[PureLoneWolf]

See…now I feel like a complete moron. No, I had not checked the “Screen Options” option…although, in my defense, I have never adjusted that on the working site either…

So that’s the menu issue sorted now…/facepalm. I always say to check the simple stuff first, I should probably listen to myself from time to time.

What is confusing me about the functions.php mod..is that, to test, I have actually taken a copy of the working theme from the working site..and it still fails. It actually fails on every theme I give it. It literally happened when I upgraded to 2.4. I had the main site open in another tab, updated the bbpress plugin, switched to the other tab and hit refresh…where it immediately went to what it is now.

I thought it might be plugin related, so I deactivated any differences between the sites, and still nothing.

Is there another way to get this change, other than in the themes functions.php?

[Zack Tollman]

Hi there!

I just updated to bbPress 2.4 and experienced the same problem. All titles not on bbPress pages were rendered as blank titles.

It seems bbPress 2.4 introduced a new function that filters the wp_title function. As a temporary workaround that does not required bbPress plugin file changes, I have added the following to my theme’s functions.php:

/**
 * Restore non bbPress page titles.
 *
 * v2.4 of bbPress introduced a bug where titles for all non-bbPress pages were blank. This function restores order
 * without overwriting the bbPress core files. It uses the exact same function as bbPress for the titles with one
 * change: if none of the bbPress queries match, it returns the original title.
 *
 * The function first removes the bbPress filter that performs this action, then uses it's own routine to determine the
 * title.
 *
 * @param  string    $title          Optional. The title (not used).
 * @param  string    $sep            Optional, default is '»'. How to separate the various items within the page title.
 * @param  string    $seplocation    Optional. Direction to display title, 'right'.
 * @return string                    Modified title.
 */
function my_prefix_bbp_title( $title, $sep, $seplocation ) {
	// Get rid of the core "bbp_title" filter callback
	remove_filter( 'wp_title', 'bbp_title', 10, 3 );

	// Store original title to compare
	$_title = $title;

	// Title array
	$title = array();

	/** Archives **************************************************************/

	// Forum Archive
	if ( bbp_is_forum_archive() ) {
		$title['text'] = bbp_get_forum_archive_title();

	// Topic Archive
	} elseif ( bbp_is_topic_archive() ) {
		$title['text'] = bbp_get_topic_archive_title();

	/** Edit ******************************************************************/

	// Forum edit page
	} elseif ( bbp_is_forum_edit() ) {
		$title['text']   = bbp_get_forum_title();
		$title['format'] = esc_attr__( 'Forum Edit: %s', 'bbpress' );

	// Topic edit page
	} elseif ( bbp_is_topic_edit() ) {
		$title['text']   = bbp_get_topic_title();
		$title['format'] = esc_attr__( 'Topic Edit: %s', 'bbpress' );

	// Reply edit page
	} elseif ( bbp_is_reply_edit() ) {
		$title['text']   = bbp_get_reply_title();
		$title['format'] = esc_attr__( 'Reply Edit: %s', 'bbpress' );

	// Topic tag edit page
	} elseif ( bbp_is_topic_tag_edit() ) {
		$title['text']   = bbp_get_topic_tag_name();
		$title['format'] = esc_attr__( 'Topic Tag Edit: %s', 'bbpress' );

	/** Singles ***************************************************************/

	// Forum page
	} elseif ( bbp_is_single_forum() ) {
		$title['text']   = bbp_get_forum_title();
		$title['format'] = esc_attr__( 'Forum: %s', 'bbpress' );

	// Topic page
	} elseif ( bbp_is_single_topic() ) {
		$title['text']   = bbp_get_topic_title();
		$title['format'] = esc_attr__( 'Topic: %s', 'bbpress' );

	// Replies
	} elseif ( bbp_is_single_reply() ) {
		$title['text']   = bbp_get_reply_title();

	// Topic tag page
	} elseif ( bbp_is_topic_tag() || get_query_var( 'bbp_topic_tag' ) ) {
		$title['text']   = bbp_get_topic_tag_name();
		$title['format'] = esc_attr__( 'Topic Tag: %s', 'bbpress' );

	/** Users *****************************************************************/

	// Profile page
	} elseif ( bbp_is_single_user() ) {

		// Current users profile
		if ( bbp_is_user_home() ) {
			$title['text'] = esc_attr__( 'Your Profile', 'bbpress' );

		// Other users profile
		} else {
			$title['text']   = get_userdata( bbp_get_user_id() )->display_name;
			$title['format'] = esc_attr__( "%s's Profile", 'bbpress' );
		}

	// Profile edit page
	} elseif ( bbp_is_single_user_edit() ) {

		// Current users profile
		if ( bbp_is_user_home_edit() ) {
			$title['text']   = esc_attr__( 'Edit Your Profile', 'bbpress' );

		// Other users profile
		} else {
			$title['text']   = get_userdata( bbp_get_user_id() )->display_name;
			$title['format'] = esc_attr__( "Edit %s's Profile", 'bbpress' );
		}

	/** Views *****************************************************************/

	// Views
	} elseif ( bbp_is_single_view() ) {
		$title['text']   = bbp_get_view_title();
		$title['format'] = esc_attr__( 'View: %s', 'bbpress' );

	/** Search ****************************************************************/

	// Search
	} elseif ( bbp_is_search() ) {
		$title['text'] = bbp_get_search_title();
	} else {
		return $_title;
	}

	// This filter is deprecated. Use 'bbp_before_title_parse_args' instead.
	$title = apply_filters( 'bbp_raw_title_array', $title );

	// Set title array defaults
	$title = bbp_parse_args( $title, array(
		'text'   => '',
		'format' => '%s'
	), 'title' );

	// Get the formatted raw title
	$title = sprintf( $title['format'], $title['text'] );

	// Filter the raw title
	$title = apply_filters( 'bbp_raw_title', $title, $sep, $seplocation );

	// Compare new title with original title
	if ( $title === $_title )
		return $title;

	// Temporary separator, for accurate flipping, if necessary
	$t_sep  = '%WP_TITILE_SEP%';
	$prefix = '';

	if ( !empty( $title ) )
		$prefix = " $sep ";

	// sep on right, so reverse the order
	if ( 'right' === $seplocation ) {
		$title_array = array_reverse( explode( $t_sep, $title ) );
		$title       = implode( " $sep ", $title_array ) . $prefix;

	// sep on left, do not reverse
	} else {
		$title_array = explode( $t_sep, $title );
		$title       = $prefix . implode( " $sep ", $title_array );
	}

	// Filter and return
	return apply_filters( 'bbp_title', $title, $sep, $seplocation );
}

add_filter( 'wp_title', 'my_prefix_bbp_title', 9, 3 );

[leanderbraunschweig]

Hi there!

Just yesterday I went ahead and updated our bbPress to 2.4 and missed out on validating the search functionality – which actually broke!

Right now I get a 404 when using the search functionality. It somehow cannot handle the new pretty URLs introduced with 2.4.

Instead of
http://bbpress.org/forums/search/my-query/

I get
http://mydomain.info/searchmy-query

I already tried:

– Disabling affiliated bbPress-plugins (got one German string replacement active)
– Saving the Permalinks again
– Checking .htaccess for any possible Rewrite-Rules which might conflict

None of those worked.

Any hints on how to tackle the error? It obviously was introduced with 2.4 and I couldn’t even say where to look first after checking up upon the obvious…

I got a bbpress.php in place at /wp-content/themes/my-theme/ in order to wrap bbPress in style but even there I double checked the code and essentially there is nothing possibly conflicting (at least from what I see).

Looking forward to you guys helping out.
Thanks & Regards!

[akgt]

Has this been updated for 2.3 or 2.4??

[miracleren]

i have updated to 2.4,I find a problem for search.
when the wordpress Permalink Settings use Numeric like(http://localhost/test/archives/123),
use the bbPress forum search form, It will not result always.

[akgt]

@netweb

Hi Ive just updated and checked, when using buddypress and bbpress as group forums all pages still have the same titles from main groups, group, forum, to topic ect.

Is it possible to request a fix for this in the next update ?

[Stephen Edgar]

I have just updated my Kunena v3.x importer and added v2.x and 1.x importers 🙂

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2402

[akgt]

@Stephen Edgar

Hi Ive just updated and checked, when using buddypress and bbpress as group forums all pages still have the same titles from main groups, group, forum, to topic

[Stephen Edgar]

@csotelo Most excellent dude…. That said, I made one too 🙂

You can grab the latest revision from https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2402

The main differences are:

• Forums
• Updated code formatting and inline docs
• Uses kunena_categories.parent_id for Forum parent ID
• Imports Forums topic & reply counts
• Uses kunena_categories.alias for forum slug (seo)
• Includes Category/Forum forum type input & callback method
• Includes Open/Closed forum status & callback method
• Topics
• Ahmmm

Ok, I just stopped at ‘Topics’ as there are quite a few differences there, I based mine on Kunena v3.0.1 Forums, What version are you importing from?
(There are some significant changes here)

[Stephen Edgar]

@sam-rohn I hadn’t seen ‘Tehnik-bbPress-Permissions’ before so I’ll take a look at that.

@la_chouette Open /wp-admin/users.php and check the forum role assigned to each user affected. What happens if you change the user back to ‘Participant’? Can they post now? What happens if you now change them back to ‘Moderator’? Can they post now?

@freewpress Thanks, I can also reproduce this and looks like ticket #2319 didn’t quite fix the ‘Widget settings won’t save’, will try to get a patch in for bbPress 2.4.1.

@alex-ye https://bbpress.org/download/ updated, thanks.

@logicbit Can you try disabling all your other plugins and see if bbPress works if it is the ONLY plugin activated. If you can then re-enable each other plugin you have it might narrow down what the conflict is.

[dot]

Wordpress 3.6, using theme Twenty Eleven
BbPress 2.4 (Just updated this morning, though I had the problem with the previous version as well)
Only other active plugin: Error Log Dashboard Widget 1.0.2 (showing no PHP errors)
Several other plugins are installed, but deactivated while trying to debug this issue.

I have the following text on a single page:

Here is the shortcode for the single forum: [ bbp-single-forum id=39 ]

[bbp-single-forum id=39]

Here is the shortcode for all forums: [ bbp-forum-index ]

[bbp-forum-index]

The single forum does not display. The forum index does display. I have confirmed that the index is the correct number via the admin forum view. Here is a link to a screenshot. Here is the link from the forum page, showing the forum id: http://[domainremoved].org/wordpress/wp-admin/post.php?post=39&action=edit (Obviously, clicking it won’t work, because it requires a log-in, but this is to confirm that I’m finding the forum index correctly.)

Here is the forum: http://[domainremoved].org/forums/forum/pta-board/
Here is the page it is linked from, showing where the shortcodes do not work: http://[domainremoved].org/pta-board-2/
(Note: I have added spaces between the shortcodes so you can see the text that I used, then repeated the shortcodes without the spaces to display the forums.)

I feel like this should be some really simple user error, but given that I have double-checked the shortcode syntax and the forum id, deactivated all other plugins, and chosen the Twenty Eleven theme, I can’t figure out what it could be.

ETA: Wow, that was fast— my page got slammed with spam comments within minutes of posting the links here. I have removed them for now. If a support person needs them to diagnose the issue, I can give them out then.

[robkhoo]

Hi guys,

Just updated to 2.4 and the archive page for the forums is now not showing the forum at all. Check out what is supposed to be my archive for forums.

http://nagoya-info.com/discussions/

[Sam Rohn]

thanks stephen 🙂

might not be a bad idea to put the changelog info or link in top post too, the trac might be kind of confusing for the less experienced

i have updated to 2.4 from 2.3.2 on a few different test sites and have noticed that in some cases, the forums, topics and replies tabs in wp admin disappear, w gd tools and attachments plugins enabled only gd options in forum tab otherwise no forum tab at all, or the others

i tried disabling all other plugins etc but only disabling and reenabling bbpress restored the tabs

main site i updated went fine, admin tabs did not disappear, mostly same plugins, the sites that went odd also all had buddypress installed

for permissions and caps etc, i think it should be a basic feature to have a simple way to create multiple levels of private forums for logged in users – private forums for admins, mods, members, public forums for non-members, etc, basically some type of granular permissions allowing groups and forum access per group membership based on wp user role perhaps, similar to phpbb etc, this is standard w most other forums but currently this is still real tricky w bbpress…

any chance we might we see something along these lines in an upcoming release ?

[nvkodde]

I’ve updated my site to 2.4 and enabled hierarchical replies and now all the replies are only appearing on a single page. If i disable hierarchical replies in the dashboard the links to page 1, 2, etc reappear. Is that the way it’s supposed to work or could i have a problem somewhere in my site causing this to break?

[Andrea Whitmer]

I have just updated bbPress to 2.4 on a site running the latest version of the Genesis framework. When bbPress is activated, all posts and pages lose their titles – I just get a dash and the site title in the page source. This happens with all other plugins deactivated and with any Genesis child theme, as well as the naked framework itself. This was not an issue prior to the 2.4 release of bbPress earlier today. Any ideas for what I can do to fix this?

[Stephen Edgar]

@mchl Excellent that you now have a working migration. I don’t know of any outstanding issues for any {{{wp_insert_post}}} memory leak, now could I see any issue regarding this in WP Trac.

@leahcar8 Looks like your getting closer and closer to getting there too 🙂

I am doing lots of work on all ~20 importers at the moment that with all this feedback I will try to look at optimizing both the importer and the SQL queries used for inclusion in bbPress 2.5.

All these little gotchyas, tips, tricks and feedback is extremely helpful so I will also get the docs updated to include as much of this info to. 🙂

[kriskl]

there used to be the plugin to add this function, but it does not work in 2.2 bbpress anymore :((

it would be nice if the plugin was updated as this feature is very very useful

[Justinvarnes]

I am currently using Simple:press and want to convert to bbPress. I have both installed on my WP, and I downloaded simplepress.php and uploaded it onto my server in the file/directory suggested from this site (wpcontent/etc)

I followed these instructions: http://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/

And when I hit “start’, I get this:

“Repair any missing information: Continue

Conversion Complete
No replies to convert
No tags to convert
No topics to convert
No forum parents to convert
No forums to convert
No passwords to clear
No users to convert
Starting Conversion”

(Obviously in reverse order).

WHat am I doing wrong? I have the updated versions of both forums and of WP (3.6).

http://www.jazzdrummersresource.com

[jameswordpress]

I solved this after a quick search of the code. I updated the following file:

/bbpress/includes/forums/template-tags.php

updating the line:

‘posts_per_page’ => get_option( ‘_bbp_forums_per_page’, 50 ),

to:

‘posts_per_page’ => get_option( ‘_bbp_forums_per_page’, 64 ),

[Stephen Edgar]

I have updated the SMF Importer and you can download the latest again via the same links in my original post above.
Fixed:

• Forum parent hierarchy
• Imported Replies now import correctly
• User Display Name

Outstanding:

• User Passwords
• Custom BBCode for Topic & Reply Content

NOTE: If you are importing ‘users’ during the import you will see multiple instances of the following two error messages:-

• Notice: Undefined variable: user_pass in /home/webhost/public_html/wp-includes/user.php on line 1305
• Notice: Undefined index: salt in /home/webhost/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converters/SMF.php on line 566

These can both be ignored and only relates to the current non-working state of converting user passwords. If you need to login (or users login) they will just need to reset their WordPress password to be able to login.

[Stephen Edgar]

I downloaded a trial of Social Engine and I have now set it up to test with…

I am using Social Engine v4.6.0, what version do you have/using???

I may have missed it but I was unable to select a table prefix for the MySQL database during install so all the Social Engine v4.6.0 database tables all have a common prefix of ‘engine4_’ and here is a pic of the MySQL DB structure for the forum tables.

With your importer I noticed that with your ‘from_tablename’ for each section you are using multiple table names in each section. eg. In the ‘forum section’ you have used ‘se_forums’, ‘se_forumtopics’ & ‘forum’ for ‘from_tablename’, you can really only use a single database table for each section unless you have a valid set of ‘join_tablename’, ‘join_type’ & ‘join_expression’.

In my updated import script that I will link to below I used ‘forum_forums’ for each field in the ‘forum section’ and on the bbPress import screen I used a table prefix of ‘engine4’ thus the query during import will use all the forum info from the ‘engine4_forum_forums’ database table as per my image above.

I started with the copy of your import script you linked to which was a great help in getting up and running quickly and I have updated it with as many fields as I can find and things ‘appear’ to be working quite well at my end though some more testing is still needed.

Anyway, you can take a look at the update I did which also brings some code tweaks and formatting inline with the other bbPress Importers.

As long as you are using Social Engine v4.6.0 I think this should help a great deal, if your using an old v3 version we will have to see if I can get my hands on a copy of that.

One more thing… What about users? Do you need tom convert/import them???
(I will end up adding the user import to this for when others need to)

Without further ado…. Check it out here:
https://gist.github.com/ntwb/cefe6fe20b1a652a50fc
(It still needs a few more tweaks and checks, but it is close)

[Stephen Edgar]

bbConverter is out of date and no longer updated.

bbPress includes a phpBB importer and details on how to use it and any phpBB import issues can be found in these links:

https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums

https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/phpbb

[kiagua]

I’m having an issue with bbpress. I’m not sure why this has started, but when the bbPress plugin is active, these two lines of text appear at the top of the screen when viewing the Dashboard and/or the website pages:

Warning: in_array() expects parameter 2 to be array, null given in /data/15/2/29/3/2518166/user/2758606/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/functions.php on line 1199

Warning: in_array() expects parameter 2 to be array, null given in /data/15/2/29/3/2518166/user/2758606/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/functions.php on line 1199

We’ve updated our WordPress to version 3.5.2 and also updated bbPress to 2.3.2. We ran several other updates at the same time, and then the forums function stopped working.

Any ideas of how I can fix this?

[Stephen Edgar]

Firstly this thread is about an old plugin that is no longer being updated, the core of this code is actually now in bbPress core.

@jooda Yes phpBB import is fixed 100% in bbPress’ built in import tool

@LevyImage You can take a stab at modifying the included ‘Example.php’ included with bbPress to try importing your MyBB forums just as @vogelsang did here for importing from Drupal. There are some basic instructions here on creating your own custom imports for bbPress.

Further information on importing existing forums into be bbPress can be found here:
https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums

(I’m going to close this topic now, if you have any questions regarding importing please create a new topic)

[Stephen Edgar]

I have just tweaked your Drupal Importer @vogelsang and updated it with a few tweaks for formatting and a couple of extra fields that you wern’t importing.

Details are in trac here https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2375
(You can download my updated version directly from here)

There will be an FAQ over here https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/drupal

• Forum parents/hierarchy is now imported
• Topic/Reply counts are also imported to help out bbPress counts
• Open or Closed topic status is imported
• Drupal users are also imported BUT passwords need to be manually reset **

** See the FAQ and or Trac Ticket #2375 for details on the imported user passwords issue.

Lastly thanks a heap for doing 99% of the heavy lifting in matching the Drupal database fields, most excellent work on your behalf 🙂

As to the problems you are having with the importer stopping on you could you try to reduce the load on your server by changing the import values for ‘Rows Limit’ and/or ‘Delay Time’ to see if it is a server resource issue or if it stops at the same point there might be some funky data being imported that the importer is getting caught on during import.

Cheers,

Stephen