[ajflo72]

I’ve taken a look at activity streams, forums, and groups from various sources and am not sure which I would need to build a website specific for my needs. All of them have certain things that seem related to what I would like to accomplish, but I’m not sure they will finish the job. So before I start on this project, I’d like to get some advice as to how I might go about this.

I’m wanting to create a website that has a Home page that all unregistered people will see right off the bat. If a user is logged in, I would like them to see a page similar to a blog. It would basically be their own blog page. Ideally, this page would be created upon their confirmed registration. It seemed like activity stream was a personalized page created upon confirmed registration, so that may be what I’m looking for, but I’m not quite sure if it will be right for handling the other things I need.

So, on this personalized blog page, a user would have a link to create a new topic which would allow them to enter in several fields of info (i.e. Topic Name, Content, Location). Then when they post that topic, it will appear on their own personalized blog page. I want other users to be able to search and find other topics or even view a person’s personalized blog page, but they will not be able to reply to anything on that page. Everything will be locked down for all users except the owner of the personalized blog page.

Is BBPress right for what I want to do? Which of these tools might I need? Any suggestions on how to go about using these tools to do what I want? Thanks in advance.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
If it creates an error, then I would advise to open a thread on the support forum.
There is an alternative plugin that was discussed in this thread: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/new-feature-viewhit-counts/

Pascal.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
I suppose you tried with 2.5.8 ? If you are starting now, I would advise to consider 2.6 (https://bbpress.org/download/). It’s still alpha but will soon be released. It offers better performance and better import capabilities.

Let me know.
Pascal.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi Biorn,

Create a standard WordPress page and put the slug ‘forums’. Creating this page will override the standard page that comes out.

You can then add the [bbp-forum-index] shortcode on that page (see https://codex.bbpress.org/features/shortcodes/) and change the title of your page.

Pascal.

[aaachiaki]

Late to the party on migrating, but I think it’s time. Installed bbPress via plugins on my WordPress instance. I’d played around with it in the past so I cleared all the old data with a board reset. Went to import and put in all the information – created a new MySQL user with full permissions to the database my phpBB forum is on.

Set rows limit to 75 and Delay time to 3 – I have a pretty big forum to move.

Checked all three boxes for Convert Users, Start Over, and Purge – I want a full, clean import.

It gets right to the start of the process and says:
WordPress database error: [Table ‘XXXX_forum.users’ doesn’t exist]
(the XXXX is the name of my database)

And it gives a long string in gray after that of info I don’t quite understand.

Tried deleting the plugin and reinstalling it. I’m on the latest version of WordPress and PhpBB.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, and thanks in advance!

[aero23]

Forum:

I would like each forum to show the total times viewed as well as each topic to display times viewed. In addition to voices and posts column it should show how many times people have seen the threads. I have not been able to find a plugin that is still supported most seem to not have been updated in years.

Only one that could work is bbpress simple view counts but it immediately creates an error in the forum when installing.

Can you suggest one?
Thanks!

[abletec]

Well let’s see if the 3rd time’s a charm. My site is netballscoop.com. I’m running latest version of WordPress & BBPress. This is a sports site, w/content going back to 2007. I’d really like to make it such that only content for the current year is displayed & previous content archived to another site, but I’m having trouble. An export of only 2016 content & reimport does not work correctly (I suspect because the topic & reply numbers are messed up) & the WordPress Bulk Delete plugin simply can’t do this. Anyone got any suggestions? Please? Is this something that no one else wants to do or…?

[thinkDrew]

I was looking for something like this as well for our “non-tech savy” audience and found that @Robkk answer works best: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-enable-tinymce-visual-tab/

[jeroenwiersma]

Hello,

I am trying to get the bbpress login widget above the forum posts on the mobile version of my site.
Because the plugin is in the main sidebar, it gets placed on the bottom of the page when resizing to a mobile view.
What i want is for it to be on top of the page.

Thanks in advance,
Jeroen

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
This is a bbPress forum, what is your exact question related to bbPress ?
Pascal.

[LeGuerg]

Hello,

I get an issue with the bbPress capabilities. My forum Participants are set with edit_replies, delete_replies, edit_topics, delete_topics capabilities, but they can not delete their own posts because the links are not displayed. Keymasters and Moderators have no problem since they are moderators on the whole forum.

So I checked the code in ./includes/topics/capabilities.php and includes/replies/capabilities.php and added the code below to fix the issue:

./includes/topics/capabilities.php, line 174 and
./includes/replies/capabilities.php, line 156

// Moderators can always edit forum content
	} elseif ( user_can( $user_id, 'moderate' ) ) {
		$caps[] = 'moderate';
					
// -------------------------------- 
// User is author so allow edit if not in admin
	} elseif ( !is_admin() && ( (int) $user_id === (int) $_post->post_author ) ) {
	        $caps[] = $post_type->cap->delete_posts;
// --------------------------------
					
// Unknown so map to delete_others_posts

So my question is: is this intended ? Otherwise is there a fix planned for a next update?
Thank you for your help.
Regards.

[Wendell]

The import completed and I’m still having the problem with users being associated with their posts. For example:

Original thread on xenForo: http://surveyorconnect.com/threads/converting-from-lat-long-clarke-spheroid-to-spc.326148/

Imported thread on bbpress: http://surveyorconnect.com/portal/index.php/forums/topic/converting-from-lat-long-clarke-spheroid-to-spc/

[Stephen Edgar]

I changed the default value to “special” in this part below.

I don’t think this would cause that error, the fact that I’ve no idea what is causing that error “could” be in fact the cause of the error.

The “Reset Forums” tool includes the ability to delete all bbPress forum content and imported users, run this and that should get rid of your ~30k imported users.

After that, try changing that “special” back to “Snitz” (I think thats what it was) and se what happens.

[Ales2cv]

Answer – Replay menu not work
if you go there all on menu all replay i get error 404 page
new replay work
All seting are ok and all Works befere
I examine tnat siconet all plugins and menu Works
I have wp 4.4.2 then i found plugins
NextGEN Gallery by Photocrati 2-1-26
and
Contact Form 7 4.4
if i deactivet that two plugin
bbpress work correct

so is confilixt with at least that 2 plugins is any optins tha be fix in futer.

[Wendell]

I reset the forum, then upgraded to bbpress 2.6 alpha, checked the “purge previous import” checkbox (just to be sure), then started the import process again and got this lovely error message:

“WordPress database error: [Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes]
CREATE TABLE blp_bbp_converter_translator ( meta_id mediumint(8) unsigned not null auto_increment, value_type varchar(25) null, value_id bigint(20) unsigned not null default ‘0’, meta_key varchar(255) null, meta_value varchar(255) null, PRIMARY KEY (meta_id), KEY value_id (value_id), KEY meta_join (meta_key, meta_value) ) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci”

So I unchecked the purge option and tried again. It’s currently importing the users.

[Wendell]

I’m testing with a conversion from xenForo to bbpress as well. I’m using the latest bbpress available to the public, 2.5.8. My xenForo site has about 33,000 topics, 330,000 posts and 6,000 users. Running the bbpress import feature seems to work without a hitch. Then when I go to repair, all functions work great except for the “Recalculate the position of each reply”, as another user here has mentioned. After several seconds, I get a 500 error.

After the import and running the repair items (except for the one that doesn’t work), the forums *seem* to all be intact and working well until you look a bit closer. Many users aren’t associated with their posts — they show 0 posts in bbpress even though they have thousands of posts in xenForo.

I may go ahead and try bbpress 2.6 alpha and see how it goes.

FWIW, I’m running both forums on the same VPS, so the import is relatively quick. It takes a few hours.

[Sziban]

Registering and using a new user after the import is works fine as well as using an old user, registered before the import.
I tried with the bbpress v2.5.8, but I was unable to run the user-role-map repair tool either, I got the white screen there too.
Tried to turn off all the other plugins, increasing the memory, but nothing changed.
How do you think to delete all the users? Only the users or users and their posts too?
(How can I easily remove 30k users?)

[Stephen Edgar]

Thanks, will look into this for a future version of bbPress

[Stephen Edgar]

@eoppegaard The database actually needs to be active in the same MySQL server your WordPress site is running on, not the same database, just available as a database in the MySQL server. Uploading the MySQL .sql dump file or phpBB files to yor site will have no effect and will not work.

Some of the docs here might also help you out.

@evildrome It might be easy for you, it’s not for me, if it was I’d have done it, if you’d be able to help out and help with some code for a solution to that that would be awesome.

[Robkk]

@wfcfotovisie

I see you are using bbPress new UI, see if that plugins styles are affecting the layout by temporarily deactivating it, and see how the default theme looks in comparison.

[markc]

I would like to set up bbPress at a forum.example.com subdomain and remove as much of the /forums/forum/ path from the URL as possible. This site will only run bbPress and not utilise any WP blog features. Is there a plugin or some simple method to do this?

[pattz2016]

I am using BBpress recent topic widget and i reaslied that it only gives me an option of adding topic author and date. How can i add the recent answers category like it is on this forum? Is there a Plugin for that? If there is not, is there a code i can fix in my templates to get this fuctionality?

Many thanks,

[elovkoff]

Hi Rob, thanks for the advice. And thanks to everybody else who took the time to chime in.
You said: “Also I cannot seem to find the code in the bbPRess plugin responsibe for the no redirect to post after submit after using using this code.”
Anny pointers where would I look for it, or should I hire a dev to do that?

When you refer to inline image upload – is that something that would require users to know how to use img html tags? Will it allow multiple image upolads too?

Thank you.
Elijah.

[TKServer]

Ok @tech55541 I’ve just added a short code option! See if you can get it to work!

https://wordpress.org/plugins/tk-bbpress-stats/

[Robin W]

the code is additional and goes in your functions.php

see

Functions files and child themes – explained !