[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

[Stephen Edgar]

If you have WordPress set to use Hebrew you should be able to go to Dashboard -> Updates -> Update Translations and WordPress will download the bbPress Hebrew translations automatically

[negevasaf64]

Hi, this is my website: peulibrary.com, and I put the bbpress-he_IL.mo and bbpress-he_IL.po files in wp-content/languages/bbpress, and it doesn’t work, nothingm and I tries everything, does anyone have an idea how to solve it?
Thank You!

Used theme: Evolve

[deepthyxavier]

Hi,

Is it possible to display forums as Recent topic widget in BBpress with Forum name,author name with avatar, and forum created date.
Any help greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[Stephen Edgar]

Actually, you should be able to do this now, I was looking at an incorrect URL.

Finnish is in the API here https://api.wordpress.org/translations/plugins/1.0/?slug=bbpress&version=2.5.11

You should be able to remove the .po & .mo files and then just update your translations from the dashboard (/wp-admin -> dashboard -> updates -> Update translations)

[Stephen Edgar]

When you downloaded those files what options did you select?

You need to select All current to get the “current strings”

p.s. I’ve also just made a request to have bbPress “stable” language packs generated, once this is complete you should be able to download the translations directly from the WordPress updates dashboard, just as you get the translations for WordPress itself.

Keep an eye out for Finnish to show up in the API here

[Robin W]

If you mean 2.6 alpha then.

Download from

Download

and save to your computer

Deactivate and delete the existing bbpress plugin – the data will remain

Then install the alpha version by uploading new plugin

and activate

[Robert Chalmers]

Hi, thanks for getting back.

This is a brand new install. Theme is the standard 2017.
The only plugin is RemoveHowdy It makes no difference if it’s on or off.
I’ve removed bbPress, and reinstalled it again. No difference.

This bit doesn’t happen at all. When I activate it, nothing happens. Nothing in the apache logs. Nothing.

3. Activate bbPress from your Plugins page. (You’ll be greeted with a Welcome page.)
4. Visit ‘Forums > Add New’ and create some forums. (You can always delete these later.)

It’s Apache2. macOS. Runs IPv6 and IPv4 combined. Runs half a dozen other wordpress virtual web sites no problem.
Got me foxed.

[Robin W]

WAMP or server installation ?

ok, suggest

You deactivate, delete and re-install bbpress

If that doesn’t work

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.

If those don’t then either maybe corrupt wordpress/server issue.