[Matoca]

I resolved this with some exploration. The plugin that was providing this notificatoin function is called bbPress Notify. When I went to its WordPress page I discovered that the developer had not updated this in quite a while and the forum had plenty of topics asking for help, but there had been no response.

Doing a quick plugin search I discovered the plugin bbPress (No Spam) was up to date. So I uninstalled bbPress Notify and installed bbPress Notify (No Spam). I sent a message through the forum and the notification sent had content in it!

I am not sure why bbPress Notify continued to work until just last week but clearly one of the other plugins was updated and prevented this one from inserting the content into the emails. This plugin also prevented the forum notification from attaching content.

If you need to use a notification plugin (by role), this would be the current one that works well. It is essentially the same plugin as bbPress Notify but with the addition of being able to set it to not send notification of spam via email. This is actually a great benefit. Recently a topic notification email that contained spam was sent out to the moderators from the dashboard via bbPress Notify and my hosting service locked my email down for over a week for sending unsolicited spam. They sent me a warning letter that they would close my account if I did it again. I was clueless what had happened until I found this plugin today.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-notify-nospam/
my best
patrice

[KeithAdv]

I’m going through the odious task of importing a Ning forum to bbPress. The hard part (or so I thought) is done. I was able to get about everything from Ning into BuddyPress.

However, when I get to the last phase–BuddyPress to bbPress migration–which I thought would be easy-peasy, I lose all the replies to the forum topics! I’m following the migration process exactly (as far as I know) but it always fails. Here are the details:

I’m currently on a local server using XAMPP.
WordPress 4.2.4
BuddyPress 2.3.3 (using the default theme)
bbPress 2.5.8

The only other plugins I have installed are The Events Calendar (which you kind of need for the Ning conversion) and BackupBuddy, so that I can restore/reset after every unsuccessful attempt.

I have a smallish forum of fewer than 100 people and 4 groups.

At the time of this writing, I’ve restored the site to its last successful state:
– All data successfully imported into BuddyPress
– bbPress is installed and activated
– Final migration has not yet been attempted.

So, you can see all forums and replies, etc., in the BuddyPress theme on the site. The bbPress forums section in the admin menu is empty, as expected.

Now my typical next step, which always fails, is to follow the codex on migrating forums from BuddyPress to bbPress. I’ve been following it to the letter:

Migrating from old forums to bbPress 2.2+

Unfortunately, during Step 5, the actual import step, I get the following error message:


WordPress database error: [Table 'foo.wp_bb_terms' doesn't exist]

SELECT convert(term_relationships.object_id USING "utf8mb4") AS object_id,convert(term_taxonomy.term_taxonomy_id USING "utf8mb4") AS term_taxonomy_id,convert(terms.name USING "utf8mb4") AS name,convert(terms.slug USING "utf8mb4") AS slug FROM wp_bb_term_relationships AS term_relationships INNER JOIN wp_bb_term_taxonomy AS term_taxonomy USING (term_taxonomy_id) INNER JOIN wp_bb_terms AS terms USING (term_id) LIMIT 0, 100


I can’t tell if it is just complaining or if the import has actually failed at that point. Nevertheless, I finish all the steps. At that point, the groups have become forums in bbPress and the topics have transferred but only the first post in each. All replies are gone and I haven’t found any way to restore them.

One additional detail–I don’t know if it’s relevant. In order to do the Ning conversion, it’s best if you use BuddyPress v1.6, which I did. Afterward, I updated to the latest version. (Is that why wp_bb_terms didn’t get created?)

I’d greatly appreciate any insight on this. I’m so happy to be getting away from Ning–I can’t believe I’m getting tripped up on the WP side! 🙂

[salocime]

Hello,

Perhaps I just haven’t read enough about the forums feature, but where I’ve been looking for answers isn’t helping.

First of all, there doesn’t seem to be a way to make the forums invisible to the general public. I have a membership site with elementary-aged students; I can NOT have the forums visible to the general public. Is there something I’m missing about how to make that happen? For everything else on my site, the fact that I put that that the content is protected and the membership level works; this is visible to EVERYBODY. My understanding is that if I put private or hidden, only I can see it, correct? What do I need to do to make this forum only visible to site members?

Then there’s the actual member issue: It’s telling my site members that they have to be logged in to post. Well, not only should they not be able to see the forum if they’re not logged in (they can), but they are already logged in when they access the link, so why is it saying that they have to log in? Do they specifically need a WordPress account? Does their account with my site not do the trick?

My site is updated to the latest WordPress version and I’m using the Spacious theme.

[mrsminkie]

If I view the source code, the copy that is usually rendered by these lines of code:

$retstr = sprintf( esc_html__( 'This topic contains %1$s, has %2$s, and was last updated by %3$s %4$s.', 'bbpress' ), $reply_count, $voice_count, $last_updated_by, $time_since );

is displaying but it seems that %1$s and %2$s isn’t pulling any data through, but %3$s %4$s is.

[Matoca]

I am trying to clean up the forum a bit. I have a super sticky topic of “Welcome, Blah Blah” It’s now over a year old and I want it to move down in the original time slot of January 2014.

I went into the dashboard to edit the topic, unstickied it, set it to “closed” and then saved it. It is no longer sticky but instead of moving down around the other topics in Jan 2014, it has remained at the top of the current topics as though I updated it. Well, I did kind of update it, but there are no new replies and I didn’t change the topic at all. The posting date still indicates Jan ’14.

I really don’t want to trash it or all the replies, they have historical importance, but I am confused how to make this move! I am used to being able to change the publish dates of pages and posts but the forum doesn’t seem to have the same ability.
Thank you for any help you can provide,
Matoca

[vizcano]

Hi you all,

I made a personalized Spanish translation of bbpress words but when this get updated it goes back to the one that bbpress offers in Spanish.
Is there a way to prevent these changes?

I want to keep my Spanish translation all the time.
Anyone?
Thanks

[mrsminkie]

Hi,

The data regarding no of topics, replies and voices is not showing on this site: http://www.brentonfilm.com/forums/topic/improvements-from-the-bluray-bfi-chaplins-mutual-comedies

You’ll see the notification area says ‘This topic contains , has , and was last updated by’

I have tried all options in the repair tool and cleared all caches. Now out of ideas. Please can anyone help?

Many thanks in advance.

[DevynCJohnson]

@Robkk , thank you for your time.

1. I did see the option for oEmbeds. However, after disabling oEmbeds and using WP-Sweep to remove all oEmbeds, WP-Sweep still finds oEmbeds after a few days. Currently, I wrote my own code to disable them.

5. The Report content plugin has not been updated since November of 2014.

12. True, I have tried BuddyPress’s upload-avatar feature and the various upload-avatar plugins, but they no longer work after I upgraded by website to HTML5. Notice that I mentioned that I can still upload media via the backend. My backend is using HTML4. You are right though, this is probably something for WordPress to implement rather than BBPress.

[DevynCJohnson]

I am the owner and admin of http://dcjtech.info/ and I love computer programming. Not only do I love programming, but I love to help other developers. I would like to contribute to BBPress by offering some suggestions and ideas.

Please keep in mind that these are just my ideas; I understand that the BBPress team has ideas, needs, and concerns of their own that they must address. In addition, even though I learned a lot about the WordPress and BBPress framework and inner workings, I admit that there are some parts that I may have over-looked or mis-understood. In summary, I am trying to help make BBPress better and more powerful based on what I know, and I want to contribute my ideas as a thanks to all the developers that have spent time and effort making BBPress what it is today.

Now, for my ideas –

1. BBPress needs more options and configurable items – the more customizable, the better. Obviously, some developers are concerned about confusing or overwhelming users, so make a special admin page for “advanced” or “miscellaneous” options. Some additional options I think are needed or helpful include disable/enable feeds, specific control over oEmbeds and auto-embed-links, and settings for SEO/SMO control (discussed in #2).

2. Settings and controls for Search Engine Optimization (SEM) and Social Media Optimization (SMO) – SEM and SMO are important to many web admins. Adding options to configure such features may be wise. The “author” meta tag (and others) could be generated on a per-topic basis (if the admin enables such a feature). Here are some links for HTML5 meta tags for SEM and SMO (https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/issues/1674 && https://gist.github.com/charlesmudy/b3740c73d5f4d5d5c1f4 && https://thomas.vanhoutte.be/miniblog/dynamic-html5-meta-tags-for-wordpress-header-php-file/)

3. Integrate BBCodes and Shortcodes – This may be something the WordPress should do, or the BBPress developers could pass this idea to them. Add features and options for BBCodes. I think that merging “bbpress2 BBCode” (https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-bbcode/), “bbpress2 shortcode whitelist” (https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress2-shortcode-whitelist/), and some ideas from GD BBpres Tools (https://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-bbpress-tools/).

4. Add topic auto-suggestion – This feature can easily be added by merging this plugin – https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-auto-suggest-topics-based-on-new-topic-title/ .

5. Integrate other small, but helpful plugins – “External Links” (https://wordpress.org/plugins/sem-external-links/) and “BBPress Report Content” (https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-report-content/) seem like candidates for merging.

6. Disable/Enable BBPress modules/parts – Obviously, some people may not like or want “BBPress Report Content” or other plugins and features I suggest for merging and adding. The best solution may be to provide a special options page for disabling/enabling certain “BBPress modules” and features. For instance, I use “BBPress Report Content” and I disabled (and I dislike) the BBPress “SPAM” admin-link in my forums. Having more detailed and advanced options may help people like me. Also, more advanced options would (hopefully) make people less likely to edit core files.

7. Export/Import BBPress settings – Correct me if I am wrong, but I do not think BBPress has an easy way to export/save settings to be imported to use as a backup or transfer/share settings.

8. View counter – I think it would be useful to many people to have a “view counter” feature such as I have programmed in my website (http://dcjtech.info/forum/articles/general-computing/). It would be great if BBPress included options for view counters such as displaying topic views in the BBPress-Notice and forum columns (like where I replaced “voices/replies” with “views/viewed”.

9. Options to custom notices and other messages – Some people (like me and others seen on this BBPress forum) want to change “voices” or remove it. Having easy options for this may be helpful.

10. Better forum access control – I would find it helpful to be able to specify that on a particular forum or sub-forum that users with particular permissions can only create new topics or reply.

11. Remove “Topic:” from title – I see a need for some people (like me) to be able to easily configure the appearance of titles (both on the page and in the HTML “title” tag).

12. Implement a built-in avatar system (perhaps BuddyPress or WordPress should use this rather than BBPress) – This would allow local avatars and provide a way for Gravatar to be disabled or used as a secondary. True, BuddyPress provides a way to upload avatars, and “Basic User Avatars” and “Simple Local Avatars” are plugins offering that feature. However, after upgrading my theme to HTML5 and removing Flash from my browser, I can no longer upload avatars using any of the three mentioned possibilities (backend or frontend). However, I can still upload media via the backend (w/o Flash) and via the frontend (with Flash). NOTE: I do list “plupload.full.min.js” and other similar scripts in Autoptimze “Exclude list”.

13. Perhaps, “Grunion Contact Form” should be updated and integrated in BBPress.

14. 100% HTML5 Compliant – I have not studied BBPress in this perspective, so it is possible that I may be very wrong or the developers have a plan already. However, use of HTML5 (or the option to do so) would be helpful.

If you see any features on my website that you want to implement in BBPress, feel free to let me know and then I can give you the code and tell you how I did it. Also, I use my own style sheets for BBPress, BuddyPress, and some plugins. I have been able to increase performance and decrease size by using a CSS minifier (http://csscompressor.com/) and implementing ideas from errors given by a CSS checker (http://csslint.net/). I saw significant improvements even before I changed the style sheets to specifically suit my website.

By the way, making BBPress templates that can be placed in the regular WordPress template was a great idea and feature for BBPress; smart thinking BBPress developers.

[Abdel]

Thanks for the reply Robkk I checked super cache for Clear all cache files when a post or page is published or updated and it was checked and i also tried to reset the super cache settings but still the problem occurred.

[Robkk]

This sounds exactly like your other topic here…and the other one you also created.

HELP PLEASE NEW TO BBPRESS

It is most likely a cache issue on your end. Make sure you have WP-Super-Cache set up correctly and that the cache refreshes when a new post is published or updated.

Clear all cache files when a post or page is published or updated.

I saw this message on your forums page source code that is why I know you are using that specific plugin.

<!-- Dynamic page generated in 1.073 seconds. -->
<!-- Cached page generated by WP-Super-Cache on 2015-08-25 19:54:03 -->

<!-- super cache -->

Also do not post multiple topics of the same issue, just update your original topic.

[Mark Burgess]

Yes. I used those css changes to get rid of the Freshness display altogether until I could see that the Forum Description at the top of each form was corrected. It’s misleading,o when a topic is created 10 years ago and has had only replies since, to show the “last updated” is 10 years with a reply only months ago.

[demonboy]

I enclose a screen shot of my problem. I created a new user and set their Forum role as ‘Participant’. I clicked ‘save’ but this has not updated their forum capabilities. They remain ‘denied’.

[demonboy]

Aha! I have solved the problem and I have done it by turning Wp Super Cache ON, not OFF. I then went to the advanced settings and ticked the box that says

Clear all cache files when a post or page is published or updated.

It appears to have sorted the problem out and forum posts now refresh immediately.

Thanks for your patience, Rob.

[Robkk]

Usually child themes are rarely updated, or they are at least not as frequent as the parent themes. I think you should ask your themes support to see what would be best especially if they actually update their child themes. If they do update their child themes they will most likely tell you about creating a grandchild theme.

[Robkk]

Alright just so you know I can’t really do Admin access type stuff anymore, I am following some guide from the WordPress.org codex about moderators not needing to gain admin access because they will be going too far, its something like that. I also got a talking to, to stop doing it by some people on this site to, I mostly helped with commercial products because I could find the issue faster if I am more hands on and find a bbPress/theme/plugin bug faster, than telling the users to just ask the theme/plugin author. Plus in this case I do not really need to have an admin account, so you can delete that account you created for me again.

From what I can see the downloaded theme is Jolene and you can just edit the Biker theme since it is already a child theme. If the Biker theme is frequently being updated (which it really shouldn’t), then I guess creating a grandchild theme like what you are doing would be the best approach.

[Media Cookery]

I updated to WordPress 4.3 last night. I’m using bbPress 2.5.8, and the theme is Sprout. It’s at http://www.stacknfade.com/forum

After the WP update, the forum is only visible when logged out EXCEPT with the admin account. Only the admin can see the forum when logged in. All other accounts get a 404 error when visiting that URL. Also, when viewing WP-Admin, none of the forum options are available in the admin main sidebar, e.g., Tools -> Forums, or Settings -> Forums. These are missing.

Help?

[benklocek]

I’ve updated the filter code to make it work for BBPress 2.5.7+

https://gist.github.com/benklocek/433713bceb83eec6984f

The Keymaster title changed from “Key Master” to “Keymaster” at some point, and the filter only accepts 2 variables now.

I would be hesitant to use @robkk’s code, as it is replacing a core function, instead of simply filtering.

[atfpodcast]

its still

Backstage – All Access

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This forum contains 2 topics, and was last updated by Profile photo of Tony Tony 4 months ago.

it does it for all themes.

[Leng7881]

Log’s who knew? From further examination due to the log telling me to look I found that I have a gh_ in front of the function name when declaring it. There error is also in your updated code above. Now that I took that out it works great. Here is the code without the minor syntax error and thank you for this.

function post_published_create_topic( $ID, $post ) {
    $checkduplicate = get_post_meta( $ID, 'gh_topic_created',true);
    if ( empty( $checkduplicate ) ) {
        $author = $post->post_author;
        $name = get_the_author_meta( 'display_name', $author );
        $title = $post->post_title;
        $permalink = get_permalink( $ID );
        $excerpt = $post->post_excerpt;
        $subject = sprintf( '%s: %s', $name, $title );
        $message = sprintf ('[b]%s[/b]' . "\n" . 'By %s' . "\n\n" . '[i]%s[/i]' . "\n\n" . 'View: %s' . "\n\n", $title, $name, $excerpt, $permalink );
        $tags = wp_get_post_tags( $ID, array( 'fields' => 'names' ) );

        $new_post = array(
            'post_title'    => $subject,
            'post_content'  => $message,
            'post_parent' => 72,
            'post_status'   => 'publish',
            'post_type' => 'topic'
        );
        $topic_meta = array(
            'forum_id'       => $new_post['post_parent']
        );
        $topic_id = bbp_insert_topic($new_post, $topic_meta);
        if ( !empty( $topic_id ) ) {
            add_post_meta($ID, 'gh_topic_created', 'true', true);
            $term_taxonomy_ids = wp_set_object_terms( $topic_id, $tags, 'topic-tag' );
            bbp_update_forum(array('forum_id' => 72));
        }
    }
}
add_action( 'publish_post', 'post_published_create_topic', 10, 2 );

[hookedonweb]

Is there any updated info on how to convert WP Symposium converter to bPress?

The gethub project in this thread https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wp-symposium-converter-for-bbpress/ does not work.

I added it to the converters directory and ran fine but it said it could not find any forums to covert.

[jhmattern]

I need to be able to schedule topics in advance. For example, I might come up with an idea and draft a topic at 11pm on Sunday night, and I might want it to go live at 9am on Monday morning.

That’s no problem. I just create the topic in the admin area and use WP’s built-in scheduling feature. The topic goes live on the forum at 9am the next day as expected.

The problem, though, is that the freshness in BBPress doesn’t reflect this. At 9:30am, for example, it should show a freshness of 30 min ago for that topic. But instead, it’s showing 10 hours ago — based on the time the draft was scheduled rather than the actual scheduled publication time.

This is a particular problem when I need to schedule a week’s worth of new topics at once (to keep a growing community regularly updated with new discussion points). They all show that they have similar freshness when people view the main forum or category pages, instead of showing that content is being published at regular intervals.

Is there anything I can do to fix this so BBPress reflects actual publication time (like WP does in general) instead of relying on the time the topics were physically edited?

[Robkk]

I’m increasingly thinking about writing a custom plugin. I suppose one basic idea would be to create a new user role like “Untrusted Subscriber”, make it the default role for new subscriptions and mark all comments, topics and replies by such users as “pending” until the user is updated to regular “Subscriber” status. The system should also serve a page explaining this when these users post. Something like that.

If you make a plugin like that create a topic in the plugins forum on this site. This could also be useful in the core of bbPress too.

As much as I tried earlier, I couldn’t really get bbPress Moderation to work. It may have something to do with my theme, but I also see that I’m not the only one with problems.

If you are a plugin dev, you can always fork this plugin to make it work. If you want to share your forked version with other users for bbPress then you put your fork on the WordPress plugin repository.

I’m just not entirely sure if it’s more time and effort to write the above than it is to manually delete spam messages and users. So, I was wondering if someone else may already have found a solution.

You can bulk delete spam posts in the WordPress backend to make things go faster. There is also a plugin to autodelete spam replies on wordpress.org.

[Julia_B]

Hi,
One of my members got auto-deleted by S2Member because they missed a paypal payment. Turns out it wasn’t really their fault, they’d just got a new bank card and not updated their paypal info. I reactivated their paypal subscription by their user details had already been deleted from site.

I’ve set up a new account for them on the site and now I’d like to attach all the posts from their old account to the new one – so they show up as being by them, at the moment they are still on the site but as ‘anonymous’.

I can see how to do this with individual posts by changing the ID number under Author Information, but there are far too many posts to do this for each one. Is there a way I can bulk assign all the old posts from their original ID to the new one?

Thanks. 🙂

[Vili]

As much as I tried earlier, I couldn’t really get bbPress Moderation to work. It may have something to do with my theme, but I also see that I’m not the only one with problems.

I’m not sure if I follow what you are saying about Spectators. Since they cannot post, there isn’t really any moderating to do either as far as I can see. Or am I missing something?

I’m increasingly thinking about writing a custom plugin. I suppose one basic idea would be to create a new user role like “Untrusted Subscriber”, make it the default role for new subscriptions and mark all comments, topics and replies by such users as “pending” until the user is updated to regular “Subscriber” status. The system should also serve a page explaining this when these users post. Something like that.

I’m just not entirely sure if it’s more time and effort to write the above than it is to manually delete spam messages and users. So, I was wondering if someone else may already have found a solution.