[Stephen Edgar]

What I mean was to do this step by step, don’t try to do everything at once.

Install WordPress and bbPress and don’t do anything else.

Now is it working?

[alphaelectric]

Hi there, I have run into the exact same error but am unable to solve it.

– WordPress 4.6.1
– bbpress 2.5.10
– Great! Theme 0.14

Every reply to a topic is displayed as a huge bar right under the admin bar. Any idea how I can troubleshoot this?

Help would be really appreciated as I would like to stay with bbpress for the site.

Thanks a bunch,
Sebastian

PS: There are no sticky notes configured

[Jon Fergus]

Created a second subdomain, right from scratch, added wordpress, added bbpress, added a child theme, uploaded the reply.js file to a js folder at the root of the child theme. Did no other customizations whatsoever. Same functionality as before.

http://staging-nexus.universaltheosophy.com/forums/topic/test-topic/

[Jon Fergus]

Hi Stephen. That’s what I did. On my staging site, I started with wordpress, added bbpress, setup a child theme linked to twentysixteen with no customizations, added the reply.js file, and it didn’t work.
I know without logging in you can’t see the reply functionality, but this is my staging subdomain. You can see it’s just a completely base wordpress install with bbpress and nothing else added. And the reply.js file makes no difference in functionality. http://staging.universaltheosophy.com/forums/topic/test-topic/

[Stephen Edgar]

Yes

(bbPress uses WordPress users for account/password management)

[davidnator]

Hello, I have noticed a glitch on my forum index. Basically, the freshness for my forums “Introductions” and “Homework Help” are wrong. For the Introductions forum, the freshness is from over 1 week ago, which is incorrect. Furthermore, in the Homework Help forum, the freshness weirdly states “No Topics.” Btw, I have already tried going through the repair tool for the forums chronologically, but that didn’t fix the problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
David

I am currently running the latest stable version of bbpress, and my website is at purposeshare.com/forums

[Stephen Edgar]

Maybe try going back a step or two further…

Start with WordPress, add bbPress, does it work?

From there then incrementally add your customisations.

[storyminded]

Hi there,

We’re having quite a few issues with bbPress we’re hoping someone here can help us solve. We’ve mined the forums ourselves and tried a number of fixes and plugins to no avail. We’re working with WordPress 4.6.1 and bbPress 2.5.10. Unfortunately I can’t share a link to the forum (it’s available by login only). Any and all thoughts or suggestions are welcome!

The main features we are having trouble with include:

1) getting the subscribe/notifications settings to work (this has been the biggest headache, we have installed the Postmark and AsynCRONous bbPress Subscriptions plugins and neither have helped)
2) having the ability to keep selected posts at the top of the discussion threads (the Sticky pr “pin to top” function)
3) Allowing formatting on the images that are posted in the forum
4) Sending private messages through the forum
5) Having a search function within the forum

Can anyone suggest some good resources for us to figure out how to best install these features?

Thanks so much! I really appreciate your help.

Best,
Trish

[Kashif Rafique]

Is it possible to install bbPress on a separate WordPress either in sub-domain or sub-directory of the main domain provided that both sites can be accessible with a single login?

[Jon Fergus]

Ok, so I played around a lot with my site: changing the theme, disabling plugins, etc. etc. and nothing made any difference. So I went to my staging subdomain, stripped everything down to a basic wordpress install; created a child theme linked to twentysixteen; uploaded your reply.js file; then installed bbpress; added a single topic, and went to that topic to test the reply. The reply functioned exactly as it does on our site: i.e. click “reply” and the page reloads, and the user is brought to the reply-form.

I don’t know what else to think of this. The reply.js file you gave just doesn’t seem to change anything. Any ideas what’s going on? Did I put it in the wrong place or something? Do I need to add something somewhere else to make sure that js is activated ???

I’m at a loss for what to do here.

[DoNotIgnoreUs]

My project involves using WordPress Multisite for 10, possibly more, sites in subdirectories using the same host.

The domain is the umbrella for the organization with each site being a division of the organization each containing multiple Categories, Subcategories, Sub-sub-categories, Topics, Subtopics etc etc sharing a common userbase for single login.

What I need is to have each division/site to have it’s own BBpress forum each containing multiple Categories, Subcategories, Sub-sub-categories, Forums, Sub-forums Topics, Subtopics etc etc sharing a common userbase for single login.

Is this possible to do with BBpress?

All suggestions appreciated.

[Robkk]

It works fine for me, remember to use a topic tags id instead of a name.

[bbp-single-tag id=$tag_id] – Display a list of all topics associated with a specific tag. eg. [bbp-single-tag id=64]

https://codex.bbpress.org/features/shortcodes/

To find a topic tags id, you can go to Topics > Topic Tags in the WordPress backend, then edit a topic tag and look at the url. You should see something like this. You can also hover over each edit link and look at the bottom left and see the same url appear. You will see tag_ID=(number).

yoursite.com/wp-admin/term.php?taxonomy=topic-tag&tag_ID=4&post_type=topic&…

To make it easier to find an ID of a post, tag, user, you can also install the Reveal IDs plugins to add a column to tables that show the ID.

[Robkk]

I saw you also posted in the BuddyPress forums. If by any chance you are also using BuddyPress, you can activate the groups feature which works with bbPress to have group forums. BuddyPress is a really handy tool to use for great LMS sites.

Bundle bbPress+BuddyPress up with this plugin and you would have to do less work that you would have to with Robins plugin. This plugin sets up a course to a group, and forums to each group you create automatically.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/sensei-buddypress/

You might want to check out BuddyBoss and their other products as well, because I think they are working on other plugins/themes for bbPress+BuddyPress and Sensei.

[Fourmi]

I’m trying to use this shortcode and it’s not working. I saw this issue was reported several times by the past and it seemed to be resolved but it’s still not working for me.
I think this was the original ticket: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1948

I want to achieve the same comportment – get a list of topics classified under a specific topic tag. Is there a way I can get the shortcode to work OR could you help me code a workaround?

Thanks in advance!

[Robkk]

See if the code in this topic helps.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/show-usermember-join-date/

[pawankumarr]

$user = get_userdata( $user_id );
$registerdate = $user->user_registered;
echo date(“Y-m-d”, strtotime($registerdate));

in this code please provide full code with bbpress user id

there we can print actual date

[Robkk]

Are you using the visual editor?? I’m just wondering if this issue is only caused for users with the copying a sites text into the visual editor.

If you are, I might as well create a trac ticket for bbPress to use a paste plugin from tinymce.

[narendrakd]

Hi,

I am new to bbpress and configured but when i am copying from other site to my site..it shows HTML TAGS.

Please guys help me as i am not programmer.

Please help i am stuckup.

narendra

[Rolling Stone]

Hi,

If you could export data from your Discourse into RSS feeds, I think you could use WPPipes and its add-on to import into bbPress on WP site.

Best Regards!

[Stephen Edgar]

You’d need to first get the Discourse database converted to MySQL (I think it’s Postgres?)

Once that’s taken care of a custom importer script could be created

Custom Import

I don’t know of anyone that has tried the above, but that method should work

[epretorious]

> Have a look if you find something in my response here:
> https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/setup-login-for-private-forum/

I didn’t find anything in there about modifying the languages file (bbpress.pot).

This thread seemed promising but it left too many questions unanswered: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-language-files/

What else have you got, Pascal?

TIA,
Eric Pretorious
Portland, OR

[Jon Fergus]

Update: the real issue is solved here: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/allowing-participants-to-post-unrestricted-html/

[Jon Fergus]

Just realized that this issue is actually a bit different than I stated above. When an admin or keymaster on our site copy/pastes into a reply to a topic, the reply formats properly. When a regular member (contributor or participant) copy/pastes the exact same thing, the formatting shows up *both* in the reply itself on the topic and in the notification email. See here:

So then, of course, the notification email from the participant member includes the formatting marks as well. So the issue is actually somewhere between pasting into the “visual” button of the reply form and bbpress posting the reply after the member clicks “submit”.

[Jon Fergus]

When someone makes a reply to one of our topics, the automatic emails sent to subscribers of the topic contains style formatting that makes it very difficult to read.

This is an example from a recent reply:

<p class="MsoNormal">“The two schools of Buddha's doctrine, the esoteric and the exoteric, are respectively called the ‘Heart’ and the ‘Eye’ Doctrine. Bodhidharma called them in China — from whence the names reached Tibet — the <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Tsung-men</span> (esoteric) and <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Kiau-men</span> (exoteric school). It is so named, because it is the teaching which emanated from Gautama Buddha's <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">heart</span>, whereas the ‘Eye’ Doctrine was the work of his head or brain. The ‘Heart Doctrine’ is also called ‘the seal of truth’ or the ‘true seal, a symbol found on the heading of almost all esoteric works.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">"Secret Heart" is the esoteric doctrine.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 5;"><b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">H. P. Blavatsky, The Voice</span><i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> of the Silence</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">, Fragment 11. The Two Paths. </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/voice/voice2.htm#nn1</p>

Post Link: http://nexus.universaltheosophy.com/groups/art-of-living-study-group/forum/topic/weekly-theme-for-contemplation-the-law-of-love/#post-3548

This happens when people copy/paste into their reply from another program (i.e. Word, etc.). How can we strip this formatting in the emails?

Details: we’re using the TinyMCE editor for replies, with “Text” and “Visual” field options. If members paste into the “text” field and then switch to the “visual” field before posting, there’s no issue, as wordpress cleans the content itself. But if people paste into the visual field, the formatting remains and gets sent as part of the auto email.
Also, we’re currently running bbpress 2.5.10 and WordPress 4.6.1.

[ash]

We have been using Discourse for forum, but plan to move to a full WP house.

Is there an importer to import content (topics/discussions/users) from Discourse to bbpress ? (I do know that the world is moving in the opposite direction, but we want a single unified experience for the members).

TIA.