[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?

[sparkii]

Trying to add new users to my bbpress, but only blog roles are available. As soon as I deactivate bbpress, then bbpress roles become available.

Only one other plugin was activated at the time of install. I’ve since done a fresh install of wordpress, deactivating all plugins and then activated bbpress.

Same results – I start with blog users (when only wordpress is installed). I activate bbpress then check user roles again (via “new user”) and still have only blog roles. Then I deactivate bbpress and suddenly the bbpress roles are available.

I don’t understand what is happening with user roles. Any suggestions are most appreciated.

[tristanojbacon]

I’m trying to get this up and running on my site, but the user profile page isn’t showing up, despite moving all the templates to themes/[theme-name]/bbpress’….. Any suggestions?

[cachenick]

WP 3.7.1
bbPress 2.4.1
gozolin.com
Parament theme

I just installed the bbPress plugin yesterday. It works great but the only problem I’m having is the text in the forums is grey and very hard to read. I cant find anywhere how I can change the color of the font to black.

Thanks.

[Donta]

Stephen, due to privacy, I wish not put any piece of data here.

Is there another way of getting that info to you?

[Jack – BNFW]

Hi,

I’m just doing some research for a client and they’d like to migrate all their content (forums, posts and users) from their VanillaForums.com account to bbPress.

I see that after bbPress has been installed, under Import > Forums in the WordPress backend there is an option to import from Vanilla but it doesn’t specify whether it’s their managed .com service or their self-hosted .org service.

Can someone tell me if it’s just one or the other?
If the case, how do I go about finding the database info for a VanillaForums.com account in order to import everything into bbPress?

Thanks for any help in advance,
Jack

[Robin W]

ok.
In 99% of cases this file will not have changed in the update, but all bbpress update plugins will overwrite this file, so you’ll lose your change.

Therefore you can have two strategies.

1. do the update – this will overwrite the code. Then go back in to this file and just put your two lines of code back. You might need to check that the file hasn’t altered around line 24, so might need to alter where you put it.

2. Copy the file using FTP to your PC. Following an update, inspect the new content-single-topic to see if the file has been altered. Very high chance it hasn’t. If not, then just FTP back the file on your PC. If it has altered, you’ll need to copy the two ,lines fo code and put them back in the right place.

[bemispromo]

Hello,

I have a wordpress (3.7.1) site for a writing group with 700+ registered users. Most of the users have “Author” permissions (Because they contribute to the blog on the site.) There are a few editors who moderate the blog, and then a couple of admins.

bbPress (2.0) is installed on this site. The forums should be visible ONLY to those users who are logged in. Additionally there are a few forums which should only be available to select members. (Their board of directors and writers who are published, as two examples.) A user might be a member of both the Board and the Published Authors group, but won’t necessarily be.

I am looking for a plugin or a method for handling the security that will allow me to easily handle this. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks!

[FreeWPress]

Hi, i have two title pages with no translation:
forums/view/most-replies/ it show title page –> Topics with most replies
forums/view/latest-topics/ it show title page –> Latest topics

I nedd to translate but this two elements do not exist in original file bbpress.pot

Can you see if bbpress.pot contain this two elements or is true wich do not exist?

Thanks…