Argh! Both 😉
Wherever you are testing all of this, the phpBB database must be on the same MySQL database server, not the same actual database, just the same server.
I’m not entirely sure what the ‘wp-united’ does to the phpBB members table but there are a couple of topics here on bbpress.org about it.
Lets skip trying to import phpBB members for a minute and just go with forums, topics and replies for starters. So try your import again without selecting to import “Users”, this should be a good test to make sure that you have a connection to the database and you are indeed using the correct prefix, I expect as you note it most likely should be phpbb3_ as per your phpBB config file.
Whenever a change is made to bbPress — update the plugin, change a setting, etc — the WordPress user roles in wp_options->wp_user_roles are erased
I have a theory as to why this ‘may’ happen with a plugin update, I’ll have to go find what I’m thinking of that may have been included in a recent bbPress release (2.5.3 or 2.5.4) but the roles being erased by changing a bbPress setting I have not seen, nor can I think of any reason why this would be happening.
Could you test this part for me please:
1. Open up WordPress Users admin panel
2. Verify the listed users on the first page have both a WordPress and bbPress role
3. Open bbPress Settings page and change a couple of settings and save
4. Go back to WordPress users, do the same users still have both WordPress and bbPress roles?
The closest I have seen to this is detailed in the following ticket, but this issue is when changing users roles via the bulk actions, #2597.
Thank you @robin-w for the great and speedy reply.
I was just trying to remove the breadcrumb in the content-archive-topics.php template to test if that’s the file I’m suppose to edit. Really I want to rearrange and do a whole lot of different things. Like what it says in the Amending bbpress templates codex entry.
Note* All the forum templates work great! Unlike the topic templates, any change I make to these files appears in the forum index as they should: archive-forums.php>content-archive-forums.php>loop-forums.php>loop-single-forums.php
That’s a great entry in the codex.
7. How can I remove all the breadcrumbs from the templates and set them at the top of the page?
Moving around the breadcrum is more of what I want to do, but I can’t find the template file for the topics to add the <div class=”truebreadcrumbs”> to the bbp_breadcrumb(); to be able to use css to move it around. If that makes sense.
Sorry if I’m being confusing and I thank you very much for your help 🙂
I am going crazy and would love to get help here or hire someone. Am using bbPress but no emails are being sent to users.
We are hosted on MediaTemple’s Gridservice.
We use theme AVADA
We created a forum in Admin and another using the frontend (read somewhere this may matter).
Added all our users via Admin: 73 Participants, 3 Moderators, 2 Keymasters
We tried the BBpress Digest Plugin but it never worked. Developer seems to be MIA.
We tried BBpress Email notifications but that did not work either.
We added the SMTP plugin; the “test emails” using it arrive fine but again, no subscription emails are ever sent.
WordPress admin emails DO work fine (eg ‘pswd changed for user XYZ’).
Activated Plugins:
- bbPress,
- GD bbPress Attachments
- bbPress auto subscribe for new topics and replies,
- Black Studio TinyMCE
- Custom Login
- Simple Members only
- WP-Mail-SMTP
- Fusion Core (Avada theme)
We have a single Forum. At the top of that forum, there is no subscription/favorite link either.
this very well may be the host but i am not 100% sure of that as the other emails work.
i would happily pay someone to figure this out. i have spent hours and hours on this and am ready to look for alternatives. But unfortunately i have topics and 73 users…
thanks to anyone who can give me new things to try. I am losing it here. And as said, i am all open to hiring someone; not sure what the policies are to that effect on this site…
I’m trying to get rid of and change the layout of the: bbp-template-notice info and bbp-breadcrumb, in the topics index. So Home>Forums>Test Topic. I’m having trouble figuring out if there is a bug, or I’m missing something, or I just have the template hierarchy wrong.
How I believe the template hierarchy works: archive-topics.php>content-archive-topics.php>loop-topics.php>loop-single-topics.php
I figure the changes I would need to make would be in archive-topics.php or content-archive-topics.php, but when I delete the <?php bbp_breadcrumb(); ?> as a test it’s still there.
When I make changes to loop-topics.php and loop-single-topics.php, it works fine. It’s just those two page templates.
I’ve tried editing the bbpress.php file from:
<?php /* Start loop */ ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<article <?php post_class() ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<header>
<h1 class="entry-title"><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
</header>
<div class="entry-content">
<?php the_content(); ?>
</div>
</article>
<?php endwhile; // End the loop ?>
and swapping the content for <?php bbp_get_template_part( ‘content’, ‘archive-topic’ ); ?>. That worked but it messed with my forums index.
I’ve taken a look in the codex to try and figure out what I’m doing wrong and feel lost.
tep-by-Step Guide to Creating a Custom bbPress Theme
Getting Started in Modifying the Main bbPress Template
Sorry if this is a bother, but I’m completely stumped as to what’s going on
yeah just remove the “topics” and “posts” words in the header by the “latest post” word
it should be in loop-forums.php
the rest i guess you can look at the default bbpress stylesheet and use that to help you get it looking right.
If I can I’m going to set up a test site and install the plugins one by one to see which one messed it up. I think it’s either that of a complete site rebuild
Hi Stephen,
Thanks for getting back. Too right that it’s weird! It’s definitely not a browser or CloudFlare or WP Super Cache cache issue – that was what I was investigating when I posted the Apache logs. You can see that successive log entries deliver different numbers of bytes, e.g.:
1.2.3.4 - - [12/Aug/2014:20:02:36 -0400] "GET /forums/topic/updraft-migration-issue/ HTTP/1.1" 200 74091
1.2.3.4 - - [12/Aug/2014:20:03:48 -0400] "GET /forums/topic/updraft-migration-issue/ HTTP/1.1" 200 39159
74091 bytes corresponds to a page load when the forum appeared; 39159 corresponds to that portion being blank (when I hit “reload”, 10 seconds later). It goes back and forth like that with no apparent pattern – you can’t predict what’s next.
Just to make sure I also tested with WP Super Cache deactivated (it had nothing in wp-content/cache for these pages anyway), and CloudFlare in developer (no cacheing) mode, and emptied the CloudFlare cache.
Also, when the forum is produced by a shortcode, it works 100% of the time. No other pages on the site do this, or ever have done. The previous forum plugin (Mingle Forum) is both de-activated and removed, so it’s not that interfering.
So, it seems certain to me that it’s something to do with permalink hierarchy.
Any suggestions how I can debug this? I have 100% access to everything. But, I’m more of a back-end developer – stuff to do with permalinks and custom post types is stuff I’ve only dabbled in, and I’m not sure where to start diving in. It’s easily reproducible (just keep hitting reload enough times, and the behaviour will change).
David
I also have Simple Meta Tags plugin and I just cheked that I have a code which I don’t think is right under my editor section….I been testing all of these but not a good result….
hmm this looks rough , i guess remove the words in li.bbp-forum-reply-count, and li.bbp-forum-topic-count
to leave just to latest post.
and
add some red or white to the category forum title
thanks for your keen reply ! I really appreciate it
I think that you got me wrong ‘:>
(bbpress arranges topics by latest activity) I want to change that to (published date)
thanks
How can I display the published date ?
i dont know at the moment , but i know its possible , because in the backend in topics>all topics you see it shows the created date.
as for example if a post is new and another one is old, and if a comment is posted on the old one, the arrangement will change such that the old will be on the top of the newer one !!
But I think still the arrangement will be based on (last activity date) !?
yeah bbpress arranges topics by latest activity
Ok, now seems that something changed… forum pages are now builded correctly (of course it still need css adjustment).
I’ve disabled BuddyPress for the moment… and anyway I can’t still access profile pages 🙁
http://www.elite-force.it/test/forums/users/goose/
Search too, doesn’t work yet
I’ll take a look at this tomorrow morning (nearing 9:15pm my local time) and I’ll merge my latest changes and upload the files for you, quicker for both of us 😉
Hello,
I am a complete beginner and have just created http://careerkokusai.com/ using WP3.9.2. and BBP2.5.4. with 2011 theme.
Though I managed to put “Forum” on the menu (in Japanese !, 4th from the left), there is no link at all. I have created one test forum and a topic but it is nowhere to be seen !
Sorry to ask such a beginner’s question and thanks in advance.
I did actually. I tested on Tracks WordPress theme which happens to be free yet awesome theme. But on the forum topic page, for mysterious reasons, only the first post from the topic is visible. Posts from second and onwards don’t show up at all. A programmer would probably fix this in a moment but I’m not really a coder, so I’m looking for something else.
Thanks for your help.
We have a rather large performance increase coming up in bbPress 2.6 that will address most of your issues, primarily it relates to the sort order of topics as we have a slow database join when we need to sort the topic order based on the latest reply.
After you click stop and then start it should just continue on from where it left off.
The issue will be though is that any topics in that range of (13601 – 13700) that were not imported before the conversion stopped will not be imported.
These types of faults are typically due to some encoding issue in that post. Sometimes this is from an encoding conversion to UTF8 that was done at some point. Whatever it is, it’s nearly impossible to detect without setting a time limit on queries and bisecting the difference until we can narrow down the offending entry, and skip it. Because queries could naturally take a long time, and because it results in missed data, I’m not comfortable with this approach.
The workaround is to find and delete the offending reply which is time consuming and tricky but the only way at this stage.
Here’s how I do debug this and find the offending topics/replies:
- Once the import hangs, click stop, take a note of where it was up to, e.g. Converting 11,299 – 11,300
- Click start again and the import will continue from where it left off
- If it hangs again, take note of where it was up to again
- Once finished make a fresh copy of the source database
- Now drop all the rows in the database that are not in the range of rows that failed during import
- Perform a fresh import using this database with the “Rows Limit” setting set to
1
- The import should hang on the offending topic/reply
- Again, take note of the topic/reply it was up to
- Click stop, click start again to continue on
- Once you have your list of offenders and the import has finished delete these rows from this database and test again to make sure it completes without hanging
- Now back in your full database (presumably a copy of the original) delete these same rows from the database and run the import again
bbPress is tested and works on PHP 5.2.4 and later https://bbpress.org/about/requirements/
We ensure that bbPress (and the same for WordPress) is to work 100% on PHP 5.2.4 and up, thus including PHP 5.3.x, 5.4.x & 5.5.x.
We have also begun experimental testing testing with PHP 5.6 alpha and HHVM.
bbpress does exactly what your talking about.
the only thing you want is just to display the published date , while not showing latest activity at all??
So far, so good! But is it supposed to show the label if the user hasn’t put anything in the field?
Also, something maybe to note in the description (if you haven’t already): In the Profile Fields, the Base (Primary) group has a primary, required label and field that it allows you to edit and rename, but it appears that is always the user’s “nick name”. There was confusion when I was testing because I’d originally put that one as “Gamertag” when testing, and all of a sudden everyone was showing their username the same as their gamertag. At first I thought we still had a problem, but then I figured it out.
It looks great!
Now if you’re feeling really ambitious you could include the option to add the @mention automatically, so it pulls it from the users’ profile. I certainly don’t think any but a teensy fraction of my forum users will make the effort to set it themselves, but at least I’ve got mine now with the help of your plugin! 😀
Awesome work, and I hope someday to be able to get in and play around with plugin code.
yeah i still dont get why bbpress doesnt do that. I knew my bbpress on my local site did it before, or maybe i was messing with some other forum…
but yeah i found this site does what you need to.
click reply and the reply form goes up.
http://mmo4teen.com/forum/topic/test-again/
do you have anything??
Hey great – thanks for doing all that testing – it really helps.
I have another thought, let me work on it and I’ll come back !
To add to the above post, I just tested with default theme and all plugins of except bbPress, BuddyPress and bbp buddypress profile information and the issue persists. Just wanted to rule out any conflicts, since I hadn’t done the first rule of testing plugins.
Ok, I created the second Label with the same name and it does the same thing.
Then, just as a test, I created another Profile Field with a different name, “Gamertag2”, labeling it in the plugin. To further test, I created a separate Profile Group and made another Profile Field in there, “@mention”. I went into the plugin and labeled that as the fourth one. All the labels show up under the profiles, but none of the info, even though everything is checked to show in the plugin.
It would be SO awesome to have this work. I searched for quite awhile today to find something, and found a thread by Jacob Jacoby from like five years ago talking about integrating BuddyPress and bbPress profile fields! So it’s well overdue to have something for non-coders, and that would be sweet for it to work.
I’ll keep testing whatever you ask, so just let me know how I can help.
Edit: I kept it all set up, so you can see it at the same link above.
