[Robin W]

sidebars are a nightmare since theme developers went away from the wordpress tradition of having standard files for each page type.

Many now just have a page.php file, which frequently calls functions and stops any easy solution to the problem of getting a bbpress sidebar.

So let’s start with what theme are you using?

[Robin W]

I’ve now incorporated the code above into my bbp style pack

bbp style pack

dashboard>settings>bbp stylepack>forum order

[Robin W]

I’ve now incorporated the code above into my bbp style pack

bbp style pack

dashboard>settings>bbp stylepack>forum order

[Robin W]

Issue resolved.

Usernames had ‘ Disable the visual editor when writing’ switched off in profile

I’ve now incorporated the code above into my bbp style pack

bbp style pack

dashboard>settings>bbp stylepack>topic/reply form item 9

[Robin W]

ok, you’ll need to amend wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/form-user-register.php

so
create a directory on your theme called ‘bbpress’
ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/form-user-register.php
Make a copy of this file, and put in in the directory called bbpress that you created above, so you end up with
wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/form-user-register.php
bbPress will now use this template instead of the original
and you can amend this

[Robin W]

contact me via the contact on

http://www.rewweb.co.uk

[Robin W]

@confusedneedhelp – great glad you are fixed !

[Robin W]

ok, it’s maybe a clash of terms being used on your site – ie something else is using search

As a test change the slug to say ‘find’ and see if it works then.#

We can then narrow down the issue

[Robin W]

@carzpk -lots of questions – need a link to examples on your site

[Robin W]

@anhduy304 – it is site specific, give us a link to your site

[Robin W]

@dreuezekiel – ok try adding this to your functions file

add_filter('bbp_before_has_forums_parse_args', 'order_by_freshness', 10, 2);

function order_by_freshness ($args='') {
	$args = array(
	'meta_key'   => '_bbp_last_active_time',
	'orderby'    => 'meta_value',
	'order'      => 'DESC',
	);
	return $args ;
}

if you don’t know how to do that, come back and I’ll wrap it in a baby plugin for you

[Robin W]

@confusedneedhelp – ok try adding this to your functions file

add_filter('bbp_before_has_forums_parse_args', 'order_by_freshness', 10, 2);

function order_by_freshness ($args='') {
	$args = array(
	'meta_key'   => '_bbp_last_active_time',
	'orderby'    => 'meta_value',
	'order'      => 'DESC',
	);
	return $args ;
}

if you don’t know how to do that, come back and I’ll wrap it in a baby plugin for you

[Robin W]

I presume you are linking to a page that has the [bbp-login] widget in it ?

[Robin W]

ok, I can only imagine that the code is not in the right place, or that a character is affecting (one character out of place and nothing works !)

ok, remove the code above completely

I’ve put the code into a small plugin

go to

add visual aditor

and download it to your PC, noting where it is downloaded to

go to

dashboard>plugins>add new>upload plugin and upload the file you downloaded and activate

If that doesn’t work, then I’m stumped, but please come back and let us know

[Robin W]

I’d do two checks

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[Robin W]

oh, and I’ve just looked at your previous interactions, and you just abandoned RobKK who was trying to help you, so hopefully you won’t do the same to me:-)

[Robin W]

I appreciate your frustration that you have not had answers posted, but not sure who you expect to answer them?

People write open source software in their own time and offer it for free. Under the open software foundation the software is offered without any warranty or support. You use it if you like and not if you don’t. It is perhaps a bit much to then expect software authors to answer every question someone might have about that software, or indeed having offered that software to the world for free, that they should invest any time to this unless they wish to. To then complain that they won’t tell you how to modify their error free code to do something you want but they didn’t design seems even more insulting.

If someone gave you a car for free, would you then tell them that they suck because they don’t come and service it for you? or whinge about it because they won’t re-spray it for you because you wanted it in red not green?

I am not a bbpress author, I’m just a guy who uses this software, and in turn spends some of my time in trying to help others. I am too frustrated that people who ask questions on here so rarely then try and help others, and wish that more people would give up free time to help people like you.

But I am just me and we are here to try and help where we can, but please lay off the insults and accept that free software does not come with a right to free support, and if people don’t answer your questions, it is maybe because wee like to help people who appreciate free help.

To work out an answer for you will probably take 1/2 hour of my free time. I’ll take a look tomorrow maybe.

[Robin W]

by the way wp 4.8.3 is really old – any reason you are on that version?

[Robin W]

ok, I’ve just loaded the code below (same as in the post above) to my test site and it enables the tinymce editor on my test site

//editor bbpress
function bbp_enable_visual_editor( $args = array() ) {
    $args['tinymce'] = true;
    $args['teeny'] = false;
    return $args;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_after_get_the_content_parse_args', 'bbp_enable_visual_editor' );

//clean html when copy and paste into forum
function bbp_tinymce_paste_plain_text( $plugins = array() ) {
    $plugins[] = 'paste';
    return $plugins;

}
add_filter( ‘bbp_get_tiny_mce_plugins’, ‘bbp_tinymce_paste_plain_text’ );

So I suggest you start by doing some further testing

Themes

As a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

plugins

If themes don’t pinpoint the problem, deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Then come back

[Robin W]

The recent replies widget should not be used.

as per

dashboard>settings>bbp private groups>widget warning !

you should use (PG) Recent Replies or (PG) Latest Activity widget

[Robin W]

hey thanks – always appreciate being appreciated 🙂

[Robin W]

@heathcliff2013

1. I am just a user of bbpress – ie I am one of the ‘We need to help each other I guess.’ I am only a moderator because I do a lot of support on here, and someone needs to clear out the spam.

2. I was not ‘waiting 4 days’ I do have a life outside of providing FREE support I give here – giving my time without any payback to help others, and I respond as I get time to those that I can contribute to.

3. writing sarcastic comments ‘Yeah forget about the fantastic support’ – shows you really don’t understand how open source software works – people write code for FREE which other then use for free. If you have paid for something, then you can start whinging about support, but if someone gives you a car, you don’t complain that they then don’t come round and service it for you, open source software is offered as is, additional help is totally voluntary.

[Robin W]

We need to help each other I guess.

that is what open source software is all about.

[Robin W]

it used to be, doesn’t look like it now !

[Robin W]

no idea what your question had to do with twentysixteen, so split it into a new subject