[Kaliceos]

Hi,

I’m in the process of migrating a phpBB forum to WordPress with bbPress. I don’t know if the bbPress style is better but my users are used to the phpBB style for displaying Forums on the main page. So I tried to reproduce that layout in bbPress using categories. With the default theme, I was not happy with the way it looked. After a quick search in these forums, I saw some interesting topics from @lynq (here and there) but it didn’t work as intended in the last bbpress release and ticket #1958 has been moved to 2.6.

So after a few hours of searching codex, and a lot of tries, I managed to do what I wanted. As there is still some demand in Lynq’s topic, I thought I should share my little work.

I’m not a developper, so my code may be a little messy, but it works as intended. I’ve tried using the bbpress functions, and commented my code. If any PHP expert would like to review it and make it better, any feedback is welcome.

The only file to change is loop-forums.php with this code.
You just need to create it and paste the code. Then upload it to /wp-content/your-theme/bbpress/. Use a child-theme if you don’t want to loose it on next theme update.

The forums are not yet online, so here are some screenshots with descriptions. (In French, because, as you may have noticed, English is not my native language 🙂 )

I’ve tested many situations (even a category inside a forum, which bbpress doesn’t consider anymore as a category, probably normal behavior) and I think everything works as intended. Feel free to report any bug.

[Squirrel]

Hi there

Does anyone know if BBPress has conditionals like BuddyPress does such as in the following link: buddypress conditionals?

I am trying to find a condition for if you are on the forum index and the users forum list when on a profile. I can’t seem to find anything that works so if anyone knows that would be great.

Thanks

[FreeWPress]

Bbpress have this function: bbp_user_post_count();

But it not work in reply loop, i have used:
bbp_user_post_count($user_id);
bbp_get_user_post_count($user_id);
bbp_user_reply_count($user_id);
bbp_get_user_reply_count();

Nothing work in reply loop…

Whyyyy??? What is the problem? Why do not showww??

I have also copy and paste this:

<p class=”bbp-user-reply-count”><?php printf( __( ‘Replies Created: %s’, ‘bbpress’ ), bbp_get_user_reply_count_raw() ); ?></p>

But it don’t show anything, show only: ” Replies Created ” and empty after…

HEEEEELPPP………….

[ovizii]

Thanks 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

Ahhh… Yes… That would make sense, probably a dedicated ‘User CSV Import’ plugin eg. https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=csv+user plugin that matches your requirements.

You shouldn’t have to assign passwords, users can do this themselves later.

Once you have your users you will want to update your topic.csv & reply.csv files with the new user ID’s.

[Jared Atchison]

Did you try repairing the roles via “Tools” -> “Forums” -> “Remap existing users to default forum roles”?

That usually works and is a fix that sticks.

[acekin]

That shortcut access to the missing Forums components did not work. I had do disable and enable bbPress to bring back the forums dashboard block. I hope there is a permanant fix for this soon. I am using Genesis-Platinum child theme.

[kandrite]

Hello!

I can’t seem to find any answers via Google, so maybe you fine folks could help me. I just started delving into bbpress themeing. I’m basically skeletonizing the default bbpress theme so I can start working in depth with it.

The way I have my forums structured is in three category forums, with variable amounts of subforums. The default theme uses bbp_list_forums to return an unordered list of all subforums of a category. I’ve been messing with the arguments and made each list item separated in its own div. My problem with that is only the text inside the div links to the forum, whereas I would like the entire div to be the link.

My arguments look like so:

		<?php bbp_list_forums( array(
			'before'              => '<ul class="bbp-forums-list">',
        	'after'               => '</ul>',
        	'link_before'         => '<li class="bbp-forum"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><div class="forum-list-item">',
        	'link_after'          => '</div></a></li>',
			'count_before'        => '<div class="forum-list-item-count"><span class="forum-list-item-topics">Topics: </span>',
        	'count_after'         => '',
        	'count_sep'           => '<br><span class="forum-list-item-replies">Replies: </span>',
        	'separator'           => '<br>',
        	'forum_id'            => '',
        	'show_topic_count'    => true,
        	'show_reply_count'    => true,
		)); ?>

Any way I can get the permalinks to the individual subforums?

[bigtreesjoe]

I had basically finished writing a converter template for smf 1.1.8 when I came across your post and your script. Good news is it looks like I got pretty close.

I would like to understand better what the authenticate_pass function is supposed to do. If it is just supposed to return true if the current user’s password matches the old smf hashed password then it seems that I should be able to use a function similar to ssi_checkPassword that was included in the SMF ssi.php script, assuming that the sha1 function is available.

Is there something more complicated that I am missing?

I realize that due to SMF licensing issues I would not be able to distribute the code I write for myself based on the ssi.php code.

[matrixd]

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

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

Your answer is here

[acekin]

If a momentary outage of the forum is acceptable, disabling and then enabling bbPress also seems to fix the problem. I have also created a shortcut to each of the submenu items under Forums/Topic/Replies block. Next time I have this outage, I will try the direct shortcuts and see if that may be a workaround.

I am curious, does the solution “Remap existing users to default forum roles” change any of the users’ roles to “default” from whatever they might be set at?

[jralston]

I feel like I am missing something very basic here… why are breadcrumbs not showing at all? I used a custom template for the main bbpress page. I’ve added in <?php bbp_breadcrumb(); ?> into that custom template – nothing changed and no breadcrumbs appearing. Help? What am I missing here?

[jakejules]

When bbPress is deactivated the Page Titles in my chrome browser tabs show fine. When bbPress is activated the page titles disappear (for the entire site, not just forum pages).
I have tried re-saving my permalinks, but no change.

you can see here — http://employment.ssiparked.com/wp/job-seekers/

[sciman@cpp.edu]

One other question, Stephen. As I think through this, don’t I also somehow need to be concerned about getting my authors and perhaps their email addresses registered as members of the site or something? I’d imagine that that would need to be done first. Interestingly, as I look at the file data I have, the identified “author” sometimes has taken new names, and of course email addresses probably require updating. Do I need to assign passwords or something? I hope not, though I expect this depends on how I will choose to configure or reconfigure permissions for posting at the website? Again, thanks a million for any help.

[sciman@cpp.edu]

Thanks so very very much, Stephen. I hope that others in the future can find this very helpful guidance for custom importing since it’s so much clearer than the advice I’d seen elsewhere. I will give it a go and post any observations I may have from the experience.

[Zack Tollman]

Hi there!

I just updated to bbPress 2.4 and experienced the same problem. All titles not on bbPress pages were rendered as blank titles.

It seems bbPress 2.4 introduced a new function that filters the wp_title function. As a temporary workaround that does not required bbPress plugin file changes, I have added the following to my theme’s functions.php:

/**
 * Restore non bbPress page titles.
 *
 * v2.4 of bbPress introduced a bug where titles for all non-bbPress pages were blank. This function restores order
 * without overwriting the bbPress core files. It uses the exact same function as bbPress for the titles with one
 * change: if none of the bbPress queries match, it returns the original title.
 *
 * The function first removes the bbPress filter that performs this action, then uses it's own routine to determine the
 * title.
 *
 * @param  string    $title          Optional. The title (not used).
 * @param  string    $sep            Optional, default is '»'. How to separate the various items within the page title.
 * @param  string    $seplocation    Optional. Direction to display title, 'right'.
 * @return string                    Modified title.
 */
function my_prefix_bbp_title( $title, $sep, $seplocation ) {
	// Get rid of the core "bbp_title" filter callback
	remove_filter( 'wp_title', 'bbp_title', 10, 3 );

	// Store original title to compare
	$_title = $title;

	// Title array
	$title = array();

	/** Archives **************************************************************/

	// Forum Archive
	if ( bbp_is_forum_archive() ) {
		$title['text'] = bbp_get_forum_archive_title();

	// Topic Archive
	} elseif ( bbp_is_topic_archive() ) {
		$title['text'] = bbp_get_topic_archive_title();

	/** Edit ******************************************************************/

	// Forum edit page
	} elseif ( bbp_is_forum_edit() ) {
		$title['text']   = bbp_get_forum_title();
		$title['format'] = esc_attr__( 'Forum Edit: %s', 'bbpress' );

	// Topic edit page
	} elseif ( bbp_is_topic_edit() ) {
		$title['text']   = bbp_get_topic_title();
		$title['format'] = esc_attr__( 'Topic Edit: %s', 'bbpress' );

	// Reply edit page
	} elseif ( bbp_is_reply_edit() ) {
		$title['text']   = bbp_get_reply_title();
		$title['format'] = esc_attr__( 'Reply Edit: %s', 'bbpress' );

	// Topic tag edit page
	} elseif ( bbp_is_topic_tag_edit() ) {
		$title['text']   = bbp_get_topic_tag_name();
		$title['format'] = esc_attr__( 'Topic Tag Edit: %s', 'bbpress' );

	/** Singles ***************************************************************/

	// Forum page
	} elseif ( bbp_is_single_forum() ) {
		$title['text']   = bbp_get_forum_title();
		$title['format'] = esc_attr__( 'Forum: %s', 'bbpress' );

	// Topic page
	} elseif ( bbp_is_single_topic() ) {
		$title['text']   = bbp_get_topic_title();
		$title['format'] = esc_attr__( 'Topic: %s', 'bbpress' );

	// Replies
	} elseif ( bbp_is_single_reply() ) {
		$title['text']   = bbp_get_reply_title();

	// Topic tag page
	} elseif ( bbp_is_topic_tag() || get_query_var( 'bbp_topic_tag' ) ) {
		$title['text']   = bbp_get_topic_tag_name();
		$title['format'] = esc_attr__( 'Topic Tag: %s', 'bbpress' );

	/** Users *****************************************************************/

	// Profile page
	} elseif ( bbp_is_single_user() ) {

		// Current users profile
		if ( bbp_is_user_home() ) {
			$title['text'] = esc_attr__( 'Your Profile', 'bbpress' );

		// Other users profile
		} else {
			$title['text']   = get_userdata( bbp_get_user_id() )->display_name;
			$title['format'] = esc_attr__( "%s's Profile", 'bbpress' );
		}

	// Profile edit page
	} elseif ( bbp_is_single_user_edit() ) {

		// Current users profile
		if ( bbp_is_user_home_edit() ) {
			$title['text']   = esc_attr__( 'Edit Your Profile', 'bbpress' );

		// Other users profile
		} else {
			$title['text']   = get_userdata( bbp_get_user_id() )->display_name;
			$title['format'] = esc_attr__( "Edit %s's Profile", 'bbpress' );
		}

	/** Views *****************************************************************/

	// Views
	} elseif ( bbp_is_single_view() ) {
		$title['text']   = bbp_get_view_title();
		$title['format'] = esc_attr__( 'View: %s', 'bbpress' );

	/** Search ****************************************************************/

	// Search
	} elseif ( bbp_is_search() ) {
		$title['text'] = bbp_get_search_title();
	} else {
		return $_title;
	}

	// This filter is deprecated. Use 'bbp_before_title_parse_args' instead.
	$title = apply_filters( 'bbp_raw_title_array', $title );

	// Set title array defaults
	$title = bbp_parse_args( $title, array(
		'text'   => '',
		'format' => '%s'
	), 'title' );

	// Get the formatted raw title
	$title = sprintf( $title['format'], $title['text'] );

	// Filter the raw title
	$title = apply_filters( 'bbp_raw_title', $title, $sep, $seplocation );

	// Compare new title with original title
	if ( $title === $_title )
		return $title;

	// Temporary separator, for accurate flipping, if necessary
	$t_sep  = '%WP_TITILE_SEP%';
	$prefix = '';

	if ( !empty( $title ) )
		$prefix = " $sep ";

	// sep on right, so reverse the order
	if ( 'right' === $seplocation ) {
		$title_array = array_reverse( explode( $t_sep, $title ) );
		$title       = implode( " $sep ", $title_array ) . $prefix;

	// sep on left, do not reverse
	} else {
		$title_array = explode( $t_sep, $title );
		$title       = $prefix . implode( " $sep ", $title_array );
	}

	// Filter and return
	return apply_filters( 'bbp_title', $title, $sep, $seplocation );
}

add_filter( 'wp_title', 'my_prefix_bbp_title', 9, 3 );

[Sven]

Update: When I switch the editor in the WordPress backend, it will shown in the bbPress frontend, too. But when I switch from visual to text and back, then again the above error is shown and I have to switch back in the backend.

[leanderbraunschweig]

Already did (re-)save the permalinks settings (see original post). Did it again right now just to make sure & still the same problem…

What to do? Which file / script / logic could be responsible?

When issuing a search-query, this is the “real” URL, which gets called first (before rewriting):
/search?action=bbp-search-request&bbp_search=my-query << No problems here, right?

FYI: I deactivated all the other plugins – no effect, the error persists.

[ovizii]

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

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

check it out live here: die-kellerkinder.eu

my widget settings:
http://screencast.com/t/wJIMj9WQR
http://screencast.com/t/emLrUiJIF

[FreeWPress]

I all, is possible to have a function to bypass bbp_get_caps_for_role with one custom?

I want to get false this two option for participant:

// Forum caps
‘read_private_forums’ => true,

// Topic tag caps
‘assign_topic_tags’ => true,

In this moment i have update file capabilities.php but when bbpress have upgrade to new version i sure lost this modify…

P.s. Why this options aren’t present in administration forum panel?

How to do? Thanks….

[Sven]

Hi,

I have the same problem. When I click on the Visual Tab, following error will shown:

TypeError: d is undefined …/wp-includes/js/quicktags.min.js?ver=3.6 Line 1

I’m using Wodpress 3.6 and the latest bbPress. What can I do?

[ManuZorch]

Hi
I have faced an issue that maybe some people have encountered and for which I did not find much info on the net.

Basically the problem was that the bbpress default template that I embedded in my WP template was rendered with supplementary line breaks (<br> and <p> tags). Just as if the wpautop function was reapplied on the forum content included in the template.

I noticed that the problem was existing on Linux if the template files had an Unix EOL : LF
And also existing on Windows (using WAMP) if those same files had a Windows EOL : CR+LF
I found a workaround by making the template files have a Mac End Of Line with : CR

But I am not sure this is a clean solution
Maybe there is something far more simple that I do not know

Thanks

I am using the latest 2.4 bbpress version

[Stephen Edgar]

Firstly, thanks for looking further into this, it gave me enough info to run a quick test import.

bbPress uses WordPress tables and doesn’t create any of its own and not having answers to something you don’t know doesn’t make anyone dumb. 😉

Ok…. Here we go….

I installed this plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-ultimate-csv-importer/

I realised the csv file had to be split into 3, one for the forum, one for topics and one for replies. Here is a copy of the 3 CSV files I used https://gist.github.com/ntwb/6532360

Next jump into WP Admin and and open up the WP CSV Tool and select ‘Custom Post’ to import from and select your forum.csv file to upload and click import.

Set the options and field mappings as per this:

Import Data Configuration

Select Post Type = forum
Import with post status = publish
post_author = post_author
post_date = post_date
post_content = post_content
post_title = post_title

And click import.

Topics is up next and you will notice that it includes the field ‘post_parent’ so this is the forum ID that the topic will be imported into. As we do not know the forum ID you will need to open up the bbPress forums panel in wp-admin. Select the forum you want the topics to be imported and this will take you into the forum edit section, look at the URL in your browser and it should be similar to /wp-admin/post.php?post=348830&action=edit what we want here is the ‘348830’ as that will be the parent forum for each topic imported. Update your topic.csv file with this number as per my sample linked above.

Back to the CSV importer to import your topics.csv

Set the options and field mappings as per this:

Import Data Configuration

Select Post Type = topic
Import with post status = publish
post_author = post_author
post_date = post_date
post_content = post_content
post_title = post_title
post_parent = post_parent

The replies section is basically the same as the topics section, you need to get the ID orf each topic ID for each reply and update your reply.csv file for each entry.

Lastly run each of the ‘Recalculate’ and ‘Count’ bbPress ‘Repair Tools’ from wp-admin-> Tools- Forums -> Repair Forums (more info here https://codex.bbpress.org/repair-forums/)

And I think that’s it, there is a bit of juggling your data around, give it a bash and let me know how it works out for you and here’s the result 🙂

[RitaNow]

I want to build a page that is a single forum using bbPress. When a topic is created it will stay in that Main Forum. A drop down displaying other Forums is available for that topic to be also in. The other forums are on the same site. The forums will be on the menu bar so the user can choose which forum to visit.

When a member is viewing a specific forum, a new topic can be created which will automatically be both in that forum and the Main forum.

How do I create this?

[John James Jacoby]

The reason it doesn’t exist is because the audience for this is relatively small compared to users asking for other things. Right now, I see 3 people that need this. That’s not saying it’s trivial, but it’s non-urgent.

The actual clean-up of this is not super straight forward, unfortunately. There is an uninstall script located in Tools > Forums that will permanently purge most data, but it doesn’t remove user roles yet.

Open a feature request at http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org, and we’ll put in a milestone and work towards getting it in.