[fontadoni]

I’ve been using bbpress for years, since the standalone version. I can’t help but to feel disappointed by the lack of support on the forums. A lot of people asking for help and not enough people helping. Why is this? I try to help out whenever I can, but my technical knowledge is limited.

I know there has been a lot of work involved by the bbpress people here to take bbpress to the next level and kudos for that, but we need more people giving support

[bigtreesjoe]

Why were all the users duplicated as imported_someusername? Did I do something wrong in the conversion template?
I did not see any mention of the creation of these artificial users in the documentation that exists for the import forums function, nor did the Repair Forums clean up the artificial users.
I had pruned my user database before conversion so fortunately I only had a little over 400 to go through. All of the imported_username type users had 0 posts so I was able to delete them a page at a time.
Hopefully everything will go smoothly from here on,
joe

[Soukous]

Wordpress 3.6.1
bbpress 2.0
site link – http://www.wildlifephotographyafrica.com/

I use the ‘Recent Topics’ widget.
There is an option you can tick to show the topic author. I have this option ticked but the author does not show.

[Stephen Edgar]

There is no codex page for bbPress conditionals at this stage but take a look at this and see if any bbp_is_ meet your requirements.

http://phpdoc.ftwr.co.uk/bbpress-plugin/

[Stephen Edgar]

Yes, have a look at each user to see which user the topic or reply is attributed to first.

The best way if you don’t have to many users is to delete each user individually in wp-admin user panel. This way when you delete the user can attribute all posts/topics/replies etc to another user, in this case you select the same username without the ‘imported_’ prefix.

Delete Users
You have specified this user for deletion:

ID #18521: imported_someusername

What should be done with posts owned by this user?

Delete all posts.
Attribute all posts to: someusername

[bigtreesjoe]

I just noticed that after doing the import from smf 1.1.8 (I made all the needed talble and field name changes, etc) that my user table now contains two versions of each imported user. One version looks right the other has a prefix of imported_ on both the usename and the email address.

Is it OK to clean out these odd ones?
thanks,
joe

[Stephen Edgar]

Done, uploaded a new version of Kunena2.php with the User DB Mappings fixed.

[Stephen Edgar]

This is a known issue on forum visibility, details are in ticket #2408 and a possible workaround is in this thread

[Stephen Edgar]

This is a known issue on forum visibility, details are in ticket #2408 and a possible workaround is in this thread

[Stephen Edgar]

Oh… So it is, I’ll upload a new version of Kunena2.php now with that fixed 🙂

[jbuesking]

Thanks for the reply.

I am using version 2.03 and your kunena2.php importer.

I’m tempted to upgrade to 3.0.1 and try your kunena3.php importer.

Thanks for your help!

[craigmedia]

Wordpress Version 3.6.1
bbpress Version 2.4

I’ve installed bbpress and really love the plugin. However I’m having issues with assigning roles to users.

I’ve created a user (Subscriber or Editor) and wanted to assign the bbpress role of Participant. When I assigned the user this role it doesn’t however appear in the dashboard. It only shows the profile and not the “Topics” & “Replies”.

I’ve disabled all plugins that are related such a “Members Plugin”, “Admin Editor” and “CMS Pods – component user roles”. I’ve had no luck of making these menu appear in either the Subscribe account or the editors account.

When I select moderate role, it works perfect, but the participant doesn’t work at all. Any ideas or Solution as to why this happens?

My Forum is public and set to open for the public viewing.

Any help would much be appreciated.

Thanks
Lonce

[Stephen Edgar]

This past weekend we spoke with John James Jacoby on our WordPress Weekly podcast. John is the lead developer for both the bbPress and BuddyPress plugins. We had the pleasure of chatting with him about his new job at 10up as well as everything that’s going on with bbPress and BuddyPress these days.

During our interview we asked John if he knew of any bbPress or BuddyCamp events in the works. He said that he didn’t know of any coming up but would love to see a bbPress camp organized, perhaps in a more central midwest location. The question is: Is there enough interest to warrant a bbPress event or perhaps combine it with a BuddyPress event?

Head on over and read the full post and vote in the poll 🙂

Is Anyone Interested In a bbPress Camp?

[Anonymous User 5853594]

I hope that because o2 turned into an plugin and not a new theme, the possibilities of combining the functions with bbPress should be possible.
Breathe works well and if other themes can be made to play nice with both plugins, I don’t see why it shouldn’t work.

I do think that bbPress can be a very valuable tool and won’t actually be replaced by comments altogether.
I hope that we’ll be able to test the plugin soon on our own installs. 🙂

[BuckyOHare]

Using the widget to logout works fine by the way, just not logging in.

[BuckyOHare]

I installed BBPress created a few forums, used the shortcode to display the forums and they work fine. I added the BBPress Login Widget to my site and when I try to login I’m re-directed to mysite.com/wp-login.php but with a completely blank screen and one single period mark in the top left corner. If I login through my default login page I’m able to login fine but the BBPress login widget has this problem. It does this with or without a username or password being entered in its forms when you press login.

It is not taking me to my 404 page, this is something different because it’s not actually taking me to mysite.com/wp-login.php either, even though that’s what the browser reads. It’s as though it is being interrupted mid process and then producing this blank screen with a single dot.

I disabled all plugins (excluding bbpress). Did not fix the problem.

Disabled my theme and activated default 2013 theme. Same problem.

I read on another post, five years old I think, that someone was having a similar issue where BBPress was putting a period before the www part of his site. Other information I read seemed to point to trouble with WP secrete keys in the php being ajar from BBPress php keys or config files, but I found no such files in my plugin folder, I guess those methods are outdated.

My site error logs are recording no issue directly regarding the plugin either. Anyone know what the deal is? Thanks.

[tina_sk]

WordPress 3.6.
bbPress 2.4.
http://www.cestaksebe.com/forum/?bbp_user=1

Hi guys,
i have problem with the links (Topics started, Replies created, Favorites, Subscribtion, Edit) in the user profile site – they are wrong or something else o:-) (my english is little bit bad) 😉
What can be the problem?
Thanks

[Denver Prophit Jr.]

WP + bbpress. Cannot display topic as the title of the page. http://pastebin.com/VGRGMtTA theme header.

[oligou]

Hello,

WP version : 3.6.1
bbpress : 2.4

Please, is there someone to clarify these :

I want to have a “new topic button” on top of each forum. I found some info here, I created a page with shortcode [bbp-topic-form].

And now ?

How can I have this link on the top of my forum ?
I’m not a develloper.

Thank you

[Stephen Edgar]

I haven’t tested this myself but there are a few themes out there that support WordPress, bbPress, BuddyPress & WooCommerce so I would think that a few people have this up and running pretty much out of the box.

Your main issue I would start looking into would be managing your users and user profiles.

A seriously quick search for ‘WordPress & bbPress’ revealed this:

http://docs.woothemes.com/document/product-support/

[Stephen Edgar]

I also saw watched this stream from WordCamp SF 2013 and it looks quite cool.

The features as you mention @sadr share some similar goals I agree. Some people say why run a forum at all these days, why not just a blog with comments and a good theme. I think the same approach should probably apply here for O2 also. What does O2 do for you that a WP blog or bbP forum does not and will it fit my needs better than the current solutions available.

I would also love to see these same features you mention available either in bbPress or as plugins, sadly my coding skills just aren’t there to contribute such awesomeness. 😉

That all said if O2 is a plugin for available in the WordPress plugins directory I would hope O2 has support for custom post types then why would it not work with bbPress? (hack, hack, hack, see slide 62 “Template compatibility is hard”)

And I’ll leave with this:

Getting bbPress working there would be a very different project from what we’re doing with o2.

http://johnjamesjacoby.wordpress.com/forums/topic/bbpress-support/ 😉

[jonpfarmer]

[jonpfarmer]

Hi there

I am importing a phpBB forum of 1180 posts / 179 topics. My browser has been displaying this now for over 11 hours:

Do I just sit and wait? Can I navigate away from this page? Or do I need to leave the browser as is?

Thanks
Jon

[Stephen Edgar]

In a short answer no, bbPress uses the ‘forum’, ‘topic’ and ‘reply’ slugs (or your alternate via bbPress settings) to tell WordPress that the content is from a custom post type ‘Forum’, ‘Topic’ or ‘Reply’.

[Stephen Edgar]

Sure is possible 🙂

Take a read of this to help you on your way https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/

Make a category (forum) called ‘Fruits’ and then make your sub forums ‘Apples’, ‘Oranges’ etc
Make another category (forum) called ‘Vegetables’ and sub forums ‘Potatoe’, ‘Carrots’ etc

Create a WordPress page for each of your categories ‘Fruits’ and ‘Vegetables’

Use the [bbp-single-forum id=$forum_id] bbPress shortcode on each of these pages with the forum_id of each category.