[Robkk]

there is a bug that is already being worked on.

there is a trac ticket here

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2782

[Juan]

@Fred_L I’m sorry but I prefer to not share the URL of the converted forum. I just can say that I converted a Joomla site with +6000 users (Community Builder), +15000 forum posts (kunena) and +3000 articles (joomla) to WordPress successfully using BuddyPress and bbPress. It was not a single click operation, specially importing users and profile data and keeping posts and articles assigned to its original author. Another important thing is that all passwords will be reseted, there is no way to keep passwords unchanged during the migration, so users must be noticed about that.

As if bbPress is a good final forum platform, you have the best example here in bbpress.org forums. In my experiencie, Joomla + kunena + CommunityBuilder require a lot of less resources that WordPress + BuddyPress + bbPress, but there are also a lot of advantages; also disadvantages; in general I’m happy with the migration but you will need to decide yourself considering your specific needs and context.

[Robkk]

@darkoned12000

i think this CSS should fix your issue.

there might be more areas for this to be added like on profile topics started and such , so i recommend looking through your style.css file and find lines similar to these and fix them so they dont affect bbPress as harshly.

contact your theme author about help with this if you want.

follow these two guides to make your theme fully compatible with bbPress.

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/getting-started-in-modifying-the-main-bbpress-template/

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

.single-forum .enigma_blog_post_content img,
.forum-archive .enigma blog_post_content img,
.topic-archive .enigma blog_post_content img {
  max-width: none !important;
}

.single-forum .avatar-14,
.forum-archive .avatar-14,
.topic-archive .avatar-14 {
  display: inline !important;
}

.single-forum .author_detail_img,
.forum-archive .author_detail_img,
.topic-archive .author_detail_img {
  width: auto!important;
  height: auto!important;
  float: none!important;
  margin-right: 0!important;
  margin-bottom: 0!important;
}

[Robkk]

you can try these

bbpress wp4 fix

bbpress wp4 fix2

and also go through your plugins and current theme and see if their are any conflicts

bbpress.org/forums/topic/before-posting/

[Robkk]

@iprg

alright well do you have any plugins that affect the editor like WP Edit or something similar??

and if you havent already go through the basic troubleshooting for general issues in this topic.

Before Posting

[majecdad]

Hey @robkk all of the BP Groups are set to Private, and each Private BP Group has the Group Forum set as the corresponding Main bbpress Forum page (which is set as Forum/Closed/Private) and the subforums (which are set as Forum/Open/Private).

I’ll check in over there too, but the issue seems related to the ability to see forums, not so much the Groups.

Thx.

[Robkk]

also do this since it helps some users.

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

[Robkk]

Mybe it is coded so closed topics are excluded from topic query?

i just closed a topic in an empty forum , i didn’t see anything like this.

Are you seeing anything that should be in a blog post in your bbPress forums.

You did do all of the general issues troubleshooting steps?? like switch to a default theme and deactivate all your plugins except bbPress to find something conflicting??

[Robkk]

what version of WordPress and bbPress are you using??

[Robkk]

You can follow the last entry i added to the very bottom.

it should help with most of the topic icons.

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

i will put how to use CSS at the bottom later.

but the category/forum icons you might need a custom way to list the forums , im going to need more time on that.

your CSS is wrong too .

you can use these as examples

.bbpress a.forum-title:before {
  font: normal 16px/1 'Fontawesome';
  content: '\f07c';
  margin-right: 5px;
  float: left;
  padding-top: 3px;
  color: #222;
}

.bbpress a.forum-link:before {
  font: normal 16px/1 'Fontawesome';
  content: '\f016';
  margin-right: 5px;
  float: left;
  padding-top: 3px;
  color: #222;
}

[comixfreak]

I am using most current WP with a theme called news code. I have installed bbpress and after a brief search I found creating a bbpress.php file in my child themes directory might work. It has not and I am able to post new topics to the forum, however I cannot view any of the topics as shown in the image.

If anyone can lead me in the right direction I would appreciate it. Thanks!

[Robkk]

only thing i can recommend really is backup your site a few times then perform an upgrade to the latest version to see if that fixes the issue.

also make sure you have the latest version of WordPress.

and that your theme is upgraded to the latest version with and make sure you follow these guides if theme compatibility just doesnt work anymore.

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

heres a guide for backing up your site
https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups

[Robkk]

a frontend option to allow the forums to be public in a private group seems kind of custom.

maybe consider posting a job and hire a developer to add this functionality for you.

http://jobs.wordpress.net/

if your using BuddyPress for Groups you can contact their forum for help too.

https://buddypress.org/support/

if you are using the bbPress – Private Groups plugin contact Robin on the plugins forum or on his personal site.

[Robkk]

not sure but maybe this plugin would help.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-auto-suggest-topics-based-on-new-topic-title/

[Robkk]

you can use the bbpress shortcodes

codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/

but it will only affect that one page not the rest of the other ones.

i suggest creatng a bbpress.php file , these two guides will help

to find the file bbPress uses you can use the What the File plugin.

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/getting-started-in-modifying-the-main-bbpress-template/

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

[Robkk]

hmm threaded reply specific notifications , any replies to the 1st level reply send notifications to that user sounds interesting.

Im not sure if bbPress really does this as i barely used the threaded replies feature.,but i think its only topics/forum subscriptions.

if you want you could hire a developer to make this for you.

post a job at http://jobs.wordpress.net/

i might make a trac ticket on this as a feature suggestion though.

@joymoleta

can you receive regular topic notifications??

[brewcitymarketing]

We recently moved servers and on the new server new posts are not showing up. They work on the staging site so we have narrowed it down to a chache issue however all attempts to exclude bbpress from the cache have failed.

When we post it just reloads the page and does not register that we were posting anything. No post shows up in the front or back end of the site.

Any ideas on how to fix this would be most appreciated!

Thank you!

[Robkk]

yep that warp framework is pretty complicated.

i see that throwing all the files fixed your issue, if this fixed it 100% go on any topic that talks about bbPress compatibility issues and post your resolution so that it will help others.

[Robkk]

You should follow this guide too, some users say that throwing all the templates into a child theme resolves theme issues too.

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

[Robkk]

only thing i found was this , i tested it out and it was missing about 10 topics during the import.
maybe stickies and closed.

https://github.com/pippinsplugins/bbPress-Export-and-Import

but i see that you have resolved your issue with that plugin, i will check out and see if i can find more that could do the same thing.

[landshark]

I found a plugin that allowed me to bulk edit in the admin. Custom Bulk/Quick Edit Premium there is a free version however I needed the premium version to work with bbpress.

Hope this helps someone else.

[Fred_L]

@netweb @stagger-lee @marshallarts @jaeha @cybnet @jbuesking
For those of you who went from Kunena to bbPress: Would you be willing to share the url of the page with the migrated forum? Would you recommend bbPress to do the migration and as a final forum platform?

I have a VERY nervous client who is reluctant to leave Joomla for WP ONLY because their existing forum (5,000+ users, 11 categories, 44,000+ posts) is on Kunena. They had a bad experience several years ago when another developer tried to do the migration.

Many thanks in advance!

[Fred_L]

Did you use a plugin or your own coding? Would you be willing to share the url of the migrated forum? I’m looking to do the same > migrating from Joomla Kunena to WP bbPress. Since you posted 1 yr and 5 mo. ago do you have any updated suggestions or warnings on how to best accomplish this migration successfully? We have 5,000+ registered users, 11 categories and 44,000+ posts. Many thanks in advance!!

[bachireal]

Hi,
I’ve got these 3 errors, please give me a dummy guide as I’m a dumb. But I’m loving these 2 plugins though.
Notice: bbp_setup_current_user was called incorrectly. The current user is being initialized without using $wp->init(). Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 2.3.) in /home1/mongolk7/public_html/mongoliatravel/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3560
Notice: bp_setup_current_user was called incorrectly. The current user is being initialized without using $wp->init(). Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 1.7.) in /home1/mongolk7/public_html/mongoliatravel/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3560
Strict Standards: Declaration of BBP_Forums_Group_Extension::display() should be compatible with BP_Group_Extension::display($group_id = NULL) in /home1/mongolk7/public_html/mongoliatravel/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/extend/buddypress/groups.php on line 28
Thank you,

[hazedesigns]

2nd finding:

The answer was in the codex!

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

This page explains the way to make copies of the files from the plugin directory into the theme directory and/or subdirectories in the theme directory for the purpose of customising those templates. Turns out that the only problem was that warp7 couldn’t find them in their default location within the plugin folder, so simply copying 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 seems to have rectified all issues! Yet to test completely but this is looking good – I was praying for an easy fix! Thanks so much to Robkk for pointing me in the right direction!