[Robkk]

I don’t think you are using bbPress anymore.

[Robkk]

Have you tried any plugin and theme troubleshooting??

https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started/troubleshooting/

[Robkk]

@evanevans333

It should still work.

The function I posted only works on bbPress forum profiles, if the currently logged on user has the edit_other_forums capability, that they are viewing it on their own profile, and if you have the available hooks if you are using custom bbPress templates.

[themichaelglenn]

@siparker @natesirrah Thank you both for your work on this plugin! Any news on where the current project stands? I’ve just used siparker’s github plugin and it seems to be work, but if there’s a better, improved version, I’d love to know about it and/or help test it.

I’m working on migrating a site that I’ve had up for just over a year, from Joomla 3.4 to the current version of WordPress. I use Kunena forums, and by making some slight modifications to siparker’s plugin on github, I was able to set my bbPress URLs to match the structure Kunena uses, namely:

forum/forumName/topicID-topicName

(I don’t think they actually use forumName, topicName, etc., that was just the easiest way for me to write it out)

so that when my forums are set up like this:

Forum = Final Fantasy VII
Topic = Cloud’s Limit Break

I have, for example:

forum/final-fantasy-vii/143-cloud-s-limit-break

I should tell you that the only experience I have with php is a couple of 4-hour courses on udemy (in other words, not that much…) Still, by very carefully changing or removing one line at a time, I was able to produce the desired result.

One thing that didn’t quite work out, though, was forums within a top-level category. For example:

Top Forum = Square Enix
Child Forum = Final Fantasy VII
etc.

The URL for the child forum is now

forum/square-enix/final-fantasy-vii

and I want it to be

forum/final-fantasy-vii

The interesting thing is that the topic “Cloud’s Limit Break” still shows as

forum/final-fantasy-vii/143-cloud-s-limit-break

which is the URL structure that I want, when someone clicks on a topic, so I’m happy with that.

But I can’t seem to figure out how to remove the parent or top level forum from the forum URL.

Everything I’m doing is on localhost, as I don’t want to change my site over to WordPress until I’ve got all the details worked out, and I’m brand new to web development so I’m not sure exactly how to share my code with you guys, or if I need to share it all or perhaps just a part of it? So if you can help me with that, I’ll be happy to share.

Meanwhile to any bbPress devs following the thread, I want to say thank you for all that you do, and please consider making this permalink option part of the bbPress core!

I have been wanting to move from Joomla to WordPress for months, as I tend to believe that WordPress is overall easier and better for me and my users, and one of the few things that’s prevented me from making the move was the lack of options in bbPress permalinks. I strongly agree that the URL for a topic should include the name of the forum that topic resides in. (Or at least, admins should be able to choose that option, if they want it.)

[Scott Hartley]

I feel like this should be directed to their page..

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/all-in-one-seo-pack

I will say though that this is a common issue with bbPress and BuddyPress when it comes to SEO tools. They need to find a way to get proper meta descriptions and titles without borking everything :p

[Robin W]

I still can’t seem to mod the caps of Participant role.

ok, I’ll bite once more – can you post EXACTLY what you have as code to fix that, and tell me where you have put it.

and set the forums I wish to be private, to PUBLIC (ironic and backwards that is)

Private groups is my plugin, and yes agree gthat public seems wrong, but I can only work with what bbpress gives me, and use code to improve !

[ugarnono01]

Hi.

I am building my new site and integrating bbpress. I am a novice at coding but my issue is that BBpress won’t work with the theme.

I have got it styled in by creating bbpress.php file in my themes folder and copying single.php over. The issue I have is that the posts will not show. I have threads which appear but any posts created do not show.

Here are some links:

Forum Home: http://sugarnono.co.uk/newdev/sugar-free-forum/
General thread: http://sugarnono.co.uk/newdev/forums/forum/general-talk/ You will see that there are 9 topics and 14 posts yet they do not show.

Any ideas where I have gone wrong?

Thanks

Stephen

[evanevans333]

Ok, on the above theory, I got it to work. Well the functionality anyway. I still can’t seem to mod the caps of Participant role.

But, what I did was use the plugin: “bbp private groups”
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-private-groups/
and set the forums I wish to be private, to PUBLIC (ironic and backwards that is) in the bbPress Forum Attributes for a Forum, and in “bbp private groups” assigning the Subscriber role to the bbp Private Group “role” of GROUP1 (which I aptly named Subscribers). Additionally you need to set a user to that GROUP1 and select the option in “bbp private groups” to add users to that GROUP1 anytime they login (or you can manually in bulk update everyone (or just those matching a particular role) to have that permission).

[Bingo Bongo]

still some work to do….

but, it’s up & running now, and starting to get used 😉

used a couple of widgets here & there (homepage for recent topics, sidebars for /forums/ page)

and a little bit of css tweaking.

starting to get there.

zetaunit.com/forums/

[Stephen Edgar]

I’m pretty sure you’d be able to get what you’re after 🙂

Once bbPress is activated, enable “threaded replies” in the settings.

Use bbp_show_lead_topic(), grab the snippet from https://codex.bbpress.org/bbp_show_lead_topic/ and create a custom plugin using that code snippet.

Then I’d suggest hoping over to the docs and do some reading:

Theme Compatibility

[evanevans333]

I’m starting to get the feeling, that because Forum Roles are not meant to handle Forum privacy (as per the bbPress spec), that I am supposed to set their privacy to Public and use some kind of FORUM PRIVACY plugin to make sure the content doesn’t get leaked out to Google and anonymous web surfers. Is that the intention of bbPress? It seems that’s all we got to work with. Participant role is not supposed to be for wordpress Subscribers apparently. You need to become something else, to read topics and replies inside forums marked private, and I guess shouldn’t mark a forum private with bbPress unless it’s supposed to be private for Moderators and Administrators.

That seems so … ridiculous if you pardon my French. That Forum Roles are not for forum privacy, but more for Forum administrative privacy.

If I might back up for a moment, what I’m trying to achieve, is that Forums that I set to Private, contents are not visible by anonymous/bots/spiders, but are visible to registered users of the website (Subscribers, which I can set to automatically default to the Participant Forum role inside bbPress settings). It seems a sane, rational, logical concept. But I do see that this issue has been going on for YEARS.

[evanevans333]

I can confirm though, your fix did not resolve the issue, using the minimal Theme “Twenty Fourteen” with all plugins except “bbPress” disabled. So, I’m not sure how it is fixed for you on your end. Are you running the latest bbPress? Do you have a minimal test configuration?

Thank you anyway though Robin, for your help.

If anyone else can help, I appreciate it. Thanks in advance! I will be monitoring this thread. I need a solution to this ASAP. It’s been almost 3 weeks and it’s holding up our website launch.

[Serchgdl]

As always apologize for my English, it is a translation from google translator. Searching google I got an answer of course to bbpress forums.

The patch works, provided that the issue of the response is made by the author. If it is effected by a moderator or administrator keeps repeating in the line of activity

I looked directly into buddypress forums, but as is almost always the subject had no answer, linking to the core or incompressible explanations and as always in this forum recommend hiring a developer and close the issue. It seems that they forgot the essence of wordpress: Community.

In fact it seems that in the future buddypress will be absorbed by bbpress. It’s just my appreciation and sorry to say nonsense.

WP 4.6
bbPress 2.5.10
Buddypress 2.6.2

The patch works, as long as the issue is made by the author.

Regards

[Robin W]

That’s IE for you !

For some reason that I can’t immediately see, IE is ignoring the background setting, so is just saying it has no background so showing white

I’d suggest you try changing line 999 on dark.css from

/*media all*/
media screen #bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form p, #bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form textarea, #bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form select, #bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form input {
    background: rgba(18, 21, 24, 1);
    color: #fff !important;
    border: 0px !important;
}

to

/*media all*/
media screen #bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form p, #bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form textarea, #bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form select, #bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form input {
    background: rgba(18, 21, 24, 1) !important;
    color: #fff !important;
    border: 0px !important;
}

It may or may not work !

[Robkk]

I don’t think currently there is an importer for ProBoards for bbPress.

Does ProBoards even allow you to export the database from their forum?? If they can that will be a whole lot easier to create an importer.

[HorrorUK]

Is it possible to transfer a freeforums.net forum to bbPress?

I am working with an organisation who created a freeforums.net account a short time ago and have convinced them to use WordPress, but we need to get it transferred over.

Thanks.

[van24]

There seem to be some errors in this file:
/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/css/bbpress.css

Specifically, lines 1137-1139 get highlighted by CSS debuggers.

I was using a third party tool to generate Critical CSS for mobile optimization. These lines prevented the CSS from being parsed properly. I had to remove them temporarily, run the tool, then add them back afterwards. Perhaps these lines can be fixed/changed in the next version?

[evanevans333]

I came across this in a thread.
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-working-for-bbpress-rolesWould that be somehow useful? Probably not.

/**
 * FORUM - Role map
 * bbPress has its own internal ("dynamic") Roles, so we map our real wp roles to bbPress.
 */
add_filter('bbp_get_user_role_map','my_bbPress_role_map');
function my_bbPress_role_map($role_map){
	$role_map['student'] = bbp_get_participant_role();
	return $role_map;
}

[evanevans333]

I don’t know if I gave you this link before, but it does shed some light on to the reasoning of this “issue” and maybe that will help you know better how to circumvent/modify it to the way we’re looking for:

Roles and Capabilities in bbPress 2.2

[xmanca]

I’m returning to WordPress after years and found bbPress as a potentially good option to convert an old forum while converting the site to use WP. What I specifically need because of user mandate is threaded topics but they need to be in a specific layout. The default for bbpress when I enable threading, is kind of a hybrid flat/threaded. What I’d like to achieve is to have the individual posts display on a page with the thread below in the form of a thread of links to those posts/replies within the thread. This is specifically what my established users are accustomed to and what they demand. The forum goes back almost two decades (original threaded forum styling) and many of the users are original members so they don’t want any fancy, newfangled flat forums…

I’m confident that I can create the database script to do the forum migration of posts/thread/users into WP/bbPress but need some insights for achieving layout issues. Can I get some help / insights for achieving this layout? Thank you in advance.

Paul

[sakthidasan]

Hi,

I’m trying to import my phpbb 3.1.6 forum to bbpress wp 4.6. Nothing is happening on my import. Please find below my setting and the message I got from Import option.

Database Server – localhost
Database Port- 3306
Database Name – tamilpot_DB (My phpbb DB name)
Database User – tamilpot_DB (My phpbb DB Username)
Database Password – xxxxx (My phpbb DB User Password)
Table Prefix – phpbb_ (This how my prefix in phpbb database).
Rows Limit – 100
Delay Time – 1
Convert Users – Checked
Start Over – Checked
Purge Previous Import – Checked

In response, I got as,

Repair any missing information: Continue
Conversion Complete
No reply_to parents to convert
No replies to convert
No tags to convert
No super stickies to stick
No stickies to stick
No topics to convert
No forum parents to convert
No forums to convert
No passwords to clear
No users to convert
No data to cleanStarting Conversion

Can you please help me to import my forum to bbpress?

[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

[Roozbeh Rahmani]

i tried activating bbpress on may website but every time i activate it all the pages on my website go missing (except for home page!) i have buddypress activated without a problem and i couldn’t find a solution for this problem.

i also tried changing the address of all bbpress pages in setting but couldn’t help.

here is the website if it help:

بیاموز

[kkpb8084]

Hi, can anyone help?
I cannot find the answer to my query from searching this forum and google.
At the moment, people need to enter a name and email to post a topic, or reply to a topic, on my forum (http://psychiatryadvice.com/).

I would like to replace that with what they have at this forum: http://www.econjobrumors.com/
They seem to generate a random 4-digit code for each person posting. I am aiming for anonymity in my forum too.

Does anyone know how I can do this please?
Thanks very much!

I’m using:
Wordpress v 4.5.3
bbpress v 2.5.9-6017

[smartIt]

Hi
I created a forum here http://radiotounsi.com/?page_id=4862 at the bottom of the page.
When I resize the browser window, there is a responsiveness problem, I have seen that bbpress forums in other websites are responsive, can you please help me to fix this ?
Thanks in advance.