[Pascal Casier]

Hi,

Forum moderation is being reviewed and improved a lot for future versions of bbPress. For now there is standard moderation and blacklisting as described here: https://codex.bbpress.org/moderation-and-blacklisting/

The above mentioned plugin is the only one that I found when I looked at it in the last months. Please note that it has a small bug with saving topic subscriptions from user before their post is approved, so the user might have to re-subscribe from the checkbox during the reply.

Pascal.

[Robin W]

I haven’t tried it, but this plugin may be what you want.

If you try it, PLEASE let us know if it works and does what it says !

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbpressmoderation

[Pascal Casier]

Hmmm, I’m getting the ‘Oops’ page, not the ‘Oh Bother’ … So that’s the 404 page.
If your forums are private, check if my replies here help: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/setup-login-for-private-forum/
EDIT: Thanks for the coffee !!!
Pascal.

[fca0secretary]

It’s no good, I can’t find anything like what you’re talking about. The only thing I can find is this: bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/feedback-no-search.php (inactive) which is clearly the thing I want to edit but it’s marked as “inactive” so editing it doesn’t have any effect.
I’m going to have to find a different plug-in, I haven’t time for this. But thanks anyway and have a cup of coffee on me!

[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

[fca0secretary]

What I want to change is “Oh bother! No search results were found here!” , not “Oh bother! No topics were found here!” which is what your plug-in changes. This is what I want to edit:
bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/feedback-no-search.php (inactive)

but it’s marked as “inactive” so what does that mean?

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
Never edit bbpress templates directly in the bbpress folder, otherwise you will loose your changes when bbPress updates.
There are several ways that I know of, but the most easy one would probably be by installing my ‘bbP Toolkit’ plugin.

Or you play with CSS yourself:

.bbp-template-notice {
	display: none;
}

.bbp-template-notice.info,
.bbp-template-notice.error,
.bbp-template-notice.important,
.bbp-template-notice.warning {
	display: block;
}

Not that also other similar messages will disappear with the above.

And if you want to modify bbPress files, please check the codex (https://codex.bbpress.org/themes/theme-compatibility/getting-started-in-modifying-the-main-bbpress-template/) and/or create a child theme
Pascal.

[fca0secretary]

I am trying to edit the phrase “Oh bother! etc,” but when I get to the Plugin Editor it’s saying that the default template is inactive, like this –
bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/feedback-no-replies.php (inactive)
I am using WordPress 4.4.2 running Twenty Sixteen theme. and bbPress is Version 2.5.8
My site is http://www.fagleyforum.site
How can I find the right place to edit this phrase?

[Jeff McNeill]

Hahaha tags “sleeping pill store” tag should be a signal that someone is asleep at the tiller. Really folks, this place is asleep, and all Robin W. does is state that it is free software and you should be durned grateful, and not try and wake anybody up.

Development is tediously slow, regardless of some $50k that was raised a few years ago. 2.6 should supposedly fix the issue with not being able to replace posts with forum discussions. Surely that is also why the plugin that actual does that hasn’t been updated in two years. And 2.6 was 4 months late in May 2014. So when will it ever be released?

This is simply too long! Obviously this project is coasting on the coattails of integration (and requirement of use) in BuddyPress and that it is an anointed project of WordPress.org. Anything less would have near zero users already.

So much functionality is needed to be reasonable. There appears to be a single active developer committing to the code: https://www.openhub.net/p/bbpress/commits/summary

But really, this was a complaint over a year and a half ago, and it ain’t changed. Very sad as the potential is quite big. How else do you explain 16,000+ downloads of that plugin that has been abandoned: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-post-topics/

[vaporflavor]

Nevermind figured it out.

BBPress members are definitely linked to WordPress users. They are not separate.

And to get the login/register links somewhere besides the sidebar requires digging through the plugin theme files and some work, which I haven’t finished yet. =P

[tech55541]

Hello,
Would it be possible to take the code that adds this functionality in with BuddyPress, create a separate plugin, and then make it work for BBPress? I can’t believe a forum software does not have this built in.

Thanks 🙂

[vaporflavor]

I’m trying to figure out how to put the Login / Register links on the forum homepage without it being in the sidebar.

But 2nd question. Does BBPress use it’s own user login/register system or is it connected to WordPress’s users?

So on WordPress general settings there is this option:

Anyone can register

Do I need to check that option for BBPress to work?

Or is BBPress’s users separate from WordPress user system?

[ferparker]

I’ve installed the plugin, but theres no Forum options in my WP Painel… So, the Forum wont appear on website cuz there no option to create it after plugin’s installed. What can i do?
Wordpress: Versão 4.4.2
bbPress: Versão 2.5.8
Website: http://www.finalfantasyrpg.com.br

[wyckoffsmi]

I currently get a message of “You must be logged in to reply to this topic.” whenever a visitor visits my forum. I would like visitors to be able to view all my forum posts but not be able to post without membership. Is this possible? We are using bbpress as a presale support forum so having visitors be able to see the forum content without registering is very important. Thanks guys

[thelaw]

Apologies on the late reply everyone. I’m using 3.1, latest version (for if you’re not, it’s like WordPress and you will get hacker bots scanning for old versions.) Unfortunately that seems to be the issue. Thanks @Brandon and @Stephen for your assistance. Table prefixes were properly used. I’ll have another go at it again but I’m pretty sure I was using latest version of WP and BBpress in order to do the conversion.

[gleninjersey]

First part has to do with the bbPress widget “Login Widget” not working.

I’ll post 2nd problem over on BuddyPress forum. Thanks.

[Robin W]

no problem you need my private groups plugin as additional to bbpress.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-private-groups/

[Expat Warrior]

The forum page on my site shows the text too small. How do I change it to a regular font size?

The plugin I’m using for the forum is bbPress.

http://www.expatwarrior.com/forum/

[alice2dupouy]

Hi everybody 🙂

And first of all:
– Sorry for my English mistakes :/
– Sorry if I post in the wrong forum(?)
– Sorry if this question was already asked: I looked for an answer for 2 days and I can’t find anything which suits exactly to my problem :'(

I am trying to create a very simple forum for this website: http://www.zykoson.com/site
I am using the latest versions of WordPress, BBpress, BuddyPress etc.
I’ve read all the documentation, lots of topics but I still don’t know how to have:
– One “public” part: everybody is able to see the forums and topics, but people have to be registered to post something.
– One “private” part:only registered members belonging to a special group are able to see and post in this part. I would like to manually add these users to the group, after they create their profile.

Really, I think I am stupid because I CAN’T get there. I’ve tried everything: private forums, public ones, creating multiples groups with Buddypress. But no way. There is always a problem (and even if I get something correct, there is still a problem such as the breadcrumb which doesn’t display correctly)!

Please I need help before snatching all my hair, I’m on the verge of abandoning everything T_T

Thank you very much in advance and sorry for this so simple question

[Erik Molenaar]

Hallo Manuel,

Just to let you know, I ended up with removing the functionality of a public profile page for my bbpress users by:

1. Removing the author links (so Google won’t find them anymore):

/*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
/* Remove all author links from bbpress pages
/*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

add_filter( 'bbp_get_author_link', 'remove_author_links', 10, 2);
add_filter( 'bbp_get_reply_author_link', 'remove_author_links', 10, 2);
add_filter( 'bbp_get_topic_author_link', 'remove_author_links', 10, 2);

function remove_author_links($author_link, $args) {
$author_link = preg_replace(array('{<a[^>]*>}','{}'), array(" "), $author_link);
return $author_link;
}

2. Placing a noindex meta tag in my bbpress user templates (so the already indexed profile links will disappear from Google):

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW" />

Thanks again for your prompt replies and I hope this is of use to you 🙂

[Pascal Casier]

On your dashboard, go to ‘Tools > bbP Toolkit’
Under the ‘bbPress Information’ button you can tick
Do not show the counters next to the subforums on the forum index page (v1.0.5)
And then put the
Change the separator between the subforums on the forum index page to:
to ‘newline’

Pascal.

[Pascal Casier]

Kalimera,

Strange, mostly width 100% is needed, but it’s because of the width 100% that you have this issue 🙂

Try to add the following CSS:

#bbpress-forums div.reply {
  width: auto;
}

Pascal.

[myUsernameIs]

Yeah of course,

link
btw i forgot to say that i’m using wordpress 4.4.2 and bbpress 2.5.8.
thanks!

[DL]

Thanks! I appreciate your help, I’m desperate to update these sites on old versions of Zikula. I can’t even update the PHP on the server past 5.3 because because Zikula 1.2x won’t work on anything later.

The issues you noted.

Categories
aren’t used much, so yes, they can be ignored, it doesn’t seem like it’s difficult to assign forums to categories in bbPress if needed.

Subscriptions
The table prefix is causing me confusion as I switch between databases. Some of my forums have databases using nuke_ for prefix and some have zk_ , this is an artifact from many years of using Postnuke/Zikula and based on when the original database was created.

in the dizkus schema the (prefix)_dizkus_subscription table contains which forums a user is subscribed to.

The (prefix)_dizkus_topic_subscription table contains which topics a user is subscribed to.

Topic Author IP
This isn’t necessary to move to bbPress as far as I’m concerned. Only used when I’m investigating a possible spam post. Someone else might need to have it though, so put it on the “nice to have” list.

Topic Content
None of the conversion attempts have been successful enough to see yet. So far have always errored out because of failed sql statements.

I attempted to do a join because the title of a new topic is stored in (prefix)_dizkus_topics along with the topic post time, views, num. replies, last post ID, forum ID, and sticky status (0 or 1). But the content of the first post in a topic is stored in the (prefix)_dizkus_posts table.

There is no “first post in topic” post ID in either table, as it looks like phpBB had so I tried to adapt this.

// Topic content.
		// Note: We join the 'posts' table because 'topics' does not include topic content.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'posts',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'post_text',
			'join_tablename'  => 'topics',
			'join_type'       => 'INNER',
			'join_expression' => 'USING (topic_id) WHERE posts.post_id = topics.topic_first_post_id',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_content',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_html'
		);

Topic Favorites
Dizkus doesn’t have topic favorites, only forum.

Passwords
Since Dizkus doesn’t store passwords, they would have to taken from (prefix)_users table, but thinking about it I’m not sure that this script needs to deal with passwords at all. I will still need to migrate ALL the users from the Zikula installs, not just the ones that have posted in the forums. I’m planning on using WP All Import Pro for that job and migrating other data like converting news items to news and bringing over static pages.

Worst case, if the passwords get screwed up everyone would have to use the “lost password” system to set a new one.

Just tried the version of dizkusZK in Github after merging your changes and got this error.

Repair any missing information: Continue
WordPress database error: [Unknown column 'zk_users.pn_uname' in 'field list']
SELECT convert(zk_dizkus_users.user_id USING "utf8mb4") AS user_id,convert(zk_users.pn_uname USING "utf8mb4") AS pn_uname,convert(zk_users.pn_email USING "utf8mb4") AS pn_email,convert(zk_users.pn_url USING "utf8mb4") AS pn_url,convert(zk_users.pn_user_regdate USING "utf8mb4") AS pn_user_regdate,convert(zk_users.pn_user_avatar USING "utf8mb4") AS pn_user_avatar FROM zk_dizkus_users AS zk_dizkus_users LIMIT 0, 100
No users to convertNo data to cleanStarting Conversion

[Erik Molenaar]

Dear Manuel

Thanks for your quick response 🙂

True, your last mentioned URL has the same problem I am experiencing: http://de.movemeta.org/benutzer/chris/

But, the first URL you mentioned: http://de.movemeta.org/nutzer/manuel/ does have a nice page title and all the correct Yoast SEO meta data (including a noindex).

Or did you try to fix this by making a seperate non-BBpress related page, which is supported by Yoast SEO?

All the best
Erik