[ctuxboy]

Hello,

Has the bbpress login widget the same functionality as the wp-admin login?
The reason i’m asking this, that my theme (Divi) has a nice login form option layout.
So can i use the themes login form widget instead of bbpress login form widget?

[Robin W]

that text is in

\templates\default\bbpress\form-topic.php

and you’ll probably also want

\templates\default\bbpress\form-reply.php

for replies

you’ll probably want to put revised versions in your child theme

Functions files and child themes – explained !

You can copy all the templates across, but you only need to copy those that you want to change, and it is better just to do this, as then you know which you have altered.

so if you wanted to amend form-topic.php you would do the following

create a directory on your theme called ‘bbpress’
ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/form-topic.php
Make a copy of this file, and put in in the directory called bbpress that you created above, so you end up with
wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/form-topic.php
bbPress will now use this template instead of the original
and you can amend this

[ico33]

Latest News: I restored WordPress to a few weeks ago, but still with the latest release.

Rstoring, the issue disappeared. And some plugins asked me to make an upgrade because of the restore to a few weeks ago. Due to the problem “solved”, I tried to update one plugin by one, and see if the problem comes back. Yes! It came back after the update of “Custom Sidebars”.

“ok” – I thought – “now deactivate it and see if the problem disappears”. Well, deactivating Custom Sidebars, the issue remains! And the only way to make it disappear is, now, deactivating BBpress.

What a confusion!

What do you think?

[ctuxboy]

Hello,

In a previous topic asking for ‘Moderate Topics’ https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/moderate-topics/ (thanks to Robin W. for the answers)

So i do some research and see if a topic started there are a status option (open, close, pending,…)

How can i setting the ‘register_post_status’ automatic to pending for new topics, and disable/ hide this option below the textbox?

Regards,
Christophe

[timsilva_]

I was considering Tapatalk for bbPress (after migrating from SMF which has Tapatalk support) a while back in an effort to compete with Slack.

I did bookmark this URL: https://tapatalk.com/download_bbpress.php – but it is no longer active, it just redirects. Here is the archive.org version: https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20150911232515/https://tapatalk.com/download_bbpress.php

There also was this plugin, but I haven’t tested it or confirmed that it is actually meant for bbPress specifically (it looks like it is for blog comments): https://wordpress.org/plugins/tapatalk/

If anyone is currently using Tapatalk with bbPress, let us know how. 🙂

[mysugarfreejourney]

I have been running a challenge in a FaceBook Group that involves a nightly live video from me. I would like to start monetizing these challenges by charging a monthly fee to access them. Is there a way to use bbPress where only people with a current paid account can access it AND it can also support a live video every night just like the FB page does? I’d like for it to also be able to hold PDF’s the members can download. I’m not technically savvy at all so if someone has a better idea for how to do this, I’m all ears. Thanks!

[aminazadi]

Is it possible for AJAX to be transmitted on BBpress Topics?

[joyking]

Looks like you know about the error and the fix is coming in bbpress 2.6 installed the beta and it worked

[joyking]

hi
i have now tried to install bbpress in 3 different places and not one works
one is my main site im working on and one for my friend and tried on localhost and all 3 gives me the same error when i click on forums tab on the admin dashboard.

here is debug from the localhost. i get the same error on the other 2

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: [] operator not supported for strings in C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-content\plugins\bbpress\includes\forums\functions.php:1800 Stack trace: #0 C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-includes\class-wp-hook.php(298): bbp_pre_get_posts_normalize_forum_visibility(Object(WP_Query)) #1 C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-includes\class-wp-hook.php(323): WP_Hook->apply_filters(”, Array) #2 C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-includes\plugin.php(515): WP_Hook->do_action(Array) #3 C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-includes\class-wp-query.php(1681): do_action_ref_array(‘pre_get_posts’, Array) #4 C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-includes\class-wp-query.php(3238): WP_Query->get_posts() #5 C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-includes\class-wp.php(617): WP_Query->query(Array) #6 C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-includes\class-wp.php(735): WP->query_posts() #7 C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-includes\functions.php(955): WP->main(Array) #8 C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-admin\includes\post.php(1072): wp(Array) #9 C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-admin\includ in C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-content\plugins\bbpress\includes\forums\functions.php on line 1800

[ctuxboy]

Robin,

Thanks for the fast reply, but this plugin is 4 years old.
Is this not a problem?
Is it full compatible with the lastest bbpress plugin?
No security issues?

[Robin W]

bbPress Moderation

[ctuxboy]

Hello,

I’m new with bbpress.
My first question: is there a moderate option for starting new topics?

Regards,
Christophe

[Scott N]

@talkedtv — I know it’s been three years, but if you can remember and describe here how your theme caused this problem and how you fixed it, I’d be most appreciative! My forum search is exhibiting the exact same behavior, and I am using a highly customized theme, including custom bbPress templates.

EDIT: I did come up with a workaround, but it’s clunky as it requires creating a blank placeholder page with the slug search. In my page.php template, right after the_post() is called, I added this:

if ( strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '/search/') === 0 ) {
    $post = get_page_by_path('search');
}

[nomadickings]

I have just set up bbPress on my website and am about to launch my forum.

I want to have an App that users can utilize to make it super easy for them to access the forum – most of the community currently uses Facebook Groups (with lots of complaints) so I want to make it as easy as possible for them to move across to my forum.

I was initially thinking that I’d have a Tapatalk App built however I’ve now been informed it doesn’t work with bbPress.

Is there an app that anyone knows of that will work?

Or, another option?

[newz12]

I have hired someone to look at the database and this is his comments:

==========================================

so, basically your query is processing too many records in a couple of tables wp_posts(1’980’935 records) and wp_postmeta(10’818’678). It matches and returns 57’639 records.

The core query is:
select SQL_NO_CACHE wp_posts.* FROM wp_posts INNER JOIN wp_postmeta ON ( wp_posts.ID = wp_postmeta.post_id ) WHERE 1=1 AND (wp_posts.ID = 515125 OR wp_posts.post_parent = 515125);

which returns 399’291 record for 2.1s
which is a huge join

Then the extra “where” conditions add extra time. The query bellow:

select SQL_NO_CACHE wp_posts.* FROM wp_posts INNER JOIN wp_postmeta ON ( wp_posts.ID = wp_postmeta.post_id ) WHERE 1=1 AND (wp_posts.ID = 515125 OR wp_posts.post_parent = 515125) AND wp_postmeta.meta_key = ‘_bbp_forum_id’;

reduces the returned records to: 57’639 and in fact the rest of the where statements do not change the final result but are only adding more time for processing.
The query takes about 3s.

Both queries above are well indexed and are execucuted in the optimal way.
With this amount of returned records matched against the 2 big tables (~11mln and ~2mln records in each) executon time of less than 3s can not be achieved.

is this forum using a custom php code developed in house?

ME: It is using bbPress, which runs on WordPress

the thing is, this code is not optimal in term of database design
because it’s using a couple of wordpress general storage tables
to store the forum posts and threads
as you can guess this 2 tables have a lot more data in it along the forum data
from other hand the query you sent has too many “where” conditions
which are not relevant at all

AND CAST(wp_postmeta.meta_value AS SIGNED) NOT IN (‘515120′,’515123’) ) )
AND wp_posts.post_type IN (‘topic’, ‘reply’)
AND (
(wp_posts.post_status = ‘publish’ OR (wp_posts.post_status = ‘pending’ AND wp_posts.post_author = 0) OR wp_posts.post_status = ‘closed’ OR wp_posts.post_status = ‘hidden’)
OR
(wp_posts.post_author = 0 AND (wp_posts.post_status = ‘private’))
)

non of this are changing the final result at all, but are slowing the core query with extra time

in short – there is not an easy “magic” fix in the database side
as I said the core query is well indexed and runs optimal by the SQL engine
the only thing can be done is to change the query a bit
but we can hardly get it under 2.5s
and this will require PHP code changes

ME: What would be your suggestion to achieve a similar performance with database?

get rid of the WP
the WP pluggin you use is a forum implementation on top of WP
understand that, but you are expecting something by this WP pluggin that it can’t provide

with storring everyhing in a couple of tables – that can’t be done

won’t even comment:
AND CAST(wp_postmeta.meta_value AS SIGNED) NOT IN (‘515120′,’515123’) ) )

this part
wp_postmeta | CREATE TABLE wp_postmeta (
meta_id bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
post_id bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT ‘0’,
meta_key varchar(255) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci DEFAULT NULL,
meta_value longtext COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci,
PRIMARY KEY (meta_id
)

as you can see meta_value field is a longtext!!!
you can imagine how can you filter by this field
without index
scanning millions of records by a field that holds huge strings
in same table wp stores all sessions, etc..

just to imagine how much extra data is stored in wp_postmeta table
here is a some stats by meta_key and the number of records (top 20 or so):

| external_image_id | 100828 |
| external_place_lat | 100845 |
| external_place_lng | 100862 |
| external_upload_batch | 110848 |
| amazonS3_cache | 121546 |
| _bbp_activity_id | 199233 |
| filter | 239951 |
| id_field | 239952 |
| __defaults_set | 239974 |
| _bbp_post_id | 1418227 |
| _bbp_topic_id | 1426899 |
| _bbp_author_ip | 1426899 |
| _bbp_forum_id | 1426909 |
| _barcelona_vote_up | 1732202 |
| _barcelona_views | 1732206 |

in fact this WP pluggin is using mysql as a simple storage and not as a relational DB
as I said above it’s a bad DB design problem
because it’s a just a pluggin/extension of a CMS system

==========================================================

Basically he is telling me that we won’t be able to achieve good loading time, because it is running on WordPress and the database design is a problem.

What do you think, is there hope?

We run a forum with 1.4 million posts and almost 100k members, if it can give you an idea.

[ico33]

Hi, in my site I noticed a strange issue after last WordPress update. It seems to have problem with “cache”.

For example, if I log-in through the Home Page, after click in sign-in, the page refresh but it seems that the log-in didn’t work. If I press F5 to refresh the page, here I can now see the log-in effectuated.

I thought about my caching plugin, and I wrote to the assistance of my provider. They exclude the problem is in caching plugin, they found this:

The issue appears to be caused from the latest WordPress upgrade that was automatically applied within your website.

Code:

sitename@esm9 [~/public_html]# wp core version
4.7.4

There seems to be conflict between a plugin of yours that is creating this strange behavior within the website.

To find which is the responsible plugin, you may start deactivating them one by one and after that checking the functions that were not working as expected. Once they work this will indicate which plugin caused the issue.

I did what they suggest, and when I deactivate BBPRESS, everything works! So, what to do??

[forums1234]

bbPress – Version 2.5.12
Wordpress – Version 4.7.4

My friends have been joining my forums. They get an email stating they’ve joined from MailChimp. They return to the site and their user name and password are requested.

I get a message stating they’ve joined.

Here’s the problem. They never get an email to activate their Username and Password.
A. Does bbPress have that feature?
B. Does MailChimp not forward that sort of email?
C. Is there a way to add Username and Password during signup in bbPress?

Thank you in advance.

[jayhova4x4]

What is the best practice to achieve a unified profile page for people who have both BBpress and Buddypress installed as described in this post?

[cjerrells]

Hi,

I’ve been having difficulties setting up a private BuddyPress group with associated forum:

1. If the forum is set as “private” then I get the error “This group does not currently have a forum.” on the group’s Forum page.

2. If the forum is set as “public” then the forum does appear there, and the group’s access controls seem to stop non-members accessing it. However new topics and replies generate BuddyPress activities which are visible to non-members.

WordPress 4.7.4
BuddyPress 2.8.2
bbPress 2.5.12

I was advised on trac ticket #2752 (here) to try the fix on trac ticket #2599 which updates forum privacy when the group is saved. I tried this, but it just set the forum as private, triggering problem #1.

As mentioned on the trac ticket linked above, I have tried the Repair tools and various changes to group/forum privacy.

I can’t seem to find a setup that gives me a private group with a private forum. Can anyone please advise me on how to debug this?

[sagetopia]

I’m seeing issues that seem to only affect public forums (private or hidden work as expected). Public forums don’t appear in the admin ‘All’ list view, although they do appear under ‘Published’. Attempting to view the single page for a public forum gives a 404 when logged in. When not logged in, it gives the following fatal error: Fatal error: Uncaught Error: [] operator not supported for strings in .../plugins/bbpress/includes/forums/functions.php on line 1855 Looking at that line, the get method of WP_Query returns an empty string if no matching key is found. That explains the [] operator error and adding a default empty array to the call does fix the issue for non logged in users. However, the root cause must be higher up the call chain because it doesn’t fix the permalink problem.

[sajay]

I have a conflict with the visual editor in bbpress and the Ecwid plugin.

With Ecwid enabled:
When I enter text into the visual editor and try to submit I get “ERROR: Your reply cannot be empty. “. Also the inert image icon does not work.

With Ecwid disabled
Everything works as expected.

[finishlikepre]

Hey Robin,

I know this is a long shot, but do you by chance take any freelance work?

I’m still having trouble with this because I’m using a plugin (Ultimate Member) that redirects every link from the bbPress User Profile over to the Ultimate Member User Profile. I contacted their support and they said there is no workaround for this. They said the only way to access the bbPress User Profile (to edit, view, etc) is to disable the Plugin. They also said that in order to work around this, it’s going to take customization of the bbPress plugin itself. So I need to find a dev that can do that for me.

So do you take freelance jobs?

Thanks!

[finishlikepre]

Ahh that was my problem! I was in the wp-admin dashboard. Which you’re right…is terrible. I see the fields created by your plugin now in the bbPress dashboard. Thanks so much for your help, Robin!

[benmess65]

Hi,
I amusing WordPress 4.6.5 with bbPress 2.5.10. Just recently I am starting to get 50 or 60 users a day registering when I had only a handful for many months previously. None of these ‘new’ users are activating their account. I know that activation emails are going out because I registered myself with a gmail account, received the activation email and applied a password. My admin email account (not the gmail one) received a message telling me that the user had changed the password, thus telling me that that user had activated. None of the over 200 spam email accounts have followed that process, so I want to remove them from my list.
I was under the impression that bbPress automatically removed registered users that did not activate, but I still have over 200 sitting there and I cannot see which ones should be active and which ones are not, because they all just have “Subscriber” role against them.\
How can I tell which users have activated so I don’t remove valid users and only remove the spam ones.

[Stephen Edgar]

@suparixi No need, each version you have installed will show an update is available when bbPress 2.6 is released