[Stephen Edgar]

@dots I’d suggest setting up a test site to test your imports before importing into your live site to iron out any issues you come across. The best process is to “reset” bbPress which will remove/delete all your bbPress data, you can then start the import with a fresh/clean slate for bbPress.

I cannot guarantee that it will work perfectly importing everything though I really hope it does, as I stated in my previous reply there hasn’t been much testing with Xenforo so any feedback would be great to hear, any issues and I’ll try to implement those fixes.

Unless people test the importers and give us feedback I cannot improve them 🙂

[terranova23]

Hi there,

I’m helping a client resolve an issue with their bbPress Activity Stream. Their website has many online classes that are kept separate from each other, and their wish is to have the Activity Stream only show activity that is relevant to the forum a user has access to, and keep info from other forums private (they are using MemberMouse to restrict access). I did some research on here and on Google and found several threads that talked about similar issues, but wasn’t able to find any solutions.

The site uses the latest version of WP (4.4.2) and bbPress (2.5.8) and is located at http://www.themysticdreamacademy.com/

I thought the bbPress Activity Stream Shortcode Plugin would do the job, so I installed that and did a quick test, but I’m getting this error: Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_has_activities() in /home/myst1cadm1n/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bp-activity-shortcode/bp-activity-as-shortcode.php on line 102

If that issue could be resolved, we may be all set since we can set up shortcodes to display different streams for different forums. Otherwise, we’d like to know if there’s a way to limit the Activity Stream to only show content the user has access to.

Finally, my client is also concerned about the default forums page, which shows a listing of recent topics from all forums and is visible to anyone who finds it: http://www.themysticdreamacademy.com/forums/ Users who aren’t logged in aren’t able to click any of the links, but they are still concerned about privacy. Is it possible to make this page private so only logged-in admins can see it? Or can it be removed somehow?

Thanks for your time,
Rory

[phraisohn]

I have the same problem. I just download WordPress 4.4.1 and Fresh install. Then install bbPress latest version.

When I visit Forum category I can’t see the link or button that I can create new topic. It’s show only “This forum is empty.”. I try with basic theme Twentyfourteen which came with WordPress.

Any Idea to solve this please?

[hooohn]

I have WP 4.4.1 with the latest bbpress Version 2.5.8 installed on a local machine (therefore no link). The theme is base on the warp engine from yootheme.com

I am testdriving bbpress locally. As an admin, I can set up forums and topics etc. but in the front end, I can not create topics in a forum nor answer to topics created by admin the backend.

Front-end posting even does not work as an admin logged in, and it’s browser independantly not working.

All I get is the general error message: “Are you sure you want to do this?”

Even with all other plugins deactivated, there is no change.

Only changes to the standard setup are “allow non registered users to create topics” and the permalink rewrite from “forums” to “xxx-yyy-zzzz”

Help is highly appreciated! thx in advance

[Andrew Tibbetts]

Ooops.
I have been jumping back and forth testing forum home and topics as they both don’t work and I copied the wrong line I was using.
So, correction:

…when i put echo is_singular( bbp_get_topic_post_type() ) ? 'yes' : 'no'; exit; on line 255 of bbpress/includes/common/template.php inside bbp_is_single_topic(), I get a white page that says “no”.

I get the same “no” doing the forum check in the forum function while on the forum page.

[Stephen Edgar]

@ dots Nice size forum, heres a few things that I hope will help:

Firstly, can you try by using bbPress 2.6-alpha, you can find it here https://bbpress.org/download/

1) Sometimes scripts are automatically stopped and script not start automatically.

Sometimes things timeout, a workaround for this is to open another tab in your browser to example.com/wp-admin and refresh it occasionally

2) Currently, lots of data is still pending to import in BBPress but the script is not running and in tools bottom section I can see only “Starting Conversion” and loader.

This is similar to 1), by refreshing you should in another browser tab this should keep that issue at bay, this particular issue is usually when PHP drops the MySQL connection and needs refreshing to update the connection between WordPress and the database.

3) I have noticed in the tool having the duplication issue you can see above in Xenforo only 83,813 topics but BBPress tool imported 83,867 records. So 54 records are duplicates. so this issue resolved using BBPress repair forum tabs?

It could be duplicates, though I’ve only ever tested 3 or 4 Xenforo forums with bbPress, potentially using the repair tools might fix this though without some more information here it will be hard to take a guess. If you can supply a copy of a couple of duplicates I can take a closer look as to the reason why.

4) BBPress import tool taking random data from the Xenforo database. I have noticed when I have started the script first the users come from the Xenforo. But unfortunately, the users are skipped and the tool has started to import the topic. So, I am a bit confused here BBpress import tool can complete import all the users, topic, forums, and replies successfully? you can see above my total Xenforo user is 1,59,679 and BBPress tool has imported only 94,600. and the now script has started to import replies.

Again, it should do all of this correctly, though testing with bbPress 2.6-alpha per above will hopefully fix many, or most of the issues you are having, can you try using 2.6-alpha and let me know how that goes for you please 🙂

Also a couple more tips in our docs:

Import Troubleshooting

[JC1520]

How do i remove “Create New Topic” as it shows as default at the bottom of my forum i would like to remove this.
I want to disable “Create New Topic” in for all logon users
I want to control the topics myself and only allow particpants to reply to topics that are in the forum. I have the lastest version of WP and BBpress.

[Manuel Fritsch]

So, after further testing, I can indeed confirm what I found yesterday. It is a bug, from my point of view, since changing forum descriptions can hardly be counted as activity in the forum itself. That means mixing up meta and operative level. (And I don’t think it is a MS issue at all, could anyone test that in a single install?) Could be something for 2.6, then.

[Manuel Fritsch]

@Johnnieasear: To me, MS is the future of WP. Why have one site, if I can have at least one more for testing purposes? That was what I thought about before setting up my network. Of course, that means mostly styling tests, since plugins are integrated with the network and some plugins can only be (de-)activated on network level, so testing is limited. But still.

Do you refer to this Guide? “Extensive” would too far-fetched a word for that, in my opinion. It’s more of a brief overview. Useful, of course. 🙂

[Andrew Tibbetts]

I am trying to figure out why bbPress (inside Buddypress) isn’t enqueueing topic.js on topic pages so that favoriting and subscribing buttons ajax instead of refresh (which they currently do).

In enqueue_scripts(), bbp_is_single_topic() is being checked before allowing the js files to be enqueued.

In the bbp_is_single_topic() function declaration, is_singular( bbp_get_topic_post_type() ) || bbp_is_query_name( 'bbp_single_topic' ) must be satisfied to return true.

Issue: is_singular( bbp_get_topic_post_type() ) returns false (also is_singluar('topic') and just is_singluar() — also, no matter where I go in bbpress, is_singluar() returns false).
Tangential: echoing bbp_get_query_name() returns nothing.

Any ideas?

NB: This was tested on fresh Twenty Twelve with all non-essential plugins disabled and bp-custom.php emptied.

WP: 4.4.1
BP: 2.4.3
BBP: 2.5.8

[Pascal Casier]

Yeah, well, I realized myself only some minutes ago that my reasoning was wrong. Of course only stable gets ‘downloaded’. That’s how it goes.
If you have 2.6 alpha installed and you want to use the latest dev translation, you will have to download the po file and put it locally.
Pascal.

[Manuel Fritsch]

Not currently we have one, no. And still, I doubt that I could replicate the conditions, with users and replies and cross-testing all this with our 40 plugins, one by one for days each.

Well, I’ll watch the Freshness closely and come back to this thread if it does not resolve itself. Thank you for being there for me!

[Pascal Casier]

I can bring you hundreds of examples where plugins conflict…
From what you write, I understand you don’t have a test site ? That would be the way to go …

Pascal.

[Pascal Casier]

I was hoping to see 2.6 in January, but the latest WP broke some stuff that needs in-depth checks and testing. As everybody is a volunteer working on this project, no official dates can be set.

If you translated dev (which is the 2.6 in the ‘trunk), the translation is moved to ‘stable’ whenever 2.6 is set as a ‘stable’ version. So you only need to do the work once.

I will have a check later why the new German version is not being pushed !

Pascal.

[Manuel Fritsch]

Uhh, that is a tricky one. We have so much parts that work together, not least the firewall and security plugins. I cannot run the website and test bbpress behaviour for hours or days without any of them. Also, I can’t imagine how any of them could interfere with bbpress. It usually isn’t about plugin conflicts, if such tiny details get wrong. Come to think of it, it never really is about plugin conflicts in my experience, whenever something is wrong on the website.

Do you see any other way to test this?

[a2nl2enyc]

After looking through a bunch of documentation, I created a new test forum, new test topic, but can’t figure out how to add a forum to a page.

[Manuel Fritsch]

If I set my test user to Keymaster, I can login and see the threads, but when trying to reply, the system tells me that I have no right to do so – even when the test user is WP admin, too. And even though I could actually post a new thread with my admin account an hour ago. And if I set my user to moderator, he gets 404 like all others.

Yesterday morning, I set the time for one post for ten minutes back via phpmyadmin, to see if I can change the order of replies that way. It did not seem to have any negative effect then. I set the change back yesterday night, but that did not help. Could my little change in the database be the reason, that the forum now shields itself from any users except Keymasters?

[Gunilla]

The theme was not the problem. I now know that it is the 404 plugin where I can use a wordpress page as 404-page. I have tested two different 404 plugins but it is the same problem with both of them.

Is there any way to work around this problem so I can use a 404 plugin and still have a well functioning bbPress forum?

[elis85]

i have a site with buddypress and bbpress installed.
latest version of wordpress, buddypress and bbpress
every group has a forum. i’m having a strange issue, regular users can post only one post.
when trying to post again, the page reloads but nothing happens. the post is not saved, and wont show up anywhere, and no error massage is shown.
searched for info about this problem but couldn’t find anything.
any ideas what could be the problem.

thank’s,
eli.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
Try this in a child theme or functions.php (I didn’t really test it, but this could be a way to do):

function casiepa_mention_gravatar() {
            echo 'Upload a profile picture on <a href="gravatar.com">Gravatar</a>';
}

add_action( 'bbp_theme_after_reply_author_details', 'casiepa_mention_gravatar' );
add_action( 'bbp_theme_after_topic_author_details', 'casiepa_mention_gravatar' );

Pascal.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
As everybody is volunteer, it depends on the time that developers and testers can spend on bbPress. Only when the product is considered ready, it will be moved to stable.
We are all hopeful that it will be soon.
Pascal.

[Robin W]

latest topics is in a shortcode in my plugin

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-style-pack/

[bsp-display-topic-index show=’5′ forum =’10’]

[Serchgdl]

Sorry respond so late, I was waiting for a response from the developers of the plugin, but I guess they are very busy and have not had time …

Smilies remain “disappeared”, but I found a temporary solution to this plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/font-emoticons/ which by the way I liked it.

P.S. I have the latest versions of WordPress and bbPress.

Cheers.

[ZivotsRS]

I need to display the latest topics and posts on the homepage. In the widgets of course I have, but on the home page can I be set:
only the most recent topics
only latest posts
Can this be somehow connected? To the homepage displaying the latest topics and the latest posts?

Me failed to find a way to, plugin, etc.
You advise me please, anyone?
Vendulka

PS: Please excuse, I do not speak English, only compiler.

WP – 4.1.9
bbPress – 2.5.8
web: http://www.takyzijemsvami.eu (but it yet locked – I work thereon)

[Pascal Casier]

Hi Graham,
What you describe is to me a plugin conflict, so you will have to perform the test and deactivate before I can help you any further. Start with the Sucuri Security as from the description this one COULD block.

Pascal.