[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?

[semperaye]

Is there a way to allow bbpress users with the “participant” role to upload media by url only, i.e. disable the media library. I want my users to be able to put pictures into their post that are hosted other places without having to figure codes and such.

Thank you!

[Maximillian Heth]

Hi! This is for a client’s site, which is budpubs.com. We’re using WordPress 4.4.3 (his theme isn’t quite compatible with the latest version of WordPress, and the theme dev is no longer supporting the theme..=P) and the latest version of bbPress.

For some reason, the gravatar images aren’t showing within the forum. I tried looking for a thread that addressed this before creating my own, but I couldn’t really find anything specific to my problem. Has anyone here come across something like this before? Thanks!

[semperaye]

I am using a plugin to bring back the tinymce visual editor in bbpress. I want my users to be able to upload images, but I would like to be able to limit the file size allowed without limiting the file size on my admin side of things outside of bbpress. I can’t seem to be able to find such a setting to limit media size, is there anything I can do?

Thank you!

[Kay]

Hi guys, I would like to remove the edit profile option from the bbpress menu, can someone tell me how to do this? it’s a duplicate & a little confusing for more users. You can see a screenshot of it here

[AngryGerman]

I’m currently developing a WP (4.5.2) site with the bbPress plug-in (2.5.9).

I have various standard WP pages and posts (e.g. About (slug: about) and Help (slug: help)) on the site.

The forum runs under the forums root slug.

When creating a forum or topic, for example, whose slug is the same as that of an existing page, trying to display that forum/topic fails with a 404 error.

For example, creating a forum with the name “About” (slug: about) leads to the (correct) bbPress URL /forums/forum/about/. However, trying to display that forum at that specific URL fails with a 404 error, apparently because a page with the URL/slug /about/ already exists for a WP page.

This only seems to happen when a page/post/etc. exists that has such a “conflicting” slug, which is still puzzling because the bbPress forum has its own root slug/URL path /forums/, which should prevent such conflicts.

Renaming the forum slug manually to something like aboutx fixes the issue, and the forum is then accessible just fine under /forums/forum/aboutx/. (This is obviously not a solution, but illustrates that there must be some sort of slug conflict.)

1. Is this a known issue, or what could the problem be?
2. Alternatively, is there a way to automatically append a (e.g. random) string to any bbPress forum/topic/post slug to prevent something like this?

[guy_cox]

I get this error when I try to view new forum pages…

Fatal error: Class ‘WP_Post’ not found in /home/xxxxxxxxxxxx/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/core/theme-compat.php on line 375

Do I need to change theme or settings?

Many thanks for any help –

Guy ;>=

[dinowong]

Two weeks ago I installed bbPress, there was the “forum” tag in the admin dashboard. I uninstalled it soon after I installed as I did not have any use back then.

But today when I reinstalled a few times, the “forum” tag did not appear at admin dashboard. Neither did the introduction page of bbPress that has the “go to settings” link appeared.

I tried on my other website and it has no problem. Please advice how to get the normal installation running.

Both are running on the latest wordpress.org version.

[GreenbankAdmin]

I recently went through our forum and removed all the old and non required topics but after I did that the counters on the forums were all wrong. I went tot he recount feature until the tools section and rant he options to recounts and recalculate each forum and topic which all worked fine.

Now when anyone who is a participant (which is everyone except the admin on my site) tried to view the forums, they get no topics returned. When I login as admin I can see them all. I have changed everyone to be KeyMaster and now they can see them again.

Any idea what might have happened ? I’ve checked permissions and can see Participant is in there as can view, as is subscriber. Using BBPress 2.5.9 and WordPress 4.5.2 BBPress was installed well over a year ago and has been upgraded with each update when the plugins page tells me to.

website is http://www.greenbankarchers.com but forum is a private members only area behind wordpress.