[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…

[@mercime]

The results are posted at http://bbpress.org/blog/2014/05/2014-bbpress-survey-results/

[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

[helmutforren]

Robin, your advice worked, once properly adapted. Thanks very much.

For others, here’s how you get to the place to edit functions.php. From the Dashboard, select Appearance then Editor. Notice list of files on the RIGHT column. Find “Theme Functions (functions.php)” and click on that. Now you’ll be editing the correct file.

For my version of Academica 1.2.2, there was only one occurrence of text “is_single”, and that was the right place.

OLD SINGLE LINE OF CODE NEEDING CHANGE (see later for more lines to get context):

        echo get_category_parents( $cat, true, $sep ) . $before . get_the_title() . $after;

NEW SIX LINES REPLACING LINE ABOVE (see later for more lines to get context):

        //support bbPress.  HgF per adaptation of akkkarki
        if (empty($cat)) {
            echo $before . get_the_title() . $after;
        } else {
            echo get_category_parents( $cat, true, $sep ) . $before . get_the_title() . $after;
        }

OLD CODE (MORE LINES FOR CONTEXT):

} elseif ( is_single() ) {
    if ( is_attachment() ) {
        global $post;
        echo 'post_parent ) . '">' . get_the_title( $post->post_parent ) . '' . $sep . $before . get_the_title() . $after;
    } else {
        $cat = get_the_category(); $cat = $cat[0];
        echo get_category_parents( $cat, true, $sep ) . $before . get_the_title() . $after;
    }

NEW CODE (MORE LINES FOR CONTEXT):

} elseif ( is_single() ) {
    if ( is_attachment() ) {
        global $post;
        echo 'post_parent ) . '">' . get_the_title( $post->post_parent ) . '' . $sep . $before . get_the_title() . $after;
    } else {
        $cat = get_the_category(); $cat = $cat[0];
        //support bbPress.  HgF per adaptation of akkkarki
        if (empty($cat)) {
            echo $before . get_the_title() . $after;
        } else {
            echo get_category_parents( $cat, true, $sep ) . $before . get_the_title() . $after;
        }
    }

[lagrou]

I forgot to mention that while “repairing missong information”, I got the following error message several times, not sure where it comes from:
WordPress database error: [Table ‘xxx.wp_bp_groups_groupmeta’ doesn’t exist]

Other than that, as of tonight the WPS > bbP converter / importer works for the following:
– WPS categories, parent / child
– topics, sticky topics
– replies
– users

Yet to be done:
– Groups forums (either drop topics, leave them as parentless, or create hidden forums as per the group name)
– user meta (forum subscriptions, favorites)
Anything else ?

[Robin W]

sorry bbpress is now only a wrodpress plugin !

[Robin W]

maybe this thread will help

Blank page problem with Academica theme

come back if not !

[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.

[lagrou]

Back to topic, just updated the GitHub repo with the following:
– Add User section
– Fix & make use of callback_forum_status, add Forum status (Open or Closed)
– Fix & make use of callback_sticky_status
All this tested OK on my nested test install. I’m leaving the “pre-alpha code” warning, though.

Some more questions raised at this stage:
– How do you access a parentless topic in bbPress ? Could these be used for WP Symposium groups forum topics ?
– 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…

[dugfunny]

Using this code I have made it to where only updates and rtmedia posts show up on my activity stream

/**
 * Activity Stream Default Updates
 */
function make_swa_show_notice_only( $retval ) {	
	
	 if ( bp_is_page( 'activity' ) ) {
		$retval['action'] = 'activity_update, rtmedia_update';					
	 }
	
	return $retval;
	
}

add_filter( 'bp_after_has_activities_parse_args', 'make_swa_show_notice_only' );

I would like bbpress forum posts to show up on my wall as well. What would i put next to

‘activity_update, rtmedia_update’

in my code to make that happen? Thanks!

[demonboy]

Well, I guess I should put my money where my mouth is when I say I’m fairly au fait with CSS! I managed to solve it and it was pretty obvious. Just swap the floating elements from left to right, where content becomes right and sidebar becomes left. Remember to end with the !important to override any other CSS. Code is thus:

.bbpress.single-forum #main #content {float:right!important;}
.bbpress.single-forum #main #sidebar {float:left!important;}
.bbpress.single-topic #main #content {float:right!important;}
.bbpress.single-topic #main #sidebar {float:left!important;}

[demonboy]

Going nuts, here. I’m using an Avada child theme and I’m fairly au fait with CSS and getting under the bonnet with PHP (commenting stuff out etc), though I’ve not done much aside from a few CSS changes.

My forum home has the sidebar on the left. The problem is when I click into a forum, (so the URL is http://www.lizcleere.com/forums/forum/assignments/, for example), the sidebar now jumps to the right. Same when I click into a topic.

What isn’t explained very well is the use of the additional slugs. ‘Topic’ is set as the slug ‘topic’, so surely it stands to reason that I create a ‘topic’ page, format it how I want the ‘topic’ section to appear, and save it with the name ‘topic’. I’ve tried that and it doesn’t work.

I’ve also tried disabling the WP Tweaks plugin, removing the inactive widgets, logging out, logging back in, reactivating etc etc. Nothing.

I then took a copy of Avada’s single.php and renamed it forum.php and made it a template. I’ve called that template up on my Forum page and the sidebar appears on the left, as intended. (Actually, it’s the Blog sidebar, even though I’ve set it to BBPress sidebar, but that’s another story.)

Why do ‘forum’ and ‘topic’ not inherit the properties I set on the forums page (i.e. default layout (not 100% width or full page or anything like that), sidebar on left, using the forum template page)? I feel like I’m missing something really obvious…

[demonboy]

I’m using Avada and have/had similar issues. To solve it on my forum page I selected BBPress sidebar but did the widget-logic trick to my Blog sidebar, which made the necessary changes. Yep, I have no idea either, but that’s worked for me.