[equilibs]

Hi
New to Buddypress/Bbpress and trying to test it on a localhost installation
I have all the latests versions and the installation seemed to work smoothly
I have enabled both group forums and site wide forums (even though my problem is consistant even when disabling the group forums)

The problem:
I’be opened several forums from the admin panel but can’t find them on the site!
when I get on my Forums page (http://localhost:29138/forums/) I reach to a “Forums Directory” page with an ability to add new topic, and a list of topics (from the groups forums!?) but no track to the list of my desired site-wide forums.

I tried to edit the forums page and insert the forum index shortcode but it had no effect

any help would be appreciated

[Kilomoana]

Thank you very much for your theme, it’s very nice and a good start to work with bbPress.

I have two issues, I try to solve, maybe someone could help me.

So, in the Forums-Listing, if there is an empty forum under a category, he displays the category name as the last post instead of “No Posts”.

The second one is, that he don’t stick, sticky posts. Superstickys work very well, but the sticky ones not.

Greetings

[Benn Jomy]

Thank you very much sir, It worked http://bennjomy.com/support
🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

Create a WordPress page called ‘Support’ and use the [bbp-forum-index] shortcode on that page.

https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes

[Stephen Edgar]

Closing, duplicate https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-to-change-the-title-of-bbpress-forum-base-page-from-forum-to-support/

[Stephen Edgar]

I am fairly new around here and have hardly touched the old standalone bbPress.

The following page in the docs was last updated 341 days ago, that said I don’t think there should be that many differences in upgrading from 1.0.x to 1.1/1.2 based on these docs.

Has anyone actually tried this? What breaks if you do follow these steps?

Remember: Constantly make backups of your site with FTP and your SQL Database/s with myPhpAdmin.

Updating

Legacy

Just saying it doesn’t work is not enough, give us detailed information: on what breaks, what doesn’t work, detailed specs of your site, extremely detailed error messages, steps for us and others to reproduce the problem and with this type of information we can all help each other.

[Stephen Edgar]

Fair enough, I don’t know of any plugins that support this, you could ask @jaredatch if that’s something he could add to his plugin or head over to trac and create a new detailed ticket of the enhancement you would like to see in future versions of bbPress.

[Stephen Edgar]

I have just been updating the bbPress importers to support mentions eg. @rossagrant over the past few days and have had ~500,000 posts go through the DB and test site and maybe 1% would have a quote or mention, maybe less, it’s still quite a few and I have don’t see any of the SQL errors you @mention.

Is your site title issue a URL that is displaying like this?
‘http://www.mysite.com/members/dave/’
If so it is because the URL is wrapped in single or double quotes and will be fixed in the next version of bbPress, if not could you give us some more detailed info, what it should be and what it is sending in the email.

Edit: Ha, I cant force the error in that URL above, does it look like the URL with the ‘& # 8217’ at the end like your first post here in this topic?

[Ramiuz]

I´m having the exact same problem as Limbobski is questioning. And nobody here is bothering to answer him either.

This question needs a proper solution. There are many of us who have been with BBPress for YEARS now, and we have WordPress and forums on different databases. We need a step-by-step guide on how to keep the content and merge the two together. To successfully update to the newest version of BBpress.

[Ramiuz]

I´ve been using BBPress since 2009. And I remember having many discussions here about spambots.

Particulary, I remember this one issue I was having with spambots registering. But never doing anything.

And slowly over the years, many of them has managed to sneak their way into my user database, but never actually posting any harm. And I thought after years, it would stay that way. Untill yesterday.

Yesterday, all of the spambots that had registered over time, were starting to post. ALL at the same time. It was an absolute mess, and a huge surprise that these longtime passive bots, seemed to be set on 12th of january 2013. I had to go in there and manually delete more than 50 bots.

This was absolutely time consuming as well, because I´m still using BBPress 1.02, since I dont understand how to upgrade it.

But for those of you who remember this issue, and thought these bots would stay passive, think again. They will strike. So better protect against all of them. Its just wierd that they took so long in “hibernation mode”. We´re talking years here.

[Abdizriel]

I’ve tried it.
Division by zero gives me bbp_get_template_part( ‘bbpress/loop’, ‘topics’ )

[forsberg94]

Hey bbPress.

I need help to remove these – marked on picture.

View post on imgur.com

I found “bbp-forums-list” inside teh bbPress plugin’s css and made the display to none instead of incline. It really didn’t help much.

Can you help me?

[Jan David Hanrath]

Hi Guys, we just converted a 2,5 mln posts and 70.000 users BBpress 1.0 install to BBpress 2.2.1 (under WP 3.5). Conversion went ok, but now the server is busy with a continuously repeating query we cannot identify:

SELECT post_modified_gmt FROM wp_posts WHERE post_status = ‘publish’ AND post_type IN (‘post’, ‘page’, ‘attachment’, ‘forum’, ‘topic’, ‘reply’) ORDER BY post_modified_gmt DESC LIMIT 1  

Anyone an idea where this comes from?

[Lynq]

Topics are custom post types. When you save a post in wordpress and then rename it, the permalink doesn’t change, it stays the same.
This is the same for bbPress.

[Lynq]

What you could do is check is_user_logged_in() around your bbPress template files, this would hide the forum.
You could also do this whenever you show the link to your forum, this would mean the forum is never show to anyone who is not logged in.

Then you could do a custom WP_Query to fetch some topics to display on the front of your website.

Also as a nice little touch you could do an else {      } at the bottom of your is_user_logged_in() check and state that they need to be logged in to view the forum.

[common8308]

Hi, I’m starting this topic since I was stuck on creating anonymous forum.
First I want to thank mods and those all who are participating in this voluntary development, I’m very satisfied in using this forum plugin.

Back to the topic, I have got two issues.

One is creating an anonymous forum only logged-in members can write. I’m curious to know if this is possible in the given function of bbpress admin panel. Or should I do additional code tweaks.(guess the forum should be set private, and remove all the related username infos in my custom bbpress reply author loop.. right?)

The other issue is making a query to this private forum’s post and displaying it in the main page which visitors can all see. Is it possible to unlock this access capability after querying the topic content which is set private?
Currently, when I make a query to this private reply contents, and display them on the main page as a widget, ppl with proper capability only can see the content on the main page. Visitors cannot. I want to unlock this capability after querying the contents.

Sorry for asking too much at once. I’m stuck over days.. so asking in this support forum after searching the whole forum.
Thank you for reading!

[Stephen Edgar]

Why not use @jaredatch’s plugin he mentions in the very first reply of this thread?

Send notification emails to specific users when a new bbPress topic is posted.

[Stephen Edgar]

There are a couple of routes you could go down depending on how you plan on running WordPress:

• WIMP (Windows, IIS, MySQL/MS SQL & PHP)

• http://blog.rajenki.com/2012/12/wordpress-on-windows-server-2012-with-iis-8-and-sql-server-2012/
• http://wordpress.visitmix.com/
• (I have no idea how or even if the current logic of the MS SQL WP DB Abstraction plugin would allow us to connect to the DNN database to perform the import)

• LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL & PHP)

• Convert your database to MySQL
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6315582/how-do-i-convert-files-mdf-ldf-to-mysql-format

Once you have either of the above up and running and my suggestion is most definitely the second option to convert your database to MySQL then it would involve writing a custom import script based on the included example `Example.php` included with bbPress.
(I have been updating all the import scripts lately so hopefully a new version of `Example.php` will not be far away, if not `bbPress1.php` and `phpBB.php` would be better to use as a basis for a custom DNN import script.)

[Lynq]

You will need to copy over the bbPress theme files from the plugin directory and into your theme, then you can add in the get_sidebar() function into the theme although it should be there already.

Try that and see how you get on, a good reference is: https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

Good luck!

[Lynq]

Well it depends on what your theme uses as it’s sidebar container.

.bbPress is a class which is applied to the body tag so you can tell if it is on a bbPress page.
.sidebar is a guess at what the sidebar container is on your theme.
stack them together and then use display:none to hide the sidebar on all bbPRess pages.
You can add this into your bbPress stylesheet or your wordpress stylesheet (it is usually nicer to add it into your bbPress stylesheet so that all bbPress styles are contained in one place).

Good luck!

[Sunidaze]

“something like”, hehe… okay…

I don’t know which file(s) to put it in… I’ll figure it out one day by trial and error… 🙂

thanks again…

[sunriseweb]

Well… in fact I had to do the opposite and force TinyMCE into “teeny” mode to make bbPress 2.2.3 with WP 3.5 and Ultimate TinyMCE 4.0.3 to work. The TinyMCE toolbar forced the entire editor table to be wider then the content area of my theme and it was getting hidden behind the right-hand-sidebar. This could be a theme incompatibility, but I’m guessing some issue with this combination of plugins and WP version.

At any rate I used the code in this thread to the opposite effect (I put it in my theme’s function.php file, although a plugin is the proper thing to do).

`
function marconf_bbpress_mceallow( $args = array() ) {
$args[‘teeny’] = true;
return $args;
}
add_filter( ‘bbp_after_get_the_content_parse_args’, ‘marconf_bbpress_mceallow’ );
`

[Lynq]

Hmm, not sure its a “really dirty grimy hack”.

Removing the sidebar means you no longer have access to it, should you require it on certain pages, or if like some themes you want to access it on topics so you can show latest discussions, but not on full forum pages.

Otherwise you have to go through and remove it from all bbPress template files, if you ever want it back, you need to revert that process.

[Lynq]

For future reference, if you want to remove the sidebar just from bbPress files you can use something like…

.bbPress .sidebar { display:none; }  // depending on your theme.

Good luck!

[docchewbacca]

Update: I did this https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/roles-capabilities/

and now it’s working.