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
@wdfee Wow – I am SOO glad I stumbled across this y’day – as I was having the EXACT same issue related to the inability to post/create new (forum) topics within buddypress groups after I migrated all the group forums to bbpress 2.2.3.
My config is WP 3.5 multisite, bbPress 2.2.3, BuddyPress 1.6.3, using bp-default theme &/or Genesis Agency w/ Genesis Connect.
It was driving me bonkers trying to comprehend what could be wrong. Regardless, I de-activated bbpress on the root site (site 1), & re-activated bbpress ‘sitewide’ and now I can post new topics w/ buddypress group forums. Like you, I could always create new topics for group forums via the back-end & from the front-end via the sitewide forums, but the front-end was a no-go (w/in the actual group-forum) until I activated bbpress sitewide. As a test, I created a multisite ‘from scratch’ installation (WP 3.5 multisite, bbPress 2.2.3, BuddyPress 1.6.3, using bp-default theme) & activated both buddypress & bbpress from site 1 (root) and everything works 100% as expected from the start. I still don’t 100% understand the nature of this sol’n, but I’ll take it for now!
Anyways, THANKS for posting this, as this forum thread was the tipping point to get a major [buddypress x bbpress] open-innovation project launched ‘only x1 month late’ √
Hello,
I am trying to display the telephone number of members in the members directory. I already tried
echo bp_member_profile_data(‘field=Phone Number’);
But for some reason it is still not working. Any advise on what could be done?
Have the latest version of BP/WP installed.
Thanks
Lucky
Hi guys I am trying to list the 3 freshest bbpress topics from a specific forum. How Can I do that?
This is my code for displaying latest 3 topics from bbpress (not specific forum):
get_results("SELECT post_title, guid, post_date, post_type, post_modified, post_type from wp_posts where post_type LIKE 'topic' && post_type LIKE 'topic' ORDER by post_date DESC limit 3","ARRAY_N");
if ($forumslist)
{
foreach ($forumslist as $row)
{
echo '<li><a href="'.$row[1].'" rel="nofollow">'.$row[0].'</a>'.date('F d, Y', strtotime($row[2])).'</li>';
}
}
else
echo 'Error fetching data';
?>
Now I would like to get the most fresh topics under a certain parent. So I know I can do something like:
$forumslist1 = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT post_title, guid, post_date, post_modified, post_type, post_parent from wp_posts where post_type LIKE 'topic' && post_parent LIKE '1263' ORDER by post_modified DESC limit 3","ARRAY_N");
but how can I order those by freshness? You can see I tried to order them by post_modified but I didnt have luck there…
So I need to know how to get the freshest topics…
Thanks,
Mario
Thanks for replying @destroflyer
We use 2.0.3 and can’t upgrade yet until we work out theme issues. The latest BBpress completely breaks our theme and makes the site un-usable. We’re working on a new theme but I was hoping I could get these to work without it.
Try your plugins
— disable all of them except your theme and your bbpress plugin.
for me it was plugin – “Frontpage category filter”
“This plugin allows you to choose which post categories youe site will show on the homepage. Just go to settings and deselect the categories that you want to hide.
Version 1.0.2 | By Cristian Merli ”
Once I deactivated I went one by one – ok sometimes two by two and isolated that plug-in which I need so I will try and find a workaround or another plugin that will not break bbpress. Would like to continue testing bbpress.. have looked at others and yes they work – but this version of bbpress is so far working with my thesis theme.
As long as that plugin is off.
J. Christopher
Hi.
I downloaded the latest file from the link that you provided above, put it in the folder `/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converters` but I couldn’t import my old Mingle forum into bbPress.
When I click start button I get this:
Repair any missing information: Continue
Conversion Complete
No replies to convert
No tags to convert
No topics to convert
No forum parents to convert
No forums to convert
Starting Conversion
The settings which I tried as below:
Select Platform: Mingle
Database Server: My host IP
Database Port: 3306
Database Name: My database name
Database User: My database user name
Database Password: My database password (which I use to login to phpMyAdmin)
Table Prefix: The prefix that used in my database.
Can you please help me?
Thanks in advance.
We will have to go down that route for now as the phpBB import has a similar issue and at the moment the docs state to manually delete these after import.
We can look into why the converter isn’t doing joins correctly on the user table for future versions as if we changed to much there now I am quite sure we would break other stuff and would have very little time to test this at this stage.
Thats great news, would you mind adding a comment to that ticket #2155 in trac with details of your setup and results from your testing.
O.M.G I have finally come across the solution to my problem! Well I have only tested it in my local environment a couple of times and the issue has gone away so hopefully it’s fixed for good!
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2155
The solution was to change the `bbp_redirect_to_field()` function. I changed this function located in bbpress\includes\common\template-tags.php and the redirects now work!
Thanks bbPress team =)
Modified function:
`function bbp_redirect_to_field( $redirect_to = ” ) {
// Make sure we are directing somewhere
if ( empty( $redirect_to ) ) {
if ( isset( $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’] ) ) {
$redirect_to = ( is_ssl() ? ‘https://’ : ‘http://’ ) . $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’] . $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’];
} else {
$redirect_to = wp_get_referer();
}
}
// Remove loggedout query arg if it’s there
$redirect_to = (string) esc_attr( remove_query_arg( ‘loggedout’, $redirect_to ) );
$redirect_field = ”;
echo apply_filters( ‘bbp_redirect_to_field’, $redirect_field, $redirect_to );
}`
Today when i tested my websites for flaws i saw that the visual editor box text color had changed into white instead of black. This made the text invisible unless you highlighted the written text.
When i did some research on how to change it i saw that this problem goes back years.
Most forum threads didn’t even got solved.
I have found a simple solution for this problem.
When i checked my source code i saw that the visual editor .css was located in public-html/wp-includes/css/editor.min.css
Call it a lucky guess but when i searched for ‘white’ it got me to this part of the code:
wp-editor-area{color:black}
I changed it into wp-editor-area{color:white} and this solved my problem.
I hope this helps allot of frustrated people!.
