[Robin W]

and to answer Nino’s Q

If you’re into coding, then yes

the widgets code is held in

bbpress/includes/common/widegets.php

you could customise these and create them as new custom widgets

For instance the topics widget starts on line 669, and line 811 does bbp_topic_permalink( $topic_id )

You could add an if statement to create two different outputs logged in vs not logged in and alter not logged in to topic title.

Not something I have time to do, but would be fun if you have the time

[Robin W]

As my mother said “I WANT – doesn’t get” – please ask nicely 🙂

bbPress is written by volunteers and supported by volunteers, you get it for free !

If a feature is requested enough, then the writers (who do this in their spare time and are not paid) will add it.

If someone already knows how to do this, they will post in due course.

Thanks 🙂

[janiceandcompany]

BUMP- I WANT THIS

[nirgalo]

Hey, I want to set up the same kind of design bbpress support forum has for my site’s forum:
– main page with latest topics (and page navigation), and forums as widgets on the left pane
– when opening a forum : page with forum topics and forum info as widget on the left pane
– topic page: topic as page and Topic info as widget

How can I do that? Shortcodes do not seem to be enough. Like [bbp-topic-index] is only displaying the last 15 topics.

[Stephen Edgar]

Nice, sad I missed this thread up until now 😉

Starting from @adressler 2nd post here are my thoughts:

@adressler wrote…
My crazy idea that I had was to import these “old” authors as, effectively, name placeholders. Bogus/null values for user_pass and user_email, a php-generated user_login (something like “judygarland-old”, “abcdef12345-old” or similar), user_id (unique Auto Increment #), display_name (“Judy Garland”), and maybe user_nicename.

I’m with you here and I’ll come back to how to do the above shortly.

@adressler wrote…
These would only be used to show the Authors first + last name next to all of the old topics and replies I just imported from Lotus (they will not be logging in). When users re-register, they would create a completely new WP user (I’m using s2member to handle subscription info).

Still with you, I think this is a good plan.

@adressler wrote…
I realize that “new” users will not be able to see their “old” user’s topic / reply counts, and total user counts will not be completely accurate, but that’s okay and manageable.

Still a good plan, we can fix the above ‘after’ they registered their new account.

@adressler wrote…
At least they could create their new user accounts themselves, and I wouldn’t be responsible for making s2member link up properly with these old users.

Correct, let the users do that themselves.

@robin-w wrote…
The real issue here is whether you can get email addresses. If you can, then if you import users as per my previous, they can use “password lost” to re-do their passwords, and then it’ll all be fine.

As per my first comment of what I will come back to shortly, we don’t need actually need an email address for this.

@robin-w wrote…
Additionally logon names need to be unique so they can’t register with any existing username !

I’m going to have to check that my solution doesn’t break because of this, it is ready to be committed and ready for bbPress v2.6 😉

@robin-w wrote…
I’d do as previous and create a user table to import, but call each user ‘old_xxx’ – you can do this before import, effectively your placeholder.

Again, I shall return and no need for the old_ prefix on the username.

@robin-w wrote…
As each user registers, you can run some code around the posts to remap them. You’ll get a registration notice, so if you cut some code, then you can just run this each time someone registers. Basically you would just enter there old username and their new one. The code would look up the old ID, the new ID, and then run through posts to remap to the new user. If you’d like help with that, just let me know and I’ll try and cut a quick loop code that you can run straight on the website (pw protected of course)

90% of this is actually built into bbPress and again I just need to test this against my solution, as I type this I am thinking maybe a custom one will be needed but shouldn’t be too hard to write a tool for it to integrate with my proposed solution as no doubt others would probably also require this. 😉

@adressler wrote…
I was able to export users from Lotus into a new users table. The table structure is:

That table looks fine, it shouldn’t matter what the old user_login name is as we will primarily use the user Display Name and/or User Nicename.

@adressler wrote…
I linked up my custom converter and was able to import users successfully into BBPress without the need to include a bogus email or password. In the WP database, all of these “old” users have an auto-generated password, and no email address. Now, at least all of these old user display_names are showing next to the posts they authored (instead of all “anonymous”).

Cool, though my plan is to purposely make them Anonymous 😉

With a couple of tweaks as we get closer to what I propose I think we can adapt your importer to use the code I have already written.

@adressler wrote…
Is it still possible to write a loop to link these old user accounts to the newly registered users even though there’s no email addresses? I’m okay with the forum working the way it is now, but if there’s a way to link newly registered accounts with the old ones, I’d sure like to try. I’m guessing the only way to do it is to match by the old user display_name, which, from what I can tell, is unique to the users db; no two people have the same name. It would just depend on people remembering the name they used to registered on the old site (some people are registered as “John and Jane Doe”). And if someone signs up who coincidentally has the same name as an old user, there could be some confusion.

As per what I wrote above, part of this is already built into bbPress and a little bit of testing in what we need to do to handle this properly then tweak the code we should be good.

@adressler wrote…
I just had a thought, what about a checkbox during registration like “Attempt to link my old DynamiteOnline account”, and when checked it would try to link up the names?

Maybe…

@robin-w wrote…
If auto the system won’t let you have two usernames the same, so you’d need to change your existing usernames to say have a character in front eg x_john smith (sql loop through user database would do that). Then brief your users to register with their existing username eg just john smith.

We don’t need to worry about this because each user would be Anonymous 😉

@robin-w wrote…
The real solution if you don’t have tons of users is to go for a manual registration process, you can of course let then use the same username, as you can then generate a user with a php programme straight into the database.

Let the users register whatever name they want as long as it is not already in use they will do the registration and sign up.

Automating this would be a pain for the high chance of abuse that could occur.

As there isn’t old email addresses for the old users verifying who’s who really should be a manual verification process in my opinion.

Nothing pretty or easy !

It took me ~7 months to come up with my solution with a few tips and advice from others who first floated the idea but I think it is relatively pretty now. 🙂

But a solution is there somewhere !

Yes it is 😉

I’ll go dig out now and have a quick read and post it shortly 🙂

[lizat]

Hi Robin,

Take a look at this: http://www.archipelacom.com/forums/topic/test-topic-1/

liz

[Majijiboo]

Wordpress version 3.8.1
bbPress version: latest version
Link to site: manupmyhealth.com/locker-room

I used “display: none” for .bbp-topic-voice-count to remove it, and now want to use a larger portion of the table that displays topics to show the content in .bbp-topic-title.

When I set the width to 75% for .bbp-topic-title, the desktop version looks good, but the mobile version looks disoriented. Is there a way to disable responsive design for mobile so people see the desktop version even when they are on a mobile phone?

Also, any thoughts on what to set the width parameter to so .bbp-topic-title takes a larger width in the desktop version and the mobile version will still look good? Thanks.

[Robin W]

Looks like it’s wider than just bbpress from this post.

http://evidentiasoftware.com/forums/topic/object-stores-not-found/

Have you added/upgraded any software lately?

Ok, first I’d check plugins and theme to discount these.

Check other plugins

Check that no other plugins are affecting this.

Turn off all other plugins apart from bbpress, and see if that fixes the problem. If the problem is resolved, add back one at a time to see which is causing the conflict.

Check themes

If plugins are not the cause, then it may be a theme issue. Switch to a default theme, such as twentytwelve, and test.

come back if that doesn’t pinpoint your problem.

[Ryder]

Hi,

I’m using the BBPress Converter but for some reason it’s stuck on converting users, it’s done 5250 users at the time of this post but I only have 2500 users on my website.

I am currently using Simple Press forums which I detest and it’s getting all of the users from the WishlistMember database…

How am I supposed to import correctly?

Thanks in advance
– Hyflex

[Stephen Edgar]

Is there anything else I need to do to ensure I get that performance increase?

Be ready for bbPress v2.6 😉 We have a few performance improvements coming with this release.

The downside of our planned improvements means there is a pretty high chance we will break sites thus we have lots of testing and lots of extra code to write to make sure we don’t break anything.

[Magic-Komplex]

I’m not quite sure, since when this error occurs, as I’ve been doing a lot of other stuff around this project the last days and didn’t test this functionality within a week or so, cause it actually worked in the beginning.

So when I’m trying to post a reply to a forum topic, the page reloads, the text is still shown in the text-input-form, but above this form shows an error-message saying that my reply mustn’t be empty.

My fist attempt was to deactivate all the new plugins I installed, that didn’t help. But when I use a standard theme (twenty-ten) instead of my own adapted theme, it works, replying to forum topics is possible again.

But when it worked in the beginning, I was using my adapted theme, not the standard one. I know I made a lot of minor changes to my theme since I last tested this functionality, but unfortunately I don’t exactly remember what I’ve changed. So now I have no idea how to locate what causes the error.

BTW, this error happens to all kinds of useres, administrators as well as participants, so it cannot be a user role issue.

Can anyone help me to find out what causes this error and how to solve it please?

[kvr28]

thank-you, you want to see a awesome forum, look here

http://www.itinerantangler.com/blog/board/forums/

zach was kind enough to share his css with me on this thread

Fly-Fishing Site

so I copied and pasted it into my themes custom css and tried it, some things worked well, some things didn’t with my theme, so it got me thinking, since I know pretty much nothing about css, I started looking at other bbpress forums and just started inspecting elements to see how they got the affect that I liked, I spent about two weeks doing this, here is the css I ended up with and I use that loop-forums on the other thread, not sure why it’s giving errors for you, I found another example of a loop-forums I found and tested on my staging server and it is pretty close to what you want I think, the link for that is on the other thread

.single .entry-title { display: none; }

.entry-title { display: none; }

div.bbp-template-notice.info {
border: #B6A9A6 1px solid;
background-color: #f0ead6;
}

#bbpress-forums div.even,
#bbpress-forums ul.even {
	background-color: #fbfbfb;
}
#bbpress-forums div.odd,
#bbpress-forums ul.odd {
	background-color: #fff;
}

/* =Breadcrumb and Tags
-------------------------------------------------------------- */
div.bbp-breadcrumb {
	float: none;
	display:block;
	border: 1px solid #e4e4e4;
	padding:9px;
	-moz-border-radius: 3px;
	-webkit-border-radius: 3px;
	border-radius: 3px;
	-moz-background-clip: padding;
	-webkit-background-clip: padding-box;
	background-clip: padding-box;
	background-color: #f5f5f5;
}
div.bbp-breadcrumb p{
	margin:0 !important;
}
.bbp-breadcrumb a{
	position:relative;
}
.bbp-breadcrumb a:before{
	border-bottom: 20px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);
    border-left: 18px solid #E1E1E1;
    border-top: 20px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);
    content: " ";
    display: block;
    height: 0;
    left: 100%;
    margin-left: -7px;
    margin-top: -19px;
    position: absolute;
    top: 49%;
    width: 0;
    z-index: 1;
}
.bbp-breadcrumb a:after{
	border-bottom: 20px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);
    border-left: 18px solid #F5F5F5;
    border-top: 20px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);
    content: " ";
    display: block;
    height: 0;
    left: 100%;
    margin-left: -8px;
    margin-top: -19px;
    position: absolute;
    top: 49%;
    width: 0;
    z-index: 1;
}
a.bbp-breadcrumb-home,
a.bbp-breadcrumb-root,
a.bbp-breadcrumb-forum,
a.bbp-breadcrumb-search,
span.bbp-breadcrumb-current  {
    display: inline-block;
    line-height: 20px;
    padding: 0 10px;
	font-size: 1em;
	color:#818181;
}
div.bbp-breadcrumb,
div.bbp-topic-tags {
	font-size: 12px;
}
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-breadcrumb p,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-tags p {
	margin-bottom: 10px
}
div.bbp-topic-tags {
	float: right;
}
div.topic-author-displayname,
div.reply-author-displayname {
	
	color: #EB4B00;
	font-size: 16px;
}
	.user-id-1 div.topic-author-displayname,
	.user-id-1 div.reply-author-displayname{ 
		font-weight: bold;
	}

/* =Forms
-------------------------------------------------------------- */
#bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form legend {
	padding: 5px;
}
#bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form label {
	margin: 0;
	display: inline-block; 
}
#bbp-edit-topic-tag.bbp-form fieldset.bbp-form label,
#bbp-login fieldset label,
#bbp-register fieldset label,
#bbp-lost-pass fieldset label {
	width: 100px;
}
#bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form p,
#bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form textarea,
#bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form select,
#bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form input {
	margin: 0 0 8px;
}
form#bbp-your-profile fieldset.submit {
	border: none;
}
textarea#bbp_reply_content,
textarea#bbp_topic_content,
textarea#bbp_forum_content {
	width: 98%;
	box-sizing: border-box;
	-webkit-box-sizing:border-box;
	-moz-box-sizing: border-box;
	-ms-box-sizing: border-box;
}
textarea#bbp_forum_content {
	height: 210px;
}
#bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-forum-form-attributes {
	width: 200px;
	float: right;
	clear: none;
	margin-left: 25px;
}
.bbp-topic-form,
.bbp-reply-form,
.bbp-topic-tag-form {
	clear: left;
}
body.topic-edit .bbp-topic-form div.avatar img,
body.reply-edit .bbp-reply-form div.avatar img,
body.single-forum .bbp-topic-form div.avatar img,
body.single-reply .bbp-reply-form div.avatar img {
	margin-right: 0;
	padding: 10px;
	border: 1px solid #ddd;
	line-height: 0;
	background-color: #efefef;
}
body.page .bbp-reply-form code,
body.page .bbp-topic-form code,
body.single-topic .bbp-reply-form code,
body.single-forum .bbp-topic-form code,
body.topic-edit .bbp-topic-form code,
body.reply-edit .bbp-reply-form code {
	font-size: 10px;
	background-color: #f0fff8;
	border: 1px solid #CEEFE1;
	display: block;
	padding: 8px;
	margin-top: 5px;
	width: 369px;
}
	.form-allowed-tags code {
		background: #bcd7f3 !important;
		font-size: 11px !important;
		border: none !important;
		width: auto !important;
		color:#333 !important; 
		white-space: normal !important;
	}
#merge_tag,
#delete_tag {
	display: inline;
}
div.bbp-submit-wrapper {
	margin-top: 15px;
	float: left;
	clear: both;
}

#bbpress-forums div.odd,#bbpress-forums ul.odd {
background-color: #f3f3f3;
}

#access {
background: #D9D9D9;
padding-left: 0 !important;
padding-right: 0 !important;
}

#bbpress-forums li.bbp-header {
background: #D9D9D9;
border-top: none !important;
width: 99%;
border-bottom: 1px solid #d3d3d3 !important;
}

#footer-area {
background: #D9D9D9;
}

.bbp-footer {
background: #D9D9D9;
}

#bbpress-forums li.bbp-header {
        font-size: 1.3em;
}

.bbp-topic-title {
   font-size: 1.1em;
}

.widget_display_topics .bbp-author-avatar { display: none ! important; }

.bbp-topic-freshness-author  .bbp-author-avatar { display: none ! important; }

blockquote:before {content: ‘\275d’; color: #555; font-size: 15px; width: 15px; height: 15px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: -70px; margin-top: 10px; float:left; }

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-header {
background-color: #afafaf;
}

.bbp-admin-links a {
color: #00548c !important;
}

.bbp-admin-links a:hover {
color: #d54e21 !important;
}

[kvr28]

I’m not sure, I thought I had found that as a example on here somewhere, but I can’t seem to find it, it’s what I use on my forum and I’m not getting any errors, I just found this example and just tried it on my testing site and it works well, see if it gives you any errors

https://code.google.com/p/ogre3d-fr/source/browse/wp-content/themes/ogre3d/bbpress/loop-forums.php?r=25

also lynq made a pretty sweet template pack, maybe try that and see if you like the look

I have created a bbPress starter theme with a phpBB look and feel

[Daniele]

Hey guys,
I’m successfully importing old Kunena1 forums and users.
But I don’t understand what’s the expected behavior with the imported user passwords.
I see this message on the Forum Import page:
“Non-bbPress passwords cannot be automatically converted. They will be converted as each user logs in.”

I tested and old users just can’t login as the password is not recognized.
They have to follow the password forgot procedure.

Is this the expected behavior?

Thanks!

[Robin W]

ok, you need to eliminate whether it is a plugin or theme issue

Check other plugins

Check that no other plugins are affecting this.

Turn off all other plugins apart from bbpress, and see if that fixes the problem. If the problem is resolved, add back one at a time to see which is causing the conflict.

Check themes

If plugins are not the cause, then it may be a theme issue. Switch to a default theme, such as twentytwelve, and test.

and come back and let us know

[Robin W]

Check other plugins

Check that no other plugins are affecting this.

Turn off all other plugins apart from bbpress, and see if that fixes the problem. If the problem is resolved, add back one at a time to see which is causing the conflict.

Check themes

If plugins are not the cause, then it may be a theme issue. Switch to a default theme, such as twentytwelve, and test.

[yoshimitsu1234]

I am using latest versions of all softwares and Plugins. Theme is wpzoom Gazeti.
Example of error is http://www.desimedicos.com/forum
Getting this 404 errors on all pages with any kind of bbpress shortcode irrespective of whether i am logged in or out.

[jslom]

No problem @netweb & @maveas. I dealt with the same issue and it was driving me nuts. I submitted a ticket for it about a week ago to Nextgen gallery, and they are currently working on a fix. I am not sure when the next beta or fixed version will be released, but if you need it running use version 2.0.40. This was the last version that didn’t cause the redirection issues.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/nextgen-gallery/download/

The easy way I did it was by first FTP into your site, and rename the current /wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery folder to nextgen-gallery-latest

Then download the 2.0.40 package from above and upload the nextgen-gallery folder to your plugins folder. Activate is as you would any other plugin, and disable the current one. They will have different version numbers. Don’t update the 2.0.40 version. Once you see an update for the latest version, or a change log that shows it fixed, you can reverse the steps above and not lose any settings.

[Stephen Edgar]

I tried your code you provided, unfortunately the conversion results were the same as I described originally. Same results running the tools after the import/conversion as well.

There is a chance I got the code wrong, I based it on the snippets you posted above.

I think it will be a matter of just working out the correct fields to grab the correct data from in and around the topics table with topic_id, parent_id and forum_id and similarly for the replies table so that the correct value is being added to post_parent.

If you want to dump all the code so I can take a closer look dump it into a gist here on GitHub.

https://gist.github.com/

I am going to run some test queries on the databases just to try to figure out where things are breaking down, probably tomorrow. 🙂 Do you know of a way to echo the SELECT queries to the old Database tables forums, replies, and topics during import?

Us e Google Chrome/Firefox’s Inspector, simply right click in the yellow window and select ‘Inspect Element’, we have all the MySQL queries that are used during import echo’d out in the page source, just not rendered on the page.

[adressler]

Thank you @netweb. I tried your code you provided, unfortunately the conversion results were the same as I described originally. Same results running the tools after the import/conversion as well.

I am going to run some test queries on the databases just to try to figure out where things are breaking down, probably tomorrow. 🙂 Do you know of a way to echo the SELECT queries to the old Database tables forums, replies, and topics during import?

Thanks again.

[Stephen Edgar]

Most likely a plugin conflict, deactivate both the plugins you mention and then try creating a new forum. Does it work now? If so reactivate ‘flip book’, does it still work? Reactivate Yoast, how about now?

(You may need to deactivate all your plugins to test this fully)

[jslom]

Check other plugins. I had some redirect issues with the latest Nextgen Gallery plugin. They are working on a fix, if that is the cause for you also..

[Robin W]

Check other plugins

Check that no other plugins are affecting this.

Turn off all other plugins apart from bbpress, and see if that fixes the problem. If the problem is resolved, add back one at a time to see which is causing the conflict.

Check themes

If plugins are not the cause, then it may be a theme issue. Switch to a default theme, such as twentytwelve, and test.

[Xn2]

hi,
im using bbpress on my website, but we have an issue with editing function.

In facts we are able to edit topics, but when we want to edit replies we obtained :

/* <div class=”extra-wrap”>
<h2 class=”entry-title”>
<div class=”entry-content”> Home › Forums › W3Community › TOUT SUR W3COMMUNITY › test › Répondre à: test 26 mars 2014 at 18 h 42 min #2892 Édit | Move | Diviser | trash | Spam | reply Xn2-testParticipant () Messages 2 blablabla </div>
<div class=”postmeta”>
</div> */

No editing windows only text and 2 links (read more and edit)

We dont understand why its doing that :/

[HywelPhillips]

Hi All,

I have the weirdest error. I have a WordPress 3.8.1 installation with Akismet 2.6.0, bbPress 2.5.3 and a couple of other plugins.

It has been running fine for a year or so. We recently moved server, and did a “point” version update to latest versions.

Today I found a problem I’ve not seen before: if one posts a forum post whose titles start with the letters “Se”, you get a 404 error when viewing the post. The post itself shows up in the forum listing and is editable with correct text but won’t show up when you click on the link in the forum listing.

Post title variants like “Secretary”, “Secretary Test” “Sec” all generate the error. A post with title “Sacretary” does not, nor do any other posts test titles I’ve tried.

Has anyone got the faintest idea what could be going on here?

Cheers, Hywel Phillips