[Stephen Edgar]

See this topic https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/order-of-topics/

[Stephen Edgar]

It isn’t quite possible yet, comments are disabled by bbPress for bbPress pages.

That said, we are working on a ‘feature’ that will enable comments for parts of bbPress.

So it is possible, just a fair amount of work would be needed to integrate the comments in way you mention above.

Rather than post a comment though why not post a reply instead?

bbPress’ forums, topics and replies are WordPress custom post types so have a pretty good base to work with just like any WordPress custom post type.

[sowmya]

Hi Robin,

In fact we were trying to figure out if it is possible to post in the bbpress forums via social media accounts.

ie Integrate the bbpress comment form (the place where we reply to the topics or create the topics) with social media, so that if I am logged into my google account, I can post in the topic through my google account using the same comment used by bbpress and this will get shared automatically in my google plus account as well.

This is different from social login which can be achieve with various plugins. Using the plugins for social logins we login with social media accounts and post but it does not automatically get shared on our social media wall.

I am not sure whether it is possible now. But if you have any suggestions please let me know.

Thanks!
Sowmya

[blessedtoes]

Hi friends-

I’ve been using iframes to embed pages on my blog from time to time and not only do I not love the look, but I’ve recently noticed some conversations about some sites having objections to this application.

Does anyone know if there’s code I can use on my WP blog that looks like the FB page links, where it shows a relevant image from the page and the article headline?

Just to be clear, this is for use on my WP bbPress blog, using an OptimizePress theme – not for a Facebook page… I asked on another forum and had no luck.

Thanks in advance – grateful for your wisdom and experience!

Matthew

[Stephen Edgar]

Ok, most likely duplicating page.php would be the way to go, you may have to add what is also inside loop-page.php though looking at your other pages on your site these also don’t have a sidebar so again it’s hard to say exactly what is needed as I don’t have access to this theme as it is a commercial theme.

Did you post (and or look) on http://organicthemes.com/support/ to see if they have instructions on using bbPress with that theme?

[alaskatoargentina]

Hello Stephen,

Thanks for the response!

Regarding how incomplete bbPress is: When a new user installs bbPress it’s very unclear how to actually get it functional.

Thanks for the page template advice. Notice how page-sidebar.php doesn’t exist?

I did duplicate sidebar-blog.php to see if that solved it, yet this is the result:

Absolutely nothing… it broke the forum apparently? 🙁

Within the forum page itself I can’t define a page template for it to adhere to:

I’m a new user of bbPress and I’d like users to be able to register themselves, that’s it! Is there any easy way to achieve this?

Graham

[Stephen Edgar]

This is NOT a database issue, WordPress and bbPress use the same database.

This is a theme issue, visit the website of your theme and see if they have some tips on setting their theme up with bbPress.

[Stephen Edgar]

Try creating a new user and giving them the WordPress ‘Administrator’ role and bbPress role ‘keymaster’ log out and log in with this new user and see what happens.

[lachchuu]

Hello Stephen,
I have installed bbpress forums on my website and it was working fine. Recently I made updates to a wordpress flip book plugin and also activated the Yoast SEO plugin. Not sure if they are related, but now I’m unable to create a new forum.
In the admin panel, I click on New forum, enter the title and some text and click Publish (Note: Type, status, and visibility are already populated). When I click ‘Publish’ nothing happens. The forum is not created.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

[Stephen Edgar]

Can you create a ticket on Trac for this and we can take a closer look:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/

Add as much detail as you can including reproduction steps so that we can recreate the issue.

[Stephen Edgar]

-”Recalculate the parent topic for each post” did nothing

The 3rd bit of code ‘Reply parent topic id (If no parent, then 0)’ will fix that.

-”Recalculate the parent forum for each post” set all of the Topics in Admin panel to “(No Forum)”, where before that was the only text that was actually displaying properly.

The last piece of code I posted above ‘Topic parent forum id’ will fix that.

It just seems strange that before I tried the tools it was properly mapping topics.forum_id to forums.forum_id to retrieve the forum title that was displayed in the Admin Topics page, and only on the Admin Topics page.

bbPress stores all sorts of extra ‘meta data’ in WordPress’ wp_postmeta table relating to each of bbPress’ custom post types. Essentially without the additions of the above bbPress only knows a partial set of the data it needs and as such when the repair tools are run it tries to repair all this data but if some key aspects of the data is missing, in this case post_parent it will end up with the results you are now seeing in the dashboard where each topic is not associated with a forum and each reply is not associated with a topic.

Clear as mud, hey? 😉 I’ve been here many times and am right now writing a BuddyPress importer update and am currently here again 😉

When I view the public Topic page, the forum is excluded in the breadcrumb.

[Stephen Edgar]

The WordPress plugin page for bbPress redirects to this bbpress.org site.

Just post your questions here on this site and search for questions from other users to see if someone else has experienced the same issue.

So what is your question?

[lachchuu]

This is unrelated but seriously, how do I open a support ticket for bbpress forum plugin? I’ve gone to the core wordpress site and this site doesn’t give me an option to start a thread.

Please help.

[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.

[Robin W]

for admin see

http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-disable-wordpress-admin-bar-for-all-users-except-administrators/

toolbar is a wordpress level function, not bbpress so it depends on what wordpress level you have your moderators set to.

[rafferjr]

Ok so i guess im confused. i too want the forums to look more like the way it was mentioned above. where the category has the forums under it like this site. http://teamoverpowered.com/forums/

I see that bbpress creates or uses the pages forums to put its code there. im not a code master. can someone point me in the right direction? im not looking for the nice pictures, just a category as a header and the forums of that category below.

[Majijiboo]

How can I place an image before the forum title? In this case (http://www.manupmyhealth.com/forums/forum/fuel-forum/) the title is “Fuel Forum” at the top. I found this url (http://www.kristarella.com/2013/04/bbpress-forum-icons/) that helps me place an image for each forum in the forum index page, but need the hook name to place the image in the forum page. Thanks.

[Xn2]

hi,
im using bbpress on my website, but we have an issue with editing function.

In facts we are able to edit topics, but when we want to edit replies we obtained :

/* <div class=”extra-wrap”>
<h2 class=”entry-title”>
<div class=”entry-content”> Home › Forums › W3Community › TOUT SUR W3COMMUNITY › test › Répondre à: test 26 mars 2014 at 18 h 42 min #2892 Édit | Move | Diviser | trash | Spam | reply Xn2-testParticipant () Messages 2 blablabla </div>
<div class=”postmeta”>
</div> */

No editing windows only text and 2 links (read more and edit)

We dont understand why its doing that :/

[jskdlfjlsdkjfklsdjklfds]

I’m currently getting some weird redirect from one specific group’s home to the group’s forum. Ie. domain.com/groups/specificgroup/ redirects to domain.com/groups/specificgroup/forum

I have a total of 9 groups and it is only ONE (newest) group doing this. If I deactivate bbPress I am able to access the group’s home. If I create new groups with forums I get the redirect too.

bbPress 2.5.3
BuddyPress 1.9.2
WP 3.8.1

[adressler]

Hi everyone, this is my first time posting, and I really dig BBPress so far.

I’m running WP v3.8.1 with BBPress 2.5.3. I’ve encountered a problem when converting a custom MYSQL database into BBPress. I have successfully exported a Lotus Notes / Domino DB (yes, it still exists…) into a simple MySQL DB containing just 3 tables.

After a “successful” conversion (of over 35K forums, topics and replies) into BBPress, I can see all of the Forums, Topics, and Replies listed in the BBPress Admin panel. However, there seems to be issues with the Foreign Keys being imported/linked, even though I have double and triple checked the forum_id, topic_id values for the Topics->Forums and Replies->Topics relationships within the Example.php converter included with BBPress. All data has been properly formatted into WordPress friendly values (dates, slugs, etc..) before importing into MySQL.

In the admin panel, under Forums, it lists all forums in their hierarchical order, as expected. It also lists the topic and reply counts, date, and creator next to each parent / child forum. However, under “Freshness” is says “No Topics”. The Topics Admin page is even more intriguing; it lists all of the Topic Titles, the Forum title which that topic is assigned to (!), reply count, author, creation date, and freshness. Browsing to the Replies Admin page lists all reply titles, author, and creation date, however under Forum it says “No Forum” and under Topic it says “No Topic”.

When you browse to the forums (mysite.local/forums/forum/the-forum), the forum title and child-forums are displayed, along with topic and reply counts for each child. However, under “Freshness”, it says “No Topics”. When I browse to a child forum, it lists the topic and reply counts, however it says “No Topics were found”.

When I browse to a topic (mysite.local/forums/topic/the-topic), I see the date, title, content, and reply count. However, there are no replies listed.

When I browse to a reply (by clicking “View” under the reply listed in the Admin Replies page), it directs me to http://mysite.dev/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=reply/#post-######, saying “Invalid Post Type”.

I figured this would be rather straightforward, since I am not importing Users or Tags. Eventually I would like all authors to be “Archived Author”, should I try to tackle this now or after a fully successful import?

I can supply screen shots, converter output (which really says nothing unexpected), or the full source code for the converter if needed. I’ve included my table structure and simplified converter code for reference.

I hope that someone with a bit more experience converting forums for BBPress will be able to shed some light on this, my forehead is really starting to hurt from banging my head against the wall. It seems there is very limited information out there on this converter. Any and all help is greatly appreciated!

My tables to import/convert are laid out as follows:

forums table {
  forum_id  PRIMARY KEY INT(11)
  title
  slug
  parent_id (Self referencing FK)
  last_mod (DATETIME)
  num_topics
  num_replies
}
topics table {
  topic_id PRIMARY KEY INT(11)
  parent_id FK (set to 0 for no parent)
  forum_id FK (matches corresponding <code>forums</code>.forum_id)
  subject (title)
  slug (slug of title)
  body (the post content)
  from
  date
  date_gmt
  num_replies
}
replies table {
  reply_id PRIMARY KEY INT(11)
  topic_id FK INT(11) (matches corresponding <code>topics</code>.topic_id)
  forum_id FK INT (11) (matches corresponding <code>forums</code>.forum_id)
  date
  date_gmt
  subject
  body
}

And now, here’s the converter I’m using (starting at the Forum section Line#26 of /plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converters/Example.php). I’ve removed commented lines for brevity.

/** Forum Section *****************************************************/

		// Setup table joins for the forum section at the base of this section

		 // Forum id (Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			 'from_tablename'  => 'forums',
			 'from_fieldname'  => 'forum_id',
			 'to_type'         => 'forum',
			 'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_forum_id'
		);

		// Forum parent id (If no parent, then 0. Stored in postmeta)
 		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'forums',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'parent_id',
			'to_type'         => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_forum_parent_id'
		 );

 		// Forum topic count (Stored in postmeta)
 		$this->field_map[] = array(
			 'from_tablename' => 'forums',
			'from_fieldname' => 'num_topics',
			'to_type'        => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname'   => '_bbp_topic_count'
		 );

		 // Forum reply count (Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename' => 'forums',
 			'from_fieldname' => 'num_replies',
 			'to_type'        => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname'   => '_bbp_reply_count'
		 );

 		// Forum total topic count (Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			' from_tablename' => 'forums',
			'from_fieldname' => 'num_topics',
			'to_type'        => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname'   => '_bbp_total_topic_count'
		 );

		 // Forum total reply count (Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			 'from_tablename' => 'forums',
			 'from_fieldname' => 'num_replies',
			 'to_type'        => 'forum',
			 'to_fieldname'   => '_bbp_total_reply_count'
		 );

		 // Forum title.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'forums',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'title',
			'to_type'         => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_title'
		 );

		 // Forum slug (Clean name to avoid confilcts)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'forums',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'slug',
			'to_type'         => 'forum',
 			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_name'
 		);
		
		 // Forum dates.
		 $this->field_map[] = array(
			 'to_type'         => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_date',
			 'default' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s')
 		);
		 $this->field_map[] = array(
			 'to_type'         => 'forum',
			 'to_fieldname'    => 'post_date_gmt',
			 'default' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s')
		 );
		 $this->field_map[] = array(
			 'to_type'         => 'forum',
			 'to_fieldname'    => 'post_modified',
			 'default' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s')
 		);
		 $this->field_map[] = array(
			'to_type'         => 'forum',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_modified_gmt',
			'default' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s')
		);

		
/** Topic Section *****************************************************/

		// Setup table joins for the topic section at the base of this section

		// Topic id (Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'topics',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'topic_id',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_topic_id'
		);

		// Topic reply count (Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'topics',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'num_replies',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_reply_count'
		);

		// Topic total reply count (Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'topics',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'num_replies',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_total_reply_count'
		);

		// Topic parent forum id (If no parent, then 0. Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'topics',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'forum_id',
			 'to_type'         => 'topic',
			 'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_forum_id'
		);

 		// Topic content.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'topics',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'body',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_content'
		);

		// Topic title.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'topics',
 			'from_fieldname'  => 'subject',
 			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_title'
		);

		// Topic slug (Clean name to avoid conflicts)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'topics',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'slug',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_name'
		);
		// Topic dates.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'topics',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'date',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_date'
		);

		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'topics',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'date_gmt',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_date_gmt'
		);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'topics',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'date',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_modified'
		);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'topics',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'date_gmt',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_modified_gmt'
		);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'topics',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'date',
			'to_type'         => 'topic',
			'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_last_active_time'
		);

And skipping to the Replies section (Tags and Users are not converted)

	/** Reply Section *****************************************************/

		// Setup table joins for the reply section at the base of this section

		// Reply id (Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'replies',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'reply_id',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_post_id'
		);
		// Reply parent topic id (If no parent, then 0. Stored in postmeta)
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'replies',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'topic_id',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_topic_id'
		);
		// Reply title.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'replies',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'subject',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_title'
		);
		// Reply content.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'replies',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'body',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_content'
		);
		// Reply dates.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'replies',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'date',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_date'
		);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'replies',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'date',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_date_gmt'
		);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'replies',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'date',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_modified'
		);
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'replies',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'date',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_modified_gmt'
		);

[Robin W]

sorry I wasn’t being clear.

but you answer does throw up a fix, you can take out the display of that out either by changing the “show forum prefix” in settings>forums, or changing what is displayed :

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

On you original Q :

1. Do you still have this problem if you try that change
2. are you getting the ‘cheating’ problem anywhere else

[Robin W]

Nice site – loved the home page !

Ok, yes you should get a login – I’m presuming you’re using the (bbpress) Login widget?

and what/how have you done your sidebar to make it forum specific?

[edit] and when you say they, which other ones aren’t showing?

[jesseaaron]

Sure thing. I recently installed bbpress and wanted to adjust the Single Forum Slugs to a different name so the URL isn’t /forums/forum/. When I tried to save I go the Cheatin Page.
I’ve also recently installed myCred and have been making tiny CSS adjustments to the bbpress classes (just colors and font size & weights).

[Robin W]

@jesseaaron

Original poster got this as a result og “I just installed bbPress on my site. I wanted to change the setting from disallow editing after 5 minutes to 10 minutes but when I click save changes I get a “Cheatin’ uh?” Page”

Can you explain what you were doing, and if you did as per @lkicknosway
and logged out and back in again !

[HywelPhillips]

Hi All,

I have the weirdest error. I have a WordPress 3.8.1 installation with Akismet 2.6.0, bbPress 2.5.3 and a couple of other plugins.

It has been running fine for a year or so. We recently moved server, and did a “point” version update to latest versions.

Today I found a problem I’ve not seen before: if one posts a forum post whose titles start with the letters “Se”, you get a 404 error when viewing the post. The post itself shows up in the forum listing and is editable with correct text but won’t show up when you click on the link in the forum listing.

Post title variants like “Secretary”, “Secretary Test” “Sec” all generate the error. A post with title “Sacretary” does not, nor do any other posts test titles I’ve tried.

Has anyone got the faintest idea what could be going on here?

Cheers, Hywel Phillips