[evelioml3]

Hi All !!
I have upgraded phpBB 3.0.4 to 3.2.8 recently following steps on Upgrading from 3.0 to 3.2

When trying to import to bbpress 2.5.4 on a WP 5.2.3 I get this message:

Error en la base de datos de WordPress: [Unknown column 'forums.forum_topics' in 'field list']
SELECT convert(forums.forum_id USING "utf8mb4") AS forum_id,convert(forums.parent_id USING "utf8mb4") AS parent_id,convert(forums.forum_topics USING "utf8mb4") AS forum_topics,convert(forums.forum_posts USING "utf8mb4") AS forum_posts,convert(forums.forum_topics_real USING "utf8mb4") AS forum_topics_real,convert(forums.forum_name USING "utf8mb4") AS forum_name,convert(forums.forum_desc USING "utf8mb4") AS forum_desc,convert(forums.left_id USING "utf8mb4") AS left_id,convert(forums.forum_type USING "utf8mb4") AS forum_type,convert(forums.forum_status USING "utf8mb4") AS forum_status FROM phpbb_forums AS forums LIMIT 0, 100
No hay foros que convertir
No hay datos que limpiar

Effectively column forum_topics was on table forum in phpbb version 3.0.4 but it is not anymore on phpbb version 3.2.8.
Script to import from phpbb must have a bug or expect a different database structure for phpbb.

Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance

[SirLouen]

This is a little old topic @jonathansulo, I’m running a forum with similar stats as yours in a OVH $10/mo VPS without CDN and loading extremely fast.

Can’t believe you are paying $80/mo for such a little forum.

Definitely I’m worried that bbPress is so resource intense then. I’m using SMF.

[demonboy]

Hmmm, it seems that Thomas Zhu’s plugin, bbpress Member’s Only Pro plugin might do what I’m asking.

# Restricts your bbPress topics to Logged in/Registered members only.
# Restricts your bbPress replies to Logged in/Registered members only.
# Restricts your bbPress forums based on user roles.
# Restricts your bbPress topics based on user roles.

It also allows different levels of access based on different bbpress user roles, which is something I am also after. I’ll report back on whether this does what I want it to do, in case there is anyone else out there who has the same issues as me.

[demonboy]

Hi,

I’m struggling here . It’s a crucial part of my forum structure to be able to allow non-logged in users to click into a forum and view the list of topics, but not be allowed to click into a topic to read them. This is because the content of those topics are for subscribed members only, but allowing that top-level view of the topic titles is a way of teasing non-logged in viewers to sign up.

I’d like to be able to do the same for logged in users of specific forums.

I’m still not understanding why bbpress does not allow this breakdown of different levels of viewing. Is it a structural thing where topics and replies are actually WP posts and can’t be differentiated? I’m interested to know what the coding implications are of allowing topic title view but blocking topic content view.

Perhaps another way of asking this is this:

How do I make all top level forums (i.e. the forum list) public, make all forums clickable to anyone so that the topic lists can be viewed, then restrict what topics are clickable depending on whether they are logged in as well as their logged-in capabilities?

[msangor]

Hi, I couldn’t find this using search but I am sure someone has done this before.
We have our own web-based software that users register/login to. We would like them to seamlessly be able to also go to forums to get support using bbpress (we are on version 2.5.14).
Is there an API that I can call when a user registers on our product website?
If they are logged in to our product and click on SUPPORT/Forums, how do I go about having them automatically logged in?

And my last question is if I can create new topics and replies to them with custom dates/times? For example, I want to create a new post with a date of a week ago, and then reply with a date from 6 days ago?

If that’s not possible, perhaps there is an ability to import posts from excel where I could have different date/times?

Your help is much appreciated.

[Robin W]

ok, the problem is that bbpress stores topic and reply authors as their WordPress ID, so unless the new sites WordPress ID’s match the old site’s then they won’t match.

are the old authors all on the new site ?

[brightenyourview]

Rainmaker is a platform that is built on wordpress. It uses bbpress that is modified.

[Pascal Casier]

@sirlouen,

Would you be referring to something like https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/hide-links-in-posts/ ?

[SirLouen]

I’ve been using SMF for a while and I’m trying to transition to bbpress. One of the plugins I liked to use in SMF simply helped to hide outgoing links by replacing the URL with something like:

“To check this link, please register or login first”

Has anyone found anything that can do a similar function in bbpress?

This thing made 10 years ago, is the most approximate thing I’ve found so far

Hide Links

Maybe I can capitalize on that and rewrite something more adequate. Or maybe have build something more advanced in the past decade.

[SirLouen]

Reading this

Is there an API for bbPress

I see that there is a CPT called “topic”, which is great.

In fact I was thinking if it was possible to create topics from other places using the WP API I have to check this more thoroughly because it’s very interesting.

[SirLouen]

Do you know which CPT are bbpress threads?

.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi @sirlouen,
What you are looking for might be the first setting on your admin (Settings > Forums), so /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=bbpress

[brightenyourview]

I have a database in Rainmaker that has bbpress records I am developing a new wordpress website. I need to move the forums, topics and replies out of Rainmaker into the new wordpress mysql database. I tried the import/export function but there are over 500 authors and the records don’t match up. Does the Forum function under tools allow you to move from one bbpress to another. The only option I saw was bbpress1.

[stracy2]

Can someone else confirm that importing a post where the content contains brackets [] causes the custom importer to hang (get stuck actually)?

Related post

[Giannis Kipouros]

Hello all,

I am using BuddyPress with bbPress and I am noticing an issue when I have a forum topic with multiple pages. When I add a new reply it creates a BuddyPress activity that stores in the DB a primary_link of the type /forums/topic/topic-name/page/XX/#post-YYYY. For example /forums/topic/test-notification-for-reply/page/2/#post-3063

The problem is that if I delete some previous replies from page 1 and this reply moves to the first page from the second page it was previously, its activity permalink (primary_link) remains the same and the activity still points to page 2 of the topic (not page 1 that is its new page).

Is there any fix for this?

[TreeTrail]

Hello,

I understand that since bbPress 2.5.4, it only sends a single email with all the recipients. We have about 1,000 subscribers. Our hosting level allows 800 emails per hour quota. When we post a forum topic to all subscribers, many of them don’t receive it. I’ve filed two help requests to the host and they indicate that we are exceeding the allowed quota. I don’t understand how the forum emails are exceeding the limit. Any assistance or advice that we might receive would be very greatly appreciated!

site: https://wilmingtontrailclub.org/
bbPress Version 2.5.14
bbPress Notify (No-Spam) Version 2.5.1
bbPress Toolkit Version 1.0.12
wp mail smtp Version 1.6.2
kleo child theme
All plugins and themes are up to date

Regards,
~April

[demonboy]

OK, I think I have solved this by following this thread, except I had to do one thing the other way around…

1. Scrap User Role Editor and install the Members plugin by Justin Tadlock
2. Don’t put anything in your functions file
3. In WordPress under Users/Roles, clone the Participant user role and give it a name and slug (in my case I am using ‘bosun’) and save the new role.
4. Add this code to your functions file:

function vip_add_custom_role( $bbp_roles ) {

$bbp_roles['bosun'] = array(
'name' => 'Bosun',
'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_participant_role() ) // the same capabilities as participants
);

return $bbp_roles;
}

add_filter( 'bbp_get_dynamic_roles', 'vip_add_custom_role', 1 );

… where bbp_roles and name is changed to your own name of the user role. This must be the same as the name/slug you inserted when cloning the participant user role.

5. Now any forum user assigned this user role will display the correct role, rather that ‘participant’ ‘subscriber’ or ‘spectator’.

The thing I had to do the other way around from the instructions in the other thread was to not put anything in the functions file and install the plugin first.

Phew. Took me two days to get there!

[demonboy]

Hi,

I attempted to create some new bbp roles using the code in the codex to copy the ‘participant’ role. Unfortunately this did not work for me despite deactivating all plugins (seems quite a few other people had the same issue).

Instead I am using User Role Editor to create a new forum role, which I have called ‘bosun’. Upon sign-up a new user is correctly assigned this role and has the capabilities of a participant, which is great, but their forum role is still displaying as ‘spectator’.

I would like to display the user’s role under the avatar.

One thing I can do is display:none the div class bbp-author-role and then add in a new div to display the user_role, which I think is what URE plugin generates.

I appreciate that some of this has to do with the URE plugin and that it is not supported here. What I am trying to understand is what I need to change in order to hide the bbp-author-role div and add in a new div calling the URE role. I can only find references to bbp-author-role in templates.php which is a function:

function bbp_topic_author_role( $args = array() ) {
	echo bbp_get_topic_author_role( $args );
}
	/**
	 * Return the topic author role
	 *
	 * @since bbPress (r3860)
	 *
	 * @param array $args Optional.
	 * @uses bbp_get_topic_id() To get the topic id
	 * @uses bbp_get_user_display_role() To get the user display role
	 * @uses bbp_get_topic_author_id() To get the topic author id
	 * @uses apply_filters() Calls bbp_get_topic_author_role with the author
	 *                        role & args
	 * @return string topic author role
	 */
	function bbp_get_topic_author_role( $args = array() ) {

		// Parse arguments against default values
		$r = bbp_parse_args( $args, array(
			'topic_id' => 0,
			'class'    => 'bbp-author-role',
			'before'   => '',
			'after'    => ''
		), 'get_topic_author_role' );

		$topic_id    = bbp_get_topic_id( $r['topic_id'] );
		$role        = bbp_get_user_display_role( bbp_get_topic_author_id( $topic_id ) );
		$author_role = sprintf( '%1$s<div class="%2$s">%3$s</div>%4$s', $r['before'], $r['class'], $role, $r['after'] );

		return apply_filters( 'bbp_get_topic_author_role', $author_role, $r );
	}

[Robin W]

Is the “UNREAD FORUM TOPICS” not part of bbPress’s default functionality?

correct

[PDidee]

Issue seems to be the Mark as Read plugin. In fact that section doesn’t even show up under subscriptions until that plugin is activated?! Is the “UNREAD FORUM TOPICS” not part of bbPress’s default functionality?

[Robin W]

as a test can you try with just bbpress and private groups, as if that is ok, add the others back until you find which one is allowing this

[PDidee]

Not using Buddy Press.

Here is a list of the bbPress related plugins that are installed currently:
– AccessAlly – bbPress Add-on
– bbP private groups
– bbPress – Mark as Read
– bbPress – Moderation Tools
– bbPress Notifications
– bbPress Notify (No-Spam)
– bbPress Profile Link Shortcode
– bbPress Search Widget
– bbPress Toolkit
– bbPress Unread Posts

[Robin W]

are you also using buddypress?
and what other bbpress related plugins are you using ?

[PDidee]

We have a site using bbPress and the Private groups plugin. Users are assigned to specific forums by groups but for some reason under their profile page under the “Subscriptions” tab they are able to see topics under “Unread Forum Topics” to forums they should not have access to. They can also click on these topics and access that topic.

Is there away to restrict the topics they see to ONLY the ones they have permission to view according to their private group settings?

[Eddie Nguyen]

I am close to setting up my ecommerce website forum but I want to have all my categories in one forum.

Is this possible with bbpress?