[Stephen Edgar]

This has been updated for the next release of bbPress, it is floated right to the same way topic favorite and subscribe links are.

[Zdev1]

Two days ago i had an update showing for BBpress, and after I updated my forum page stopped showing. I can get to some of the forums via the ‘recent replies and topics’ on the sidebar, but when clicking on the FORUM link from my main menu, this is all that is showing.

Warning: array_merge(): Argument #2 is not an array in /home/content/p3nexnas05_data01/83/2102083/html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/functions.php on line 1344

WP Version – Version 3.9.1
BBpress Version – Version 2.5.4

[Stephen Edgar]

Forum import – The documentation states that stickies will not be imported, however I after doing the import I have around 20 ‘super-stickies’ which, looking at the old forum, are a mixture of announcements and stickies. I’d rather these weren’t converted to anything, and as far as I’m aware they shouldn’t be (https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2126)

The above ticket you reference was the ‘issue’ being created to track the changes and progress of implementing this feature.

In comment 12 that is where the ticket was to updated to ‘fixed’ and ‘closed’ via changeset r5170. Trac can be a little daunting at first trying to understand everything that goes on in a ticket 😉

With only your ~20 ‘stcikies’ it shouldn’t take more than a couple of minutes to ‘unstick’ the ones you do not want after your import has finished and the repair tools run.

I have updated the docs to reflect that also https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/phpbb/

Stickies – is there a way to ignore stickies during the import? They don’t appear to have come through correctly so it would be nice to simply ignore them (as was previously the case).

How so, could you explaing that a little more please? Do the topics ‘look right’ and are just not ‘stuck’ or something else going on?

User import – During the import, I (the main WordPress admin user) seem to have had quite a lot of forums, topics and replies linked to my user. I wasn’t a user on the previous phpBB forum at all so I’m not sure why I’ve adopted these posts. Or any posts for that matter.

If there is a username match the importer will try to match the posts being imported with any current WordPress user, thus if phpBB has a user named ‘admin’ and you use the default the default WordPress username ‘admin’ that will be the cause.

The best work around for this would be to rename the phpBB username in the database bvefore importing.

Users – looking at the phpbb data, the amount of imported users seemed to match up, but I wonder if I’ve been assigned posts that were previously changed to the ‘Anonymous User’ that phpBB has at user ID 0… the amount of posts don’t seem to match up with that theory but a ‘majority’ of the posts that have been assigned to me seem to match the logic to an extent (ie, posts that have been moved into a ‘moderators only’ forum for further discussion about actions to be taken).

You should notice that you now actually have a WordPress username ‘Anonymous’, so any ‘Anonymous’ posts should be attributed to that user.

Your ‘moderators only’ forum after import you should change the bbPress forum permission to ‘hidden’ and that will make that forum the equiv bbPress ‘moderators only’ forum.

Repair tools – All the repair tasks seem to work ok, except for two:
– Recalculate the position of each reply
– Remap existing users to default forum roles
These two tasks end up white-screening with no status messages at all.

What size is the phpBB database your importing? (Approx. Forums, Topics, Posts & Users please 🙂 )

User Login Conversion – User logins are converted correctly when using the standard wordpress login screen but now when using my custom frontend ajax login – does anyone know if there’s a way to get that to work? A seperate topic has been started about that here: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/user-login-authentication-migrated-phpbb-users/

I’ve pretty much still got the same opinion as I wrote last night here.

User Login – that’s correct – I’m just using the wp-signon method so I guess I’ll need to add some kind of do_action() call or something to trigger the conversion? If you can point me in the right direction, that would be great 🙂

There is nothing to point you to sorry, when a user logs in for the first time after the import their legacy salt and hash password get’s converted to the native WordPress password format. Without knowing each legacy password their is no way to do this programmatically.

bbPress’ login forms actually are hooked into the WordPress login forms, so theoretically it shouldn’t be too difficult for either the plugin you are using to add support for bbPress or possibly look for another similar plugin that already supports bbPress.

Passwords and all their associated algorithms are hard and this an area where I just manage to skate by with the basics, actually doing any of what I mentioned in the previous paragraph is way beyond my skill level and pay grade 😉

[localplayer]

Hi Stephen, I created this file and it’s still not working.
I updated the theme to the newest and it also does not work?
any help? It would be so important for my clients.
Thanks, Chris

[greenhoe]

Hi,

I”m creating my first theme and I have copied over all the bbpress files but for the life of me I cannot figure out how to remove the notification that is at the top of each forum that tells you “This forum contains 1 topic, and was last updated by John 20 hours ago”

The html is the <div class”bbp-template-notice info”> and I have looked through all the template files but I can’t for the life of me figure out what is generating that and how to delete it. I know you can hide it via css but I don’t want to do that I want to actually remove it from my forums.

Thanks

[Stephen Edgar]

The string Keymaster is being translated to Super Administrator(here)

If you login to http://translate.wordpress.org using your wordpress.org/bbpress.org username and password you can also suggest an updated translation and the Spanish translation team will review the translation and accept it or not.

The first link above is for the ‘development’ version of bbPress, upcoming 2.6 release, you should also suggest any translation updates for the current bbPress v2.5 here.

Once you have done the above you should let the Spanish translation team know:

Contacto

[pgarth]

Updated.

Thanks for your help, steering me down correct path.

Onwards.

Paul

[Lumartist]

Okay, I just found out, that it was a plugin I was using for forum permissions – Tehnik BBPress Permissions. As soon as I activate it, the subscription doesn’t work correctly anymore. Might be a problem, as the plugin wasn’t updated a long time, and it is not an “official” one…

Guess I have to find an alternative to it. Any suggestions?

[charris25]

Has a solution been found for this issue? I’m pretty much having the same issue.

This forum contains 1 topic, and was last updated by Admin 12 hours, 7 minutes ago.

Viewing topic 1 (of 1 total)

After “viewing topic 1” no topic is shown. my theme is bbpress compatible, I’ve tried disabling all plugins except for bbpress. nothing seems to work. any insight?

[charris25]

I’m having the same/similar issue when I click into a group and click on the forum tab I can see

“This forum contains 1 topic and 1 reply, and was last updated by Admin 1 week, 2 days ago.”

“Viewing topic 1 (of 1 total)”

But under “Viewing topic” topics are not showing up for any user.

I had turned the search engine option on the dashboard on/off… that didn’t work.

I changed the theme to the word press default theme and topics seem to be working properly there so I believe its something with the theme but I’m not sure I’m currently using the salutation theme. http://themeforest.net/item/salutation-responsive-wordpress-buddypress-theme/548199

I’m using WordPress 3.9.1 bbpress 2.5.4 and Buddypress 2.0.1

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Stephen Edgar]

Also you can export Forums, Topics, and Replies using WordPress Export (Tools -> Export)

You could then export updated topics and replies and import them again into your other install.

The issue of needing to use the a custom importer that you added a comment on in #2605 is to maintain legacy user meta.

[tharsheblows]

I’m updating this because it’s not a bbPress issue. I mean, it’s in bbPress but it’s not a bug. I have a dev site made from the site in March and user reply pagination is working on there. As far as I can tell, *nothing* is different about the two. I updated the dev site, one bit at a time, it was tedious, to match the live site and the pagination still works correctly.

So I don’t know. If anyone has any ideas, please shout (and then type it down). I had a similar-ish problem on a different site and it was a WP_query issue, so I think something might be affecting that. But where? And why only there? All the other pagination is working correctly.

We may never know.

[Steven]

@netweb

Yes, I did both. 2618.4.diff would not affect me though. I did verify the email address was correct in the Mandrill dashboard, noreply@connections-pro.com, but they were still being rejected.

I made sure to deactivate two plugins I’m using to make sure they were not inferring just incase they need to be updated to work correctly with the bcc change.

Those plugins were:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-custom-reply-notifications/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-new-topic-notifications/

I saw that both @jchristopher and @sudar mention they had to hardcode an email address that wpMandrill knows about. I’m wondering if I need to use one of the new filters to change the noreply address to a real valid address for wpMandrill to send the email without rejecting it. If I could figure out what they did to resolve their issue, but use a filter instead of hard coding it, that seems like it would solve my problem in a update safe way.

For now I’m still using the functions.php file from 2.5.3 (I have 2.5.4 installed).

What I mean by previous method is, in 2.5.4, notifications are sent as a “group” bcc was as in 2.5.3 it was one email per notification (right?).

[Stephen Edgar]

Ha! Confirmed, will add an updated patch shortly….

It strips all the ssssssssss’s so even https://sssseanwes.com/ becomes @eanwes.com 😉

[Stephen Edgar]

Shane you should be able to test the updated solution in 2618 now if you like 😉

[shughey]

These notices:

• This topic contains 0 replies, has 1 voice, and was last updated by Avatar of Sam Hughey Sam Hughey June 10, 2014 at 8:32 PM.
• Your account has the ability to post unrestricted HTML content.
• Oh bother! No topics were found here!

Sorry, I should have been clearer.

[edgarpoe]

Tried applying the code and give me warning after activating the plugin

/* 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 Originally found here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-bbpress-new-topic-notifications-new-reply-notications-too?replies=13 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( ‘-60 days’) bbp_close_topic( $topic_id ); } } ?>

[Robin W]

I found this code in my files, try this

/*
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

Originally found here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-bbpress-new-topic-notifications-new-reply-notications-too?replies=13

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 );
		}
}
?>

change the -10 days to whatever you want

Basically just create a file called say ‘close.php’ and put this code in it. Create a directory in your site

wp-content/plugins/close

and put the file in there

then go into

dashboard>plugins>installed plugins and activate it

I haven’t tested this.

[John James Jacoby]

When a plugin is updated via WordPress’s Admin Interface

• It is deactivated
• New files are pulled down
• It is reactivated

Problem is, the bbPress Notify Spam plugin isn’t coded in such a way to fail gracefully when bbPress is not active. Thus when WordPress tries to reactivate bbPress, a fatal error occurs. Not because of bbPress, but because bbPress is temporarily not there, and bbPress Notify Spam tries to call bbPress functions.

The fix is for that plugin author to use bbPress’s sub-actions and filters to include its files and execute code, and not call bbPress core functions without confirming bbPress is active previously in its call stack.

Sorry y’all for the inconvenience, but there’s little we can do in bbPress core to prevent this type of thing.

[pwdesign]

I’m a hosting reseller and a client updated bbpress and the same thing happened. The error log reads PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function bbp_get_topic_post_type() in /home5/nwjhogco/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress-notify-nospam/bbpress-notify-nospam.php on line 107
Site and admin are completely gone. No access. What can I do before resorting to restoring from an older backup?

[aborruso]

Hi Stephen,
I have updated my site to WordPress 3.9.1 and bbPress 2.5.4.

I have the post reply button, but the reply href of reply is not related to the post ID, but it is related to new post.

In this forum instead you have https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/topic_name/?bbp_reply_to=147344&_wpnonce=fda342eb5b#new-post

Is it normal?

[Neosnc]

Hi Stephen,

I just updated to bbPress 2.5.4 and noticed the css load issue again. I’ve created a patch and my first trac ticket here!

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2613

[jacuzzy]

Alright, did not bump any topic > 12 months, and will not do so.

So here’s where I’m at: Figured out a fresh bbPress install from 2.1 and above has issue 1 resolved for me.
But with bbPress 2.4.1, the version I’m running, I still needed the most updated bbPress-Thesis compatibility pack to fix issue 2. Unfortunately, the bbPress compatibility pack only goes up to 1.2.4 (what I’m now running), and was only actively being updated until bbPress 2.1 or so.
I tried running a clean bbPress 2.5.3 (no compatibility pack), and issue 2 occurs. Adding the compatibility pack breaks 2.5.3 completely (and I’ve not invested time looking into code).

What’s happening now is that issue 1 (HTML for editor inside editor when editing topics) is now occurring when I try to edit replies. So I’m still having issues with the visual editor.

What puzzles me is that in the Thesis forums, some other users talked about having troubles with their visual editor as well, even with the latest (1.2.4) compatibility pack. But supposedly, someone found a fix and crossposted it in this topic and in the Thesis forums. In the Thesis forums, he claims that this fix is implemented since bbPress 2.2, but I’m running 2.4 and still having issues with the editor?

The code fix in the above link also does not work for me, since in 2.4.1, bbp_replace_the_content is no longer a method that exists in theme-compat.php. Considering that the symptoms of my current issue seems to be the same as original issue #1, I would think the fix would have something to do with a similar problem where a function is being called twice, but have no idea where to begin looking. Any ideas?

[Stephen Edgar]

Here is Robin’s code updated to only show the website if it is not blank:

function user_profile_bbp_website_information()	{
//this function adds the website to the profile display menu
	$url=bbp_get_displayed_user_field( 'user_url' ) ;
	if ( ! empty($url) ) {
		$label1 =  $rpi_options['item1_label'] ;
		echo "<p>" ;
		printf ( __( 'Website : ', 'bbpress' ));
		$url='<a href="'.$url.'">'.$url.'</a>';
		echo $url;
		echo"</p>" ;
	}
}
add_action ('bbp_template_after_user_profile', 'user_profile_bbp_website_information') ;

To add the location you want to add this, this will add the field to their profile so they can edit and update it, you then just duplicate the code from either Robin’s or mine and replace $url with $location and user_url with location:

function ntwb_user_contact_methods_location( $user_contact ){

	/* Add user contact methods */
	$user_contact['location'] = __('Location');

	return $user_contact;
}
add_filter('user_contactmethods', 'ntwb_user_contact_methods_location');

[Stephen Edgar]

Ha! Lets not hijack this topic any further, I updated my stance (or lack of) here 😉