[brains99]

Hello,

My bbPress forums have simply vanished from my website. I have a website social theme installed. the BBpress forum plugin was there and I created some forums categories. It was working fine. I migrated the entire website to a new ‘sub domain’. The forums I created previously are still there, however the plugin itself has somehow been entirely removed from my CMS. I brought this to the theme designers who tried to diagnose the issue. They have no idea what happened and suggested I contact you.

Here are the forums I created with bbPress previously: https://social.thedragonscup.com/forums/

Can you please help? How can bbPress forums just vanish?

[james-nickname-test]

Wow, surprised to see this thread just died?

I am currently using Discourse for a community just starting: https://community.americanradioclub.com

It is a community of ham radio operators. I started the community on Discourse, and I really love the snappiness and power, scalability (I am on track for 150k members by end of year).

However, it lacks the social-network style features I would like from a bbpress + buddypress installation, which would also be nice because it would make my site fully wordpress for a more coherent user experience.

I wonder how everyone else’s experience went?

[AdventureRidingNZ]

I just found this as well, though I haven’t delved into it.

https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/135746/migrate-bbpress-content-to-posts

[AdventureRidingNZ]

There are plugins for exporting BBpress data so maybe I could string together something with this

WordPress Comments Import & Export

[AdventureRidingNZ]

I figured it might be a case of nothing existing, everything is all about making comments into BBpress topics and replies.
Comments are about the only standard WP content type that isn’t a ‘Post’ so it’s obviously not as simple as changing the post type in wp_posts and getting to retain all the relationships between the Comments as the ID’s are unchanged.

My site has a bit over 300 pages which have associated BBPress Topics created via Topics for Posts, these Topics all live in the same BBPress Forum. They would be the primary selection.

Beyond that there are BBPress Topics that I’d like to change to Posts and their Replies which I’d like to be Comments as children/belonging to the Post. Again these Topics are all children of the same BBPress Forum.

I guess I’ll have to have a think about it, it’s a community forum that barely covers it’s basic outgoings each year so there’s not a pot of cash sitting around for it.
I could just turn off the forums that are no longer useful, but removing BBPress would allow the removal of another dozen supporting plugins as well.

[Robin W]

here is fine, I look at both !

nothing exists – it could be written, but beyond free help.

The first obvious question would be how you define/choose ‘selected BBPRESS forum topics’

[AdventureRidingNZ]

Is there any way to reverse/undo Topics for Posts and convert/migrate selected BBPRESS forum topics back to comments attached to a page?

For a number of reasons I’m considering removing BBPRESS from my site to stop trying to be a place of conversation on everything for everyone in it’s subject field and rationalise my site back to it’s core objective.
Doing so would also result in removing a significant number of plug-ins related to BBPRESS leading to better performance and less operational overhead, both for the site and for me personally.

My Google Fu obviously isn’t on point as I’ve not found anything about doing this so far.

Also should this be a ‘Topics for Posts’ question or a core BBpress level question, have I asked in the right place? I suspect there might be more core issues around where/how members are defined involved as well. I also run Buddypress if that matters and I wasn’t considering removing that at this time.

[DeepBlue]

ok i see
this feature would be interesting for bbpress alone

[Robin W]

no it adds the buddypress feature to bbpress

[DeepBlue]

ok i thought it was working with bbpress only 🙂

[DeepBlue]

no only bbpress

[Robin W]

I have updated my style pack to detect and let you use 2022.

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>theme support.

There are lots of settings in this plugin to let you improve the look of bbpress.

[swarwas]

Hey Robin,

thanks for your feedback.

Well, I used the twenty twenty theme before and I wanted to add a forum to my homepage. I found bbpress and thought it would fit perfectly. Unfortunately, bbpress looked pretty “detached” from the rest of the homepage. Meaning, the style of the forum did not fit the rest of the homepage. I played around with CSS but the result was not very satisfying and took too long. That’s why I tried the new tttwo theme.

I am not a Web developer and I can’t judge whether the block theme approach is a good idea or not. I played around with it and it was relatively easy to tweak the design templates. So, it kind of worked for me (first impression).

Thanks for your work!

[Robin W]

I should start by saying I am just a bbpress user who helps out here, I am not a bbpress author.

Twenty Twenty two is one of probably less than 6 themes that use the new ‘block theme’ way of building a theme. Indeed this is so new that the editor built to support it is still a ‘beta’ version.

My Personal view is that block themes are a solution to a problem that no-one has, and WordPress has lost it’s way.

But given that people including you will use this theme, I am trying to get bbpress to work with it.

I expect to release a new version of my bbpress style pack that will make this work in the next couple of days. I have a working prototype, albeit a basic version.

[Robin W]

ok, ‘users>profile fields’ is not bbpress, it may be buddypress, your theme or another plugin.

If it is buddypress, then
https://buddypress.org/support/

[Robin W]

when I setup custom Profile Fields

ok, sorry to keep asking questions, but it will hopefully get me to the stage when I can give an answer 🙂

so this is bbpress profile – yes?

and how are you setting up custom profile fields? – code, plugin, template change etc.?

[Robin W]

These all sound like buddypress not bbpress issues – have you posted this in the buddypress support forum?

https://buddypress.org/support/

[carasse64]

Hi Robin

I run a Buddypress site.

I have decided to add a bbpress forum to my buddypress site because it allows to sort, archive and retrieve easily threads. In fact, when a user posts a question in the “what’s new” text box in buddypress and when other users comment this post, the thread quickly diseappears under the newsfeed activity. So, it becomes impractical to retrieve this interesting thread later. That’s why I prefer to prevent the users from posting anything on the newsfeed page and to force them to create a forum topic to launch a discussion.

With a bbpress forum, the topics and the different forums allow to have a look easily on every topics created and it is very simple to search any type of topic with the search feature.

So, to get a perfect combination of Buddypress and Bbpress, I am trying to get the next features :

1. Disable the “Comment” button when a forum topic is displayed on the newsfeed = we can configure it in the buddypress general settings = OK.

2. I would like to allow the user to directly reply to the topic by clicking on the comment reply button (https://www.awesomescreenshot.com/image/25491233?key=5f722a0092c6fc6fb5d7e7dcbf3adce1). Actually, if he clicks on this button he just will be able to commment the activity. It would be great if by clicking he could reply to the topic.

The new link for the comment reply button would be the direct link to reply the topic : https://www.awesomescreenshot.com/image/25491342?key=6df01354ef860a0351170ced90f89800

3. Hide the “what’s new” text box at the top of the newsfeed page = I did it with css/display=none. I have created instead a “new topic” button in a widget (https://www.awesomescreenshot.com/image/25600135?key=a39ade63109934dbde5356a38eef49e5)

4. When a user creates a buddypress group, a forum should be automatically created with the same name as the group (the user can’t choose if he wants to create a forum or not). Is it possible to force that ?

5. When a user creates a new topic from a buddypress group forum, the “Create new topic” button (instead of the “what’s new” text box) should create a new topic directly in the group linked to the forum. Is it possible to force that ?

6. Once a new topic is created, when you push the “Submit” button, you should be linked to the newsfeed page to see how the topic you have just created is displayed on the newsfeed = I have already opened a new topic on bbpress forum for that 🙂

I hope you understand all what I mean with my poor english. I have contacted the theme’s author (BuddyX/Webcom design) but they answered they can not help me.

Do you think it is possible to configure such features ?

Thanks a lot.

Fabien

[carasse64]

Hello

I am running a site with buddypress and Bbpress.

I have activated the bbp style pack. I have noticed the feature that allows to redirect to the index of the forum after submit new topic or reply. Would you have a solution to rather redirect to my buddypress newsfeed page (mysite.fr/newsfeed) ?

Thanks.

Fabien

[Robin W]

bbpress just uses WordPress registration and login.

so either :

1. You allow uses to register using dashboard>settings>discussion>anyone can register, bbpress will allocate the role set in dashboard>settings>forums>default role

2. you manually add uses (dashboard>users>add user) upon receipt of a form (using say a form plugin – https://www.isitwp.com/best-wordpress-contact-form-plugins/ – to set up whatever details you want which is then emailed to you) – you then then allocate any wp and bbpress role you wish, or none !

3. you use a registration plugin – there are lots – this article describes some https://kinsta.com/blog/wordpress-user-registration-plugins/

[sruddy]

So I guess I’m not understanding how this all works. The website is a photography club and is wordpress.org. I just added this bbPress forum plugin and have all the forums set up. I’m ready to test with two other people. I now need to have a place were the two others can register, I then want an email so I can review and approve them. How do i accomplish this? After that I think the login page with the shortcode provided by Robin W should work.

[pissedvet]

Hello.

I am trying to build a forum site for a group authors and I can not get the structure I would like. Hopefully, someone can help me get where I want to be with this.

I have two forum level entries. Call them Stories and Support.

An Author goes to the Stories level and creates a ‘Work in Progress’ or Story. This is also the Topics level. At this level the Author gives information about the Story.

Next he / she creates a Chapter. The Chapter level is writable ONLY to the Author who created the Story / Topic.

The Replies level anyone who has an account on the site can create.

I would like similar for the Support forum.
I create topics like Coaches, Publishers, Cover Artists, etc.
People who would like to offer their services as a coach or other creates a detail page that only they can modify, but others can reply with reviews, etc.

I hope this makes sense to everyone. Can this be done with bbPress? If so, how?

Thanks!

[Robin W]

I kicked this around for some time, but I cannot see how to get bbpress working with a block theme.

I have raised a ticket on trac.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3458

[Robin W]

This is all part of WordPress’s mission to make it’s software totally unusable.

It has been reported to the bbpress authors.

[Robin W]

Just looked and I created a small plugin here http://www.rewweb.co.uk/download/bbp-mentions-suggest/

this says that it ‘Adds the Buddypress mentions suggest as you type to bbpress topics and replies’

so I got the idea from somewhere that it was a bp feature.

It was sometime ago that I wrote/copied this, so have no memory of whether it still works !