I have a section of my WP site that is password protected for members of my group. I like to have a forum that is public but also have one that is within that password protected section. On my test site I’ve tried to do this and it appears to not work because the forums aren’t related to pages at all. Am I missing something? Is there a way to do this? Or do I have to make everyone create a WP login in order to access the protected forum?
Thanks!
@matrixd did you test on the default twentytwelve theme to see if it works the same way there?
@limitx3m perhaps, but you’re being very vague here ^^ What did you have in mind exactly?
Hi and thanks for the great plugin.
I have a problem when new topics created the icon doesn’t change.
I tested with new topic creation from Key master, Moderator, Participant.
WP 3.5.1 / BP 1.6.4 / BBP 2.2.4
Thanks again
I think I finally found a caching plugin that’s actually compatible with the latest bbPress plugin:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lite-cache/
It’s by the same developer who made the quite popular “Hyper Cache“. Why he decided to make yet another caching plugin I do not know, but it appears to be working great on our site!
Not sure if this is a bbpress or buddypress issue (BTW can’t post on buddypress support forums, when I log in to bbpress.org, but that’s a separate issue, I also see the admin menu on buddypress.org)…
Ok, so I’ve been playing around with both bbpress and buddypress for the last 2 weeks. I have checked out of svn both of the latest trunk versions. I’ve gotten pretty adept at setting everything up from scratch during my testing. When creating a group, let’s say “group1” in buddypress, I allow bbpress to create the corresponding forum during group setup. Now, when I go into the bbpress admin backend and create a forum from there, let’s say “subforum1” and make “group1” the parent, it works. Yeah! Just what I wanted, parent groups and sub-forums, however, it doesn’t work the way I expect it to. I can see the subforum in the group now from the front end, and post something in the subforum, but not in the main forum/group “group1”, and every time I click on the group, and then the forum tab, it shows the sub forum(s) and topic posts (only from the last post to the last subforum), and then a create topic form on the bottom, defaulting to the last subforum I created. Meaning I can never post anything in the parent forum “group1” or any other subforums that might have been created under group1. No dropdown to select a different forum to post it to. This is not how would expect it to work. I would expect that you default to the main parent forum (group1) for posting and reading of topics, and the subforums (which do show on the group1 forum page) you can click on and then post within them. It seems this functionality is almost there, and I want to make sure this is either something that is getting fixed, or a mistaken capability that I stumbled upon and it not meant to operate that way.
Thanks for all of you hard work on these 2 projects, you guys are awesome! I can help contribute to the dev as a tester if you want.
The answer to my question about which template is being rendered (at least in my case) was `page.php`.
That’s `page.php` from your theme.
So if you, like me, want to do things to the main template in which the bbpress forums are housed, you can use `page.php`.
If you, like me, want to do things to that template ONLY for bbpress stuff, but not for other “pages” in your site, you can use the php function `is_bbpress()` in that template to render conditional html based on whether it is a bbpress page or not.
This seems like amazingly basic and obvious information that I was only able to discern by gritting my teeth and putting bbpress into the text editor and reading through A LOT of code. If this information is documented somewhere easy to find, please enlighten me so that i can perform the requisite face palm. If it’s not, why not?
This is untested by me, but digging through some more code, it looks like you might be able to create a custom home-base template for your bbpress forum by copying the original `page.php` into a new file and naming it any of:”
`’plugin-bbpress.php’,
‘bbpress.php’,
‘forums.php’,
‘forum.php’,
‘generic.php’`
Just to update on testing too, I have fully tested this now and can recreate it on all of my installs and a brand new install of BP 1.6.3, WP 3.5 and BBPress 2.2.4.
Admin can post @mentions freely, but regular BP members (assigned participant role) can’t without that error in the log appearing.
The @mention still works as it should but I can’t for the life of me see why it’s throwing that error.
I’ve tried it and get the same result on 3 separate servers now too. I have tried it with BP-Default and NO plugins except for BP and BBPress.
If you guys need me to test anything else at all, please shout up.
Should I create a ticket in TRAC?
@johnjamesjacoby Cheers JJ. I’ve just tested with bbpress2.3 beta 1 and I still get the same behaviour.
Admin can use @mentions and no syntax error appears in the error log.
As soon as a regular participant does, then they get this error:
`[29-Jan-2013 12:51:38 UTC] 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 ‘http://www.mysite.tv/members/admin/’ rel=’nofollow’>@admin mentio’ at line 1 for query SELECT ID FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type = ‘reply’ AND post_status != ‘trash’ AND post_author = 40 AND post_content = ‘Now testing @admin mention in a forum post.’ AND post_parent = ‘9865’ LIMIT 1 made by require(‘wp-blog-header.php’), require_once(‘wp-includes/template-loader.php’), do_action(‘template_redirect’), call_user_func_array, bbp_template_redirect, do_action(‘bbp_template_redirect’), call_user_func_array, bbp_post_request, do_action(‘bbp_post_request’), call_user_func_array, bbp_new_reply_handler, bbp_check_for_duplicate`
Only happens with participants.
Can you replicate this in your error log at all?
Haha, sorry for being such a bloody noob JJ, do you have a version packaged up anywhere? I’ve never used SVN before or bleeding edge versions of stuff?
Is there a regular download link to the latest 2.3 beta?
Did you get a chance to test this @netweb?
I am only seeing this error when posting as a participant and using an @mention.
When I post as admin, I don’t get it?
Any ideas? Can you recreate it?
On the front end I tried to edit a post for the first time today and nothing at all happens when you click Edit. Tried clicking Trash and nothing happens either. I’ve tested it without permalinks setting and still the same problem
Has anyone come across this before?
I would think that installing the latest bbPress, inporting data from the old one including users, deleting the old bbPress, and then changing the slugs in Settings -> Forums should do what you want.
Remember to always backup first.
Hello, I have very basic query and I want someone to reply me in detail.
Case study presented below followed by quarries.
I have a website called myhost.com( say) , with blog( word press latest version , database on some abc.com with the name database1 and url http://www.myhost.com/blog) and forum (bbpress standalone version 1.0, database on some mnopq.com with the name database2 http://www.myhost.com/forum) , Both form and blog got many posts so, its kinda hard to do any manual shift or modification in another word option for manual shift is closed. Also it has all the way pages are crawled by search engine so can’t afford to change the url. Now I want to shift from standalone version of bbpress to plugin version. As it has problem with plugin, and maintaining the two things separately. Now please read my query
1. If I install the plugin I will have forum that I know. My problem is how to keep forum and blog url still same as I dn’t want many page “not found warning: in google webmaster tool
2. When I tried I got forum and blog has link like http://www.myhost.com/blog and http://www.myhost.com/blog/forum which I don’t want. I still want same url for every post in my forum not inside the blog directory.
3. It might be possible that blog and forum consists common users, may be same email address or even same user name asthe two blog and the forum having different databsae, if now I will import will it have problem in merging. Is there any way to get the union of two users from blog and forum
Please reply asap .
Thanks
I just installed the latest trunk of both to continue my testing. I like a lot of the improvements, but I’ve been discovering some bugs here and there. Not sure if this is the place to post it, but here it goes.
First off, the 2 work well together now, except when you try to mix the site-wide forums with group forums. If you click on a group and look at the forum tab, it shows posts from the next group-forum or site-wide forums. What I’m attempting to do is create groups, with a top-level forum for each group, and then sub-sitewide forums underneath, which I nest using the backend bbpress admin. These sub-forums don’t have a group all their own they just belong underneath and listed in forums top of the master group they are part of. It looks like this functionality is somewhat coded into the newest branch of buddypress 1.7 and bbpress 2.3, and if fixed it would be perfect. I know there is a plugin called buddypress group hierarchy or something, but it’s not really what I’m looking for, because it assumes I want full group buddypress functionality surrounding the sub-forums. I just want more granular control over the topics on each group.
@johnjamesjacoby – hear our plea. Allow us to create sub-forums in bbpress for the top-level forum in buddypress groups. When you click on the group, the sub-forums that belong to it will show underneath. When posting to the group forum, maybe even an option to move the topic to the top level group forum or sub-forums for the user? Just a thought. Thanks for all the great work on this, it’s getting much better now.
Hi,
I’m setting a test version for a site that I hope to lauch coming week, but I’m having a diffilcaulty with the forum.
http://www.eitisnart.be/test/forums/
I followed the guidelines in the documentation, but still having some problems. In the link above you’ll see a directory without forums and topics. I want that all the forums appear in the directory.
What I’m missing or doing wrong?
Thanks in advance
I seem to be having an issue with how the converter itself works? I run the converter and it tells me “No forums to convert” as well as no anything else. I copied the SQL in the title attribute and ran that in phpmyadmin and it returns a proper data set as expected. I experimented with entering incorrect values for the db information and that didn’t actually produce any errors or any difference at all. I’m thinking there’s some sort of problem connecting to the db and no error handling for that issue.. Any idea what could be going wrong? This is on WordPress latest and a fresh install of bbPress with just that Vanilla file added.
Yeah, I think your right. I think we should just leave the `from_expression’ => ‘WHERE User.Deleted = 0′` out completely. It would just orpan items anyway. I pulled my notes from the doc. With all that said, I’ll download the Vanilla.php you posted in the codex and give her a run on my test server. I think she’s done.
Thanks for adding that to the codex, I am not sure we should go that route though, I think we should not advise anyone to modify their existing forum directly with SQL. I think we are better off stating that all users including banned and deleted users are imported into WordPress and after importing you should manually delete these users through the WordPress Users admin panel.
As to the correct code/syntax for the password, honestly I have no idea! Give me a code example and I can hack around and make stuff work but code from scratch I am at noob level 😉
I started learning PHP when I started playing with bbPress not that long ago and along with WordPress they are my only PHP learning resources and a testament to @johnjamesjacoby coding with awesome inline docs.
With all that said though I think it would probably be best if you want Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, OpenID etc etc logins for WordPress/bbPress it will be much easier to install one of the many WP plugins that offer this. Then have the end users link their existing user profile to Facebook, Twitter or whoever, otherwise there will be all sorts of values we are trying to migrate from Vanilla to support a vast array of different user plugin implementations that are available for WordPress.
Maybe it will work the way it is. Users who login via some other method still have thier username and email stored in the User table and are for all intents and purposes a “User”. Our converter will convert whatever is in the Password blob, but it won’t match thier 3rd party password (I tested it). These users will need to use the password reset in WP to fix this. I think either you can add this to your codex, or I can make a note at the bottom indicating some users will need to reset thier passwords, so maybe a mass email notifying users of the change will handle it. I don’t think there’s anything we can do with the converter to solve this.
Stephen,
I’m not sure what you mean by “Once bbPress core converter is updated we can filter the users imported”. I believe we need to add the ‘from_expression’ => ‘WHERE User.Deleted = 0’ back into the first user section, but if your saying the core converter can do it, how does the core know who’s deleted?
Also, is there a way we can check for the password type in the User table, and then if the type is not Vanilla, do something else? I didn’t dig into how you guys handle passwords you can’t convert, but I’m pretty sure a Facebook auth token will be one of those off cases. I would be happy to help test and work on this more to produce a finished product.
Jack,
You can try this one, it’s works for me. A couple notes, I didn’t finish the “Tags” section because I don’t have any tags in my Vanilla Forum. Also, I didn’t have any child Categories, but the converter “should” work for parent/child Categories. I also removed the code that excludes Deleted and Comment Email statuses, so those will get imported.
https://gist.github.com/4591432
I have a full test server setup however, and would happy to help tweak this converter so it works for you.
Stephen,
I think I made a couple tweaks to the Vanilla2 during final testing. Have you tested the version you have, or should I post my latest version?
More testing!
I’ve tested clearing W3TC and that seemed to have no effect.
Upgraded WP and bbP and that doesn’t seem to have any effect either.
One additional weird thing — when I moved the affected user to the “Participant” role for the forum, they couldn’t see ANYTHING. This seems like a separate issue, but felt I should mention it here. When they were set as forum role “Spectator”, the forum/topics displayed as usual (still missing the first post)
Hey guys,
So I’ve got a weird thing happening on my forums.
I create a test account, make a post, and it appears on the forum. But then I log out and it disappears! It won’t re-appear until I login with a user account (any user account).
Weird huh? Any idea whats happening?
My forum: http://thecashlab.com/forum/
Guys,
Have a question.. I have the latest bbpress installed and I can see my forum and posts in the frontend on my website but I can`t see the forum/post/topics/replys in the admin back end.. So I can`t edit or do anything much. very strange.. anybody know what could be wrong? Have the latest version of WP and Pagelines
Thank you in advance
