You can use WordPress’s REST API to interact with forums/topics/replies the way you can with any WordPress posts, but that may not be ideal (and some of the verbiage does not directly translate very well.)
That API has only been fully available since WordPress 4.7, so we are seriously starting the process of exploring what a dedicated bbPress API should look like. Some work has gone into this already, but there is more to do.
You’ll need to install the bbPress plugin, and convert your old bbPress 1.x forums to bbPress 2.5 (soon to be 2.6.)
Then you can disable the BuddyPress legacy forum component, and continue using the newer better faster stronger bbPress plugin.
bbPress 2.0 and higher comes with a (pretty great) conversion tool to help you migrate from several different forum softwares, including bbPress 1.x. We used that exact same tool all across WordPress.org, so we are confident that it works very well.
If you create a page with the same slug as your forum index, you can use either the [bbp-forum-index] or [bbp-topic-index] shortcode in your page content to output the list you desire.
bbPress won’t complain, and you’ll be able to customize the page title and content if you desire.
It’s not exactly a hidden trick, but it’s what we use here on bbPress.org and seems to work OK. If that approach is creating a broken breadcrumb, that’s definitely a bug.
Thank you kindly, Pascal!
The links I would like removed are listed in two separate posts as follows. Note that I have edited the actual link data in my note below so I don’t create yet another link here, but you can easily identify the links in my posts per the information I am providing below:
– topic link 1: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/hide-home-menu-on-bbpress-pages/
Link to remove 1: http://www.cyt*****.com/user*****/
– topic link 2: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-sidebar-disappears-on-topicpost-pages/
Link to remove 2.1: http://www.cyt*****.com/for**/
Link to remove 2.2: http://www.cyt*****.com/for***/forum/regist******-instru******-and-fo***-guide*****/
Thank you!
Thanks for the report @tiiuk, this has been fixed for bbPress 2.6 🙂
If you would like to you can update to bbPress 2.6 Beta 2, bbPress 2.6 has significant enhancements for imported phpBB forums as an added bonus 🙂
Details are here: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-2-6-beta/
To the best of my memory, I added the below to my themes’s child functions.php file to disable the “forums” breadcrumb that links back to the “forums” page that does not include the sidebar. NOTE that I am not a developer and got the below from this forum somewhere last year so use at your discretion. If you crash your site, I accept no responsibility!!
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function rkk_custom_bbpbreadcrumbs() {
// Remove Forum root from bbPress breadcrumbs
$args[‘include_root’] = false;
return $args;
}
add_filter(‘bbp_before_get_breadcrumb_parse_args’, ‘rkk_custom_bbpbreadcrumbs’);
Hello,
I try to import my phpBB 3.2.0 (latest stable version) to bbPress (latest version 2.5.12) using the default import tool in the WordPress 4.7.2 backend. The phpBB is clean, no mods / plugins or custom styles. I get this error:
Repair any missing information: Continue
WordPress database error: [Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes]
CREATE TABLE MNmAD_bbp_converter_translator ( meta_id mediumint(8) unsigned not null auto_increment, value_type varchar(25) null, value_id bigint(20) unsigned not null default ‘0’, meta_key varchar(255) null, meta_value varchar(255) null, PRIMARY KEY (meta_id), KEY value_id (value_id), KEY meta_join (meta_key(191), meta_value(191)) ) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci;
No data to clean
Starting Conversion
I don’t know any MySQL so I don’t understand what to do. If relevant here the collations used: utf8_bin (phpBB) and utf8mb4_general_ci (WordPress).
Any suggestions?
Tiiu
I deployed the bbpress plugin.
on the Lost Password page, using the Lost password shortcode, I cannot finalise the action to do a lost password. get an error message that says that captcha has not been entered.
Problem: captcha is not even on the screen.
Note: it is however on the WordPress Lost Password screen.
Any help on how to get the captcha feature on the Lost password bbpress functionality?
Hi, can’t provide link to page because it’s a private / paid site: fapsa.org.uk
When I try to go to Forums I get ‘HTTP ERROR 500’ and this in my error log:
[30-Jan-2017 18:21:55 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class WP_Taxonomy in /home/fapsa******/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/bb-includes/backpress/class.wp-taxonomy.php on line 17
Any suggestions?
BuddyPress: 2.7.4
WordPress: 4.7.2
I think the problem is that I’ve been using legacy Forums in BuddyPress. Is there any way to transfer them across to bbPress?
untested as I’m short of time this evening but…
create a directory in 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/loop-single-forum.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/loop-single-forum.php
bbPress will now use this template instead of the original
and you can amend this
if you take out line 44 which says
<?php bbp_list_forums(); ?>
Then sub forums will not be listed
this is all handled by wordpress and presumably cleantalk. bbpress just uses what wordpress has. Suggest you post on the wordpress/cleantalk support sites
In bbPress 1.x there was a feature called “bozo”, what that did was hide any topics and replies from users that had been “bozo’d” though the bozo user would continue to see their own topics and replies.
This feature has not been migrated to bbPress 2.x, there is a discussion in ticket #2755 on some potential ideas and suggests a couple of plugin and plugin ideas that might pave the way for some future bbPress 2.x enhancement.
… I cried victory too early: I ran into https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/recent-topicsreplies-from-private-forum-are-not-displayed-in-widget-why/ and moreover the workaround suggested there doesn’t work for hidden forums. 🙁 So back to square one…
I’m running a website with two private groups, and I’ve run into a snag. It turns out that all logged in users can also see topics posted into private forums in the “recent topics” widget, even if they are not member of a private group. Naturally if they click on these topics, they cannot see the contents of the thread, but the topic titles occasionally do leak information that they shouldn’t be able to see.
Is this a known bug with the bbpress “recent topics” widget? Is there a way of fixing this?
I’m running wordpress 4.7.2, buddypress 2.7.4, and bbpress 2.5.12 (also jetpack, askimet, and wordfence, at their latest versions). Happy to provide more information if need be.
Thanks in advance for any help!
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
Hi,
We are using bbPress on http://failuresrepublic.com/ and topics are not showing on single forum pages instead it shows the counts of topics as “This forum contains 1 topic and was last updated…”. Here is the URL: http://failuresrepublic.com/forums/discussions/talks/
I tried all the techniques as suggested in this thread.
Still, our issue is resolved.A help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Regards,
Member, Failures Republic community
Good afternoon,
I am currently working on my website which utilises BBpress for it’s key function. I have set all of the forums to private so that only users can visit them. I am now currently trying to prevent a category of user from being able to access other user’s posts.
I am using the user role editor plugin to do this, which allows me to prevent people from reading private topics. Sounds easy enough, but how do I set topics (as opposed to forums) to private?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
I have BBPress installed on our organization website. Unfortunately, we are getting a good number of spammers subscribing daily to the forum presumably looking to post backlinks. I have not figured out how to stop this except to deactivate the plugin. If I do that, will the content that is currently in the forums be saved. Will I be able to reactivate the plugin at a later date and have the content in tact? Better yet, is there a way to better screen subscribers to prevent spammers from subscribing.
Thank you.
I just added bbpress options to the wp-mass delete plugin. If you install it you can see what settings it has and whether it will suit you
I altered wp-mass delete to allow bbpress options
WP Mass delete bbpress version
USE WITH CARE and backup your database first !!! I take no responsibility for this !
@lbonini
see https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-2-6-beta/
It has been added to 2.6 already, so we are close to release !
Pascal.
Hi,
You are referring to ‘posts’, so maybe you mean standard WordPress blog posts ? In that case you better ask the question on https://wordpress.org/support/
If you mean bbPress ‘Topics’ or ‘Replies’, then your admin panel should only show you some topics or replies at a time, so you should be able to see them under the corresponding headers in your menu and delete them.
Topics and Replies are stored in the database as standard posts, so they should be there.
Hi
after being logged in the
(bbPress) Recent Topics
works great from every part of the website.
but the
(bbPress) Forums List
shows only a title of the widget and no forums, UNLESS I´m browsing into the forums themselves…then there is everything (‘any’) fine.
Is this familiar to anyone?
if you are happy with css codes then
bbPress Styling Crib
Otherwise the bbp style pack will let you change it, and much else besides
https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbp-style-pack
