[weareallmadhere]

I want to order my bbpress forums in a specific order that is not alphabetical, how do I change it so that on my site its in a specific order that I want?

Cheers
w.a.a.m.h.

[van24]

Hi Robin. Thanks for the tip. I changed all instances of BBP_Topics_Widget to BBP_Topics_Widget2. And I amended this line as well:
parent::__construct( false, __( ‘(bbPress) Recent Topics 2’, ‘bbpress’ ), $widget_ops );

But still I don’t see the new widget appearing in the WP Widget area.. Any idea what I’m doing wrong?

[Carl Fox]

@robkk

why would you want to import the newest version of a bbPress posts into WordPress when they should already show up fine, like a regular bbPress install??

The above makes no sense to me, anyone else? Did you read what I wtrote, or just the headline?

I am trying to import an entire forum (forums/topics/replies) from one WordPress install to another.

This should be simple, as Stephen Edgar wrote, it should be a standard option on the ‘Import Forums’ tab under ‘Tools’, but it’s not.

He also wrote that it would soon be implemented and really should be a simple process…. months ago!

@robin-w

Apologies Robin if I wasn’t clear.

I have a forum on a WordPress 4.1 install located on a live test server.
(oxymoron? – I know, but that’s how I develop, consider it a sandlot)

I am running version 2.5.4 of bbpress, and am trying to move it to a different WordPress installation, also 4.1.

I did not do:
Dashboard>tools>forums>export from the WP 4.1/bbPress 2.5.4 because there is no such option

I did do:
As advised on this forum and elsewhere, Dashboard>Tools>Export-Forums/Topic/Replies individually.(I did also try them all together, but this didn’t work at all..)

Then I imported them individually in order Forums/Topic/Replies.

This imports everything to the backend perfectly fine, but nothing shows on the front end.

I then followed the Forum repair procedures in many different forms (e.g.: one at a time/different order/all together) and still nothing shows on the front end.

As I said, I have tried this entire procedure in many ways now, both to standalone single site WP installs, Multisite setups, local WP installs and subdomains/subfolders, and regardless of how I do it, I never see anything on the Front End of the site I import to – but everything is perfectly visible and editable on the back end.

As for the ‘four months’, it has taken me that long, on and off, to follow all the various scraps of advice from around this forum on importing/migrating bbPress to different locations/installs, there are a lot of threads here covering many scenarios, and I tried most of them.

It is my experience that this is best practice on a support forum, otherwise I would rightly be told not to post about something that has already been discussed/solved.

I can now confidently inform you that there is no solution on this forum for my particular issue and would greatly appreciate your advice/help in finding a solution.

May I suggest two things though, which I feel would solve this issue for anyone going forward.

1) Please do develop the promised import option for bbPress 2.x forums in the Tools>Import Forums tab.

2) Please also post a step-by-step guide for manually adding bbPress tables via phpMyAdmin

Can you help me ?

[omigosh]

Using WordPresss 4.1 and bbPress 2.4.5-5380

The Subscribe link doesn’t seem to work. There is no response when I hover over it and I certainly don’t get emails when a new post is created.

Any help appreciated

[Robkk]

i just translated my local site/bbPress to French using Robins link and it seems to work just fine

[Robin W]

bbpress works with 4.1 so it not/not only a 4.1 issue

It could be a theme or plugin issue with 4.1

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.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

then come back

[Robin W]

presume you have done all this

https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-in-your-language/

[Robin W]

Just to be clear, I’m expecting

I have a forum on xx running version yy of bbpress, and am trying to move it to zz.

I did

Dashboard>tools>forums>export from the xx and then vv to the new site

The issue I have is……

Can you help me ?

[Robin W]

Really, I’m not kidding, have you guys read the bbPress installation guide lately?

I wrote all the step by step stuff, so it’s fine with bbpress 2.5.4

I appreciate that you are frustrated, but perhaps you’d like to start by telling us what you are trying to do rather than just rant.

And why have you been trying for over 4 months, but this is your first post here?

[Robkk]

@carl-fox

why would you want to import the newest version of a bbPress posts into WordPress when they should already show up fine, like a regular bbPress install??

i understand importing the standalone version of bbPress which is 1.0x and to import that into the newer version so that it could work better with WordPress.

are you trying covert topics to actual blog posts?? or something to that nature??

Is bbPress dead now?

no its not dead , consider it in the shadows ….like Batman haha

[Carl Fox]

I have tried EVERYTHING!

Nothing works!

All forums/topics/replies/users are imported, nothing shows up anywhere on the front end.

All forum repair tools do NOTHING.

I have tried this on single site, multisite and local site, I have rebuilt everything from scratch and tried it, I have rolled back the original forum (also WP 4.1/ bbPress 2.5.4) and reinstalled it’s backup, then tried exporting/importing again, NOTHING WORKS!

As you can guess, I’m pretty fed up.

I started trying this in October, still trying. Followed all the threads here, most of which trail off with no solutions, or end with ‘I got it to work!’, and ‘We’re glad you solved it.’ type postings – which is really infuriating.

Stephen posted months ago that an import option for bbPress 2 would be easy to implement and quickly done, no sign of it – or Stephen anymore.

Is bbPress dead now?

Seriously, most of the documentatation relates to ancient WordPress versions, and bbPress 1.

Really, I’m not kidding, have you guys read the bbPress installation guide lately?

Anyway, I know I’m ranting, but I am extremely pee’d off. I’m no novice, all I want is correct documetation. A guide that finishes maybe? How about a proper step-by-step guide on how to manually do an importation via phpMyAdmin – as none of the current tools manage to work.

Somebody, for the love of all mankind, please help!!!

[Robkk]

@fatbat

as an alternative of going to the plugins section in bbpress.org you can just go to the WordPress plugin repository and search bbpress/bbp and you should find some bbpress plugins.

also just going through any plugins tagged bbpress should do it too.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/bbpress

[Robkk]

yep your right will create a trac ticket for bbpress.org now

[bigsicret]

I created a folder bbpress in languages, i put the bbpress-fr_FR.po and .mo files into it but the plugin is still in english language.

[Robkk]

it could be just making the font-size smaller.

copy this CSS anywhere you can put custom CSS

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-author a.bbp-author-name, 
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-author a.bbp-author-name, 
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-author a.bbp-author-name {
font-size:12px;
}

[Robkk]

I need to topics sorted by last activity in topic

bbPress does this by default??

[Robkk]

you could also just activate the visual editor too.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-enable-tinymce-visual-tab/

[Robkk]

@discdemo

remove Dougs code and see if just using this will fix it. it does the same thing.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-enable-tinymce-visual-tab/

also see if deactivating wp-edit will fix the problem , i tried it awhile ago with the visual editor code and it was kind of buggy.

[Robkk]

@jparra-1

on http://wpml.org/forums/topic/bbpress-and-wpml/

there is a workaround toward the bottom.

and also links for some custom development for this kind of thing if you want to do that.

Can you think to you some action I can do to get, that these two great plugins works together?

their site forums im sure shows that they work together , the WPML team says they are working on it , unless i havent found the topic/post that says they already have??

[Robkk]

if you haven’t already copy all of your bbPress templates to a folder called bbpress in your child theme

follow this codex guide.

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

and also check if its a theme issue , switch to a default theme like twentytwelve and see if the issue is still there or not.

[palmdoc]

This is still unresolved and a mystery. I get email notifications for subscribed topics.
@mentions work for Buddypress activity but not bbPress

[J.Parra]

Unfortunately we only have one solution, changing the type of forum and forget bbPress.

Greetings.

[Fatbat]

Navigation for “Plugins” section on bbPress site is broken! Can’t navigate past the second page or gets stuck on the 20th page. Any page number you click on other than 20 loads page 2.

Please fix this.

[LeighLG]

Hi, I’m having an issue with posting topics on my BBPress Installation and I’m wondering if anyone can help.

I’ve logged into an account with ‘Keymaster’ permissions but whenever I try and create a new topic on the installation on http://members.coachingmen.org/forum/, I get the notification: ERROR: You do not have permission to create new topics.

This is only a recent development and the only thing that’s changed is that I’ve upgraded to WordPress 4.1.

Has anyone been able to solve this issue and post new topics? Is so, how did you make it work?

Any advice is much appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Leigh

[Touda]

After having installed, configured and started some forums and subforums with the initial threads (topics), suddenly I found some issues, maybe related with some new plugins I’ve been installing on the same site:
– Forums URLs give 404 errors
– Topics URLs are found OK
– No reply is possible to those topics even when logged as Admin (Keymaster). BBPress shows this error:

ERROR: You do not have permission to reply.

ERROR: This forum is private and you do not have the capability to read or create new replies in it.

When testing shortcodes on a test page it gives the following results:

[bbp-forum-index] -> No forum is listed

[bbp-single-forum id=6] -> Forum is shown with its topics

[bbp-topic-index] -> Topics are listed OK

Any idea?

Thanks in advance for any help.