[themefurnace]

Hi,

I have finally converted a large forum over to bbPress from Vbulletin,
The bbPress forum page and threads etc are quite slow – Im just using bbPress + BuddyPress with Twenty Twelve theme at the moment while I code my forum theme.

The bbPress section of the site is slow – there is a few seconds delay when clicking a thread or onto the forum page itself so guessing this is due to the size – 850k replies, 61k topics and 21k users.

I wondered if there were any tweaks or recommendations for speeding up the site, Im on my own dedicated server and Vbulletin is blazing fast on it.

I saw this thread – http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/slow-to-post-forum-topics-and-replies-on-large-forum/ where it mentioned a speed increase in 2.6 for larger forums, any news on that ? Or anything I can try now to test it out ?

I read that hidden forums might make a difference so I unhid the forum but no speed increase.

[luisc9]

Good night everyone!

I am new to bbpress, but not new to WordPress.

Could you please be so kind and explain clearly (for a newbie like me 🙂 ), what are the steps to fix this issue?

We have a website with wordpress and bbpress with responses whose order get’s altered… And this has direct impact in our visitors experience.

Thanks in advance for your patience.
Regards
Luis

[jjaschang]

Just to be sure, example:

Level 2 form -only level 2 member can access.
But all level members can SEE forum title
But they they tried to enter to see topics, they can NOT access buecase they have no permission.

Is this correct?
thank you so very much for your help!

Jasmin

PS. one more question, if we want to modify (side bar) is there developer that I can hire from bbpress.org? or is there particular place that I can look to find a developer?

[Stephen Edgar]

1- You would need a ‘membership’ plugin that supports bbPress, there are a few in the WordPress plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/
2- You can fully customize bbPress to match any theme or custom design you want, see the docs for more info. https://codex.bbpress.org/

[Anonymous User]

thank you so much Gautam it worked for me .

bbpress/includes/core/filters.php : added :

add_filter( 'bbp_get_reply_content',   'bbp_rel_nofollow'              );
add_filter( 'bbp_get_topic_content',   'bbp_rel_nofollow' 	       );

[Stephen Edgar]

Upgrade your WordPress install from v3.5 to v3.9.2

bbPress minimum requirements are WordPress v3.6 (this will also be bumped very shortly to v3.7)

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

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress does not have pingbacks enabled for it’s post types, they are explicitly disabled.

Could you be more specific and post a link to some examples and I’ll take a look.

* Is it happening on all three bbPress custom post types?

* forum, topic and reply are the tree post types and a link to one of each that this is happening with will allow me to investigate why.

* I can’t think of a plugin for bbPress that changes the ping status of the custom post types but just in case can you disable all your plugins except bbPress and create a new forum, a topic in that forum and a reply to that topic and then create a WordPress post with a link to each of the three and see if you see any pingbacks.

[Stephen Edgar]

I’ve just tested this with bbPress 2.5.4 and Twenty Fourteen with no other active plugins:

* Created a page /123 and added the [bbp-forum-form] shortcode
* Opened that page /123
* Entered 123 as the forum title and description
* Selected forum for the forum type
* Selected open for the forum status
* Selected Public for forum visibility
* Selected root for parent forum (Root is another forum I already had setup)
* Clicked submit and the forum is created and I am redirected to create a new topic in that forum e.g. /forums/forum/root/123/

[keytastic]

I’ve disabled pingbacks on my blog (Discussion > Disable pingbacks)… but I’m still getting pingback (trackback?) spam on my website. So far it’s all happening on forum posts. Is there a separate way to disable pingbacks on bbpress?

[pezarro]

Hello,

I operate a WordPress Network on WordPress version 3.5

I have installed bbPress 2.5.4

When an user that is “admin” for the specific site goes to the dashboard, the forums, topics, and replies buttons in the leftcolum appear.

The forums, topics, and replies buttons in the leftcolum dashboard disappear if you double click on the top left dashboard icon unless I make the user a “Super Admin” for the entire WordPress network.

What do you suggest to fix this?

Thanks,

[Sam Rohn]

these 3 plugins are very effective in eliminating spambots and other spammers on wordpress/bbpress site

i use all 3 with no apparent problems, but read the notes for each plugin, all need to be properly configured and stop spammer reg can be very aggressive, stop spam reg and bad behavior will both check visitors against a blacklist of known spammers and will deny them access to reg and posting forms etc

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

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

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

[GamingOrdinance]

Hi

im trying to import my XenForo to my BBPress and im having trouble as this is coming up:

WordPress database error: [Table 'db502829828.user' doesn't exist]
SELECT convert(user.user_id USING "utf8") AS user_id,convert(user.username USING "utf8") AS username,convert(user.email USING "utf8") AS email,convert(user_profile.homepage USING "utf8") AS homepage,convert(user.register_date USING "utf8") AS register_date,convert(user.custom_title USING "utf8") AS custom_title,convert(user_profile.status USING "utf8") AS status,convert(user_profile.signature USING "utf8") AS signature,convert(user_profile.location USING "utf8") AS location,convert(user_profile.occupation USING "utf8") AS occupation,convert(user_profile.about USING "utf8") AS about FROM user AS user LEFT JOIN user_profile AS user_profile USING (user_id) LIMIT 0, 100
No users to convert
Starting Conversion

My forum link: community.gamingordinance.com

[johnceena]

Hi,

I want to change this Link ” site_url/wp-login.php ” in the email that is sent , after registration in bbpress plugin ,

How can i do this , Please Guide me for this,

Many Thanks

John

[divyesh25]

HI Stephen,

yes i am already created forums under category and my forum structure like below and also same manner i am listing on page. but i am not able to set pagination. i am new to bbpress so please give me some suggestion.

category A
-forum A1
-forum A2
category B
-forum B1
-forum B2.

[Stephen Edgar]

A massive copy and paste of your code is not helpful, no one wants to read a wall of code with no formatting, next time use the “code” button in the toolbar to wrap your code so it’s a little easier to read, also only post the specific parts of the code that is relevant.

Either way, I’m closing this as a duplicate of your other post as that was readable and I’ve answered it. https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/pagination-on-forum-listing-page/

[Stephen Edgar]

Seems a little weird, that said using /wp-admin.php to login is not a bbPress thing, sort of, kind of, make sure your not using any plugins that are used for login registration and redirects.

Further disable ALL your plugins except bbPress and switch to the Twenty Fourteen theme and see if the issue persists, if it still does then create a new participant user and again whilst plugins are disabled and using the Twenty Fourteen theme try again, still no luck try a new keymaster user under the same conditions.

[Stephen Edgar]

This really isn’t a bbPress issue, it is more of a WordPress issue.

Your web host should be able to do some things via firewall rules.

A good starter doc is https://codex.wordpress.org/Combating_Comment_Spam , conceptually it is the same thing, you have some ‘content’ that spammers want to get in on, in this case rather than comments it’s your bbPress forums and/or topics.

bbPress uses WordPress user system for user authentication (login registration etc)

I know it’s probably ideally not what you were looking for but is the state of things.

A couple more thoughts would be to verify your Akismet API key is valid and Akismet is actually catching what spam it can. I’d also look to adding “capcha” plugin that supports the bbPress, there’s a few of these in WordPress plugin directory.

[Stephen Edgar]

Open of the bbPress forums panel in the back end, it looks like that is the name of the forum (it could also be in the forum description), simple edit that and save and you should be done.

[Stephen Edgar]

Check out some of our docs, scroll down past the main headers on the following link and you’ll see some tutorials: https://codex.bbpress.org/

If you want a capcha for your site search the WordPress plugins for “bbPress Capcha”, there are a couple of these I think from memory.

[Dane Gould]

Hi there

We are experiencing a ‘mass spam attack’ that is overloading the database on our web host server. Our web hosts SGIS have looked into this and have deleted 75,000 spam attacks this week that have taken place from May to August 2014 (there were only a few hundred in the 14 months preceding this).

Investigation has seems to show that the spam attack is linked to the bbpress forum plugin in our website. We have the latest version of Akismet installed and the latest version of bbpress. We don’t allow guests to start topics or posts or to reply to posts. All users have to be registered to reply to posts and only a few users are allowed to start new topics and posts. We are also using the latest version of WordPress which is 3.9.2. Does anyone have any thoughts or ideas about why this may be happening? Look forward to any reply.

Our website address is: http://www.tenantcentral.org.uk

Cheers – Dane

[Stephen Edgar]

Check out some of the docs, there’s a link at the top of this page.

If you don’t want particular widgets in a sidebar remove those widgets, this is not a bbPress issue so we have nothing to fix here.

If you don’t want a sidebar, use a template from your theme that doesn’t include a sidebar.

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

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress Forums are limited to 50 forums, you should use some categories…

[icejerry]

I want to show the sticky posts first in the BBPress recent topic widget for each forum, and then show the newest topics.

It seems that the BBPress recent topic widget can only show the newest topics.
Please help me to show the sticky topics in the BBPress recent topic widget.

My BBpress Version is 2.5.4
My website is http://www.ezthelife.com/

Please help me, thanks a lot.

[icejerry]

I am going to create a widget that shows local events, which are sorted by the date of the events. So I need to sort the topics by topic names but not by when I publish it, for example
[8/22/2014]event1…
[8/25/2015]event2…
[8/26/2014]event3…

But right now there is no this kind of choice for BBPress recent topic widget.
This can be done in wordpress post widget, but I prefer to use BBPress to publish this kind of Events.

I don’t know how to get the wordpress version, but I have the version number for BBPress, which is Version 2.5.4
My website is http://www.ezthelife.com/
Please see the second column on the top, that is what I want, but it is wordpress post widget not BBPress topic widget .

Please help me, thanks a lot.

[Shupreme]

Hi there,

I have bbPress but the thing is I can’t fix the page width,
I did it successfuly with the home page of the forum but now
I want to do the same with the topic page, I still see widgets on the left which is annoying.
I don’t know why bbPress guys can’t fix that, it’s been a problem for many people, so please can you help me make the topic page large (full-width)..
I’m good with HTML and CSS, so if you can just tell me which file I should edit…
(I’m not talking about the forum main page I already fixed the width for it, I’m talking about the topic pages.)
Thanks alot!