[Robin W]

ok, so we’ll save a copy of the current theme loop-forums in case we need it, and then copy the one from my plugin to the theme directory to replace it.

Step by step this is :

1. copy the file

wp-content/themes/%what-your-theme-is-called%/bbpress/loop-forums.php

to your PC and save it to somewhere you know and make a note of it so you can find it if you need it in future.

2. then find

wp-content/plugins/bbp style pack/templates/templates1/loop-forums.php

and copy it to your pc (again knowing where you put it, but don’t overwrite the one you copied above!)

3. Then copy this file into

wp-content/themes/%what-your-theme-is-called%/bbpress

The theme should then use the updated file

[Robin W]

ok, can you look at

wp-content/themes/%what-your-theme-is-called%/bbpress

where /%what-your-theme-is-called%/ is the name of your theme

and see if it has a file called loop-forums.php in that directory

[hopecenter]

I am having a problem with bbPress Forums, the form / buttons don’t match my theme.

1. FORUM PAGE doesn’t display properly — there are little bullet like circles in front of all of the text items on the page. They shouldn’t be there and I would like to get ride of them.
2. BUTTONS — SEARCH and SUBMIT buttons on forum page did not inherit my theme (on registered users page) — http://www.thehopecntr.com/groups/
3. SUBSCRIBE LINK TEXT overlaps breadcrumb navigation on Forums pages

My theme has a place for me to enter Custom CSS. Can someone kindly provide me with a fix or CSS for this problem. Thank you.

[Stephen Edgar]

Glad you got it sorted, when the next bbPress update occurs let me know if it fails again and we can look into this further

[Stephen Edgar]

I’ll include the above in ticket #2963

Thanks for identifying the cause @atmojones, made tracking this down much quicker 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

So the regex we use #([\s>])@([0-9a-zA-Z-_]+)#i in bbp_make_mentions_clickable()

The ([\s>]) is checking for a whitespace character before the @ symbol

The code here below is from using TinyMCE and as you noted @atmojones there’s some non-breaking spaces html entities for the instances when an an even number of spaces preceede the @ symbol:

The root cause is every second space is swapped out with nbsp; which makes sense from a HTML perspective, where this takes place I’m not so sure of, it’s either in TinyMCE directly, or WordPress via wp_spaces_regexp() in wptexturize() (I think it’s the former)

The workaround for bbPress and I suspect BuddyPress also, would be to check for both ([\s>]) and nbsp; preceding the @ symbol

Here’s the results of swapping ([\s>]) for ([\s>;]) (Adding a check for just the semi-colon):

[Stephen Edgar]

Testing one space @atmojones
Testing two spaces @atmojones
Testing three spaces @atmojones
Testing four spaces @atmojones
Testing five spaces @atmojones
Testing six spaces @atmojones

The resulting code from the above:

<p>Testing one space <a href="https://bbpress.org/forums/profile/atmojones/" rel="nofollow">@atmojones</a>
    <br> Testing two spaces <a href="https://bbpress.org/forums/profile/atmojones/" rel="nofollow">@atmojones</a>
    <br> Testing three spaces <a href="https://bbpress.org/forums/profile/atmojones/" rel="nofollow">@atmojones</a>
    <br> Testing four spaces <a href="https://bbpress.org/forums/profile/atmojones/" rel="nofollow">@atmojones</a>
    <br> Testing five spaces <a href="https://bbpress.org/forums/profile/atmojones/" rel="nofollow">@atmojones</a>
    <br> Testing six spaces <a href="https://bbpress.org/forums/profile/atmojones/" rel="nofollow">@atmojones</a>
 </p>

The above doesn’t really show the code, multiple spaces are stripped:

[Robin W]

It could be several things, but some themes override bbpress templates and prevent my plugin changing them.

Do you have ftp access to your site?

[verenar]

Hi,
I have a membership side with different forums and I show the forums with the “(bbPress) Forums List” widget and the answers with [bbp-topic-index].

I want to show a forum and its ansers only for a some users. Where in the code I have to do the difference?

Thanks in advance!

[timsilva_]

I dealt with some of these issues about a year ago. I was migrating from SMF 2* to bbPress and I had tons of issues with formatting in posts and missing data. I ended up hiring Michael Z Noble (http://wwww.michaelznoble.com/ – The 4 w’s is intentional 😉 ) to write a custom migration script to help me through all of these issues (as well as transfer a bunch of data like signatures, up/down votes, thread view counts, avatars, etc, into various bbPress/BuddyPress plugins/functions). The utf8mb4/utf8mb4_unicode_ci/character set issues were particularly tough for me to get through. I ended up switching to a new host that had a newer version of MySQL in order to successfully complete the migration. In short, if you aren’t a senior dev, hire a dev. 😉

Best of luck my friend! 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

First, make a backup your database using your webhost site backup, or database backup preference.

Cool, deleting the bbPress plugin will *not* delete anything from your database 🙂

So delete the plugin, and then download and activate bbPress again 🙂

Backup first, because, backup, your data is important, and incase anything else goes wrong you have a backup 🙂

[pcpro178]

Hi Stephen. WordPress and other plugins update without any problems. I have spoken with my web host. They looked at it and said I needed to contact bbPress support. How does uninstalling bbPress modify the database?

[pcpro178]

Whenever I try to update bbPress I keep getting this error:

The update process is starting. This process may take a while on some hosts, so please be patient.

Enabling Maintenance mode…

Updating Plugin bbPress (1/1)
Downloading update from https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bbpress.2.5.11.zip…
Unpacking the update…
Installing the latest version…
Removing the old version of the plugin…
Plugin update failed.

An error occurred while updating bbPress: The update cannot be installed because we will be unable to copy some files. This is usually due to inconsistent file permissions. templates/default/bbpress/bbpress-templates

Disabling Maintenance mode…

All updates have been completed.

Wordpress Version 4.6.1
bbPress Version 2.5.10
Website URL: https://sopearly.com

[Stephen Edgar]

Not so much what I need, it is what you need to help work out what the issue is 😉

At a quick glance it looks like the bootstrap.css is overwriting the bbPress CSS styles.

Can you make the topic a “sticky” again please:

This is the forum correct? EDIT: Removed URL

[Anonymous User 15184782]

How do I add any widgets in forum pages created with bbPress?
Thanks for the help.

-Andrea

[ico33]

I have a WordPress site with inside a BBPRESS forum.

When in the forum (in a topic or reply) I put the link to a Post in my wordpress site, it shows in bbpress the Image, an exerpt, and at the bottom-left there is the name of my site. In the left corner it whows the WordPress logo. Can I remove that logo? How?

[eapapyrus]

Hello,

I test the plugin “GD bbPress Attachments” which looks very interesting, but I can’t get “attached files” in BBPress topics and answers. In fact, I noticed that this button to download is visible when I am logged in to the admin, however I don’t want that forum’s participants have to create an account to add attachments (especially pdf’s files) in their comments.
Can you help me, please?
Thanks in advance.

Best regards,

[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 ?