[Robin W]

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1

[pfhyper]

Never mind. There was an old plugin called bbpress – No Admin installed and activated. Unsure where it came from but when I deactivated it, the dashboard nav links appeared for Editor/Keymaster.

Oops.

Mark this CLOSED.

Thanks.

[firstsgt1978]

Hello fellow data hunters

Theme: Weaver 2

This is my first rodeo with a forum plug in. Read the documentation, view Youtube videos for the install and set-up. all seems very straight forward – but it is not working for me 🙁

I have installed, setup, uninstalled and setup – set the same. After each install and i click on forums and saved and the same for permalinks

I have deactived all plugins except for the following:

1. All-in-one Event Calendar by Time.ly
2. Buddypress
3. Role Manager

Calendar and Buddypress are working great.

Currently bbpress is uninstalled.

Help would be greatly appreciated

site is cvma3-2.org – there is a formun tab now, but it is empty

[readwriteandedit]

Just a questions–what happens to their replies and topics when a forum user quits? I’m using BBPress with iTheme Exchange Membership to set up a new site and since it’s a paid membership site, users will cancel membership over time. I’m just wondering what will happen to their replies and any topics they start.

Thanks

[nolimit966]

Hi, ive had problems from my users that avatars are not showing in the forums. I checked it out & it seems theres a backslash being removed from the URL to the image. I had to remove:
add_filter( ‘bbp_get_topic_author_link’, ‘stripslashes’ ); from the filters.php and it now all works fine. Problem is my theme is in source control and surely editing core files cannot be correct, right?

This is in my loop-single-topic.php file and this is what displays the name and avatar:
<span class=”bbp-topic-started-by”><?php printf( __( ‘Started by: %1$s’), “”.bbp_get_topic_author_link( array( ‘size’ => ’90’))); ?></span>

Is this a known bug and is there a better way to fix this? I am using the latest BBpress and WordPress 4.0. Avatar plugin is WP User Avatar

Thanks

Cheers

[robertosalemi]

Hi,
I would show in charts or tables the stats about usage of bbPress:
– new topic;
– number of answer;
etc…

Exist a plugin for my necessity?

Thanks.

[designscape]

I have just taken over on a website where the BBPress plugin was de-activated but I guess while it was up the forums were never monitored and there are 130,000 replies that are all spam. I don’t want to delete 100 at a time!!! What is the fastest or best way to delete the forums, topics and replies to start over???

[Stephen Edgar]

This can be quite complex and is really not a “bbPress”, it is more a Apache/Nginx “thing”, take a look at the following on Stack Overflow, it describes the changes needed to redirect via .htaccess an old vBulletin to bbPress site:
http://stackoverflow.com/q/13920322/1911294

[Stephen Edgar]

HI @maddogmcewan, as per my note above, I split this to a new topic as there are sure to be a couple of things that will get confusing if we continued in that same topic.

To start with you should take a look in your wp_posts table, you should be able to find bbPress three custom post types forum, topic, and reply in the post_type column.

1. Check if you indeed have some post types forum in your wp_posts table.
2. Now find a topic in the wp_posts table, look at the post_parent, the ID of that field should relate to one of the ID values of the actual forums you found in step 1.
3. Replies are the same, find a reply, look up the post_parent and check if a topic with that same ID exists.

I’m expecting you have some mismatched data from your import and it is a matter of digging in to find what is broken in the data relationships.

[Stephen Edgar]

Here is the resultant SQL query for your code above:

SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp_posts.ID
FROM wp_posts 
INNER JOIN wp_postmeta ON wp_posts.ID = wp_postmeta.post_id
INNER JOIN wp_postmeta AS mt1 ON (wp_posts.ID = mt1.post_id)
INNER JOIN wp_postmeta AS mt2 ON (wp_posts.ID = mt2.post_id)
WHERE 1=1 

AND ( ( YEAR( post_date ) = 2014 ) )

AND wp_posts.post_type = 'topic'

AND (wp_posts.post_status = 'publish'
	OR wp_posts.post_status = 'closed'
	OR wp_posts.post_status = 'private'
	OR wp_posts.post_status = 'hidden')

AND (wp_postmeta.meta_key = '_bbp_last_active_time'
	OR (mt1.meta_key = '_bbps_topic_status'
		AND CAST(mt1.meta_value AS CHAR) LIKE '%1%')
	OR (mt2.meta_key = '_bbps_topic_status'
		AND CAST(mt2.meta_value AS CHAR) LIKE '%2%') 
	)

GROUP BY wp_posts.ID
ORDER BY wp_posts.post_date DESC
LIMIT 0, 15

I think you are hitting a known limitation of WordPress at the moment nesting queries, take a look at Boone’s posts on the improvements coming to WordPress 4.1:

Meta, Date, and Tax Query improvements in WP 4.1

…classes currently accept a ‘relation’ parameter, which allows multiple query clauses to be joined with AND or OR. So, for instance, you can query for: posts that are in the ‘Boone’ category AND have the tag ‘Awesome’ AND do not have the term ‘Raphael’ in the favorite_turtle taxonomy. But this syntax only allows for so much expressiveness: you can’t mix AND and OR, and you can’t group clauses. These limitations make it difficult to use these queries in support of complex content filtering…

Then take a read of the follow up post explaining what has happened since that first post, I haven’t had the time to look at how this changes affect bbPress, they should not break bbPress, but these will be something we will take a look at to a) Ensure bbPress is not affected by these WordPress 4.1 updates and b) How we can leverage these improvements in future versions of bbPress.

Update on Query improvements in 4.1

[Robkk]

@mnhfile well i dont know why you have it only showing when the parent theme is activated , its suppose to work too when you just put the file in a bbpress folder in your child theme.

maybe you put the file in your parent theme too, or edited the bbpress templates in the plugin folder which you should not do , since when either of these things update , you will lose all your modifications.

i did look at your website , it is coming together kind of nicely

the weird layout that makes it look like any additional categories below the first category look like subcategories with the space to the left and everything, this might be a little design issue, it kind of did this when i was testing the file earlier.

if you want switch out robins file with this one, just copy and paste right over it using a text-editor like notepad++ test it out and see how it does on your site.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robkk/better-bbpress-responsive-theme/master/bbpress/loop-forums.php

And can I do some modification in each tab like hiding or disclosing tab contents(forums)

please explain a little bit more on what you are talking about, i have an idea and assume it might be some custom development work , but explain a little bit more just to make sure.

[8ird]

Hi there,

I’ve been successfully clinging on to bbPress 1.2 (last standalone) with my forum, so far without any problems.

Sadly that changed about a month ago when the forum suddenly started fetching “wrong” time stamps for user posts.

Now when I say wrong time stamps, what I really mean is differing time stamps, from what I could observe of about one hour.

Lets say I post something at 2pm, then one of my users comes on and he posts a reply shortly after. Now that reply doesn’t get a time stamp of, say, 2pm1min, but instead 3pm1min. The forum will now treat this post as if it were posted in the future, resulting in the output “posted -1 year ago” until forum time is past 3pm1min.
The second and more urgent consequence is that if I or anybody else with the “right” time stamp assigned to them will post another comment within that hour, that reply will be added in the wrong order prior to the first reply.

As for solving this issue, I have tried to figure it out in the code (to no avail) and even did a rollback of the forum and database to March 2014 for test purposes, yet the issue persists.
This leads me to believe that it cannot be related to any bad code (especially since the software and Plugins haven’t been touched in months), but rather that there may have been a fundamental change in the way the date function in post.php works. I can’t even seem to figure out where bbPress would fetch it’s time data from.

Banging my head against the wall at the moment, any help would be hugely appreciated.

Cheers
Lars

[Anonymous User]

As of ~2.3, the “allowed tags” are filterable within bbPress.

Look for the filter bbp_kses_allowed_tags. It’s in includes/common/formatting.php.

@jaredatch , thank you so much man!! been able to allow some extra tags.. and been looking for this long time ago, until i gave up -(
appreciated 😀

[pfhyper]

When I set my Editor users to Keymaster level, I am unable to create a new forum. The dashboard does not have Forums, Topics, Replies items listed in the left navigation. (Administrators as Keymaster do have those items.)

I do seem to have the capability to work with topics including deleting topics by other members from the front-end of the site (but not the dashboard).

When I access a forum from the front-end, an edit link appears and clicking it brings me to the post editor for that forum. I see a New Forum button. Clicking the button, I get this error:

Invalid post type

WP Version: 4.0
bbpress Version: 2.5.4
Theme: wp-framework
Link: http://sccaforum.digitalsavages.com/

Thanks.

Peter

[koreancandy]

Hi,

I have been having trouble with using both Woocommerce and BBPress.

When I try to access page two of my BBpress topic reply, it doesn’t take me to the link, instead it just refreshes the page. After reactivating all of my plugins to find the culprit, it appears that it’s Woocommerce creating this permalink issue.

I have tried for the past 5 days to try and play around with the permalink structures, but no matter what I try, the problem to occurs.

My website is: http://teachmekorean.co/ but for some reason it won’t let non-logged in users view the forum even though the settings are set for it being open to everyone.

Is this easy to fix as it is crucial I use both of the plugins?

Thank you very much 🙂

Char

[actionscripted]

Confirming that this is still an issue with WP 4.0, bbPress 2.5.4 and ThemeMyLogin 6.3.10.

The suggested fix from @will-brownsberger still works and fixes things. This is an issue with general login redirects as even custom redirects using login_redirect filter (WP core) don’t work.

[jackoslam]

On a single site, can I have a different forum for each of my main menu topics? Let me give an exaggerated example. If I were to have a site called “Cars,” I might have a menu for GM with separate pages for Chevrolet, Buick, Cadillac, etc. And I might have a Ford menu with Ford models, etc. Can I have a different bbPress formum for each of these models, as opposed to one large forum categorized by Topic Title and tags? In other words, a user might go to page about Chevrolets and post a relevant node there. Someone else might open a menu about Lincolns and add a post to this page, and so on?

Please excuse me for being elementary.

[xcvpro]

I really need some help, i am using a plugin that allows me to make custom wordpress roles and give them permissions to make topics and stuff in the forums… I want to make it so the text that is displayed on the forums like “Participant” or “Keymaster” are changed to the text of the users wordpress role ie. “Participant” becomes “New Member” so that i can make a rank identification system.

I could have;

New Member {Same as Participant permisstions}
Full Member {Same as Participant permisstions}
Senor Member {Same as Participant permisstions}
Moderator {Same as moderators permisstions}
Administrator {Same as keymasters permisstions}
Ect…

The plugin i am using is Capability Manager Enhanced

[zitaoli]

hi, sorry,i am new to bbpress, we just set up a wordpress for our support center with bbpress installed for Q&A purpose(not as a forum). that’s why we wondering how to show topics in bbpress home page instead of forums(to make it more like a Q&A and save the hassle) or even create topics without forums.

your help is really appreciated!thx

[hiniguez]

Hi,

I have protected wp-admin area with .htpasswd and .htaccess. That’s what I did with all my websites.

Some plugins are using admin-ajax.php. So, in .htaccess I added a line for this file.

It looks like bbpress uses other files of the wp-admin area (on the user point of view – front office). This shouldn’be, should it ? Can anyone tell me which files of wp-admin are neccessary ?

Thanks a lot,

Hervé

[Robin W]

unfortunately bbshowcase was for the standalone version 1 of bbpress and doesn’t work with the wordpress plugin version.

As suggested, I copied all the template files inside bbPress plugin directory to my active theme

Not sure where you got that from. Only if you want to alter templates do you need to copy templates to a bbpress directory, and then only those you wish to change.

Also, how do I remove Topic: and Forum: slug at the title of the page?

Can you specify exactly what you want to remove – a screenshot would be good

[Robin W]

It could be a theme or plugin issue

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.

[Stephen Edgar]

@richkraetsch I expect this to be more of an issue with the GD BBPress Tools plugin rather than bbPress, they should have support in that plugin for the custom HTML tags it is using.

You can also try this plugin (and remove that custom code you added), I just added div and sub element class to this and it should work for you, you will need to double check and modify it to remove any HTML tags you do not need, also the next release of bbPress includes some more changes to the allowed KSES HTML tags so you’ll need to update and possibly make some more changes once bbPress 2.6 is released.

https://gist.github.com/ntwb/7797990

[Matt Cromwell]

We are allowing Akismet to handle spam on our forum. But for the past few months we’ve noticed that very often (maybe always) when a new user submits a ticket and they put a url in it, they automatically get moved to spam. I don’t see any settings in bbPress settings, Akistmet, or the “Discussion” settings that would cause this.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

[albnaldo]

Hello all,

So I finally managed to get bbPress up and running. As suggested, I copied all the template files inside bbPress plugin directory to my active theme. However, I want something better.

I came across this website http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/available-themes and I really like the first template. I downloaded and extracted it. There are many .php files and one style css. Can I do the same thing and copy these files to bbPress folder of my theme?