[Robkk]

This does not have to do with bbPress…but.

If Drupal was your first CMS read this guide.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Importing_Content#Drupal

You may need to hire a developer again if you had more customizations created then just migrating from one CMS to another.

Contact the WordPress support team for any WordPress specific help..

Support Forums

[Robkk]

Yeah you can insert a shortcode on the forum index page using some hooks that bbPress provides.

bbp_template_after_forums_loop

Here is a code snippet that will do what you are looking for though.

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

For the freshness link it should link to whatever was the last activity, with that either being a reply or a topic created. If you want you can filter the forum freshness link to just show topics I guess. The filter is bbp_get_forum_freshness_link

[tkse]

I’ve been doing some testing tonight, and actually made the realization that the starter theme is not the way to go for me. The first suggestion of yours seem to give me what I’m after just as well, and with a lot less effort on my part in the next stages.

In response to my other questions though (referencing this: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbp-single-forum-wont-work/#post-166535):

Surely, there’s got to be a way of displaying both the forum index AND other shortcode elements on the home page of the forum? Since it won’t allow me to do changes in wp-admin if I set a custom page as root, do I have to call the shortcode via PHP in my bbpress.php custom template file?

Also, I’d love the front page “Latest update” to permalink the latest post, not the topic. Difficult task?

[Robkk]

Sorry for the late reply. I hate this issue you have, because I cannot really find a resolution without straight up guessing to try to find something.

I do see that you have removed it though. But you do not need to remove it with CSS or it will hide the other notices too.

You can try this PHP function instead.

add_filter( 'bbp_get_single_forum_description', 'ja_return_blank' );
add_filter( 'bbp_get_single_topic_description', 'ja_return_blank' );
function ja_return_blank() {
    return '';
}

If you want you can contact me so I can just see what could be causing the issue.

Contact

[Robkk]

It is just like customizing a regular WordPress theme.

Just copy the bbpress.css file into your child theme in a folder called css then edit it to your liking.

Theme Compatibility

bbPress Styling Crib

[Robkk]

Try any of the steps in the Internal Server Error part.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Common_WordPress_Errors#Internal_Server_Error

[Robkk]

It is weird that when I check the teststudents blog in the dashboard, I can see users listed as Participant as their site role, while it should be Subscriber.

The WordPress backend menu is all off when I hover over menu items. I do not know what is causing that. Also some bbPress tools in the Tools section, seem to have their own menu items also, which I do not know why.

There also seems to be forums on some blogs with the same content too??

This is one for example.

http://theglobalschool.net/science/tilliemcr/forums/topic/hello-world/

You can probably find more by visiting the site, and adding /forums at the end of the url.

If you haven’t already try some troubleshooting to see what is causing all of this.

Troubleshooting

[Robkk]

That is a really old topic that used bbPress v1 standalone, which is entirely different software than what you have now. So I would recommend not using any code from topics about 3 or more years old.

You may need to install a Find and Replace plugin to remove the tt tags, or just change back to break tags.

To add mutiple line breaks you may need to read this, maybe install the mentioned plugin, and maybe also active TinyMCE in bbPress using the bbPress Enable TinyMCE plugin.

http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-add-single-double-line-spacing-in-wordpress/

[Robkk]

How you want your groups set up may be custom development for now, and you may need to hire a developer for that.

Possibly the same thing for the topic form for now too, but you can just leave the topic form how it is by default and just scroll to the form.

I think you may need just a conditional around the topic form so that only a member of the forum can create topics though, but that is if you leave the topic form how it is by default. The other way you want the topic form you may have to use the forum specific topic form shortcode.

[Robkk]

You can use the default registration forms in WordPress instead. The bbPress register shortcode is not really complete in functionality. The login shortcode should work decent enough though.

[Robkk]

Does this help any?

bbp_get_reply_topic_id()

[Robkk]

copy loop-topics.php from the bbpress plugin into your child theme in a folder called bbpress and edit these lines.

<li class="bbp-topic-voice-count"><?php _e( 'Voices', 'bbpress' ); ?></li>
<li class="bbp-topic-reply-count"><?php bbp_show_lead_topic() ? _e( 'Replies', 'bbpress' ) : _e( 'Posts', 'bbpress' ); ?></li>

You can change it like so.

<li class="bbp-topic-voice-count"><?php _e( 'Participants', 'bbpress' ); ?></li>
<li class="bbp-topic-reply-count"><?php bbp_show_lead_topic() ? _e( 'Comments', 'bbpress' ) : _e( 'Posts', 'bbpress' ); ?></li>

Theme Compatibility

[Robkk]

I took a break yesterday sorry.

Have you tried some troubleshooting? It may be related to cache, a theme, a plugin conflict, or if you made your forums Hidden.

Troubleshooting

[KeithAdv]

I’m going through the odious task of importing a Ning forum to bbPress. The hard part (or so I thought) is done. I was able to get about everything from Ning into BuddyPress.

However, when I get to the last phase–BuddyPress to bbPress migration–which I thought would be easy-peasy, I lose all the replies to the forum topics! I’m following the migration process exactly (as far as I know) but it always fails. Here are the details:

I’m currently on a local server using XAMPP.
WordPress 4.2.4
BuddyPress 2.3.3 (using the default theme)
bbPress 2.5.8

The only other plugins I have installed are The Events Calendar (which you kind of need for the Ning conversion) and BackupBuddy, so that I can restore/reset after every unsuccessful attempt.

I have a smallish forum of fewer than 100 people and 4 groups.

At the time of this writing, I’ve restored the site to its last successful state:
– All data successfully imported into BuddyPress
– bbPress is installed and activated
– Final migration has not yet been attempted.

So, you can see all forums and replies, etc., in the BuddyPress theme on the site. The bbPress forums section in the admin menu is empty, as expected.

Now my typical next step, which always fails, is to follow the codex on migrating forums from BuddyPress to bbPress. I’ve been following it to the letter:

Migrating from old forums to bbPress 2.2+

Unfortunately, during Step 5, the actual import step, I get the following error message:


WordPress database error: [Table 'foo.wp_bb_terms' doesn't exist]

SELECT convert(term_relationships.object_id USING "utf8mb4") AS object_id,convert(term_taxonomy.term_taxonomy_id USING "utf8mb4") AS term_taxonomy_id,convert(terms.name USING "utf8mb4") AS name,convert(terms.slug USING "utf8mb4") AS slug FROM wp_bb_term_relationships AS term_relationships INNER JOIN wp_bb_term_taxonomy AS term_taxonomy USING (term_taxonomy_id) INNER JOIN wp_bb_terms AS terms USING (term_id) LIMIT 0, 100


I can’t tell if it is just complaining or if the import has actually failed at that point. Nevertheless, I finish all the steps. At that point, the groups have become forums in bbPress and the topics have transferred but only the first post in each. All replies are gone and I haven’t found any way to restore them.

One additional detail–I don’t know if it’s relevant. In order to do the Ning conversion, it’s best if you use BuddyPress v1.6, which I did. Afterward, I updated to the latest version. (Is that why wp_bb_terms didn’t get created?)

I’d greatly appreciate any insight on this. I’m so happy to be getting away from Ning–I can’t believe I’m getting tripped up on the WP side! 🙂

[tkse]

I created a WordPress page with the name “Diskusjon” and changed the root of bbPress to be this in the settings. Now bbp-single-forum shortcode won’t work. It just shows the forum index, something I tried to avoid by creating this standalone page as root. Any tips?

[andyrushtonprogramming]

Hi @robkk,

that seems to answer a different question – it only lists forums I’m subscribed to in bbPress.org, not subscriptions on my website – and I can’t see how it could list those since there’s no connection. I’m talking about a self-hosting website using bbPress as a plugin.

One reason I was asking was because of this post in the codex:

Subscriptions

Is this post wrong?

[mhairilongmuir]

Hi there,

I am using the shortcode for registration, on my registration page: [bbp-register]

The issue I’m having is that when folk create an account, they set an username and email, but are not sent a password in the email (and/or also not made to create a password)?

This means that they have to go to the ‘lost password’ link to get their account activated? This doesn’t seem like a streamlined workflow? is there anything I can do to avoid this?

Cheers

[Kona Macphee]

I’ve recently migrated a couple of websites to WP Multisite and am now using bbPress on various multisite sub-sites. The issue I’m reporting may be specific to multisite, or it may be a new bug after the recent change to WP 4.3 (I’m using bbPress 2.5.8 and WP 4.3).

Context:
On the “Edit Topic” screen, there’s an “Author Information” box including an ID field. When you begin to type text into this box, the admin-ajax action “bbp_suggest_user” should auto-suggest potentially matching users.

Issue:
The user autosuggest is not returning any users, just “-1”. Having dug into the code, the step that’s failing is wp_verify_nonce() in check_ajax_referrer(), which is invoked on line 745 of bbPress file includes/admin/admin.php. The nonce is making it into wp_verify_nonce, but is not matching any expected/acceptable value – so wp_verify_nonce falls out the bottom with a failure.

If I remove the check_ajax_referrer step, the Edit Topic user auto-suggestion works perfectly so it’s definitely the nonce validation step that’s the problem.

Also, I’m NOT using any caching plugin on these sites, and the error exists whether the site uses https or not. It also continues to exist if I disable Wordfence.

[yorcht]

Hi, thanx but what I want is to not to have to select a forum when create a new one. Like in wordpress admin panel. Just create the new forum with short codes at the same level that others. On top. Is it possible?

[Robkk]

Weird that the BuddyPress widget works fine. You might want to deactivate everything but bbPress to see if the issue persists and to test everything fresh. You might want to test the bbPress login widget also.

Does this PHP code snippet help anything when trying to logout with only bbPress activated?

add_filter( 'logout_url', 'my_logout_page', 10, 2 );
function my_logout_page( $logout_url, $redirect ) {
    	$logout_url = str_replace('%3Floggedout%3Dtrue', '', $logout_url);
	return $logout_url;
}

[Robkk]

It works fine when I tested it on my site.

You can try to test to see if works fine in a topic, reply, and a blog post to see if you get different results from each.

Try some troubleshooting to see if a plugin/theme functionality caused the issue.

If you acquired a ton of code snippets and placed it in your child theme check on that.

Troubleshooting

[chigoziekyrian]

First of all thanks to the Bbpress forum Developers and supporters, i commend you all.

I want to ask if you have this feature in a plugin or if is tweak able..

Creating different groups with different Forums associated to each group respectively

For example

Group A can Post Topics and Reply in Forum A

Group B can Post Topics and Reply in Forum B

Group C can Post Topics and reply in Group C

BUT Group A can only reply in Forum B and C, they can’t post Topic in Forum B and C (They can only post Topic in their own associated Forum A)

Group B can only reply in Forum A and C, they cant post Topics in Forum A and C (They can only post in their own associated Forum B)

Group C can only reply in Forum A and B, they cant post Topics in Forum A and B (They can only post in their own associated Forum C)

AND

In the Topic Form with this short code [bbp-topic-form] let the drop down forum be only forums associated with the Group
example

If Group A member logs in to post via [bbp-topic-form] page, he will see only Forum A at the select Forum option,
(he will only see drop down of forums associated with his group, or both Sub Forums)

because I wont display the Full forum index on the site, i will only display Recent Topics, Recent comments, etc then with handle of ‘Start a topic’ with this form [bbp-topic-form]

Thanks…

[timsilva_]

I am migrating a forum database from the latest version of SMF to the latest version of bbPress. In SMF, many posts had multiple line-breaks in between sentences, paragraphs, images, videos, etc. It appears that WordPress, and bbPress, strip out multiple line breaks and limit them to a single line break (probably to prevent people from creating giant vertical gaps for no reason that other users have to scroll through). The way that bbPress deals with line-breaks from the SMF database migration was not very clean. It was mostly just random blocks of text and sentences without line breaks in between paragraphs that existed in SMF. There were PRE tags added in sometimes, and seemingly inconsistent P tags as well. BR tags appear to have been converted into empty TT tags. I was able to correct some of these formatting issues by tweaking lots of CSS (and a little JavaScript) in the default bbPress template. At the same time, I have also tested how line-breaks work separate from the migrated database and it appears that this maximum-of-one-line-break philosophy is on purpose. I see where that’s coming from, but I want to allow it anyways.

I have read of methods where admins (and/or other users) can manually type in br tags as html with non-breaking spaces in between them as a hacky method of moving down three or four lines for whatever reason. I don’t want to have to train users how to do something that should be as simple as press enter like in any text editor.

How can I simply achieve this in bbPress’s default comment forms? I don’t want users to have to type in…

<br />&nbsp<br />

…when they can simply just press enter twice in the textarea input.

[Léo]

I noticed something interesting, there is no problem when I log out using the BuddyPress widget.

Do you have a multisite installation?
No.

Is WordPress installed in a sub-folder?
No.

What is the url you get when you try to logout?
With the WordPress toolbar: http://original-beast.revhost.fr/wp-login.php?action=logout&_wpnonce=323d408059&redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Foriginal-beast.revhost.fr%2F%3Floggedout%3Dtrue
With the BuddyPress widget: http://original-beast.revhost.fr/wp-login.php?action=logout&redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Foriginal-beast.revhost.fr%2F&_wpnonce=323d408059

What areas did you try to logout from? The WordPress Toolbar, bbPress login widget, something else?
WordPress toolbar.

Did this issue occur when you immediately activated bbPress? Or did the issue occur after a certain upgrade?
Only when bbPress is activated.

Did you have any cache plugins activated? Have you tried flushing the cache? If it is deactivated reactivate the plugin and flush the cache.
I don’t have any cache plugin.

Anything that can cache activated on your site, server cache, cloudflare, object cache, opcode caching?
I don’t have that.

What hosting provider do you have?
Revolta Hosting

[Robkk]

Try as much of the basic troubleshooting steps as you can, also try some of the additional solutions listed.

Some users have a plugin issue with this, while others it may be a theme, or it could be resolved using the repair tools.

THere is a guide linked in here about fixing some possible 404 errors too.

Troubleshooting