[John James Jacoby]

You’ll have better luck looking into the existing templates, and copying existing functionality. Check in: templates/default/bbpress/content-archive-forum.php

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/templates/default/bbpress/content-archive-forum.php

[John James Jacoby]

Don’t listen to Pippin, he’s incorrect. 🙂

Put your bbPress translations in:

wp-content/languages/bbpress/bbpress-*.*

[John James Jacoby]

@rossagrant — Anytime. What you just described is exactly what this aims to accomplish. Thanks for being patient and dealing with the initial misstep.

[John James Jacoby]

That’s a pretty clever approach to fixing that specific problem. Nice work.

[jakewho]

Okay…I will try that…but the event which caused the forums to “disappear” was the upgrade to bbPress v2.2. Prior to that it was working just fine.

[John James Jacoby]

It’s possible you have some other plugin that isn’t playing nicely with bbPress. Typical trouble shooting rules apply: start deactivating things, and keep reverting changes, until you find the source.

[Michael]

Gotta agree with John James Jacoby, you’ve gotta expect to spend a decent amount of money to hire a contractor to do this kind of work. It’s not trivial, and was never meant to be (my opinion).  My guess is you’re looking at a decent project size of 20-40 hours minimum, unless the task is very basic.

To put it in perspective, I’ve put in about 20+ hours to customize my bbPress installation so that it matches my Wootheme. bbPress documentation could be better, but it’s not too difficult if you can do rudimentary CSS3 coding (or pick it up on the fly, as I have).  Now, getting Buddypress to integrate and play nice with my theme and Woocommerce site, on the other hand, has consumed a lot more time than bbPress integration has.

Best of luck, and don’t skimp on a good WordPress consultant.

Michael

[spwestwood]

I’m also getting this problem upgrading from 1.03 to 2.2.
As far as I could see the only problem was the post author field in the wp_posts database. It was all set as ‘1’ (the first user, ie me), instead of copying across from the orignal table (bb_topics/bb_posts). The users all seemed to be ok in wp_users. I therefore ran the following MySQL:
update wp_posts
inner join bb_topics
on wp_posts.post_title=bb_topics.topic_title
set wp_posts.post_author = bb_topics.topic_poster

and then:
update wp_posts
inner join bb_posts
on bb_posts.post_time = wp_posts.post_date
set wp_posts.post_author = bb_posts.poster_id
where wp_posts.post_author = ‘1’

(I found that this worked for me, but please be careful and backup before running it)

[htz77]

Wow! Bingo! THANK YOU JJJ. Super simple fix too. Here’s what I did, if this helps anyone else:

add_filter('bbp_get_user_role_map','my_bbPress_role_map');
function my_bbPress_role_map($role_map){
$role_map['student'] = bbp_get_participant_role();
return $role_map;
}

This is added to my functions.php.

[rossagrant]

Cheers JJ!

yeah right now my site is heavily BuddyPress focused on a single site install and will more than likely never use multisite so I think the dynamic user role of ‘Member’ assigned to EVERYONE except admins will work just fine.

It’s nice to be able to control the forum privileges separately, I’d be wondering for a while how we could do that.

This way I can use all of my s2 member roles and then upgrade certain members to forum mods without affecting any of their paid for privileges.

Should help give my forums a boost too!

Thanks for your patience with all of my questions, it’s much appreciated! :O

[Pippin Williamson]

I don’t believe that is a language file included with bbPress, so, no, you will have to update it each time. Though it would be best if you submitted it to http://trac.bbpress.org so that it can get added to the core plugin.

[John James Jacoby]

@tzeldin88 – Again, difficult to be confident, but you could filter bbPress’s role mapping, to add custom comparisons for your newly created roles. Then bbPress will just naturally make:

X site role = Y forum role

with each new user that visits the site.

The filter you’d want to use, is bbp_get_user_role_map. It looks like this:

/**
 * Return a map of WordPress roles to bbPress roles. Used to automatically grant
 * appropriate bbPress roles to WordPress users that wouldn't already have a
 * role in the forums. Also guarantees WordPress admins get the Keymaster role.
 *
 * @since bbPress (r4334)
 *
 * @return array Filtered array of WordPress roles to bbPress roles
 */
function bbp_get_user_role_map() {

	// Get the default role once here
	$default_role = bbp_get_default_role();

	// Return filtered results, forcing admins to keymasters.
	return (array) apply_filters( 'bbp_get_user_role_map', array (
		'administrator' => bbp_get_keymaster_role(),
		'editor'        => $default_role,
		'author'        => $default_role,
		'contributor'   => $default_role,
		'subscriber'    => $default_role
	) );
}

[John James Jacoby]

@greenmeanie – Shouting at volunteers isn’t a great way to get a positive response. Also, this is the incorrect topic to post personal support requests in. You’ll have better luck, and be able to subscribe to responses, if you create your own topic with details about your issue.

[John James Jacoby]

@rossagrant – BuddyPress is a whole different animal. It assumes every user on your site always has a link to their root profile. If you have BuddyPress bolted on top, you’re probably okay.

What BuddyPress does *not* do yet, and likely won’t for some time, is separate multiple bbPress forums across multiple sites on a multisite network, and give them their own spot in a user profile.

I’ll end up building something similar to this for WordPress.org/BuddyPress.org/bbPress.org eventually, but until then, it’s only pseudo-code in my imagination.

[greenmeanie]

The upgrade took out my thumbnails ON BLOGS,my Forums, and my TOP MENU?

ALSO MY POSTVIEW COUNT WTH.

 

 

[htz77]

Hi JJJ, thanks for the rapid reply! Just to clarify:

I’m already using this custom role (Student) in other ways throughout the site, so I can’t scrap it. Participating in the Forum was one of the things a Student could do, and participation in the Forum was restricted to ONLY Students.

I don’t actually have many Students yet, so I can actually just delete and re-add them, to fix any wrong/old capabilities, and avoid any “resetting”.

The issue is really more about simplifying the process for my client (the site admin) — so he doesn’t need to set a Student’s role in two different fields, in the admin: the normal wp Role field, and now this new Forum Role drop-down (which is at the bottom of the profile screen).

So I think I need the DEFAULT bbPress Role to be Spectator (for public / non-logged-in users, and another custom role, called Schools), so they can’t participate.

And I’d like my Student role to have the same (EFFECTIVE) Capabilities as a Participant, so the site-admin doesn’t need to set that separately. But it sounds like you’re saying that’s just not really possible, even though the Members plugin SEEMS able to assign the capabilities correctly.

Thanks again for your time and attention.
-Todd

[John James Jacoby]

A survey done earlier this year came up with $55 as the average hourly rate for WordPress consultants, worldwide. Considering that’s the median, and the time it will take to start, monitor, and audit a data migration, my guess as to why you’re not having much luck is because $20 is too low of a bid for taking on the responsibility.

bbPress does make this process pretty simple, considering the labor it does under the hood. If you’re already experiencing issues, it’s likely going to take more than .5 hours to complete. Anything beyond 30 minutes, and it’s time better spent on a different job.

I say all of this, only to be helpful and informative, to help y’all make better educated bids if you’re wanting to pay someone for their time. If you want to keep trying this yourself, become familiar with how to backup and restore your data. Once you have the right tools and become relatively proficient, it’s actually pretty easy.

Good luck getting everything moved over. Let us know if you have questions, should you dive in again.

[rossagrant]

Would that only really affect sites that were running BBPress standalone with WP?

It wouldn’t affect Buddypress profiles would it?

I’ve checked on my staging site, and the forums tabs with ‘created topics’ ‘replies’ etc still work great for users just assigned a ‘Member’ role with no specific BBPress role.

[John James Jacoby]

@rossagrant – You are correct. The downside to only being a “Member” and not having a role on the site, is bbPress suppresses profile pages for those users. This is mostly because of WordPress Multisite, to prevent guessing user profile slugs and pulling up profiles of users that don’t actually exist on the site, and also to not link off to spam/deleted user accounts.

Lots of moving parts.

Naturally, if you *need* to override any of these weird nuances, there are filters everywhere for developers to make modifications to these behaviors. Ideally, bbPress comes with the solutions that are best for everyone, and the other answers come when specific questions like this are asked.

If this turns out to not be the best configuration, we can always change it, but I suspect it’s the best compromise that’s currently possible.

[John James Jacoby]

@tzeldin88 – There’s a tool to batch the user forum role process, in Tools > Forums

It’s likely the custom roles you’re making won’t work, at least I haven’t tried it yet myself. While it’s not impossible to make work, I don’t think it’s a great setup for the future of your site.

WordPress purposely excludes a UI for roles and capabilities because they’re easy to muck up, and difficult to reset back to stock.

[John James Jacoby]

In Tools > Forums are some uninstall tools, but if you don’t have forum content, there’s nothing to uninstall. Reinstalling bbPress is just uploading the files and activating the plugin.

Unclear how bbPress works with WPML, haven’t tried the two together.

[htz77]

To clarify my question above — According to this (https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/spectator-and-visitor-someone-can-explain-this-roles/) the Capabilities of a Participant are:
– assign_topic_tags
– edit_replies
– edit_topics
– participate
– publish_replies
– publish_topics
– read_private_forums
– spectate

So I assigned those same Capabilities to a different role — a custom role called Student — but the Student still can’t actually participate in the forum.

(I used Justin Tadlock’s Members plugin to create the custom role, and assign the capabilities.)

Thanks! -Todd

[jakewho]

I will try and find out from my web host, but in the mean time is there a way to completely uninstall bbPress and then reinstall it. I don’t currently have have any discussion forum content, so there is nothing for me to lose.

One other potential symptom…I have WPML installed and all of my user facing content is set to be displayed in Portuguese. When I have created new forums, they don’t show up in the dashboard as being associated with either English or Portuguese. They should show up as being associated with Portuguese, since that is the language I had set when I created the forum.

…I do have lots of pages and posts, so I wouldn’t want to lose any of this content.

Thanks much

[rossagrant]

Nice explanation JJ, I now get it mate! 🙂

So all NEW signups that register will be assigned the ‘Member’ label dynamically if I don’t tick the box in the backend to make all new sign-ups a participant for example.

I’m cool with that if it’s the case.

I don’t anyone to have a specific role other than ‘Member’ unless I upgrade someone to a mod for example.

Leaving the box unchecked would thus stop any members thinking “why am I just a member when that guy is a participant’.

As long as all future members who end up with a S2 Member role will still be able to post as a ‘Member’, that works just great for me.

Is that right?

[htz77]

I have a similar problem (though not related to s2member). I have a custom Site Role (called “Student”), which I had enabled to participate in the Forums, by assigning the necessary Capabilities (using the Members plugin from Justin Tadlock). This worked fine in bbPress v2.1.2.

But I just updated to bbPress v2.2.1, and now bbPress has a new concept of Forum Roles, separate from (but somehow related to) Site Roles. So now all my Student users are unable to participate anymore!

I do NOT want to have to manually set the new Forum Role for each Student. Instead, I tried using the Members plugin to (again) add the necessary Capabilities to my Student role, to match those of bbPress’s new Participant role. I did this by matching the checkboxes displayed by the Members plugin. But this did not work. In fact the Members plugin shows that a Participant has 28 Capabilities, though only 8 are actually “checked”. So are some of a Participant’s capabilities somehow HIDDEN? Can I somehow tell bbPress to use my Student role?

Hoping for help on this.