[CC-Cailin]

I am integrating bbpress files into my own wordpress theme. But, I don’t get why there is so many loop files?

“content-archive-forum.php” links to “loop-forums.php”, and inside that, it links to “single-forum.php”.
Why on earth is there one loop linked to another, and then another, and then another? It sees confusing to me…

Can’t I just leave out files like “loop-forums.php” and add that code directly in “content-archive-forum.php and do the same with the other files? Or is it necessary to keep them broken up?

[harpeml]

Hi Again, I looked at the plug-ins and it seemed that WP Ultimate CSV Importer would do the job. I tried importing one of their example CSV files. It lets me choose the post type “forum” although I see no way to provide a forum title. It appeared to work with no errors. However, looks like it took each post entry and created a new Forum with it. I see no way to have the posts come in as topics under an existing or new Forum. Is there a way to change this once the import is done?

Sorry I am not a PHP person and not familiar with the inner workings of WordPress.

[dan]

@bbpress staff or @moderators

Please review dbungard’s suggestions above and say something, so that ordinary users can feel confident to make use of it.

Thank you.

[dan]

Thanx.

I just found this.https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/edit-default-forum-page/

[akasocrates]

Hi Daniel,

Actually, I didn’t. In fact, after I installed bbPress, I got hacked and my site went down. In an effort to get to the root cause, I uninstalled bbPress. My host doesn’t think it’s related to bbPress though.

Either way, I’m stabilizing things before I install bbPress. Moreover, I’m probably going to move to a host that specializes in WordPress security/optimization etc…like WPEngine or Synthesis.

Hope this helps.

[sciman@cpp.edu]

This is terrific, though I suppose that I have to learn somehow the field names to be mapping my fields to. I’ve not actually installed the bbPress plug-in as yet. Does it work with the regular WP database, so that I import the ‘custom post type’ to a WP install, or does it get imported to bbPress itself. Boy am I dumb;-) But thanks Stephen — your responsiveness if super encouraging.

[David Donnelly]

I ran a search and didn’t find an answer to this. If there is one please point me to the right post.

Behavior problem with Title Tags

Site is multi-site 3.6, buddy press 1.81, bbpress 2.4. All other themes and plugis current. Problem on the main site only. Sub-domains not effected.

I found the title tags aren’t showing up correctly. On all pages other then BP pages and home page only the site name shows up as title in the browser. I can see that the page name/site Page | site name is trying to show but loops back to just the site name without the page or pipe.

I change the theme to 2012 and I still had the same problem.

I’ve tested in Chrome, Firefox and IE all behave the same.

I cleared, cache, temp internet history and file throughout the process of finding what’s wrong.

I deactivated all plugins and Title tags returned to normal tag behavior. I activated the plugins 1 by one and discovered that BBPress is causing the problem with the title tags. I deactivate all plugins again and activated only bbpress and sure enough it’s the problem. Right now I have BBPress deactivated.

Please help me through this issue.

[Stephen Edgar]

Cool 🙂 Once you have tried them let me which one worked for you. If none work we will then look at forking one of them and writing a custom version for bbPress. If that doesn’t work we can come up with a custom CSV format to import directly into MySQL and then write an extension for the bbPress importer. In the end there will be a way. 🙂

[harpeml]

Thank you for all the guidance Stephen. I appreciate the help.

[ovizii]

btw. did anyone else notice that the latest bbpress killed the display of the date of the latest post/reply?

Its simply not showing anymore even though I checked the box in the widget settings.

[leanderbraunschweig]

Sorry…

WP 3.6
bbPress 2.4
Theme “Optimize Press”
URL –> Behind a paywall (membership site), so posting it won’t help…

[leanderbraunschweig]

Hi there!

Just yesterday I went ahead and updated our bbPress to 2.4 and missed out on validating the search functionality – which actually broke!

Right now I get a 404 when using the search functionality. It somehow cannot handle the new pretty URLs introduced with 2.4.

Instead of
http://bbpress.org/forums/search/my-query/

I get
http://mydomain.info/searchmy-query

I already tried:

– Disabling affiliated bbPress-plugins (got one German string replacement active)
– Saving the Permalinks again
– Checking .htaccess for any possible Rewrite-Rules which might conflict

None of those worked.

Any hints on how to tackle the error? It obviously was introduced with 2.4 and I couldn’t even say where to look first after checking up upon the obvious…

I got a bbpress.php in place at /wp-content/themes/my-theme/ in order to wrap bbPress in style but even there I double checked the code and essentially there is nothing possibly conflicting (at least from what I see).

Looking forward to you guys helping out.
Thanks & Regards!

[SysFailure0x5a]

Ok, here is what fixed it. You mentioned the keymaster role, but the admin was already the keymaster. I changed their role to moderator and presto. They can now manage the plugin. I changed it back to keymaster and everything is still good. This worked before the upgrade to bbpress 2.4… Something must have gone weird during the upgrade.

[Michael Eisenwasser]

Cool. I was guessing it may have been a PHP version.

[fskrdla]

Solved. I noticed issues with other plugins and I had to deactivate several and then reactivate, etc. to get some of them to activate. So I realized that it was something beyond bbPress and BuddyPress.

I think it was due to my php settings with my host. I changed it using PHP Config in my cpanel to the current version, and everything works fine. It was set to PHP 5.2 (Single php.ini), and changing to PHP 5.4 (Single php.ini) has fixed the problem.

Feel free to delete this topic. I can’t find the option to delete.

Thank you!

[Xevo]

You’d have to edit the standard bbPress loop to put preference in an upvoted/marked answer above the rest. Seeing how it’s a custom post type it’s quite easy to do.

[Xevo]

bbPress 1.x is no longer supported. I suggest removing that forum and adding the bbPress 2.x plugin to your website.

[Xevo]

You can remove the box in a custom bbpress theme. However your users wont see it, so it doesn’t really matter.

Anyway, did you guys update to 2.4 yet?

[Stephen Edgar]

I’d highly suggest you take a look at some of these CSV importers that support ‘Custom Post Types’, I have had a quick look at a couple of them the other day and I am quite sure they will work fine to import into bbPress.

It is just a matter of finding the one that suits you and your CSV data.

[Michael Eisenwasser]

I would suggest posting the exact error message here. It will help people to figure out what the issue is.

[ksarai]

Hi,

I’m new to bbpress, and am in the process of moving my old small forum (85 posts) to bbpress.

My old forum was developed 3 years ago by a custom web developer who is no longer doing any web work.

I’ve manually copied over the 85 posts but I need to change the author and date to match the original author and date.

I did a search on bbpress.org and found a link to an old plugin “edit-post-attributes” located here:

Legacy Plugins (bbPress 0.9 – 1.1)

Is it safe to use this really old plugin? Is there a newer plugin that will do the trick?

Do I need a plugin at all? Is there a way to make these changes from the dashboard somewhere?

thanks,
Kanwal

[Xevo]

Last update was 7 months ago, so no.

[akgt]

Has this been updated for 2.3 or 2.4??

[barrybgelston]

Has anyone added a dropdown box to modify the topic title.

On my site: http://www.kidzlaunch.com/ ‘‘

WP version 3.6, and bbpress plugin 2.4

I want to have different types of topics within each forum. For example, I would like to have a topic title start with [Lesson] or [Question].

For example
[Question] How to add a topic title prefix

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

Barry

[Xevo]

You can just use the wordpress function in the widget.

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