[@robin-w Moderator 10 years ago]

just a question, but is your staging site a wamp/lamp/mamp site ?

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years ago]

all themes allow a child theme – it is a wordpress thing not a theme thing. They won’t ‘support’ as in give you free help to set up and run.

see

https://codex.bbpress.org/functions-files-and-child-themes-explained/

As Pascal says, we can help with specific queries, but not in a full set-up. But googling around will fix a lot of what you’re asking.

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years ago]

since it uses wordpress registration, and wordpress plugin will work

several plugins for example

https://wordpress.org/plugins/cimy-user-extra-fields/
and

https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/user-meta/

neither tested just suggesting examples !

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years ago]

it would be quite easy to cut a fresh version of my last post plugin especially for you that works on the date you put in the forums.

contact me via my website

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[@robin-w Moderator 10 years ago]

that’s interesting, I hadn’t spotted that bbpress did that, I just tested it.

Let me have a quick look to see if I can work a fix for that.

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years ago]

if it isn’t still a caching issue, 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 10 years ago]

great – glad you’re fixed !

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years ago]

Great – glad you’re fixed !

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years ago]

no simple way to remove using css

You could just download my plugin and have it as a proper date

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-last-post/

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years ago]

great – glad you’re fixed !

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years ago]

is the forum ‘private’ or ‘hidden’ – sounds like it is hidden if only mods can see it.

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years ago]

Ok, you need to amend some templates and put these into your child theme

https://codex.bbpress.org/functions-files-and-child-themes-explained/

Sub-forum removal

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/loop-single-forum.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/loop-single-forum.php
bbPress will now use this template instead of the original
and you can amend this to remove the sub forums

line 44 says <?php bbp_list_forums(); ?>

delete this line and the sub forums will go !

forum posts

do the same as above, but for content-single-forum

and then take out line 26 that says

<?php bbp_single_forum_description(); ?>

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years ago]

https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/global-admin-bar-hide-or-remove/

or if you know code

add_filter('show_admin_bar', '__return_false');

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years ago]

bbpress looks different on every theme so we need to see yours

So can you

a) post a url to your site and in particular an example page

b)state exactly what items you want larger smaller

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years ago]

yes my plugin private groups

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

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years ago]

Great – you will learn a lot by doing so, and whilst initially it might be painful – it is worth it.

And at the end of the day, if you don’t take backups into your control, then any backups your host provider takes will be worthless if they go bust or have a major site failure. Being able to reconstruct you site anywhere is highly valuable.

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years ago]

The code isn’t better, but I wanted to be sure that code itself wasn’t an issue. obviously posting the exact code works, although it doesn’t preform what you wish.

So back to the gallery plugin author for his help

I don’t know what giving throttle capability does the dics only discuss the setting

Throttle posting every
Set this to the minimum time (in seconds) between posting new replies in bbPress forums. This is useful to help stop spamming or other attempts to interrupt the normal flow of the forum.

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years ago]

sorry I don’t understand you sentance

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years ago]

so did you copy/paste it – exactly as per my code and what exact errors did you get?

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years ago]

Whilst I can see some of your concerns, there are no security concerns that bbpress will let your users access your wordpress site backend – none of us would use bbpress if it had backdoors like that.

You core issue seem to stem from

I had to install some bbPress code in my functions file to stop non-administrator profiles from seeing the WordPress main menu at the top of the forum.

Please explain further? or give us the code you used.

With that, in having to add code such as this I subsequently shut down my entire site due to adding code the functions.php file that it didn’t like. Not a good situation for me.

That is a wordpress issue, and if you are not good at coding you should not be editing files ion a live site. You really need a test site

https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started/testing-your-bbpress-installation/creating-a-test-site/

Yes you can set up a separate domain/sub-domain with wordpress and bbpress running, and just show bbpress in this site. BUT you can’t have this administered by the other wordpress site (well at least not at any level of understanding that you would have – you are not ready for multisite 🙂 )

So either you run one site or two sites. 1 site will not give you security issues if set up correctly in wordpress. 2 sites will mean lots of duplication of usernames, double updating, and more room for error.

I’d suggest you look strongly at the test site route – this will force you to learn about how a wordpress site is put together, which will allow you to do changes with confidence of more technical knowledge and no risk to live

Good luck, and do come back and let us know how you get on

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years ago]

it’s not the default behaviour.

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 10 years ago]

All plugin writers write code to try and not interfere with each other – but occasionally we fail.

I’d suggest you post a thread on their support forum to see if they can help.

Did you try my shorter code – there is a reason for this question !

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years ago]

ok, so you need to amend form-topic.php

Presumimg you can use FTP and use an editor

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-topic.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-topic.php

bbPress will now use this template instead of the original
and you can amend this

So in form-topic.php you need to amend line 28 from

<?php if ( bbp_current_user_can_access_create_topic_form() ) : ?>

to

<?php if ( bbp_current_user_can_access_create_topic_form() && (bbp_get_forum_title() == 'other'  ) : ?>

This should then only allow new topics if the user can create a topic and the cforum title is ‘other’ forum

This is untested, but should work !

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years ago]

not quite sure what your questions is.

bbpress will assign the default role on first user login – that’s the way it does it – in effect if there is no role it gives the user then default. So when s2member creates the account, you may not see a bbpress role until they have logged in.

if that isn’t your question, then I’m not sure what you mean by

However, they still cannot access the forums because a subscription has not been created in s2Member

Isn’t that exactly what a membership plugin should do??

bit confused, but please come back and explain some more !

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years ago]

not totally sure what you are after – this any good

https://gist.github.com/ntwb/7797990

?