[demonboy]

Hi,

I’m looking for an email digest plugin for bbpress that allows me control over when the email is sent (daily/weekly). On another website I manage I have the bbPress Digest plugin installed and it works fine, but it’s not been updated in the last six years.

Are there any other email plugins worth considering?

Thanks in advance.

[Robin W]

this will close topics with no activity in the last 10 days

/*
Plugin Name: BBPress Close Old Posts
Description: Close BBPress 2.0+ posts that haven't been updated in X days. 
Author: Raygun
Version: 0.1
Author URI: http://madebyraygun.com

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
*/ 

register_activation_hook(__FILE__, 'bbpress_topic_scheduler');

add_action('bbpress_daily_event', 'bbpress_close_old_topics');

function bbpress_topic_scheduler() {
 wp_schedule_event(time(), 'daily', 'bbpress_daily_event');
}

function bbpress_close_old_topics() {
	// Auto close old topics
	$topics_query = array(
		'author' => 0,
		'show_stickies' => false,
		'parent_forum' => 'any',
		'post_status' => 'publish',
		'posts_per_page' => -1
	);
	if ( bbp_has_topics( $topics_query ) )
		while( bbp_topics() ) {
			bbp_the_topic();
			$topic_id = bbp_get_topic_id();
			$last_active = strtotime( get_post_meta( $topic_id, '_bbp_last_active_time', true ) );
			if ($last_active < strtotime( '-10 days') )
				bbp_close_topic( $topic_id );
		}
}
?>

[Robin W]

I’ve just updated the plugin to have an unlimited number of fields – it was one I wrote zseveral years ago, and needed a good overhaul anyway – update to version 1.8 and you can choose as many fields as you like

[dwcouch]

Wierd. OK.

So I opened each Forum and just clicked Update. The topics count cleared in the Forums Admin.
However the Notice message I refer to above now says 0 topics.

Other Forums with no posts don’t show this message. They state;

This forum is empty.

Also I noted that all Forums that previously had topics still specify a user in the ‘last updated’ column of the forum on the forum index.

[dwcouch]

Further, the Forum list no topics but has the following message at the top:

This forum contains 3 topics, and was last updated by No Topics.

[ginaginagina]

Unfortunately, my staging site doesn’t allow me to switch themes for some reason. I tried in the past on an earlier bbPress support post I put here. 🙁 I also tried deactivating all the plugins, but it’s still not doing anything.

I read on bbPress that there is an “Approve” function that should be showing up, so it seems that there is a setting for moderation in the plugin? Just not sure what’s going on since the “Approve” used to show up but it doesn’t anymore. I updated bbPress a while back and hadn’t used it since the update, so I’m unsure when the issue actually started happening.

[designserve]

Hi All,

I’ve spent the last 10 hours 36 minutes trying to import a few topics into my forum from CSV. I’ve tried many different techniques and plugins. I am updating this because maybe it will help someone, or you might be able to help me.

I’m assuming that Stephen’s method worked when he posted it. It appears to me that post_parent does not behave as it used to. I have used Stephen’s files from Github and imported them into my forum. I’ve very carefully followed every nuance of his post, as far as I can tell. Ultimate CSV Importer and WP ALL IMPORT EXPORT (I have the extended pro version) do not expose post_parent in the mapping. However, Ultimate CSV Importer (now known as ‘Import Export Post as CSV File’) does say in the documentation that it will pick up post_parent when importing. Unfortunately I didn’t check in the database before running the repair tools and they always seem to remove the hierarchy when i use them.

When I import using the fields bbp_forum_id and bbp_topic_id I am able to make some progress in that the Topics show that they are in the correct forum in the backend. But they don’t show up in the frontend.

See this post for some useful information:

Bulk-move bbPress topics

Anyway, when I import Stephen’s files, the Topics and Replies won’t show up for me. post_parent is incremented in the database when importing as far as I can tell. I have read many posts on this and other forums virtually begging for a bbpress csv importer and many of the replies mention post_parent as being central to the issues.

One example statement says “The standard WordPress Importer only sets a post’s post_parent if that post also exists in the import; it can’t map an imported post to a post that already exists in the database.”

With that in mind, I went into the database after importing Stephen’s files and I manually updated post_parent for the Topics and Replies. When I do that, the Topics and Replies show up in the frontend as they should. At least I’m understanding what needs to happen for the Topics and Replies to show up on the front end.

Having edited post_parent in the database (using phpMyadmin) I then ran the forum repair tools. Counts were updated and everything is where it should be.

I’m now almost at the point of letting sleeping dogs lie. However, I’m going to try an old plugin on my dev site and I’ll post the results of that shortly.

[asmedej]

Yes, I remember now, that I’ve updated yday that calendar … I’ve contacted them to resolve it. But for now yes I will use your fix and when they fix the plugin i will disable it, but I think i will keep it for the future. And I have to be more careful of updating plugins like that directly.

thanks anyway

[HalbrookTech]

Has it been updated recently? Last time I tried it, did an import of users fine, but at least on a large forum, it timed out. Seemed to do some of the work, but needs some form of way to handle large forums.

[Danishsard]

Hello, the bbpress plugin is not updated anymore

Error – when wordpress can be used for the wordpress discussion. Someone will send a new topic with these words – it is automatically redirected to a non-existent page – this is a forum bug.

The entire wordpress discussion settings should also work bbpress – and not just selected elements – that would increase the functionality of the forum at zero cost.

When someone writes a new post or subject with moderation after the settings in the wordpress discussion – it should be displayed to him the same as comments but invisible lda others because it is in the browser cache.

………

If you do not do anything with bbpress then you can do a premium help department to make money on it, probably it is the reason that there are no pforits for years abandoning it yourself. You can also enter the ads on bbpres.org, something that would be there too, it is sad that this project is practically forgotten by the creators and not revised.

[earlsn]

As the admin, I was able to create a forum, then some topics and one reply. However, once I login under a different user with the role of “participant” or “moderator”, none of the topics display for that forum. I get the following messages on the returned forum screen:

“This forum contains 4 topics and 1 reply, and was last updated by Earl Sneeringer 2 weeks, 3 days ago.

Oh bother! No topics were found here!”

How is it that I see that I have 4 topics and 1 reply but it doesn’t display this or a participant or moderator?

My WP version is: 5.2.2 and my bbpress version is 2.8.1, my site is howardcountypickleball.org. The forum is under the Members menu item which is restricted to joined members.

Earl Sneeringer

[chengdu-living]

I recently updated bbpress on my forum and it somehow changed the time formatting for “Freshness”. Previously it said things like “One week ago”, “One month ago” etc but now it says things like “One week, four days ago” and “One month, one week ago” etc.

How can I change this back to the simpler format?

Having the freshness written out in such a long way looks a bit messy. Thanks in advance for any help.

[Morphim]

Hello.
I’ve just changed host and one of the WP sites I have included a bbpress forum. Someone else managed the site; I only ever updated the core and plugins and didn’t really pay much attention to it other than to see the main site was still working OK. I think I probably missed something regarding this a few years back.

However, having moved it, I realise the BBpress forum isn’t working. I’m not sure if it was working on the old site but my hunch is that BBpress has changed.

The old forum was located at http://mysite/bbpress
whereas now, I think BBpress is integrated into WP (which is great, by the way)

I also have a bbpress config file with settings for the DB. I’m thinking this is also redundant too as it seems the bbpress settings are just stored in the regular WP db tables.

I can see my old forum within the bb_forums, bb_meta, bb_post table of my db but in the admin of WP, under the ‘forums’ menu I see ‘no forums’

So, my question is, how do I get the info from the bb_ tables to register as an integrated forum in the new bbpress?

Thanks very much in advance if you can help.

By the way, the old site is no more as I have already switched hosts.

[mestrawberry]

WordPress 5.2.1
Divi theme version
Running PHP version: 7.1.30
BBPress version 2.5.14
GD BBPress Toolbox Pro version 5.5.1 (says its updated, though the latest version is 5.7 I think)

My theme styling disappears as soon as a user logs in.

When I disable the Toolbox plugin, the forum styling returns, but the developer said its an issue with BBPress core. The error log reads:

[03-Jun-2019 17:39:49 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 ‘79266’)’ at line 2 for query INSERT INTO wp_usermeta (user_id, meta_key, meta_value) VALUES
(‘465’, ‘wp__bbp_favorites, ‘79266’); made by require_once(‘wp-admin/admin.php’), do_action(‘load-tools_page_bbp-repair’), WP_Hook->do_action, WP_Hook->apply_filters, bbp_admin_repair_handler, bbp_admin_repair_user_favorites
[04-Jun-2019 02:41:55 UTC] …/components/SupportCenter.php:2512 ET_Support_Center::add_support_center():
Divi Support Center :: WordPress debug.log is not configured.

[04-Jun-2019 03:04:34 UTC] …/components/SupportCenter.php:2512 ET_Support_Center::add_support_center():
Divi Support Center :: WordPress debug.log is not configured.

Error Found in file PHP_Errorlog – public_html/wp-content/themes/Divi

[04-Jun-2019 02:51:52 CST6CDT] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function get_header() in /home/mythicre/public_html/wp-content/themes/Divi/index.php:1
Stack trace:
#0 {main}
thrown in /home/mythicre/public_html/wp-content/themes/Divi/index.php on line 1

The Toolbox developer submitted a ticket with bbPress: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3259

I tried to make the change in my files that is shown on that changeset, but it didn’t fix the issue. Forum styling is still broken for logged in users.

Any ideas???

Michelle

[Platoscave]

We noticed that in topic.js, the Subscribe text is supposed to be changed to Unsubscribe after subscribing to a topic, but currently it is not.

The problem is that the ajax call is wrong, the callback function not being called:

$.post( bbpTopicJS.bbp_ajaxurl, $data, function ( response ) {
  ...
});

In our case the callback function is not called at all, the text not being updated.

Perhaps adding a success() call or something similar will fix the problem.

[phildesigns]

I was wondering if it’s possible to assign a forum role to users being updated through Infusionsoft via HTTP Post. Not sure what the corresponding meta key would be or if that should just be a “add” to the role.

[Robin W]

people write plugins for free, and generally because they needed the functionality for their own site.

They publish to help others, but they have no duty to support or maintain them. This is just free software.

That they have not updated doesn’t mean it won’t work, for instance I have 6 plugins and every time wordpress publishes a new version I have to update the text in all 6 to make sure they say they are up to date, even though I have not altered any other code.

When I last looked at this one it worked fine, but I cannot guarantee this.

[Mike Witt]

“This plugin hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress”

(And it was last updated four years ago)

This seems to be the story with a bunch of “like button” plugins. I wonder why?

[artichoku]

hey there. So I’ve been trying to get the import to work for a few weeks and have zero luck whatsoever. I’ve tried the updated script found here:

Hi All,

Had the same issue as described above. The default phpbb.php import script didn’t convert anonymous users of topics and replies and the Pixenated script looped infinately with the conversion of users.

I’ve fixed the script and uploaded to PasteBin. Feel free to share widely.
https://pastebin.com/FpWsxsUG

How To:
1) Upgrade phpBB to v.3.2.5
2) Install BBpress 2.6 RC7
3) Upload to /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converters/phpbb.php

Remember that real men don’t do backups. They cry a lot. 🙂

but it has not aleviated the import problem. I no longer see errors, but it just sits at “Starting conversion”. Not sure what my next step is…

[licondam]

Hi there!

We’re trying to move our forums from a custom Q&A platform to bbPress… very glad there is now an importer!

So I copied example.php to myimport.php, changed the class name, and updated the tables/columns that apply (the ones that exist in the old database).

And ran the import…

But I keep running into import errors for fields that don’t apply as they don’t exist in the other database, like forums_table.the_reply_count

So for a field that just does not exist in the old database, what’s the proper syntax for “ignore this”? 🙂

For example, this one…

// Forum topic count (Stored in postmeta)
$this->field_map[] = array(
‘from_tablename’ => ‘forums_table’,
‘from_fieldname’ => ‘the_topic_count’,
‘to_type’ => ‘forum’,
‘to_fieldname’ => ‘_bbp_topic_count’
);
I looked for this on the importer codex page, but just don’t see it.

Thanks!
LICON

[w3215]

Thanks. This is all helpful to hear. Do you have any sense of what is going with the maintenance of bbpress? People have been talking about version 2.6 for 4 years+. bbpress seems terrific; I am hoping it is maintained with updated security, speed, etc.

[kanchna]

Hi, I would need to move our forums, topics, replies and the users from development server to live site. I have done with exporting and importing those in live site, but the relationship between the forums and topics are not getting updated, so we are getting a message as no topics inside the forum when viewed from frontend.

Can anyone let me know if there are any other ways to perform this export/import functionality?

[Foliferous]

Awesome, hadn’t seen this. I’ve installed it and it seems to work fine, even though it hasn’t been updated for ages. This should really be included as a default feature in bbpress. Privacy is a big concern. Thank you robin!

[Phillip Burger]

It would be quite useful if while you were looking at a topic, there was a timed AJAX request (or similar feature) checking for updates to the Topic and letting you know when it is updated.

Think about how if you are in Gmail and an update comes to an email thread – it lets you know, so you can read the update before you reply.

I find in quite a few forums that you are reading and maybe forming a reply, just to update and see that someone else replied while you were on it.

[tedf]

here is an updated image of the problem … the red arrows identify the problem areas.
i am not sure if they are called headers, menus, or as one person suggested, “lists”.

the problem is that they headings and data items don’t line up.

if you google bbpress forums, and look at the images, all the pictures show the data properly lined up.