[Kelly]

I cant make a forum with my admin account. I did some Googling… Found old info and dont understand some of it…. I created another user with a Keymaster and still cant make forums.

I added bbPress/BuddyPress to my current theme.

This is my site http://kastyles.co

These are the only other plugins running.

Comment Reply Notification
Contact Form 7
Instagram Feed
MailChimp for WordPress
ThemeREX Utilities-Needed for my theme
WP-SpamShield

[jkuzma]

I have the same exact problem:

Cannot modify headers. Parameter 2 to be array, null given in …/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/functions.php on line 1446

My pages/posts can be updated/published, but I get a blank white page with this error each time I update.

[jon]

I think is outdated, just did it on my bbpress and broke it. Everything is back to normal thx for the backups. Anyway my point is… is there someone who got it working?

[Stephen Edgar]

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.

Yes, that is exactly what you are coming up against, on the technical side, its WordPress dropping the MySQL session, the work around is to every few,4,6,8,12 hours even is to open a new browser tab and refresh a WordPress admin page and that should stop those ------

Is it possible to re-run an import, picking off where it left off?

It’s supposed to, there’s some improvements here coming in bbPress 2.6, I also strongly suggest using 2.6-alpha available from https://bbpress.org/download, there will be no more import changes before 2.6 ships and there are vast improvements to importing in 2.6.

Give it a try and let me know it goes 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

@rnmartinez I just replied in your other topic, I’ll close this one but feel free to ask questions in that one and I’ll do my best to get you sorted 🙂

SMF Import question

[Stephen Edgar]

You should try bbPress 2.6-alpha, there are lots of bug fixes for SMF in this upcoming release

Grab it from https://bbpress.org/download

[Stephen Edgar]

@siparker, as I just replied to @giobby’s phpBB post you should try the import with bbPress 2.6-alpha (hoping to release in the next couple of weeks).

It contains pretty big improvements around the importing and matching of users and their data. It should now correctly map any Anonymous users to bbPress’ Anonymous user though now it will include their vBulletin Anonymous user name. It also works in a similar fashion for deleted users, if the user was deleted and their posts kept, bbPress now maps these posts and usernames to its own internal Anonymous user.

Also make sure to run the repair tools after importing, it fixes up any freshness, last poster type issues if we couldn’t import that data it recalculates it for you.

Grab 2.6-alpha from https://bbpress.org/download

[Stephen Edgar]

You should try bbPress 2.6-alpha, there are heaps of phpBB improvements in bbPress 2.6 🙂

That should fix your author mapping, it also adds support for mapping anonymous/deleted users to their topics which is pretty cool.

The mapping of the users old phpBB user ID is also updated to work quite differently to how it did in the 2.5.x release so again this should fix that for you also.

p.s. bbPress.org here runs 2.6-alpha, and we’re hoping to ship 2.6 in the next couple of weeks.

Edit: Get 2.6-alpha via our downloads page https://bbpress.org/download

[Stephen Edgar]

WPML have a bbPress plugin you need to use, they don’t publish it publicly, you need to ask them for a copy of it, that should fix any WPML and bbPress compatibility issues you’re having.

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress 2.5.9 is out, and is a security release for all previous 2.x versions.

bbPress versions 2.5.8 and earlier are susceptible to a form of cross-site-scripting, due to the way users are linked to their profiles when they are mentioned in topics and replies.

Check the 2.5 milestone for a comprehensive changelog of fixes.

Take a moment to update your bbPress installations to 2.5.9. If you’re using WordPress’s built-in updater, it should only take a click or two.

These fixes have also been ported over to 2.6, which we continue to run here at bbPress.org and BuddyPress.org.

[giobby]

I’ve run in the same issue by importing into PHPBB.

You can read through my post: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/import-phpbb-wrong-authors/

If you check, you may find that some authors are displayed as anonymous because the corresponding attribute in wp_posts.post_author has no match with your wp_users.id

I’ve found out that these authors have still the old user id of the forum you are importing from (VBulletin).

I can’t guarantee the following solution will work for you, but I recommend you to create a temporary table to map your old user ids to the new wordpress ones by joinin them on the user_email attribute.

Then just update all the orphan wp_posts.post_author with the right wordpress id.

I can’t guarantee this will fix all your dirty posts.

[alingrad]

Hi,

I just installed on a test domain WordPress, bbPress and WPML. All are updated to the latest versions. I don’t use any other plugins and the theme is also the default one, Twenty Sixteen.

I setup 2 languages: german as default and english. So the URLs are like this.

website.com
website.com/en

I posted some topics in bbPress in both languages and I can see them per language, which is what I want. On the german version I see only the german posts and on the english version I see only the english post.

Of course, a problem may be with the bbPress slugs settings. I cannot translate them but I can live with them.

What I noticed is that when I go to profile and try to see the “Topics Started”, “Favorites” and “Subscriptions”, I see only a message that I don’t have any of those, although on the main Profile page shows that I have started 11 topics.

That might be also a problem because it counts the topics from both languages. But I can live with that also, for the moment.

I switched the languages and I made english default. After doing this, everything worked fine in english but not anymore in german, because german became the second language.

Basically, I can see the “Topics Started”, “Favorites” and “Subscriptions” only for the default language.

Only “Replies Created” show up for both languages.

I also attached some screenshots.

I also changed the theme from Twenty Sixteen to Twenty Fifteen and also Twenty Fourteen. Same problem.

I setup another test website as WP Multisite, without WPML and everything works properly. I had to install another plugin to connect both languages. But I would like to use WPML and a single website, if this is possible.

I hope there is a fix for this. bbPress is the most used forum and WPML should be able to handle it.

Thank you very much for your time.

Best Regards,
Alin

[guilhermeavila]

Wow. I am having the same problem with OptimizeMember. The content was not being displayed. Just installed http://www.rewweb.co.uk/bbpress-wp4-fix2/ and it worked.

Thanks.

[nateonawalk]

Hey all, an update —

Sooo this project turned into something much larger than anticipated. What seemed like a quick PHP permutation turned into a massive 100 hours+ job that is still ongoing. We’ve effectively created a complete out-of-the-box pretty permalinks solution that even folks with pre-existing bbPress forums will be able to safely turn on and use. We’ve thrown out the previous fork and are re-writing everything with our own code from scratch.

That said, the opportunity cost I’ve incurred is quite large and we’re still a couple weeks off from completing things. Every time we do a re-write, a bunch of new broken use-cases emerge. We’ve gotten offers from a couple plugin development companies to buy the plugin from us as well — so we’re trying to decide what best to do with the resources that we have.

Just want everyone to be aware of progress!

Thanks~

[mwittrock]

Hi all

I’m in the process of migrating a custom-built PHP/MySQL forum (approx. 1.8 million topics and replies in total) to bbPress 2.5.8 on WP 4.5. My solution is to generate a bunch of bulk insert SQL scripts for wp_posts with post types forum, topic and reply.

This works. After the import, though, I need to run the bbPress repair tool, in order for posts, post counts etc. to be displayed correctly.

I’d prefer to avoid as many manual tasks as possible when switching from the old forum to the bbPress one, so I’m considering two options:

1) Run the repair from the command line rather than in the browser.

2) Generate the required wp_postmeta rows as part of my export.

I have a couple of questions about this:

Regarding option 1, is it even possible and does such a script exist?

Regarding option 2, what are the required wp_postmeta keys I would need to generate?

Thanks in advance for any input on this.

Kind regards,

Morten Wittrock

[Robkk]

If you are already using BuddyPress you can configure group forums using BuddyPress and bbPress, and these groups each have a cover image and it will look consistent to the rest of your site.

I think this is the simplest thing to do without telling you to customize/create certain templates and use custom CSS.

[Robkk]

There is no special optionYou would have to edit the bbPress templates, and I guess replace the reply form with the comment form.

https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/comments_template/

And I guess you might need to do more work like remove any other mentions of replies in bbPress entirely like in topic/forum stats, notices/descriptions, user profile data, activate show lead topic, find a plugin to allow mods to move comments to other topics. Then you might need to find different plugins that you need if you want quoting, attachments, bbcode, and more for custom features.

Then I guess if you want to ever leave bbPress with your custom comments integration, you will need to create a custom import for whatever you are importing to.

Still do not recommend it, but if you really really want I suggest hiring a developer if you do not have the knowledge or time to do all of this by yourself.

[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.