[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.

[Robin W]

This plugin adds this

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-unread-posts-v2/

[alzaran]

I followed through that link as well, and though I don’t like modifying core, I did go through with it to get the ideal notification behavior. Any progress on a solid fix on that? Would it be possible to add that sort of thing as an option in bbpress-core? Just ridiculous that the default behavior doesn’t do it.

[bintali]

Hi

Thank you for your help !

My bbpress version is 2.5.9

[Gespanne]

We are considering moving our organization’s forum over to bbPress but our current MegaBBS ASP Forum software has a feature that is used by most of our 10,613 registered users. If you click the “New Threads” button you see all posts made since your last login. Does that feature exist in bbPress or is it available as a plugin? Lack of that feature will keep us on our old BBS. THX!

[alzaran]

So Buddypress, by default, has a nifty @function that allows you to look up users by username. As I understand it, bbpress works with this out of the box, in the reply boxes. However, when I enable TinyMCE using the tutorial above (https://codex.bbpress.org/enable-visual-editor/), Buddypress autocomplete goes away completely. We’d rather not have to choose between these two features, is there a way to restore autocomplete even with TinyMCE enabled?

[awmaropeaccess]

which bbpress version are you using and please also tell in which browser you are opening bbpress?

[bintali]

Hi,

I have just created a forum with bbpress everything seems to be ok but when i create a new topic, i can’t see it.
I can reply but i can’t see my topics.
But i can see them in my dashboard on wordpress.
I use Optimizepress.

Can you help Me?

ps : i am french sorry if I make mistakes on my writtings…

[randrcomputers]

Correct. It seems to always email noreply@vpinball.com every single new post/topic in bbpress like I subscribed to everything but didn’t as I don’t even have a email setup for noreply@vpinball.com on anything. My searches on google came up with a people having same issue and from what I read it seems a core bbpress issue? but I find that hard to believe.

[dawidadach]

Hi guys,

for some reason , in our bbpress forum (http://mdbootstrap.com/forums/forum/support/) code tag doesnt work . Regardless whether we use it or not all HTML markups are executed instead of displayed. The only way to display it is to replace all <> with &gt and &lt

Any idea?

[Schoelje]

It took some time to make this topic visible on the forum. So, I’ve solved my own problem.

Instead of writing an htacces file I chose to write an alternative viewtopic.php script that collects the appropriate new bbPress URL from the database.

If your new bbPress forum is online, you place the following script in your old phpBB domain and save it as viewtopic.php (exactly where the old viewtopic.php used to be located) and don’t forget to replace the “my_xxxx” values with your information:

<?php
  // If all else fails, use this url.
  $defaulturl = "http://my_domain/forums/";
  
  // Your new bbPress database credentials.
  $host = "my_host";
  $db = "my_database";
  $dbuser ="my_database_user";
  $userpwd = "my_database_user_password";
  
  // Build the query according to url parameters p or t.
  $query = '';
  if (!empty($_GET['p'])) {
      $query = "SELECT xkcom_posts.guid FROM xkcom_postmeta 
                INNER JOIN xkcom_posts ON xkcom_posts.ID = xkcom_postmeta.post_id 
                WHERE xkcom_postmeta.meta_key = '_bbp_old_reply_id' 
                AND xkcom_postmeta.meta_value = '" . $_GET['p'] . "';";
  }else if (!empty($_GET['t'])) {
      $query = "SELECT xkcom_posts.guid FROM xkcom_postmeta 
                INNER JOIN xkcom_posts ON xkcom_posts.ID = xkcom_postmeta.post_id 
                WHERE xkcom_postmeta.meta_key = '_bbp_old_topic_id' 
                AND xkcom_postmeta.meta_value = '" . $_GET['t'] . "';";
  }
  
  // Set the new url to the default url
  $url = $defaulturl;
  
  // Check if we need to make a database connection.
  if (!empty($query)) {
    // Make a connection
    $mysqli = new mysqli($host, $dbuser, $userpwd, $db);
    
    // Check the connection.
    if (!$mysqli->connect_errno) {
      // Run the query.
      $result = $mysqli->query($query);
      
      // Get the new URL.
      if ($result) {
	$row = $result->fetch_array(MYSQLI_ASSOC);
	$guid = trim($row["guid"]);
	if (!empty($guid)) {
	  $url = $guid;
	}
      }

      // Free the result set.
      $result->free();

      // Close the connection.
      $mysqli->close();
    }
  }
  
  //var_dump($url);
  
  // Write the header.
  header("Location: " . $url, true, 301);
?>

[samjoe199]

Dear Robin,

Thank you for reply. Does it mean that bbPress is not compatible with the current theme and I have to go and manually adjust my CSS?

Thank you!
Regards,
Sam

[sharmavishal]

Hi @johnjamesjacoby

the codex mentions this for Allow Global Access
In a WordPress Multisite install bbPress is activated on individual sites. Allowing global access will permit all users from across the network to post topics and replies on the forums for this particular site.

i activated bbpress per site on my 3 network sites. still i dont see any setings for global access? does global access happen by default?

Also is there some similar setting for bbpress like buddypress’s define(‘BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG’, true);?

i got define(‘BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG’, true); enabled for my wp+bp multinetwork. But forums on the root site dont show up on the sub sites like groups/members do with that setting enabled.

Thanks in advance.

[u_Oi]

Thanks @Casiepa

But I don’t want count the replies, I just wanna add a Label to Topics with 0 replies, and hide it if somebody reply the topic.

I found the info here:

24. Show status labels for bbPress Topics

Any other suggestion?

I think the label (no replies) should be on the documentation by default.

[kkpb8084]

Hello
I’ve been searching for ages but cannot find the solution to my problem.

Does anyone know how I can make it so that people can post new topics and replies without the need to enter a name, email and website (i.e. those three boxes are removed)?

Thanks very much

I’m using WordPress 4.5.2, using twentysixteen theme.
I’m using bbpress 2.5.9-6017

[Schoelje]

I’ve successfully imported phpBB data into bbPress. Now, I’d like to redirect URLs like
http://my_phpbb_domain.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2
to:
http://my_wordpress_domain.com/forums/topic/corresponding_topic/

I’ve search the web and have been experimenting with several solutions but without any luck. Anything I do throws a 404.

These are some of the links I tried out:

Rewriting URLs

Redirection to new bbPress board?

As you can see, these topics are at least 7 years old. On the other hand, I don’t expect that something has changed on how to write redirects in an htaccess file.

Does somebody here has some experience with this?

[Schoelje]

I’ve imported phpBB 3.1.9 into bbPress 2.6 alpha without problems.
I suggest you to create a development machine if you haven’t done so already and give it a try.

[Schoelje]

You’ll need bbPress 2.6: https://bbpress.org/download/

[Robkk]

You can also try this, it adds a forum form to users who can moderate bbPress profile.

https://gist.github.com/ntwb/10701087

[wbhcommish]

I have done a lot of searching on this topic, and it seems that everyone wants to get rid of duplicate post titles. Apparently this is something bbPress now does by default (blocking posts with the same title).

We, however, need to allow them, because we have posts on the same topics that are only separated by time. It’s become very frustrating, with people having to put junk characters in their titles just to get a post to work, and never knowing which ones are going to work.

Is it possible to allow a forum to contain separate threads with the same title?

(We have not changed the default bbPress settings with regard to url slugs and so forth.)

[wdppoppe81]

Hi All,

After configuring the importing form and clicking the start button, a failure message appears after amount of time;

Unknown column 'forums.forum_topics' in 'field list'

After clicking again on the start button only the reactions will be converted from phpBB to bbpress.

How can I import the topics and users properly, without encounter these failures?

Grtz.

Willem

[zoemorn]

I’ve got the same or similar issue using Jupiter theme. Site is set to full layout (thus no sidebar)
Forums do start on a Page, but otherwise exist in Posts which i dont see how to assign widgets/sidebars/template etc in order to facilitate navigation. So when clicking into the forum navigation, any sidebar items assigned to the forum root page, aren’t brought in. User has to user browser Back button to get back to root forum. I’m failing to get it to look and feel like forums are expected. i chose bbpress to have single sign on, but would welcome other options at this point or a direction in how to get different layout, sidebar navigation and such to show for bbpress forum posts. thanks in advance.

[rnmartinez]

Hi everyone, loving bbpress but running into a roadblock. A client has chosen a theme that fits their site really well, and comes with a phpbb skin, but no bbpress theme. Is there a way to either

A: Easily implement the phpbb theme

OR

B: Through some plugin, allow bbpress to use a theme different from the main WP install

Thanks
Rodolfo

[robphat]

I have my bbpress set to require users to be logged in to post to the forum. So when they try to create a topic when not logged in, they get the mesage: You must be logged in to create new topics.

It would be great to have a link there for them to log in or register. I have that those links in my top bar (and sidebar for now), but it seems intuitive that when a user is told they must be logged in to post a topic that they would also be presented the option to login or register, but there is not there. See https://preachnet.com/discussions/forum/church-administration/

So how can I add that link there? Is there a bbpress option I am missing, or a plugin, or do I have to edit a page template?

Please let me know.

Thanks,
Rob

[robphat]

How do we create the bar above the forum and just under the header that has the Topic Creations button and the drop down Login widget that is used on bbpress.org/forums?