[Stephen Edgar]

I am expecting this will be a reply in the source database has some weird content.

To quote @JohnJamesJacoby here:

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

[Robkk]

This is the Image of forum. Right above the emoticons there is a letter “p”. I am not too sure what that is for:

i dont really know either, but i think it indicates what heading style you are on , you see that list box that says paragraph click Heading 2 , now your p symbol should show h2

This is the image of what user posted on the forum and ended up with all the codes showing up:

it might be because participants cant post any other html tags than what bbpress allows, im not for sure though.

easy way to test it is for keymaster to post using span style, if it works then its allowing participants to use restricted html.

The user just replied that once he highlight any part of the content, that’s when it shows with all the codes.

how??

link me to your site ,give me some demo login details and ill sign up and try it out??

[Robin W]

When I migrated the site to my clients server for testing I was disappointed to find that neither topic creation or reply posting was working.

when you say not working, exactly what do you mean, the ability to reply doesn’t appear? or it appears but doesn’t work?

I suggest that you also positively eliminate the theme as a contender and as a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[Robin W]

maybe 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.

[NickUdd]

Hi again Stephen,

I am importing the database now and its ticking on.

I am starting the wp/bbpress site from scratch so there is nothing there. This is a test import.

I have 3 questions:

1. I checked importing users (3 rd from end on configuration page) as want to import my users as well. Was that correct?
2. Lets say everything looks good. Can I only import the last few days on top of this then or do I need to start over again? Would like as little downtime as possible when I go live.
3. Cant figure what the 2nd from last checkbox is for “Start Again”. Is there a guide explaining all this more in detail?

Cheers

[p13t3rm]

Wordpress Version – 3.9.1
bbPress Version – 2.5.4-5380

Hey everyone, I’ve been working on a project over the last month that was working perfectly on my local Mamp server. When I migrated the site to my clients server for testing I was disappointed to find that neither topic creation or reply posting was working.
I’ve disabled all plugins except bbPress (even though they all worked on my server), reset permalinks and I know the theme I created wasn’t a problem because it worked perfectly in dev.

I’m a little stressed at this point as this week was supposed to be for testing and final rollout and that’s all come to a screeching halt without this basic functionality.
Would really appreciate any help I can get with this.

Thanks a lot!

[Stephen Edgar]

@kevinbcarney The Deleting Conversion Table… Failed is nothing to worry about, this is just cleaning up and removing the extra database table if you had previously imported forums.

@jordanpinski wrote

“My issue with the plugin is the ‘edit’ feature on posts doesn’t work”

Could you clarify what you mean by this, editing WordPress Posts or bbPress topics/replies?

Rob is also correct above (presuming you do want to delete all bbPress data)

• Run “Reset Forums”
• Deactivate bbPress
• Uninstall bbPress plugin

I’ve just tested this and I have no issues accessing the dashboard after performing the above steps.

Caveat: You are correct that the bbp_keymaster role is still assigned to the user in wp_usermeta, though this should not block access for you to WordPress’ dashboard, there is a tweak to the uninstall/deactivation for bbPress 2.6 listed here in #2580. I also came upon another issue that I’m updating a patch for now, but again, none of this should be stopping yopu from accessing the dashboard after deactivation and/or uninstall.

As Rob wrote, what other plugins are you using that may conflict with this? It could be any plugin role or capability related and/or other plugins that extend bbPress functionality.

[Robin W]

ok, i’ll load it on my test site

[Robkk]

like change the order of how the replies display??

latest post on top , first post on the last page??

[Robin W]

untested but the following bar typos should work – add to your functions file

function role_show () {
$role = bbp_get_user_role( $user_id );
if ( bbp_is_user_keymaster() ||$role == 'bbp_moderator')  $args['show_role'] = true ;
else $args['show_role'] = false ;
return $args ;
}

add_filter ('bbp_before_get_reply_author_link_parse_args', 'role_show' ) ;

[Matoca]

Stephen,
Sorry for the poor explanation. On each topic post or reply, next to the author’s name is Details. Clicking that opens a menu of items, more for the moderators, less for non-registered users. This gives me options like the IP number, the post number, the date, Edit, Close, Split, Stick, Merge, Trash, Spam, Reply. I use this, and so do my moderators, to spam posts simply. I also use it to split topics off from the parent. Details would not open yesterday, I wanted to split a topic, but couldn’t.

Interestingly enough, I also simultaneously had a new problem with a NextGEN HTML5 slideshow playback on the forum pages not loading which I have also been trying to fix (following a NextGEN upgrade.) Today I changed the settings on the slideshow to Flash playback to see if that worked, it did, the slideshow plays.

And now, the Details are working again in the replies. So this is not a bbPress problem, at least I don’t think so. Something is funky with HTML5, whether it is just NextGEN or something on the server (PHP version?), well I can’t figure that out yet. But trying to load the HTML5 slideshow did mess with the Details display.

Bingo's latest blood test

Sorry to bother you,
my best, Matoca

[cybarmitzvah]

Hi guys,

on my forum http://www.astronomertalk.com, I changed freshness to say latest activity, all was well for a few days, but now it says my latest activity was 1 day+ ago on my first category, when if you click through you can see it was only 1 hour ago… Does anyone know why it is saying this?

Best,
JB

Additionally, how can each user change their timezone so the posts have the right time next to them?

[joeyaberle]

I have entered 10 under the Topics and Replies Per Page in Forum Settings. Yet, my most popular topic is showing a total of 143 replies on one page. Any ideas?

http://www.20sb.net/forum/topic/your-latest-post-part-1-new/

Wordpress: 3.9.1
bbPress: 2.5.4
BuddyPress: 2.0.1
BuddyBoss Theme: 3.2.1

[Robin W]

ok, could be a number of issues

start with theme and plugin as 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.

Then look at the documentation to see what else you might need to do

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1

[Robin W]

ok, need to work out if menu issue or function issue

So eliminate function by creating a test page and putting

echo '<a href="/?random=1">Random Post</a>' ;

onto the test page and confirm it works.

[dice2dice]

Sorry @netweb, I discovered your reply only this evening.

I followed the above instruction but it hasn’t resolved my issue.

Until a couple of months back, as soon as a member posted in a forum on my site they could see their post. Now they can’t unless they go to their profile and click on ‘Activity’.

The posts eventually appear but take so long that it completely stops the fluidity of conversations.

Has anyone else come across this issue and does anyone have any suggestions for how it might be resolved?

I have the latest version of both WordPress and bbPress. My website is http://www.whichinvest.com

Thanks

[dice2dice]

Hi,

The editing tools I have available to members of my site are the same on this forum, with ‘b-quote’, close tags etc.

These are confusing for members who are not technically minded.

Is there a better solution that perhaps looks more similar to Microsoft Word icons or something else that is easy to use?

I have the latest version of both WordPress and bbPress. My website is http://www.whichinvest.com

Thanks

[Robin W]

sorry, sorry – missed that bit 🙂

Ok will start typing again !

in your bbpress.php

change the lines that say

<div class=”content-wrap”> 
<div id=”content”>

to

<div class=”bbpress-wrap”> 
<div id=”bbpress-content”>

Then go into

wp-content/themes/oxygen/style.css

and at the end of this file put

.bbpress-wrap {
width : 100% ;
}
#bbpress-content {
float: left;
margin: 0 0 30px;
width : 100% ;
}

.bbpress #sidebar-secondary {
display:none ;

}

What this does is get bbpress to use the bbpress-wrap with a width of 100% instead of content-wrap, as content-wrap is used by the other pages and need to be 67%.

Then .bbpress #sidebar-secondary is set to display none, so that this disappears

Now if that all works, it is possible that an upgrade of oxygen will take out these changes, so you really need to create a child theme and put both the bbpress.php and the style.css changes in there. See

Functions files and child themes – explained !

Do come back if that deosn’t all work, without the theme I can’t test here !

[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?

[Killerrabbit2]

I have the Reply Threading checked and it is not working. It seemed to work right at first but when I erased some nested posts for testing the functionality didn’t come back. In addition I can start a whole new topic and the replies do not nest.

I have switched themes to Twenty Fourteen and that did not fix the issue.

WP 3.9.1
BBpress 2.5.4

[rzelnik]

So I tried a different e-mail configuration plugin: WP SMTP. The forum post notification emails are now delivered well. It’s strange that in the e-mail header there is the right sender address, while in the captured log there is still the default wordpress noreply@domain address, see here:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9349232/bbpress-email-testing/wp-mail-log-wp-smtp-forum-post.txt

Anyway, it is working well for me now.

[rzelnik]

Thank you Stephen for your answer. You are right with the BCC, it works as described. However, something causes that in the forum post notifications the “From” is set back to the default <noreply@domain.com>, although it is set to different/custom address by the WP Mail SMTP plugin. Here are two e-mail logs captured by the WP Mail Log plugin:

1. Forum post, e-mail notification sent to subscribed user(s):
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9349232/bbpress-email-testing/wp-mail-log-forum-post.txt

2. BuddyPress Friend request sent to the requested user:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9349232/bbpress-email-testing/wp-mail-log-friend-request.txt

Both messages are sent from the same installation with the same configuration. You can see that the friend request has “From” address set to neodpovedaj@tvorivo.sk (the desired address), while the forum post notification has “From” set to noreply@forum-vyvoj.tvorivo.sk (which is wrong).

My web hosting service blocks the PHP mails sent from unknown addresses, so that’s the reason why the e-mails are not delivered. I will try if it works with some other E-mail/SMTP configuration plugins.

[ttmt]

Thanks for this Stephen.

So I’m testing the moderation as it is now. If I post with a word from the moderator list I get an error messaged saying the post carnet be posted.

Where is this post put? Where is the moderation queue?

[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!