[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

If having themes and plugins in wp-content was a security issue, then WordPress all over the world would be hacked daily, and if wp-content is insecure then all wordpress folders would be and the locations of the wordpress core are all standard.

I’d just put bbpress into a wp-content folder

If you really want to stick with your route, then search the whole bbpress plugin for “wp-content” and just do a copy/paste. it may be one occurance, it could be hundreds.

Of course you’ll need to repeat on any upgrade

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

can you do a screenshot of a phpbb page to show what you’d like, and add a link to it?

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

use the bbpress logon widget in a sidebar on your forum page, and it’ll stay on the forums.

edit : sorry just read your entry again, and that’s exactly what you are doing !

I disable dashboard for all my users – untick “show toolbar when visiting site”

If they logout using the widget (which is their only option if they don’t have toolbar), then they don’t get the WordPress login page.

You can customose the generic login form if you want to keep it see

https://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_the_Login_Form

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

How long have you had the forum?, and how long have you had the problem?

Have you done any additional plugins, wordpress, bbpress or other plugin upgrades, or changed css or functions recently?

What versions of wordpress and bbpress are you on?

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

Not quite sure what you are after

There is a bbpress widget that shows latest topics which you can put into your sidebar.

Otherwise come back and explain some more !

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

Think this thread should help you

http://wpml.org/forums/topic/conflick-with-bbpress/

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

suspect this should do it !

https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-new-user-notifications/

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

it’s coming from bbpress stylesheet.

there may be a quicker way to remove this, but one that should work is as follows.

I don’t think you have a childtheme, and now may be the time to consider having one, see https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum-part-2/ for more details

once done you need to navigate to

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

copy this file into a folder called css within your theme, so you end up with
wp-content/themes/mychildtheme/css/bbpress.css

where mychildtheme is the name of your childtheme

Then edit every line that has

background-color : xxxxxxx

change to

background: none repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4);

NOTE it goes from background-color to background
and it is only the background color that you’ll be changing, not lines which just have color: as that’ll be text!

eg

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-header,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-header,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-header {
	background-color: #f4f4f4;
}

becomes

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-header,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-header,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-header {
	background: none repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4);
}

This will make the background transparent, but with a darker tint shading that you have in your sidebar (the amount of difference is on the 0.4 bit, 0.1 is the lightest, 1.0 the darkest).

Come back if that doesn’t fix it, or for further help

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

the answer is probably yes – a forum post is a post

You might do better to install bbPress WP Tweaks Widget Logic plugin which gives you a forum specific sidebar

alternately (or additionally) use widget logic where you can use code like is_bbpress()or the negative !is_bbpress()to control where widgets are shown

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

Biloute,

There are lots of ways into bbpress and wordpress. Can you post a link to the screen you’re talking about so that we can clearly see what text you want to remove.

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

great, glad you’re sorted !

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

ok, that all looks fine.

The error as far as I can work out says that it has an unexpected ‘/ ‘ on the evaluated code on line 4 – so for the code in the profile page line 4 is

?>/edit/">

However this may not be a line 4 error, but something that is missing or not evaluating correctly on an earlier line.

I’d try the following

Recheck that the code is pasted exactly as it should be, with no missing characters eg ‘;’s from ends of lines etc. The lines posted in my previous post go passed the visible, so did you scroll to the right – just checking the obvious first !

that your domain is spelled correctly etc.

Then I’d try removing the / from the start of line 4 – the edit bit, and the from the end of the edit bit – I don’t think that’s the problem, but try it anyway.

The just form my sanity copy the code from your page back into a post here, and I try it on my site to see if I get the error.

Then we’ll see where we go from there !
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[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

ok, great to hear, and suspect you’ll never know why it didn’t – that’s computers for you !

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

Ok, thanks for clarifying.

Suspect this could be because your path is slightly different.

Can you go into a profile edit for me , that is into bbpress and then go into edit for a real username

The in the url you should be something like

http://mysite.com/forums/users/admin/edit

Post on here what that path looks like. You can substitute mysite.com for your site, and admin for whatever username you are using, it is the stuff around that I am after.

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

Hey, great that you’re working !

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

the best solution so far courtesy of Ronthai

In Dashboard>plugins>add new
Search for WP exec PHP, install and activate

Create a new page called “profile” or whatever name you want

In content of this page, add this code

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=http://mysite.com/forums/users/<?php global $current_user;
      get_currentuserinfo();

     echo  $current_user->user_login . "";
      
?>/edit/">

Where mysite.com is your site name

If using custom menus, add the page to the menu.

And it works !

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

Ronthai – have just tried it for profile, and it works well

Summary of what I did

In Dashboard>plugins>add new
Search for WP exec PHP, install and activate

Create a new page called “profile” or whatever name you want

In content of this page, add this code

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=http://mysite.com/forums/users/<?php global $current_user;
      get_currentuserinfo();

     echo  $current_user->user_login . "";
      
?>/edit/">

Where mysite.com is your site name

If using custom menus, add the page to the menu.

And it works !

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

hmmm…

Should work !

Are you changing it in wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/loop-forums.php?

or in your child theme?, and if the latter can you detail the path from wp-content/ onwards

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

I’m sorry that you feel that something for which you paid nothing isn’t for you.

But I don’t think that abusing the people on here who are trying to help you by saying it sucks is really the way forward.

I hope you are able to find some free software that works precisely as you want.

Whilst most people use sidebars and widgets to perform these functions, I shall continue to see if there is an easy way to get this into a menu and add it to the codex if I work it out.

Best wishes

Robin

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

Just had another thought. Since the error is occurring as part of the submit, it could be an issue with the database.

I’d suggest you run the repair functions for the forums

Dashboard>tools>forums

I’d run them all, BUT ONLY ONE AT A TIME! as they use a lot of resource

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

Steady, wasn’t accusing you of doing anything wrong ! A programming error can occur in plugins, or as a result of a combination of plugins. “You have a programming error” is very different from “you created a programming error” ! That you have an error doesn’t mean you created it !

I still find that when I submit I get a http500 error, but the post has posted. If I click refresh it then works fine.

As you have tried this with all plugins except buddypress disabled, and you have tried it with just twenty-eleven, then I’d suggest you try without buddypress to eliminate that.

If you still have the problem, the suggest you delete and reload both bbpress and buddypress plugins in case they glitched when loading.

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

@crzyhrse

Hey thanks for your kind words, very much appreciated.

I have added you submit button at the bottom of the styling guide, and happy to add any others people will think useful.

I am trying to write a filters and actions guide – but keep getting diverted to other things, and a “creating a test site” guide as well, so hopefully will get these onto site in the next few weeks !

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

your last question is easy, .org have customised, just as you are trying to do by adding it as a menu item – we all like it to look slightly differently to others.

I have tried from my little knowledge to get it to work but can’t. The best I can get is

// Filter wp_nav_menu() to add profile link
add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_items', 'my_nav_menu_profile_link' );
function my_nav_menu_profile_link($menu) { 	
	if (!is_user_logged_in())
		return $menu;
	else
		$user      = get_userdata( $user_id );
		$name      = esc_attr( $user_name );
		$user_link = '<li><a href="http://www.mysite.com/forums/users/' . $user . '/edit">Amend profile</a></li>';
		$menu = $menu . $user_link;
		return $menu;
}

But this just returns

http://www.mysite.com/forums/users//edit

Sorry, I have given up.

Can someone else get this working? – it is now annoying me !

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

I am still playing with this, and it doesn’t currently work, but it’s something like adding the following to your functions file

// Filter wp_nav_menu() to add profile link
add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_items', 'my_nav_menu_profile_link' );
function my_nav_menu_profile_link($menu) { 	
	if (!is_user_logged_in())
		return $menu;
	else
		$profilelink = '<li><a href="<?php bbp_user_profile_url( bbp_get_current_user_id() ); edit" >Amend Profile</a></li>';
		$menu = $menu . $profilelink;
		return $menu;
}

Syntax needs sorting

I’m out most of today, but if you or someone else cracks this, then paste the solution here, and it’ll save me repeating the work.

Solution is based on

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/adding-dynamic-profile-link-to-main-menu-item/

which does the business for buddypress.

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

Think that’s pretty well how it was intended, and agree that some bits could be clearer.

If a user clicks their avatar they will be taken to their profile and can amend it.

I have downloaded the enhanced text widget

https://wordpress.org/plugins/enhanced-text-widget/

and then I have a text entry of

<p><a href="<?php bbp_user_profile_url( bbp_get_current_user_id() ); ?>edit" >Amend Profile/Change password</a></p>

in my widget sidebar to make it obvious for users.