[gingerngo]

Hi all, I’ve upgraded to bbPress 2.0, which is great. The one thing I’ve noticed though is that the post id’s for my old topics and replies have changed.

For example, in my old version of bbPress, a topic with topic ID #334 now has a post ID of #587. Understandable, with the introduction of custom post types.

But now I can’t actually refer to the old topic or reply id’s anymore without having to do an extra search in the database.

Just wondering if there was a way to re-map all the old topics/replies to automatically forward to the new ones? Or if there is a way to relate the old versions of the posts to the new ones and create a meta key like “old_bbpress_post_id”?

I’m thinking specifically in the case of Google search results, the old forum posts will still show up and won’t be forwarded to the new forum.

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[Rahul Bansal]

@John

First I want to thank you for bbPress as I use it a lot. 🙂

I had same question like OC2PS from long time and after reading your answers, I still feel an urge to take this discussion ahead. IMHO what OC2PS suggested is intuitive.

With references to your answers:

> Taxonomies don’t have metadata, to allow for topic & replies counts or latest content

(Not one of best suggestion) Taxonomy-meta can be stored in an extra mysql-table. I wish like many other this to be part of WordPress core though (ref)

Once we accept overhead of extra DB table, other things seems easy.

> Comments don’t allow for attachments without some major work

Comments already have commentmeta. May be we can use it to store array of attachment_id.

Off-topic – By the way I did not find attachments support in bbPress out of the box? I am using a bbPress plugin for that. Am I missing something here?

> The API for custom post types is farther along…

Agree. 🙂

Post-revision is an example which I guess used internally to track edits to replies.

==

While the outcome bbPress is good in reality, it just feels off-beat to have 3 custom-posts.

IMHO, going with 1 custom-post+commets+custom-taxonomy way might have made themeing part easier…

[Rahul Bansal]

Thanks. I was looking for a thread like that.

May be I choose wrong keywords to search.

I will continue there…

[Jared Atchison]

This gives a little explanation: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/forums-topics-replies-custom-post-type-architecture/#post-112416

[folgerj]

Well then I think Jacob should consider this as a request for feature. One other item that I noticed this fall is the lack of love from Google also went away. Last year Autumn 2011 I would see my forum posts and replies pop up in google search (so needless to say I was lovin BBPress) but this year 2012 I haven’t seen any of my forum posts, or replies show up so that seems to be another area to be looked at. I think my forum is in my sitemap but I can’t be sure what changed that none of my forum pages are being crawled by search engines…

I plan to go through and apologize to those who made posts and try to answer their belated questions… Then my thought is to take the forum down… The driving force for the forum was communication with the readers but I really want a panel that feeds all my new posts and replies to one window so I don’t have to take the time to go find these items and the biggest benefits was it told me when it had news for me (yes I subscribe to all my posts) so that didn’t work) and I was getting SEO love from Google and that was fantastic…

All of this went away so the usefulness of the forum has gradually gone away…
Thoughts? Maybe I expect too much but it was all there before…
Jeff

[ifelseif]

I’m currently integrating BBPress into a existing WP site, and am finding myself scratching my head far to often. I think an example will help get my confusion across.

Take for instance within the new theme-compat files; loop-single-reply.php

This file loops out the topic and all replies.

The file pagination-replies.php is also called before and after loop-single.reply.php.

However if I wanted to remove the before action of pagination-replies.php, where is the template file that brings these components together so I can prevent the pagination from being displayed before the loop?

Within loop-single-reply.php there is no call to pagination-replies, so what file is constructing the output?

Thank you

[Keith Kelly]

Is there any shortcode that would allow me to display a forum from one of my other sites on a multisite installation?

I was hoping to display the latest topics of a forum from site “X” on site “Y” because they share interests. I am hoping to do that with shortcode and not a theme change because I am using the same theme across all of my sites.

[Fulgence Ridal]

“how would I implement the bbpress.php file if I don’t want it to get erased in updates”

in your theme template ! read this post !

make a try, corrections (…) anything you want … don’t be afraid …
and don’t forget word like : “thanks” or “please” when you ask something 😉

[lwyndham]

I am a newbie to bbpress so please be gentle.

Basically I am looking to have the following functionality on my forums….

1) Any logged in user can post a topic, and any logged in user can post a reply. (standard stuff so far).

2) Reply’s to the topics can ONLY be seen by the person who posted the topic and admins only.

3) I would like to show that there has been an “x” number of replies to the topic but not the actual replies.

Does anyone know if this is possible please?

[markkelly1982]

I’m also trying to figure this out.. Any luck on getting it sorted?

[sourpatch]

how would I implement the bbpress.php file if I don’t want it to get erased in updates? do I copy the bbpress.php and edit and put it in the child theme folder?

also where is settings > bbpress
I have settings > forum
do I modify the slugs?

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[Fulgence Ridal]

forum labels are in config panel of admin area.
(french : réglages -> bbpress).
use bbpress.php if you want another template than page.php

[sourpatch]

Do I make the bbpress.php and put it in the wordpress theme folder or the bbpress theme folder? Can there be two bbpress.php files will one override the other?

sorry I should use the edit, didn’t realize, I’m not sure if this was wrong way to use the forum

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[sourpatch]

So can anyone explain to me how I can edit the bbpress.php file and change the forum labels, like the word forum and topic to another word. Do I make a bbpress.php file and put it in my child theme? I duplicated the bbpress.php file and edited it now where should I place it? or is this the wrong approach?

[sourpatch]

I am trying to edit the bbpress.php file,I want to edit the word Forum and Topic and change it to words of my choice, I have duplicated and made changes and put it in my child theme? but nothing displays. Is it wrong to approach it like this? should I not be duplicating the file? The reason I want to put it in my child theme is so when I update the changes do not get deleted. Am I not suppose to edit the bbpress.php file?

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[hatoncat]

Unfortunately, I have spent weeks trying to figure out this issue myself.

The problem is bbPress, WordPress, and WordPress multisite don’t communicate well with registration. bbPress 2 appears to call wp-signup inline in the page.

This would be typically be a good thing, unfortunately, WordPress multisite’s registration is the problem. It was based around WordPress.com not the typical site/network owner’s needs.

My fix, which admittedly, I’m still implementing myself, was to create a custom wp-signup.php, do a 301 redirect to the WordPress wp-signup, and drop the wp-signup in a custom theme folder, which itself is designed to just serve the signup form.

It’s still far from perfect. When someone is finished signing up, I basically have to present them with a menu that says “you’re signed up, here’s a list of our sites, please click back to the one you originally came from.” There is no breadcrumb support in Multisite to return a user, after registration, to the multisite site that they originated from, it always by default drops them to the default site.

In the end, a custom theme at least lets me control the process, and a custom wp-signup lets me present users with a menu of my sites to chose from, in the hopes they will be able to spring back to the site they came from, and then be registered.

Can’t fault bbPress for this one, the only way I could see bbPress fix this, would be to completely replicate and track the wp-signup flow in-plugin. I think that would be a great idea, but would take tons of effort. The benefit, of course, would be fine-grained control, and remove the need to do the dozens of hours of effort I’ve had to do (and can’t easily post/replicate for others… not to mention constantly having to patch multiple files during each WordPress update).

[Rahul Bansal]

Hi All,

From long time, I am wondering why bbPress uses 3 custom-posts?

As a developer, I would have used only 1 custom-posts i.e. for “topics”.

For “replies” I would have used “comments” (that comes bundled with any “post_type”.
For “forums” I would have used “Custom Taxonomy” (Hierarchical).

I feel 1 custom-post with comments and Custom Taxonomy would have been better.

Is there anything bbPress does which might not have been possible above way?

Thanks.

[@mercime]

Answered at BP forums https://buddypress.org/community/groups/installing-buddypress/forum/topic/buddypress-bbpress-something-is-working-wrong/

[Justin Frydman]

Add this to functions.php: it will filter the bbpress function that shows the avatar to switch it to using full.


function fix_forum_avatar($author_avatar = false, $reply_id = false, $size = false) {
echo str_replace('-bpthumb', '-bpfull', $author_avatar );
}
add_filter('bbp_get_reply_author_avatar', 'fix_forum_avatar');


[gabekassel]

Hi Guys,

Been using 2.0.2 BBPress for quite some time alongside a Wishlist Member installation.

However, I find that when I upgrade to any new version (including 2.1.2) everything breaks. I also can tell ya that with 2.0.2 the only way things worked correctly was by checking the below feature:

> Prefix your forum area with the Forum Base slug (Recommended)

Thoughts on why this version works but nothing newer?

Thanks

[rolandrnl]

Im using fresh bbpress installed and i didnt modified the files. I use shortcode for registration.

http://dev.codenamegta.hu/regisztracio please help to solve this problem

[Anonymous User 154007]

FYI, I’ve just created a Python script to convert all bbPress content to plain WordPress object.

The use case for this script is detailed in this article.

[Stephen Edgar]

I’m not seeing this though I am running /trunk v2.2beta which has had a bit of an overhaul regarding the way ‘edit’ templates work. See https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1968

[Stephen Edgar]

I had been down this path before and now have a patch and the key to it indeed was as you mentioned the before_link and after_link.

The patch is here with example code that should help you out rather that that ^^^ up there 😉

[Stephen Edgar]

I’m not sure why it is doing that, have you modified or using custom bbPress templates with your theme?

> How can I disable the redirection after the registration? It’s very
> annoying if the user the a login registration form with different
> design.
What about using the bbPress shortcodes for Login/Register? https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes