[davidapple]

I need some help. I am running a bbPress site and making a feature out of the bbPress search. I’ve noticed that it works great for text strings found in the title and body copy. However, it does not return topics that have the search query as topic tags.

I know that an attempt has been made at a very advanced search plugin, I don’t want this. I simply need the basic text search to include topic tags. Is there a simple PHP function that can do this?

Perhaps perform the normal search and then topic tag search and merge the results, removing duplicates?

I am aware that this has been discussed before but this specific solution has not been touched upon.

“Advanced” search options — where and what are they?

Search doesn’t use tags, nor headlines

[Stephen Edgar]

Make sure you have the correct fields for ALL of the values:

• Database Name: Name of the database with your old forum data
• Database User: User for your database connection
• Database Password: Password to access the database
• Table Prefix: (If converting from BuddyPress Forums, use “wp_bb_” or your custom prefix)

I am 99% sure that your issue is the last item above, you need to make sure you have the correct database prefix, you can open up phpMyAdmin from your webhost control panel.

If you are unsure of any of these contact your webhost to confirm them.

https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/
https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/vbulletin

[Stephen Edgar]

Try accessing example.com/forums instead

Also to get the forums on your front page of WordPress setup a custom page and add a shortcode:

https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/ https://codex.bbpress.org/widgets/

[Stephen Edgar]

Can you create a ‘new ticket’ in Trac and we will take a look 😉
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/

[akgt]

buddypress / bbpress seo help plz

I have a buddypress site ut for some reason buddypress give all pages the same title tags, even the bbpress pages, all posts and topics have the same titles

can anyone help with this

[kriskl]

there used to be the plugin to add this function, but it does not work in 2.2 bbpress anymore :((

it would be nice if the plugin was updated as this feature is very very useful

[MoniqueR]

On my website I use the shortcode [bbp-topic-form] for displaying the ‘new forum form’.

What I think is odd is that the dropdownlist has no “Please select forum” option. It just displays all of the forums with the first one selected. I know many users are not good readers (sorry 🙂 ) so, when they type the title and message they just hit the submit button and forget to select the correct forum, so many topics are put in the wrong forum. Can someone please help me how to add a ‘please select’ to the dropdown and make it required?

Regards,
Monique

I use BBpress 2.3.2. and WordPress3.6

[jimhedd]

Hello. I am testing out the bbpress forum for future use on my website. It is currently located at http://www.historicmysteries.com/forumss/forumm/administration/

I am using a Studiopress Genesis theme and downloaded the BBpress Genesis plugin and toolkit.

If you take a look at the link, the “freshness” text is located underneath and to the right of the text “forum”. Is this correct? It seems out of place.

Any assistance is appreciated

[DAllisonLee]

Hi there –

There’s something wonky going on between Editorial Calendar and bbPress. When I try to access the forums, topics, or replies on the backend, I’m redirected to the calendar.

When I deactivated the calendar, the forum menu disappeared (but the forum remained on the front end). SMH

Any advice for fixing this issue?

[Morgensonne]

Hi,

I have a problem with the bread crumbs in the bbPress forum.
There is only the Home link and the last location.

Example:
It should show:
Home > Forums > forum1 > Post1

When I am in forum1, only appears:
Home > forum1
When I am in Post1, only appears:
Home > Post1

I hope someone can help me, because I have no idea what I need to do to make the breadcrumbs function correctly.

Thank you for help!
Morgensonne

[KenTheriot]

I think – ironically – my posts are being sent straight to spam or pending, etc. here on the bbpress forum. I posted something here yesterday and have not seen it yet. My profile says I have no started topics.

How can this be fixed here? Also, how can I fix it on my own site? I’m using Gensis 2.0.

Thanks.

Ken

[bigboytony09]

Hi,

I’m currently trying to use the shortcodes:
[bbp-register]
[bbp-login]

For some reasons, these plugins don’t appear on the bbpress forum pages but works perfectly fine on any other page.

Am I missing something?

Thanks.

Tony

[Anonymous User 5853594]

You could create a page and call it “help”. Using the bbPress shortcodes you can show the forum index on that page.

You can change the slugs in the settings page (Settings>Forums). There you can change the base slug to “help”, so that all topics show up under /help instead of /forums.

Just make sure that you don’t get conflicts between your pages and the slugs.

[marksedgwick]

Bump!

I know this would create another DB call, but surely this option should be a no brainer for the users. this appears to be a un-popular issue for users..

is bbpress not listening or addressing this request?

[marksedgwick]

Bump!

I know this would create another DB call, but surely this option should be a no brainer for the users. this appears to be a un-popular issue for users..

is bbpress not listening or addressing this request?

[uksixthman]

Hi, I am hoping someone could help me.

I am using the bbpress plugin. I want the landing page for all my forums to be http://mysite.com/help

How do I change the forum address from http://mysite.com/forum to /help??

Thank you

[cookney]

hi

i have read a few threads on this and there is no answer that works for me

i need to change the title tags of the BBpress groups i have on – 30 Day Fitness Community

At the moment they just say – “Groups – 30 Day Fitness Challenges” –

and i need them to say the name of the group for example – “30 Day Squat Challenge – 30 Day Fitness Community”

if anyone can fix this be very grateful 😀

[Morgensonne]

Hallo,

I’ve just installed bbPress.
In my WordPress a warning appears:

Load Behavior: The author used load_textdomain instead of load_plugin_textdomain function. This may change the behavior of WordPress, because some filters and actions now no longer be executed. Please contact therefore the author.

What does the author say?

Morgensonne

[wdele]

Hello,

I am currently using bbPress for my forum. However, there is one thing I can’t get to work.

I am trying to have a different page for creating a topic. I have the page (/create-topic), but I can’t get to remove the ‘Create topic’ ‘widget’ below a forum.

So… I want a page for creating a topic, and remove the ‘widget’ below every forum.

Whatever I try, I can’t get it to work. I’ve looked everywhere, please help!

Thanks in advance!
W.D. Edwards

[NeilJ]

Yeah I am looking at how to import them myself. I was trying the following just to even get the categories into the database but it does nothing:

$this->field_map[] = array(
	'from_tablename'  => 'categories',
	'from_fieldname'  => 'id_cat',
	'to_type'         => 'category',
	'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_forum_type'
);

Not that the forum I am importing has a lot of categories but it would be nice if we could import these as well.

[dice2dice]

Thanks Stephen, I will try there.

[Stephen Edgar]

I’m not familiar enough with the way BuddyPress works its ‘members’.

Jump over to http://buddypress.org and see if they can give you some pointers.

[dice2dice]

Stephen thank you for your reply.

I seem to have done this already today, though not intentionally, I have been working on resolving this for the past 6 hours.

The image below confirms that I now have 91 participants. But if you click on my ‘Members’ on my home page it states there are now 20 members (link here http://www.whichinvestmenttrust.com/members/ ).

I believe ‘Members’ comes from Buddypress and not from BBPress so I’ve been wondering if there is a disconnect there? Maybe I haven’t set it up properly.

I’ve looked through a lot of forums and posts both on BBpress, WordPress and several other websites bit I’ve not seen anyone else posting this issue.

Thanks, Dice

[Stephen Edgar]

Categories are not converted yet, I need to come up with some uber SQL statement to get these imported, I just took a quick look and drew a blank 😉

The rest of the forum hierarchy is fully imported though so you can just recreate the categories and then assign the remaining forums to these categories (typically not there are not many categories on forums so it should be a quick and easy workaround.

[Stephen Edgar]

Open up your WordPress users admin eg. http://www.whichinvestmenttrust.com/wp-admin/users.php

I presume this is because your existing WordPress users before you installed bbPress do not have a ‘forum role’, set these users as ‘Participants’ and I think you will be good to go.

There is some more detailed role info here:
https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-user-roles-and-capabilities/