[Daniel J. Lewis]

How can I set a particular forum or category to be excluded from the “latest topics” (or “latest posts” if that’s available) list?

My forum is about a TV show and many participants don’t want to see spoilers. We place spoilers in a particular section, and those spoilers shouldn’t show on the page that lists the latest stuff, or I would like to have two pages: latest with spoilers and latest without spoilers.

[Daniel J. Lewis]

Where is the URL, or how can I make a page that will contain the latest replies? I don’t want just the latest topics, but chronological list of every topic that has recently been replied to. For example, a topic from a year ago that received a reply 3 seconds ago should show up on the top of this list.

In phpBB, I had a “new posts” link that would do this.

Essentially, something like “[ bbp-topic-index ] – Display the most recent 15 topics across all your forums with pagination” would be perfect, but for all posts—topics and replies, not just new topics.

[Laughing Cat]

The pagination count (count of pages) for my topic archive is wrong.
The page count (and clickable links in the generated page navigation) says 16 pages. But actually only pages from 1 to 13 will work (from 14 to 16 will return 404).

Forum archives and individuall discussion (replies) pagination will work fine.

I’ve set to display 15 discussions per page. If I change this number the pagination count might change as well but the error will stay (just the total count will change, but again it adds up a couple of pages that shouldn’t be there). This happens also if I use the shortcode to show up latest discussions (topics).

I tried to reset the counters in forum tools, but didn’t produce a change.

I tried to force the number of queried posts per page (topics per page) via pre_get_posts filter, but doesn’t change the pagination error.

I don’t know how to solve this. I’m using bbp 2.3.2 and wp 3.5.2. Buddypress is also installed. No legacy forums/groups activated.

[GGGamers]

I have made a test side in order to run bbpress and buddypress. But i didnt found the url of bbpress forum… when i click on the forum it give me this kind of link (http://pakshares.com/test/members/admin/forums/) which i am not able to place on my menu…

[Daniel J. Lewis]

Thanks for sharing. But doesn’t that list only the latest topics, not the latest replies?

[Daniel J. Lewis]

Did you figure this out? I would like to do this, too.

[jeanbledsoe]

I’m having the same issue. I designed the client’s site using Impact Page Builder. But when I use bbPress to set up forums, the option to assign an Impact template is not there. Therefore, the forum looks like this: http://northidahocvma.org/forums/forum/forum-2?preview=true&preview_id=607&preview_nonce=7b2aed77ba
Instead of having the Impact styling like this: http://northidahocvma.org/
I’m using the latest versions of both WordPress & bbPress with Twenty Twelve theme. Any other suggestions?

[Ed]

I’m trying to import from vanilla to latest bbpress (the vanilla install comes via punbb & others).

I get the following errors while importing users:

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘jtf>IS” WHERE ID = “48076”‘ at line 1]
UPDATE wp_users SET user_pass = “fe9b68005ebfc248e03446f81d7fe8d752547189$;>iNO”jtf>IS” WHERE ID = “48076”

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘R!`+o-KG’V” WHERE ID = “48068”‘ at line 1]
UPDATE wp_users SET user_pass = “f5f993c4bed3f54ed56fa8352215e213efe03746$”R!`+o-KG’V” WHERE ID = “48068”

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘48065″‘ at line 1]
UPDATE wp_users SET user_pass = “513e8099ef2e9efdf7a2b9a65e531e80f365e6eb$wys%KRZ|VCz”” WHERE ID = “48065”

What can I do?

[squid1974]

Hi,

I want to test the import of my Vbulletin forum into BBPress. I have trouble with it because the data is too big and therefore I cannot import my Vbulletin data into a local database.

I would like to know which tables of VBulletin are used by the importer so that I only export those that are needed?

Fabian

[bkypes]

Hey guys,

I’ve been checking around but I haven’t seen any solutions to the issue I’ve been having since BP no longer had a built in forum. I’m getting a error. Here are some screenshots showing my issue:
http://screencast.com/t/ZjhbyLX7
http://screencast.com/t/lliWIhQBQwa
http://screencast.com/t/J7Gu1Rp1e5
http://screencast.com/t/i20SgkVfqgT0

The one topic that is showing up was a test topic that I made in a different group earlier today but I get the same error in that group now. I haven’t made any changes since it was working so I’m not sure what the issue could be.

Any help I could get would be greatly appreciated! I’m so close to getting this working, I just need to iron out a few bugs!

Thanks,
Brandon

[SickSquirrelTwo]

Not sure but I checked from four computers of which one had never been to my site.

It is Private but I’m admin and logged in as such.

I was thinking of adding a test user, giving her permissions, then testing — but — if I can’t view this as admin, why bother?

[begattokitchen]

Did you find a solution? I installed BBpress on a site with latest WordPress and Buddypress, but I cannot create new topics from the forums. I have the exact same problem you had…

[arcandio]

I’m now having this same problem. I’ve been all over the site so far, and all I’ve really found is that I need to fix my mod_rewrites or reset my permalinks. To restate my problem, when I test a post on my forum, it loads a page similar to what ryandoz posted. If I refresh/reload the page, the proper page comes up.

I’m working with a pretty vanilla install here, until this happened, I hadn’t even changed the permalinks from the default install (done by SimpleScripts). I don’t know enough about apache to know how to properly fix my .htaccess file to rewrite the urls, and anyway, I would prefer if I could set it up in WordPress.

So, what’s the deal with the rewriting? What exactly is actually going on? bbPress is asking for a url that isn’t rewritten, then the server tells the client the page was moved? Is that not something that bbPress can handle? I really have to put extra Rewrite rules in my .htaccess if I want to have a vanilla install of WordPress use a vanilla install of the bbPress plugin?

[moldex3d]

We’ve got TWO questions about the forum.
The first one is, the edit function. When an author post a topic and want to edit the posted one, the author could “edit” it by pressing “edit”. But sometimes the “edit” button would disappear and the topic could not be edited anymore. We’re not sure if it’s a bug or are there any limitation of how many times the topic could be edited?

Second, we’d like to show only the latest five edit record in editing logs. Where can I modify the setting?

[zintarweb]

I have a newish install of WP and bbPress on a WISP (win, iis, sql server, php) server. I have them both running. But, bbPress won’t show a “topic” (a message), instead, it jumps directly to the reply function.

go to:
dev.teamfishco.com
forums
test
pick a topic.

instead of showing the message, it goes directly to the reply… any help?

[SickSquirrelTwo]

I enabled plugins today. The site broke (every other post is blank; I use bbPress with WordPress) so I deactivated those plugins.

Posts are still missing.

I decided mid-type to test again. One by one was activated. Ultimate WP Filter caused it to happen.

So … y’all have a similar plugin? You enter a list of words not allowed.

[Laughing Cat]

+1
I’m having the same issue, it only happens for non-admins on bbpress home archive, where I have latest topics and forum list shortcodes too (which work fine)

has this issue been solved?

[MoniqueR]

Hello,

I wonder if someone can help me out. For the last few days I am looking for a slider for my WordPress site. I am using the bbpress plugin. What I want to accomplish, what I am looking for is a featured slider which can display the latest topics and replys. I know there is a widget for it, but I would like to have it in a slide on my homepage. I cannot seem to find it. There a several beautifull sliders but they don’t support the option for adding topics and replys. They only work with latest posts/pages.

Anybody who knows a plugin for this? (There are several which support custom content, but then I would have to right code for it, which I can’t.

Hope someone can help me out.

Regards,
Monique

[HD80]

I spoke too soon lol….
the format I would get is Home>forums>forumsTest
the Forumstest I created would have no sidebars, as soon as I click on Forums or any of the post the sidebars would return

[armando_e]

Hello, I am using the latest version of bbPress (2.3.2), buddyPress and WP 3.5. In the settings-forums, I cannot get the check box to use the fancy editor to stick. I click it on, hit save, and when it refreshes the box is un-checked and not working. I tried to switch to the default themes and it still doesn’t work.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you.

[akapope]

Hey BBPress!

I was wandering if ya’ll can help me out with this. So I have my theme styled so that each Forum gets its own background through the style.css file using the following lines:

.postid-17 {
background: #000000 url(http://alysiaworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/alysiasea.jpg) center top no-repeat fixed;
}

where postid-17 is the correlating WordPress post associated with the Forum.

The problem now is that when you visit a Topic within the Forum, the background goes back to the default image :/

I am thinking that there should be a code to pull the topics Parent Forum “postid” and then force the background to the topic.

I hope that makes sense. I can dig through code, but I am not so skilled with writing my own yet.

Thanks in advance for your help.

WordPress and BBPress are running the latest versions:

Site – htp://alysiaworld.com
Theme – Twentytwelve

[kettlewell]

Update:

I’ve figured it out.

Part of it was my theme using the post_type_archive_title()

Part was needing to set a filter:

function test_support() {
  return 'Support';
}
add_filter('bbp_get_forum_archive_title', 'test_support');

And part of it is needing to modify the default bbpress theme by placing it in my own theme directory, and modifying the hard-coded instances of Forums and Topics.

A future enhancement / feature would be some sort of an options file to allow this text to be modified in one place somewhere…

[arohmann]

I can confirm this issue, and I believe it to be a bug with how forum threads are looked up. Perhaps one of the team here can confirm the issue?

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create a thread using greek characters
2. Right click, and “copy link” then paste in new tab. This WORKS.
3. Now copy the URL directly out of the address bar and paste in new tab. This DOESN’T WORK

The difference I’m seeing is that the outputted forum URLs are encoded using lowercase a-f characters, but if you copy from the address bar (depending on browser or OS) the encoding letters are A-F uppercase.

For example:
ce%bf – accepted by bbPress and given the correct page
CE%BF – goes to 404

Normal WordPress pages can handle either just fine.

I’ve tested this for a bit and got the same results in both Chrome and Firefox on OS X. It really looks like a bug where bbPress can’t tell the difference, or it’s not an exact match. Either way, this could be a big issue! To users, the links look exactly the same, and they can have issues sharing links.

Thanks! Hoping to get some more feedback here.

Best regards

[rossagrant]

Testing reply speed on larger topic. Please ignore this post.

[maisdesign]

Hi, actually I’m trying to develop a WP plugin that will do almost the same thing you were trying to do.
But, my lack of knowledge and the lack of documentation (I can’t find it!) aren’t helping me very much.
This is what I have actually:
https://github.com/maisdesign/MDPostEforumsCreator

As you can see in my index.php file that is here:

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Post And Forum Creator by MaisDesign & Stestaz
Plugin URI: http://maisdesign.it
Description: You give it a title and it automatically create a blank post and forum with that title, that's it!
Version: 1.0.0
Author: MaisDesign & Stestaz
Author URI: http://maisdesign.it
License: 
License URI: 
*/
/* Documentazione:
	Quello che sto cercando di ottenere è di svolgere tutto in una sola pagina, sono certo che non serva richiamare BBHOST e compagnia bella per inserire un cavolo di articolo ma sono le 2.20 AM e non so più che pesci pigliare!
	In fondo a questa pagina troverai del codice commentato, se ci sono bestemmie nei commenti lasciale dove stanno, sono di buon auspicio :-P
*/
/* Definiamo la versione */

if (!defined('MD_POSTFORUM_CREATOR_VERSION_KEY'))
    define('MD_POSTFORUM_CREATOR_VERSION_KEY', 'md_postforum_creator_version');

if (!defined('MD_POSTFORUM_CREATOR_VERSION_NUM'))
    define('MD_POSTFORUM_CREATOR_VERSION_NUM', '1.0.0');

add_option(MD_POSTFORUM_CREATOR_VERSION_KEY, MD_POSTFORUM_CREATOR_VERSION_NUM);

/*
    * This example will work at least on WordPress 2.6.3, 
    * but maybe on older versions too.
    */
   add_action( 'admin_init', 'md_postforum_creator_init' );
   add_action( 'admin_menu', 'md_postforum_creator_menu' );
   
   function md_postforum_creator_init() {
       /* Register our stylesheet. */
       wp_register_style( 'mdPostforumCreatorStyle', plugins_url('css/mdpostforumstyle.css', __FILE__) );
	       wp_register_script( 'mdPostforumCreatorScript', plugins_url( '/js/alajax-1.2.js', __FILE__ ) );
   };   
   function md_postforum_creator_menu() {
       /* Register our plugin page */
       $page = add_submenu_page( 'options.php', 
                                 __( 'MDPFC Plugin', 'md-postforum-creator' ), 
                                 __( 'MDPFC Plugin', 'md-postforum-creator' ),
                                 'administrator',
                                 __FILE__, 
                                 'md_postforum_creator_manage_menu' );
  
       /* Using registered $page handle to hook stylesheet loading */
       add_action( 'admin_print_styles-' . $page, 'md_postforum_creator_styles' );
		add_action('admin_print_scripts-' . $page, 'md_postforum_creator_scripts');
   };   
   function md_postforum_creator_styles() {
       /*
        * It will be called only on your plugin admin page, enqueue our stylesheet here
        */
       wp_enqueue_style( 'mdPostforumCreatorStyle' );
   };
   function md_postforum_creator_scripts() {
        /* Link our already registered script to a page */
        wp_enqueue_script( 'mdPostforumCreatorScript' );
    };
   /*function md_postforum_creator_manage_menu() {
   };*/
   add_action('admin_menu', 'register_md_postforum_creator_menu');
function register_md_postforum_creator_menu() {
   add_menu_page( 'MDPFC Options', // $page_title
                  'MDPFC Options', // $menu_title
                  'manage_options', // $capability
                  'md-postforum-creator-menu-page-slug', // $menu_slug
                  'md_postforum_creator_menu_page', // $function
                  plugins_url( 'md-postforum-creator/images/mdpostforum.png' ), /* $icon_url*/
                  3 ); /* $position*/
};

function md_postforum_creator_menu_page() {
   /* Does the user have the right permissions?*/
   if (!current_user_can('manage_options')) {
      wp_die( 'Sorry, you do not have permission to access this page.');
   };
  if(isset($_POST['new_post']) == '1') {
    $post_title = $_POST['post_title'];
    $post_category = $_POST['cat'];
    $post_content = $_POST['post_content'];

    $new_post = array(
          'ID' => '',
          'post_author' => $user->ID, 
          'post_category' => array($post_category),
          'post_content' => '', 
          'post_title' => wp_strip_all_tags($post_title),
          'post_status' => 'draft'
        );

    $post_id = wp_insert_post($new_post);
};          
echo '
<form action="'.admin_url('admin.php?page=md-postforum-creator-menu-page-slug').'" method="post">
    <input type="text" name="post_title" size="45" id="input-title"/>
    <input type="hidden" name="new_post" value="1"/>';
	wp_dropdown_categories('orderby=name&hide_empty=0&exclude=1&hierarchical=1');
    echo '<input class="subput round" type="submit" name="submit" value="Post"/>
</form>';
};?>

My plugin is almost complete, what I can’t understand is How to create also a forum with same title of the post created by the form.

Is there anyone who can send me to the right direction? Thank you.