[NickUdd]

Thanks Stephen, That is encouraging.

I have a huge db (350 mb and almost 100,000 posts and 6000 members). As I am not a developer myself I am kind of delaying this until I have the power to fail 🙂

First time its just for testing purposes on my test site

[Jimi Wikman]

I don’t know why, but for some reason I decided to punish myself on my latest project (ekatana.se if anyone wan to look) and I went ahead and installed BBPress along with Buddypress. Now I have done this a few times before in the last 3-4 years and it has always been a very painful experience.

This time was not so bad and I actually got most things working pretty much instantly with just som minor CSS changes. BBPress however is not really a forum in my opinion yet and I had to go through a ton of posts and articles with half baked solutions and snippets just to get anywhere near what I think a forum should look like and behave.

Now I admit that I am biased, having worked for many, many years with IPB which is the best forum out there and I have been working with forum software since 1996…

However, BBPress have really taken a leap forward in the last few years and I look forward to see it go even further, in fact i hope to be able to lend som assistance in the UX and design department should it be needed. Since I am a systemtester as well, I hope to be able to break stuff on a regular basis as well 🙂

I really look forward to the forum grouping I see is already pretty much done and which is working just fine on my forum as far as I can tell. When time permit I will give more input into what features I see as necessary, both in the frontend and the backend and util then I just want to say that I am far from impressed, but I see hope for BBPress.

Keep up the good work!

[kopperwoman]

I’m having a similar problem to dustinarmstrong. But its not exactly the same.

I’m trying to fix a broken forum set up for a client. I did not do the forum installation (he did it himself) AND the forum is installed on a live site that gets lots of web traffic so I don’t want to do anything that might impact the website overall.

Here’s my situation:
1) BBPress was installed (I don’t have details about when and how),
2) a page was created with the [bbp-forum-index] shortcode on it
3) the forum didn’t work, so my client contacted me to fix it
4) I went into settings > forums and changed the forum root slug from the default “forum” to “travel-forums” (the name of the page where the shortcode lives. The error message “Possible bbPress conflict: Forum slug” showed up next to the slug field after saving the settings.
5) I also changed the single forum slug from the default “forum” to “travel-forums”. The error message “Possible bbPress conflict: Forums base” showed up next to the slug field after saving.

In my case, the forum page DOES show up at http://foobar.com/travel-forums but it is empty except for the welcome text that I had entered into the forum main window. (So it just says “Welcome to our forum” without any of the discussion topics showing up.

Also, I have the “Recent Topics” widget enabled on my sidebar and my three test discussion topics DO show up there. When I click on any of them they take me to the correct URL but the pages are blank. So, for example, when I click on “test topic” in the widget I land on http://foobar.com/travel-forums/topic/test-topic/ and the page displays the topic header “Test topic” and the topic question “what do you think about travel?” but it doesn’t display any of the posts.

I’m not sure if this behavior is related to the slug conflict error messages or if something else is wrong.

I’m trying to follow the advice that Stephen Edgar gave.

First up, I think this is probably true in my case:

most likely you have something else either titled or using the slug discuss and this includes any items in trash as even though they are in the trash they still reserve that slug and it is not released until the item is removed from the trash.

This is probably a stupid question but How do I empty the trash to make sure that the old slug is removed?

Second, I’d like to try this:

To fix this try resetting your permalinks. In your WordPress Administration Screens navigate to Settings > Permalinks, select a different permalink structure and save. Then select your preferred permalink structure and save again.

but since my website is live and has been for a long time (and has lots of blog posts using the custom structure already) I’m concerned that this could permanently break the existing links. Any thoughts on this?

[Indrekkor]

The custom importer is already tested and everything is working properly.

The odd thing is that after 2 million rows the converter slows down noticeably.

Doing a stop/start for the conveter only helps for 10 minutes or so to get the speed up again.

Also i can see, that memory/cpu usage went down noticably after 2m, so a lack of resources is not a problem here.

[Stephen Edgar]

Can I bring with me the anonymous posts from deleted and anonymous users?

I have just added support for this to a handful of bbPress’ importers, I hope to finalize some bits for compatibility with all of bbPress importers by the end of the week and release the code for people to test out. 🙂

Importing Avatars

This is kind of a complex issue because of PHP timeouts, if we can’t find an avatar via ftp/http how long do we wait, what if the remote avatar no longer exists.

@cybmeta Has written a Joomla Kunena Forum Attachments converter for the GD bbPress Attachments plugin.

I’d like to play around one day when I have some time up my sleeve to base an avatar and attachment importer that we could use as a separate plugin to import these into WordPress media library for use with bbPress.

https://github.com/CybMeta/kunena-attachments-to-bbpress

Kunena converter for bbPress 2.4

Kunena converter for bbPress 2.4

[Indrekkor]

No problems.

Just experimenting anyway in a test environment.

Managed to speed up the process a little.

Currently converting at the speed of 130 000 rows an hour vs previous 95 000 rows/hour.

Do not know exactly but the slow speed might have to do with the fact that in the old DB post/reply content is stored in the DB in a serialized array and i added a function to unserialize all the data during the import.

For some reason at 2 million post rows a big drop in speed, statistics show that MySQL command ratio dropped by three times compared to normal.

Had to stop/start the converter to get back to the normal speed.

[Robin W]

I’d try this as a non admin/keymaster and see if it works. Say set up a test user as you intend your users to be. Normally admins are allowed to override any restrictions in WP and bbp.

[ttmt]

Hi all

I have bbPress installed and everything is working fine.

I would like to use wordpress’s moderation tools.

This post states that bbPress uses the same moderation tools as WordPress.

Moderation and BlackListing

I have entered test words in the moderation text box:

Dashboard > Settings > Discussion > Comment Moderation

If I use these words in a post nothing happens and the post is added to the forum.

I’m logged in as admin and the words are used in the post not comments.

Does the user effect the moderation?

Is the moderation only on comments?

[Robkk]

turns out there is this theme that has this function working

check out https://wordpress.org/themes/wp-knowledge-base

put it on a test site and see that i has what i need in that theme

now all i need is to scrape that code out and i think wrap it in an if user is logged in function and thats it

after that this topic should be done.

[muskratt]

I’m running WP 3.9.1 and the latest copy of the plugin on a very vanilla site with not much on it yet.

phpBB 3.0.12, Tap-a-talk is the only mod it’s running
Database size: 20MB, about 6000 posts total

I’ve tried this twice using the remote server (after adding the WP server’s IP to the allowed remote MySQL connections) as well as on the same local server doing a sqldump from the remote into the local box. Both times, I get the scrolling of text showing nothing to import/convert and it finishes without error (aside from the fact nothing is imported).

This forum was originally vBulletin 3.x and it was converted to phpBB about a year ago but I don’t believe this should have much to do with it since there is no other modification/customization running except Tap-a-talk.

Where to go from here?

[Robin W]

Guess i have done something wrong?

probably not !

Ok, we need to eliminate other plugins and your theme

Plugins

As a test, 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, test by switching to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[Robin W]

#1 is related to your theme I reckon. Try as a test switching to a default theme such as twentytwelve and see if it disappears. If it foes come back and we’ll try to help further.

#2 see https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-styling-crib/

[This profile is abandoned.]

Please check the user_nicename entry in the Database/wp_users.

Is it Max Mustermann or max-mustermann?
I solved the problem (404) by changing the nicename to the latest.

[Swedish_Soul]

And, after I’ve tested it with 2014 on the same page nothing still happens.
On my localhost the plugin works fine. Conflict with another plugin?

[Doug Smith]

I am importing a large bbPress 1.2 forum into the current version. All is working well in my test run except everyone’s favorites are gone. Should favorites be imported or is that just not part of the importer? Thanks.

[N. Hutter]

Thanks for your support.
The page is live and in use. So as soon as possible for you. But it’s the main tool for subscribers and at least it works for them. It would be great if you could load UAM and test it in a few days.

[SplitRock]

Like @rastarr two years ago and @acornale last week, I’m looking for a way to perform a unified search of both my website and the bbpress forum. (Forum results show up in WordPress search, not just in separate forum search.)

In both cases, Search bbPress was a recommended solution. Unfortunately, the plugin hasn’t been updated since 2011, and Support threads indicate it does not work well with the latest version of bbPress. The forum on my site is also behind a paywall, and the search function in this plugin would circumvent the login page.

bbPress Search Widget was the other recommendation, and the author is still active in the Support threads. However, “unified search”, or anything similar, is not one of the features listed in the description.

Does anyone know if bbPress Search Widget includes a unified search of the site and the forum? (I’ve reached out to the author and am waiting on an answer, but it seems unlikely that a feature such as unified search wouldn’t be listed under bbPress Search Widget features.)

If not, are there any current alternatives for making a unified site search? Is bbPress likely to add this function as an option in the future?

Thanks for your time.

[N. Hutter]

Thanks for the answer. I’ve tested all plugins and the theme like you told me to.
The problem comes form the UAM – User Access Manager (http://www.gm-alex.de/projects/wordpress/plugins/user-access-manager/). I need this plugin to protect some parts of the website (not the forum). Any idea how to solve this?

[Robin W]

bbpress has a number of converters, including phpbb

https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/phpbb/

suggest you create a test site and give it a go. That will tell you if you need to get back to a vanilla version first.

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

to convert, just go into dashboard>tools>forums>import forums

Stephen Edgar is the bbpress converter guru, and if you hit difficulties I’d suggest you post a new thread, and I’m sure he’ll help.

[Robin W]

It should work for just the shortcode, but let me test on my site

[Robkk]

do you want to remove the “The SEO Test Laboratory” ??

[Robin W]

suspect this is theme related.

Try switching as a test to a default theme such as twentytwleve and see if this fixes – if so then theme issue.

Since this is a paid for theme, I’d then suggest you contact the theme support site form help at

http://help.themeva.com/

[Halo Diehard]

The double avatar was fine, because there were two instances on that page that were calling for the avatar; If there were more posters there could be two different avatars there.

The only problem I saw was that they were too large on the one page and it was nerfing your layout. The code I gave you above worked when I tested it, what was it doing that wasn’t working for you? If you have Gyazo or some other way to show a screenshot, that would be helpful, since you are still playing with it and it’s changing when we go to look.

My opinion is that the larger avatars looked great in the other areas of your forum, and that you only needed small avatars in that one spot so that they didn’t make your layout look wonky.

[acarpous]

Running latest WP and bbpress versions, the main index list of forums at /forums is cutting off midway through the list:

http://www.londonfosteringachievement.org.uk/forums/

I feel like this is probably something very easy to fix but can’t seem to locate the issue, any help gratefully received!

[surachar]

Hello Dears,

@Robin – did run a test yesterday; please see below. Yes – it is still missing the ‘s’. This test was with both Easy WP SMTP and WP Email Template Pro deactivated.

@nightcoder – sorry you are having this problem also, however it is always good having another set of variables for troubleshooting. Hopefully we can get this resolved for everyone :-).

Kind Regards,

Sura
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