[Dirk]

Hello,

I recently started to use bbPress v 2.5.4 with WP v 4.0.1.
Everything worked fine until I changed the user_login in of a user in the mySQL database, who had the bbPress moderator-role and started two forums before.
Now this user (and every other „moderator“) can´t see the menu-item „forum“ in the Dashboard anymore. Any other bbPress-role works like it should.
As a workaround I created a testpage with the shortcode [bbp-forum-form] and tried to start a new forum as „moderator“. It worked, but I only could start a child-forum under an existing parent. So the „keymaster“ has to change it to „parent“ everytime a „moderator“ starts a new forum.
That´s a wortkaround but not a solution.

I found a post here in the forum https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/moderator-role-cant-create-or-manage-forums/, where you speak of a known issue, that a moderator can´t see the „forum“ menu in the dashboard anymore. The problem described there seems to be quite similar to mine but is 1 year old. So, is this issue solved in the meantime? And if not, perhaps my problem helps to address the issue.

Thanks for any assistance.

[Stephen Edgar]

Apologies for the late reply, importing alone will not add all the required “meta data” that bbPress requires, after importing your batch of test topics go to “Tools -> Forums” and run each of the bbPress repair tools, this should fix your issues of not seeing the topics on the front end.

[kannued]

These two plugins have been combined into Frank Bültge latest, which does not have topics as one of the content options. Any other suggstions? I should think bbpress should have a plugin to address search and replace in topics.

[Robin W]

Wordpress insists that you ether an email address, but you only need enter something that looks valid.

So for instance for my non existent test users, I simply create their accounts with a dummy unique email address such as

testuser1@qhqhttyweyywttw.com
testuser2@qhqhttyweyywttw.com

Then just give you users their username and initial password, and ask them to change the password.

Once that is done, there are no additional security risks in setting them up this way, as the only risk is of they click ‘lost password’ and that will send an email to the (hopefully!) non-existent user email above, hence the horrible email address above.

You could even disable password reset

http://wpsnipp.com/index.php/functions-php/remove-the-lost-your-password-link/

and stop that happening

[Dirk]

Hello,

I recently started to use bbPress v 2.5.4 with WP v 4.0.1.
Everything worked fine until I changed the user_login in of a user in the mySQL database, who had the bbPress moderator-role and started two forums before.
Now this user (and every other „moderator“) can´t see the menu-item „forum“ in the Dashboard anymore. Any other bbPress-role works like it should.
As a workaround I created a testpage with the shortcode [bbp-forum-form] and tried to start a new forum as „moderator“. It worked, but I only could start a child-forum under an existing parent. So the „keymaster“ has to change it to „parent“ everytime a „moderator“ starts a new forum.
That´s a wortkaround but not a solution.

Deactivating all plugins made no difference., also changing the capabilities with “bbPress Advanced Capabilities”.

I found a post here in the forum “Moderator role can’t create or manage Forums”, where you speak of a known issue, that a moderator can´t see the „forum“ menu in the dashboard anymore. The problem described there seems to be quite similar to mine but is 1 year old. So, is this issue solved in the meantime? And if not, perhaps my problem helps to address it.

Thanks for any assistance.

[Joe Dostie]

Sorry about that previous post, no idea why it looks like that (you can delete it)

I have both a test site and a production site. This is repeatable in both environments.

I had to disable BOTH of the below plugins to make bbPress work.

Revolution Slider – Version 4.6.5
User Role Editor – Version 4.17.3

Revolution Slider is part of the Avada 3.7 theme and they say “Avada has full integration with this plugin.”

Another thing I just now noticed since it working is that the options “Tags:”, “Topics Type:” and “Topic Status:” were not originally available when using the [bbp-forum-index]

[Joe Dostie]

I have both a test site and a production site. This is repeatable in both environments.

I had to disable BOTH of the below plugins to make bbPress web interface work.

I have both a test site and a production site. This is repeatable in both environments.

I had to disable BOTH of the below plugins to make bbPress work.

Revolution Slider – Version 4.6.5
User Role Editor – Version 4.17.3

Revolution Slider is part of the Avada 3.7 theme and they say “Avada has full integration with this plugin.”

Another thing I just now noticed since it working is that the options “Tags:”, “Topics Type:” and “Topic Status:” were not originally available when using the [bbp-forum-index]
User Role Editor – Version 4.17.3

Revolution Slider is part of the Avada 3.7 theme and they say “Avada has full integration with this plugin.”

Another thing I just now noticed since it working is that the options “Tags:”, “Topics Type:” and “Topic Status:” were not originally available when using the [bbp-forum-index]

[Robin W]

ok, le’s start by eliminating themes and plugins

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 twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[synergywp]

Just did a little further testing with a dummy account… If you add a reply to a topic on the front end, then use the recalculate tool, it will once again apply a topic ID(and therefore publish time) for the _bbp_last_active_time.

[Robin W]

ok, 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 twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[Robin W]

Not quite sure why you’re having a problem.

ALL views of forums/topics should show last post as the latest reply to a topic, not quite sure why you’re seeing that differently.

what ‘theme’ did you buy?

[peter-hamilton]

Hi all

A lot of changes have happened since I was last here, nameserver changed and hosting the production site on my-latest.com.

Activity Wall
Added a “like” system that actually works 99% (working to make it 100%)

Profile pages
Now have the buttons/links to change avatar and background on the actual image containers.

testdrive can be done here:

BBFacelook

Now back to styling the forums.

Peter Hamilton

[Chad]

Thanks for your reply @netweb

So password conversion works in the import, but the codex doc still says otherwise?

Side note while testing, I noticed forum links like this

Permalink: http://www.mydomain.com/blog/forums/forum/buzz/press-stand/

I don’t understand why there’s /forums/forum/buzz.. ?

“Buzz” is set as category, press-stand as forum. Buzz has no parent but is a parent to press stand.

[Stephen Edgar]

1. Custom vBulletin BBCodes are not supported eg. [youtube] – You will have to manually change these yourself either before importing in vBulletin or after importing into bbPress using phpMyAdmin.

Indeed this is now fixed to work with vBulletin’s default YouTube BBCodes:
Specifically the two following BBCodes are the only ones supported (many vB forums used to use custom BBCodes and this was primarily the main issue here)

// Replace '[video=youtube;$1]$2[/video]' with '$2"
// Replace '[video=youtube_share;$1]$2[/video]' with '$2"

For example [video=youtube;eOUq4Z6R7xI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfW2UJMIQvQ[/video] will be replaced with just the YouTube link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfW2UJMIQvQ, bbPress (and WordPress) will automatically embed the video using the direct URL.

2. All ‘Ordered Lists’ will be displayed as numerical lists.

This is also fixed

3. You may find extra page breaks <br> and paragraph <p> elements in topics and replies and is less than ideal and is from the way the BBCodes are converted during the forum import conversion. You will find these primarily around ‘blockquotes’ and ‘lists’

This is fixed also 🙂

#1 If I create the exact bbcodes in BBPress prior to the import, I assume this would rectify this area correct?

Yes, modify your custom BBCodes to either a) Match the supported vBulletin BBCode above or b) completely strip the vBulletin BBCode so just the YouTube link remains 🙂

I have updated the codex article and removed quite a few things that were listed there that are now fixed including full support to convert user passwords and the items in red in this image are fixed and/or supported 🙂

With that said “some” of these features are not in the currently shipped bbPress 2.5.4 such as Forum and Topic subscriptions and guest/anonymous topic and reply support, I’m going to post an announcement here on the site in the coming day or two on the improvements and where and how to get this test release.

[arkarg]

I was building a website with wordpress (including the bbpress plugin) and decided to make a dummy user account in order to test everything out. It would not let me log in with the dummy account, sometimes it came back with a message about “too many redirects” but most times it just timed out and went nowhere. It would however let me log into the site with my “admin” account. I deactivated all of the plugins and then re-activated them one at a time, logging out and attempting to log in with the dummy account after each one. I was able to log in with the dummy account after each one was re-activated…until I re-activated bbpress. Any ideas on what the issue could be?

[FADmark]

Hi,

Topics and Replies that have been edited are showing duplicate entries for each actual revision. Example (see the 3rd post): http://cancergrace.org/topic/webmaster-tests

See the 3rd post – it should only be showing 3 revisions, but they are listed twice for some reason. Nothing has changed on my end and I don’t believe I added any hacks to this part of the code, other than some CSS.

I’m not exactly sure when this started, but I believe it may have been when my WPMS was updated to 4.0.1, while running bbP 2.5.4-5380.

Thanks for any tips on how I might resolve this.

-Mark

[bcrider]

Hello,

On my test forum I’m having a hard time understanding how Freshness works. On the theme I purchased Freshness is called “Last Post” but I’m assuming it works the same.

What confuses me is on Forum List view, the Freshness (Last Post) seems to be pulling the last time a “Topic” was created….not the last time someone “replied”.

Is this normal behavior and is there a way to modify it?

I would like Freshness to reference the most recent reply….not the most recent topic.

Forum View is showing last Topic date

I’d like the Forum view to show the last Reply date like the Topic View page shows

As a side question, how can I edit the size/color/boldness of the Freshness time given? I’d like to make it smaller.

Thanks

[Robkk]

@icaroferreira

if you were trying to post more than 2 links in your reply , this site site wont allow it as a SPAM prevention measure because of the latest SPAM attack.

if you ever need to post more than 2 links just paste the url without the http://

i can just highlight and search it in google.

—

as for your site being in maintenance it is really hard to help.

i suggest you use the inspecter tools in your browser

select the author name both under the topic title and in the freshness section

see in the source code if there is even an image with some something like img src by the name

if there is

check and see if the small avatars are hidden with CSS and most likely change display:none; to dipslay:inline;

if the image is not even in the source code by the author names.

contact the userpro plugin author and see if they will help you install the template right if that was the problem.

[Robin W]

ok,

1. what two plugins did you try that didn’t work?
2. have you been through https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum/
3. Does it work if you disable s2member – just a test to see if it is a conflict
4. what permalink are you running – dashboard>settings>permalinks
5. What bbpress slugs are you running – dashboard>settings>forums

[dmx09]

Sorry, I’d edit my last post but I can’t see a way of doing that!

Just an update on progress… So far I’ve managed to import a test batch of topics and they are all in the right place in the admin, however – when I view their parent forum on the front end they are not displaying.

Topics I’ve created via the admin (Topics / Add New) seem to work fine but none of the imported Topics will display. I’ve even compared the tables in the DB but cant spot anything wrong there.

Any thoughts welcome!

[Jutarbari]

I’m having an interesting problem. I have set up a forum and was testing it with a test user. As oon as the user registers or logs-in, the forum root url shows as 404. If the suer logs out, the forum root is again visible. As adnibistrator I have no such issue. The issue is when I have a test user log in as ‘participant’

Here is where I have my test forum.

http://www.bangladeshexpats.com/forums/

[atfpodcast]

Ok now it’s working with the latest theme update. Don’t know what he did.

[liquid8]

Hi all,

I’d need to convert a bbpress-version 0.73 to the newest version.
Is there any converters etc that could do this?

I tried to use the bbpress-plugins importer and selected the old database as a source but I got an error saying that bb_meta-table is missing from db. I found out that this table has not been used in the earliest versions such as 0.73.

[Robkk]

well it looks nice how it is already but thats my opinion.

but if you really want the default bbPress look , i think all you have to do is copy loop-single-topic.php from the bbPress plugin templates and let it overwrite the exact file in your child themes bbpress folder.

i suggest you test it out and make sure it works well in a local development area on your CPU.

https://codex.bbpress.org/creating-a-test-site/

[Robkk]

@webui1

dont make test replies in the bbPress forums

create a local-hosted site and do all the testing there.