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
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.
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.
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?
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
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
@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.
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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.
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
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!
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/
Ok now it’s working with the latest theme update. Don’t know what he did.
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.
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/
@webui1
dont make test replies in the bbPress forums
create a local-hosted site and do all the testing there.
I don’t specifically know if that is default bbpress behaviour, suggest you try
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.
If none of those show a change, then it is probably default behaviour.
Been a while, spent quite a lot of time looking for a solution for the “name” issue.
Wordpress registration checks if a “username” is already used, this is great.
Buddypress is the problem cause they also add a “Name” field to registration, and this can be duplicate creating issues when multiple John Doe’s appear in my forums and activity.
Solution
I created a dirty solution by changing the label for (buddypress) Name to Username, and added a line of text urging new members to fill in the exact same name as the did in the “Username” field.
Although people can type whatever they want there, I hope most will just copy the first name.
This way the @name and username should be similar on all pages.
Then I also removed the option to change this name in the profile edit.php through CSS so no longer can people change their nicknames.
Unless a code savvy member goes to change the CSS in chrome, then the box will appear and they can change their names.
Wishlist
A solution/function where Buddypress or BBpress copies the username and adds that in the nickname field by default.
Anyway, here is a link to my current register page:
BBFacelook registration page
P.H.
sorry, but since your site requires login, we can’t see
However I’d suggest you check that no plugin updates are needed and then
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.
Hi
We are using this plug in for one of our clients. Their site just went live after being designed, built, and tested on our beta server. Everything worked great, so we moved it to the live server this week.
However, now that they’re on the live site, new forum users are not receiving their email notifications containing their password. In Beta, there was no email “link” as far as I could tell between the Beta site and our hosting. When a new user would register, they would receive an email from wordpress@clientname.org. Within our hosting back end, I can see that emails were actually sent from ourusername@ourbetaserver.com.
Within the Dashbaord/Settings/General, I’ve made certain that the email account listed on that screen matches what was set up with their hosting provider. I’ve dug through the files until I can see code with my eyes close and cannot figure out how to make this work again.
I’ve just now learning development, so please help (at a 101 level). I appreciate any insight!!
With so little information it is hard to help !
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.
I don’t have any of the plugins mentioned here and have this issue occurring as well.
Definitely a bbpress – WP conflict. We have tested on our vanilla site.
I had to implement fix by Yolle. Thanks for the code.
Hopefull this bug gets fixed in next bbpress update.
hmm.. as a mod on my test site(as well as on this site) I can trash and spam.
Have you altered any capabilities, or using any plugins that might affect this?
you could try
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.
that might pinpoint the problem.
Hi,
I want to check if We want the forum section of the website to be accessible by anyone that registers BUT we also need to be able to restrict some sections of the forum, so that only some members can view these sections and others cannot. So that I can test this, I wanted to create a forum named “Some Dummy Text” and set this so that only some profiles can access it but others cannot, depending on what the administrator sets as their access rights? If someone without access rights tries to view this forum, can they get a message asking them to “Special permission is required to access this Forum. Please contact us”.
Does anyone knows about it, how to do it?
Thanks
i found this function doing a search , i havent tested though.
plop the code into your child themes functions.php file or your functionality plugin
and change 100 to whatever you like
function bbp_increase-forum-per-page( $args = array() ) {
$args['posts_per_page'] = get_option( ‘_bbp_forums_per_page’, 100 );
return $args;
}
add_filter( ‘bbp_before_has_forums_parse_args’, ‘bbp_increase-forum-per-page’ );
code is from this topic
Hitting 50 forum limit? What can I do?
