[Robin W]

STOP !!!

Ok, the codex has a couple of errors as it had not been updated following the release of 2.5.4 and also had some text that had been badly edited.

You have two choices – you cannot do both

either

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – part 3

which I have just updated with new code, or put this in your functions file

function remove_counts() {
$args['show_topic_count'] = false;
$args['show_reply_count'] = false;
$args['count_sep'] = '';
 return $args;
}
add_filter('bbp_before_list_forums_parse_args', 'remove_counts' );

Both work

[david_ma]

Im trying to convert my kenena 1.0 forum (actually a fireboard forum) updated the kunena importer to accept fireboard formatting.

It gets stuck at the start… see: http://screencast.com/t/B2qk3rAP

Any ideas?

Tried reducing it to 5 rows to import at 1 second, still doesnt start.

[Devgun]

Today I updated my wordpress from 3.9 to 4.0. Now all the forum’s topics vanished. The forum shows “sorry brother no topics…..”. In my WP Dashboard, the topics are there but when i open its ‘view’ link, the topics are not there except the title of the topic.

Previously, i.e. before wordpress update, everything was fine and I haven’t installed any new plugins
I am using bbpress version 2.5.4

Someone do suggest. the forum is important part of my site.

[unihead]

Thankyou Sam. So far Wangguard seems to be working (fingers crossed). While I certainly don’t blame the developers, it does seem crazy that so much time and energy is repeatedly wasted when newbies have to go through the same convoluted processes time and again every time they come up against such common problems. Or that simple things like asking a question on registration are not built into the basic installation.

A simple page on this site or in the documentation called How to Deal with the Inevitable Spam, that is kept updated would, for example, be a good start.

[Robkk]

i dont recommend using that envato author support forum theme , unless you are at least selling a product from envato or want a support forum and know how to remove what you dont want from the envato theme.

plus the envato theme hasnt been updated in 2 years.

[meravjon]

Sorry, I didn’t answer all questions. Here it is:
Always done this?- no
just started?-yes
just installed bbpress? – installed about a month ago
have you added anything – like plugins? – MailPoet Newsletters
changed themes – no
updated plugins- yes (WordPress SEO, Contact Form 7)
updated wordpress? automatic
what versions of bbpress – 2.5.4
& wordpress – 4.0
are you running, which theme? frontier

and what is a ‘response’ – a reply to a topic? – yes

[Robin W]

Always done this?, just started?, just installed bbpress?, have you added anything – like plugins?, changed themes?, updated plugins?, updated wordpress? what versions of bbpress & wordpress are you running, which theme?

and what is a ‘response’ – a reply to a topic?

Come back with further info, and we’ll try to help 🙂

[Riobeaches]

Just wondering if this has been updated in the last year and if it’s now possible to have multiple forums in one group.

[treb0r23]

@RavanH Thanks a lot!

I’m going to wait a bit longer and see if BBPress gets updated to fix these issues before I need the site to go live. if not, I’m going to give this a whirl.

[treb0r23]

Hi All,

I’m having a very frustrating time here.

I’m building a new site, and I need to transfer a BBPress powered forum from the old site.

Both sites are running BBPress 2.5.4.

The new site is running WordPress 4.0, the old site 3.9.2

My first surprise was when I realised that BBPress does not list BBPress in the list of platforms in the Tools -> Forums -> Import Forums dialog.

So I spent a couple of hours reading up and then set out to move the forums across to the new site.

I started out by using WP Migrate Pro to migrate wp_users and wp_usermeta from the old forum.

Then I used the WordPress Exporter to export Forums, Topics and Replies.

Then I used the WordPress Importer to import each of these three files.

As each file imported I manually specified which user should be given authorship of the forum, topic or reply. There are a lot of forums topics and users, this takes more than hour.

This seemed to go well, and at the end of the process I could see all of the forums, topics and replies in the BBPress admin screens of the site.

I went to the forums on the front-end, and I could see all the forums listed, together with the number of topics and replies in each one, and the last poster.

When I clicked through to view a forum, I saw the following message:

“This forum contains 1 topic and 7 replies, and was last updated by xxxx (name removed) 2 months, 2 weeks ago.”

Underneath that, another message:

“Oh bother! No topics were found here!”

So I Googled and Googled. I tried using the Tools -> Forums -> Repair Forums dialog, but this simply deleted all of my replies.

So I ran through the whole process again. Same result. I can see everything in the admin, but only the forums with no topics and no replies in the front end.

I’ve tried downgrading WordPress to 3.9.2, and also switching to the 2014 theme. Still no joy.

I’ve also tried disabling all of my other plugins. No dice.

I’ve also tried this:

bbpress wp4 fix

I would be really grateful if somebody out there might be able to help me with this.

I thought BBPress is a well supported WordPress based forum. Surely the ability to easily move forums between different WordPress installs is a core requirement?

Help!

[Stephen Edgar]

I just replied to the BuddyPress topic you posted…

Maybe try a ‘different’ disable email plugin is an option, I haven’t tried this but this one was recently updated and states it’s compatible with WordPress 4.0 https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-emails/

[mpesgt01]

New on bbPress, we’re close to 2015, i want to install the one and only best social Facebook login option, so visitors can become users simply by signing-up with the Facebook account. This might mean also that if one day I remove this plugin, everything is kept inside WordPress/Database…, no ?

Here is what I’ve found so far, order in downloads.
Thank you for helping me choose.
Waiting for your advice 🙂

https://wordpress.org/plugins/loginradius-for-wordpress
Last Updated: 2014-9-8
Downloads: 228,743
3.5*

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-social-login/
Last Updated: 2014-2-16
Downloads: 126,114
4*

https://wordpress.org/plugins/super-socializer/
Last Updated: 2014-9-5
Downloads: 52,593
5*

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/socialauth-wp/
Last Updated: 2013-5-28
Downloads: 4,927
4*

[Nicolas Korobochkin]

Finally! I find the solution for this issue. flush_rewrite_rules () doesn’t work if you don’t add rules before call it. So we need add our rules on plugin activation and only after this call flush_rewrite_rules (). I call this function and pass false arg because we need soft flush, without .htaccess rewriting.

Github repo already updated.

@pooledge your forum http://pupyshevo.hol.es/forums/forum/9/ work perfectly with digit in links right now.

[shughey]

Yep, I think it happened just after I updated to 4.0. Can I change back to the previous version and how?

[JoesUserName]

I’m trying to get bbpress up and running with Buddypress, and it’s all working fine except that the topics are not showing up in the forums.

The forums themselves are showing up, but when I click on a category it takes me to the page where the topics should be, and it has the message, “This forum contains 2 topics and was last updated…”

Then under that there’s the message, “Oh bother! No topics were found here!”

But if there are 2 topics, they should be found there, no?

I’ve tried looking at it with the twenty fourteen theme, and the topics to in fact show up. So why wouldn’t they show up in the other theme?

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

[tonydes]

@robin-w It’s because the new updated version of my theme contains hard coded fields in the submission page that are irrelevant to the purpose of my website. Hence I have to stick with the older version until a newer update is released which makes those fields optional.

[BusterMick]

My problem is now solved with the theme being updated.

[tonydes]

I also updated to WordPress 4.0. I’m not too sure if this has anything to do with it. I also disabled all plugins, but nothing changed it.

[nathanegraham]

Hi Stephen,

Thanks for responding! I actually updated from 2.5.2 to 2.5.4. Before I updated, I could just activate bbpress on a site-by-site basis on the multisite network and folks could use it just on their particular site. When I updated from 2.5.2 to 2.5.4, they could activate it on their site and I could see Forums, Topics, Replies but they couldn’t. I tested with the various roles and only Network Admin could see the menu items Forums, Topics, Replies. However, the actual forums were there and if I sent the site admin or site editor, etc., a direct link to the site forum, then could access it. It’s just the menu item visibility that’s the problem.

Thanks!

[STG]

Hi Guys,
I just updated my wordpress to version 4.0 and all my bbpress forums are
returning a 404 page not found error.
I have tried everything I have found on here and nothing works.

All the topics are there in the dashboard, but when I want to view them — Not Found
Apologies, but the page you requested could not be found. Perhaps searching will help..

I disabled all my plugins and reactivated them one by one.
I tried changing my permalinks to all the settings and saving them/ switching back etc and nothing happened.

http://straight-talking-golf.com/members/stg/

Trying to repair the forums and I get this:
You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page
P.S; I have full control over the server.

[johnjack]

I am experiencing the same problem. I have updated to WordPress 4.0 two days ago
Any of my old links to the forums just result in a 404 Error
I also get a 404 if I access through the /forum route on my web address

Our website is http://www.sailscorpion.co.uk some of our users have raised it with us.

Any help on this would be appreciated
I don’t have any of the plugins shown above

Thanks

John

[nathanegraham]

Hi,

Amazing plugin. Just ran into an unusual problem. I have a large multisite and I’ve been using bbpress and buddypress for a couple years with no problems until now. I just updated bbpress to 2.5.4 and here’s the problem:

1. site administrator activates bbpress
2. the site administrator does not see Forums, Topics, and Replies in the dashboard menu
3. If I navigate to their site as a network admin, I can see Forums, Topics, and Replies

So only network admin can see these menu items if activated on a site-by-site basis.

If I network activate bbpress, then everyone sees Forums, Topics, and Replies. I want to allow users to choose to activate bbpress on a site by site basis.

I’m on 3.9.2 and have tried disabling all plugins except multisite plugin management. Thoughts?

Thanks!

[Colbah]

Hi Robin, I’ve run the repairs individually as directed. Still no fun 🙁 . I also updated permalinks again and no win there also. Strange issue this one.

[Colbah]

Yeh I have but I’m not entirely sure that is my problem as I un activated the forum & re instated it before I updated to 4.0. & had this issue.

[steve030]

Have the exact same issue, and just happened recently.

I’m not using WooCommerce but it’s a pain in the ass.

I recently updated to WordPress 4.0 and think that may have something to do with it. But mine’s active in a membership site and have many angry members so will need it fixed asap!

Haven’t installed any plugins recently which could conflict so I’m not sure…