[Tom Dyer]

Brilliant, thanks @netweb. I’ve actually started my own which is related to this (as well as a few other issues) here:

phpBB Import Error(s)

I’m happy to edit my post and link to this topic in regards to the repair tasks (if that’s preferable to you?) but there are other parts to my new topic that are not related to this single issue.

[Tom Dyer]

Hi,

After reading the importer
I’ve recently migrated my phpBB forum to bbPress, but I have noted a few issues with the import/repair process. Does anybody have any suggestions as to what’s going wrong with any/all of these:

Forum import – The documentation states that stickies will not be imported, however I after doing the import I have around 20 ‘super-stickies’ which, looking at the old forum, are a mixture of announcements and stickies. I’d rather these weren’t converted to anything, and as far as I’m aware they shouldn’t be (https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2126)

User import – During the import, I (the main WordPress admin user) seem to have had quite a lot of forums, topics and replies linked to my user. I wasn’t a user on the previous phpBB forum at all so I’m not sure why I’ve adopted these posts. Or any posts for that matter.

Repair tools – All the repair tasks seem to work ok, except for two:
– Recalculate the position of each reply
– Remap existing users to default forum roles
These two tasks end up white-screening with no status messages at all.

User Login Conversion – User logins are converted correctly when using the standard wordpress login screen but now when using my custom frontend ajax login – does anyone know if there’s a way to get that to work? A seperate topic has been started about that here: http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/user-login-authentication-migrated-phpbb-users/

Any advice on any of these steps would be very much appreciated.
Thanks!

[dububiscuit]

Hi,
I’m very new to both WordPress and bbPress, so my apologies if this is a very easy problem to resolve!

Whilst poking about trying figure stuff out in the bbpress/includes/admin/functions.php, I received the following error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘}’ in /home/content/65/5240765/html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/functions.php on line 303

I’ve checked through the code to try and find the ‘}’ but couldn’t spot it (there is no line 303 – it only goes up to 294), and tried to fix it by replacing the wrong code with the original code but it still gives the same error. I’m not entirely sure what I’ve done even after extensive google/forum searches, so I’ve copied the code into paste bin in case anyone can help me out.

http://pastebin.com/X9FsvsR1

The website doesn’t appear to be broken from the front end in any way, it’s just the back end that’s messed up.

I’m using WordPress vers 3.9.1 and bbPress vers 2.5.4, the theme is BigFeature.

Thanks in advance!

[sainfoinc]

Dear John,

I have issue on Bbpress forum.
Can you help me for resolve it?

At bottom of this website http://www.zroor.com/ there is a forum list widget.
Click on last two forums, i) Site Announcements ii) Help & Suggestion

I divided these forum in two child category.

Is it possible to restrict these both forum to appear in this widget and show its only child category?

[Robin W]

ok, so now you need to go into

wp-content/themes/divi

and look through the page templates, hopefully one is called ‘left sidebar’ or ‘right sidebar’ if not you’ll need to open them up and look for

*Template Name: left sidebar

This is the template that you now want as bbpress, so follow the instructions

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

[Robin W]

bbpress has a number of templates which you can alter

these are found in

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress

Start with

content-archive-forum.php

this is the index page.

you will see that it calls other templates

eg

<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'loop', 'forums' ); ?>

which calls loop-forums.php

a look through and you should be able to work out what most of it is doing.

If you want to alter any of these, make a new directory in the root of your theme and copy any of these template files to it (only the ones you want to alter)

so for instance if you wanted to alter content-archive-forum.php you’d create a copy to get
wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/content-archive-forum.php

you can then alter these copies, and bbpress will use them instead

They will also show you what css is being used, so that you can amend your style.css file with those that you want to change, or you can copy the whole bbpress style file viz https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum-part-2/#5-copyingcreating-a-bbpress-stylesheet-in-your-child-theme

at the finer level you may need to use something like firebug to work out how to say ‘bold’ the forums names to see what css each part is using, so that you can alter it.

Firebug is downloaded to go with the Firefox browser. There are loads of firebug tutorials eg see

[Stephen Edgar]

If you’d like to get Montezuma working then an answer to my questions in my previous post would be helpful as if they are the links being emailed something else is not quite right, maybe a conflict with some ‘mail’ type plugin you might be using.

I just installed the Montezuma theme myself and the email links I get appear correct.

eg. http://example.com/?topic=topic-with-hidden-replies/#post-472

I also had to folow the steps on this page to get bbPress looking kind of right, there are still a few theme issues such as > being displayed in the header and footer.

http://forum.bytesforall.com/showthread.php?t=19192&highlight=bbpress

[Alan Koh]

Hi Moderator,

I am currently using Mingle forum and it has been giving me alot of Respond 500 error. I wish to change to bbPress. However, I am facing issue of importing.

I go to tools, import forums. However, I do not know what to key in for the following fields

1) Database Name
2) Database User
3) Database Password

Where can I get them?

Please help as its urgent.

[K-Path]

WordPress 3.9.1
TwentyTen with some CSS modification
bbPress 2.5.4

This what my bbPress looks like now
http://hcrd.foundation/journal/forums/

hcrd bbPress screen capture
This is close to what I want my bbPress installation to look like I didn’t pull the line spaces together in the image.
http://hcrd.foundation/screen-cap.journal-forum.png

I may be completely wrong and these settings may all be controlled by the TwentyTen theme and WordPress. In either case I’ll do the work if somebody can just point me to the right information so I can learn.

bbPress Wishlist

Make the forum’s Search window persistent, available from within all forums.

Move the Forum Title and the Search Window so they are parallel and within 20 pixels or less of main menu (white on black menu).

Make the Categories’ and Forums’ names BOLD and make them 1.00 line or less apart from their descriptions which should NOT be bold.

Instead of a specific pixel width can the area of the post to the BBS be calibrated in percent or at least be 640px or even better 800px width?

Finally, why are my category and forum names duplicated?

[thecatholicwoman]

Can you answer a quick question for me. I am using the simplr form plus plugin and I got all of the fields set and the default pages and custom welcome page complete. However the tiny mce icon to dump the registration form into the page is not showing up on my tool bar. Any idea why that might be? I know that this is not bbpress directly but I was wondering if you were by chance familiar with the plugin.

[Stephen Edgar]

This is awesome, it would be great to see this as a tutorial in the codex 😉

Codex Standards & Guidelines

[Stephen Edgar]

This is a question you should ask the ‘topics for posts’ plugin author, not so much bbPress itself.

[Stephen Edgar]

Hmmm… There ‘might’ be something else at play here, I had a weird issue myself late last week that I am still trying to determine what it actually is with the WordPress WXR Export/Import, I have a sneaking suspicion it has something to do with the imported ID’s not matching the post_parent ID.

I’ll dig around more on this later in the week when I finish up the bbPress 2.x importer (it’s 75% complete), so watch out for any patches added to this bbPress ticket #2605

[Stephen Edgar]

Run the ‘Reset Forums’ tool from Dashboard -> Tools -> Forums and that will delete all bbPress forums, topics, replies from the database then deactivate bbPress.

[thecatholicwoman]

it says full width, right side bar, left side bar under a field called ET

If it is the bbp tweaks options I have copied them below.
plugin-bbpress.php
bbpress.php
forums.php
forum.php
generic.php
page.php
single.php
index.php

Files with Bold text exist.

[celtichero]

I started a similar topic on wordpress.org – but I wasn’t sure where the best place would be (here I suppose!)

I’ve done some Googling here, and I’ve found a few topics that apparantly fix this, but…I’m not seeing the same info in my own site (the database info that theyre referring to isnt there..) I’m sure someone will point me to those older posts 😛

So I want to start with a fresh question – I want to start TOTALLY fresh with BBPRess, so I deleted the forums and whatnot and then uninstalled BBPress…later I reinstalled it but on the main dashboard I see this in one of the little info boxes on the right hand side: “Right now in Forums” and then it shows a few forums and topics, etc, that don’t exist…I want to remove those. Is there any way to do that?

I tried looking in the database through PHPMyAdmin and I don’t see anything named “bb_” to delete, so what’s the next step? :/

Thanks SO much in advance.

I’m using the latest version of WP and BBPress, btw and the twenty fourteen theme, if any of that helps.

[Robin W]

ok, understood

The issue is that your ‘page’ template that bbpress is suing doesn’t have a sidebar, and wp tweaks won’t work until it has.

In essence you need to either find an existing template within your theme that ahs a sidebar, or create one.

When you go into edit on any page, under page attributes on the right hand side what templates do you have the choice of? – Changing these won’t change the forum, but it should let me know if you have a sidebar page – can you list the alternatives.

[Robkk]

well maybe there is a problem with recognizing the menu location , like exactly where the function is in loop-forums.php

first let me see a link to your website

then im going to recreate this bbpress menu from the steps i gave you and see if i made an error copying and pasting

by the time i finish this is what you could do

put <nav id="subnav" role="navigation">

<?php
if ( has_nav_menu( 'bbmenu' ) ) { /* if menu location 'bbmenu' exists then use custom menu */
      wp_nav_menu( array( 'theme_location' => 'bbmenu') ); 
}
?>

</nav>

below <?php do_action( 'bbp_template_before_forums_loop' ); ?>

and see if that fixes anything

[dottedpixel]

In the menu settings, if I also tick the box “top menu” in theme locations (standard: bbpress Forum Menu) it does appear there.

[dottedpixel]

Thank you @Robkk for your easy to follow steps.

I already had a child theme (made from woothemes canvas), in there I have a folder called “bbpress” in there I already had the “form-topic.php”, “loop-forums.php”, “user-details.php” and “user-profile.php”. And one level above is the bbpress.php file.

I pasted the code in the functions.php of the child theme, and added the other code in the “loops-forums.php” above <?php do_action( 'bbp_template_before_forums_loop' ); ?>

I created a new menu called bbmenu and placed a custom link into it, and I added it to the “bbpress Forum Menu location”.

Then I pasted the css into my custom css.

I don’t get any error every thing works fine, but there is no menu showing. mmmh?

Could it be a problem with canvas?

Best
Michel

[yoshimitsu1234]

My bbpress forum tags are separate from normal WordPress post tags.
Is these any way i could combine both so that if i add a tag for example “health” in normal WordPress post it would also be seen as tags in forums. If a user clicks on a tag he gets results from both normal WordPress posts and forum posts as well.

[Robkk]

if i use bbpress topics for posts how do i remove the bbpress header when ever its on blog posts only?

[Robkk]

I use Yoast breadcrumbs from Yoast SEO plugin could that effect the bbpress breadcrumbs

yes

if it checked in the internal links settings

if so to display the bbpress breadcrumbs uncheck it or use this in functions.php in a child theme

remove_filter( 'bbp_get_breadcrumb', '__return_false' );

[Robin W]

Genius is overstating.. 🙂 but I’ll take thanks, always good to get a result !

1. To get a sidebar you need to be using a template that has a sidebar. https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum/#8-make-sure-bbpress-uses-the-page-template-we-want At the moment your page is full width.

2. Yes, but you need to be clear what you want eg manual vs. automatic registration

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

3. I think you are using my ‘last post’ plugin – yes? If so then yes it could be modified to also show title, but I’m pretty tied up at the moment

[tobau]

Hey,

I successfully imported my Vanilla Forum. But what its missing are my forums. I got 7 categories in my old Vanilla forum but 0 forums after the import.

Here http://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/vanilla/
Here it says “Forum ‘Categories’ are imported as a ‘Forum’”

Do I miss something here?
Thanks for your help!

Tom