Hi everyone,
I am looking for a pro to help clean up my forum and get it humming. Are there such developers out there?
We have run into a few issues and I need an expert help out. It’s for a very good cause and we can pay (a little)!
Our forum is HERE.
Thanks in advance!
Josh
I had the same 404 error problem as everyone else. I solved this by going to Wp-admin -> Extra -> Forums -> and by running all the recovery options. (My wp-admin is in Dutch so I might have translated it differenlty).
It all works now. Thank god.. 😉
#1958 is more than just markup; it will likely take core bbPress changes to query everything efficiently.
Also, @jaredatch — don’t hijack this topic. 🙂
Or, you could just rename the forum?
I am also having the same problem as Prometheus Fire and TranThe. I can view the forums when logged out OR with the Keymaster role. All other roles get a 404 error.
I now have a problem where a new topic is not showing in the Forum page. I am using the latest version of WordPress and bbPress. My site is http://mycarquest.com
The Forum page is here and there is a new topic that I created that is not listed: http://mycarquest.com/forums/forum/general
Is anyone else having this problem?
I didn’t know where to post this so I figure I would put it in the troubleshooting forum.
Besides confirming the defect with creating a new group and the forum tab not showing up, but if a moderator can pass along another possible issue within the admin area of a buddypress group, and that’s when making a change to the group name – admin > details where those changes do not get passed along to bbpress and show up in the bbpress forums > all forums section.
In other words, the only way to make bbpress to see any changes to a buddypress group name is to delete the group altogether in buddypress and create a new one, then the changes are passed along to bbpress! As anyone would know, you can’t delete an existing Group without losing all the data, correct? ;(
I may be wrong, it happens lots of time, but I think this may somewhat be tied to the forum tab not showing up since they’re both a buddypress bbpress linkage issue.
If this helps, that’s all that counts.
Can someone give me the correct url to a forum in my site so that I can try if it’s a problem of bbPress or my theme (Hybrid)?
http://www.stichtinginspiratiekring.nl/forums/forum/ledeninformatie/ is not correct, but which is?
You might get some benefit from trying this theme out I created…
I have created a bbPress starter theme with a phpBB look and feel
It kind of changes the default bbPress theme and seperates out the forums, see what you think, let me know if anything isn’t clear on it.
Sure, it would be great to be able to retrieve whatever data you wanted and then wrap it whatever tags you want using arguments 🙂
Just let me know what I can help with and i’ll try my best 🙂
It was GREAT Stephen,
Thanks.
I’m using bbpress Version 2.2.2 .
Is there any difference on the procedure of exporting/importing the entire forum than the 2.2.3 version?
So, I need the wp-admin for the site1.com and site2.com.
Right?
I’ve the login for site2.com now. If I need to manage the site2.com’s then let me know.
I’ve to export bbpress from the site1.com and import to the site2.com as I’m wanting to import the site1.com’s forum to site2.com ?
Is that all I’ve to do?
Thank You Stephen!
I wish you all the very best for your future life for extending the helping hand.
Take Care.
Same here! But for bbpress 2.2.3!!
If you are just trying to copy/move forums/topics/replies from a bbPress 2.2.3 install eg site1.com to a bbPress 2.2.3 install on site2.com you can ‘export’ these via WordPress’ built-in tools (/wp-admin/export.php) and then import to site2.com using the Import (/wp-admin/import.php) tool.
If you are importing from bbPress ‘Stand Alone’ 1.1 or 1.2 you should look for a file named ‘bb-config.php’ and that will contain the correct info you need to import with the bbPress Forum Import tool.
eg.
// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for bbPress */
define( 'BBDB_NAME', 'my_database_name' );
/** MySQL database username */
define( 'BBDB_USER', 'my_database_username' );
/** MySQL database password */
define( 'BBDB_PASSWORD', '1234567890' );
/** MySQL hostname */
define( 'BBDB_HOST', 'localhost' );
And a little further down in that file is the bbPress table prefix
$bb_table_prefix = 'bb_';
They are the values you would use in the bbPress Import Tool setting.
Lets step back a step or two for a moment…
What version of bbPress are you trying to import?
Thanks a lot for help Stephen,
I’ve few more concerns:
My main domain is example1.com
and I’ve another domain on the same server example2.com
I’ve the database for example.com
How do I get access on the example2.com’s database.
when I log into the phpmyadmin I see the database of example1.com which has all the table/fields of the bbpress.
How to get the user and password of the example1.com’s databse?
I want to import the wishlist from example1.com to example2.com both domains are on the same server.
I’m sorry If i sound silly.
Thank you again.
Hope I was clear enough.
Looking forward to your reply.
Take Care.
Lynq this is the second awesome theme like this you’ve done. When we get cracking on 2.4 I’d love for you to give us a hand and your expertise with #1958 🙂
Hmm, would you mind adding this to bbPress trac? https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/
Hey everyone, I’m a total newbie with bbPress, as I have only had experience with phpBB in the past. I have a very simple question. I’m setting up a new site with bbPress, but am seeing that the forums I’m making (underneath their parent categories) are not being displayed one at a time on their own line, but rather one right after each other, with commas separating them. (Image of this seen here: http://tinypic.com/r/o86nab/6 )
While this isn’t the end of the world, I’m much more used to seeing each forum on its own line, and it seems to make for easier navigation.
Is this something that is specific to the theme that I am using (Buddy) or is it something that can be changed with a plugin? Thanks in advance!
I ran into this messing around with a fresh install of bbpress installed on WordPress 3.5. Basically if you follow these steps, you can cause a forum’s permalink to get stuck in a redirect loop:
Create a category
Create a forum
Make the category the parent of the forum
Trash the category without removing the forum as a child
Go to the forum edit page and update it with no parent selected
After doing this the permalink of the forum becomes an infinite redirect loop and you’ll get an error from your server and browser. When you get the error screen, your browser should show the old permalink that includes the category slug, even though the new permalink shouldn’t have it. The bad part is that even if you untrash the category and make it the parent of the forum again, the redirect loop stays the same. This also makes the slug of said forum unusable.
I did this by accident and then was able to reproduce using the previously mentioned steps. Just wanted to let you guys know. Can’t find a way to fix this but to prevent it from occurring, make sure you unlink forums from a category BEFORE you want to delete said category.
Using the default bbPress settings I just threw up a IIS install of WP 3.5 and bbPress 2.2.3
http://localhost:81/forums/
http://localhost:81/forums/forum/test-forum/
http://localhost:81/forums/topic/test-topic/
For the test topic I added a reply and clicked submit and the resulting URL is correct
http://localhost:81/forums/topic/test-topic/#post-7
Your topic replies URL should be displaying in the format:
http://localhost/sitename/forum/topic/butterflies/#post-158277
When I set my bbPress settings to the same settings you use above these are the URL’s:
Forums base: forum (Note: Default bbPress setting is ‘forums’)
Topics base: topics (Note: Default bbPress setting ‘topics’)
Forum Prefix ticked (Note: Default bbPress setting ‘ticked/checked’)
Forum slug: forums (Note: Default bbPress setting is ‘forum’)
Topic slug: topic (Note: Default bbPress setting ‘topic’)
http://localhost/sitename/forum/forums/butterflies/
http://localhost/sitename/forum/topic/test-topic/
http://localhost/sitename/forum/topic/butterflies/#post-158277
I would try resetting your permalinks. In your WordPress Administration Screens navigate to Settings > Permalinks, select a different permalink structure and save. Then select your preferred permalink structure and save again.
If you have no luck I would read up on the LAMP/MAMP (Linux/Mac, Apache, MySQL, PHP) package you are using on what settings are needed for mod_rewrite to work on your local machine.
There are also a few (and a few broken links here) installing WordPress Locally
https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Installation_Techniques#Installing_WordPress_Locally
This is a weird one. When I create a forum post, I get the WYSIWYG editor.
When I reply to a post, I also get it,
BUT when I edit an existing reply, there is no WYSIWYG and I have plain html in the text area.
Using bbpress 2.2.3, WP 3.5 and buddypress 1.7-bleeding.
Doesn’t seem to be a bug, as it works fine with twenty twelve theme – I’m using the-bootstrap – but are there any ideas of what to try to fix it?
In the pages with the editor, the relevant js files are getting loaded from the cache, but on the page without the editor, there seems to be no reference to them, but no errors either…
?
I’m having a problem where a number of our users are sending around URLs to discussions in private forums to other users, when those URLs are clicked, if the user is not logged in they get a 404.
I want to write a plugin that directs users to the login page if they are not already, and only then return a 404 if they don’t have ‘read_private_forums’…
Can anyone familiar with the bbPress code base point me to where bbPress evaluates this access?
Run the ‘Repair Tools’ after the importer has finished importing everything
https://codex.bbpress.org/repair-forums/
