FYI https://wordpress.org/plugins/eighties-bbpress/ is a fantastic example of overriding bbPress templates using a plugin 🙂
https://wordpress.org/support currently runs bbPress 1.x, the plan to upgrade to 2.x is expected to be finished by the end of August.
w.org has ~8 million users, ~2 million topics, and ~7 million posts, we don’t expect any issues here, bbPress 2.6 includes lots of performance tweaks and as @siparker mentioned lots of importer improvements also.
It is possible, but would require some custom code, it’s doable, but more coding than just a couple of snippets here to help you out.
An alternative way to what you’ve asked though is kind of shipping with bbPress 2.6. We’ve added support for “per forum moderators”, so you could create a “private” forum and give a single user moderator access to that forum, likewise another forum for another user, and then your site moderators could be moderators of all those “user forums”. This would be dependant upon how many users you have as this would be a manual setup.
I’d suggest reading the docs, theres a good index of some “Getting started” docs here:
Codex
Hello
I am beginner, and wanted to edit topic descriptions please tell me exact path from where it is coming, I am using Emmet LiteVersion: 1.4.3 theme and latest version of bbpress.
Hi
I want to show all forums list in widget, but bbPress default widget show only the 50 forums name that sorted with alphabetic characters.
Hi Siparker,
Thanks for taking time out to reply and pass along insight. I think I’ll likely hold off a bit longer as I’m weary about whether this is ready for prime time on a really big forum (6.5m comments, 150k+ users). Honestly I don’t need all the bells and whistles so long as the links and pages are SEO friendly and there are robust moderation tools. Rest is just simple comment posting with some options for emoji’s, links, and photo / video embeds and uploads. Oh, and import tools!
I would truly love to migrate over to BBPress. The lack of a performance optimized forum option is a huge void in the WordPress platform IMO. I believe once they get this sorted out and stable, that along with WooCommerce, it makes WordPress the only real player out there for the most part.
Look forward to see this project mature, but can’t say it hasn’t been difficult remaining patient for the last two years as I wait for this to evolve to a point that it’s usable for us.
I recently moved VB to bbpress for my forum.
i pruned a lot before moving.
9k users now.
20k topics
115k replies
I managed the import ok. the key to this is pateiance to a certain degree. the 2.6 alpha i am running worked better for the import than 2.5
However. if moving from VB your in for a bit of a shock. as it does not work the same way. so please do double check everythign before you move. one of my other posts has a plugin to create VB like urls as i came from vbseo across to bbpress which has a very different hierarchy.
however it does put your forum into wordpress which opens up amny other options. which is why i did it.
If you need any help let me know and i will do what i can to advise what i ahve done / used to make bbpress more like vb.
Two major things to not do
Do not leave the default notifications enabled when you move the forum. mine sent every notification ever out again. somethign like 250k emails got sent every time i did the import.
And on top of that i had several test versions so by the time i realised i had well and truly pissed a lot of people off.
Secondly the basic spam filters bbpress uses are different to how vb works and will possibly block some users. I know new moderation stuff is due in the near future but its not in yet so the spam options available are a bit difficult to work with.
Hello
English is not my forte. I will try to write you understand what I mean and what I want and something advise.
We’re going to be a big project. We establish mmporg page in which guild will have its pages, posts and also their forum and all in one website.
BbPress will do together with Budypress.
I set up the group in Buda press and there a separate forum, but can not add multi layer one major forum in the forum. It has to do administration on the bulletin board in WordPress.
Assign rights administrators with limited options, but the problem is that it can delete all topics and I do not want it. It may read topics.
I want to set that could delete your own topics and dirty.
I adjusted the law in the bbPress code, such as false and true, may well lubricated.
I just want that each guild had their own separate forum and in which their users and manage this forum only. The others can not do.
Thank you
Wondering if there’s been any progress with this? Sort of bummed that version 2.6 isn’t out even though it’s mentioned as a solution in this thread I started 2+ years ago.
Been struggling with WordPress x Xenforo integration and have literally bought every commercial bridge addon / plugin and have spent thousands of dollars hiring sys admins and developers to try and make it work. Best case scenario is it works until the next update and then it’s borked again. Most are one way bridges so they force logins / registrations through Xenforo, which also sucks.
Honestly BBPress is the last hope as far as the exhaustive reserach I’ve done on the subject, but it’s dead on arrival for anyone running a high traffic forum. Almost tempted to drop WordPress, but nothing else with forum integration comes close.
Anyone have any type of news beyond try the alpha version and report issues?
Thanks.
Hi,
I’m having an issue with the multi-line text area. I am able to add the box without issue but when I sign in as a member and fill out the field, in this case it’s called “description” and hit save it sends me to a blank page and does not save what was done. Any thoughts on how to fix this issue.
Wordpress 4.5.3
BBPress 2.6.1.1
Many thanks,
Victor
Hello, members of BBpress,
I need your assistance,
I want the system of Messenger of Facebook at bbpress
Here my problem, I want that one a person is spirit to write an answer, the members and visitor sees this thing:
Voici :
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/08/31/fashion/31CULTURALSTUDIES/31CULTURALSTUDIES-videoSixteenByNine600-v2.jpg
En français :
Bonjour, membres de BBpress,
J’ai besoin de votre aide,
Je veux le système de Messenger de Facebook chez bbpress
Voici mon problème, je veux que qu’on une personne est entrain d’Ă©crire un rĂ©ponse, les membres et visiteur voie cette chose :
Hello, members of BBpress,
I need your assistance,
Here my problem, I want that one a person is spirit to write an answer, the members and visitor sees this thing:
Example:
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/08/31/fashion/31CULTURALSTUDIES/31CULTURALSTUDIES-videoSixteenByNine600-v2.jpg
yes, the code I posted above if placed in your plugin would tell bbpress to look in
content/plugins/myplugin/templates/templates1/
Hi
It is specifically not to add a item into a theme folder as i want the plugin to be totally standalone. with no “Extra” edits required.
So adding the location can that work to add a location within the plugin to view templates etc.
so the template lcoation would be /wp-content/plugins/myplugin/templates/replacementbbpresstemplate.php
Will that work?
install bbpress version 2.6 alpha – see above
then go to
dashboard>tools>forums>import forum and find the right importer and follow the instructions
Hello, I have to convert my SMF forum ver. 1.1.21 in bbPress. I read that many have had success, you tell me, please, which plugin or procedure to use ??
thank you
I want my forum accepts a single user response (in one subject). And I want him to create the subject should not answer
Hello, members of BBpress
I need your help(assistant), if I make height it is normal I am French
I want the system to messenger to bbpress
When perssonne is about to write a response, I want it displays little bubble
Exemple :
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/08/31/fashion/31CULTURALSTUDIES/31CULTURALSTUDIES-videoSixteenByNine600-v2.jpg
I want all the world looks even visitor
Bye
Theme : sydney
Does anyone have the solution to the avoid adding <br> to the bbpress form-search?
ok
If you are using 2.6.1 then the fix is in there. The message is from the buddypress plugin that doesn’t know what version of bbpress you are using, so just puts that message up !
Do you actually have an issue other than seeing this message?
if not then ignore it
If so then come back
btw – I am just a user of bbpress who has written some extension plugins, so have no drum to bang. bbpress has over 300,000 active installations, but it is designed as ‘lite’ software, that others can easily hook extensions into. The documentation isn’t what it should be – I have written large parts of it since I started using it, but it could still be much better.
As such it doesn’t suit everyone, but hope having come this far you’ll give it a try.
There are 1/2 dozen of us who try and help here, but we tend to do stints in between other stuff, and it’s august and many people are on holiday I suspect.
thanks for the plugin info, installed it and it looks interesting… however the breadcrumb section doesn’t do what i want…. i want the main forum page, the page you land on when you click the forum link in the navbar, to read “index” not “forums”, the plugin will change the breadcrumb to “index” but not main forum page title…this seems like such an easy task, for example in phpbb it’s a snap… i googled it and came up with folks asking about the same thing here over 4 years ago, and they solved it having to manually edit php files… 4 years later and no easy dashboard option for this?
btw is bbpress still an active/popular plugin? it seems that you’re the only one around trying to field questions… and i appreciate it…
Hi Robin,
I followed your instruction. No white page after uploaded that’s all good… Not sure this a default global message in general or what? That Attention message still exist above the admin page?
Anyhow, I pasted that phase on line 43 that is after this function.
function bbp_format_buddypress_notifications( $action, $item_id, $secondary_item_id, $total_items, $format = ‘string’ ) {
// Bail if not the notification action we are looking for – THIS IS FROM ADMIN BUG MESSAGE , bbpress.org/forums/topic/missing-else-return-action/#post-176758
if ( ‘bbp_new_reply’ !== $action ) {
return $action;
}
// New reply notifications
if ( ‘bbp_new_reply’ === $action )
Also I’m not sure am I suppose to do this or not? I don’t understand php, but what I don’t see is this ?> at the END of the php? I see every other php do have it!
So I added this ?> to close it. I hope is right?
Please advise help if this Ok? Thanks
thanks robin… yes i would really like to sort this thing out, to have my phpbb usernames associated with their posts, the posts that were imported using bbpress, instead of “anonymous” showing as the poster for every single post… in fact i can’t find any evidence that usernames were transferred at all, pretty disappointing…
