[Stephen Edgar]

The docs have the details here https://codex.bbpress.org/bbp_show_lead_topic/

[aerokat]

I am so frustrated with bbPress. I wanted to be rid of my phpbb forum…. when I found that wordpress had its own sort forum, I was excited. I loaded it, got it all set up…. I made several posts… over 70 posts for a matter of fact…now I am having a problem.

I am reposting a lot of old logs from the previous phpbb forum onto the bbpress. And I have hit a block to where bbpress will no longer make new posts. I imagine that this is a problem on my mysql/database side…. but I can’t find any info on it and don’t know how to figure it out….as I am still learning databases and such.

I still have over a years worth of logs to load….. but yet it seems as though bbpress or wordpress has hit is limit of what I can post?

Does anyone know what I can do? Is there a setting on wordpress, bbpress or mysql database that can be make to allow me to continue? Or should I just stay with the old phpBB forum that I already have and leave bbpress alone?

I am using bbpress 2.2.3 and wordpress 3.5

[allenmccabe]

I have s2Member running with bbPress 2.2.3 and I am getting the following error when accessing the Users page within the admin:
`Fatal error: Unknown: Cannot use output buffering in output buffering display handlers in Unknown on line 0`

Version 2.2.2 does not do this on the development server (also running with s2Member).
Wordpress version 3.4

[webheadcoder]

Sweet! Thanks!

[Erlend]

Excellent, many thanks. And by the way, I hope you agree that part of the search should be opt-out, not -in. Only the old-timers around here are gonna want to dig further back into the archives.

[John James Jacoby]

@webheadllc – That’s a bit of an oversight on my part. The ‘manage_options’ capability was an easy check originally, and you’re right that Key Masters should be able to create forums. I’ll make sure it’s fixed in 2.3.

Update: Fixed in trunk.

[livninctry]

Quick update – (this might help other users) As part of the troubleshooting I removed all bbpress plugins and supporting plugins from Suffusion and reinstalled and now the tinymce are present. Not sure what changes it made, but it appears to be working now.

[John James Jacoby]

Excluding posts from search before a certain date seems like a good idea. I’ll get it done this week.

[John James Jacoby]

Likely unknown issues surfacing, or bbPress becoming more complex over time and W3TC interoperability not being specifically tested.

[mostafaqanbari]

i installed new bbpress2.2.3 and then “user Role Editor” plugin for defining user roles for my forum users. but when i use bbp_topic_admin_links(); my users cant see any of admin buttons! this means that they cant close their topics too! i checked “user role plugin” 100times and nothing wrong with it. i manually create buttons for editing and deleting a topic but i cant find a way to close a topic! what can i do with bbp_topic_admin_links(); to show necessary buttons to my users?

[parellex]

wordpress 3.5
buddypress 1.6.2
bbpress 2.2.3
Hi, i installed bbpress after i installed buddy press. During the bbpress installation process it said if i wanted a new page created for forums. I clicked “create new page.” After the installation i went to my website and found no tab. I checked to see if the page was created at all and it was. my website is here.
parellex.net.

[Erlend]

@JJJ I’m a bit confused. I thought you had bbPress working well with both W3TC and WPSC early on [1]. Did some things change or is is simply a matter of unknown issues eventually surfacing?

@JohnConners any news? I know a lot of people who’d love to know more about any new findings you might have made.

@moderators please get this spammer out of here.

[Erlend]

Excluding older threads in the search would definitely be a very acceptable compromise.

[Shane Gowland]

I can understand why you’ve chosen to preserve the old posts, but I agree with the OP that it makes finding relevant help with issues extremely difficult.

Perhaps a happy compromise could be reached, such as an option that makes the forum search exclude results dated prior to the release of 2.0. Or even a “The information in this thread may be outdated” warning message to reduce the confusion of new users.

[freax]

It’s working now ! Thank you for your help.

[Lynq]

You might find this helpful: http://www.epicwebs.co.uk/content/bbpress-theme-invision-or-phpbb-feel

[Lynq]

You need to copy it to the root theme folder and not inside a bbpress folder.

[jtole]

Hello again …
I installed bbpress 2.2.3 but I do not like the original design, I mean … if you see http://www.bitadictos.com/forums forums as you can see I created a category, and each category and there are forums.
What I would like is to see the forums arranged vertically rather than horizontally as they are now.
What I can do to see them vertically?

[jtole]

Thank you both, you have been very helpful

[M3]

Thanks for the help but still don’t understand how to change the theme. Is there any step by step and example on how to do it. Sorry I’m a plugin user and novice in coding.

[John James Jacoby]

Too late now, and lots of the old topics are still relevant, even if not exact.

[ellipszist]

Example : http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/upgrade-bbpress-1-0-2-to-2-1-2/page/2/

[thinkcrush]

Hello guys. I don’t know what i did wrong 🙁 I had the forum working a previous version of my website, but since the theme change, i can’t get it set up for my life.

It might be important to note that there was a situation during the instillation of bbpress. I was at the last step of the instillation, when my website crashed. One of my folders was duplicated or something. I removed the file from my file manager and got my site back. BBpress is now installed, alongside buddypress but when i go to my forum page there’s nothing there.

I think i need step by step instructions. When i make a page named “Forum” and assign that page to the bbpress pages tab, nothing happens. I have a code to make my forum fancy and thats not working either.

I am using the newest wordpress, and the newest bbpress.

My website is at http://www.goodpoker.ca

This is the code i need to put somewhere…

ID, ‘sidebar_value’, true);

do_action( ‘bp_before_directory_forums_page’ ); ?>

<div class="padder contentbox “>

 

<option value="”>

<input type="submit" name="submit_topic" id="submit" class="none" style="opacity:0;" value="” />

<input type="button" name="submit_topic_cancel" id="submit_topic_cancel" value="” />

<?php printf( __( "You are not a member of any groups so you don't have any group forums you can post in. To start posting, first find a group that matches the topic subject you'd like to start. If this group does not exist, why not create a new group? Once you have joined or created the group you can post your topic in that group’s forum.”, ‘buddypress’ ), site_url( bp_get_groups_root_slug() . ‘/create/’ ) ) ?>

• <a href="”><?php printf( __( 'All Topics %s’, ‘buddypress’ ), bp_get_forum_topic_count() ); ?>

• <a href="”><?php printf( __( 'My Topics %s’, ‘buddypress’ ), bp_get_forum_topic_count_for_user( bp_loggedin_user_id() ) ); ?>

[Will Brownsberger]

Just a follow up.

Here is a different plug in that does a reasonable job:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-post-topics/

After installing it, go to discussion settings and then set it to create a forum topic for each post, copy tags, etc. Then you have an option to apply settings to all existing posts.

I tried this on a test site and it worked pretty well. It did not do all the bookkeeping of reply counts correctly, but it did create appropriate topics for each post and import the comments and replies to them.

It is also reversible as it does not delete either the posts or comments — if you deactivate the plug in your posts (which were unchanged anyway) and their comments are intact. You do still have a bunch of new topics in your target forum.

[Erlend]

I think you should seriously consider archiving the bulk of the legacy bbPress posts, maybe moving them to a separate forum like archive.bbpress.org.

It’s very troublesome when I’m trying to use Google or the native search to find posts with similar queries as mine, and I end up with mostly 2-4 year old posts relating to the old and abandoned standalone bbPress.