[StormD]

my site is deleted. I had bluehost absolutely wipe out WP and I started out adding bbpress and trying this again. I really haven’t yet added anything else back except for elementor. Am I misunderstanding thinking that [bbp-forum-index] should return a forum name and then have topics listed underneath and then the next forum and so on? If so, disregard and tell me I’m just silly please. Anyway, I threw something up and created a gyazo of what I think you might be wanting to see. But, if you need to get in there I can create some credentials for you if you want to message privately.

So, left to right. Topics…I created a couple in topics and one by going to the page and opening the forum. Next, the page created with just the shortcode. I didn’t even use elementor. Just straight to add new page and shortcode using the name in the root. The last one, I opened the site and used an incognito window to view the page.

As you can see, it’s like it’s calling up archives. Looking back, I didn’t mention that before. That was really dumb. It’s been doing that all along. After deactivating all plugins, this is what made me believe I actually needed to reinstall WP. Honestly, this index thing is not my actual issue. LOL maybe we can address that one later? But bc of the archives thing, I am afraid to move forward.

Hopefully, now that you have the whole story, you will recognize my error and be able to just say comment this code out with your child’s functions.php or add that to some other file or whatever. And all will be well 🙂

Thank you so much, Robin. I look forward to hearing from you.
Storm

https://gyazo.com/ab8f8fd010ba5967cce876c547b971b4

[ttranvnu]

Hi all, I think I figured it out. I upgraded ibp 3.1 to 3.4 and then use bbpress covnerter and it work fine 🙂 Thanks

[StormD]

that is not happening. I have completely deleted wp and started over fresh. I tried bbpress first with just a wp stock theme. Still. I have created forums and topics. Topics are not listed.

[StormD]

Hi. Forgive me. I’m new to all of this…trying but new. My frontpage containing [bbp-forum-index] is not working. It shows the forums but not the topics.

I did try using Topics for Posts but decided I couldn’t see the benefit. So, at this point, I have tried the following things:
checked permalinks
reset forum root should show to topics by freshness
I have repaired and reset bbpress
And, at that point, I rolled the entire thing back with backup to before the bbpress install. And did not update any plugins. Also, though I have bbpress styling code thingies I had intended to use, I had not gotten past adding a bbpress folder to my theme’s child.

At this point, I am deactivating plugins but am not confident that will solve it. But if it does, I will come right back and try to delete this or just plain apologize.

Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.

[ttranvnu]

I checked the database posts table via phpmyadmin and confirmed that replies posts did not come over to bbpress. Is there a way I can fix this manually by running some manual sql code?

I’m using latest wordpress just downloaded today, and latest version of bbpress (bbPress 2.5.14).
During the conversion I only get the following error which I don’t think tied to the replies posts not coming over.

Repair any missing information: Continue

WordPress database error: [Table ‘*.*_core_tags’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT convert(core_tags.tag_meta_id USING “utf8mb4”) AS tag_meta_id,convert(core_tags.tag_text USING “utf8mb4”) AS tag_text FROM *_core_tags AS core_tags LIMIT 0, 100

No tags to convert

No super stickies to stick

[Robin W]

Please forgive me my ignorance – don’t worry we were all there when we started !!

bbpress uses the wordpress database and pages so is contained entirely within wordpress.

at it’s simplest, just put a ‘custom link’ menu entry of url ‘/fourms/’ and navigation label of ‘forums’ into your menu.

Alternately create a page with a title of say ‘forums’ and put [bbp-forum-index] in the content.

[jog0ff]

Hi Robin,

Many thanks for that!

One and last question: does bbPress creates all forum files by itself (or uses existing WordPress pages within website) or will it need anything ‘external’ (such as completely external forum hosted by someone else). Please forgive me my ignorance as I’m a bit ‘old date’ from past times when website was a website only and forums were completely separated story 🙂

TIA,
Kris

[Robin W]

bbpress is just a plugin that sits within wordpress, so you would just install it and typically have a menu entry to

yoursite.com/forums

see

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1

[jog0ff]

Hi guys,
I’m completely new to WP and bbPress and trying to find right solution for my website so please forgive me a noob question and dont kick me too hard::
heres the question:
does bbPress whole forum, mean would I need to link it up with external forum?
I’ve got my domain set for WP already.

Many thanks in advance,
Kris

[Robin W]

yes, in effect create the subdomain you say, and install wordpress and bbpress.

Then you could just have a home page with the code [bbp-forum-index] in it and that is all that site would contain

[Robin W]

this is a theme conflict issue, and you need to get your theme to recognise bbpress.

Not bbpress’s fault and not your theme’s fault, both just use wordpress

see

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1

section 8 on trying to get them to work together

[Robin W]

I use

bbPress Notify (No Spam)

to notify me of new topics/replies

[Robin W]

forum order is controlled under bbpress by

dashboard>forums>all forums>edit forum and on the right hand side you’ll see forum attributes and in that ‘order’

forums will display in that order, with 0 being the first and higher numbers in number order. Forums with equal numbers appear I think in either date created or alphabetical order – can’t remember which but you topic suggests alphabetical

wplms may well display in a different order, and you’d need to ask wplms about that

[meestergijs]

Haha. This is amazing. I added the code to my php and it worked. Thanks a million. Some other experts couldn’t help me with this.

Robin, two more questions. Related.

Can you also tell me how I as administrator get all forums in a alphabetical order, but my students/members not? It’s totally random? How can I fix that? I think the most recent one is on top. How can I change that? I can’t seem to change to date of publication.

And how can I get notified when some starts topic in a forum. I tried the plugin bbPress Notify Admin, but it didn’t work. Perhaps I didn’t follow the instructions correctly.

Any help would be great. Let’s make this 3 out of 3 😉

Gijs (Holland)

[Robin W]

try

Change the number of forums per page

[ryanrain]

small tweak to not break for users with names that include spaces. the issue was not a permissions one as i posted above.

/*
 * attempt to handle generic request for current user
 * https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-link-to-profile-page/
 *
 * if the url is passed as forums/users/current/
 * this function detects that the permalink has been set to bbp_user=current
 * and
 *  - if the user is logged on, the query is changed to the current user
 *  - if the user is not logged on, the user is redirected to login screen
 *
 */
function ink_bbp_request_current_user( $query_vars ) {
	if ( isset( $query_vars[ 'bbp_user' ] ) ) {
		switch ( $query_vars[ 'bbp_user' ] ) {
			case 'current':
				if ( get_current_user_id() ) {
					$query_vars[ 'bbp_user' ] = bbp_get_user_nicename(get_current_user_id());
				} else {
					auth_redirect();
				}
		}
	}
	return $query_vars;
}

add_filter( 'bbp_request', 'ink_bbp_request_current_user', 10, 1 );

[palmera75]

Hello, at bbPress, the search bar only appears on the general page: forums and search for what you are looking for does not return anything. How to add a search bar within a forum, and how to make the search bar work at least on the general page? Thank you

[phaniv]

I have created a forums page using bbpress, and linked it to my main header menu. Below is the page

https://honingds.com/activity/

I am not sure why the forum page is starting at almost middle of this page. What should I do to make it appear just below the header. I am noob at wordpress and bbpress so please bear with me. My theme is Impreza wordpress theme.

[Robin W]

not sure where ‘groups’ is coming from – youzer, buddypress, not directly a bbpress thing unless you have renamed forums/topics/replies

[Robin W]

sorry, I only provide some of the tools, this is not a design service 🙂

and I’ve no idea whether the site you show is even bbpress.

[aabbhee]

Dear team,
We’re using bbpress plugin along with youzer. The section ‘Groups’ I want to replace with ‘Rides’ As I am developing Riders Community using bbpress.
Also the Create Group, Join Group, Exit Group button text want to change to Ride related titles.

[Robin W]

bbPress Styling Crib

or

bbp style pack

[Robin W]

I don’t know what the BBPress Knowledge Base plugin is – where did you get this from ?

[paulhechols]

I am trying to get section descriptions to show up within the employee manual knowledge base I created with the BBPress Knowledge Base plugin. I have multiple sections with multiple articles but nowhere do I see the descriptions I added for sections.

Do I need to modify a PHP file?

Any help is appreciated.

[Robin W]

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1