[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 10 months ago]

bbPress is tested with wordpress default themes. It maybe a conflict – you need to check plugins and themes

It could be a theme or plugin issue

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 Moderator 8 years, 10 months ago]

you should have forums, topics and replies in the dashboard.

If not come back

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 10 months ago]

It works fine on my test and live sites !

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 10 months ago]

rant is fine – I am just a user of the software expressing an opinion 🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 10 months ago]

bbp_get_topic_author_id( $topic_id )

bbp_get_reply_author_id()

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 10 months ago]

If you use

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-private-groups/

you can set up groups and have different access levels

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 10 months ago]

not really sure that if you don’t want to use my widgets I can help further. By all mean put up a post suggesting improvements though

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 10 months ago]

ok.

I am the author of the private groups plugin, which I wrote to get over the limitations of bbpress. I have no relationship to bbpress, and can only work with what bbpress gives me, hence we end up with something that is ‘public’ and then using a plugin to make it private.

…so those Activities are showing up in widgets and shortcode locations and archives as public information

In the private groups plugin there are shortcodes and widgets that work with my plugin to hide stuff, go into

Dashboard>settings>bbp private groups

and look at the ‘widget warning’ and ‘shortcode warning’ tabs you will see the replacements.

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 10 months ago]

no problem !

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 10 months ago]

Great – thanks for posting back !

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 10 months ago]

ok, without having time to do all the work, I’ve quickly edited this bit of code – it may need debugging, but should get you there with some playing

add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_items', 'rew_edit_profile', 10,2 );

function rew_edit_profile ($menu, $args) { 
global $bsp_login ;		
if (!is_user_logged_in())
		return $menu;
	//if primary set and not primary then return
	if ($args->theme_location !== 'primary' )   {
		return $menu ;
	}
	
	else
		$current_user = wp_get_current_user();
		$user=$current_user->user_nicename  ;
		$user_slug =  get_option( '_bbp_user_slug' ) ;
			if (get_option( '_bbp_include_root' ) == true  ) {	
			$forum_slug = get_option( '_bbp_root_slug' ) ;
			$slug = $forum_slug.'/'.$user_slug.'/' ;
			}
			else {
			$slug=$user_slug . '/' ;
			}
			//set link to welcome xxx
			$edit_profile= 'Welcome!'. esc_html( $current_user->user_firstname ) ;
						
			//get url
			$url = get_site_url(); 
			$profilelink = '<li> <a href="'. $url .'/' .$slug. $user . '/edit">'.$edit_profile.'</a></li>';
			

			
		$menu = $menu . $profilelink;
		return apply_filters( 'rew_edit_profile', $menu );
}

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 10 months ago]

So are you trying to get it to say logout, or are you trying to get it to say ‘welcome’…

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 10 months ago]

seems to be too hard a question !

For whatever reasons 2.6 doesn’t seem to be progressing, and no-one seems able to tell us why. JJJ seems to have disappeared from the authors of bbpress.

I think you can have two attitudes to this.

1. That bbpress id dead, and going no-where
2. that bbpress is mature, and that there are lots of plugins out there which add the functionality that you need, built on a stable solid base.

Given FB, Twitter, Instagram, pinterest etc. it is easy to see forums as yesterday’s technology, but the content in the list above seems to be transient, with no sorting, logic or permanence. Read and forget.

With forums you get logic, easy to read threads, and search capability – so I think forums still have their place.

So if you are like me, you have bbpress, but also have several other plugins (including my own published ones) that give my forums the functionality they need.

so go into wordpress plugins and search for both bbp and bbpress to see what is available.

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 10 months ago]

without knowing what that looks like – I suspect you won’t get a response

Can you post a link to a screenshot of what the issue is?

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 10 months ago]

this depends on what you mean by ‘change color’ – can you post a link to your site and say what part you would like to be what color

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 10 months ago]

you can use the sidebar that your forum page is displaying – if it is showing one then read the rest of this, if not then come back !

If you want specific items for bbpress and maybe others on other pages, then add https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/widget-logic/

and then use

is_bbpress() as a condition for widgets to be shown and !is_bbpress() for widgets that you don’t want on forum pages, but do on others.

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 10 months ago]

@omarsammour Unfortunately @jslom didn’t post the solution, maybe he will see this and come to our help.

Whilst my knowledge has improved, and given enough time I could probably work out an answer – I am fully tied up in other work at the moment – sorry 🙁

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 10 months ago]

try here

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 10 months ago]

That’s fine – just wanted to clarify that this is just one person’s opinion.

Also we are probably going to split this into a new topic

Not sure who the ‘we’ is in this sentence?

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 10 months ago]

@Robkk

Its not recommended during a setup of bbPress.

BY whom???????????????????????????????

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 10 months ago]

@Robkk

I usually do not say use a “forums page” as it is not recommended during setup

1. Can’t see where it is not recommended -Indeed in dashboard>settings>forums it says “Customise your Forums root. Partner with a WordPress Page and use Shortcodes for more flexibility.”

2. There’s a massive difference between recommending something and saying ‘it is not recommended’ As far as I know bbPress is just neutral – either works fine.

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 10 months ago]

ok, style pack version 3.2.7 should fix this

Let me know either way !

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 10 months ago]

I still can’t seem to mod the caps of Participant role.

ok, I’ll bite once more – can you post EXACTLY what you have as code to fix that, and tell me where you have put it.

and set the forums I wish to be private, to PUBLIC (ironic and backwards that is)

Private groups is my plugin, and yes agree gthat public seems wrong, but I can only work with what bbpress gives me, and use code to improve !

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 10 months ago]

Great – I can see the issue – I’ll fix it shortly !

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 10 months ago]

if topics are set as published then my ‘fix’ won’t help.