Hi,
I have finally converted a large forum over to bbPress from Vbulletin,
The bbPress forum page and threads etc are quite slow – Im just using bbPress + BuddyPress with Twenty Twelve theme at the moment while I code my forum theme.
The bbPress section of the site is slow – there is a few seconds delay when clicking a thread or onto the forum page itself so guessing this is due to the size – 850k replies, 61k topics and 21k users.
I wondered if there were any tweaks or recommendations for speeding up the site, Im on my own dedicated server and Vbulletin is blazing fast on it.
I saw this thread – http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/slow-to-post-forum-topics-and-replies-on-large-forum/ where it mentioned a speed increase in 2.6 for larger forums, any news on that ? Or anything I can try now to test it out ?
I read that hidden forums might make a difference so I unhid the forum but no speed increase.
I’ve just tested this with bbPress 2.5.4 and Twenty Fourteen with no other active plugins:
* Created a page /123 and added the [bbp-forum-form] shortcode
* Opened that page /123
* Entered 123 as the forum title and description
* Selected forum for the forum type
* Selected open for the forum status
* Selected Public for forum visibility
* Selected root for parent forum (Root is another forum I already had setup)
* Clicked submit and the forum is created and I am redirected to create a new topic in that forum e.g. /forums/forum/root/123/
It could be a plugin conflict or a theme issue, disable all your other plugins and switch to the Twenty Fourteen theme and try again. I tried to access your site using /forums and get redirected to a login plug, so this is what leads me to believe its a conflict somewhere.
I’ll try some tests on my sites over the weekend and see if I can replicate the issue.
Hi there
We are experiencing a ‘mass spam attack’ that is overloading the database on our web host server. Our web hosts SGIS have looked into this and have deleted 75,000 spam attacks this week that have taken place from May to August 2014 (there were only a few hundred in the 14 months preceding this).
Investigation has seems to show that the spam attack is linked to the bbpress forum plugin in our website. We have the latest version of Akismet installed and the latest version of bbpress. We don’t allow guests to start topics or posts or to reply to posts. All users have to be registered to reply to posts and only a few users are allowed to start new topics and posts. We are also using the latest version of WordPress which is 3.9.2. Does anyone have any thoughts or ideas about why this may be happening? Look forward to any reply.
Our website address is: http://www.tenantcentral.org.uk
Cheers – Dane
no i dont want to do that , its harder for me to design the look of the widget.
here let me explain a little bit more on why i want to hack your shortcodes plugin to show recent replies.
well first i want my recent replies (and also recent topics) to look sort of like any recent comments widget. im going to use jetpacks recent comments on their website as an example.
I have already pretty much made a copy of your shortcode plugin , edited it and threw it in my functions.php and put the shortcode in the visual editor widget by blackstudio
heres what it looks like vs the default recent topics widget.
now to make a replies widget with your shortcode all i have to do is rearrange code and use css to style everything together.
to make it look like its showing recent replies, i just show the latest reply authors avatar , their name and what topic they replied on and im done.
The only problem when doing this is if there is no replies on a topic , it would just show the topic author instead.
Plus if you can figure this out i can also make a hack to make a replies archive. Which would be cool for something else i might do and ILL share it all when im done.
i just need help on only showing topics with replies instead of all topics. if that is possible.
the css or content-statistics.php
if its the css ,
test to see if you need to add more classes to the code so it could with the tab widget,
test it by seeing if another stats widget has the css if you place it alone in the sidebar by itself in the tab widget
Hi
I am using the latest wordpress and bbpress
i have my own login form, (for people to upload images to their portfolios) how do i synchronise bbpress with that form rather than having to have 2 login forms which seems silly
Thank you in advance
Melanie
Created a dummy user with the Participant Role. After testing the Test user could not edit the posts. What is even more weird is that even as a Admin, after deleting the post, I can not restore it. All I get is an error that says “Are you sure you want to do this?”, then a link below that says “Please Try again”. Any idea what is going on here?
I am attempting to use the shortcode [bbp-forum-form] to allow users (keymasters) to be able to add new forums as needed. I set up a new page and added this shortcode. The page looks great and the shortcode pulls up the form to add a new forum (as desired). However, when I test it by filling out this form and clicking submit, nothing seems to happen. The page does seem to refresh but a new forum is not added.
Am I missing something? I am new to bbpress so perhaps I just missed a setting somewhere? I am running the latest version of WordPress (3.9.2) and bbPress 2.5.4. My site URL is http://wwcustomercare.azurewebsites.net.
Thank you in advance for your help!
Lora
I’d suggest that you
1. create a test site (which everyone should have in nay case !)
and
2. Google sql tutorial video, and work out how to code my statements
3. go into phpmyadmin on your test site and play until you get it right
4. Come back and post the resultant code to help others
sorry, but almost all of the stuff I have learn’t has been by spending time googling to find some examples, and then hours getting it to work 🙂
Try creating a new user, assign the participant role and test this yourself.
Does it work for you?
What about when you repeat those same steps with a moderator or keymaster role?
Have any of your other plugins or themes recently updated?
Have you tried to disabling all your plugins to see if the issue is resolved?
Have you tried switching the Twenty Fourteen theme to see if the issue persists?
Hi Robin,
I managed to install the standard WP stuff. Btw: I posted the same question on the WP Support Forum, after the reply from Robkk, no response at all so far…
I attempted to change my header img, as the first exercise, but it seems that the web documentation about what to modify and where has nothing to do with the directory and files structure of WP I’ve downloaded, which was the latest 3.9.2 on Saturday. I’m ok with html, but I’m a beginner with php. Is there anyone who could tell me how can I change(add) a site header img for the theme twenty twelve specifically?
Best regards, Janos
A lot of trial and error. Have restarted it a couple of times. Running it on my Macbook Air with SSD and i7 and MAMP but it is taking days.
#3 test conversion is progressing slowly. Already running for almost 2 days. Now done more than 50%. Doing 10.000 records at a time, with 0.1 delay time. No issues so far. Not sure if I can boost it more. The restarts seem to work ok too.
Will keep you posted 😉 Will be really glad when we get rid of MyBB! Fingers crossed 😉
yes it should be as bbpress just uses wp_query once args has been parsed.
see
https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query dates are quite a way down
untested but something like
$week = date( 'W' );
$year = date( 'Y' );
bbp_has_topics( array( 'year' => $year, '&w' => $week ) );
would do last 5 days
When I click on the link in your menu “Discussion Forums” here http://www.aceachievers.in/#try
I see This content is for Pro and Revision Series with forum members only.
Though I see your forums here http://www.aceachievers.in/forums/
But I cannot read your topic here: http://www.aceachievers.in/forums/topic/test-1/
I can see the topic and replies here: http://www.aceachievers.in/forums/topic/biochem-doubts/
Most likely this is an issue with a plugin that is restricting the viewing of topics and replies, a look at your source shows you are using “Paid Memberships Pro” and this is most likely the cause of your issues.
Can you update or configure it’s settings for any permission changes that differ between the links I added above?
It could also be generally more of an issue with bbPress and “Paid Memberships Pro” as I have seen a few recent issue pop up with this plugin, I’d check their support forum for any related topics and make sure you are using the latest version of their plugin.
Hi,
I’ve disabled all plugins except for BBPress and Pagelines-BBPress (which is required – otherwise you get an error that tells you it’s required…), and the fault was still reproducible.
Now I’m looking at the theme…. but my forum is now working 100% of the time for me during testing, whether with changes or not – so I’ll have to wait for it to revert to broken behaviour again before I can get any further……
David
ok, on the specific forum search, it is probably plugin or theme related
Plugins
Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.
Themes
If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.
but since you say you don’t really want that, you could disable the forum search
Layout and functionality – Examples you can use
and to add forum searches to the main search use
function filter_search($query) {
if ($query->is_search) {
$query->set('post_type', array('post', 'pages', 'forum', 'topic', reply'));
};
return $query;
};
add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'filter_search');
This is untested code, I copied it from another forum, but should work, come back if it does or doesn’t to help future readers of this thread!
Firstly, we won’t be ‘squelching’ any error reporting in the importer, I wish we could have more, or at least improved error reporting. 😉
I haven’t see that user_pass error for a long time, are you using the latest 2.5.4 version of bbPress for the plugin side of things?
Onto the old bbPress standalone side, what version of bbPress standalone are you using?
For the import to work you need to import from bbPress Standalone 1.2 to bbPress plugin 2.5.x.
Details on upgrading and a general flow of what is required is outlined in the following topic, once you’ve read that post you’ll need to read the replies in that thread to follow along the steps.
I havent tested any of the siggestions below. But you can play around with changes as example and change parameters:
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-title h3,
font-size: 30px;
color: #CC00CC;
}
….ad this as as separate controls in the code above.
Find colors that you want at: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_colorpicker.asp
You dont need uch change. Just add controls on the text types you want to change woth an } to close the code.
Hi – I have the latest version of wp and bb – i would like to delete the space that the deleted breadcrumbs are in plus would like to customise the search button to fit into theme style
I would be grateful for any help
site link
http://bunddesign.com/pdm/lets-talk/
Thanks in advance
Melanie
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.
Could be a number of things.
1. check that you are not present on multiple screens in the same browser, sometimes leaving yourself logged in on one screen whilst logged out on others can do funny things.
then 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.
yes wordpress will overwrite your current site.
Most host providers allow you to create subdomains, so if you have
http://www.mysite.com
your can create
test.mysite.com
I’d suggest you create a test site, and install wordpress on there, keeping your existing site as is.
Then you can create wordpress pages, and copy/paste text and upload pictures to the test site to make it look like (or better than!) your current site.
When you are happy, you can then wipe your live site, install worpress (your host provider should help you to do this if you don’t know how).
You can then export and import the pages and posts from your test site to your live site very easily using the built in exporter/importer.
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hello Friends,
I am not sure if I am posting in the right forum but it has something to do with the plugins I am using. I created a new user to give someone an authority to post videos on my site. I been testing before I hand that authority over to someone. This particular issue is giving me a real hard time.
Please see the link below:
http://www.mediafire.com/view/maebk11vfjv0m2b/edittopic.png
I am trying to remove that EDIT TOPIC from top left corner but unable to do that. I have Adminimize plugin and then I installed WP Front Role Editor.
I am not too sure where i am going wrong with this, but if someone can help, it will be greatly appreciated.
MY Site: http://www.desi-american.com
thank you
Regards,
Nik
Hello,
Thank you for the work on the importer!
I’m using the latest of wp and bp – this is a fresh install.
I’m still getting this error 
I’ve updated the file in the /converter file to the 5191 revision.
I know I have the db info correct.
Any ideas would be very appreciated. Thank you!
