[Robin W]

ok, so we need to look at exactly what this law does.
The law is here :

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/en/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32016R0679

and from my reading you can pretty much forget the scare stuff in google !

Ignore the recitals (they are not part of the law) and skip to the actual articles
So first scope :
Article 3 says :

This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data wholly or partly by automated means and to the processing other than by automated means of personal data which form part of a filing system or are intended to form part of a filing system.

So what is processing?
Article 4 (2) says

processing’ means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction;

and what is personal data ?
This is defined by article 4(1) which states

‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’);

And goes on to define what identifiable means (as opposed to say anonymised data)

an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;

So personal data is information relating to a ‘data subject’ and is processed. So NOT comment written by that data subject, or other people’s views on either the data subject himself or other people’s views on the data subject’s views. If it is wrong, defaming or libellous then this is already covered by existing law.

There is no requirement to delete topics or replies as far as I can see.

A good analogy would be if I had a newspaper subscription. If I cancel the subscription to their on-line service, then I would expect them to delete my name, address, bank account details or anything else they hold in connection with that subscription. The legislation as far as I can see does not require them to delete their on-line coverage of my wedding, nor the comment I put in the comment box under that news story about Madonna adopting another child. Neither of those is personal data. Nor is someone else’s @mentions of my name. Otherwise we could all just write to every paper, and no-one could publish anything about us ever again !!!

If this law really gave you the right to have posts removed, then this would be huge and making headlines. For instance the newspapers would be all over the fact that after April Facebook, Instagram twitter etc. would have to delete all posts made by me, or about me or where I could be identified. This would be a MEGA story – and we would all know about it by now.

It IS appropriate for website owners to consider – as if asked to delate a user, you would need to totally remove their existence not just from the current wordpress database (which deleting a user does) but also from any membership plugins, woocommerce plugins etc, etc.

But I see no way that bbpress needs to worry about this law.

But I’m not a lawyer.

[Robin W]

I haven’t read this thread in detail, so am not endorsing the suggested change, but the file is in

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/convertor.php

[6piston]

Hi all, I have converted my vbulletin forums to bbpress (a heavily pruned version of my big db)

– The conversion completed perfectly
– I ran the all repair jobs perfectly (except for user roles)
– The users are all imported perfectly
– the forum runs perfectly except..

The Problem:
All replies in every topic shows anonymous instead of user

is there any way to fix this?

thanks

[Pascal Casier]

We will have weekly meetings on slack in the #gdpr-compliance channel. So if you are on slack, feel free to join. Core will be the discussion, but bbPress and others will follow based on that outcome of course.

[Robin W]

sorry, but we can’t open every plugin to see why it doesn’t work with bbpress 🙁

[crookie]

Unfortunately it depends from bbPress.. so far no one could add a Custom Button to TinyMCE

[crookie]

Hi, I am using this Plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbspoiler/

The button ‘spoiler’ is not visible in bbpress frontend. Only in admin backend.

[krioteh]

Are themes and answers displayed in the console?
Type of record when importing has not changed?

Perhaps the topics were imported as posts, then this plugin can help: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-move-topics/

You can also try to put bbPress 2.6RC5, in it there are some additional tools …

[ronh5]

I’ve inherited a WordPress site (v3.2.1) running bbPress v2.0. I’d like to update everything to current releases and then see about adding some features. I’ve run into roadblocks at every turn.

Because of custom plugins, I can’t upgrade anything, as it all breaks right away, so I thought I’d start with a fresh install of WordPress (v4.9.4) and bbPress (v2.5.14) and try to re-create the site.

I can’t get the old posts out of the old site and into the new one.

I tried “bbPress Import & Export”, which doesn’t do anything (blank screen when I try to export), but was able to get an XML file out of the Tools->Export page.

When I tried to import it on the new site, I was asked to match up all the users (a pain with over 200 to do one-by-one), which seemed successful, but I ended up with a main forums page that looks right as far as Topics and Posts go, but the Freshness column says “No Topics” and clicking into a thread results in a “Oh bother! No topics were found here!” message.

Any ideas? Thanks!

http://newvht.ronhiggins.com/forums
u/p: vhtbb

[walama]

I currently have both bbpress and buddy press installed on my page. I have setup some private forums on the bbpress sites.

Right now, registration is manual as we want to control who can be a member.

What I would prefer is:
— Users submit their information and membership is approved.
— A nice to have here would be that either user names were just email addresses OR when approving the membership, the admin then assigned the user name

We would also like to restrict the access to the forums so that there are 3 sets of users — One that can read all boards, one that can read a subset of boards, and one that can only read a single board.

Are there plugins that people recommend for this? Also, while I originally thought we would be using the social media aspects of buddy press, we don’t seem to be. Is there any reason to leave it installed?

[Robin W]

ok, not sure if I can help further, something funny with your site.

The final thing I’d suggest is that you change to a default theme

If a public forum, with a default theme and just bbpress running doesn’t show topics, then there is something wrong with your site or database.

[kryl2575]

Hi,

I still get the same problems, that have mentioned above.
No solutions worked for me, to switch the forum into german language.
Language file (*.mo, *.po) Syntax double checked (bbpress-de_DE), path on server, plugin (WPT Custom Mo File) to use a custom language.

Please fix it!

I’m using WordPress 4.8.1 with Enfold Child theme and your product in version 2.5.14

Any help would be appreciated.

Best regards,
John

[locutus1]

I just deactivated ALL my plugins except bbpress. bbpress is the only active plugin. I then restarted my browser, loaded the site and entered a forum with 3 topics (the FPS forum that my first post above links to). I logged out from my site as admin. The three topics disappeared. I can still see the forums but I can’t see any topics in any forum.

[6piston]

Anyone please?

To make it easier, i’d just like to know if I can merge multiple bbpress conversions (topics and replies only)

Thanks

[sasenzon]

Hello. I just started using a new forum with my bbpress.
bbpress – 2.5 14-6684
wp 4.9.4
The site is members.institutechiro.com

A user just forwarded me his email and it is full of code. Example.
<p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″>Great first week content.</span></p>
<p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″>I was interested to know that an intellectual generation has 33 integers; making me a 4th gen chiro.</span></p>

please help.
Thanks.
Simon

[Robin W]

Right now everyone that has a user account on the website is getting email notifications from all forum posts

bbpress does not notify unless users have subscribed to forums

what other plugins do you have that might be doing that ?

[sasenzon]

I am trying to use this plugin. I put brackets around words in the fields.

But when I to to “view” profile – and click the words I get a page not found.

I don’t see any suggestions on the plugin help page.

If I click on a profile item that was “mandatory” then it takes me to the proper member search page. But the optional profile items that the plugin is designed to turn into search terms – leads me to page not found.
bbpress – 2.5 14-6684
wp 4.9.4

The site is members.institutechiro.com

[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