[Stephen Edgar]

It is kind of a performance issue with some ‘bigger’ forums, we have a pretty awesome fix for this coming up in bbPress 2.6 once a couple of kinks are ironed out.

Details are here if you want to all out technical but I wouldn’t try running this patch just yet, soon, just not yet. 😉

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1925

[BelleO]

Hello everyone! Thanks in advance for your help,

I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get my root forum page to show properly

This is my site: http://www.ladiesbalance.com/forums/

I have created a page title forum and inserted the code [bbp-forum-index],
when i go the forum page, it works fine but in the breadcrumbs, the root page shows up incorrectly. I have tried changing the page name but that doesn’t work. Can someone help please! thanks

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress requires at least WordPress 3.6. I would ask the authors of that theme if they can update it for WordPress 3.8, at a bare minimum besides the improvements in the latest WordPress there are bound to be some security issues in running such an old version of WordPress.

[Jonas Preisler]

Hi

Why does my site disappear when I install bbPress? The site just go blank – but I can still go to the dashboard.

And another question of mine about bbPress:

You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page

Thank you.

/Jonas

[Josh Zandman]

I’ve got it!

I copied the bbpress.php file to my child theme.
Copy/pasted my full-width.php code into the beginning of the bbpress.php code and it works perfectly.

Thanks!

[e-motion]

Hi.

I am still running bbPress v1.0.3. I have not upgraded it since due to complexity and lack of time. I am now all full at it.

I am running a copy of my site locally (on WAMP2) due to obvious reasons.
I have tried as per <fontadoni> instructions to update to v1.2, which was successful. Now I am trying to import everything to newest bbPress plugin (v2.5.2) via included import tool. What I get is:

Calculating forum hierarchy (0 - 99)
Converting forums (0 - 99)
Starting Conversion

And it hangs there (on hierarchy calculation). When I check the forums, I can see that forum categories are there, but no subforums, no topics and no users present.
I do reset and recalculate everything before importing. I have tried various checkbox combinations …
I was running bbPress integration btw (common users between wp and bbPress v1.2).

help…

[RyanSSealey]

Site: http://dubiousdata.net/forums/forum/news
WP Version: 3.8
bbPress Version: 2.5.2

I would like to modify the new post form that displays below the current topics in a forum. I was trying to do it with only CSS, but I have run into a problem.

I want to remove the “Topic Tags” field below the body area. I initially tried with the following CSS:

label[for=bbp_topic_tags],
input[id=bbp_topic_tags] {
display: none;
}

This removed the form and label themselves, but there is a <p> </p> tag around these with no Class or other identifier, leaving a noticeable space.

What is the best way to accomplish this or modify the form?

[Josh Zandman]

Thanks for the reply.

Do I copy the template code and paste it into the bbpress.php file? Or do I copy the template as a file and add it to a folder in the bbpress folder nested under plugins?

[Peter Kegels]

I’m looking fore a BBpres widget where i can show the topics, only for the category’s i selected.
Someone can help me whit this?

[Jeff Hester]

I’ve tried posting a question in the Troubleshooting forum twice this morning, and both posts have disappeared!!

I’m wondering if they are being flagged as spam possibly? The question was related to performance issues on the forums at BigBlueBall. Can one of the Keymasters check and let me know if my URL was causing this to be flagged as spam? That concerns me… obviously.

[pandagasm]

No I’m using WP 3.4.2 as that is what is included in my theme installer from Shape5. (Sports nation, Shapes5’s WP club them).

I have previously upgraded to 3.8 but it caused things in my theme to stop working so I’m staying with 3.4.2.

So bbPress doesnt work with Wp 3.4.2 ?

[Stephen Edgar]

Yes, this is a known issue and hopefully a fix isn’t far off.
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2493

[Stephen Edgar]

I think the info in the following topic should help 🙂

Forum Index + Topics by Freshness

[Stephen Edgar]

Have you tried the ‘Remap existing users to default forum roles’ repair tool?
https://codex.bbpress.org/repair-forums/

[Stephen Edgar]

I have not seen anyone else report anything like what you mention.

Have you updated top WordPress 3.8 & bbPress 2.5.2 and tested with the Twenty Thirteen theme?

Also some screenshots would be beneficial

[Stephen Edgar]

Have you set the forum slug to forum? (i.e. the same slug as your page slug)

https://codex.bbpress.org/forum-settings/#forum-root-slug

[Stephen Edgar]

Firstly you need to update to WordPress 3.8 & bbPress 2.5.2, most likely the issue you have has already been fixed 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

Copy whatever template your theme uses for the full width template eg page-no-sidebar.php to bbpress.php in your themes folder 🙂

[Aqeart]

I’ve been using WordPress for a long time but I’m new to bbpress. I’m trying to figure how to add sidebar to my forum so that users can login or check out the latest posts from the forum. Hence I’ve decided to create a page with -forum slug so It won’t overlap default -forums slug of bbpress. I added the shortcode [bbp-forum-index] to that page and edited. Everything was working fine until I clicked on any of the forums I created. It redirected me to a page with -forums slug and breadcrumbs was on the same direction, as if shortcode was just a decoy. Unfortunately, I wasn’t very successful at altering bbpress files as I wanted. My question is about those slugs. Is there any way to override bbpress’ own page system and force it to use the page I inserted the forum code.

Thank you

[Mantzer]

I’m using WP 3.3.2 and bbPress 2.2.3.
I’m having the problem that the “link” button is not working when posting a new topic or reply.
Instead the screen is partially blacked out and increases in “blackness” when pressing the button more often.
Everything else is working great. Any help highly appreciated.
Thanks

[mouffles]

Nice, and this bug https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2468 is also very annoying for working forums, the ux is terrible.

[pandagasm]

Hi Guys,

I am running on a clean install of WordPress 3.4.2, and am trying to use the BBPress forum plugin (version 2.5.2). However when trying to load the forum page from my site I get the following error.

Fatal error: Class ‘WP_Post’ not found in /home/content/44/10795544/html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/core/theme-compat.php on line 375

I have spent ages googling, searching this forum, but I cant find any answer that help me.

Please can someone tell me how I can fix this error? It is preventing me from using BBpress.

Thanks
Panda

[Matoca]

John
Thank you. I did finally figure this out, sort of, though there are very few instructions about this anywhere. I had some problems with it, so I am only about a 1/3 done. I started with importing the forums and the users which went ok.

But when I imported the topics, every topic came in with the wrong field entered for the associated Forum Name, they were random words from the content. I had to go through and re-associate all the topics with the proper forum by hand which took hours.

I want to use a new name for the forum, so I associated each topic with the new forum name. The topics are now all in the new forum, without replies which I haven’t imported yet, I can see them when I view the forum. But inside the dashboard the topics all appear to be still under the old forum name, not the new one. I think perhaps this must be what the forum repair tool will fix?

But I am not sure whether I should import the replies first and then use the repair tools or just make sure the topics are fixed now before I move on to importing the replies, I don’t know how bbPress associates the topics and replies together, are the replies going to look for the old forum name? At some point I want to delete the forum with the old name, but I want to make sure that I am not mistakenly corrupting anything. I really really don’t want to spend several days fixing the replies by hand.

I found the “empty the forum and get rid of everything” choice. So that will be a good backup plan if I mess this up.
my best
Matoca

[stl99]

Hi Steven,

It sounds like you implemented something I’d like to have too for my bbPress forums.

Please let me know if you’re interested in helping me to implement this on my website.

Many thanks in advance for a speedy reply!

Cheers,
Thomas

[Stephen Edgar]

The only fix in bbPress 2.5.2 is for BuddyPress notifications issues see #2495 for more details.