The number of posts or users isn’t a problem. We have 11million users and millions of posts across multiple WordPress installations sharing the same user base. Like any web based application, the software will scale up to whatever hardware it’s running on, or choke on whatever it’s missing.
Posting links to images and videos is very easy, but if you want users to be able to upload them, you’ll need some way to elegantly allow for that. WordPress can handle it, but you’ll likely want to customize this experience.
Concurrent users and other metrics will all come down to server hardware, configuration, and ongoing maintenance. bbPress doesn’t really care how many users there are or how many page views happen.
bbPress does not come with any internal reporting. It adds some statistics to the WordPress Dashboard, and that’s it. Intentionally simple.
(There is a lot of data available in the database, and I’ve no doubt that really awesome reporting and charts and conclusions could be drawn from them, but there is nothing built-in to expose it.)
bbPress does include a very robust importer and forum-conversion tool, that we’ve successfully used for years to help hundreds of thousands of sites migrate millions of posts. Some folks have contributed their converters back up into bbPress, but most of them were made by community members who did the work to match all the data points together.
We’ve used the built-in converter here ourselves to go from bbPress1 to bbPress2; the same one that’s included with bbPress itself.
Switching forum platforms is risky. It’s a lot of work. It’s likely that some community members won’t like the new software. It never goes 100% without some kind of hitch. But… we’ve done an immense amount of work over 15 years to try and make bbPress the kind of software that makes that transition as easy and painless as it can possibly be.
I hope you’ll give it a try. We’ll be here if you have more questions. 🤝
That’s a thought…
I gave up on this plugin a few years ago — it didn’t seem to do anything for me. Still doesn’t, unfortunately. There’s no difference with or without Genesis Extend.
Deactivating all of my other plugins doesn’t seem to help, either.
I’ve also tried copying css/bbpress.css to other themes, including the Genesis Sample and WordPress 2020. Both of these themes require bbpress.min.css, at least on my development server.
I’m using WordPress 5.3, bbPress 2.6.2.
each capcha would be specific.
Do you want to pick one that works when logged in but not when logged out, and I’ll spend 15 mins seeing if it can easily be overcome.
what version of bbpress are you using?
I have tried to sort this out as well without any luck, I have tried other themes as well, it is the same on bbpress 2.5.14 which I am still using because subforums has not been sorted yet.
Hi there!
I’m trying to get a bbpress forum set up on my site, and while we’ve got the majority of it set up the way we’d like, there’s an issue when someone tries to access the forum via mobile/smartphone.
The reply box seems to overflow over the edge of the screen, such as in this picture:
I tried to adjust the width of the bbpress-topic-form using the Custom CSS on my theme, but while this seems to work for narrow browser windows on desktop, the mobile view remains the same as it does in the picture above.
For reference, this was the code I was trying:
@media only screen and (max-width: 600px) {
#new-topic-0.bbp-topic-form{
width: 50%;
}
}
I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on what might be going on here? I’m running the Gridmag theme (not pro) at the minute, could that be causing a conflict?
@maksanse
Translation of bbPress 2.6.x is being updated. Hopefully by next weekend all is done.
Hi,
If you go on https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/bbpress+captcha/ it seems lots of them offer bbPress compatibility.
Thanks for the 2.6.2 update, which attempts to address this issue.
Unfortunately, it’s not working in my theme. I still require bbpress.min.css.
I’m running a custom theme under Genesis 3.2.1. I’m pretty sure I’m following the instructions for theme compatibility. The css file is in a folder labeled “css” in the theme root.
This does not appear to be a cache issue. The appearance of the page changes when I switch back and forth.
I’ve reproduced this bug on a LocalbyFlywheel development site and a live staging site.
I’ll monitor this thread. Let me know what else you’d like me to try.
@kent25 It’s not because things are not in the basic code that you cannot do it. bbPress is very flexible and open to extensions. See the response in https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-to-fix-old-topic-moving-to-first-topic-when-a-reply-is-made/
Add this to your child theme functions.php or use a snippet plugin:
// ==============================================================
// Switch off bbPress Forum moderation
add_filter( 'bbp_bypass_check_for_moderation', '__return_true' );
// ==============================================================
yes same here https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-to-fix-old-topic-moving-to-first-topic-when-a-reply-is-made/
pls @corypina where did you move to, i meant as well join you. i think even the creator cant solve this
Am really new to bbpress, How do i fix an old topic becoming a first topic when a member makes a reply on it?
i my forum, there are different topics made by members, on daily bases but i found out that when a new member replies to an old topic, that topic automatically moves to the top of other new topics…
this is a pain. pls is there a code to stop this, i don’t need plugins for it.
As a logged out user, I can’t see any problem with pagination in your 4 topics.
There is a general bbPress bug, that nobody should ever really see, where pagination pages beyond the actual number of pages, will not 404 the way it should. But because bbPress never links to them anywhere, someone would have to manually type the URL wrong to see it.
Any other guidance you can give will be great!
As per the title bbPress is slow in admin. I’ve used query monitor to check what the issue is and it’s as per the screenshot. (You’ll have to open the image in a new tab if it’s too small).
The site has 9,280 users so it is not so it’s not considered a “big site” however it looks like from the documentation it’s not far off.
I have visited Tools -> Forums and manually ran the upgrade tasks (just in case they didn’t complete after the update).
We have the same problem with the v3 importer. How to migrate Kunena 5 to bbPress?
Has anyone ever finished that and a hint for us?
I’ve looked further at the code, and yes my translation won’t work for time.
I am just a bbpress user who helps out on this forum, so I cannot say when the devs will complete the translations.
This is why I have switched off moderation:
// Switch off bbPress Forum moderation
add_filter( 'bbp_bypass_check_for_moderation', '__return_true' );
Add that to your child theme functions.php or a snippet.
Hi Robin;
you’re absolutely right and I did it but
1) I have a very complex environment (Buddy Groups, Private and public stuff …)
2) I wanted to be certain of my results so as not to have to start the whole structure again in case of error
3) finally make everyone benefit from this answer.
So for me the sub-forums of a private forum are private by default (but, I will still mark them private jus in case)
Note: I also think that it is information that could be added in the bbPress codex.
Thank you for answering.
bV
and can you look at this post to see if you also get this
Users can’t upload media
In most cases this is what has been happening for me. This is why I mentioned previously that the forum here on bbPress in not geared up to use those categories. It just shows a forum with topics.
this is because 2.6 has changed some wording and context, and the new translations have not been made yet
to fix the above either use this
add_filter( 'gettext', 'rew_bbpress_translate', 20 , 3 );
add_filter( 'ngettext', 'rew_bbpress_translate' , 20 , 3 );
function rew_bbpress_translate( $translated, $text, $domain ) {
if ($domain == 'bbpress') {
$words = array(
'%s day' => '%s jour',
'%s days' => '%s jours',
'Last Post' => 'Dernier message',
);
$translated = str_replace( array_keys($words), $words, $translated );
}
return $translated;
}
Put this in your child theme’s function file – or use
Code Snippets
or use the translations tab in my style pack plugin
bbp style pack
Hi, our company is currently using Lithium platform. We have about 100,000 posts and 30,000 users. Is it possible to migrate this to bbPress?
Other requirements are:
• Post images, and videos easily
• Permissions for users to view Forums by topic
• Ability to support 500 simultaneous visitors and 2 million page views per year
• Ability to monitor activity and create reports on
– Page views by product
– New users
I’m aware that bbPress has 200+ plugins so I’ll have to research what is available there but is there anything here that someone can see as not doable?
thanks,
Kurt
