[Vitor Madeira]

Dear @nwcountry, did you give up on migration from vbulletin to bbPress?

Thank you.

[Robin W]

ok, so you don’t have private groups and the error is not the same error as the issue above apart from the first 9 words which are generic 🙂

sorry this is a totally different issue.

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.

[lh800]

No. I have not.

I just tried deleting bbpress using this method: https://techjourney.net/how-to-completely-uninstall-and-remove-bbpress-clean-up-databases/.

And reinstalled it – and I get the same message as soon as I install it again:

http://www.screencast.com/t/5jjrCLDnxlO

Any advice?

Best wishes
Lars

[sasenzon]

This problem does not happen when I deactivate bbpress forum plugin.

I don’t have the private group plugin.

[Vitor Madeira]

@fmckinnon, I just visited your forum and it seems that you went back to vbulletin.

bbPress did not do the trick on running your community forums?

I too am planning on converting a vbulletin 3.8 forum into bbPress, but really need to get other folks opinions before taking such move.

Thanks.

[Vitor Madeira]

@beerallica, thank you so very much for your detailed information.

I’m planning on converting a vbulletin 3.8 into bbPress but I’m reading all of the experiences from other folks that I’m able to find and yours seemed to be one of the most detailed ones.

How do you rate yourforum now when comparing with the old vbulletin?

Thanks.

[Vitor Madeira]

Hey @mikebare, have you got good news regarding your migration from vbulletin to bbPress?

Thanks.

[junglejim620]

Hi bbpress,

I would like to change the phase ” This forum is empty “, can you help me to locate which file and the directory to change it from?

Please advise for help, thanks,

[aurelienpierre]

I kinda look for the same things, but I’m managing forum groups through BuddyPress groups :

No access to the sub-forums of Buddypress groups forums for group members

No answer in almost a year. The fact is group-based read/write permissions are a basis of serious forum management, but nobody cares in the bbP dev team…

Tweaking the template to hide the topic/reply form looks nasty as it’s only front-end. This kind of permissions should be built-in CMS-side.

[giobby]

After further investigations I’ve found a workaround that should work.

Just to recap on the error: it seems like several posts are left with the old phpBB poster id rather than using the new wordpress user_id (which really makes me think that somewhere in the converter code a wrong reference has been used).

The best way to work around the issue is the following (assuming a fresh installation):

1) before migration
– check what is the highest user_id in your phpBB installation (e.g.: 6235)
– insert a dummy row in wp_users with id grater than that (e.g.: 6236, or even better, round it up to 10000). In this way all the converted users will have their IDs starting from a higher value (e.g.: 10001, 10002, …) and it will be easy to spot the posts with wrong author (e.g. post_author < 10000).

2) launch migration as usual
3) after migration, create a temporary table that lists all the bbpress posts with wrong author

/* Get all posts with wrong author and correspondent right author from bbpress translator table */
create table TMP_ORPHANS as
select 
wp_posts.ID, 
wp_posts.post_author,
wp_bbp_converter_translator.value_id real_author, 
IFNULL(wp_posts.post_date, NULL) post_date,
IFNULL(wp_posts.post_date_gmt, NULL) post_date_gmt,
wp_posts.post_content, 
CASE 
	WHEN wp_posts.post_type = 'reply'
    THEN (SELECT tmposts.post_title from wp_posts as tmposts where tmposts.id = wp_posts.post_parent)
    ELSE wp_posts.post_title
END post_title, 
wp_posts.post_excerpt, 
pescasubac, 
wp_posts.quea.wp_posts.post_status, 
wp_posts.comment_status, 
wp_posts.ping_status, 
wp_posts.post_password, 
wp_posts.post_name, 
wp_posts.to_ping, 
wp_posts.pinged, 
IFNULL(wp_posts.post_modified, NULL) post_modified,
IFNULL(wp_posts.post_modified_gmt, NULL) post_modified_gmt,
wp_posts.post_content_filtered, 
wp_posts.post_parent, 
wp_posts.guid, 
wp_posts.menu_order, 
wp_posts.post_type, 
wp_posts.post_mime_type, 
wp_posts.comment_count,
	(	select wp_postmeta.meta_value 
		from wp_postmeta 
		where 
			wp_postmeta.meta_key = '_bbp_author_ip' and 
			wp_postmeta.post_id = wp_posts.id
	) user_ip
from wp_posts 
left join wp_users on wp_posts.post_author = wp_users.id
left join wp_bbp_converter_translator on wp_posts.post_author = wp_bbp_converter_translator.meta_value
where 
wp_posts.post_type in ('forum', 'reply', 'topic') and
(wp_users.id is null or 
wp_users.id = 1) and /* all posts of type forum looks to be assigned to the site admin (id=1 in my case)*/
wp_bbp_converter_translator.value_type = 'user' and 
wp_bbp_converter_translator.meta_key = '_bbp_old_user_id';

/* this is to be able to create indexes later */
ALTER TABLE TMP_ORPHANS modify column post_date datetime default NULL;
ALTER TABLE TMP_ORPHANS modify column post_date_gmt datetime default NULL;
ALTER TABLE TMP_ORPHANS modify column post_modified datetime default NULL;
ALTER TABLE TMP_ORPHANS modify column post_modified_gmt datetime default NULL;
ALTER TABLE TMP_ORPHANS modify column user_ip varchar(40);
ALTER TABLE TMP_ORPHANS modify column post_title varchar(255);

/* indexes to speed up access to the table (some are useless) */
ALTER TABLE TMP_ORPHANS ADD INDEX(post_date);
ALTER TABLE TMP_ORPHANS ADD INDEX(post_author);
ALTER TABLE TMP_ORPHANS ADD INDEX(real_author);
ALTER TABLE TMP_ORPHANS ADD INDEX(user_ip);
ALTER TABLE TMP_ORPHANS ADD INDEX(post_title);

4) Now that you’ve got the list of posts with wrong authors, you can update your wp_posts table accordingly

/* Revert bad authors to good authors */
UPDATE 
wp_postsINNER JOIN TMP_ORPHANS 
ON wp_posts.id = TMP_ORPHANS.id
set wp_posts.post_author = TMP_ORPHANS.real_author 
where wp_posts.post_type in ('reply', 'topic') ;

Final consideration:
– this workaround seems to be working for me, but of course I don’t assume any responsibility in case it doesn’t work for you. The update trusts the converter table generated by the bbpress forum converter and assumes that a wrong author id matches the original author id of phpBB forum (I executed some checks and it seems like the problem is always the same = phpBB author id rather than new wordpress author id).
– the update doesn’t fix posts of type ‘forum’ because by default these are assigned to the wordpress site administrator. If you wish to assign them to the original phpBB author, just modify the where condition:
where wp_posts.post_type in ('forum','reply', 'topic') ;

message to the developers: I truly believe somewhere in the converter code a wrong reference is used under certain conditions. The pattern of the error is always the same: when the author doesn’t match it’s because the author id of the phpBB forum rather than the new converted author id.

@netweb

[Robkk]

This is already fixed in 2.6.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2607

[Robin W]

bbp-style pack lets you style bbpress

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-style-pack/

[checmark]

New to bbPress and I’ve looked everywhere for how to change the colors to match my site design better. I thought I had found the correct CSS to change the background color and added it to my custom CSS for the Avada theme –

#bbpress-forums {
background-color:#0d4d00 !important;
}

but it did nothing. Appreciate if someone could steer me in the right direction. Thanks.

[jamesburden]

Hi – hope someone can help with this.

I have a forum website set up using bbPress. Forum members are specifically invited as it is a leadership course for selected individuals. I create their user accounts including a strong password etc and send them the details.

An issue that I’ve come across is that the participants are widely spread around the world, some of whom have limited awareness of security issues on the internet. I want to ensure that they cannot change their password to an insecure one.

I’ve got iThemes security installed on the site and have activated the strong password enforcements with a minimum level of Subscriber. All of the course participants have a primary role of subscriber, with a forum role of Participant. With the settings I have in place they should not be able to change their password to a weak one. And yet they are currently able to log in and change the password to ‘changeme’ for example.

I’ve reached out to iThemes security but nothing helpful from them yet,

Can anyone here help me to figure out how to ensure that forum users cannot change their passwords to weak ones? Is there some setting in bbPress that I’m missing? Or some workaround that others use? I can’t imagine for a minute that I’m the only one to have come across this issue, but googling has turned up a surprising lack of information about how to resolve it.

Many thanks for your help.

James Burden

Site URL: http://gcfleadership.org
WordPress version: 4.5.2
bbPress version: 2.5.9

[mica123]

Before I upgrade to bbpress 2.5.9 I’d like to check on the following:

1. I put some bbpress php files into my child theme ((bbpress.php – modified by @robkk; the following files were modified by me: feedback-no-forums.php, feedback-no-replies.php, feedback-no-search.php, feedback-no-topics.php, form-forum.php, form-reply.php, form-topic.php, loop-single-form.php) – will I have to do something after the upgrade?

2. Should I worry about the text editor missing after the upgrade as reported in the post above?

Thank you.

[Robin W]

I don’t do development of bbpress, just write supporting plugins and offer support here.

[Fuskeduske]

Hi Randr,

Are you sure it is bbpress? The website itself seems really slow, you could try making a clone of the website and disable theme / plugins, then enable them again one by one.

According to tools.pingdom.com this element is bringing up 2.5 seconds of load alone on the frontpage:

http://vpinball.com/?wc-ajax=get_refreshed_fragments

-Mads

[Sybre Waaijer]

Thanks for confirming Robin!

As WP_Query::is_search is a public variable, why don’t we simply alter it in real-time within bbPress itself? This will make sure people won’t need an external fix :), and it will leave plugin/theme developers out of question and responsibility.

[jglemza]

You can pull this off by hiding the 3rd li. Something like this should do the trick.

body.page #bbpress-forums li:nth-child(3) {
	display: none;
}

[randrcomputers]

I have tried for months to speed up site but nothing is working. Submitting a post can take 20 sec. everything is slow. Cant find anything to help ive tried 3 host’s VPS, CDN Everything and still slow. Seems switching now wont be easy but im loosing members due to speed. Anyone have link to anyone who can help? or is switching to another forum software only answer? I tested regular forum software and is instant response but i see no easy way to convert the bbpress forums 🙁

vpinball.com is the site

[Robin W]

yes this is a known issue

see

http://www.rewweb.co.uk/bbpress-wp4-fix/
and/or

http://www.rewweb.co.uk/bbpress-wp4-fix2/

there’s a trac ticket for it somewhere, but bbpress authors see it as a wordpress fix

[tomtower]

Hi,
this is my site

VIRTUAL PINBALL

is possible to put live notification for replies in top menu?
thank you
Tom

[timsilva_]

Hmm, I also just noticed that some topics from the migrated database with only a few pages (4 pages in the one I just tested) don’t seem to have this issue.

I designed some the forum topics to be long, ongoing threads. For example, we have a “Music” thread that currently has 7,674 replies (15 per page, so 512 pages total). Could the issue simply be that the thread is so large, that bbPress somehow doesn’t do the calculation?

I have read in some support threads about issues with pagination on bbPress when dealing with large numbers, perhaps it is related to that?

Some additional details that may be related: I have nested replies turned off (and they were never turned on). Also, all of my categories are set to hidden.

[giobby]

Hi Stephen

Just to let you know I’ve tried 2.6 alpha and the result is even worse in terms of post authors.
I’ve got plenty of anonymous and mismatching authors.

What I’ve noticed it’s again the same behaviour: several converted posts have an associated author id that is either 0 or that matches the author id of the imported forum.
Example:
PhpBB post’s author id is 1102
WP converted post’s author id is 1102 when it should be 18044

I’ve created a table that translates the phpbb user id to the bbpress user id by joining on email address. This in theory can allow me to set the post_author to the appropriate value.
The problem is to spot the affected posts.
I am trying a mix of criteria, by looking at the post creation date, user ip, etc. but it’s no simple.

I would be happy to provide additional info if you want.

Regards,

Gio

@netweb

[Robin W]

ok, thanks – sorry it’s sometimes hard to understand the obvious until you see it !

so I’m presuming that there should be some content to that post?!

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.