[Devgun]

Today I updated my wordpress from 3.9 to 4.0. Now all the forum’s topics vanished. The forum shows “sorry brother no topics…..”. In my WP Dashboard, the topics are there but when i open its ‘view’ link, the topics are not there except the title of the topic.

Previously, i.e. before wordpress update, everything was fine and I haven’t installed any new plugins
I am using bbpress version 2.5.4

Someone do suggest. the forum is important part of my site.

[raulliive]

Figured out all my issues with bbpress :).

The culprit was that I had hidden a default language in WPML, which broke in bbpress quite some things.

[Robin W]

1. Dashboard>settings>forums and look for topics/replies per page
2 & 3 Not sure what you are referring to maybe these are buddypress rather than bbpress – otherwise give us url’s to both so we can see which you mean

[Robin W]

If I have understood, you would probably need to alter

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/form-topic.php

copy it to a bbpress directory within the root of your theme and edit it there, and bbpress will use it

probably change line 42/43 to take out the if single forum bit ?

[Iryna_B]

Hi,

I’m having couple of questions. Could you please help me?
1. How do I limit number of posts per one page on BBpress forum before pagination?
2. How do I limit number of members per one page in BB members page?
3. And how do I limit number of groups per one page in BB groups page?
Please advice me.

[Robin W]

suspect it is the same as

All Child Forum – Page Not Found

[Robin W]

Without a url or screenshot I can’t really help further – there are several places where bbpress has font sizes eg

#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-lead-topic,
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-topics,
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-forums,
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-replies,
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-search-results {
	font-size: 12px;
	}

#bbpress-forums .bbp-forums-list li {
	font-size: 11px;
}

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-title h3,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-title h3,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-title h3 {
	font-size: 16px;
 	}

#bbpress-forums .bbp-forum-info .bbp-forum-content,
#bbpress-forums p.bbp-topic-meta {
	font-size: 11px;
	}

and lots more

I can only suggest you try some of the above in your custom css BUT put ‘!important’ after the px part to ensure that it is not overwritten eg

#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-lead-topic,
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-topics,
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-forums,
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-replies,
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-search-results {
	font-size: 12px !important;
	}

[gipsypainter]

Hi

I just finished an import of a former VBulletin install, including 10 forums and over 183000 replies. It took a long while but finally succeeded.

The problem is that the users imported but not associated with the correct topics and replies. In other words they are all out of sync…the wrong user with the wrong replies.

Is there a way to fix this? I have run all the repair features. But still it is not correct.

Thanks for any help.

Wordpress 4.0
BBpress Version 2.5.4
imported from VBulletin 4

Chris

[Ingenieria de la Salud]

Hi,

I’ve installed bbPress for WordPress in faisa.eii.us.es and it is not showing any forum/category.
It is only showing the main/root forum page, but any forum/category link showed there goes to “no page found”, so anyone can’t navigate to the subforums/subcategories inside, and no one can reach the final forum where the topics are…

Could you help me? Thanks!!

[Robin W]

They both have lots of functions that are different for each.

Two directories that deal with their functions

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/replies
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/topics

[Robin W]

not as such

There is a POT file

bbpress/languages/bbpress.pot

see

https://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress

so you could in theory translate bbpress into your words

[solosails]

Hi,

Yes, I have done as well, but my question here now is to find out what is done differently by bbpress that distinguishes a topic from a reply.

Perhaps if I can understand this, I may be able to figure out what I can change in the functions.php etc to solve it for now.

Thanks, A

[millerguide]

Is there a file where ALL of the text on bbpress (text that appears to the user) is, where I could just hunt and replace?

[solosails]

OK, my theme is seeing the edit reply page as a ‘reply’ type page, but it sees the edit original post as a ‘topic’ page…

How to tell the theme that when editing a topic/rely/edit page that it is a ‘topic’ type page?

Or is this something that can be done in the bbpress settings?

Cheers, Andrew

[josuawahyudi]

Hi all,

i’m totally not an IT guy, so i don’t know anything about coding. I learn to build website with WP by learning from internet.

this is my first time i use BBpress to build a forum website.

this is my web: http://www.buangstres.gratis/
i use WP version 4.0
i use theme Skeleton: http://themes.simplethemes.com/skeleton/

i use these plugins:
– akismet
– easy WP smtp
– simple local avatars
– simple shortcodes (reccomendation fro the theme)
– WP-members
– WP-pagenavi (reccomendation from theme)

i found that all my Child forums having problem: page not found

this is what i’ve already done:
– reset the permalinks
– deactivate all plugin (include bbpress), activate only bbpress

all isn’t working

need the solution desperately… anyone can help me? it will be a huge appreciation from me

[Sam Rohn]

these anti-spammer and security plugins look interesting too, but i have not tested them myself, they should work fine with bbpress but always test carefully for possible confilicts with other plugins you are using, especially plugins that have similar functionality

https://wordpress.org/plugins/avh-first-defense-against-spam/

and wordpress security is a bigger topic than just dealing with spammers, but sorting out the specifics is up to you 🙂

https://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress

http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/keeping-wordpress-secure-the-ultimate-guide/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bulletproof-security/

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

https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/wordpress-security

sam

[Sam Rohn]

not really fair to blame the bbpress developers (free software made by volunteers) for not having every possible feature built into core, all forum apps (phpbb, etc) that i am aware of require separate anti-spam plugins

bbpress itself is just a plugin for wordpress, so anti-spam is more a wordpress problem than only a bbpress problem, and there are many anti-spam wordpress plugins out there, and dealing with spammers & bots etc is a BIG topic, and a continually evolving battle for anyone running any sort of website…

otherwise, i think it would help keep this forum orderly if there were a sticky or somesuch with a maintained list of commonly requested bbpress plugins like anti-spam, polls, custom avatars, granular membership permissions, etc

here are the wordpress anti-spam plugins i mentioned in the other topic, all work well with bbpress, start with wangguard which is the easiest to use, all require careful config and monitoring to make sure they are functioning properly

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wangguard/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bad-behavior/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/stop-spammer-registrations-plugin/

sam

[Doremdou]

Hi everyone,

I would like to disable completely the mentions feature in forums, even if someone put accidentaly a “@” before a username for exemple “jack” I don’t want the result “@jack” to link to jack profile.

I’ve got Buddypress and bbPress,

the code add_filter( 'bp_activity_do_mentions', '__return_false' ); disable BP mentions but not bbPress mentions, how can I do that?

[Edit] thanks to danbp, here is the solution: add_filter( 'bbp_find_mentions', '__return_false' );

Thank you very much for your help

[pcgs51]

I tried that just now and it seems to have helped the other site. So this is awesome! I need to research plugins. Wondering if some of the bbPress extension plugins that are in these sites are old and are no longer used? Would be nice if there was a deprecated list. Going to search for one now.

[JohnnyJonJon]

One thing I just noticed is that the registration form action is empty (e.g. it says action not action=”/valid-url-here”). This shows up on w3.org’s validator as a problem. Could this be causing the issue?

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fsapoa.staging.wpengine.com%2Fbbpress-register%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0&user-agent=W3C_Validator%2F1.3+http%3A%2F%2Fvalidator.w3.org%2Fservices

(first error)

[JohnnyJonJon]

Hi there,

I’m having a browser issue on a registration form that causes it not to work in safari or IE but it works fine in Chrome.. If you visit this page and without filling anything in, just hit ‘complete sign up’, in Safari nothing happens, but in Chrome the field errors are displayed as expected.. any ideas on this? I’m unable to successfully register in Safari.

In the code, the errors (e.g. <div class=”error”>This field is required.</div>) are never generated in Safari (to rule out a css issue)..

http://sapoa.staging.wpengine.com/bbpress-register/

Thanks, Jon

[pcgs51]

Hi unihead, I am working with two sites that are using bbPress. Both are displaying this same issue and as I understand my client has struggled for a long time with this problem. One of the sites also uses a plugin called “bbPress Threaded Replies” The other does not but both sites will not display replies.

Today I turned off “bbPress Threaded Replies” in the site using it. The problem went away immediately. However that doesn’t help me with the other site. The replies are still hidden there.

Thought I would share just in case it helps you.

[unihead]

Hi – I tried running the repair with no luck. The only thing that seemed to fix the problem in the end, strangely, was reducing the number of replies per page to 10. For some stupid reson bbPress couldn’t handle 25 replies per page.

I reduced it to 10 and the missing replies came back. Feels like a bug to me.

[freeshark123]

Hello Jason,
I have the same problem. I would like to migrate from DNN active forum to phpBB3 (not bbPress).
Have you solved?
May you give me some suggestions?

thank you

Marco

[unihead]

A day has passed and the flood of spam registrations seems to have completely stopped. So far I’m very impressed with Wangguard. For a start, it does one simple thing which the default installation of bbPress should do – it allows me to pose a question to new registrars that has to answered correctly to proceed. Seems so simple, but it took me ages to find something that would allow me to do that.

I really don’t understand why like bbPress doesn’t have basic tools included that can stop the inevitable wave of spam registrations that happen to every new bbPress user. It’s just an endless waste of time for everyone who has to go through the same process of frustration, every time.