[Harsh]

I am using bbpress too and the group forums don’t show @mention users highlighted or any notifications to tagged user.

[Robin W]

so you are not using bbpress ?

[Robin W]

It could be a theme or plugin issue

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.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[staq]

Hi,

I was able to set up and add forums no problem when i first downloaded and installed bbPress, however, after that first time, the forum section in my dashboard sidebar has disappeared. I cannot find ANYWHERE in my settings, users nor on the forum page itself where I can add and edit forums. I have tired everything, even unactivating, deleting and reinstalling bbPress multiple times. I am very frustrated as I need to change and add forums for work.

Some help would be much appreiciated.

Thanks,

The STAQ team.

[Robin W]

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

no. 17

or

bbp style pack

[webmasterfreya]

Hi Robin,

Thanks for your reply.
I do not have this plugin bbp private groups.

In the mean time I found out that the same applies to the overwiew of topic subscriptions.

https://www.freya.nl/members/erwintest/forums/subscriptions/ shows only the topic subscriptions from the Non private fora.

Logged in as administrator all topic subcriptions for the user are visible ( including the topic subscriptions within private fora).

Initialy I thought it should be a problem somewhere in Buddypress (because there one can create private groups and forum) but they pointed me to bbPress.

[Robin W]

Not sure you can define this as a bug. If you disable the admin area, logically you are saying that you don’t want admin access 🙂 Most people just turn it off for anyone but admins.

How have you ‘disabled’ the admin area?

and without bbpress, how do you switch between the site and the admin area without typing wp-admin ?

[u_Oi]

Hi @pauldlb

Try this… Paste the follow code into function.php (Appearance – Editor – Functions.php)

/* Remove SideBar From bbPress Profiles and Topics*/
function disable_all_widgets( $sidebars_widgets ) {
if ( function_exists('is_bbpress') ) {
if (is_bbpress()) {
$sidebars_widgets = array(false);
remove_all_actions('bp_register_widgets');
unregister_sidebar( 'bp_core_widgets' );
}
}
return $sidebars_widgets;
}
add_filter('sidebars_widgets', 'disable_all_widgets', 1, 1);

[matrixino]

Hello,
I migrated from phpBB to bbPress recently. My forum has ~1Million posts. My postmeta table is 30GB.
Is there anything I can do to shrink it?
I noticed there are many lines for every post like _bbp_old_xxxx, which i suspect comes from migration.
It’s safe to delete all those records with _old_ in it? Or anything else? 30GB seems quite too much even for that amount of posts, compared to the old phpbb db size…

[webmasterfreya]

ello,

Members of private groups are missing in their overviews the started topics and created replies from private forum(s) .

e.g Group member erwintest (member of 1 group) added some topics and replies in the private forum that should (at least i expect that) pop up via this link
/members/erwintest/forums/ and /members/erwintest/forums/replies/ but they don’t.

However if i logon as administrator and use the same links, the started topics and created replies placed in the private forum of user erwintest do popup.

Is this expected behaviour or not?

With Non private forums there is no problem.

site: freya.nl
Latest WordPress, bbPresss and Buddypress

[Raju Kocharekar]

I have the same issue. Just to add further to this issue, when I deactivated the learnpress bbpress integration plugin, the forum role column reverted back to the original forum roles. I am able to change the user forum role then.

[DianaN]

Hi Experts,

BBPress 2.5.14 and also using BB style pack 3.9.2
Wordpress version 4.9.6
Site url: StandUpGirl.com

Issue:
I am getting many errors in the google search console for titles that have words like haven’t, won’t, I’m which are contraction words. These words show up as this sample /forums/topic/i-haven-t-posted-in-a-while-but/ where you can see the word haven’t is haven-t. The search bots don’t understand the ‘t’ and I get errors. Also if a user puts an comma in the title I get errors.

How do I fix this?

Thank you so much for giving me help!
Diana

[evildrome]

Hmmm… this error from class-bbp-converter-base.php seems never to be shown:

// Connection failed
if ( ! $this->opdb->db_connect( false ) ) {
$error = new WP_Error( ‘bbp_converter_db_connection_failed’, esc_html__( ‘Database connection failed.’, ‘bbpress’ ) );
wp_send_json_error( $error );
}

You can leave all the database fields blank or enter rubbish and it still says:

Stopped

Starting Import…

Ready to go.

Which leads me to wonder, what other informational/error messages are not shown.

[Stephen Edgar]

Checkout the phpBB converter, it’s one of the best example implementations.

Use _bbp_old_topic_id to grab your old topic id:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/includes/admin/converters/phpBB.php#L183

p.s. The above phpBB converter uses bbPress 2.6 alpha which has many new refinements for the importer over bbPress 2.5, I’d suggest you use bbPress 2.6 alpha for any imports due to those improvements, it can be found here https://bbpress.org/download (bbPress.org and wordpress.org both use bbPress 2.6)

[shagee]

I get the error message “Oh bother! No topics were found here!”. I have installed bbpress and working on a divi theme. My shortcode for forum works but not my topics or index short code and I get this error. https://motionspecificrelease.ca/msr-community/

[evildrome]

Wordpress 4.9.6
bbPress 2.5.14

http://www.personalgroupware.com/wilsonlogan/

Hi All,

I have a forum in SQLITE format and I want to import it into bbPress.

I decided that if I was going to have to convert to a MYSQL database, I might as well use the schema indicated in Example.php

As I didn’t *actually* have the schema, I had to *guess* based on the fields in Example.php

For example:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS forums_table (

_bbp_old_forum_id int(10) NOT NULL default 0,

the_parent_id int(10) NOT NULL default 0,

the_topic_count int(10) NOT NULL default 0,

the_reply_count int(10) NOT NULL default 0,

the_total_topic_count int(10) NOT NULL default 0,

the_total_reply_count int(10) NOT NULL default 0,

the_forum_title varchar(150) NOT NULL default ‘ ‘,

the_forum_slug varchar(255) NOT NULL default ‘ ‘,

the_forum_description text NOT NULL,

the_forum_order int(10) NOT NULL default 0,

the_forum_type int(10) NOT NULL default 0,

the_forum_status int(10) NOT NULL default 0

);

Having created the database as it is in Example.php, all I needed to do was load the MYSQL database from my SQLITE database.

Job done!

Yeah? Not so fast…

The import fails here:

SELECT convert(topics_table.the_topic_id USING “utf8mb4”)
AS the_topic_id,convert(topics_table.the_topic_reply_count USING “utf8mb4”)
AS the_topic_reply_count,convert(topics_table.the_total_topic_reply_count USING “utf8mb4”)
AS the_total_topic_reply_count,convert(topics_table.the_topic_parent_forum_id USING “utf8mb4”)
AS the_topic_parent_forum_id,convert(topics_table.the_topic_author_id USING “utf8mb4”)
AS the_topic_author_id,convert(topics_table.the_topic_author_ip_address USING “utf8mb4”)
AS the_topic_author_ip_address,convert(topics_table.the_topic_content USING “utf8mb4”)
AS the_topic_content,convert(topics_table.the_topic_title USING “utf8mb4”)
AS the_topic_title,convert(topics_table.the_topic_slug USING “utf8mb4”)
AS the_topic_slug,convert(topics_table.the_topic_sticky_status USING “utf8mb4”)
AS the_topic_sticky_status,convert(topics_table.the_topic_creation_date USING “utf8mb4”)
AS the_topic_creation_date,convert(topics_table.the_topic_modified_date USING “utf8mb4”)
AS the_topic_modified_date,convert(replies_table.the_topic_id USING “utf8mb4”)
AS the_topic_id FROM topics_table AS topics_table INNER JOIN replies_table
AS replies_table USING replies_table.the_topic_id = topics_table.the_topic_id WHERE forums_table.the_topic_id = 0 LIMIT 0, 100

Lookee thar… a mystery field!

forums_table.the_topic_id

Are there any other mandatory fields in the import schema that are not referenced in Example.php?

And… what field from my database should I load to forums_table.the_topic_id ?

Thanks!

[vibhuu]

bbPress includes a tool to delete all the bbPress data

Install and activate the bbPress plugin again
Go to Tools -> Forums -> “Reset Forums” tab
Check the “Are you sure you want to do this?” checkbox
Click “Reset bbPress”
Deactivate and delete the bbPress plugin
This will remove all bbPress data from your WordPress database, including custom post types, topic tag taxonomy and user meta.
AFCAT 2019

[timsilva_]

The Trac section of the bbpress.org website has some issues in the header/navigation. It’s been like that for a few months, keep forgetting to point it out.

It should look like this: https://i.imgur.com/1BtCGv8.png

…but it looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/x3LB6QV.png

I have checked on a few computers/browsers.

[Anonymous User 16233087]

What is min hosting requirements for bbPress

[Clivesmith]

I am trying to stick a reply at the top of the replies page, can anyone help please.
to explain..
I have a forum called countries containing
forums for each country, inside each country (forum) are topics called airport names,
inside each topic (airport names) are replies, I would like to stick one of the replies to the top of the list of replies for that airport, the one I want to stick is unlikely to be the first entry for that airport.
I hope that makes sense.

WordPress 4.9.6 running twentytwelve child theme theme, bbpress Version 2.5.14

the website is https://wateratairports.com

[u_Oi]

Code goes into the file functions.php that you can find on Appearance – Editor – Function.php. Open the file and paste it at the end. Just be careful because depending the theme code it can work fine or break your wordpress (if it breaks the wp just remove the code using cpanel or ftp).

The code allow you to upload featured image for bbpress forums. Then you can give it css style for a better looking.

To do this you need administrator access.

[u_Oi]

With follow code you can upload a featured image for forums… But if you want a good looking image on social networks I recommend you install Yoast (for example) to upload a custom image for share options.

/* Add Featured Image to bbPress Forums */
add_post_type_support('forum', array('thumbnail'));
function ks_forum_icons() {
if ( 'forum' == get_post_type() ) {
global $post;
if ( has_post_thumbnail($post->ID) )
echo get_the_post_thumbnail($post->ID,'thumbnail',array('class' => 'alignleft forum-icon'));
}
}
add_action('bbp_theme_before_forum_title','ks_forum_icons');

Source Link

[cclemens]

WordPress Version: 4.9.6
bbPress Version: 2.5.14
National Braille Association

When we post a link to our forums on Facebook, the link preview isn’t very attractive. In an attempt to make that appear differently on Facebook, I’ve created a ‘Featured Image’. I went in to our website to upload that image, but since there is no Page where bbPress lives on our site, I can’t find a way to apply an image to the forum as a “featured image”.

How can I make that happen?

[Martin J]

Thanks for the follow up. Here is what I did…

1. Disabled all plugins except bbpress
2. I switched to a WP default theme, ie: twentyfifteen and twentyseventeen
3. Did the above with Chrome, Firefox, and MS Edge browsers

Same thing still happens. So with the admin bar disabled, and logging in from the default WP login screen, and with bbpress enabled, I just get redirected to the site’s front page — no admin page. So I still have to add wp-admin/ at the end of the url address to get into the admin area. If I disable bbpress, then everything works normal. Enable it again, goes back to the issue.

As mentioned, I’ve encountered this for at least a couple years. So based on testing, it’s not theme related and not plugin (other plugins) related. Something about bbpress is redirecting after logging in with the default WP login and not sending me directly into the admin.

If there is something coded in bbpress for “Forum logging in” for front-end users, then I can see this being relevant. However, logging into the admin, is the problem.

[webmasterfreya]

Hi,

I have the following code in my themes functions.php
function bbp_reverse_reply_order( $query = array() ) { // bbp_has_replies_query is depricated ?
$query['order']='DESC';
return $query;
}
add_filter('bbp_has_replies_query','bbp_reverse_reply_order');

This works fine except when a new reply is added, you get redirected to the page with the oldest replies instead of the page that contains the just added reply. This seems to be an old problem, have tried various plugins, but they all lead to the same outcome.

So the question is how to force, after adding a new reply, to be directed to the right page.

site freya.nl, latest versions WordPress and bbPress.