[raduszeged]

nicoblue: I checked your website and – as far as I can see – you solved the problem. I’ve the same issue now; could you help me with the solution?

Wordpress version: 3.5.1
BBpress version: 2.3.2
Theme: Default Twenty-eleven (from earlier WP) with my own minor modifications

The problem is the same: the bbpress forum style on the full-width pages are working flawless. But when I use the shortcode, the floating elements are broken, for example the pagination is messed up. The styling was okay a year ago, but I updated bbpress not so long ago, after I did not checked the shortcode pages (my bad…), and yesterday I faced with the problem.

I show you the difference:

On full-width page, without shortcode (perfect):

Link: http://www.radu.hu/forum/f/kerdesek-a-pontos-adatokkal-kapcsolatban/

With shortcode, pagination and other styles are broken:

Link: http://www.radu.hu/hasznos-eszkozok/jo-minosegu-backteszt-adatok/adatok-letoltese/

At the bottom of the page, the new topic box (the border) is wrong:

Link: http://www.radu.hu/hasznos-eszkozok/jo-minosegu-backteszt-adatok/adatok-letoltese/

If anyone could give me a hint… 🙂

[josefelix]

Hey @fskrdla, can you please help me? I’m having the exact same issue, I’m in no way a programmer but I get around. I tried installing both Bbpress (2.4) and Buddypress (1.8) on WordPress (3.7) and I can’t for the life of me to get them to work. I updated the settings on my server to PHP 5.3, but I can’t seem to activate both BB and Buddy at the same time, I get a memory allocation error.

Do you have any tips on how to solve this? Thanks so much either way!

[acousticwebdesign]

I’m using bbpress 2.4.1 and bbpress moderation to moderate posts (which just sets the status of new topcis and replies to ‘pending’). I’m trying to add an admin link on topics and replies that need to be approved by an admin. Everything works fine, but the top level freshness statistic is not being updated when I change the status of a topic or reply from ‘pending’ to ‘publish’. This is the freshness statistic that shows when a forum was last updated (more specifically bbp_forum_freshness_link()).

This stat does get updated when publishing a pending post from the backend via Forums > Topics or Forums > Replies. I’ve tried everything to trigger the stats to refresh. So I guess a better question may be, how do I trigger a refresh on this stat. (I’ve tried going though wp_update_post, wp_insert_post, bbp_update_topic, wp_transition_post_status, and a few other functions and none of them trigger a refresh of the top level forum freshness stat). The only things that has come close is to call bbp_admin_repair_freshness() after updating the post. This seems to work for topics but not replies.

Any help would be appreciated.

[FreeWPress]

Is not good idea to change core code… And when bbpress is updated you lost all your modifies…

[koendb]

This should get you started: bbp_get_reply_post_date on sourcexref

I feel the same way. It’s great how much work is being put into this plugin, but the support isn’t great. And finding out what information is still valid for the current bbpress version is sometimes difficult.

But in general: you could google every function and after a few days you’re used to and can guess the very logical named function names.

Good luck. (and keep me updated)

[koendb]

Hey.

If you haven’t created a child theme, start with doing that.

Create the file bbpress.php in your child theme.
Copy the content of your page.php file into this new file.
Remove the line

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

You’ve removed the sidebar 🙂

Now you only need to change / add some classes / ID’s and adjust your CSS file to give the forum a 100% width.

Keep me updated 🙂

[thebobajob]

Hi, but it’s everything I just get one long output in a <p> tag

e.g.
<p>Viewing 1 results (of 1 total) Author Search Results Last updated 1 week, 4 days ago #37 Forum: Forum title one Author Search Results Viewing 1 results (of 1 total)</p>

loop-single-forum.php has tags in it? This is where the content is coming from isn’t it? It seems to be.

If bbPress has a search function as a widget (which is what I am using) but no way of outputting it what is the point? Sorry if I am being dim, I’m new to bbPress.

[Stephen Edgar]

Also updated the codex to reflect the correct shortcode syntax https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/

[Stephen Edgar]

There is this plugin by @jmdodd https://github.com/jmdodd/bbpress-topic-post-converter
(It hasn’t been updated in a while though, so not 100% sure on compatability)

I also think there are another couple of plugins that do this, have a search of plugins section:

Plugins

This is also planned for inclusion in a future version of bbPress in some form yet to be decided 🙂

[ricov4]

I originally was importing from v1.1.18 and had this problem. I then updated to 2.0.5 and down to 2.0.4, but both resulted in the same issue.

I accessed the information from the Server Settings page of the forum and believe I have the correct fields for all the values.

Could the database port have any effect?

[ikidre]

I just migrated my legacy Buddypress forums to bbPress, and at first it seemed that everything was working great. Then I clicked on a topic and saw the notice info, and the reply form, but I presume that posts should be displaying in between. There’s nothing there in the code (so it’s not a CSS issue).

I created a brand new forum, a brand new topic, which you should be able to see here: http://atdp.berkeley.edu/forums/topic/test-topic-2/
There should be two posts (the topic post and a reply), but there’s nothing.

We use Buddypress groups, and the group forums have the same behavior. The forum and topic ULs look like they imported fine, but no posts appear when you click on a topic. So the symptoms persist for both pre- and post-migration forums, and for both group and site-wide forums.

I can see all topics and replies just fine in the backend and in the database, though it’s confused me that posts seem to be saved in the wp_posts table, not wp_bb_posts. I also can’t figure out where the new forum gets saved, because it’s not in wp_bb_forums, nor do new topics appear in wp_bb_topics. Anyway, they appear in Buddypress activity streams, and I can edit them in the backend, so it seems they’re just not making it to the page.

I’m using the theme Custom Community 1.17.3, and thought maybe that was the issue. Nope. Same exact behavior with Twenty Twelve and the default Buddypress theme.

I went through the standard toggling of plug-ins and saw no change.

WP version is 3.6.1, Buddypress 1.8.1, and bbPress 2.4. I updated to 2.4.1 in the hopes that that might fix something, but nope. I closely followed these instructions for migrating my data.

I’d love some troubleshooting ideas, because I’m about out!

[Nermoz]

It will be wonderful if you could do something. Unfortunately my code knowledge is too limited. Keep us updated, thanks.

[Stephen Edgar]

It took a little longer than usual for the 2.4.x branch to go up:

If you find some obvious translations missing in the 2.3.x branch try the /dev branch as this is also ‘typically’ updated for most languages and you could also install the Dutch translations from there.

https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/dev

[niuserre]

Sounds like you want some sort of membership plugin, have a look at https://wordpress.org/plugins/

Something like https://wordpress.org/plugins/members/ or https://wordpress.org/plugins/s2member/ might do what you want but there are lots of different WordPress plugins for this, just check for one that is recently updated and compatible with bbpress.

[lordyuanshu]

Just finished up going from bbPress 1.0.1 to 1.2 to 2.4. Importing everything seems to have gone fine, though when viewing a forum it shows 1 post for each topic (when there are many more than 1 post).

Wondering if anyone has encountered this? I’ve done the recounts in the tools (after deleting much spam).

Biggest reason it is an issue is for the ‘freshness’ aspect; it is not updated after a post since it has each topic with only 1 post (in turn, it shows the most recent topic instead of most recent post).

Thanks.

[lordyuanshu]

Just finished up going from bbPress 1.0.1 to 1.2 to 2.4. Importing everything seems to have gone fine, though when viewing a forum it shows 1 post for each topic (when there are many more than 1 post).

Wondering if anyone has encountered this? I’ve done the recounts in the tools (after deleting much spam). http://www.lordyuanshu.com/forums/forum/destiny-of-an-emperor

Biggest reason it is an issue is for the ‘freshness’ aspect; it is not updated after a post since it has each topic with only 1 post (in turn, it shows the most recent topic instead of most recent post).

Thanks.

[dexterindustries]

I’m wondering if anyone else has experienced this: I (as admin) and other non-admins can’t seem to see fresh contents of the forum without logging in and logging out.

For example, if I reply to a post on a thread, I can succesfully post with no problems. However, to be able to see the updated thread, with the post I just made, I need to log out and log back in.

I have WP 3.6.1 running.
bbPress v 2.4
bbPress Custom Reply Notifications 1.0.1
” New Topic Notifications 1.1
” Notify 0.2.1
” Threaded Replies 0.4.3
” Signature 1.1

My site is http://www.dexterindustries.com/forum

(Also a note of thanks: this is an awesome piece of software and was super-easy to get going. Thanks for making it!!)

[benjito]

I want to create a custom landing page which displays my forums.

I have created a page with the bbPress shorcode [bbp-forum-index] which works fine.

However, the breadcrumb “forums” link goes to a different page which contains a load of text jibberish!

I changed the forums slug in the settings to my page (and updated the permalinks) but instead of the breadcrumb link going to the page with the shortcode, the page itself gets over-written by the text jibberish.

It actually looks like the bbPress sidebar is loading into the main content field, though i don’t know why or how to fix.

Page with shortcode > activenaturalist.org.uk/anforum/
Forums breadcrumb text jibberish > activenaturalist.org.uk/fmsforum/

If anyone thinks this post looks familiar it is because i posted about something similar in the past then went under siege from a Chinese bot, the website has only recently been allowed back up by my host.

WP 3.6.1
bbPress 2.4

[dexterindustries]

I am having the same issue. I can’t see updated posts unless i logout and then log back in. Is there a work-around for this in site?

[lwyndham]

@diggories

I edited the file plugin file called tabbed-login.php.

At line 176 edit the <div class=”userinfo”> so that it now reads…

		<div class="userinfo">
			<p><?php _e('You are logged in as ', 'tabbed-login'); ?> <strong><?php echo $user_identity; ?></strong></p>
			<p>
				<a href="<?php echo wp_logout_url($current_url); ?>"><?php _e('Log out', 'tabbed-login'); ?></a> | 
				<?php if (current_user_can('manage_options')) { 
					echo '<a href="' . admin_url() . '">' . __('Admin', 'tabbed-login') . '</a>'; } else { 
					echo '<a href="' . bbp_get_user_profile_url( get_current_user_id() ) . '">' . __('Profile', 'tabbed-login') . '</a>'; } 
					// Updated using bbp_get_user_profile_url( get_current_user_id() to link to BBPress profile page instead of the WP profile page
					?>							
			</p>
		</div>

Hope this helps!

[jbuesking]

Yes I have the latest version you updated. Thanks

I reset the forum and started from scratch. Ran the installer again and now it threw this error:

WordPress database error: [Table ‘ixxxxxxx_xxxxxxx.jos_kunena_topics’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT convert(kunena_messages.id USING “utf8”) AS id,convert(kunena_messages.catid USING “utf8”) AS catid,convert(kunena_messages.thread USING “utf8”) AS thread,convert(kunena_messages.ip USING “utf8”) AS ip,convert(kunena_messages.userid USING “utf8”) AS userid,convert(kunena_messages.subject USING “utf8”) AS subject,convert(kunena_messages_text.message USING “utf8”) AS message,convert(kunena_messages.time USING “utf8”) AS time FROM tvc4d_kunena_messages AS kunena_messages LEFT JOIN tvc4d_kunena_messages_text AS kunena_messages_text ON kunena_messages_text.mesid = kunena_messages.id LEFT JOIN jos_kunena_topics AS kunena_topics ON kunena_messages.thread = kunena_topics.id WHERE kunena_messages.parent != 0 LIMIT 0, 100

[inspirationally]

Wow, great work!! Thank you so much!
Baby sleeping, big one sent to kindergarden, so I have a bit of time, too.

Little changes in your version:

replaced

			'from_tablename'  => 'forum',

with

			'from_tablename'  => 'wbb1_1_board',

at forum status and forum board

(Btw. everyone may use another board ID!!!) I have 1, some may also have wbb2_1_board and wcf2_ or even wbb1_2_board (if they have a second board – you can install two baords in one WCF – Community Framework – this is to change individually. The same goes for the language IDs. There may be more/different languages.

Signature import works (will have to see how to implement that later for buddypress maybe), just special characters don’t convert: “there’s Johnny.— – but that’s just a mini error,
languages work, too (I just have to see how to implement it),
I have whole topics with all their answers (what I did not have yesterday – instead a headache).
Categories work quite perfect, too!
Closed forums -> no idea, because I don’t have any. But it sounds correct.
BBCodes have been converted, too, besides a few like [align=center]

The sortOrder does NOT work. Simply, because that field exists in wbb1_1_board, but it is empty.
This is saved in wbb1_1_board_structure with the fields parentID boardID and position.
I tried a table join here again and probably destroyed your clean coding once again. But it works, I just tested!!
See the updated wbb.txt from the top!!

The author thing is bad,
It’d be great if they even were anonymous and not ME. Actually there are some pretty silly posts there, and I keep replying to myself this way. Hmmm…
But I can solve it with manually replacing User ID 1 with 0 where it is a topic or reply for now to MAKE it anonymous.

I tried – because of the smilies not working and the special chars in the signature – an import with uncommenting the last lines (see wbb.txt)
Some Special Characters still wrong, but who cares for the few? as long as ä ö ü ß from German language work, everything is fine.
Smilies started to work. Great!!

So the only thing left is the author and the passwords.
I tried to implement parts of a paid plugin WBB Bridge here, but even that didn’t work (plus we cannot simply use it because of the license)

[Stephen Edgar]

Forum Section

• Added Forum Display Order using wbb1_1_board.sortOrder
• Added wbb1_1_board.boardType and callback method callback_forum_type where category =1 & forum = 0
• wbb1_1_board.isClosed & callback method callback_forum_status where closed =1 & open = 0
• (Are the above values correct for these DB fields? I have guessed these ;))

Topic Section

• Changed callback method for Topic Language from callback_topic_reply_count to callback_topic_language
• Added topic author ip
• Your SQL join for the topic content looks good

Reply Section

• Fixed ‘Reply parent forum id’ (we need the ‘parent forum’ here not the first ‘post id’, the inline docs were not very clear here)
• Removed ‘Reply Unregistered Author name’ (See #2347for more info)

User Section

• Added ‘User Signature’ wcf1_user.signature

Generally cleaned up the code and inline docs to match the other importers.

The updated version here: https://gist.github.com/ntwb/41b8bb57df78d1a1bd01
The differences between versions here: https://gist.github.com/ntwb/41b8bb57df78d1a1bd01/revisions

[Stephen Edgar]

Monday morning 🙂 I’ll download your updated file and take a look now.

[inspirationally]

I’m too silly, damn. This is over my intelligence.
I have the problem, that the posts have the wrong post_parent, so that two topics are merged curiously.

For example Post ID 9257 from the WBB board is attached to Thread ID 9257 from the old board, and I cannot see what I have to change. Please please help!
This took me now over 2 hours changing things and I haven’t found it. I guess it is this part, but I have no idea what to change:

// Parent Post ID.
		// Note: We join the posts table because this needs to be the fist post of a topic.
		$this->field_map[] = array(
			'from_tablename'  => 'wbb1_1_thread',
			'from_fieldname'  => 'firstPostID',
			'join_tablename'  => 'wbb1_1_post',
			'join_type'       => 'INNER',
			'join_expression' => 'USING (threadID) WHERE wbb1_1_thread.threadID = wbb1_1_post.threadID',
			'to_type'         => 'reply',
			'to_fieldname'    => 'post_parent',
		);
		

I updated the wbb.txt above (where I also linked the WBB database structure).