[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/

[Stephen Edgar]

It is planned for a future release see trac ticket #2055.

If you search the WordPress plugin repo you should find something that works for you though…
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ try searching for author and/or authors as bbPress users are just WordPress users after all.

[kshade]

We’ve got a problem on our site where random logged in users without the read_private_forums capability can still view and post in stickied topics (not super stickied) in private forums if they know the URL. We’re using s2member, but that probably isn’t relevant to the issue. Also I’ve disabled reading private forums for the Participant role using Capability Manager Enhanced.

bbpress version 2.2.4, wordpress version 3.5.1

[Elliswin]

Hi there everyone, I have installed bbpress on my wp site, I installed Version 2.2.4 and the version of my WP is 3.5.1 the theme im using is reviewit. my website is winfamilysurvival.co.uk

I am testing the bbpress forum at the moment but ive not made pages public yet, I’m ok with creating forums and topics and all is well whilst editing these elements, however when it comes to reading the posts/forums I get a white background to the posts and the and forum menu areas with the text in posts being white, and most of the text in the menus white too, I have looked everywhere but cant find a setting to change this, can someone please help me out, I have mingle forum up and running of the site at present and the only reason I am changing is because I want the users to integrate into my forum and not have to add them manually.

Im running a competition on my site at present that relies on the forum so I was hoping to migrate this one over to the forum but I just need to solve this issue and im away.

[Jeff Hester]

Thanks, JJJ.

Given that the Forums, Topics and Replies checkboxes under Settings > Sharing don’t show up until you install bbPress, it’s understandable that I thought it should work.

I really don’t want sharing buttons under each reply — the Topic and Forum level would be sufficient. I’ll keep digging and see what I can sort out.

[John James Jacoby]

This won’t work out of the box, and is by design. Jetpack hooks sharing options to the end of the ‘the_content’ filter. bbPress doesn’t use this filter, because blog content doesn’t have the same rules as forum content does; they work differently. To make it work, Jetpack’s sharing options would need to hook into `bbp_get_topic_content` and `bbp_get_reply_content` instead.

Someone could write a piggyback function to do this, but it may be more difficult than this first step once you’ve gotten this far. Replies don’t use the same “premalink” logic as topics, forums, pages, and posts do, since they are technically children of topics. There could be other quirks, too.

[Stephen Edgar]

No, migrating bbPress forums to BuddyPress’ is not something we have looked at yet…

It has come up a couple of times now and might be something we can look at in the future.

[Stephen Edgar]

Forum search is part of the upcoming bbPress 2.3 release.

[ckpepper02]

Ok, I’m having the same issue here, I’ve turned all the plugins off and I still don’t get a Forum button in the admin panel.

I really want to use this add on, but i can’t get a darn forum added. Is there a direct link I can try so I can create a forum?

maybe something like ../wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=bbpress