How do I move the last two entries herein to a new topic?
At the moment, both sites are essentially empty. I’ll be unpacking a “cPanel” backup of an old HTML site to the “test” site then somehow converting all the HTML pages to WP pages. I will be replacing the old dokuwiki with bbpress and manually populating the bbpress forum with about 100 entries (topics). Once all is beautiful and operative with the “test” site I’ll move it from “test.mysite.com” to “mysite.com”.
Will the bbpress forum move with the website transfer to the new site or does anything proprietary to bbpress need to be done (e.g. new SQL Database) ?
ok, moving bbpress between sites can be complex.
Is the test site a mirror of the live site?
Your help and suggestions were terrific. Thank you.
Now, once the bbpress site is completed, manipulated, and refined in the “test” sub-domain, how do I move it over to the active domain? I have it in ‘test.domain.com’ and will move it to ‘domain.com’.
Hi @robin-w,
Has this feature been changed/removed in your plugin?
I’ve just updated to the latest version and I can’t seem to find it.
I’ve just come across this same issue, where if I navigate to “View Latest Topics” (https://snipboard.io/wTzMvL.jpg)
it loads and reloads additional versions of the content infinitely until the browser runs out of ram.
https://homesteadacademy.com/forums/view/latest-topics/
I have tried the snippet you kindly provided in the “code snippet” plugin but no luck.
Any advice for me?
@robin-w Thanks for your feedback, insight and testing on my behalf.
I’ve used the troubleshooter to run the site using 2022 theme and only bbpress. Still won’t allow me to add the user to the forum.
Also the username has the initial of firstname and lastname capitalised so it is more accurately of the format ‘Firstname. Secondname’ – i note that in the ‘all forums’ screen, the moderators columns are all displayed lowercase. So i tried adding the username in the format ‘firstname. secondname’ but to no avail.
To further narrow down the issue I successfully created a new member/user on the site with the actual username ‘Firstname. Secondname’. After upgrading their Forum role to moderator, i attempted to added them as a moderator to a forum. So i added ‘Firstname. Secondname’ (without inverted commas) into the Forum Moderators field and hit update. This then left the field with ‘firstname-lastname’ in place. So when adding the moderator it swaps the ‘dot space’ to a hyphen and makes all characters lowercase.
With this new discovery, I tried adding the original problem username back as a forum moderator, all lowercase with the ‘dot space’ replaced with a hyphen.
But it didn’t accept it.
So I’m confused now as to why it works with one new user in the same format as the old user (which doesn’t work)?
See the above testing in action here
With the new knowledge, I finally retried adding the troublesome username in lowercase with hyphen whilst in a similar troubleshooting set-up but again it didn’t accept it.
Any further thoughts?
Ok .. I sorta guessed that .. no problem doing them manually. I’m still testing lots of different things on the test site before I move it all to the live URL.
How would you suggest I handle the email addresses? Ideally, they will be required for new entries but not be displayed (malware harvesters). I could use something like Mailchimp to maintain a list of submitted addresses and keep private.
Also, I need to put a notice on entries that have NO email address (old ones I manually copy) that an address is needed.
Thanks for the help you’ve given. I really appreciate it.
OK .. I re-read the forum rules and apparently it’s ok to put in a URL. This is the test site. There is an image on the home page with a button that says “Click Here” at the bottom. Click it and it’ll take you to the bbPress “Name Registry” attempt. https://loftorg.com
In case you missed this:
BTW – I have this working up on a test site that you can view – if I’m not breaking any forum rules by supplying a URL. It’s merely a test site – go to the main page and click the button at the bottom of the page and it’ll take you to the design (in progress) of the bbpress “Registry” attempt.
Let me know if you want me to send you the URL.
BTW – I have this working up on a test site that you can view – if I’m not breaking any forum rules by supplying a URL. It’s merely a test site – go to the main page and click the button at the bottom of the page and it’ll take you to the design (in progress) of the bbpress “Registry” attempt.
Let me know if you want me to send you the URL.
I just tried adding a user with a space in the name ie ‘test user’
then in dashboard>forums>edit forum>moderators I typed in ‘test user’
it did not pick up the name as I typed it so I had to type the full name, but it did accept it, and added it correctly to the forum database.
per forum moderators are relatively new, and the 15 yr old and 8 year old threads would have been for bbpress version 1.
so on my test site bbpress does allow moderators with spaces in the names.
my next suggestion would be it could be a theme or plugin issue
Themes
As a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwenty, and see if this fixes.
Plugins
If that doesn’t work, also deactivate all plugins apart from bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.
If you cannot do this to your site (say because it is live) then use the ‘troubleshooting’ features of this plugin to let you test without affecting other users
Health Check & Troubleshooting
Then come back
ok, I found the divi theme on one of my customer sites and tested and followed Dozza’s advice
so go to
dashboard>Divi > Theme options > Builder > Advanced > Static CSS File Generation > Clear.
then
dashboard> divi > Theme Options > Performance> Dynamic CSS option and disable
THEN critically you need to clear and server side caching, AND clear your browser cache.
Server side will depend on your host, and/or any caching plugins you have installed.
Browser – see this helpful article
How To Clear Cache for All Major Browsers
then it all worked fine
thanks Dozza for your work on this 🙂
I’m just a guy sat in his kitchen who was helped several years ago when I was setting bbpress up, so I try to help others – I’m not a bbpress author.
Updates from the bbpress authors are few and far between, I think they are on other projects now, and maybe consider bbpress as a mature product. The philosophy was always to keep bbpress small, and let other plugins add stuff that was needed.
I do ask them to update the ‘tested to’ but it rarely happens. I test bbpress with new versions.
That is and will always be the issue with open source software – it relies on people doing stuff for free, and people’s focus changes and people move on. That is annoying, but the reality of life.
If you have things that need core updates, you can raise them on trac
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/report
That way at least stuff that is wrong or could be done better gets logged.
Thanks, Robin for the plugin suggestion, but it’s more of the core of bbPress which seems quite outdated and a little messy with code. Plus, doing template overrides, there are things which hoped would be there that I can override. Some styles are using!important, some styles are reused in ways they shouldn’t be, so I had to get creative with overrides…I had to use javascript to remove/change/add classes to select elements: ie buttons.
Then, on the bbpress plugin page at .org, this shows up as a notice:
This plugin hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
Time to revamp this plugin and bring the coding and features up-to-date–plus capabilities. Even here in this forum, the font size is just 12 px. Time to move it up a bit, especially for accessibility 🙂
HI
Wordpress has issued a warning on the plugins page at wordpress.org saying that this plugin hasen’t been tested with the current version of wordpress
So Just out of curiosity is bbPress 2.6.9 campatible with the latest version of wordpress 6.2 ??
And has it also been tested with the newest version of PHP 7.4/8.0/8.1/8.2 ??
The information tab on the plugins page in wordpress.org says:
Version: 2.6.9
Author The bbPress Contributors
Last update: 1 year ago
Demands WordPress version: 5.0 or newer
compatible up to: 5.9.5
Demands PHP version: 5.6.20 or newer
Please check and inform me and the rest of the plugins users about the status.
Oh yeah and remember to update the plugins inforation tab at wordpress.org
/Lars
Robin, I totally understand you being just a man in the kitchen. Thats the way it should be, haha.
Yes, It’s mostly like the css I looked at when testing the plugin.
Thank’s for the filter. will give it whirl and report back.
it could be a theme or plugin issue
Themes
As a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwenty, and see if this fixes.
Plugins
If that doesn’t work, also deactivate all plugins apart from bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.
If you cannot do this to your site (say because it is live) then use the ‘troubleshooting’ features of this plugin to let you test without affecting other users
Health Check & Troubleshooting
Then come back
MAIL SERVER SETTINGS FOR ESS MODULE (EMPLOYEE SELF SERVICE MODULE)
SMTP MAIL SERVER PARAMETERS
ERROR : Socket Error pops up while doing;
TEST SMTP DEFAULT SMTP SERVER SETTINGS
Some other mail server setting types go through but some do not. Is there something we are missing in this setup?
Regards
K. Magabo
ok, I cannot replicate that issue.
it could be a theme or plugin issue
Themes
As a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwenty, and see if this fixes.
Plugins
If that doesn’t work, also deactivate all plugins apart from bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.
If you cannot do this to your site (say because it is live) then use the ‘troubleshooting’ features of this plugin to let you test without affecting other users
Health Check & Troubleshooting
Then come back
Brilliant! Thanks for the codes. Just tested and it works like a charm! 😀
As I guessed, it’s coming from your theme
You can try this: (it’s not tested)
function aa_profile_title ( $title, $id ) {
if ( bbp_is_single_user_profile() && empty(get_post_type($id)) ) {
$author_id = bbp_get_displayed_user_field('ID');
$nickname = um_get_display_name( $author_id );
$title = $nickname;
}
return $title;
}
add_filter( 'the_title', 'aa_profile_title', 10, 2);
Hi, here is my test site. Still under construction.
I found that most of the time WordPress display correctly in “display name publicly as” using NICKNAME. But there are times where it displays USERNAME in “display name publicly as” even though users have already registered their nickname in Ultimate Member profile.
Running Atra 4.1.2. I had the issue with Bbpress forum search gets stuck using Astra theme.
I came across your code in another thread and implemented it into functions.php and the issue stopped, although I wanted to use the plugin instead.
I was actually running the non-latest version of Astra, and it seems like the issue resolved itself after updating the theme to 4.1.2.
Brand new user, and have set up bbpress but have one feature I need to add still and can’t find it in my search of previous posts here.
I want to replace the Topic Tags box with a select box or checkboxes showing a pre-definted list of Topic Tags. At osme point we may allow users to create new ones, but not now.
What is the best approach here? I can edit the template for the post form and manually add the tags, but I’d prefer it pull them from the existing topic tags list so we can update that and have the latest list of tags displayed.
Many thanks.
bbpress Version: 2.6.9
WP version: (latest)
Theme: twentythirteen (child)
Forum: https://wjsociety.org/forums/forum/william-james-papers-for-discussion/
it could be a theme or plugin issue
Themes
As a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwenty, and see if this fixes.
Plugins
If that doesn’t work, also deactivate all plugins apart from bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.
If you cannot do this to your site (say because it is live) then use the ‘troubleshooting’ features of this plugin to let you test without affecting other users
Health Check & Troubleshooting
Then come back
can the “tested up to” be bumped to 6.1 or 6.2 for the plugin?
