[6piston]

Hi BBpress people!

Okay, it’s taken me days to go through with the conversion between vbulletin and bbpress. Until now, I have yet to see my complete forums in bbpress. The process stops eventually every time I restart.

180K Threads
4.2m Post
170 Users

What I have done is:
– copied the vbulletin site to vbulletincopy
– prune it down to 100K post (replies)
– start the conversion
– it’s taken me 8hrs and i’ve only got 18,000 replies converted.

Question 1:
How else can I do this conversion? I really want to get bbpress working.
Can I try this?:
– copy 4 or 5 copies of vbulletin db
– prune posts according to date (eg: 2018 – 2015 / 2015 – 2014)
– go through the conversion again with every “batch” and let it overwrite somehow?

Question 2:
How can I copy it in stages and let the forums operate with the latest data and I can overwrite with more old threads later?

Thanks!

[Robin W]

But i have a question it is correct solution? No performace issue ?

yes it has a performance issue, every line of code has a performance issue.

No idea by what you mean ‘is it the correct solution’ This is a help service for bbpress not a free bespoke website service. I have already gone beyond the usual to help you.

It is up to you to decide the balance of SEO against performance, not me.

[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

[alananderson]

Hi,
I’m a newbie!

I’m using the WordPress theme called Directory by Templatic.

Is it possible to create two DIFFERENT Forums on my site on different pages using BBPress?

Basically the one would just be a general forum while the other would have to have security features built in.

Thank you,

Alan

[alananderson]

Hi,
I’m a newbie!

I’m using the WordPress theme called Directory by Templatic.

I’ve just downloaded and activated BBPress but I cant find it in the WP Menu on left side of page.

Could the problem be that I already have another Forum plugin active on my site?

Thank you,

Alan

[AdventureRidingNZ]

BBpress Forum Redirect ties the page of content and the forum topic used for ‘Topics for posts’ together better.

E.g. https://www.adventureridingnz.co.nz/gps-tracks-rides/north-island-tracks/makairo-track/
This page ‘uses ‘topics for posts’ to have a BBpress forum topic instead of WordPress comments underneath the page content.

The BBPress topic for the above page also appears on it’s own in the BBpress forums, in my case at https://www.adventureridingnz.co.nz/forums/topic/makairo-track/

‘BBpress Forum Redirect’ provides a URL field in the forum topic admins screen to redirect the forum url to. In my case I redirect the forum url to the page url so that when the forum topic is accessed directly via the BBpress forum, the user is redirected to the content page with the forum topic underneath. You can see this in action where https://www.adventureridingnz.co.nz/forums/topic/makairo-track/ redirects to https://www.adventureridingnz.co.nz/gps-tracks-rides/north-island-tracks/makairo-track/

Without ‘BBpress Forum Redirect’ if the user accessed the forum topic the user would be able to read the forum topic but would have no visibility of the page the topic was in regard to.

[sasenzon]

I just signed up 60 new users and put them in a new group and created a forum.
Whenever a user tries to post a topic or reply to my initial topic the page refreshes back to home.
bbpress – 2.5 14-6684
wp 4.9.4

Other forums I started last year seem to work fine.
The site is members.institutechiro.com

[tommy5725]

Hi Stephen,

Check out this: https://codex.bbpress.org/layout-and-functionality-examples-you-can-use/#26-creating-a-bbpress-specific-sidebar

Pascal.

Hello,
I have tried the info provided at the above referenced link. It sucessfully adds the sidebar option to the widgets area of the dashboard. but i still do not see a sidebar on the pages. I’m thinking it’s the coding in the second part. It states that it’s for the twenty-fifteen theme. I’m using Twenty-Seventeen. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Töm

[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

[keralat]

We have WordPress version 4.9.4 and tried to install bbPress on our site yesterday. Our site is http://www.oen.org

I have successfully created a forum index using shortcode and populated one forum with a topic. However, when I click on the Forum name from the index, I get taken to a page that merely includes our nav menu and footer (see screenshots below). I cannot get to a page that displays the forum topics. Any ideas what might be going on?

Forum index:

Forum page:

[crookie]

Hi, I have create a new Page and add thanks to bbpress style pack plugin a form where users can create their own Topics. Unfortunately it doesn’t show the TinyMCE EDITOR

[Robin W]

I suspect an update has caused a conflict

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

[jemar707]

I am trying to set the sort order alphabetical for only 1 of our forums, leaving the rest as default. I tried a function that I found in another thread below, but it resulted in all the topics just disappearing.

/*
//* Change sort order of Topics within a specified bbpress forum
function my_custom_display_topic_index_query ($args) {
$thisforumid = bbp_get_forum_id();

if($thisforumid == 15283) {
$args[‘orderby’] = ‘date’;
$args[‘order’] = ‘ASC’;
}

return $args;
}
add_filter(‘bbp_before_has_topics_parse_args’, ‘my_custom_display_topic_index_query ‘ );
*/

[nitehawk]

I admit I am a “newbie” and am having a bundle of problems. I am in the process of building a website which is still offline, and am very stuck. I am using ocean wp and I don’t know how to find out the version, but everything is new in the last 2 weeks.. sorry I really am a newbie…
I am making “TheAmericanQuarterHorse.com” and wanted to make a small forum page alongside of information pages, I had to do a whole pile of deleting and rebuilding on the forum site, but now I have the basic structure!! So that is a plus, but am stuck on the login–register-lost password widget. The first time I made it, it put the menu all over the place and the login was on every page. Iwas using bbpress tweaks, so uninstalled the bbpress tweaks, and ended up re-installing. I watched a whole pile of youtube on how to do it, and went back at it. I did all the “making the page” and putting the permalinks in the widget slot in the bbpress side bar. This time I had logins on every page BUT THE FORUM PAGE!!! This is the 3rd time I have deleted everything and started over.. I am about to forget the whole thing or use a different forum widget. I am STUCK. Any ideas??
The other thing is the text is sooo thin and tiny on the forum page it is hard to see. I have heard something about css, but have no clue about what that is or how to use it..
Would really appreciate any ideas..
thanks

[Robin W]

There is not a specific importer for Microsoft dynamics 365, but importing from a sql database is possible if you know where the data is stored.

If you download bbpress, you can find an example importer in

includes/admin/convertors/example.php

if you can map where the data is in the source, then this can be tailored to import

[codej]

Hi,

So my client says that their site currently runs on Microsoft Dynamics 365. We are currently in process of designing a WordPress site for them. They would like their forum/message board to be redesigned and to use another forum software instead (like bbPress, for example). I am by no means familiar with the inner workings of Microsoft Dynamics or bbPress and haven’t had the chance to poke around in the client’s current website (we are not at this stage yet).

Does anyone know how I can export all of the current posts and users from Microsoft Dynamics to the new forum software like bbPress? I assume there is a file I need?

If I sound like I have no clue what I’m doing, then it’s because I really don’t right now. This is new territory for me. I apologize.

Thank you!

[Robin W]

bbpress powers some very large forums, including this one.

Performance could be down to many many factors, and I’m not sure that we can help.

[excelvba]

Good evening, I have big problems with my performance forum bbpress recently installed. Can you give me some indication?
Wp 4.9.4
Bbpress: 2.5.14
Link: excelvba.it/
forumexcel

[Robin W]

I don’t understand quite what ‘bbPress Forum Redirect’ does – the plugin page seems to say it just takes you to an external site?

1. What are you putting into the url on the metabox,
2. I don’t understand what the user is doing can you give an example of what they are clicking/typing to start
3. Can you then say what happens without and what happens with that is different ?

[joseamarq]

My website is https // autoforma.es. I am trying to disable bbpress but when I do it disappears from the left menu the dashboard.

I mean, I can not access https://autoforma.es/wp-admin/index.php

The message that comes out is: Sorry, you do not have permission to access this page.

What can I do to disable it without problems?

As a help, I do not know if it will work, I can tell you that I have installed the Optimizemember plugin, which also accesses user permissions.

Thanks in advance

Version BBpress: 2.5.14

[dmb1319]

WordPress version – 4.9.3
Theme – Generate Press Pro
bbPress version – 2.5.14
link to your site – nuatv.com
Simple WordPress Membership – 3.6.0

I use Simple WordPress Membership to secure member only pages on our site, including the BBPress Forum index. The Forum is on a protected page with the shortcode:
[bbp-forum-index]
The index page is listed in the WordPress pages.
However, if I open a forum post page like:

General discussion

this page does NOT appear in the list of WordPress pages and therefore I cannot apply access settings to the page.

Where ARE the various forum pages and how can I get to them to set access permissions? I want to restrict forum access to site members only.

[Stephen Edgar]

You can use the standard WordPress import and export tool, no need for a bbPress to bbPress importer

[AdventureRidingNZ]

For good UX you also need the plugin ‘bbPress Forum Redirect’ so that when a user accesses the forum topic directly the topic is redirected to the page with the forum topic displays underneath so that the user gets the page content and the forum posts, not just the forum posts.

That plugin suffers the same where it hasn’t been updated in a year and 3 major WP versions and needs PHP 7.x compatibility updates.

[AdventureRidingNZ]

The “bbpress topics for posts” plugin does still work, I use it extensively on my site and have done for over 3 years.

Forums

I’m currently running WP 4.9.2 and whatever the latest version of BBPress is in Prod and in test I’ve just installed WP 4.9.3 and it’s looking ok under that as well.

One thing that does need doing for the plugin is to bring it up to PHP7.x compatibility.

[webcrawler2050]

Hey All,

So i’ve just installed the plugin. All working great, fab, thank you!

However, i’ve created some someforums BUT when I go to the actual forum front end i get this

Database Errors
Query Call Stack Component Error Code Error Message
SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wasp_posts.ID
FROM wasp_posts
INNER JOIN wasp_postmeta
ON ( wasp_posts.ID = wasp_postmeta.post_id )
WHERE 1=1
AND wasp_posts.post_parent = 656
AND ((()))
AND ( wasp_postmeta.meta_key = ‘_bbp_last_active_time’ )
AND wasp_posts.post_type = ‘topic’
AND (wasp_posts.post_status = ‘publish’
OR wasp_posts.post_status = ‘closed’
OR wasp_posts.post_status = ‘private’
OR wasp_posts.post_status = ‘hidden’)
GROUP BY wasp_posts.ID
ORDER BY wasp_postmeta.meta_value DESC
LIMIT 0, 15
apply_filters(‘template_include’)
wp-includes/plugin.php:203
bbp_template_include()
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/core/sub-actions.php:436
apply_filters(‘bbp_template_include’)
wp-includes/plugin.php:203
bbp_template_include_theme_compat()
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/core/theme-compat.php:559
BBP_Shortcodes->display_forum()
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/shortcodes.php:241
bbp_get_template_part()
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/core/template-functions.php:43
bbp_locate_template()
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/core/template-functions.php:105
load_template(‘~/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/content-single-forum.php’)
wp-includes/template.php:690
bbp_has_topics()
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/topics/template.php:203
WP_Query->__construct()
wp-includes/class-wp-query.php:3336
WP_Query->query()
wp-includes/class-wp-query.php:3230
WP_Query->get_posts()
wp-includes/class-wp-query.php:2821
Plugin: bbpress 1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘))) AND ( wasp_postmeta.meta_key = ‘_bbp_last_active_time’ ) AND wasp_posts.’ at line 1