[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?

[rebabaskett]

I have asked for help twice and this has been deleted. I have read through the forum, searched the help files, and followed all requests. Please let me know what I am doing wrong but I need help with this.

Divi Theme latest version
Wordpress 4.3
bb press 2.5.8
Links:
mysite.com/horizon/
mysite.com/ims/

I have to create multiple pages like the ones above. I have created the forums for each page which include: parents, teachers, students but the problem comes with the post into a board. I had to remove breadcrumbs since it took them back to the forum home with all the boards. I am going to have many more pages like above. Is there a way to have when they post go back to the page they came from?

Right now after they submit they see this with no way to get back to say this page mysite.com/ims/

[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]

@mihirpatel7410

It doesn’t link to 404s anymore.

http://www.logiclamps.com/forums/

I think I fixed the issue you had with the admin links.

Delete the testaccount user I created, I did not feel comfortable using your account information.

[Rob Sbaglia]

They are just listed as “participant” under users of the blog in question. I’m not sure whether they are bbpress forum roles, but bbpress must have something to do with it because when I uninstall bbpress the behaviour stops.

There are no forums on these blogs, just the parent blog (http://theglobalschool.net/science).

Try it for yourself. Go to a sub-blog (http://theglobalschool.net/science/nerissabcr). Hover over “blog authors”. There are heaps – most have only viewed the blog. Notice ‘teststudent’ is not listed as a blog author.

Now go to http://theglobalschool.net/science and sign in as [removed login information]. Now visit that blog again. I bet “teststudent” is added as a blog author.

[tkse]

I tested the starter theme you linked and that is brilliant. There seems to be a lot of CSS to delve into, but that’s ok. Thanks! 🙂

[mihirpatel7410]

Its live but you can test on it.

Domain name : http://www.logiclamps.com/
[please try not to post login information here]

Thanks in advance.

[Robkk]

Sorry I took a much needed break yesterday.

Well I do not see the forums anymore.

If you have a test site I can try to figure out what is causing the issue myself.

[aikichick2012]

no ideas, anyone? 🙁

(ps: forgot to say: i am using the latest version of bbpress and wordpress.)

[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! 🙂

[Pascal Casier]

Hi Andy,
For the ‘subscriptions menu’ item I cannot help you I’m afraid.

For the emails I have had issues myself and did these:
– Installed an email logging plugin so I could find out why some emails were not sent
– Installed an SMTP plugin, correctly configured, to make sure ALL emails were sent
– Created my own plugin to make sure I see that people are really subscribed to the forum (https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-manage-subscriptions/). Nothing sophisticated and just for my own needs, but if it can be of any help…

For the ‘notifications’, don’t fall into the same trap like me: You don’t get notifications for topics you create yourself ! So use at least 2 accounts to test. Also the email logging showed how TO: and CC: fields were filled.

Hope it points you in a correct direction,
Pascal.

[salocime]

Hello,

Perhaps I just haven’t read enough about the forums feature, but where I’ve been looking for answers isn’t helping.

First of all, there doesn’t seem to be a way to make the forums invisible to the general public. I have a membership site with elementary-aged students; I can NOT have the forums visible to the general public. Is there something I’m missing about how to make that happen? For everything else on my site, the fact that I put that that the content is protected and the membership level works; this is visible to EVERYBODY. My understanding is that if I put private or hidden, only I can see it, correct? What do I need to do to make this forum only visible to site members?

Then there’s the actual member issue: It’s telling my site members that they have to be logged in to post. Well, not only should they not be able to see the forum if they’re not logged in (they can), but they are already logged in when they access the link, so why is it saying that they have to log in? Do they specifically need a WordPress account? Does their account with my site not do the trick?

My site is updated to the latest WordPress version and I’m using the Spacious theme.

[hotconductor]

We did the plugin chain test and found the culprit… thanks

[andyrushtonprogramming]

Hi,

as I understand it, when I subscribe to a forum, I should get an email every time a new topic is created. I also understand that I should see a Subscriptions menu item in the Admin menu.

I’mnot getting either of these – when a user creates a topic in a forum I’m subscribed to, I don’t get a notification. I don’t have a Subscriptions menu either.

I have the latest version (2.5.8) installed. I have tried stripping down my website so that it uses a standard theme (TwentyFifteen) and one plugin (bbPress) although I haven’t tried a clean install yet.

Can anyone suggest where to go with this. I really cannot afford to do a clean install – this is a huge website I’m managing!

[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

[Rob Sbaglia]

It’s not registering the user; the user becomes a “participant” on the blog they have viewed. The only person who can register a user is me.

Example of what happens: a blog on my multisite is http://theglobalschool.net/science/news . The only user for this blog is the administrator.

Another member of the multiside views this blog, and immediately becomes a “participant” of this blog. I don’t want this to occur because, when students log into the site, on the toolbar they see a whole bunch of blogs listed under “my blog” which they cannot contribute to.

I have the latest version of WordPress, and have tried deleting bbPress and reinstalling to no avail.

Suggestions?

[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.

[mihirpatel7410]

I have same problem, I have installed the latest bbpress plugin to my wordpress site. There isn’t a single tab or subcategory to be found in my dashboard that relates to BBPress.

give us solution.

[Shmoo]

This is strange..

Why is my filter not working. When I look at my screenshot you can see that this array has an apply_filter() function before the variable/array goes through the paginate_links().
This filter I should use, I expect if I want to make any changes to the array before it gets pulled into the paginate_links() function – right?

So I created this add_filter function to test if I can change the <– arrow –> symbols. But for some reason no success at all.

function xx_my_stuff( $bbp_topic_pagination ) {

	$bbp_topic_pagination = array(
		'prev_text' => 'test',
		'next_text' => 'test',
	);
	return $bbp_topic_pagination;

}
add_filter( 'bbp_topic_pagination', 'xx_my_stuff' );

[geog272]

Geez, I swear it was letting me pick the categories before, but went back and tested and it seems fine now. Must be gremlins in my machine. Thanks very much; this is very helpful.

[mrsminkie]

Yes – I seem to attract these!

No – I’m using a child theme properly and haven’t edited the core files. I’ve used a couple of functions, but I activated the parent and the problem remained so it can’t be in any of that.

I haven’t altered the theme yet because the theme developers confirmed it couldn’t be their theme, and also the website settings will drop out if I do so. It’s a last resort, and I’d be better copying the site into a test environment to test that theory.

Disabled all plugins, cleared all caches – problem still there.

The freshness area is being affected by a plugin: BBP Last Post. It wasn’t installed by me, but I’ve tried deactivating it and the notification still isn’t complete.

[Robkk]

bbPress does not do this by default. Contact your theme author again if it is indeed your theme doing this.

You can do a quick test to see if it is your theme doing this. Switch to a default theme temporarily to see the default message bbPress has.

I have an idea of what the theme author might have done though. All I can say is for them to copy the default bbPress templates and start fresh and create their own bbPress styles and functionality.

Or I guess you can create a child theme and do the same thing.

If it is another plugin causing this, check that out.

[demonboy]

I got this up and running last night. The Postmark guide was a bit confusing but I got there in the end. I’m testing this today with 20 testers, so we’ll see how they get on.

[Robkk]

What is your site link so I can see what happens if I log in?

Also send me some test user login details that has the role Subscriber/participant.

Contact