[sasenzon]

Ok. I can deactivate it from the CBOX plugin dashboard but I can only delete it if I delete CBOX. Then bbpress shows up on the plugins dashboard of wp.

[Robin W]

ok, I’d deactivate it, delete it (you won’t lose any data) and then upload 2.5.9 from the plugins site ie

dashboard>plugins>install new and search for bbpress.

then come back

[sasenzon]

I have posted your comments to their forum.
I have been awaiting a reply from them for a few days.
Feeling a bit desperate.

This is the version they are using as per my reinstall:
nstalling Plugin bbPress (1/1)

Downloading install package from https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bbpress.2.5.8.zip…
Unpacking the package…
Installing the plugin…
Plugin installed successfully.

[sasenzon]

Hi @robin-w
I deactivated and deleted CBOX.
Then I reloaded it.
It reloaded with the same settings so bbpress forum was initially deactivated.
I could see the forum that was up before the error started.
Then I updated and activated the bbpress forum and the error started again.
All buddypress pages are not visible.
Other pages on the site (non buddypress are fine).
Please advise.
Thanks.

[Robin W]

suggest you reinstall bbpress, it may have errored on installing

[sasenzon]

Thank you. @robin-w
I did all of this.
The only plugin that causes it is bbpress forum.

[randrcomputers]

Interesting. I did disable all plugins and seems to be a bbpress issue?
I do allow subscribe to topic and even installed AsynCRONous bbPress Subscriptions plugin
oddly the only thing that seems to “help” is throttle posting every setting to “1” that seems to cut submitting down to around 6-12 seconds but that is still way to long.
I have wordfence installed and don’t think that scans anything during a post?
Also have wangaurd installed would need to check settings on that but don’t seem to be cause of issue

[rblea24]

I’m using MemberPress, BBPress and BuddyPress. I want the public to see all forums on this page: https://www.goalsarecool.com/forums/ However, when a non-member clicks on one of the Forums, I want them to see a message that says Sorry! This content is for members only. Please login or become a member to view this content.

Can someone please help me understand how to do this?

Thanks in advance!
Blake

[blinkix]

Hello guys
I work on a wp website with Avada themes and in a part a the website i using a forum with BBpress and BuddyPress.
But i’m using category in a other part of the website and when i fix permalink in other things than default setting the categoy don’t work…
What could i do ?

[Phil]

I’m using bbpress plugin and when someone creates a topic, replies to a topic, tries to delete a topic we are redirected to /wp-admin.

[Robin W]

hmmm…

not really – normally this is caused by white space in a file – you haven’t edited any files have you?

Suggest you deactivate, delete and re-install bbpress plugin. You will not lose any data or settings.

[lh800]

Done.

I activated twentysixteen (usually use Newspaper) and deactivated all plugins except bbpress and maintenance mode – and the same problem.

Any other suggestions?

Best wishes
Lars

[Vitor Madeira]

Thanks! This is the kind of information that I’m looking for: Real user testimonies when dealing conversions from vBulletin to bbPress with success or not!

[Robkk]

Do you have subscriptions active? Are they automatic for every user? Are they already set up with an smtp service like mandrill?

Subscriptions could be related to slow post submission times. If users are automatically subscribed to topic they reply to, or just forums they participate in, it is recommended that you use a function to change how the bbPress subscriptions work and go from BCC to one at a time, and then use an SMTP service like mandrill or something else that might work.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2162

Are you using anything that would scan the bbPress reply or topic submitted before they are submitted, like say a spam plugin or content filter?

[Robkk]

zIF you have BuddyPress also installed you can use this plugin, not sure if bbPress related notifications that show up in BuddyPress notification toolbar bubble will also show in this plugin, or how well the plugin works.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-live-notification/

[Robkk]

@mica123

I already replied to your topic here about the bbpress.php file in your theme. As for the bbP Default theme package template files in bbPress, there were no changes from 2.5.8 to 2.5.9, 2.5.9 was mainly an update to a security issue involving at-mention functionality.

In the future when the release of 2.6 happens, you would have to edit some files. It would be quite easy to

1. compare the new 2.6 templates and compare them to your modified files
2. make those changes to a copy of the 2.6 templates
3. test them to see if everything is in working order in a testing environment
4. update to bbPress 2.6 on your main production site (after taking a backup of course)
5. and then push the template files to your child theme using FTP

As for the text editor issue above from the other user, I think they just modified their footer.php file in their theme and accidentally removed <?php wp_footer(); ?>, and then that screwed up all the scripts and styles hooked into the footer.

[timsilva_]

Thanks so much for the detailed instructions Robin!

I was able to make that edit in a separate installation and I can see the value being updated in the database each time I load a topic on a certain page. I have been clicking around to various pages and topics trying to understand the patterns, and I think it might have something to do with the custom migration work that I had done.

One of the issues with the build-in SMF to bbPress importers had to do with posts that were created by users on SMF who later deleted their own accounts. After a handful of users did this on SMF, their old posts were still visible, but their usernames/display names wouldn’t link to their SMF profile page since it no longer existed. After I migrated my SMF site, these types of posts (the ones created by users that no longer existed) were all automatically attributed to the first WordPress user ID. The end result was a bunch of old posts from deleted accounts that looked like they were created by the admin account on my WordPress installation. So I hired a developer to transfer the old post author’s metadata over, along with some other data.

Anyways, I suspect that the posts by users who deleted their accounts are possibly not being counted as posts which is causing the pagination calculations to break. So I am showing 15 replies per page, and if 1 of those posts is by a deleted account, I think it is counting 14 instead. I’m not sure if this is correct, but it seems plausible. The more I click around to different threads, the less consistent this explanation seems to be.

But I am not seeing 1 or 0 for the faulty topics.

In newly created topics with pagination, the counting is much clearer. The value is 14 for the first page (subtracting 1 from 15 since the original post doesn’t count as a reply), and then page 2 is 29, page 3 is 44, page 4 is 59, page 5 is 74, and page 6, which only has 4 replies, is 78. This makes sense with 79 total (if you include the original post as a reply).

…30 minutes later…

After some more digging around, I have noticed that the count seems to have started over from 1 in the topics that have had new replies after the migration. So if a topic had 10 pages (let’s say 144 replies, not including the original post) before the migration, and then someone replied to the topic (which would be reply #145), the $reply_position would be 1. Another reply would make it 2, and so on…

So that appears to be the pattern. I did find and verify that at least one thread that was migrated with 702 replies (excluding the first post) is still working after it was responded to once after the migration, although I wouldn’t be surprised if another reply could cause the bug to come back.

It sounds like I will eventually have to repair the reply counts or something along those lines. :/ I’m gonna have my developer take a look as soon as he can, this info is really great to know!

[Robkk]

The actual bbpress.php file in the bbPress plugin is read by WordPress to generate the plugin information, includes all of the dependencies used by the plugin.

The one you are using is just a custom template for your theme to work better with the bbPress plugin. You can change the name to any of the below so not to cause further confusion later on.

plugin-bbpress.php
forums.php
forum.php

The only actual times you may need to update the bbpress.php template file I created for you, is if

• bbPress screws up somewhere in theme compatiblity
• your theme author updates their theme and changes class names around for their grid system (If I remember right you use a Responsive child theme)
• WordPress does something like dramatically change how their templating system works

All these are very unlikely to happen, and definitely without some kind of backwards compatibility even if they do change it.

So you should be fine regarding the template file in your child theme named bbpress.php.

[hivoltage316]

Thanks, but this did not work.

I disabled all plugins except bbPress, as well as switching to the twentyfifteen theme.

There is nothing else that will cause conflict.

If I type anything in the search criteria, I’m always returned the same blog post even if the search does not match. The URL I am shown is http://xxxxxxx/forums/search/test/
But the result is a single blog page and not any forum posts.

Any help would be appreciated.

[mica123]

I apologise for asking this question again:
I have some bbpress files in my child theme. I checked
the differences on bbpress trac. I can see that most
of my modified files are unaffected as no changes have been made in them.
However I have a modified bbpress.php file (which @robkk helped me with) –
this files just creates a customised main bbpress page.
I can see that a couple of changes were made in the bbpress.php
file in the plugin parent folder.
All I need to know is if I can safely update to 2.5.9 without worrying
about the bbpress.php I have in my child theme.
Thank you.

[rblea24]

I’ve imported forums, forums topics, and forum replies from a Rainmaker site that used BBPress. It looks like everything imported correctly except the forum post count. Can someone please help me with this?

https://www.goalsarecool.com/forums/

Thanks in advance!

Blake

[jamesburden]

Thanks for your answer Robin. Maybe I wasn’t clear enough though. I’m fully aware how to enforce strong passwords. I’ve got force-strong-passwords installed as a default plugin (I host with WPEngine and it’s an MU plugin). The issue is that these solutions don’t seem to work within the bbPress environment. Or at least in the configuration that I’m running (using WOffice to facilitate an extranet).

I’ve also tried enforcing strong passwords by using iThemes security options (both in conjunction and separately from force-strong-passwords). And that doesn’t work either.

I’m wondering if someone else has had a similar problem and can point me towards a possible solution.

Thanks

[Robin W]

it is in

bbpress\includes\forums\template.php line 2021

But the easiest way to change it is to put this into your functions file :

function change_translate_text( $translated_text ) {
	$text = 'This forum is empty.' ;
	if ( $translated_text == $text ) $translated_text = 'new text here' ;
	return $translated_text;
}
add_filter( 'gettext', 'change_translate_text', 20 );

and change ‘new text here’ to the wording you want

[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

[Vitor Madeira]

@scorpnetwork, I too am planning on converting a vbulletin 3.8 forum into bbPress, so I’m looking for the most information that I can get to help me on doing the best moves.

Are you using bbPress right now? Did the migration went well?

Thank you.