well this site has 7 forums with 131,555 topics. The ‘fixing wordpress’ support forum itself is powered by bbpress and that has over 700,000.
Measured in nano-seconds every topic adds to performance, but I’d suspect you’d struggle to measure any meaningful site slow down with 99.9% of sites with forums.
Ultimately it does depend on server performance and site configuration.
Guess I should stop bugging you with so many questions. Really appreciate your responses. OK .. one last one:
As you know from the link (https://loftorg.com) I am using “Topics” in the “Registry” forum as the means to list individual names. How many topics can I list in bbpress before website responsiveness becomes affected?
ah, ok that should all be fine.
bbpress just uses the wordpress posts and postmeta tables (with ‘custom post types’) within your website sql database, so if you move the whole site it will move with it.
No need to split this topic since it is all one logical issue 🙂
How do I move the last two entries herein to a new topic?
At the moment, both sites are essentially empty. I’ll be unpacking a “cPanel” backup of an old HTML site to the “test” site then somehow converting all the HTML pages to WP pages. I will be replacing the old dokuwiki with bbpress and manually populating the bbpress forum with about 100 entries (topics). Once all is beautiful and operative with the “test” site I’ll move it from “test.mysite.com” to “mysite.com”.
Will the bbpress forum move with the website transfer to the new site or does anything proprietary to bbpress need to be done (e.g. new SQL Database) ?
ok, moving bbpress between sites can be complex.
Is the test site a mirror of the live site?
Your help and suggestions were terrific. Thank you.
Now, once the bbpress site is completed, manipulated, and refined in the “test” sub-domain, how do I move it over to the active domain? I have it in ‘test.domain.com’ and will move it to ‘domain.com’.
Hello. I created two forums and wants that theirs topics be presented on two different pages. I added the shortcode [bbp-topic-form forum_id=$forum_id] on both page referencing the forum_id which topics I want present on that page. At page1 I don’t have the problem, but on page2 I see the topics from both forums. The form for entering a new topic on page 2 is ok and regularly sorts topics into forum 2, but the display on the page shows posts from both forums.
Anyone can help? I think I believe that the solution is trivial, but I’ve been stuck with it for several days.
Version of bbPress is 2.6.9 . The project is still on localhost.
thank you
put this in the custom css part of the style pack plugin
#bbpress-forums .status-closed, #bbpress-forums .status-closed a {
background-color: transparent;
}
put this in the style pack custom css or your theme’s custom css
#bbpress-forums .status-closed, #bbpress-forums .status-closed a {
background-color: none !important;
}
Hi, I recently saw this topic and it helps me solve one problem.
I can finally use this CSS to disable the grey-out effect when the topic is closed:
#bbpress-forums .status-closed,
#bbpress-forums .status-closed a {
color: #000 !important;
}
From this previous topic also, CSS can do equally well to add [Closed] label beside the closed topic title in topic list page:
#bbpress-forums .status-closed > li.bbp-topic-title > a.bbp-topic-permalink:after {
content: "[Closed]";
text-shadow: 1px 1px 0 #ffffff;
color: #ff0000;
margin-right: 5px;
}
I wonder if we can use CSS (instead of PHP codes) to add another [Closed] label beside the topic title in single topic page. Any solution?
See https://paste.pics/N5WS0
Also, I’m still searching for ways to disable the defaulted pink font highlight when the topic is closed. Hope somebody can help.
See https://paste.pics/N8U5T
Regards.
Thanks for that – very useful.
Wordpress has a bewildering set of names including username, user display name and user nicename
As far as I can see, bbpress seems to be using the user database setting for user nicename.
So can you try adding this code
add_filter( 'manage_users_columns', 'rew_add_user_nicename', 20, 1);
add_filter( 'manage_users_custom_column','rew_add_user_row', 20, 3 );
function rew_add_user_nicename($columns) {
$new = array();
foreach($columns as $key => $title) {
$new[$key] = $title;
//add the 2 columns after the forum role column
if ($key=='bbp_user_role') {
$new['nicename'] = 'Nicename';
}
}
return $new;
}
function rew_add_user_row($retval = '', $column_name = '', $user_id = 0) {
if ($column_name == 'nicename') {
$user_info = get_userdata($user_id);
$user_nicename = $user_info->user_nicename;
$retval = '-->'.$user_nicename.'<--';
}
return $retval ;
}
Put this in your child theme’s function file –
ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/functions.php
where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme
or use
Code Snippets
This will add a column to the dashboard>users table to show you exactly what is set as the user nicename. I have enclosed it in arrows eg
–>name here<–
so you can see if there are leading or trailing spaces.
try adding that name to the moderators and see if that works?
@robin-w Thanks for your feedback, insight and testing on my behalf.
I’ve used the troubleshooter to run the site using 2022 theme and only bbpress. Still won’t allow me to add the user to the forum.
Also the username has the initial of firstname and lastname capitalised so it is more accurately of the format ‘Firstname. Secondname’ – i note that in the ‘all forums’ screen, the moderators columns are all displayed lowercase. So i tried adding the username in the format ‘firstname. secondname’ but to no avail.
To further narrow down the issue I successfully created a new member/user on the site with the actual username ‘Firstname. Secondname’. After upgrading their Forum role to moderator, i attempted to added them as a moderator to a forum. So i added ‘Firstname. Secondname’ (without inverted commas) into the Forum Moderators field and hit update. This then left the field with ‘firstname-lastname’ in place. So when adding the moderator it swaps the ‘dot space’ to a hyphen and makes all characters lowercase.
With this new discovery, I tried adding the original problem username back as a forum moderator, all lowercase with the ‘dot space’ replaced with a hyphen.
But it didn’t accept it.
So I’m confused now as to why it works with one new user in the same format as the old user (which doesn’t work)?
See the above testing in action here
With the new knowledge, I finally retried adding the troublesome username in lowercase with hyphen whilst in a similar troubleshooting set-up but again it didn’t accept it.
Any further thoughts?
OK .. I re-read the forum rules and apparently it’s ok to put in a URL. This is the test site. There is an image on the home page with a button that says “Click Here” at the bottom. Click it and it’ll take you to the bbPress “Name Registry” attempt. https://loftorg.com
In case you missed this:
BTW – I have this working up on a test site that you can view – if I’m not breaking any forum rules by supplying a URL. It’s merely a test site – go to the main page and click the button at the bottom of the page and it’ll take you to the design (in progress) of the bbpress “Registry” attempt.
Let me know if you want me to send you the URL.
BTW – I have this working up on a test site that you can view – if I’m not breaking any forum rules by supplying a URL. It’s merely a test site – go to the main page and click the button at the bottom of the page and it’ll take you to the design (in progress) of the bbpress “Registry” attempt.
Let me know if you want me to send you the URL.
for daunting read ‘full of options’
You need do nothing in style pack and bbpress will still work fine. you only need change what you want to
I just tried adding a user with a space in the name ie ‘test user’
then in dashboard>forums>edit forum>moderators I typed in ‘test user’
it did not pick up the name as I typed it so I had to type the full name, but it did accept it, and added it correctly to the forum database.
per forum moderators are relatively new, and the 15 yr old and 8 year old threads would have been for bbpress version 1.
so on my test site bbpress does allow moderators with spaces in the names.
my next suggestion would be 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
I have a memberpress/bbPress/Wordpress site with about 100 members. I was trying to make a user a moderator of a particular forum. I was able to change her role to a moderator by editing her user profile OK. But when I add her username to the moderator field within the edit forum screen it spins on update but never registers the username as moderator.
I then notice the username in question is of the format ‘firstname dot space secondname’
I didn’t think WP allowed usernames with spaces or dots (periods) but apparently, it does and the username is created when they register via a Memberpress form. By default, they are made forum participants upon registering. I want to upgrade this user to be a moderator of a specific forum.
The user HAS managed to post a topic in a forum already as a participant.
So i’m assuming that the problem lies in bbPress NOT allowing spaces in usernames when you try to assign them to be a moderator of a specific forum?
I was reading a 15 year old thread here where @howtogeek provides some plugin code. I tried saving this to a zipped .php file and adding it as a plugin but Wordfence said that wasn’t a good idea, so I’m not confident using 15-year old code is such a good workaround.
There was another old thread from 8yrs here ago where @joop.stringer suggests tweaking permalinks but I can’t seem to figure that out either.
I’ve come across this which will maybe help me prevent this from happening again.
But can anyone confirm that the space in the username IS the reason I can’t assign a moderator
role user to be the moderator of a specific forum, and if there is any more recent knowledge on this issue? i.e. does bbPress actually allow spaces in usernames now?
I need to create a “name registry” in WordPress (either Gutenberg or Elementor Pro) that will allow users to input their own information and create a new “name registry” listing. Trying bbpress.
The
alphabetical
listing of names should be presented and when a name is clicked, the supporting information is displayed.
Albert
Andrew
Agnes
Charles
Charles
David
There will be lots of duplicate names, but usually, the date, country, or some other info is different.
Supporting information example (when “Andrew” is clicked) is Date of entry, email, info:
Andrew Loftus – 1818
Australia
Do you have any knowledge of Andrew Loftus (Coachman) who was transported to Australia in 1818 after a trial in Co Mayo. He lived in Ballina but his wife Elizabeth Murphy, later lived in Crossmalina.
Peter Kenny
Sydney, Australia
pk@somehost.com
I have looked at forum plugins, directories, posts and cannot find a way to do this in WP. Most times the entry field descriptive text cannot be modified. Currently using the bbpress plugin but don’t see how I can modify the field text to ask users specific questions. I initially did it in html using a doku. But I want to covert this to WP and add the self-entered capability.
Any suggestions or pointers? Is bbPress a viable route for this?
thanks, do keep us updated.
as this is a commercial theme, I do not have access to it, but agree it would be good to have it fully working with bbpress
I’m experiencing similar issues at https://www.brugmansia.us/community/, a Divi site. But even when I use one of the WordPress default themes (2023), I get similarly poorly formatted results at best. I agree with those suggesting this is primarily a bbPress issue, not a theme issue.
Yeah it’s odd that it doesn’t have pagination build into it, I don’t use threaded either.
You had put together a plugin for someone awhile back for this when using threaded replies, so not sure if that is still working or what the OP is looking for. Link to that reply of yours below.
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/trying-to-get-nested-replies-and-pagination-to-work/#post-214969
Thank you Robin…theoretically, i’m not moving bbpress between 2 sites.
I’m doing redesign of my site, index page, pages, posts…and will leave forum as it is…without changing anything.
Here is “old” site
Croacia
and bbpress is on https://acroacia.com/forums
Here i’m doing re-design:
http://acroacia.com/redi/
and need to move forum to http://acroacia.com/redi/forums.
When finish with site, will migrate all to acroacia.com
Forum wil have the same domain and url structure like it have now.
Will be great if I can somehow left all acroacia.com/forum content as it is right now and just sustitute acroacia.com with new content…but it seems to be impossible.
What if I move new page content to acroacia.com and then import forums, answers and topics?
Maybe will be much easyer becouse domain and instalation file is the same like it was when all was exported…
