[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
Some questions to you:
– You have 2900 replies, how do you know to what topic they relate to ?
– If you have 1400 topics and e.g. 5 forums, how do you know to what forum a topic belongs ?
– To show some stats, how do you know when a topic or forum was last changed ?
=> All answers are the same: It’s coming from the meta data of the posts. So this data really needs to be filled.

Please refer to the bbpress codex for custom imports (https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started/importing-data/import-forums/custom-import/).
I think you will find what you need overthere, if not, give us a shout here again !

Pascal.

[michaelrichardmurphy]

Hi all,

Thanks in advance for any help/advice you can provide! I am trying to migrate forum data from another platform (I believe it’s a homegrown ASP.net-based forum). I have all the data in spreadsheets/csv files and am trying to put together the SQL statements I need to move it into bbPress.

I put together a small test import (a single post to a single forum) for ‘wp_posts’ that looks like it mostly worked: the imported data is visible under Topics in the WordPress admin but it doesn’t show up when you browse to the Forum it’s assigned to on the front-end.

I noticed that when I create a topic in the traditional way (through the front-end) that it creates several entries in ‘wp_postmeta’ also (like _bbp_topic_id, _bbp_forum_id, _bbp_author_ip, _bbp_last_active_time, etc).

Does anyone know if it’s the absence of post meta for my imported data that’s causing it not to display on the front-end? If so, how much of this info is required?

I have 4300+ posts across 1400+ topics that need to be imported. Some of the post_meta data (like forum and topic id) will be easier for me to cross reference but other data (like reply_count, last_active_time, etc) would be a very manual process to try to include in my import.

Any suggestions or advice on the best way to get this data into my database?

[Chappers39]

Hi Guys

I am really new to all of this, I have installed BBpress on my site, I have a forum running and have managed to get some topics and replies etc, I have noticed that the post count is at zero (apart from mine) – is taht because i have not set up for them to register first?

Is there an easy fix to get the count working? If not to actually hide the count?

I have looked on some posts on this but do find them a little confussing, sorry

i am using avada if this makes a difference

many thanks Harrison

[gburak]

I copied the bbpress templates from the plugin folder into my themes folder.

And now they’re there!

[topic resolved]

[Julia_B]

Hi @casiepa – thanks, but I’m not asking about changing the upload size this time.

I just want to remove the notice that says ‘Maximum file size allowed’ (and surrounding yellow box) from the form.

I am still using GD-bbPress Attachments.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
What plugin are you using for the attachments ?
EDIT: Found this back, so I suppose you still use the same ? (https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/gd-bbpress-attachments-file-size-issue/)
Pascal.

[Mei Ling]

Hello,

whant kind of code should I use in my child theme to get the last visit in the BBPress profile?

I thank you in advance

Regards

Mei Ling

[meriadoc84]

I have followed some of the topics on removing/adding/modifying sidebars in bbPress and tried unsuccessfully to create the desired outcome. I have an index page linking to a number of Forums but I cannot get the sidebar to work despite using bbpress wp tweaks and widget logic. The bbpress sidebar appears in the widgets theme section of dashboard and I can add widgets to it but the sidebar itself will not display. Instead I get a series of widgets I did enter including Pages, Archives, Categories, WordPress, and Subscribe. I have no idea why those particular widgets are appearing instead of the bbpress sidebar ones I have selected.

[bschaich]

Looks like bbpress codes are not computing if they appear on a front page.

Reproduction:
1. Make a new page and name it foo
2. Enter the string “[bbp-forum-index]”
3. Check the preview of page (Everything should work as expected)
4. Save the page and publish
5. Goto settings -> Reading and set the page “foo” as front page
6. Call your site.

What should happen is that nothing appears on the page, except its title.

Versions: WordPress 4.3.1, bbpress 2.5.8
Wordpress is running in MU mode. Dont know if this is really an issue.

Man, this took me a million calls of that front page to get it. It might also have destroyed the structure somehow, as somtimes I had the impression that bbcodes did not work at all. This went away after using the restructure feature/tool.

With best regards,
Benny

[FliP0x]

Using WordPress 4.2.1, bbpress 2.5.8.

The problem I have it the following: (dots are spaces, eg. how many times enter has been pressed)

“Example post
.
.
.
Example post”

won’t keep its original spacing and gets squeezed into:

“Example post
Example post”

I don’t want to increase the default margins, I just want bbpress to recognize spaces in a post.

[gburak]

I copied the bbpress templates from the plugind folder into my themes folder.

And now they’re there!

[topic resolved]

[redblacked]

bbpress login widget question,

user’s login failure connect url is “mydomain.com/wp-login.php.” in bbpress login widget.

I want to redirect url.

how can i redirect url?

[snestler]

I’m using WP 4.3.1, and bbpress 2.3.8. When replies to a topic hit the limit for a page, the second page is created, but links to that page don’t work; the user is taken to the home page.
My site is http://mtbrookoftory.org.
Thanks for your help.

[chigoziekyrian]

Ok. Thanks, but which theme are you talking about?? the bbpress theme or my blog theme??? because am using the bbpress default theme

[nilay89]

Hello Robkk,

I do not understand about it.Right now my bbpress Version 2.5.8.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
1. Just read item 17 on https://codex.bbpress.org/layout-and-functionality-examples-you-can-use/ . Or use a plugin like ‘bbP Toolkit’ or other to do it for you.
2. hmmm, I see a complicated way in programming this, but maybe somebody comes with an easy solution
Pascal.

[shumali]

Hello,

I have BBPress and BBPress Notify plugins. Below are my issues.

1. I want to Move Forum “Subscribe” button to the right. It is coming just after name of forum page.
2. I want to disable topic subscription. Only Forum subscription required. Is there any way to do it.

Kindly help me with some solution.

[joantr]

WordPress 4.3.1 running OneCommunity theme.
bbpress Version 2.5.8
http://driscollning.com/

Obvious newbie, so thanks for any help.
Here is my first problem. When I click on the forums tile it goes to page not found.
When I try to create a page called forums with the forums slug, it renames itself to forums-2 or forums-3. To me this means forums already exists, but I cannot see it in my pages list.

Also, I need a easy to read guide? Any suggestions?

[Robkk]

@tobias-claren

Is there perhaps a plugin for this plugin (bbpress)?
For simple moving the forum order with drag & drop

Not specifcally with bbPress, but for custom post types (bbPress uses custom post types).

https://wordpress.org/plugins/intuitive-custom-post-order/

[Tobias Claren]

Hi.

Near 2016, and the same “horror”.
The problem is, if I add another forum, I have to change the “order” number in all forums.

Is there perhaps a plugin for this plugin (bbpress)?
For simple moving the forum order with drag & drop.

[yufeng621]

In bbpress,I use <?php bbp_topic_excerpt() ?> to show the excerpt,but it can’t show the picture in the topic,how can I do that? Please hele me.

[meriadoc84]

I tried the code anyway and it worked after I realised that the bbpress forum pages were linking to the primary theme (iFeaturepro5) rather than the child version I have created. I really don’t understand that at all because the Child theme was the one activated at the time. The main thing is the side bar has gone.
Anyway, thanks for the help. A final touch would be to be able to reduce the size across the screen a little. Is it possible to change from full width to a percentage; say 80%?

[Robkk]

I just tested out the code and it seems to work fine. Make sure that you copied over the whole bit of code and did not miss anything. I put the code on a gist file so maybe it will be easier to copy over.

https://gist.github.com/robkk/b24443ad53ece6d2b7c9

I tried Tiny MCE Advanced and it caused alot of issues – half of an individual post showed up in my black background – half in the “white” text area

Maybe this is a CSS issue?? Not sure really.

still did not allow proper showing of the above formatting (showed code when published)

The code fixes it whenever you make a new post, it might not work for existing posts that have not parsed everything, it might need to be republished on the old posts.

really a mess so I went back to WP Edit

I have come across an issue that was present using WP Edit.

Also – all buttons are working fine in my other areas (like Sabai directory) for front end users – just BBPress?

bbPress tries to be secure for frontend posting for users, so that they do not post harmful javascript. It might be a little too secure.

[Robkk]

You should be able to add information to the page you added the registration shortcode to. YOu can also copy the form-user-register.php file into a child theme in a folder called bbpress and edit it and add another notice or a description surround in paragraph tags. You can also create/edit a page-user-register.php file and put that in the root of your theme, and make sure to select the template for your register page.

I cannot really replicate the issue.

I am kind of thinking that possibly you may have BuddyPress activated and do not know that the plugin also has a frontend registration form that is created on yoursite.com/register.

[jessicana]

Hello

I have bbpress activated on two our of three sites on multisite.

On the second site, bbpress login widget shows login but it does not show register. Registration is enabled from the network settings for the whole network. Anyone can help with this?

I need the widget to show register and log in.

Thanks