[Kaliceos]

Hi,

I’m in the process of migrating a phpBB forum to WordPress with bbPress. I don’t know if the bbPress style is better but my users are used to the phpBB style for displaying Forums on the main page. So I tried to reproduce that layout in bbPress using categories. With the default theme, I was not happy with the way it looked. After a quick search in these forums, I saw some interesting topics from @lynq (here and there) but it didn’t work as intended in the last bbpress release and ticket #1958 has been moved to 2.6.

So after a few hours of searching codex, and a lot of tries, I managed to do what I wanted. As there is still some demand in Lynq’s topic, I thought I should share my little work.

I’m not a developper, so my code may be a little messy, but it works as intended. I’ve tried using the bbpress functions, and commented my code. If any PHP expert would like to review it and make it better, any feedback is welcome.

The only file to change is loop-forums.php with this code.
You just need to create it and paste the code. Then upload it to /wp-content/your-theme/bbpress/. Use a child-theme if you don’t want to loose it on next theme update.

The forums are not yet online, so here are some screenshots with descriptions. (In French, because, as you may have noticed, English is not my native language 🙂 )

I’ve tested many situations (even a category inside a forum, which bbpress doesn’t consider anymore as a category, probably normal behavior) and I think everything works as intended. Feel free to report any bug.

[matrixd]

btw. did anyone else notice that the latest bbpress killed the display of the date of the latest post/reply as well as the display of the post author?

Its simply not showing anymore even though I checked the box in the widget settings

Your answer is here

[ovizii]

btw. did anyone else notice that the latest bbpress killed the display of the date of the latest post/reply as well as the display of the post author?

Its simply not showing anymore even though I checked the box in the widget settings.

check it out live here: die-kellerkinder.eu

my widget settings:
http://screencast.com/t/wJIMj9WQR
http://screencast.com/t/emLrUiJIF

[G3ronim0]

I test to manually change post_satuts to hidden in the database, it’s works…

[Sven]

Hi,

I have the same problem. When I click on the Visual Tab, following error will shown:

TypeError: d is undefined …/wp-includes/js/quicktags.min.js?ver=3.6 Line 1

I’m using Wodpress 3.6 and the latest bbPress. What can I do?

[ManuZorch]

Hi
I have faced an issue that maybe some people have encountered and for which I did not find much info on the net.

Basically the problem was that the bbpress default template that I embedded in my WP template was rendered with supplementary line breaks (<br> and <p> tags). Just as if the wpautop function was reapplied on the forum content included in the template.

I noticed that the problem was existing on Linux if the template files had an Unix EOL : LF
And also existing on Windows (using WAMP) if those same files had a Windows EOL : CR+LF
I found a workaround by making the template files have a Mac End Of Line with : CR

But I am not sure this is a clean solution
Maybe there is something far more simple that I do not know

Thanks

I am using the latest 2.4 bbpress version

[David Donnelly]

I found Version 2.3.2 on my computer. deleted 2.4 uploaded 2.3.2 and Title tags work as they should.

Definitely a problem with 2.4 messing with Title tags.

If there is a fix let me know and I’ll be happy to test it.

Thanks

[Stephen Edgar]

Firstly, thanks for looking further into this, it gave me enough info to run a quick test import.

bbPress uses WordPress tables and doesn’t create any of its own and not having answers to something you don’t know doesn’t make anyone dumb. 😉

Ok…. Here we go….

I installed this plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-ultimate-csv-importer/

I realised the csv file had to be split into 3, one for the forum, one for topics and one for replies. Here is a copy of the 3 CSV files I used https://gist.github.com/ntwb/6532360

Next jump into WP Admin and and open up the WP CSV Tool and select ‘Custom Post’ to import from and select your forum.csv file to upload and click import.

Set the options and field mappings as per this:

Import Data Configuration

Select Post Type = forum
Import with post status = publish
post_author = post_author
post_date = post_date
post_content = post_content
post_title = post_title

And click import.

Topics is up next and you will notice that it includes the field ‘post_parent’ so this is the forum ID that the topic will be imported into. As we do not know the forum ID you will need to open up the bbPress forums panel in wp-admin. Select the forum you want the topics to be imported and this will take you into the forum edit section, look at the URL in your browser and it should be similar to /wp-admin/post.php?post=348830&action=edit what we want here is the ‘348830’ as that will be the parent forum for each topic imported. Update your topic.csv file with this number as per my sample linked above.

Back to the CSV importer to import your topics.csv

Set the options and field mappings as per this:

Import Data Configuration

Select Post Type = topic
Import with post status = publish
post_author = post_author
post_date = post_date
post_content = post_content
post_title = post_title
post_parent = post_parent

The replies section is basically the same as the topics section, you need to get the ID orf each topic ID for each reply and update your reply.csv file for each entry.

Lastly run each of the ‘Recalculate’ and ‘Count’ bbPress ‘Repair Tools’ from wp-admin-> Tools- Forums -> Repair Forums (more info here https://codex.bbpress.org/repair-forums/)

And I think that’s it, there is a bit of juggling your data around, give it a bash and let me know how it works out for you and here’s the result 🙂

[David Donnelly]

I ran a search and didn’t find an answer to this. If there is one please point me to the right post.

Behavior problem with Title Tags

Site is multi-site 3.6, buddy press 1.81, bbpress 2.4. All other themes and plugis current. Problem on the main site only. Sub-domains not effected.

I found the title tags aren’t showing up correctly. On all pages other then BP pages and home page only the site name shows up as title in the browser. I can see that the page name/site Page | site name is trying to show but loops back to just the site name without the page or pipe.

I change the theme to 2012 and I still had the same problem.

I’ve tested in Chrome, Firefox and IE all behave the same.

I cleared, cache, temp internet history and file throughout the process of finding what’s wrong.

I deactivated all plugins and Title tags returned to normal tag behavior. I activated the plugins 1 by one and discovered that BBPress is causing the problem with the title tags. I deactivate all plugins again and activated only bbpress and sure enough it’s the problem. Right now I have BBPress deactivated.

Please help me through this issue.

[ovizii]

btw. did anyone else notice that the latest bbpress killed the display of the date of the latest post/reply?

Its simply not showing anymore even though I checked the box in the widget settings.

[mediaplasmid]

Hi all,

here is a problem that one of my members ran into whilst testing out the different tags available in the text editor. As he was unfamiliar with html tags he didn’t realise that a list tag would need to be nested within a ul/ol. Anyway, the problem occurs whenever someone posts a reply which contains an unnested list item (<li>list item</li>). Once the post is published the list tag is rendered underneath the unordered list class=”forums bbp-replies”. This causes styling issues for anything being displayed underneath the post.

I thought this may of just been my forum, but i briefly tested it on this forum and it also causes styling issues.

You can find a screenshot comparison of how my forum looks normally and how it looks with the tag breaking the style.

Comparison screenshot

The image doesn’t show the severity of the issue, but you can see how a simple tag that any user can post can effect styles which are outside of the text editor.

I tried searching but couldn’t find anyone else reporting a similar issue. Has anyone else run into this before? are the bbpress developers aware?

[miracleren]

i have updated to 2.4,I find a problem for search.
when the wordpress Permalink Settings use Numeric like(http://localhost/test/archives/123),
use the bbPress forum search form, It will not result always.

[friedVol]

I’m getting the same message – “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page” – when I click on Settings in the plugin.

Also the Forums button does not show up in the left-side menu of my WP admin panel. Yet I have 7 bbPress widgets.

I’ve deactivated and reactivated the plugin. When I first clicked “activate” I got the “You do not have sufficient permissions…” message. I clicked activate a second time, and the plugin showed as activated. But still no Forum button.

This bbPress.org site says easy instructions are provided, but my installation has no instructions. I was expecting to paste a shortcode to the forum on a blank page. I can’t imaging putting all 7 bbPress widgets in a sidebar.

I do not have the Page.ly plugin the previous poster said affected his/her bbPress. I do have a time.ly plug in (calendar) which I need. Why would plugins interfere with each other?

I need help with this because no other forum plugin is showing as tested with my version of WP which I believe is WP3.6, although I’m not able to find the version number anywhere on my dashboard.

[casesolver]

Hi, I just started with a new website so all lastest versions, WP, Buddypress, BBpress.
Buddypress theme Klein, created in August 2013.

Key factor is prioritizing, rating, like topics.

looking for a BBpress and Group forums plugin I cannot find a plugin. (installed -buddypress rate forum post- but I do not see a button in the posts.)

Do you have a suggestion? Have a nice day, Anne

[Nykess]

Is there a temporary fix for the latest topics/replies widgets so that they once again show avatars/users/dates? Not having them is awful. Having to wait for another patch isn’t ideal.

[indietest]

WP Version: 3.6 | bbPress Version: 2.4 | Website: http://indietest.de/forums/

Howdy Guys,

i have the problem, that i cant delete the sidebar. i already searched for this problem but all the solutions deosnt work for me, because most of the files (like forum.php) is not existing.

Greets.

[fskrdla]

Hello, I have been looking for a solution all day, and cannot find someone with a similar problem.

WordPress 3.6
bbPress 2.4
BuddyPress 1.8.1
Genesis 2.0.1

I can have either BuddyPress activated or bbPress, but not both. When one is activated and I activate the other, I get a server error. It doesn’t not matter which one I activate first, or which one I deactivate. My site front end still works, but in the back end I just get a server error and cannot access the admin dashboard without renaming or deleting one of the plugins through my host’s cpanel.

I have tested with basic WP themes. I get the same error using both Twenty Twelve and Twenty Thirteen, basic Genesis framework theme, and my child theme.

Thank you for any help you can offer.

[Andrew Tegenkamp]

We installed http://northstarfamily.org/forums/ for our church and want to have it show both the forum index and the latest topics on the main page.

Also, I think that http://northstarfamily.org/forums/forum/homecoming-and-10th-anniversary/ should show the description and the topics but only shows the topics.

Is this how the default is setup or do I have a possible conflict?

[Xevo]

Haven’t tested it, but this should force all the content (or at least most of it) to take over your themes font-size.

#bbpress-forums { font-size: inherit !important; }
div.bbp-breadcrumb, div.bbp-topic-tags { font-size: inherit !important; }
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-lead-topic, #bbpress-forums ul.bbp-topics, #bbpress-forums ul.bbp-forums, #bbpress-forums ul.bbp-replies, #bbpress-forums ul.bbp-search-results { font-size: inherit !important; }
#bbpress-forums .bbp-forums-list li { font-size: inherit !important; }

[Stephen Edgar]

@csotelo Most excellent dude…. That said, I made one too 🙂

You can grab the latest revision from https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2402

The main differences are:

• Forums
• Updated code formatting and inline docs
• Uses kunena_categories.parent_id for Forum parent ID
• Imports Forums topic & reply counts
• Uses kunena_categories.alias for forum slug (seo)
• Includes Category/Forum forum type input & callback method
• Includes Open/Closed forum status & callback method
• Topics
• Ahmmm

Ok, I just stopped at ‘Topics’ as there are quite a few differences there, I based mine on Kunena v3.0.1 Forums, What version are you importing from?
(There are some significant changes here)

[guly]

I’m trying to import a bbpress 1.0.2 forum to the latest version of WordPress-bbpress (2.4). It has 37,000 topics, which all seem to import OK and look good. But when the importer is importing replies, it seems to stall out around 70,000. It gets slower and slower until it’s a crawl.

I’m wondering if this is due to the wp_bbp_converter_translator table that apparently is created to help translate the standalone bbPress posts into WordPress? This table is now 500,000 lines already. Or is there some other explanation? Is it because I am using bbPress 1.0.2?

[kaspar92]

Hi!

I noticed a strange behaviour in the freshness column for the latest post link – sometimes it is
/forum/topic/topicname/page/2/#post-391430
but sometimes it’s just
/forum/topic/topicname/#post-391523

In first case, the link takes me to the latest post, in second case the link just leads to the first page of discussion, even though there are 440 pages! This really bugs my users and I can’t seem to find the solution. Every bit of advice is helpful!

I use WordPress 3.6 and bbPress 2.4. The problem can be seen at http://www.kilb.ee/foorum/sisu/mnemomaraton/mnemomaraton-2/ (in the rightmost column) and it also occurs with TwentyEleven theme.

[Stephen Edgar]

ETA: Wow, that was fast— my page got slammed with spam comments within minutes of posting the links here. I have removed them for now. If a support person needs them to diagnose the issue, I can give them out then.

I have heard this a couple of times, I might set up a test myself, not sure what we can do though as presumably the spammers are just scrapping bbpress.org

[Sergio De Falco]

Hi people!
I need to apply some customizations to my bbPress forum.
First of all I need to remove the sidebar for the bbPress pages, what’s the right way to do this? maybe creating a conditional tag with “widget logic”, or assigning a custom page to the bbPress forum with a layout without the sidebar? Or editing some layout page into bbPress template?

Then I’d need to have the first page of the forum like here, with the latest topics, I found some ways to do this, but nothing appears to be the right way.

Thanks 🙂

[ikalogic]

Hi!

I am using latest bbpress 2.4

I have a problem: If i have .. say .. 10 posts in a topic, and i edit the 5th post. When i do that, the 5th post jumps to the last position, 10th. What’s worse, is that i will stay at the last position, even if i post other posts. The edited post will always appear as last, even though it’s not the case.

Any idea how can i prevent edited posts from being “resorted” all together?

Thank you very much,