[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
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(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

[Stagger Lee]

Take rest with CSS. Dont know how it looks.

Small warning. If your forum is not visited well it could look amateurish. You will have post after post, after post, avatar of one and same User/Topic author.

Same situation is if you use automatic bbPress topic from WordPress Posts.

Making bigger avatars can make things worse if you dont have many Users. For instance another tweak “last commenter avatar”. I tried all this, and if you have just one User who like to comments more than other Users, it looks boring to see enlarged avatar of this User on whole screen everywhere.

I mean easier to take it if avatar is few pixels big.

[Robkk]

@andrew55

I’m still hungup on getting the overflow figured out.

link to your site and i could help with that.

It appears they have the avatar somehow wrapped in a span, and the span has the overflow assigned to it.

i dont think you need a span for it , i could add it into the code but im sure it will be fine with just a float:left;

@stagger-lee

what is that ? Is that bbPress forum ?

that was not a bbPress forum, its something else.

[Stagger Lee]

@lanhuong11022, what is that ? Is that bbPress forum ?

[Robin W]

Custom Capabilities

[andrew55]

Thank you robkk and lanhuong11022. I’m new to bbPress and appreciate the help getting started. The theme files are completely new to me, so it’s been fun trying to figure out everything.

I was able to get the avatar larger. I’m still hungup on getting the overflow figured out.

http://camaushop.net/ is a great start. It appears they have the avatar somehow wrapped in a span, and the span has the overflow assigned to it.

I’m not asking anyone to hold my hand, but if I was to attempt to add a span around those forum icons, any suggestions on what theme file I might start experimenting with?

Thanks for any suggestions.

[Stagger Lee]

You can use same function for bbPress part, I believe. It is up to you where do you want to adapt it.

Or maybe “is_user_logged_in()”:

http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/34429/how-to-check-if-a-user-not-current-user-is-logged-in

[alanr1954]

Thanks to JJJ’s excellent plugin, I can now do what the basic bbPress said it would do, so that ‘spectators’ can read but not post to private forums. However, is there any way that I can set this as the default option, so that I don’t have to carefully edit the permission on every single user who subscribes?
Thanks
Alan

[wenlujon]

thanks, the forum is not centralized when i use #bbpress-forums to widen the forum.how to centralize it?

[Robkk]

i think that is loop-single-reply.php

copy that into your child theme in a folder called bbPress before you make any changes to it.