[peter-hamilton]

Hi all, I have been playing on and off with WordPress, BBPress and Buddypress, mostly to build my own company website.

I have almost completed my quest to make BBpress as functional and user friendly as any other major, paid for, forum software offers, and I think I have even improved to my own preference and proven that BBpress is capable to be better then any commercial package.

Please review my website, I have a demo account as you need to be logged in for all the plugins and hacks to be visible.

I have added quite a few plugins and function snippets, I do not know how to code php or javascript, just basic html and css for the rest I cut and paste until it works, although I do understand what I am looking at with php after 4 years of cut-and-paste…lol

http://www.seedism.nl

username: demo
passowrd: demo2017

Just to let you know, I breed hybrid strains of medicinal Cannabis so you will find this content on my website!!

[AdventureRidingNZ]

I know this is a topic dredge but would the same code work for excluding particular forums from search results?

[AdventureRidingNZ]

@adjunkten Did you find a fix for this? I am using the same code snippets to extend my search results but now want to exclude/hide some private group forums.

[Robin W]

Start with

1. You should be aware that many spam filters strip messages that do not come from the correct address. So if your site is mysite.com and your email address in wordpress settings/general is fred@gmail.comthen it is likely that messages will be dumped in transit. You need to set up email to come from your site eg fred@mysite.com, your hosting provider can help if needed.
2. Just bbpress?
Then you need to see if this is wordpress wide or just bbpress.
Try https://wordpress.org/plugins/check-email/
3. Some people have fixed it with this plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/asyncronous-bbpress-subscriptions/

[ahau]

Hi,

After a day of using the example.php to create a custom import form I finally tried to run it and all I get is Staring Conversion with the little spinner next to it and nothing else happens.

I have stopped it and then chosen another converter just to see what it does and it does run past there telling me No fourms to convert etc …

For curiousity I ran a different conversion and used the wrong username and it did tell me it couldn’t connect. I also did that again using the wrong database and it said it couldn’t connect tot he database. So I am guessing that this starting conversion, spinner, nothing (even after leaving it for 1/2 hour and I do not have a large forum to convert) must be an error after there is a database connection and before the main code runs.

Here is basically what I have done

Renamed example.php to Originalforum.php

Changed Line 4 to * Originalforum converter base impoprter template for bbPress

Changed line 9 to class Originalforum extends BBP_Converter_Base {

Went through line by line and changed as needed, making sure that the case in the tables was the same in the file.

Used example.php, mingle.php and vanilla.php to check each line. For example I used the vanilla.php dates code as the one I am doing has the same format as needed and the mingle.php to add in the bottom the public function callback_topic_status code.

If anyone can point me in the right direction to get past the starting conversion – spinner – nothing else that would be most appreciated. I know once I am past that if there are sql / code errors I will be able to fix those – I just need to be able to get to that stage!

Thank you for your time.

[Robin W]

brilliant – thanks so much for posting the solution, and yes it looks like if you partner with a page and have multiple shortcodes then you may need to choose what the forum root should show.

[Jason]

I found this topic from 3 years ago, which helped me:

Pagination broken when using shortcode for topic index

It suggested changing the Forum setting “Forum root should show” to “Topics by Freshness.” I had it set to “Forum Index.” With this setting changed, my pagination works.

Not sure why this setting would break pagination in bbpress topics index shortcode, but at least it works now.

[Justin]

I tried 2.6Rc3 and it did more, but still getting the same error along with a lot of others:

Import Finished
17: No threaded replies to import
16: No anonymous reply authors to import
WordPress database error: [Table 'db507177147.Comment' doesn't exist]
SELECT convert(Comment.CommentID USING "utf8mb4") AS CommentID,convert(Comment.DiscussionID USING "utf8mb4") AS DiscussionID,convert(Comment.InsertIPAddress USING "utf8mb4") AS InsertIPAddress,convert(Comment.InsertUserID USING "utf8mb4") AS InsertUserID,convert(Comment.Body USING "utf8mb4") AS Body,convert(Comment.DateInserted USING "utf8mb4") AS DateInserted,convert(Comment.DateUpdated USING "utf8mb4") AS DateUpdated FROM Comment AS Comment WHERE Format != "Deleted" LIMIT 0, 100
15: No replies to import
14: No favorites to import
13: No topic subscriptions to import
WordPress database error: [Table 'db507177147.TagDiscussion' doesn't exist]
SELECT convert(TagDiscussion.DiscussionID USING "utf8mb4") AS DiscussionID,convert(TagDiscussion.TagID USING "utf8mb4") AS TagID,convert(Tag.Name USING "utf8mb4") AS Name FROM TagDiscussion AS TagDiscussion INNER JOIN Tag AS Tag USING (tagid) LIMIT 0, 100
12: No topic tags to import
11: No closed topics to close
Continuing Import
Import Stopped (by User)
10: No super stickies to stick
9: No stickies to stick
8: No anonymous topic authors to import
WordPress database error: [Table 'db507177147.Discussion' doesn't exist]
SELECT convert(Discussion.DiscussionID USING "utf8mb4") AS DiscussionID,convert(Discussion.CountComments USING "utf8mb4") AS CountComments,convert(Discussion.CategoryID USING "utf8mb4") AS CategoryID,convert(Discussion.InsertUserID USING "utf8mb4") AS InsertUserID,convert(Discussion.Name USING "utf8mb4") AS Name,convert(Discussion.Body USING "utf8mb4") AS Body,convert(Discussion.closed USING "utf8mb4") AS closed,convert(Discussion.InsertIPAddress USING "utf8mb4") AS InsertIPAddress,convert(Discussion.Announce USING "utf8mb4") AS Announce,convert(Discussion.DateInserted USING "utf8mb4") AS DateInserted,convert(Discussion.DateUpdated USING "utf8mb4") AS DateUpdated,convert(Discussion.DateLastComment USING "utf8mb4") AS DateLastComment FROM Discussion AS Discussion WHERE Format != "Deleted" LIMIT 0, 100
7: No topics to import
6: No forum subscriptions to import
5: No forum parents to import
WordPress database error: [Table 'db507177147.Category' doesn't exist]
SELECT convert(Category.CategoryID USING "utf8mb4") AS CategoryID,convert(Category.ParentCategoryID USING "utf8mb4") AS ParentCategoryID,convert(Category.CountDiscussions USING "utf8mb4") AS CountDiscussions,convert(Category.CountComments USING "utf8mb4") AS CountComments,convert(Category.Name USING "utf8mb4") AS Name,convert(Category.Description USING "utf8mb4") AS Description,convert(Category.Sort USING "utf8mb4") AS Sort,convert(Category.DateInserted USING "utf8mb4") AS DateInserted,convert(Category.DateUpdated USING "utf8mb4") AS DateUpdated FROM Category AS Category WHERE Category.CategoryID > 0 LIMIT 0, 100
4: No forums to import
3: No passwords to clear
WordPress database error: [Table 'db507177147.User' doesn't exist]
SELECT convert(User.UserID USING "utf8mb4") AS UserID,convert(User.Password USING "utf8mb4") AS Password,convert(User.Name USING "utf8mb4") AS Name,convert(User.Email USING "utf8mb4") AS Email,convert(User.DateInserted USING "utf8mb4") AS DateInserted FROM User AS User WHERE Deleted !=1 LIMIT 0, 100
2: No users to import
1: Skipping sync-table clean-up
WordPress database error: [Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes]
CREATE TABLE GcuHRqrGbbp_converter_translator ( meta_id mediumint(8) unsigned not null auto_increment, value_type varchar(25) null, value_id bigint(20) unsigned not null default '0', meta_key varchar(191) null, meta_value varchar(191) null, PRIMARY KEY (meta_id), KEY value_id (value_id), KEY meta_join (meta_key(191), meta_value(191)) ) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci
Starting Import
Ready to go.

Any suggestions? Is my database not allowing writes? I am using 1and1 as my web and database host.

[ahau]

Hi,

I am moving an old site to WP and bbPress and need to convert my old forums. I understand I need to use the example.php in the converter folder and write a converter for each old forum – there are 3 I am gong to convert.

And wouldn’t you know it, the 3 different forums use 3 different date formats!

Here they are
1415922411
2004-09-13 19:25:59
20080407181855

From looking around in all of the converter files I see that forum dates are done 2 ways

In example converter – I am guessing that I would use this format to convert the date like 20080407181855 ?

// Forum dates.
$this->field_map[] = array(
'to_type' => 'forum',
'to_fieldname' => 'post_date',
'default' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s')
);


In vanilla converter – I am guessing I would use this format to convert the date like 2004-09-13 19:25:59 ?

// Forum dates.
$this->field_map[] = array(
'from_tablename' => 'Category',
'from_fieldname' => 'DateInserted',
'to_type' => 'forum',
'to_fieldname' => 'post_date',
);


Anyone know how I can convert a date such as 1415922411 to the correct date format – which I am guessing is Y-m-d H:i:s?

Thank you for your time.

[Robin W]

ok, I’ve got the login information and looked at the issue.

On my test site, I can replicate a page with

[bbp-topic-index]
[bbp-forum-index]
[bbp-topic-form]

and have no problem in pagination. page 2 comes up as

http://mysite.com/forums/page/2/

This is with a twentyseventen clean theme.

[Jason]

Robin, I would like to give you login access so you can take a look at how the forums are working, but I don’t want to provide details here. Ideas?

1. Yes, Forum index page is here: http://cathollowcondos.com/forums/ and it is the one that is generating invalid pagination links.
2. Yes, the Forum index page has [bbp-forum-index] in it. In fact, I have [bbp-topic-index], [bbp-forum-index], and [bbp-topic-form] on the page, in that order. It looks like [bbp-topic-index] is the shortcode responsible for generating invalid pagination links.

I have 3 categories/forums listed on the index page, and they have the following number of topics in each: 3, 13, and 1.

**Important** – If I go to the General forum with 13 topics, there are 2 pages of topics; one with 15 topics, and a 2nd page with another 15 topics. So, it looks like the count is not being displayed properly. BUT, the pagination link to page 2 is working on the General forum page, but not on the main index page. Also, I’m not sure what the difference is between topics and posts shown on the Forums index page. Replies are listed separately. I think you really need to see it for yourself, but it’s a private site.

[Robin W]

Thanks for that.

The blogs per page should not affect the number of forums shown. This is set to 50 in bbpress unless changed by code, which would either be code you have done (and would know about), code from a plugin (but you have disabled and checked these) or your theme (which again you have checked).

I’m not sure what else would be doing this

Do you know how to access the database and look at items in it?

[tkdoherty]

I’d like to remove the date stamp from topics and responses. I found a couple of code suggestions trough Google searches but I haven’t gotten any to work. As a work around, I simply changed the wordpress general settings for date and time to Custom, and then left the custom field blank. This almost worked. The date/time stamp changed from, for instance, “11/25/2017 at 7:03 am” to just ” at “. My trouble is that “at”. I’ve been sniffing through the wordpress and theme php files to remove it or change it to a space, but cannot figure out where the “at” is. Can anyone tell me how I can change or remove it?

[Robin W]

@zopfan – this code may be useful

//redirect user to log in page if accessing forum from external link
add_action( 'template_redirect', 'forum_redirect_from_external_link' );
function forum_redirect_from_external_link() {
  $actual_link = "http://$_SERVER[HTTP_HOST]$_SERVER[REQUEST_URI]";
  $actual_link = explode('/',$actual_link);
  if($actual_link[3]=="forums" && !is_user_logged_in() ) {
    wp_redirect( home_url('your-forum-log-in-page-here') ); 
      exit;
  }
}

[xfallseane]

Hello i’m french and sorry for my english.

I have modify the css and template of bbpress and i have copy the files in my host.
But when i create a topic i have “teste Name of Topic“.

In local i have check “Topics Loop – Single” and i have find “teste” i have delete this and prefix is deleted but in my host “teste” is not in Topics Loop – Single.
I do not know what can create the prefix.

I use bbp pack style and more plugins as bbpress2 bbcode, bp tools bp attachments.

thank you in advance

[Justin]

I keep running into the following error when trying to import my Vanilla 2.x forum database. I’m using WordPress 4.9 and bbpress 2.5.14.

Repair any missing information: Continue
WordPress database error: [Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes]
CREATE TABLE GcuHRqrGbbp_converter_translator ( meta_id mediumint(8) unsigned not null auto_increment, value_type varchar(25) null, value_id bigint(20) unsigned not null default '0', meta_key varchar(255) null, meta_value varchar(255) null, PRIMARY KEY (meta_id), KEY value_id (value_id), KEY meta_join (meta_key(191), meta_value(191)) ) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
No data to cleanStarting Conversion

Any ideas on what I need to do to get this error resolved?

[Ryendel Rocha]

Hello.
I would like to create a forum with closed topics. The person just will be able to see the topic the admin and the person who create. Is there any way to do that?

And is possible to modify the new topics shortcode? I would like to remove the “Topic tag” and another options in some places. One time the topic are closed, there’s no function for this options.

Thank you for your attention.

[Robin W]

if you mean the login , then put this into the custom css of your theme

#sidebar .bbp-login-form label {
	width: 120px !important;
}

[Jakob Helmer]

and in case if the plugin Buddypress is not installed, something like this might be useful:

// redirect if the url contains the word 'user' and if you are not logged-in
add_action('init', 'profile_redirect');
function profile_redirect() {
if(strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], 'user') !== false &&  ! is_user_logged_in()) {
	wp_redirect("https://www.whateversite.com/" . LOGIN_PAGE_NAME);
	}
}

‘LOGIN_PAGE_NAME’ = whatever page name you use to login.
Change the word ‘user’ to your needs.

[abufrank]

For fixing the “page-not-found” when accessing a private forum, I found that when I placed Pascals code into the 404 page (great code by the way), the browser still flags the 404. So instead, I moved it to the functions.php file using the following:

//redirect user to log in page if accessing forum from external link
add_action( 'template_redirect', 'forum_redirect_from_external_link' );
function forum_redirect_from_external_link() {
  $actual_link = "http://$_SERVER[HTTP_HOST]$_SERVER[REQUEST_URI]";
  $actual_link = explode('/',$actual_link);
  if($actual_link[3]=="forums" && !is_user_logged_in() ) {
    wp_redirect( home_url('your-forum-log-in-page-here') ); 
      exit;
  }
}

I hope this was constructive… 🙂

[michaellanfield]

Hi. I have a few issues with bbpress. The page I need help with is https://www.thosecrazyvegans.net/forum/

1. The top of the browser tab bar it says Forums Archive – Those Crazy Vegans
however, I would like it to say Forum – ThoseCrazyVegans.net
How do I fix this?

2. When someone post a new topic they have to fill out the form at the bottom of the forum, however they cannot select a forum from the drop down menu. How to fix?

3. The search bar does not have an search button. Why and how to fix?

4. Is it possible to edit this page in X Theme Cornerstone. I am not able to.

5. The HTML code that I added to the Forum page does not work. When the New Topic link at the top of the Forum page is clicked, I would like it to go to the New Topic form at the bottom of the page. However, the HTML code that I added does not seem to work. What is the full page code for this?

Forum page code

<a href="https://www.thosecrazyvegans.net/wp-login.php">Login</a>  <a href="https://www.thosecrazyvegans.net/register">Register</a>

<a href="https://www.thosecrazyvegans/forum#newtopic">Create New Topic</a>

[bbp-forum-index]

<a href="#newtopic">[bbp-topic-form]</a>

Thank you.

[Jakob Helmer]

Maybe you mean the buddypress profile page?
in that case this piece of code in the functions.php of your theme might help:

function sh_walled_garden()	{
	global $bp;
	if( bp_is_register_page() || bp_is_activation_page() )
	return;
	if( ! bp_is_blog_page() && ! is_user_logged_in() )
	bp_core_redirect( $bp->root_domain .'/'. 'LOGIN_PAGE_NAME' );
}
add_action( 'get_header', 'sh_walled_garden' );

‘LOGIN_PAGE_NAME’ = whatever page name you use to login

[Robin W]

either put this in your functions file

add_filter( 'bbp_get_forum_archive_title', 'tcv_forum');

function tcv_forum () {
	Return 'whatever you want it to say' ;
}

or create a page called whatever you want it to say, and put this in the content
[bbp-forum-index]

[Robin W]

either put this in your functions file

add_filter( 'bbp_get_forum_archive_title', 'tcv_forum');

function tcv_forum () {
	Return 'Forum' ;
}

or create a page called forum, and put this in the content, and then point your menu at this page
[bbp-forum-index]

[Mauro]

I found the pieces and bits necessary to make this happen.

// ALTER TinyMCE INIT FOR VISUAL EDITOR ON FORUM TOPICS AND REPLIES
// SOURCE: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/alter-mceinit-for-visual-editor-on-topics/

// Enable visual editor on tinymce in bbPress
function bbp_enable_visual_editor( $args = array() ) {
    $args['tinymce'] = true;
    return $args;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_after_get_the_content_parse_args', 'bbp_enable_visual_editor' );

// Enable TinyMCE paste plugin
function bbp_add_paste_plugin($args) {
  $args[] = 'paste';
  return $args;
}
add_filter( 'teeny_mce_plugins', 'bbp_add_paste_plugin');

// ADDS A JQUERY PASTE PREPROCESSOR TO REMOVE DISALLOWED TAGS WHILE PASTING
// SOURCE https://jonathannicol.com/blog/2015/02/19/clean-pasted-text-in-wordpress/
function configure_tinymce($in) {
  $in['paste_preprocess'] = "function(plugin, args){
    // Strip all HTML tags except those we have whitelisted
    var whitelist = 'a,p,span,b,strong,i,em,h3,h4,h5,h6,ul,li,ol';
    var stripped = jQuery('<div>' + args.content + '</div>');
    var els = stripped.find('*').not(whitelist);
    for (var i = els.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
      var e = els[i];
      jQuery(e).replaceWith(e.innerHTML);
    }
    // Strip all class and id attributes
    stripped.find('*').removeAttr('id').removeAttr('class');
    // Return the clean HTML
    args.content = stripped.html();
  }";
  return $in;
}
add_filter('teeny_mce_before_init','configure_tinymce', 99999999999);