[mplusplus]

Hi there,

Is there any tool or script or plugin to migrate a forum from wpForo to bbPress?
Free or paid, either is okay. My forum has 8000 topics and 40000 posts.

Thanks.

[BrokenPixel]

Hi

In the process of moving our old forum from SMF (which had some great features, but requires a second login which our users really dislike) to bbpress. It’s a private forum so I can’t post a link, but using latest WP version, Hestia Pro theme, Ultimate Member (and it’s bbpress plugin), bbpress Style Pack.

bbpress Style Pack makes the new forum look a lot more user friendly (many thanks Robin!), and also using it to offer the option of email notifications of new posts (which on our forum is essential – there may be no posts for days, then several all at once!)

Is there any documentation anywhere as to how the new post email notify system works? Couldn’t find any, but perhaps not found the right place yet!

As I’m trying to get my head around how a user controls their settings.

If a user has hit “subscribe” to a whole “forum” (board as I’d have called it in older forum software) – it seems they then get notifications to all topics. But there could be many topics on that forum, and they may not want to be notified of some posts within that board. So how do they selectively unsubscribe from some in that board, but not others?

Going into the forum it seems that individual topics still have a “subscribe” button when the whole forum (board) is subscribed to, which is a little puzzling, if all topics under that forum (board) should now be subscribed to. So if they want to unsubscribe from that topic – do they have to click subscribe, then unsubscribe?

Can anyone point me in the right direction as to how this bit of the plugin is meant to work? Thanks!

[rajeshpawar]

Can i use bbPress to setup a ticketing system?

[Robin W]

probably site issue – bbpress just uses WordPress registration

[alexsteninge]

Hi,

Is there in BBPress a way to setup a “new posts/activities since your last visit”? A sort of ‘mark as read’ functionality or similar?

I have searched the forum and can see that there are some topics relating to this area, but they are quite old and the majority refer to plugins that are 4 – 7 years old.

Br Alex

[cwaite]

Hi Robin

Yes I have even tried deactivating, then deleteing bbpress and then re-installing. I still, get the same issue.

This is a new site, new problem. It worked OK to start with while testing until we deleted a test post.

I’m thinking, as wer have deleted and reinstalled, something is retained in the settings/post in the DB that causes the issue.

[Robin W]

hmmm…..

old site, new problem?
new site new problem?
always happened?
only happening after update of bbpress?
etc.

you could try deactivating and then deleteing bbpress and then re-installing

you won’t lose any posts you already have

[cwaite]

Hi
I have seen quite a few people have this issue. Everythibg in bbpress works apart from when you click replies and then the page shows a Service Unavailable error message. I have tried all the options mentioned in other posts like turning off all other plug-ins, changing the theme to Twenty Twenty and also talking to our hosting company and still cannot get it to work. The hosting company tried changing the php versions but the still gave the error message. Error 500 for php7 and error 503 for php7.2. They also checked the error logs and said there was no errors showing. It was working OK when it was a fresh installation, all we have done is add a few test topics and posts and deleted 1 reply. The it starts to give the error.

Does nyone have a solution to this that I haven’t tried?

Many Thanks
Regards
Colin

[Chuckie]

I am using WP Sweep and it lists unused tags. It does not test BBPress for using any of the tags.

What steps are involved to detect if a tag is used in the database with forum topics / replies

[wpweaver]

This refers to bbPress 2.6.4.

If a new user topic or reply fails bbPress moderation (either links or bad words), the end user gets no message at all. What they see is simply nothing – just the edit box again, with no indication that their post was marked as pending, and awaits moderation.

So what happens? The user reposts the same message, over and over and over. I have examples of users reposting 10 times. They eventually may ask what is going on, or go away angry.

This seems to be new behavior since 2.6, and depending on the forum admins, this behavior may seem to be mysterious. I’ve run a highly technical forum for years, and did not know about this changed behavior in 2.6 because users typically did not post with more than 2 links.

Even now knowing that, the users are still left mystified. This is very poor user interface design, and the only reasonable solution now is to essentially eliminate any moderation at all.

add_filter( 'bbp_bypass_check_for_moderation', '__return_true' );

Much much better would be to let the user know what happened. I’ve read all the code for moderation, and can’t see any filters to override to add a message for the user.

It would be wonderful to fix this issue, and issue a “Your topic/reply is awaiting moderation.”
The moderators need to get a message as well.

[Robin W]

ok, put this in your child theme’s function file – or use

Code Snippets

add_filter( 'bbp_register_topic_post_type', 'rew') ;

function rew ($rew) {

$rew = array(
				'labels'              => bbp_get_topic_post_type_labels(),
				'rewrite'             => bbp_get_topic_post_type_rewrite(),
				'supports'            => bbp_get_topic_post_type_supports(),
				'description'         => esc_html__( 'bbPress Topics', 'bbpress' ),
				'capabilities'        => bbp_get_topic_caps(),
				'capability_type'     => array( 'topic', 'topics' ),
				'menu_position'       => 555555,
				'has_archive'         => ( 'forums' === bbp_show_on_root() ) ? bbp_get_topic_archive_slug() : false,
				'exclude_from_search' => true,
				'show_in_nav_menus'   => true,
				'public'              => true,
				'show_ui'             => current_user_can( 'bbp_topics_admin' ),
				'can_export'          => true,
				'hierarchical'        => false,
				'query_var'           => true,
				'menu_icon'           => '',
				'source'              => 'bbpress',
			)  ;
			
return $rew ;
}

add_filter( 'bbp_register_reply_post_type', 'rew2') ;

function rew2 ($rew) {

$rew2 = array(
				'labels'              => bbp_get_reply_post_type_labels(),
				'rewrite'             => bbp_get_reply_post_type_rewrite(),
				'supports'            => bbp_get_reply_post_type_supports(),
				'description'         => esc_html__( 'bbPress Replies', 'bbpress' ),
				'capabilities'        => bbp_get_reply_caps(),
				'capability_type'     => array( 'reply', 'replies' ),
				'menu_position'       => 555555,
				'exclude_from_search' => true,
				'has_archive'         => false,
				'show_in_nav_menus'   => true,
				'public'              => true,
				'show_ui'             => current_user_can( 'bbp_replies_admin' ),
				'can_export'          => true,
				'hierarchical'        => false,
				'query_var'           => true,
				'menu_icon'           => '',
				'source'              => 'bbpress',
			)  ;
			
return $rew2 ;
}

[mindylll]

Sometimes, in our forums, a post shows up twice or even three times. Is there a fix for this?

Version 5.3.2 of WordPress
The most recent version of BBPress

[mindylll]

I tried to subscribe to one of my forum posts yesterday, but it wouldn’t “Take” until clicking “subscribe” about 3-4 times. The same thing happened today. I click “subscribe”, it looks like I’m subscribed, then it disappears after I reply to the thread. I had to click multiple times to get it to “take”. Do you know why this would be happening?

Version 5.3.2
The newest version of BBPress
Rickthomas.net (forums are member protected, though)

[wpa2mik]

This fix works for me! Thanks a lot!

Following info may be useful:
* PHP 7.3
* Word Press 5.3.2
* bbPress 2.6.4
* No additional plugins related to bbPress.

[Robin W]

bbpress just uses WordPress login, so the issue is there.

wordpess doesn’t gave this feature in native mode, so I suspect you have another password/login related plugin that is causing the issue

[wpa2mik]

Hi,

I faced the same problem after update to bbPress 2.6.4.
It’s very important to show ‘last updated’ correctly, because it’s needed to control the forum.

[Chuckie]

Thanks, so something like this:

// Actually build all of this HTML
function build_html() {
    
    $this->sort_users();
    $data = $this->stats_builder();
    $HTMLOutput = "";
    
	if (is_user_logged_in())  {
		if ( is_bbpress() && current_user_can( 'spectate' ) ) {
			foreach( $data as $key => $html ) {
			   $HTMLOutput .= "<div class='bbpas-" . $key . "' id='bbpas-" . $key . "'>" . $html . "</div>";
			}
		}
    }
	
    return $HTMLOutput;
}

Yes?

[Robin W]

add an additional if statement

if ( is_bbpress() && ! current_user_can( 'spectate' ) )

if they can’t spectate then they are blocked

[daphnedelay]

It seems this forum only answers certain questions…

I really want to keep BBpress on my site, but it’s just as easy to take it down if support is non-existent 🙁

Any help to above question would be appreciated.

[visimedia]

how to hide new topics n replies of bbpress in buddypress activity wall?
I tried wb com plugin activity filter, it messed up with my other plugin from buddydev to show all community activity tab.
can u help?

[jimandms]

Ok everyone I have searched and tried everything I have found but it all seems to be for subforums.

My problem: I have categories set up and then my forums are sub forums under that.

I have one forum that I have sub-subs under. These show as a list like forum1,forum2, forum3…

I would like the sub-subs to display like
forum1
forum2
forum3

I have the latest version of bbpress and haven’t found anything in there. I have also tried the plugins that others have suggested and they were no help either.

https://jimandms.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Screenshot.png

You can see how my forum is set up in the pic. The big list I would much rather have look like the rest of the forum but just be indented some.

Thanks for reading!
Jim

[Mike Straw]

I’ve got the same issue with a BuddyPress/bbPress installation with private groups that have private forums. Forum search searches ALL the forums, whether they’re private or not and whether the user should be able to see that forum.

I deactivated forum search from WP Admin (Settings > Forums > Allow forum wide search) until there’s a way to close this security hole.

[webmasterfreya]

WP 5.3.2
BBpress 2.6.4
Buddypress 5.1.2 (with private forums)

Hi,

When entering a registered user name via [bbp-search], messages from this user are shown eventhough they are in a private forum and the requesting user is NOT a member of that group.
This clearly violates the privacy and should not be happening.

I have removed all occurences of [bbp-search] , and with that lost the ability to search through the forums.

To test
– create 2 users (eg user-1, user-2)
– Make user-1 member of a private forum (forum-1) and create a topic and some replies.
– Make user-2 member of anothher private forum (forum-2) and create a topic and some replies.

– create a testpage with content [bbp-search], publish
– login with user-1
– got to testpage and search for user_2

No messages should show up, but i’m afraid they will.

Could anyone please try and get back here to share the result?

[daphnedelay]

Hi! Started to advertise new forum on my site and had my assistant try it out only to discover lots of kinks (yikes!) I’m working through them but stuck on “Password reset is not allowed for this user”

She waited for an email to set password which never happened. So she tried to login without a password to force the “forgot password” reset and got the above error message. I’ve looked everywhere on the backend to allow but can’t figure it out.

I’m sad my forum isn’t working yet. Sure hope it can get going easily. Appreciate any help to make user registration seamless 🙂 thanks!

Mirror Ministries

BBpress 2.6.4
WP 5.3.2

[Robin W]

if you have subscriptions set in

dashboard>settings>forums

then this should show.

it could be a theme or plugin issue

Themes

As a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Plugins

If that doesn’t work, also deactivate all plugins apart from bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Then come back