[@robin-w Moderator 11 years ago]

Not quite sure where you are saying that they enter this – is this on their facebook account – surely that’s just the same as the url you quoted in para 1.

Are your forums private? – that would prevent access

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years ago]

ok, thanks for the explanation

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years ago]

you can change permalinks within wordpress

Dashboard>settings>permalinks

changing to postname is the popular option

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years ago]

There is an issue with wp4.0 and default permalinks.

This gives 404 errors with sub forums for users with default permalinks. This is due to a bug in wp4.0, and netweb is on the case to get this fixed in 4.0.1

There are 3 workarounds

1. Change your permalinks to any of the other settings

Dashboard>settings>permalinks

The most often used is ‘postname’

This will not only fix your issue, but make your links look prettier. However if you have links to your site forums from other sites/emails, these links might break (ie they will come up as 404 errors), but if your choice is between users not accessing, or users complaining that the link in that old email no longer works, then resetting might seem a good idea.

2. revert to 3.9.2

see

for quite a good video on how to do it

3. Move your sub-forums up a level ie make them all main forums

and keep monitoring this site for a solution.

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years ago]

If I understand you correctly then

Dashboard>settings>forums and turn off Forum Prefix

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years ago]

great – glad you’re fixed !

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years ago]

Try

Alternate bbpress index page

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years ago]

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

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years ago]

you website is coming up with http errors

http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/www.radio.transitmg.com

Suggest you start by getting these fixed and see if you still have an issue

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years ago]

Can you explain a bit more about what you want?

Roles have capabilities, and are hieracrchical, so having two bbpress roles would be kinda pointless

If you just want a second name here, then you could use

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-profile-information/

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years ago]

great – glad you’re fixed !

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years ago]

which did you do?

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years ago]

forums is a virtual page – ie it doesn’t exist (not that pages really exist anyway!), and is not a ‘post ‘ in the wordpress sense of post

Rather than use the forums widget, why not just use a text widget, just put this in the content

<a href= "http://harveylakeland.com/forums">Community Forums </a>

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years ago]

ok, just looked and all the pages look fine now except the forum page – is that correct?

bbpress should use the bbpress template for all the pages, so you can’t really css the individuals (or not without tons of code).

How are you going to the initial forum ? is it method 1 or 2 from the following

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

and whichever try the other !

Once you are consistently wrong on all pages, you can make it consistently right !

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years ago]

the forums don’t have ‘pages’ they are all posts with post numbers.

If you go to

dashboard>forums>all forums and click the edit button in the url at the top you’ll see

http://www.mysite.co.uk/wp-admin/post.php?post=11316&action=edit

11316 will be the forum number

Apart from that I am struggling to understand your problem

Can you post some screenshots of what the issue is and what you would like it to show

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years ago]

hmm, these are html’s way of displaying the symbols of the keyboard. They shouldn’t show up.

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 twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years ago]

Patience please ! This forum is monitored by volunteers who give there time for free, and have day jobs and families 🙂

Try

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

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years ago]

This is a recent issue with wp4.0, and there is a bug fix outstanding for this.

The Issue

This gives 404 errors with sub forums for users with default permalinks. This is due to a bug in wp4.0, and netweb is on the case to get this fixed in 4.0.1

Three wordarounds

1. Change your permalinks to any of the other settings

Dashboard>settings>permalinks

The most often used is ‘postname’

This will not only fix your issue, but make your links look prettier. However if you have links to your site forums from other sites/emails, these links might break (ie they will come up as 404 errors), but if your choice is between users not accessing, or users complaining that the link in that old email no longer works, then resetting might seem a good idea.

2. revert to 3.9.2

see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lX3E-qIpJM

for quite a good video on how to do it

3. Move your sub-forums up a level ie make them all main forums

and keep monitoring this site for a solution.

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 1 month ago]

that’s a bit of styling needed

add

#bbpress-forums {
margin: 25px !important;
width: 960px !important;
}

to your theme’s style sheet, or preferably to your child theme

Functions files and child themes – explained !

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 1 month ago]

Sorry, you’ll need to explain what the remaining issue is – it’s probably obvious to you, but not to me looking at the links.

Please explain rather than just posting links 🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 1 month ago]

The forum is held as the post_parent in wp_posts

so you would update this

eg

// Update topic 37
  $my_post = array(
      'ID'           => 37,
      'post_parent' => 27
  );

// Update the post into the database
  wp_update_post( $my_post );

where 27 is the id of the parent forum

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 1 month ago]

Developers: please… design a simple plugin for people like me. A very-simple-plugin that allows me to change colors, fonts and two or three things more. I would be help a lot to BBPress users than don’t know how to use CSS.

It’s on my list of things to do when I get some time – agree it would be really useful, but I need to learn a bit more about how to get plugins to write css !

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 1 month ago]

Ok, you’ll need to copy this and rename it bbpress as per the above

As this is a theme file, I’m having to guess a bit about what it is doing, so this may or may not work.

So once you have this as bbpress.php

delete

$is_page_builder_used = et_pb_is_pagebuilder_used( get_the_ID() );

and replace it with

$is_page_builder_used = TRUE ;

come back and let us know if that works

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 1 month ago]

Great – glad you’re fixed !

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 1 month ago]

Sorry, no immediate way to style it, the words use the font size and other styling from the bbp-reply-author class.

I’ll look to add this ability in the next version