[Robin W]

The below is offered as potential help, and in an effort to help, so if it is rubbish, then please come back, and I will try to help further.

bbpress uses the standard wordpress posts, but with post types of ‘forum’, ‘topic’ and ‘reply’ instead of ‘post’ and ‘page’, and bbpress code itself basically uses wp_query to access the database.

The glossary for wordpress api says

GET /wp-json/wp/v2/posts to get a collection of Posts. This is roughly equivalent to using WP_Query.

so I’d imagine that you would just use the same sort of call, and use wp_query parameters to return what you wanted.

So if for wordpress you had a command that gave you say the latest 5 posts, then this same command would work but just changing whatever that code has for post_type=’post’ to post_type=’topic’

If you wanted topics from a particular forum, you would add the equivalent of post_parent = ID where ID was the forum ID

In essence if you can tell me what you want, I can give you the wp_query, and you could hopefully translate this into json.

Does any of that make sense? 🙂

[perkiins]

Hello I installed BBpress, created categories, forums, replies.. I have problems, in all Forums I see all Topics on all Forums.. I see Topics of Forum (General) in the forum (Games), what I do to only see Topics of Games in the forum Games?

And when I create topic, replie, etc.. in the web I didn’t see the HTML helper bar, with the italic, Bold, etc… what i do to put that?

[Gilbert]

Hi,
WP 4.7, latest BBpress. I have a multisite: swissinformatic.org, magazine.swissinformatics.org, [other stuff]swissinformatics.org. My mail server is @swissinformatics.org and the plugin picks up $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] to create the no reply address.
COULD YOU HELP US with a setting box to supersede this value?
Meanwhile I replaced it with my site name in the functions.php code, but mind the next plugin update!
$sitename = strtolower( ‘swissinformatics.org );
Always beware of “Educated guess’ I’m not going to buy a mail server for each subdomain and with the present security of providers,…
I also created a no reply alias of my administrative e-mail address.
Everything is fine now

Subscriptions ***********************************************************/

/**
* Get the “Do Not Reply” email address to use when sending subscription emails.
*
* We make some educated guesses here based on the home URL. Filters are
* available to customize this address further. In the future, we may consider
* using admin_email instead, though this is not normally publicized.
*
* We use $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] here to mimic similar functionality in
* WordPress core. Previously, we used get_home_url() to use already validated
* user input, but it was causing issues in some installations.
*
* @since bbPress (r5409)
*
* @see wp_mail
* @see wp_notify_postauthor
* @link https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2618
*
* @return string
*/
function bbp_get_do_not_reply_address() {
$sitename = strtolower( $_SERVER[‘SERVER_NAME’] );
if ( substr( $sitename, 0, 4 ) === ‘www.’ ) {
$sitename = substr( $sitename, 4 );
}
return apply_filters( ‘bbp_get_do_not_reply_address’, ‘noreply@’ . $sitename );

[Wilbur]

I know nothing of rest, but there’s one for wordpress http://v2.wp-api.org/ does that help?

No it doesn’t support bbpress

[shantabhai]

I’m also looking for the REST API for bbPress but unable to find info on it either.

[gowthamvarma1988]

I am trying to import vbulletin 5 content to bbpress.

1.Copied database to local location.
2.Removed prefix
3.Copied vbulletin5 and converter files.

But it is stuck at the below location.

Calculating forum hierarchy (20 – 29) —> “Not moving from here”
Calculating forum hierarchy (10 – 19)
Calculating forum hierarchy (0 – 9)
Converting forums (20 – 29)
Converting forums (10 – 19)
Converting forums (0 – 9)
No passwords to clearStarting Conversion

I tried to stop and start, removed prefix. Still no luck.

I just need only topics with posts, I can import other stuff manually.

Can you guys please help me with this issue?

[Jake Hall]

There has been a survey for 2014 and 2015… since the plugin has grew so massively I thought a survey would have come about however there was none.

The information from it is really interesting… when are we likely to see the next bbPress Survey?

[Anonymous User]

Mike,

I have just stumbled upon the thread from 3 years ago and it led me to finding yours here. Is this really not resolved?

I recently got bbPress up and running and I also needed this. I went ahead and found the solution… here goes…

It’s in the template. Seriously. Let’s take the previous answer (sorry for no reference) that souneone suggested to “tell the users to use anon@example.com”, and we’ll make it even easier for the user.

Make sure to copy the default bbpress template “form-anonymous.php” to /wp-content/themes/your-theme/bbpress/

Open up form-anonymous.php from your theme and find the following code section:

<p>
			<label for="bbp_anonymous_email"><?php _e( 'Mail (will not be published) (required):', 'bbpress' ); ?></label><br />
			<input type="text" id="bbp_anonymous_email"   value="<?php bbp_author_email(); ?>" tabindex="<?php bbp_tab_index(); ?>" size="40" name="bbp_anonymous_email" />
		</p>

Delete that. In fact, replace it with the following:

<input type="hidden" id="bbp_anonymous_email" value="anon@yourdomain.com" tabindex="-1234" name="bbp_anonymous_email" />

Save it out, close it out. You’re done!

Now you don’t require names.. it forces the “anon@yourdomain.com” as the value.
Developers can still change it 😉

remember to change yourdomain.com to your actual domain in the values I gave above.

if you have further questions or anything reach out on skype joshuasadler4550

[Robin W]

bbPress is tested with wordpress default themes. It maybe a conflict – you need to check plugins and themes

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

[TheDream18]

Example:
TOPIC A
– Post 1
– Post 2
– Post 3
– Post 4

Simple added this code css:
/* Display sub-forums in separate lines */
#bbpress-forums .bbp-forums-list li {
display: list-item !important;}

[eliblair]

Hi guys, I will just say first that I do not know much about coding.

I just installed bbpress and now i have this error come up in my wordpress dashboard

Warning: preg_match(): Unknown modifier ‘0’ in /home2/eli/public_html/juniortactician.com/wp-includes/class-wp.php on line 231

Warning: preg_match(): Unknown modifier ‘0’ in /home2/eli/public_html/juniortactician.com/wp-includes/class-wp.php on line 232

the code on those lines are as follows:

if ( preg_match(“#^$match#”, $request_match, $matches) ||
preg_match(“#^$match#”, urldecode($request_match), $matches) ) {

what does this mean and how can I get rid of it?

Thanks in advance.

[moni]

Hi I am using a custom short code to show about 10 latest replies on my reply dash board.
I get shortcode from this link by applying this code : http://www.daggerhart.com/bbpress-recent-replies-shortcode/

what I want is to add paging (nav) at the bottom to show more then 10 replies on other pages. please suggest solutions.

[stagezero]

@robin w.
i have suggestion on your plugin. Please check http://www.angrybirdsnest.com
1. Forum thumbnail is clickable
2. bbp.forum-content is beside the thumbnail
3. recent topics below each forum list.
4. (on topic page) Thumbnail is visible.

also i have a problem with image not proportion. I have downloaded a plugin “Image Upload for BBPress”
and all image is not proportion during responsive view. It just shrink the width. I tried removing image attribute and set max width to 100%. any idea?

[stagezero]

Hello,
I have used Image Upload for BBPress to upload and attach image to forum.
my problem is image is not responsive. It will just shrink its width. I tried playing with firbug and remove image attributes and set max-width to 100%.
It works… Now my problem is which file to edit and how. Im not a coder. I just learned css and have little understanding on php…

[vivacityinfo]

Hello adarshmadrecha,
Greetings!

Now I have used latest version of wp and bbpress but this issue is not resolved.

I am sharing two links regarding this problem. In first link, latest created topic is showing. And in second link, previous created topic is showing. These topics are related with same group. But you can see in second link, wrong content and title are showing. Here content is overwriting of latest created topic.

https://kombuchabrewers.org/groups/brewing-questions/forum/topic/commercial-juice-suppliers/ (latest topic)

https://kombuchabrewers.org/groups/brewing-questions/forum/topic/moving-into-large-fermenters/
(previous topic)

Also, I am using two plugins regarding this, bbpress wp fix and bbpress wp fix2 on our website.

Please review my message and help me regarding this problem.

Looking forward for your response!

Thanks & Regards
Team vivacity

[Jonathan Sulo]

I’m managing a bbPress 2.5.x forum with 10K+ users, 25K+ topic & 200K+ posts. It’s actually pretty fast: https://saabklubben.se/forum/

I’ve tried to minimize the number of plugins. The bbPress related ones are bbp style pack, bbPress – Report Content, bbPress Notices, bbPress WP Tweaks and GD bbPress Toolbox. However, our forum is a part of a Multisite network with 50+ active plugins (BuddyPress, WooCommerce, WangGuard, Akismet etc).

There has been some optimization done here as well. We’re using GeneratePress, which is an excellent theme in terms of performance (and much more). The optimization plugins are primarily Gator Cache, Autoptimize and EWWW.

On the server side we’re using Nginx with MariaDB and PHP-FPM (PHP 7). We also use Cloudflare and Redis. But it’s a single server setup, with ServerPilot and DigitalOcean (16 GB droplet, but we could easily use a 8 GB droplet instead).

In my experience, the best things we’ve done for optimization is to use PHP 7 and Redis. Those things have had the most impact on our performance.

[Anonymous User 15184782]

bbPress tell me error with the WordPress version (4.6.1), when I install crashes the site and view the error page. Why does this happen?

[trishahdee]

I recently had my SMF forum migrated to BBPress. I’m just now starting to configure everything and I found that when trying to update my BBPress profile I am getting following errors:

ERROR: Please enter a nickname.
ERROR: This email is already registered, please choose another one.
A Nickname is required. Please choose a nickname or fill out your first and last name.

If I re-enter my nickname then the first and third errors go away but not the error about the email. This is confusing because I’m trying to update the profile and not create a new one.

When I deactivate all other plugins except for BBPress and activated Twenty Fifteen theme and try to update the profile again I only get the first two errors. The third one occurs when I turn on iThemes Security.

Does this have something to do with the migration of users? I have contacted the migration company but thought I’d also try here in case you have an suggestions.

[erich199]

Hello,
I’m trying to import a large mybb installation into bbpress. The problem happens when it goes to import topics that have many replies. For some reason, it’s splitting those topics into their own topics. I don’t know why it’s doing this I’ve done it several times (I made a backup of my database so I just restored it and tried again).

Is there a glitch in the plugin that is telling it to split those topics into multiple topics into bbpress?

It will import the topics with the title “RE: Some Topic” So each reply, is it’s own thread with only one reply. It’s very strange and I’m wondering if anyone else has encountered this.

[jadmac]

I recently started using bbpress forums on my site, after which I have observed a significant traffic drop, does anyone know why this may be and if there are certain SEO settings etc I may need to tweak to fix this issue?

Any help would be appreciated,

Thanks

[Mohammad Sy]

Hello
When I mention the person in the topic or reply, do not notification him in BuddyPress Notifications that it has been @mentioned him in the topic or reply
thank you 🙂

[mcshane1962]

I think I have to give up, i have reinstalled bbpress 2.5.15 and the Forum Import is again available. No matter what combinations I try I get no result just “No forums to convert” etc etc. What is really annoying is that I don’t get any error messages no matter what the settings even if they are gibberish, so I am at a loss to track down what is wrong.

[ipf]

I am in the process of creating a bbpress forum.

How can I remove the admin toolbar and deny dashboard access to members? Is there a setting that I am missing? If not, are there any plugins that you recommend?

Is it possible to integrate wordpress, bbpress and buddypress so that a user’s profile shows
1. wordpress posts
2. wordpress comments
3. Forum topics
4. Forum replies
5. Buddypress status updates.

How can I achieve this?
Thank you.

[ipf]

Has anyone successfully imported to bbpress from Xenforo?

I used 2.6 version and I was able to import posts and threads.
But quotes, user name tagging and attachments did not get imported.

1. Attachments: Since bbpress does not have attachments feature, should I install any plugin before I import?

2. Quotes:
It will be great if quoted text appear in a box with a different background color.

As shown below, quoted text appear like this ==> username, post: 23013, member: 922 wrote: quoted message.

This makes it difficult to differentiate between the quoted message and the reply. How can I fix this?

For example,

Valli, post: 23412, member: 922 wrote:
That is why I am asking how to make her eat.

Valli, you can’t make the child eat by force. This kid already seems to have some strong negative association with food. If the mother comes to school and force feeds her it is only going to make it even harder.

Valli, post: 23412, member: 922 wrote:
It is too long to eat only chips and juice.

You are correct, Valli!
Valli, post: 23013, member: 922 wrote:
If someone feed her food from her lunchbox she cries too much.

I think this is serious. You have to talk to the parents about it.
[USER=15]Samvaad[/USER], do you agree?

3. Username: As seen above, username is also showing up like this.

Thanks.

[mcshane1962]

To clarify my previous comment: when I install bbpress 2.6 the forum import tool is no longer available.