A lot of the image attachment plugins are pretty limited. The one I’m using that covers the bare minimum requirements is called “bbPress Multi Image Uploader.” It at least lets you see the images you have uploaded when you go back and edit the message.
After the update from WordPress 4.3.1 to 4.4.1 I receive the error message “ERROR: Please enter a nickname.” when I try to change any profile field in the bbpress profile frontend.
I was able to verify the bug without no other plugins enabled. I also verified that the bug does not exist in WordPress 4.3.1.
Is this a WordPress or a bbpress bug?
I just ported a Dot Net Nuke site to Word Press and migrated the Active Forums forum to bbPress. This is a forum that only has 4000 uers, 20K topics and 200K replies. Even running locally with no other users it is very sluggish running on bbPress. Other related plugins I’m running that might effect speed are WP eMembers, bbPress Multi Image Uploader and bbPress Pencil Unread. I still need to add a plugin for signatures and probably another one for statistics. But the bottom line is I should be getting snappy response times when clicking on forums and topics on a locally staged site with a forum of this size and no other concurrent users, but I’m not.
A lot of reviews assume bbPress should be fast due to being “lightweight,” but I think database design has more to do with speed. The big problem I see with bbPress is that they are piling ALL data into a single wp_posts table, where a lot of other word press plugins also seem to like to pile their data into. While most forum software have separate tables for forums, topics, replies and attachments in order to minimize the amount of data that has to be sifted through on each query, bbPress just puts them all in one giant table and then uses post_type to sort them out. There are also no stored procedures or views being used to help optimize performance. So it is really no surprise that it is as slow as it is. Why on earth the designers chose to just glom onto an existing WP table intended for blog posts instead of using separate purpose-built tables is beyond me, but I would be very leery of running any large forums on this thing. I would also be very surprised if version 2.6 makes it any faster.
Is there any way that my members can add photos to their posts without having to use the Media Uploader or Library – i.e. I don’t want them to have to access Admin back end.
I was hoping to find a plugin that would do this but have only been able to find GD bbPress Attachments and rtMedia. These plugins do not do what I would like them to do.
Are there any other options?
Thank you.
My issues with colors are #5 & #8 that have been inherited from my theme.
So, if I use the code below, where do I include #000000 for all of the text content to be black?
#bbpress-forums .bbp-topic-content p,
#bbpress-forums .bbp-reply-content p {
font-size: 12px;
}
Hey superaven,
That’s a perfect answer, actually. I was hoping that the move was successful, but even with what you shared, there’s still value in your answer. So thanks for that.
We’re currently testing BBPress and plan to test Xenforo and Discourse as well. Xenforo has its origins in VB, so to us, that seemed like the most like-for-like switch, but as we’re also a WP shop, with 10 years worth of posts, we were hoping to bring everything to WP, or find something with cleaner integration with WP. bbPress is/was our hope for that. As we currently stand, with our hybrid WP/VB site, user authentication, access control, and user profile data defaults to VB, using an open-source VB plugin. We want to bring that into WP, so we can take advantage of some other WP-specific plugins/services, keeping that user profile data (and profile pages) in WP instead, without needing custom code. Having all of that under one roof has its obvious advantages.
We’ll continue to test bbPress and the other platforms on our end. Thanks for the feedback! Much appreciated.
Hi Folks,
I thought I had this nailed but my forums are not sending out any messages re new posts.
I’m using the following setup:
WP version 4.4.1
Theme Jolene 1.1.5
PHP version 5.4.45
bbPress version 2.5.8-5815
site url http://conwycameraclub.co.uk
Active Plugins Name and Version
– p1 AsynCRONous bbPress Subscriptions 2.1
– p2 bbP Manage Subscriptions 1.2.0
– p3 bbP Toolkit 1.0.6
– p4 bbPress Enable TinyMCE Visual Tab 1.0.1
– p5 bbPress 2.5.8
– p6 bbPress2 shortcode whitelist 2.2.1
– p7 Content Aware Sidebars 3.0.1
– p8 Duplicate Post 2.6
– p9 GD bbPress Attachments 2.3.1
– p10 My Calendar 2.4.13
– p11 Nav Menu Roles 1.7.4
– p12 PDF Embedder 2.4.1
– p13 Postman SMTP 1.7.2
– p14 Remove Widget Titles 1.0
– p15 Fast Secure Contact Form 4.0.39
– p16 Simple Custom CSS 3.3
– p17 Slideshow 2.3.1
– p18 TablePress 1.7
– p19 W3 Total Cache 0.9.4.1
– p20 WP User Avatar 2.0.4
This is a real pain as I’ve only just created the user accounts for the club membership at:
conwycameraclum.co.uk/forums
I’ve checked all the setting options on the associated plugins but can’t find anything that could be causing the problem. Sending a test message from postman SMTP works and the site is providing admin messages re users changing passwords etc. Seams only bbP that doesn’t want to comunicate.
Any help greatly appreciated. Cheers, Eugene
@casiepa,
Thanks for the feedback.
I was able to import approx 1500 user successfully but one issue I am facing is I can not login to my bbpress site with my xenforo user password?
-> Does bbpress is auto generating password and sending to user email ?
-> If not bbpress is sending new password to user then how user will be able to login into my bbpress site ?
Thanks,
Multidots
If you are not doing any special things in your plugin, then in most of the cases it’s a plugin that is trying to do some ‘illegal’ stuff.
Please try to deactivate all plugins except bbPress and try.
Sorry for keeping you going…
Yes, there’s an error with some of the menu_order bits. In addition to @nesiditsa’s edit (the same as this patch: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/5392) you might need to apply these as well: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/5338
Hi,
bbPress has a converter from vbulletin. You can install the latest stable bbPress 2.5.8 as a plugin to your WordPress and start the conversion. I would however like to indicate that bbPress 2.6-alpha (so not yet stable) is however much improved for conversions, so it could be an option to do it with that version.
You can find information on installing and importing in the codex: https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started/
I found some hack to resolve problem with wrong calculation of position of new post in long topics.
I change false to true in line 356 of file with path /plugins/bbpress/includes/replies/functions.php.
Before changes: ‘menu_order’ => bbp_get_topic_reply_count( $topic_id, false ) + 1
After changes: ‘menu_order’ => bbp_get_topic_reply_count( $topic_id, true ) + 1
And it works for me!
I’m considering moving my vbulletin forum to bbpress. But I want to be able programmatically create the forum because it’s impossible to migrate manually. Any suggestions? Where do I even start?
Tried out bbPress 2.6-alpha. Still didnt work.
WordPress 4.4.1
bbPress v 2.5.8
I have installed the forum all is good so far but I am wanting to limit access of the forum to registered users.
This forum is intended to be a benefit for paid members and I am using the Paid Membership Pro plugin and woocommerce to set up the memberships. While this plugin lets me limit other areas of my website to members, such is not the case for bbPress. Nor can I find a way in bbPress settings to limit access to registered users. I see where I can limit who can post but not who can visit and read the forums. Any thoughts on how I might make this work?
The site is http://iahnlp.org
Hi,
Did you tick ‘Settings > Forums > Auto Role’ before starting the import ?
Some technical talk : The bbPress role is part of an array in the meta fields of a user. If Import users is using the normal way of creating a user, then setting the ‘Auto Role’ should be enough.
I know the plugin can import meta fields, but I only did that with strings, but no idea if it can ‘add’ to an existing array.
Pascal.
I tried importing a little over 400 users using Import users from CSV. The import is fine, however I am unable to bulk change the role of the imported users to participant, nor have I found a way to import them as participants in one go. How would I go about this? Thanks in advance.
Hi,
As written above, I would propose to test with bbPress v2.6-alpha and see how it goes with the import. There should be no issues about the size of topics/replies you have. The import start on the first one and … just goes to the last one !
Pascal.
@casiepa,
I am thinking of migrate my XenForo forums to bbpress forums.
My problem is that my fourms data are very huge approx 169000 users and approx 6269000 rows of xf_post table so my XenForo’s database’s table sizes are in giga bites.
-> So my question is does bbpress default importer tools is able to import these huge data on single click.?
-> Is there any extension or plugin required to import my users and forums from XenForo ?
Please let me know your thoughts so that I can move forward to it.
Thanks,
Multidots
@netweb,
How can I import my xenforo user to bbpress site?.
My forums imported successfully but user are not created in my bbpress site which are in xenforo.
Hi,
bbPress builds on top of WordPress. Any WordPress user that has at least ‘participant’ access can post on your forums.
So you need to make sure your users stay ‘clean’. I use wangguard for that and Theme My Login with a captcha so I’m rather sure that my users are real and they get checked if they would be sploggers or not. So you will need some extra plugins to safeguard, or you make sure that everybody is set ‘for approval’ so you can decide.
But this is a pure WordPress matter, not a bbPress one.
Pascal.
For importing, did you try to do it in test on bbPress 2.6-alpha (https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bbpress.zip) ?
Importing has improved a lot in that version.
Pascal.
Hi,
You will have to follow the normal troubleshooting way to get out of this:
– Switch to a standard WP theme and see if that helps. If it does, ask the support of the theme author.
– Switch off all plugins, then see if it works, then switch them on one after the other.
https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started/troubleshooting/
Pascal.
Hi, i just added a bbpress forum to my website. You have to be register to be able to post something(wich i want i don’t want anybody to be able to post something). But where do i have to register the new users? On the same database that my admin credidentials? Or do i have to create an other database? Right now anyone can register and already two people did it, wich i guess are bots because they did not post anything on the forum. So do i also have to change the login url to avoid this? Thanks
