[Doremdou]

Hi again,
I just played with https://codex.bbpress.org/bbp_author_link/ and adapted it to my theme.

[dmlWS]

12hoursofmesaverde.com (I have Shopp deactivated right now)
WordPress = 3.8.1
bbPress = 2.5.3
Shopp = 1.3.1

I’m not sure if this is a Shopp issue or bbPress so I am reporting it to both of you.

I can’t run Shopp and bbPress at the same time without bbPress breaking. When I have them both activated, many of the Shopp admin UI abilities go away (no forums tab, some forums disappeared). I also tried to make a new forum and got an error that the post type was not valid. When I deactivated Shopp, bbPress started working normally again.

[backpackersontrack]

yes i’m using wp tweaks.

plugin-bbpress.php
bbpress.php
*forums.php
forum.php
generic.php
page.php
single.php
index.php

forums.php is selected.

forum root is set to ‘forum’, with a mention ‘Possible conflict with bbpress forum slug.’ Below, this same mention is given, referring to the forum base (on single forum slugs)

[Robin W]

Trae, thanks for coming back – we all have bad days 🙂

‘As far as sucky themes go, it’s really just my observation. I’m not trying to be cruel. I haven’t seen a truly amazing bbPress theme implementation that makes me go.. “HOLY COW, THIS IS AWESOME.” ‘

Just out of interest, can you let me have a url of a forum (any make!) that does make you go ‘holy cow’ or even “that looks nice” – I’m interested in what bbpress is missing.

[Robin W]

ok, are you using bbpress wp tweaks?

And in Dashboard>settings>forums>forum root slug what is the forum root set to?

[backpackersontrack]

http://backpackersontrack.com/forums/forum/africa/ –> this one does contain a login screen. This one shows up when clicking on forum: Africa

http://backpackersontrack.com/forum-2/ –> this one doesn’t. This one shows up when clicking on forum via our homepage.

On the forum page on my dashboard, I inserted this code: [bbp-forum-index], referring to our BBpress forum.

[Developer ICAN]

Hi,

When i place any of the BBPress default widgets that ‘list’ (ie ‘Recent Replies’, ‘Forums’, ‘Recent Topics’) on a category.php WordPress template, the listings
shows recent ‘posts’ from wordpress rather than BBPress objects?

Is this a bug or is there anything any one can suggest? I’ve tried resetting the query etc right above the widget output and underneath but nothing seems to work?

Thank you for any advice here!

[Sébastien Dumont]

Yes this is irrelevant as I am using filters to just add new fields. This is why I don’t understand it not saving correctly.

The options are saved but the value on each field is given a ZERO instead.

Is there a filter I missed for when the user saves the settings ?

If it helps, this is the tutorial I followed as it is the only one I have come across so far.

May be I overlooked something or there is a spelling mistake. A fresh pair of eyes might do just the trick.

[nicmare]

I have some new spam users which do not complete their registration. so i have to delete them by hand. but it would be awesome if bbpress automatically deletes unregistered users after i.e. 48 hours.

[Doremdou]

Hello I have the exact same problem (posted this topic https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/pagination-with-threaded-replies/ yesterday too, didn’t see yours I think I am blind… lol)

If you find a workaround please let us know ^^
And if someone has an idea we’ll be really grateful 🙂

thank you

[traemccombs]

Heh, I feel bad, and I know better. I’ve been in the Open Source community since 96′ and I do know better. I just always assume all the things have been sussed out.

I’m tired, exhausted from 24hrs work in two days. I do appreciate what you’ve said and actually was able to figure out how to get a different theme to show up.

I just wish there was a less “command-line”y way of doing things for those that might not know how to deal with a shell or to get their hands dirty.

I may not be able to code, but I do know my way around a unix command line.

As far as sucky themes go, it’s really just my observation. I’m not trying to be cruel. I haven’t seen a truly amazing bbPress theme implementation that makes me go.. “HOLY COW, THIS IS AWESOME.”

Anyhoo, again, thank you so much for taking time to respond.

Cheers,
Trae

[bnels]

I have installed bbpress in the twenty thirteen theme but I am not seeing the forum button in my dashboard. Are there any suggestions out there??

[Sébastien Dumont]

I am close to finish building an extension plugin for MailPoet which allows the user to subscribe to a newsletter when they register on the forum.

My admin settings fields show in bbPress settings but when it comes to saving my field options I do not get back the value I either entered or selected. All values save with the number zero in the database.

This is the admin settings: https://github.com/seb86/MailPoet-bbPress-Add-on/blob/dev/includes/admin/mailpoet-bbpress-addon-admin-functions.php

Can I have some assistants to get my custom settings fully operational.

My plugin is available on GitHub as it is right now to show what I have done.

I hope someone can help me correct this problem please.

Any help is most appreciated.

Thank you.

https://github.com/seb86/MailPoet-bbPress-Add-on

[Sébastien Dumont]

I am building an extension plugin for MailPoet to allow users to subscribe to a newsletter when they register on the forum.

I have my admin settings field shown in bbPress but I when it comes to saving the options I do not get the value I either entered or selected. All values save with a zero.

This is the admin settings: https://github.com/seb86/MailPoet-bbPress-Add-on/blob/dev/includes/admin/mailpoet-bbpress-addon-admin-functions.php

Can I have some assistants to get my custom settings fully operational.

I have my plugin available on GitHub as it is right now to show what I have done and for you to download and test your self.

I hope someone can help me correct this please.

Any help is most appreciated.

Thank you.

https://github.com/seb86/MailPoet-bbPress-Add-on

[jimaroonie]

Just to add to this thread as I’ve been experiencing the same sort of issues with edited replies appearing at the bottom of the thread and some other anomalies regarding posts being given strange “Reply to” post numbers (too inconsistent to reproduce).

All resolved for me by turning off the “Reply Threading” setting in Forums Settings. This also reactivated the paginating which hadn’t been working with this setting active.

Not running anything unusual although someone mentioned php version which I know not to be the latest on our server. Details below:

PHP Version: 5.2.5
Wordpress Version: 3.8.1
Active Theme: Twenty Fourteen 1.0

bbPress 2.5.3 (active)
BuddyPress 1.9.2 (active)
Disqus Comment System 2.74 (active)
Fourteen Colors 1.0.1 (active)
Jetpack by WordPress.com 2.8 (active)
Unconfirmed 1.2.3 (active)
WP Approve User 2.3 (active)

[Jaina “Jazzy” Jaslyn]

Well perhaps I was being silly to begin with – the bbPress import/export tool didn’t seem to list bbPress 2.x on their options. There is a slim chance I did a lot more work than I needed to. However, at the end of the day, the hard work is complete. Over 8,000 threads + replies imported, as well as over 2,200 users. All users properly associated with topics.

The key step was importing users as a separate process — do it BEFORE you import forum threads+replies! When I relied on Pippin’s plugin to do this, it associated the users to admin. It was very messy. Using an existing plugin (make sure you tweak the import plugin to *NOT NOT NOT* send WP notification!) I was able to do this process very fast.

I used the plugin “Export Users 2 CSV” by Yoast ( https://wordpress.org/plugins/users-to-csv/ ) to import users.

Then I used a modified version of Import Users by DagonDesign ( http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/import-users-plugin-for-wordpress/ ) to import the users.

Again, you will need to instruct your users to fill out the Lost Password form, as these plugins do not preserve MD5+salt.

[Jaina “Jazzy” Jaslyn]

Check out how I achieved this here: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/migrating-from-one-bbpress-installation-to-another/

I didn’t update further on the thread (because my replies were piling up as it was), but I was SUCCESSFUL in moving it to another LIVE server. In that thread I also list some plugins I used. The pinnacle plugin was indeed Pippin’s (that link is also on there). I didn’t even have to touch the database once, which was my primary fear moving into this project!

Please let me know if either of you have questions.

[Halo Diehard]

I too am trying to import an existing bbPress into another WordPress site, and as a note I must say that the reason I have to do this is because the bbPress importer does not play well with my server (or I SHOULD say my server does not play well!) and I get a similar result you speak of, @specialtactic, where the majority of the posts are attributed to the admin. This has been verified as not being a bbPress importer issue, but a server issue, as I was able to use the importer successfully on my local test server.

Now that I know I can import onto my local, I need to be able to import that local bbPress (converted from the phpBB3) into my live WordPress site, but alas I haven’t had the time to try and wrap my brain around how to accomplish it and so have been waiting for an importer to be written.

Just wanted to clarify for you that it’s possible that the PippinsPlugins is not at fault, if you were attempting to use it in similar circumstances to my own.

[Halo Diehard]

Did you get this to work? I’ve been wanting to do this for a loooooong time, and don’t know how/haven’t had time to try and figure out the coding myself. I got a phpBB3 forum imported on a local, now I need to get the local bbPress forum onto my live site, but with no bbPress option in the importer options I’m at a loss.

[Robin W]

You’ll be needing to modify

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/loop-single-topic.php

[Robin W]

“I’ll read the link you posted. Hopefully it doesn’t suck.”

I wrote it, and hopefully you give me some positive feedback if you feel it can be improved. By the way I don’t consider “it sucks” to be positive feedback 🙂

In fact if you worked you way through the documentation, you’d probably gain a lot of knowledge.

“Easy of me to throw stones in a glass house when I don’t code I guess. ” Yes, basically you are taking something that people have written in their spare time, don’t get a penny for, and that you are using it for free, and you want the people who developed it to abandon taking their kids out for the afternoon (or in fact many afternoons) and write code so that you don’t have to. And then you come on this site where people like me who again do this in my spare time for free, and have lots of other things I could be doing, and slagging it off. 🙂

There is a lot of development of this plugin going on all the time and it will keep improving.

“And, I have yet to see a non-sucky bbPress based forum. Most are fairly crappy in how they present and deal with the content. ” – now you just resorting to insult.

A community (like the open source community) requires contributors as well as takers
If you want to contribute to the development of the plugin, please let us know exactly what you would like to see, and how you think it would benefit other users.

Oh and yes, I think you are now starting to sound like a troll !

Best Wishes

Robin

[traemccombs]

Heh, stop being so awesome in your replies. 🙂

Anyway, me, the non-coder, still doesn’t understand why it(bbpress plugin) can’t simply have an option to use styles from other themes. If nothing else, the CSS etc would be a nice “base” for things like link colors, font sizes, whatever.

*sigh*

I tried bbPress Tweaks. Meh.

I’ll read the link you posted. Hopefully it doesn’t suck.

bbPress has such a non-WP feel about it though in everything I’ve come to expect from WordPress. Part of it is my frustration with PHPBB, and part of it is my frustration with not being able to get a non-sucky looking forum with bbPress.

And, I have yet to see a non-sucky bbPress based forum. Most are fairly crappy in how they present and deal with the content.

Easy of me to throw stones in a glass house when I don’t code I guess. I just wish there were more sane defaults in bbPress that looked better out of the box.

[donty]

Hi RavanH

Have you had any conclusion to this issue?

Not sure there is much testing on multisite installations 😉 Keep coming back to see if bbPress is really suited to Multisite and each time there appears to be lack of clarity.

As I understand it:

1) Super admin can install bbPress plugin
2) Sub site admin should now be able to activate (or at least SuperAdmin on subsite level)
3) Sub site admin should be able to see managing Forums admin options on wp panel, not just Settings-Forum options (eg repair/reset)

However, neither Super Admin nor Site Admin can see the Forum management options. Even if they are both showing as Keymaster for the subsite.

Mad to network activate the plugin, but then you do see the management admin options as Site and Super admin.

So all you can do to use the plugin is Network activate and as far as I can see that is not the intended behaviour.

Should this be reported as a bug?

[crzyhrse]

I thought that might be the case… Text Wrangler wrote it out that way, but what threw me a tad is that it doesn’t write out it out that way for the bbpress.css, just those two files… Maybe those files were just written and put into bbpress without the typical spaces, tabs and returns..?

I do use a child, have since I began with my theme… Also the snippets plugin… Just that some changes I’ve made are to other than what can be affected through the child and the snippets plugin, and keep records of course for those…

So maybe css in the theme child overrides all css, not just what I think of as the primary css files like bbpress.css..? Even these other files mentioned above..?

Am curious now what the “margin-right” css is applying to…?

I continue to enjoy learning about all this…

🙂

[Robin W]

bbPress by default tries to use your themes default templates as it’s base. So it is already using your theme’s page template, maybe not the particular one you’re after, but it will be for your theme, or one you have created.

It will look for the following files in your theme in this order, and use that for it’s forums

plugin-bbpress.php
bbpress.php
forums.php
forum.php
generic.php
page.php
single.php
index.php

See https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum/ for more detail and how to get it to use a particular template.

Since some theme writers create a bbpress template, and some have variously named page templates, it would be kinder hard to get bbpress to work out which of your themes files are page templates, and which you want to use.

Yes, getting the right template to display forums can involve you in renaming and moving some files, but that’s because you have decided to use a non-default theme (no criticism), and so your theme writer and the writers of bbpress would need to be telepathic to know how the other one is going to code. As I said some themes actively allow for bbpress, for others it is just one of thousand of plugins.

The plugin bbPress Tweaks

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-wp-tweaks/

In dashboard>settings>bbpress tweaks allows you to select from available templates as a dropdown, so partly achieves what you are after.

I fully appreciate that WordPress and plugins can cause a lot of frustration, and no you’re definitely not a troll (yet!), but less heaven and hell in your posts would be better!