[vogelsang]

@netweb, I have run some tests on my site to-be-migrated and things seems to be working fine. Nice to have all the counting and stuff working up front 🙂

I think my problems with the importer is due to the data. It is some specific replies that stops the importer every time. Right now, I plan to just skip a reply when the importer stops. It’s possible by incrementing the options-table and then continue the importer from the web site afterwards. I am only missing 4-5 replies out of 40000 replies.

[bjorn2run]

I was running into the same issue, here’s what I did:
I copied:
/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/form-topic.php
into the root of my theme folder:
/wp-content/themes/(YourTheme)/form-topic.php

I renamed the file to:
form-topic-home.php

so I can call it separately and makes changes to it without having an impact on the normal add topic form.

In my new file I removed the if statements for testing if the page is a single forum or a topic edit, my form is going into a modal on my homepage, so neither of those will ever be necessary.

Starting at line 12 I deleted this:

<?php if ( !bbp_is_single_forum() ) : ?>

<div id="bbpress-forums">

	<?php bbp_breadcrumb(); ?>

<?php endif; ?>

<?php if ( bbp_is_topic_edit() ) : ?>

	<?php bbp_topic_tag_list( bbp_get_topic_id() ); ?>

	<?php bbp_single_topic_description( array( 'topic_id' => bbp_get_topic_id() ) ); ?>

<?php endif; ?>

Next on what was line 28 I changed
<?php if ( bbp_current_user_can_access_create_topic_form() ) : ?>
to
<?php if ( bbp_current_user_can_publish_topics() ) : ?>

The original code does a lot of checking if the user can edit forums, if we’re on a single page or if this is one off page, we’re really only looking for the current user’s ability to post topics, and we’re given that (inside that same function actually)

At the very bottom of the file you’ll also want to delete this:

<?php if ( !bbp_is_single_forum() ) : ?>

</div>

<?php endif; ?>

as it’s the closing div tag to the stuff we cut out at the top of the file.

Now where you were going to use the short code, call a template part instead, and you should be square.

<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'form', 'topic-home' ); ?>

[dasped]

Good day,

I seem to be having an issue with page titles not showing up.

Build all current and latest. WP Multisite – Buddypress – BBPress.

To be clear, this page’s title is <h3 id="post - ***">Troubleshooting</h3>

This is what I’m missing, any reason this should occur please, or something I’m missing.

Thanks.

[amitlin96]

Hi there!

I’m in a bit of a dilemma, here are my circumstances:

1. I want to use bbPress, but as a forum alone – My website is going to be a static homepage and a forum, no more and no less, and i would really hate to use a wordpress to accomplish such a simple task, it would really be an overkill, im not going to use ANY forum of cms, so id really hate to install wordpress ONLY so i can use bbPress, is there any way to get bbPress as a forum alone, not as a plugin?

2. In the homepage, i want there to be two boxes:
Box1 – shows the latest topic from a certain forum(the announcement forum), including the title, and content, number of comments and user that posted it.

Box2 – shows a featured topic. I know there is a plugin for this, im just curios if i could use functions from bbPress, outside of bbPress, as in, in the homepage page, which is not a wordpress page.

So these are my circumstances. What do you think? should i install wordpress JUST so i could use the forum(if so, is there any way to really trim it down? i dont need the users system, comments, pages, posts, etc. Almost everything revolves around the forum)? If not, what are the alternatives?

bbPress is a really great software, and would really want to use it 🙂

[wpobs]

Hi guys, im using the latest WP 3.6 + bbPress 2.3.2 + buddypress 1.8

All works fine until you try to either Edit a forum of an existing group (front end) or when creating a new group and then at step 3 adding a forum to this group, when then the page get broken.

The page will remain visible but the header and footer will disappear.

see image below:

I have disabled ALL plugins as well as switched theme to the WordPress / buddypress default one but still the issue remains.

Page end Source code finished without closing this are the last lines:

<form action="http://[domainname]/group1/admin/extras" name="group-settings-form" id="group-settings-form" class="standard-form" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" role="main">

Inspect Elements reports error:
Uncaught TypeError: Object [object Object] has no method ‘sortable’

This was also report on the Buddypress forum:
http://buddypress.org/support/topic/admin-bar-and-footer-broken/

Please help.
Dan

[therune]

I have a forum setup as private, when logged in you can view the forum just fine. But when not logged on and you try to view the forum page /forums/forum/forum-name it takes you to the standard wordpress 404 page. I’ve tried creating that page structure in the page manager but that didn’t seem to work, I created a forums page, a forum page as a child, and a forum-name page as a child. When I tested the page on a logged in user it took me to the forum page but when not logged in the page still takes me to the 404. How can I control this page?

Thanks

[knsheely]

I am currently doing a preliminary test import of a massive forum with 25 forums, 10K + Users, 70K + Topics and 1 Million + Replies from an ASP Playground Forum. I have successfully migrated from MS SQL to MySQL and converted the database structure into a working, mappable structure. I have started and stopped the import multiple times as I worked out the kinks in my custom ASP converter. At this point I have a few questions that I could use some help in answering.

1) There is one hashed user password field with no salt. I can’t seem to find good documentation on how the password process works. I have noticed in the bbPress1 and other converters that do not have salts that the callback_password and authenticate_password functions both just ‘return false’. What does this mean once the users are trying to login? How should I map the fields correctly and do I need an authenticate_password function?

2) With over a million replies, the import process takes a very long time (going on weeks now). When we proceed with a live conversion, we very much need to keep the forum’s downtime under a week and preferably we would keep it under 4 days. Does anyone have any tips for speeding up the conversion process?

[am71722]

Is it possible to export from Social Engine 3 to the latest version of bbPress? Is there a tool out there for it?

[markkelly1982]

I got the same error but i think it is related to the latest version of NextGEN Gallery by Photocrati(http://www.nextgen-gallery.com/wordpress-gallery-plugin/). I deactivated that plugin and the error goes away.

[John James Jacoby]

Not that I’m aware of, no. Functions exist to assist with inserting of forums, topics, and replies, so it could be pretty easy with some random ipsum.

[Tux Kapono]

Given the following info:

April 26, 2013 bbPress 2.3.1 released
May 6, 2013 bbPress 2.3.2 released
April 8, 2013 BuddyPress 1.7 released

I would assume the answer is bbPress 2.3.2 is compatible with BuddyPress 1.6.5?

[Tux Kapono]

Our theme provider (Rocketthemes) is recommending not upgrading to BuddyPress 1.7/1.8 yet, and to remain at BuddyPress 1.6.5. What is the latest version of bbPress we can use to migrate our BuddyPress Group Forums to bbPress Group Forums using BuddyPress 1.6.5? Which instructions like should we use? I’ve searched diligently, but I haven’t found definitive answers.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Nitac]

Firstly i’d like to say great work on the plugin (well, from what i can see so far) really appreciate all the time and effort you guys must put into something like this.

Ok… I’ve been running some migration tests from a phpbb forum and I seem to running into issues with the migration stalling with no indication as to where or why it might have failed.

The migration has successfully brought across user, forums and topics but has stalled on replies, last test I ran i think it got through ~90k rows, I’ve tried stopping and restarting the migration, but eventually it stalls again, plus I had an issue where it started duplicating all the content and another where console was just outputting just dashes (——) instead processing info.

The forum is about ~150mb which doesnt seem all that big. Is there anything i could be doing to improve performance or potentially something I could be doing wrong?

WP: 3.5.1
BBP: 2.3.2

Looking forward to response. Thanks

[Ian Stanley]

Has anyone created a sample dataset like WordPress’ “Theme Unit” Test data for bbPress to quickly knock up a sample bbPress site for testing themes, plugins etc?

[erikm27]

http://llamaverse.com/community/topic/test/

I am using the most recent version of wordpress and bbPress, with the theme my login and user avatar plugins.

Avatars show up fine in the first post, but any additional posts have the avatars thrown down to the bottom.

Activating TwentyTen or TwentyEleven does seem to fix this problem. I have contacted the theme developer, but wondering if anyone could provide some insight for me to fix this quickly myself.

I have strong html/css and basic php knowledge.

Thanks!

[mindblender]

@fontadoni – Thanks for the info. I have tried several times and not having any luck.

Here are somethings I have tried and still have not been successful:
1. install bbPress 1.2 as a standalone without WP integration on a local test domain (bbpress.dev)

2. Install WP with bbPress 2.3.2 on a local test domain (wordpress.dev) and then tried to do an import from bbPress1, using separate DB tables.

3. installed WP and bbPress 1.2 in another local test domain (wordpressbbpress.dev), using the same DB, and selected the WP integration when I installed bbPress. Then I installed bbPress 2.3.2 and tried to do the import and no joy.

In all the scenarios above, I get the yellow “Starting Conversion” box but then it shows:

Conversion Complete
No replies to convert

Converting topic tags (0 - 99)
Converting topics (0 - 99)
No forum parents to convert

Anyone have any other suggestions? I do have test data entered and forums created for testing but I don’t understand why it doesn’t find them. And yes, I did verify the prefix as bb_

Thanks,
Jeff

[SiliconBard]

his is just a test
ha!

[dice2dice]

Hi guys,

Firstly my site is http://www.whichinvestmenttrust.com
I have the latest version of both WordPress & BBPress.

I have set up BBPress on my website but it’s not quite right. I haven’t set it up in a way that is good enough and I need to do more.
I have spent the last hour reading through forums on this site but I can’t find the answers to my questions and problems. Granted I am probably a bit thick, I’m certainly nowhere near as smart as some of you guys on here, judging from the responses I’ve read in other comments.
So what is wrong with my set up? Well the forum is separate from posts. Users or members can also comment in posts and the comment function comes from Jetpack. The Jetpack comments doesn’t show up on the BBPress forum member activity and I don’t even get notification of comments, I just find them if I’m lucky.
It is obviously silly to have two systems and I need to switch off the Jetpack comment feature but I don’t know what BBPress add-on or Pluggin I should use. Can you help?
Also, I think I’d like people to have the option of registering with their social media login (Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn), is that possible?
I have a BBPress Member login Widget which handily goes in a sidebar but it doesn’t allow users to register instead of logging in and I kind of think it should because they usually do. Is there a solution to this?
Lastly, I think I should have a separate page on my WordPress site for Forums. That just makes sense to me, is this feasible?
I know I’ve raised too many points here I think. If you have any suggestions on any of them, doenst need to be all I’d very gratefully love to read them.
To recap my queries are:
– BBPress Pluggin for posts to replace Jetpack
– Social Media Login – Is this possible?
– BBPress Member login widget – can it include register?
– Forum Page – Can I set one up?
If you have suggestion for any of these issues, doesn’t have to be all of them I’d love to get your feedback.
Many thanks, Dice

[leanderbraunschweig]

I know this not necessarily is a bbPress-bug but it is closely tied to bbPress so I’ll post it here first, hoping that you have got an idea on how to debug / fix it.

>> WHAT IS HAPPENING?

My users get locked out of single topics after they access the link to their subscribed topic (“Notify me of follow-up replies via email”). I use a plugin called “bbPress Custom Reply Notifications” in order to easily modify the email’s output and thought of this one to cause the issue but I had to rule it out…

But from the start:

>> SYSTEM SPECS / INFO

Base_
// WP 3.5.2
// bbPress 2.3.2

The site in question is a membership-site which uses a membership-plugin in order to make our content accessable only after payment. We incorporated bbPress there and things are going OK (although the usage it is not offically supported by the membership-plugin’s authors – but that doesn’t say much). I use a plugin named “Theme My Login” in order to style the account-pages. We us OptimizePress as template.

Membership_
// WishList Member 2.7.1
// Theme My Login 6.2.3
// Optimize Press 1.5a (German version)

Although I am listing “Theme My Login” f.ex., I think this most likely has to do with the membership-plugin & bbPress.

>> THE BUG

The issue only happens with singular users & singular topics (= the other topics and forums are functioning as intended). We have had numerous complaints so this ain’t due to a certain system-environment. How it happens:

– User A creates topic X, sets subscription via mail to “on”
– User B replies
– User A gets an email saying “User B replied to your post, go see it here: “http://mysite.info/thema/neuer-post-ohne/#post-5812”
– User A (state: not logged-in (!) // works when already logged-in…) clicks on link
– link “http://mysite.info/thema/neuer-post-ohne/#post-5812” shows “you are not allowed to view this” (because User isn’t logged in yet)
– User A clicks on “login”, enters credentials, gets redirected to our default start-page (weak Usability, I know…)
– User A then navigates to the forum where he/she got the reply

— ERROR —
“you are not allowed to view this” (but user is logged in!)

>> WHAT I HAVE DONE SO FAR

– emptied the cache(s) (W3 Total Cache in use)
– deleted all the site’s cookies (problem persists!)
– (double-)checked the permission-settings fot the topic with the membership-plugin

>> HOW YOU CAN HELP

Maybe you have got an idea on how to fix / debug this – any help is greatly appreciated. I can provide to test-accounts within our development-system so you can check it out for yourself.

Again – thanks a lot & I am hoping for some insights on how to tackle this.
Regards!

[Rachel Biel]

Well, when you have a forum that is image based, it is a pain to have to use image urls only. We are an art group and showing images is necessary for everything we do. It seems to me like the administrators of each forum should have the ability to decide whether to trust their users or not. I really wish that we could have the TinyMCE for all participants. I tried a couple of different plugins and some could see the editor and others couldn’t. Then, I tried RT-Media’s plugin and test each update of theirs, but it doesn’t work.

A big problem with using image urls (if you can’t load them into wordpress as the admin) is that that image could disappear if the hosting post is deleted or if the site goes down. We are using the GD BBPress Attachments plugin for attachments, which is a nice thing to have, but it does not do well if you are explaining something and showing several images which would be best embedded inside of the text.

I looked everywhere for an explanation of what the symbols mean in this bbpress editor and couldn’t find anything, so I did a demo for our members: http://www.tafaforum.com/user-groups/tafa-forum-help/forum/topic/text-editor-or-wysiwyg/

It’s not intuitive and a couple of the buttons seem to be useless. Most of our members will have no clue as to what they mean and using symbols that are commonly around on text editors would have been helpful.

Things are finally working pretty well, but it’s been quite the long road in getting this set up. I think there should be a warning in documentation on bbpress: “Non-coders beware! You will need coding experience to make this work!”

[uniqcon89]

Hello,

When I click favorite or subscribe button in bbpress, it doesn’t work with showing “undefined”

But, when I click these buttons by right click “open new windows” then it works.

you can test it in this website http://romentor.com/topics/test1/

thanks you very much.

[Faramarz]

Hi,

I am having a problem with bbpress forums and buddypress groups. I have activated bbpress and buddypress on a sub-site on my sub-domain (http://community.example.com). In bbpress settings, I selected the checkbox “Allow BuddyPress Groups to have their own forums”. Now in buddypress when I am creating a group, in step 3, I should be able to select a checkbox (Yes, I want this group to have a forum.) to enable forum feature for my group, but for some reason the checkbox is not showing up and I cannot proceed by clicking “Next Step” button. I am using the latest version of BP (1.8), bbpress 2.3.2 and WP 3.5.2. The same setting works just fine on my local XAMPP but it doesn’t work on production server.

Here are some screenshots, this is how step 3 looks now: http://i.imgur.com/sT8jRv9.jpg

And this is how it should be (local is fine): http://i.imgur.com/6mKn4uE.jpg

After this error, when I click on my groups, I can see the group is created with no avatar (because I never got to step 4) and when I click on the group and go to Admin > Forum > Now I see the check box but when I enable it and then select one of my forums from the dropdown and click save, I get this error “Are you sure you want to do this? Please try again.”

When I check my error_log file, I get this error:

[28-Jul-2013 22:51:11] PHP Fatal error: Using $this when not in object context in /public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/extend/buddypress/group.php on line 461

I followed these instructions step by step to create a sitewide forum and forum for my buddypress groups: http://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/

Does anyone have the same issue with buddypress?

Thanks

[ozgurpolat]

I have installed the latest version of bbpress on my test site. I experiance strange behaviour, when I click on the user name in the forum, it should take me to the user profile but t doesn’t

if you visit here:

http://kooksjournal.net/forums/

and click on the test user it takes me here:

http://kooksjournal.net/forums/users/test/

but the actual profile is for some strange reason is using the first name and the last name of the user to generate the user profile link, here in the example:

username: test
first name: test
last name: user

user profile shows when I use firstname and the last name in combination (When I am logged in as test user), if I am not logged in it gives 404 error, but bbpress is using the username to link to bbpress user profile. In actual fact the profile is at …/”First name””Last Name”/

http://kooksjournal.net/forums/users/testuser/

I think this is a strange behavior, I was wondering if anybody has experienced this? I searched the forum could not find anything about it.

[mjpg]

I’m currently running v2.0. I see from the chnagelog that that latest version (bbPress 2.3.2) is safe for upgrade to any 2.x version.

However, would people recommend going straight from version 2.0 to 2.3.2 or go to an intermediate version first and then on – or use an older version for stability?

Thanks

[tomslick]

We are considering BBPress to power discussions on our high traffic website. The site also runs WP and we’ve had our share of scalability issues as we’ve grown. Searching the forums here I was terrified to read about known issues with slow query times and with private forums.

Can anyone confirm that these problems have been fixed with the latest version? is BBPress really scalable?

Our traffic / setup info:
– over 150k registered users
– over 1M unique visitors per month
– running latest version of WP v3.5.2
– have APC and Memcache installed on Apache
– use W3TC
– use HyperDB