role() … ‘read_hidden_forums’ => false,
rather than just leaving it out. So capabilities do not merge properly between roles.

I am new to WordPress/bbPress, and having spent many hours in this mess am getting very frustrated. How hard can it be? Users/Roles/Capabilities.

Anthony

[Stephen Edgar]

I see you have a ‘register’ and ‘login’ page using the shortcodes, if you want something in the sidebar you could use the login widget https://codex.bbpress.org/widgets/

[Stephen Edgar]

If this is a new WordPress site and a new forum you should be using bbPress 2.2.4 plugin

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress/

[Stephen Edgar]

See the docs here https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/#adding-a-topic

[Stephen Edgar]

See the docs on ‘Creating your First Forum’ here and you set the order from withion the WordPress Admini Forum Panel.

https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/#creating-your-first-forum

[Stephen Edgar]

Can you run through these steps:

1. Make sure you are using WordPress 3.5.1 & bbPress 2.2.4
2. Run each of the bbPress 1.x recount tools /bbpress1/bb-admin/tools-recount.php
3. Perform a forum reset on your bbPress 2.x /wp-admin/tools.php?page=bbp-reset
4. Start a fresh import with the ‘Start Over’ option checked

The “Purge all information from a previously attempted import” is a known issue and it will run endlessly if the `bbp_converter_translator` table is empty and has nothing to purge or it cannot find the table. It is a bit funky but does not affect the actual import as there are other fallbacks in place if it cannot use this table. If you have to start over performing a ‘forum reset’ this does basically the same thing so in between import tries doing a forum reset ensures bbPress 2.x has no forums, topics or replies before you start your import.

[aberglas]

The title says it. I have mutliple sites, and I need users that are registered to a site to be able to participate in the private forums of just that site. The problem seems to be bbPress’s totally confused capability model.

By default private sites are hidden to users. There is a weird “Auto Role” option that can adds bbp_participant to all users. But that means that users get access to all forums on all sites.

So turn that off. Try to add bbp_participant role explicitly using action ‘add_user_to_blog’
$user->add_role(“bbp_participant”);
However, that failed to add the user. WordPress really only supports one role per user, certainly set_role only accepts a single role and purges any others. So I think something is resetting it.

Then I try simply
get_role( ‘author’ )->add_cap( ‘read_private_topics’ ); // for bbpress.
That successfully updates the database, but has no effect on bbpress. I suspect because one of the three(!) capability.php files in bbpress has
case bbp_get_spectator_role() … ‘read_hidden_forums’ => false,
rather than just leaving it out. So capabilities do not merge properly between roles.

There is something called Dynamic roles whatever they might be.

Maybe I need to abandon capabilities altogether and hook somewhere else? Maybe one of the numerous plugins works multisite?

Regards,

Anthony

[steilenhang]

Aha, looks good 🙂

[steilenhang]

I got this strange inport failure on my site all of a sudden. I am trying to move from old bbpress to the latest. I did this once before, but had to wait for a while until some functions where sorted out. Now it’s all set and I tried again. The forums were reset, but deleting the conversion table sometimes fails. I don’t know what that means, but anyhow. The inport did just fine until it got stuck half way in the replys. I tried to stop and restart, but I couldn’t get it to run any further.

So then I reset and tried again. Now it keeps inporting the first topic over and over again. It never moves on. What happened? I tried everything. I even tried removing that first topic from the old forum. It now inports the next one, over and over again.

If I try to “Purge all information from a previously attempted import” it gladly starts to remove old data, but it never stops! It removes data a little to quick to be true, and it goes on for ever “deleting” far more rows than I have ever inported.

Something is completely wrong here, and I don’t have a clue 🙁 Someone please help me! I am getting pretty frustrated here..

[dapress]

I am using bbpress 1.0.2 installed with a iBlog Pro Forum Theme on wordpress version: 3.5.1
The problem is that I can’t make the forum to look like a forum page and it is shown as a blog page. If I create a Forum it is shown in categories. I just want to make my page looks like a forum. Please help me. http://iosbg.freeiz.com/forum/

[Hesam]

Hi guys

I am translating bbPress 2.2.4 plugin for WordPress. Unfortunately wp-jalali plugin doesn’t convert the dates related to bbPress topics and replies.

How can I solve this problem?

Thanks in advance.

[knussear]

Ah – I spoke too soon. You saved me at 18:33 with the short codes! Thanks a bunch @labsecrets

[knussear]

Spence (@labsecrets)

I’m following the video (really well done by the way) and I cant get the forums to show up. My drumroll at 12:55 on your video gives me a blank page – no groups forums. Sad face. Any advice?

[matrixd]

Thanks JJJ that was it! The most common mistake!

I was already update wordpress, buddypress, bbpress and my plugins, and then I follow these steps:

1. I deactivate every plugin, except Buddypress and BBpress,

2. I change my theme to the default buddypress theme, (without 082net’s fix on my function.php),

3. I run the Tools > Forums > Remap existing users to default forum roles

4. I change moderator users to moderator role, and then everything works! The moderator has his privileges and everyone can see my forums!

5. Then  I change back to my child theme (still working without 082net’s fix on my function.php),

6. and starting activate my plugins one by one, while I was checking if everything works.

At the end, my upgrade forums works fine and the moderators too has there privileges.

My installation is now:

WP Multisite 3.5.1 (was 3.4.2)

Buddypress 1.6.4 (was 1.6.1)

BBpress 2.2.4 (was 2.1.2)

+420k posts, 11k members

Thanks for your help and for your time!

 

[peripatew]

Not to wake the dead (topics), but has there been a way to address this issue? Specific roles for specific hidden forums?

[peripatew]

In searching the forum, it seems that I can use the Member’s plugin to allow users and user roles to access the private/hidden forums. But, most of the posts (all over a year old) indicated that this couldn’t be specific to one individual forum within bbPress.

I have multiple groups that each need their own forum, but, I only want them to access one specific forum that’s completely private for only that group of users.

I read that this can be accomplished with BuddyPress groups and forums, but BuddyPress is overkill for what I’m trying to do, as I only need a simple forum.

Thoughts? Options? I have this functionality right now within Vanilla Forum’s, it’s quite easy, but I need tighter integration with WordPress.

[golfer300]

My site is amanofreason.com. How can I create a little tab/button on my forums page that will allow people to register. However, right now there is no button for people to click to either registration or sign in. How can I create these buttons to clean up my forums page. I appreciate any help.

[Stephen Edgar]

Sounds like we need a bbPress widget for topic tags…

https://codex.bbpress.org/widgets/

Maybe create a ticket in trac https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/

[Stephen Edgar]

Ask your host Hostpaedia if they have any instructions on installing WordPress (if not here is the generic Softaculous info) and once you have WordPress running then you add bbPress as a plugin.

Full instructions on installing bbPress are here:
https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/

[Stephen Edgar]

Create a new WordPress page called ‘New Topic’ and add the shortcode [bbp-topic-form] to the page content.

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

[Stephen Edgar]

I think this plugin will do what you want.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-string-swap/