[manheim]

I need to export users and bbpress from one site and into another. Contact me for more details: [redacted]

[rockgeek]

Hi,

Before I go into detail, are there “official” guides to transferring the forums at all or just what is cobbled together on the forums

Here’s My Situation

I have a website http://old.com/ which contain the forums at http://old.com/forums. The website contains many plugins, posts, pages, users etc

I have a new website http://new.com. The forums will be http://messageboard.new.com. I don’t want any standard posts, pages, comments, plugins. I only want to transfer bbPress and users from the OLD site to the NEW site

Please can anyone advise me on what I should do? I realise I can export via wp-admin/export.php (selecting All Content) but that won’t output users.

What is the easiest way to backup bbPress and all users and then restore to a new website? Is there a definitive guide at all?

Thanks in advance

RG

[eddiedonhill]

Hello,

So I just installed bbPress for my website DCMovieFanPage and the forum tab will not show in the Dashboard. Neither will the settings option in the plugins list. What should I do?

[Robin W]

both fairly easy !

Breadcrumbs

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

Functions files and child themes – explained !

Search

Dashboad>settings>forums> look for search and unclick it.

[Robkk]

you dont need to bump your topic up.

and if you have more questions make a new topic.

i already gave you css on how to change the reply author avatar here
https://bbpress.org/forums/profile/robkk/

the space between the avatar and the post can be increased by adding this and changing 130px to what your max-width of image is , as i said the max-width of the image at the site you led me to has a max-width of 150px so my css for the post would be something close to.

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-content, 
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-content, 
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-content {
margin-left: 150px;
padding: 12px 12px 12px 0;
text-align: left;
}

to rename roles you can use the code on this , download and upload as plugin or copy from add filter down and put it into your child themes functions.php

https://gist.github.com/ntwb/7864894

[Robkk]

The information i gave you is if you wanted to change your theme to another but still keep the way bbpress is styled.

IF you wanted to just be able to change themes while bbpress stays the same throughout all of them this is not possible right now.

where are you lost ?? i basically said its copying the bbpress files from one theme to another.

i mentioned that you might need to copy some functions from function.php.

Stargazer Colloquium child theme uses get_theme_mod (which is added to the customizer area to your theme) to add certain color to your bbpress theme.

You can either delete that function and just added the colors manually to your bbpress.css or hook it up to your new theme which might be a tad more difficult.

the local development area that i mentioned more can be mentioned is great if you want to test things out like transferring files into another theme.

here if you use Windows Pc
http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-install-wordpress-on-your-windows-computer-using-wamp/

and here if you use Apple Mac
http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-install-wordpress-locally-on-mac-using-mamp/

steps umm i guess this.

1. set up local development area

2. download the files you have edited from your current theme on your website to your computer , ftp like filezilla is recommended.

3. transfer those files to your local development area , into the other theme you want to use.

4. start seeing if there is any issues. (the most likely is the get_theme_mod areas that add color) but that’s just color and you can add it to your bbpress.css.

[unihead]

Hi

I’ve recently added a bbpress forum to my site, and everything was ticking along well. Then suddenly, in a couple of threads, replies are being hidden for no reason at all. Here’s a sample thread:

Giving up during my first painting job.

This thread has two more replies (one from a subscriber, and a test one from me) that won’t show up. They are definitely public replies.

I’ve tested on other threads and they’re fine – except for one other instance.

I cannot for the life of me work out why this is happening. Any ideas?

[janfeng]

the same bug and bug

more

[janfeng]

How to Change Permalink Because It's a Localized Forum

Use WordPress + bbpress , Permalink set to /%post_id% ,but still not work !!!

Damn ,this BUG is two years ago >:-[

@netweb @mercime

[raulliive]

I have very weird issue with one of my admin users.

That user can’t edit or post anything on the forum. It even does not see the edit buttons.

When posting with this user it just reloads the page with the inputted content still in the input fields.

Other users can post without any issues.

I’m running latest bbpress version, with WP 4.0.

I suspect that some flag on database has got a hit from somewhere.

Any ideas what I could check?

[blackjak231]

Hello!

I’m trying to display a dropdown menu with all the forums on all templates of bbPress. I was able to easily to it on the “content-archive-forum.php” template with this code :

<?php if ( bbp_has_forums() ) : ?>
	<?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; ?>

The problem i’m having is on all other pages. I know that it’s passing the wrong forum_id to the bbp_has_forums function but i’m unable to modify the parameters or make a custom function to display a list (with links) of the MAIN forums (the one displayed on the “content-archive-forum.php”).

Basically, it displays the message “Oh bother! No forums were found here!” on all other pages.

Can anyone help me or tell me how to do this ?

Thanks in advance!

[janfeng]

I install worpdress and bbpress , and set Permalink to /%post_id% .

But not work ,Help ! I want use post_id in post.

[Icaroferreira]

In my plugin UserPro, has a page of CSS, which changes the bbPress forum.

So what could I use CSS to change three items:
– The image (photo that appears when you make a post).
– Space between the photo and the message (because when I increased the width of the photo, the photo was leaning against the post).
– And also how do I over the photo, appears a name, example: “Moderator”, “Admin”, “Member” …?

Help me please.

[pratik0007]

Hi Everyone,

I am using woocommerce and bbpress for my wordpress website.

I want to display all the topic and replies under product page of woocommerce.

I am getting trouble with topic and reply integration on the product page it’s not working fine may be due to not invoking bbpress hooks or what I am not sure anyone please guide me the steps how I can go for this one? this will be very helpful for me.

Thanks

[mode edit – moved to a new topic as it was entirely unrelated to the one you posted in]

[spektator]

I am using bbPress with Forum Restrict plugin. I am getting the following error when I access a single private forum out of a number of private forums that are set up. Here is the message:

Check TypeError: Unable to get property ‘getElementsByTagName’ of undefined or null reference

I am not able to access the approval page nor see the approved members. I am running WordPress 4.0 with bbPress and Forum Restrict.

Any assistance?

[Mael Shanti]

Hi,

I noticed two bugs occur on my bbPress forum (using last version of bbPress and WordPress), so I just wanted to report them and ask for any support to fix them.

Those are :
– “Subcribe to this forum” link not displayed in a float-right position
– “Private :” language string repeated twice

Here’s a very short video to explain that (sorry for the strange voice, I’m a bit ill) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s1Krn6cLAo

Many thanks in advance for your support, or any tip that would help me to fix that ! 🙂

[treb0r23]

Hi All,

I’m having a very frustrating time here.

I’m building a new site, and I need to transfer a BBPress powered forum from the old site.

Both sites are running BBPress 2.5.4.

The new site is running WordPress 4.0, the old site 3.9.2

My first surprise was when I realised that BBPress does not list BBPress in the list of platforms in the Tools -> Forums -> Import Forums dialog.

So I spent a couple of hours reading up and then set out to move the forums across to the new site.

I started out by using WP Migrate Pro to migrate wp_users and wp_usermeta from the old forum.

Then I used the WordPress Exporter to export Forums, Topics and Replies.

Then I used the WordPress Importer to import each of these three files.

As each file imported I manually specified which user should be given authorship of the forum, topic or reply. There are a lot of forums topics and users, this takes more than hour.

This seemed to go well, and at the end of the process I could see all of the forums, topics and replies in the BBPress admin screens of the site.

I went to the forums on the front-end, and I could see all the forums listed, together with the number of topics and replies in each one, and the last poster.

When I clicked through to view a forum, I saw the following message:

“This forum contains 1 topic and 7 replies, and was last updated by xxxx (name removed) 2 months, 2 weeks ago.”

Underneath that, another message:

“Oh bother! No topics were found here!”

So I Googled and Googled. I tried using the Tools -> Forums -> Repair Forums dialog, but this simply deleted all of my replies.

So I ran through the whole process again. Same result. I can see everything in the admin, but only the forums with no topics and no replies in the front end.

I’ve tried downgrading WordPress to 3.9.2, and also switching to the 2014 theme. Still no joy.

I’ve also tried disabling all of my other plugins. No dice.

I’ve also tried this:

bbpress wp4 fix

I would be really grateful if somebody out there might be able to help me with this.

I thought BBPress is a well supported WordPress based forum. Surely the ability to easily move forums between different WordPress installs is a core requirement?

Help!

[23kulpamens]

I had found partial solution, but still it doesn’t support proper plural forms.

http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/71151/bbpress-change-the-word-forum-topic-reply-in-the-forum-to-another-word-i-choos

[Robkk]

see if its a plugin issue by deactivating each plugin one at a time and check to see if deactivating one helps the links work on bbpress.

switch to a default theme like twenty twelve and see if that works.

i have a feeling it could be that you havent made a bbpress.php file, if you havent make one.

more info about bbpress.php here https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/getting-started-in-modifying-the-main-bbpress-template/

[Robkk]

i think you alread implemented the login and register buttons you were talking about.

i also recommend adding a border to the text input boxes of the register and login forms, because they seem invisible, and also for the submit buttons for each form.

you can just use simple css to fix that.

to edit the appearance of the forum you can copy bbpress.css into your child and edit that then changes you make will affect the look of your forum.

you can also copy the templates in wp-content>plugins>bbpress>templates>default>bbpress

i recommenced just copying the whole bbpress folder into your child theme.

there is more in the documentation about this.

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – part 2

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – part 3

Functions files and child themes – explained !

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

looking through the rest of the bbpress documentation isnt a bad thing too.

Codex

[Robkk]

you would have to edit and copy files from one to the other.

since its bbpress its mostly going to require copying the template files and bbpress.css , but i am not sure if your going to going to need a function for bbpress in the function.php in the theme or many more codes.

This could be really risky if you dont know what you are doing.

I recommend working on a local development area. WAMP for Windows , MAMP for Mac , LAMP for linux , and XAMP for all.

Help on this is really minimal on my side. Its more something you have to do yourself.

But if you do need help transferring i might come up with something.

Other than that it might be an answer of i dont have the time to this kind of thing right now.

[Robkk]

@arno8 dont make duplicate threads

BBpress topic and posts positioning

the modified loop-forums.php should work so there might be a theme issue.

contact your theme author since you have a premium theme and see if they can help.

[Robin W]

Actions are ‘placeholders’ to allow you to add code without having to alter the templates, so this line does nothing – it is a hook for you/others see

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – part 4

[ttmt]

Hi all

I have a WP site with bbPress installed and bbPress Like Button (a like button plugin).

I was trying to import a phpBB forum to bbPress.

I’m having problems doing this and in the process must have decactivted bbPress.

Now when I try to log in at wp-admin or view the site I get a page saying.

‘bbPress Like Button needs bbPress installed and activated in order to work.’

This is on QA server and so I can’t get access to the files.

Is there any way to fix this – Is there any way to access the dashboard to re-activate the plugin

[Yolle]

Hi! Embedded Youtube videos are not show correctly on iPad. Please see this image:
The video is cut on the right side.
I use two plugins on my website for Youtube embed, that is Smart Youtube Pro and WP Youtube Lyte. I use two plugins, because otherwise there were problem with embedding in comments on the blog section of the page, or in the backend or in posts/pages. So I would like to keep both plugins if it is possible.
I have Wp 4, Maxima theme.
Anybody know what might be the problem? Should I edit the bbpress.css in the Standard Mobile Landscape section?
Thanks!