[tonezzz]

Hello everybody.

If this is off topic, pls help pointing me to the correct place.

This is the first time I’m working with bbPress, I’m trying to import from vBulletin now.

vBulletin = 3.8.6
bbPress = bbPress 2.5.12
WP = 4.7.5

I’ve been struggling for a few days already (I’ve also tried the 2.6-rc-3 without any luck). Just today, I found an advice to enable WP_DEBUG and WP_DEBUG_LOG so I did so and saw some error messages so I decided to look into the code and try to fix it myself.

Here’s the first one I found:

PHP Notice:  Undefined index: user_pass in ...\wp\wp-includes\user.php on line 1425

Here’s the code at line 1425:

$user_pass = wp_hash_password( $userdata['user_pass'] );

Should be changed to:

$user_pass = empty($userdata['user_pass'])?wp_hash_password(''):wp_hash_password( $userdata['user_pass'] );

There’re more errors I’m trying to fix right now. Pls let me know if it’s helpful and I should post them too.

Cheers,
Tony.

[daoist]

Hi,

I am very new to BBpress and any coding of anything. But I have edited wordpress through trial and error.

How do I start editing changing bbpress font easily? is there a plugin I can add? Please speak in simple terms – I have looked at the guides, but they are way too complex for me – and information overload.

I just want to play with the way the forum looks – and major part of it for me is font size and font type.

Please help.

[highgatecreative]

Hi,
I’m currently running bbPress 2.6-beta-2 and WordPress 4.8 (I switched to the beta because it solved an issue that I ran into earlier during development).

I’m attempting to import bbPress forum content from an old SQL database into bbPress forums using a hand-rolled Perl script that maps the exported CSV fields to the fields in wp_posts and key/value pairs in wp_postmeta.

The Results and Issue
1. On the admin Topics page, my Topic is shown connected to the correct parent forum.
2. I can also view the topic page and comment on the topic.
3. But the imported Topic doesn’t appear in the forum when displayed on the site.

Here are the fields that I’ve successfully imported data into:

FOR FORUMS wp_posts:
post_author
post_date
post_date_gmt
post_content
post_title
post_status
post_name
post_type

FOR TOPICS wp_posts:
post_author
post_date
post_date_gmt
post_content
post_title
post_status
post_name
post_type
post_parent

FOR TOPICS wp_postmeta:
_bbp_forum_id
_bbp_topic_id

When I update the Topic and the forum, WordPress creates additional meta_keys/values for each entry, but the Topic still doesn’t appear in the forum.

Questions: Are there other meta-keys/values I need in wp_postmeta, or any other key/values in any other table to get the Topic to appear? What am I missing?

Thanks in advance

Angela

[Milan Petrovic]

Hi,

My GD bbPress Toolbox Pro plugin has users online status tracking feature, enhanced statistics block for forum front end, enhanced statistics widget (and a lot of other features):

https://plugins.dev4press.com/gd-bbpress-toolbox/

If you want to test plugin (admin side and front end), you can request a demo here:
https://www.dev4press.com/request-demo/

Regards,
Milan Petrovic

[Droidism]

WordPress version 4.8
bbPress version 2.5.12
Site URI: Localhost (I can create a temp vpn tunnel to the site if needed.)

Hi,

I am confused about the following setup and theme page template/bbPress weirdness.

I have installed bbPress and set the forum root to “support” and saved changes.
Then I created a page with the exact same name “support“. The slug matches the page name and reads: www.mysite/support/
In this page I have added the bbpress short code [bbp-forum-index]

With the current theme I have the option to choose a page template with or without a sidebar. When I set the page template to “sidebar“, the sidebar does NOT display.

When I change the “forum root” from “support” to “forums” and leave the page name and template choice as is, the sidebar does display.

The same applies when I do not change the Forum root and leave it as “support“, but I remove the bbPress shortcode [bbp-forum-index]. The page “support” does show the sidebar.

I am wondering if I am doing something wrong with either setting the Forum root slug and the page name to the exact same; “support“.

Maybe this is not possible and leads to url/permalink confusion in WP/bbPress and it instead uses the “standard” page template (which doesn’t utilises any sidebars in the current theme I am using.)

In the end what I would like to see is the following (if possible at all.);

When you visit the site’s support page the url/slug read: www.mysite.com/support/
The page title matches the slug: “Support” and it uses the sidebar page template.

In this page the support questions are shown by freshness and the breadcrumb actually displays “home >> support“, not “home >> forums“.

Thanks in advance for any help in explaining the Forum root and page name scheme/setup.

[mixer71]

Hi,
I have a blank white page when I click on the ‘All Forums’ link in the Dashboard.

Im running WP on a mac with MAMP Pro. I have created a new WP site and the problem still happens when I install bbPress. All other links in Dashboard seem to work.

Help!!!

[Yanur Islam Piash]

The conflict was with the bbp toolkit plugin. Thanks a lot! By the way, is there a way to show the bbpress search form in all bbpress pages (forum, topic, reply)?

(not interested in placing bbpress search widget in the sidebar)

[timsilva_]

@michaelachung This is an excellent plugin that has a list/counter of online users: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-improved-statistics-users-online/

[Robin W]

Could be theme or plugin affecting this

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

[Yanur Islam Piash]

My bbpress looks like this: Screenshot
I thought there should be topic and reply counters in brackets beside subforums. Also, the subforums were supposed to be seprarated by Comma(,)……
Am I missing something?

[netixel]

Thank you @robin-w, sad that BBpress does not offer it of origin…

Thank you @pinkishhue, but this plugin tested up to : WordPress 4.0.18
now the wordpress version is 4.8…

[Robin W]

bbpress just uses wordpress login, so you can display the number of wordpress users online

eg

WP-UserOnline

http://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-show-real-time-online-users-in-wordpress/

but as to how many are in a forum, I don’t know of anything that would be clever enough to do that

[ScottyChoc]

WordPress version 4.8
Genesis Theme version 2.5.2
bbPress version: 2.5.12
Site URL: http://staging.c-rad.org/

My site has a members section for which all of the pages in it have a template applied to it with this simple logic:

	if ( ! is_user_logged_in()) {
		wp_login_form();
		return;
	} else {
		// add the members only sidebar and show the content
	}

Is it possible to install bbPress such that I can apply this template logic to all forum pages?

I also want all forum pages to exist under a parent page. e.g. c-rad.org/members/forums.

I can place my forum there (c-rad.org/members/my-forum) using a shortcode, but then all other forum pages go to their default locations (c-rad.org/topic/my-topic).

I tried changing the Forum Root to ‘members’, but then when I visit that page, the page template with my logic is removed.

[ncrocketry]

I’ve disabled all of the un-related plugins, still same behavior.

All of my plugins are at the latest version, running the latest version of wordpress as of July 1, 2017.

Plugins that are active:
bbPress Version 2.5.12
bbPress Messages Version 2.0.7

Currently disabled:
gd bbPress Version 2.4

[enacta2]

@robin-w I applied your CSS code for root and forum and it works well. But the top part of the box is missing. I tried to ‘fix’ the button so it’s whole, but I’m unable. I tried many different CSS lines, including the following, and none worked.

Can you please tell me how to make the button so it’s complete?

I don’t have a live site with bbPress. It’s only on my localhost mirror for now, until I get it all setup the way I want.

/* Set breadcrumb from topic to its forum with blue button */
.bbp-breadcrumb-forum {
  background: #6D84B4;
  background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #6D84B4, #3B5998);
  background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #6D84B4, #3B5998);
  background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #6D84B4, #3B5998);
  background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #6D84B4, #3B5998);
  background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, #6D84B4, #3B5998);
  -webkit-border-radius: 28;
  -moz-border-radius: 28;
  border-radius: 28px;
  -webkit-box-shadow: 0px 2px 0px #000000;
  -moz-box-shadow: 0px 2px 0px #000000;
  box-shadow: 0px 2px 0px #000000;
  font-family: Arial;
  color: #000000;
  font-size: 11px;
  padding: 7px 15px 7px 15px;
  text-decoration: none;
}

.bbp-breadcrumb-forum:hover {
  background: #AFBDE1;
  background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #AFBDE1, #6D84B4);
  background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #AFBDE1, #6D84B4);
  background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #AFBDE1, #6D84B4);
  background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #AFBDE1, #6D84B4);
  background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, #AFBDE1, #6D84B4);
  text-decoration: none;
}

/* Set breadcrumb prepended text for button from topic to its forum */
.bbp-breadcrumb-forum::before {
  content: "Back to the ";
}

/* Set breadcrumb appended text for button from topic to its forum */
.bbp-breadcrumb-forum::after {
  content: " forum";
}

/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

/* Set breadcrumb from forum to its root with blue button */
.bbp-breadcrumb-root {
  background: #6D84B4;
  background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #6D84B4, #3B5998);
  background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #6D84B4, #3B5998);
  background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #6D84B4, #3B5998);
  background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #6D84B4, #3B5998);
  background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, #6D84B4, #3B5998);
  -webkit-border-radius: 28;
  -moz-border-radius: 28;
  border-radius: 28px;
  -webkit-box-shadow: 0px 2px 0px #000000;
  -moz-box-shadow: 0px 2px 0px #000000;
  box-shadow: 0px 2px 0px #000000;
  font-family: Arial;
  color: #000000;
  font-size: 11px;
  padding: 7px 15px 7px 15px;
  text-decoration: none;
}

.bbp-breadcrumb-root:hover {
  background: #AFBDE1;
  background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #AFBDE1, #6D84B4);
  background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #AFBDE1, #6D84B4);
  background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #AFBDE1, #6D84B4);
  background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #AFBDE1, #6D84B4);
  background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, #AFBDE1, #6D84B4);
  text-decoration: none;
}

[Stephen Edgar]

Maybe BuddyPress can do this, it can for sure created groups for you and group forums for those groups, as to attachments in those topics I’m not sure what plugins are out there for this but I’d expect any attachment plugin that works with groups of users and bbPress topics should protect those attachments from unauthorised viewing.

I think you should contact the plugin author of the plugin you are using now to facilitate this functionality, I’m quite sure they’ll be grateful for being informed that there plugin is not working as expected, you might even get lucky and the author fixes the plugin so it does protect those attachments 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

I’ve no idea what that plugin is, I suspect however though that this will be an issue with that plugin, if that plugin is “leaking” sensitive information from within a “protected” topic that this plugin “protects” from Google then this will be an issue for that plugin and not bbPress.

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress doesn’t include any “groups” functionality out of the box, groups functionality is typically added by way of plugins of which BuddyPress is one such plugin.

So are you using a plugin to add “groups” functionality to bbPress, if so which one?

If not, could you explain how you are grouping and how you are protecting those topics from Google in the first place please.

[samisraeli]

Hi Stephen, We don’t have buddypress we have bbpress.

[Stephen Edgar]

For sure there will be issues for sure with bbPress and ~2000 forums, it wasn’t designed for this many forums, it’s also more often than not not a good idea to have this many forums.

Categorising the forums into a more hierarchical layout is usually far more friendly for admins, mods, and users. For example break down the UK to England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, then further break them down, under Scotland you’d have Aberdeenshire, Dumfries and Galloway and so on….

[aldobelus]

Wordpress version: 4.8
Bbpress version: 2.5.12
https://sisepuedelaredo.com/wp

I want to know if there is a plugin or a simple way to let new people to write at the Bbpress forum I have without delivery of data about them or else. I want the people can start writing right at the moment they arrive, with or without email.

I could use, maybe, an aproval method to stop spam or bots, but I want that people who might not have electronic knowledge could write and tell me what they wanted to tell.

Is this possible? Thanks for your time.

[Thijs Hoefnagels]

Hi there,

May I ask you, after installing bbPress everything went according to plan.
The login and the register button’s appeared on the left top hand side of the screen but the register button does not open the page I had in mind to register.
Can anyone tell me where I can find the file containing this register button?
Is it somewhere in a php file in he root of the side or do I have to look elsewhere?
I do not have a clue. And after finding it could you tell me how to activate it?
Thanks in advance

Thijs

[catjarrett]

I’ve searched the support forums but haven’t been able to find a real answer for this. I’ve inherited a private site that I am completely tearing down and rebuilding, including removing all the users who may or may not be returning. We are using bbPress for our forums, and all the data on the forums is important. I desperately need to keep all posts that are currently there.

Now, I keep seeing that if I go to “remove user” I will get an option to change the attributing author of blog and forum posts to another account, but I am not getting that option even for those with forum content. The only option I am having is to remove.

Is there any way, any plugin, that I can use to change the forum authors (no one has any blog posts on this site except admins), or any other method I can use to retain those forum posts?

I am unable to move forward with the site build until I can figure this out. Thank you for all your help!

[lrmo]

I had only thought that this is perhaps a bug, or I did not see a setting. I then started with the adjustments, only I have determined, the adjustments take no end …

There are so many things missing – and so much code which must be added to make it “usable”.

The worst is the lack of proper moderation and the fast possibility to delete spam, as well as a fast support possibility. It is unfortunately not optimal always to be afraid I need help or not. Here is perhaps a payment support for bbpress optimal, which provides quick help.

That is why I have now decided to use Xenforo, which is good with Xenword in WordPress. Does not work with Buddypress, but this is not so bad.

Thanks for that I received at all from someone an answer 😉
And I know that the support does this in his spare time, so as I mentioned above perhaps a payment support set up!

[PinkishHue]

@aminazadi There is a plugin for ajax replies:

https://github.com/aliso/bbpress-ajax-replies

And a plugin for ‘load more’ topics, if that’s the sort of thing you mean:

bbpress-loadmore-topics

Hope that helps.