[TheSeoGuy]

http://www.claverton-energy.com – running WordPress since 2008. In Dec 2012 I was asked to rebuild it, enhance its features, including installation of bbPress / BuddyPress etc.

PROBLEM: an item I have not been able to solve is that users with Admin access can log in, but cannot access the default Admin page. However, they are able to use the Edit option when viewing a page whilst logged in.

I’ve read through numerous forum posts on WordPress.org and other sites, and tried solutions others have found, but have not solved the problem. Some ‘solutions’ have created additional setbacks! Trying to force a database upgrade resulted in all user’s passwords ceasing to work, requiring manual resets via MySQL… 🙂

Over the past month;
– the site has been successively upgraded to 3.5.0 and then to 3.5.1
– wp-admin / wp-includes directories have been replaced with fresh copies to eliminate possibility of a corrupt file
– wp-config has been replaced with latest version
– Database “repair” run from Cpanel
– checked for “curly” quotes in user meta-data
– site used standard wp_ table prefixes
– disk space is not an issue
– max memory use test shows +80mb which seems ok
– directory / file permissions are 755 / 644 respectively throughout

And yet, the problem persists…

An additional / presumably related issue: whilst the Super Admin can access all WP Admin areas, including plugin sub-pages. However, the BackupBuddy plugin does NOT show the menu subpages, and entering the URL for those gives that same “you don’t have permissions to access that page” error! Deactivating & deleting it and adding it back via FTP does not resolve that problem.

NB: The underlying problem pre-dates the rebuild, the site now runs:
– BuddyPress / and the Buddy theme,
– Quick Cache
– Stop Spammer Registrations & Confirm User Registration plugin
– User Spam Remover
– Wordfence security
– BuddyPress backup

Any suggestions on how to solve our “permissions” issues would be greatly appreciated.

Regards
Ben

[m1000]

Hi,

I want to display recent 5 topics on the sidebar so I used bbp_has_topics() loop but I don’t know how to display only 5 posts. On the forums I have 20 topics per page.

[Mitesh Patel]

Same problem here as well.

What’s more, this is a problem on testbp.org as well! Although on testbp.org the ‘discussion’ page correctly gets the current_page_parent class, it fails when you go to any forum or topic page. The ‘support’ menu item on both buddypress.org and bbpress.org remains highlighted no matter where you are in forums area.

So my question would be, how did they set-up forums on bbpress.org and buddypress.org? I searched high and low – everywhere, but failed to find a solution. What are we doing wrong? IS it a wp_nav_menu specific problem or with bbpress?

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2204

[Stephen Edgar]

Looks like the conversion hangs around 13,000 replies …. I have about 20,000 more to go. It definitely slows down near the end.

If it hangs and appears that nothing is progressing, click ‘stop’, wait a minute to give your webhost a moment to finish anything it might be doing, click ‘start’ and it should resume from where it left off. Take note of the step and count of where it was up to so after importing you can check that for example all replies between 13,400 & 13,499 have indeed been imported.

However, the posts that do end up getting converted look beautiful.

Cool, took a while to get to this point but quite satisfied with the results.

My only guess is the scrubbing process is taking a lot more resources than before this beta version? Any insights would be much appreciated

There have been no changes to the actual converter, only the importer. Granted that the import now imports more phpBB fields than it did previously but this should make only a small increase to the SQL query performance.

As each topic or reply is imported it is parsed with ~30 regex strings to convert the BBCodes, I haven’t done any benchmarks but presumably this has some impact.

My base phpBB database import I have used for the past 6 months to test with is around ~6000 topics and 30,000 replies and I haven’t really noticed much of an impact during what I would say has been ~100 imports.

Also, I’ve noticed that there seems to be only two levels of hiearchy that gets converted … Categories and 1 level of forums below that. Nested forums within forums in phpbb don’t get pulled in? It’s okay for me either way because i’ll modify my forum structure before importing them.

That should work fine, I tested things to a depth of 4 with a forums hierarchy based on the ‘‘nested set model’.

[mance]

Whenever I create a post in a forum and add a web link, the link disappears (as does the text enclosed in the tags) from the post.

See here for example http://c3wales.org/forums/topic/test/

The site is WP 3.5.1, BBpress is 2.2.4
Theme is convention by WPZoom

Thanks

[Stephen Edgar]

@Lynq,

I just sent you a pull request over at GitHub and updated all the things.

• Update to latest bbPress r4754 code changes

• Added README.md
• Updated bbpress-functions.php
• Updated bbpress.css
• Added custom CSS changes to bbpress-rtl.css
• Removed unused templates

bbPress r4754 is at this stage bbPress 2.3 Beta 2 and I am pretty sure any other changes we make before releasing 2.3 won’t affect any of what I just updated.

There are no changes to your code, just the bbPress updates to the latest version available.

[ssmedia]

Hi,

I’m having a very strange problem with bbpress.

I’m using the lastest version of WordPress and bbpress and I created a super stick topic. These are just rules and guidelines so I closed it to replies. I can see it in the category forum page such as this (http://causepages.com/sw/forum/health-insurance-finance/) when logged in as a user but when I actually click into it, it’s not shown. (I just get my sidebar).

Can anyone help with this please?

[jessecarllane]

I did search this forum for an answer with no luck. Some user named “anonymous” posted spam about snoring on my ElectricityClub.org forum. No such user to delete! My admin account sees no way to delete the post either! The forum settings have the anonymous setting unchecked like it should be. I have all the latest updated plugs. How to I get rid of the current user and post and prevent such intrusions in the future?

[steilenhang]

I will be upgrading as soon as possible, no doubt.

I am setting up a test site right now, hopefully that works 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

I would look updating whatever it is holding you back from upgrading to WordPress 3.5.1 for the security fixes 3.4 & 3.5 have introduced at a bare minimum.

That said give it a try on a test site and if that works use the builtin WordPress Import/Export tool to export all the forums, topics & replies and then import them https://codex.wordpress.org/Importing_Content#WordPress

[Phill]

Hi Lynq,

I tried adding that first code from pastbin to my homepage box which is supposed to show the latest 5 topics from our bbpress forums – unfortunately it’s not showing anything. Is there something else that needs to be added?

[steilenhang]

I am still using 3.3.1. I can upgrade to 3.4, but thats it.

However, I could set up a Wp 3.5.1 testsite on another domain and try to import the forum there. If it works I can move the tables from that database to the current one. If I knew what tables to move. I know posts and replys are a wp_posts and wp_postsmeta, but I guess there is more information somewhere?

[Shashank Shekhar]

Hello, I am using lates bbpress 2.2.4 plugin with wordpress 3.5.1, php 5.4.3 & php 5.3.2.
This plugin is showing me many issues specially for user pages (profile, edit, etc.)
I am using twenty twelve theme, very little customized.

1) I wanted to set a different sidebar for bbpress forum pages than other wordpress pages, so I checked and found the default template used by bbpress is ‘page.php’. I copied it, renamed to ‘forum.php‘ and added a new dynamic sidebar and commented default sidebar. It worked fine and now I can set any widget to this sidebar. I have checked that either I place ‘forum.php’ or ‘forums.php’ both working fine similar. Not sure which one is more correct.

2) On the bbpress users pages the profile content and edit form is not displaying full in widht cutting as its width overridden by sidebar, breaking layout. The content area ‘primary’ div is given a width in theme and having ‘secondary’ as sidebar. All other contents properly adjusted on every bbpress pages, but only this bbpress user profile edit page have the issue. The form should also be adjusted within the content area. Ex. url: http://mysite.com/forums/users/testuser/edit

3) Now, suppose to fix the issue mentioned above in point 3), I want to remove sidebar from users pages and give the primary content area more full width, how I can do it? One way is to forcibly hide the sidebar with css and make primary content wider with !important. But I want a way to change user pages template. Is it possible to have different template for user pages than bbpress other pages? I found that users pages also generating using ‘page.php’, in my case ‘forum.php’ template now. I tried alot by copying and changing ‘page.php’ to ‘user.php’, ‘users.php’, etc. but its not working. Please let me know how can I set user pages to use a different template file and rest bb pages use my forum.php or forums.php whatever.

4) For any user when I click ‘topic started’ or ‘replies created’ link, both show counts properly but the table didn’t appear. I checked in firebug, it present there but hidden somehow. Same issue mentioned here http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/profile-topics-or-replies-posts-not-being-displayed/ , I tried with the same thing, but till now no proper solution there. Please let me know proper way to fix it.

5) If suppose I want to completely hide the user-profile links on all bbpress forum/topic authors, on all bb pages, I mean want to display only author gravatars and usernames but want no link on them, so other people cannot go to their profile pages, how can I do that? A little help given here http://forum.graphene-theme.com/graphene-support/show-the-author-but-hide-its-link, but its not working properly. But I think it can be done with right filters in the same way. Please let me know with sample code.

6) Used the official facebook plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/facebook/ , and displayed the like button, like box for my facebook page using it in my site footer, header etc. But I found that on the user pages like edit profile, profile view etc. facebook widgets are completely disabled and not visible. On other bbpress forum pages they are displaying well. I checked with page source and found even facebook sdk is not embeded in page source. Their must be an conflict on bbpress user pages with facebook sdk which stopping it to be enqueued. This need to be checked and fixed.

These all issues mentioned here are serious issues with bbpress specially for user pages and must be solved and have proper solutions.
I dont expect from a single person to answer or fix all of above points, but hope different people will help me for different points (just mentioning points in their replies).

Further I expect from bbpress authors to work on these issues and release a fixed version. May be some of above points just because of lack some documentation, so they can mention some solution in its FAQ itself, so people having same problems can get help without searching or posting here in forum.

—
Thanks
Shashank

[LaurenceAtFree]

For people like me new to php this is how to make a plugin with John’s code :
paste this code in an editor and save the file as teenybb.php :
<?php

/*/
Plugin Name: Teenywithbb
Plugin URI: https://bbpress.org/
Description: Enable Teeny Mce in bbpress
Version: 1.0.1
Author: John James Jacoby
Author URI: https://bbpress.org/
/*/
function foo( $args = array() ) {
$args['teeny'] = false;
return $args;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_after_get_the_content_parse_args', 'foo' );

copy this file in your plugin directory where you usually copy other plugins.
You can see the plugin named Teenywithbb in wordpress you juste have to active it.
and then you have tinyMCE Advdaced as editor in bbpress 2.2. 🙂

[Erlend]

I’m not asking for something that’ll work out of the box. Some pointers on what pieces of code to look at to have a go at this ourselves would go a really long way. Same goes for excluding forums and topics from default index.

[chevymanusa]

Hello All,
I am looking for a way to disable users from changing their names from within the bbpress interface (/profile/edit/group/1/). This is located on the page where they choose a forum signature. I do not mind if they have a forum signature. However, I would like to prevent them form changing their name.

The site is currently running wordpress 3.5.1, buddy press 2.2.3 and is on a local test machine.

I did some searching on google and the on this site and was unable to find an answer to this question. If I missed it please let me know and my apologies in advance if this in the wrong area.

Thank you in advance for your help!

Regards,
Chevman

[steilenhang]

I got this strange inport failure on my site all of a sudden. I am trying to move from old bbpress to the latest. I did this once before, but had to wait for a while until some functions where sorted out. Now it’s all set and I tried again. The forums were reset, but deleting the conversion table sometimes fails. I don’t know what that means, but anyhow. The inport did just fine until it got stuck half way in the replys. I tried to stop and restart, but I couldn’t get it to run any further.

So then I reset and tried again. Now it keeps inporting the first topic over and over again. It never moves on. What happened? I tried everything. I even tried removing that first topic from the old forum. It now inports the next one, over and over again.

If I try to “Purge all information from a previously attempted import” it gladly starts to remove old data, but it never stops! It removes data a little to quick to be true, and it goes on for ever “deleting” far more rows than I have ever inported.

Something is completely wrong here, and I don’t have a clue 🙁 Someone please help me! I am getting pretty frustrated here..

[Elliswin]

Hi there everyone, I have installed bbpress on my wp site, I installed Version 2.2.4 and the version of my WP is 3.5.1 the theme im using is reviewit. my website is winfamilysurvival.co.uk

I am testing the bbpress forum at the moment but ive not made pages public yet, I’m ok with creating forums and topics and all is well whilst editing these elements, however when it comes to reading the posts/forums I get a white background to the posts and the and forum menu areas with the text in posts being white, and most of the text in the menus white too, I have looked everywhere but cant find a setting to change this, can someone please help me out, I have mingle forum up and running of the site at present and the only reason I am changing is because I want the users to integrate into my forum and not have to add them manually.

Im running a competition on my site at present that relies on the forum so I was hoping to migrate this one over to the forum but I just need to solve this issue and im away.

[Hammy Havoc]

Hey there,

Just a quick question that has been baffling me for two weeks. Whenever anyone visits a user profile, it is blank, any idea why this is? I’m trying to integrate bbPress into a YOOtheme.
You can see an example of what I mean here on the test site: http://kaz.splitanatom.com/forums/user/hammy

Thank you so much in advance for your help,
Hamual

[moebis]

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). @johnjamesjacoby was right, it looks like they started building this functionality into bbpress and so-far it works. The only thing left to do, is maybe make it display a little more intuitively (I’ll continue to work on that), and on the buddypress side allow sub forum posts to be added to the activity feed of the group it belongs to. I was wrong before, sub forum topic posts do not show up on group activity feed, but I think I’ve already isolated the code to fix that.

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.

This is how the forums in groups looks now (you can see all topics from the group forum and the bbpress sub forum of that group forum). Also, the post box has a drop-down select to chose the forum or sub-forum to post to:

[moebis]

@johnjamesjacoby – This actually almost completely works within the current trunks of bbpress and buddypress, even the activity feed of subforums looks and works correctly within the group. The only bug is somewhere in the display of the forum tab in the group, I assume because it’s not expecting a subforum, which is why it doesn’t display the parent forum, which is also the group forum. I confirmed this by creating another subgroup (so 1 parent, and 2 child), and it will only display the latest forum/subforum created within the group and ignore the older 2 (the parent and first created subfourm). I will play around with the source code to see where it’s generating the group forum display and make a code suggestion if you would like. It’s probably just querying the bbpress tables for a forum associated with the group and whichever shows last in the table is what the display generates. It’s smart enough to already calculate all of the topics in all forums and sub-forums, so it’s about 90% of the way there. I think because bbpress and buddypress are partitioned so well, this might not be an issue, it’s almost feature complete in this regard, and I know the community has been clambering for this functionality for a very long time. Most end up turning to the hierarchy plugin, which really isn’t the long term solution. Is it possible to get this into 1.7, which is so close to release? If so, I’ll work out a quick solution, that is future proof and can be expanded on in future versions.

[Richtpt]

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!

[Erlend]

@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?

[matrixd]

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

[Erlend]

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!