[eduardosilva]

Greetings,

I’ve migrated my bbpress install to from 1.x to 2.x (latest) and I didn’t noticed that there was a “change” in the permalinks structure.

Now google webmaster tools is complaining that I have a lot of 404 errors.

With bbpress 1.x the the “dots” where removed from permalinks, after the migration the “dots” where converted from “.” to “-”

Topic name: “Example 2.6.1”
old permalink: /topic/example-261
new permalink: /topic/example-2-6-1

The problem is that now, even if I fix the permalinks to behave like they where in 1.x, I will have 404 errors for the new items already indexed. So, is there any way to “redirect” the “old” permalinks to the new ones?

At this moment google webmaster tools is reporting 2.133 404 errors

Thank you!

[Robin W]

What theme are you using? and can we see how it looks – give us your website address

[akgt]

SEO issues bbPress with buddypress

This means that there are duplication issues on title tags and metadescriptions within the groups and subcategories.

groups/automotive/forum

/automotive/forum/topic/test/

both have the same title even using yoasta

Is there any way so that the title of the post is pulled through to the title tag and the description is pulled through to the metadescription?

[koendb]

I only know a little php, and I think this way the function searches through ALL the links in a reply/topic and adds target_blank to all of them when at least one of them is external. That’s not what you want.

You need to
1) explode the content
2) loop through all link tags
3) Test if it’s external or internal
4) if external: use the function above to add the target=_blank
5) if internal: remove nofollow
6) implode and return the new reply/topic content.

It would probably take me a few hours to google this together, maybe you could try this yourself or somebody whit a little more php knowledge could help.

[modbunker]

Hi

Ive setup the forum and have the register link in the widget setup properly. My test profile was able to register and receive an activation email. But when/if I log out and try to sign back in using the BBPress Login Widget, after I click “login” it takes me to the wordpress login?

Is this how the login is supposed to work? Is there a way to login using the widget that doesnt prompt them to login with wordpress? Why after clicking on “login” does it take the user to another login screen and just log them in on that same page?

I dont feel secure if users can maybe access the backend to the site, but it looks like this is how this site works as well?

Ive installed a BBPress plugin called BBPress – No Admin does this solve my fear of them being able to access the backend?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Im running WordPress 3.6.1 with BBPress 2.4.1 and BuddyPress 1.8.1

[David2013]

Need help with that error message in forum-topics

`Home › Forums › Test

Warning: sprintf() [function.sprintf]: Too few arguments in /xxx/xxx/xxx/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/forums/template.php on line 187

anyone knows what is wrong?

[Stephen Edgar]

That plugin looks fine to use with bbPress 2.x, you just need to download either the bbpress-close-old-posts.php file and upload it to your plugins folder, or download the .zip, extract to a folder and upload that folder to your plugins folder.

But since it’s not listed at bbpress.org plugins list, I’m not sure if it’s safe or even compatible with my current install.

You will at times find many themes and plugins that are not hosted on WordPress.org, sometimes they are proprietary code, other times they are just quick snippets of code, it doesn’t mean they are unsafe and usually a quick note to the author will confirm if they work with the latest version of bbPress.

btw, searching for “lock” at bbpress.org plugins, at the bottom of the page you will see: ”Viewing 1 to 4 (4 total)” but there are only 3 plugins listed.”

Thanks, this is a known issue and will hopefully be fixed soon.

[radleycollector]

Hello , I have got the latest bbpress plugin workings with my WordPress but now I am noticing forums and topics are not refreshing . I use w3 total cache and assume that is the issue . Is there a way to exclude bbpress from it or do you know how to make it compatible , thank you

[SZTEAM]

Hi all.

I am using bbpress fist time.
I have configured the login widget with links to my “lost password” & “registr” page i have created with shortcodes: [bbp-register] , [bbp-lost-pass].
I have also created an page with shortcode: [bbp-login] which then i have changed the redirect link from wp-login to my own page link of the shortcode for login. The change i have done in bbpress/includes/common/template.php around line 1154.

Now my issue is that after i run a test register (from my page created with the shortcode) nothing happens. I get redirected to my custom login page. But i get no email or my test user does not show up in “Users” in my WP backend.

I have following plugins installed:
Advanced Custom Fields
bbPress – Report Content
bbPress Notices
bbPress Notify (No-Spam)
bbpress Simple Advert Units
bbPress Users Stats
Better WP Security
Crumina Menu Customizer
Facebook
Google Fonts WordPress
Math Captcha
Page Builder by SiteOrigin
WPBakery Visual Composer
WP Maintenance Mode

Hope someone can help me on this issue. 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

Looking at the source of http://atdp.berkeley.edu/forums/topic/test-topic-2/ the ‘content’ looks like its getting nuked either directly by your theme or by the plugin ‘W3 Total Cache’

Can you switch to Twenty Eleven/Twelve/Thirteen and see if you get your content back?

If no go there, disable the ‘W3 Total Cache’ plugin and try that as there are some issues running ‘cache’ plugins with bbPress see this for more info on that.

[elitetester]

If a user makes a nice forum post I would like to be able to choose to post this single topic into a WP post/blog of categoryX. If I see another nice forum post then I would like to be able to choose to post this single topic to the same, or perhaps a different WP post/blog under categoryY. All video/images etc should be presented in WordPress as it would appear in the forum.

I’d like to see the topic content appearing as an article rather than a forum topic: No reply window shown even if logged in, instead show ‘number-of-replies’. No avatar, just a short comment ‘posted-by-xxx’. The topic title and ‘number-of-replies’ links the user to the respective forum topic in the main forum view.

————-
I was thinking this might be possible using shortcodes. e.g. create a new shortcode based on ‘bbp-single-topic’ (perhaps called ‘bbp-single-topic-post2blog’). Then add a drop-down-list beside each forum topic only visible for admins. The drop-down-list includes all WP posts/blogs. After selecting a WP post from the drop-down-list the shortcode and respective topic-ID gets added to the bottom of the WP post content.

What do you think? I have quite a clear picture on how this should work.
If this is possible I would be happy to test it.

[ikidre]

Yep, I ran all the repair options per Buddypress’s instructions. I ran them a second time after I discovered this issue. I created that test forum after that point, so I ran them again just now for fun. Still no change. 🙁

The only next steps I can think of are to hit that ominous “Reset bbPress” button or dig up my backups and just try again.

[Emma Edgar Valcq]

Hi,

This is my first time using bbPress. I just added bbPress to one of my test sites, tweaked and did a few things, then I noticed I couldn’t add or edit forums.

As much as I can remember, this is what I did. I created a new forum and a new topic, then replied a few times. I unchecked the “Automatically give registered visitors the Participant forum role” and “Prefix all forum content with the Forum Root slug” checkboxes. Then I created a user with a role of Participant and signed in as that user. I don’t remember doing anything as that user other than looking around. When I signed back in as the Admin/Keymaster I couldn’t add or edit forums. I double checked the user roles and deleted bbPress and reinstalled it.

There is no way to edit a forum, the edit link is gone: http://tinyurl.com/mk2qqzz. When I try to add a new forum, it says “You are not allowed to edit this post”.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Emma

[Zane]

Wow, I am apparently not the smartest knife in the drawer 🙂

Thanks!

[Nick Ottens]

Hey Stephan, thanks for your reply.

I’m running punBB 1.4.2. I actually upgraded to the latest version before I started the conversion process.

There is a _posts table but not a “message text” field. It’s called just “message”. All the others look just the way you describe them.

[Stagger Lee]

OK, one hour passed. I started with “Purge Previous Import” disabled and it doesnt work.

Stop => Start doesnt work.

Wish someone could test it locally.

[ikidre]

I just migrated my legacy Buddypress forums to bbPress, and at first it seemed that everything was working great. Then I clicked on a topic and saw the notice info, and the reply form, but I presume that posts should be displaying in between. There’s nothing there in the code (so it’s not a CSS issue).

I created a brand new forum, a brand new topic, which you should be able to see here: http://atdp.berkeley.edu/forums/topic/test-topic-2/
There should be two posts (the topic post and a reply), but there’s nothing.

We use Buddypress groups, and the group forums have the same behavior. The forum and topic ULs look like they imported fine, but no posts appear when you click on a topic. So the symptoms persist for both pre- and post-migration forums, and for both group and site-wide forums.

I can see all topics and replies just fine in the backend and in the database, though it’s confused me that posts seem to be saved in the wp_posts table, not wp_bb_posts. I also can’t figure out where the new forum gets saved, because it’s not in wp_bb_forums, nor do new topics appear in wp_bb_topics. Anyway, they appear in Buddypress activity streams, and I can edit them in the backend, so it seems they’re just not making it to the page.

I’m using the theme Custom Community 1.17.3, and thought maybe that was the issue. Nope. Same exact behavior with Twenty Twelve and the default Buddypress theme.

I went through the standard toggling of plug-ins and saw no change.

WP version is 3.6.1, Buddypress 1.8.1, and bbPress 2.4. I updated to 2.4.1 in the hopes that that might fix something, but nope. I closely followed these instructions for migrating my data.

I’d love some troubleshooting ideas, because I’m about out!

[zilveer]

I recommend you to just download the latest files from the trunk and upload it to your server and it should solve your issue.
After the v2.4.1 is release you could then just update your bbpress plugin again

[Jgonl]

I use the theme Boldy
but I’ve proven with the theme Twenty twelve
I’ve also tested with the theme Buddypress Default 1,8,1

and all makes me do the same.

nested responses activated. paging not work
Nested responses disabled. paging if it Works

thanks Niuserre

[niuserre]

You can choose the order than forums appear in by giving them an Order value. I usually give mine order values like 10, 20, 30, 40 so that if I add another forum later I don’t have to reorder them I can just add order 25 to put it in between 2 existing forums.

I don’t think there’s an easy way to have forums change order by activity but if activity is important to you then you should consider having Latest Topics as your default view instead of categories (like https://bbpress.org/forums/).

[Jgonl]

I have done a test with 25 response and 20 replies.
and should jump pagination, I have it set to 2
and nothing.
I remove the nested responses and working properly.

[EL45]

Running the latest versions:

WordPress: 3.6.1
BBPress: 2.4

[EL45]

Hello,

Calling <?php echo do_shortcode('[bbp-topic-index]'); ?> shows the latest 15 posts and it does show the pagination ie: “1 2 … 7 →”. However when selecting the next page (or any page for that matter) I get redirected to ?post_type=forum&paged=2 but the same 15 posts remain.

Has anyone seen this or know a fix?

[Unit9]

I’d like this too. For some reason there was a default in my previous bbpress site, but in the latest installation, I have ‘No Forum’ selected.

Any way we can change this?

[niuserre]

Just tried it and that doesn’t work, it updates the slug but bbPress doesn’t seem to pull its title from anywhere editable within the admin area.

However, if just changing the word Forums to Classrooms would solve your problem then it can be done via a function. This should work but please note I’m not a developer and I haven’t bug tested this or anything.

http://pastebin.com/uz9Ndb4i

I added this to my WordPress theme’s functions.php (before the end ?>) and it worked. Hope it will for you too!