Hi everyone,
I had a question about best practices for actually running a forum. On my boards I’ve got several topics which are getting exceptionally long (25+ pages). On other forums I frequent, I’ve seen that moderators often tend to close long threads and open a new topic as a continuation of the discussion. I assume this is considered a best practice for some performance reason. Should I consider adopting the same approach, or are bbPress topics/replies queried in a way that won’t be bothered by lengthy threads?
If I should clip threads at a certain length, what’s a good ballpark number of replies at which to split the thread?
Thanks!
Andrew
Hi,
I have a question:
When using the import tool does it just copy over the database information, or does it “cut it” (remove it) from the old database for your 1.0.2 bbpress forum?
The reason I ask this question is because I want to set up a test blog and use the bbpress plugin, and try to import the 1.0.2 forum into the test set up without messing with my current standalone forum to see how it looks before permanently moving my forum over to the new site (set up).
Can this be done?
Thanks!
Scott
I’ve posted a temporary patch for 404, give it a try 🙂
Fix 404 issue for bbPress 2.2.x
When I upgrade bbPress 2.1 to 2.2, all logged in users cannot connect to any forums(bbPress) but super-admins. ( 404 not found page )
I’ve searched this support forum and they say “It’s related to Role Plugins…”
But I don’t have any Role Plugins 🙁
Did a hard back trace for this error and found capabilities of bbPress dynamic roles applied after ‘bbp_template_redirect’ so bbp_forum_enforce_blocked() blocked any users not having ‘spectate’ cap – maybe all users.
Then… we should manualy apply capabilities of bbPress role to current user.
Here’s a temporary patch for this error.
(Make a plugin or put these codes to your theme’s functions.php)
`
function bbp_fix_dynamic_role_cap() {
$current_user = wp_get_current_user();
$current_user->get_role_caps();
}
add_action( ‘bbp_template_redirect’, ‘bbp_fix_dynamic_role_cap’, -2 );// before bbp_forum_enforce_blocked()
`
Ahmmm… OK… A couple of things to get started with…
I created a new page under Import Forums called Custom Import where we can start documenting how to go about actually customizing this file.
I also created a ticket #2134 as an update for Example.php is really needed to help improve the inline docs and code formatting to line up with the current bbPress1.php, phpBB.php and SimplePress5.php converters for improved readability will also help things along.
Now onto doing this… If we keep the discussion about Mingle here and update the codex as we go with any relevant information, steps and whatever else we bump into hopefully we will end up with some docs for customizing the included example importer.
I have the first few bits on the codex now, so go check that out 🙂
ps. Anyone anyone can edit the codex docs pages using your bbpress.org credentials.
this code highlighter based on highlight.js seems to work well with wordpress 3.5 & bbpress 2.2, also ignores angle and square brackets etc
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sunburst-code-prettify/
http://softwaremaniacs.org/soft/highlight/en/
sam
I finally got my answer, and more, from this very illuminating video tutorial: http://labzip.com/the-definitive-guide-to-buddypress-bbpress-configuration/ Although it didn’t specifically address the issue of multi-site blogs or network activation, the comprehensive guide made clear that single site activation was all that was necessary. It also had some great tips for configuring bbPress with Buddypress.
Would I be able to have a user that is an Editor be able to create forums? I made this user a Keymaster, but it looks like I have to grant the user the ‘manage_options’ capability to get the Forums menu item to show. Is there another way? Thanks.
I would like to try this but I am having some trouble figuring out how to edit the example.php. Are there any instructions for this besides the comments?
Here is the file for reference: http://pastebin.com/MgUCdDp5
Here is the database structure from within phpmyadmin:
` wp_forum_forums
id
name
parent_id
description
views
sort
wp_forum_groups
id
name
description
usergroups
sort
wp_forum_posts
id
text
parent_id
date
author_id
subject
views
wp_forum_reputation_posts
id
author_id
post_id
post_author_id
value
date
wp_forum_threads
id
parent_id
views
subject
date
status
starter
last_post
closed
mngl_id
wp_forum_usergroup2user
id
user_id
group
wp_forum_usergroups
id
name
description
leaders`
If anyone can take a moment to help me get started here it would be very much appreciated. I’m happy to provide any other information that may be helpful, so please just ask.
Howdy! Try:
`#bbpress-forums li.bbp-topic-freshness {
text-align: right;
}`
Hi!
I just updated to bbpress 2.2.3 I have buddypress using bbpress sitewide forums. Using current wordpress version with buddypress default theme and my own custom made child theme.
Updating caused some style problems. I think I had edited some css and forgotten that I did. So I discovered I should copy bbpress.css into my theme. I have done this and have gotten rid of the awful bullets by setting #bbpress-forums to list-style:none.
I need to align LI.bbp-topic-freshness to the right to get rid of a large margin being caused by it aligning center. I told it to align right and it didn’t cooperate! What should I try now????
The site is http://rheum4us.org however the forum is private using the membership plugin.
Thanks for any help!
Well you always take a backup before you do anything, so that is not a problem. If it does not work, just restore.
You get white screen after upgrading to 1.2? That sounds alarming to me. I cannot risk that. I have users and alot of content. The whole reason I need to upgrade, is to keep that content.
Hello,
I am a new user of Bbpress. Currently I have the latest version of WordPress as well as Bbpress. But I am facing an irritating problem. I have created a forum for my site: http://realestateconnectionplace.com/forums/forum/forum/ .I like the url to be http://realestateconnectionplace.com/forum/ . I searched everywhere and found that many a one tried to provide a solution. They made plugins and code for .htaccess file. But all of them make some issues like admin link’s working issue and extra slash in the url.
In a nutshell I am very depressed. Because I am not an expert and found no perfect help anywhere. So I would like to request to John James Jacoby, please consider spending a little time to give us instruction about how to stop Archive Slugs and Single Slugs appearing in the url.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Does anyone know a way to hide the bbPress breadcrumbs in the bbp-forum-index only?
I still want the breadcrumbs to appear once a visitor is in a forum category, as a way of navigating back. It just seems a bit redundant to have Home > Forums breadcrumbs when you’re on the forums page and there’s already a header link to go back to the homepage.
I had the same problem, i resoved it by adding this code in the style.css of my twenty eleven child theme
.forum #primary{
width:70%;
}
.forum .entry-content{
width:100%;
}
And then also:
.topic #primary{
width:70%;
}
.topic .entry-content{
width:100%;
}
And finaly,
.bbp-user-page #primary{
width:70%;
}
.bbp-user-page .entry-content{
width:100%;
}
That solved my problem. I run WP 3.5. and bbpress 2.2. Hope this helps.
I also figured out how to change the page title and remove some space at the top. Let me knof if you are interrested.
Yea I can’t get anywhere. If I try to update from 1.0.2 to 1.2 I just get a white screen after replacing the files. If I don’t upgrade and just try to import from 1.0.2 into the latest 2.2 I get errors like “Motionworks” reported 2 months ago in this topic.
John James Jacoby said: You’ll want to update to bbPress 1.1 first; the schematic changed from 1.0 to 1.1.
What can be potential issues when migrating straight from 1.0.2 to 2.x? When I tried test run of migration 1.0.2 to 2.x, I did not noticed any issues, so curious, should I really go for an upgrade to 1.2 first.
I have this same problem. I am now downloading version 1.2, to upgrade from 1.02.
But I have my forum on a different database. And would like to import it to the WordPress database. I´ve tried using the converter without success. So would appreciate any help on this problem.
Hi Lynq.
I’m trying to run your code but seems to not work. I have wordpress 3.5 and CatchBox Theme. I copied the contents of “bbPress-starter-theme-epicwebs-master” folder to “/public/www/wp-content/themes/catch-box/bbpress/” but it seems not working yet.
Because forums lists the topics as:
FORUM1
Topic1(0,0), Topic2(0,0)
FORUM2
Topic1(0,0), Topic2(0,0)
But want to make changes to do as:
FORUM1
Topic1 (0,0),
Topic2 (0,0)
FORUM2
Topic1 (0,0)
Topic2 (0,0)
Please, can you help ?
Thanks in advance.
You can also use https://codex.bbpress.org/bbp_show_lead_topic/ as used here on bbpress.org to use a different template for the ‘lead topic’.
An alternative to your str_replace method is to make your own language translation. https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/extending-buddypress/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/
