[PinkishHue]

Hi ns, have you tried asking the plugin author? They may be able to help you more easily.

[PinkishHue]

That’s weird. Are you using any custom templates in your theme for user profiles?

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Do you mean that when a new user registers a topic containing their profile details would also be created in a specific forum?

That would be do-able I’m sure but would probably need custom coding, or there may be a plugin that will do this, you’d have to do some hunting on the forums here and on WordPress.org.

[PinkishHue]

This thread may be helpful also: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/remove-featured-image-on-forum-index/

[PinkishHue]

This sounds like something to look at in your theme. I’m not sure bbpress has thumbnails/featured images on topics by default?

Ask your theme author or let us know what theme you are using and hopefully we can find out more.

[PinkishHue]

This plugin is great (from what I’ve seen so far while testing)

Thanks for posting the link.

I hope this sort of feature can become part of the core bbpress plugin in future.

[PinkishHue]

It’s a bit of a catch all none-answer but have you tried resetting your permalinks?

Just access your Settings > Permalinks page and hit ‘save’. This can sometimes help with page not found errors.

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Cool, I didn’t know that.

@shanesams There probably is a way to code this. I’m succesfully using the Ajax replies plugin mentioned here:

Has anyone used the bbpress ajax replies plugin??

So perhaps that could be customised to work with an activity style layout? Just needs someone with some bbpress smarts to take a look at it 🙂

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Can you give a bit more detail? I’m not sure which empty author mark you mean (can you upload your screengrab to the web and post the image here as obviously that one in your post hasn’t worked)

Maybe someone else will know what this means? But I’m not sure. Will help if possible!

[PinkishHue]

If you want to temporarily disable a plugin(s) or custom theme you can access your site via FTP and move the folders (don’t delete!) out of their respective places. This will disable the plugin/set WordPress to use the default theme.

Then you should at least be able to login to your dashboard.

Hope that helps!

[PinkishHue]

It does seem tricky to set this sort of thing up (hopefully to be improved in future versions of bbpress?).

One way to do this, although not the most robust option, would be to simply hide the new topic form for everyone but keymasters/admins when viewing that particular forum.

I will assume you are accessing your new topic form when viewing the individual forum (it’s trickier if you are using the new topic form where you choose which forum to post to instead of/as well as individual forms in each section. This is what’s used here on the bbpress.org forums for example. If you need a solution for this as well let us know, I’m sure someone can explain how to do that)

This is just off the top of my head and not tested (hopefully someone more experienced will be able to advise better) – in wp-content/your-theme/bbpress/form-topic.php (create this file if it’s not already in your theme, copy the original from wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/

At the top of the file, after this code:

<?php

/**
 * New/Edit Topic
 *
 * @package bbPress
 * @subpackage Theme
 */

?>

Add this code to check if you are in your news forum (here I’ve used forum id ‘5’ as an example, you’ll have to find the specific id for your forum) and if the user is an admin (there may be a better to do this using the keymaster role instead of the usual WP role but I don’t know about that):

<?php if ( bbp_is_single_forum( '5' ) && current_user_can( 'manage_options' )) : ?>

Then at the very end of the file close the if statement by adding this:

<?php endif; ?>

That should work as far as I know but I am still finding my way with bbpress so can’t say for definite. Good luck!

[PinkishHue]

You can probably use a regular WordPress plugin to do this, for example:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-bulkquick-edit/

[PinkishHue]

One way to achieve this sort of thing would be using the ‘Display Posts Shortcode’ plugin:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/display-posts-shortcode/

Once installed you can add a shortcode to a post or page to display a list of all topics and replies:

[display-posts post_type=”topic,reply”]

and there’s lots of different settings you can customise, see documentation here:

https://github.com/billerickson/display-posts-shortcode/wiki

You may just need to customise the look of it to be more like a normal ‘activity’ page as normally this will just give a plain text list of your posts, so it depends on your needs.

Hope that helps 🙂

eta: You would still have to click on the posts in the list and go to their own page to add a reply. I’m not sure if that’s something you are trying to avoid when you say “batch process my replying right there. no clicking to forums” I’m presuming you just mean no clicking to see the posts, not for replying.

[PinkishHue]

Hi Steven. I don’t know anything about that plugin (and still finding my feet with bbpress) but my first thought is that it might be a conflict with the ‘lead topic’ feature of bbpress which allows you to use a different theme template/styling for the first post in a topic.

Here’s some more info on that:

bbp_show_lead_topic

If this is enabled on your site I would try disabling it (removing that code from your functions.php/plugin/wherever it might be), or alternatively if it’s not enabled, try enabling it, and see if that does anything.

Also, let us know what theme you are using and does it have custom bbpress templates included in it?

Hope that helps a bit!

[PinkishHue]

What theme are you using? Might be something in there causing it.

[PinkishHue]

You can do this either by using CSS to simply hide that information, or in the PHP templates where you can remove it completely.

There’s a couple of similar threads here that may help you:

Removing "HTML tags and attributes"

HTML tags and attributes

Hope that helps 🙂

[PinkishHue]

You should be able to control this in Yoast SEO by changing the meta title settings, or it may be something you have to do in your theme / a custom plugin.

See info here re: using Yoast and the different settings:
http://kb.yoast.com/article/146-yoast-wordpress-seo-titles-metas-template-variables

It looks like you want to make sure the meta title is set to just use this Yoast variable:

%%title%%

[PinkishHue]

Hmm, this sounds a bit complicated as bbpress replies are not technically ‘comments’, they are a separate post type, the same as topics, that are simply connected to their parent topic (as far as I know anyway).

The first thing I would try is to copy the code that displays comments on a regular post, and add this to the template that displays my topics. That way, if comments are attached to the topic, they will display when viewing the topic on the front end.

You want to find the template ‘content-single-topic.php’

This should be at wp-content/themes/your-theme/bbpress/

(If it’s not, read up on theming here: https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/)

Then add this code somewhere in that file:

<?php wp_list_comments(); ?>

If no comments appear when you view a topic, then I would check in my mysql database to see how the comments are being saved – perhaps they are saving to the database but without being assigned to a specific post (topic). You may need to enable comments for the ‘topic’ post type.

I hope that helps, it is a bit complicated as I said.

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As it’s been a few years since this topic was started I just wondered if there was any updated thoughts on this?

It feels like the world of the web is at a point where immediate posting, P2 style, is becoming a must-have feature (or at least a prefer-to-have feature).

Perhaps it’s still as complicated as it was 4 years ago, but perhaps not? Would love to know people’s thoughts or suggestions.

Thanks 🙂

[PinkishHue]

Thanks Stephen 🙂

Will definitely keep an eye on developments. For now I have used CSS to hide all but the most recent revision, here’s the code if anyone else needs it:

.bbp-topic-revision-log li {
	display:none;
}
.bbp-topic-revision-log li:last-child {
	display:block;
}

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@andreawalford Yes that’s right

@idroentertainment You’ll want to start a new topic with that info so that it doesn’t get lost in this thread, and you’ll want to add a bit more info to your topic, such as do you mean different forums (instead of categories?) or are you trying to categorise the topics in your forums?

[PinkishHue]

If you install buddypress along with bbpress you get a notifications count and list similar to Facebook, it notifies you of replies and mentions etc.

[PinkishHue]

Sounds great, I look forward to testing it out. Thanks for sharing 🙂

[PinkishHue]

Any update on this? Or any suggestions?

If no replies I will dive in the code to try and figure it out. Just trying to save time, hopefully someone has already done this or has a general idea how to (even a suggestion on the file to edit would save me a step!)

Thank you 🙂

[PinkishHue]

Yes support is a little short here but we just have to deal with that. I think support will improve as the plugin becomes more and more popular but it’s just taking a while 🙂

As bbpress is a WP plugin, your question is more WP specific, so – as you’ve mentioned – you just need to use the WordPress Codex to find out how to do things like move your installation. This is a valuable tip for everyone – if you’re having trouble finding an answer here, try the WordPress Codex or support forums as many answers can be found there.