[boblebad]

I can’t say that it was something really simple, cause looking around the database and settings in the Dashboard for a couple of hours without finding anything that was related to the problem, i just killed of Paid Memberships Pro and reinstalled it.

Problem solved.

Did i find the cause ? – No, i don’t know whether there’s a bug or something else messed it up.

So is this thread of any help ? – Don’t know, maybe, you just know to kick PMPro out and reinstall it, then it all works again.

Should you however know what the problem was or could be, then post it, cause there are so many people out there having this problem in one form or the other.

And that leads me to think that there’s something not coded as it should, i don’t know whether it’s bbPress or all the plugins that is the main issue, but if it’s all the others, then there must be a lack of information from the developers of bbPress – how else can so many plugin developer get this wrong ??

Most of the time, when reading the threads about this, it comes down to restricting access to the forums, it’s the source of the problem, and in my opinion it should be possible out-of-the-box.

If the problem re-occurres, i’ll get back 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

You are correct in bbPress does not support this at this stage, BuddyPress Group Forums can only have a single bbPress forum.

That said, we are working towards adding this, there are more details here.

[shughey]

I’m using WP 3.9.1 and bbpress 2.5.3. Everything is installed and seems to be working ok. However, I’m really confused concerning how to structure my discussions. I know how ‘I’ want it structured but either bbpress wants it differently or I’m missing something (which is probably the problem). If anyone would explain how I can achieve what ‘I’ want it will be greatly appreciated. So far, I’ve done this:

Created a Group
The Group has a forum
Topics are in the forum

However, it looks like my Group can have only one forum. I want my Group structured like this:

History (Group)
-Events (Forum)
–Topics within this Forum
-People (Forum)
–Topics within this Forum

Is this something that just can’t be done or am I doing something wrong?

Please help,
Sam

[Robin W]

@demonboy as per other post

have you seen

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

[Nenno]

Hi I have exactly the same issue, read all the instructions made a bbpress.php from the page-with sidebar php file, copied it, changed the name in the php file and was so exciged to see it in the templates folder but no, none, absolutely zip showing of any widgets even though I can see them in the bbpress sidebar on the widget page. Also tried widget logic. 🙁 Very glum me. Did you solve it?

[flipdamusic]

Hi,
i have the challenge to show the latest topics for the role members in the topic index view. I’m new to bbpress so i’ve to learn a lot.

I’m using buddypress with sidewide and group forums. Each group has one forum.
When I’m using a site and shortcode [bbp-topic-index] only all topics from the sidewide forums are shown. What I’ve learned is that this is a default behavior – i hope i’m not wrong 🙂

Now I want to show all latest topics / posts for all members belonging to their group / group forum – optimal on the latest topic page. The users are members (bbpress) and abonnents (WordPress).
How do i accomplish that ?

[demonboy]

This issue appears to be consistently ignored on the forums. Whilst bbpress is a marvelous creation, one of the best plugins for WP (props to the developers), this one issue keeps cropping up time and time again. It is a real frustration.

Is this because there is a solution somewhere obvious and the developers are fed up with pointing people in the right direction, or is it because there is still no solution to this problem?

[Kaluh]

Hi guys,

I have a problem with my freshness, some of the forums are set correctly but some are not.
someone has an idea what it can be ? something like an ID problem or something.

i used the “Recalculate last activity in each topic and forum” repair tool but that didnt help alot.

my forum is build up like:

Forum/Subforum/Topic

the point where the freshness goes wrong is from Subforum to Forum.

i hope anyone can help

Kind regards,

Niek

[Robin W]

Usually this is a theme or plugin conflict.

Try just bbpress on a twentytwelve theme, and if that works add theme and plugins until you find the conflict.

[2scope]

Hi

I’ve just tried installing bbpress and after following the guides I find that setting my test forum to visibility: public does not work. It will asks for a username and password when you try to visit the forum. You can see an example here:

http://www.2scopedesign.co.uk/support/

Does anyone know why this is happening?

Thanks

[Stephen Edgar]

Not sure if this is related, but on my test install when there are second-level replies to import it messes bbPress list of replies.

Yes, saw the same thing, because the replies it tries to list are linking to parent topics that do not exist.

EDIT: do not believe I haven’t read your own posts LOL. I just wanted to describe the path I have followed in case it would bring some light on your side…

Thinking ‘out loud’ is all good, helps ideas for even funkier SQL queries 😉

Unfortunately, it seems the converter doesn’t accept this…

No it doesn’t, it is pretty limited in how we can do joins and joining a table with the same name it ignores when it comes time to merge all the sections field mappings. We can work around this for now by putting all of the join bits in the from_expression thus the following works:

'from_expression' => 'INNER JOIN wp_symposium_topics t ON symposium_topics.topic_parent = t.tid WHERE symposium_topics.topic_parent != 0 AND symposium_topics.topic_group = 0 AND t.topic_parent = 0',

I also setup some groups (and what a painful experience that was), I agree it would be nice to get the group topics imported also but lets do that in v2 after I add some of the previously mentioned changes to improve the capabilities of the main converter script.

Pull request sent with above change…

[elaborate]

my wife would be delighted if I had a six pack, but suspect that’s not what you are talking about !

I hear you can get crafty six pack-making belts on the shop***g channel that work wonders at the same price though! 🙂

Is that correct?

Not exactly, I’m trying to move the content of the edit page from bbPress over to the settings page on BuddyPress, or any other page for that matter.

Maybe I should add that I’m making a custom WP/BBP/BP theme, so if it’s something that can easily be done by working with the template files as opposed to drawing up plugins then I’m happy to do it that way.

I started reading up on how PHP forms work, but I figure it’s safer to ask someone who knows what they’re doing when it comes to things like user inputs.

[lagrou]

Problem I see, is that with this version all of the replies are imported, including second-level ones which have the topic ID as parent instead of their parent ID. Not sure if this is related, but on my test install when there are second-level replies to import it messes bbPress list of replies. Whereas with no second-level replies in WPS forum, it works fine.

To get only first-level replies, I have changed the above into:
"SELECT s.* FROM wp_symposium_topics s INNER JOIN wp_symposium_topics t ON s.topic_parent = t.tid WHERE s.topic_parent != 0 AND s.topic_group = 0 AND t.topic_parent = 0"

Which works fine as dumped in a PHP page. And then into:

// Reply id (Stored in postmeta)
$this->field_map[] = array(
	'from_tablename'  => 'symposium_topics s',
	'from_fieldname'  => 'tid',
	'join_tablename'  => 'symposium_topics t',
	'join_type'       => 'INNER',
	'join_expression' => 'ON s.topic_parent = t.tid',
	'from_expression' => 'WHERE s.topic_parent != 0 AND s.topic_group = 0 AND t.topic_parent = 0',
	'to_type'         => 'reply',
	'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_post_id'
);

Unfortunately, it seems the converter doesn’t accept this…

EDIT: do not believe I haven’t read your own posts LOL. I just wanted to describe the path I have followed in case it would bring some light on your side…

[street2k]

What would be a helpful idea is for people who has a customized css color template of the bbpress.css file to post an image of their theme with a copy of the css so anyone who would like to achieve the same or similar outcome as a guide. So the ppl who aren’t code savvy can use it for their forum. That way there is no need for a plugin to be created.

[Stephen Edgar]

It looks like we won’t get the threaded replies in v1, I had a similar issue with vBulletin 5 and which is not included in bbPress at this stage. Trying to get a single query to handle all of the replies doesn’t look good at the moment for WPS.

You can take a look at the vBulletin5.php importer, rather than just ‘Forums’, ‘Topics’ and ‘Replies’ sections I had to add a 4th, ‘Comments’ this then meant I had to extend the main converter to handle this extra step.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/2440/

I’ll have a think about this over the next couple of days and come up with some options, there is a chance I can add this extra section to bbPress and then included WPS threaded replies, vBulletin5.php in the next version of bbPress. There is just a ton of testing needed to ensure the ~20 other importers continue to work and fix any issues that arise…

[Sinardja]

I can’t see the forum id on my bbpress? How to know my forum id number? Thanks

[Stephen Edgar]

Reply to Replies, I had a look and they are stored in symposium_topics like other replies, so we should have them with little effort. In case you’d like to give it a try on WPS side, and be able to test their import, they are activated using roles, “Forum comment roles” under “Forum” tab.

I’ve added some ‘replies to replies’ to my test WPS forum before converting it… In bbPress, in the backend they are not displayed in the list of replies, although I do see ‘hidden’ replies in the count that I cannot access to. In the frontend, the forum topic does not show those replies, nor do the counters. However!! When dumping wp_posts table WHERE post_type = ‘reply’, they are there, so they were converted ok, it’s just that they don’t show. I did set bbPress threated replies 2 levels deep before conversion. Any advice…?

Looking at this now, threaded replies are using the same topic_parent field, though they are using this as a pointer to the ‘reply parent’ rather than the topic parent.

This is the reply query: (My test results) Notice the ‘threaded replies’ topic ID, it is not the actual topic ID it is the reply ID they are a reply to.

SELECT CONVERT( symposium_topics.tid
USING  "utf8" ) AS tid, CONVERT( symposium_topics.topic_category
USING  "utf8" ) AS topic_category, CONVERT( symposium_topics.topic_parent
USING  "utf8" ) AS topic_parent, CONVERT( symposium_topics.topic_owner
USING  "utf8" ) AS topic_owner, CONVERT( symposium_topics.topic_post
USING  "utf8" ) AS topic_post, CONVERT( symposium_topics.topic_started
USING  "utf8" ) AS topic_started
FROM wp_symposium_topics AS symposium_topics
WHERE symposium_topics.topic_parent !=0
LIMIT 0 , 100

Working on tweaking the query now….

I’ll be happy to contribute to the bbPress Codex as well, with issues etc.

Appreciated 🙂

Browsing other converters’ Codex, I do see where there will be issues with WP Symposium, [youtube], custom smilies {{cloud}}, etc.

I haven’t looked at this yet, most of it should be easy enough from work on the other importers, just a matter of creating a list of all that is required.

As far as groups forum topics, I would add ‘AND symposium_topics.topic_group = 0 ‘ to the ‘from_expression’ of both the topic ID and Reply ID sections to get rid of those posts. Cleaner until v2.

I’ll add that shortly and do some tests.

[Stephen Edgar]

I know some tables are named bb-something, but do the post have a “tell” ?

This, you should not have ANY tables named bb-something, are you using the old v0.9x/1.x version of bbPress? The standalone version or are you using bbPress v2.x plugin for WordPress?

[Tom Dyer]

as a side note, it’s probably worth utilising the bbp_get_forum_post_type(), bbp_get_topic_post_type() and bbp_get_reply_post_type() from bbPress instead of hard-coding the ‘forum’, ‘topic’ and ‘reply’ in there. It’s not affecting what I’m doing right now, but you can bet it’s going to upset somebody sometime 😉

– You may already have that in mind but I just figured, since you want people testing it, that it’s worth pointing out.

[fumbling]

Yup! I created a forum page using method 1. And yes I installed bbPress WP tweaks.

[shughey]

Using WP 3.9.1 and bbpress 2.5.3. How do you remove the bbpress breadcrumbs?

Thanks,
Sam Hughey

[yeahman45]

Is there a reason whhy the visual editor is not enabled by default on bbpress? Does it cause compatibility issues and is it secured to use for the public?

[javies]

Hello! I have a problem with the display of a form of bbpress. The comment form has no border, so it is not seen.
I want it to look like the picture, color does not matter.:

I try to change the wp theme, but no change..

Thanks!

[boblebad]

It has to be database, there’s some setting somewhere that controls the output, and there must be a bug somewhere, cause why are so many experiencing this ?

It’s not a theme thing, it’s in all themes.

It’s also a problem with every user incl admin.

Now i have resat, i have un-installed and reinstalled bbPress, and it’s same same.

Can you tell me exactly what records in the database that belongs to bbPress, how do i sort them out from all the othere ?

I know some tables are named bb-something, but do the post have a “tell” ?

[Robin W]

Have you set up using

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

if so did you use bbPress WP tweaks?