[Stephen Edgar]

Sounds like the issue I’ve got documented on the codex here:

Import Troubleshooting

[rebecca-paisley]

Nevermind it was a conflict with Askimet and BBpress. This is resolved.

[rebecca-paisley]

BBPress Version: 2.3.3
WordPress Version: 4.3.1

http://www.flasco.org

The forums are completely private from public view via a membership plugin (WPMUDEV Membership2). However, every time anyone (members) posts into the BBP forums, everything is going to spam. None of it is actually spam though.

Any idea of why everything would be going to spam?

I deactivated all plugins related to BBBPress, but that didn’t remedy anything either ..

[matthew.stephens]

Sounds like this is a plugin conflict. Masking the issue as you mention would not resolve it and potentially create further more serious issues. Given these are two pretty widely installed and reputable plugins, would it not be sensible for bbPress and Yoast to get together and resolve the issue properly please? Otherwise, one or the other will have to go. Thanks.

[Robkk]

The custom profile fields, what exactly do they do? I get that I can now add my Twitter handle from profile settings, but it’s not displayed anywhere on the site.

Yeah you have to manually place the any extra fields you want on the frontend of the user profile and and place the code in the template user-profile.php, that should be in your child theme for easy customization.

in user-profile.php you will already see an example of the user’s description field being displayed, and you would need to do some of the same procedure.

<?php if ( bbp_get_displayed_user_field( 'twitter' ) ) : ?>

    <p class="bbp-user-twitter">
        <a href="<?php bbp_displayed_user_field( 'twitter' ); ?>" title="<?php bbp_displayed_user_field( 'display_name' ); ?>'s Twitter" rel="nofollow">
             <?php bbp_displayed_user_field( 'twitter' ); ?>
        </a>
    </p>

<?php endif; ?>

I will probably put an example for user’s to place the links on their profile templates later on that guide.

I would love for it to be displayed beneath my avatar and username phpBB-style in topics, or at least on my visible forum profile.

Yep, there is a way to that too. I can’t remember much but I think it just involves a hook to place the data. There is a plugin Robin made that can basically do that. There is also a different plugin for displaying BuddyPress profile fields. You can dig around the plugins code if you want to see how he did it.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-profile-information/

This doable? Obviously I can’t use the_author_meta() in bbpress, so…

I think it is possible to just use the WordPress code with bbPress. bbPress is just a plugin of WordPress now.

Also, instead of adding labels to certain topics. Can I add classes so I can do changes in CSS?

Yeah you do not have to leave the [status] and just leave the classes there so you can style with just CSS.

[Robin W]

If you want to delete everything bbpress datawise and start again then

Dashboard>tools>forums>reset forums

[Robkk]

Try not to bump very old topics at least older than a year, especially ones that are 8 years old!!

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There is an API or an example API in the Jetpack plugin.

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/jetpack/trunk/class.jetpack-bbpress-json-api-compat.php

There have been users trying to make apps with bbPress.

WordPress JSON Rest API bbPress and Android

Also know there has been work to introduce an API into WordPress.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/json-rest-api/

And there already have been plugins in development for compatibility between the WP-REst API and bbPress like this one.

https://github.com/thenbrent/BB-API (Alpha version)

Any contributions for any work toward any type of bbPress Rest API are welcome and much appreciated.

[tkse]

This works nicely. Sorry to bug you so much.

The custom profile fields, what exactly do they do? I get that I can now add my Twitter handle from profile settings, but it’s not displayed anywhere on the site. I would love for it to be displayed beneath my avatar and username phpBB-style in topics, or at least on my visible forum profile. This doable? Obviously I can’t use the_author_meta() in bbpress, so…

Also, instead of adding labels to certain topics. Can I add classes so I can do changes in CSS?

Thanks! 🙂

[Loc Pham]

I’m also looking for the REST API for bbPress but unable to find info on it either.

[reminisce32]

Thanks for the response. Can you provide the link to convert a vbulletin 3.8? I only see the vBulletin v4.x Importer for bbPress.

[Robkk]

Pretty permalinks should work fine in bbPress if you have set up the permalinks to use the post name structure in Settings > Permalinks.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_Permalinks_Screen

I don’t think it would be a step backwards, I am not sure all that the vbSEO plugin did SEO wise, but I bet there is a WordPress plugin that works fine with bbPress.

There are two different vBull converters, vBulletin and vBulletin3. The last one is what you would want to use.

[Robkk]

Not really a bbPress related question, but use this.

ul#menu-secondary-menu {
    float: right;
}

Make sure to keep it bbPress related next time.

[Robkk]

It might be that bbPress does not have support for featured images, and the SEO plugins pull from the featured images.

I think you are the first to mention a feature request for a fallback image in bbPress.

There have been users that were suggesting a possibility for featured images for forums for forum thumbnails/icons. There is a neat little piece of code to that here.

http://www.kristarella.com/2013/04/bbpress-forum-icons/

There might be a way to get the forums featured image to and I guess set it as the child posts (topic) featured image, but right now I am not sure how to do that right now.

[Robkk]

Yeah I think you could just use amembers login if it works fine with WordPress. You may need to check if the user registering into amembers registration forms acquire their bbPress forum role to even participate in the forums correctly.

They are technically logging into your site not just the forums, everything is unified when using bbPress with WordPress. Unless you want everyone to redirect to your forums, or if you want a referer redirect like if a user registers from a bbPress forum page and they should be redirected back where they were previously before registering.

From posts I see on the amember forum they should integrate nicely. The amember plugin also has some kind of plugin integration with bbPress. If you need any extra help from users setting up with amember with bbPress and WordPress, you may need to contact their support forums as there are more topics about the integration between the software on their site.

[Robkk]

I am not sure using Visual composer, but since bbPress has dynamic pages and not static WordPress pages, I am not sure a page builder will help much.

If you have a custom bbpress.php file in your theme you can add a banner to all bbPress pages or just the ones of your choice with some conditionals.

If you are adding the banners using a shortcode you can echo the shortcode like this.

<?php echo do_shortcode("[shortcode]"); ?>

Just make sure to edit the bbpress.php file in your child theme and place the shortcode in the template.

[Robkk]

I guess double check and make sure the email is the same.

https://en.gravatar.com/support/gravatar-locations/

You can also try and see if a plugin/theme is causing the issue.

Troubleshooting

[Robkk]

This guide should be helpful.

How to change my user avatar?

[Robkk]

Give me a minute to finish creating some trac tickets for a mobile layout in bbPress. I am trying not to include everything one single trac ticket.

The mobile layout I was working on long ago was never really that great from what I can see now. It does take some points from other forum software though, but in just some areas it didn’t stay tidy well enough without causing a mess at 320px.

Just a sidenote this topic from what I can tell, the user I think enabled threaded replies which doesn’t have a responsive styles in the bbpress plugin. And what is already there for responsive styles for the replies do not work because of some markup bug caused by the threaded replies feature and possibly its walker code.

[TKServer]

I’m going to build a sports fan site which will have a discussion group/forum area. I’ve got pretty deep WP experience on the admin side, and have written my own themes and plugins in the past in PHP.

I’m trying to grasp the structure and flow of bbPress. I installed it on a dev server and have been playing around and still not really sure how it is supposed to work. It’s not terribly intuitive to me.

I create a forum, but it is inside the “forums” so my ugly url is mysite.com/forums/forum/forumname. That’s kind of poo, but fine. After I create the forum I see nowhere to create a new post in the front end. So I create a topic in the back end and try to attach it to a forum, but it will only attach to certain forums and not others. Haven’t figured that out yet.

How do I simply have one forum with sub topics like this:

Sports
–Football
—football posts go in here
–Baseball
—baseball posts go in here
–Basketball
—basketball posts go in here

Any input would be great.

[tkse]

Here is a code snippet that will do what you are looking for though.

https://codex.bbpress.org/layout-and-functionality-examples-you-can-use/#21-show-5-recent-topics-after-forum-index

This gives me the 5 most recent topics in single-forum as well, not just the forum index/home page of the forum. I tried working around it, and also directly solve the problem but with no luck.

[tvirtual]

Yes, it should work with the same logins. Where I am confused is how to handle the login process. I’m thinking they should login using aMember (not bbPress) because they need to have access to a certain product in order to view the forums, but that redirects them to their aMember membership account. I would need them to be redirected to the forum if they are logging into the forum….so I’m thinking I would need a separate login page. Hoping someone else has used the same integration and had the process down…

[xXZ3R0x]

Im using Yoast. It works fine everywhere else but bbPress.
But, Setting an image fallback per forum category would be a feature that needs to be in bbPress i would assume.

[reminisce32]

And just a follow up.. there certainly wouldn’t be a step backwards in terms of seo if I covert my vbulletin to bbpress, correct? especially given that my vB thread urls contain no words?

[reminisce32]

I currently have a vbulletin, and used to have vBSEO for thread title to show up in the url. I’ve since lost this.. if I convert to BBpress, can I somehow get the thread titles in the url for seo purposes?

Also, if I install bbpress, will it look like the one on this site by default, with the different forum topics on the left? Thanks.

[Robkk]

Interesting survey results!! I keep forgetting to comment my thoughts on this!!

I am surprised that theming bbPress is split between all three of the choices listed, I expected most people to rely on their custom built themes and theme compatibility of bbPress like last year. So it seems not just developers/knowledgeable coders know how to use bbPress with any theme.

I can see there is a small increase of developers creating sites with bbPress forums for others, but a decrease in users creating themes and plugins. So at least more developers are interested in bbPress, but I bet once the plugin and theme development guides are finally up, that there will be an increase in plugin and theme development.

There is an increase in multisite usage of bbPress, which is good to see.

I believe Gaming, Academic, and Music site types could possibly use an increase in site types using bbPress.

Users contributing to bbPress has seem to have lowered quite a bit, which is not good. Hopefully there are a few things that can change that. People are joining slack though, so there is that.

Desktop and Laptop is being mostly used by users, while they seem to want a better mobile experience. I will keep that definitely in mind as times are changing, and people browse while on mobile more than in the past.

I am surprised unread replies and quotes have dropped a tad for being a requested feature, but there are some great plugins that can add that functionality.

People want bbPress topics to replace WordPress comments more than ever.

There is a lot more positive feedback on the comments left in the survey listed at the very bottom on this. Which is very good. I also think these comments are one of the most important parts to pay attention to of the survey.

http://mercime.github.io/bbPress-2015-survey-results/

@mercime thanks for doing a wonderful job with the survey. 🙂