[acousticwebdesign]

I tried upgrading but I’m experiencing some really strange issues. First of all, there is no longer an “Edit” admin link so I can’t test that the issue still exists. Was this the solution?

Secondly, I’m having a really weird problem with my styles after the upgrade. I think the framework is choking somewhere during the request but no errors are displayed. It looks like many of my bbpress-related styles are not being applied.

If I turn on debug mode, the problem goes away and everything displays as normal. But as soon as I turn it off again, it gets screwed up somewhere. Weird!

I know my stylesheet is being loaded and some of the styles are being applied properly, but some aren’t and the one’s that aren’t don’t even show up in firebug with a line through the middle saying they’ve been overridden, they just aren’t appearing at all. I’ve never seen anything like this before.

I’ve tried disabling all other plugins, no luck. Any idea what’s going on here.

[felixpage]

I have tested with Twenty Eleven and Twenty Twelve and It doesn’t work. There is no topics and forums count (it shows 0).

[Sami Keijonen]

I let you know when I’m back on my computer. I’m on localhost and testing with WP 1.6 beta.

[Stephen Edgar]

Are you using the latest bbPress 2.3?

What version of vBulletin are you using? I have only tested vBulletin 4.x

Here is the list of known issues with vBulletin https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/vBulletin/

[John James Jacoby]

Try updating to bbPress 2.3. I’m not able to duplicate this using the latest version, using either the wp-signup.php way, or via the Network admin area.

[John James Jacoby]

@premitheme – I’ve used and tested with PHP 5.2/5.3/5.4 without incident.

The “Are you sure you wanted to do that?” errors come from nonce requests failing inside of the `bbp_verify_nonce_request()` function. My guess is the `$requested_url`, `$matched_url`, and `$home_url` are coming up with some kind of mismatch, causing `$result` to return `false` and the nonce check to fail.

It’s also possible that the parsing and comparisons in `bbp_verify_nonce_request()` could use improvement. This function was modified in 2.3 to allow for reverse-proxying, which may have broken some other type of URL. If so, would love your help there. 🙂

[John James Jacoby]

i seem to be a newbie at this, can you please walk me through the steps?

You’ll want to search bbPress’s files for the above function, and test to make sure it’s working correctly. If you’re operating a site as the main developer, you’ll want to know how to touch files on the server (with an code editor, FTP program, etc…)

Then, you’ll want to search the web for common PHP debugging techniques (var_dump(), echo(), die(), debug_backtrace(), etc…) so you can gain a better understanding of how the code you’re trusting to make your site function works.

This is one of those times where, hopefully, a little tough love will pay in dividends for you later.

[Stephen Edgar]

I have only had access to test vBulletin 4.x to test importing into bbPress.

Does vBulletin 3.8.x support topic tags at all?

Also this doc has any other known issues https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/vBulletin/

[realhood]

@netweb you can check it out on my testwebsite  http://realhood.xicp.net/forums

leave your email,  I will send a account to you if smile..

[Stephen Edgar]

@realhood I still cannot reproduce your issue using the same settings you have above or with ‘Forum Prefix’ unchecked.

This works perfectly http://127.0.0.1/search?bbp_search=test

[ehong33234]

I am running the latest BBPress 2.3 and I don’t see any link for the user to be able to update their profile (i.e. avatar, signature, password, etc.). So, I want to be able to put a hyperlink in the menu or somewhere else on my wordpress site that allows the user to access this page. I have found it to reside in http://www.domain.com/forums/users/nameofuser

The problem is, I can’t figure out a way to call out the username in the url. I tried http://www.domain.com/forums/users/%s and that didn’t work. I am using permalinks and tried http://www.domain.com/forums/users/%username%/ and still nothing.

Someone please help, thank you!

[Jared Atchison]

I just tested a fresh install of bbP 2.3 and WP 3.6 trunk on MAMP Pro and can’t replicate any issues.

[premitheme]

I have installed XAMPP 1.8.1 for Windows and see no issues with ‘localhost’

For those using MAMP, what version are you using?

@netweb I’m using 2.1.4 (the current). As I said the problem doesn’t appear with all localhost environments, I tested “MAMP”, “DesktopServer” (uses XAMPP), “Bitnami MAMP Stack”, live host and Mac OS X built-in localhost. It works with every thing but MAMP and Bitnami. I could say the problem with MAMP, BUT there was no problem with the older versions of bbPress, this makes me thing that the problem is in bbPress, not MAMP.

[Stephen Edgar]

@realhood I cannot reproduce your issue of ‘why my search function can’t work, when I use it,it always jump to the home page’

I see no issues using or not using the bbPress ‘forums prefix’

http://localhost/search/?bbp_search=test
http://localhost/forums/search/?bbp_search=test
http://example.com/search/?bbp_search=test
http://example.com/forums/search/?bbp_search=test

What do you have your permalinks set to? (‘Settings’ -> ‘Permalinks’)
What is the ‘Search Slug’ for bbPress set to? (‘Settings’ -> ‘Forums’ )

[premitheme]

I’m having the same error message (Are you sure you wanted to do that?) as @premitheme is having on a local/MAMP server.

Finally, I’m not alone 🙂

Update: Tried “DesktopServer.app” which is based on XAMPP, it worked!! On “Bitnami MAMP Stack”, it DOESN’T work (the same as MAMP). I’m going to try XAMPP itself and even will setup Apache/PHP/MySQL manually on my Mac and see this makes any difference.

Hope that bbp developers can help us, with all the appreciation. Why I can use 2.2.4 on MAMP while I CAN’T use 2.3. I’m using the latest MAMP version BTW.

[ubound]

Okay, all my posts and replies disappeared from the site. Fortunately, I had backup of my entire blog and forum, so I had there bbpress version 2.1.2

I uninstalled the latest version deleted all files, then uploaded 2.1.2. version via FTP. Then I need to click one last save in bbpress settings and everything is online again…

Testing environment is a wise idea. Always new it, but didn’t want to do. Now I learned 😉

Soooo glad my forum is back up. I will think about the rest tomorrow. Phewwww!

Thank you guys!

[Anonymous User]

Seemingly trivial and minor of a change, yet actually a huge change with no notice.

The bbPress body class has changed from bbPress to bbpress (losing the capital P). Depending on how much you’ve customized bbPress or if you’ve created a bbPress theme integrated right into a WordPress theme, all customizations will be broken.

This also breaks backwards-compatibility except for doubling up and references both .bbPress and .bbpress which will have to be done in my case.

Luckily, I discovered this issue in my testing environment. As you’ll find from the many topics that will be piling up over broken customization confusion over the next several days, others won’t be so lucky to catch the issue without learning the hard way.

Thanks, Bryan

[Erlend]

Thanks so much! Seems to have updated without a hitch (well, see below). Tested the forum search right away and it appears to be working fine, although I’m still aching for those search results to be presented as excerpts.

I did also find that I had to resave permalinks in order to see posts again, or else I would end up with a “topic not found”. That gave me quite the scare!

We’ll be checking out those improvements to code posting now.

[premitheme]

I have a problem! Tested the latest official 2.3 version (and rc1) and cannot post topics or replies and always get “ERROR: Are you sure you wanted to do that?”. Creating forums is OK.

This happened on a fresh localhost installation (MAMP) of WP 3.5.1 and bbp 2.3 using TwentyTwelve theme without any other plugins or themes installed. Attached a screenshot …

The search function is great BTW, well done! Just hope to find a fix for the mentioned problem as it makes 2.3 useless.

[perineo]

wow John this works like a charm, thank you mate. Now it prints out the ip as I wantend, but I fronted a new problem, I cant execute shortcode’s outside the post of the reply where I tested and it works. In the contenct of the post it works, but otside not (under avatar) 🙁 Any suggestions ?

thank you in advance!

[WayneM1]

I’m running the latest version of everything…

bbpress 2.2.4
BuddyPress 1.7
WordPress 3.5.1.

[lasticko]

I went to #freenode’s IRC channel for #wordpress and I tried to find help there.

They directed me to :
https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-creating-a-custom-bbpress-theme/

But on Step 6 where it says to copy everything in wp-content > plugins > bbpress > bbp-themes > bbp-twentyten into your child theme folder I’m stuck.

There is no wp-content\plugins\bbpress\bbp-themes directory in the latest bbpress.
Outdated instructions… 🙁

I wish someone would step in and clear things up.

This page seems a little more udpated with the correct file structure. I guess I’m going to delve into this a bit more:
https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

[maxime77]

Ok, we figured it out. The problem comes from the french version of bbPress. The latest version is over a year old and it’s based on an older version of bbPress, so it doesn’t show replies…

This puts us in a bit of a bind, but at least now we know what the problem is.

Btw clickmac, I noticed I couldn’t see the replies in the link you posted for your site, just a bunch of empty space. I had the same thing happen when I tested bbPress on a clean install of WordPress. My collegue had me try it with IE and there they were. So with Firefox you don’t see anything. For more info :

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/user-profiles-topics-created-and-replies-dont-show-up-for-me-either/

[Fraternity]

moebis – just took a look at this, I may have a more recent version than you use in your fix above.

Here is how to play with my hack in the latest trunk:

EDIT: /bbpress/includes/extend/buddypress/group.php

Delete lines 609-614 and add “?>” back to line 609.

The code I have at these lines is this:

<?php bbp_get_template_part( ‘form’, ‘topic’ ); ?>

<?php else : ?>

<?php bbp_get_template_part( ‘feedback’, ‘no-topics’ ); ?>

Probably not what I want to comment out. What I did find though is this (lines 567-581):

// Suppress subforums for now
add_filter( ‘bbp_get_forum_subforum_count’, ‘__return_false’ );

// Set up forum data
bbpress()->current_forum_id = $forum->ID;
bbp_set_query_name( ‘bbp_single_forum’ ); ?>

<?php

// Remove the subforum suppression filter
remove_filter( 'bbp_get_forum_subforum_count', '__return_false' );

I highlighted a few things:
1) Topics are only being displayed from group subforum 2 (believe you mentioned this above). This should be easy enough to fix
2) I thought I was posting in the Group Forum when I used the default form below, but clearly (as per highlight 3) this is now set to group subforum 2
3) Default Create New Topic is set to Group Subforum 2. I assume this was the “last retrieved forum” and is probably easy enough to fix. In my case, I’ll probably be changing my group forums to a category anyway, so I don’t actually want people starting new topics from this page.

[Fraternity]

Throwing a post on here to get notified as replies, as this is exactly what I am trying to achieve.

This bit looks promising: “Good News All!!! Ok…. I have sub forums working in buddypress with a small hack to group.php (in latest trunk of bbpress 2.3)”