[theurbanbrain]

Hello all, I just had a quick question that has me stumped. I have a new site (so no other plugins to mess things up) and while the forum will show up the main forum page won’t work. I tried shortcodes and more but for whatever reason the main forums page won’t work.

The individual forum will show up at

http://happyimprov.com/forums/forum/improv-exercises/

but when I want to display the index at

http://happyimprov.com/forums/

it won’t display.

Help please.

[Hedgehog84]

Bump!

If my question is not clear, please let me know.

I’m running the latest version of both WordPress and bbPress (3.3.1 & 2.0.2).

[Themes Community]

I believe only digging into database that can solve your problem. By accessing database your can find your email (located at *_users) as it default wp users table.

[vatoloco2]

Hi everybody,

I just converted my phpbb3 forum to bbPress with these details:

topics: 1.290

posts: 25.800

members: 7.960

Now the really annoying part comes up. Anaylzing the source code with firebug I discovered the reason for the slow performance: There are too much queries executed! I disabled all plugins and removed all widgets (using bp-default together with bbpress / buddyPress). Still the amount of queries executed rises from 60 to 222 executions (forum view / topic index / reply) taking up to 3 seconds to execute.

I just went over to testbp.org/discussion and annalyzed the code seeing:

<i><!– Generated in 1.506 seconds. (184 q) –></i>

So looks like a normal behaviour. Tried also w3totalcache and that works fine for logged-out users but once I enable w3totalcache for logged-in users then I get strange outputs.

Does anyone have experience with a forum in the size stated above? It looks like I need to get a fully cached bbpress working to consider switching to bbpress but after spending days of work to convert and design the new website I am afraid that I will get stuck now.

If someone here has experience then please give me a shout! I really would like to use the wp / bbpress / buddypress combo but the slow performance won’t let me use it for now.

[viktor89]

No issues with 2.1 on my site – and the approach is much better Just saved me weeks of work – and i’m using it on a live site against recommendations (watch out, we have a bad ass over here)

[jcarlson1701]

Thanks for responding.

PHP ver. 5.2.14

[Umbrovskis.com]

Will there be possibility to add classes like in WordPress post_class().

I know that bbp_topic_class() is using post_class() via bbp_get_topic_class() already, but I would love to see simple solution to add custom classes to row of topic, something like bbp_topic_class(“my custom classes”) or with compatibility bbp_topic_class($topic_id, "my custom classes").

[Themes Support]

Use bbPress Post Toolbar at https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-post-toolbar/

[Andre]

The support warning means the theme doesn’t natively support bbPress. You can add support or use shortcodes and still use bbPress. Here’s a link to shortcodes you can insert in a page. https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes

I don’t understand your question about plugins.

[techguard00]

hi, what version of PHP is that wordpress using?

[ebiznet88]

AWJunkies – Merry Christmas/Congratulations/Happy New Year!

I look forward to your help here with our respective issues with bbconverter.

[Tammy Hart]

Neolo7, try setting your permalinks to something other than default. You should at least have %postname%.

To add /forums/ to your menu, use the custom links option. Or create a page and use the [bbp-forum-index] shortcode, then add that page to the menu.

There is a glitch that is not bbpress related, but rather it’s custom post types related. If you theme relies on the class “current_page_parent” to highlight the current page, WordPress things any post type should keep your blog page highlighted, if you have one. Here’s a piece of code you can drop in functions.php to help:

// fix menus

function support_menu_item($menu){

global $post;

if (get_post_type($post->ID) == 'forum' || get_post_type($post->ID) == 'topic' || get_post_type($post_id) == 'reply')

{

$menu = str_replace( 'current_page_parent', '', $menu ); // remove all current_page_parent classes

$menu = str_replace( 'menu-item-169', 'menu-item-169 current_page_parent', $menu ); // add the current_page_parent class to the page you want

}

return $menu;

}

add_filter( 'nav_menu_css_class', 'support_menu_item', 0 );

Be sure to change “169” to the id of your menu item.

[tnwinn]

@Rastarr – Your site is looking much better than mine but i’ve noticed you have one of the same problems that I do– the weird numbers ( i.e. (3, 4),). @ Anointed – any idea how to solve this?

http://www.gogo-gringo.com/forums

Mine’s a mess and I can’t find anyone to help

[tflight]

Thank you very much, that is very helpful.

[jcarlson1701]

Just a note… I installed ver 2.1 (over the 2.0.2 install) of bbPress and I’m getting the same error.

[jcarlson1701]

Hello.

I just installed the bbPress 2.0.2 plugin on my newly installed WP 3.3 site. Upon activation of the plugin I get the error:

“add_contextual_help is deprecated since version 3.3! Use get_current_screen()->add_help_tab() instead”

I assume that this is an incompatibility with the PHP calls from the plugin to WP since ver. 3.3 depricated a lot of old PHP scripts.

Is there a way to fix this or at least have WP stop complaining about this?

Thanks!

[bjj_pl]

@shooo, that was my solution. “^?” means any one character in a string. I had to repair the database sql file. One bbcode tag after another. Well, It works and looks ok now but it’s a lot of work.

Some bbcode tags had to be replaced with <span>. I don’t know if it is possible to define custom bbcode tags in wordpress. So I had to replace all with “<span class=”size150″>”, etc.

Rest of the tags work fine thanks to “bbPress2 BBCode” plugin.

I’ve got another question,

How to change parent forum for many topics ??? It would take ages to move topics one by one when there are hundreds and thousands of them.

[shooo]

Hello, and congratulations on your wedding. I hope the honeymoon does not your too tired:)

bjj_pl did you find the solutions for [IMG:^?….]?

i’ve the same probleme.

after, i try to save the avatar and the url on post like <!-- m --><a href="http://example.com">http://example.com<!-- m --></a> are all broken…

pfff it’s a real mess

[StevieBee]

Hello everyone,

I’m new to this – and not an experienced coder – so I apologise if what I write doesn’t make much sense.

I’ve just taken over running our internal forum in my job and it’s a bit of a mess. We’re running bbPress 1.0.2 and we don’t really have much set up. For example, only admins can create new threads.

Anyhow, I’m trying to install a plugin to enable me to create user groups and levels of permission. Here’s the plugin link – http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/role-manager/

I can download the plugin but can’t find anywhere to install it. Can anyone help please? I’d be very grateful!

Thanks, and a happy new year to you all,

StevieBee

[Anointed]

It’s your theme css:

h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, .sf-menu.light ul li a, th, tr, #portfolio-filter span, .portfolio-view span, #section-tophat, .feature span, .superquote, .supertagline, #section-footer, #section-footer h5, .sf-menu.light li u {

text-shadow: 1px 0 1px #000000;

}

The text-shadow is causing the problem.

[Martin]

Thanks so much for your help, Shawn.

At least now the forums have some framework and don’t look like a blank page

I added a description to the Relationships forum and it’s weird how the subforum titles show first and then the main forum description – I guess that’s some CSS stuff at play again.

Yeah, it’s a great looking theme indeed.

[bjj_pl]

ebiznet88, yep, converter created 9 individual characters for each post.

Well, I am ashamed to say it, but I used MS Word 2003 to make changes in my sql file.

Seems to work fine and no errors occured later. Coded as UTF-8 text file with no additional MS WORD characters.

I used something like:

find

[/img:^?^?^?^?^?^?^?^?]

replace with

[/img]

and so on.

[bjj_pl]

Hi there,

I’ve got a problem with custom page templates and wordpress pages with bbcode shortcodes.

I’ve created a page “Forum “with shortcode [bbp-forum-index] and made it main Forum Page. Since most of my pages use sidebar, the one with forum index was meant to be fullwidth. I tried to set a custom page template but with no effect. The Twenty One template uses only default theme template and keep displaying sidebar.

I do know how to create custom page templates for wordpress but they just don’t work with bbpress plugin Anyway, I don;t know how to make bbpress work with my custom templates.

Any ideas?

[Anointed]

NO, bbPress really shouldn’t slow your site down any more than adding in the same amount of pages to your site as the amount of topics and replies you have in your forums.

That is the nice part about bbPress. It basically used custom post-types and is totally native WordPress code.

There is no extra code loaded that I am aware of, other than a small javascript file, which is only loaded on bbPress pages anyhow.

No idea on the cache part, so can’t help there as I don’t use cache plugins.

[Anointed]

@Tammy

I don’t think that the template files are currently used, even if placed within your currently active theme. According to JJ< bbPress 2.1 should make this much easier.

Right now, the only way I know how to change the appearance in your own theme is to actually remove the shortcode actions and write your own custom shortcodes.

You can of course add a bbpress.php/forums.php page and place that within your theme to do some basic changes such as removing sidebars.