[giobby]

Hi everybody,

that’s my first post so I take the opportunity to thank the community for its amazing job.
I am in the process of migrating an existing community (PHPBB based) to BBPress on a dedicated server.

In terms of volumes, we are talking about 6K users, 350K replies and 15K topics.

The import seems to run quite well but I’ve notice that the author of certain posts is wrong.
I’ve found in the forum someone with the same problem but he was running a specific plugin to sync his existing PHPBB installation whilst in my case I have a pure PHPBB installation running on version 3.0.12

Do you guys no some magic options to remap the posts to the right authors?

Thank you in advance,

Gio

[NickUdd]

Hello,

I want to know what is the best practice for the database settings for import forums?

I have a big phpbb db with 100,000 topics and mabout 8000 users.

Especially
Rows Limit
100 rows to process at a time
Keep this low if you experience out-of-memory issues.

Delay Time
1 second(s) delay between each group of rows
Keep this high to prevent too-many-connection issues.

And what does Convert users mean?
Attempt to import user accounts from previous forums. Non-bbPress passwords cannot be automatically converted. They will be converted as each user logs in.

[Hephaestus_Xii]

I was wondering if someone could shed some light on why formatting is not working in posts I can see it when editing but when you post it strips it.

see here https://iheartpagelines.com/forums/topic/april-update/

[diegofd77]

Hello community:

I’ve been testing the BBPress, and when a suscriptor user posts a message, only first time, his message must to be approved by the administrator. When the admin approves the message, automatically, the next follow messages are approved with the previos approval of the admin. The question is, How I set the BBPress for each message must to be approved by the admin?

[zlbounceidea]

WP Install 4.5.1
BBPRESS Install Version 2.6-alpha
Link to Site brings a Coming Soon from a Plugin. Alternative?
X Theme 4.4.2 w/Child Theme

I am a super novice at WP/BBPress so trying to figure out where this issue arose from is very difficult and tricky. No idea on what baby steps to take to fix, though I’ve tried a few.

ISSUE: When clicking any forum tab/link whether it is the “forum” or “search” or a topic etc. tab, now suddenly sends back to the Homepage, though it worked fine the first couple weeks.

The strangest part is I first noticed it no longer working after clicking the forum tab, which reverts back to homepage instead of forum list page – then as I was trying to figure out why, even clicking a Topic’s Header link put me back to the homepage, though it worked minutes before – then next the “Search” Forum field would revert back to homepage after hitting ENTER to search a forum I typed in, though that worked minutes before that. Strange how it got worse almost one by one, yet not sure I did a whole lot in that time.

I tried the uninstall/reinstall of BBpress even having my host at in motion help me, also deleted and cleared cache files, but the new install does the exact same thing.

Sadly I am no developer, so figuring out an issue that one moment was working then a cascade effect makes the whole plugin ineffective contributes to me posting here.

Hopefully it is just a minor tweak that with your help I can fix, but I would like to understand how this likely happened so I can make sure it does not occur when the site is operational.

I also tried a couple recent plug in deactivates etc. but that didn’t seem to do much either.

Thanks for any guidance!

[Robkk]

no, it wasn’t turned into von. It looks like this: http://screencast.com/t/FLR74UlGQaYp

This almost looks like the default way bbPress displays the last post column and seems to be the default way in your theme for single forum post pages. The “by” could probably only be shown on the forum archive on your site. At least that is how I see it when I see a demo of your premium theme.

One of the issues is that a multilingual single site requires a translation for forum posts for them to show up… You can imagine that it would not be feasible to translate every forum post…

Yeah I can.

I’m not sure though if I can create one community if I separate the installs for the languages.

Your right it is probably better if you could just have a single forum for a small community of users (whatever is the minority of either English or German users). Maybe a theme/bbPress plugin translation switcher if the user comes from an IP in Germany. I am not sure just brainstorming.

I see what you mean. I think I’ll check with the author of my theme (Buddy) and see what he says. Thanks for the tip!

I kind of 90% think it is just something in the theme in a function or straight up in a forum archive template file. It could be a simple fix with a just a child theme and using the bbPress templates in your currently active theme.

[Robkk]

Devs say that its intentional for now and looking for a way to implement it without any further issues.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2523

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2340

There is a couple of fixes out there.

1. This patch enables threaded replies, but will not work in private forums.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2785

2. I have not tested this proposed fix.

https://wpup.co/bbpress-threaded-nested-replies-with-paging/

[Robkk]

I do not recommend trying to use WordPress comments with bbPress, just use the default replies.

[Robkk]

Devs say that its intentional for now and looking for a way to implement it without any further issues.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2523

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2340

There is a couple of fixes out there.

1. This patch enables threaded replies, but will not work in private forums.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2785

2. I have not tested this proposed fix.

https://wpup.co/bbpress-threaded-nested-replies-with-paging/

[Robkk]

@maketheest

When you enable the tinymce editor in bbPress, for now you have to edit that snippet you posted and edit it for every buttons html tags that you will end up using. Whenever you may be quoting another user using a different plugin you may need to use the paste as a text php code snippet in the guide.

https://codex.bbpress.org/enable-visual-editor/

Read this WordPress guide about the character entities.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_Code_in_Your_Posts

[aqibnazir]

I have the same problem. I have a blog and most of my audience are beginners who want to create a blog and make some income out of it. I wanted to have a discussion forum where my audience could post their queries.That’s why I started using bbPress but I keep getting this error “cannot modify header information”.

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Aqib

[born2fly2]

I set bbpress up using my mac, all works fine.

When I use my PC to view the site or backend, the forum and topics that I can see when I use my mac are NOT present. So it works with a MAC but not a PC or Android. An ideas why?

thanks,
rich

[mica123]

Hello,

I’ve been looking into image uploads. It seems that it is not easy for participants to upload photos etc. I take it that users are supposed to type in the path to the file in the Source field in the WYSIWYG editor – I doubt that users would know how to do that.
I found this topic here in this forum.
Could somebody perhaps advise me if the code that is suggested would be the right way to go or would the plugin be better?
Many thanks.

[alcarendor]

Ok, seems that is problem of combine entries in the menu of BBPress and Buddypress, but I don’t Know how to solve it.

[alcarendor]

I want to put a menu entries of the forums in a tab of the menu. While a user is loged in, all looks fine, but when a visitor enter without login, the main menu is broken: all entries are shown in the complete menu. See the images for better understand.

Good Menu: http://imgur.com/tval2B3
Bad menu: http://imgur.com/6wuTRRB

I use the evoLve theme (3.5.0) (but the problem persits in TwentyFifteen and others) and the last version of BBpress (2.5.8) and WordPress 4.5.1

(sorry for my ugly english)

[Tranny]

I have the number of replies per page set to 25. With Threading disabled, this works without an issue. However with Threading enabled, topics don’t get split into pages of 25 replies, and no pagination shows up. It basically ends up being a very long page of hundreds replies, all stuffed in that one page.

Is this a bug in the script, or am I doing something wrong? I have the latest version of bbPress, WP and BuddyPress, and use customized TwentySixteen theme.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
That’s typically a conflict with a theme or another plugin. Please switch to a default theme and deactivate all but bbPress. Test.
Then switch on plugins one after the other to find the one blocking.

Pascal.

[nycjk]

We have a site that is running bbPress which is hosted on Windows Server 2012 with PHP 5.6.
We experience a delay when navigating the forums, usually about a 3 to 5 second delay for each page change. Is this to be expected when running bbPress on Windows? Would Apache on FreeBSD give us any increase in performance?

Thanks!

[sarensreng]

I have installed Rating-Widget: Star Review System plugin and I know it support with BBPress pluin,but after installed I can see rating start on each topic. How to make it work?

[sherminator18]

I have a two forums that I would like to disable topic creation for users, but allow comments/replies on topics that I create in these forums. For example, I have a forum for “Announcements.” I would like to be the only one who can create new topics on this forum but allow others to add replies on the topics I add. Is there a way to do this? I tried the bbPress Protected Forums plugin but it makes my forum page look all wonky and different form the other forums where I don’t want this to occur.

[thingunderthestairs]

Hi,

I, attempting to import user posts, topics, replies, etc. from IPB to bbPress.
The importer seems to be working, but eventually seems to die logging a lot of ——————
to the end of log on the importer display.

I imported the users on the 1st pass, then reset the rest back to default and started again. I’ve tried a few passes adjusting the batch size or rows processed, first decreasing the size in case it was a memory issue, and have now run a couple passes with increasing batch size. At first I was getting topics, but not replies, once I increased the batch size from the default it made it through the topics and started on the replies, but again finished short of all the replies logging a screens worth of hyphen characters. This seems to be after 24-36 hours of run time, so I am not sure if I am running across some sort of session expiration or what.

Is it possible to re-run an import, picking off where it left off? I assumed not as it does not seem to do anything unless I do reset forums between attempts, but thought I would check as the start over option seems to indicate you can run it again without starting fresh.

Any ideas what is happening when the display starts logging ——– , or any other place I should be checking for an indicator of what the problem might be?

[hutad]

Hi – I just installed BBPress and I can’t seem to have the admin reply to any posts. I created an account under the name Hutad and tried to reply as the Admin and can’t see the response live on the site. It’s in my backend but not live. I am using a custom theme.
Here is the link to the topic/website

https://wiperecord.com/forums/topic/dui-in-california/#post-2630

Any suggestions much appreciated.

I’m using the latest wordpress version

[David Richied]

I read through the ticket. It looks like the BuddyPress notifications for BBPress forums really are kind of messed up, but it’s fine. I love the functionality it does have. Not even fb has forums.

[ixixy]

@robkk, thank you very much for your response. you are totally awesome :0

I looked at the link, and it seems like it is for bloggers to put custom background on different posts. It’s a cool idea, but not what I had in mind.

So, in bbpress, when you set up a forum, there is a place that allows you to upload a featured image.

I want to use this feature…..and upload a landscape image to use as a cover image on top of the forum….

To paint a clearer picture, imagine buddypress’s cover image that is on a user’s profile…. I want a cover image on each forum….and the image would be the pic uploaded to the ‘featured image’ option as the forum is set up.

I know that this probably a really pretty simple thing to do….insert the featured image photo on the forum index….i just am not sure which templates would need to be edited or the code involved…and that’s why I’m turning the idea to you brilliant folks who are smarter than me for the solution 🙂 😉 😀

[killahrepublic]

I have my bbpress installed on my site. I have some forums listed. However there is no way for users to sign up to post. Any help is greatly appreciated.