[ginaginagina]

I’m in bbPress 2.5.14
Wordpress 5.2.2
Avada theme 5.9.1 (and yes, I tried disabling it 🙂

I’m not sure how to get the breadcrumbs to show above subforums and topics so that users can navigate back to the main forum page as they go deeper into the threads. I tried the troubleshooting steps in the “Getting Started” section, but to no avail. The forums are private, so I’m not able to share a useful URL. Not sure what I can share to help get this solved. I tried Robin’s bbstyle pack, too, under the “breadcrumbs” section and no go for me.

If the img embed doesn’t work, the screenshot can be seen here: share.getcloudapp.com/E0uln5v2

[kevengland]

I’m wondering if it is possible to automatically register a user. I have an online course that is delivered via a platform called “Teachable” and I use a bbPress Forum as part of that course. What I’d like to do is automatically generate an account for people that have bought my course, so that they do not need to create another log-in for the forum.
Any ideas on whether this is possible and how to do it? There’s usually a plugin for most things like this!
Thanks in advance.

[designserve]

Thanks I actually feel better too that I have some company!

So, so many late nights. I’m looking at very old plugins and searching around the Internet at the moment. Wondering whether to try installing old versions of wordpress and bbpress so that they will work with old plugins, and then transfer to the latest bbpress somehow. I’ve been scraping my sites to get the CSVs and now I can’t import them, I actually can’t believe the situation I’m in. I decided on bbpress with buddypress for my new system last year and I’ve spent months setting it up, I can’t bear to start from scratch again.

Thanks for listening 🙂

[designserve]

Hi All,

I’m spending another weekend desperately trying to migrate my forum by importing by any method (preferably CSV but I’m willing to try almost anything at this point because I’m now having to transfer each member manually as they sign up on the former site).

Converting out to CSV took many weeks of research an effort, I thought that importing would be a breeze does anyone have any suggestions please?

Or a way for bbpress to recognise the Topics I have imported would help. I can see the topics in the backend and it says they are in the correct forum but I can’t get them to show on the front end (I’ve tried all the usual repair methods and the result is that they no longer say that they are in any forum).

Many thanks!

[designserve]

I think I have a very similar issue (my replies are in the thread regarding CSV importing). Having imported Topics and replies WordPress is telling me they are in the same forum but I can’t get them to show up in the front end without editing them. I desperately need some help from a bbpress expert regarding importing forums via any reliable method please.

[mgregoire83]

Hi!
My bbPress post is cirrently displayed with the author colums with those links dispalyed :

– Block User
– Add user
– Moderation
– Flag

I need to know how to translate those items.Many thanks for the help.

Regards

MG

See the attached screen capture :

[maksanse]

Hello John,
Thank you for your answer !
Here is a small video to show you my issue : https://www.dropbox.com/s/wcfqnysi7esby74/bbpress-shortcode-pages.mp4?dl=0

I think the issue comes from my LearnDash plugin because the pages where I include the shortcodes are handled by LearnDash.

Here is for example an anonymized url where the shortcode doesn’t work as expected:
https://QQQ.com/formations/QQQ/modules/module-4-sketchnoting/chapitres/chapitre-1-QQQ/

The “page/2/” added to the url when cliking to the link (https://QQQ.com/formations/QQQ/modules/module-4-sketchnoting/chapitres/chapitre-1-QQQ/page/2/) doesn’t go to the wanted page, it create an error 404.

The best that could happen here would be to be able to link the pagination buttons to the dedicated forum page, but I don’t know if it is possible…

Best regards and thank you for your help!

[duchesscorp]

I’m guessing this is a bug or something that no one knows about or has a clue about. Nevertheless, if you move from Ultimate Member to Buddypress and try to keep your bbPress topics and replies, you’ll have issues. UM leaves behind tags in the database that conflicts with BP.

[designserve]

I realise this is an old thread too but it does seem to be the place to discuss this.

I’ve spent many days / weeks trying to import my forums from a Concrete5 system to Bbpress. I have converted them to CSV but importing is failing every time.

I created the files from a combination of MySQL export and manual entry, to replicate the Github examples.

I’ve also tried exporting numerous examples, editing and re-importing them to no avail.

I’m using WP All Export and WP All Import. I’ve had great success in migrating my (11,000) Users but I can’t get Topics and Replies to work. When I Import Topics, they seem to be in the correct Forum but they are not visible. If I run a repair operation, the forum changes to “0”. If I edit a topic and save it (before running a repair operation) it appears in the forum (of course, I’m selecting the forum from the dropdown so it would).

I would also like to query whether the date and time formats are correct in the CSV files linked to in Github because they are different in each file?

I would really appreciate help with this. I have been trying to migrate my websites and forums out of Concrete5 for well over a year and it is a huge issue for me. There’s no exporter so there is a lot of ‘exporting from database and manually editing’ to do, alongside scraping my own websites. I can’t overstate the amount of effort I’m putting into this migration, with an aim to help other Concrete5 users to do the same.

I have also done a lot fo work with trying to import using ‘example.php’ but the C5 database is extremely convoluted and also my php skill level is not high, I’m just trying to run a good music website for my members 🙂

All help and pointers will be appreciated. Many thanks!

[Wirebird Media]

Hi! I’ve added a field in LearnDash’s extended profile settings (https://share.getcloudapp.com/v1uADmlb) and it is showing up on the front end profile page – https://share.getcloudapp.com/NQudDvzq

But I want it to also show up on the forum profiles: https://share.getcloudapp.com/xQu9W0g6

I’m digging around in the backend but am having difficulty finding where I need to add this field to the bbpress profile output. Any thoughts? Thanks!

[fantomx90]

Hello,

I am using the bbPress forums currently, and whenever we create a topic it is this grayed out color… We did find a custom CSS code to use, and it DOES work for Closed topics, but all others it still stays grayed out. What can we do to fix this?

Also, whenever someone is typing a reply it still displays in this awful gray color. How would I change the default color of the text being used in our forum?

(For reference, here is the code we used for black Closed topics:)
#bbpress-forums .status-closed,
#bbpress-forums .status-closed a {
color: #000 !important;
}

(And yes, we did try just switching closed with open in the coding lol.)

Thank you.

[John James Jacoby]

You may want to try the latest 2.6 release candidate instead:

Download

It includes a few changes to how stickies are queried, and may fix this problem for you.

[John James Jacoby]

You won’t get much advice about other forum software in these forums, as these forums are for bbPress (not against it.)

The support in these forums is all volunteer based. No one gets paid to be around to help. Everyone is passionate, but no one is obligated. We have great moderators that keep things clean, but your experience is not uncommon – it helps to be your own site admin.

I see you’ve created 6 topics here, 1 of them was asking for some code help, and 2 of them (including this one) are general gripes with (not) getting things working how you’d like them to without anything really to say back?

bbPress is intentionally simple forum software. It’s opinionated but flexible, so you get a pretty basic experience out of the box, but it requires a bit of determination to customize it to do exactly what you want it to.

You’re right that most hosting providers are generally disinterested in helping with websites themselves; they’re in the business of making sure websites work, so they’re not spending much time deep into how plugins and themes look or feel or work with one another. They’ll probably redirect you back here for most bbPress questions.

If you’re the only person running your community, and you’re unable to keep things working on your own, I can understand why you feel the way you do. I can tell you that bbPress.org runs an unmodified version of bbPress that has required very little ongoing maintenance. All we’ve done here is create a WordPress theme to make things feel a little bit more like a forum than a blog. Together with WordPress.org we do have 11 million user accounts and a high volume of concurrent users across multiple different forums.

It sounds like your forums might be more active than ours here, but it’s hard to know exactly what glitches and problems you’re having, and most things aren’t as easy as coding a snippet for you and having you drop it in someplace.

I’m sorry that your experience with bbPress hasn’t been pleasant. I’m not sure what more to say, other than if you keep with it and keep learning, it is a very capable and fun piece of software that helps hundreds of thousands of communities run really smoothly. Hopefully that continues to include yours!

[John James Jacoby]

The breadcrumbs are automatically generated based on the page or archive hierarchy.

Try: Admin > Settings > Forums

Forum Root: community/fora
Forum Prefix: Unchecked

Then for all of the Single Slugs, prefix them with community/.

You could also try creating a WordPress Page hierarchy that has “community” as the first slug and “fora” as the second child page, then use a bbPress shortcode in the content of that page.

[John James Jacoby]

bbPress.org uses shortcodes on a few archive pages, but in a way where the pagination links already naturally match the permalink & slug structure.

Can you reply and include an anonymized version of the pagination structure that you’re seeing?

[Diego Brasileiro]

Hi! I have had issues with the bbpress sidebar, I put the plugin that allows the sidebar on the forum page, bbPress WP Tweaks. But even then nothing happens, the sidebar does not appear for user login. I was very excited to use the plugin, but I can’t. Thinking of a solution, I went to support my theme, GridLove Theme, but nothing happened either. They told me to contact you. My site is Seguromoto.org.

The page I use bbpress is safetyomoto.org/forum.

Please help me!

[The Stash House]

Hi Robin,

I have the same issue as 9march using this code in my functions.php :

/**
 * BBPress : add new role with custom capabilities
 * https://codex.bbpress.org/custom-capabilities/
 */

//code to add "client" role

function add_new_roles( $bbp_roles )
{
    /* Add a role called tutor */
    $bbp_roles['bbp_client'] = array(
        'name' => 'Client',
        'capabilities' => custom_capabilities( 'bbp_client' )
    );

    return $bbp_roles;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_get_dynamic_roles', 'add_new_roles', 1 );

function add_role_caps_filter( $caps, $role )
{
    /* Only filter for roles we are interested in! */
    if( $role == 'bbp_client' )
        $caps = custom_capabilities( $role );

    return $caps;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_get_caps_for_role', 'add_role_caps_filter', 10, 2 );

function custom_capabilities( $role )
{
    switch ( $role )
    {

        /* Capabilities for 'client' role */
        case 'bbp_client':
            return array(
                // Primary caps
                'spectate'              => true,
                'participate'           => true,
                'moderate'              => false,
                'throttle'              => false,
                'view_trash'            => false,

                // Forum caps
                'publish_forums'        => false,
                'edit_forums'           => false,
                'edit_others_forums'    => false,
                'delete_forums'         => false,
                'delete_others_forums'  => false,
                'read_private_forums'   => true,
                'read_hidden_forums'    => false,

                // Topic caps
                'publish_topics'        => false,
                'edit_topics'           => false,
                'edit_others_topics'    => false,
                'delete_topics'         => false,
                'delete_others_topics'  => false,
                'read_private_topics'   => true,

                // Reply caps
                'publish_replies'       => true,
                'edit_replies'          => true,
                'edit_others_replies'   => false,
                'delete_replies'        => false,
                'delete_others_replies' => false,
                'read_private_replies'  => true,

                // Topic tag caps
                'manage_topic_tags'     => false,
                'edit_topic_tags'       => false,
                'delete_topic_tags'     => false,
                'assign_topic_tags'     => true,
            );

            break;

        default :
            return $role;
    }
}

always ending with “-No roles for this forums-” like the new role for the newly registered user was not saved.

Regards,

David

[Robin W]

only a free version of bbpress, but many addon plugins that let you customise

[Robin W]

bbpress just uses WordPress registration, so anything that does WordPress registration will work fine, including many free custom add-on plugins

you can also use the bbpress registration shortcode on a page

Shortcodes

[stofilter]

Hello bbPress support,

I’d like to use a custom register page, is this available in the free version?

Also, are there any paid versions for bbpress? if so, what are the differences between the free and paid version?

Thanks

[Robin W]

I suspect that this function is ‘overwriting’ a ‘post__in’ function. WP_query can have a post__in OR a post__not_in, not both, so setting post__not_in may take out a post__in set within bbpress.

Just a guess, but would make sense. You fix looks sensible, and thanks for posting

[stuartataltitude]

I tracked the problem down to the WP Members plugin function do_hide_posts. This calls
$query->set( ‘post__not_in’, **array of hidden post ids** ). The intention (I think) is just to filter out hidden posts but for some reason this call (which only contains a list of hidden page Ids – not any bbpress topic or reply ids) causes all topic and reply ids to be stripped from the query’s Results.

For the record (in case others have the same problem), I have now added the following to my functions.php in my child theme…

add_action( ‘wpmem_after_init’ , ‘kmc_wpmem_after_init’);
function kmc_wpmem_after_init() {
global $
remove_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, array( $wpmem, ‘do_hide_posts’ ) );
add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘kmc_hide_posts’ );
}
function kmc_hide_posts( $query ) {
global $wpmem;
$index = 0;
$hidden = array();
$hidden_posts = $wpmem->get_hidden_posts();
// Remove hidden pages from the list of posts to be ignored
foreach($hidden_posts as $post_id){
$post = get_post($post_id);
$postType = get_post_type_object(get_post_type($post));
if ($postType->labels->singular_name != “Page”) {
$hidden[$index] = $post_id;
$index++;
}
}
if ( ! empty( $hidden ) ) {
$query->set( ‘post__not_in’, $hidden );
}
return $query;
}

I still don’t understand why $query->set( ‘post__not_in’, **an array of 15 hidden page ids**) causes all topics and replies to be stripped from the output, but the above change solves my problem for now.

[armyadarkness]

I built a website and forum nearly a year ago, and both get moderate to heavy traffic… However, due to numerous glitches and the lack of platform support, I’ve lost 50% of my traffic and subscribers… And it’s getting worse by the day.

Has anyone found a reliable source for resolving technical issues or an alternative platform?

I’ll be due to renew all of my premier Word Press packages in 2 months, but We’ve started looking for alternative platforms to migrate to, because it seems easier than getting support for WP and bbPress.

My WP plan is the best available and it includes support, but the technicians really don’t seem to care much about helping, and the ones that do, wind up not being able to.

If I can’t fix the little glitches that have been haunting me for a year, I don’t see any point in renewing.

[CM_DK]

Hi,

I’m trying to make my url structure like this:

xx.com/community/forum/forumtitle

That worked, but the title in my breadcrumbs is:

fora/forum

It should be:

community/fora

How can I make this happen?

_______________________________________________

Im on W version: 5.2.2

Im on BBpress version: 2.6-rc-7

[ginaginagina]

I thought this would naturally happen as a super sticky topic. Basically, I want the same message to show up at the top of each forum so that members see it before they start posting (sort of like a “Read this before you get started” pinned topic). However, as soon as I started creating other sub-forums and topics, it got pushed to the bottom of the page, which obviously means a lot of people will miss it entirely.

How do you get it to stay at the top of each forum as a reminder?

My forums are all private, so you wouldn’t be able to see it (hence, I’m not adding a URL), but I am including a screenshot.

Wordpress version: 5.2.2
bbPress version: 2.5.14
Screenshot: https://share.getcloudapp.com/eDuoLJGy

Unfortunately, I can’t test a different theme; I just tried in staging to do that and the site broke completely, so I don’t want to test in my live site. However, this doesn’t seem like a theme issue.