[Pascal Parvex]

Hi. I am not sure if I have already posted here. My name is Pascal, and I am from a small town called Wohlen in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.

My problem is that I have a vBulletin 5.x SQL database I converted from a vBulletin 3.x database dump. How do I best go about importing it into bbPress on my forum over at ? It will be read-only, and I want to add a forum section on top of it as my actual forum (all this in one forum, I don’t want to set up two forums).

Thank you for any help.

[Robin W]

ok, this site is support for bbpress.

phpBB is entirely different software

https://www.phpbb.com/

[itsmifred]

hi Robin,here it is :

1) function file without you add :

<?php
add_action( ‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, ‘theme_enqueue_styles’ );
function theme_enqueue_styles() {
wp_enqueue_style( ‘parent-style’, get_template_directory_uri() . ‘/style.css’ );
}

add_action( ‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, ‘style_theme_enfant’, 20 );
function style_theme_enfant() {
wp_enqueue_style( ‘child-style’, get_stylesheet_uri() );
}

function my_custom_member_list_sort( $ret ) {
$ret[‘type’] = ‘alphabetical’;
return $ret;
}
add_filter( ‘bp_after_has_members_parse_args’, ‘my_custom_member_list_sort’ );

2)
bbp Style pack
bbPress
BP Profile Search
BuddyPress
BuddyPress Xprofile Custom Field Types
Fix Forum Emails
GD bbPress Attachments

3)
No

[Robin W]

ok, just tried that in my test site and the code above seems to work.

1. can you give me a exactly what you have put into your functions file, with a few lines above and below

2. are you using any other bbpress related plugins?

3. are you using any mail related plugins?

[newtech1]

Here is the ACF shortcode for a custom field. What bbPress template/file do I place this shortcode so that the custom field displays on the frontend of a topic post. Where do I place it.

[acf_views view-id=”60″ name=”Lake Point Marker 2″]

[newtech1]

Did you ever get an answer from ACF? They never gave me an answer on how to make custom fields in bbPress topics to be displayed in the frontend. I also choose bbpress because they said it was compatible with bbpress.

[Robin W]

ok, not sure how to help further, maybe try

it could be a theme or plugin issue

Themes

As a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwenty, and see if this fixes.

Plugins

If that doesn’t work, also deactivate all plugins apart from bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

If you cannot do this to your site (say because it is live) then use the ‘troubleshooting’ features of this plugin to let you test without affecting other users

Health Check & Troubleshooting

Then come back

[Philippe Roussel]

Hi,

Just to confirm: There is no way to follow a particular participant in bbPress. Am I correct?

[itsmifred]

Hi again,

need to install on top of it BBPress Bridge (about 9$/month)

so, I am not going to use it.

In TEXTE mode it is possible to delete unwanted characters before sending a new subject.
This is what I do and tell customers to do…

Thanks anyway

Fred

[purityboy83]

Hi @itsmifred

I’ve installed the “bbPress Notify (No-Spam)” plugin
I solved it by changing “Email Type” to “plain text” in the plugin settings.

Thanks

[catchlight]

Robin Wright! You are an underrated gem in the WordPress community! You have solved the 404 I had with bbpress and Elementor on the user profiles page for the last week! Thank you so much! This worked.

[Chuckie]

Hi
I did get the host to speed the site up but I still have problems. It is so annoying because I never did in the past and was very happy with bbPress on my site.
Take tonight for example, I added a reply to a forum post (a old chat from 2021) and it added my post 5 times! I had to delete 4 of them.
Why would it do this?

[Vivian E]

Hello,

Please help me out with a code which I can use to display user’s topics started and replies created.

For example, being able to display this page

with only the “topic started” and “replies created” menu links.

I will appreciate a custom code which I can use to archive this.

NB; on the page where I want to display topics started/replies created, I’m also displaying a topic form using bbpress short code. I’d like the display of topics started/replies created to come after the bbpress topic form…

Thanks in anticipation that someone will help me out here with a code 🙏

[ilyessd]

Hello,

I am using bbpress to do a website where employees can create topics to post information about their career and students can read and reply to ask questions. I am allowing employees to create topics in forums that I created myself by categories (let’s say I created the forum “Computer Science” and “Construction”) and they are also allowed to put a tag to the topic that will correspond to their job (for example a software engineer will post in the forum “Computer Science” with the tag “Software Engineer”).

Now instead of using the normal search tool of bbpress, I would like to create a search tool for student where there would be 2 filters, the first one would be a dropdown with the list of all the forums that I created and then another filter which is a text area that correspond to a job name and that would search among the tags.

This is my main goal. However, if it’s possible I also would like to add another field “Company Name” available for employees when creating a new topic and then create another field in the search bar “Company Name”.

Can anyone help with that please ? I would be extremly thankful !
Thanks !

[Robin W]

maybe …not one the bbpress authors allowed for 🙂

anyway, totally untested as I need to be doing other things, but this might do it
revised code below

of course if moderators are allowed into the backend, then this becomes pointless, but I would argue that only admins should be backend access 🙂

[Robin W]

ok, so no easy automatic way to do this., but this method is fairly simple.

so use the ‘Post Comments as bbPress Topics’ plugin, and create a post using settings that create a topic. Publish the post and that will create the post and a forum topic.

then you can immediately go back to edit that post, and in the ‘topics for posts’ part of the edit, unclick the ‘Use a bbPress forum topic for comments on this post.’ This will then show the normal comments box, but the forum topic will remain.

[terryfindlay]

A user on a bbPress forum keeps getting a message that he is posting a duplicate post when he tries to post a reply to a topic.

Does anyone know how to fix this problem?

[Martine]

Good morning
I’m looking for a plugin to automatically create a topic in the forum following a new article in the blog like “Post Comments as bbPress Topics” but without that removing the possibility of posting a comment on the blog.
Thanks in advance.

[Robin W]

hmmmm… not sure it would be that, as bbpress is loading ok.

it could be a theme or plugin issue

Themes

As a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwenty, and see if this fixes.

Plugins

If that doesn’t work, also deactivate all plugins apart from bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

If you cannot do this to your site (say because it is live) then use the ‘troubleshooting’ features of this plugin to let you test without affecting other users

Health Check & Troubleshooting

Then come back

[Robin W]

ok, so you had the hello elementor theme active, although you have now switched to another theme.

this theme needs this additional plugin to make it work with bbpress

Hello theme Elementor bbPress template fix

[lmstearn]

Hi,
WordPress 6.2.2 running Twenty Twenty-Three theme, BBPress 2.6.9.
Moved the only hidden (pending) topic from a public forum to a private forum, and published it. Topic, and moved replies all look fine in the private forum.
The public forum from whence it was moved still has this:

This forum has NN topics (+1 hidden), NNN replies …

As expected, clicking the +1 hidden doesn’t change the number of topics displayed. Repaired the forum, cleared site cache, no change to the +1 hidden.
If a detail in the move topic process was missed, please advise.
Thanks.

[Ronny Kreuzberg]

Hello, i am using this code Part to show latest Topics in certain Forums. It is giving the correct Topic ids but wont show them except of original Language even if i opened it in a different language first.

<section class=”topics”>

<div id=”bbpress-forums” class=”bbpress-wrapper”>

<h3><?php echo __(‘Recent Topics’, ‘WordPress’); ?></h3>

<?php

$topic_parents = array();

foreach ($match_parent_ids as $match_parent_id) {

$match_ids = get_children(array(
‘post_parent’ => $match_parent_id,
‘post_type’ => ‘forum’,
‘fields’ => ‘ids’,
));

foreach ($match_ids as $match_id) {

$topic_ids = get_children(array(
‘post_parent’ => $match_id,
‘post_type’ => ‘topic’,
‘fields’ =>’ids’,
));

foreach ($topic_ids as $topic_id) {
echo $topic_id;
}

$topic_parents = array_merge($topic_parents, $topic_ids);

}

}

$args3 = array(
‘post__in’ => $topic_parents,
‘post_type’ => ‘topic’,
‘post_status’ => bbp_get_public_status_id(),
‘posts_per_page’ => 10,
‘orderby’ => ‘freshness’,
‘order’ => ‘DESC’,
);

if (bbp_has_topics($args3)) :

bbp_get_template_part(‘loop’, ‘topics’);

else :

bbp_get_template_part( ‘feedback’, ‘no-topics’ );

endif;?>

</div>

</section>

Thanks for helping

[Keith]

If this happens to you and you switch the number to zero but it doesn’t work and if you check your logs you will see this:

Uncaught DivisionByZeroError: Division by zero in []/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/classes/class-bbp-converter.php:390

Use phpMyAdmin or your favorite DBM flavor and go into wp_options.

Manually change the row “_bbp_converter_rows” from zero to whatever you initially had. Be sure to update it in the converter pane as well otherwise the original value will not take.

[Robin W]

support here is fine, it’s free and done by volunteers – it’s the weekend here, so excuse that I choose to spend time with my family.

You are using a professional package called buddyboss, which hooks to the totally free bbpress.

If you are stopping, then maybe ask buddyboss how to move away?

The link you post just shows a list of forums, so no idea what is missing as I don’t know what ‘all the forums’ means – maybe come back with exactly what is missing and I’ll take my grumpy hat off and try to help you on Monday 🙂

[StudentFilmmakers]

I know it’s been a long wait for anyone in the digital universe to respond, but here it is. I am trying to do that now. The most challenging part for me now is making my bbpress forums work. I am sure some database changes were made at this point because I can’t get the bbpress forums to display the forums correctly. Please reach out if anyone knows how to migrate back to bbpress from buddyboss.