Hi guys – I want to create a Facebook newsfeed style interface on a site using only bbPress. I’ve run BuddyPress installations before and that’s way more functionality than I need, or want to manage. All I need is the ability for registered users to post something and to have other users comment -> simple forum. The trick is to mash-up everything into one template, topics with their replies, that paginates just like the Facebook newsfeed.
I’m wondering if someone has done this, if it’s even possible or if there are limitations within the code that make that impossible without BuddyPress. My guess is it requires a custom template with a set of custom queries. Any leads or insights into this would be appreciated. Thanks!
You should be able to logout log back in again (just to forcibly confirm that with WordPress), enter the same details on the bbPress import settings you used 5,000/0.2 etc and just click ‘Start’ and it will resume from where it left off.
DO NOT USE ANY QUOTES, just use wp_
Hi Stephen,
I tried it with both single and double quotes.
I opened the wp-config.php and copied the information directly from there. Still getting a similar issue. I’m going to contact bluehost and see what they have to say.
Thank you for all your assistance. Once I hear from bluehost I will update this thread with that information.
Scott
I see. This at least provides me with a solution: we need to make many of these forums sub-forums. I did a test; if I set one of these forums to be the sub-forum of another on this list, a forum not previously appearing on this page appears at the bottom.
This is resolved now, since this is built into bbPress. I am curious though why this limitation was built it. It seems like something the admin should decide, not bbPress, but perhaps it was to keep database load down, or to just protect the bbPress brand (to keep bbPress powered-sites from looking ugly)? Anyways, much appreciated.
Cool, got it, your issue is because you have more than 50 forums.
Purposely limited to 50 forums. If your site has that many main forums or subforums, it’s time to reconsider your categorization strategy.
See https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1997
The Forum Recent Replies widget is showing the wrong time and date:
For Example:
guardianwill on Welcome
8 years, 5 months ago
The site has been in design for less than 2 months. When I look at this entry the right time and date is displayed
November 4, 2013 at 9:30 AM and then the reply message.
Thanks for any help.
using wp 3.7.1
buddypress – 1.8.1
bbpress – 2.4.1
buddypress-default theme
the forum recent topics is working correctly and showing the proper time.
Thanks in advance for any help concerning this issue.
you can view at http://tvbari.org and scroll to the bottom footers to the right.
William
Go to your BuddyPress settings /wp-admin/admin.php?page=bp-settings
And toggle the setting ‘Blog & Forum Comments – Allow activity stream commenting on blog and forum posts’
https://codex.bbpress.org/forum-settings/#forum-user-settings
Disallow editing after
Set this to the time (in number of minutes) to limit post editing. Once the time limit has been reached the forum post no longer be available for editing to forum participants. Administrators and bbPress Moderators can override this setting at any time.
You should also see the ‘EDIT’ (and other tools) like this:
This could be an issue with your rewrite rules. To fix this try resetting your permalinks. In your WordPress Administration Screens navigate to Settings > Permalinks, select a different permalink structure and save. Then select your preferred permalink structure and save again.
Also try the repair tools https://codex.bbpress.org/repair-forums/
Did you use single or double quotes around wp_?
The error you show above showing the error as \”wp_\”forum_forums is an odd one, if things were working correctly I would expect the error to look more like this wp_forum_forums.
Open up your wp-config.php file again:
// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', 'database_name_here');
/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'username_here');
/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'password_here');
/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
Make sure the values above are the ones you are using on the bbPress import settings and that you select Mingle as the import type.
If you still have the same issue you might have to have a chat with your web host to see if there is some extra SQL settings needed by them.
I’ve spent many, many hours trying to modify my template to achieve something like this. I was about to throw in the towel when I came across this post. I like bbPress, but I find the format of other forums to be more familiar to my customers so it’s better not to make things more difficult 🙂
Thanks a million!
It’s quite simple to get ti up and running – just work you way through the following resource
Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1
If you are using a default core theme, it’ll be going in a couple of hours. if you have a custom theme, the functionality will be there, but the look and feel might be a little different from your theme, and you’ll need to style it – not that hard to do, but does require some knowledge of using FTP and a code editor.
I’ll be finishing this article during the next week.
Hello Stephen,
Thank you so much for replying. I opened the wp-config.php and looked up the $table_prefix and it was ‘wp_’ so I tried to run the convert/import and it came up with this message:
Starting ConversionRepair any missing information: Continue
WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘\”wp_\”forum_forums AS forum_forums LIMIT 0, 100’ at line 1]
SELECT convert(forum_forums.id USING “utf8”) AS id,convert(forum_forums.parent_id USING “utf8”) AS parent_id,convert(forum_forums.name USING “utf8”) AS name,convert(forum_forums.description USING “utf8”) AS description,convert(forum_forums.sort USING “utf8”) AS sort FROM \”wp_\”forum_forums AS forum_forums LIMIT 0, 100No forums to convert
I’m really not sure what to do here. Like I said I’m a SQL newbie so I really don’t understand much about it yet.
Thank you for your assistance so far,
Scott
I installed bbpress with buddy both are latest version on my WP new installation, I register as a new member having a participant role on bbpress but I noticed that when I clicked on “FORUM” tap on my buddy profile there no link to create a new topic, I want to enable topic creation for my members. Maybe am not doing something right pleas help.
They should be renamed to bbpress-ru_RU.po & bbpress-ru_RU.mo
They should go here -> /wp-content/languages/bbpress/
(If you put them in /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/languages they will be deleted when bbPress is updated)
Full details are here -> https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-in-your-language/
And Russian here -> https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-in-your-language/russian-%d1%80%d1%83%d1%81%d1%81%d0%ba%d0%b8%d0%b9-ru_ru/
Hi
How can I prevent bbPress from posting to activity stream?
Thanks
Deon
It looks like you used wp_forums_\ as the table prefix on the importer settings, as a quick guess I think it should be wp_
Edit: You can confirm what this value should be by opening the wp-config.php file in the root of the WordPress install that has Mingle forums installed.
/**
* WordPress Database Table prefix.
*
* You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each a unique
* prefix. Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!
*/
$table_prefix = 'wp_';
Thanks for this and yes, confirmed 🙁
I have added a patch to the bbPress Trac Ticket #2472
I also added the full Mingle.php with the patch included, could you download this and test it.
It should fix both the issue where multiple topics have the same title and also renamed topics.
Update: WordPress SEO by Yoast can do this! At the Title & Metas tab —>Post Type —> Custom Post Type Archive, there are options for BBpress titles so all the problems above resolved! If am not wrong, All In One SEO can not do this (I have this experience with All In One SEO before). Thanks. Nice day
I have a disagreement with a designer on setting up bbPress forum on a new website. The design company has experience in forum setup.
The disagreement is here nor there really as I put it in the original site map document but now they say it’s not.
My question is how easy is it to setup a simple forum? How many hours? All I need is a simple forum for a very small community. 3-4 sections (General, Troubleshooting, Q&A etc) and that’s it. Management wouldn’t be through the design company.
A bit like this forum http://wpcandy.com/discussions/ .
Appreciate your thoughts.
I would like to ask if I am able to use <!–more–> tag to shorten the long post & long reply in bbPress! If yes, please show me how to do it?
hello! I’ve uploaded in /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/languages/ files bbpress-2.4.x-ru_RU.mo and
bbpress-2.4.x-ru_RU.po In wp-config define(‘WPLANG’, ‘ru_RU’);
Nothing happen, language still English
Please, help
