[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

[DL]

After some more fiddling I tried again, this has been running two hours on a small database of just a few hundred posts.

https://github.com/damon18/dizkus-bbpress/tree/master

[myUsernameIs]

Hello,

i installed recently bbpress and more recently i answered in one topic and the answer looks like that:

As you can see the alingment of the font gets out of the borders.
How can i fix it?
thanks in advance.

[tech55541]

Hello,
I am wondering how I can add a mentions system to BBPress. Is there a way to do it without using BuddyPress? I really do not want to install something that I will not use half the features out of.

Just so we all know what this is about, when I say mentions I mean something like @usernamex. I guess another word for it would be user tagging.

Any suggestions?
Thanks.

[spleen387]

Hi, I’m writing a plugin that wraps around most of the bbpress pages using add_action
for some reason when I try
add_action('bbp_template_before_search',
it works, but only with text. when I check the source files in the web inspector it’s missing javascript files for my plugins.

I’m using wp_enqueue_script to add my script, it works on /forums so I don’t really understand why It wouldn’t for the search page

[Manuel Fritsch]

Thanks a lot for your assistance, Pascal. This is the Slimstat support thread.

[Manuel Fritsch]

Hi,

many of us in our new forums noticed that we have to double click on many links on the forums to open them. It starts right at our forums root page, please have a look yourself. Do you have any idea what we can do about it?

I already upgraded our hosting package to rule out server limitations. We should have more than enough server power now, even though our whole site is still quite slow (probably due to our premium theme), including the backend (if compared to some YouTube How-Tos, where they have lightning fast page load times).

We are running on WP 4.4.2 (currently latest) w/ MS setup, bbpress 2.5.8.

Thanks for your help
Manuel

[Robin W]

Once you’ve installed bbpress if you use the plugin

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbp-private-groups

then you can create groups with access to different forums, or indeed groups of forums

[gleninjersey]

Hi Pascal,

Thanks for the response and help. I’m a complete newbie. I understand I need to change

#bbpress-forums .bbp-forums-list li {
display: inline;
}

to

#bbpress-forums .bbp-forums-list li {
display: block;
}

But am completely clueless as to how to make that change.

I’m using theme 2010 and went to Appearance -> Editor -> and then copied entire thing and pasted it into a word document and did a “control-f” using

“#bbpress-forums .bbp-forums-list li {
display: inline;
}”

and “#bpress-forums” or just “forums” and couldn’t find where I needed to make the change.

I’m probably making this much more difficult than I need to…How do I do about making this change?

[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

[Robin W]

All I want to do is have my website show other users’ basic info when I click their name in a forum post.

That’s what it is supposed to do – click my name here and you’ll go to my profile !

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

[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

[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

[Pascal Casier]

If you look for a coder concerning WP/bbPress, don’t forget to post on http://jobs.wordpress.net/

Pascal.

[pwonlineblog]

Still not working.

Before my first post I did try those two steps (I was paying attention and did read the “Before posting” post at the top of the page).

But I did try again. I deactivated all but bbpress. When I attempted to change the theme to twentyfifteen I discovered that I didn’t have the most up to date version of WordPress, so I updated it. I now have all but bbpress deactivated and the twentyfifteen theme installed, and still no luck with the forums.

I appreciate all your help. Any more ideas?

[Stephen Edgar]

I’ve never heard of Dizkus 🙁

You could try making some more changes to the phpBB importer yourself if it already partially works:

Custom Import

Also checkout both of these for SMF and phpBB for the upcoming bbPress 2.6 release.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/includes/admin/converters/phpBB.php
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/includes/admin/converters/SMF.php

[Robin W]

before you do that, lets just eliminate theme and plugin.

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

[Stephen Edgar]

Cool…

Looking into supporting importing avatars to at least support BuddyPress’ avatars out of the box is one of the many things on my todo list that I just haven’t got to yet, maybe I’ll take a look at it for bbPress 2.7, 2.6 is close to being out the door so fingers crossed for 2.7 😉