[aminc99]

Hello,

I have heard from my visitors that they have problem to register to the forum on pc/laptop, but it works fine on mobile devices (for some visitors). They face a blank page saying “Blocked”

Personally, I do not face this problem.

I have read other possible solutions to this problem on the bbPress forum, but none of them have solved my issue.

WP version: 4.5.2
bbPress version: 2.5.9
Website: aviationiran.com

Thanks in advance,

Amin

[Robin W]

presume you have

https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-genesis-extend/
installed?

[wdppoppe81]

Hi Schoelje,

Tnx for your help. I’ve imported my database from phpBB succesfully using the 2.6 alpha version of BBpress.

grtz

Willem

[giobby]

[I am just creating a new topic about this]

I’ve finally completed the conversion (took only 8 hours against the 2 days of the previous versions).

Nevertheless, big problem here: I can see no forum after the conversion.
I’ve been checking the database schema in which wordpress is installed and nothing….
I can only find an empty wp_bbp_converter_translator table and for the rest: no users converted, no posts, no forum and topics tables.

Does someone has any idea why this happened?
It actually looked like it was converting something and the number of interactions I’ve seen in the log during the conversion matches the actual numbers in PhpBB.

I would appreciate if someone can help.

Thanks,

Gio

[Robkk]

I got help for this awhile back.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-to-display-time-ago-on-post-date/

[clarineat]

Hi Everyone!

I’m very new to bbPress. It looks great for what I currently need, but it doesn’t work on any mobile devices such as iphone ipads etc! What’s up with that?

My site is http://clarineat.com/forums

I have the genesis theme installed with an Appendipity pod casting child theme.

Thank you for any thoughts!

[Robkk]

@arutam if you want flaunt your forum in Pimp your Press and I will check it out there.

[Robkk]

Try some plugin and theme troubleshooting since this is the most common.

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

[Robkk]

This plugin might work for terms and conditions.

This is an example of adding inputs for contacts in their profile.

https://codex.bbpress.org/layout-and-functionality-examples-you-can-use/#9-adding-social-media-contacts-to-bbpress-profile

[Robkk]

Well the one on the left is from a widget, and the one on the right is the actual one for your bbPress forum profile.

[Robkk]

Without looking at your site, this is possibly just a common CSS issue with left padding on lists (bbPress uses lists for its forum layout).

[Robkk]

I do see them, they seem oddly big though.

This CSS is causing that issue. This class is used throughout bbPress for its avatars.

a.bbp-author-avatar {
  background-size: cover;
  padding: 35px;
  display: block;
  max-width: 100px;
}

[Robkk]

Yeah use oembed. https://codex.bbpress.org/features/auto-embed-links/

[Robkk]

@rnmartinez you can’t just use a phpbb theme for bbPress, you know different functionality for each forum system. You would have to remake the theme but for bbPress instead.

bbPress can have its own theme technically, by just using customized bbPress templates and custom styles and you can either put that in a custom/child theme or a plugin that creates a forum theme package, Robins plugin is a small example of the forum theme package thing.

[samjoe199]

Dear Robkk,

Thanks a million to you, it worked well! I already lost hopes to use the bbPress. Appreciate your help!

Do you know, by any chance, how to add margin between forum topics and Subscribe, and also align it properly, on the top of forum topic panel? (http://www.mynettips.com/blog2/forums/forum/новый-форум/)

Thank you again!

[Robkk]

This is a common theme related issue, where avatars are displayed in block instead of inline or inline-block. Add this CSS anywhere you can add your custom CSS like a child themes style.css file or a seperate custom css plugin.

#bbpress-forums p.bbp-topic-meta img.avatar, 
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-reply-revision-log img.avatar, 
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-topic-revision-log img.avatar, 
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-template-notice img.avatar, 
#bbpress-forums .widget_display_topics img.avatar, 
#bbpress-forums .widget_display_replies img.avatar {
  float: none;
  margin-bottom: 0;
  vertical-align: middle;
  border: 1px solid #ddd;
  display: inline-block;
}

[Robkk]

I think with bbPress you just have forums on one site each only for right now, there is no shared content on a multi site setup.

[alzaran]

Ticket created: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2956#ticket

[Robkk]

Not entirely sure this plugn works still, but there is this still.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-digest/

[Robkk]

1. Its the WordPress Toolbar, used on all WordPress sites by default.

2. This plugin adds avatar suggestions, it might not be presented easily for users, but he expains it in this video.

3. bbPress by default doesn’t have the ability to upload files, for avatars that plugin I mentioned allows avatar upload.

4. You can filter the default wordPress smilies and use custom ones, their is emoji to use because of WordPress, also there a good plugin that has a feature to import phpBB smilies call WP-Monalisa.

[name]

Wordpress: 4.5.2
bbPress: 2.5.9

Hi there,
I use the wpMandrill plugin (v1.33) to send email through Mandrill.
It works fine for Buddypress emails, and other standard WordPress emails.
However bbPress emails don’t get sent through Mandrill.

What is bbPress doing differently about how it sends email notifications?
How can I get bbPress to correctly send through Mandrill?

I’ve read a few previous topics, and they seem to indicate it’s something to do with how bbPress handles BCC, and no reply.

thx
Vanessa

[Robkk]

Also, even after the plug in is deleted the roles (Keymaster and Participant) still appear in the user list under the “Role” column, but I thought they were only associated with bbpress. Is that correct?

This is a known bug, there is some code in the codex here to use to remove the user roles whenever you are resetting your user roles. Removing the roles and reinstalling bbPress might fix this issue, if it does not, you can use this plugin to switch to another Admin temporarily and then edit your user and switch its forum role. Make sure to edit the user by clicking the edit link by the users avatar. I think there is still an issue bulk changing a users forum role from the users list.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-switching/

Make sure that your default role for users are Participant in Settings > Forums. Also make sure that the default blog role for your users is Subscriber in Settings > General.

If this developer only did a short job and is done, I recommend not keeping their account as Admin/Keymaster. If they are hired for a project that is not finished or is like say doing maintenance for your site for awhile, okay keep them, but you know just be cautious since this happened to your site.

Just to be sure, make sure to check out this link for more help.
https://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked

[hivoltage316]

Just installed bbPress on latest version of WordPress and the forum search feature does not work. When I do a search, it searches blog posts instead – actually only ever finds one blog post even if the search text does not exist. It does not search the forum.

Whats going on?

[mfox104]

I was working on my site and saw some new text (a link for an online casino) added to a block on my homepage. I deleted the block of text, then checked my “users” list. That’s where I saw a new user (Ann Smith) with a spammy e-mail address (I think it was 11@11.com or something), this user had Administrator and Keymaster status. I deleted the user. I then tried to give myself keymaster status again, and cannot. I currently have Administrator and Participant Roles. There is one other user (a developer I work with sometimes) who has Administrator and Keymaster status.

I thought if I deactivated and deleted the bbpress plugin, cleared the cache and reinstalled it that would let me start over, but that did nothing. (note I have not started using this for a forum on my site yet so doing this was no big deal). Since that did not work I deleted the plug in again, but I am submitting this question because I would like to use it. Also, even after the plug in is deleted the roles (Keymaster and Participant) still appear in the user list under the “Role” column, but I thought they were only associated with bbpress. Is that correct? (I am not using buddypress)

So basically I need to know how I can install bbpress and be given the keymaster role again. Please help, thank you!!

[andrew55]

kachan64 – thank you. That is a good start. My main issue at this point seems to be that roles I’m using aren’t bbpress roles, so how I need to pull them is different. I will keep working at it.