[Jarret]

Hard to say exactly, I see that you are using a caching plugin so that could cause potential issues. The fact that you also moved over from vBulletin could be causing another issue of course.

I can’t access your Cafe section due to it being private but I could access the test post that you made so I could see that at least. How soon after a new post would that old post show up again?

[JenniferNM]

In our cafe, newer posts will show up, then somehow it keeps reverting back to a post that’s 35 days old, by the same person!

I finally just added a test reply to her post, so it would stop.

It’s only happening in the forum.

We just ported the whole thing over from vBulletin to bbpress and are obviously still working out the kinks.

[Miniflowers]

Hi, I’m Jen’s business partner. It’s for our forum, but seems like it may only be affecting one of our forums. OF course it’s the forum that has the most topics and posts. Jen just posted a “test post” to see how long it stays.

[JenniferNM]

The only other problem we’re having is that the front page doesn’t always show the latest post. Sometimes it does, then sometimes it goes back to a post that’s over a month old.

We can’t figure it out and it’s affecting participation, because then it seems like it’s dead in there, when there’s really new activity. Any ideas?

[Jarret]

You’re going to have to FTP into your site in order to get to the file that you need to modify. The file that you need to modify is located under wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten/bbpress which is one level lower than what you can access through the admin in WP.

Once you are inside the /bbpress directory explained above you’ll need to open loop-single-forum.php and follow the directions I posted in my first reply to you.

Unfortunately the plugin is only designed to work with bbPress 2.1 which currently is still in testing which is why it isn’t working for you. Was it working fine before the re-install today?

[stuartmchugh]

Just installed the bbpress 2.02 plugin on my site which is WP v3.3.1 – seemed to work ok but on trying to create a new topic (on the site i.e. as a user would) I get the following:

“Fatal error: Call to undefined function akismet_test_mode() in /mypath/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-extend-akismet.php on line 350”

Not really too sure of the etiquette or whatever of posting links or code but I though this was such a show-stopper that someone else would have come across it – but nothing to be found here or elsewhere… I am also aware that ‘test mode’ may be a major clue, but to what I really don’t know…

Thanks for any advice

S

[softechnos]

Hey Guys,

I am using the latest version of bbpress and I want to stop users to create topics.

[Milan Petrovic]

GD bbPress Tools is a new free plugin for bbPress 2.0/2.1 for WordPress. Currently adds these new features:

* BBCode shortcodes support

* Quote Reply or Topic

* User signature with BBCode and HTML support

* Additional custom views

* Basic topics search results view

* Toolbar menu integration

* Limit bbPress admin side access

Plugin supports BBCodes based on the phpBB implementation. Right now, plugin has 30 BBCodes. Latest plugin version is 1.2:

http://www.dev4press.com/2012/blog/plugins-news/gd-bbpress-tools-1-2-0/

[Milan Petrovic]

Plugin has been updated many times, and latest version is 1.8:

http://www.dev4press.com/2012/blog/plugins-news/gd-bbpress-attachments-1-8/

Milan

[New Joerg]

I am experiencing exactly the same problem. I’ve set up wordpress (3.3.2 de) one or two weeks ago, bbpress last sunday. But I’ve nothing migrated.

In the role of a webmaster I can view and edit everything in the forum. During the first tests I changed the visibility to private and back. As a contributor I can only post a new entry. But I can’t even view my own posts. This was on the first day. I deactivated bbpress.

Today I reactivated bbpress. Forums and posts seemed to have gone. I set up a new forum and moved the old posts (topics) to it. With/without allowing anonymus posting everything worked fine for the contributor’s role.

But after setting the visibility to “private” (later to “hidden”) and than back to “public” the same error occurs: contributors can see the forum from the outside but none of the topics/posts.

http://zukunft-stadtbahn.de/forums/forum/redaktionsbesprechung/

Anonymous posting is not allowed, visibility is public

We need to have an internal forum for the contributors to discuss our articles before publishing them.

Who can help? Thanks in advance

Jörg

[shawnkelshaw]

I have a host of problems and not sure really where to begin. Normally, I’d simply try uninstalling the bbpress plugin, but I only get all the same settings and experiences back when I try to start over. Here’s a few of the problems I’ve got:

1.) We’d like to use the New Site Wide Forums option (vs Forums for Groups). My first question is this an either or scenario or do you have to use the Forums for Groups? I always have a “Use Existing” option for Groups and there is no uninstall button available. When I install the Site Wide and return back to the buddypress forums tab, it still reflects the Groups…

2.) Regardless of the option selected above, I can not get a Forum page to display…I only get 404. Yes. I’ve created a Test Forum instance and I’m using the “View” option to check it out. 404 error. (it is published and public, I’m logged in as admin)

If I were to try deleting the tables from the database, uninstalling the plugin and manually removing all server side files, would that help to start over? If so, what tables get removed??

Thanks in advance.

s

[kennymcnett]

I considered Buddypress, but it’s way more robust than what I’m needing, and installing it was breaking my custom theme (jquery conflict somewhere).

Thanks for looking at this.

For anyone else out there, here’s my solution for restricting bbPress access using s2member. In short, this checks if the current user has access to the most distant ancestor of the current page. For example:

Level 1 Forum/Category > Subforum1 > Subcategory > Subforum2 > Current Topic

No matter which page they arrive at in the tree, they must have access via s2member to the top-most level. Then it’s a simple matter of assigning a ccap to that Forum, or a membership level.

1. Include the following in your functions.php file

2. Include a call to the function in EACH of your bbPress template files BEFORE the template calls for the forum content. Match the HTML structure of the error message to suit your theme. You need to include closing tags for any open divs.

3. Test!

/******* bbPress Forum Access *******/

function checkForumAccess() {

if(get_post_type() == 'forum' OR get_post_type() == 'topic' OR get_post_type() == 'reply') { // check if user is viewing a forum page. If so, continue.

//check if they have access to the top-most parent forum/category (both are Pages in wordpress). If not, show the error verbiage. If they have access, continue and show the content like normal

$parent = array_reverse(get_post_ancestors($post->ID)); // get an array of all the parent pages in order from most distant to closest.

$first_parent = get_page($parent[0]); //get the first page in the array, which is the most distant parent

$int = apply_filters(‘the_ID’, $first_parent->ID); //filter the $first_parent to get only the wordpress page/post ID, which is an integer like 49 or 565. store it as a variable $int

if (!is_page_permitted_by_s2member($int)) { // this is an s2member function. Check if the current user can access the $first_parent, via the stored page/post ID in the $int variable

// here comes your custom error message. Remember to escape any apostrophes

echo ‘

<div>

<h1 class=”entry-title”>Sorry!</h1>

<div class=”entry-content”>

<p>It looks like you don’t have access to this forum.</p>

<p>If this is an error and you should have access, please contact us here: (contact URL)

</div>

</div><!–.postWrapper–>

</div><!– #content –>

</div><!– #contentWrapper –>

</div><!– #primary –>

‘;

get_sidebar();

get_footer();

exit; // Important. This prevents the rest of the page (the secure forum content) from displaying

}

}

}

[cavenewt]

I’ve spent a couple of hours looking without much result, so I will ask the question.

My bbpress standalone 1.0.2 forum was using Human Test quite successfully up until last week, when it mysteriously quit working. It thinks everybody is a nonhuman. The few spam posts that appeared I did not mind deleting manually, then I would manually delete that user also.

Now I am getting about 50 new registrations every night (normally I get zero to one per day). Not a lot of spam posts, oddly enough.

So next I tried Akismet. It boasted that it was blocking 25 spams a night. But there is nowhere to check these spams–really? An email to the Akismet folks got me the reply that they don’t have a clue where bbpress stores spams.

I would much rather block registrants than posts. Does bbpress 2.x have any protective measures built in, or are there any good plugins? Does 2.x play nicer with Akismet?

[Sniper Kitten]

I recently noticed that when I try to start a topic or posting a reply, it’s taking about 30+ second before the topic/reply is show up. If you try to tell me there may be a “bad plugin” and try to disable all of it except bbPress, save it. I have tried the following:

1. Using different browser.

I find out that when I try to use Firefox 12.0 to post, it’s loading extremely slow. But this is not happening in Internet Explorer 9 or Google Chrome 18.

Try to start Firefox in safe mode? Yes I have tried to do that but it doesn’t make a difference.

2. Using different user/computer.

It’s still the same.

3. Try to post a comment in a normal post.

I was able to comment a post without any problems, so I think it may be a “bad plugin” problem.

4. Disable all plugin (except bbPress & BuddyPress)

But the same thing happen. FYI I don’t edit either the bbPress or BuddyPress files.

5. Using different theme.

I replace my modified custom community theme with BuddyPress Default theme and see if I putting bad codes in my theme. But this doesn’t solve problem even I tried other themes.

6. Change permalink structure.

It doesn’t make any changes, and I don’t think it will help.

7. Reinstall WordPress, bbPress & BuddyPress

Still doesn’t make any changes.

8. Create a new install in another domain.

I use http://scirefs.com/ as my main and http://www.scirefs.org as a sandbox (with the same configuration as in SCIREFs.com) with only bbPress and BuddyPress activated. But everything works fine in SCIREFs.org with either bbPress 2.02 or 2.1 and I have no issue with Firefox 12.

9. The Cloudflare……

Since I have Cloudflare as my CDN for SCIREfs.com but not SCIREFs.org, I tried to remove SCIREFs.com from Cloudflare and add SCIREfs.org to it and see what happens. The result: The issue with Firefox at SCIREFs.com disappear but SCIREfs.org is now facing the old issue.

Do anyone here have any ideas what’s wrong with it? Or someone here is facing the same problem? This seems to be the first and the only problem I can’t figure it myself.

You can login to SCIREFs.org using the following information:

Username: demo

Password: demo

URL of the forums: http://www.scirefs.org/test-forums

And try to start a topic or post a reply using Firefox and see if it’s happening to you.

[Nishanm87]

In my forum when someone comment a topic the avatar picture(profile Picture) is going weird.see below link please

http://sden.adkdesign.co.uk/myforums/topic/test6-topics/

[Stephen Edgar]

Currently you have created a ‘parent’ forum called ‘forums’ and then added each of your forums (General, Humour, Bookshelf etc) as a ‘child’ of that parent.

If you remove the top level ‘forums’ forum you will achieve the outcome you are looking for.

To test this before deleting it go into each of your forums and in the ‘Forum Attributes’ change the ‘Parent’ to ‘No Parent’ and click update .

[Faisaal]

Dear good friends,

I installed the latest bbpress.2.0.2 into my arabic site and it fits OK but the english words like:

Forums ‹ Home

Forum

Topics

Posts

Freshness

are in English. My website is Arabic and would like to make it Arabic.

Here you can see my website after installing bbpress 2.0.2 to it:

http://jubailcompanies.com/?page_id=74

is there any way?

Thanks and good day to all of you.

[Jared Atchison]

I completely agree things could be improved.

I’m just not sure how much of that is on bbPress and how much of that is on Akismet.

On bbPress.org one of the major problems we run into is the majority of the spam is from human spammers – so no matter what reCaptcha/human test (etc) is in place they will get around this.

Some of the plugins (such as https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpressmoderation/) try to get around this where a user must have a previously approved post before their posts show up.

[Jeaz]

Hey,

For some reason, when I create a 6th forum under a category, it’s not shown. Posts from the forum still show up in latest posts widget and so on, but not in index anywhere.

[cavenewt]

I was using Human Test for 8 months on a standalone 1.0.2 forum and it worked fine for our small population (100 members). This week it suddenly stopped working and wouldn’t let anyone register.

I tried to post a comment over in the bbpress Plugin Browser forum in the Human Test section, but I can’t post any comments over there, for some reason, despite being logged in.

So I turned on Akismet which claimed it blocked 24 spams the first night, and counted 9 Hams. What the heck is Ham? And there appears to be no way to review the spams to check for false positives?

Plus, I got 60 new registrants in 8 hours, and Akismet appears to do nothing to mark the spammers. Their web site is kinda skimpy on bbpress details, though I have sent a message to Tech Support.

I don’t have an associated blog.

Will upgrading to bbpress 2 make the spam situation any better?

[cavenewt]

I was using Human Test for 8 months on a standalone 1.0.2 forum and it worked fine for our small population (100 members). This week it suddenly stopped working and wouldn’t let anyone register.

I tried to post a comment over in the bbpress Plugin Browser forum in the Human Test section, but I can’t post any comments over there, for some reason, despite being logged in.

So I turned on Akismet which claimed it blocked 24 spams the first night, and counted 9 Hams. What the heck is Ham? And there appears to be no way to review the spams to check for false positives?

Plus, I got 60 new registrants in 8 hours, and Akismet appears to do nothing to mark the spammers. Their web site is kinda skimpy on bbpress details, though I have sent a message to Tech Support.

I don’t have an associated blog.

Will upgrading to bbpress 2 make the spam situation any better?

[Dave953]

I’m building a site focused around bbpress 2.x. My users don’t Blog.

When users click on Avatars or the User name in the forums they have been getting “Page Not Found”, EXCEPT for the Admin. And from further testing, I’ve concluded that unless a user makes a Blog post, their Activity Profiles cannot be found.

This maybe old news, or just due to the way this Newbie put the site together, but my search of the bbpress forums only turned up requests for help with this problem, but no answers.

If there is another solution to making forum users Activity Profiles ‘visible’, I’d appreciate learning how to do so.

[benrainir]

Hi, im testing bbpress. thanks

Bla

Bla

Ok! Good Bye!

[cavenewt]

I’ve been using Human Test successfully for 8 months with bbpress standalone 1.0.2. Today it stopped working, accusing all registrants that they are a bot.

I tried to leave a comment over in the Plugins forum in the Human Test topic, but I can’t post a comment there; clicking Add Comment does nothing.

What’s up with bbpress all of sudden?

[baldg0at]

Just checking to see if anyone can answer my latest 2 questions.

Thanks