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In reply to: Password protecting forums?
So 3 possibilities here
1. you just want to have you forum pages needing a password, with no user registration. Probably not the best choice, so I’ll ignore for the moment
2. You want to hide your forums, and have registered people being able to access with some being able to edit.
Just set the forums to private Dashboard<forums>all forums and edit the forum you want. On the right hand side you’ll see visibility – just set to private
Base users will have the participant role, with those editing having the moderator role.
Then choose between manual or automatic registration. Manual gives you control, automatic means anyone can gain access. You can use a plugin such as ‘confirm user registration’ to provide a half way house. Used in conjunction with ‘SB Welcome Email Editor’ to warn your users that they will need to be approved, this provides a great way to let people register, you’re emailed and just click a link to confirm them onto the site, or block them.
3. If you want your forums visible, but not accessible – so people know they are there, use my plugin
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-private-groups/
Again user access as per 2 above
Come back if any of that isn’t clear, or if you can describe your needs further
In reply to: Random Topic Link@robkk thanks for that, so to make this a topic I think you you would just change
$posts = get_posts('post_type=post&orderby=rand&numberposts=1');to
$posts = get_posts('post_type=bbp_get_topic_post_type()&orderby=rand&numberposts=1');although could be
$posts = get_posts('post_type="bbp_get_topic_post_type()"&orderby=rand&numberposts=1');never sure of some of these without playing
idk how to bring that link up in the menu
For a ‘button’ (actually it would just be a link) you just paste it in text mode onto whtever page. in php, you just echo it
echo '<a href="/?random=1">Random Post</a>' ;on a menu item, you just at it as a link dashboard>appearance>menus and look for links
In reply to: Full Width Forum Helpsorry, sorry – missed that bit 🙂
Ok will start typing again !
in your bbpress.php
change the lines that say
<div class=”content-wrap”> <div id=”content”>to
<div class=”bbpress-wrap”> <div id=”bbpress-content”>Then go into
wp-content/themes/oxygen/style.css
and at the end of this file put
.bbpress-wrap {
width : 100% ;
}
#bbpress-content {
float: left;
margin: 0 0 30px;
width : 100% ;
}.bbpress #sidebar-secondary {
display:none ;}
What this does is get bbpress to use the bbpress-wrap with a width of 100% instead of content-wrap, as content-wrap is used by the other pages and need to be 67%.
Then .bbpress #sidebar-secondary is set to display none, so that this disappears
Now if that all works, it is possible that an upgrade of oxygen will take out these changes, so you really need to create a child theme and put both the bbpress.php and the style.css changes in there. See
Do come back if that deosn’t all work, without the theme I can’t test here !
In reply to: Full Width Forum HelpI was expecting Jimi to respond….
[EDIT]
I was halfway through writing detailed instructions, when I popped back to your site and I see that you’ve fixed it.
1. In the gentlest way, it would have been great to post back here that you’re fixed, would have saved me ten minutes wasted typing 🙂
2. It would be great if you’d post what you did to help @watstyl08, and others who might have this problem with oxygen and search and find this thread.
In reply to: Random Topic LinkIt’s doable, but would be very surprised if anyone has built this !
Ok, I’ve recut this.
you can find a buddypress version at :
Basically you use the custom fields from buddypress.
In Dashboard>settings>bbp buddypress profile information you set which up to 4 buddypress fields you wish to display. I don’t yet validate these, so make sure the names are exactly as set up in buddypress, or they won’t appear !
Please come back with any feedback, and I’ll cut this to the wordpress plugins page in the next few days
In reply to: Profile user's page not foundYou’re welcome !
In reply to: Profile user's page not foundsorry, I had presumed that ‘namnguyen’ was the username
that is the normal way a profile works
ie username = Greedyman
then profile url is
In reply to: Profile user's page not foundprofiles are normally
http://www.mysite.com/forums/users/namnguyen/
presume you’ve added cars, and that you’re Dashboard>settings>forums>forum user slugs>users is set to profile?
In reply to: Forum Page does not have link to Loginno, all looks fine to me !
You always get a lot of lurkers on any website, who learn, but don’t post. They may well have subscribed to forums so they get updates
In reply to: Unable to view forum rootgreat – come back if you need further help !
just been doing a quick mod to my plugin to create a buddypress version that uses the customised buddypress fields – needs tidying, but functional. I’ll try and work some more on it tomorrow to finish off.
In reply to: Unable to view forum rootwhich page from my theme does bbpress display using?
your theme is a paid one, so I can’t just download and have a quick look.
In reply to: Unable to view forum rootwhich theme are you using?
sorry, forgot that buddypress uses it’s own profile, so my plugin won’t work.
Which fields under your customised buddypress fields would you like shown? Let me have the names and I’ll see if I can work out how to get them in – no promises, but I’ll take a look
In reply to: bbPress CodexI really hope that you back up all your ideas with some actions, and that you’re not all talk.
In reply to: My impressions so farJimi,
Nice to have you aboard, and I hope that you’ll help in improving bbpress. More UX help is welcome.
I think bbpress users split into two groups.
1. The users that just want a simple forum as part of their web.
Those that visit the support forum usually only need a couple of changes. this is the vast majority of bbPress users
Biggest issues for these are
getting it working with their theme – usually because the theme has a highly complex page.php, and these users are not code savvy, and many don’t know FTP
registration and logging on – really a wordpress issue, but it’s the first time they come across needing to do this, as before they were the only user
Adding simple features – since each one varies these can only ever be bespoke, and again since these people are not code savvy you need to show them child themes and functions files first2. Users who typically want bbpress to look like someone else’s feature rich forum
They want all the features, look and functionality of another bb, but on wordpress. Some then complain on the forum that they don’t like the software, and why doesn’t it look exactly like xx, which is much better, much easier and has better documentation. Which kinda grates, and surely it would be better to complain to xx’s forum as to why they don’t make a version of their fantastic software to work on wordpress, rather than complain that bbpress’s software doesn’t look like theirs. This to me is a bit like complaining to Ford that their cars don’t look like Nissan.
The issue here is that bbpress is just a plugin, written by some guys to do forumy stuff. Like all software it could be better, the docs can always be better, but the philosophy of the somewhere is to keep it light.
So I s’pose the challenge is to help improve it so that it can work for both camps. So I really do hope you stay and add expertise, maybe go into the codex and improve the documentation – anyone can, but most don’t !
In reply to: bbPress CodexI sense that there are more developers than UX people around here, am I right?
I suspect you are. There are probably less than a dozen ‘helpers’ who come on here to help others, and probably only 1/2 dozen regulars. I am not a bbPress developer, but have written several plugins for it, and enjoy the challenge of answering others’ Q’s.
Most bbpress users want it as a tool, so only visit the site when they have an issue or want it to do something. Once fixed they are happy and don’t revisit, and are highly unlikely to contribute to improving documentation.
The codex is a community project, and anyone can go in and help improve it. Amongst many others I have tried to make it more UX (user experience – I had to look it up !), but I have limited time, and lots of other commitments.
If you could outline a more useful structure I’d be all for it.
In reply to: Full Width Forum HelpWhat I meant was change it, and then I can use some tools to inspect it and try to help give uyou the code to resolve. Unless I can see ‘full-width’ not being ‘full-width’ I can’t help !
In reply to: user profile link giving a 404 errorok, did you filter to that code, or just replace it in the core?
In reply to: Topic ID instead of slugs?Thanks for posting the result 🙂 I’ve note the code location in case this comes up again !
In reply to: Import from phpBB comes back empty@netweb – hey good to hear from you, your expertise was missed 🙂
In reply to: Import from phpBB comes back emptybumping in the hope that Stephen will see this 🙂
In reply to: user profile link giving a 404 errorok, given that this is on your virtual machine, how much do you want to try and fix it?
When you go live it will work on the internet, I have the majority of my users with spaces in their usernames
In reply to: How to: bbPress moderationShould the user get a message if the post contains a word in the moderation list. If not is it possible to do this.
no it just goes into moderation.
I don’t know how to change this, as it’s fairly core to wordpress
