[Stephen Edgar]

I would suggest trying it on a local setup using MAMP or XAMP

Then export the forum using WordPress’ “Export” tool, and then the “Import” tool on your site.

p.s I haven’t tested or seen anyone do a Vanilla install for quite a while and sugget you take a close look at the import o make sure it works. Also try bbPress 2.6-alpha, lots of importer improvements, you can get it from here https://bbpress.org/download

[deepthyxavier]

Thank you for your response.
Solved the problem by changing the code in plugins/bbpress/includes/common/widgets.php
made a small change around the line no: 586

[vizcano]

@netweb can you help me with my other post?

see here:

help wrong display of topic

thanks

[Stephen Edgar]

The theme used here on bbpress.org is called bbpress-org, the theme used on buddypress.org is called buddypress-org, I see a pattern emerging, the theme used on codex.bbpress.org is called codex-bbpress-org, the theme used on codex.buddypress.org is called codex-buddypress-org, there is a pattern here :shakes fist: ;P

Along with the above, each of those themes is a WordPress child theme, the parent theme is named bb-base, as you can see below per the announcement blog posts all the above parent and child themes and plugins used on all the sites were “open sourced” back in March 2014

Open Sourcing bbPress.org

Open Sourcing BuddyPress.org

The above posts also link to the source repos, there is also a new child theme that is now used on the bbPress 2.x powered https://wordpress.org/support/ forums and an even newer evolution of this theme is being worked on for the updated redesign of the WordPress forums, you can even sneak a peak at the new design by visiting this URL: https://wordpress.org/support/?new-theme=1

The updates to all of the above and the migration of the WordPress Support Forums to bbPress 2.x, rather 2.6-alpha is one of the reasons bbPress 2.6 isn’t out yet, it’s because we’re making sure bbPress 2.6 will be the best it possibly can be, and by deploying it on wordpress.org and the ensued battle testing of it that has been taking place we’ve got a few things to do before we can say bbPress 2.6 is ready to be released.

[mikehaceman]

Ok it was hanging for too long so here what i found out:

on the patch page (https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/3026/3026.patch) you made few mistakes:

1. Line 663 KEY meta_join (meta_key, meta_value) ) {$charset_collate};”;
should finish with ” , ” not ” ;”; ” otherwise it will crash error

2. Line 660 PRIMARY KEY (meta_id),
is duplicated so i guess 660 or 661 can be removed

3. when running import after those changes in wordpress, converter is giving error message:

WordPress database error: [Key column ‘meta_id’ doesn’t exist in table]
CREATE TABLE wp_bbp_converter_translator ( 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, meta_value) ) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci

Btw… im not a coder. No clue about php im just applying some logic to what i see 😉

[John James Jacoby]

@mikehaceman – that was it.

See: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3026

Can you try what Netweb suggested again, and see if it works now?

[John James Jacoby]

Hey @mikehaceman, sorry you are having trouble.

This isn’t usually necessary, but something between your two installations isn’t cooperating, and in these rare cases it unfortunately requires a bit of scrutiny.

WordPress installations since 4.4 and beyond will try to use utf8mb4 for their character set, and utf8mb4_unicode_ci for their collation. Traditionally these are InnoDB tables, but you’re usually free to decide this for yourself.

utf8mb4 tables have reduced maximum key lengths due to the additional bytes required for each character, so the safe maximum length is reduced to 191. It’s possible we haven’t updated our special converter table to handle this, so I’ll check, and update it if that’s the case.

If you wanted, it may be worth going through all databases, all tables, and all columns, and ensure that your encoding & collations are what you expect them to be. (This means in your old forums, and your new ones.)

[Edit: Updated this post to reflect what we’ve updated in bbPress’s converter]

[mikehaceman]

Thank you for the reply. I have downloaded and installed alpha.
When running import im getting error:

Repair any missing information: Continue
WordPress database error: [Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes]
CREATE TABLE wp_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, meta_value) ) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci

I tried to find this error and potential solution. I found someone recommending bbpress toolkit. I have installed it and system info is as follow:

WP version 4.6.1
Theme Twenty Sixteen 1.3
PHP version 5.4.19
bbPress version 2.6-alpha-6091
Active Plugins Name and Version
– p1 bbP Toolkit 1.0.6
– p2 bbPress 2.6-alpha

Any idea ?

[Stephen Edgar]

A couple of things, if you use bbPress 2.6-alpha that should fix your issues, you can download it from https://bbpress.org/download

You “might” need to update your old SMF database to the latest version, its too difficult to maintain multiple database versions for ~25 or so forum imports we support.

[Stephen Edgar]

Per forum moderator support has been added to the upcoming bbPress 2.6

[Robin W]

There is a plugin

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpressmoderation/

It is a bit old, and I haven’t used it, but it may well work

[Chad R. Schulz]

Yeah, the role of moderator would allow this user to edit topics/replies. Check out the prebuilt roles/caps here.

Also, by giving them the role of author they’d gain access to the back-end of your site for other content (create posts, etc.), as well.

These are two separate roles that do two different things.

[davidnator]

Thanks for replying Stephen! Interestingly enough, when I went into incognito mode as my second account, I didn’t encounter anything wrong this time within the forums themselves. However, when I went onto the homepage, I got the same glitch again where it logged me out.

After deactivating all plugins besides bbpress and buddypress, I didn’t see the issue come up again.

[xmatter]

Today I changed theme to GeneratePress. Under the “Forums” Page, I changed Content No Sidebar & Full Width Content. Still the Forums page will NOT remove the sidebar. When originally installing bbPress, I created a Forums page with the slug “forums” and that is how its communicating. From there as a diagnostic step, I created another page named Forums2 and added the shortcode to display the forums index. That page would NOT displat it full width (no sidebar) no matter what I tried. Any help would be awesome.

[u_Oi]

It looks you are using a plugin to show that information. Apparently, It won’t be a bbPress problem…

You can fix it with css.

[u_Oi]

Try this code. Put it on the function.php

/* Hide SideBar in bbPress Profiles and Topics*/
function disable_all_widgets( $sidebars_widgets ) {       
    if ( function_exists('is_bbpress') ) {
        if (is_bbpress()) {
            $sidebars_widgets = array(false);
            remove_all_actions('bp_register_widgets');
            unregister_sidebar( 'bp_core_widgets' );
        }
    }
    return $sidebars_widgets;
}

add_filter('sidebars_widgets', 'disable_all_widgets', 1, 1);

You don’t say if You want the full-width to all pages or only to topics, forums, or profiles.

Regards,

[oeroes]

Hi,

the content beneath Latest replies is aligned centered. Is it possible to align the text left? What custom-css I can use to achieve this?
I asked the support of the theme I use (Avada), but they tell me to turn you.

I’m using wordpress 4.6, bbPress-version 2.5.10-6063.
The link to my site is: http://psd2.nl/forum/

Thanks very much for your help!

Best regards,
Oeroes

[suraj1977]

Hi all, I have recently uploaded BBPress forum to [MOD EDIT – site removed in case this is an seo spam] site on my root domain. And I want to allocate role of moderator to another site member. Is there any way to allocate him this role from beginning itself?

Kindly guide me as we are new to this plugin.

Also, kindly guide if we need to create subdomain dedicated for forums especially for security reasons.

Thanks in advance,

Suraj Awadhani

[crmentality]

Hi. I would like to create a forum using BBpress but I do not wish the forum to be time sensitive (no dates or time shown).

How can I do this?

Thanks

[senatorman]

one best way.ive done with my forum. All other ways are not working

-Update phpbb to the latest version
-use the BBpress Alpha 2.6
-import the data from phpbb
-do the fixes down under in separatly ( run sql in 5 steps, begin with the first)

/* Get all posts with wrong author and correspondent right author from translator table */

create table TMP_ORPHANS as
select
wp_posts.ID,
wp_posts.post_author,
wp_bbp_converter_translator.value_id real_author,
IFNULL(wp_posts.post_date, NULL) post_date,
IFNULL(wp_posts.post_date_gmt, NULL) post_date_gmt,
wp_posts.post_content,
CASE
WHEN wp_posts.post_type = 'reply'
THEN (SELECT tmposts.post_title from wp_posts as tmposts where tmposts.id = wp_posts.post_parent)
ELSE wp_posts.post_title
END post_title,
wp_posts.post_excerpt,
wp_posts.post_status,
wp_posts.comment_status,
wp_posts.ping_status,
wp_posts.post_password,
wp_posts.post_name,
wp_posts.to_ping,
wp_posts.pinged,
IFNULL(wp_posts.post_modified, NULL) post_modified,
IFNULL(wp_posts.post_modified_gmt, NULL) post_modified_gmt,
wp_posts.post_content_filtered,
wp_posts.post_parent,
wp_posts.guid,
wp_posts.menu_order,
wp_posts.post_type,
wp_posts.post_mime_type,
wp_posts.comment_count,
(	select wp_postmeta.meta_value
from wp_postmeta
where
wp_postmeta.meta_key = '_bbp_author_ip' and
wp_postmeta.post_id = wp_posts.id
) user_ip
from wp_posts
left join wp_users on wp_posts.post_author = wp_users.id
left join wp_bbp_converter_translator on wp_posts.post_author = wp_bbp_converter_translator.meta_value
where
wp_posts.post_type in ('forum', 'reply', 'topic') and
(wp_users.id is null or
wp_users.id = 1) and
wp_bbp_converter_translator.value_type = 'user' and
wp_bbp_converter_translator.meta_key = '_bbp_old_user_id';

/* Do this to be able to create indexes later – some may not work */
ALTER TABLE TMP_ORPHANS modify column post_date datetime default NULL;
ALTER TABLE TMP_ORPHANS modify column post_date_gmt datetime default NULL;
ALTER TABLE TMP_ORPHANS modify column post_modified datetime default NULL;
ALTER TABLE TMP_ORPHANS modify column post_modified_gmt datetime default NULL;
ALTER TABLE TMP_ORPHANS modify column user_ip varchar(40);
ALTER TABLE TMP_ORPHANS modify column post_title varchar(255);

/* we create indexes to speed up the update process */
ALTER TABLE TMP_ORPHANS ADD INDEX(post_date);
ALTER TABLE TMP_ORPHANS ADD INDEX(post_author);
ALTER TABLE TMP_ORPHANS ADD INDEX(real_author);
ALTER TABLE TMP_ORPHANS ADD INDEX(user_ip);
ALTER TABLE TMP_ORPHANS ADD INDEX(post_title);

/* Revert bad authors to good authors */
UPDATE
wp_posts INNER JOIN TMP_ORPHANS
ON wp_posts.id = TMP_ORPHANS.id
set wp_posts.post_author = TMP_ORPHANS.real_author
where wp_posts.post_type in ('reply', 'topic') ;

/* Drop TMP table */
DROP TABLE TMP_ORPHANS;

The result is a compleet database with the good relation between post and author

[Helmuts]

good morning, what is the theme (is there one at all) used here at bbpress official community forum?

really like the approach 🙂

thank you,
Helmuts

[Helmuts]

Hello all,

I have created an inner forum http://www.lustjobs.com/forums/ (a forum to discuss auld industry business aspects).

bbPress seemed to be the right solution to go for (and actually the only one to be honest) as the main website is run on wp.

Could you please share your thoughts/feedback as a person who’s worked with bbPress for a much longer time? Any changes required?

Screenshot of all the plugins I use: http://imgur.com/a/dk5Ju (link to imgur as the image is too long to be inserted here).

Still looking how to implement following features:
* like button (have tried different ones – none seems good enough)
* see total views (I understand that I’m not the only one)
* quote
* adding moderator status to registered users for selected categories only
* first post in different colour (as here)

Thanks in advance for the feedback,
Helmuts

p.s. the more I work with bbpress, the more I love it, and it looks like that my users get along with it good as well.

[ric89]

I have a serious problem. Yesterday I installed bbPress, I tried it and after a few minutes I turned off.

After deactivating the plugin the entire site went offline. The wordpress admin panel works, so I reactivated bbPress and is back online.

The site is completely offline if I try to turn off bbPress, and back online when activate it. Why?

(Sorry for English, I am Italian)

[NhatQuang]

Hi,
By default, to override bbpress template in theme, you need to create a folder called name “bbpress” in root folder theme, like this /%your_theme%/bbpress.
I have a question, How can change the location of bbpress folder in theme ?
I want to move it like this: /%my_theme%/vendors/bbpress

[Stephen Edgar]

Also, I just learnt that if your themes header.php contains lang="en" that will cause issues, see https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/unable-to-change-language/#post-179361