[@robin-w Moderator 11 years ago]

@jesspetrohoy it is highly likely that the cause of your issues is different (different plugin conflict or different theme) , and you need to take the same action above to find out which plugins or whether your theme is affecting.

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years ago]

probably a theme or plugin problem

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, switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years ago]

I believe this is an issue for anyone since even non-logged-in users would be able to see this topic if they had the URL for it, which could be generated from a sitemap or something – yet to be confirmed.

just re-tested this, and no they get a 404 error or whatever page you send then to in the settings

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years ago]

wordpress is post software and has posts and comments

bbpress is forum software, so it has forums, topics and replies

so people will reply to topics, not comment on them !

so I would

1. deactivate buddypress
2. switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve and see if people can now reply to topics, you are only doing this to see if your theme has an issue with replies.
3. let us know whether you are allowing anonymous posting, or whether you onlt want topics/replies from registered users?

Also, how do I just let people see the topics and not the forum?

umm, not sure what you mean, either you have a forum or your have posts and comments, you can’t have forum topics with post comments 🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years ago]

@trymedo – ok try this version, it should determine if it is the resultant list being queried, or the process of getting to the list that is causing issues. Basically it does your suggested post__not_in.

private groups tom test

This is only for Tom, and is just a testing version

latest live version is here

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

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years ago]

Tom, what version are you currently on, V1.9.1 fixes a bug for people with moderator privilege that was causing display issues. Just need to check that your issue with what people are seeing is still current with this version.

The white screen of death – I’m not sure if the memory issue is with the post__in result being big, or the need to process each one, so yes I’ll work on a post not in to see if this makes a difference, or if I can reduce the check. Can you remind me if this was just with http://www.mysite.com/topics, or whether it cropped up elsewhere, eg searches, or seleting forums etc.

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years ago]

Tom, thanks, and I’ll do a delve.

yes you could do a post not in, I’ll take a look at the same time

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years ago]

Personally I hate the toolbar – it should only be there for admins !

I switch it off and use a menu item

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years ago]

not sure what you’ve done, but it will be as simple as a comma or ; missing somewhere

I’d suggest you

download a copy of bbpress to your PC

Download

and then FTP the functions file to overwrite what you have messed up 🙂

Then nose around the files on your PC rather than your site !

Don’t worry I used to do what you’re doing until I did much the same, now I look at a copy not live !

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years ago]

ok, so now you need to go into

wp-content/themes/divi

and look through the page templates, hopefully one is called ‘left sidebar’ or ‘right sidebar’ if not you’ll need to open them up and look for

*Template Name: left sidebar

This is the template that you now want as bbpress, so follow the instructions

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

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years ago]

bbpress has a number of templates which you can alter

these are found in

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress

Start with

content-archive-forum.php

this is the index page.

you will see that it calls other templates

eg

<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'loop', 'forums' ); ?>

which calls loop-forums.php

a look through and you should be able to work out what most of it is doing.

If you want to alter any of these, make a new directory in the root of your theme and copy any of these template files to it (only the ones you want to alter)

so for instance if you wanted to alter content-archive-forum.php you’d create a copy to get
wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/content-archive-forum.php

you can then alter these copies, and bbpress will use them instead

They will also show you what css is being used, so that you can amend your style.css file with those that you want to change, or you can copy the whole bbpress style file viz https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum-part-2/#5-copyingcreating-a-bbpress-stylesheet-in-your-child-theme

at the finer level you may need to use something like firebug to work out how to say ‘bold’ the forums names to see what css each part is using, so that you can alter it.

Firebug is downloaded to go with the Firefox browser. There are loads of firebug tutorials eg see

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years ago]

ie exactly what does it say !

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years ago]

Changing these won’t change the forum, but it should let me know if you have a sidebar page – can you list the alternatives.

yes, but what I wanted was for you to list the alternatives, so that I can assist you in getting the right template

what are the alternatives?

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years ago]

ok, understood

The issue is that your ‘page’ template that bbpress is suing doesn’t have a sidebar, and wp tweaks won’t work until it has.

In essence you need to either find an existing template within your theme that ahs a sidebar, or create one.

When you go into edit on any page, under page attributes on the right hand side what templates do you have the choice of? – Changing these won’t change the forum, but it should let me know if you have a sidebar page – can you list the alternatives.

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years ago]

ok, on 2 above, if your following the guide, what is happening/not happening, and what have you been trying. The guide gets most people there, but you’ll need to give me a bit more than ‘I have been trying to figure that sidebar set up without much luck ‘ so I can help you 🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years ago]

suggest you keep going, and see what you get at the end.

Repair just repair relationships, it doesn’t delete entries

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years ago]

ok, do you know what FTP is and how to use it? Can you copy files and make changes to them?

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years ago]

suggest you run the forum repair tools

Dashboard>tools>forums>repair forums, and run one at a time

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years ago]

Genius is overstating.. 🙂 but I’ll take thanks, always good to get a result !

1. To get a sidebar you need to be using a template that has a sidebar. https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum/#8-make-sure-bbpress-uses-the-page-template-we-want At the moment your page is full width.

2. Yes, but you need to be clear what you want eg manual vs. automatic registration

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

3. I think you are using my ‘last post’ plugin – yes? If so then yes it could be modified to also show title, but I’m pretty tied up at the moment

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years ago]

when you hover over the forum link it says

http://www.thecatholicwoman.com/page_id=60/forum/prayer-requests

I would expect it to say

http://www.thecatholicwoman.com/forum/prayer-requests

what are your permalinks set to?

Dashboard>settings>permalinks

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years ago]

great – glad your fixed !

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years ago]

ok, try method 2, I think your system is having trouble with the permalinks (don’t worry what they are !)

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years ago]

hhmmmm…

Quite a lot of info, and not sure if it is affecting

The middle paragraph starting ‘My initial setup was a template file called…’ is worrying.

Basically you should not be adding stuff to your main theme, instead you should use a child theme.
Within this you will have a functions file (not a bbpress-functions file), and you would put the functions code for the custom role in the functions file.

see

Functions files and child themes – explained !

The your styles should work, and the custom role should work

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years ago]

None of the links work I followed all of the steps indicated here https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum/#3-%C2%A0creating-a-forum-page

Did you use method 1 or 2?

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years ago]

ok, funnily enough there is no ‘importer’ for bbpress 2.x – it is in plan, but not yet written

You can use
on the old site
tools>export and select forums topics and replies
on the new site
tools>import (and select wordpress if needed)

But this is not perfect – if you don’t have the users matching between sites, then this will/can/may (not sure which) fail.

How have you set users up on the new site?