[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 4 months ago]

so in

dashboard>settings>bbp private groups>Group name settings – set up groups called ‘members’ and ‘author’

then in

dashboard>forums>edit forum – set each forum to be assigned to whichever group you want it to be visible to, and set the forum to be public (private groups will then hide it)

then in

dashboard>settings>bbp private groups>assign groups to roles – set authors to see the author group and members to see the member group

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 4 months ago]

ah, ok add this plugin which should fix it

Hello theme Elementor bbPress template fix

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 4 months ago]

My private groups plugin lets you

create groups
assign forums to those groups
assign roles to the groups

thus giving you what you want.

Private groups

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 4 months ago]

what theme are you using?

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 4 months ago]

glad to have helped 🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 4 months ago]

if it doesn’t work, come back !!

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 4 months ago]

This is possibly because in the bbPress default theme package, there is a template called content-search.php. In some newer themes there is also a template of the same name. And since the bbPress templates don’t necessarily need to be in a bbPress folder, the bbPress plugin is choosing the template from your theme before the template that is actually in bbPress.

so if you have access to FTP, find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/content-search.php

transfer this to your pc and save

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

Then transfer the file you saved above and put in in the directory called bbpress that you created above, so you end up with
wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/content-search.php

bbPress will now use this template instead of the original

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 4 months ago]

I am just a moderator here, and not a bbpress author.

The authors tend to release updates every few years, rather than more frequently.

My personal view is that you should consider bbpress to be a ‘mature’ product, ie any releases will be to fix issues rather than add functionality.

bbpress is written really well, and has loads of hooks. There are no show stopper bugs in it, it may throw a few deprecation notices (and these are very few at the moment), but WordPress recommends that you should not show error messages in live sites.

I currently have my test site running WordPress 6.3 and php 8.1 with no issues.

The only major issue with bbpress at the moment is that it does not work well with FSE themes.

However my bbp style pack plugin has fixes for this

bbp style pack

as well as block versions of the widgets and a ton of styling and functionality add-ons.

All plugins are subject to the authors commitment, and bbpress is no different.

The main WordPress support forums use bbpress, and it would be mega work to move those over to some other product.

But with open software you make your choices….

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 4 months ago]

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Topic/Reply Form

to enable editors

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 5 months ago]

so if you click the ‘support’ tab on this page, and enter a search, you will see that you can link from the topic – does your site do something different?

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 5 months ago]

I am on this staging site: https://wordpress-631920-3100285.cloudwaysapps.com/forums/ trying to get it to show more than 8 forums on the page.

Apologies for the delay, I have been on holiday.

Looking at that link, it seems you have fixed your 8 to a page issue – yes?

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 5 months ago]

no problem, glad you have found a solution

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 5 months ago]

glad to have helped 🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 5 months ago]

so what wordpress theme are you using?

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 5 months ago]

Great !!

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 5 months ago]

add_filter ('bbp_get_title_max_length' , 'rew_change_length') ;

function rew_change_length () {
	$length = 160 ;
return $length ;
}

so change length to whatever number you want.

Put this in your child theme’s function file –

ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/functions.php

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

or use

Code Snippets

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 5 months ago]

great – glad to have helped 🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 5 months ago]

If you know enough to FTP a file, then

find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/user-details.php

transfer this to your pc and edit

remove lines 72-76 ie these :

<li class="<?php if ( bbp_is_single_user_edit() ) :?>current<?php endif; ?>">
					<span class="bbp-user-edit-link">
						<a href="<?php bbp_user_profile_edit_url(); ?>" title="<?php printf( esc_attr__( "Edit %s's Profile", 'bbpress' ), bbp_get_displayed_user_field( 'display_name' ) ); ?>"><?php esc_html_e( 'Edit', 'bbpress' ); ?></a>
					</span>
				</li>

and save

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

Then transfer the file you saved above and put in in the directory called bbpress that you created above, so you end up with
wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/user-details.php

bbPress will now use this template instead of the original

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 5 months ago]

The way subscriptions works has changed

use this code now :

add_filter ('bbp_before_get_user_subscribe_link_parse_args' , 'change_subscribe') ;

function change_subscribe ($args) {
	$post_id = $args['object_id']  ;
	if (bbp_is_topic( $post_id )) $text = 'topic' ;
	if (bbp_is_forum( $post_id )) $text = 'forum' ;
	$args['subscribe'] = 'Subscribe to this '.$text ;
	$args['unsubscribe'] = 'Unsubscribe' ;
return $args ;
}

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 5 months ago]

The way subscriptions works has changed

use this code now :

add_filter ('bbp_before_get_user_subscribe_link_parse_args' , 'change_subscribe') ;

function change_subscribe ($args) {
	$post_id = $args['object_id']  ;
	if (bbp_is_topic( $post_id )) $text = 'topic' ;
	if (bbp_is_forum( $post_id )) $text = 'forum' ;
	$args['subscribe'] = 'Subscribe to this '.$text ;
	$args['unsubscribe'] = 'Unsubscribe' ;
return $args ;
}

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 5 months ago]

ok, try making a user an editor in wordpress and see if they can create a post. That might help define if it is bbpress or wordpress/site issue

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 5 months ago]

so you want to auto-close a topic after it has been posted – yes?

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 5 months ago]

so what is the code that does this?

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 5 months ago]

No that’s fine, I now understand.

Nothing I know of that does this – sorry !

you can have a visual editor that looks better than the default.

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Topic/Reply Form

and look at item 9.

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 5 months ago]

ok, that is just a picture, it is not clear what you want changed.

If it is the buttons, then sorry I know of nothing that does this at the moment.