[unklee]

I am sorry to say I have uninstalled bbpress because I cannot stop the spam without introducing registration methods that I’m not happy with. If only this plugin could be made to work for bbpress!

[unklee]

I had the same problem and I have no answer. WP Captcha-Free is a wonderful plugin for WordPress blogs and keeps my blog spam-free, but I don’t know if it works for bbpress.

[psysex]

Hello, I’d like to share an issue I’m having with bbPress:
Uninstalling old version of bbpress, then installing 2.4.1, repair all and reset all. Starting on blank space.
I create one forum, then create a topic, but it stays with “(no forum)” status. I click on edit topic, then from the Forum drop down menu I select my only forum and click on Update button. And nothing happens – the topic is still with “no parent”.
Tried deleting all topics and forums – nothing helps?!
Any suggestions what else I can do?

[Halo Diehard]

@netweb, would you do me the favor of deleting the download link I posted 10 posts up please? Thanks 🙂

It doesn’t look like it, but does bbPress have it’s own XML importer available? Again, I’ve successfully converted my phpBB3 forums onto my local bbPress, and now I’m unsure how to get those posts onto my live site. Would I just export the bbPress tables from my local database and import them into my live site’s database?

[YacoRoca]

hello, on the post: http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/author-posts-position-messsed-up/

I posted a topic recently and soon after my hosting account got suspended, according to the Hosting Company,

“The account was suspended due to extremely high resource usage caused by large traffic to /dev/dunna/foros/ and /dev/dunna/forums/foro/ locations. In total there were over 80,000 hits to this location within 5 hours before the suspension had to be placed. “

So I am urgently asking you to please remove the links I posted there, as I do not seem to have access to doing so myself. This is causing my hosting account, as well as the development site I need to work on, great harm.

If this is not the proper channel, please let me know which is, however any and all help in removing those links from my original post are much appreciated.

[daronson]

First off I’m very new to wordpress, so I am sure it is user error.

I’m trying to create a forum for our boyscout site and installed bbpress tried to create forums but the index page looks totally broken only partially shows one of five forums. The page is here:

I’m not sure why the text is all smashed together and no indexes shown. WordPress version is 3.7.1

Any help is appreciated.

Edit: Link removed

[meltdown87]

I have the BBpress 2.4.1 plugin installed on http://www.thefilthyfew.nl with the Gamefun theme, but it is not displaying properly. I found out that the theme is to blame, because when i change it to the simple twenty thirteen theme, it works like a charm.

I still have to style it so it’s white now in stead of black, but never mind that for now. The thing that is going wrong: when i click on a forum, for example ‘Main forum’, (which already has 1 topic and 2 posts in it) nothing displays. No topics, no formfields to post anything, only the title ‘Main forum’ is displayed.

Please help me, i’ve been struggling with this for a really long time now 🙁 !

I’m using WordPress 3.7.1

[3tonine]

I feel sorry that no one ever reply you, just drop in to share my little experience, hope it helps:

My solution, so far, is to install one of the Tinymce enhanced plugins,

ie. Ultimate Tinymce or Tinymce advanced;

Then I insert the customized version of it into the forum post editor by installing this plugin:

bbpress enable tinymce visual tab

I’d say this is not a perfect solution, but at least my users are no more served with just a text/code editor.

Goodday 😉

[Thibaud]

Hi, just to show my bbpress integration on http://forum.biflora.fr/

Congrat, great plugin. Feel free to make suggestions. And questions are more than welcome.

Cheers

[Robin W]

This may look a bit messy but without spending a lot of time

In loop-single-reply.php (wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress)

change line 45 which uses bbp_reply_author_link

and use

bbp_get_reply_author_avatarto display the avatar and

bbp_get_reply_author_id
to get the id – you’ll then need to play with maybe

bbp_get_reply_author()
putting the id in the brackets

eg bbp_get_reply_author(bbp_get_reply_author_id )

should give you the username rather than display name

you’d then need to play with

content-single-topic.php for the forum lists (wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress)

[unklee]

I installed a bbPress forum on my WordPress blog as a trial, set up a couple of trial forums, then didn’t work on it for a week or two. In that time, that trial forum, with no links from anywhere, received more than 500 spam registrations. Obviously I’m not happy with that, for although the spambots were prevented from posting (mostly), it was still a pain removing all the requests.

On my WordPress blog, I use WP Captcha-Free plugin to stop spam, and it works really well. One of the attractions of installing a forum within WordPress was using this plugin on the forum as well. But it doesn’t seem to apply to bbPress.

Does anyone know if there is any way to make this WP plugin work in bbPress, or is that a silly question?

Thanks.

[infostrides]

Is there anything I can do to help?

@Stephen Thanks. I have moved to the forum to sub-folder for the time being.

don’t give up, I’m pretty sure if you find the conflicting topics and delete them the import WILL work just fine, I know it’s not perfect, but I think it is worth it.

@manuxel Thanks. I will look into it again once I finish setting up the main WordPress site.

[infostrides]

Thanks. The query output nothing.

[april]

I don’t get it. Is there no answer to this question or what?

Why do other topics appear to be posted after mine and still receive responses?

This is getting incredibly frustrating.

[april]

I’ve installed bbPress on a local installation, under port 8080 to avoid a conflict with another program using port 80. It appears to work just fine from the WordPress Dashboard, but I can’t do anything in the front end – I keep getting ERROR: Are you sure you wanted to do that?

I’ve spent the last hour on Google, reddit, this forum, various blogs… nothing seems to help.

Can someone explain how to fix this, please? I posted the same question last week and got zero response.

This installation is staying on a local machine, so it isn’t as though all my problems will soon be solved. I’m never uploading to a normal hosting server.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you!

[joshnoworries]

How can i change bbPress to only show the ‘username’ instead of Nickname/First Last name?

I found some information, but it only allows changing type to name/avatar. With no control over the name being “Display name, Nickname, Username”: http://codex.bbpress.org/bbp_author_link/

<?php bbp_author_link( array( ‘post_id’ => bbp_get_topic_last_active_id(), ‘size’ => 14 ) ); ?>

I am using “BP Display Name” to do this on BuddyPress pages, and have hardcoded it on other templates. But just need to sort it on the bbPress forum to make it consistent across the site.

WP version: 3.7.1
bbPress version: 2.4.1
Site: http://www.veggie.co.nz/forums/forum/introductions/

Thanks very much for your help.

[getluckybyme]

i want to use bbpress forum in my native language telugu

but my native language not listed in

http://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-in-your-language/

[artharrison]

I wanted the same thing, so I built it…

Have fun —

[theninjaramen]

Apologies, just testing reply functionality

[manuxel]

@netweb now that you mention it I don’t remember SMF having a hidden forum option, just with user permissions.

@infostrides don’t give up, I’m pretty sure if you find the conflicting topics and delete them the import WILL work just fine, I know it’s not perfect, but I think it is worth it.

[Stephen Edgar]

@infostrides

I just have to suspend it. It was not working for my forum.

Is there anything I can do to help?

[Stephen Edgar]

@glossyone wrote

3 – The hidden/private forum appear as normal forum – not hidden (it’s ok since I can set it later I think)

@manuxel wrote

3- That’s right, it will not import the hidden state but you can set that later on each forum you need to

Where do set the hidden state for a forum in SMF?

If I could find that setting I should be able to add support for that 🙂

Are there any other forum settings besides hidden & private?

I can map to ‘public’, ‘hidden’ & ‘private’ which are the three standard bbPress forum types.

[Stephen Edgar]

1 – The import process seems stuck at 5K++ post or topic something. No moving and no error reported.

one or two topics were causing the interruption of the import. Why? I do not know

This does happen and I have no idea why, I have had it happen a few times and have tried debugging what is happening and editing the database directly changing the text and it still happens. This is a truly mysterious and at this stage can only wish it didn’t happen 🙁

In your wp_options table, there should be an entry with the key ‘_bbp_converter_query’. It will indicate what the last attempted converter query is, which will narrow down the scope of your search to figure out what may have gone wrong.

SELECT * FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = "_bbp_converter_query"

[infostrides]

I just have to suspend it. It was not working for my forum.

[Guillaume]

I would like to give the possibility to start new topics only the the Admin. So regular user can reply to those topics, but cannot start a new one by themself…

It is probably nothing complicated…. anybody can please help me ?

BBpress: 2.4.1