[walama]

I would like all users to be able to receive a notification about new posts. I have looked at one daily digest plugin, however, I cannot customize the message. This is frustrating as the email as implemented is grammatically incorrect. Additionally, this plugin is not intuitive for how a user changes his or her settings as they are not made visible on the profile.

I can see on the profile that it lists topics and forums that a user is subscribed to. However, I cannot find any method for a user to subscribe to a forum.

My forums are new and, while we have a large for us community — about 50 users created in the last week – without the ability to have a notification that the forums are updated we are not getting users to consistently return to check for updates. Our users are young and used to push notifications when there is a change.

[fum]

Hi there, I’m hoping someone might be able to give me some advice on a fix for the following:

I created a private forum that initially worked fine, then now without apparent cause the logged subscribers can not enter to the forum
“Oh, no debate have been found here” appears but on the top line you can see
“This forum contains 8 threads and 10 responses and updated it …”

This happens as suscriber, when I enter as a keymaster everything is seen and works normally, you can see a screen capture here
I’m trying to generate enthusiasm in the subscribers by participating in the forum and this is done all back, all help is welcome

[liderxlt]

Hello!
First of all I want to clarify that the notifications by email if they arrive if a response is made in the subject from the frontend, in that there is no problem.

I feed the forum with external information, the updates of new and old topics are published daily. This I do by means of an import code. When users subscribe to a topic and receive new answers, email does not arrive.

I suspect that is the replic’s import code.

At the beginning of the code, I identified the id of the theme to link the replic, then updated the data.

$old_topic_id = get_post_meta( $post_id, '_bbp_topic_id', true );
		$post = get_posts( array(
			'post_type' => 'topic',
			'meta_key' => '_old_topic_id',
			'meta_value' => $old_topic_id
			) );
		if ( $post ) {
			$new_topic_id = $post[0]->ID;
			$args = array(
				'ID' => $post_id,
				'post_parent' => $new_topic_id
				);
			wp_update_post( $args );
			update_post_meta( $post_id, '_bbp_topic_id', $new_topic_id );
			update_post_meta( $post_id, '_edit_last', 1 );
		}

The import of topic and replic is a success, except for the detail that does not motivate users subscribed to forum and topic.

Regards!

[rcoyle56]

@netweb I tried using your code in my site’s function.php, however, the code did not work and in fact caused display errors. I noticed that this post was a few years old. Do you know how the code would be updated to work with current bbpress? I need to remove the Home breadcrumb specifically. The forum and topic breadcrumbs are fine.

[Robin W]

Pascal (@casiepa) has been in touch with the bbpress topics for posts author, and Pascal is taking it over, so expect an updated version soon.

[pixelnated]

In an unrelated item – whenever I post on these forums in FireFox my posts seem to vanish as soon as I hit submit (although the forum post time seems to have updated) & the formatting tools can’t be seen.

Writing this from chrome….

[pixelnated]

Since I was helping a friend convert a phpbb2 board to phpbb3 I thought I’d take the time to also import the forums into bbpress (my preference).
I initially tried the import but could not get it to work and after looking on the forums saw that I was not alone.
To get the import to work I had to remap some fields in the phpbb conversion script and comment out some obsolete ones (took about 30 minutes.

If anyone needs to get your PHPBB3 users and forums converted in BBPress you can replace the phpBB.php file in wp-content\plugins\bbpress\includes\admin\converters to match the following updated code: https://gist.github.com/pixelnated/a7a9c41154cf64696ddd1c2e4f4327ed

[AdventureRidingNZ]

For good UX you also need the plugin ‘bbPress Forum Redirect’ so that when a user accesses the forum topic directly the topic is redirected to the page with the forum topic displays underneath so that the user gets the page content and the forum posts, not just the forum posts.

That plugin suffers the same where it hasn’t been updated in a year and 3 major WP versions and needs PHP 7.x compatibility updates.

[Robin W]

ok, I think the key item is that it is repairing the post_parent, so a reply gets back it’s topic ID.

I can only presume this is from the topic_id held in postmeta.

Can you confirm for another reply that you haven’t updated that

1. post_parent is 0 and
2. postmeta has the entry _bbp_topic_id with a number against it.

and then randomly check several more.

then update a couple and confirm that post_parent is now complete.

If all that checks out – I can write a quick programme that will go through each reply, pick up the topic_id from postmeta and set post parent.

[cjerrells]

@jsteckler1: We use GF to set a custom field called “_mu_autogenerated_post_to” and then our code looks like this:

/*
 * Small fix for posting new introductions to the introductions thread
 * Would be nice to use the GF hook but post_id not set with Custom Post Types addon -_-
 */
function set_post_parent($post_id)
{
    if (get_post_meta($post_id,"_mu_autogenerated_post_to",true))
    {
        remove_action( 'save_post', 'set_post_parent',10); // Avoid infinite loop when wp_update_post calls save_post
        $target_discussion = get_post_meta($post_id,"_mu_autogenerated_post_to",true);
        error_log("Detected new _mu_autogenerated_post_to " . $target_discussion);
        wp_update_post( array('ID' => $post_id,'post_parent'=>$target_discussion) );
        error_log("Updated post parent.");
        add_action( 'save_post', 'set_post_parent',10);
    }    
    else
    {
       // error_log("Ignoring non-_mu_autogenerated_post_to post creation");
    }
}
add_action( 'save_post', 'set_post_parent',10);

Hope that helps!

[Robin W]

see this link

http://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-deactivate-all-plugins-when-not-able-to-access-wp-admin/

The issue is with this plugin

bbPress Login Register Links On Forum Topic Pages

which was updated a day ago.

so don’t re-enable that one

if you go to that plugins support page, you’ll find someone has already logged that error.

You should revert to the earlier version until it is fixed

[thecollegedorm]

Hi, my site has been working fine all along till I updated my plug-ins a few hours ago. Now I can’t even access my homepage (thecollegedorm.com) and instead I receive an error message like this:

Fatal error: Can’t use function return value in write context in /home/thecollegedorm/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress-login-register-links-on-forum-topic-pages/bbpress-login-register-links-on-forum-page.php on line 30

May I know if this is an issue with the plug in or? I cannot even access the wordpress admin page for my site now which really sucks as I can’t uninstall the plug-in.

[Pascal Casier]

@swagataminnovations as there are no changes to bbPress 2.5 , there was no need to update anything to that plugin, but you are right that it seemed very old.

Updated now 🙂

[swagataminnovations]

Looks interesting, but this one’s too is not updated since 2 years…folks normally won’t install a plugin which are not timely updated and the untested version…

[swagataminnovations]

Hello,

I have checked this plugin and it still works nicely at the moment.
I have followed the suggestions provided by “makingcircuits” in one of the other threads, and could convert all my existing wordpress comments to bbpress forum discussion with a few clicks.
I think this is a unique feature which only bbpress is able to provide with the help of this plugin, therefore we really want this plugin to be maintained and updated from time to time so the users can feel comfortable about implementing for the said purpose.
I have tons of comments in wordpress which are not getting indexed by Google, therefore turning them into forum can instantly provide a huge SEO boost for these comments and could hugely improve the search engine presence of my site.
However I could go ahead with this only when I feel assured that the mentioned plugin would be maintained regularly by the author or if there could be an alternative to this plugin.

The plugin looks very useful and enables only bbpress with this very crucial feature of turning wordpress comments into bbpress forum, with just a few clicks.

I hope somebody will take an initiative in this regard

[makingcircuits]

The existing plugin “bbpress topics for posts” by Mr. David Dean is too old and seems like it is now no longer being updated and almost abandoned by the owner, therefore I would request bbpress or somebody here to take over this plugin or create an alternative for this plugin.
It is because this is the only plugin which allows merging existing wordpress comments with bbpress forum.
I have successfully tried the procedures and could merge my earlier regular wordpress comments inside bbpress under every post.
So this plugin is very important considering that it converts your ordinary wordpress comments into SEO rich bbpress forum replies.
Please help! I would really appreciate if somebody could come with a similar version of this plugin

[vokzal48]

updated wordpress and bbpress to the latest versions, but unfortunately it did not help.
WP: 4.9.1 bbPress:2.5.14

[brent0r]

On the forums index under Last Post I have:

“Title Of the Thread That Was Updated Most Recently”
“17 hours, 11 minutes ago”

I am wanting to put the two on a single line.
eg. “Title of the Thread (7 hours, 11 minutes ago)”

The area of the loop-single-forum file is as follows:

<li class="bbp-forum-freshness">

		<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_before_forum_freshness_link' ); ?>

		<?php bbp_forum_freshness_link(); ?>

		<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_after_forum_freshness_link' ); ?>

		<p class="bbp-topic-meta">

			<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_before_topic_author' ); ?>

			<span class="bbp-topic-freshness-author"><?php bbp_author_link( array( 'post_id' => bbp_get_forum_last_active_id(), 'size' => 14 ) ); ?></span>

			<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_after_topic_author' ); ?>

		</p>
	</li>

I’ve tried editing this quite a bit but all attempts have failed. Any tips or feedback on how I can display the Thread Title (time posted) on a single line would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

[Robin W]

issue is with the plugin Paid Memberships Pro – bbPress Add On v 1.5.4 with Plugin Paid Memberships Pro 1.9.4.2 prevent Plugin Google Photos Version 1.0.1 embed from working.

from @mattdmcleod

I rolled it back to the previous version (1.5.3) on the staging site and it worked. Made that change on the production site and it also seems OK.
The PMPro plugin was the one updated in December, but the current BBPress (v1.5.4) connector hasn’t been updated for 5 months (and last tested with WP 4.8.4). I guess the PMPro update affected the BBPress connector in some way? Or maybe it doesn’t like WP 4.9x? I’ll post in their support forum to let them know.

[Bharat Karavadra]

@robin-w,

1) I use two sidebar widget areas from the theme. One for blog archives and posts, and one for pages. These function and appear OK. There is also a WooCommerce sidebar but I don’t have WooCommerce installed so I can’t comment on that.

2) When using the instructions at the link on the first topic post I made here, and also the bbPress WP tweak plugin the bbPress sidebar widget area appears, I’ve added the text area and some dummy text, saved it, but the sidebar does not appear on any of the forum pages (e.g. main forum index, topic list, topic).

It came to mind that I’m quite sure that I used the linked instructions to they the sidebar to appear and it worked OK with a previous version of the theme. There have been a few updates since, where I have copied the customisations over to the updated theme, but I had assumed that the bbPress sidebar would continue to work. It was only when I looked at the forum recently, it looked and felt odd and that is when realised the sidebar had stopped working. But I’m not sure why the plugin does not work, but again these two non-functioning issues with the sidebar may be related.

I hope that helps.

And thank you.

[Justin]

I tried 2.6Rc3 and it did more, but still getting the same error along with a lot of others:

Import Finished
17: No threaded replies to import
16: No anonymous reply authors to import
WordPress database error: [Table 'db507177147.Comment' doesn't exist]
SELECT convert(Comment.CommentID USING "utf8mb4") AS CommentID,convert(Comment.DiscussionID USING "utf8mb4") AS DiscussionID,convert(Comment.InsertIPAddress USING "utf8mb4") AS InsertIPAddress,convert(Comment.InsertUserID USING "utf8mb4") AS InsertUserID,convert(Comment.Body USING "utf8mb4") AS Body,convert(Comment.DateInserted USING "utf8mb4") AS DateInserted,convert(Comment.DateUpdated USING "utf8mb4") AS DateUpdated FROM Comment AS Comment WHERE Format != "Deleted" LIMIT 0, 100
15: No replies to import
14: No favorites to import
13: No topic subscriptions to import
WordPress database error: [Table 'db507177147.TagDiscussion' doesn't exist]
SELECT convert(TagDiscussion.DiscussionID USING "utf8mb4") AS DiscussionID,convert(TagDiscussion.TagID USING "utf8mb4") AS TagID,convert(Tag.Name USING "utf8mb4") AS Name FROM TagDiscussion AS TagDiscussion INNER JOIN Tag AS Tag USING (tagid) LIMIT 0, 100
12: No topic tags to import
11: No closed topics to close
Continuing Import
Import Stopped (by User)
10: No super stickies to stick
9: No stickies to stick
8: No anonymous topic authors to import
WordPress database error: [Table 'db507177147.Discussion' doesn't exist]
SELECT convert(Discussion.DiscussionID USING "utf8mb4") AS DiscussionID,convert(Discussion.CountComments USING "utf8mb4") AS CountComments,convert(Discussion.CategoryID USING "utf8mb4") AS CategoryID,convert(Discussion.InsertUserID USING "utf8mb4") AS InsertUserID,convert(Discussion.Name USING "utf8mb4") AS Name,convert(Discussion.Body USING "utf8mb4") AS Body,convert(Discussion.closed USING "utf8mb4") AS closed,convert(Discussion.InsertIPAddress USING "utf8mb4") AS InsertIPAddress,convert(Discussion.Announce USING "utf8mb4") AS Announce,convert(Discussion.DateInserted USING "utf8mb4") AS DateInserted,convert(Discussion.DateUpdated USING "utf8mb4") AS DateUpdated,convert(Discussion.DateLastComment USING "utf8mb4") AS DateLastComment FROM Discussion AS Discussion WHERE Format != "Deleted" LIMIT 0, 100
7: No topics to import
6: No forum subscriptions to import
5: No forum parents to import
WordPress database error: [Table 'db507177147.Category' doesn't exist]
SELECT convert(Category.CategoryID USING "utf8mb4") AS CategoryID,convert(Category.ParentCategoryID USING "utf8mb4") AS ParentCategoryID,convert(Category.CountDiscussions USING "utf8mb4") AS CountDiscussions,convert(Category.CountComments USING "utf8mb4") AS CountComments,convert(Category.Name USING "utf8mb4") AS Name,convert(Category.Description USING "utf8mb4") AS Description,convert(Category.Sort USING "utf8mb4") AS Sort,convert(Category.DateInserted USING "utf8mb4") AS DateInserted,convert(Category.DateUpdated USING "utf8mb4") AS DateUpdated FROM Category AS Category WHERE Category.CategoryID > 0 LIMIT 0, 100
4: No forums to import
3: No passwords to clear
WordPress database error: [Table 'db507177147.User' doesn't exist]
SELECT convert(User.UserID USING "utf8mb4") AS UserID,convert(User.Password USING "utf8mb4") AS Password,convert(User.Name USING "utf8mb4") AS Name,convert(User.Email USING "utf8mb4") AS Email,convert(User.DateInserted USING "utf8mb4") AS DateInserted FROM User AS User WHERE Deleted !=1 LIMIT 0, 100
2: No users to import
1: Skipping sync-table clean-up
WordPress database error: [Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes]
CREATE TABLE GcuHRqrGbbp_converter_translator ( meta_id mediumint(8) unsigned not null auto_increment, value_type varchar(25) null, value_id bigint(20) unsigned not null default '0', meta_key varchar(191) null, meta_value varchar(191) null, PRIMARY KEY (meta_id), KEY value_id (value_id), KEY meta_join (meta_key(191), meta_value(191)) ) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci
Starting Import
Ready to go.

Any suggestions? Is my database not allowing writes? I am using 1and1 as my web and database host.

[uddin33]

I am using WordPress Version 4.7 And have installed bbpress version 2.5.12.Every thing is working fine but in edit profile page no edits are updating.I have checked it for both admin and participant role.After edit profile button submit it redirects to following url
http://mysite.com/forums/user/pro2/edit/?updated=true but nothing is changed actually.How can i solve this problem?pls help

[Kristian Yngve]

Sure, here’s all that info:

I am using the very latest WordPress, I updated recently but unaware if the problem existed beforehand. I have had this wp theme for 3 years and I remember BBpress working well when I first installed it just over 2 years ago.

The only affected area is only within topic at the point of conversation threads. The issue happens when the screen is at iPhone6+ size and smaller when viewed on the portrait side.

All avatars shift to the top left-hand side of screen together as they all sit on top of each other. I have viewed this on the chrome and safari browser.

Any ideas upon what I can do to overcome this?

[Robin W]

And it doesn’t end up the same, not really. Everytime bbpress is updated now I have to hope 20 different authors of 20 different plugins also update their code in a timely manner, and if any of them decide to stop the project I now lose functionality.

not really here for a philosophical argument – that’s the way bbpress authors (which I am not) wrote it, and as free software they should be able to write what they want.

I just write some additional plugins which again I do for free and yes I have to update for free, and provide some support here for free.

[paladinbrewer]

No answer to the other ones? 🙂

And it doesn’t end up the same, not really. Everytime bbpress is updated now I have to hope 20 different authors of 20 different plugins also update their code in a timely manner, and if any of them decide to stop the project I now lose functionality.