[Robin W]

codewise – start at

bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/content-archive-forum.php

That is the template that displays the forum list, and work forward from there

[Valery Kondakoff]

Hello!

I just made a fresh WP install and added bbPres as the one and only plugin. Here is how bbPress looks with the default theme Twenty Sixteen, when the color scheme is switched to Dark: http://goo.gl/Lfw3ii

Absolutely unusable! I’m pretty sure the default WordPress theme should be supported by bbPress. Is this a bug?

[Valery Kondakoff]

To be sure there is nothing wrong with my WP+bbPress install, I just reinstalled WordPress from scratch and added bbPress as the one and only plugin (this is the default theme Twenty Sixteen).

Here is a screenshot: http://goo.gl/1Bll3A

Why bbPress ‘reserves’ this left-margin space. Can this indentation be disabled?

Thank you!

[mimbelli]

I’m currently managing a IPB 3.X forum with about 300 users and 20k posts. I have also a huge website with hundreds of articles. For several reason I would like to move away from IPB and I’m considering BBPress to manage in one way forum and website.
I would like to test a migration on a test site in the next few weeks. In the meantime I have some questions.

– Coming from IPB, what are the minimum essential plugins I need to get similar features?

– Which kind of integration I get between web site and forum? Could I share content each way?
I mean: a new article become a forum topic and a forum topic become an article.

– is BBPress still actively developed? Not to be polemic but looking at latest commit count and contributors it seems an alarming situation.

Thank you in advance

[Valery Kondakoff]

Hello!

I just placed bbPress to a page, using the shortcode ‘[bbp-single-forum id=xxx]‘. Here it is how it looks: http://goo.gl/nawXlP (this is a default Twenty Sixteen theme).

Now, if i click on a topic link, a giant left indentation is introduced: http://goo.gl/LxqQVf

Is there a way to disable this indentation? Forum is almost unusable in such a small width. I was trying something like:

.bbpress #primary {
    margin: 0 auto;
    max-width: 980px;
    width: 100%;
}

But this does not works. Are there any ideas, how to eliminate this indentation?

Thank you!

[Pascal Casier]

This is probably what you need: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/putting-the-mention-below-name

[talhawp]

Update:

I upgraded to bbPress 2.6 and the site seems to be responding now. Will keep everyone updated on how it goes.

Thanks

[talhawp]

Hi @Pascal,

I successfully ran all the repair tools, but unfortunately I still have the issue.

I also moved my website later to a managed WordPress hosting provider that is optimized for performance, however I have same/worst performance issues. The only solution I had was to disable the bbPress plugin.

I am confident now that my server is okay.

Any more things I can try? I am thinking of trying 2.6 as well tonight.

Regards,
T

[mimbelli]

Just registered few minutes ago and I found this discussion…

Is BBPress still actively under development?

[johnmontfx]

I’ve narrowed this down to the fact that it seems to be an issue with the display of subforums on the main forum index page. We have quite a few subforums so generating the list of forums and subforms takes a long time.

I can’t easily cache this page because different logged in users see different forums based upon permissions. I would think that some of this would be handled with object caching, but this performance is horrendous compared to our previous vbulletin install. I love many of the features of bbpress, but having users wait four to ten seconds for a page load isn’t a good experience.

Any suggestions on how I might improve performance (other than not displaying subforums on the home forums page)? I’m using xcache and have W3 Total Cache with object caching enabled.

[Pascal Casier]

For uploading files, the 3 products I know of are ‘GD bbpress Attachments’ (as Robin indicated), ‘Image Upload for BBPress’ and ‘bbPress Multi Image Uploader’. Have a look if it would fit your needs.

If you use BuddyPress as well, then there is also ‘BuddyPress Forum Editor’.

Pascal.

[Robin W]

suspect it is plugin related

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.

Then come back

[Robin W]

Try

https://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-bbpress-attachments/

[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.

Then come back

[Fidgety Lizard]

There are (at least) a couple of tickets on this in the bbPress trac, no. 2722 and no. 2865.

No. 2865 has a patch marked “under consideration”. In case it helps anybody, we’ve wrapped this patch as a plugin for bbPress 2.5.8:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/fix-forum-emails/

This should help to fix problems with HTML entities in notification emails on vanilla bbPress installs. It’s intended as a workaround until the issue gets fixed in bbPress core.

The plugin won’t remove stray HTML or CSS in forum posts. Rogue markup like this can be caused by cut-and-paste operations in TinyMCE, aka the Visual Editor, if you have it enabled in bbPress. If you’re having these problems, we have another free plugin called “Forum Beginner Posts” in the repository. It enables TinyMCE for bbPress in paste-as-text mode by default.

[Fidgety Lizard]

There are (at least) a couple of tickets on this in the bbPress trac, no. 2722 and no. 2865.

No. 2865 has a patch marked “under consideration”. In case it helps anybody, we’ve wrapped this patch as a plugin for bbPress 2.5.8:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/fix-forum-emails/

This should help to fix problems with HTML entities in notification emails on vanilla bbPress installs. It’s intended as a workaround until the issue gets fixed in bbPress core.

The plugin won’t remove stray HTML or CSS in forum posts. Rogue markup like this can be caused by cut-and-paste operations in TinyMCE, aka the Visual Editor, if you have it enabled in bbPress. If you’re having these problems, we have another free plugin called “Forum Beginner Posts” in the repository. It enables TinyMCE for bbPress in paste-as-text mode by default.

[Fidgety Lizard]

There are (at least) a couple of tickets on this in the bbPress trac, no. 2722 and no. 2865.

No. 2865 has a patch marked “under consideration”. In case it helps anybody, I’ve wrapped this patch as a plugin for bbPress 2.5.8:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/fix-forum-emails/

This should help to fix problems with HTML entities in notification emails on vanilla bbPress installs. It’s intended as a workaround until the issue gets fixed in bbPress core.

The plugin won’t remove stray HTML / CSS in forum posts. Rogue markup like this can be caused by cut-and-paste operations in TinyMCE, aka the Visual Editor, if you have it enabled in bbPress. If you’re having these problems, we have another free plugin called “Forum Beginner Posts” in the repository. It enables TinyMCE for bbPress in paste-as-text mode by default.

[loveslight]

Robin! You lead me down the path to find the problem!

It turns out it was the enormous amount of forums/categories underneath one category. When I broke the 365 forum categories into groups of 50, the speed improved.

Here’s what I found:

Every 20 forum categories within another forum category adds another second to the posting time. So 365 lesson categories within a single category called lessons = 18 seconds for a post to save and appear. When I broke the 365 lesson categories into 7 categories (“lessons 1-50” and so on…) I got the posting speed down to 2.5 seconds.

1. Is there a known issue with bbpress slowing down where there are a large number of “category” forums within another category? Now we know that that’s what my problem was.

2. Since we’re a new site with no posts yet, I have faith that a large number of posts and replys won’t slow down the forums like the issue defined and resolved above. Care to reassure me on this? 🙂

Thank you so much for your help!!

[twiz911]

WordPress 4.3
bbPress 2.5.7

My forums have topics but no topics are showing. It is correctly showing:

“This forum contains 1 topic, and was last updated by…”

but also displays

“Oh bother! No topics were found here!”

an no topics are listed.

I checked /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=topic and no topics are associated with any forums. However, I re-associated each topic with the correct Forum and these changes were persisted on /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=topic but does not make any difference to the error above and no topics are listed within any forums.

Please advise where in the code I should start debugging?

Thanks

Example forum with 1 topic not showing:
http://www.trenerrycrescent.com/forums/forum/potential-electrical-fire-risk-bathroom-fan-timers/

[elovkoff]

Hi, sorry if this has been asked a lot of times, but I couldn’t find relevant information.
I need to be able to upload images without placing any text at all in the text field. Just need to upload images. Please let me know how to achieve this.

Wordpress 4.1.10
BBPress Version 2.5.8

Please let me know.
Thank you!

[DL]

Hello,

Back to beg for help (although willing to pay) to get this converter built.

If anyone with the ability could read through this topic and give input here or at https://github.com/damon18/dizkus-bbpress I would really appreciate it. My existing forums are starting to throw lots of errors and are keeping me from upgrading my server since they won’t work past PHP 5.3.x

[tech55541]

Since having the menu expand is not part of the normal bbpress function (it just lists the menu items rather than having a dropdown list), I presume that either your theme is doing this, or you have added some js to do this?

Yes it is using JavaScript, I pasted it all above.

Thanks, I will take a look at link posted in your last reply to.

[Robin W]

ok, so now I think I understand your issue. I am presuming that you mean the options menu, which works fine on a pc as using the mouse to hover lists the menu items and closes them as the mouse moves away.

with a smartphone you need to click rather than move a mouse? (I don’t have a smartphone!)

Since having the menu expand is not part of the normal bbpress function (it just lists the menu items rather than having a dropdown list), I presume that either your theme is doing this, or you have added some js to do this?

You could try

http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/

[jezza101]

Yes I’m only aware of an old plugin. Not sure there is a recent one that does what you want.

For what it is worth I believe it is in the development roadmap for core bbPress so should be added one day.

Is it this ticket?
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2498

Unfortunately bbPress development seems to have stalled a little with buddyPress taking much of the attention these days (?). I did actually contribute to a crowd funding campaign in the hope to kickstart bbPress development but no release came out of that sadly.

I’d love this feature too, if my PHP skills were up to it I would work on it myself – maybe one day!

[talhawp]

Hi Everyone,

I finally upgraded my bbpress 1.x to bbpress 2.5.6 after running it for 7 years. The import process took almost a day with 0.5+ million posts.

Now I am facing issue with slow performance, despite running on physical server with 16 core CPU and 16 GB RAM. The upgrade ran fine for few hours has but been very slow from last 12 hours.

The wordpress and bbpress are both so slow that sometimes even the site fails to load. HTOP shows all CPU cores running mysql up to 90%.

I enabled slow query on mysql (mariadb) and it is giving the following output:

[root@server]# mysqldumpslow -t 5 -s at /var/log/mariadb/mysql-slow.log 

Reading mysql slow query log from /var/log/mariadb/mysql-slow.log
Count: 7485  Time=25.48s (190747s)  Lock=2.85s (21328s)  Rows_sent=10.0 (74810), Rows_examined=1582056.1 (11841689862), user[database]@localhost
  SELECT   wp_posts.ID FROM wp_posts  INNER JOIN wp_postmeta ON ( wp_posts.ID = wp_postmeta.post_id ) WHERE N=N  AND ( 
  ( wp_postmeta.meta_key = 'S' AND CAST(wp_postmeta.meta_value AS SIGNED) NOT IN ('S','S') )
  ) AND wp_posts.post_type = 'S' AND ((wp_posts.post_status = 'S' OR wp_posts.post_status = 'S')) GROUP BY wp_posts.ID ORDER BY wp_posts.post_date DESC LIMIT N, N

I tried disabling other plugins but it did not make any difference, however the CPU returns to low if I disable bbpress plugin.

Can anyone guide me on what could be the issue here?

Regards,
T