[Stephen Edgar]

Cool, things look good on your site now 🙂

For the users simply check the following box when you are importing your forum 😉
Convert Users - Attempt to import user accounts from previous forums
(Yes, you will have to reset bbPress and run your import again https://codex.bbpress.org/reset-forums/)

[Stephen Edgar]

I would suggest you ask your web host as to why you are getting this error.

Also try deactivating all your other plugins so make sure there is no plugin conflicts, also try using one of the built in themes such as Twenty Eleven/Twenty Twelve/Twenty Thirteen

[handhugs]

My simple avatar plugin works really well with BBPress, except for the ability to delete the avatar from the bbpress profile editing page. When you click that button, the avatar does not get deleted. It still works from the wordpress admin Edit User page, but not on the site’s front end. Any ideas on this?

[josefelix]

Hey @fskrdla, can you please help me? I’m having the exact same issue, I’m in no way a programmer but I get around. I tried installing both Bbpress (2.4) and Buddypress (1.8) on WordPress (3.7) and I can’t for the life of me to get them to work. I updated the settings on my server to PHP 5.3, but I can’t seem to activate both BB and Buddy at the same time, I get a memory allocation error.

Do you have any tips on how to solve this? Thanks so much either way!

[VegasKev88]

This issue is not resolved on my installation for some reason. I notified trac here: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2327#comment:11

[connielk]

I am having an issue displaying the forums on the standard url that bbpress uses.

See this page:

redhorsecrm.com/forums

This is the page I’m told to use by bbPress as to where the forums should display correctly. It does not look correct at all.

Then see this page:

redhorsecrm.com/forum

This page is one that I created and put a shortcode on to display the forums. It looks correct.

I don’t mind using the shortcode, since it displays the forum correctly. However, the breadcrumb points to the page that does not display correctly. So if a user uses the breadcrumb, they will be lost.

I understand this may be a theme issue, but this is a pretty standard theme Customizr and it “should” be compatible. Yes, I did ask Customizr but they didn’t have a clue.

Any ideas how to fix this?

[channelwiki]

I am currently using BBPress and will integrate it with MediaWiki.

However, the problem is as my forum’s index is set to display as a shortcode on a page called ‘Forums’, which is set as my site’s homepage the breadcrumbs display as follows:

Forums >> Forums >> Digital Terrestrial

See: http://www.channelwiki.org/forums/?forum=digital-terrestrial

As you can see the second ‘forums’ link takes a user to the default BBPress Forum index (not my sites homepage). How can this second ‘Forums’ link be removed?

The second issue is, as users are signing in via MediaWiki and will then be signed in to WordPress when they access the site automatically, how can I disable sign in via WordPress and registration, but still allow access to private messages and sign in via the wiki? The WP-Admin bar will also be hidden

Another issue is that I do not know how to redirect users back to the wiki. I’ve though about placing a ‘Log in’ link in the site’s main navigation, which links to the wiki’s login page but I’m not sure how to redirect them back.

Many thanks in advance,
channelwiki

[acousticwebdesign]

I’m using bbpress 2.4.1 and bbpress moderation to moderate posts (which just sets the status of new topcis and replies to ‘pending’). I’m trying to add an admin link on topics and replies that need to be approved by an admin. Everything works fine, but the top level freshness statistic is not being updated when I change the status of a topic or reply from ‘pending’ to ‘publish’. This is the freshness statistic that shows when a forum was last updated (more specifically bbp_forum_freshness_link()).

This stat does get updated when publishing a pending post from the backend via Forums > Topics or Forums > Replies. I’ve tried everything to trigger the stats to refresh. So I guess a better question may be, how do I trigger a refresh on this stat. (I’ve tried going though wp_update_post, wp_insert_post, bbp_update_topic, wp_transition_post_status, and a few other functions and none of them trigger a refresh of the top level forum freshness stat). The only things that has come close is to call bbp_admin_repair_freshness() after updating the post. This seems to work for topics but not replies.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Hudson Atwell]

Hello I’ve taken a crack at this:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-auto-delete-spam-replies/

Please feel free to help me improve it:
https://bitbucket.org/atwellpub/bbpress-auto-delete-spam-replies

[Lisa Van Ahn]

I don’t have any place on the left side bar to edit BBpress and when I go into the settings of the plugin I see this message:

You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.

I have 3.7.1 of wordpress installed

I just uploaded the most recent version of bbpress

My site is http://www.bodyredesignonline.com

[JeremyPark123999]

I am ashamed to say, that it seems that I found a solution that was staring me in the face in the settings panel for bbpress. I simply disabled the “Allow users to subscribe to topics” field, and that has done the trick well enough, sorry for the trouble.

[alleycakes]

I was previously using the Question and Answer Forum plugin, and have recently decided to switch to bbPress. Is there a way to convert/import all of the questions and answers that were created while using Q&A Forum so that they are available in my new bbPress forums?

[JeremyPark123999]

I disabled all of the plugins except bbpress, and I also tried adding that code to bbpress/includes/common/functions.php and also to my themes functions.php . Maybe I am doing something wrong though, is there perhaps a way to hide the check box? That would work just as well for me.

[Stephen Edgar]

Cool, let me know how it all ends up 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

Also I have only tested the vBulletin importer with importing from vBulletin v4.2 so there might be a few changes in the database structure between 4.1x & 4.2x but as I can’t get my hands on vBulletin 4.15 I cannot confirm this.

If you are comfortable in phpMyAdmin and you could export half a dozen rows from each of the ‘forum’, ‘thread’, ‘post’, ‘tagcontent’, ‘tag’ & ‘user’ tables I could have a closer look at why this isn’t working for you.

[Stephen Edgar]

I’d suggest looking up how phpBB deals with imported vBulletin user passwords, some importers convert the password after the fact, so until userxyz logs into phpBB the password isn’t converted to the phpBB forums format.

[BroadRippleInc]

I figured it out! I had separately installed the bbconverter plugin, and it was activated at the same time as bbpress, which of course now includes the bbconverter.

Thank you for your time, I am good to go!

[BroadRippleInc]

With a little help from my host giving me: memory_limit = 256M
max_execution_time = 5000 with a php.ini file, I can now see the fatal error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function convert_forums() on a non-object in /home/broadrip/public_html/sporeganizer.net/wp-content/plugins/bbconverter/bbconverter.php on line 508

Any thoughts on what is causing this? All plugins except bbpress & bbconverter are disabled when I get this error.

[MissPiplup]

I want to allow users to edit their address via the user profile edit page and I’ve been loosely following ardentfrost’s suggestion in this thread: http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/profile-user-specified-fields/#post-2670. My problem is that the fields are rendered on the edit page, but aren’t getting saved.

My code to add the address fields is in a file I’ve called custom-profile-fields which I’ve uploaded to the plugins page:

	function get_address_keys() {
		return array(
			'user_address_line1' => array(0, __('Address Line 1')),
			'user_address_line2' => array(0, __('Address Line 2')),
			'user_address_suburb' => array(0, __('Suburb')),
			'user_address_state' => array(0, __('State')),
			'user_address_postcode' => array(0, __('Postcode/ZIP')),
			'user_address_country' => array(0, __('Country'))
		);
	}
	
	add_filter('get_profile_info_keys', 'get_address_keys');

To display the fields I’ve inserted the following code into form-user-edit.php above the website field since it makes sense to keep the address fields in the contact info area.

		<div>
			<label for="user_address_line1"><?php _e( 'Address Line 1', 'bbpress' ) ?></label>
			<input type="text" name="user_address_line1" id="user_address_line1" value="<?php bbp_displayed_user_field( 'user_address_line1', 'edit' ); ?>" class="regular-text code" tabindex="<?php bbp_tab_index(); ?>" />
		</div>

		<div>
			<label for="user_address_line2"><?php _e( 'Address Line 2', 'bbpress' ) ?></label>
			<input type="text" name="user_address_line2" id="user_address_line2" value="<?php bbp_displayed_user_field( 'user_address_line2', 'edit' ); ?>" class="regular-text code" tabindex="<?php bbp_tab_index(); ?>" />
		</div>

		<div>
			<label for="user_address_suburb"><?php _e( 'Suburb', 'bbpress' ) ?></label>
			<input type="text" name="user_address_suburb" id="user_address_suburb" value="<?php bbp_displayed_user_field( 'user_address_suburb', 'edit' ); ?>" class="regular-text code" tabindex="<?php bbp_tab_index(); ?>" />
		</div>

		<div>
			<label for="user_address_state"><?php _e( 'State', 'bbpress' ) ?></label>
			<input type="text" name="user_address_state" id="user_address_state" value="<?php bbp_displayed_user_field( 'user_address_state', 'edit' ); ?>" class="regular-text code" tabindex="<?php bbp_tab_index(); ?>" />
		</div>

		<div>
			<label for="user_address_postcode"><?php _e( 'Postcode/ZIP', 'bbpress' ) ?></label>
			<input type="text" name="user_address_postcode" id="user_address_postcode" value="<?php bbp_displayed_user_field( 'user_address_postcode', 'edit' ); ?>" class="regular-text code" tabindex="<?php bbp_tab_index(); ?>" />
		</div>

		<div>
			<label for="user_address_country"><?php _e( 'Country', 'bbpress' ) ?></label>
			<input type="text" name="user_address_country" id="user_address_country" value="<?php bbp_displayed_user_field( 'user_address_country', 'edit' ); ?>" class="regular-text code" tabindex="<?php bbp_tab_index(); ?>" />
		</div>

[fatpat76]

Hello there, I just went through some problems where the bbPress capabilities were not registered in the wp_user_roles option_name row entry. I don’t know what caused it but I was trying to see if I uninstalled/reinstalled bbPress it might reset the capabilities. It didn’t.

So I got hunting through the code and I found this function:

/**
 * Adds capabilities to WordPress user roles.
 *
 * @since bbPress (r2608)
 */
function bbp_add_caps() {

	// Loop through available roles and add caps
	foreach ( bbp_get_wp_roles()->role_objects as $role ) {
		foreach ( bbp_get_caps_for_role( $role->name ) as $cap => $value ) {
			$role->add_cap( $cap, $value );
		}
	}

	do_action( 'bbp_add_caps' );
}

But nothing seem to ever call this function. I did a search through all of the plugin code and there aren’t any references to this function. What gives?

In the end I was able to force the capabilities to be rebuilt by adding this function call inside another function that I knew was being called and it worked (I’ve since removed this).

BTW, this is on WP 3.7.1, bbPress 2.4.1.

Thanks!
Patrick

[Robin W]

Without spending too much time try

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/content-single-topic.php

is the likely file

Probably before or after line 24 if you want it at the top

Les us know if that works, as it’ll help people later one (and I might try it at some stage!)

[Robin W]

Strangely this is quite difficult to achieve, as the url for a user profile edit is

http://mysite.com/forums/users/username/edit/

where the username is the actual username of the person logged in.

so you can’t add it as a menu item as far as I can work out.

2 solutions to this :

Solution 1 – the harder way !
One solution and the one I use is adding this as a line in the login widget, so that it appears under the “account” in your sidebar

I use the (bbpress) Login widget for the sidebar. This widget is set up in

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/widgets.php

I added this line after line 145

line 145 reads
<?php bbp_logout_link(); ?>

and I add a new line 146 saying

<p><a href="<?php bbp_user_profile_url( bbp_get_current_user_id() ); ?>edit" >Amend Profile/Change password</a></p>
This then comes up when someone is logged in

Of course you’ll need to make a note of this change, as it is lost whenever you upgrade bbpress versions

the advantage (and why I use it ) is it then only gives this line when someone is logged in

Solution 2 – the easier way

If you’re not keen to change code, the download the enhanced text widget

https://wordpress.org/plugins/enhanced-text-widget/

Then in your sidebar add the enhanced text widget, and put this code in content, check the “don’t display header” and click save

<p><a href="<?php bbp_user_profile_url( bbp_get_current_user_id() ); ?>edit" >Amend Profile/Change password</a></p>

Much easier to do, but displays whether someone is logged on or not.

[rscrouse]

Hi. I understood that I could post HTML formatted content into bbPress. But when I do, the formatting is ignored. Does someone know what I’m likely doing wrong?

[dotdatdot]

Hello everyone.

Is there a proper codex site anywhere with all the functions/hooks and all the good stuff properly documented anywhere? For example I found a function called bb_is_home(), and I wanted to know what EXACTLY that checked for, but after researching it, I couldn’t find a single real reference or documentation of it.

Am I missing something? Because the http://codex.bbpress.org/type/functions/ has only about 5 functions. Surely there is a list of functions somewhere?

Thanks

[Donta]

Stephen, I was able to convert from phpbb to bbpress and that was really smooth sailing, but now all my migrated usernames’ passwords don’t work. Ironically, for the earlier vbulletin conversion, the passwords were working fine but the threads and usernames were out of sync.

Now, the thread/posts/username relationship is fine, but all my passwords don’t work. I am not sure what the issue is. Hopefully you can direct me in the right direction to get this minor issue resolved.