I have the forums as a link from a menu item – the url is villagepca.org – if you click on the menu item “Forums”, you get to http://www.villagepca.org/forums/
If I put a link for a specific forum, it shows up – e.g., click on “Prayer Requests” on the menu, and you’ll see that this works.
But not “forums” as a whole – this does not work. But if I pick another theme, it works. And the same theme that isn’t working does work on another site of mine (a test site with a similar name: villagepc.org)
Suggestions please?
It’s definitely WAMP, most likely the ‘W’ part. (I tried this on Windows 7) XAMPP has even more trouble. Apache is being disrupted and crashed at times, probably because of Windows User Account Control (UAC) security settings and/or IIS. You should get a warning about this when you install XAMPP on Windows. I haven’t test to see if that’s the cause, but it seems likely.
See: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_xp-windows_programs/i-am-trying-to-install-xampp-win32-177-i-get-a/0b44bd10-2fff-49ac-bb48-30dfc4ae9c44?msgId=0c558024-e8e2-47b2-a9f7-ee102b62aec9
What does work is LAMP, so just do the migration on your webserver or localhost. I’ve had no problem doing it all on Nexcess.net’s WordPress hosting with over 61,000 posts and 1100 users converted with the default settings of 100 rows at a time with a 1s delay.
My WordPress is: WordPress 3.5.1. (Russian language pack)
Theme: Emphaino
You are using bbPress 2.3.2.
also installed Akismet (upgraded)
after installs and activates “all in one seo”, I have same trouble:
1. Then “all in one seo” activated – bbPress is dont works well:
1.1. Then I try to create new post, I have an error: “ERROR: You do not have permission to create new topics.” 
1.2. Then I try to go http://catstock.ru/wp-admin/index.php?page=bbp-about – I have about the same error in Russian Language – “Dont have permission”. 
1.3. Then I in Plugins menu in admin panel, and I click “settings” (http://catstock.ru/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=bbpress) – I see the same error – “Dont have permission”
1.4. I stil see the bbPress widget in Console (http://catstock.ru/wp-admin/index.php)
2. Then I deactivate “all in one SEO”:
2.1. Right after deactivation – I start see “Forums, Topics, Replies” in the admin left panel.
2.2. http://catstock.ru/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=bbpress2 – start works correct, 
2.3. Now I may correctly add new topic or reply at page http://catstock.ru/?forum=test_forum
3. Now I activate “all in one SEO” again, and all goes back to &1.
3.1. In “All in one SEO” settings using “Reset to default” dont help any.
I assume this is a simply function but I can’t seem to find any clear documentation on how to do it.
I’d love to have my forum homepage show the latest x amount of replies across ALL forums. Pretty much like the forum homepage of bbPress’ own forum.
Can someone point me in the right direction? Using the latest version of WordPress and bbPress.
How is that possible, my forum went off line suddenly and I retested all plugins and the problem was in All in one seo plugin
My forum is not working if I have that plugin installed. I get error no permissions when I try to click on bbpress settings link
Any idea why is this happening?
Hi,
I am using the latest buddypress version with wordpress but a different theme (from rockettheme.com).
The “register” link on the frontpage is not linked to the “register” page. I can fix that in the admin dashboard by going to settings–>buddypress–>pages.
Here I need to create a site called “register” first.
My problem now is that this site is indeed called “register” but has no registration function whatsoever.
Can someone help me?
Thanks a lot for your support,
Fabian
Add me to this list of bbPress needing the messaging functionality. We have over a thousand users and just moved from forum software built 9 years ago to bbPress, and messaging was considered a fundamental feature. Every other piece of competing forum software out there includes messaging.
I’ve been running this successful forum for close to 15 years and I’m a digital marketing manager for a living. It could be argued that I know what I’m talking about.
I fully understand that bbPress wants to keep it lean & mean, yet we have odd, little-used features built into core like Twitter & YouTube embedding. But really obvious items, like quoting, signature files and private messaging, require separate plug-ins? There’s some logical missteps in there. What’s up with Yahoo, Jabber and AIM still having fields? NO ONE USES THOSE SERVICES ANY MORE. Even dropping the Visual editor (in 2013?) in the latest release is a step back.
(A note on Avatars: Listen guys, this expectation of users to register an account with another service like Gravatr, and then return to their account with our site, is clumsy and far-fetched at best. Again, a separate plugin for Avatar? C’mon)
With that said, I switched to bbPress because I think the code is more pure and I think it has better longevity due to its affiliation with WP. It isn’t clunky and bloated. The SEO options for WP sites in general are more impressive, and there’s a wide support community – and I knew it would be intuitive and relatively painless for myself and my team.
Would love to get JJJ’s take and that of others.
After an update to the latest BP, I noticed that my admin cannot anymore manage forums. All the menu items – Forums, Topics, Replies – disappeared! I realized that my admin user is no longer managing forums. The only forum roles I can assign to users are spectator, moderator, participant, blocked. If I assign “moderator” to an user, the user can edit topic and replies, but not manage forums. What happened to admin or keymaster? I tried installing “User Roles Editor”, but it doesn’t show up capabilities for “Administrator” so I can’t edit the Administrator profile to change them… I’m lost.
Is it possible to replicate the theme/layout of the bbPress.org forums homepage easily?
Love the forums on the left and the latest topics layout. Would love to see this as an option in the settings for the future.
Any ideas in the meantime?
Hi everyone.
First, my system:
wordpress 3.5.1.
buddypress 1.7.1 (with bbpress 2.3.2 integrated).
I’ve changed my site from buddypress group forums to bbpress 2.3.1. The transition went fine, but now I have this problem:
Users can’t edit their own messages.
I have also set option “Disallow editing after” to 15 minutes, but still users can’t edit their own posts.
Then, I have some difficulties to understand how forum visibility settings of bbpress (public, private, hidden) correlates to group visibility settings (public, private, hidden). If I set a group as hidden and than bbpress settings to “private” or “public”, new topics of groups forum appears in “latest topics”. Users that are not members of group that try to enter the forum get 404 error, but they still can read the topic, and this is not a good thing. If a users sets his group as hidden I think he don’t want to see it visible in latest topics, don’t you? 🙂
Hum sorry, must’ve gone into the spamfolder. I tested it myself and it works. Aw well, I sent you an e-mail via your contact form, cheers.
Is something wrong with the code tags here that you’re unable to use them? I’m having a hard time following exactly what to do to duplicate the issue you’re having.
I’ve tried each permutation of posting code and swapping between editors, and it appears to work correctly for me in what is now bbPress 2.3.2. I’ve also synced up dev trunk with deploy trunk, so the beta tester plugin should have the most recent changes in it too.
(Keep in mind that the beta-tester plugin doesn’t grab the latest version directly from trunk; it gets what I merge into WordPress.org Extend’s trunk. This helps me keep what the beta-tester plugin gets stable, even though bbPress.org’s trunk might not me.)
Create a post in the visual editor it performs normally. Click “text” tab, and you see the tags as expected. Click the “visual” tab and again it appears normally.
Once POSTED, if you then attempt to edit it, you get the visual tab, and SEE the HTML tags. They are not however the actual tags, when you click the “text” tab you see they are actually & l t ; HTMLTAG & g t ;Whatever the text is& l t ;/HTMLTAG& g t ;
(I do believe that before 2.4-alpha that clicking the “text” tab would result in the same thing BEFORE posting, so it’s “semi” fixed)
WordPress 3.5.1
bbPress 4.2-alpha
bbPress – Mark as Read 0.3
bbPress Beta Tester 0.1
bbPress Enable TinyMCE Visual Tab 1.0
bbPress Unread Posts 1.0
GD bbPress Tools 1.4
We’ve just set up a website for the over 60s and part of it is downloading health information.
I need to capture their real name but also have a ‘user name’ which is then used for everything.
I’m using the latest version of bbPress but, despite looking hard, have no idea where to go next! Does anyone know of a plugin that will do what I need? Thanks.
site is http://www.retiredandkicking.com/
Just installed the beta tester plug in and updated to v2.4-alpha and it did NOT fix this…
Can you include more(any) information on what you’re seeing? From my testing, it’s fixed in trunk and in the 2.3.2-alpha, and fixed here on bbPress.org also.
@Jared – WOW – that seemed to do the trick … THANK YOU … i will update my trac ticket … as fyi, part of me thinks forum permalinks should work with that option on or off but hey, it now works* with it set on so that is good enough for me … thanks again for pointer as this was driving me a bit nutty and driving me a bit towards “Now what did i do wrong … what do i no understand about flushing permalinks, configuring this yada yada” thus while my confidence might have dipped a bit during this testing experience, i am certainly grateful for helpful bbPress community and pros that nudge us forward for success results :>) cordially, chuck scott
*for others who might stumble on this thread – the working part means that now anybody who is on the network as a registered user, but not a member of a particular sub site that uses forums, with this option Jared mentions set to “on” said users when they log in to that sub site will see forums with working permalinks – in my case, they were treated as subscribers thus could not comment or create new forums …
Just installed the beta tester plug in and updated to v2.4-alpha and it did NOT fix this…
Hi Jared
I think, the Beta Tester not update from trunk. Maybe I’m wrong, someone should check this plugin.
I download directly from svn/trunk and now works fine.
Best regards
GP
I think if you update bbPress using the Beta Tester plugin it should pull down trunk, which contains the fix.
Give a try and see.
Hi
I’m interesting to when version 2.3.2. will be ready,
Now I’m using bbPress Beta Tester plugin to update bbPress
Best Regards
GP
just a follow up in that i did some additional testing on a live production site and confirmed bug behavior so i just submitted a bug ticket here ->
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2325#ticket
Hi all,
I have run into a problem when trying to activate the bbPress plugin when running a Skeleton framework’s Childtheme. After activation, I get this error message:
Warning: require_once(/customers/6/4/a/developmentbysvalander.com/httpd.www/themetest/wp-content/themes/skeleton/bbpress_functions.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /customers/6/4/a/developmentbysvalander.com/httpd.www/themetest/wp-content/themes/skeleton_childtheme/functions.php on line 89 Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required ‘/customers/6/4/a/developmentbysvalander.com/httpd.www/themetest/wp-content/themes/skeleton/bbpress_functions.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/share/php’) in /customers/6/4/a/developmentbysvalander.com/httpd.www/themetest/wp-content/themes/skeleton_childtheme/functions.php on line 89
I’ve tried this on two different WP installations, and it crash ever time. The second one was a fresh install of both theme and plugin. As I am pretty new with PHP I don’t want to tr anything out that I know work, tht’s why I’m here.
Appreciate any kind of reply!
BR, Chris (Sweden)
@fishmilk – i don’t have an answer to your question but i too have been experiencing similar strangeness thus i suspect there is a bug in bbPress with new users ..??.. i’m outlining my issue below incase our experiences are related ..??..
i’m running tests on a multisite network and had bbPress installed on a sub site … then i installed BuddyPress and did some testing and that is when i found strangeness with bbPress as follows …
when i logged into the sub site forums with a user that was added previously to the site, then all was fine … but if i tried to login as a subscriber to the network but not to that site, then i got a series of 404 errors with forums and topics not found … these links worked to a non logged in user, and worked to a logged in registered user added to the site and worked for the admin, and these links as hover overs even showed the correct permalink structure … yet when clicked on as logged in user registered to network and not to site, the permalinks were screwy – e.g., site.com/sub-site01/sub-site01/forum/topic-xyz .. thus a double sub-site01 was being added …
so then i turned off BuddyPress and still same thing … then i turned off bbPress network enabled and enabled only on subsite as original and same thing … then i changed the network settings so that the default login for that subsite was subscriber and ditto, same thing in that a user on a network would not be able to access the forums … the only way for the new user to access forums is if i go to that subsite as admin and manually add the subscriber … then it seems to work …
my next step is to delete all my MySQL tables and try this again … partly because along my path i test the Commons in a Box BuddyPress plugin and that network enabled bbPress automatically even though i had bbPress enabled on the sub site … never thought to check that first and so not sure if something got corrupted a bit or if indeed bbPress is having issue with new users on a network (e.g., especially, if they haven’t posted, or commented in advance ??)
looping back to your error messages … i saw some of the same ones during my path … once i disabled Commons in a Box, and repaired my forums, things seemed to come back online but i noticed that one of the avatars for my test log in subscribers was missing which leads me to believe there is possible table corruption on this end ..??..
Ack – that’s not right. Here’s what it looks like in the email:
<p>Hello, this is a reply to the test.</p>
I’m using the latest versions of both WordPress and bbPress.
I’m using the fancy editor (via the bbPress Enable TinyMCE Visual Tab plugin) and in notification emails we get characters like:
<p>Hello, this is a reply to the test.</p>
Is there a way to either send HTML-formatted emails from bbPress, or to strip out these characters and still use the fancy editor?
