I tried about 6-8 themes and they all have the same result. Ok, if its just a theme issue then don’t worry. I thought it went deeper than that. I guess WordPress themes are not tweaked for bbPress so this is likely to occur with most themes and need a manual edit.
I am still in the process of testing before moving site so lots of other things to iron out yet.
Thanks.
As I said I’m a WP newbie trying to understand how everything works. These are my considerations so far. I do not want to hurt anybody.
After a couple of days of testing I’m really going insane trying to get a minimum acceptable installation.
While I understand that acceptable is a moot concept, I mean “similar classic feature of all free forum scripts out there” I’m not speaking about cutting edge features but really standard forum features since phpBB 2 hence:
- extended user profile
- private messaging
- user signature
- post count and join date below username
- post preview
- attachments with inline images
- quote replies
- report
- sticky, new, hot for topics
- view unread content
Now I understand that all of them can be obtained through 10 different plugins but I’m really scared to do so for these reasons:
- 10 different plugins and authors are very difficult to maintain. Chances something screw up are high, no matter how godd is the code.
- some of plugins implementing above features seems already nearly abandoned
- In one of my past life I was so naive to dope my Joomla installation with several third party mambot/plugins. When I had to upgrade I discovered that several of them where abandoned giving me a hege PITA to upgrade
- In a recent life I avoided to dope my IP Board installation with plugins but during a main upgrade I had the same problem with some mods I made by myself
Now I’m trying to bring everything to wordpress + bbpress but I see that it is a steep climb just to get what in 2016 is considered a forum with basic features. I’m not a developer otherwise I was already coding the missing pieces.
Please: less plugins – more core features
Hi, Thanks for this detailed test.
Performance is among the main improvements in 2.6, so if you are in testing phase, could you check that version ? https://bbpress.org/download/
Thanks,
Pascal.
I am now testing bbPress for a move away from SMF but very surprised by bbPress responsive reaction. As the browser narrows (on pc) the freshness, topics and posts count do not collapse. They are also shown as totals for the category and each board.
It seems like a total waste of screen to include that and detracts form the important information – the category and board titles. It also happened on several themes I tried so I guess that makes no difference.
Thanks for the test. I have the same issue on 2016, so I created trac ticket https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2921
Let see if something can be done, for now you will have to live with the CSS trick above
Pascal.
Just tested several default WP themes with bbPress (from 2010 to 2016). Here they are: http://vkondakoff.synology.me/photo/share/8erFChRr
2010, 2012, 2013 and 2015 are looking good. 2011 is cropped by it’s right side even without anything in WP sidebar. 2014 is just to small is size (don’t know why). 2016 is just cropped on the left side…
haha yes you´re right! must have been a plugin i disabled, but i tested right after so the effect wasnt there yet? weird
Hi,
Some answers from my side:
– I don’t know IPB, so no idea what’s in there, but for almost everything there is somewhere a plugin available
– website and forum share users and the environment. Again with plugins a lot can be done (e.g. my bbP Move Topics is doing one switch from one to the other and soon also the other way around)
– version 2.6 is coming out very very soon, so yes, it’s still alive ! If you want to do a test, go for 2.6 immediately on https://bbpress.org/download/
Pascal.
I’m currently managing a IPB 3.X forum with about 300 users and 20k posts. I have also a huge website with hundreds of articles. For several reason I would like to move away from IPB and I’m considering BBPress to manage in one way forum and website.
I would like to test a migration on a test site in the next few weeks. In the meantime I have some questions.
– Coming from IPB, what are the minimum essential plugins I need to get similar features?
– Which kind of integration I get between web site and forum? Could I share content each way?
I mean: a new article become a forum topic and a forum topic become an article.
– is BBPress still actively developed? Not to be polemic but looking at latest commit count and contributors it seems an alarming situation.
Thank you in advance
I have tested your code. Well I can select in the admin panel “edit topic” or “new topic” “featured image”, I select the picture…when I turn back to the topic, no picture. It doesn’t remain selected.
I use the latest WordPress: 4.30.
suspect it is plugin related
It could be a theme or plugin issue
Plugins
Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.
Themes
If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.
Then come back
bbPress is tested with wordpress default themes. It maybe a conflict – you need to check plugins and themes
It could be a theme or plugin issue
Plugins
Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.
Themes
If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.
Then come back
Thx for the reply.
That’s a major issue for me as using a forum only makes sense if it is fully integrated with the blog (at least for the project i’m working on).
Anyway I kept digging and found this : http://simple-press.com/
The forum script is free but there is one premium plugin doing exactly what i need.
I will test this and let you know how it goes.
In a word – no !
bbPress is tested with wordpress default themes. It maybe a conflict – you need to check plugins and themes
It could be a theme or plugin issue
Plugins
Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.
Themes
If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.
Then come back
hmmm… not sure what to suggest next – you have done good research and testing, and have a good problem definition.
So the forms have similar structure, and the problem is both in backend and front end. Disabling other plugins and changing theme has made no difference.
ok all I can think to do is to move a slow forum into a fast category (dashboard>forums>edit forum and change parent), and see if the problem stays with the forum. That might help define if it is a forum issue or a category issue.
Hello!
Our site is getting ready to launch soon and I’ve built out the forum structure to our liking but in testing we see that posting a new topic or replying to a topic in CERTAIN FORUMS can take up to 20 seconds after hitting submit for the post to save and appear. In all other forums it takes only 3 seconds. While I wish both were faster, how do we figure out what the 20 second delay is about?
Add this to the mix: Deleting a reply on the backend for the slow forum also takes 20 seconds compared to 3 seconds to delete for other forums…
20 second to post topic and delete reply forums:
https://www.myacim.com/sharing/forum/acim-lessons/
3 second to post topic and delete reply forums:
ACIM Text
Thank you for your help 🙂
Stats:
bbpress 2.5.8
wordpress 4.4.2
Jupiter theme, tested with generic 2015 theme too with no improvement
Disabled all plugins and problem remains
High speed VPS server using SSD drives, pre-launch / no traffic yet
Hello,
I am trying to import a vbulletin 4.2.2 installation into bbpress and it fails importing the replies without leaving me errors, it just hangs and keeps posting dashes (-) into the progress logs even after stopping it and resuming.
Wordpress and bbpress versions are the latest available as of today 20th of March 2016.
Our vbulletin database has around 11000 users, 600 sub-forums, 30000 threads and around 800000 posts
As the work is being done in local before atempting it on the server i am unable to give links.
If in need of more informations let me know
Thanks in advance for the support
Regards
Hello,
Site is still a little unstable, but I think it is good enough to get this problem fixed.
Just so we all understand, here is what is going on. The menu is designed to open on mouse hover and then close when the mouse pointer leaves the menu. On mobile devices such as phones and tablets, you cannot close the menu because clicking Options opens it. We need to add some additional code to first check if the menu is open, if not, on click open it, if so, on click close it. Would this be a doable task?
You do have to login to see the options menu, this user account will be deleted as soon as we are done using it.
Username: bbpress.org-support
Password: 5oj^gI6OOx*DrCeAlM4J7ZKG
URL: http://yourtechadvisors.com/forums/topic/testing/
Thanks for your help.
Can’t test here, but did you check echo bbp_form_option( '_bbp_forum_slug', 'forum', true ); ?
bbPress is tested with wordpress default themes. It maybe a conflict – you need to check plugins and themes
It could be a theme or plugin issue
Plugins
Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.
Themes
If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.
Then come back
Robin had a look, but he also confirmed that it’s something strange, most probably coming from your theme (all the <br> that are added), so I’m afraid we won’t be able of any further help.
I would propose to switch theme for some testing and (if confirmed that your issues are solved) get to the theme authors and explain them.
Pascal.
Hello,
URL: http://yourtechadvisors.com/forums/topic/testing-safe-to-ignore/
For some reason on mobile devices, part of the reply and post text will overlap the bar where the date is. I have tried deactivating all plugins and checking to see that there are no syntax errors in my CSS. Could someone please check my forum to see what is happening?
Here is an image link, as you can see the mobile view looks pretty bad.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_h6oU4LzDtleElpclF5QV9BajA/view?usp=sharing
I cannot switch to the default theme, I do not want to lose any changes, so a CSS fix would be nice if at all possible.
Thanks for your help.
Hi,
1.8 million should not be the issue, as others run without those issues.
Could you import your old topics into your test too so you could play with it ? Did you ever try to switch to a default theme ?
If you are really convinced to delete in production, we can discuss further on that on how to clean.
Pascal.
So I made a fresh forum for testing and the posting was instant. So it looks like 1.8 Millions entries in our wp_posts table is just too big a strain. I want to try to mass delete a lot of the old stuff from years ago, but I don’t want to delete regular WP posts. So what in the SQL is unique to bbpress so I can run the correct query?
Hello,
Forum Post URL: http://yourtechadvisors.com/forums/topic/testing-safe-to-ignore/
I was looking around in Firefox doing some mobile tests, when I came accross an issue. Please see screenshot at below link.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_h6oU4LzDtleElpclF5QV9BajA/view?usp=sharing
Is this a bug?
Thanks.
