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.
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.
I’ve tried it.
Division by zero gives me bbp_get_template_part( ‘bbpress/loop’, ‘topics’ )
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?
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?
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.
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.
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!
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.
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)
- LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL & PHP)
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.)
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!
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!
“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…
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’ );
`
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.
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!
I also have a 404 error that I didn’t not use to have in the past.
This is happening on a private forum.
Link is : http://nantes.ascee-ceteo.fr/forums/forum/nkms/
Even without being logged in, you should get a bbpress message saying you can’t reach the forum. Instead, there is this 404 error page.
Of course the same happens when you are logged in.
I tried changing the permalink, it didn’t do anything.
I tried swapping the forum to public, it worked (but when I revert to private, the 404 error is back).
Hello all, I understand this is a bloated question, but I’m just looking for any information to help my research.
I have the .ldf and .mdf DotNetNuke Active Forum database files. I’m looking to import these files to bbPress. I see that the database structures are a lot different.
How would I go about making these files compatible with bbPress? There are over 1000 users I’d like to preserve as well as several thousand forum posts.
ANY help at all would be most grateful 🙂 Thanks!
BBpress is to create a forum, but is that what you want? Perhaps it is better to ask your question on the WP forums.
I’ve got a nasy little bug(ger). I’ve got a 3.5 WP installation with a forum using the BBpress plugin. Everything was running perfectly until I noticed that in my WP menus I could no longer drag and drop. I deactivated all plugins (which helped), reactivated them. So far so good. Then I noticed that my forums went funky.
The forum index works. I’ve got four forums, two public, two private. One of the forums works (one of the public ones), the other three give 404’s. The strange thing is that a newly created forum also gives a 404, but al subjects (or threads) work, also the threads in the malfunctioning forums.
So I thought: permalinks. Changed to default and back, no go. Edited the permalink of the forums manually to something ‘test’ (edit specific forum), no go. Edit the permalink for forums in the BBpress settings, no go.
Of course I also tried deactivating plugins again, use default theme, searched around a bit on the www and noticed people with htaccess problems. I’m sure it’s something there, but I can’t figure it out, especially not because one forum works and the rest does not.
Website monas.nl, see tab forums.
Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
Here is one thing I found:
1. In Settings>Forums, it says:
Archive Slugs
Custom root slugs to prefix your forums and topics with. These can be partnered with WordPress pages to allow more flexibility.
Forums base
Possible BuddyPress conflict: Member Forums page
Topics base
I disabled Forums in the BuddyPress area, following a tutorial I found here from you guys. So, there should be no conflict, right?
@netweb Thanks, I know that but the site wide forums include bbpress and thats why I have posted it here for help 🙂
I’m having the same problem: www.tafaforum.com.
Wordpress 3.5
bbpress 2.2.3
Hi,
I just installed bbpress into wordpress but bbpress wont link with a Forums page i created at my wordpress website, parellex.net. The bbpress top-level forums page that wont link with the wordpress forums page is here. Does it have something to do with the slugs? Or was it a during setup problem?
Thanks in advanced!
