[John James Jacoby]

bbPress doesn’t put posts in pending status, for any reason.

Does this problem happen for all forums? Group forums? Can you narrow the issue down to something smaller and reproducible?

[pornpoj]

Thank you for reply,

After searching for 1 day. I think i should buy the complete template with include the bbpress, buddypress, etc.

[mememe123]

I already have Buddypress installed on my wordpress theme. After I install bbpress, I can’t access my dashboard anymore. When I click on dashboard I get this message:

Server error

The website encountered an error while retrieving http://www.

---

. It may be down for maintenance or configured incorrectly.

How do I fix this?!

[John James Jacoby]

You’re welcome. I tried to clear it up a bit, and you’re right that it’s still a weird experience. If you have improvements, I’d love to see them.

[tunelab]

Ahhh, thanks. I’ve been at this for a while, first using Tools > Import, then I installed the bbconverter standalone plugin, and that plugin made it seem like it was the other way around, despite the name “reset.”

This latest version makes it a bit clearer, but I was already “conditioned” by the old version. My fault. Thanks for the help.

[enderandrew]

I’ve disabled just about every plugin I can on the site except what I really need. I can load any other page on the site with no problems, but loading forum pages always spikes the server memory. And I’ve discovered that the reason I can’t allocate PHP memory even though I’m under the PHP limit is the server is running out of memory completely.

Each pageload of a bbPress page on my server is consuming a good 300-400MB by itself. With 2GB of memory, my server crashes when a few people hit it at once.

At this point I’m not sure I have much choice but to rip out bbPress and replace it with another forum solution.

[George]

BBpress claims buddypress integration with the BBpress 2 plugin. @mentions are supposed to give members notifications out of the box. It worked in the past but I have NO idea why it’s not working now.

[enderandrew]

Isn’t this a Buddypress question, not a bbPress question?

[csam00034]

Yes Same here, how do I create “Start New” as there is on bbpress Forums.

Thanks

[Zephyr]

Good Day,

Please forgive me for being a complete Village Idiot in regards to WP + bbPress…

I am working on a 2nd site, it’s in development right now. I have BuddyPress installed and inactive, bbPress 2.1 RC 2 installed and active (working well so far, I might add).

I am also using the Custom-Community-Pro theme by ThemeKraft because the young lady that will manage this site is even more clueless than I am and needs the easy CSS updates this provides.

Per the below (copied in the text I’m referring too at bottom of post), I thought with 2.1 we no longer needed to make child themes, etc., for bbPress to match our WP theme. Am I missing something (most likely)? Do I need to still create a child theme or follow the other directions below on making bbP match my site seamlessly?

Again, my apologies if this has been addressed elsewhere…

Thanks and Regards ~ Alisa

Codex Home → Theme Compatibility

As of 2.1, bbPress has built-in theme support. All required elements such as front-end editing are included. This means that all functionality will work, even when a theme has no specific bbPress coding.

All bbPress compat can be overridden using a theme or another plugin. Check bbp-theme-compat template wrappers for what a normal theme should include.

To customize bbPress::

Create a new directory within your theme root called ‘bbpress’ for example: wp-content/themes/YOURTHEME/bbpress

Copy any files from bbPress/bbp-theme-compat/ to the new directory within your theme

Edit the new files for complete control over bbPress display in the theme

You can completely disable the included front-end elements by adding the following to your theme’s functions.php:

add_theme_support( ‘bbpress’ );

[John James Jacoby]

“Restart” is what’s causing the problem, since it literally restarts the import from 0. Don’t tick that box, and it should continue where it left off.

[aretzer2]

I recently installed bbPress and BuddyPress and thought that it would look like this forum… help! My forum can be found here: http://www.mykidlist.com/forums/

Right now it takes up too much room vertically and the columns are too skinny. Can someone please help me?

[aretzer2]

I see this message when I go to Appearance->Child Theme:

Your active theme does not include bbPress template files. Your forums are using the default styling included with bbPress.

How do I add a template for bbPress? I am using Suffusion for the rest of my site and I have the Suffusion BP Pack.

[Jaja..]

bbPress.org still runs on version 1.0 It’s a Stand Alone version but i don’t know where to download it.

Here are the plugins for this version

https://bbpress.org/plugins/

Still i think it’s better to use bbPress 2.+ version because it works much better with WP.

Even if you’d install the bbPress 1 version you still can’t have the bbPress forum layout because it was custom made for them and never a default theme.

[garteth69]

I have a Buddypress site which I wish to take advantage of the sitewide forums facility.

I have done what I imagine to be all of the necessary setup required but still users cannot create new forums, replies or topics.

If anyone wishes to see my setup who may have some suggestions for me the website is http://www.socialmummys.com. The test account is Username: test Password: test. The tab to click on is sitewide forums.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Garteth

[tunelab]

The bbconverter is drastically improved and much faster in v2.1 RC2, but when importing from my bbpress1 install (> 360,000 posts) it always fails at some point by just stopping, and when I try to refresh the page it sends me back to the login screen.

My question is how to “resume” the import/convert process after leaving the dashboard and coming back. By checking the “restart” option it sounds like it will resume, but both with it checked and unchecked, when I start it over, it tries to re-import everything again and appends each forum with a /forum-name-1/ slug.

Is there a way to tell it to just import “replies” at this point? I’ve successfully brought over the forums and topics, but each has just the original post.

*Alternatively*, is there a way to reverse it so that the import starts with the most recent posts/replies/etc?? The 360k posts go back several years, and even though it times out on me, if it were importing the most recent first I’d at least have the last few months and my users would be much happier.

[enderandrew]

From my error log, it looks like PHP is running out of memory when trying to post occasionally.

I’m on a VPS with 2GB memory on a development box with no one really hitting it. I’ve cranked up the memory limit in php.ini to 256MB. I don’t have memory limitations in my site config or wp-settings.php and I don’t use .htaccess files. But it seems like php won’t allocate more memory even though it isn’t near its limit.

So this does not appear to be a bbpress bug.

[enderandrew]

I’m running SVN builds of bbPress 2.1-rc2 and Buddypress 1.6-beta1

Some forum posts go through just fine. Others log in the Buddypress activity stream, but disappear and never show up on the forum. I’m going to go through my Apache logs to see if I can figure out more about what is happening. I’ll gladly open a bug in Trac, but first I want to make sure this is a bug and not something in my particular site config.

What can I do to help troubleshoot and vet this issue?

[ankurvishwakarma]

I have installed Buddypress and enabled Forums feature in my wordpress website (using NEWS child theme).

I’m getting following error:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 50331648 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 122880 bytes) in /home/travels/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/bb-admin/includes/functions.bb-admin.php on line 922

— SoundManager 2 failed to load (security/load error) —

soundManager.disable(): Shutting down

soundManager: Failed to initialise.

soundManager: Verify that ./soundmanager2_debug.swf is a valid path.

soundManager: No Flash response within expected time. Likely causes: Loading soundmanager2_debug.swf may have failed (and/or Flash 8+ not present?), Flash blocked or JS-Flash security error.

soundManager: Getting impatient, still waiting for Flash…

soundManager::initMovie(): Waiting for ExternalInterface call from Flash..

soundManager::initMovie(): Got EMBED element (created via JS)

soundManager::createMovie(): Trying to load ./soundmanager2_debug.swf

— SoundManager 2 V2.97a.20110123 (AS2/Flash , normal polling —

Can any1 help by this??

Regards,

Ankur

[pornpoj]

Hi,

I need your advice,

When I look at bbpress.org, I like this plugin very much because it look clean and nice.

But once, I install plugin (automatically version 2.0.3), I found many difference things e.g.

– My forums does not have the possibility to upload avatar picture

– The input box not like bbpress.org

– The forum list has many information messages which I don’t want to see

– The login, join, register are not shown

Please advise me how can I make it look same or similar to this forum. If there is the team to make change for me with small amount of money, please suggest me to.

Thank you.

[engjake]

thought i had this figured out. I was able to see forum and topics and forum.pureoffroad.com/discuss/

thought i might set wordpress to redirect to that as the home page and that might solve my problem, but before i could do that i get error 500 and nothing works at all now. Whats the deal? I’ve always loved wordpress because it’s so easy to use. figured bbpress would be the same

[engjake]

I’ve searched all day for a solution that works for me to no avail. I have WordPress 3.4.1 installed. I then installed buddy press 1.5.6. After which i selected the sitewide forums which initiated the auto install of bbpress.

i then changed the slugs to make sure they are different.

i created a sample forum.

http://forum.pureoffroad.com/discuss/forum/atv-tires-and-wheels/

then created a sample topic:

http://forum.pureoffroad.com/discuss/topic/yamaha-atv-tires-and-wheels/

If i browsed to the website there are no forums or topics visible, even though following the direct link from the admin… those pages do exist.

i deleted the original ‘forums’ page created by the buddy press install, then created a new page called discussion boards and affiliated the forums with that page under the buddy press settings – thinking maybe a fresh page might show the forums and topics. Still nothing there:

http://forum.pureoffroad.com/discussion-boards/

i can’t get forums and topics to show up on the live site. Any ideas. I’ve searched all over the place and installed and uninstalled about 10 times today trying to get an installation that works.

[John James Jacoby]

If the theme is all you’re worried about, don’t use bbPress 1.x. It’s outdated and no longer under active development, so you’re investing in a dead-end. bbPress 2.1 can be themed to look like anything you want it to later; you’re better off starting clean with the newer engine than trying to fix up the old one because you like the paint.

[John James Jacoby]

xmasons: Fixed. I incorrectly unbumped the version back to 2.0.

Anyone having issues with 2.0.3 should try bbPress 2.1 RC2.

[zurdog]

Since BBpress is now a plugin to wordpress, how do I set it up so that bbpress is really the only thing running. In other words, I want to run bbpress as the index and have the look and feel look like bbpress v1?

I’ve looked all over the forums, and am not sure the answer is listed.