[ginaginagina]

Hey Robin, thank you so much for your help. I don’t see a plugin that we have that specifically does any type of post moderation once written by the user. The only plugins I have are one for uploading attachments (GD bbPress Attachments) to the posts and one that restricts access to the forums through our membership plugin (Ultimate Member bbPress Extension). Here’s more info on those:

Ultimate Member bbPress Extension:

bbPress


Documentation: https://docs.ultimatemember.com/article/74-bbpress-setup

GD bbPress Attachments:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-bbpress-attachments/

[Robin W]

bbpress does not by default put anything inmpending

what bbpress related plugins are you running that might do moderation ?

[ginaginagina]

Wordpress 5.2.2
bbPress 2.5.14
URL: forums are private, so URL won’t be helpful.

There’s no button or link to approve anything in my forums. Everything’s just pending. In the past, I replies showed up (when we first installed this; we haven’t used it in a long time, and just getting back into getting these set up). When I click to preview the replies/topics, they are just titles, nothing is written about the topic. We’re testing the forums with my team, so I know each team member wrote something and submitted it — they didn’t just write a title. Additionally, each of them are moderators, wouldn’t their posts just go through since they have the power to approve posts, too (or should, if this was working)?

What is happening? Why:

is nothing showing up for the content part of their replies and topics

why aren’t their posts going through automatically (since they are moderators)

why can I not — as the admin/keymaster, see the “approve” link?

Here’s a screenshot:

https://share.getcloudapp.com/Z4uZkZ2K

[designserve]

Some of the info in the CSV thread could be useful to you. I don’t know but I feel as though the issues are connected. Linking you to Page 1 but see Page 2.

Import BB data from CSV file to bbPress forum

[designserve]

I installed the following plugin on my dev site:

https://wpfavs.com/plugins/import-export-for-bbpress

Export is working perfectly (latest wordpress and bbpress).

Import not working at all but I might be doing something wrong. Very disappointing because this plugin looks so promising.

Giving up for now, I hope this helps someone I’ll actively update this if I make any progress.

[designserve]

Hi All,

I’ve spent the last 10 hours 36 minutes trying to import a few topics into my forum from CSV. I’ve tried many different techniques and plugins. I am updating this because maybe it will help someone, or you might be able to help me.

I’m assuming that Stephen’s method worked when he posted it. It appears to me that post_parent does not behave as it used to. I have used Stephen’s files from Github and imported them into my forum. I’ve very carefully followed every nuance of his post, as far as I can tell. Ultimate CSV Importer and WP ALL IMPORT EXPORT (I have the extended pro version) do not expose post_parent in the mapping. However, Ultimate CSV Importer (now known as ‘Import Export Post as CSV File’) does say in the documentation that it will pick up post_parent when importing. Unfortunately I didn’t check in the database before running the repair tools and they always seem to remove the hierarchy when i use them.

When I import using the fields bbp_forum_id and bbp_topic_id I am able to make some progress in that the Topics show that they are in the correct forum in the backend. But they don’t show up in the frontend.

See this post for some useful information:

Bulk-move bbPress topics

Anyway, when I import Stephen’s files, the Topics and Replies won’t show up for me. post_parent is incremented in the database when importing as far as I can tell. I have read many posts on this and other forums virtually begging for a bbpress csv importer and many of the replies mention post_parent as being central to the issues.

One example statement says “The standard WordPress Importer only sets a post’s post_parent if that post also exists in the import; it can’t map an imported post to a post that already exists in the database.”

With that in mind, I went into the database after importing Stephen’s files and I manually updated post_parent for the Topics and Replies. When I do that, the Topics and Replies show up in the frontend as they should. At least I’m understanding what needs to happen for the Topics and Replies to show up on the front end.

Having edited post_parent in the database (using phpMyadmin) I then ran the forum repair tools. Counts were updated and everything is where it should be.

I’m now almost at the point of letting sleeping dogs lie. However, I’m going to try an old plugin on my dev site and I’ll post the results of that shortly.

[Robin W]

bbpress just uses wordpress users, so if they are registered as part of your course, then bbpress will allocate them the default role (if you change nothing, then that is participant) on first login

[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