if you want anyone to be able to register for the forums, yes you do, and if you do then yes anyone can register, wordpress and bbpress use the same userdatabase.
Otherwise, you are looking at a manual registration system, which is quite easy to do, just use one of the many form plugins available – contact form 7 (and add the flamingo plugin) is very popular, and add users.
or if it is bots registering, use one of the many anti bot plugins available eg captcha to prevent bots registering.
great
my bug fix for this in bbp-style-pack does what the patch does, so should be a good alternative for those not happy with editing core files.
so do you know what files in bbpress you have changed ?
bbpress will continue to have new releases, and this will be an ongoing problem for you.
There are lots of ways to keep changes to bbpress outside of the core files.
so who is creating the topic ?
topics can be ‘sticky’ or ‘super-sticky’
sticky posts go at the top of their forum
Super sticky posts go at the top of every forum
sounds like your topics are becoming super sticky
you can look at these in then backend
dashboard>topics>edit topics and select topic > topic attributes on top right hand side> Type
they can also be set in front end
where in the topic they show in admin as
stick (to front)
if you click the ‘stick’ then it is sticky, if you click the ‘(to front)’ it becomes super-sticky which is very easy to do by mistake.
on relationships, bbpress uses wordpress ‘post-parent’
so a reply has a post parent of the topic it belongs to
a topic has a post parent of the forum it belongs to
and a forum has a post parent of a forum if it is a sub forum, or a category if it belongs to a category
These relationships are also stored in the post_meta table
details on ‘children’ are not kept – for instance displaying topics is done by a function called bbp_has_topics which selects topics where the post_parent is the forum concerned. bbp_has_relies has a similar serach for replies where the post_parent is the topic concerned.
no sorry not a function in bbpress or style pack
I’m not quiet sure why I am left to guess what your users want !! I’d suggest you ask them.
you can set your site up to display forums in a number of ways, but this is site wide, not per user
dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>forum order
what do they want to sort via latest posts ?
create a page and call it the same as your forum slug (usually forums)
then in that page put the message you want followed by
[bbp-forum-index]
(If you are using Gutenberg, then as this as a shortcode block)
this will then be your forums page
ok, thanks for letting me know
thanks for posting that fix, can you add that fix to the trac ticket please 🙂
great – come back if you need further help
if you have not got it already, you might also consider installing
bbPress – Moderation Tools
whilst it is old it still works, and tells the user that their post is being held, so that they don’t keep trying to repost it
usually due to too many links or blacklisted words
go to
dashboard>settings>discussion and look at comment moderation. Firstly the number of links, and secondly any words.
great – glad you are fixed
if you can do some basic editing and understand a bit of php, then this with some work shouldbe what you are after
add_action ( 'bbp_template_before_single_forum', 'bsp_display_buttons' ) ;
function bsp_new_topic_button () {
global $bsp_style_settings_buttons;
if (!empty ($bsp_style_settings_buttons['new_topic_description'] )) $text=$bsp_style_settings_buttons['new_topic_description'] ;
else $text=__('Create New Topic', 'bbp-style-pack') ;
if ($bsp_style_settings_buttons['button_type'] == 2) $class=$bsp_style_settings_buttons['Buttonclass'] ;
else $class='bsp_button1' ;
if ( bbp_current_user_can_access_create_topic_form() && !bbp_is_forum_category() ) {
$href = apply_filters ('bsp_new_topic_button' , '#new-post' ) ;
echo '<a class="'.$class.'" href ="'.$href.'">'.$text.'</a>' ;
}
}
function bsp_create_new_topicb () {
echo '<div><a class="bsptopic" name="bsptopic"></a></div>' ;
}
add_action( 'bbp_theme_before_topic_form', 'bsp_create_new_topicb' ) ;
it would have been helpful to tell me this in the original post, and that would have saved a considerable amount of effort by me.
🙁
sorry, that’s how it works, and how all plugins that I have known use custom fields work. As far as I can see that’s how it worked under 2.5.x – no code change I can see.
I’m just a user who helps out here, so if you really feel strongly about it, I suggest you log a bug at
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/
after you enter the custom fields, you have to click ‘update’ on right hand side to update the entries and save !!
