[richardt111]

Yes, had bbpress running for about 8 months now and no issues ever before.

Permalink reset has not worked unfortunately!

[Robin W]

sorry, what I meant was ‘were users able to post topics and replies and now can’t, or have you recently added bbpress and topics and replies have never worked’

and did you try resetting permalinks?

[Robin W]

ok, so

your site was working – and with no changes that you are aware of, it is now not working ?
it happens every time
with a default theme AND just bbpress the error happens – yes?

try

dashboard>settings>permalinks and just click save – this just resets the permalinks

[longtall]

Tearing my hair out here trying to change the content container to transparent. I’ve tried changing the bbpress.css file, putting custom css in the bbl style pack, but nothing seems to work.
Really appreciate some help here as I don’t what else I can do.
WordPress 4.9.8
bbPress 2.5.14
http://dftasmania.com/forums/topic/test-topic/
Thanks in advance.
Cheers
Longtall

[nemoprofeta]

Hello,
we are migrating our site which includes a bbPress forum. The migration process is pretty long. So we’d rather not close the forum for a long time.

We’ll start the migration import the whole database. The rest of the process will take several days. This means that in the meantime new discussions will be added to the forum.

We thought we could add those new discussions using the XML importer. But in our tests it didn’t work. The discussions don’t show up in the frontend. And when we try to fix them with the bbPress tools, they disappear.

Is there a way to do it?

[maxlevel]

@robin-w 1 and 2 both yes and I will contact you.

@odevbul Thanks, I already tested the above plugin as well as this
bbPress Moderation By Ian Stanley

The problem is that both plugins work for all forums and I need it for only one of my forums.

[Robin W]

It could be a theme or plugin issue issue, so you’ll need to test to find out which

Themes

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

Plugins

Deactivate all but 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 – Moderation Tools

[msmohanish2017]

I have installed bbPress plugin on my WordPress site. I just wanted to know if there is any moderator approval option is available. I want Topics and Replies get visible only when they are approved by Administrator.

[cindyy]

EN(English) and TC (Traditional Chinese) . Forum and topics seems to be working properly during the translation. But when it come to the replies section, I tried translating and it saves properly, but upon visiting the replies for the translated language TC the reply being translated cannot be seen. it says it is done translating to TC but the post reply cannot be seen. Is this a bug?

[sourfew]

Why can’t bbpress have it’s own table to store posts etc? This will speed up db queries when using post tracking etc.
bbpress is very barebone but not very powerfull. There are plugins that extend the functionality but because of bbpress architecture it will not scale well.
Everything is stored in postmeta which grow very large. I have hundred of thousands of posts and for every post there is 10 entries in the postmeta table.

I think if bbpress can have a “normal” way of storing it’s information it will attract more users and more developers. Dedicated forum systems like Xenforo etc are superior but they are lacking everything else that you want to have on your site. There are bridges etc but it will never be the same.

There are other forums for wordpress like wpForo and Asgaros but they don’t really cut it at the moment.

Let’s bring bbPress alive by giving it a new fresh db table layout!!!

[Gregg]

Well, I can tell you I’m totally unimpressed with the import routine for phpBB. Last count I’ve spent over 10 hours trying to figure out each of the little gotchas. And just when I’m able to get the routine to run – it doesn’t import a bloody thing. At this point, I’m about to just give up and scrap 14 years of forum posts. That or abandon bbPress and focus on fixing phpBB. Rather sad state of affairs.

[elxafil]

Greetings,

I am looking for the pro version of the plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-user-ranks-lite/ which allows the ability for me to have role based badges below certain members on my forums however both the author’s website and the codecanyon posts of this plugin have been disabled so I am unable to get this plugin, if anyone has a copy they can send me or somewhere I can buy it I will be greatful.

[odevbul]

I think this plugin works

bbPress – Moderation Tools

[Robin W]

lots of ways to do this, you might want to have a think about the best for you

I have a plugin called

Private groups

which lets you set up groups and may be the best solution

alternately

if you are able to ftp and edit files the message is held in

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/feedback-no-forums.php

so

create a directory on your theme called ‘bbpress’
ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/feedback-no-forums.php
Make a copy of this file, and put in in the directory called bbpress that you created above, so you end up with
wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/feedback-no-forums.php
bbPress will now use this template instead of the original
and you can amend this

so go into it and amend the message to what you desire.

You could instead put this in your functions file or put it in a code plugin such as

PHP code snippets (Insert PHP)

function rew_change_text( $translated_text, $text, $domain ) {
	if ( $text == 'Oh bother! No forums were found here!' ) {
	$translated_text = 'whatever you want it to say in here!' ;
	}
	return $translated_text;
}

add_filter( 'gettext', 'rew_change_text', 20, 3 );

[rgilman]

How can I code an activity stream that lists only the most recent post for each topic, not all recent posts (which can include many posts from the same topic) as the standard widget does?

I’m using bbPress 2.5.14, BuddyPress 3.20 and WordPress 4.9.8 on a local dev server so no public link to the site.

[krioteh]

I’m forked Buddy-bbPress Support Topic in GitHub, now it works with 2.6.
True, I do not fully understand what I did 🙂

[krioteh]

Buddy-bbPress Support The topic still works with bbPress 2.6, albeit with errors.
You can return the form to the console settings of a specific forum using this code:

add_action('add_meta_boxes', 'bbbp_support'); 
add_action('save_post', 'bbbp_save'); 

function bbbp_support() {
	add_meta_box('bbbp_support', 'BbbPress Support', 
	'bbbp_support_callback', 'forum'); 
}
// HTML код блока
function bbbp_support_callback( $forum = falce ){
		if ( empty( $forum->ID ) ) {
			return;
		}

		$support_feature = bpbbpst_get_forum_support_setting( $forum->ID );

		$mailing_list_style = '';
		if ( 3 === (int) $support_feature ) {
			$mailing_list_style = 'style="display:none"';
		}

		$support_only_style = 'style="display:none"';

		if ( 2 === (int) $support_feature ) {
			$support_only_style = '';
		}

		bpbbpst_display_forum_setting_options( $support_feature );
		?>
		<div class="bpbbpst-mailing-list" <?php echo $mailing_list_style;?>>
			<h4><?php _e( 'Who should receive an email notification when a new support topic is posted ?', 'buddy-bbpress-support-topic' );?></h4>

			<?php bpbbpst_checklist_moderators( $forum->ID );?>
		</div>

		<?php do_action_ref_array( 'bpbbpst_forum_support_options', array( $forum->ID, $mailing_list_style ) ); ?>

		<div class="bpbbpst-support-guides" <?php echo $support_only_style;?>>
			<h4><?php _e( 'New Topic form extras', 'buddy-bbpress-support-topic' );?></h4>
			<label class="screen-reader-text" for="support-topic-intro"><?php esc_html_e( 'New Topic Guide', 'buddy-bbpress-support-topic' ); ?></label>
			<textarea rows="3" cols="40" name="_bpbbpst_support_topic[intro]" id="support-topic-intro" style="width:100%"><?php echo bpbbpst_get_forum_support_topic_intro( $forum->ID );?></textarea>
			<p class="description"><?php printf( esc_html__( 'Use this field to insert some instructions above the new topic form. Allowed tags are: %s', 'buddy-bbpress-support-topic' ), join( ', ', array_keys( (array) wp_kses_allowed_html( 'forum' ) ) ) ); ?></p>

			<label class="screen-reader-text" for="support-topic-tpl"><?php esc_html_e( 'New Topic Template', 'buddy-bbpress-support-topic' ); ?></label>
			<textarea rows="3" cols="40" name="_bpbbpst_support_topic[tpl]" id="support-topic-tpl" style="width:100%"><?php echo bpbbpst_get_forum_support_topic_template( $forum->ID );?></textarea>
			<p class="description"><?php esc_html_e( 'The text added within this field will be used as a template for the content of new topics.', 'buddy-bbpress-support-topic' ); ?></p>
		</div>
		<?php

		do_action_ref_array( 'bpbbpst_forum_support_options_after_guides', array( $forum->ID, $support_only_style ) );
	}
	function bbbp_save( $forum_id = 0 ) {
		$support_feature   = false;
		$is_forum_category =  bbp_is_forum_category( $forum_id );

		if ( ! empty( $_POST['_bpbbpst_forum_settings'] ) ) {
			$support_feature = absint( $_POST['_bpbbpst_forum_settings'] );
		}

		// Forum is not a category, save the support metas
		if ( ! empty( $support_feature ) && ! $is_forum_category ) {
			update_post_meta( $forum_id, '_bpbbpst_forum_settings', $support_feature );

			if ( 3 === (int) $support_feature ) {
				delete_post_meta( $forum_id, '_bpbbpst_support_recipients' );
				delete_post_meta( $forum_id, '_bpbbpst_support_topic_intro' );
				delete_post_meta( $forum_id, '_bpbbpst_support_topic_tpl' );
			} else {
				$recipients = ! empty( $_POST['_bpbbpst_support_recipients'] ) ? array_map( 'intval', $_POST['_bpbbpst_support_recipients'] ) : false ;

				if ( ! empty( $recipients ) && is_array( $recipients ) && count( $recipients ) > 0 ) {
					update_post_meta( $forum_id, '_bpbbpst_support_recipients', $recipients );
				} else {
					delete_post_meta( $forum_id, '_bpbbpst_support_recipients' );
				}

				if ( 2 === (int) $support_feature ) {
					if ( ! empty( $_POST['_bpbbpst_support_topic']['intro'] ) ) {
						update_post_meta( $forum_id, '_bpbbpst_support_topic_intro', wp_unslash( $_POST['_bpbbpst_support_topic']['intro'] ) );
					} else {
						delete_post_meta( $forum_id, '_bpbbpst_support_topic_intro' );
					}

					if ( ! empty( $_POST['_bpbbpst_support_topic']['tpl'] ) ) {
						update_post_meta( $forum_id, '_bpbbpst_support_topic_tpl', wp_unslash( $_POST['_bpbbpst_support_topic']['tpl'] ) );
					} else {
						delete_post_meta( $forum_id, '_bpbbpst_support_topic_tpl' );
					}
				} else if ( ! empty( $_POST['_bpbbpst_support_topic'] ) ) {
					delete_post_meta( $forum_id, '_bpbbpst_support_topic_intro' );
					delete_post_meta( $forum_id, '_bpbbpst_support_topic_tpl' );
				}
			}

			do_action( 'bpbbpst_forum_settings_updated', $forum_id, $support_feature );

		// Check for support metas to eventually remove them
		} else if ( $is_forum_category ) {
			$support_feature = get_post_meta( $forum_id, '_bpbbpst_forum_settings', true );

			if ( ! empty( $support_feature ) ) {
				delete_post_meta( $forum_id, '_bpbbpst_forum_settings' );
				delete_post_meta( $forum_id, '_bpbbpst_support_recipients' );
				delete_post_meta( $forum_id, '_bpbbpst_support_topic_intro' );
				delete_post_meta( $forum_id, '_bpbbpst_support_topic_tpl' );
			}
		}

		return $forum_id;
	}

Unfortunately, I have not yet found a way to eliminate errors when editing themes in the console: (

[Robin W]

@domeboys I have remove the error code as it looked like it contained the card details of one of your customers.

I can only repeat that you had a working site a week or so ago, and something changed to create the issues you have now. bbpress has not changed, but something has caused an error.

This could be down to many issues, including updates you have done, or database corruption.

I appreciate that you are feeling very frustrated.

In your position, I would be asking HostGator to revert my site to before the issue and see if that fixes. I would also suggest you turn on debug to see if that reveals a site error.

bbpress runs on over 300,000 websites worldwide, but there are infinite combinations of themes, plugins and data that make it impossible to say that bbpress will work in all circumstances, but the fact that your was, should mean that it could be again.

I wish you luck in resolving.

[domeboys]

Following is the note I received from HostGator Level 4 support (aka Admins). They are calling my problem a “script malfunction” attributed to bbPress.

Please advise on what you recommend as next step.

Thank you,
Brian Walton

Thank you for contacting Hostgator Support. I’ve dug through this issue a good deal. I found that the 500 error on thecardinalnation.com definitely appears to be the result of bbpress. I traced the loading of the site with system calls, and found a number of database queries, and then a segfault.

=====================================================================
=====================================================================

After disabling bbpress, this behavior stops. I’ve tried a number of PHP versions and reviewed server settings but found no obvious configuration-level cause. While we are happy to help where we can, we are not developers, so our ability to assist with script malfunctions like these is limited. I would recommend working with a developer or the plugin developers more specifically. If you receive any information you believe we can assist with, please let us know and we will be happy to investigate further.

Sincerely,
David F.
Systems Administrator II

[Robin W]

see

Subscribing to forum does not subscribe to all topics in forum

[eviang]

Hi there, I took a look at that article (https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started/forum-moderation/common-tasks/#deleting-topics) and cannot see the Trash Admin Link referenced for deleting topics from the frontend.

Could you please advise where this might be found?

Thanks,
Evian

[cindyy]

I was integrating the WPML for bbpress and it was going well until in the reply thread.

[BrianHenryIE]

I’ve been working on a converter to import our Invision v4 forum to bbPress. I’ve got the users, forums and topics all importing reasonably well.

https://github.com/EnhancedAthlete/bbPress-Invision-v4-Converter

I’m having trouble with the titles which are stored in a language table:

core_sys_lang_words

| word_id | ... | word_app | ... | word_key | word_default | word_custom | ...
| 8379 | ... | forums | ... | forums_forum_2 | Generic Discussion | Generic Discussion | ...

To retrieve a single forum title, I can use:
SELECT word_default as forum_name FROM ipbforum.core_sys_lang_words WHERE word_key = CONCAT('forums_forum_', 2)

or to retrieve them all, something like:

SELECT word_default 
FROM ipbforum.core_sys_lang_words 
WHERE word_app = 'forums' 
	AND word_key IN 
    (SELECT CONCAT(prefix, id)  FROM 
		(SELECT 'forums_forum_' as prefix, ipbforum.forums_forums.id 
        FROM ipbforum.forums_forums) 
        AS t)

Or all with the forum ids:

SELECT ipbforum.core_sys_lang_words.word_default as forum_name, word_key_table.forum_id as forum_id 
FROM ipbforum.core_sys_lang_words, 
	(SELECT CONCAT(prefix, id) AS word_key, 
					id AS forum_id 
			FROM 
				(SELECT 'forums_forum_' AS prefix, 
								ipbforum.forums_forums.id 
						FROM ipbforum.forums_forums) 
                        AS temp)
	AS word_key_table
WHERE ipbforum.core_sys_lang_words.word_key = word_key_table.word_key

but I’m struggling to figure out how to write that in the BBP_Converter_Base extended class field_map[].

I’ve looked at some other converters and don’t see anything similarly complicated so I’m assuming there’s a more straightforward way.

Any pointers appreciated! Once this is figured, the converter should be good enough for most people’s use.

[Robin W]

@frendeliko https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3198

it is sitting waiting for 2.5.15 or 2.6