[Benjamin]

So I’m converting a forum that was originally written in Coldfusion. I have imported the data into MySQL and thought I had the forum converting correctly (all the threads were imported). However it seems like replies were added as topics and not joined with the topic they were associated with. I’ve banged my head against this problem and now have to ask for help from people who know much more than I do. In exchange I will buy you a coffee or dinner 🙂

Here’s a screenshot of the database I’m importing from

and the result

Here is my importing script

<?php

/**
 * Implementation of ECO Forums converter.
 *
 * @since bbPress (r4689)
 * @link Codex Docs http://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/custom-import
 */
class VSI extends BBP_Converter_Base {

	/**
	 * Main Constructor
	 *
	 * @uses Example_Converter::setup_globals()
	 */
	function __construct() {
		parent::__construct();
		$this->setup_globals();
	}

	/**
	 * Sets up the field mappings
	 */
	public function setup_globals() {

		/** Forum Section *****************************************************/

		// Setup table joins for the forum section at the base of this section

		// Forum id (Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'ECOFORUMS_FORUMS',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'forumid',
			'to_type'         => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_forum_id'
		);

		// Forum parent id (If no parent, then 0. Stored in postmeta)
		//$this->field_map[] = array(
		//	'from_tablename'  => 'forums_table',
		//	'from_fieldname'  => 'the_parent_id',
		//	'to_type'         => 'forum',
		//	'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_forum_parent_id'
		//);

		// Forum topic count (Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'ECOFORUMS_FORUMS',
			'from_fieldname' => 'numberoftopics',
			'to_type'        => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname'   => '_bbp_topic_count'
		);

		// Forum reply count (Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'ECOFORUMS_FORUMS',
			'from_fieldname' => 'numberofreplies',
			'to_type'        => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname'   => '_bbp_reply_count'
		);

		// Forum total topic count (Stored in postmeta)
		//$this->field_map[] = array(
		//	'from_tablename' => 'forums_table',
		//	'from_fieldname' => 'the_total_topic_count',
		//	'to_type'        => 'forum',
		//	'to_fieldname'   => '_bbp_total_topic_count'
		//);

		// Forum total reply count (Stored in postmeta)
		//$this->field_map[] = array(
		//	'from_tablename' => 'forums_table',
		//	'from_fieldname' => 'the_total_reply_count',
		//	'to_type'        => 'forum',
		//	'to_fieldname'   => '_bbp_total_reply_count'
		//);

		// Forum title.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'ECOFORUMS_FORUMS',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'forumtitle',
			'to_type'         => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_title'
		);

		// Forum slug (Clean name to avoid confilcts)
		//$this->field_map[] = array(
		//	'from_tablename'  => 'forums_table',
		//	'from_fieldname'  => 'the_forum_slug',
		//	'to_type'         => 'forum',
		//	'to_fieldname'    => 'post_name',
		//	'callback_method' => 'callback_slug'
		//);

		// Forum description.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'ECOFORUMS_FORUMS',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'forumdescription',
			'to_type'         => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_content',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_null'
		);

		// Forum display order (Starts from 1)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'ECOFORUMS_FORUMS',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'forumorder',
			'to_type'         => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'menu_order'
		);

		// Forum dates.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'to_type'         => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_date',
			'default' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s')
		);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'to_type'         => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_date_gmt',
			'default' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s')
		);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'to_type'         => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_modified',
			'default' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s')
		);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'to_type'         => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_modified_gmt',
			'default' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s')
		);

		// Setup the table joins for the forum section
		//$this->field_map[] = array(
		//	'from_tablename'  => 'groups_table',
		//	'from_fieldname'  => 'forum_id',
		//	'join_tablename'  => 'forums_table',
		//	'join_type'       => 'INNER',
		//	'join_expression' => 'USING groups_table.forum_id = forums_table.forum_id',
		//	'from_expression' => 'WHERE forums_table.forum_id != 1',
		//	'to_type'         => 'forum'
		//);

		/** Topic Section *****************************************************/

		// Setup table joins for the topic section at the base of this section

		// Topic id (Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'ECOFORUMS_MESSAGES',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'messageid',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_topic_id'
		);

		// Topic reply count (Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'ECOFORUMS_MESSAGES',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'replycount',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_reply_count',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_topic_reply_count'
		);

		// Topic total reply count (Stored in postmeta)
		//$this->field_map[] = array(
		//	'from_tablename'  => 'topics_table',
		//	'from_fieldname'  => 'the_total_topic_reply_count',
		//	'to_type'         => 'topic',
		//	'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_total_reply_count',
		//	'callback_method' => 'callback_topic_reply_count'
		//);

		// Topic parent forum id (If no parent, then 0. Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'ECOFORUMS_MESSAGES',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'forumid',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_forum_id',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_forumid'
		);

		// Topic author.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'ECOFORUMS_MESSAGES',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'memberid',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_author',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_userid'
		);

		// Topic author ip (Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'ECOFORUMS_MESSAGES',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'ipaddress',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_author_ip'
		);

		// Topic content.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'ECOFORUMS_MESSAGES',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'forummessage',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_content',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_html'
		);

		// Topic title.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'ECOFORUMS_MESSAGES',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'forumsubject',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_title'
		);

		// Topic slug (Clean name to avoid conflicts)
		//$this->field_map[] = array(
		//	'from_tablename'  => 'topics_table',
		//	'from_fieldname'  => 'the_topic_slug',
		//	'to_type'         => 'topic',
		//	'to_fieldname'    => 'post_name',
		//	'callback_method' => 'callback_slug'
		//);

		// Topic parent forum id (If no parent, then 0)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'ECOFORUMS_MESSAGES',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'forumid',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_parent',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_forumid'
		);

		// Sticky status (Stored in postmeta))
		//$this->field_map[] = array(
		//	'from_tablename'  => 'topics_table',
		//	'from_fieldname'  => 'the_topic_sticky_status',
		//	'to_type'         => 'topic',
		//	'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_old_sticky_status',
		//	'callback_method' => 'callback_sticky_status'
		//);

		// Topic dates.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'ECOFORUMS_MESSAGES',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'datecreated',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_date',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_datetime'
		);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'ECOFORUMS_MESSAGES',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'datecreated',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_date_gmt',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_datetime'
		);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'ECOFORUMS_MESSAGES',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'dateupdate',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_modified',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_datetime'
		);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'ECOFORUMS_MESSAGES',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'dateupdate',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_modified_gmt',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_datetime'
		);
		//$this->field_map[] = array(
		//	'from_tablename'  => 'topics_table',
		//	'from_fieldname'  => 'the_topic_modified_date',
		//	'to_type'         => 'topic',
		//	'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_last_active_time',
		//	'callback_method' => 'callback_datetime'
		//);

		// Setup any table joins needed for the topic section
		//$this->field_map[] = array(
		//	'from_tablename'  => 'replies_table',
		//	'from_fieldname'  => 'the_topic_id',
		//	'join_tablename'  => 'topics_table',
		//	'join_type'       => 'INNER',
		//	'join_expression' => 'USING replies_table.the_topic_id = topics_table.the_topic_id',
		//	'from_expression' => 'WHERE forums_table.the_topic_id = 0',
		//	'to_type'         => 'topic'
		//);

		
		/** Reply Section *****************************************************/

		// Setup table joins for the reply section at the base of this section

		// Reply id (Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'ECOFORUMS_MESSAGES',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'threadid',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_post_id'
		);

		// Reply parent forum id (If no parent, then 0. Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'ECOFORUMS_MESSAGES',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'forumid',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_forum_id',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_topicid_to_forumid'
		);

		// Reply parent topic id (If no parent, then 0. Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'ECOFORUMS_MESSAGES',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'replyto',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_topic_id',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_topicid'
		);

		// Reply author ip (Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'ECOFORUMS_MESSAGES',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'ipaddress',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_author_ip'
		);

		// Reply author.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'ECOFORUMS_MESSAGES',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'memberid',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_author',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_userid'
		);

		// Reply title.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'ECOFORUMS_MESSAGES',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'forumsubject',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_title'
		);

		// Reply slug (Clean name to avoid conflicts)
		//$this->field_map[] = array(
		//	'from_tablename'  => 'replies_table',
		//	'from_fieldname'  => 'the_reply_slug',
		//	'to_type'         => 'reply',
		//	'to_fieldname'    => 'post_name',
		//	'callback_method' => 'callback_slug'
		//);

		// Reply content.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'ECOFORUMS_MESSAGES',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'forummessage',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_content',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_html'
		);

		// Reply order.
		//$this->field_map[] = array(
		//	'from_tablename'  => 'replies_table',
		//	'from_fieldname'  => 'the_reply_order',
		//	'to_type'         => 'reply',
		//	'to_fieldname'    => 'menu_order'
		//);

		// Reply parent topic id (If no parent, then 0)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'ECOFORUMS_MESSAGES',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'replyto',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_parent',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_topicid'
		);

		// Reply dates.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'ECOFORUMS_MESSAGES',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'datecreated',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_date',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_datetime'
		);
		//$this->field_map[] = array(
		//	'from_tablename'  => 'replies_table',
		//	'from_fieldname'  => 'datecreated',
		//	'to_type'         => 'reply',
		//	'to_fieldname'    => 'post_date_gmt',
		//	'callback_method' => 'callback_datetime'
		//);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'ECOFORUMS_MESSAGES',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'dateupdate',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_modified',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_datetime'
		);
		//$this->field_map[] = array(
		//	'from_tablename'  => 'replies_table',
		//	'from_fieldname'  => 'dateupdate',
		//	'to_type'         => 'reply',
		//	'to_fieldname'    => 'post_modified_gmt',
		//	'callback_method' => 'callback_datetime'
		//);

		// Setup any table joins needed for the reply section
		//$this->field_map[] = array(
		//	'from_tablename'  => 'topics_table',
		//	'from_fieldname'  => 'the_topic_id',
		//	'join_tablename'  => 'replies_table',
		//	'join_type'       => 'INNER',
		//	'join_expression' => 'USING topics_table.the_topic_id = replies_table.the_topic_id',
		//	'from_expression' => 'WHERE topics_table.first_post != 0',
		//	'to_type'         => 'reply'
		//);

		/** User Section ******************************************************/

		// Setup table joins for the user section at the base of this section

		// Store old User id (Stored in usermeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'ECO_MEMBERS',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'member_id',
			'to_type'         => 'user',
			'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_user_id'
		);

		// Store old User password (Stored in usermeta serialized with salt)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'ECO_MEMBERS',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'userpassword',
			'to_type'         => 'user',
			'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_password',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_savepass'
		);

		// Store old User Salt (This is only used for the SELECT row info for the above password save)
		//$this->field_map[] = array(
		//	'from_tablename'  => 'users_table',
		//	'from_fieldname'  => 'the_users_password_salt',
		//	'to_type'         => 'user',
		//	'to_fieldname'    => ''
		//);

		// User password verify class (Stored in usermeta for verifying password)
		//$this->field_map[] = array(
		//	'to_type'         => 'user',
		//	'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_class',
		//	'default' => 'Example'
		//);

		// User name.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'ECO_MEMBERS',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'login_id',
			'to_type'         => 'user',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'user_login'
		);

		// User nice name.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'ECO_MEMBERS',
			'from_fieldname' => 'login_id',
			'to_type'        => 'user',
			'to_fieldname'   => 'user_nicename'
		);

		// User email.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'ECO_MEMBERS',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'emailaddress',
			'to_type'         => 'user',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'user_email'
		);

		// User homepage.
		//$this->field_map[] = array(
		//	'from_tablename'  => 'users_table',
		//	'from_fieldname'  => 'the_users_homepage_url',
		//	'to_type'         => 'user',
		//	'to_fieldname'    => 'user_url'
		//);

		// User registered.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'ECO_MEMBERS',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'accountcreated',
			'to_type'         => 'user',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'user_registered',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_datetime'
		);

		// User status.
		//$this->field_map[] = array(
		//	'from_tablename' => 'users_table',
		//	'from_fieldname' => 'the_users_status',
		//	'to_type'        => 'user',
		//	'to_fieldname'   => 'user_status'
		//);

		// User display name.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'ECO_MEMBERS',
			'from_fieldname' => 'login_id',
			'to_type'        => 'user',
			'to_fieldname'   => 'display_name'
		);

		// User AIM (Stored in usermeta)
		//$this->field_map[] = array(
		//	'from_tablename'  => 'users_table',
		//	'from_fieldname'  => 'the_users_aim',
		//	'to_type'         => 'user',
		//	'to_fieldname'    => 'aim'
		//);

		// User Yahoo (Stored in usermeta)
		//$this->field_map[] = array(
		//	'from_tablename'  => 'users_table',
		//	'from_fieldname'  => 'the_users_yahoo',
		//	'to_type'         => 'user',
		//	'to_fieldname'    => 'yim'
		//);

		// User Jabber (Stored in usermeta)
		//$this->field_map[] = array(
		//	'from_tablename' => 'users_table',
		//	'from_fieldname' => 'the_users_jabber',
		//	'to_type'        => 'user',
		//	'to_fieldname'   => 'jabber'
		//);

		// Setup any table joins needed for the user section
		//$this->field_map[] = array(
		//	'from_tablename'  => 'users_profile_table',
		//	'from_fieldname'  => 'the_users_id',
		//	'join_tablename'  => 'users_table',
		//	'join_type'       => 'INNER',
		//	'join_expression' => 'USING users_profile_table.the_user_id = users_table.the_user_id',
		//	'from_expression' => 'WHERE users_table.the_user_id != -1',
		//	'to_type'         => 'user'
		//);
	}

	/**
	 * This method allows us to indicates what is or is not converted for each
	 * converter.
	 */
	public function info() {
		return '';
	}

	/**
	 * This method is to save the salt and password together.  That
	 * way when we authenticate it we can get it out of the database
	 * as one value. Array values are auto sanitized by WordPress.
	 */
	public function callback_savepass( $field, $row ) {
		$pass_array = array( 'hash' => $field, 'salt' => $row['salt'] );
		return $pass_array;
	}

	/**
	 * This method is to take the pass out of the database and compare
	 * to a pass the user has typed in.
	 */
	public function authenticate_pass( $password, $serialized_pass ) {
		$pass_array = unserialize( $serialized_pass );
		return ( $pass_array['hash'] == md5( md5( $password ). $pass_array['salt'] ) );
	}
}

[privatec2]

Hi All,
I am setting up a site to help me learn, so all this is very new to me so apologies for the silly questions if it seems straight forward to others,
My Site is: martialartsavenue.com
I am using AVADA themed WordPress, vers 5.9.1
I have several plugins installed, including BBpress Version 2.5.14 and BuddyPress Version 4.3.0.

Steps to Troubleshoot:
-Spent hours on Google looking for other occurances and found several reports from years ago, and code suggestions, however i do not know how to code and scared it will cause more harm,
-I tried disabling BuddyPress plugins but still no difference.
-Tried creating a noreply@martialartsavenue.com email address in case anything was being sent to that, and confirmed nothing recieved.
-I checked with my host- siteground that they couldn’t see anything being blocked on their Mail systems, nothing appearing to be the cause on their side.
-Tried finding settings where i can add/modify email addresses or Enable/Disable who gets what and can not find.

So, I would like to know, is there any fixes for this, or are others getting it as well
-Any other suggestions I could try to fix it with?
-Also, is the Site Admin meant to also get a copy of an email to all new Topics, or just the Creators?
thanks,

[Robin W]

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Themes

As a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Plugins

If that doesn’t work, also deactivate all plugins apart from bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Then come back

[Mike Witt]

Is there anything available that adds a simple “like” to bbPress, without a lot of additional functionality?

I found a lot of older posts about this, and a number of plugins. But with the exception of “likeBTN” all of the plugins appear not to have been maintained for a long time.

[bitfixgaming]

Hi,

After activating bbpress, first time use and install, i get these errors in the admin/backend area:

Notice: Undefined offset: 0 in ***/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/topics/capabilities.php on line 80

Notice: Undefined offset: 0 in ***/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/replies/capabilities.php on line 62

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at ***/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/topics/capabilities.php:80) in ***/wp-admin/includes/misc.php on line 1196

I have tried to deactivate all plugins exept bbpress but still get this error.

I tried to create a forum but got a bunch og other errors, same kind and the admin area is not vissible, had to go back a step and deactivate bbpress to get the admin area back.

Site is not live yet, under dev.

Ideas/feedback on what might cause this would be great 🙂

[codings]

When users share topics to Twitter or Facebook, the featured image or image pulled for the post is the avatar of the OP. After trying several plugins to get it to use a default featured image (yoast seo, twitter cards meta, complete open graph, wpsso core, are a few examples), none of them helped shared topics to display a default featured image on social media posts.

What am I doing wrong?

[danbbpress]

Hello,

I have a legacy version of BBPress (0.9.0.2). I was going to migrate to the WordPress version, but that seems difficult plus mine isn’t a WordPress website.

I’d like to ask for your advice: is it safe, security wise to keep this old version of BBPress? What could happen? I have activated several plugins, including the Human Test to keep a tight control over new posts.

I’m also looking into deactivating new registrations/topics and keeping it online as an archive.

Security is my main concern.

Thank you.

[Daniel J. Lewis]

I have a large bbPress forum where the wp_postsmeta table is 2 GB! Surprisingly, I’ve not had much trouble hosting that anywhere until I tried Flywheel.

When bbPress is active, trying to log in through /wp-login.php gives me a 503 error and won’t let me into the dashboard. But if I remove bbPress from the plugins folder, I can log in successfully. This is 100% repeatable.

The Flywheel people can log in with their own admin account, but they aren’t a forum “keymaster.”

This site used to be WordPress Multisite but is now its own installation. Server is PHP 7.2.

But this exact same site runs fine when hosted on Liquid Web, or my own server via Centminmod.

Can you give any guidance? Unfortunately, the logs aren’t helpful.

[lflier]

Compared to BuddyPress, or a membership plugin like MemberPress, this is a surprisingly tedious thing to do in bbPress. I got 3/4 of the way to building it when I decided I really wanted the function on the membership account page and not in bbPress after all.

But suppose you wanted to add a tab for a page on which a user could upload an avatar using one of the many WordPress avatar plugins. Here, roughly, are the steps you would follow:

1. First, you have to create the tab. This is done by adding another list-item in bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/user-details.php.
2. In the other menu items on this template, you’ll notice that the href for the link is created by a function like ‘bbp_user_profile_edit_url()’. That’s because the user’s display name has to be part of the link. So, what you’ve got to do next is look in bbpress/includes/users/template.php and find that function. Then you’ve got to copy it, rename it, and modify it so that it creates the link you want (e.g., ‘/forums/users/username/avatar/’ ).
3. Next, you’ve got set up bbPress to parse that link. The parsing function is bbp_parse_query(), which is found at the bottom of bbpress/includes/core/template-functions.php. This function reads the URI and sets conditional tags (e.g., ‘bbpress_is_single_user_edit’) depending on what the URI is. The function is called from bbpress/includes/core/actions.php. You’ll need to copy this function somewhere else and rename it. Then remove the action that calls it and add an action that calls your function. Then, you’ll need to modify your function such that if the URI ends in ‘avatar’ it sets a conditional tag, e.g., ‘bbpress_is_single_user_avatar’.
4. Templates are loaded based on the conditional tags, and there are functions that return true or false depending on what conditional tags are present, e.g. ‘bbp_is_single_user_edit()’. These are found in bbpress/includes/common/tempate.php. You’ll have to create one of these that returns true for ‘bbpress_is_single_user_avatar’.
5. Once you’ve got that, then you can conditionally load the templates you want for the page. Templates are loaded in bbpress/includes/core/template-loader.php. The function is bbp_template_include_theme_supports(). It has a filter, so you can add a conditional that loads a template when ‘bbp_is_single_user_avatar()’ is true.

As I said, I got about 3/4 of the way to doing this when I realized that it would be clearer in my application to have the avatar in the account area of my membership plugin. But I think this is roughly how you would do it in bbPress.

[Barry]

Interesting!

Driven by curiosity, I put this plugin together. You could try installing and activating it: it should make it possible to use [topic-author] from both the new reply subject and body.

It doesn’t do much else, though it could itself readily be extended (but perhaps the better course of action would be to see if the original author of bbPress Notify can make a change there or, if it is no longer receiving updates, fork it).

At any rate, I hope this is helpful, if only as a starting point 🙂

[isc-admin]

bbPress Notify plugin

Hi, can I add tags that include the author name so that the name of the author can be added to the Notify email Subject line and email body (for both Topics and replies)?

for example: reply author name, topic author name

[Robin W]

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Themes

As a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Plugins

If that doesn’t work, also deactivate all plugins apart from bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Then come back

[Robin W]

bbPress Styling Crib

[Helmuts]

Is there a simple solution to force the site to ignore bbpress fonts and sizes?

I want bbpress to respect and use the default font and size of the theme.

Preferably in a form of few lines to be added to custom css of the active theme? I would prefer no to create child-theme (I’m using Neve) and definitely do not want to install additional plugins.

My forum: ibf.lv

I have made my forum as light as possible + made it full width and the 1st thing that can’t be ignored are different sizes and font of the forum 🙁

Thank you 🙂
Helmuts

[Robin W]

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Themes

As a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Plugins

If that doesn’t work, also deactivate all plugins apart from bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Then come back

[Martin Gerhold]

Thanks very much for taking the trouble to come up with that. At this point I should admit that I don’t use bbPress myself, but was asking on behalf of (and unbeknownst to) a forum I visit. So I know too little to pursue it myself (at this stage anyway), but will pass on the idea to them in case they want to run with it. They don’t really need more work at the moment!

I may be back – Martin

[Barry]

There are some different ways you might tackle this.

https://gist.github.com/barryhughes/ae5ca5a4684f347e8ba81e88a6501801

One is to use some code like I shared above, which could be added either to a custom plugin (preferred) or else to your theme’s functions.php file.

Alternatively, you could create a custom template override for loop-single-topic.php and make a change within the <p class="bbp-topic-meta"> section.

If that’s of interest/if you think you might prefer the second approach, we could explore the code you’d need to add to make it happen 🙂

[timgoodenoughza]

Hi

When I create a forum I can link it to my related LearnDash course. I have multiple courses, each with its own private forum. The challenge I am having is that when I click on a topic in a forum, either Learndash or bbPress “forgets” which course that topic is linked to – which means any of the course navigation menus that are part of the course then get ‘lost’ too. My Gamipress rules to show specific badges for specific courses also gets messed up with this loss in connection.

How do I link the topics to their respective Learndash courses in the same way I do the forums? When I create the topics I link them to the forums that are linked to the course, however that is not working to keep me in the correct course, when I click on a topic.

Thanks in advance
Tim

[Robin W]

doesn’t work that way. Sidebars are a theme thing, so bbpress has no control on how your theme author designs their sidebars

[douget]

did that before making this post on bbpress, wouldnt it just be easier to include these settings in bbpress ?

[Robin W]

hmmm… sidebars will be theme specific, not part of bbpress.

If you have a paid theme, suggest you contact their support

otherwise try googling ‘xx theme sidebars’

[douget]

this is how my forum looks on my website https://lightforge.web.primedtnt.com/forums/ I would appreciate any help in making this clearer to read and understand. I’m looking into finding ways to remove sidebars on forum page, but not until i can read the forum.

[artichoku]

using the added converter that was found here: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/fix-for-phpbb3-to-bbpress-conversion-script/

all I get is “Starting Conversion”

[vtm5978]

hi there,

i have a list of topics in the forum but its not listing all of them.
kindly assist?

1) WordPress 5.2
2) bbPress 2.5.14
3) link to my site – http://www.meddirect.co.za/forums

[stanislavozernyi]

We have some custom code in the mu-customisations plugin which filters bp_core_fetch_avatar to add a variety of little image overlays to the user’s avatar (e.g. instrument icon, “Team” logo). (mu_add_overlays_to_avatar() in mu-buddypress.php)

This has been working fine throughout the site, but as of today (I suspect with the upgrade of BuddyPress from 2.8.2 to 4.2.0) it no longer works in bbPress discussions.

It does still work correctly in BuddyPress content, e.g. the “login widget” at the top of the sidebar with the user’s own avatar, the activity feed in the sidebar, member profile pages. But in the author info in bbPress discussion posts, the overlays are no longer appearing.

Could you please look into what might have changed here, and why the bbPress template for showing the author avatar seems to no longer be affected by our mu_add_overlays_to_avatar filter? Thanks!
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