[pcpro178]

I’ve read a lot of the documentation and posts on this, but it unfortunately is not sinking into my skull. From what I can tell, there are basically three pages to the standard bbPress installation & usage: Forum Index page, Forum page, and Topic page. I saw something referring to the wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress folder, available after installing bbPress. How do I know which of these files to copy/modify, and to which file name should I copy it? Any help or insight you might be able to offer would be appreciated. I am completely lost on this.

[uschesch]

I have my wordpress search configured to include bbpress forum topics; however, the bbpress search only searches forums topics. How do I include wordpress pages in the forum search?

Thank you.

[Stephen Edgar]

The bbp_setup_current_user issue is not caused by bbPress, bbPress alerts you of this issue though because it is important for bbPress. If you have disabled ALL your plugins and the error remains you MUST switch the theme to Twenty Thirteen (or Twenty Fourteen, Fifteen, Sixteen etc).

Once you know what plugin or theme causes the issue then you can contact the author and let them know they need to fix it and problem solved.

[jbarbu]

Anyone know how to troubleshoot why bbPress notifications go to some people but not others? For example: I gave the same permissions to a handful of people. Those permissions have notifications when there is a new topic or a reply to a topic… only some of the people with those permissions are receiving the new topic e-mail notification. I’ve looked in junk folders (not there)… have no idea why some people aren’t receiving them. Any idea how to troubleshoot this?

[packzap]

Some users are getting their posts and new topics flagged in my bbPress/Wordpress site as spam. They are long-time contributors with valid and thoughtful comments. It seems that bbPress occasionally gets too aggressive flagging valid posts as spam. I am running the latest bbPress (2.5.10) and WordPress (4.5.3) versions. Is there anyway to correct this situation?

[Robin W]

interesting question – bbpress will add the default role you set in forums settings, so if you set this to participant this would sort the majority of users out from a forum perspective.

Which then makes this more of a wordpress question – in essence you could set up the users manually and click to not send them emails, so they would be on the live site when you transfer, but then of course they wouldn’t know their password, so it is a bit of a catch 22 !

[n1fdadmin]

I have been using bbPress on my site for sometime and it has been working fine. Recently, I notice that I am getting a 404 error when trying to view page 2 – 16 of the topic list for “All Forums”. I am using standard slugs and paths for all of my forums and they are all setup to be private for logged in users. Viewing of page 2 or higher of topics works fine for any of the individual forums on my site but when I try to do this for n1fd.org/forums/page/2/ I get a 404 error. I have tried disabling all of my recently installed plugins and I’ve tried regenerating all permalinks and neither of these steps helped. I am using the standard Twenty Fourteen theme.

[BekBek20]

Hello everyone.

I have been issues with sorting my BBpress forum topic on the front end.

So i tried to use a custom function i got from one of the threads.

Here is the code i used.

//* Change sort order of Topics within a specified bbpress forum
function my_custom_display_topic_index_query ($args) {
$thisforumid = bbp_get_forum_id();

if($thisforumid == 43135) {
$args[‘orderby’] = ‘date’;
$args[‘order’] = ‘ASC’;
}

return $args;
}
add_filter(‘bbp_before_has_topics_parse_args’, ‘my_custom_display_topic_index_query ‘ );

and i got this error

Warning: call_user_func_array() expects parameter 1 to be a valid callback, function ‘my_custom_display_topic_index_query ‘ not found or invalid function name in /home/flexol5/public_html/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 235

Warning: array_merge(): Argument #2 is not an array in /home/flexol5/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/functions.php on line 1419

I don’t know what i did wrong or maybe the coding structure of bbpress as changed. I would like someone to help with a way to arrange a specific forum topic in ascending order.

Thanks

[expectancy]

For anyone that hasn’t solved this yet, it’s actually a very easy and quick fix!

In the W3 spec (http://www.w3.org/TR/dom/), the “insertBefore” method requires 2 arguments. The second can be null, but it is still required. It looks like IE doesn’t require the second argument (which is why it works in IE as is) while Chrome, Firefox, and Safari do.

bbpress/templates/default/js/reply.js – line 18
Added a null argument as the second argument on “insertBefore”.

Before Fix: reply.parentNode.insertBefore(respond);
After Fix: reply.parentNode.insertBefore(respond, null);

reply.parentNode.insertBefore(respond, null);
if ( post && postId )
	post.value = postId;
parent.value = parentId;
cancel.style.display = '';

[androguider]

The import was completed successfully. The imported topics still remain uncategorised though. I had a look at the support ticket at https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2380 . I tried the repair tool, but it did not work too. I had a widget on my theme’s sidebar which displayed the recent posts feed from the forums. The topics were visible there too.

I am ready to take the pain to categorise the topics themselves. Is it in an importer bug that the topics were not categorised? How can I categorise them manually?

Best Regards

[Stephen Edgar]

Firstly, you should use bbPress 2.6-alpha, it has a heap of importer improvements, you can get it from this page https://bbpress.org/download/

boards, log_notify, topics, messages, and members are the only SMF tables you need, these might also be prefixed with smf_, e.g. smf_boards

[androguider]

I intend to move over to bbpress from my SMF 2.0.11 forum.

My WP and SMF installations are currently located on different databases. So, in order to move over to bbpress, I need to export my existing SMF installation’s database over to the WP database. My question here is do I need to import all the rows from the SMF database, or can I skip anything?

[Stephen Edgar]

Use this to get rid of that silly Private prefix 🙂

https://gist.github.com/ntwb/8662354

p.s. We’ll get that removed from bbPress and/or WordPress proper one of these days ;P

[Stephen Edgar]

Use bbPress’ “Private Forums”:
* Private – Only logged in registered users with a forum role can see these forums

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1

[cclemens]

Thanks Robin. We have quite a few plugins installed already and I’d prefer to attempt it without installing more. Is there no way to do this with the native bbpress and Woo applications?

[Stephen Edgar]

Excellent, glad that worked.

The full details and code for bbPress’ fix is here if that kind of thing interests you 🙂

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/6061

[Stephen Edgar]

Hmm, strange indeed, I’ve not tried Jetpack with an Anonymous forum.

If you want to track this down further creating a ticket on our bug tracking site with some detailed information on how your site is setup, what versions and what features you have enabled of WordPress, bbPress, Jetpack etc and how we’d recreate/simulate your setup.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/newticket#ticket

Also if you find just a Jetpack issue you can create a ticket for that here:
https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/issues

[onlyway]

I’m trying to import my forums data a new site – bbpress to bbpress – about 30 categories, 300 forums, 400 topics and 800 replies. I seem to be able to import forums, topics and replies nicely but nothing is connected. When I try to use the forum repair tools under tools > forums it will make all my reply screen go blank…nothing at all.

* note – I noticed that without using the repair tools I could go and open each topic or reply and resave them and then it would be connected…

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress compatible with PHP 7 and HHVM

The warnings you see are from a 3rd party library, these issues would only affect you if you are importing forums from another forum software package.

You can see our Travis CI PHP 7 tests here: https://travis-ci.org/ntwb/bbPress/jobs/147321446
(We don’t have 100% code coverage yet but we are progressing nicely)

[Stephen Edgar]

Does it work if you use the dropdown from the bottom of the list instead?

It should, theres a bug with thats been fixed for this in the next bbPress release 🙂

[32hjfdsfaw43ewedw]

Yep, I noticed the same thing and am searching for a solution as well.

Here is the thread with the answer

[beccawilson]

Hi I was wondering if anyone can help me please.

I have set up a private forum on our work-hosted instance which is running wordpress 4.5.3 and bbpress 2.5.10 and am manually adding forum users.

Until recently I was able to assign forum roles via the Users > All Users menu on left hand side. However, now when I select a forum member and select a forum role from the drop down top menu and press apply the forum role column remains the same.

This error happens when I try to edit an existing forum user e.g. to alter them from participant to moderator after hitting and also when I am manually trying to assign forum roles to new members.

As such I am unable to manage any of the forum user roles now. Does anyone have any suggestions?

[smithcreate]

I’m about to launch a website for a club which will use bbPress as their online forum. Is there a way I can add current club members to WordPress and assign their roles before I launch the website? My thought is that the site will generate emails to these users, but the link will go to localhost. I’m trying to minimize downtime with the site launch. My only thoughts are to add users after the website is launched, which will then link to the production URL. Any thoughts or tutorials on this?

[Texiwill]

Hello,

I ran the PHP 7 Compatibility test against bbPress with the following results. Be nice if they could be fixed so I can use bbPress with PHP 7.

FILE: /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converter.php
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FOUND 1 ERROR AFFECTING 1 LINE
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 310 | ERROR | INI directive 'safe_mode' is deprecated from PHP 5.3 and forbidden from PHP 5.4.
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FILE: /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/parser.php
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FOUND 3 ERRORS AND 1 WARNING AFFECTING 4 LINES
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  293 | ERROR   | Deprecated PHP4 style constructor are not supported since PHP7
 1149 | ERROR   | preg_replace() - /e modifier is forbidden in PHP 7.0
 1150 | ERROR   | preg_replace() - /e modifier is forbidden in PHP 7.0
 1386 | WARNING | The use of function split is discouraged from PHP version 5.3; use preg_split instead
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THank you,
Edward

[mynotore]

Hello,

I use WPML for a french/english website and bbPress 2.5.10 on a WordPress 4.5.3

I would have a single forum but have the ability to switch between the two languages. Is it possible ? How ?

Thanks.