[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

[jkw217]

Using the default wordpress export/import tool:

The problem started when importing the topics, they would import fine but would not display or show up in the parent forums. This was easily fixed if I resaved them. But this is an issue due to having over 2,400 topics and 15,000 replies.

I ran into another problem, because we have imported the user and usermeta table first, when importing topics and replies it asked to assign them to the user account. I manually have to select the user to assign them to, if I do not it would assign them all to my admin account. So I tried that with the topics and assigned them all to user account. However this did not assign all topics to the user account, some (about 150) topics were still assigned to me.

So what I tried was doing a raw forums, topics and replies data dump of the posts and postmeta and importing to the existing NEW tables. This was almost flawless with 0 data loss except for the fact that there are duplicate ID’s, about 1400 in the posts table and thousands more in the postmeta table.

Do you know of a way that we can run a script on the 2 tables and give all unique ID’s starting at a specific number that would match both the id on posts and post_id on postmeta table. I have extracted the forums, topic and reply data and imported them to their own table. If I gave new id’s I could easily import them without duplicate errors. What do you think of this? This is the way we really prefer to do it for 0 data loss. Keeping the forums, topics and replies exactly as they are now.

version bbPress 2.5.14

We’re going BBPRESS TO BBPRESS both same version.

[Robin W]

@netweb

Did you do a bbpress to bbpress importer? I know it was mentioned some time ago.

[jkw217]

Using default wordpress exporter/importer. Moving forums, topics and replies from one database to the other. BBPRESS to BBPRESS.

Also found that I have to resign users to their topics and replies on the import, which is very time consuming. If I just click import, the topics and replies get assigned to my account, when the other users account do exist.

I finally found out that if I just do a raw mysql dump I can import all the data with 0 loss and they get tied to the correct account but the problem with that lies in the ID – I get duplicates because of the data that is already existing from pages and blog posts. Do you have a script that I can run to easily changes ID’s across 2 tables “posts” and “postmeta”? I think that would be the best way of handling a migration.

[Stephen Edgar]

@jkw217, You do not have the exact same problem, please add some more information to the post I’ve just made here https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/import-parent-and-child-relationships/

p.s. Please create your own topics in future instead of replying to other topics, 99.9999% of the time your import issues will be different to that of someone else’s, if you need to you can link o other topics as a reference and say it is “similar to xyz”

[Stephen Edgar]

@jwk, I’ve moved this to its own topic as this does NOT affect all of bbPress.

This will be specific to whatever import process of importer you are using.

What are you importing and where from @jkw217? phpBB? a raw database?

[jkw217]

I imported forums and that went fine.

I imported topics and they do not show in any forums. I re-save topics and they show up in forums. But having to save over 1,400 topics is a problem.

I have not yet imported replies but based on other people’s problems this is also going to be an issue. I cannot re-save over 15,000 replies to have them show up in topics.

This is using the WordPress built in export and import.

I have tried disabling all plugins except bbpress. I have tried saving permalinks. Nothing has worked.

I have tried the latest bbpress version, I have tried the RC version and I have tried the beta version. All with the same results.

[Mike Straw]

There’s actually some information on the updates that need to be made to the Post by Email plugin here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/working-with-newer-wp-releases/

I’d be very happy if maintenance of this plugin resumed somewhere. I’m working on migrating an email group to bbPress and this is a core functionality the users don’t want to lose.

[jkw217]

This is a common problem for ALL bbpress. Appears when importing forums, topics and replies it breaks the relationship between parent and child.

Currently I am having to resave over 1400 topics for them to show up in the forums after import.

I have over 15,000 replies that will need resaving as well until bbpress resolves the import bug.