[John James Jacoby]

Ignore them for now; bbPress 2.2 will alleviate much of these questions.

[John James Jacoby]

Unclear why the theme would have BBP_Theme_Compat code in it? It certainly doesn’t come with the Toolbox theme.

I just tested bbPress 2.1.3 and:

* Works fine with Toolbox, out of the box.
* Works with with BuddyPress.
* Works fine without BuddyPress.

If you made modifications to Toolbox, or have some custom code in a child theme of Toolbox, that’s likely the cause, though I don’t see how 2.1.3 is the problem, unless you modified files in the bbPress plugin yourself.

[sambedingfield]

Just a heads up, I’ve been reading this and similar posts and I can’t find a solid solution.

I can confirm I wasn’t updating anything other than bbPress and I do not have BuddyPress installed nor any other plugins conflicting.

Any help will be much appreciated!

[sambedingfield]

Just got exactly the same issue whilst updating today. Fatal error: Class ‘BBP_Theme_Compat’ not found in …/wp-content/themes/***/functions.php on line 32

I had just updated to bbPress 2.1.3
– Using WordPress 3.4.2
– ‘toolbox‘ theme
– a child theme which was a clone of bbPress 2.0 standard theme

Line 32 of my functions.php reads if ( ! function_exists( 'toolbox_setup' ) )

[kausikc]

>> You’ll want to try bbPress with some other WordPress themes, and see if they play nicer together out of the box.

Already tried. It only works with twnetyten (bbpress) theme. It does not work with twnetyeleven. I’ll download a few more and give it a try.

[rsanchez1]

There’s a couple of filters that could be useful for you:

bbp_user_register_redirect_to
bbp_user_lost_password_redirect_to

These pass a URL to the filter callback that is where bbPress will redirect users after they register or use the lost password form. You simply return whatever URL you want it to redirect users to instead and that URL will be where users are taken. In my case, I send them back to the forum home using bbp_get_forums_url().

For editing their profile, the templates provided in the bbPress plugin directory can help. Look in bbp-themes/ or bbp-theme-compat/extras/ for single-user-edit.

[G Hinson White]

My goal was to have a blog where I could rave and rant and integrate a forum whereby viewers could interact and post their opinions. My wish list included:

Single log on
It needed to look as part of the blog and not an ‘add-on’
I wanted to be able to create a blog post and be able to automatically create a forum topic with links from each to each.

bbPress was exactly what I needed. I use the Suffusion and a suffusion plugin and here is what I came up with. I would appreciate any thoughts. I think it integrates perfectly.

http://www.rbcforum.com

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[John James Jacoby]

It’s been less than a day, and these forums move pretty slowly; when someone has something to add, they will.

Until then, it’s safe to say that your theme is most likely the culprit here. You’ll want to try bbPress with some other WordPress themes, and see if they play nicer together out of the box.

[marceloparra]

Hello, we are working on a website that is on development and installed BBPress.
The URL is: http://fleet.decostainc.com/forums/

Is it possible to have the forums limited to specific User Groups?

Like subscribers have access only to the Safety forum.

Hope to hear from you soon.

Thank you.
MP

[kausikc]

I guess that no one has seen this issue. I have this problem with the setting “bbPress Default (bbp-theme-compat)” when WordPress theme is anything other than twenty ten (bbpress). Just nothing shows up with other WP themes.

[John James Jacoby]

Warning newcomers about your opinion, or your incorrect observation?

Regarding development speed, see:

• Changelog – https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/log
• 2.2 Milestone – https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/milestone/2.2

bbPress has never had unread posts in core, it’s been too complex and costly of a feature to include in core bbPress in the past. Maybe you can help implement it, and speed up the development cycles?

To more acutely answer your question, absolutely yes – you can build a community that lacks unread posts. We’ve build the entire WordPress.org ecosystem around bbPress.

Did you know the plugins API that powers the plugins pages in your WordPress dashboard is powered by bbPress? Or that the 5 million users on WordPress.org are all linked by users tables originally setup inside of a bbPress installation? Or that WordPress.org doesn’t run WordPress; it runs bbPress?

A hammer isn’t very good until you hit something with it.

[markthedoc1]

Hi

I’m getting a lot of spam registrations to a new forum I’ve created, I was wondering if there’s a way to stop this?

I’ve seen a couple plugins available but they seem to be for bbPress 1.

Any help with this appreciated.

[jezza101]

Not sure what happened but the posting form on my forum has changed. Unfortunately I did a few plugin upgrades – jetpack, bbpress, genesis bbpress plugin – at the same time, and some other updates to the site so not sure what has caused it.

Wondering if anyone has had this too and could help me identify the cause, and hopefully a fix?

For example, have a look here: http://www.nxtab.co.uk/discussion/forum/off-topic/site-news/

The form buttons have changed and now appear to have taken some styling from the site’s theme (ah could there be a clash of CSS classes perhaps?) and switching between HTML and visual no longer works.

Will be experimenting with disabling and enabling plugins to see if there is a clash.

Any help much appreciated.
Thanks.

[Satish]

*how

[Stephen Edgar]

Read the docs https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/

[Stephen Edgar]

Try updating your permalinks as detailed in the FAQ https://codex.bbpress.org/faq/

Try repairing your forums https://codex.bbpress.org/repair-forums/

[John James Jacoby]

First I’ve heard of this. Neither BuddyPress nor bbPress purposely flush the permalinks when a user is created.

Any more information you’re able to drum up would be helpful.

[John James Jacoby]

It’s not even a half product. Maybe in 2-3 years but today use something else..anything but this.

Care to elaborate?

What changes in 3 years? Your previous posts show you’re interested in the theme we use here at bbPress.org. Is this still about that?

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[John James Jacoby]

The goal of bbPress is not to have a bunch of bbpress.org clones out in the wild. If what you want is exactly what we have here, we’re flattered, and we’ll share it at our leisure. Until then, you have 95% of the necessary code in front of you, you just need to use it.

If you don’t know how, learn! Don’t want to learn? Hire someone to do it for you. It’s like changing your oil, painting your house, or cooking your dinner; if you can’t do it, someone out there can, will, and wants to.

P.S. – Getting upset at someone you want something from is a strange way to convince them to give it to you.

[kausikc]

I installed bbPress 2.1.3 on WordPress 3.4.2. In the settings page, I see the following:

Theme Packages

How your forum content is displayed within your existing theme.
Current Package
– bbPress Default (bbp-theme-compat)
– Twenty-ten bbPress

If I select the 1st option, forum page comes up nicely, none of the existing forums show up. If I select the 2nd options, existing forums show up, but the layout is completely broken.

I am using custom WordPress theme. What am I doing wrong?

[Satish]

Ya. I update plugins everytime there is a update to it.
Today I was able to update bbpress! no idea why.

Thanks for the response..

And do you know who I can remove the sidebar from my forum: http://technotip.com/forums

[bbuser12345]

I have tried many times to use the migration plug in and I cannot get it to work. So I have put an ad up on oDesk if anyone is interested in helping me out.

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An aside:

I will save my long rant about how poor the documentation for this process is because frankly I am exhausted and exasperated. You guys work so hard and do such good work, but you drop the ball on the simple issue of documentation, so people’s experience with your amazing product (I’ve been using it for 5 years) is one of frustration and anger.

If you create a tool/wizard to help non-web developers use your complicated product you cannot assume they are web developers. Spell things out provide details.

For example: Don’t say “Database Server: Leave as ‘localhost’ unless your hosting provider requires you to use an IP address.”

Instead say something like “Database Server: This is the name of the database server where your OLD data base is located, normally it is “localhost” (no quotes), but sometimes it has a different name or you must provide the IP address of the server. This varies based on how the company where you host your website has things set up.”

Notice the details that a developer probably does not need, but the average user you created the wizard for will need and will get tripped up by.

I am a data scientists. I program all day and I have sent 4 or 5 hours trying to get the migration to work and still no dice.

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BBPress Message Board Migration: Step 1 upgrade database
Fixed Price Project – Est. Budget $20.00 – Posted 13 minutes ago

Job Description
I have a site that is currently using bbPress 1.1-alpha-2539 and I need to finally move to the latest plug-in wordpress version. I need help with the entire process, but this ad is for step 1, migrating the database.

What I want from you is a detailed step by step set of instructions for migrating my database to the new format. I am a programer and data scientist, but have no experience with the tech BBpress is built on, I have played around with the wizards found here:

http://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/

I am obviously missing something because they do not work for me. I will provide you with whatever you need so you can work out what the steps are, and I want you to provide for me:

1) First things first, before you start anything I want you to provide me with a back up of my existing database. If it makes sense to do this in multiple formats then lets do the top 3.

2) Start with the step by step instructions found here:

http://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/

This is not detailed enough because I cannot follow it a get it to work. So you are to add to these step-by-step instructions so that I can do the migration myself when the time comes.

You are free to create new databases as you test out the migration methods, but once you are done I want you to clean up after yourself leaving none of the new databases on my server.

Qualifications: You must know BBpress and WordPress very well, I want someone who can help me with this and other steps in the process (They will be posted to oDesk as new jobs, but I would like to work with the same person throughout the process.). I need someone who can customize or build plug-ins for BBPress if we discover there is a need for a functionality that is not available. You must also be good with databases and able to tell me how to purge certain records based on given criteria. I am also interested in integrating a Wiki with the message board, so your thoughts on that would be helpful too.

In your application please tell me about your experience with BBpress.

Thanks,

[joera]

Hi,

See: http://forum.sochi-expats.com

WP 3.4.2 || Multisite || Buddypress 1.6.1 || bbPress 2.1.3

What happens is that after every new user activation the permalinks of bbPess forums & topics no longer work. The paths are correct, but they generate 404’s. This concerns only the bbPress permalinks. Simple WP pages and even Buddypress profile pages work fine.

After manual update of permalink structure the bbPress permalinks will work again.

When i compare the rewrite rules in de wp_2_options before and after a new user activation, I see that the rewrite rules in broken state do miss quite some lines related to bbPress permalinks.

My current working theory is that with a new user activation the rewrite rules are flushed/rebuild, but that the process is incomplete … it misses information from bbPress.

When i update permalink structure manually, rewrite rules are flushed/rebuild as they should, including the rules for bbPress.

Is this problem familiar for anyone of you? Got an idea? Help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Joera

[nyks-barton]

I installed a fresh WP-Site (WP, Buddypress and bbpress).
I created 3 forums by bbPress; these should be visible and avaiable to different user roles:

• one forum for all website-guests (anonymous)
• one forum for all registered users (member)
• one forum only for the forum-moderators

I think, this is a common task for many/most forums. How can I do this?

Thanks,
Nyks

[dk9]

Hi, I’m trying to figure out what am I doing wrong. It is a fresh install of latest BBpress and wordpress. Installation went just fine. It is possible to enter a specific forum, but when i’m trying to access the forum root it shows me this 1 line instead of the list of the forums:
> סנטור › Forums Forum Topics Posts Freshness b mn 0 0 No Topics
Link the site: santur.co.il/forums
I got this feeling that its some small tick in a configuration file but i’m quite clueless on how to approach it. Any help would be most welcome. Thanks, Daniel

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