[Donta]

I recently migrated a large forum from another platform. The forum is quite large (1M+). The issues I am having is that opening individual forums is slow and opening threads is pretty much the same. 20 seconds – 30 seconds sometimes. I am running the latest bbpress and the site runs on a dedicated server and had no issue with the previous forum platform.

It is truly frustrating. I would truly appreciate if someone can point in the right direction of what to look for?

[Stephen Edgar]

the admin icons for forums, topics and replies are missing. May you please check it? I’m using the latest wordpress.

Try clearing your browser cache/history or hard refresh

[shearamariz]

the admin icons for forums, topics and replies are missing. May you please check it? I’m using the latest wordpress.

[Stephen Edgar]

It looks like you have a page at http://www.ladiesbalance.com/forums/

When viewing a topic or forum eg:
http://www.ladiesbalance.com/forum/forums/chat-beauty/
http://www.ladiesbalance.com/forum/topic/this-is-a-test/

The breadcrumb link is pointing to /forum

It looks like you have your ‘Forums Prefix’ and ‘Single Forum Slugs’ around the wrong way.

Use forums as your forum prefix (the same as your forums page)

Use forum as the single forum slug.

[Denver Prophit Jr.]

@netweb I’m getting this also. I’m using a page with shortcode at http://www.hosting-4-oscommerce.com/forums/ and google rich snippet test results at http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hosting-4-oscommerce.com%2Fforums%2F

[Stephen Edgar]

Sweet 🙂 Will have a play later 🙂

In a similar vein there is also this from @MZAWeb https://github.com/MZAWeb/bbpFauxData

I have a set of sample data that I use for all the different forum importing tests I have done and should really package it up as a WXR file, similar to the WordPress Theme Tests Data as it includes virtually every type of bbPress forum, topic, topic tag, reply and reply to options available.

[trainspotta]

Ok I did a little bit of testing.

Categories and forums were private and only mods could see them.
Now my forums are public but the categories are private. Now logged in members can use them but for visitors they are hidden. is this the correct way of using private?

[kendorama]

Hi,

I just installed bbPress and people that sign up are given Partipant Role. They can read forums but cannot reply threads or post topics. If I set them to moderator they are able to do so.

Please help

http://kendotest.koolkiwi.com/forums

[Haz]

Hi All, I am a bit confused and I need some advice. I have a bbpress forum and I want to place vimeo video in the topics and replies. Is there a plugin (or plugins) that allow me to use shortcodes. Viper’s does not seem to work.

I can directly add the vimeo url to the topic and it seems to work. Is that the best way to do it? Shouldn’t I be using shortcodes instead.

I am running the lastest WP 3.8 and the latest bbpress.

Thanks in advance for your help.

[Lynqoid]

Hey all!

I have recently been developing with bbPress and created myself a plugin for inserting test data into a local WordPress install. Be careful when using this plugin as it does a lot of writing to the database and runs the bbPress repair tools too.

• Adds a forum with nested forums
• Adds a forum with loads of topics
• Adds a topic with loads of replies

http://www.epicwebs.co.uk/bbpress-tutorials/test-data-for-bbpress-plugin/

I hope it helps someone, good luck!

[tjt756]

I have the latest version of wordpress installed on my site. I followed the instructions to install bbPress, then clicking to activate it. But after I do, it just tells me that the plugin has been activated successfully on the top of the page, then shows the normal lists of all plugins on my site. There’s no “Welcome Page”

Additionally, there is no “Forums” option on the left sidebar. Basically, it looks like nothing happened. I uninstalled and tried again, twice. Still no difference.

Is there something I’m missing?

Thanks!

[piccart]

ok, I’ve figured it out.

the files which have to be edited are:
bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/content-single-forum.php
bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/content-single-topic.php

in the first one you’ll have to cut off this line in each place it comes:
<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'form', 'topic' ); ?>

and substitute with something like this, to make the new-topic link:
<a href="http://mywebsite.com/form-new-topic/?forum_id=<?php bbp_forum_id(); ?>

then you create a new template page (which you’ll assign to a page called “Form New Topic”) copying your theme default page, and adding at the top /* Template Name: Form New Topic */ . then you can substitute the function which displays the content, or just add this below it:

$forum_id = $_GET['forum_id'];
echo do_shortcode("[bbp-topic-form forum_id=$forum_id]");

at the same you can edit the second file (the topics list) substituting this:
<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'form', 'reply' ); ?>

with something like this:
<a href="http://mywebsite.com/form-new-reply/?topic_id=<?php bbp_topic_id(); ?>

and then create a new template called “Form New Reply”, and add a code similar to the other one but using the shortcode to display the reply form. unfortunately the shortcode for the reply form seems to don’t have a topic id attribute, according to this list: https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/

I’ll make some test to see how it react, the only other solution I see is to make a spoiler with the reply form, so it’s hidden till you click.

p.s. you can also store the ids into variables, using these functions:

$forum_id = bbp_get_forum_id();
$topic_id = bbp_get_topic_id();

[PCTP]

Using Magazine Basic Premium and latest WP.

Why am I showing only MY activity in the activity area. Also, how do I make the subscribers become members so that we can communicate in the forum? I’ve been through all the settings … don’t see anything.

[ibab]

I have WordPress 3.8 installed with the bbPress 2.5.2. The WP is in Finnish so it’s important that the forums are in Finnish as well, so I attempted to add the translation file as told here.
http://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-in-your-language/

I took the latest dev branch Finnish translation, downloaded the .po and .mo files, renamed them to bbpress-pt_FI, even attempted bbpress-fi_FI, uploaded to /wp-content/languages/bbpress/ but no results. The forums are still in English.

I also checked that the language is set to fi in the wp-config.

Why is the translation not working?

[NarOneR]

I just tried with a default theme but it does not work either.

My plugin enable are :
bbPress
bbPress Enable TinyMCE Visual Tab
Light – Responsive LightBox
NextGEN Gallery by Photocrati
Regenerate Thumbnails
Relevanssi
Responsive Lightbox
Sidebar Login
Theme My Login
TinyMCE Advanced
User Role Editor
WP-PageNavi
WP Minify
WP Wall

You can test on http://www.lsa-clan.fr/wordpress/forums (register is open)

[NarOneR]

I have the latest version of TinyMCE bbPress Enable Visual Tab and I have the same problem with or without the advanced TinyMCE plugin.

[Stephen Edgar]

Do you have the latest version 1.0.1 of ‘bbPress Enable TinyMCE Visual Tab’ installed?
(It was updated a couple of days ago)

Also I am not sure of the bbPress compatibility of the ‘tinyMCE advanced module’, does everything work as it should with this plugin disabled?

[Lynqoid]

Hey guys,

The theme is what teamoverpowered.com forums is based on and it is still working (I always update bbPress).

So in theory the theme should work, take a backup and test it! 🙂

I am (slowly) working on another theme which should be quite nice, it’s just taking longer than expected.

[PCTP]

I have the latest versions of WP & bbPress.

Looking for short codes for “ACTIVITY” – “MEMBERS” – “GROUPS” to keep it private from the public. i.e., only those logged in will be able to view those three items on the home bar. http://www.PickensCountyTeaParty.com

Thanks!

[inspirationally]

After deactivating all bbPress related Plugins, it still occured. Now I removed the functions.php and it seems to have stopped and I’m re-adding it one snippet after the other, but I always have to wait half an hour between each snippet to see if it continues. No idea how to test it “immediately”.

It might be something about this part:

//Remove bbPress Head on non bbPress sites

add_action( 'wp_head', 'conditional_bbpress_head', 9 );
function conditional_bbpress_head(){
global $post;
if( !is_bbpress() && !(is_home() && $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == 'deppheads.com') && !(isset( $post->post_parent ) && $post->post_parent == "17123") )
remove_action( 'wp_head', 'bbp_head' );
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'conditional_bbpress_scripts', 9 );
function conditional_bbpress_scripts(){
global $post;
if( !is_bbpress() && !(is_home() && $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == 'deppheads.com') && !(isset( $post->post_parent ) && $post->post_parent == "17123") )

remove_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'bbp_enqueue_scripts' );
}


which I added because I have two domains running and just one little part under the domain deppheads is actually the forum, and I did not want all that bbPress code in all sites, especially not on my main site.
Is that possible??

[Halo Diehard]

All I know is I’ve got it running on my local for the update before the latest and it’s working. Haven’t updated yet because I’m in the process of converting forums and need everything to stay stable until I get it all figured out…

Edit: PS – if it doesn’t work all you have to do is replace the files with the backup files you save before you try it out.

[mth75]

Hello all,

On my website i’m trying to use the wp-editor as editor for my bbpress forum (always latest stable version). I use the same code as I use for my WP comments section (to keep the appearances the same).

The code I use does show the tinymce, doesn’t “parse” the content though (with an “ERROR: Your reply cannot be empty” as result.

My guess is that I haven’t found the right parameters (***) in the wp_editor function. Help is much appreciated.

Regards.

Marc

 
add_filter( 'bbp_after_get_the_content_parse_args', 'bbp_enable_visual_editor' );
function bbp_enable_visual_editor( $args ) {
	wp_editor( '****', '****', array(
		'media_buttons' => true, // show insert/upload button(s) to users with permission
		'textarea_rows' => '10', // re-size text area
		'dfw' => false, // replace the default full screen with DFW (WordPress 3.4+)
		'tinymce' => array(
        	'theme_advanced_buttons1' => 'bold,italic,underline,strikethrough,bullist,numlist,code,blockquote,link,unlink,outdent,indent,|,undo,redo,fullscreen',
	        'theme_advanced_buttons2' => '', // 2nd row, if needed
        	'theme_advanced_buttons3' => '', // 3rd row, if needed
        	'theme_advanced_buttons4' => '' // 4th row, if needed
  	  	),
		'quicktags' => array(
 	       'buttons' => 'strong,em,link,block,del,ins,img,ul,ol,li,code,close'
	    )
	) );
}

[PCTP]

I want sidebars on my blog page, but not on my forum page. How do I remove the sidebars from my forum page? I am using the latest version of WP and Magazine Basic theme (latest version). http://www.PickensCountyTeaParty.com
Thanks!

[inspirationally]

Hey there,

I have a problem I can’t find a solution for (all latest versions, but it was the same before) at deppheads.com:

Every few seconds, I can see a new revision coming up in the database. I just removed the revisions of the last month and there were over 50000! I mean my forums have a few hundred thousand posts, and they are some kind of reply/topic revisions to existing posts/topics as copies of existing replies (I think). Very curious.

I have no idea how to disable them from being created. I already set auto_save to define('AUTOSAVE_INTERVAL', 86400);

and added

add_action('admin_init', 'disable_revisions');
function disable_revisions(){
       remove_post_type_support('revision', 'revisions');
 remove_post_type_support('topic', 'revisions');
    remove_post_type_support('reply', 'revisions');
}

to my functions.php, but they still appear.

And I disabled revisions for bbpress posts in the settings page.

Any ideas??

Visitors are allowed to post, and I’d like to keep it like that, because it is also my comments system and I know many would not comment if they needed to register.

Here are the last 20 exported as sql (couln’t copy it in, so as a link:)

http://deppheads.com/insert.txt

Here one example of the “parent” http://deppheads.com/forums/reply/359207/

[B]

Hi friends,

I’m attempting to convert over from Vanilla 2.0 to bbPress. I’d like to test first on my local machine, so I’m trying the Import Forums option in my local WP install.

My question: Should there be any problem importing from a live instance to my local?

I’m in PHPMyAdmin and quadruple checking all my settings, so as far as I can tell, I’m inputting all the database settings within bbPress correctly. Sadly, once I start the conversion, I get the “No xxxxxx” set of errors.

What are some common database setting mistakes, just in case I might be overlooking some options? Also, could it be that I’m importing to my local machine and that’s causing the problem (I assume not)?

Let me know if I can provide any more info to make this easier (screenshots, server info, etc)

Thanks!