[fumbling]

Oops forgot! Using: wordpress 3.9.1 and bbpress 2.5.3

[fumbling]

I’ve set up a forum, by making a page, and for some reason the bbpress sidebar isn’t showing up. My pages sidebar is coming up. How can I fix this?
http://fumblingfitnesscom.fatcow.com/test/wordpress/ask/

any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks 🙂

[boblebad]

I have now tried to un-install bbPress and reinstall, nothing happened, still can’t see the posts/topics.

Anyone got any clue to this ??

[CathieHeart]

Thanks Robin, I’d already deactivated everything other than bbpress and worked steadily from there. Everything worked except uploading images with just bbPress active.

Then I activated just the single bbPress Enable TinyMCE Visual Tab plugin and it worked.

It probably bamboozled me because when I started up at the beginning with just bbPress and that plugin I hadn’t found the ‘media button’ check box in the plugin settings! grr.

So then I tried to be smart and add a user role management plugin which then messed everything up ever after.

Sometimes I need the hint to go back to basics, just have one thing work and figure out the clash point!

Cheers Robin!

[lagrou]

Something odd about those “replies to replies”. I had assumed they would be there by default, but couldn’t see them…

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…?

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.

[Robin W]

I think you need to eliminate conflicts for instance maybe the access plugin is conflicting

try

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.

[Robin W]

Just taken a good look at form_reply_move.php and that calls a function that uses the bbp_has_topics with a ‘post__not_in’ parameter. My function uses a ‘post__in’ parameter, and wp-Query can’t handle both in one query, hense why it falls over.

I’m already in trouble with my wife for still typing this, but try copying

wp-content/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/form_reply_move.php to a folder called bbpress within the root of your theme – ie wp-content/your-theme-name/bbpress/form_reply_move.php

this will create a copy that is used instead of the default

try

changing

line 45

<?php if ( bbp_has_topics( array( 'show_stickies' => false, 'post_parent' => bbp_get_reply_forum_id( bbp_get_reply_id() ), 'post__not_in' => array( bbp_get_reply_topic_id( bbp_get_reply_id() ) ) ) ) ) : ?>

to

<?php //if ( bbp_has_topics( array( 'show_stickies' => false, 'post_parent' => bbp_get_reply_forum_id( bbp_get_reply_id() ), 'post__not_in' => array( bbp_get_reply_topic_id( bbp_get_reply_id() ) ) ) ) ) : ?>

and line 63

from

<?php endif; ?>

to

<?php //endif; ?>

This just takes that argument out and see how it runs then

If that works, then I can play with what is needed – think I know, but am out of the door….now !!!

[CathieHeart]

Hello,

I’m struggling to get a new subscriber user I created to test functionality and found that they are unable to upload pictures / files. I understand that only users who are able to upload media will be able to add new media but I’ve edited the access rights to allow subscribers to upload their own media.

I’m using:
Wordpress: Version 3.9.1
bbPress: Version 2.5.3
bbPress Enable TinyMCE Visual Tab: Version 1.0.1 –

I’ve setup a fresh install of wordpress and I’m running a minimum of plugins, user switching, bbpress, bbpress genesis and the bbPress Enable TinyMCE Visual Tab plugin. I’m also using a plugin by WP-Types called Access to that I’ve used to make a subscriber able to read, edit, delete and publish their own media files.

How do I get the basic subscriber user to be able to:

• create a topic
• reply to topics
• be able to upload media as a forum participant

I’ve got the settings > forum > set to ‘Automatically give registered visitors the Participant forum role’. What else do I need to do?

Thanks
Cathie.

[lagrou]

Merged your pull request…

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’ll be happy to contribute to the bbPress Codex as well, with issues etc. Browsing other converters’ Codex, I do see where there will be issues with WP Symposium, [youtube], custom smilies {{cloud}}, etc.

EDIT: oops fixed a copy/paste error in my prose…

[Stephen Edgar]

How do you have bbPress and Private Groups activated? Network or Per Site ?

Also as long as you ran the repair tools after importing from phpBB it shouldn’t be an issue, if you didn’t there is a chance, slim but plausible.

[Tom Dyer]

Oh, and the bbPress forums were migrated from phpBB using the import tool… I can’t see that being a factor in this particular issue, just throwing it out there 🙂

[Robin W]

yes, you should be able to just have the index.

Check out

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

and if that doesn’t directly help, come back with how you are set up – ie what does menu take you to, what is in that link/post/page/category etc.

[Tom Dyer]

FYI: If it helps, here’s the versions of all stuff currently running:

Core:
WordPress version: 3.9.1
Configuration setup for multisite. Currently, only one site installed and running (but with the intention to add ‘micro’ sites at a later date).

Plugins:
bbP Private Groups version: 1.6
bbPress version: 2.5.3

Theme:
Twenty Fourteen version 1.1

[Tom Dyer]

@netweb I’ve switched to the Twenty Fourteen theme, and disabled ALL plugins except for bbpress and bbp-private-groups. It’s still doing the same thing for me 🙁

– The only saving grace here, is that this *hopefully* means that I haven’t broken anything myself (although I’ll probably have to retract that statement when we find the “real” issue)

[helmutforren]

Thanks, demonboy. I just changed that image to gray and got what I want.

BTW, I realized last night that I posted this non-bbPress-related question to a bbPress-related forum. Sorry about that. Nevertheless, thanks for the solution.

I use Chrome and viewed the source. I’ll look into Chrome Inspector. After a quick google I find it’s just the “inspect element” context menu option. Did it. Opened up detail. Noticed attributes or whatever on right panel of element highlighted in left panel. Couldn’t find header_bg.png as confirmation. Hunted around through detail by moving highlight. Finally found header_bt.png when highlighting “header” begin or end tag. That’s enough usability that I can work with this tool in the future. Thanks. It sure beats the very old way I used to debug html tables by adding a few colored borders and editing those around to isolate the offending table cell! Haven’t done much CSS at all, yet. The class-driven div’s in this header (and probably most) are the new (current) way to do the same thing as used to be done with tables. This inspector can also help me learn more CSS, from the inside out!

[Stephen Edgar]

I really would suggest switching to the Twenty Fourteen theme, and testing that, it works for me.

If it still doesn’t work for you disable all your plugins except bbPress and ‘Private Groups’, test things, if it works great, start re-enabling each plugin one by one until you find it no longer works.

[yokemate]

I have install and activated the bbPress plugin with no issue.

By looking at the All Users, I can see I am an Administrator for Site Role, and Keymaster for Forum Role.

If I log in with another Administrator, and change my role for Forum Role to “No Role for These Forums”, after I log into my account again, I would be able to see 3 menus “Forums”, “Topics”, “Replies” on the admin panel. However, after I click anyone of them, I will be leading to a page with “Cheatin’ uh?” message.

is there anyone has the same issue?

best regards
Hugh

[lagrou]

Thanks for everything Stephen 😉

I don’t think leaving them parentless is the best way to go, maybe creating a hidden forum might be the way to go. Let’s leave this out for now, we can revisit this in the future easily enough and get v1 out and revisit this for v2.

Hmm, the current behaviour is groups forum topics are left parentless, so v1 should either exclude them from import (symposium_topics.topic_group != 0) or create hidden forums…

Both a forum and a category can have sub forums or sub categories, forums can have topics, categories cannot have topics.

OK so WPS categories == bbPress forums, that’s what we have.

Something else that could be added to the TODO list: in WPS forums, replies can have so-called comments, which are basically 2nd-level replies. Could be worth adding this to the importer as they’re most often used in the conversation. As I wasn’t using this for my own purpose I have yet to find how they are implemented !

FWIW, WPS version numbers refer to the year/month they were issued. I would assume little to nothing has changed in the last few years regarding database structure.

[Stephen Edgar]

I considered that the content could at least be imported, then the admin would do whatever he wants to with that content. But maybe the groups ownership and membership will be impossible to mimick at bbPress level solely, so it’s better to avoid importing rather than making public content that was private to begin with…?

– Groups forums (either drop topics, leave them as parentless, or create hidden forums as per the group name)

I don’t think leaving them parentless is the best way to go, maybe creating a hidden forum might be the way to go. Let’s leave this out for now, we can revisit this in the future easily enough and get v1 out and revisit this for v2.

I’m adding a Users section to your own version of the converter module (based on other converters available). If we want to import user-related settings, like forums/topics subscriptions and favorites, is this possible ? WPS uses usermeta, and I would assume bbPress does so…?

– user meta (forum subscriptions, favorites)

Yes, mainly, I haven’t looked at importing subscriptions or favorites yet in any of the importers, will get there one day.

What you have added looks fine via your latest commit here.

WordPress database error: [Table ‘xxx.wp_bp_groups_groupmeta’ doesn’t exist]

You only get this error if you don’t have BuddyPress installed and activated, I need to add some inline docs for this and help docs.

How do you access a parentless topic in bbPress ? Could these be used for WP Symposium groups forum topics ?

You will see them in the topic list in the backend, you won’t see them on the front end unless you make them a sticky or know the url but they will be publicly accessible. Finding them in the backend is not so easy unless you know the title of the topic. Not the best experience, but also was never really planned for, it was just never enforced that a topic must have a forum either.

– Could you clarify what a forum and a category refer to, in bbPress terminology ? Is a category a subforum, which has necessarily a parent forum, while a forum has no parent ? In such a case, there should be a test over symposium_cats.cat_parent in callback_forum_type(), otherwise it can be simply disregarded…

Both a forum and a category can have sub forums or sub categories, forums can have topics, categories cannot have topics.

Thus symposium_cats.cat_parent is already being used with _bbp_forum_parent_id and this is how we get the forums, sub-forums, categories etc all ordered correctly in their correct nested levels.

I think we are good, I’ll grab the latest shortly and the patch to bbPress Trac Ticket #2603 and I’ll take it for a test drive then commit it and it will be part of bbPress v2.6.

[Stephen Edgar]

It is not a bug, we removed the default behaviour to have both editors enabled by default in 2.3.1, switching between editor types would more often than not change the content of the users topics or replies.

Now that TinyMCE v4 has shipped with WordPress v3.9.x once we have a few more architectural fixes in bbPress we can take another look, it is far from a small bug, quite complex to be honest.

[Stephen Edgar]

You can enable the full TinyMCE editor in bbPress, details are here.

[Mycelus]

Hey guys. So Ive been wondering this for a long time, and I just dont understand. Why is bbPress’ editor so bad? Everything uses lame tags and is very primitive. WordPress already has color and bold and italic and linking and everything integrated, so why doesn’t bbPress add this?

No one can actually tell me that bbPress is meant to be this way? Is there something stopping the devs from just importing the full editor over…?

Very curious…

[rickey29]

I will try to make mobile-friendly theme for bbPress. Any progress and/or problem, I will let you know.

[NewSha]

I want the users to get email alerts every time their forum role changes to a specific role.

Namely, I have to notify them only if their role has changed from Spectator to Participant.

I found a way to do this with standard WordPress roles, but it doesn’t work with bbPress roles.

http://clicknathan.com/web-design/notify-a-wordpress-user-when-their-role-has-been-changed-to-a-specific-role/

I tried changing if ($new_role == 'contributor') to if ($new_role == 'participant') and even to this if ($new_role == 'bbp_participant') – nothing worked.

Perhaps someone knows the solution?

WordPress version: 3.8.2
bbPress version: 2.5.3

[helmutforren]

I had the same kind of problem, but with a different version of the functions.php file. Robin pointed out this post, and it worked after I adapted it slightly for my version. See my fix, which “zooms in” on the code a little further to more clearly point out the change, at https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/forum-still-not-working-right/#post-146790