[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?

[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.