[Robkk]

I took a break yesterday sorry.

Have you tried some troubleshooting? It may be related to cache, a theme, a plugin conflict, or if you made your forums Hidden.

Troubleshooting

[aikichick2012]

no ideas, anyone? 🙁

(ps: forgot to say: i am using the latest version of bbpress and wordpress.)

[mihirpatel7410]

Hi,
I have tried everything like
1.Uninstalled all plugin and checked if any plugin conflict it,
2.Checked in twenty twelve theme.
Still not working. and Vibetheme told this is bbpress plugin issue,its neither theme issue nor plugin conflict issue.

And This is my live website so please help me as much as possible do fast.
Thanks in advance.

[KeithAdv]

I’m going through the odious task of importing a Ning forum to bbPress. The hard part (or so I thought) is done. I was able to get about everything from Ning into BuddyPress.

However, when I get to the last phase–BuddyPress to bbPress migration–which I thought would be easy-peasy, I lose all the replies to the forum topics! I’m following the migration process exactly (as far as I know) but it always fails. Here are the details:

I’m currently on a local server using XAMPP.
WordPress 4.2.4
BuddyPress 2.3.3 (using the default theme)
bbPress 2.5.8

The only other plugins I have installed are The Events Calendar (which you kind of need for the Ning conversion) and BackupBuddy, so that I can restore/reset after every unsuccessful attempt.

I have a smallish forum of fewer than 100 people and 4 groups.

At the time of this writing, I’ve restored the site to its last successful state:
– All data successfully imported into BuddyPress
– bbPress is installed and activated
– Final migration has not yet been attempted.

So, you can see all forums and replies, etc., in the BuddyPress theme on the site. The bbPress forums section in the admin menu is empty, as expected.

Now my typical next step, which always fails, is to follow the codex on migrating forums from BuddyPress to bbPress. I’ve been following it to the letter:

Migrating from old forums to bbPress 2.2+

Unfortunately, during Step 5, the actual import step, I get the following error message:


WordPress database error: [Table 'foo.wp_bb_terms' doesn't exist]

SELECT convert(term_relationships.object_id USING "utf8mb4") AS object_id,convert(term_taxonomy.term_taxonomy_id USING "utf8mb4") AS term_taxonomy_id,convert(terms.name USING "utf8mb4") AS name,convert(terms.slug USING "utf8mb4") AS slug FROM wp_bb_term_relationships AS term_relationships INNER JOIN wp_bb_term_taxonomy AS term_taxonomy USING (term_taxonomy_id) INNER JOIN wp_bb_terms AS terms USING (term_id) LIMIT 0, 100


I can’t tell if it is just complaining or if the import has actually failed at that point. Nevertheless, I finish all the steps. At that point, the groups have become forums in bbPress and the topics have transferred but only the first post in each. All replies are gone and I haven’t found any way to restore them.

One additional detail–I don’t know if it’s relevant. In order to do the Ning conversion, it’s best if you use BuddyPress v1.6, which I did. Afterward, I updated to the latest version. (Is that why wp_bb_terms didn’t get created?)

I’d greatly appreciate any insight on this. I’m so happy to be getting away from Ning–I can’t believe I’m getting tripped up on the WP side! 🙂

[kleypie]

I was wondering if anybody had a solution to this? I’d like my users to have the formatting toolbar for posts but I dont like that when they click “link” it shows “link to existing content” and shows pages and pretty much tons of stuff I dont want my forum users to go to. If you want to know what I mean, you can actually do the same thing on this bbPress support forum when you are replying to a post.

Is there a way to turn that off?

My site btw is

Forum

Thank you!!

[tkse]

I created a WordPress page with the name “Diskusjon” and changed the root of bbPress to be this in the settings. Now bbp-single-forum shortcode won’t work. It just shows the forum index, something I tried to avoid by creating this standalone page as root. Any tips?

[andyrushtonprogramming]

Hi casiepa,

thank you for the helpful tips.

I have installed a plugin called bbPress Notify (No-Spam) which does the notification functionality I was looking for. It seems to be working!

I’ll look up your plugin for the subscriptions listing functionality (although the notifications is actually the bigger issue despite how it appears from my OP).

I already have an SMTP plugin – Easy WP SMTP – so I’ll have a look at whether that does debug messages. Otherwise that’s another helpful tip.

Thanks again, I’m getting there…

[andyrushtonprogramming]

Hi @robkk,

that seems to answer a different question – it only lists forums I’m subscribed to in bbPress.org, not subscriptions on my website – and I can’t see how it could list those since there’s no connection. I’m talking about a self-hosting website using bbPress as a plugin.

One reason I was asking was because of this post in the codex:

Subscriptions

Is this post wrong?

[Robkk]

bbPress does not add a subscriptions menu item in the backend of WordPress. There is this in your frontend forum profile though.

https://bbpress.org/forums/profile/andyrushtonprogramming/subscriptions

[aikichick2012]

Hi,

we have been using bbpress for a couple of months, but since a few days we are having the problem that participants can´t see topics in the forum any more. When a participant loggs on, they get the message that “this forum has 7 topics and 58 replies” but also “No topics could be found!”.

Moderators and administrators do not have that problem when they log on….all topis are visible then.

How can this problem be solved, please?

Best regards,
Sonja

[french5000]

Hello,

Have you find a solution ? BBpress-multilingual is not working anymore, and i’m desperately searching for a solution to display the same forums for each language…

[IkerMB]

Hello, I would like instalation bbpress in my blog, I have bbpress instalation already, and I created 3 forums, well, now I would like to create one options in my menu with the name forum and if you click there go directly to my forums.
the thinking is I can put all my foros inside the foro/menu, if I go apparience – menu, select the forums and put inside the menu, my forums appeare in the menu but with individual options.

How can I create one options in the menu with the name Forum and put inside al of them.

regards

[andyrushtonprogramming]

Follow up:

I tried a completely clean install with WP v4.3 and bbPress v2.5.8-5815 and I’m still not seeing the Subscriptions menu item. I’m not sure about notifications because my localhost setup tends to lose emails anyway, but I’m certainly not getting them from the installed website.

[Kona Macphee]

I’ve recently migrated a couple of websites to WP Multisite and am now using bbPress on various multisite sub-sites. The issue I’m reporting may be specific to multisite, or it may be a new bug after the recent change to WP 4.3 (I’m using bbPress 2.5.8 and WP 4.3).

Context:
On the “Edit Topic” screen, there’s an “Author Information” box including an ID field. When you begin to type text into this box, the admin-ajax action “bbp_suggest_user” should auto-suggest potentially matching users.

Issue:
The user autosuggest is not returning any users, just “-1”. Having dug into the code, the step that’s failing is wp_verify_nonce() in check_ajax_referrer(), which is invoked on line 745 of bbPress file includes/admin/admin.php. The nonce is making it into wp_verify_nonce, but is not matching any expected/acceptable value – so wp_verify_nonce falls out the bottom with a failure.

If I remove the check_ajax_referrer step, the Edit Topic user auto-suggestion works perfectly so it’s definitely the nonce validation step that’s the problem.

Also, I’m NOT using any caching plugin on these sites, and the error exists whether the site uses https or not. It also continues to exist if I disable Wordfence.

[andyrushtonprogramming]

Hi,

as I understand it, when I subscribe to a forum, I should get an email every time a new topic is created. I also understand that I should see a Subscriptions menu item in the Admin menu.

I’mnot getting either of these – when a user creates a topic in a forum I’m subscribed to, I don’t get a notification. I don’t have a Subscriptions menu either.

I have the latest version (2.5.8) installed. I have tried stripping down my website so that it uses a standard theme (TwentyFifteen) and one plugin (bbPress) although I haven’t tried a clean install yet.

Can anyone suggest where to go with this. I really cannot afford to do a clean install – this is a huge website I’m managing!

[Robkk]

Weird that the BuddyPress widget works fine. You might want to deactivate everything but bbPress to see if the issue persists and to test everything fresh. You might want to test the bbPress login widget also.

Does this PHP code snippet help anything when trying to logout with only bbPress activated?

add_filter( 'logout_url', 'my_logout_page', 10, 2 );
function my_logout_page( $logout_url, $redirect ) {
    	$logout_url = str_replace('%3Floggedout%3Dtrue', '', $logout_url);
	return $logout_url;
}

[Robkk]

It works fine when I tested it on my site.

You can try to test to see if works fine in a topic, reply, and a blog post to see if you get different results from each.

Try some troubleshooting to see if a plugin/theme functionality caused the issue.

If you acquired a ton of code snippets and placed it in your child theme check on that.

Troubleshooting

[Robkk]

So the users gain the bbPress forum role of participant for each site they are viewing? Is there any forums on these other blogs, or is the forums just on a subsite?

[chigoziekyrian]

First of all thanks to the Bbpress forum Developers and supporters, i commend you all.

I want to ask if you have this feature in a plugin or if is tweak able..

Creating different groups with different Forums associated to each group respectively

For example

Group A can Post Topics and Reply in Forum A

Group B can Post Topics and Reply in Forum B

Group C can Post Topics and reply in Group C

BUT Group A can only reply in Forum B and C, they can’t post Topic in Forum B and C (They can only post Topic in their own associated Forum A)

Group B can only reply in Forum A and C, they cant post Topics in Forum A and C (They can only post in their own associated Forum B)

Group C can only reply in Forum A and B, they cant post Topics in Forum A and B (They can only post in their own associated Forum C)

AND

In the Topic Form with this short code [bbp-topic-form] let the drop down forum be only forums associated with the Group
example

If Group A member logs in to post via [bbp-topic-form] page, he will see only Forum A at the select Forum option,
(he will only see drop down of forums associated with his group, or both Sub Forums)

because I wont display the Full forum index on the site, i will only display Recent Topics, Recent comments, etc then with handle of ‘Start a topic’ with this form [bbp-topic-form]

Thanks…

[Rob Sbaglia]

It’s not registering the user; the user becomes a “participant” on the blog they have viewed. The only person who can register a user is me.

Example of what happens: a blog on my multisite is http://theglobalschool.net/science/news . The only user for this blog is the administrator.

Another member of the multiside views this blog, and immediately becomes a “participant” of this blog. I don’t want this to occur because, when students log into the site, on the toolbar they see a whole bunch of blogs listed under “my blog” which they cannot contribute to.

I have the latest version of WordPress, and have tried deleting bbPress and reinstalling to no avail.

Suggestions?

[timsilva_]

Also, I have read many posts like this ( https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/multiple-newlines-in-a-post/ ), but I am looking for a more permanent solution for all users if its out there.

[timsilva_]

I am migrating a forum database from the latest version of SMF to the latest version of bbPress. In SMF, many posts had multiple line-breaks in between sentences, paragraphs, images, videos, etc. It appears that WordPress, and bbPress, strip out multiple line breaks and limit them to a single line break (probably to prevent people from creating giant vertical gaps for no reason that other users have to scroll through). The way that bbPress deals with line-breaks from the SMF database migration was not very clean. It was mostly just random blocks of text and sentences without line breaks in between paragraphs that existed in SMF. There were PRE tags added in sometimes, and seemingly inconsistent P tags as well. BR tags appear to have been converted into empty TT tags. I was able to correct some of these formatting issues by tweaking lots of CSS (and a little JavaScript) in the default bbPress template. At the same time, I have also tested how line-breaks work separate from the migrated database and it appears that this maximum-of-one-line-break philosophy is on purpose. I see where that’s coming from, but I want to allow it anyways.

I have read of methods where admins (and/or other users) can manually type in br tags as html with non-breaking spaces in between them as a hacky method of moving down three or four lines for whatever reason. I don’t want to have to train users how to do something that should be as simple as press enter like in any text editor.

How can I simply achieve this in bbPress’s default comment forms? I don’t want users to have to type in…

<br />&nbsp<br />

…when they can simply just press enter twice in the textarea input.

[hotconductor]

Greetings!

I have been thrilled with bbpress so far. Customizing can be difficult but well worth it in the end! I have on problem and I hope it is a simple thing…

When someone pastes a youtube url it only auto embeds if you remove the S in the HTTPS.. In the past it seemed to not matter whether the url had https or not, but lately it seems as though pasting with the secure url breaks auto-embed.

Any thoughts on how I can remedy this?

[Léo]

I noticed something interesting, there is no problem when I log out using the BuddyPress widget.

Do you have a multisite installation?
No.

Is WordPress installed in a sub-folder?
No.

What is the url you get when you try to logout?
With the WordPress toolbar: http://original-beast.revhost.fr/wp-login.php?action=logout&_wpnonce=323d408059&redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Foriginal-beast.revhost.fr%2F%3Floggedout%3Dtrue
With the BuddyPress widget: http://original-beast.revhost.fr/wp-login.php?action=logout&redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Foriginal-beast.revhost.fr%2F&_wpnonce=323d408059

What areas did you try to logout from? The WordPress Toolbar, bbPress login widget, something else?
WordPress toolbar.

Did this issue occur when you immediately activated bbPress? Or did the issue occur after a certain upgrade?
Only when bbPress is activated.

Did you have any cache plugins activated? Have you tried flushing the cache? If it is deactivated reactivate the plugin and flush the cache.
I don’t have any cache plugin.

Anything that can cache activated on your site, server cache, cloudflare, object cache, opcode caching?
I don’t have that.

What hosting provider do you have?
Revolta Hosting

[Robkk]

Try as much of the basic troubleshooting steps as you can, also try some of the additional solutions listed.

Some users have a plugin issue with this, while others it may be a theme, or it could be resolved using the repair tools.

THere is a guide linked in here about fixing some possible 404 errors too.

Troubleshooting