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.
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?
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.
It should work for just the shortcode, but let me test on my site
do you want to remove the “The SEO Test Laboratory” ??
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/
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.
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!
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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Hmm… not sure what’s going on here. Have you tested it on a default theme?
My avatars were not doing that the last I checked. I’m pretty sure they were auto-resizing smaller, and fitting in quite nice. But, I stopped using this bbPress theme before the last couple WordPress updates because it’s not responsive, and the default bbPress is. It’s possible something changed in the WordPress code to make it act different.
If you can make a child theme, you could try this to change the avatars’ size on the page where they’re squished with css:
bbp-topic-meta .avatar {
width: 30px;
height: 30px;
}
topic/reply author
avatar
role
link to user profile
title
content
link to other replies
no reply in after search
only topic title (ancor test title)
Sorry for my bad english.
Are you sure you selected “PunBB” from the select platform list?
Do any of the forums and categories get imported? What about users?
I also haven’t tested punBB 1.4, I have done all my testing using 1.4.2
These are the settings I just used testing this:
And the results are working as expected for me (This screenshot includes a few enhancements coming in the next release of bbPress)
Best way to find out if it is their plugin is to deactivate it and do a test post to see if that goes through.
Email is at best a shaky medium, and many things from host provider, server, links, wordpress, plugins and just plain complexity can make something that worked stop. Switch it off and on again can fix quite a lot, so even deactivating a plugin and reactivating it can fix.
good luck !
ok, this theme has annoyed me so much that I have down loaded it.
I then saw that it claims to be a bbpress friendly theme, aghh!!! why not include a fullwidth forum????
so had a little play
on my test site the following works
bbpress.php looks like
<?php get_header(); // Loads the header.php template. ?>
<main>
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : // Checks if any posts were found. ?>
<?php while ( have_posts() ) : // Begins the loop through found posts. ?>
<?php the_post(); // Loads the post data. ?>
<article <?php hybrid_attr( 'post' ); ?>>
<?php if ( is_singular( get_post_type() ) ) : // If viewing a single page. ?>
<header class="entry-header">
<h1 <?php hybrid_attr( 'entry-title' ); ?>><?php single_post_title(); ?></h1>
</header><!-- .entry-header -->
<div <?php hybrid_attr( 'entry-content' ); ?>>
<?php the_content(); ?>
<?php wp_link_pages(); ?>
</div><!-- .entry-content -->
<?php else : // If not viewing a single page. ?>
<header class="entry-header">
<?php the_title( '<h2 ' . hybrid_get_attr( 'entry-title' ) . '><a href="' . get_permalink() . '" rel="bookmark" itemprop="url">', '</a></h2>' ); ?>
</header><!-- .entry-header -->
<div <?php hybrid_attr( 'entry-content' ); ?>>
<?php the_content(); ?>
<?php wp_link_pages(); ?>
</div><!-- .entry-content -->
<?php endif; // End single page check. ?>
</article><!-- .entry -->
<?php endwhile; // End found posts loop. ?>
<?php else : // If no posts were found. ?>
<?php locate_template( array( 'content/error.php' ), true ); // Loads the content/error.php template. ?>
<?php endif; // End check for posts. ?>
</main><!-- #content -->
<footer <?php hybrid_attr( 'footer' ); ?>>
<div class="wrap">
<?php hybrid_get_menu( 'social' ); // Loads the menu/social.php template. ?>
<p class="credit">
<?php printf(
/* Translators: 1 is current year, 2 is site name/link, 3 is WordPress name/link, and 4 is theme name/link. */
__( 'Copyright © %1$s %2$s. Powered by %3$s and %4$s.', 'stargazer' ),
date_i18n( 'Y' ), hybrid_get_site_link(), hybrid_get_wp_link(), hybrid_get_theme_link()
); ?>
</p><!-- .credit -->
</div><!-- .wrap -->
</footer><!-- #footer -->
</div><!-- #container -->
<?php wp_footer(); // WordPress hook for loading JavaScript, toolbar, and other things in the footer. ?>
</body>
</html>
very high chance it will be fine, but risk that your developer will have changed some core files.
Since your trying to learn stuff, then I strongly recommend that you create a test site, which will let you try it there first, but also will teach you loads about wordpress and how it operates, and give you confidence to make other changes in a test area first
https://codex.bbpress.org/creating-a-test-site/
I have permalinks set like this
/%category%/%postname%/
I just installed bbpress and haven’t touched the settings. My forum root looks like
mysite.com/forums and displays the 2 forums I created
Test-1
Test-2
But when I go to test-1 it looks like:
mysite.com/forums/forum/Test-1
I don’t want it to say “forums/forum” just “forums/Test-1”
How can I accomplish this?
this thread discusses
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/upgrade-bbpress-1-0-2-to-2-1-2/
looks like you need to go via 1.2 but then should just be export/import?
of course back everything up before you start.
Actually if I were doing this I’d do it on a test site first
https://codex.bbpress.org/creating-a-test-site/
and just see if it works !
Can you document as you go, and When you’ve done it, come back and give us how you did it, and I’ll add it to the
https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/bbpress-1-x-buddypress-group-forums/
to help someone in future
“well, that’s life in the world of WordPress, so live with it”, which is what your first comment conveyed” – yep and it’s what I meant – having coded several plugins, I can with some certainty say that the way you link to wordpress does mean that several people can hook to the same item and affect each other, and no we can’t test all plugins against all other plugins.
But your offer to try and come up with a repeatable problem would be great, and if you can do so I’d be happy to try and look and let you know why a particular plugin is affecting.
However 5 people going to the doctor after having been to the gym doesn’t mean there’s a common problem or that the gym is to blame 🙂
Anyway I look forward to hearing from you when you’ve had a chance to investigate.
@surachar
I deactivated, deleted, reinstalled, and reactivated the Easy WP SMTP plug-in and tested: same result (below.)
OK, but did you just deactivate the plugin, and then test a forum post. I was keen to see if the problem was being caused by bbpress or the plugin.
@nightcoder – you’re issue may or may not be the same. That’s why I’m keen to get surachar
to see if they have the problem without the plugin.
The bit of code you quote is the bit that sets up the variable for the to address, but as far as I can see there’s nothing there that should be causing a problem, it simply strips the http part from the URL as set in wp_options ‘home’.
sorry am busy on a tractor haymaking, so am not on here as much as usual !
I suspect that it is theme related, can you try switching to a default theme such as twentytwelve for a quick test and seeing if the order changes?
Come back and let me know
These issues will occur with different combinations of plugins, and it is nobody’s fault.
and it will never be eliminated.
Wordpress is free open source software. It allows others to hook into it using Filters and actions, as well as using templates and functions. Additionally theme developers can affect the way wordpress functions. This lets lots of other people change how wordpress works and add both functionality and looks.
So if two developers both hook into the same bit of code, the actions of one can alter or even cancel out the other’s code.
With many thousands of plugins it is simply impossible for developers to test to see if their plugin works with every other plugin out there.
bbPress is thoroughly tested with the latest version of WordPress, in combination with all of the wordpress default themes (twentyten, twentyeleven etc.) to ensure it functions. Most bbpress plugin developers will also test against this combination to give a good degree of conformance.
This is the best that you can get.
It is no more the fault of bbpress that it doesn’t work with plugin A, than it is the fault of plugin A that it doesn’t work with bbpress!
Sorry but that is life 🙂
Open source means you get lots of great FREE software but you don’t get an integration guarantee – it’s pretty damn good, but sorry not perfect.
And It’s nobody’s fault !
Cool, added the latest change, you can see where it was and where it moved to 😉
https://gist.github.com/ntwb/695bc26b44d6458040c7/revisions
And I try to track ‘all the things’ here on bbpress.org, I’m not necessarily able to participate and/or contribute to everything going on here but do typically read every post here on the site, luckily the forums here do not need much moderation, but some day to day maintenance is needed.
Well, not as I expected to be.
On the main forum page, the sidebar and my page menu get pushed down and it’s now showing archive and categories too ( which wasn’t there before ).
Also, the forum is still not full width.
On the topic and other place, it’s the same thing but the forum is full width.
One big problem is, it doesn’t show my old topic although I created a test one.
Interestingly, it still show the 1 post , 2 replies,… but when I click in it, it shows no topic but the link in the address bar was the right title I gave to my test post.
Any thing you guys can make out from that ?
hi there, I am running latest wordpress, buddypress and bbpress. on my registration form I have the standard wordpress details – username, email and password fields – but then I also have the username field for buddypress – in profile base fields which cannot be deleted. how can I delete one of these – or sync them – so that user only has to enter one username and not get confused with which username to use for logging in etc. please – someone I need urgent help on this – have already asked in buddypress forums but no luck yet. pllllleeeeeeaaaaasssseeee.
Latest WP and BBPress versions (just did fresh install / update)
http://www.mvmgw2.com
I am having an issue where the Login Widget is no longer showing the current logged in user’s name. The avatar and log out links are there, but the name has disappeared. Could it have something to do with changing the primary “name” profile field?
