[GregKeen]

I’ve upgraded to bbPress 2.0 from the BuddyPress forums.

Everything works fine except that the topic pages are not listing the topics in the order of last activity but instead in the same order as the wp-admin Topics page.

I couldn’t find any setting that would change this ordering and I’ve seen at various bbPress 2.0 forums that the ordering should work.

Any ideas what I’m doing wrong?

[Steve]

Only 2 spams this month according to Akismet

Just did a grep of the access log round one of those times and there is NOTHING going on

[janoochen]

I wonder if bbpress stores the value of how many times a topic have been favorited in that way it could become a like button.

[John James Jacoby]

So, as weird as it sounds, this is by design. The ability to stagger the forum privacy is a feature, and the ability to walk up the forum tree for every topic and check it’s visibility is currently too labor intensive to do.

The obvious fix is not to have public forums within private forums.

[John James Jacoby]

Possible a logged in user is spamming it and being caught by Akismet?

[Steve]

And it doesn’t

[Steve]

I just realised I was on 1.0.3 not 1.1 so I’ve upgraded and will see if it fixes the problem

[Steve]

I’ve got a bbpress install which I run as support forum. I sometimes post links to zip files in there with patch fixes on them.

I was looking at my webstats and noticed :

a) A huge number of hits on my zip files

b) A huge increase in bandwith against my website from my own server

Checking my access logs I see:

192.168.0.1 - - [10/Nov/2011:06:37:13 +0000] "HEAD /wordbooker/wordbookerdebug200401.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "bbPress/1.0.3"

192.168.0.1 - - [10/Nov/2011:06:37:13 +0000] "GET /wordbooker/wordbookerdebug200401.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 818430 "-" "bbPress/1.0.3"

192.168.0.1 - - [10/Nov/2011:06:37:29 +0000] "HEAD /wordbooker/wordbookerdebug200402.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "bbPress/1.0.3"

192.168.0.1 - - [10/Nov/2011:06:37:29 +0000] "GET /wordbooker/wordbookerdebug200402.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 818550 "-" "bbPress/1.0.3"

192.168.0.1 - - [10/Nov/2011:06:37:40 +0000] "HEAD /wordbooker/wordbookerdebug200402.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "bbPress/1.0.3"

192.168.0.1 - - [10/Nov/2011:06:37:40 +0000] "GET /wordbooker/wordbookerdebug200402.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 818550 "-" "bbPress/1.0.3"

192.168.0.1 - - [10/Nov/2011:06:37:46 +0000] "HEAD /wordbooker/wordbookerdebug200403.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "bbPress/1.0.3"

192.168.0.1 - - [10/Nov/2011:06:37:46 +0000] "GET /wordbooker/wordbookerdebug200403.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 832241 "-" "bbPress/1.0.3"

192.168.0.1 - - [10/Nov/2011:06:37:46 +0000] "HEAD /wordbooker/wordbookerdebug200403.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "bbPress/1.0.3"

192.168.0.1 - - [10/Nov/2011:06:37:46 +0000] "GET /wordbooker/wordbookerdebug200403.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 832241 "-" "bbPress/1.0.3"

192.168.0.1 - - [10/Nov/2011:06:38:29 +0000] "HEAD /wordbooker/wordbookerdebug200401.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "bbPress/1.0.3"

192.168.0.1 - - [10/Nov/2011:06:38:29 +0000] "GET /wordbooker/wordbookerdebug200401.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 818430 "-" "bbPress/1.0.3"

192.168.0.1 - - [10/Nov/2011:06:38:45 +0000] "HEAD /wordbooker/wordbookerdebug200402.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "bbPress/1.0.3"

192.168.0.1 - - [10/Nov/2011:06:38:45 +0000] "GET /wordbooker/wordbookerdebug200402.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 818550 "-" "bbPress/1.0.3"

192.168.0.1 - - [10/Nov/2011:06:38:50 +0000] "HEAD /wordbooker/wordbookerdebug200402.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "bbPress/1.0.3"

192.168.0.1 - - [10/Nov/2011:06:38:50 +0000] "GET /wordbooker/wordbookerdebug200402.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 818550 "-" "bbPress/1.0.3"

192.168.0.1 - - [10/Nov/2011:06:38:55 +0000] "HEAD /wordbooker/wordbookerdebug200403.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "bbPress/1.0.3"

192.168.0.1 - - [10/Nov/2011:06:38:55 +0000] "GET /wordbooker/wordbookerdebug200403.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 832241 "-" "bbPress/1.0.3"

192.168.0.1 - - [10/Nov/2011:06:38:55 +0000] "HEAD /wordbooker/wordbookerdebug200403.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "bbPress/1.0.3"

192.168.0.1 - - [10/Nov/2011:06:38:55 +0000] "GET /wordbooker/wordbookerdebug200403.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 832241 "-" "bbPress/1.0.3"

So why is bbPress doing this? I did wonder if it was one of the plugins but surely they’d show as external IP addresses.

[master5o1]

All plugins to bbPress 2.0 are in fact plugins to WordPress. So look for the plugins here: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/

Quick look found this as a signature plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbp-signature/

[jellyjesus]

This is what my current forum pages looks like.

I want to make the author column width much smaller.

How would I do this?

I’ve gone into bbpress.css and made every td, th, bbp-author-reply possible and put it width:20%, but to no avail.

I’ve tried tinkering with the style.css, but not entirely sure what to change there.

Would appreciate some help please.

[tony webb]

I am trying to integrate my forum into wordpress so that the forum shows on a page in my blog, there are 3 problems;

1. your set up documentation says that I need to cut and paste information from the following fields into your integration page; secure_auth and wordpress mu primary log ID. I can’t find them in document used in your hyperlink.

2. I have used a wordpress plug in to import my bbpress forum but there doesn’t seem to be a way to set up the widgets as they don’t show on a newly created page. They clash with wordpress set up as their widgets show on every page. They are not needed for the forum but the forums are and I can’t show them.

Also it seems that the only place to show my topics are in the wordpress blog margin as there is no facility to drag and drop the widget into the page content .

3. I have designed a forum in bbpress but the forums show tight to the right hand margin with the right hand end of the topic details cut off. There seems to be a hot tags widget preventing the topics from appearing in the centre of the page. How can I change the settings?

[pieface]

I uploaded bbPress 1.1 to my website.

Visited the bbPress directory which I called “forum”.

It redirected me to /forum/bb-admin/install.php.

Which said: “There doesn’t seem to be a bb-config.php file. This usually means that you want to install bbPress.”

When I click on “Go to step 1”, nothing happens – it just refreshes the page, and does not display the first step. There no error messages.

I am using PHP version 5.1.6

I don’t have word press installed.

Any Ideas?

[ianstalbert]

I’ve been using bbPress as a WordPress Plug-in for a few weeks now and I’ve got it looking pretty spiffy for my site. My problem is, there are some bbPress plug-ins (for signatures and post counting) that I’d like to implement into the forums, but as far as I see, this is impossible. Enabling the plug-ins in wordpress’ plug-in folder does nothing. I’ve tried doing MySQL query’s and that doesn’t work. I’m lost, is there anybody with some insight on this situation? I’m starting to think I should of went with the stand-alone or another forum system, but I liked the integration of the plug-in with existing users and all. Thanks in advance

[OPI Axxium]

I used a hack to the wordpress code. It was some basic php. If you want the code, just let me know.

[OPI Axxium]

This additional would be really nice for my sites. I want to be able to show friends as well. I know you can have friends on buddy press but it doesn’t show them very well.

[amirsaam]

You have to use the bbPress plugins in WordPress plugin directory…

bbPress.org plugin directory is for bbPress 1 the standalone vr

[AdamBaird]

Anyone know of any demo content files/generators for 2.0?

[jwpegram]

I talked to them a couple days ago and got the impression an update was coming this week.

[Ronald Rogers]

Ok, I’ve narrowed down the problem a little more.

The forum itself is not marked private, one of the forum’s parent forums is (in my case, a category).

The problem occurs when a forum’s topics show up in the index even when one of the forum’s parents is marked private.

Note that the topic remains inaccessible when you try to view it from the index (defeating the purpose of displaying it there at all).

So I’m guessing it is still bug, but one can easily work around it by changing all of the child forums of a private forum to private as well.

[pumpcat]

WordPress 3.1.4, bbpress plugin 2.0

I want role Participant to view forum/topic/reply with Hidden attribute but not Private,how can I do?

I try to change some definition manually in bbp_get_caps_for_role() like this:

case $participant_role :

$caps = array(

// Forum caps

‘read_hidden_forums’,

// Topic caps

‘publish_topics’,

‘edit_topics’,

// Reply caps

‘publish_replies’,

‘edit_replies’,

// Topic tag caps

‘assign_topic_tags’,

);

break;

and reinstall wordpress and bbpress, create a Participant account and it works.

Everything seems OK but only when I access pages like: http://localhost/?forum=a-hidden-forum, it returns a 404 page, not a topic list.

Other pages like “http://localhost/?topic=a-topic-in-a-hidden-forum”, “http://localhost/?post_type=forum” and widges in sidebar return the right contents.

I also try adding both

// Forum caps

‘read_hidden_forums’,

‘read_private_forums’,

to Participant and as a result, every pages are displayed even “http://localhost/?forum=a-hidden-forum” and topics in Private forum.

It seems have something to do with actions in “bbp-init” in which return a wrong string when reaching for perameter “forum”.

Sorry for not viewing all previous QoA but the most similar topic I’ve found is “Forum Participant role cannot view private forum” but it doesn’t help.

Is there any way to solve my problem?

Thanks for any help

[pschena]

Coming to bbPress from WP, I am looking for a way to style a thread on a client 1.03 bbPress forum.

In WP when using categories, one can set up a category-13.php page.

This becomes a dedicated template page for all posts with a category ID of 13.

Is there a way to do the same for forums.php?

Would love to be able to create forums-13.php so that I can style it as required without breaking other things.

Is there another way to achieve this sort of thing?

[ebharding]

There is not a lot of traffic on the forum yet, but it would appear that everything is ok.

[David]

@johnjamesjacoby, I don’t know that it would help but would you be interested in looking at my bbPress instance? I have a live and a development space so there would be room for experimentation. If so, I PM’d you recently on BuddyPress so you could respond to that.

[John James Jacoby]

@Landon – This topic is 2 years old and doesn’t pertain to the code for the version of bbPress you’re using. Can you start a new topic and I’ll delete your post here?

[John James Jacoby]

Can you confirm that no other timestamps are adversely affected? That function is used rather extensively through-out bbPress, so it’s possible it might skew the math of other times in the other direction.