[pfswss]

I was excited to find a wordpress forum that had good reviews and seemed the best solution after comparing a few.

I’m happy I was able to import my old PhpBB forum without much problems due to what I believe is an improved importer.

but I’m disappointed with 2 things:

1./ Lack of Support – check out this topic, not one reply as I waited for several days. In the end I had to do it myself on hope and lucky for me I puled it off. I hope this improves.

2./ Lack of dedicated Styles and themes. It was impossible to find anything like a normal forum from Invision, Vbulletin or PhpBB. There is nothing available that can make your forum look like those types of forums. There is one very basic template thing that does not do much but that is it from my many hours of research. Even the Themes section has nothing at all basically. I was expecting to find many dedicated BBPress themes. The good thing is most new themes will work with BBPress but they all look the same, simple with no organization etc.

Despite all this I am excited to have moved my PhpBB forum to wordpress and I can now make use of plugins etc.

I hope in the future BBPress improves these 2 issues.

[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, switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[Swedish_Soul]

I’m having major issues getting bbPress to work correctly.
Forums as well as forum topics do show up but replies to the same does not. Is this a known issue? I haven’t been able to find anything about this specifically.

[ChrisSuiter]

For anyone having similar issues follow the steps on this link to fix the issue.
https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

[kjgbriggs]

I would like to incorporate custom avatars to my bbpress project, they have to be only uploadable by the admin, so users cannot upload, just pick from a set of them, And the admins have access to developer ones which no-one else but people on the highest roles can access, is there a plugin that allows me to do this?

An example of a site that does this is Bungie.net

[NewUser123]

I have setup up a forum (on localhost) using bbpress where users that register through buddypress can actively participate. I want to customize the information and add fields that would be displayed under the avatar when users post on forum topics.
How do I go about doing this?
Is there some kind of plug-in that would help?
Haven’t found much on my own any help would be highly appreciated!

[Doug Smith]

I am importing a large bbPress 1.2 forum into the current version. All is working well in my test run except everyone’s favorites are gone. Should favorites be imported or is that just not part of the importer? Thanks.

[Pavle123]

Hi guys,

Which plugin is the best for social login/registration for my BuddyPress and bbPress powered website?

I want to be able to allow members to login and new users to register fast with their social network accounts.

Seen a bunch of plugins, but want to know which plugin is light and works best with BuddyPress and bbPress.

Thanks.

[Robin W]

yes, sorry that we have not picked this one up earlier

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, switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[NewSha]

TzMarko, I already figured out how to limit access to forums for specific bbPress roles. However, I would like to know if it is possible to restrict access to some other WordPress Pages for logged in users with specific bbPress roles.

Robin W, thanks for your reply. I might end up with using ‘Restricted Content’ plugin if I don’t find any other solutions based on bbPress user roles.

[eddie01001]

I solve the problem
I find in my child css
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-content,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-content,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-content {
margin-left: 20px; // here what you need change it was 130
padding: 12px 12px 12px 0;
text-align: left;
}

[danilsk]

Hi there,
I have a WP website with sub-domains (not multisite). For some reason bbPress redirects all logged-in subscriber users to the main domain when they visit homepage. It doesn’t happen with guests and admins. The only solution I could come up with was to
remove_all_filters('bbp_template_redirect');
when the homepage is being requested. Have I made a security breach? Is there a better way to solve it? Also I don’t quite understand why bbPress needs to interfere with my homepage.

[elaborate]

Thank you for the quick, helpful reply. Sorry I didn’t get back to you sooner.

I would like to count each subscribed forum and subscribed/favorite topic but not every topic within a subscribed forum, though with a few technical exceptions.

In my case, WP__bbp_subscriptions and WP__bbp_favorites only output topics, not forums or the topics of a subscribed forum.

Fortunately, I found three functions that provide either subscribed forum ids or subscribed/favorite topic ids separately, based on a user id:

bbp_get_user_subscribed_topic_ids()
bbp_get_user_subscribed_forum_ids()
bbp_get_user_favorites_topic_ids()

Here is my solution in the form of two custom functions. The above functions obviously made it all very simple:

// display bbPress subscription count
function user_subscriptions_count( $user_id = null ) {

	$topic_count = count(bbp_get_user_subscribed_topic_ids($user_id));
	
	$forum_count = count(bbp_get_user_subscribed_forum_ids($user_id));
	
	echo  $forum_count + $topic_count ;
}

// display bbpress favorites count
function user_favorites_count( $user_id = null ) {

	echo count(bbp_get_user_favorites_topic_ids($user_id));
}

I do realize that a user’s subscribed forums and topics are usually private, but I prefer to check for permissions outside functions.

Thanks for the help, I hope this might be useful for someone in the future.

[shpitzyl]

Hi,
I wonder how one can get bbpress post id from buddypress activity id. I looked at all the files mostly in bp-activity folder and I can’t find the right function. Any help will be appreciated.

[agrolsy]

Did you get this to work? I’m looking for the same thing in order to integrate wp courseware with bbpress and create discussions on each course unit.

[pfswss]

Hi, I have a forum to convert to BBPress. it does not have any mods that are important. Is is quite old and had a lot of topics, about 8,000 members mostly inactive.

The reason I want to convert is I think it will be better to have it on wordpress and have more flexibility, plugins etc.

I do already have a blog installed on the /blog directory and the phpbb forum is on the root directory. But the blog had all the users imported from the WP united plugin and I think this could cause issues so I plan to revert back to a default install.

This is how I plan to do it:

Backup everyone and research and follow procedures to import

Backup wordpress posts and pages, there is not many

Uninstall and Delete the blog and install again a fresh default blog in the /blog directory

Install BBPress in a /forum directory

Run the importer and import the forum.

Now this is where I’m a little lost…

I eventually want the forum to be back on the root directory, how will I do this?

Is there anything else I should know before hand?

[ryan a]

Can’t seem to find this in the search here. I’d like to delete one of the forums within my main forum. Not a topic or a post, but an actual forum. I have 3 different forums listed in order:

1) Nutrition
2) Workout Stuff
3) Welcome to the Forum

I’d like to delete #3 altogether. How do I do that? My account is set to Keymaster for the forum, and I do not see a delete option anywhere on the forum.
Thanks!

[Robin W]

I use the plugin Confirm User Registration which does exactly what you originally asked for.

You do need a small mod to get the participant part to work, but if you want to approve all users before they go live, then try this and if it’s what you want come back and I’ll give you the mod that makes the bbpress participant role work.

I also use SB Welcome Email Editor to make the wohle thing make sense to the user

[Robin W]

could be many things

lets start by eliminating plugin and theme

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, switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[STIX FX Entertainment]

I would like to follow up with number two on this list.

It took a whole matter of an hour after I installed my bbpress for a spammer to register. I deleted them immediately, but if I wasn’t at the laptop he could have immediately made a mess of the new forum.

I would like the ability for new registered users to be in a specific moderated role where all posts they make are held in as moderated (private) until approved. And then, when it appears they are legit and not spammers, I can move them to the standard user role. Is there a way or a plug-in to do this? Thank you.

[peter-hamilton]

no problem, I have been trying to figure out both word and bbpress and am slowly getting to grips with it, but it is not easy mate I know.

Here is a link to the forum I am building for a client, I call the theme BBFacelook, if you would like to know how to add any of the features I have added just say so, but then you better make a new thread.

BBFacelook

Good luck with your forum.

Peter Hamilton

[SplitRock]

Like @rastarr two years ago and @acornale last week, I’m looking for a way to perform a unified search of both my website and the bbpress forum. (Forum results show up in WordPress search, not just in separate forum search.)

In both cases, Search bbPress was a recommended solution. Unfortunately, the plugin hasn’t been updated since 2011, and Support threads indicate it does not work well with the latest version of bbPress. The forum on my site is also behind a paywall, and the search function in this plugin would circumvent the login page.

bbPress Search Widget was the other recommendation, and the author is still active in the Support threads. However, “unified search”, or anything similar, is not one of the features listed in the description.

Does anyone know if bbPress Search Widget includes a unified search of the site and the forum? (I’ve reached out to the author and am waiting on an answer, but it seems unlikely that a feature such as unified search wouldn’t be listed under bbPress Search Widget features.)

If not, are there any current alternatives for making a unified site search? Is bbPress likely to add this function as an option in the future?

Thanks for your time.

[dtascher]

I just installed bbpress and I have the slug set to forums, but when I go to site.com/forums it brings up an item I have in a portfolio which is part of the theme. No matter what I make the slug it brings up the same item in the portfolio. If I delete that item from the portfolio, it brings up the next item in the portfolio.

Any ideas?

[N. Hutter]

I’ve made 2 groups in UAM, one for partners and one to lock pages. Both aren’t bound to WordPress / bbPress Roles. If i create a page or a post i can choose one of this groups or not. If i choose one, only the members of the group can see the page / post (this works) and all subpages too (recursively).
The forum is open to all users so the forum page has no group selected. I can’t change anything else without knowing more about bbPress or UAM. And i know nothing about it =P
Could something in the topic template cause this problem or is it more a core problem?
Do you maybe know an other plugin to lock pages (with user groups) if we can’t find a solution for this one?

[Mizunga]

Hello,

I came from a kunena instalation and bbPress is displaying the posts and CPT of my current WP site as forums and topics instead of the real forums, this is the url: foro viajeros, it still keeps the original forum threads as replies.

Any recomendation or idea on how to solve this issue?

Regards,

Kevin.