[jangles]

Some constructive criticism, if I may.

I’ve read about a tremendous interest in using bbpress as a viable forum option. I want to start by saying I’ve been involved in open source for over 15 years myself and the work and dedication here is very admirable (remembering ROI.) People such as myself would be willing to put in some time and effort to make this project work but there are some fundamental things lacking here that give me cause for concern in using bbpress. Virtually all forums I see using are either (a) the most basic customer support, nothing long term discussion/community based, or (b) amateurish sites set up that are chop shop and will be down in a few months. It doesn’t have to be that way. Couple of things:

1. If it’s not relatively easy, simple or clear to theme bbpress, few will ever use it. Fewer will design themes for it too. And if there isn’t at least a decent, comprehensible system, nobody will use a plugin if it just typically looks like another ratcheted in plugin. Hopefully, this is not the case.

2. Organization here is a mess. I go to plugins and I see listings from 5 years ago and the top. It’s not easy to figure out what is what here. Documentation is incomplete and I remember having a terrible time installing it too – and I’m not a novice. This is the easy part that scares away many potential users.

3. Sometimes simple is too simple. Some things should be standard. For example, nobody wants to have to scroll down to the bottom of the page just to post a reply. That’s just one issue that leaped out at me. Sometimes less is just less.

4. No clear vision here, e.g. the latest blog entry is November 28 2011 and this place feels half deserted. It doesn’t have to be that way.

5. There needs to be an easier way to navigate the forums on this site. I could care less about a long list of tags I’ll rarely use. I do want that short list of forums in the sidebar or somewhere so I don’t have to click my way back to the home page.

Just a few pointers. I like this project, would love to consider using it for a large site but the ghost town effect is putting me off a little.

[veppa]

If you want different sidebar to be displayed instead of blog sidebar in your theme then you can use this plugin that replaces your blog sidebar with forum specific sidebar.

On forum sidebar you can list forums, login box or login and register links, latest topics. While on blog you would list latest posts, categories, pages etc.

Also you can select default forum wrapper using this plugin.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-wp-tweaks/

Also you can use it to display login link for not logged in user. usually bbpress will say you need to login and not display link or form for login.

[Mattchewone]

I have just installed the BBpress plugin for the latest version of WordPress. I cannot see the reply or post new topic functions. I searched the docs on here and it says I need to do a ‘user role map’ but I cannot find this. I have looked through WP Settings > Forums and this is the BBpress settings but there is nothing for user role map. I cannot see where it would be else where.

Any help is great, thanks!

Matt

[Anointed]

With your level of expertise that you are describing, definitely use the front-end to import the users. It’s slow, but of course it will work.

Passwords are a combination md5 + salt, and are rather complicated to automate. Once again, bbconverter does this rather elegantly.

Pretty much the fastest way possible really is to write a custom script, and if it were me, I’d base it off of bbconverter. If that is beyond your scope, then I wouldn’t bother as by the time you get it figured out, you would probably be done anyhow

If you are talking a huge amt of users, then consider contacting AWJunkies over at bbconverter for a custom quote for the job. He’s a top notch pro at this stuff. He’s not cheap, but then again he’s about as great a coder as you could ever hope to find.

[SK]

I tried what you suggested.

At my forums root http://klymene.net/forums/ you will see 2 forums listed – English and Hindi. You will also see that there is an indication of some content under English.

If you click on English http://klymene.net/forums/forum/english no topics are listed.

On top of page, you will see error message

Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 1 in .../wp-includes/class-wp.php on line 201

Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 1 in .../wp-includes/class-wp.php on line 202

You can go directly to http://klymene.net/forums/topic/test and see the topic which should be under the English forum. Topic actions like Reply are absent though.

On top of page, you will see error

Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 1 in .../wp-includes/class-wp.php on line 201

Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 1 in .../wp-includes/class-wp.php on line 202

P.S. In Settings > Permalinks, the setting is

/%postname%.html

[purkleturkle]

Hello, I would like to create users in bulk is this possible with just bbpress i.e. is there a plugin.

I have tried to created a csv and imported into PHPMYADMIN and all the data is populated (example below) but when I go into bbpress users to look what has imported it says “Inactive (no role)” next to the user. Is it possible to assign the users a role and where is this stored?

Also how does the user_pass string work or is this where I am going to get stuck?

ID,user_login,user_pass,user_nickname,user_email,user_url,user_registered,user_status,display_name

22,testuser,$P$BQHywh8ariE18rJg0h8preaPL1dd3x2,testuser,testuser@mail.com,http://www.website.com,2010-03-15 00:00:00,0,testuser

[rpetersn]

I’m in a similar boat here…have a multisite install, installed bbpress plugin (2.0.2) and all worked fine for awhile, I changed gears to polish up the first phase of the project and now, the forum appears half-baked. The main forum page (/forums) shows the list of test forums, but each forum link appears to just use the page.php template…the install seems to have lost the bbpress templating. Seems like I’ve seen similar issues discussed here on the bbpress forum before…but no solution presented. Can anyone help? thx!

[LiveFreeOrDie]

I just upgraded wordpress to the latest version, then bbpress. This is my first time upgrading bbpress, and evidentially I did something wrong.

I receive this error:

Fatal error: Class ‘BBP_Theme_Compat’ not found in /home/username/public_html/wp-content/themes/daily/functions.php on line 501

I searched google and this site, and was unable to find any information. Where did I go wrong?

[Martin]

@tnwinn

Mate, the forum looks bloody great!

And I see the sue forums are displaying descriptions as well. How did you manage that? Is that due to using some latest bbPress version or something?

[OAEErra]

Hi guys. I know there’s an unread posts plugin for older versions of BBPress – and even BuddyPress – but not the latest version (BBPress 2.0).

I moved from SMF and since then i’ve learned users are not bothering with our forums as this feature was used so frequently in their navigation habits.

Is there any way of adding this functionality?

[indivio]

I am on the latest WordPress and I installed the new bbpress plugin.

I created a forum. I made it private so that non-forum participants cannot see it.

I created a test forum participant.

I logged into as the forum participant via another browser. The forum participant cannot see any of the forums at all. Unless I make it public.

(Sorry, I just realized this should be in the troubleshooting forum)

If I make it public, anyone can see the topics, which I do not want.

Is there a solution?

[Themes Community]

I have latest bbPress installation but I get different permalink not like what you said above.

Sample:

Page http://themescommunity.com/faqs/

Forum http://themescommunity.com/ forums/forum/faqs/ -> I don’t have faqs forum this is just a sample. See the “/forums/forum/” that make different url.

Buy you saying that your http://www.domain.com/gaming/ redirected to http://www.domain.com/forums/forum/gaming/

Can you provide more details about it, real url maybe. Does it related to your wp permalinks setup?

[Themes Community]

Before I answer, I have a bbPress forum site that create for some times and I don’t really make it public. So there is no other post than mine and team (and spam that i deleted already). I still manage others projects with other team.

1 – Are there any anti-spam measures on sign-up? (I just had to enter an email address to register here)

Yes, I use WangGuard and reCaptcha for bbPress 2.0

2 – Do you have to have wordpress already installed? (I was thinking of testing bbPress by itself first)

Yes, because bbPress is a plugin

3 – When you have wordpress installed, can it load in ‘latest posts from the forum’ in wordpress pages? Such as on category listing pages or actual blog posts.

Yes, sample:

Newest topics at http://themescommunity.com/newest-topics/

Newest post … no idea yet since I don’t need it for now.

4 – Is bbPress server efficient? vB has always been good on that front.

vB still the best choice if you want the best forum IMHO

5 – Is it easy to customise? The style I will want to port over is at http://www.gameslurp.com

Yes, but not the same. The feel maybe can be achieve by styles but not the features.

6 – Does bbPress track unread/new posts? So any new posts can be shown in bold on the forum listing page if they contain new posts since the last visit/page refresh?

Some modification needed, but no idea yet since I don’t even think about yet.

Hope satisfy your need, not much but that my little knowledge about bbPress that I can share. I believe others will answer more and detailed.

[Themes Community]

First latest bbPress don’t have custom theme, instead it (merge) using your WordPress theme. And off course you can edit how the way bbPress look by customize the styles of bbPress css but it will use your wp theme not your custom bbPress theme.

I believe bbPress theme that you download are for bbPress 1.x

[Themes Community]

To be the truth, there aren’t latest completed bbPress documentation except the code itself (along with description on each code or function).

Since you are programmer that already satisfy your need IMHO.

But I found a documentation at http://phpdoc.ftwr.co.uk/bbpress-plugin/

What I want is to personalize bbPress. For example, I want to show all posts, with a function to filter by user, area, etc… Is this possible ?

I think you can, but I’m not really sure since I haven’t do that yet.

[Razasharp]

Hi, I’m thinking about converting a vBulletin forum over to bbPress and have a few questions I hope someone can help with.

1 – Are there any anti-spam measures on sign-up? (I just had to enter an email address to register here)

2 – Do you have to have wordpress already installed? (I was thinking of testing bbPress by itself first)

3 – When you have wordpress installed, can it load in ‘latest posts from the forum’ in wordpress pages? Such as on category listing pages or actual blog posts.

4 – Is bbPress server efficient? vB has always been good on that front.

5 – Is it easy to customise? The style I will want to port over is at http://www.gameslurp.com

6 – Does bbPress track unread/new posts? So any new posts can be shown in bold on the forum listing page if they contain new posts since the last visit/page refresh?

Think that’s it for now – any input from people who have converted a vB forum would be great appreciated too.

[boriskourt]

Hello, I would like some feedback on a small issue I have been having where when the user submits their registration they are not notified that their form has been submitted successfully, rather the same page just reloads.

The data is submitted fine so the user gets an email. But I am not sure where to start with actually telling them that everything went right, or redirecting to a different page saying that their registration has been received and they should check their email.

I am using the latest version of wordpress and bbpress Plugin. The rest of the theme works fine, I am not using 2011, and have followed the instructions for turning my custom theme into a bbpress compatible theme. Just having this one issue now.

Thanks

[Hedgehog84]

Bump!

If my question is not clear, please let me know.

I’m running the latest version of both WordPress and bbPress (3.3.1 & 2.0.2).

[Themes Community]

I don’t really know it but you can use two browser while testing it. Use chrome when login as admin and firefox when testing a usual member.

And try your privilege configuration and testing it in both browser.

Be sure to resave permalinks, I don’t really know about it but sometime I need to re-save permalink and then I get what I want.

[Themes Community]

I have forum site that still under develop and not publicly announce yet and I already have some attacks.

I think it use ‘GD bbPress Attachments’ upload feature, and upload a php file. I believe that the plugins itself have great security feature that i will investigate later. But I have second layer security system using WordPress Firewall 2 that inform me as below via email. Here my latest attack

—

WordPress Firewall has detected and blocked a potential attack!

Web Page: ******.com//wp-content/plugins/1-flash-gallery/upload.php?action=uploadify&fileext=php

Warning: URL may contain dangerous content!

Offending IP: 178.137.166.*** [ Get IP location ]

Offending Parameter: $_FILE = index.bak.php

This may be a “Executable File Upload Attack.”

Click here for more information on this type of attack.

If you suspect this may be a false alarm because of something you recently did, try to confirm by repeating those actions. If so, whitelist it via the “whitelist this variable” link below. This will prevent future false alarms.

Click here to whitelist this variable.

Click here to turn off these emails.

Repeated warnings for similar attacks are currently sent via email, click here to suppress them.

—

An now I will do some full server check up, hope it clean. Tell me what you think..

[vatoloco2]

Hi everybody,

I just converted my phpbb3 forum to bbPress with these details:

topics: 1.290

posts: 25.800

members: 7.960

Now the really annoying part comes up. Anaylzing the source code with firebug I discovered the reason for the slow performance: There are too much queries executed! I disabled all plugins and removed all widgets (using bp-default together with bbpress / buddyPress). Still the amount of queries executed rises from 60 to 222 executions (forum view / topic index / reply) taking up to 3 seconds to execute.

I just went over to testbp.org/discussion and annalyzed the code seeing:

<i><!– Generated in 1.506 seconds. (184 q) –></i>

So looks like a normal behaviour. Tried also w3totalcache and that works fine for logged-out users but once I enable w3totalcache for logged-in users then I get strange outputs.

Does anyone have experience with a forum in the size stated above? It looks like I need to get a fully cached bbpress working to consider switching to bbpress but after spending days of work to convert and design the new website I am afraid that I will get stuck now.

If someone here has experience then please give me a shout! I really would like to use the wp / bbpress / buddypress combo but the slow performance won’t let me use it for now.

[Themes Community]

First you should disable all plugins manually using cpanel, just rename your ‘plugins’ folder into ‘plugins2’ then you should be able to enter the wp admin.

After browse to plugins page, you will see lots of errors because of no plugins located. Then rename your ‘plugins2’ from cpanel into ‘plugins’ again and try activate a plugin one by one to figure what the culprit.

[aravoth2011]

what theme are you using?

[adaam1987]

I really need help on fixing this!!!! On a due date to fixing the website, did not a plug could cause such fatal problem

Please help!!! Emergency!!! Thank!!!

Error info:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 30720 bytes) in /data/19/1/97/112/1912112/user/2081834/htdocs/trail1/wp-admin/includes/theme.php on line 293

[OAEErra]

Hi, wee problem. I’m looking to get the RSS feed for new topics of a forum only.

I know you can add /rss to the end of a forum URL to get the feed for it but is it possible to do so for topics only?

for example: http://www.onlyanexcuse.com/discussion/forum/scottish-football-forum/scottish-premier-league/rss/

gives all topics and replies. There is a widget on the sidebars which gives latest topics so I assume it is possible.

I’m running BBPress 2.0 with BuddyPress.

Thanks in advance.