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[MakarkinPRO]

I have 10 forums. I want restricted access from Guest/NotPaid users. And if user want access to, he paying via CreditCard (PayPal ATM processing).

I installed:

WooCommerce
YITH WooCommerce Subscription (free)
bbPress Private Gorups

But I can’t connect things together. I thinking it that way:
1) I create a privite gorups where wordpress’s User Roles is PaidSubscripber. BTW:When user just login/signup to my BBpress he have a User Role named just a Subscriber.
2) After he addint subscription item to the card and paid for that, his WordPress Role is SHOULD change from Subscriber to PaidSubscriber, but I cannot find that option into YITH WooCommerce Subscription (free).

Questions:
Am I thinking in the right direction?
May be YITH WooCommerce Subscription (free) doesn’t support of changing user role for a paid period of time (I set 1 month)?

THx

[websmyth]

We’ve been experiencing an email issue on a bbPress forum for a while. The forum is setup to notify all users (around 700) of new topics and replies and uses the bbPress No Spam plugin to handle this.

We’ve performed lots of troubleshooting and, after having spoken to WPEngine, have narrowed it down to the email causing a timeout on submission of a new topic or reply. The site uses Mailgun which was installed by the previous developer in order to try and tackle this issue, but it looks like the timeout is being triggered before the emails are hooked up to Mailgun so it doesn’t look like changing the Mailgun configuration would solve the issue either.

WPEngine have suggested that we might need to throttle the email batches from bbPress as that might prevent the timeout. I’ve been searching for a plugin that might do this but I’ve only found generic WordPress mail plugins and it seems this is more bbPress specific.

Has anyone come across this issue and found a way to resolve it?

[Milan Petrovic]

1. That is simply not true. I developed many plugins for bbPress, and I always do extensive benchmarking of bbPress and various plugins, and if you have 25 plugins or if you have 5 plugins, bbPress has the same impact on WP regardless. If two websites add 0.1 seconds slowdown, you can’t blame one of the plugins for what other is doing.

2. That is completely irrelevant to loading performance. It is possible to merge all files any plugin has into one huge file. A number of files don’t have too much impact on the loading, and it is even recommended to have a lot of smaller files to help with the code organization, improve loading of what is needed when it is needed (for the most part). WordPress loads about 200 files on average for each page request, and even more on the admin side, and I have seen plugins that load 100 or more files. Size of files have more impact on performance, then the number of files. And with modern servers using SSD discs and a lot of memory, files loading is negligible.

The biggest impact of performance of any plugin has to work with the database in any way (getting posts, filtering). And yes, bbPress up to version 2.5 was not best optimized, and it was on the slower side when dealing with large topics or large forums. Version 2.6 (currently in Beta/RC stage), has significant performance improvements related to database operations, loading posts and processing them.

PHP has Opcache, and other performance related tools for a reason: PHP is not compiled, it is interpreted, and that is always a slower method for doing things, and PHP needs help to make things faster. It is a good thing to have and use Opcache or Memcached. For instance, my website without Opcache uses 60MB for PHP process on average, with Opcache that goes down to 12MB. WordPress without Opcache uses about 20MB on its own, bbPress adds about 5MB, WooCommerce adds closer to 10MB, BuddyPress around 6-7MB. Huge and complex plugins always need memory to work, you can’t expect to run 25 plugins and keep memory to a zero. That is why we have systems to optimize PHP, we have cache plugins.

Once the bbPress 2.6 is released, I will do a new benchmark to compare 2.5 to 2.6 and see how much gains are there when using bbPress with a forum having a large number of topics and replies. But, from current testing I am doing with 2.6, it is much faster than last 2.5.

Milan

[Fabian]

Yes its 0.1 seconds comparing a WP wihtout any plugins, and WP+bbpress. Its not negligible, I expect websites to respond within <0.5 seconds for a good user experience.

There are 2 issues (which apply for most other WP plugins):

1. The impact of bbpress gets bigger with more plugins enabled, because activated plugins have hidden dependencies to each other.
Lets say we have another plugin with 0.1 seconds slowdown, and bbpress with the 0.1 s, the total site slowdown is usually greater than 0.2 s. By using the add_filter() API, plugins actually call each others functions.

2.) Each request bbpress includes almost 40 scripts, the PHP parser parses all of them (lets take opcache apart), and then does not generate a single byte of HTML. So its just wasting server disk I/O, and CPU.

[Robin W]

can I just confirm that this happens then with both the bbpress shortcode [bbp-lost-pass] AND with the wp-admin lost password ?

[lovechard]

^^^ Whoops, I mean bbPress version 2.5.14

@robin-w Yes, they are integrated with bbPress but said that they cannot assist, that this is a bbPress issue. Thanks for your help, I appreciate others helping me figure this out! 🙂

[lovechard]

I am using bbPress Version 2.9.1. I just don’t understand how it’s not automatic. I feel like members who cancel should be automatically unsubscribed after cancellation. Leaving the forums unrestricted to non members for them to unsubscribe to after than cancel would defeat the purpose of having a private forum on my private paid membership site.

[tonicoslo]

Hi! I have a Kunena 4 forum. Is there a way to import it to bbPress?

[theacademicperson]

I previously used a plugin for the voting functionality on my bbPress forum, but it was not maintained for more than 2 years. Also it didn’t have the sorting function of it. The voting option was also not prominently visible – causing problem is accessibility. So I discarded it and tried to find another one, but there is no such good plugin currently available. Also this should be a core functionality of bbPress itself.

[theacademicperson]

Hi friends,

I know I’m posting on a topic that was asked many times on this forum before (including my post from the last year).

There need to be a voting option (upvote and/or downvote) in the forum topics. It is a must to have a functionality to automatically arrange the topics based on voting by viewers.

Almost all the popular interactive forums on the web contains this feature…Stackexchange, Reddit to name a few. Others have a voting system without any rearrangement of the posts based on it…Google plus, Facebook etc.

I admit bbPress is a great forum builder on the greatest CMS at this moment (WordPress)…but it (and all forums build on it) lacks this critical feature.

As I already said this feature is being requested for a very long time, but it wasn’t added on the updates of bbPress.

So it is my earnest request to please add this feature.

You can see how many people has been requesting this by just doing a quick search in this forum – https://bbpress.org/forums/search/vote/

[MakarkinPRO]

I have plugin that do it for posts and pages. But is is possible to make the same for Topics on BBPress at least?

THx.

[fum]

I typed wrong the names of the files in the previous post, this is the correct name of the files uploaded on the server:

bbpress-es_ES.mo
bbpress-es_ES.po

Thanks and greetings.

[Robin W]

which version of bbpress and wordpress?

[Robin W]

can I just clarify that your site takes a tenth of a second longer to load with bbpress – yes ?

[Fabian]

Hi,

I have bbpress installed with a url prefix, everything is under /forums/. I noticed when I just access my frontpage, the plugin causes a site slow down of ~100ms. I have 25 plugins in total and I compared bbpress page load time with the page load time with the other 24 plugins activated.

bbpress does not render anything outside /forums/, so 100ms, I’d say even 20ms, CPU time per request is not justified.

I did a profile of my WordPress setup, which revealed that the main file ‘bbpress.php’ include()s 36 others scripts, takes up to 4MB of memory. Most of the time is waste in the ‘init’ hook, ~40ms.

Can you please fix this?
I tried conditional Plugin loading with Plugin Organizer, but it seems to break the rewrite to the /forums/ URL and it just redirects to the frontpage.
So basically, if the request it not within /forums/, bbpress should only set the rewrites, and this should be done within a couple of milliseconds.

Thanks!

[fum]

Hi, I have installed bbpress and uploaded the bbpress-es.mo and bbpress-es_US.po files in

wp-content> language> plugins

but it doesnt works.
I have added this line to wp-config.php

define (‘BBLANG’, ‘es_ES’);

But nothing was happened, all help is welcome ..!
Thank you..!

[janallsopp]

Hi, I’ve set up the lost password page with shortcode [bbp-lost-pass] but when users click on ‘forgot password’ and fill in the form they aren’t receiving an email with link to create new password.

Using BBPress Version 2.5.14 and BBP Private Groups Version 3.5.9. Using WordPress 4.8.1. The website is private so I can’t share.

Thanks in advance.
J

[lhowill]

Users are currently unable to sign up for a new account on our bbpress forums now. I’ve double checked this myself, and I’m getting the same problem.

It tells you that you’ll get a confirmation email, but that email never arrives (not in spam either). I tried doing ‘forgot password’ after attempting to register (but not getting the confirmation email) and that doesn’t work either.

The only way I’ve successfully been able to create a new account is making an account on wordpress.com, then attempting to login with it on the forums and choosing ‘forgot password’ and getting a password reset email.

[jomila]

Our customers who have enrolled in a course are entitled to access a few forums in bbPress, but the problem is that even though they can access the forums and see the name of the topics in each forum, they can’t have an access to topics (can’t read, comment etc.). All the settings should be correct and I really don’t know how to proceed next. Only people with the highest admin rights can see the comments under different topics. Is anybody else experiencing the similar problem?

Wordpress version is 4.8.1 and bbPress Version 2.5.14. We are using Lifter LMS as a online course platform.

[nam1962]

Hi there, I’ve a strange issue : if I modify a post in BBpress, it will erase all my line & paragraph formats.
I end up with a big block of text I have to reformat with the WP editor.

[pmatteudi]

Hi there,

I’m writing because I have trouble to understand how templates are managed in BBPress (and wordpress I guess :)).
I’d like to have a specific template on the main forum page (the one displaying the different forums). And another template for the page displaying the different topics.

Currently in the wordpress page where I pasted the short code [bbp-forum-index], I call the template bbpress.php, which is presented in the bbpress codex (See example at the end of the topic).

But how can I create a specific template for my forum index (listing all my forums), for instance “forum-display.php”. And another template, listing my topics (for instance “topic-display.php”).

Maybe my file bbpress.php is not appropriate to do so ? or need to be customized a bit ?

NB : I’m using twenty twelve theme

I hope my question is clear,
Thank you for your help,
Pierre

<?php
 
/*
Template Name: index-forum
*/
 
get_header(); ?>
  
<div id="primary" class="site-content">
 
		<div id="content-forum" role="main">
	 
	 
		<?php
		/*
		Start the Loop
		*/
		
		while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
		 
		 
		<?php
		/*
		This is the start of the page and also the insertion of the post classes.
		 
		Post classes are very handy to style your forums.
		*/
		?>
		 
			<article id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>
			<?php
			/*
			This is the title wrapped in a header tag
			and a class to better style the title for your theme
			*/
			?>
		 
			<header class="entry-header">
			 
			<h1 class="entry-title"><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
			 
			</header>
			 
			 
			<?php
			/*
			This is the content wrapped in a div
			and class to better style the content
			*/
			?>
		 
			<div class="entry-content">
			<?php the_content(); ?>
			</div>
			 
			<!-- .entry-content -->
			 	 
			</article>
			 
			<!-- #post -->
			<?php endwhile; // end of the loop. ?>
		 
		</div>
	 	<!-- #content -->
	 	
	 	<div class="login-sidebar"><?php dynamic_sidebar('forum_login_zone');?></div>

</div> 
	<!-- #primary -->
  
<?php
/*
This is code to display the sidebar and the footer.
Remove the sidebar code to get full-width forums.
This would also need CSS to make it actually full width.
*/
?>
		 
<?php get_footer(); ?>

[Divvy]

Hello guys,

I’m migrating from vbulletin to wordpress.
In vbulletin, I have a feature showing under user avatar, that shows a image “My photos”, and when someone clicks there, goes to a list of topics created by the user in forums ID X and Y.
If no topics created there, the image “My photos” doesn’t show.

Is it possible to do this with bbpress?
Can someone give me a little help?

Thank you in advance 🙂

[Robin W]

bbpress just uses much of your theme’s style

additionally you can use

bbp style pack

to improve it’s look

[niseadel]

How is it easier to convert custom posts and comments into topics and answers on the forum?
And how to make it done automatically in future?

Maybe there is a way how to replace custom posts on bbpress, so that there is no need to convert posts into topics?

Plugins “bbPress Topics for Posts” & “bbPress Move Topics” not working