[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

[rrtryon]

Hello,
I am having the exact same problem.

2 weeks ago I had downloaded the forum and was able to have others test it and it worked fine without anybody having to register.

However, now that is not the case. I have gone to forum settings and made sure that I unclicked the ‘anonymous posting’ box, making it possible for anybody to post (Theoretically).

I have also gone to the “Discussions” settings and unclicked the box “users must be logged in and registered to comment).

Originally when I uploaded the forum, people who replied had to enter their name, email and optionally their website. That was fine. Where did it go? I can’t recall if there has been an upgrade since then.

My site is http://www.cclhdn.org and you can see “MEMBER FORUM” on the top menu (far right).

I use Suffusion theme, and have also recently dowloaded Askimet and bbPressCaptcha. However, the problem was there before I did this. Also, I can’t figure out how to use bbpressCaptcha with bbPress, but maybe that will come when people can actually respond.

I would really appreciate some help with this, I’ve been trying to fix this for about 3 days now and need it to be done by the time of a newsletter launch this Thurs!

Thanks,
Rebecca

[first_j]

Just downloaded the bbPress for the forum option and trying to mess with it before I can tell my company to use it. Able to create forum and topic and link them to each other. Also, able to embed the forum in a page. Now everything is set up on the forum for public and open, but when I visit the forum to test it, it won’t let me reply to it.

I am doing this in a different browser and not logged in on that browser so that doesn’t mess it up. Please help.

[nando99]

i’m using bbpress with buddypress, latest versions of both and latest version of wp.

the recent topic widget displays topics from private group forums to everyone… groups are private for a reason… is this a bug or?

[dcleeds]

Sorry for butting in your conversation, but is there always a way that you can add the thumbnails against the latest topics, from the featured image?

[dcleeds]

Hi,

I have searched but cannot find a plugin that works as a widget – it lists your latest topics, along with a thumbnail of the featured image you’ve added to the topic. The widget can be used in your main WordPress powered blog to promote the forum.

Does anyone know if there’s such a plugin out there?

Darren

[prikid]

just installed fresh copy and have same issue. You can check on: http://ersi.stig.al/wp/
login & pass: test

Wordpress is in Russian, but the plugins are in English

[John James Jacoby]

Huh. That’s interesting. I’ll need to investigate this. Anything unique to your setup that would be helpful for testing?