[Rollsjoyce]

I removed the following text (between the dots) from the user-details.php
Now it is no longer possible to edit the profile in the bbpress profile overview. But when I want to update this plugin it will be possible to edit again. Do you have a better solution so it is still erased after an update of this plugin?

<span class=”bbp-user-edit-link”>
…..” title=”<?php printf( esc_attr__( “Edit %s’s Profile”, ‘bbpress’ ), bbp_get_displayed_user_field( ‘display_name’ ) ); ?>”><?php _e( ‘….Edit…..’, ‘bbpress’ ); ?>
</span>

[ronthai]

or just change the link towards the WP profile edit:
bbpress 2.5.1 on line 65 in bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/user-details.php

[Rollsjoyce]

Thanks for your reply!
You are right it is the combinations of the two plugins causing this error. That is a shame because I need both plugins;-) I can try to remove the edit option in the bbpress profile view. So users can only edit there profile with the wordpress function but still see their topics etc in the bbpres profile view.

[Stephen Edgar]

If your theme has a template with sidebar maybe page.php then make a copy of that file and rename it to bbpress.php

[Chicken Review]

When I installed the bbPress Sidebar it does not show up on my website. http://chickenreview.com/forums/.

I am using The Thesis Theme 1.8.5
The bbPress version is 2.5.1

I downloaded and activated the bbPress WP Tweaks for the sidebar. I have tried all the wrappers in this plug-in.

[Stephen Edgar]

I think this is most likely an issue with the extra plugin you are using “CIMY User Extra Fields”

I am not sure what the actual issue is but you should disable that plugin and see if you can update your password in your bbPress profile.

[Stephen Edgar]

You can try the ‘Remap existing users to default forum roles’ repair tool to see if that fixes the bbPress Roles: https://codex.bbpress.org/repair-forums/

I had a quick look at https://wordpress.org/plugins/role-scoper/ and they make no specific mention of supporting bbPress’ ‘Dynamic Roles’ and that could be where the core of the issue is.

Yes, Role Scooper is the issue and it appears there will be no longer further development or support:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/role-scoper/faq/

With the production release of Press Permit, is Role Scoper still supported?
Basic Role Scoper support (bug fixes but not necessarily plugin conflict resolution) will be provided while WP 3.6.x is the active WordPress version. Compatibility with WP 3.7 and beyond is not assured, as I do not plan any further unfunded development of the Role Scoper code base. Further development and support will be available on a consulting basis as indicated on agapetry.net, but I will encourage migration to Press Permit – a superior platform with a sustainable funding model.

The good news is the new plugin ‘Press Permit’ does support bbPress’ Dynamic Roles 🙂

https://wordpress.org/plugins/press-permit-core/
Customize bbPress forum permissions

[Stephen Edgar]

Updated 🙂

Subscriptions
Forum participants can elect to subscribe to a forum or topic. They will be notified when a new topic is created in a subscribed forum or a new reply is posted to a subscribed topic. Subscribed forums and topics will appear on their forum user profile.
https://codex.bbpress.org/forum-settings/

[Stephen Edgar]

Just set the ‘Forum Order’ of your forums to whatever order you want them displayed in.

https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/#creating-your-first-forum

[Stephen Edgar]

Cool, glad your taking a look at it.

“It seems to have appended an extre Re: in front of each (so they read Re:Re:Topic)”

The Re: should only be added to the title of a reply, this should not be adding them to the topics and this shows that the SQL in the importer isn’t quite matching up with your database.

The SQL queries below are based on the Kunena1.php importer and use the prefix jos_ as the table prefix for the bbPress importer.

When the importer fails you should see an error message like the following:
WordPress database error: [Unknown column 'kunena_categories.locked1' in 'field list']

In this particular case the importer was looking for jos_kunena_categories.locked1 where jos_kunena_categories is the table name and locked1 is the field name. I used ‘locked1’ as a way to force an error to show the example, so if I knew my version of the database should be looking at the field locked instead of locked1 you can find the 'from_fieldname' => 'locked1' in Kunena1.php and update that with the correct field mapping 'from_fieldname' => 'locked',.

Another way you can go about this is to jump directly into phpMyAdmin and test each of the following SQL queries, there are primarily four queries are as follows:

Again I used prefix jos_ for my database and you will need to change this to match your own database table prefix.

Forums

SELECT 
kunena_categories.id AS id,
kunena_categories.parent AS parent,
kunena_categories.numTopics AS numTopics,
kunena_categories.numPosts AS numPosts,
kunena_categories.name AS name,
kunena_categories.description AS description,
kunena_categories.ordering AS ordering,
kunena_categories.locked AS locked 
FROM jos_kunena_categories AS kunena_categories

Topics

SELECT 
kunena_messages.thread AS thread,
kunena_messages.catid AS catid,
kunena_messages.userid AS userid,
kunena_messages.ip AS ip,
kunena_messages_text.message AS message,
kunena_messages.subject AS subject,
kunena_messages.time AS time,
kunena_messages.locked AS locked 
FROM jos_kunena_messages AS kunena_messages 
INNER JOIN jos_kunena_messages_text AS kunena_messages_text 
ON kunena_messages_text.mesid = kunena_messages.id 
WHERE kunena_messages.parent = 0

Replies

SELECT 
kunena_messages.id AS id,
kunena_messages.catid AS catid,
kunena_messages.thread AS thread,
kunena_messages.ip AS ip,
kunena_messages.userid AS userid,
kunena_messages.subject AS subject,
kunena_messages_text.message AS message,
kunena_messages.time AS time 
FROM jos_kunena_messages AS kunena_messages 
INNER JOIN jos_kunena_messages_text AS kunena_messages_text 
ON kunena_messages.id = kunena_messages_text.mesid 
WHERE kunena_messages.parent != 0

Users

SELECT 
users.id AS id,
users.password AS password,
users.username AS username,
users.email AS email,
users.registerDate AS registerDate 
FROM jos_users AS users

That’s a bit to digest so I’ll leave it at that for now and it is probably as clear as mud unless you are a seasoned SQL junkie.

If anything I wrote above doesn’t make sense just ask away and remember 🙂
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_such_thing_as_a_stupid_question

[ozgurpolat]

Hi Stephen ( @netweb ), I actually have a proper website where I have installed bbpress and it is not so easy for me to start building the site again from scratch. I have this problem and I wasn’t sure how to fix it. This is why I came to this site to ask for help. but instead I got accused of lying. Which is really disappointing. All those test sites I built was to demonstrate the problem including the one you found on the internet.

If you are not willing to help or you don’t think the problem is important please do not respond.That’s what happens most of the time on this site anyway and it is better that way.

it is really interesting that I never get any real help from this site. I wish I could delete my account but i cannot. But I have the freedom to leave and that’s what I am going to do.

Regards

[fishfanatix]

I’m having issues with the font or background color on my bbpress forums page. The font is to light I cant read anything. Can someone please explain to me how to change the color. I’m a beginner at all this so I don’t know any css but I can look it up. I tried to do it under the stylesheet under editor but I cant find the code. my website is fishfanatixblog.com and click the buy/sale/trade tab and see it.

[netfux]

wooow… it seems not working, don’t know why.. I create a new forum, then when I edit it, I put the new url where it should be redirected, when I click “Update”, le URL it just dissapear from its new bbPress Forum Redirect box and the Forum doesn’t redirects to the new page… What could be happening? It seemed so easy

[marshallarts]

So, progress…

I worked out that the Kunena1 migrator was within bbpress – duh! My Kunena database had the jos_fb_ preface instead of the jos_kunena_ preface – I manually changed those-

I have now managed to import the replies however despite running the repair option, the forums and topics were not imported – It seems to have appended an extre Re: in front of each (so they read Re:Re:Topic). It’s possible that the kunena version I have might have used a slightly different table naming convention or somethung

I’m reading around as much as I can so I’m not posting too many silly questions here but your help is appreciated.

Thanks

Paul

[marcuswhit]

As per the title, I need to exclude specific forums from my Recent Topics widget. Or, as I only have 6 forums total, I could just as easily do with specifying the forums that I want to include.

Any thoughts on what I’d need to do to do this? Should I override the class for the existing widget to make my own custom widget that does this? Any tips for how I’d do so? I’m using a child theme, and don’t want to edit the core bbpress files.

Thanks in advance.

[diggeridoo]

Hi all,
I’m searching about this topic here but I can’t solve this.
I want to put a sidebar in all the pages generated by bbpress: forums, topics, search… etc.
This works in the main page I’ve created for forum with [bbp-forum-index] shortcode and assigning a sidebar within my theme.
But, for the auto-generated pages (mentioned above) it uses full width by default.
¿How can I change this?

Thanks!

I’m on WP 3.7.1 and bbPress 2.5.1-5217

[ronthai]

As Lynqoid said it all depends on your needs and skills in adding and changing things if the standard + additional plugins, is not enough.

BBPress has the big advantage that it is part of WordPress, but a disadvantage is the limitation in all the bells and whistles that other forum software gives, which most forums don’t need anyway.
BBPress is lightweight compared to other stand-alone software, but that also makes it attractive to use.

You should also think what your readers/members will need and do with it.
My experience with forums is that the majority just comes to read and sometimes posts, if they have questions or answers, but that will be if you are lucky at the most 10% of the readers/members.

Crowd-moderation as you call it is not a real feature on BBPress, a simple report link is there, which does not even sends you an email.
Other software has more complex report systems, but don’t think users will use them, since that is not why they are on your forum.

[Graham2013]

Hi Lynqoid.

It’s the “see” bit that I am struggling with. How do I “see if bbPress meets” my list of requirements? Does it come down to: install it and play .. and build what you don’t find?

G

[Lynqoid]

It might be easier to list out everything that you need a forum software to do and then see if bbPress meets your list.

The thing for me personally is that if bbPress doesn’t currently do something then with the power of WordPress behind it, you can make it work with a little development. Other forum software is not quite as easy in my opinion.

Good luck!

[Graham2013]

We’re looking at new discussion forum software for our start-up.
My co-founder is convinced that bbPress is the answer from his techie perspective. Coming from the customer experience side, I want to check the features which a new platform will offer our community.
How do I discover what bbPress will and will not do? There is no feature list, apart from http://bbpress.org/about/features/
For example, how do I discover if crowd-moderation is supported? I’d like members to be able to report abuse and for us to be able to set decision rules for how many abuse reports are necessary from which level of member before a post is quarantined for manual moderation.
Thx
Graham

[marshallarts]

Hi Stephen,all

I’m working to recover 10,000 posts from my old forum that was on an old Joomla 1.5.22 site – Kunena V1.5.66 – The site was the victim of an attempted hack in 2010 that achieved nothing apart from screwing up 3000 registrations and killing the site it never recovered, it was a real blow to the community – I have restarted the site again on WP (.org not .com) in a development domain before switching to the main hosting and have selected to use BBpress for the new forum – I had given up the ghost on the old content until I saw this thread, now I’m all excited because the meat of the old site was on the old forum!!

Apologies for being a real numpty but is there an installation instruction? I can’t figure out where I place the kunena1.php file to start attempting the migration – I have tried in the root of the joomla domain but it 404’s.

Many thanks for your help and potentially brightening my day!!

Paul

[Rollsjoyce]

I tested this function of edit profile also on your own bbpress website and here it’s working perfectly fine, on this page https://bbpress.org/forums/profile/rollsjoyce/edit/
My forum role is also: participant.
I cannot find out what is causing my errors.

[Rollsjoyce]

Hi,
I am using version 2.5.1 of the bbpress plugin and 3.8 wordpress 3.7.1.
It is not possible for forum role:participant as well as forum role:Keymaster to edit any field in profile in the page with [bbp-register].
There appears an error message:
ERROR: Password couldn’t be empty.
ERROR: Password confirmation couldn’t be empty.

Even when the password area is blank and I also tested it with the password area filled in.
http://www.paragliding-holland.nl/test-registration/

Maybe this is a bug, but I am not sure.

What can I do to fix this problem?

[Dan]

Anyone have any thoughts on where or what I could be looking for to fix this? Is there a function that tells bbPress replies to use a certain page or template?

I’ve tried looking in my theme’s function.php and buddypress-function.php files for anything referencing bbPress and had no luck.

[Mai]

Hi Lynqoid,

Thanks for the suggestions.

What is recalculate permissions?

(3) helps help, after I deactivated all plugins except bbPress, I saw the forum settings appear. When I activate all plugins again, the forum settings disappear again. I’ll try to deactivate every plugin to find out which plugin caused the conflict.

Cheers,
Mai