‘I might be missing something, but if deactivating the bbPress plugin solves the problem, the bbPress plugin is probably causing it.’
Depends how you define ’cause’
bbPress is tested against the default themes (twentyten, twentyeleven etc.) and latest versions of wordpress, and should be fully functional against that.
Since bbPress is just a plugin, it ranks equally alongside all other plugins and all non core themes. All of these have the capability to conflict with each other as theme and plugin authors use tweaks and add-ons to WordPress. The ability for two authors of plugins/themes to try to change an element is actually quite large, and changes can have unexpected results.
So if two authors both make a change and one overwrites the other, both can argue it is the other’s fault.
So I cannot get bbPress with a default theme to have your issue for authors or above.
If without any other plugins, and using a default theme, you get this issue, then please come back with what levels of access and I’ll look further.
Created a pull request https://github.com/Lagrou/wps_extends_bbp_converter/pull/1 🙂
WPSymposium – 1st pass update …
* Cleans up PHPDoc for WPSymposium Converter
* Fixes Forum slug field mapping
* Add Topics section
* Adds Reply Section
* Adds callback_topic_status for open or closed topics
* Adds callback_sticky_status for sticky topics
* Adds reserved callback callback_forum_type to be implemented
* Adds reserved callback callback_forum_status to be implemented
Per my previous comment we should be able to determine forum type and forum status.
I haven’t added a users section yet, need to think about this a little, there are two use cases, if you add bbPress to same WordPress install as you have used for WPS vs importing into a fresh WordPress install where WPS has never existed.
Turns out when I said it was late, it was, I downloaded and installed the plugin 😉
Firstly for most forum importers I use a set of categories and forums based on the ‘Nested Set Model’, this gives a great hierarchy layout to test with.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nested_set_model#Example
First issue (question) is, why the converter doesn’t find forums. Or at least doesn’t convert them.
For the ‘Forum slug’ you have slug it should be stub
Does WPS ‘pretty permalinks’ even work? I am guessing that’s what these are?
Once I changed that the forums imported fine with correct title, desc, parent, order, slug.
We don’t need to worry about counts as the bbPress repair tools will do this for us
Categories or Forums I am not sure of, to set a category in WPS I set the Allow new topics? field to no we can use this to decide if the bbPress forum will be a forum or category if this is indeed the intended purpose of this field.
I’ll go take a look at the topics and replies now…
I have set up a new forum.
My intention is that there will be a private forum that will only be available to Board Members.
I can give all the users who I wish to have access to this forum the bbPress role of Keymaster.
However, that doesn’t help as it seems that any Participant can see this private forum.
I read about and installed the plugin bbPressAdvancedCapabilities.
I see that this will allow me to change any Participant so that they cannot view Private forums.
QUESTION: Does this mean I would have to manually edit each new Participant? That’s not an acceptable approach.
How can I automate this so that this private forum is not open to anyone except Keymasters?
Thanks,
jim
I might be missing something, but if deactivating the bbPress plugin solves the problem, the bbPress plugin is probably causing it.
So I did some further tests. If I deactivate ALL plugins except for bbPress, the problem is still there. If I then deactivate bbPress as well, the problem doesn’t occur.
I think this narrows it down to bbPress. Do you have any suggestions?
Wow… I set up a forum using bbPress a few years ago and I don’t remember it being that way… 🙂
Thanks for the reply! Very much appreciated!
depends on your view, and to a large extent what theme you’re using 🙂
You can view the forum as light and customisable, or choose one that has loads of presets but not easily changeable.
Anyway I hope you are either able to stick with bbPress or find a you you like.
And remember it’s free, so if you think it’s crap, it’s free crap, so you can’t really complain !
Hello,
I am in the process of importing my current phpbb forum to bbPress. Most of the data seems to have migrated but Convert reply_to parents failed. So any topic with multiple pages is not formatting correctly or is missing posts.
According to the sources the migration script does the following steps:
STEP 1. Clean all tables.
STEP 2. Convert users.
STEP 3. Clean passwords.
STEP 4. Convert forums.
STEP 5. Convert forum parents.
STEP 6. Convert topics.
STEP 7. Stick topics.
STEP 8. Stick to front topics (Super Sicky).
STEP 9. Convert tags.
STEP 10. Convert replies.
STEP 11. Convert reply_to parents.
The steps from 1 through 10 were successful. Migration script failed on the 11th step.
Site that we are importing from is: http://www.ridingfeelsgood.com/forum/index.php
The phpbb forums where resynchronized prior to import.
Being imported to WP 3.9 on testing server with new theme.
Can you please offer some help to correct this.
Thanks,
Thank you, Robin, it works fine.
And by the way I was able to use another helpful tip, namely to hide the search bar. I also prefer to put it in the sidebar.
How beautiful life is for us newbies with the friendley bbPress forum helpers 🙂
Thank you very much!!
Morgensonne
Thanks for the link Robin. Crap load of customizing with bbPress, but I’ll stick it out and see what I can come up with. 🙂
Thanks ThemeTon. I was able to remove the FontAwesome icons with some override code.
Regarding the way my sub-forums are being displayed…side-by-side, is this the “out-of-the-box” format for bbPress? If bbPress requires lots of coding/formating I’ll probably scrap it and switch to something more streamlined.
I think this is a known issue with a resolution – see the last post in this thread
https://wishlistproducts.zendesk.com/entries/457628-Integration-with-bbpress-
Do come back if that doesn’t fix.
Hi,
I just installed a new bbpress form as plugin with wordpress theme named Dicovery. Somehow it is not working. On the main page once I logged in as any user I can’t see any place to start a new discussion or comment. It seems that only admin can create a new discussion.
Also, when I try to log in using my admin account and try to create a new topic, I am not able to select the Discussion group/category, it seems that it is disable somehow.
Can anyone please help me rectifying this.
Thanks
JOhn
I’ve added a WPS install to one of my test sites. By default WPS has 3 forum categories, and one topic with two replies. I’ve added two topics, to populate all categories, and made one category child of another. So it should look like what you expect.
I’ve also created a group. In WPS, groups can have a forum, with no category hierarchy, so they are not listed in the table symposium_cats. I wasn’t using groups myself, but my proposal is, if we can, to make the converter gather the content as a subforum in bbPress, then the admin may decide to delete or restrict its content ? So, I’ve also created a group on that test install, with a topic and a reply.
As I’m not sure what you call a MySQL export I’ve dumped it using a page template where I perform a succession of queries, then var_dump( $wpdb->last_query, $result ); and copy/pasted the page content as a text file, added to my repository above. I hope it’ll be fine.
I saw there some styling from your theme (ShopAndBuy). That style adds fontawesome icon for every LI elements. But bbpress has so many ul/li structure for formatting forum section and that style makes this issue there. Please manage or remove that styles from line 350 of “ShopAndBuy/css/shortcodes.typography.css”
Thanks
Thanks for the reply,
However it seems that none of my editing is working. I followed the instructions to copy the original bbpress.css to the css folder of my child theme. I just want to change header background color and the text/background color for stickies then I am done. Frustrating to say the least.
Just installed bbPress for the first time and followed the installation guide, but the layout of the forum does not look right. Is this a template issue or css? Any help would be appreciated.
http://thecrewcall.com/forums/
I’m new here and recently set up new bbpress site for our service.
And I wanna know some BBPress activity monitor plugin/possibility/function or anything that similar to Facebook.
Lets say, I wanna know what exactly happened last days or after my last checked/logged in date. Like how many new topics created and how many new replies received and how my collaborations signed them and changed their status as closed or resolved.
Any information and knowledge would be awesome and highly appreciated. Thanks
I have copied the bbpress.css file to my child theme. However when I edit the sticky code to try and change the text color and background color nothing happens. My code is below.
.bbp-topics-front ul.super-sticky,
.bbp-topics ul.super-sticky,
.bbp-topics ul.sticky,
.bbp-forum-content ul.sticky {
background-color: #ffffff !important;
font-size: 1.1em;
color: #black !important;
}
Can anyone help me to get the colours working?
Hi Robin, thanks for your reply. I might not have been clear in my post, but I already deactivated bbPress only and then the problem doesn’t occur. It’s not theme related, I had already switched to Twenty Fourteen and the problem persists.
I can’t wait until next version of the plugin. Therefore I’ve changed something here for my need.
The problem is same as Stephen’s explain, parent post gets reply id.
And I’ve removed treated (sub) reply possibility from posts and added page_walk sub function into BBP_Walker_Reply class (bbpress/includes/common/classes.php).
Those changes won’t allow sub replies but now my forum shows correct ordering 🙂
Thanks a lot
Hi guys,
I’m at my wit’s end on this one. bbPress, when it is the only active plugin, works great. But when I activate Wishlist Member, regular WP subscriber accounts are not able to see the original topic in a single topic view. But they *can* see the replies to that topic. It’s the weirdest thing. Admins can see everything just fine.
I’ve gone through all the version of WL access settings to none avail. Just having WL activated, regardless of my WL permission settings (believe me, I’ve tried the whole range), is messing this up.
I’ve tried every single checkbox in the “repair relationships” at Tools > Forums to none avail.
I’ve taken a 100% fresh installation of WP and this problem isn’t an issue there, so it’s telling me that something is badly wrong somewhere in our preexisting database. I just wish I knew what, and how to fix it.
I’m guessing this probably requires a thorough understanding of how bbPress works. Happy to provide backend access and happy to pay. Just need to get this fixed.
I’ve talked with Wishlist support and they weren’t helpful. They mentioned moving to Simple:Press but Simple:Press is just so ugly compared with bbPress.
Help! Any suggestions?
Ah cool… In a future I dream of it would be nice to migrate these importers to standalone WordPress importers so when you import Joomla to WordPress if you also want Kunena to bbPress then check a box… Not going to happen anytime soon, but one day once the core WordPress import and export gets some loving updates this should be a little easier to implement. 🙂
