[betoschool]

Hi.

I just installed the bbpress plugin for my new personal site related to reltionships.

Now, new posts are showing at the top and old ones are at the bottom. Most sites do the other way around. How do I make the oldest to show at the top an the nwest at the bottom?

[pezillionaire]

Has this issue been fixed yet? I’m still getting this problem when users log in.

[Anointed]

maybe try resetting your settings -> permalinks? (just a guess)

[Anointed]

@OC2PS

1. Yes

2. Yes

3. Yes, uses the WordPress/bbPress permalink setup, so whatever you use for that, is what is used for the conversion.

4. nope 301’s are your job

5. Username/password and I think a couple other fields are imported, don’t remember exactly. If you are looking for full blown imports, which is different for each installation as you have different plugins installed than I do… then that would be a custom import job which AWJunkies does provide services for. Check the http://bbconverter.com site and send in a custom quote request.

@ED

No idea. Frankly the interest in converting things has been much less than we anticipated. I have no idea what AWJunkies plans are at this point. I do know he does provide custom import services if you need it.

[Anointed]

@Rastarr

Sorry for delays in answering, been without power/internet for a week now. Sitting in coffee shop to try and help answer questions here.

To answer your question:

bbPress does come with support for Akismet built into the newer vs. This will give the same protection that comments presently have. Akismet alone, is imo pretty much useless though.

I would also consider installing other plugins such as honeypots (traps that only bots fill out), moderation plugins, and there are also a ton of tricks you can add to your htaccess file that will also help a bit. I don’t have a list of everything I use as it’s on a home computer but will post a list whenever I can.

The biggest problem we are fighting right now is with actual people spamming the forums and not bots. That is pretty much impossible to stop and requires a lot of tedious work by the forum moderators to keep things clean.

As to IntenseDebate:

Well to each his own on that one. I personally don’t like anyone else having access to my comments, even if it is just to help stop the spam. Same reason I personally don’t run Akismet.

Finally keep in mind that custom post types (topics/replies) are simply just data in the db. It is entirelly possible to build plugins like IntenseDebate to work with bbPress should you so choose to. It all comes down to a matter of demand as to whether the actual companies will write a custom plugin for bbPress, or whether or not you actaully pay to have it built yourself.

[Erlend]

Just a quick mention: Wouldn’t it be cool to reblog posts from around the web via any bbPress forum? Much like BP Links (and Facebook of course), just better for proper discussion since it’s on a forum.

If WordPress.com’s reblogging feature could be adapted for bbPress, I think it’d be a killer feature.

[con]

Heyho,

I am running WP 3.3.1 in MU mode and wanted to setup bbpress in one of my sites. Cant get it to work though. Here is what happens:

I setup my WP site and activated a premium theme “salutation” – it is suppose to be bbpress friendly.

I downloaded and activated the “bbpress” plugin.

I create a new forum.

I click on view forum and it gives me a blank page with “page not found” error.

Any help much appreciated.

Constantin

[blogher8]

I am using bbpress 0.9x.

I changed a user’s username (and user nicename — I hope that was right) in the SQL database because they used an email address by mistake (and regretted it).

However, while the new username has populated their posts, the little notation “thread started by” has not changed and still lists the original username.

Can you please help me fix this? (In case it is obvious, I am not that experienced with databases or php for that matter.)

Thanks!

[Martin]

Try installing the ‘bbPress moderation’ plugin and see if that helps.

[Martin]

@Anointed

On the comments conversation, by not standardizing to use WP comments and weaving off to use a custom post type, how do you think that leaves bbPress to counter to huge problem of Spam though?

Seems this alienates bbPress to utilize another great Automattic tool, IntenseDebate which I find an absolute godsend.

[John Conners]

So I can get both of these cache plugins to work by hooking into a few actions in bbPress and invalidating the post (which may be a topic or forum) and any ancestors (which would be a topic / forum in the case of a reply) by doing the ‘edit_post’ action on each post. There are a couple of edge cases still to deal with (like subscribing to a topic that needs your user page invalidating) that I’ll have a look at this evening.

Only real thing I don’t have an answer to is the freshness count. If you view a forum and the last topic was posted 1 minute ago then you come back an hour later and refresh the page you’ll see the cached page stating that the last topic was posted 1 minute ago rather than an hour ago. I could go with the fixed date approach but it’s not as neat.

[mga2]

im using a multisite installation of wordpress… by super admin, the network administrator was meant

today made a fresh install of wordpress 3.2.1 and bbpress 2.0.2, all default settings…

i created only a forum with one topic… the userprofile(and edit) does not work…

on non multisite wordpress everything worked as expected…..

what information should i provide to help investigation?

[ben_allison]

So I’m running bbPress 2.0 alongside Buddypress 1.5. I’m using a child theme, based on Buddypress’s default theme… but I want to tweak some bbPress pages.

Let’s say, for example, the main forum view.

Right now, it’s based off page.php in my child theme, and is taking the title of the last forum, and using that in the the_title() tag I have for the page title.

On other “pages” I this makes sense; it’s getting the title while in the loop.

For the bbPress forum page, it’s wonky.

So, I want to make a main forum-view specific template file… but I’m unsure as to the best approach when I’m running a child theme for Buddypress.

FWIW, all forum’s are being handled by bbPress and it’s default template files.

Thanks!

[Ed]

Hi guys, any update please re:punbb.

If it won’t happen – or will be months out, that’s OK. But an ETA would be good to know.

Thanks.

[SK]

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-bbconverter-whither-phpbb

I’m quite surprised that you started off with platforms (vbulletin and invision) that are jointly less popular than phpbb. But I suppose one of the plugin developers had forums that used those platforms and I’m glad to be able to benefit from your hard work.

You have mentioned in the plugin description that conversion for phpbb is coming *soon*, and I was wondering if you might be able to provide some updates on that.

Finally, am I correct in assuming that bbconverter

i) imports topics and forum hierarchies into bbpress

ii) including the relations between topics and forums

iii) and slugs for topics and forums

iv) generates an .htaccess to place in the old forum directory so that old URLs are 301 redirected to new ones.

v) imports users including profiles, passwords, signatures and roles

[SK]

Any updates?

[bingles]

I have installed the bbpress plugin into my WordPress site (my site uses a child theme of twenty-ten). I created a couple of forums leaving the defaults for showing “forums” as my base forums slug. Navigating to http://mysite/forums was showing my list of forums as I expected. I made some changes but then reverted them and now the base page is empty. I can still get to my individual forums, but I can’t seem to get the listing to show back up on my base forums page.

Things that I changed

* temporarily disabled base slug but then re-enabled it

* temporarily switched to the twenty-eleven theme but then switched back to my twenty-ten theme

[patking76]

I figured mine out. There was a confliction with one of my plugins. Are you using any bbpress plugins? Issue w mine was one of there widget Plugins. If not you will need to deactivate your plugins one at a time until you figure out which one is causing issue.

[physlab]

I have akismet installed and the anonymous posting was disabled in bbPress. The advertising spam still got through. Any other suggestions.

Physlab

[patking76]

figured that one out, thanks

[Alexandru Vornicescu]

you need to remove the sidebar (get_sidebar() function) from every file of bbPress template.

[Alexandru Vornicescu]

bbPress can use akismet if it is installed already…

you should disable anonymous posting if it’s enabled.

[Alexandru Vornicescu]

there is a styling file of the theme or of the bbpress and there you must change the color of the text, learn css.

[Alexandru Vornicescu]

btw bbpress is very minimal in comparison to other forum platforms, you can easily use only CSS file to modify something without need to integrate all php files in the theme, or some of them.

[LabSecrets]

Sounds like what you want to do is use shortcodes, after installing the default bbPress plugin (or installing BuddyPress version).

You’ll still want (need) a little styling of the default twentyten template style to help it match your current theme, but otherwise the bbPress forums can be added to a page with just the shortcodes features you wish to display:

See shortcodes here: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes

We’ve done a little tutorial video that shows how this might work with your theme (forward to the “hybrid” option in the video, about mid-way)

http://labsecrets.com/2012/01/23/buddypress-and-bbpress-forums-made-easy/

Cheers!

Spence

http://labsecrets.com