[Robin W]

ok, so you’ll need to edit

web/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/loop-single-reply.php

line 45 shows the avatar, so try adding a line 46

<?php echo bbp_get_user_post_count( $user_id ); ?>

haven’t tried it !

[Robin W]

OR !!

You could change the bbpress background to match your site, so that the lettering can stay the same

If you like that better, I’ll work out what needs changing !

[Halo Diehard]

First up, make sure you have run the phpBB recount tools which ‘should’ make sure phpB database is in good shape before you get started.

I’m also having a problem importing from phpbb, can you please tell me where I find the phpbb recount tools?

Thanks

You should find it on the first page of your phpBB ACP, scroll down a little.

phpBB3 has had some updates in the last year, I wonder if those updates are making the bbPress importer not be able to do it’s job? Maybe different coding now?

[Robin W]

Not sure I understand what your problem is, but let’s try this in case !

When you create a new user, then only the blog role shows. If you save and then go back in and edit that user, you’ll see the wordpress roles at the bottom of the page which you can then set.

[harpeml]

Hi,

I would like to automate the use of the feature in the topic title. Would someone point me to where in the bbPress code I should look to get assistance? Is there some tool already available to do this?

By way of background, I am going to write and external program to WordPress that adds new posts periodically to an existing forum. I then need to somehow trigger automatically the forum repair process.

thanks,
mike

[RB2108]

Hi .. As a volunteer, I’ve created and run a website for a local dental charity http://www.dentaid.org which uses WordPress and a custom theme. The charity have asked me whether its possible to add a forum within the existing site to allow the dental volunteers who go on organized trips to developing countries to get together before the expeditions and discuss topics, ask questions of the organizer etc. Clearly bbPress is a natural candidate for this but having spent a few hours searching the web, I’m not 100% sure of the right way to proceed (and of what I’ve read, there seems to be several different ways to implement bbPress .. maybe depending upon the level). I would like the forum to work as a self-contained subsystem within the existing web site with one entry URL (www.dentaid.org/forums) which can be added to the nav bar and maintaining the existing header/nav bar and footer, so using the one column full screen width content for bbPress. I think that bbPress will need it’s own styling as I’m sure that the existing style.css won’t be optimal for forums.

I’ve tried putting bbpress shortcodes into new pages as recommended in some of the web articles but although it appears to work, the styling is not ideal and functionally it seems very basic. What I’m aiming for is to put something like the bbPress forum page that I’m using right now into the content of a page on our website while keeping the rest of the website exactly asis. (I would also like to allow new folks to register and/or existing users retrieve their lost passwords from within the bbPress ‘subsystem’ i.e. provide complete forum functionality from within the bbp system.

Any help as to how I go about this would be much appreciated as the charity have decided that this is an urgent requirement for a trip to Uganda coming up soon and I don’t want to go off at a tangent and waste a whole load of time climbing the learning curve. At the moment, I’m confused as to whether I should be using widgets, creating child themes, using shortcodes with my own pages or anything else.

Pointers to web pages, documents, videos or just some good old-fashioned advice will be very welcome.

Thanks in anticipation.
Ron

[jsalomone]

Wordpress 3.7.1, bbPress 2.4.1

Users (all roles except Administrators) cannot see the first post in any topic, regardless of it being their own post or not. Changing forum role doesn’t do anything. Only making them Administrator on the wordpress site does. Tried setting default theme and disabling other plugins to no avail.

Not using Wishlist Member and never did. Unsure how to debug, and seen other topics strand with no solution.

[Nova]

Im aware of this plugin and as you can see i’m talking about INLINE IMAGES (so within posts, using bbpress and not external services like imageshack and co.) not basic attachments at bottom of the posts (which is in my opinion absolutely useless for images purposes)

Don’t understand that concept of creating a forum for wordpress if it’s not supported in any way and doesn’t have ultra basic features that any forum plateform has since 300 years BC.

Anyway, already uninstalled bbpress, such a useless plugin.

[KatieKat]

I am using the latest version of bbpress and on 3.5.2 of WP and not sure if this is a bug or not.

When viewing a user’s profile, the user’s username does not display next to the About tag heading when you are viewing the Profile itself and also when viewing topics, replies, subscriptions, favourites when the contents of those pages are empty.

It will only display “About KatieKat” on the forum/users page heading if there is something in topics, replies etc. Nothing shows at all when you get the front Profile page apart from the word About.

Is this a bug and if not is it possible to display the username even if there is nothing on that page in the About heading and especially on the front Profile page.

Kind Regards

KatieKat

[FreeWPress]

I have found the plugin wich add these two pages.. is gd bbpress tools… i translate it with your file pot.. But these two pages have problems with seo, because it generate same title page for all present pages… Incredible!!

[Stephen Edgar]

Again, you can extend bbPress with custom views.

One of the sites in that link list has 4 views:

Most popular topics
Topics with no replies
Topics with most replies
Latest topics

That doesn’t mean they are part of bbPress, check your themes functions.php file for something like this:

function wphc_register_custom_views() {
	bbp_register_view( 'popular-topics', __( 'Popular Topics' ), array( 'meta_key' => '_bbp_reply_count', 'orderby' => 'meta_value_num' ), false );
	bbp_register_view( 'unpopular-topics', __( 'Unpopular Topics' ), array( 'meta_key' => '_bbp_reply_count', 'orderby' => 'meta_value_num', 'order' => 'asc' ), false );
	bbp_register_view( 'random-topic', __( 'Random Topic' ), array( 'orderby' => 'rand' ), false );
	bbp_register_view( 'closed', __( 'Recently Closed' ), array( 'post_status' => 'closed' ), false );
	

}
add_action( 'bbp_register_views', 'wphc_register_custom_views' );

[Stephen Edgar]

You will find it very hard to find a plugin that will work due to the massive changes in roles & capabilities introduced in newer versions of bbPress.

I suggest you update to bbPress 2.4.1 and most of what you are after will be able to be configured without the need of a plugin.

[FreeWPress]

Look at this: Google link

Hi have exactly this… where i found this? Links are stored in (bbPress) Topic Views List widget!!

[Stephen Edgar]

Check your forum settings, anonymous posting may be enabled.

https://codex.bbpress.org/forum-settings/

Anonymous posting
Any site visitor can post a new topic or reply without the need of logging into your site. They will still be required to enter a name and email to post, but will not be required to create a username or password and will not be shown in the list of WordPress Users.

[Stephen Edgar]

You can give it a shot, time permitting I’ll try to help where I can, there is a lot of info in those links I shared above and in the codex I linked to also.

[Jack – BNFW]

Brill, thanks.

Is it possible to request help here if I get stuck doing the conversion?

[Stephen Edgar]

It might be worth that being explained somewhere as I can’t be the only person whom that’s confused.

I made a note of this at https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/vanilla/

A CSV import will work perfectly, it is just a matter of matching the to & from fields in the dataset, good data = good import.

[FreeWPress]

Thanks for your reply, i have this other two view page and i don’t know where it from!!

bbpress do not have it? I think other plugin so!!

I investigate for this issue!!

[Jack – BNFW]

Thanks Stephen,
That’s really helpful.

It might be worth that being explained somewhere as I can’t be the only person whom that’s confused.

Do you know how well the CSV import option that you suggested compares to the Vanilla to bbPress import that is built into bbPress?

[rsix08]

how can I change the sidebar for the forum page?
bbPress WP Tweaks « WordPress Plugins did not work for me.

I was able to remove the blog sidebar and even make the forum full width but what I’d really like to do is add a custom sidebar.

[rsix08]

Is it possible to show a post count under the user for bbpress? I’ve done some searching but still haven’t been able to find a proper way to do it

[Stephen Edgar]

You could just make the data anonymous, if there is username, emails etc after your export just normalize the data,

Eg. Username: Donta -> user1
Email donta@mydomain.com -> user1@example.com

The same for IP addresses, topic title, or any other data you can just change this ‘recognizable’ data to some generic text, the sql you export will be in plain text so you can edit this in any text editor.

The key information needed is:

* 3-5 rows from the forum table
* 3-5 rows from the thread table that are listed in the above forums sql
* 10-15 rows from the post table that show replies from the above topics sql
* 1-3 rows from the user table that shows users from the above topics & replies sql

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress only includes two views ‘out of the box’ and they are both translatable.

Most popular topics – https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.4.1/languages/bbpress.pot#L301
&
Topics with no replies – https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.4.1/languages/bbpress.pot#L305

Check if you have these in a custom function or another plugin.

[Stephen Edgar]

The bbPress importer only supports importing from self hosted versions of Vannila from http://vanillaforums.org/get/vanilla-core

If you want to import to bbPress you will need to find a way to export your data and then do a custom CSV import.

Here is probably the best place to start http://vanillaforums.com/search?Search=export

Also CSV imports https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/custom-import/ & https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/import-bb-data-from-csv-file-to-bbpress-forum/

[TOC123]

Hi Guys,

I’m using WordPress 3.6.1 with forum BBpress 2.3.
I want to move to 2.4.1, but my BBpress can’t see new version.
How i can upgrade it and don’t kill my forum?