[Loofah]

I’ve just noticed that each section of the old smf forum has been made into a separate bbpress forum during import. These only show up as ‘scheduled’ in the bbpress forums area and none of them have any of their posts or replies attributed to them (they all apparently have zero topics or replies).

The imported topics still correctly refer to their parent forum however so why aren’t they matching up?

[Loofah]

I’ve installed and activated bbpress and imported an smf forum. I then went through all the repair stages as mentioned in the documentation but no forum has appeared under ‘Forums’ although I have all the topics and replies.

Any idea why? Do I need to create a new forum area which will automatically use the topics etc?

[FadingMusic]

Hello,

I’m not sure what happened, but apparently logged out users get a blank forum page.
Funny thing is, whenever I hit the save button in bbPress setings, bbPress seems to work for awhile and then goes blank again.

What is causing it and how can I solve this?

http://www.fadingmusic.com/forums

[Stephen Edgar]

@tehred Go to SMF’s website to find details on how to install SMF, you probably want to install the same version that the database backup is from (if you know it).

You should have a MySQL database backup, typically these are named filename.sql, filename.sql.zip or filename.gz, this is an actual export of the database data rather than the actual files used as part of the website.

You should be able to import (once you find it) that file into MySQL as a new database, then you point bbPress’ import to that database name in the import settings along with username and password and table prefix (most likely smf_).

Once you start running the import it copies the data from your old SMF database into the WordPress database you are using with bbPress, your original SMF database is not altered in anyway, it is still best practice to make sure you have backups of your SMF and WordPress database all the same.

[tehred]

@stephen, a couple things to know:
– I am using a backup from SMF. I no longer have access to the server that SMF was installed on. I don’t know if a backup and an export are the same thing. I feel like they probably are not.

– Assuming they are not, I am looking at instructions on how to install SMF on a temp server so I can import the backup, and then export the database.

– Assuming I get the export done, what I feel like you are telling me is that I need to import that file into the MySQL running on the server WordPress is on. I am assuming that I create a new database to import the data into. Once that is done, i run the converter on that new database.
– Does this convert that new database, or create a new database that has the bbPress info in it?

[chero123]

hello, i have one doubt

I want to show on the forum index

topics by freshness and index forums

on the same page, first: topics by freshness and after forums…

I do not have much experience with bbpress and little knowledge … I have 3 days to install and I am configuring

[Robkk]

are you even using bbpress??

there is no ask a question tab..

explain more on what you are talking about??

[jugoretz]

Yeah, not trying to be discouraging, @nathanegraham, but this is a bug–and I am already running WordPress 4.0 and still experiencing the problem.

Activating network-wide also has the consequence that sites that do not need bbPress, but do need other plugins, sometimes have trouble with those other plugins because of conflicts with bbPress (I’m suspecting that as a problem now with Join My Multisite plugin).

Would be great to see a fix soon, if possible! @netweb? Anyone?

[Doremdou]

Hi, your bbpress wp4 fix is perfect @robin-w my topics are showing up again.
Is this a known issue? Do you know if it will be officially fixed in the next bbpress release?

Thank you a lot

[blackjak231]

Thanks for the tip but i actually ended up adding the following at the top of the pages i needed it on :

$args = array(
	'post_parent' => 0,
);

Not very DRY as it is repeated (i could have done a function though…) but it does the job perfectly.
HOWEVER, since every loop resets the $args array, i think it only works for me because my dropdown menu with the forums is before any other loop on the page.

Here is the code i added in the pages i needed to show the dropdown (bootstrap):

<?php if ( bbp_has_forums($args) ) : ?>
	<?php while ( bbp_forums() ) : bbp_the_forum(); ?>
		<li><a id="textdropdown" class="bbp-forum-title" href="<?php bbp_forum_permalink(); ?>"><?php bbp_forum_title(); ?></a></li>
	<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php else : ?>
	<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'feedback', 'no-forums' ); ?>
<?php endif; ?>

I hope this helps you @selenii and anybody else who was trying to do this. I would however recommend Robkk’s way as it uses clean code from bbPress. Haven’t tried it though.

Good luck and thank you!

[Robkk]

if you really want the replies and topics to be on the products page.

this would require custom development

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#1 outsourcing service for WordPress

if you want bbpress/woocommerce integration

i think there is some plugins that would help, cant think of them right at the moment.

[Robin W]

probably several ways you could do this.

Quickest I can think of is to alter the loop-single reply template

You should really do this in a child theme, as otherwise theme upgrades will overwrite this – google wordpress child theme video for lots of useful videos on how to do this – it’s quick and simple.

Create a bbPress folder in your theme :

Wp-content/%yourthemename%/bbpress

Where %yourthemename% is the name of your theme.

Then go into

Wp-content/plugins/templates/default/bbpress/loop-single-reply-php

Copy this file into the bbPress folder in your theme. bbPress will now use this file instead of the default, and you can amend this file.

line 61 does the content styling, so quickest to alter the background of this file.

so you would put a check I their for keymaster, and if so, use a different class that has a different background.

How up on coding and css are you, so that I don’t spend hours typing what you already know?

[Robkk]

buddypress and bbpress are plugins for wordpress, so they need wordpress to work.

bbpress does have an older standalone version of itself, it can work by itself.
Using it with newer versions of wordpress might cause issues.

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[Bestru]

Hello,

i’ve the same problem as tehred.

The database from the smf forum and from the wordpress / bbpress is on the same mysql server.

What make i wrong?

[Hector]

hi @giantqtipz, in wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/css/bbpress.css

search line 121:

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

Changing the display: inline to display: list-item

regards 😉

[giantqtipz]

Hi guys!

Im loving bbpress. i think its perfect for my site.

I want to make my subcategories appear vertically. right now its like this:

Videogames
– PS4, PS3

I want to make it

Videogames
– PS4
– PS3

how do i do that?

thanks so much guys.

[Ryan]

I have this issue as well and I am going to get to the bottom of it somehow or another and will post here when I find out the issue.

The plugins I have similar to OP are:
bbPress
Black Studio TinyMCE
GD bbPress Attachments

[solosails]

It seems many many people are having this issue with various themes, I have managed to almost get mine working by tampering with the blog template settings..

However it seems that this issue could be avoided altogether if the user page could be a shortcode in a hardcoded page instead of dynamically being created which is why so many themes are not doing it correctly.

Surely BBPress could figure out a more stable way of doing this user profile page?

[tehred]

I hate to sound like a newb, but I am one when it comes to this.
As you probably guessed, I’m trying to convert a SMF database file over to bbPress.

I looked at the db, and it appears to be fine – I can see tons of old stuff in it. It’s about 122mb. I copied it into the same folder as the converter, and I think I had everything set up correctly, except that the converter does not appear to be finding the database. Here is what I’m seeing:

View post on imgur.com

All I have been able to guess is that I have the database in the wrong folder and that is why the converter is not starting?

Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

[Robin W]

Suggest this is theme related and you need to get bbpress to use the right theme template

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

[hiniguez]

Hi,

It seems to be recommended to protect wp-admin area with .htpasswd an .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 wpadmin area (on the user point of view – front office). Can somone tells me which files ?

Thanks a lot,

Hervé

[Nitac]

We’ve come across a couple of issues when a topic has > 1000 replies.

Slow to post:

• We’ve had users noticing a significant increase in post time. Might related to this post?

Less than 1k replies:

• User submits post and post id is appended to URL
• Eg. /topic-name/page/13/#post-12345
• User is anchored to their post

More than 1k replies:

• User submits post and post id is appended to URL but ignores/overrides the page reference.
• Eg. /topic-name/#post-12345
• User is redirected to the first page of the topic

[treb0r23]

@RavanH Thanks a lot!

I’m going to wait a bit longer and see if BBPress gets updated to fix these issues before I need the site to go live. if not, I’m going to give this a whirl.

[Stephen Edgar]

I haven’t taken a close look for a while at attachment importing has some limitations that we really can’t do at this stage until some improvments upstream in WordPress Core are added.

For now the best solution I have seen would be to adapt the following for Vanilla 2.1

https://github.com/CybMeta/kunena-attachments-to-bbpress

Kunena converter for bbPress 2.4

Kunena converter for bbPress 2.4

Out of curiousity which attachment/file upload plugin are you using with Vanilla as I believe it doesn’t include one in the standard install.

[Stephen Edgar]

The top two importers included with bbPress are phpBB and SMF, primarily because these are the two most popular importers and where most feature requests come from.

I’d love to know some detailed information on what/why/where you think the phpBB import is broken and/or why you don’t think it works so well.

I haven’t seen any reports for quite a while on issues with the phpBB importer.