[richard.wil]

Hi All,

Hoping someone out there can help me. I am converting my old website into wordpress and am trying to import my forum into bbpress but have run into a problem. I can’t seem to get the import to start.

I fill in the database details on the import page using the details from my config.php file and then click start, the page displays the “Starting Conversion” status and the loading circle is spinning but that is as far as it gets.

I had read all the pages and guides and forum posts I can find for a week but cannot figure out where I am going wrong.

The forum I am importing is a very small forum compared to other websites and I have tried leaving the page on this status for 4 hours without any change.

Is there somewhere I can find an error log that would tell me what is going on or would anywhere have any ideas would could be the cause of this

Im running phpbb 3.0.14

Thanks in advance

Richard

[alekseevas]

Stephen, thanks for the answer! Please tell me when plans to release an update (bbPress 2.6)?

[vizcano]

i am having my site off line for the moment, i will put it online soon, and i will send you the link.

but i wanted to tell you that i deleted the w3 total cache plugin for some problems with other plugins, and the problem persist…

i am seriously considering to try backing up the forums (can you tell me how to do this?), delete bbpress and reinstall it from scratch, and import the forums again…

if that still doesnt work i will delete all and create the forums from scratch :.( (but i really dont want to do this)

thanks for your ideas, i will send you the link as soon as i get my site online!

[Robkk]

What about this?? It will hide @mentions in bbPress forums though.

.activity-list .bbpress, 
.activity-list .bbpress {
	display: none;
}

[Robkk]

Alright I might report this as a bug, but I need steps to duplicate the issue. And could you answer these questions to help me, know where you are at?

Are you running any special bbPress set up?
Does this happen to all user roles?
I am going to assume on your fresh install you just have the latest stable version of bbPress and WordPress and no other plugins activated while using a default theme?

[drinkingsouls]

Yes, I did.
I created a fresh install of wordpress here: test.webshrimp.uk
The only plugin activated is bbpress and the logout doesn’t work. As soon as it is deactivated the logout link works. It is 100% bbpress causing the issue. I don’t know why it is appending redirect links to the logout button either.
Thanks

[Robkk]

@sammmmy

See if this helps any.

Import Troubleshooting

[Robkk]

Thanks you for sharing your fork.

Have you read this for that freezing issue??

Import Troubleshooting

[Extreme4x4Dude]

I had a feeling that would be the response I would get but I don’t understand how this could be a problem all of a sudden after the new update. I will look into this more and worse case scenario just remove bbPress from the site all together and use something different for my forums.

[Robkk]

Yeah this issue is not because of the bbPress plugin but your site does not have enough memory.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Common_WordPress_Errors#Allowed_memory_size_exhausted

[inspirationally]

Oh this is long ago.
I just searched through my harddrive and could find a copy of the wbb3.php, my old import file, but I don’t think that’s the most recent version – I could not find anything with wbb in it. Unfortunately, the wbb3.php in the bbpress plugin folder was overwritten with the bbpress updates.

[Robkk]

With bbPress activated and logging out from the backend using the WordPress toolbar.

http://localhost/mysite/wp-login.php?loggedout=true

Without bbPress activated and logging out from the backend using the WordPress toolbar.

http://localhost/mysite/wp-login.php?loggedout=true

With bbPress activated and logging out from the bbPress login widget on my front page.

localhost/mysite/?loggedout=true

Did you already go through some troubleshooting to see if it was an issue in your plugins or theme??

[Robkk]

You have to copy the main template bbPress is inheriting from your theme for its layout and create a bbpress.php file from it. This would usually require you to remove the sidebar code, then use CSS to make the layout fullwidth.

Getting Started in Modifying the Main bbPress Template

[Robkk]

What is the error??

I have my localhost server running the latest WordPress and bbPress and I do not see an issue.

I also tested one of my live test sites, and still do not see an issue.

[Extreme4x4Dude]

My server auto updated my website to the new WordPress 4.2.3 and now when bbPress is active my site breaks. I’ve since change the setting on my server so that it does not auto update but I still have the problem of my bbPress plugin wont work. When activated a Fatal Error occurs. Has anyone else had this problem?

[tomnikkola]

Hello

We have two different membership groups using our website. The first group should only see certain forum topics and replies. The other group can see all. When the members use the actual forums, this works great, but if any of the members use their activity feed, they see content from forums they should not see.

As a short-term solution, I want to hide ALL topics and replies from the activity feed, but not hide the “mentions.”

I put this in my CSS editor:

.bbpress.activity-item {
display: none;
}

and while it it does remove the forum topics and replies from all activity feeds, it also removes the list of mentions.

I’ve looked throughout the BuddyPress and bbPress forums and can’t find an answer. I’d much appreciate any assistance.

[LisaValentine321]

Is there anyway to do this or do I need to have bbpress installed on a theme without a side bar?

My website is here: http://www.therelationshippsychic.com/

Thank you.

[drinkingsouls]

I created a fresh install of WordPress and bbpress here:
test.webshrimp.uk
BBpress is currently activated, note how the logout links are not working. As soon as I deactivate Bbpress it works fine

[drinkingsouls]

Basically when I activate bbPress on my blog the log out links no longer work. It seems to append a redirect to the end of log out links which prevents it from working. I’m not sure why but it’s definitely to do with bbPress.

Here is the logout anchor tag when bbPress is deactivated (works)
<a href="http://test.webshrimp.uk/wp-login.php?action=logout&_wpnonce=1ef350795a">Log out</a>

Here is the anchor tag when bbPress is activated – doesn’t do anything
<a href="http://test.webshrimp.uk/wp-login.php?action=logout&_wpnonce=1ef350795a&redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Ftest.webshrimp.uk%2F%3Floggedout%3Dtrue">Log out</a>

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

[PinkishHue]

I’m assuming by category you mean the forum that the topic is in?

You can remove the forum dropdown menu and use a hidden field here instead.

In your theme you need to have this file:

wp-content/your-theme/bbpress/form-topic.php

If you don’t have it, copy it over from the bbpress default templates at:

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress

Then open your new form-topic.php in a text editor and find this part of the code:

<p>
	<label for="bbp_forum_id"><?php _e( 'Forum:', 'bbpress' ); ?></label><br />
	<?php
		bbp_dropdown( array(
		'show_none' => __( '(No Forum)', 'bbpress' ),
		'selected'  => bbp_get_form_topic_forum()
		) );
	?>
</p>

and replace it with this:

<input id="bbp_forum_id" type="hidden" name="bbp_forum_id" value="20">

Where 20 is the ID no. of the forum you want all topics to be created in.

Hope that helps 🙂

[Robkk]

Found this snippet earlier this week, this should help not allow guest users to see BuddyPress Profiles.

/**
* Redirect buddypress and bbpress pages to registration page
*/
function kleo_page_template_redirect()
{
    //if not logged in and on a bp page except registration or activation
    if( ! is_user_logged_in() && ! bp_is_blog_page() && ! bp_is_activation_page() && ! bp_is_register_page() ) {
        wp_redirect( home_url( '/register/' ) );
        exit();
    }
}
add_action( 'template_redirect', 'kleo_page_template_redirect' );

[Robkk]

Sorry for the late reply, I am going through some old topics to see if I missed something.

Have you tried disabling all other plugins AND using the default theme at same time? (difficult if the site is live of course)

If it’s not on a live site maybe try a fresh bbpress install? Also there are some repair tools in the settings you can try (I haven’t had experience using these but it’s worth a try)

Do this to see, and report back.

If it doesn’t work I might have to report a bug.

[Robkk]

@david13_13

There are probably a bunch of alternatives, but this works for both topics and replies.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-auto-subscribe-for-new-topics-and-replies/

[Robkk]

I’ve looked inside the loop-forums.php template, then found this <?php do_action( ‘bbp_template_before_forums_loop’ ); ?> being executed. Which template file is bbp_template_before_forums_loop pulling from ?

Sorry for the late reply, but that is a hook. If you want the login form only above the forum index just echo the shortcode like so above or below that hook.

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

or if you are pretty good with PHP just use the hook.

If you want the login form above all bbPress pages, you might have to consider echoing the shortcode in a bbpress.php file.

Getting Started in Modifying the Main bbPress Template

[Robkk]

Try some troubleshooting especially the Theme and Plugin steps.

Troubleshooting