[gmichel]

I have the latest WP installed with OptimizePress 2, Buddy Press and BBpress (latest versions) installed. I am building the forums in the private section of a membership site.

I am having issues with the Breadcrumb links.

I used method 2, a page for the forums index with short code. The forums display properly.
>> http://www.imstudy.club/forums-welcome/

Then when I click on each forum it goes to the correct page, I have set-up “Content Aware Sidebars” to show widgets in the sidebar and the forums in the content area. It works.

Now when I am on one of these forums the breadcrumb shows:
IM Study Club’s Public Home › Forums › Site Feedback

The link “Forums”, is the Forum root and it goes here:
http://www.imstudy.club/forums/

That’s a Blog Archives page with a link “continue reading” going nowhere.

How can I have this “Forums” link in the breadcrumb go to my custom page “forums-welcome” instead.

I have tried to change the name of the root forum to match the page, but it doesn’t works, always get the blog archives page… I also tried to redirect, but got a loop.

Any idea?

Thank you very much for your help.

Michel

[mostlyjan]

nah. never heard anything from anyone or support and could not get this to work. Test emails work but nothing else. Tried everything. We are dumping this bbpress and will look for something that works and/or has support. Very disappointing. Hope you get yours to work.

[Robin W]

ok, lets work this through

You say you’re a superadmin – does this mean its a multi-site installation? they’re not my forte, but if this is just a single site then….

First of all bbpress is a plugin, so you’ll still need wordpress (and it holds the users), and since the existing theme has all the styling that you users are used to, then it would be sensible to use that as well.

So in effect what you need to do is just import a full copy of the installation, and then take out the pages and posts, and you have a forum without the rest of the site !

Since you have a test site, then follow the guidance in

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

and then just go into posts and pages to delete those (apart from the forum page), and amend the custom menu if you have one.

[Robin W]

Not sure why you would be getting this, 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.

[Killerrabbit2]

Update: did more testing – If the user also clicks to subscribe to the post and then enters a comment into the string he does not receive any more updates.

In addition I installed a brand new version of WP running Twenty Fourteen and just the bbPress plugin. Is this a known bug?

[btreinhart]

The forum index page that has “[bbp-forum-index]” is using the test.php template, and it displays properly but when you click on a forum, and it takes you to domain.com/forum/your-forum-name the template isn’t working like it should. I took on this project from a developer who is no longer with us, and I assume he didn’t know how to fix it so he left it the way it was before he left. I downloaded the latest version, and I see the files class.wp.scripts, general-template, page, test outside of the bbpress folder, but I tried to place them in specific areas and still didn’t have any luck. Can anyone give me direction? Thank you.

[Killerrabbit2]

Update- this solution above actually does not work.

I have done more testing and here is the problem:
A user can subscribe to a forum and will be sent notifications. However, if the user posts anything the notifications will stop coming. If he clicks to follow the post it will send notifications. The same is true for checking the box for receiving an email notification after submitting a comment.

This is totally baffling and I have gotten to the point where I might just have to remove the subscribe link which totally bites. Ideas?? My client would not be happy. Thanks

[Stephen Edgar]

Two things, the plugin I thought would help actually makes things worse, didn’t expect that, though the second thing, running what I ‘thought’ should work that I have tested previously also now doesn’t work. 🙁

I’ll need to test both of these tomorrow, and I’ll update things then, depending on the solution we are talking a range of 50-90% improvement in performance, so why either of these options is failing for me at the moment I’m unsure.

[Stephen Edgar]

I saw this pop up on my phone whilst I was out and wasn’t even going to try to chime whilst mobile. Anyways, I’m just going to have some dinner but whilst I eat that I’m generating a test site with a few hundred thousand posts to test a plugin, this “might” help but I’ve never tested it before, so give me half an hour and I’ll let you know.

[Stephen Edgar]

Another (most likely dumb) question I forgot to ask. This could be the answer to the missing(?) topics/replies. At the end of the conversion, the program shows in short intervals ‘-’ on the screen. This takes forever and lasted almost as long as the initial part of the conversion which grabbed the Rows. I thought the conversion was finished when the ‘-’ stopped appearing on screen ‘————’ etc. Was I supposed to wait for some kind of other message which indicates the conversion ended?

This is basically WordPress losing the connection with the MySQL database and is a right pain, once this occurs “nothing” is now happening, the import is essentially stopped.

So in answer to your question, most likely this is the result of the missing topic/replies.

So yes, at the end of the conversion, you’ll see “Conversion Complete” with a link to the repair tools.

With most of the databases I have had to test to get compatibility with the importers many of the sample databases I have been sent (I don’t have a license for most of the commercial forum packages) I make a copy of the database and then prune/delete all but ~10 topics, the topics replies, the topic and reply users. This makes testing a breeze as it completes in a couple of minutes, once I know all is good then I give it a whirl on the full database.

[johnwasneverhere]

Hello! I’m using WP 3.91 and BBPRESS 2.54. My forum is at caravanguitars.com/forum

I’d love to add a colum to my topics list just like here… with the image being the main addition.

http://www.highexistence.com/discussions/latest/

Any ideas how to accomplish this? I’ve been searching high and low with no promising leads. Thanks for any help!!

[EzYRiDaH]

Hi Stephen / @netweb,
Many thanks for your replies! I am trying to convert MyBB 1.6.11. It is a very old forum which (unfortunately) was customized improperly by the previous owner. It was lagging many many versions. I paid a student to do an upgrade about a year ago, but there is some funky **** still in the PHP. With my limited knowledge of MyBB I even tried to a fresh install of MyBB and imported the complete forum in it. Pulled all my hairs out when I found out MyBB stores code in the database…

I’ve stressed my dear wife to start cleaning the old forum, which she’s (finally) diligently doing now.

Don’t worry too much about making any updates on the code 🙂 I also have some kind of life and job next to trying to convert a MyBB forum 😉 After all the cleaning of the old forum, I will do another test run to see if I can find any other issues. It is very likely that some errors are just because it is an ancient forum (10 years old). Read up on the conversion of @Halo-DieHard. Will make sure I do a repair/optimization of the old forum. To be honest, I am not sure if I did that with the last conversion, sorry.

I will report back on the forum on what I was able to squeeze out on performance with MAMP, with what settings and the results.

Another (most likely dumb) question I forgot to ask. This could be the answer to the missing(?) topics/replies. At the end of the conversion, the program shows in short intervals ‘-‘ on the screen. This takes forever and lasted almost as long as the initial part of the conversion which grabbed the Rows. I thought the conversion was finished when the ‘-‘ stopped appearing on screen ‘————‘ etc. Was I supposed to wait for some kind of other message which indicates the conversion ended?

In the meantime I am busy integrating the plugin USERPRO and GD bbPress Toolbox. Never coded in PHP and already hate the syntax 😉 I will get there and report back on the results!

Thanks again for your time!

[Stephen Edgar]

Cool, glad it fixed it for you 🙂

I’ve been using IPv6 heaps lately for testing but my 127.0.0.1 equivalent in IPv6 is ::1, thus it wasn’t an issue locally 😉

[Stephen Edgar]

Sorry for the delay, life has been getting in the way.

Thanks for listing those tweaks you made, they make sense, we already bump the PHP timeout and up the memory limit to 256M but that is all we can really do safely before we cause grief in shared hosting environments.

I linked this post from our Import Troubleshooting docs so when I get the time we can expand that section (or a dedicated section) on tweaking ‘all the things’.

It doesn’t look I have asked this previously, what version of MyBB are you importing from?

All my tests have been with MyBB v1.6.10

Some topics are not combined correctly. All replies are separate topics. The ‘Recalculate the parent topic for each post’ does not fix this. I ran all repair queries btw. An option in the Topics interface to combine these, would be ace 😉 Is it possible to correct this with a query? My SQL skills are too limited unfortunately.

I just ran an MyBB import of my ‘standard’ MyBB database and without running any repair tools replies are correctly associated with their parent topics.

As to the possibility of correcting this with a MySQL query, it could be, it’s hard to say without knowing what data is mismatched.

Run the following query in phpMyAdmin:
– 83 is my topic ID
– 97,99,100 and 102 are the reply ID’s I know should be part of the topic ID 83
– A single topic and a couple of replies should be all I need to see what’s going on

SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE ID IN (83,97,99,100,102)

Once you’ve executed the query, click ‘Print View’ and the results should open in a new browser tab, select all the text and paste them into a GitHub Gist and select SQL from the language dropdown (You don’t need an account for this)

https://gist.github.com/

It should look similar to this (this is based on my above screenshot)
https://gist.github.com/ntwb/04ed1cf9cf5f67528fcb

The Repair Forums option ‘Recalculate the position of each reply’ does not work. It creates a white screen. Load problem?

Yes, sadly, this is because of the size of the forums, kind of a know issue so that is good, sortof. Anyway the best thing is is that you do not need to run this tool. This is for only repairing ‘threaded replies’ which MyBB did not have so you can just skip running this tool. I’ll update the verbiage for this text in the next release and make some improvements when used with ‘large’ sites and some error handling.

myBB accepts spaces in the login name. Unfortunately WordPress does not. The conversion leaves the spaces in the login name. Is it possible to correct this with an SQL? Is there another workaround? Correcting them one by one is not my preference

I’ll work out a fix for that shortly, second time I’ve hit this issue today, @Halo-DieHard also did on BuddyPress.org.

Two forums are created double. The copies do not contain any topics or replies, so it is easy to remove them. Just thought you should know

That shouldn’t be the case, though as you point out easily fixed, most likely one of two things, either those forums were still there from a previous import OR there is something funky with the forum categories versus the forum forums though checking my import I just did, everything is fine for me 😉

The original myBB forum contained 1mlj+ messages and 36k+ discussions. The converted forum contains 109k subjects. That can be explained because of the first issue. But it only contains 830k replies. It could be that myBB adds subjects and replies to messages, but the difference is a bit too big. Is it possible to do an SQL checksum to check the expected output?

It does sound a little off, some forum software combine the total topics and replies to create a total post count.

On my MyBB I have:

Our members have made a total of 22 posts in 10 threads.
We currently have 6 members registered.

After importing using the [bbp-stats] shortcode I have
Topics 10, Replies 12

So that works out correct in my case, total of 22 posts = 10 topics + 12 replies 🙂

It’s hard to match up yours because the issue above as you state, ball park 109k + 830k = 93k which is a few short of the 1m, this will be due to those issues above and we can take another look after they’re fixed.

[theuniversitygal]

Hi,

I deleted all the widgets from my sidebar except for categories and added a search bar and email subscribe widget. All of this is showing up correctly in my sidebar, but isn’t reflecting on my website. I believe I have the latest version of wordpress. I don’t knowing any coding or html. I have tried multiple times to delete or add widgets, with no luck.

Thank You

[godavid33]

testarooni2
Password123

http://thefivestarconnect.com/groups/dsnews/forum/

That is obviously just a normal subscriber/participant account, though the same occurs for my admin account

[godavid33]

I just installed the latest version of BP from the WP repo
WP 3.9.2

When I go to a buddypress group forum page, it says the forum is empty (which it is) and displays the new topic editor. I can’t fill out any post content for some reason though, the box is grayed out. The html doesn’t say it is disabled. If I click the “code” WYSIWYG button, I can then type but if I remove the tick marks I cannot once again. Title and tags are both completely working, though obviously I can’t create a topic because I cant add content….

Help please 🙁

[cybarmitzvah]

it works now??

yes

ill test out that profile link ,

if you think its social login , deactivate and see if robins profile link code works.

still not working

im sure its just positioning it with css , but hey it doesnt have to be floated right, not a big deal if it is or not.

will need that code, would appreciate it 🙂

i just achieved this today. But it required a lot of work with my theme.

Darn, tell me any steps if you remember

TY
JB

[Robkk]

works not, I just did not have the <?php in my site.

it works now??

So I just added the code from Robin W’s link,

however it does not work,

ill test out that profile link ,

if you think its social login , deactivate and see if robins profile link code works.

Plus, I would prefer it to stay all the way to the right.

im sure its just positioning it with css , but hey it doesnt have to be floated right, not a big deal if it is or not.

Plus, preferably, look more like this sites, with the username and photo of the person logged in, in the top right.

i just achieved this today. But it required a lot of work with my theme.

[Robin W]

should be something like

add_filter ('bbp_get_title_max_length','change_title') ;

Function change_title ($default) {
$default=60 ;
Return $default ;
}

try this in your functions file – if not come back, but suppers ready and I haven’t time to test!

[themefurnace]

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.

[Stephen Edgar]

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/

[Stephen Edgar]

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.

[Dane Gould]

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

[Robkk]

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.