[WutHirsch]

Hello everyone,

i am very new to CSS & HTMl, i tried to solve my problem by my own, but i didn’t get it.
Maybe someone has a idea how i can fix my new bbpressforum.

Only half of the site is used by BBpress. BBpress should use all the remaining free space.

Thats why i tried yet.
The widget area dissapeard and bbpress should fill out the empty space.
But yeah, how you can see its not working. (http://www.forest-game.de)

My Code:

#bbpress-forums .article, div#content_box.sidebar_layout {
	width: 100%;
}
#bbpress-forums .article, .sidebar.c-4-12 {
	display: none;
}

Edit:, oh i did something wrong. The widgets areas on the other sites dissapeared too ^-^

Kindly regards

[JohnWilbanks]

I am on my second attempt of using bbPress, but I am having a little issue. When someone creates a discussion post, it doesn’t show up. Check out my forum at DCCollectors.com, and you can see what I am talking about. When clicking on the post link, it doesn’t show what has been posted.

[Stephen Edgar]

You may need to extract the users out to a separate table, or you may be able to treat these users as “anonymous users”, I’d suggest first though I’d look at mapping some of the fields for the content only as that should not take much time to get up and running.

First you want to do this with bbPress 2.6 ‘alpha’ rather than the current 2.5.6 release as there are significant improvements to the importers in the upcoming version.

You can get your hands on 2.6 alpha via https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/developers/ and it is listed under “Other Versions” as “Development Version”
Or the direct download link https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bbpress.zip

Next you want to make a copy of Example.php from the includes/admin/converters folder of the plugin to MyConverter.php and in that file replace any instance of Example with MyConverter (this is case sensitive to be mindful of that)

Next up start mapping the fields from your schema to the fields in MyConverter.php

In the following screenshot I’ve mapped drawn lines to the easily concluded fields, any field mappings that you do not use you can simply delete, ideally using as many as you can will ensure the best bbPress experience for your data though.

Take a stab at doing the above for the rest of your database, topics, replies etc and get back to us.

If you need a place to host code snippets, use GitHub Gists: http://gist.github.com

[Robin W]

ok thanks I can see it now.

create a directory on your theme called ‘bbpress’
ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/form-topic.php
Make a copy of this file, and put in in the directory called bbpress that you created above, so you end up with
wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/form-topic.php
bbPress will now use this template instead of the original

then edit this file to change line 183

<input name="bbp_log_topic_edit" id="bbp_log_topic_edit" type="checkbox" value="1" 

etc.

to

<input name="bbp_log_topic_edit" id="bbp_log_topic_edit" type="checkbox" value="0" 

etc.

It will then be unchecked by default

[Stagger Lee]

Make CSS override. It will be lost with bbPress update.

[Stagger Lee]

Separate bbp-forum-content on bbpress.css line 537 or use !important:

.bbp-forum-content {
margin: 0 0 0 73px !important;
}

display:table; gives you same effect.

[impressor]

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.)

Why? and How to fix?

Buddypress also had this error, but they fixed it almost 2 years ago. Something to do with calling is_user_logged_in()

See here: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/debug-error-bp_setup_current_user-was-called-incorrectly/

[phil_b]

Hi all,

I hope you guys can offer some advice suggestions here.

This is the situation:

– I have a wordpress multi-site setup (4 blogs in total)
– There are currently 4 xenforo forums I need to import. These need to be imported in to my 4 multi-site blogs. One xenforo forum to each of the 4 blogs.
– all users from all xenforo forums, imported in to each of the 4 blogs should be able to visit each of those 4 blogs and post in any they choose

The goal is to ultimately have a single user base within my wordpress multi-site, but with 4 different forums running (one under each blog), where users can access and post data in all of them (as well as submit regular post comments etc)

The main issue I can see me having is that each xenforo forum will have users who’s IDs start at 1, and go up to about 15,000 (lots of users!!). If I import one forum in to the first multisite blog, then what happens when I import the next forum in the second multisite blog? Will users get overwritten? Will forum topics/replies get attributed to the wrong user?

Note: I am also running buddypress.

A solution I have considered is to import all users from xenforo forum 1. Then loop through all users in xenforo forum 2 to update their ID’s to +15,000 (i.e user with ID 1 becomes user with ID 15001 etc). Then import that forum in to bbpress. Then do the same with xenforo forums 3 and 4 (+30000, +45000).

That is a hefty task though.

Any advice/help would be really appreciated!

[Robin W]

writing an entire forum code for wordpress as a solo project seems to be a significant challenge, so using bbpress and amending that would seem to be a good strategy.

ok, since you seem to be very php savvy, suggest you go to

https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/

and simply amend one of the templates there for your forum.

[Lisa]

I’ve made the decision to develop my new websites using WordPress. My goal is to eventually re-write my PHP code as a WordPress plugin, but, until then I need to use what’s available, and bbPress seems like a good option. I need to import/map my current tables to work with bbPRess, but not sure how?

Here is the existing schema along with one parent record, and one child record:

Forum_1962 (
Forum mediumint(8) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
Forum_Title varchar(200) NOT NULL DEFAULT ”,
Forum_Author varchar(100) NOT NULL DEFAULT ”,
Forum_Author_Email varchar(100) NOT NULL DEFAULT ”,
Forum_Text text NOT NULL,
Forum_Parent mediumint(8) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT ‘0’,
Forum_Ancestor mediumint(8) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT ‘0’,
Forum_Category smallint(5) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT ‘0’,
Forum_Approved enum(‘0′,’1’) NOT NULL DEFAULT ‘1’,
Forum_Entered_by varchar(10) NOT NULL DEFAULT ‘0’,
Forum_Date_Created datetime NOT NULL DEFAULT ‘0000-00-00 00:00:00’,
Forum_Last_Changed timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
PRIMARY KEY (Forum),
KEY Forum_Parent (Forum_Parent),
KEY Forum_Category (Forum_Category),
KEY Forum_Approved (Forum_Approved),
FULLTEXT KEY Forum_Title (Forum_Title),
FULLTEXT KEY Forum_Text (Forum_Text)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=1;

Parent thread
=============
(19261, ‘Can I rent an RV?’, ‘BillB’, ‘bill@web-crafter.net’, ‘I\’d like to give RVing a try, but there\’s no way I\’m going to plunk down thousands of $$ to buy an RV. Is it possible to rent an RV like you\’d a car?’, 0, 19261, 1962, ‘1’, ‘rvcn’, ‘2002-12-12 13:52:29’, ‘2002-12-12 13:53:25’);

Ancestor thread
===============
(19262, ‘Re: Can I rent an RV?’, ‘Mark’, ‘mark@ittelligent.com’, ‘No problem. Just check your yellow pages for a rental agency in your area. I know there are a few national outfits too. Cruise America and El Monte come to mind off the top of my head.’, 19261, 19261, 1962, ‘1’, ”, ‘2002-12-12 13:59:42’, ‘2002-12-12 13:59:42’);

You’ll notice that there are fields for both parent and ancestor, which allows for infinite sub-topic threads (those replies to replies under one parent). Also, I the author name and email are also stored in this table, and not tied to a separate user table (so will need to address that). Each MySQL dump is between 1MB and 3MB.

Need any more information? Please advise.

My goal is one of two options:

1. Import/Map existing table dumps in several websites to WordPress and bbPress using above forum schema as source, OR
2. Convert my existing PHP forum code to be compatible with WordPress and forget about bbPress altogether if I can’t easily map the table (I don’t know WordPress enough to even think about doing this myself, even though the code is simple and fast, and will ne advice on someone who can)

I am doing this so I can better control the mobile templates and have a more robust way of controlling my websites. I need to do this for about 6 websites, and would like the method to do this myself after the first time.

Thanks in advance,

Lisa

[Ronosho]

I’ve disabled all plugins except the BBpress but still same situation.

[Robin W]

if you’ve tried a default theme, them possibly a plugin conflict

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

the come back

[Ronosho]

Hello all,

I’ve a problem with users trying to login on bbpress when using chrome.
They enter their username and password and then the pages refreshes and they are not logged in.
If I try this with a test account on IE it does work normally
I’m at a loss here.

WP version is 4.1.1 and BBpress is 2.5.6
The same thing happens if I use a different theme (Bundled one)
Here’s a link to the site : http://www.animosityonlinegaming.com/

Can anyone point me in the right direction??

[Robin W]

in your functions file

Functions files and child themes – explained !

[Shaktimaan]

Thanks it is fixed.

I used patch below for bbPress: Version 2.5.6

// Get the activity stream item, bail if it doesn't exist
$existing = bp_activity_get_specific( array( 'activity_ids' => $activity_id, 'show_hidden' => true, 'spam' => 'all', ) ); 
if ( empty( $existing['total'] ) || ( 1 !== (int) $existing['total'] ) ) { 
$existing = new BP_Activity_Activity( $activity_id ); 
if ( empty( $existing->component ) )
return null; 
}

[bobericko]

How on earth do i change the color of the “create new topic” background. it is the same as my site’s background and is very hard to see. Any suggestions?

[Andrew Breksa]

Check out bbp user online status (https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-user-online-status/) a plugin I recent wrote to add online/offline statues to bbpress topics/replies.

[John James Jacoby]

Check in bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/content-search.php

bbPress employs some “theme compatibility” magic to insert itself into your existing WordPress theme, and that directory is where those template parts live to try and fill in the gaps

[patifonik]

Hi!
PLease, help me to fix this!

I don’t understand: bbpress in my site uses template page.php. In this template we have:
<?php get_template_part('inc/page-title'); ?>.
In /inc/page-title.php we have:
<?php elseif ( is_page() ): ?><h2><?php echo alx_page_title(); ?></h2>

But in http://muzl.it/forums/ we have title
<div class="page-title pad group"><h2>Темы</h2></div>
and in http://muzl.it/forums/topic/lorem-ipsum/ we haven’t title:
<div class="page-title pad group"><ul class="meta-single group"><li class="category"></div>

How to fix it?

[Chad R. Schulz]

I’m building what while be a discussion board style website. I will embed a single forum through a shortcode in each/every post.

This will allow standard WordPress navigation and give each forum its own post/page.

I will not allow users access to any part of the natural bbpress forum hierarchy (categories/forums/subforums/etc.) and will use redirects to ensure that all requests for specific forums end up on the appropriate post/page that uses the embedded shortcode.

My question: Without the need to query numerous (potentially hundreds) of individual forums through traditional forum navigation, do I still need to spread the forums out among multiple categories/sub-categories when building the forums on the backend.

Remember, no user will ever need, nor get, access to the forum hierarchy/structure. ALL forums links will redirect to the appropriate post.

Having to create a needlessly complex hierarchy/structure is daunting and would make a mess for moderators to dig through.

Just curious. Appreciate any guidance in this matter.

Thanks,
Chad Schulz

[screenwavemedia]

I’m extending an existing WordPress theme with bbpress functionality. I’ve gotten everything up and running except I can’t seem to find the base template for search results to customize everything AROUND the BBPress search results code. It looks like by default it’s pulling from page.php or single.php, but I would like to use a more specific template for it. I’m not seeing anything in Extras that fits the bill.

[goclones]

OK, I made a folder named bbpress in wp-content > my selected theme folder and copied the file there. Still nothing changed. Am I not understanding the child theme concept? Sorry, I’m a beginner. Thanks

[Robkk]

copy the original file from the plugin and copy it to your child theme.

the file should be like this in your child theme

wp-content > themes > (your child theme name) > bbpress

[goclones]

Thanks. I replace the code with what you suggested and I don’t see any changes. Although the file is in the bbpress > templates > defauly > bbpress folder. Is that where it should be?

[Robkk]

oh i forgot , it should be in loop-single-topic.php

copy that into a child theme and put it in a folder called bbpress