Stephen Edgar (@netweb)

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  • @netweb

    Keymaster

    Is this the correct way of using private?

    Pretty much 🙂
    Private forums can only be seen by users who are registered and logged in.
    Hidden forums can only be seen by moderators and keymasters (and logged in).

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    I’d suggest logging an issue with Timely at http://community.time.ly/forum/troubleshooting/theme-and-plugin-conflicts_aa and see if they have some tips on resolving the conflict.

    In reply to: Visual bbpress

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    Thanks for the follow up 🙂

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    Constantly bumping your topic is not really helpful. If someone has an idea on how to help you with your problem they will add a reply.

    I don’t use Facebook and have no idea how to help you fix your issue.

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    That was a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) project and is an awesome plugin.

    You should take a look at @rmccue’s bbPress plugin https://github.com/rmccue/bbPress-Reply-by-Email. It works quite well but is a little complex to setup.

    There are no current plans to integrate this feature into bbPress core and the recommendation is to use a plugin for this feature.

    In reply to: Edit Replies

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    I’d suggest asking the theme authors if they have some tips on how to fix or workaround the issue.

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    Why am I showing only MY activity in the activity area

    That is a BuddyPress issue https://buddypress.org/

    Also, how do I make the subscribers become members so that we can communicate in the forum?

    Once a user logs into bbPress for the first time they are given the default bbPress Role ‘Participant’ and are now able to contribute to your forums.

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    Cool 🙂 Drop a link to the forums in https://bbpress.org/forums/forum/pimp-your-press/ once you’ve finished, would love to take a look 🙂

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    Thanks for the follow up.

    You can backup your forums, topics and replies via the WordPress Export if you ever need to back these up 😉 http://example.com/wp-admin/export.php

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    @mosaicrob Pagelines have a bbPress module for there themes that should fix your issue, contact them for the link or search around their site.

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    Try making a copy of the Twenty Eleven page template sidebar-page.php file and rename it to bbpress.php

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    1. The legend of bbp-form gives no indication of the difference between a reply to topic versus a reply to a reply. I have to look at the URL displayed by the browser to tell the difference.

    Will take care of this in the ticket you created 🙂
    https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2509#comment:5

    2. When I go to the link of a post given by the RSS feed, it displays starting below the post’s toolbar. Now I know there is a toolbar above the post and can scroll up to click the REPLY link, then go reply. BUT – I really, really don’t want to have to educate every one of my moderators and users about this. From some Google searching about this, it seems that having the post’s reply link above the post is a more recent feature. I don’t think it is very intuitive, especially when a post link ending in “…/#post-416″ gets me to post 416 with the toolbar for that post invisible until you scroll up to see it (if you knew to do that).

    I get where you are coming from on this and this is pretty hard to implement in bbPress as we don’t know what toolbars, headers etc your theme uses and there are soooo many.

    I’m far from a CSS guru but is there some CSS trick that will allow some margin padding to fix this?

    3. Some of my moderators have pointed out to me examples of the “Freshness” column in the Forum index pages being just plain wrong. To be more specific, the “Freshness” entries in question say a particular category is several days old (even after an F5 browser refresh), when by going down to a topic in that category you can see that it should have been 30 minutes old.

    This does happen from time to time, hopefully with the patch in #1925 this will also be resolved. https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1925

    I get the same ordering issues with only some of the Topic threads.

    Is there/ Have you seen anything that determines if the issue occurs?

    Are the topics that work as expected before Threaded Replies were enabled for example?

    I also have a particular thread where a reply to a reply does not show any thread indentation and ends up after all comments on the topic, just as if it had been a reply to topic.

    Probably need to take a closer look at that entire topics topic, replies and replies to looking at the post id’s and relevant data.

    The ‘Threaded Replies’ issues I am tracking in ticket #2397 if you come across anything that may help diagnose these issues further that would be great.
    https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2397

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    Is there a migration path on moving previous threaded replies in the plugin to bbpress? Does just simple deactiving the plugin make the previous threads show up?

    I actually do not know, all I can suggest is giving it a try 😉

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    Try disabling all your ‘other’ plugins first leaving bbPress and your widget plugin, with some luck it won’t be ‘that’ plugin.

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    I haven’t really got any fresh thoughts on this except to try my suggestions above on creating a new forum and then topics to try and replicate the issue in a different forum.

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    No, it is not a feature and is a pesky bug we are having an extremely hard time trying to find the cause so we can fix it 🙁

    Edit topic reply, changes post order

    In reply to: bbPress Test Data

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    I’ll put it together and add it a link back here, hopefully some time today 🙂

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    I can directly add the vimeo url to the topic and it seems to work. Is that the best way to do it?

    This is the easiest and best way to do it as WordPress is actually controlling this rather than you having to use shortcodes.

    See this for more info (and other links that work the same way) https://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds

    In reply to: remove columns

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    Your trial and error is 100% spot on for what you should be doing 🙂

    That said you want to make a copy of the bbPress templates so your hard work isn’t overridden when you update bbPress, how to do this is here https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

    Everything you need to do to achieve your end goal is in these templates, you don’t need to go looking elsewhere to change things.

    Basically all the changes you need to make are to the loop-xxxx.php templates, primarily loop-forums.php, loop-single-forum.php, loop-topics.php, loop-single-topic.php, loop-replies.php, loop-single-reply.php and later the loop-search.php templates.

    In the ‘loop-xxxx.php’ remove the headers as you’ve already done in ‘loop-topics.php’ and in the ‘loop-single-xxx.php’ remove the columns.

    In reply to: bbPress Test Data

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    Sweet 🙂 Will have a play later 🙂

    In a similar vein there is also this from @MZAWeb https://github.com/MZAWeb/bbpFauxData

    I have a set of sample data that I use for all the different forum importing tests I have done and should really package it up as a WXR file, similar to the WordPress Theme Tests Data as it includes virtually every type of bbPress forum, topic, topic tag, reply and reply to options available.

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    Use ‘Private Forums’ for your ‘Registered Users’ as you must be logged in to see these forums and use a ‘Public Forum’ with ‘Anonymous Posting’ enabled for your guests.

    https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/#creating-your-first-forum

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    Most likely a plugin conflict, to try and resolve conflicts with other plugins please disable all your plugins except bbPress to see if the error persists. Re-enable each plugin one at a time and if things break again you should be able to now know which other plugin is causing the conflict.

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    This cannot be achieved at this stage with bbPress, the only option is to ‘Opt-In’ and there is no availability to have the defaults the other way around.

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    The subscribe to email notifications was a bug, it is now fixed in bbPress 2.5.3

    I installed that plugin, pulled up a user who was a Participant, and changed “View hidden forums” from “Default” (which was set to “Denied”) to “Allowed.”

    And then boom, the Participant account could then view the forums.

    Here’s the odd part though: we have 3 forums and they are all set to Private, not Hidden. So changing this setting shouldn’t have made any difference. Private forums are visible to Participants by default.

    I realized that one of two things were off: either the participants were NOT allowed to view private forums, or else the forums were NOT private. Had to be one or the other.

    The repair tool “Recalculate private and hidden forums” has a bug in it 🙁

    When that repair tool is run private and hidden forum are assigned both _bbp_private_forums and _bbp_hidden_forums statuses so this is why a user with the Participant role could not read a private forum as after that tool had been run it was also been given the hidden status also.

    The workaround for this is to do exactly what you did by “changing each forum from Private to Public back to Private” as this doesn’t touch the broken repair tool and sets the visibility status correctly.

    https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2512

    Thanks for your patience here @martyn-chamberlin and your detailed info helped a great deal finding said bug, just need to write a patch for it now. 😉

    @netweb

    Keymaster

    It is an issue with your theme not playing nice with bbPress 😉

    Try making a copy of your themes full width template eg. page.php file (Or page-sidebar.php if you want a sidebar) and rename it to bbPress.php then all your bbPress pages will use this template.

    How’d that go?

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