[Stephen Edgar]

Is there anything else I need to do to ensure I get that performance increase?

Be ready for bbPress v2.6 😉 We have a few performance improvements coming with this release.

The downside of our planned improvements means there is a pretty high chance we will break sites thus we have lots of testing and lots of extra code to write to make sure we don’t break anything.

[Stephen Edgar]

Run the repair tool ‘Recalculate last activity in each topic and forum’ and that should fix your issue.

https://codex.bbpress.org/repair-forums/

[batmanfan]

When I see another forum site, how do I know if they use bbPress? and what theme/style they use?

[CliffhangerL]

Hi,

I’m new to BBpress and need some guidance. I have tried to search for the problem I have but I have not been able to understand if the posts I find really have to do with my problem.

What I want to do is to make (see picture below) a list where Fictional literature, where posts are lined up below each other.
Fictional Literature (0, 0),
Fictional News Post (0, 0),
Fictional Media (0, 0)
etc…

I found some answers saying I need to add a code in a PHP-file called loop. But that seems too extreme to fix something “simple” like this? The plugin seem very complete and I would guess theres just a box to click to make this change.. or I’m I asking for too much? 🙂

In my picture below is what I see when I go into my Forum.

[Nexnivis]

Hi there 🙂

Please forgives my bad english, I hope I will be understandable.

I’ve a bbpress forum here, and sometimes an error in post order occures. This bug is that the last post of a topic is showed before the previous post!

In other words, if there is 5 posts in a topic and you publish the 6th post, this post will be showed at the 5th place and the previous post will be at the 6th place.

Thanks a lot for you help, I have find nothing about this kind of issue :-\

Edit : for information I’m running bbPress 2.5.3 and WordPress 3.8.1

[brent7]

Alright, I just installed the bbPress Extend plugin and that fixed a lot of problems. Thanks for pointing me to that.

The breadcrumbs disappeared, though. Anyway to get those back?

And, thanks for the help, I appreciate it!

[cerf]

Thanks!

Now, I have a problem with GD bbpress Attachment.
I’ll open a new Topic… stay tuned 😀

[Stephen Edgar]

This is not part of the standard bbPress, this is one of two ‘bbPress Support’ plugins, you need to view the docs of that plugin and/or ask in that plugins support forum.

[Stephen Edgar]

Basically passwords are hard 😉 Adding support to convert passwords was and still is one of the hardest parts of writing the importers for bbPress.

Robin is 100% correct in that if your passwords don’t work then advising your users to perform a password reset is all you need to do to get around the issue.

[Stephen Edgar]

This is weird, as you say there is only one copy of the forums in the backend yet two on the front :/

I see http://elitegamingcomputers.com/forum/ & http://elitegamingcomputers.com/forum/page/2/

Yet picking a forum via either page above eg http://elitegamingcomputers.com/forum/social/in-game-strategy/ is the same resulting URL from either page, the same for a topic from either forum page eg http://elitegamingcomputers.com/topic/dthpwns-pvp-keybinding-guides/

If there were duplicates from an import you would see the duplicates in the back end and when viewing the forum or topic typically one of them would end with -2, for example you would have example.com/forum/my-topic and example.com/forum/my-topic-2 as each page. forum, topic must have a unique slug.

What I do see that is weird though is your main forum page is:
http://elitegamingcomputers.com/?post_type=page&p=4947 <- That is weird
http://elitegamingcomputers.com/forum <- This is what I expect you should be using

Do you have a custom page setup for your forums and by chance do have you used the bbPress shortcode [bbp-forum-list] twice?

The topics section of your site looks and appears ‘mostly’ to work as expected:
http://elitegamingcomputers.com/topics/
The ‘By’ section in the below screenshot should not be there though.

Looking at the source of your site I know see your using a Genesis theme, do you have the Genesis bbPress Extend plugin installed and activated? https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-genesis-extend/ as you will need this.

One more thing is that this could be an issue with your rewrite rules. To fix this try resetting your permalinks. In your WordPress Administration Screens navigate to Settings > Permalinks, select a different permalink structure and save. Then select your preferred permalink structure and save again.

[Stephen Edgar]

http://project.arclightcomics.com/blog/

http://project.arclightcomics.com/forums/

Did you import sample content from the theme you are using?
(As various menus link to herothemes.com, as is the content of your forums and herothemes.com/forums the same content, apart from the spam on their site)

This bbPress topic on your site looks and appears fine to me: http://project.arclightcomics.com/forums/topic/80s-dresses/

From what I can see everything is working as expected

So I am really not sure what you think is wrong and without more info from you we won’t be able to help either.

If it is the BuddyPress components you have issues with then explaing those issues on http://buddypress.org should help you out with that side of your issues.

[brent7]

Hi, how’s it going? I just switched over to bbPress and I’m having a problem.

The forums are showing that there are two pages to choose between, but both pages show the same exact list of forums:

http://elitegamingcomputers.com/forum/

I did go through the import process twice and I’m assuming that’s why there are two pages. However, only one set of forums show up in the “Forums” tab in the WordPress dashboard, so I can’t just go in and delete them (if that makes sense).

Anyway that I can fix this so it just shows the one page?

[EWilliamsAU]

I am so very lost, frustrated and feeling like a failure at this point.

I have tried my hardest all week to understand BuddyPress/bbPress and have dumped way over 60 hours (very late nights and early mornings) into trying to set this up and I have come up short handed with absolutely nothing to show for the time I’ve put into this.

Today alone I have failed and retried 6 times. I have completely deleted sites, created newer ones, emptied the Trash, cleared caches and all of the above with no luck whatsoever.

Could somebody….just anybody please help me out here? I am beyond lost and confused.

I have been trying to achieve this with absolutely no results whatsoever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8mh3f6Vzbo

I use the Social Buddy theme: http://themeforest.net/item/social-buddy-wordpress-buddypress-theme/3691122

The site is project.arclightcomics.com

I haven’t a clue what I am doing wrong and after 6 tries I am starting to think this was a ginormous mistake on my end and I really don’t want to think that.

[kvr28]

thank-you, you want to see a awesome forum, look here

http://www.itinerantangler.com/blog/board/forums/

zach was kind enough to share his css with me on this thread

Fly-Fishing Site

so I copied and pasted it into my themes custom css and tried it, some things worked well, some things didn’t with my theme, so it got me thinking, since I know pretty much nothing about css, I started looking at other bbpress forums and just started inspecting elements to see how they got the affect that I liked, I spent about two weeks doing this, here is the css I ended up with and I use that loop-forums on the other thread, not sure why it’s giving errors for you, I found another example of a loop-forums I found and tested on my staging server and it is pretty close to what you want I think, the link for that is on the other thread

.single .entry-title { display: none; }

.entry-title { display: none; }

div.bbp-template-notice.info {
border: #B6A9A6 1px solid;
background-color: #f0ead6;
}

#bbpress-forums div.even,
#bbpress-forums ul.even {
	background-color: #fbfbfb;
}
#bbpress-forums div.odd,
#bbpress-forums ul.odd {
	background-color: #fff;
}

/* =Breadcrumb and Tags
-------------------------------------------------------------- */
div.bbp-breadcrumb {
	float: none;
	display:block;
	border: 1px solid #e4e4e4;
	padding:9px;
	-moz-border-radius: 3px;
	-webkit-border-radius: 3px;
	border-radius: 3px;
	-moz-background-clip: padding;
	-webkit-background-clip: padding-box;
	background-clip: padding-box;
	background-color: #f5f5f5;
}
div.bbp-breadcrumb p{
	margin:0 !important;
}
.bbp-breadcrumb a{
	position:relative;
}
.bbp-breadcrumb a:before{
	border-bottom: 20px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);
    border-left: 18px solid #E1E1E1;
    border-top: 20px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);
    content: " ";
    display: block;
    height: 0;
    left: 100%;
    margin-left: -7px;
    margin-top: -19px;
    position: absolute;
    top: 49%;
    width: 0;
    z-index: 1;
}
.bbp-breadcrumb a:after{
	border-bottom: 20px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);
    border-left: 18px solid #F5F5F5;
    border-top: 20px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);
    content: " ";
    display: block;
    height: 0;
    left: 100%;
    margin-left: -8px;
    margin-top: -19px;
    position: absolute;
    top: 49%;
    width: 0;
    z-index: 1;
}
a.bbp-breadcrumb-home,
a.bbp-breadcrumb-root,
a.bbp-breadcrumb-forum,
a.bbp-breadcrumb-search,
span.bbp-breadcrumb-current  {
    display: inline-block;
    line-height: 20px;
    padding: 0 10px;
	font-size: 1em;
	color:#818181;
}
div.bbp-breadcrumb,
div.bbp-topic-tags {
	font-size: 12px;
}
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-breadcrumb p,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-tags p {
	margin-bottom: 10px
}
div.bbp-topic-tags {
	float: right;
}
div.topic-author-displayname,
div.reply-author-displayname {
	
	color: #EB4B00;
	font-size: 16px;
}
	.user-id-1 div.topic-author-displayname,
	.user-id-1 div.reply-author-displayname{ 
		font-weight: bold;
	}

/* =Forms
-------------------------------------------------------------- */
#bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form legend {
	padding: 5px;
}
#bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form label {
	margin: 0;
	display: inline-block; 
}
#bbp-edit-topic-tag.bbp-form fieldset.bbp-form label,
#bbp-login fieldset label,
#bbp-register fieldset label,
#bbp-lost-pass fieldset label {
	width: 100px;
}
#bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form p,
#bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form textarea,
#bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form select,
#bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form input {
	margin: 0 0 8px;
}
form#bbp-your-profile fieldset.submit {
	border: none;
}
textarea#bbp_reply_content,
textarea#bbp_topic_content,
textarea#bbp_forum_content {
	width: 98%;
	box-sizing: border-box;
	-webkit-box-sizing:border-box;
	-moz-box-sizing: border-box;
	-ms-box-sizing: border-box;
}
textarea#bbp_forum_content {
	height: 210px;
}
#bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-forum-form-attributes {
	width: 200px;
	float: right;
	clear: none;
	margin-left: 25px;
}
.bbp-topic-form,
.bbp-reply-form,
.bbp-topic-tag-form {
	clear: left;
}
body.topic-edit .bbp-topic-form div.avatar img,
body.reply-edit .bbp-reply-form div.avatar img,
body.single-forum .bbp-topic-form div.avatar img,
body.single-reply .bbp-reply-form div.avatar img {
	margin-right: 0;
	padding: 10px;
	border: 1px solid #ddd;
	line-height: 0;
	background-color: #efefef;
}
body.page .bbp-reply-form code,
body.page .bbp-topic-form code,
body.single-topic .bbp-reply-form code,
body.single-forum .bbp-topic-form code,
body.topic-edit .bbp-topic-form code,
body.reply-edit .bbp-reply-form code {
	font-size: 10px;
	background-color: #f0fff8;
	border: 1px solid #CEEFE1;
	display: block;
	padding: 8px;
	margin-top: 5px;
	width: 369px;
}
	.form-allowed-tags code {
		background: #bcd7f3 !important;
		font-size: 11px !important;
		border: none !important;
		width: auto !important;
		color:#333 !important; 
		white-space: normal !important;
	}
#merge_tag,
#delete_tag {
	display: inline;
}
div.bbp-submit-wrapper {
	margin-top: 15px;
	float: left;
	clear: both;
}

#bbpress-forums div.odd,#bbpress-forums ul.odd {
background-color: #f3f3f3;
}

#access {
background: #D9D9D9;
padding-left: 0 !important;
padding-right: 0 !important;
}

#bbpress-forums li.bbp-header {
background: #D9D9D9;
border-top: none !important;
width: 99%;
border-bottom: 1px solid #d3d3d3 !important;
}

#footer-area {
background: #D9D9D9;
}

.bbp-footer {
background: #D9D9D9;
}

#bbpress-forums li.bbp-header {
        font-size: 1.3em;
}

.bbp-topic-title {
   font-size: 1.1em;
}

.widget_display_topics .bbp-author-avatar { display: none ! important; }

.bbp-topic-freshness-author  .bbp-author-avatar { display: none ! important; }

blockquote:before {content: ‘\275d’; color: #555; font-size: 15px; width: 15px; height: 15px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: -70px; margin-top: 10px; float:left; }

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-header {
background-color: #afafaf;
}

.bbp-admin-links a {
color: #00548c !important;
}

.bbp-admin-links a:hover {
color: #d54e21 !important;
}

[kvr28]

I’m not sure, I thought I had found that as a example on here somewhere, but I can’t seem to find it, it’s what I use on my forum and I’m not getting any errors, I just found this example and just tried it on my testing site and it works well, see if it gives you any errors

https://code.google.com/p/ogre3d-fr/source/browse/wp-content/themes/ogre3d/bbpress/loop-forums.php?r=25

also lynq made a pretty sweet template pack, maybe try that and see if you like the look

I have created a bbPress starter theme with a phpBB look and feel

[remymedranda]

I’m also getting a parse error… Line 40

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘=’ in /home1/kushman/public_html/wp-content/themes/farmer/bbpress/loop-forums.php on line 40

Any ideas?

[highexistence]

I saw @johnjamesjacoby mention twice how larger BBpress sites should avoid hidden/private forums to avoid a JOIN that checks if each topic/reply is from a hidden forum.

I had two private forums, and my site was so slow that I could not delete them from wp-admin. So I used phpMyAdmin to delete both forms as well as all the topics beneath them.

Is there anything else I need to do to ensure I get that performance increase?

Thanks!

[Daniele]

Hey guys,
I’m successfully importing old Kunena1 forums and users.
But I don’t understand what’s the expected behavior with the imported user passwords.
I see this message on the Forum Import page:
“Non-bbPress passwords cannot be automatically converted. They will be converted as each user logs in.”

I tested and old users just can’t login as the password is not recognized.
They have to follow the password forgot procedure.

Is this the expected behavior?

Thanks!

[kvr28]

we use this

http://www.dev4press.com/plugins/gd-bbpress-tools/

[kvr28]

copy loop-forums.php from plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress into your theme directory, overwrite whats in the file with this code. bbpress will look for the file first in your theme before it looks in the bbpress directory, that way if bbpress updates, you won’t lose the file update. Should get the look you want

    <?php
     
    /**
     * Forums Loop
     *
     * @package bbPress
     * @subpackage Theme
     */
     
    ?>
     
    <?php do_action( 'bbp_template_before_forums_loop' ); ?>
     
    <?php while ( bbp_forums() ) : bbp_the_forum();
                   
                    /* We print the header only if we want to show a category or if it's the first item of a no-parent forum list */
                    if (bbp_is_forum_category() OR !$bbp_forums_noheader)
                            { ?>
     
                            <ul id="forums-list-<?php bbp_forum_id(); ?>" class="bbp-forums">
     
                                    <li class="bbp-header">
     
                                            <ul class="forum-titles">
                                                    <li class="bbp-forum-info"><?php if(bbp_is_forum_category()) { ?><a>"><?php bbp_forum_title(bbp_get_forum_parent_id()); ?></a><?php } else { _e( 'Forum', 'bbpress' ); } ?>
                                                    <li class="bbp-forum-topic-count"><?php _e( 'Topics', 'bbpress' ); ?>
                                                    <li class="bbp-forum-reply-count"><?php bbp_show_lead_topic() ? _e( 'Replies', 'bbpress' ) : _e( 'Posts', 'bbpress' ); ?>
                                                    <li class="bbp-forum-freshness"><?php _e( 'Freshness', 'bbpress' ); ?>
                                            
     
                                    <!-- .bbp-header -->
    <?php           } ?>
     
                            <li class="bbp-body">
           
    <?php           /* If the forum is a category, we're gonna make another loop to show its subforums and sub-subforums as if those were forums */
                            if(bbp_is_forum_category())
                                    {
     
                                    $temp_query = clone bbpress()->forum_query;
                                    bbp_has_forums('post_parent='.bbp_get_forum_id());
                                    while ( bbp_forums() ) : bbp_the_forum();
                                    bbp_get_template_part( 'loop', 'single-forum' );
                                    endwhile;
                                    bbpress()->forum_query = clone $temp_query;
     
                                    }
                                            else /* Otherwise, we print the forums the normal way */
                                    {      
     
                                    bbp_get_template_part( 'loop', 'single-forum' );
                                    $bbp_forums_noheader = 1; /* This prevents the header part to be printed again on next post in the loop */
     
                                    } ?>
     
                            <!-- .bbp-body -->
     
    <?php           /* Prints the footer only if :
                                    - it's a category
                                    - or if it's the last forum of a no-parent forum list
                                    - or if the next forum in the loop is a category */
     
                            if(     bbp_is_forum_category()
                            OR      (bbpress()->forum_query->current_post+1) == bbpress()->forum_query->post_count
                            OR      bbp_is_forum_category(bbpress()->forum_query->posts[ bbpress()->forum_query->current_post + 1 ]->ID))
                            { ?>
     
                            <li class="bbp-footer">
     
                                    <div class="tr">
                                            <p class="td colspan4">&nbsp;</p>
                                    </div><!-- .tr -->
     
                            <!-- .bbp-footer -->
     
                    <!-- .forums-directory -->
     
    <?php   unset($bbp_forums_noheader); /* Needed if we have 2+ no-parent forums with at least 1 category between them */
                    }  ?>
     
    <?php endwhile; ?>
     
     
    <?php do_action( 'bbp_template_after_forums_loop' ); ?>

[Matoca]

I run my bbPress forum so that users do not need to register. Moderators log in to post and are the only required registered users. So far Akismet has been fabulous catching spam.

Today Akismet marked a legitimate reply as spam and I quickly unchecked that so it would post properly. No problem there.

Later, a spam reply was missed by Akismet because it appears to have relatively normal text. But I recognized the text to be spam and the username confirmed that. I added the IP to a blacklist and checked it as spam. No problem there.

The problem I have is that the topic the reply was posted under is now appearing at the top of the topic order in the forum indicating that I have just posted a reply recently. The spam is removed so the last date of a reply would have been mine, in December.

Is there anyway to get this topic to appear where it should on the forum page, well below more recent topics?
Thank you, Matoca

WordPress 3.8.1
bbPress 2.5.3-5249
http://www.secondchanceaihadogs.com/forums/forum/aiha-dog/

[John James Jacoby]

This is likely bbPress core, unfortunately. When you post a new reply, we check the topics for freshness so we can update the tree accordingly. We’re working on a fix for the next version, but it involves moving some metadata into the posts table to improve query performance, and we want to make sure to get it right.

[Robin W]

ok, you need to eliminate whether it is a plugin or theme issue

Check other plugins

Check that no other plugins are affecting this.

Turn off all other plugins apart from bbpress, and see if that fixes the problem. If the problem is resolved, add back one at a time to see which is causing the conflict.

Check themes

If plugins are not the cause, then it may be a theme issue. Switch to a default theme, such as twentytwelve, and test.

and come back and let us know

[Robin W]

Check other plugins

Check that no other plugins are affecting this.

Turn off all other plugins apart from bbpress, and see if that fixes the problem. If the problem is resolved, add back one at a time to see which is causing the conflict.

Check themes

If plugins are not the cause, then it may be a theme issue. Switch to a default theme, such as twentytwelve, and test.

[adressler]

Thanks for the reply Robin,

Ideally, it would be really nice not to have to manually register the 600 or so active members, but it’s doable if that is the only logical route.

Long story short, the old site was built by a senior Lotus Notes dev, and he wrote so much custom code to get the site to do what it did. Whats worse is this guy passed away a couple years ago, and there is no commenting in the db. There is likely no way I can export all of the data, I consider myself lucky to have exported what I have now, which is just barely enough to get things converted to WP. This should be okay though, I can generate unique UserIDs and FKs with PHP and MySQL before importing into BBPress.

My crazy idea that I had was to import these “old” authors as, effectively, name placeholders. Bogus/null values for user_pass and user_email, a php-generated user_login (something like “judygarland-old”, “abcdef12345-old” or similar), user_id (unique Auto Increment #), display_name (“Judy Garland”), and maybe user_nicename. These would only be used to show the Authors first + last name next to all of the old topics and replies I just imported from Lotus (they will not be logging in). When users re-register, they would create a completely new WP user (I’m using s2member to handle subscription info). I realize that “new” users will not be able to see their “old” user’s topic / reply counts, and total user counts will not be completely accurate, but that’s okay and manageable. At least they could create their new user accounts themselves, and I wouldn’t be responsible for making s2member link up properly with these old users.

I guess I will try a few approaches and see which works best, and for anybody else doing something similar I will post my results. Thanks Robin for the ideas.

Aaron