[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!

[hazedesigns]

Thanks Robkk, I will have a look at that what-the-file plugin and a look at the codex documentation and see what I can find. I’m really stretching my skills here so it’s interesting and informative but not always making much progress!

I have traced some of the files involved in the page displays with warp7, it is pretty complex and convoluted! Basically so far I have it mapped out a bit like this:

request > index.php (calls ‘warp’ system) > template.php (loads in the widget positions etc including calling for the content) > filtering to decide what kind of content ‘content’ is (ie page, archive etc) ##### AT THIS POINT BBPRESS TAKES OVER AND STARTS MAKING THE SPECIAL BBPRESS CONTENT #####

> if still with warp, goes into styles > layouts > individual override templates

> if now in bbPress goes into bbPress.php then to the bbPress template files, but somewhere here some of it gets lost!

I could of course be completely wrong, I have never dissected a theme this thoroughly, let alone something of the complexity of the warp framework!

Thanks for the offer of inspecting the theme for me, that would be great! As the website is live I can’t provide access to that site but I’ll get a version up and running elsewhere and not live and I’ll send you admin details. Hopefully there is a fairly simple solution that can be shared with others who are suffering this problem! Up until this hurdle I had nothing but love for the warp7 framework, now there is a bit of a cloud over it in my mind if it is indeed responsible for these issues. Whizz-bang features are great but not at the expense of overall integration with existing plugins etc!

I will be in touch with login details!

[jesse09]

Hey guys and gals

Hope all is well!

First off, thank you taking the time to help, it’s appreciated.

I’ve started to build a wordpress blog ( Fat Burner Depot ) It’s wordpress 4.2.1, if that helps.

I’ve seen a site where bbpress loads into a standard static wordpress page. Shouldn’t I be able to copy and paste the index code into the body of the page text? Just as long as the paths to the rest of bbpress files are right? Is there a better way to go about this?

Anyone can help me out?
Thank you!!

[Robkk]

Really appreciate the response, I get NOTHING from yootheme which is a bit sad 🙁

yeah ive seen quite a couple people not get support on their end for this common issue.

i had a user with the similar issue say that the first wp fix resolved the issue they had with the warp7 framework.

for now you can install this plugin and find the file your forums are using for bbPress.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/what-the-file/

then maybe copy that into a child theme and rename it to bbpress.php from it and remove any unwanted code.

this guide will help hopefully

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

you can also create an admin account for me so i can check out your theme files and see how to fix this. send the login details to my email.

robkkdev.wordpress.com/contact

[Robkk]

spammers are loving your topic

usually creating a bbpress.php from a copy of page.php or sometimes single.php and removing unwanted code for comments and blog specific content would fix most theme problems.

follow this guide on creating a bbpress.php

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

contact your theme author too since this is a premium theme, and that i cant be more hands on and look at the code of your theme without buying it.

need more help on this reply back.

[kruglikov]

I have old version 2.2.4 of bbpress installed on our site.
I have to use old version because already for a long time have problem that
if I update the plug-in forums page breaks!
From forums/ page disappears forums list but all subpages like forums and topics are working and I can access them in browser.

Forums page is created with Method 1 here https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum/#method-1

I spent a whole day trying to find out what’s wrong with newer version but could not find the reason why Forums page disappeared.

Please help!

P.S. I found that forums/ page is registered when forum post type registration happened, but I could not find out where exactly in bbpress code forums page template is plased. Could anyoone at least help me with that?

[shanhard]

^ SPAM!

Anyone have a similar issue with their bbpress installation, or can offer some pointers for me as to how to go about solving this issue?

[Stephen Edgar]

I’ve been thinking much about what is mentioned here of late…

For now, check out some of the plugins on this page https://codex.bbpress.org/feature-plugins-tracking/

p.s. Post counts will ship with bbPress 2.6, so that is one removed from that list.

[Robkk]

i agree with these

Posts Count & Join Date Under Username – just post count and join date on profile.

“Report” Option – It would be good for moderation.

Attachments – but just using the Add Media button , ive been messing with this lately.

Things that should be a plugin

Private Responses – kind of a toss up , its not hard to create though. or are you talking about Private messages??

“Like” button – bbPress has a favorites option , like buttons per reply should just be a plugin, there are nice options for plugins though.

dictate if there are “new” or “unread” posts – there is a lot of options in plugins for this and they are quite different too, it really depends if its good for users to have an option on what they want or what.

Ability to “Quote” users – we have threaded replies as an alternative. it could be a feature in the future , but i think it should stay in plugin territory for now.

things that are easily possible to create in my opinion

Icons for Subcategories that help to differentiate between subcategories – simple css

“New” icons for new posts – show icon from date of creation.

“Sticky” icons for stickied posts – simple css

“Hot” icons for posts that are popular -show the label when a reply level hits

Ability to Rename bbpress specific vernacular (IE “Last Post” in place of “Freshness”) – put the templates in your child theme / create a custom language file for your site/ custom function.

Format Categories vs SubCategories in Traditional Forum Style – there is three ways you can have this functionality.

Signatures – you can create a custom text description box in your profile and then just show it after your reply content with a function.

things that are already in bbPress

Sort Forum by Recently Updated, Most Replies, Most Viewed, Etc. – bbPress views does this.

Basic editor for responses including format help – the default quicktags seem basic