[stiffmeister12]

Okay I will try that but normally what php file would you go into or what option would you go into in order to profile pictures on the font page of bbpress or by the “freshness” area?

[splufford]

For anyone else struggling to get BB Press and Thesis 2 to work (ie forums page showing blank) see these instructions:

“the problem in this case isn’t with Thesis per se, it’s just that you have to configure the Template being used for that page in a specific way in order for it to work with bbPress:

Launch the Thesis Skin Editor and access the Forums template (i.e., the one which is nested under the Archive template).

Expand the Post Box in that Template, and then remove all of the boxes which are currently inside of it.

Then, click “show tray” at the bottom of the Post Box, and click on Post Box → Content to add that dependent box to the parent Post Box; then save the template.

Once you’ve done that, view the page at /forums/ again, and you should then see the Forum Index displayed on that page (assuming you’ve not changed the plugin’s default “Forum root to show” option).”

[christianslater]

Hello I am using bbpress in conjunction with buddypress. I also activated the function to allow forum creation with creation of a buddypress group.

Additionally I want to have forum page. When I place the shortcode on a page all forums are displayed also the ones that are created with buddypress group. Is it possible to exclude these forums form the page?

[Stephen Edgar]

Two functions bbp_update_reply_position() and bbp_get_reply_position_raw() are what you need to look at:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/2.5/includes/replies/functions.php#L2113
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/2.5/includes/replies/functions.php#L2149

The two functions above are what calculates the reply position in the database as it doesn’t actually exist in the database until either a) a new reply is added to a topic or b) the repair tool is ran to calculate the reply order.

[Stephen Edgar]

Found the patch, it needs lots of testing and I haven’t had the time to take even a cursory look at it yet https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2731, so lets leave that aside for now.

The code is here, I’m not sure your level of PHP knowledge but I’ll just add the link to it for now and will follow up after you’ve had a look at the code:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/2.5/includes/admin/tools.php#L1134

[pandreas]

Is there an easy way to add custom fields to the front-end of bbpress?

I am using some custom fields (file, image attachments) with the help of this plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/ so I add them to support bbpress forums and topics as well.

But these custom fields are available only to back-end of topics and forums and not to the front-end.

How can this change?

Thank you in advanced!

Andreas

[Stephen Edgar]

Ok, run ONLY the following 3 repair tools: https://codex.bbpress.org/features/repair-forums/

* Recalculate the parent topic for each post
* Recalculate the parent forum for each post
* Recalculate last activity in each topic and forum

Do the replies look OK in the backend now?

If not then run this repair tool:
* Recalculate the position of each reply

How about now?

(The above should repair all the post_meta for you)

[Robkk]

@mmice

oh haha well thanks for clarifying that , easy mistake because really v1 did have that same db table name.

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/bbpress-mysql-reference

[Robkk]

@mmice

bbPress v2 does not have a bb_posts database table , that is in bbPress v1 standalone. Which is what @netweb is referring that you are trying to import into the old v1 version even though your suppose to import to the latest version.

All of bbPress data is stored inside of the WordPress database tables.

In this guide I explain it.

Stored Database Data

[mmice]

No, i have bbPress 2.5.7
Actually, first i tried to use your phPBB v3.x importer and rebuild it for phpBB 1.
But i gave up (just couldn’t understand all the points).

Anyway, – for this moment most problems are already resolved. The only question is:
Isn’t it enough to import replies to bb_posts table?

[Robkk]

Go through some common troubleshooting steps.

Troubleshooting

[Robkk]

Its custom code to this site.

There might be some tutorial, I think someone linked to it before on here but I can’t remember where ti was.

This plugin has something close , but it has no styling.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-info-widgets/

[Robkk]

Contact the plugin authors support forum. IF i remember correctly they have special templates for compatibility with bbPress.

[Robkk]

You might need to create a new user role for users to default as and set their capabilities to create replies but not create topics.

Custom Capabilities

[nicnack]

Hi There ~ How can I make a forum only available to those who log in to the membership part of the site (using (wp-members plugin)? normally I can set which pages/post are private, but since the BBforum seems to dynamically create a page, Im not sure how to do this…?

WordPress 4.2.2
bbpress Version 2.5.7
link: http://www.laadda.com/2015/forums/forum/adda-forum/

Thanks!

[Stephen Edgar]

So I edited the post and copied the SQL code to a gist on GitHub:

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/8d1cb71e69d52ac69f5d

First, it looks like you are importing the phpBB into bbPress 1.x, bbPress 1.x is not supported anymore.

Per @robkk post immediately above you should checkout that link to our docs on the codex on importing to bbPress 2.x, and in general look toward using the bbPress 2.x plugin for WordPress https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/

I’d suggest taking a look at our phPBB v3.x importer and making any change to match the phpBB v1.x database schema changes you would need:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/2.5/includes/admin/converters/phpBB.php

[allmyhoney]

Hi there, I hoping someone can help me here. I have noticed that when a user posts for the very first time on my forum this error attached here is generated: http://i59.tinypic.com/ru5out.jpg

I think its some error related to the avatar being generated for the first time. When a user goes to post a second and third post and so on all is well. I am not sure if its something I need to fix on the server or in the plugin. I am using the latest version 2.5.7 of bbpress.

Maybe someone has seen this before and has a solution to it? Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance, James

[thierryyyyyyy]

I’m also interested.

I actually don’t need the wordpress blog at all, I would prefere to have a separate installation for my forum… and then, I don’t want to have a “/forum” in the URL.

I tried to put my “bbpress.php” template as the “index.php” template in the theme : stupid idea !
I got the blog posts inside the forum template (as actually one might expect…)

I also tried to configure the “forum root” parameter (the folder name) as “”. did not work (Yeah, I also doubted, but I had to try)

it should exists something linked with permalinks to do such a thing, isn’t ?

[Luis Fatorbinario]

Hi guys,
I finished setting up a bbPress on my website and everything is good so far, preparing to build forums and categories.

Reading topics here on bbPress.org I’m wondering how to have a left sidebar like yours.

I mean, when you open a topic you see “Topic info” with a nice view, and when open a forum it shows “Forum info” stats..

Is there a plugin to this or perhaps a tutorial teaching how to customize.

[stiffmeister12]

I am having trouble getting my userpro avitars or profile pictures to be displayed on the bbpress home page and topics page where its says “freshness” or “latest post”. The profile pictures do show up when you go into a topic and reply but not on the home page. I want the little picture next to posters name under “freshness” or “latest post”. What code would i have to change and where can i find it? Im using a custom theme by the way.

[Fryvisuals]

You can either change WP_DEBUG to false inside wp-config.php

OR if you need debugging for development go to /plugins/bbpress/includes/core/sub-actions.php

function bbp_setup_current_user() {
	if ( ! did_action( 'after_setup_theme' ) ) {
		// comment out line below
		// _doing_it_wrong( __FUNCTION__, __( 'The current user is being initialized without using $wp->init().', 'bbpress' ), '2.3' );
	}

	do_action( 'bbp_setup_current_user' );
}

[PinkishHue]

You could leave the forum open but just hide the form for creating new topics in that forum. There’s a similar topic here that may help you:

Disallow topic creation but allow comments in certain forums

[bexinul]

Hello,

I am trying to import my Kunena 3 forum to bbPress when switching from Joomla to WordPress.

The import always fails with this error:

WordPress database error: [Table 'bcbrainois2.jos_kunena_topics' doesn't exist]
SELECT convert(kunena_messages.id USING "utf8") AS id,convert(kunena_messages.catid USING "utf8") AS catid,convert(kunena_messages.thread USING "utf8") AS thread,convert(kunena_messages.ip USING "utf8") AS ip,convert(kunena_messages.userid USING "utf8") AS userid,convert(kunena_messages.subject USING "utf8") AS subject,convert(kunena_messages_text.message USING "utf8") AS message,convert(kunena_messages.time USING "utf8") AS time FROM jbcb_kunena_messages AS kunena_messages LEFT JOIN jbcb_kunena_messages_text AS kunena_messages_text ON kunena_messages_text.mesid = kunena_messages.id LEFT JOIN jos_kunena_topics AS kunena_topics ON kunena_messages.thread = kunena_topics.id WHERE kunena_messages.parent != 0 LIMIT 0, 100

My table prefix is jbcb_ I don’t know why the importer tries to import a jos_ table which doesn’t exist…

And the result of the import is a forum without any post, just the topics are imported.

Can someone help me on that one?

Thanks a lot,

Nicolas

[Robin W]

I’d go with what you did, but put it in a child theme. That way it will be unaffected by changes to plugins or themes.

Functions files and child themes – explained !

[ns]

Thank you for replying.

Yes, that’s right.
The link of https://bbpress.org/forums/profile/naoyoshi/replies/ shows, user-replies-created.php is made by bbp_user_replies_created_url() function.
The default file of user-detail.php has this function and I don’t change.
The parameter of this function is blank.

When the page like https://bbpress.org/forums/profile/naoyoshi/replies/ shows, user-replies-created.php is executed.
As the core processes of bbPress, does it really retrieve only specific user’s replies from database?
This is what I don’t understand now and the current question.

I checked php files user-replies-created.php, loop-replies.php, and loop-single-reply.php, and interface of functions which used in these php files.
I haven’t almost changed codes in these php files, the content of these php files is nearly the original.
As far as I checked, there are no parameters which can retrieve only specific user’s replies in functions.
In this bbPress forums, user interface part is customized from the original file, though, why can it show only specific user’s replies data correctly?

I think I might have to add or change some codes in some of php files…, I don’t know it’s true.