[Stephen Edgar]

What version of Xenforo are you importing from?

Do you see anything like ‘Starting Conversion’, ‘Converting Forums’, ‘Converting Topics’ etc?

If you don’t see the above confirm your Xenforo database configs to use with bbPress importer via your Xenforo config.php file.

/public_html/xenforo/library/config.php

[ubersoldat]

Hello, I am the site admin for http://www.officialgenaleenolin.com and we are using the bbPress plugin. some other company built this site and the owner was not pleased with the customer service and then I inherited the site. I had to start by migrating it from one server to another and all seemed fine but then I am noticing users are not able to create topics anymore. But when I as the admin go into the admin backend and create a topic from the backend, it will create one. The problem is that my users cannot. Could you tell me is it a simple setting or a larger issue. All users are set as participants and must be a paid user to view the forum. They can view the forum as normal but cannot post to it. This is a new plugin to me as well.

[Robin W]

ok, I’ve cut justsayno1’s code into a plugin, which you can download from here

This will then override any user choice, and enforce only username as the display

bbpress username plugin

Download this to your PC, and then using dashboard>plugins>add new and select upload files and upload the zipped file to your site

Let me know what works and doesn’t

Three things :

1. As justsayno1 says – the avatar will display the “display name” as the “alt” choice.
2. The profile page still appears to have the “display name”
3. I haven’t yet worked out how to take out the user choice to edit what is displayed, even though of course that is now redundant ie doesn’t work

@Mr-B – give it a go and let me know what works and what doesn’t – I basically just nicked Justsayno’s code.

@Justsayno1 on No. 1 above, can you point me to where the get-avatar function is in main wordpress (the file name would be great) and I’ll amend and cut that code into the plugin as well

@Justsayno1 on No.s 2 & 3 – have you fixed these, and if so can you point me to the solutions, and again I’ll add then to the plugin.

[thedzigner]

Xenforo was on another host, so I couldn’t use the importer. Then I transferred Xenforo over to the same host as my WordPress/BBPress installation, but the importer doesn’t seem to be working for me.

Has anyone done this successfully?

[craftersuniversity]

I cant get the Twenty eleven sidebar to show up on bbPress generated pages. It works well in pages and posts, with a little trouble also got it to work in BuddyPress generated pages, but still nothing in the forums, and disabling plugins doesn’t work. Does anyone know how to fix this? I have the recent versions for everything.

P.S. This is the guide i used to get sidebar to show on Buddypress generated pages, perhaps there is some clue in those script changes? I don’t understand PHP so i wouldn’t know what to look for….
http://bpsocialnetwork.wordpress.com/2013/06/02/twenty-eleven-theme-compatibility/

[ronthai]

This problem of replies not showing also happens here on this bbPress Support forum.
It happened to me 3 times that the reply did not show and after I made a second reply to the same topic they both showed up.

[thehouseofdog]

Hi

I posted here last week, but for some reason my post didn’t appear, so trying again.

I am running bbpress 2.5.1 Buddypress 1.8.1 and WordPress 3.7.1 and having problems finding documentation to support getting my forums (or are they now called groups) to work at http://www.thehouseofdog.co.uk/groups/

No one seems able to post a new topic, not even me. The forums are not clear, you have to select the forums tab to get them up (and then they’re empty because no one can create a new topic) and I just need to know where I can find a manual to set this all up.

I spent 3 hours last Friday trying to find out why the ‘forums’ tab wasn’t displaying in my dashboard, only to discover I’d been looking for something which obviously doesn’t show in the latest bbpress version (but the documentation says it does).

Can someone please help me? I’ve never used wordpress, buddypress or bbpress before and I really need a manual which is up to date!

Thanks

[billseymour]

Hello – new to this forum.

I have just started using bbPress (WordPress plugin), and I see that the ‘Freshness’ is incorrect for my test forum (localhost). The topic and post dates are in fact correct (when you go to the post, look at WP Admin, the post dates are accurate), but ‘Freshness’ is completely incorrect.

For now, I am developing my own Freshness algorithm, and will include it via theme compatability. I just wanted to add feedback that there seems to be a problem w ‘Freshness’ that would benefit from a fix.

Thanks. –Bill

[wickywills]

Hello,

I have recently installed BBPress into my WordPress theme, and have been having a few problems with spam registrations. Basically people are creating accounts, and in their profile text the are adding links to external sites. I would like “nofollow” to be added to these links by default, though nothing I have found on this forum has worked. I have added various things to my functions.php file as instructed by people here – none have worked. Can anyone help with this?

I would also like to hide the “/members” page form being publicly accessible – is this possible?

Thanks
James

[gmacev]

When I go to post as anonymous, in the field where you put your website address I see: Array. Check pick Below:
http://oi43.tinypic.com/9r0zt2.jpg

I’m using the latest bbPress. I’m not sure, but I think this started after the last update.

[TiaID]

I have fixed it , by deactivating all plugins , then first adtivated bbpress and then the rest. Now everything is fine again.

[ronthai]

Hi, I have page navi installed on the WP side in the footer, just gives page numbers 1, 2, 3, …

Problem is it also shows on the forum index (forums list page) as just 1 page.
I tried the <?php if ( !is_singular('bbpress') ) : ?>, but that does not work, with or without the ‘bbpress’

Any idea’s on how to exclude the php from on the forum/bbpress side?

[Stephen Edgar]

You could use this plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-string-swap/

Or you can use this plugin https://gist.github.com/ntwb/7864894

Or just add the code from the plugin to your themes functions.php or bbpress-functions.php file.

add_filter( 'bbp_get_dynamic_roles', 'ntwb_bbpress_custom_role_names' );

function ntwb_bbpress_custom_role_names() {
	return array(

		// Keymaster
		bbp_get_keymaster_role() => array(
			'name'         => 'My Custom Keymaster Role Name',
			'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_keymaster_role() )
		),

		// Moderator
		bbp_get_moderator_role() => array(
			'name'         => 'My Custom Moderator Role Name',
			'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_moderator_role() )
		),

		// Participant
		bbp_get_participant_role() => array(
			'name'         => 'My Custom Participant Role Name',
			'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_participant_role() )
		),

		// Spectator
		bbp_get_spectator_role() => array(
			'name'         => 'My Custom Spectator Role Name',
			'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_spectator_role() )
		),

		// Blocked
		bbp_get_blocked_role() => array(
			'name'         => 'My Custom Blocked Role Name',
			'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_blocked_role() )
		)
	);
}

[LeoBCpt]

Hi Stephen

Thanks for coming back to me.

Do you think if I add the access levels to the postmeta of forums, topics and replies that this will work correctly? How would I get BBPress to automatically add the meta to new posts?
Would I also need to add a search filter after the postmeta is added?

[fyreus]

Is there a new way to disable topic creation for people with non-admin roles yet? Something changed recently and i’m unable to get things to work anymore.

WP 3.7.1
bbPress 2.5.1-5217

[Stephen Edgar]

@Bogastyle

Contact – https://bg.wordpress.org/contact/

Instructions – https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-in-your-language/

Files – https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/dev/bg/default

[Stephen Edgar]

You could create a new role for your users based on the participant role without the publish_topics role.

https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-user-roles-and-capabilities/#participant

[martin]

Is there a way to add cutoms fileds to the profile in an other way than changing the code? Because after an update those changes I will make will be deleted anyway. Maybe someone knows a plugin, or maybe this should be a feature for bbpress?

[bogdandimitrov]

Здравейте,
За първи път инсталирам bbPress и имам няколко въпроса.
От къде да взема български за последната версия – 2.5.1?
Къде да кача езиковите файлове?
Това ли е най-добрия и лесен плъгин за форум към WordPress?

Благодаря Ви предварително.

[Lynq]

In the core files there is a file called widgets.php inside /plugins/bbpress/includes/common

If you look at line 677 (in my version) there is a topics widget class (class BBP_Topics_Widget), you could create your own plugin and copy the class across (renaming it) and then create your own bbPress widget, without altering the core code.

Good luck!

[mouffles]

Bug still present, i reroll to bbpress 2.4 still here :/

[ronthai]

Hi,
I just noticed that the bbPress Recent Topics widget give the date/time/FRESHNESS from the last reply made.
This does not seem to be a bug.
I would prefer that it shows the Freshness of creation.
I use both Recent Topics and Recent Replies widgets next to each other and it just looks foolish to have them both the same freshness time, especially since the New Recent Topics are usually the ones that get the replies.

Is it possible to change that? Well of course it is but how and where?
I don’t mind changing core files, I am always organized to know what I changed where in-case of updates.

Thanks, Ron

[Dan]

So I’ve been trying to debug this problem for about a month and finally decided to try and get some extra help. Here’s a summary of what’s going on.

When a user clicks Edit, they are brought to a page that’s showing the excerpt for the reply, with a Continue Reading button. No editing can be done. Regular topics can be edited as expected, but replies are pulling from my post loop it seems.

Does anyone know where to begin looking for something like this? The theme’s creator is MIA (Huddle theme from Themeforest), and if I knew which files to begin digging through, I might be able to fix it on my own.

I’m using WordPress 3.7.1
I’m using BuddyPress 1.8.1
I’m using bbPress 2.4.1

I can provide more information upon request, would appreciate any help or general finger pointing to get me in the right direction. Thanks!

I had tried to post this last week with screenshots, but I think bbPress put it in the spam folder, so I’m trying again without the links to screenshots now.

[ronthai]

Solved this with an extra link in the menu or in the admin bar if you use the plugin “Blue Admin”
https://wordpress.org/plugins/blue-admin/other_notes/

Instruction are here:

Menu link to Profile

[ronthai]

I just added to my menu all forum links from a user:
topics, replies, favorites, subscriptions, edit
all under 1 main “Your Forum Settings & Stats” Dropdown, but just call it anything you want.

Get the plugin “WP exec PHP” : https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-exec-php/
No security risk, since you can set the permission for who can add php to pages and such.

Create pages for any links to the profile you want and add the following REDIRECT with php-code in it (adjust to your own domain)

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=http://domain.com/forums/users/<?php global $current_user;
      get_currentuserinfo();

     echo  $current_user->user_login . "";
      
?>/edit/">

You could delay the refresh and add a little text to the page, or anything you want.

With many thanks to Diggories (above somewhere) for the php code to get the username in a URL