Hi all,
the new BBpress version is quite interesting and I’m evaluating to pass a Simplepress 5.1.4 forum (with 60k posts) to BBPress 2.2.2 but cannot find an importer/migrator.
Did I missed something or it doesn’t exists? and, in case, any advice how to achieve this?
Thanks in advance
Mac
Also, will my current sidebar and header still be used/integrated with this?
Hi, I have an existing wordpress blog and I would like to have bbPress integrated with it. Meaning, I would like to install the bbPress plugin and it not effect my current them. I would like to just link to the forum where my existing users can user their already made usernames and passwords on the forum. When I install this plugin, will it make a new page or will it over-ride my current front page?
I’m a bit confused and I’m not wanting to mess anything up, but I would really like to integrate a forum for my members. Thanks.
@JJJ – need help in the same regard.
I’m using amember and not s2member – and I need to block users from bbpress when their subscription becomes inactive (which means they are assigned a WP role of “amember expired” by amember).
Will JJJ’s code or tzelding88’s code above achieve this? Will it sustain mapping so that when a user’s WP role changes, bbpress’s role changes as well?
Many thanks.
Hello,
Could someone help with a solution to this eror?
I have last versions of Buddypress and bbPress running on WordPress 3.4.2
Every time I submit a new topic or a reply to an existing topic in bbPress forum I get ‘Error 310 (net::ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS): There were too many redirects wordpress’
I couldn’t find any answer/solution to this problem.
Thanks
Ok , so it’s a bit of physician heal thyself but here’s how I fixed in case other people are having the problem.
I found this:
https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/
which shows how to create a custom bbpress.css in 2.0 and later. Then I changed line 62 to be:
list-style-type: inherit /* was ‘none’ */;
(basically took out the none override for basic list elements).
Seems like overkill to have a complete copy of bbpress.css just to change one line but I could not find another place to override it. Tried playing around with trying a skeleton bbpress.css that @import’ed the default one but didn’t have much success with that.
Anyways, issue has been resolved, thanks!
regards, Paul
bbPress is now a plugin for WordPress. That means that it doesn’t run without an install of WordPress.
As for the design; that’s entirely up to you. You can go with the default bbPress styles, use a WordPress theme that overrides them or apply your own CSS and make the forums totally original. I recommend having a good read of the bbPress 2.0+ documentation.
“Member” is a role created by BuddyPress when activating the old forums component. It’s possible it got wiped out during an activation or update process.
- Use a regular old WP_Query()
- Use a widget
- Use bbp_has_forums()
- Use the shortcode mentioned above
There are lots of examples, in the forums, on the codex, and in the bbPress code itself. Also, unclear what you mean by “latest forum.” Do you mean topics, or replies, or something else?
Modifying core files is never the way. There are plenty of filters in place to override any bit of functionality regarding bbPress’s theme compat,
There are, as you’ve already found, numerous vectors depending on exactly what you want to accomplish. Each filter has an intended purpose, and solves a specific problem. The underlying code is identical to WordPress’s own template loader, until a template isn’t found (which is a majority of installations.) In that case, bbPress replaces the_content with template parts using page.php, or whatever is a match in the stack you found already.
Also, don’t forget about the typical WordPress templates: archive-forum.php, and archive-topic.php, etc…
To answer your question about why get_the_ID() doesn’t work on archive pages, why would it? It’s an archive, not a post/page. There is not ID to get.
From your posts here, you’ve basically solved much of what’s already in the codex regarding how some of these things work; also, I’m fuzzy on what problem you’re trying to solve. What is the end goal you’re working towards? I can give you some advice on what I think will work best.
Okay, I’ve made some further progress with method #3 above (hooking into bbp_get_bbpress_template ). Here’s the general approach I’m taking:
add_filter( 'bbp_get_bbpress_template', 'my_add_page_template', $templates );
function my_add_page_template( array $templates ) {
$page_template = get_post_meta( $post_id, '_wp_page_template', true );
if ( $page_template != 'default' )
array_unshift( $templates, $page_template );
return $templates;
}
The only issue I have right now is that $post_id is difficult to extract if the archive pages (Archive Base and Topics Base) are being displayed. Right now I am hard wiring it to the post_id of the Archive Base page (getting it from the editor), and it works okay but not what I want.
Since these pages (archives) are custom post types, I haven’t found an easy way to find their post_id’s, and querying globals like $post->ID and calling functions like get_the_ID() and url_to_postid() don’t work for custom post IDs ($post->ID and get_the_ID() return 0).
QUESTION: For a bbPress page that is currently being built for display, is the post_id of the page being stored somewhere in a bbPress global?
Michael
Evening! Just installed the update and now I am getting big fat 404’s on all my forums pages which are currently set to ‘Private’, the one forum that is set to ‘Open’ works fine however.
Any ideas folks?
I know PageLines released an updated compat plugin for bbPress 2.2, what version that actually is I am not sure as it doesn’t appear publicly (from what I can see).
http://www.pagelines.com/store/plugins/pagelines-bbpress/
http://www.pagelines.com/forum/topic/23459-bbpress-22-crash/page__hl__bbpress#entry137455
Make sure you are running WordPress 3.4.2 and bbPress 2.2.2 and the latest updates from PageLines , if you are still not seeing any content I would ask PageLines support to look into it further.
@johnjamesjacoby Thanks for all the time and effort you’ve put in to quickly release fixes and updates. It’s much appreciated.
heh.
I’m using bbPress 2.2 and the bbPress for PageLines plugin 1.0.6. Created a test Category, then a test forum underneath that category. Blank content everywhere – I can see my masthead and sidebar, but zippo on the content.
My cluelessness is evidently unbounded in this dimensional plane. Tell me I’ve missed something very basic? Do I need to select another template (I have Template=Forum selected for all forum related pages), or do I need to actually create a page for each? Should I pitch the fine folks at PageLines?
Love and gratitude for your assistance.
Here are the steps I would follow:
– Backup everything and often (WordPress, Xooops, MySQL etc)
– Install WordPress locally to test the import
– Research the Xoops MySQL database structure
– Make a copy of importer example.php as xoops.php in the same folder
– Edit xoops.php to match the xoops database table & field names
eg. This from Example.php:
// Forum id. Stored in postmeta.
$this->field_map[] = array(
'from_tablename' => 'forum',
'from_fieldname' => 'forumid',
'to_type' => 'forum',
'to_fieldname' => '_bbp_forum_id'
);
Would become:
// Forum id. Stored in postmeta.
$this->field_map[] = array(
'from_tablename' => 'xoops_forum_table_name',
'from_fieldname' => 'xoops_forumid',
'to_type' => 'forum',
'to_fieldname' => '_bbp_forum_id'
);
The above is not accurate as I have no idea what table and field names xoops uses for its database, that is the bits you need to research. Do the above for as much as you can matching all the tables and fields testing your import.
Once you have an import working and are happy with you can then look to importing it to your live site and I cannot emphasize this enough, backuyp, backup and more backups in case things go wrong.
All,
Hi, I’m interested in implementing bbPress on this site that I own: http://www.nationalbankruptcyforum.com.
Wondering if the community could recommend a good bbPress developer who is also comofortable working with responsive Genesis child themes?
I can be reached via email at: john@jsodigitalconsulting.com.
Thanks,
John
I have partially found a solution. I copied out all of bbpress functions.php to my graphene-child functions.php. After that I copied out the single-user.php template to my graphene folder.
It kind of sorted it out, but the entire background just disappeared and I had no user title displayed above the avatar.
I had to add the white background and the user name manually. Unfortunately bbp_current_user_name provides MY OWN user name, not the name of the profile displayed. So if I want to go to somebody else’s profile I will still see my own id…
Does anyone have any solution?
It doesn’t look like things are too messed up. Although it’s not always the best method in this case I would recommend using the !important tag in your css for bbpress. This will only override the theme when the bbpress-forum tag precedes it therefore not effecting the rest of the site.
Specifically you should follow the instructions to move the css into your theme directory and then modify line 62 of the bbpress.css found in your theme/css folder. You’ll need to add !important before the ; and after your list-style and margin entries. In order to get rid of the stars you’ll have to add a line of css defining the “a” style within the bbpress-forum. You’ll need to set the background to none and the padding to 0.
Hope that helps.
after upgrading to bbPress 2.2.2, I get 404 error when going to the forums base (mydomain.com/forums) or forum base / slug (mydomain.com/forums/forum) but I can still go directly to a forum topic. How do I get rid of the 404 error and restore my forums base directory of topics?
error on log cpanel
25-Nov-2012 15:04:26 UTC] PHP Warning: array_keys() expects parameter 1 to be array, boolean given in /public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/core/capabilities.php on line 453
[25-Nov-2012 15:04:26 UTC] PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/core/capabilities.php on line 453
I would like to show the latest forum in the footer of my WordPress site. I would like to use bbp_list_forums(); function. But it seems is not possibile.
Could you help?
Regards, Francesco.
