[deadly_smile]

I’m totally new to Bbpress. I have a problem with adding posts. Totally strange things have happened. For example, when I was on the front page of forum, topics links are fine, when I click on some of them, it takes me to a page with listed posts, but when I want to make a new post, the part of url disappeared. To be clear, when I press the submit button, bb-post.php redirects me to a nonexistent page and the url looks like this http /example.com/ /name_of_topic and it should look like this http /example.com/forum/name_of_forum/name_of_topic. Something removes part of url, but i have no clue what it can be. I look through functions, and i’m lost.

Please help.

[Kevin Ryman]

Aw, bummer.

[Jared Atchison]

No problem, glad I can help.

I’m going to submit this simple plugin to the wp.org repo. Once it’s up I’ll talk to @jjj and see if it warrants a sticky.

Regarding the missing tag, closing PHP tags (?>) isn’t required (at the end of the file) and it’s usually good practice to omit them. More info on that http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4410704/php-closing-tag

[jamescarson1]

Jaredatch, this is gold. And it will be appreciated by many people I imagine. This should be reposted as a sticky or similar until it’s added to the plugins page or to the next bbpress update?

By the way I just tested the code and it’s working great. It’s missing a closing ?> tag.

Thanks!

[Jared Atchison]

Try adding a check for bbPress, such as

add_action( 'bbp_ready', 'ja_login_detect' );

function ja_login_detect() {

if ( is_bbpress() ) {

include_once "/dap/dap-config.php";



if ( !Dap_Session::isLoggedIn() )

header( "Location: /dap/login.php" )

}

}

[vvikeb]

I got it working though it is not perfect. After setting up all bbp templates into my new theme and ensuring the bbpress, css, and js subfolders associated with the bbp-twentyten template where in my new theme folder properly it is working with some functionality that I can live with; however,…

The breadcrumb link and my forums menu link are not the same. Now, I use a forums page with the shortcode. Now, when someone drills down into the forums and wished to return to the main forums page via the breadcrumb they go to the default forums-archive page set by bbp. I wish it went to my custom forum page with the shortcodes, but I’m happy it is not sending people to a useless page.

So, there is still an issue, but everything is providing useful functionality at this time. I will leave this unresolved and hope the dev will fix in later versions.

[johnny-rocket]

Hey Jared,

I added that code functions.php under /public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten. Did not work.

I added it to functions.php under /public_html/wp-content/themes/twentyten/functions.php, but it starts intercepting all requests to my site instead of just intercepting /forums request.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

[vvikeb]

I found it.

They were in the bbpress subfolder found either in your theme folder or in the bbp-themes>bbp-tewntyten theme folder.

For “You must be logged in to create topic.”:

bbpress>form-topic.php Line 215

For “You must be logged in to reply to this topic”:

bbpress>form-reply.php line 174

[vvikeb]

Using 2.0 and I’m looking to edit the logged out text currently displayed at the bottom of forum pages such as:

You must be logged in to reply to this topic.

You must be logged in to create new topics.

This is an probably an easy one but I’m having trouble finding it in the bbp files to make the edits.

BTW – the tags input field for your site wasn’t allowing me to add tags for my post. I’m using Chrome if that helps you troubleshoot the issue.

[John James Jacoby]

Jared is correct. There is a migration plugin already. Also, this is a duplicate post of one from several weeks ago that you posted here and then cross posted to WordPress.org. The more time we spend moderating the forums of duplicate content is the less that’s spent writing code.

[SK]

bbPress needs to face the fact that most people who want a forum, have already had a forum. The *new* market for forums is much smaller than the *installed base* of forums.

Consequently, most of the people who would want to use bbPress probably are already using another forum script and need help migrating. It is collossal mistake to leave this for community plugins.

If I have a forum software in a production environment, then one of the major factors influencing my decision regarding migration is whether or not there is a robust, stable, tried and tested and reliable migration path to the target software. This is extremely important for me. In fact, I would suffer a somewhat inferior software willingly rather than move to a better software if there is no clear migration path or there is a high degree of risk in migration.

It is a mistake on part of bbPress to leave migration to community plugin developers. Even if there were some plugins out there that did the job, it would be much less reassuring to prospective users compared to a migration/import path created by the bbPress team. As it happens there are only 2 import plugins ( http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/forumconverter/ and http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbconverter/) out there and both of them are broken and not supported.

WordPress does it right in building an importer directly into the core.

Over the next 18-24 months, I expect to see a mass exodus from phpBB as they rewrite the software from ground up ( http://area51.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=75&t=41583). If bbPress provide a good migration path, it stands the chance to capture some of fleeing population.

Task

I think it would be greatly beneficial to the project if the bbPress team build a bbPress importer that supports the top 4 forum software: phpBB, Invision, SMF and vBulletin.

Such a migration tool, importer or converter will:

i) import topics and forum hierarchies into bbpress

including the relations between forums, topics and replies

and slugs for forums, topics and replies

ii) generate an .htaccess to place in the old forum directory so that old URLs are 301 redirected to new ones.

iii) import users including profiles, passwords, signatures and roles

@jjj You have mentioned at http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1740 that this is more appropriate for a plugin and that bundling that code in the core of bbPress seems needless for many users that are starting off fresh.

I believe that this function is too important to be left to the mercy of others. There is a huge trust issue…if I have to entrust my data to someone, I want to make sure that they are reliable, trustworthy, good enough, and understand the software well.

I take your point about not bundling the function in the core. How about a migration plugin by the bbPress team?

[Keshav Saini]

I read all the documentation before installing buddypress but the got the same issue many others are facing. I couldn’t find any fix in any discussion thread here at buddypress site and other forums.

I followed the same procedure written in buddypress codex. I am using both the group forums and site wide forum using bbpress.

But when I post a new thread in site wide forum, the activity isn’t displayed in buddypress activity stream and my profile activity.

Here is the site http://www.environmentabout.com/community

[David Decker]

You should also try this great free plugin: “bbPress Antispam”

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-antispam/

It works similar to the awesome “Antispam Bee”:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/antispam-bee/

Greetinx, Dave

[John James Jacoby]

No sweat. Happy to have you around.

[Jared Atchison]

Yes there is, I wrote a quick plugin for it.

Take the code from https://gist.github.com/1902067 and put it in a bbpress-css.php file inside your wp-content/plugins/ directory.

Then go to your plugins page and activate the plugin.

It will use bbpress.css from your theme directory, so my suggestion would be to make a copy of bbPress’s CSS file and move it there as a starting point, then you can edit as needed.

[smiga]

Dosch, could you please share theme name? Im currently using WP Mimic, but it does not work with bbpress 2.x, so Im still running on 1.x version.

I did not sucseeded searching alternative.

[genevishgraphics]

Got it working!!

.bbPress #header {

background-image: url(images/mspace-header.png)!important;

background-repeat: no-repeat;

}

THANK YOU – YOU’RE a SUPERSTAR!!

[Jared Atchison]

It might be easier to use some of the bbPress body classes in addition to what you are using now.

For example you might be using a custom body class called ‘my-header-image’.

So if you wanted to use that on your bbpress portion of the site you would just add the bbpress body class to your css, such as

.my-header-image,

.bbPress {

background: url(myimage.jpg);

}

There are other body classes available from bbPress, but you get the picture

[genevishgraphics]

Unfortunately nothing changed, its probably “operator error” since I am pretty new to genesis and bbpress. Maybe I didnt explain myself properly either.

Some of my site’s pages use a custom body class where I specify an alternate header. It seems like all the pages I set up in the bbpress forum and topic areas are missing the Genesis Layout Settings Metaboxes where I can specify the custom body class….

I dont know if I am making this more difficult than it is?? It seems all the deeper bbpress pages (except for the page showing the actual forum) are reverting to the default header and I would like to customize it to show the alternate one.

Thoughts??

[Jared Atchison]

This is a total guess and not tested, but you should be able to put something like this in your theme’s functions.php file

add_action( 'bbp_init', 'do_custom_body_classes' );

function do_custom_body_classes() {

add_filter( 'body_class', 'genesis_custom_body_class', 15 );

}

[Jared Atchison]

This thread is waay old. Please start a new one .

[Jared Atchison]

You’ll want something like this. And it should go in your theme’s functions file.

add_action( 'bbp_ready', 'ja_login_detect' );

function ja_login_detect() {

include_once "/dap/dap-config.php";



if ( !Dap_Session::isLoggedIn() )

header( "Location: /dap/login.php" )

}

[johnny-rocket]

We have tried working on this some more, but still not working. Would bbpress.php be the right script for these changes?

<?php

include_once “/home/@#$$$/public_html/dap/dap-config.php”;

//the problem is get_post_type comes up empty..

if((get_post_type() == ‘forum’) || (get_post_type() == ‘topic’) OR (get_post_type() == ‘reply’))

{

if( !Dap_Session::isLoggedIn() ) {

header(“Location: /dap/login.php”);

exit;

}

}

Our problem is that get_post_type() comes up empty when used in bbpress.php.

So maybe the whole check needs to go else where. I am not sure where.

Also i don’t see a bb-config.php in our folders? Should this file exist?

[MikeonTV]

Yes I did that and it fixed nothing

[podcastlover]

I’m building a site to discuss podcasts. www. podcastlover.com

I have built a forum for each of the podcasts I want to have discussed on my site, there are 124 currently.

However, on my list of forums, I only see 60 of them listed.

The permalinks to the non appearing forums work.

I am wondering how I can get all of them to appear on the forum list.

A trick to Alphabetize them would be awesome too