[DevynCJohnson]

@robkk

1. If the oEmbeds are disabled in the options, then how would I still have oEmbed cache accumulating?

12. I use Firefox (latest) on Linux and Android. I occasionally use Chromium (also the latest version on Linux).

By the way, thanks for all of your help. However, keep in mind that my main purpose for this thread is to give the BBPress developers some ideas rather than fix my problems.

[larnoult]

Hey,

I can’t find any option to cancel bbPress sending a notification to the buddypress profile of a user that has subscribed to a newly answered topic.
I need to cancel these bbpress notifications, any tips?

Thx!!

Cheers,

[cluciftias]

Hi,

I am in the process of converting Joomla!/SMF portal into WP/bbPress. WordPress I used is 4.3 and bbPress 2.5.8. I managed to convert Joomla! to WP but I keep getting into problems with SMF.

Users from SMF get migrated without a problem. However, migrating topics is a bit of a problem. It’s a large forum with 6885 topis and over 80000 posts. Topic migration keeps getting stuck after ~6500 topics. I tried removing topics that I assumed to be the issue but it didn’t help. I removed large number of topics – it didn’t help. Converter simply gets into loop. Restarting migration doesn’t help.

Neither PHP nor MySQL have any restrictions – it’s a server I’m administering and for this particular scenario I’ve let PHP consume all the memory it needed. It didn’t help. I’ve tried changing row limit to even 1, it’s still the same.

Any suggestion will be most welcome. Thank you.

[Robkk]

You can use oembed for embedding imgur links automatically.

You can use the img quicktag button in the toolbar if the url of the image is from a different source.

GD bbPress Attachments plugin can handle uploading images to your site directly.

If you use BuddyPress also, you can use the BuddyPress Forum Editor plugin for image uploads that way also.

[Stefano Lissa]

Looking at the code it seems there is no way to hook into that option in a easy way. One should hook into get_options for the moderation_key option but find a way to determine he is in the bbpress contect and not in the comment moderation context. If needed I can write the patch to bbpress for that, it’s one line of code!

Stefano.

[Robkk]

I will note this as a possible feature request. Having a unique blacklist might be a good idea, there might be a way to hook into WordPress’s blacklist function and specify words only for bbPress, but I do not know at the moment, sorry.

[Robkk]

How can’t you login?

What is stopping you exactly from logging in?

Do you see an error messages in the login form?

Is it redirects or 404s?

Did you try some troubleshooting to see if it was another plugin conflict? It could also be a security or a spam plugin that could cause this type of issue.

Troubleshooting

[Robkk]

Did you try any troubleshooting?

Troubleshooting

Maybe clear any cache collected on your cpu and make sure your forum role is in fact the keymaster role.

[Robkk]

Add this custom CSS anywhere you can put custom css like your child themes style.css file or a custom css plugin.

#bbpress-forums p.bbp-topic-meta img.avatar, 
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-reply-revision-log img.avatar, 
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-topic-revision-log img.avatar, 
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-template-notice img.avatar, 
#bbpress-forums .widget_display_topics img.avatar, 
#bbpress-forums .widget_display_replies img.avatar {
    float: none;
    margin-bottom: 0;
    vertical-align: middle;
    border: 1px solid #ddd;
}

You can use this function (and add it where you can put php code snippets, like your child themes functions.php file or in a plugin like functionality) in this topic to increase those 14px avatars to say 24px.

Resizing Avatars

[Robkk]

Is there a setting to edit custom post type archives in that SEO plugin? The forums index page should be a Forum Archive.

You may need to contact that plugin’s support to see if you are configuring it in the right place, or if there is even an option to edit the titles of custom post type archives. Most free plugin have a setting to modify the Forum Archive of bbPress.

[Robkk]

Can you link to the site so I can see everything that is happening for the user profiles?

Try bulk editing a user in Users > All Users, and give them a forum role if they do not seem to have the default bbPress roles and see if that fixes anything.

Are you importing from another WordPress/bbPress site?

I also think how you imported everything could be a possibility of why the profiles are screwed up.

I guess you could hide the profiles but the profile links would link to nothing.

[webplayer]

I’m experiencing this issue, where edited bbress forum posts keep showing up again in the buddypress activity feed.

I saw that there is a ticket and patch for this. The question is how do I install a patch? Do I just ftp to my server and drop the patch file into the appropriate directory?

It looks like it’s patching this bbpress file: src/includes/extend/buddypress/activity.php

Ticket: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2690

Patch: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/2690/2690.01.patch

[Robkk]

1. That is oembed cache you are removing with WP-Sweep, not the oembeds itself.

5. That was just 8-9 months ago. Some plugins do not need to update as frequently as others. This plugin basically is just using some bbPress hooks and filters to create its functionality for itself.

12. What browser are you using? I could test this in a minute. And I guess any theme that is based off of the HTML5 boilerplate like HTML Blank theme, I would come across the same issue as you??

[AilyRoot]

conversion is completed but username’s password is not converted but DOC says it will be converted https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started/importing-data/import-forums/invision/

any idea why is this?

we are going to bbpress from ipb 3.4.7

[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.