[Stephen Edgar]

There are a couple of “preview” plugins on GitHub

https://github.com/r-a-y/bbp-live-preview

https://github.com/jawittdesigns/bbpress-live-preview

Let us know how they go 🙂

[kkpb8084]

Ah yes! I changed the CSS in bbpress.css originally.
Silly me!
Thanks so muck Robkk, I really appreciate it. It looks perfect now 🙂

[rnmartinez]

I am working on my first bbpress project and really getting down to the finer details. Is there a way to enable post previews? Or do I need a plugin?

[Joel James]

Try http://codecanyon.net/item/bbpress-access-limit-forum-access/11609899

[matilda4]

Hello Support Forum
I have a displaying issue I couldn’t find the issue until now and was wondering if someone experienced similar or has a hint what could resolve it.

Issue:
We setup several forums, which are accessible only with corresponding membership (using plugins, see below). Under each forum we created one topic only so far. When accessing a specific forum (example qigong and meditation as per the link below) it lists all topics; even the ones from the different forums. As per my understanding it should only display the topics of that specific forum.

Theme is Newstube, but I changed it to the wordpress latest default theme (twenty sixteen) and the issue persists. I have also deactivated all but the bbpress plugins and the issue persists.

Wordpress: 4.5.3
BBpress: 2.5.9

Is installed in combination with iThemes Exchange / Membership and Membership bb press add-on.

Website: Redacted

Under menu “account”, login. Test user we setup is (since only members can access the forum):
User: Redacted
PW: Redacted

Am I overlooking something simple and obvious, or what could the issue be? Any help is very much appreciated.

Thank you.
Matilda

[benjieblock]

Hi All,

Issue: I have the age old issue of notifications not sending to admins.

URL: http: // www . homecarekn . ca/
Theme: Enfold
Wordpress: 4.5.3
bbPress: 2.5.3 (rolled back from 2.5.9)

What I tried:
– I know emails are sending when I requested a password reset on my account and it sent.
– I rolled back bbPress since I read they changed their mail headers in 2.5.4 – so I went from the latest (2.5.9) to 2.5.3
– Plugin – AsynCRONous bbPress Subscriptions – didn’t work
– Plugin – bbPress Notify (No-Spam) – didn’t work
– Plugin – Reply Subscribed – forces reply email from new topics and replies

Tried the plugins one at a time – created new topics and replied
Tried plugins all together – created some new topics and replied
Tried varying plugins activated /deactivated – created new topics and replied
No emails to editors, keymasters, or admins

Edited the database and added multiple addresses in the wp_options field for admin – still no notifications.
Did anyone ever figure out what and why this happens?
-Ben

[darkoned12000]

There are all of the tables from my WP database:

Table Rows Type Collation Size
wp_commentmeta 0 MyISAM utf8mb4_unicode_ci 4 KiB
wp_comments 1 MyISAM utf8mb4_unicode_ci 7.2 KiB
wp_links 0 MyISAM utf8mb4_unicode_ci 1 KiB
wp_options 147 MyISAM utf8mb4_unicode_ci 408.1 KiB 372B
wp_postmeta 281,003 MyISAM utf8mb4_unicode_ci 22.3 MiB
wp_posts 67,398 MyISAM utf8mb4_unicode_ci 72 MiB
wp_termmeta 0 MyISAM utf8mb4_unicode_ci 4 KiB
wp_terms 1,448 MyISAM utf8mb4_unicode_ci 146.7 KiB
wp_term_relationships 2,891 MyISAM utf8mb4_unicode_ci 191.3 KiB
wp_term_taxonomy 1,448 MyISAM utf8mb4_unicode_ci 110.5 KiB
wp_usermeta 17 MyISAM utf8mb4_unicode_ci 11.1 KiB
wp_users 1 MyISAM utf8mb4_unicode_ci 8.1 KiB

One thing I noticed is that it didn’t convert the users even though I checked that box, I might re-install WP/bbpress and do this process again. I did download bbpress 2.6a and installed it via browse file and activated it when it was done and went directly to forum -> tools -> import forums to start the process. But it looks like that table you were looking for DID NOT get created during this process. If there is a missed step in here to create missing tables please let me know.

Even though I will need to reinstall running the repair tools to see if it returns or shows any errors.

[Stephen Edgar]

Thanks, that should be enough info for now, it eliminates fucky things that can happen with MAMP and XAMPP working with localhost, most likely there is a PHP restriction that is triggering this, can probably be worked around/ignored I think.

The importer restarting is a pain, can you check via phpMyAdmin or equivalent if you actually have a wp_bbp_converter_translator table? (Maybe a different prefix to wp_ if you use a custom prefix, e.g. myprefix_bbp_converter_translator.

What I actually expect here rather than restarting the import is:

Conversion Complete
Repair any missing information: <a href="https://example.com/wp-admin/tools.php?page=bbp-repair">Continue</a></p>');

Instead of:

Conversion Complete
Started process again with Converting forums (0 – 99)

For my notes, after displaying “Conversion complete” (src) it should then read that message and link to the “Repair tools” (src)

For now, can you run through each of the repair tools via and see how everything looks, it should fix up the counts of forums, topics, replies etc

https://example.com/wp-admin/tools.php?page=bbp-repair

[darkoned12000]

Thank you Stephen for the assistance so far.

I was just grabbing entries and not the last one of each type these were the final counts for each:
Converting forums (100 – 199)
Calculating forum hierarchy (0 – 99)
No forum subscriptions to convert
Converting topics (5200 – 5299)
No anonymous topic authors to convert
Calculating topic stickies (0 – 99)
No super stickies to stick
No closed topics to close
Converting topic tags (2800 – 2899)
No topic subscriptions to convert
No favorites to convert
Converting replies (56200 – 56299)
No anonymous reply authors to convert
No threaded replies to convert
Conversion Complete
Started process again with Converting forums (0 – 99)

During that particular run the error_log didn’t have any exceptions only these two lines over and over (yes these do show in my output window on the import screen):
[02-Jul-2016 16:39:08 UTC] PHP Warning: ini_set() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/darkone/public_html/wp/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converter.php on line 319
[02-Jul-2016 16:39:08 UTC] PHP Warning: ini_set() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/darkone/public_html/wp/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converter.php on line 320

My website is hosted with https://www.knownhost.com/managed-vps-hosting.html. Believe it is using CentOS6 x32, but I can try to get you particulars of what it is running if you let me know what you need? I am running the conversion right in the same instance just different folder off the root for my WP install.

If you add extra debug to converter.php I can run it and send you any results if that helps? But this is a live server environment. So the website I am converting the database for is up and running and is not shutdown for this process. I was just trying to see what a test run would show me.

Thanks for all the efforts.

[darkoned12000]

Just to describe my process in this trial run I am doing with the import of IPB 3.47 to bbpress 2.6a:

– Install latest version of WP
– Download and install latest version of bbpress
– Open ‘Tool -> Forums -> Import Forums’
– Selected ‘Invision’ and put in all my database info. I did set ‘Table Prefix’ to ‘ipb_’ since all of my tables in my ipboard setup start with ‘ibp_’
– Row Limit and Time Delay (set to default), Convert Users is checked and nothing else is checked and I clicked ‘Start’

Here is a listing of the sql code executed, I only listed items that there was something done, ‘no conversions’ for items are not listed:

Code for convert Forum:
<p class="" title="SELECT convert(forums.id USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS id,convert(forums.parent_id USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS parent_id,convert(forums.topics USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS topics,convert(forums.posts USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS posts,convert(forums.name USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS name,convert(forums.name_seo USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS name_seo,convert(forums.description USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS description,convert(forums.position USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS position FROM ipb_forums AS forums LIMIT 100, 100">Converting forums (100 - 199)</p>

Code for Forum Heirarchy:
<p class="" title="SELECT post_id AS value_id, meta_value FROM wp_postmeta WHERE meta_key = &quot;_bbp_old_forum_parent_id&quot; AND meta_value > 0 LIMIT 0, 100">Calculating forum hierarchy (0 - 99)</p>

Code for Topics:
<p class="loading" title="SELECT convert(topics.tid USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS tid,convert(topics.posts USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS posts,convert(topics.forum_id USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS forum_id,convert(topics.starter_id USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS starter_id,convert(posts.post USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS post,convert(topics.title USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS title,convert(topics.pinned USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS pinned,convert(topics.start_date USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS start_date,convert(topics.last_post USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS last_post FROM ipb_topics AS topics INNER JOIN ipb_posts AS posts ON(topics.tid = posts.topic_id) WHERE posts.new_topic = 1 LIMIT 1100, 100">Converting topics (1100 - 1199)</p>

Code for Topic Stickies:
<p class="" title="SELECT post_id AS value_id, meta_value FROM wp_postmeta WHERE meta_key = &quot;_bbp_old_sticky_status_id&quot; AND meta_value = &quot;sticky&quot; LIMIT 0, 100">Calculating topic stickies (0 - 99)</p>

Code for Topic Tags:
<p class="" title="SELECT convert(core_tags.tag_meta_id USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS tag_meta_id,convert(core_tags.tag_text USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS tag_text FROM ipb_core_tags AS core_tags LIMIT 1800, 100">Converting topic tags (1800 - 1899)</p>

Code for Replies:
<p class="" title="SELECT convert(posts.pid USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS pid,convert(posts.topic_id USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS topic_id,convert(posts.ip_address USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS ip_address,convert(posts.author_id USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS author_id,convert(posts.post USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS post,convert(posts.post_date USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS post_date,convert(posts.edit_time USING &quot;utf8mb4&quot;) AS edit_time FROM ipb_posts AS posts LIMIT 400, 100">Converting replies (400 - 499)</p>

Conversion Complete
Warning: ini_set() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/darkone/public_html/wp/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converter.php on line 319

<Script started over again with ‘Converting Fourms’

[Stephen Edgar]

noticed that it had created several duplicates of each forum area and replicated posts more than once. It’s almost like it didn’t know it finished and restarted the process all over.

Hmmmm, that is weird, especially the forum duplicates

Is there any logs or debugging that I can turn on

Right click, “inspect element” will show you the actual MySQL queries in the raw web page source code that are taking place that importer uses for each step.

If there is mods installed on IPB could this mess with the importer at all?

Possibly, I’ve not tested any of the importable forums with any mods, there are simply far too many permutations and combinations, the MySQL debug above should help with determining if this is a factor or not.

The ini_set is bbPress’ attempt at bumping PHPs memory limit to 256mb if it can during import, you can ignore this.

The WordPress database error Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes for query CREATE TABLE wp_bbp_converter_translator issue I still need to fix, I’ll try to get that fixed today, see https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2936

[Stephen Edgar]

I’d start by deactivating other plugins and then reactivating them one by one to find the plugin causing the conflict:

Troubleshooting

[sergekata]

I am trying to add forum on my site, however I cannot see my homepage now.

It says:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 80 bytes) in /home/sergekata88/public_html/wp-content/plugins/revslider/includes/slide.class.php on line 53

[darkoned12000]

Hello Everyone

I just recently installed bbpress 2.6 alpha build because I heard there was some more improvements to the database importer. I was trying a test run of converting my IPB v3.47 forums to bbpress 2.6a and I put in all of the info into the script and it looks like it was working and I went away for a few hours and came back and it was still running. I thought this was odd because the forums/users are not abnormally large.

I opened up the forums link inside the WP admin and noticed that it had created several duplicates of each forum area and replicated posts more than once. It’s almost like it didn’t know it finished and restarted the process all over.

Is there any logs or debugging that I can turn on that would provide help into troubleshooting this issue as to why the importer never stops processing? If there is mods installed on IPB could this mess with the importer at all?

I did find an error_log file and here is some of the issues I saw in it:

[03-Jul-2016 17:18:48 UTC] PHP Warning: ini_set() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/darkone/public_html/wp/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converter.php on line 319
[03-Jul-2016 17:18:48 UTC] PHP Warning: ini_set() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/darkone/public_html/wp/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converter.php on line 320

[02-Jul-2016 17:10:39 UTC] WordPress database error Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes for query CREATE TABLE wp_bbp_converter_translator (
meta_id mediumint(8) unsigned not null auto_increment,
value_type varchar(25) null,
value_id bigint(20) unsigned not null default ‘0’,
meta_key varchar(255) null,
meta_value varchar(255) null,
PRIMARY KEY (meta_id),
KEY value_id (value_id),
KEY meta_join (meta_key, meta_value) ) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci made by do_action(‘wp_ajax_bbconverter_process’), call_user_func_array, BBP_Converter->process_callback, BBP_Converter->sync_table, dbDelta

Any help is appreciated, thanks.

[khunmax]

Thanks for your assistance and prompt reply.

It would seem that a good deal of my agony was caused by an error in the documentation page for this website:

I went to:

Shortcodes

Under the subheading “views” I copied the shortcode and then pasted it into the text of my WP page. It appeared as follows:

[bbp-single-view id=’popular’]

I then lost hours trying to get the list of popular posts to appear. Instead I just kept getting the oh bother message.

Turns out that the shortcode has dodgy apostrophes. Once I edited those the shortcode worked:

[bbp-single-view id='popular']

This is a very nasty black hole for those that are unaware.

[Robkk]

Without even trying to mess with Robins plugin.

You can just make a copy of the content-single-view.php file put it into a child theme, and then edit out whatever you want.

https://codex.bbpress.org/themes/theme-compatibility/

You can also use CSS to hide items too. Make sure to use the .bbp-view class for single view pages or if you have a shortcode in a page use this type of class which would work in most themes, but you just need to find the page id, .page-id-ID_NUMBER, replace “ID_NUMBER” with the number or page id of the page. Depending on your set up use any of these classes before any other item selector you are trying to remove.

[Robkk]

What he was going for is technically right, he linked to the wrong one though. The RSS setting only affects how many posts in the rss feed, not in the topic/reply lists.

https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started/configuring-bbpress/forum-settings/#topics-replies-per-page

[SignalWarrant]

Forum Root Slug – forums
Single Forum Slug – PCSCalc
Dynamic forum page – http://www.pcscalculator.com/Forum/
My custom page – http://www.pcscalculator.com/forum/
If you look at my custom page, can someone tell me how to unscrew the breadcrumbs? The bbpress breadcrumbs link back to the default dynamic page.
Anyone have any ideas?

[Robkk]

Technically it is not a bug, it is that you just do not want the feature (I am not a fan of it either).

I swear as long as you have enable embeds in the bbPress forum settings and just installed the Disable Embeds plugin, you should not see those specific WordPress post/page embeds that you explained in your earlier post or the ones that are displaying correctly in this post https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/free-wordpress-theme-that-are-bbpress-ready/#post-176073.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
If you are having a small font for bbPress, then most probably your theme is having a standard small font size. CSS is indeed an option to go, but you will have to check in your environment where you have to copy this part. It might be something like:

#bbpress-forums .bbp-topic-content,
#bbpress-forums .bbp-reply-content  {
  font-size: 16px;
}

Otherwise you might try plugins like ‘bbp style pack’ to help styling your forum
Pascal.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
Your WordPress and bbPress version work well together, so I don’t think the issue is on that side. As bbPress is just using WordPress registered users, it is probably a conflict in your theme or one of the other plugins.
Pascal.

[khunmax]

embed conflict.

My thread here:

BUG: when pasting #reply URL in reply

[khunmax]

Problem:
I want a New Topics page and a Top Ten Topics page for my forum.

What I have done already:
I used Robins shortcode to create the New Topics page set as follows:

[bbp-display-topic-index show=’25’ template=’short’]

It displays nicely with no search bar, breadcrumbs, viewing x topics, or pagination.

I have reviewed Robkks code provided here:

table with most popular topics

The code is as follows:

function rk_top_five_view() {
bbp_register_view( 'top-five', __( '5 Most Popular Topics' ), array( 
    'meta_key' => '_bbp_reply_count',
    'posts_per_page' => '5' ,
    ' max_num_pages' => '1', 
    'orderby' => 'meta_value_num' ),
false );
}

add_action( 'bbp_register_views', 'rk_top_five_view' );

Unfortunately the resulting page output includes breadcrumbs, viewing x topics, and pagination. The pagination also links to spurious pages.

What I need help with:
What code do I need to add to Robkks snippet so that the output page is styled the same as the output from Robins shortcode with no breadcrumbs, viewing x topics, or pagination?

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

Kind Regards

Max

[Robkk]

So the plugin you linked to doesn’t really have anything to offer (other than stopping embeds in WP).

Did you try it? That plugin is specifically for those new WordPress post embeds.

THe setting I mentioned in the bbPress forum settings removes all embeds (youtube, flickr) including the WordPress post embeds.

You do not have to use CSS to hide the little post id number.

Did you try the disable embeds plugin? It may not do the forums specifically, just site wide.

[Robkk]

Also, can you explain what you meant by “… or use a plugin like functionality. “.?

This plugin its called Functionality, its like a plugin that can hold custom php code snippets.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/functionality/

Thanks for the code. unfortunately it doesn’t work for my website

Both of the code snippets I posted should show the forum search above a single topic, single forum, and in search results. Well unless your custom theme has custom bbPress templates with all the available hooks I am using in my code removed.

can you tell me if its actually worth adding a child theme, if the parent theme is an individually created one by a web design company?

I mean you do not have to.