[Mal]

How about forum-only WordPress theme? This sounds like easily doable.

Or a theme that theme developers can integrate with their own theme if they copy things like register_sidebar() etc. to their functions.php? No need for child themes and things like that in this case.

I can think of many acceptable and convenient solutions 🙂

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It is very easy to modify BBPress 1 if you have theme in /bb-templates/ or /my-templates/ folder. You have to spend hours on going through BBPress files (because there is no documentation like in case of WordPress) but that’s fine with me.

I would like to move to BBPress2 because of a bit better documentation, more functions that I’m often missing, custom fields and if it’s made as custom post type then it’s actually easy to integrate with any theme in any way – very cool.

BBPress beats any solutions like PHPBB thanks to your simple, clever and therefore highly customizable project structure. Too bad that it’s evolving slowly because it’s a great thing 🙂

[Lars Henriksen]

When I try to post a new topic I get “Too many redirects” and the post doesn’t show up in the forum directories?

However, the post is showing up in my frontpage widget with new posts.

Screendump from control panel: https://www.sugarsync.com/pf/D8989921_62533303_02322

Site url: http://www.itigymnasiet.dk

Wordpress 3.5
BBpress 2.2.3

[Mike McNamara]

I have just installed bbPress onto a brand new WordPress install and have what may be a very basic question, but I seem unable to work it out!

How do I allow new users to join the Forum that I have created so that they can create topics and/or comment on existing forum topics?

Many thanks

[Stephen Edgar]

Thanks for this, it would be great if these could be added here:
https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress

If you are interested in doing this post a message on the Polyglots blog here:
https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/

[Stephen Edgar]

Each user can manage their own email subscriptions to topics via their user profile eg.
https://bbpress.org/forums/profile/sixf00t4/subscriptions/

If a user wants to subscribe to an RSS feed simply add /feed/ to the end of any URL.

[Stephen Edgar]

I think having a look at the following trac ticket that has some changes in the upcoming bbPress 2.3 might give you some pointers or it might be enough for you to just use as is when 2.3 is released.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1799

[kiang]

Yet another one here:
https://github.com/kiang/bbpress_zh_TW

Currently for bbpress 2.2.3. Not completed.

[Stephen Edgar]

There is this comment via @JJJ

Try bumping the converter start (_bbp_converter_start) up 1 or 2, and see if it continues on.

I am trying to wrap my head around this and this may or may not help 😉

Once the import stops at that magic ~31000 number open up your WordPress `wp_options` table in phpMyAdmin and find the following three entries (or values similar):

• `_bbp_converter_step | 6`
• `_bbp_converter_start | 31100`
• `_bbp_converter_query | SELECT convert(topics.topic_id USING “utf8…`

These translate to ‘step’ is the step the conversion was up to (Importing forums, forum hierarchy, topics etc), ‘start’ is the last set of rows the converter was importing when it stopped from the current ‘step’ and ‘query’ was the last SQL query executed.

I think from some calculated guesswork yours will be around step=6 & start=31000

What you can now try is to change this ‘start’ value directly in the `wp_options` table and increase the value to hopefully allow the importer to skip the problem and finish importing the remaining topics and onto importing the replies.

The default setting for the importer is to import 100 rows at a time as defined by ‘Rows Limit’ on the import options main import tool. Thus the importer could be failing on any of those 100 rows so if it was row 31000 that it stops on changing this to 31001 would continue on and finish the import. The reality is though that it could be any number from 31000 to 31099.

I would suggest on the forum import settings change ‘Rows Limit’ to ‘1’ and in `wp_options` change `_bbp_converter_start` to 31001 and click start. This will resume the last import starting at the same ‘step’ it left off with and starting at row 31001 and then proceed 1 row at a time.

If the import stops again you can look up the values in `wp_options` and increase by 1 again and resume the import again.

Now with that said the import will continue to only import 1 row at a time for the remainder of the import process which with 30,000+ topics I expect you will have quite a few tens or hundreds of thousands of replies to also import and this will be much slower than importing 100 rows at a time.

[will_c]

One other thing to be aware of is that currently activity feed integration doesn’t seem to be working if you’ve made your site private (using Settings->Reading or Settings->Privacy). Try allowing your site to be indexed and see if that solves the integration problem. There’s an open ticket for this issue if anyone is interested:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2151

[common8308]

I’m currently using bbp_user_post_count function to fetch user post count, and wonder if there’s a way to automatically recount user post count when user makes a new reply/topic.

Currently I use recounting option manually once a day to refresh all stats. Could someone shed some light on how to recount when the bbpress post is published?

[Aneox]

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

Wp Mingle. In theory, there are no possible conflicts with bbpress.

[Stephen Edgar]

You didn’t state the full plugin name 😉

bbPress tries to be as compatible as it can with as many WordPress plugins as possible and I suggest you post in the Mingle Support Forum to see if any others have had the same issue and/or know of a work around. https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/mingle

[Stephen Edgar]

You just need to run the Repair Tools for ‘Count topics for each user’ and ‘Count replies for each user’.

[Stephen Edgar]

Are you referring to Mingle Forums?

If so I could not repro this with bbPress 2.2.3 and Mingle Forums 1.0.33.3

• WordPress Role = Administrator | bbPress Role = Keymaster
• WordPress Role = Subscriber | bbPress Role = Moderator
• WordPress Role = Subscriber | bbPress Role = Participant
• WordPress Role = Subscriber | bbPress Role = Spectator

The above was all I tested but each works as expected:
https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-user-roles-and-capabilities/

[Stephen Edgar]

Here is the answer you are looking for https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/assign-topics-to-another-user/#post-118793

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress 2.x includes its own phpBB converter (It was based on bbConverter)

https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/

The next release of bbPress will also include further improvements of the phpBB importer (I am working on these right now)

[wisemonkey]

Here is a related post (no solution stated)

Topic author names prefixed with "imported_"

[wisemonkey]

Hello…

(I have searched the forums here for a solution for this, apologies in advance if I missed a relevant post).

I just installed the most current bbPress and imported a phpBB forums (3.0.10). I now have users with “imported_” prepended to their names. I am guessing that these are the names of users with pre-existing WP accounts who had the same phpBB username. (eg johndoe and imported_johndoe).

How can I merge these two accounts into one. (ie imported_johndoe -> johndoe)?

TIA,
fernando

[kraigg]

I’m having problems with my forum, where only Administrators can see topics (new and old) in the forums. Everyone else with non-Administrator user roles cannot see topics, only replies. If I log in as a normal user and go into a forum topic, it shows only topic title, replies (if any), but no initial topic content.

I’m using BuddyPress 1.6.2, bbPress 2.2.3, WordPress 3.5, and I’m also using the User Role Editor plugin.

If I give all users the same user roles as the Administrator, they can now see topics, but obviously I don’t want to give everyone admin access. Do you know what role I need tick in User Role Editor so that all users can see topics?

Here are the user role I currently have set for a normal user: http://imgur.com/XsWPg

[John James Jacoby]

Hi @looimaster. Net yet, though because it uses a custom contextual sidebar, it does take some dedicated template files and a child theme.

We’re going to open-source bbpress.org in 2013, at which time the theme will be available for people to hack around with.

[John James Jacoby]

Sounds pretty strange. Any other plugins active that might be interfering with bbPress’s queries?

[beervanger]

Hi everyone,
I need your help. I wanna migrate from phpbb to bbpress.
I use bbConverter. I got this error :

[…again and again…]

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
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WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
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WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
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WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
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WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
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WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
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WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
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WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
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WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
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WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
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WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
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WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
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WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
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WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
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WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
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WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
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WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE id =

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
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WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
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WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
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WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
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WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
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WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
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WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
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WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
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Convert forums (0 – 99)-
Not clearing default passwords-

Not Converting users Selected-

Not Cleaning Data-

Conversion Complete-

Starting Conversion…

Could you help me?
Thank you.

[Amy Joy]

I did this:

For users that are stuck with users that can’t access the forums, try using the forums role repair tool, located in: Admin > Tools > Forums

yet some of my users still don’t have access to the forums when they are logged in. I run a multisite with buddypress and no additional membership plugins. I’m not sure what to try next. Any suggestions?

[Mal]

I’m currently on BBPress 1 and I use very similar theme like bbpress.org forum has (its name is “kakumei” I guess?).

Is there something like that for BBPress2? It’s very clean & readable and I would love to use it 🙂

[Aneox]

Users with bbpress role=Participants and WP role=Admin works well too.