[DevynCJohnson]

@Robkk , thank you for your time.

1. I did see the option for oEmbeds. However, after disabling oEmbeds and using WP-Sweep to remove all oEmbeds, WP-Sweep still finds oEmbeds after a few days. Currently, I wrote my own code to disable them.

5. The Report content plugin has not been updated since November of 2014.

12. True, I have tried BuddyPress’s upload-avatar feature and the various upload-avatar plugins, but they no longer work after I upgraded by website to HTML5. Notice that I mentioned that I can still upload media via the backend. My backend is using HTML4. You are right though, this is probably something for WordPress to implement rather than BBPress.

[clarer1]

I’d be grateful for advice about how to set up. It’s a website for an amateur choir. Currently hosted somewhere else and using a web package that is fiddly to update. So I’m looking into moving to WP. We need some pages that only choir members can view and some that are only for the committee. I could do that with something like Members plugin, but I wondered whether a bbPress forum would be a better way as it could be an easy way for the committee to post announcements and have their internal discussions. And be a way of setting up user management and privacy settings.

I’m thinking out loud so apologies if this is muddled. If possible, what I want to happen is:

A. Forums can only be viewed by choir and committee members.
– Link to forum visible to everyone (eg public menu or sidebar widget).
– Non-members not to be able to see topic titles or posts.
– If someone isn’t logged in, they could be taken to a login/registration window or to a page telling them how to login/register.
– Registration has to be approved, so only choir members can register (I think. But see below.)

B. Two forums:
1. Announcements. Committee members can start new topics and reply. Choir members can read but not reply.
2. Private forum for committee.
– Also hidden apart from to committee members? But doesn’t matter if choir members can see the link as long as they can’t see topic titles and messages.
– Committee members can all start new topics and reply.

It would be easier for the committee if they can start new topics and reply from the bbPress front end. So they don’t have to learn how to use WP backend. The less there is for them to learn, the less to put them off using it and asking me to post everyting and the less to go wrong.

I’ve tried a dummy choir member user set as “spectator.” What’s odd is I can start new topics and post replies from that login. I thought spectator couldn’t do that.

If that’s inevitable, another way might be in forum settings to have default registration as participant, then change committee members to moderators (which I’m not sure how to do yet.). Then have the moderators always use WP backend to create new announcements and set to closed.

Can someone advise me what general forum settings I should use and what configuration options for the two forums please?

And how do I make sure new members have to be approved? I think there are some WP new user approve plugins so I can find one of those. But I wondered if it was already something that can be set up in bbPress.

To muddy the waters, I’m waiting to find out how the committee currently organises the newsletter for people interested in coming to concerts. If they do that outside their current web/host setup, fine. But I’m wondering if they’re using the current host’s subscriber interface to send newsletters. In which case I would need another category of WP user. Not sure of titles but something like:
1. Subscriber. No access to the forum but can be sent newsletters. Doesn’t need to be approved.
2. Choir member. Needs to be approved. Can read choir announcements forum. Can’t post.
3. Committee member. Can read and post in both forums. Ideally from bbPress front end.
4. Moderator? Maybe allocate this to one or two key committee members so they can authorise members instead of everything have to come through me.
5. Admin/keymaster/wizzard of everything. Me! And hopefully someone else I can train up later.

Sorry to be asking so much and so much detail. But it’s the detail of trying to set it up that has me lost. New to bbPress so I’m not sure whether this is possible or not. Or whether it is, but with a plugin (which?).

I’m trying to get a dummy site set up to demonstrate to the committee, so need to be sure it is possible.

Thank you.
Clare

[Shmoo]

Just curious, for some reason it doesn’t work anymore..

I’ve done this for many years now, visit the Trunk and download the latest version with all raw changes. Activate it locally and run some tests, create themes, make changes..

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk

Right now, when I download this latest raw version of bbPress and activate it in my local environment it doesn’t do the trick it should do for me. bbPress native styles will not load frontend and in the dashboard the icon font is broken, probably lots more doesn’t work like normal.

I just want to install a clean and lean bbPress version only in raw alpha/beta state.

Thanks,

[begona.alvarezd]

OK fixed! The problem was actually the bbPress Notify (No-Spam) plugin. The default body they set to send emails wasn’t using my desired url to the post.

If anybody would like to know, replacing [reply-url] with [reply-replyurl] in the body email (dashboard forum settings) makes the emails attaching a link with the entire topic on it.

(this topic can be marked as solved, my mistake not realizing another administrator installed extra plugins)

[begona.alvarezd]

I just checked that someone has installed bbPress Notify (No-Spam) plugin. This could be actually the cause of the problem. I will test it and let you know if I find what is going on.

Thank you very much for your help 🙂

[illwriteit]

This is a rather huge branch off of the forum that was offered by Sceko in this topic:

bbPress like Flarum

The default view shows all topics, color coded with a unique font awesome icon assigned to each category.

If you click on one of the main categories, whether it be public, support, or the restricted area, it will now show all topics including children forums of that particular category in this view. It also shows all children forums of that category as well:

Last but not least the reply look for viewing a topic shows not only the badges from mycred, but the picture rank as well.

[Robkk]

Sorry for the really late reply, but see if this helps you. I know it is not duplicating and instead moving, but I feel like this is what you are trying to do.

Common Tasks

[DevynCJohnson]

Problem/Scenario – On my website (http://dcjtech.info/) using the latest version of WordPress, BBPress, and BuddyPress, I closed a topic in my forum. Now, the tags belonging to the closed topic are listed as “empty topic tags”. This issue is always reproducible.

Specific Example – For instance, I closed a topic (http://dcjtech.info/topic/lindows/) and then I see under “Dashboard > Topic > Topic Tags” that “linspire” has a count of zero. Also, in the BBPress statistics widget, it says there are twenty “empty topic tags”. However, http://dcjtech.info/tag/linspire/ lists the Lindows topic as a topic with the “linspire” tag.

Question – Why do these “empty topic tags” appear/form when closing a topic and how can it be fixed and prevented?

Similar Thread on BBPress.org – https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/empty-topic-tags/

[seco111]

In my forum the users achievements are showing below the word moderator/participant. How do i remove this or prevent it from showing any badges at all? The badges come from a plugin call WPAchievements.

site name is Spanishscholars.com
BBpress: 2.5.8
WP : 4.3

[aluxi33]

These two bbpres shortcodes I added to my Main Menu are not working. They were working fine yesterday but not it says ‘That page can’t be found’.

My website: http://mysite.com/recent-replies/

http://mysite.com/view/latest-topics/

[Robkk]

Sorry for the late reply, I just approved your topic.

The files you may want to edit are.

loop-search-forum.php
loop-search-topic.php
loop-search-reply.php
loop-search.php

These templates are in the bbPress plugin, and you can copy them over into your child theme so that customizations won’t be lost after a bbPress plugin update.

I am not sure if expression engine only searches for topics, but I cannot find how to exclude certain posts from the forum search.

You can also use some search enhancing plugins if you want. There are some plugins that search custom post types like Search Everything. I have also seen users hook up Google Custom Search too.

[Robert.S]

Hi there – I’ve googled; searched plugins and read a fair bit here. My question is about changing the way search results for BBPress display.

I’m using the Avada theme 3.8.3
Wordpress 4.2.4
BBPress 2.5.8

There are a couple of issues – only in the visual appearance of BBPress search results, and I need some tips as to how to fix it!

• Search results are not well distinguished (compared to our previous ExpressionEngine forum, where admittedly, the forum post content was not shown, but it easy to see the list of topics and results). A mix of “Topics” and “Replies To” are shown
• Search results may include several posts from the one topic, but these are not collated (they are displayed in order of recency, and usually appear in between the other search results)
• Search results with long forum posts take up too much page realestate

Please see these two screenshots that illustrate the difference:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/04ndkdsjlpa5k8j/avada-forum-search.jpg?dl=0

Clearly the search results are very thorough, and I’m looking for help to represent them more efficiently.

• What template would I look for?
• How can I change the loop so that the results are more like our old forum?

Thanks in advance – feel free to point me to any plugins I may have missed.

Robert

[Robkk]

Sorry for the late reply, I just approved this post.

Do your bbPress pages have titles?? I think the Name not showing is because the title of the page is the user’s name.

[nr.duncan]

Hi all I know this question has been asked many a time but nothing I try seems to work

I have a client who has an existing site that is hugely based around a bbPress forum

I have moved the forum and all users over using these plugins

Cimy User Manager
https://wordpress.org/plugins/cimy-user-manager/
First used Cimy so that when I imported the forums the correct users would be present to prevent author issues.

bbPress Import / Export
https://github.com/pippinsplugins/bbPress-Export-and-Import
Next used this import export plugin only allows you to do one forum at a time and was hard to find the initial export spot (you have to go forum>”forum name”>On the right hand side under update it will be there). To import you must create the forum first and then in the same spot where you found the export button is the import button

Found these fixes for the plugin on this forum post

bbpress wp4 fix2

bbpress wp4 fix

Integrating bbPress with the Warp7 framework

Next I installed my theme
http://yootheme.com/demo/wordpress/frequency

Then I did this:

“copy the /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress folder into the /wp-content/themes/my-theme/ folder and then copying the files from /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/extras/ into the /wp-content/themes/my-theme/ folder”

So this fixed most of my major issues except a couple

First off every user profile page looks like this
http://screencast.com/t/26t9FgsH0maC
and doesnt populate with the correct information that can be seen on the current site
Every user you click comes to a profile page where there name is just profile

The other problem I have is how can I now style this page the transparent background isnt really a possibility with this theme

If anyone can help me out that would be great

Thanks

Worpress version: 4.3
bbPress version: 2.5.8

[Robkk]

Sorry for the late reply, I just approved this post.

The topic you went to is 5 years ago when bbPress was a standalone forum software but the latest version of bbPress IS A PLUGIN of WordPress.

If you are using the latest bbPress plugin, you are using the WordPress dashboard to manage all your topics, replies, and forums.

[Robkk]

I think you disabled the forum search or just haven’t enabled it.

As an alternative you can also include the bbPress posts into the regular WordPress search.

Plugin, snippet, hack to include bbpress topics in wordpress search

From what I could see, on your bbPress pages there was blog post data like the continue reading button.
You may need to create a bbpress.php file to get rid of all the post meta data on your bbPress pages.

Getting Started in Modifying the Main bbPress Template

[Robkk]

Sorry I didn’t see approve the topic you created last week, but I did approve this one.

Right now I am just going to go through this list real quick right now, but I might discuss more later today or after you reply again.

• 1 – THere is an option to enable/disable oembeds, maybe disabling feeds could be useful though. SEO options may stay in a seperate plugin, but it depends on what specific things, maybe custom titles since you mentioned that.
• 2 – SEO might be best if it was a seperate plugin like Yoasts plugin. The most important meta tags for your forums are the title and description tag, all the others are handled by either WordPress/your theme or another SEO plugin.
• 3 – I can’t really say much about bbcodes, you can already use the html tags. You probably want something like spoiler tags I bet.
• 4 – I can’t really say much about this either, it’s really a toss up. There needs to more people wanting this feature in core possibly? It might be better to have the autosuggest feature in the forum search instead.
• 5 – Toss up for the external links plugin. I really like the Report content plugin.
• 6 – bbPress already does this and the devs have this in mind for users. There probably shouldn’t be options for everything possible though, the settings area might become cluttered.
• 7 – Yeah, maybe.
• 8 – Not sure, I need a devs opinions on this.
• 9 – There was a plugin that use to customize things like this, and it seems to be removed from the WordPress plugin repository.
• 10 – I think I made a trac ticket about this, this might be possible with some other pieces of code implemented into bbPress 2.6.
• 11 – You can easily do this with an SEO plugin.
• 12 – I don’t think those plugins require flash to be used?? BuddyPress already has an upload avatar function. Heck it might be good for WordPress to implement something like this but they want users to use the Gravatar service, which is pretty handy though.
• 13 – Grunion Contact Form is in the Jetpack plugin now. I don’t think bbPress should have a contact form module in it.
• 14 – I think this might matter more in your theme. I think the bbPress templates are fine though.

[DevynCJohnson]

I am the owner and admin of http://dcjtech.info/ and I love computer programming. Not only do I love programming, but I love to help other developers. I would like to contribute to BBPress by offering some suggestions and ideas.

Please keep in mind that these are just my ideas; I understand that the BBPress team has ideas, needs, and concerns of their own that they must address. In addition, even though I learned a lot about the WordPress and BBPress framework and inner workings, I admit that there are some parts that I may have over-looked or mis-understood. In summary, I am trying to help make BBPress better and more powerful based on what I know, and I want to contribute my ideas as a thanks to all the developers that have spent time and effort making BBPress what it is today.

Now, for my ideas –

1. BBPress needs more options and configurable items – the more customizable, the better. Obviously, some developers are concerned about confusing or overwhelming users, so make a special admin page for “advanced” or “miscellaneous” options. Some additional options I think are needed or helpful include disable/enable feeds, specific control over oEmbeds and auto-embed-links, and settings for SEO/SMO control (discussed in #2).

2. Settings and controls for Search Engine Optimization (SEM) and Social Media Optimization (SMO) – SEM and SMO are important to many web admins. Adding options to configure such features may be wise. The “author” meta tag (and others) could be generated on a per-topic basis (if the admin enables such a feature). Here are some links for HTML5 meta tags for SEM and SMO (https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/issues/1674 && https://gist.github.com/charlesmudy/b3740c73d5f4d5d5c1f4 && https://thomas.vanhoutte.be/miniblog/dynamic-html5-meta-tags-for-wordpress-header-php-file/)

3. Integrate BBCodes and Shortcodes – This may be something the WordPress should do, or the BBPress developers could pass this idea to them. Add features and options for BBCodes. I think that merging “bbpress2 BBCode” (https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-bbcode/), “bbpress2 shortcode whitelist” (https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress2-shortcode-whitelist/), and some ideas from GD BBpres Tools (https://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-bbpress-tools/).

4. Add topic auto-suggestion – This feature can easily be added by merging this plugin – https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-auto-suggest-topics-based-on-new-topic-title/ .

5. Integrate other small, but helpful plugins – “External Links” (https://wordpress.org/plugins/sem-external-links/) and “BBPress Report Content” (https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-report-content/) seem like candidates for merging.

6. Disable/Enable BBPress modules/parts – Obviously, some people may not like or want “BBPress Report Content” or other plugins and features I suggest for merging and adding. The best solution may be to provide a special options page for disabling/enabling certain “BBPress modules” and features. For instance, I use “BBPress Report Content” and I disabled (and I dislike) the BBPress “SPAM” admin-link in my forums. Having more detailed and advanced options may help people like me. Also, more advanced options would (hopefully) make people less likely to edit core files.

7. Export/Import BBPress settings – Correct me if I am wrong, but I do not think BBPress has an easy way to export/save settings to be imported to use as a backup or transfer/share settings.

8. View counter – I think it would be useful to many people to have a “view counter” feature such as I have programmed in my website (http://dcjtech.info/forum/articles/general-computing/). It would be great if BBPress included options for view counters such as displaying topic views in the BBPress-Notice and forum columns (like where I replaced “voices/replies” with “views/viewed”.

9. Options to custom notices and other messages – Some people (like me and others seen on this BBPress forum) want to change “voices” or remove it. Having easy options for this may be helpful.

10. Better forum access control – I would find it helpful to be able to specify that on a particular forum or sub-forum that users with particular permissions can only create new topics or reply.

11. Remove “Topic:” from title – I see a need for some people (like me) to be able to easily configure the appearance of titles (both on the page and in the HTML “title” tag).

12. Implement a built-in avatar system (perhaps BuddyPress or WordPress should use this rather than BBPress) – This would allow local avatars and provide a way for Gravatar to be disabled or used as a secondary. True, BuddyPress provides a way to upload avatars, and “Basic User Avatars” and “Simple Local Avatars” are plugins offering that feature. However, after upgrading my theme to HTML5 and removing Flash from my browser, I can no longer upload avatars using any of the three mentioned possibilities (backend or frontend). However, I can still upload media via the backend (w/o Flash) and via the frontend (with Flash). NOTE: I do list “plupload.full.min.js” and other similar scripts in Autoptimze “Exclude list”.

13. Perhaps, “Grunion Contact Form” should be updated and integrated in BBPress.

14. 100% HTML5 Compliant – I have not studied BBPress in this perspective, so it is possible that I may be very wrong or the developers have a plan already. However, use of HTML5 (or the option to do so) would be helpful.

If you see any features on my website that you want to implement in BBPress, feel free to let me know and then I can give you the code and tell you how I did it. Also, I use my own style sheets for BBPress, BuddyPress, and some plugins. I have been able to increase performance and decrease size by using a CSS minifier (http://csscompressor.com/) and implementing ideas from errors given by a CSS checker (http://csslint.net/). I saw significant improvements even before I changed the style sheets to specifically suit my website.

By the way, making BBPress templates that can be placed in the regular WordPress template was a great idea and feature for BBPress; smart thinking BBPress developers.

[erich199]

Here is the fix I worked out to get the importer to work properly.

The problem I was having was the user accounts were not being imported due to some outdated usermeta fields in the database. I simply removed the sql code from the current importer script, re-ran, and it worked correctly.

I wanted to share the code of that mybb import script. The file name is Mybb.php.

<?php

/**
 * Implementation of MyBB Forum converter.
 *
 * @since bbPress (r5140)
 * @link Codex Docs https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/mybb
 */
class MyBB extends BBP_Converter_Base {

	/**
	 * Main Constructor
	 *
	 * @uses MyBB::setup_globals()
	 */
	function __construct() {
		parent::__construct();
		$this->setup_globals();
	}

	/**
	 * Sets up the field mappings
	 */
	public function setup_globals() {

		/** Forum Section *****************************************************/

		// Forum id (Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'forums',
			'from_fieldname' => 'fid',
			'to_type'        => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname'   => '_bbp_forum_id'
		);

		// Forum parent id (If no parent, then 0, Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'forums',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'pid',
			'to_type'         => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_forum_parent_id'
		);

		// Forum topic count (Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'forums',
			'from_fieldname' => 'threads',
			'to_type'        => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname'   => '_bbp_topic_count'
		);

		// Forum reply count (Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'forums',
			'from_fieldname' => 'posts',
			'to_type'        => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname'   => '_bbp_reply_count'
		);

		// Forum title.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'forums',
			'from_fieldname' => 'name',
			'to_type'        => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname'   => 'post_title'
		);

		// Forum slug (Clean name to avoid conflicts)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'forums',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'name',
			'to_type'         => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_name',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_slug'
		);

		// Forum description.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'forums',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'description',
			'to_type'         => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_content',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_null'
		);

		// Forum display order (Starts from 1)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'forums',
			'from_fieldname' => 'disporder',
			'to_type'        => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname'   => 'menu_order'
		);

		// Forum dates.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'to_type'      => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname' => 'post_date',
			'default'      => date('Y-m-d H:i:s')
		);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'to_type'      => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname' => 'post_date_gmt',
			'default'      => date('Y-m-d H:i:s')
		);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'to_type'      => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname' => 'post_modified',
			'default'      => date('Y-m-d H:i:s')
		);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'to_type'      => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname' => 'post_modified_gmt',
			'default'      => date('Y-m-d H:i:s')
		);

		/** Topic Section *****************************************************/

		// Topic id (Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'threads',
			'from_fieldname' => 'tid',
			'to_type'        => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'   => '_bbp_topic_id'
		);

		// Topic reply count (Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'threads',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'replies',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_reply_count',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_topic_reply_count'
		);

		// Topic total reply count (Includes unpublished replies, Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'threads',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'replies',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_total_reply_count',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_topic_reply_count'
		);

		// Topic parent forum id (If no parent, then 0. Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'threads',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'fid',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_forum_id',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_forumid'
		);

		// Topic author.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'threads',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'uid',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_author',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_userid'
		);

		// Topic Author ip (Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'posts',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'ipaddress',
			'join_tablename'  => 'threads',
			'join_type'       => 'INNER',
			'join_expression' => 'USING (tid) WHERE replyto = 0',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_author_ip'
		);

		// Topic content.
		// Note: We join the 'posts' table because 'threads' table does not have content.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'posts',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'message',
			'join_tablename'  => 'threads',
			'join_type'       => 'INNER',
			'join_expression' => 'USING (tid) WHERE replyto = 0',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_content',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_html'
		);

		// Topic title.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'threads',
			'from_fieldname' => 'subject',
			'to_type'        => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'   => 'post_title'
		);

		// Topic slug (Clean name to avoid conflicts)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'threads',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'subject',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_name',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_slug'
		);

		// Topic parent forum id (If no parent, then 0)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'threads',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'fid',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_parent',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_forumid'
		);

		// Sticky status (Stored in postmeta))
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'threads',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'sticky',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_old_sticky_status',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_sticky_status'
		);

		// Topic dates.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'threads',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'dateline',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_date',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_datetime'
		);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'threads',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'dateline',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_date_gmt',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_datetime'
		);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'threads',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'lastpost',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_modified',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_datetime'
		);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'threads',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'lastpost',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_modified_gmt',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_datetime'
		);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'threads',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'lastpost',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_last_active_time',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_datetime'
		);

		// Topic status (Open or Closed, MyBB v1.6.10 open = null & closed = 1)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'threads',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'closed',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_status',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_topic_status'
		);

		/** Tags Section ******************************************************/

		/**
		 * MyBB v1.6.10 Forums do not support topic tags out of the box
		 */

		/** Reply Section *****************************************************/

		// Reply id (Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'posts',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'pid',
			'from_expression' => 'WHERE replyto != 0',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_post_id'
		);

		// Reply parent forum id (If no parent, then 0. Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'posts',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'fid',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_forum_id',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_topicid_to_forumid'
		);

		// Reply parent topic id (If no parent, then 0. Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'posts',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'tid',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_topic_id',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_topicid'
		);

		// Reply author ip (Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'posts',
			'from_fieldname' => 'ipaddress',
			'to_type'        => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'   => '_bbp_author_ip'
		);

		// Reply author.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'posts',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'uid',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_author',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_userid'
		);

		// Reply title.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'posts',
			'from_fieldname' => 'subject',
			'to_type'        => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'   => 'post_title'
		);

		// Reply slug (Clean name to avoid conflicts)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'posts',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'subject',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_name',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_slug'
		);

		// Reply content.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'posts',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'message',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_content',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_html'
		);

		// Reply parent topic id (If no parent, then 0)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'posts',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'tid',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_parent',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_topicid'
		);

		// Reply dates.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'posts',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'dateline',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_date',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_datetime'
		);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'posts',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'dateline',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_date_gmt',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_datetime'
		);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'posts',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'edittime',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_modified',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_datetime'
		);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'posts',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'edittime',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_modified_gmt',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_datetime'
		);

		/** User Section ******************************************************/

		// Store old User id (Stored in usermeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'users',
			'from_fieldname' => 'uid',
			'to_type'        => 'user',
			'to_fieldname'   => '_bbp_user_id'
		);

		// Store old User password (Stored in usermeta serialized with salt)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'users',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'password',
			'to_type'         => 'user',
			'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_password',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_savepass'
		);

		// Store old User Salt (This is only used for the SELECT row info for the above password save)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'users',
			'from_fieldname' => 'salt',
			'to_type'        => 'user',
			'to_fieldname'   => ''
		);

		// User password verify class (Stored in usermeta for verifying password)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'to_type'      => 'users',
			'to_fieldname' => '_bbp_class',
			'default'      => 'MyBB'
		);

		// User name.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'users',
			'from_fieldname' => 'username',
			'to_type'        => 'user',
			'to_fieldname'   => 'user_login'
		);

		// User nice name.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'users',
			'from_fieldname' => 'username',
			'to_type'        => 'user',
			'to_fieldname'   => 'user_nicename'
		);

		// User email.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'users',
			'from_fieldname' => 'email',
			'to_type'        => 'user',
			'to_fieldname'   => 'user_email'
		);

		// User homepage.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'users',
			'from_fieldname' => 'website',
			'to_type'        => 'user',
			'to_fieldname'   => 'user_url'
		);

		// User registered.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'users',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'regdate',
			'to_type'         => 'user',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'user_registered',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_datetime'
		);

		// User display name.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'users',
			'from_fieldname' => 'usertitle',
			'to_type'        => 'user',
			'to_fieldname'   => 'display_name'
		);

		// Store Signature (Stored in usermeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'users',
			'from_fieldname' => 'signature',
			'to_type'        => 'user',
			'to_fieldname'   => '_bbp_mybb_user_sig',
			'callback_method' => 'callback_html'
		);

	}

	/**
	 * This method allows us to indicates what is or is not converted for each
	 * converter.
	 */
	public function info()
	{
		return '';
	}

	/**
	 * This method is to save the salt and password together.  That
	 * way when we authenticate it we can get it out of the database
	 * as one value. Array values are auto sanitized by WordPress.
	 */
	public function callback_savepass( $field, $row )
	{
		$pass_array = array( 'hash' => $field, 'salt' => $row['salt'] );
		return $pass_array;
	}

	/**
	 * This method is to take the pass out of the database and compare
	 * to a pass the user has typed in.
	 */
	public function authenticate_pass( $password, $serialized_pass )
	{
		$pass_array = unserialize( $serialized_pass );
		return ( $pass_array['hash'] == md5( md5( $password ). $pass_array['salt'] ) );
	}

	/**
	 * Translate the post status from MyBB v1.6.10 numeric's to WordPress's strings.
	 *
	 * @param int $status MyBB v1.6.10 numeric topic status
	 * @return string WordPress safe
	 */
	public function callback_topic_status( $status = 0 ) {
		switch ( $status ) {
			case 1 :
				$status = 'closed';
				break;

			case 0  :
			default :
				$status = 'publish';
				break;
		}
		return $status;
	}

	/**
	 * Translate the topic sticky status type from MyBB v1.6.10 numeric's to WordPress's strings.
	 *
	 * @param int $status MyBB v1.6.10 numeric forum type
	 * @return string WordPress safe
	 */
	public function callback_sticky_status( $status = 0 ) {
		switch ( $status ) {
			case 1 :
				$status = 'sticky';       // MyBB Sticky 'topic_sticky = 1'
				break;

			case 0  :
			default :
				$status = 'normal';       // MyBB Normal Topic 'topic_sticky = 0'
				break;
		}
		return $status;
	}

	/**
	 * Verify the topic/reply count.
	 *
	 * @param int $count MyBB v1.6.10 topic/reply counts
	 * @return string WordPress safe
	 */
	public function callback_topic_reply_count( $count = 1 ) {
		$count = absint( (int) $count - 1 );
		return $count;
	}

}

Hope this helps someone else who is switching over from MyBB to WordPress.

[Robkk]

Yeah it is best if you already have some kind of community then build your forums from that. Things that could build a community could be you being active in discussion in other social networks like on your Facebook page, Twitter, and Youtube channel. You could also easily build your forums if you have active commentators on your WordPress blog.

There is also a plugin that could just replace the WordPress commment form with bbPress topics, so if you are an active blogger this will help drive your community to the forums.

[gptxffa]

I wanted to forums to show New topics on top and the forum index below so I did the following as instructed by Robkk:

Go to Settings > Forums and change the forum root to show Topics by Freshness.

Then add this function to your child themes functions.php or into a functionality plugin.
function recent_bbpress_topics() {
echo do_shortcode(“[bbp-forum-index]“);
}

add_action(‘bbp_template_after_topics_index’,’recent_bbpress_topics’);

Now I have noticed that the Forum Index which is below the most recent topics does not display the proper time and date in the “freshness” column.

Any thoughts?

[smokeys_13]

I’m trying to find the correct filter to jump in on, and the most logical to me was ‘bbp_get_user_role’ but if I try to return from that filter ‘bbp_blocked’ or false all the time (just as a test before I add my logic), it seems to completely ignore my response and keeps using the user’s standard role as decided by BBPress.

What filter can I use to force my own custom roles (I am looking at a custom piece of user meta data to decipher their ability to use the forums and it needs to be dynamic).

[jrunfitpro]

Hi All,

I’m still debating on whether or not BuddyPress is enough, or I need bbPress. However, when I deactivate bbPress, I cannot log into my WP admin panel?

Does anyone know how to fix this issue?

Thanks,

Justin

[santhoshkumard]

Hi,

New to bbpress and wordpress 🙂 I’m trying to install a forum on my main site and I’m facing little issues.

Here is my case:

1. I installed wordpress on my root directory.
2. Then I added the BBPress plugin.
3. Now my forums are loading with this URL structure – example.com/forum/test-forum

I would like my forum to be displayed with this URL structure – example.com/test-forum/

Is there a bbpress fucntion to modify this?
A bbpress function or a plugin is much appreciated rather than a .htaccess rule.

Thanks in advance.

[Denna Gherlyn]

Hello,

I’ve a caching(?) problem and I’ve no idea how to solve it.

I use bbpress on a single website in a multisite wordpress installation with the [bbp-forum-index] bbcode on a custom page as front page.
Now I realised that then I’m moving topics or deleting some of them the topic- and post-counter as the freshness column doesn’t update. There still seems to be a topic but then clicking on the forum there isn’t.
My first suspect is the cache but after smashing the F5 button and manually clearing the browser cache it’s still there. Also topics deleted a long time ago are still in the freshness column but not in the topic- and post-counter.
We’re not using any caching plugins. The only thing that comes near a caching plugin is the plugin wordfence that has a caching option, but that function is disabled. I also deactivated the plugin but nothing changed.

Now I’m quite confused. Does someone know of any problems with following plugins?

What I’ve tried:
– deactivating wordfence
– use the Twenty Fifteen theme instead of evolve (on a test page same result if I move topics between different main categories or parent forums)

What I use:
– WordPress 4.3
– bbPress 2.5.8
– evolve theme 3.4.3 with a child theme
on http://hackish.codes/hcforum/
test website: http://hackish.codes/testpage/

These plugins are active together with bbpress (on both the test website and the productive forum):
– Breadcrumb NavXT 5.2.2
– Redux Framework 3.5.7
– Wordfence Security 6.0.15
– WPML Multilingual CMS 3.2.6 (active on multisite but deactivated through the WPML intern deactivation)
– WP Statistics 9.5.3
– BuddyPress 2.3.3
– WP Hide Admin Bar 2.0
– Orbisius Child Theme Creator 1.2.8