[Lynqoid]

If I test on a blank install of WordPress the twitter feed works, if I add bbPress it also works. Do you have an example of any other non bbPress site where the twitter feed is not working?

I am guessing a plugin conflict, javascript error or template problem.

Good luck!

[pchapmannc]

My forums show up on the page if I add the shortcode [bbp-forum-index] but then none of my topics show up! There is a number under topics but when I click on the number I end up at a blank page.I’m just starting the forum and tried several test topics but they go to a blank page. I’m using Creativo as a theme, and wonder if there is something I should modify somewhere. Any ideas?

Thanks!

[jsalomone]

I still have the problem on my site, and am not using WishList Member.

I tried a clean install with all plugins I am using, and maybe the order of installing was different, but on the clean install I had no problem, until I did a database restore. Something in the db messes it up. I can’t see where in the code the showing of the first post (or any) is checked against some condition.

Did the past updates of bbpress and other plugins too (not the latest wordpress though) and the behavior is still the same.

[artkahlich]

I have observed precisely the same problem on my Android Motorola Droid HD Maxx. In my case I defined a page containing the [bbp-forum-index] shortcode for the Forums top level. If I go to that page in either of the latest versions of IE or Firefox, I get a nice page showing the Forum categories. Using my Android phone, I get a page containing the single word ‘Forums’. As the OP noted, if I go directly to a Forum category or topic all is well.

My WordPress version is 3.8, bbPress version is 2.5.2. I am using a copied and modified version of the TwentyFourteen theme.

[jdredd87]

Using latest wordpress 3.8 and bbpress 2.5.2..
Using the 2014 template.
Did searching but didn’t see my exact problem mentioned?
I am new to WP/BBPress so maybe a newb issue. Only been 3 days..

Windows/OSX/Chrome/IE/Safari work fine.

Chrome/Safari on iOS on an iPad seems to work fine.

Chrome/Safari on iOS on a phone does not. If you go straight to the forums link
you just get a section that says Forums and thats it.

Android is unknown…

If you go straight to a forum section or a forum post, that works fine.

site is http://turbo3800.com/

Screen shot…

http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n136/jdredd87/IMG_0988_zpsee71ee92.png

[Stephen Edgar]

This thread here mentions a vBulletin conversion of ~600,000 posts took around 8-10 hours on an iMac so thats 1/6th of the time you’ve estimated.

vBulletin to bbPress questions

I’d love to test the DB you have, maybe some improvements can be made though I doubt they’d be done before your import completes 😉 I just followed you on Twitter so follow me back and drop me a DM with a ftp/dropbox link and I’ll give it a whirl.

[Stephen Edgar]

I also do not know what changes you have made so until you update both WordPress & bbPress you are basically out of luck.

This is the reason why you should never change the core files in WordPress or bbPress.

I would suggest you create yourself a test install of WordPress locally, add your theme and plugins and compare the changes and start to implement the changes you need in an upgrade friendly way such as child themes and custom additions to functions.php etc.

[yoplait]

Hi, i have a latest fresh bbpress plugin (with french translation). I have created a forum and some posts for testing.
I have “file not found” when i click on edit. The url is “sameonadressbar/edit”
Also i have 404 on clicking profiles.

Can you help me please ?!
Thank you.
Kris

[jdawglosurdo]

is there anyway to change the font color, it doesn’t look very good with my theme

i am using the latest version of wordpress
theme is hueman

[mauryg]

@Stephen

Thanks for the reply.
You’re correct. The first two points were covered except that I need to test if I can eliminate the ‘All Members’ public group and just use a sitewide forum.
In the meantime I had successfully upgraded to bbPress 2.5.1 and I have now gone to 2.5.2.
I’ll check the theme compatibility article although I am using a child theme of Suffusion and I have installed the Suffusion bbPress pack.
The threaded reply setting was enabled to a depth of ‘2’. The first reply was at the same level as the original posting and the reply to that was indented one level. When I increased the depth to ‘4’ and added more replies to replies, the threading worked. I guess I can live with the first reply being at the same level or I can muck around with the CSS if need be. 😉

Happy New Year

Maury

[Grant Palin]

I’m running the current versions of WordPress and bbPress on a dev site. Mostly OK, have been able to get some people to test the forum functionality. However, I and another user (both keymasters) are unable to use the Edit or Merge buttons above topics and replies. The other buttons – delete, spam, close, stick, etc – do work, strangely. Yet I have no trouble doing edits from the backend.

I tried the usual routine of disabling all plugins save bbPress, yet the issue remained. We’re not using exotic plugins – ACF, Pods, NavXT, PageNavi and about 10 others. We are building out a custom theme – I also tried switching to Twenty Twelve to no avail.

If it matters, I have set up a custom permalink structure in the bbPress settings. I can’t imagine that being the issue if only two functions fail to work while the others are fine.

Any Suggestions?

[Stephen Edgar]

Would I be better with a ‘site-wide’ forum rather than the private All Residents group?

I think this is now sorted based on your reply.

Can I make a site-wide forum private?

Same this is now sorted.

How do I modify the formatting of the forum postings?

If you want custom templates then follow the steps outlined here to make copies of the templates in your theme so they don’t get overridden when you update bbPress.

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

Where do I look to troubleshoot the ‘threading’ function?

You state you are using ‘bbPress 2.2’, threaded replies were introduced in bbPress 2.4 so you should upgrade to the latest bbPress 2.5.2. You can then enable them in bbPress settings per https://codex.bbpress.org/forum-settings/#forum-features

[Stephen Edgar]

@gwendydd Thanks for the report and it is exactly the same issue.

Could you all in this thread supply the following:

• WordPress Versions eg. 3.8
• bbPress Version eg. 2.5.2
• Operating System eg. Linux/Windows
• Web Server eg. Nginx, Apache, IIS
• Theme eg. Twenty Thirteen
• PHP Version eg. 5.3, 5.4, 5.5

There has to be something common between people having this issue where we can then recreate a test environment to actually fix this.

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress requires at least WordPress 3.6. I would ask the authors of that theme if they can update it for WordPress 3.8, at a bare minimum besides the improvements in the latest WordPress there are bound to be some security issues in running such an old version of WordPress.

[Stephen Edgar]

I have not seen anyone else report anything like what you mention.

Have you updated top WordPress 3.8 & bbPress 2.5.2 and tested with the Twenty Thirteen theme?

Also some screenshots would be beneficial

[Aqeart]

I’ve been using WordPress for a long time but I’m new to bbpress. I’m trying to figure how to add sidebar to my forum so that users can login or check out the latest posts from the forum. Hence I’ve decided to create a page with -forum slug so It won’t overlap default -forums slug of bbpress. I added the shortcode [bbp-forum-index] to that page and edited. Everything was working fine until I clicked on any of the forums I created. It redirected me to a page with -forums slug and breadcrumbs was on the same direction, as if shortcode was just a decoy. Unfortunately, I wasn’t very successful at altering bbpress files as I wanted. My question is about those slugs. Is there any way to override bbpress’ own page system and force it to use the page I inserted the forum code.

Thank you

[enewsdigest]

Dear April,

I am having the same issue. I also am deploying and testing in Instant WordPress. Have the same problem. Pity no one has come to rescue till now.

[amyboyack]

bbPress 2.5.1-5217 wp version 3.8 using bigbang theme

I’m having trouble getting the sidebar to show on the forums. You can check here
http://sandbox3.sureleader.com/forums/forum/non-protected-forum-for-testing/

[Chitcher1]

I have installed the latest bbpress plugin to my wordpress site. There isn’t a single tab or subcategory to be found in my dashboard that relates to BBPress. I keep reading about this forum tab but its nowhere to be found on my dashboard. I hope someone can shed some light on this 🙂

[marshallarts]

Hi Stephen,

thank you for this and the time you are taking to help – I’ve read your previous very carefully.

Maybe I misunderstood something – The queries you suggest are all in the new form – e.g. jos_kunena_categories.id whereas my database is jos_fb_categories.id from Kunena 1.5.x- I checked on a test install of a newer version of Kunena and table names and fields have changed so I think the jos_fb_ tables/fields are all wrong for the migrator.

I do have backups and am willing to have a go but the queries are jos_kunena format not jos_fb – so much is unfamiliar and ergo scary!

Thanks Stephen and sorry for being a pain, I really do want to get this out of your way and me out of your hair 🙂

Paul

[Matoca]

I am preparing WordPress as a website with a forum for owners with sick dogs. Included in the website is a medical glossary plugin. It has worked so well on the pages that I have purchased their Pro+ version.
http://wordpress.org/plugins/enhanced-tooltipglossary/

The problem I am having is that the tooltip plugin is not recognizing terms inside the forum topic or posts and the tooltips are not coming up on hover:
http://www.secondchanceaihadogs.com/forums/topic/test/

CM support says “I am not sure how bbpress use post and if it use the content filters on them. If it does it will show the tooltip”

I could use some help. Should I be asking here about this, the designer of the theme or go back to CM support for the answer how to make this work?

[Stephen Edgar]

Yes, that was what I inferred by ‘back end’ & ‘front end’ that I tried it from both places that we can create topics, the front end and the back end.

The one thing I did do, that I have just tested against was I had copied and pasted the the ‘content’ from the back end to create the topic in the front end.

I just manually typed the following into the ‘front end’ for single quote ', double quote " and

`

tilde symbols.

I am also using a clean install and the Twenty Thirteen theme so like yourself I am a little perplexed as to why we are seeing something different.

[JakubMarian]

Have you created the topic using the form that’s part of the forum, or using the administration panel? If I use the administration panel, everything is saved as it should; however, when I use the submit form in the forum, characters get converted to HTML entities.

I tested it using a clean installation of the latest version of WordPress with the default theme where the only plugin installed was bbPress, with exactly the result I have described above.

[Stephen Edgar]

Cool, glad your taking a look at it.

“It seems to have appended an extre Re: in front of each (so they read Re:Re:Topic)”

The Re: should only be added to the title of a reply, this should not be adding them to the topics and this shows that the SQL in the importer isn’t quite matching up with your database.

The SQL queries below are based on the Kunena1.php importer and use the prefix jos_ as the table prefix for the bbPress importer.

When the importer fails you should see an error message like the following:
WordPress database error: [Unknown column 'kunena_categories.locked1' in 'field list']

In this particular case the importer was looking for jos_kunena_categories.locked1 where jos_kunena_categories is the table name and locked1 is the field name. I used ‘locked1’ as a way to force an error to show the example, so if I knew my version of the database should be looking at the field locked instead of locked1 you can find the 'from_fieldname' => 'locked1' in Kunena1.php and update that with the correct field mapping 'from_fieldname' => 'locked',.

Another way you can go about this is to jump directly into phpMyAdmin and test each of the following SQL queries, there are primarily four queries are as follows:

Again I used prefix jos_ for my database and you will need to change this to match your own database table prefix.

Forums

SELECT 
kunena_categories.id AS id,
kunena_categories.parent AS parent,
kunena_categories.numTopics AS numTopics,
kunena_categories.numPosts AS numPosts,
kunena_categories.name AS name,
kunena_categories.description AS description,
kunena_categories.ordering AS ordering,
kunena_categories.locked AS locked 
FROM jos_kunena_categories AS kunena_categories

Topics

SELECT 
kunena_messages.thread AS thread,
kunena_messages.catid AS catid,
kunena_messages.userid AS userid,
kunena_messages.ip AS ip,
kunena_messages_text.message AS message,
kunena_messages.subject AS subject,
kunena_messages.time AS time,
kunena_messages.locked AS locked 
FROM jos_kunena_messages AS kunena_messages 
INNER JOIN jos_kunena_messages_text AS kunena_messages_text 
ON kunena_messages_text.mesid = kunena_messages.id 
WHERE kunena_messages.parent = 0

Replies

SELECT 
kunena_messages.id AS id,
kunena_messages.catid AS catid,
kunena_messages.thread AS thread,
kunena_messages.ip AS ip,
kunena_messages.userid AS userid,
kunena_messages.subject AS subject,
kunena_messages_text.message AS message,
kunena_messages.time AS time 
FROM jos_kunena_messages AS kunena_messages 
INNER JOIN jos_kunena_messages_text AS kunena_messages_text 
ON kunena_messages.id = kunena_messages_text.mesid 
WHERE kunena_messages.parent != 0

Users

SELECT 
users.id AS id,
users.password AS password,
users.username AS username,
users.email AS email,
users.registerDate AS registerDate 
FROM jos_users AS users

That’s a bit to digest so I’ll leave it at that for now and it is probably as clear as mud unless you are a seasoned SQL junkie.

If anything I wrote above doesn’t make sense just ask away and remember 🙂
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_such_thing_as_a_stupid_question

[ozgurpolat]

Hi Stephen ( @netweb ), I actually have a proper website where I have installed bbpress and it is not so easy for me to start building the site again from scratch. I have this problem and I wasn’t sure how to fix it. This is why I came to this site to ask for help. but instead I got accused of lying. Which is really disappointing. All those test sites I built was to demonstrate the problem including the one you found on the internet.

If you are not willing to help or you don’t think the problem is important please do not respond.That’s what happens most of the time on this site anyway and it is better that way.

it is really interesting that I never get any real help from this site. I wish I could delete my account but i cannot. But I have the freedom to leave and that’s what I am going to do.

Regards