[Robkk]

There are a few WordPress themes that you can use.

WP Knowledge Base

Stargazer Colloquium

Eighties

There are also other free themes that add functionality for bbPress here and there.

And there are a few good premium themes on themeforest.

[Robkk]

In my opinion it doesn’t look that bad. Its just a bit large because of the “or” container.

[Robkk]

Actually bbPress does not have a “thank you page” instead I think it mostly piggybacks off of the default WordPress registration process and this issue you are talking about seems sort of common, but I think the whole frontend forms bbPress provides are either incomplete functionality or functionality that has broken along the way through upgrades in WordPress or something.

You do not necessarily have to use the frontend forms anyway, as all your users can just the default WordPress registration forms. Or use another plugin for now for frontend forms like Theme My Login.

[Robkk]

Contact your mobile theme author to see what possibly could be the issue.

[Robkk]

IF you ever need a more advanced solution than what Robin has provided, look into the MyCred plugin.

If you are talking about leveling up user role capabilities, there is no plugin that can do such a thing yet.

[Robkk]

bbP toolkit has this feature too, if you do not want to use Robins plugin.

Also if you don’t care in paying, or don’t know already the premium version of GD bbPress tools called GD bbPress Toolbox has this feature too.

[Robkk]

Before Posting

Yes these ^^

There is a plugin to disable across your whole site

https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-embeds/

We might add an option to the bbPress plugin to turn this off, or include this WordPress post oEMBED to the already present enable auto embed option.

In your post you said random images show up and some screen flicker? This makes it sound like a really bad bug, but thinking over it, is it just the icon images (share icon, WordPress logo, possibly a comment icon), and the post embed loading?

EDIT: Actually disabling auto-embed in your forums will also stop the WordPress post oEMBED feature.

[Robkk]

Yes for now threaded replies do not have pagination. There is a ticket introduce pagination, but it might have issues with other areas in bbPress, like private forum functionality.

[Robkk]

What? No I am not leading the herd haha.

Im still learning like the rest of you guys. While I do have some themes in my backpocket and some yet to be released, there seems to be always soemthing I can improve on these things before I even think about releasing them. I am actually getting more free time soon, so maybe I can actually start giving support for these themes I release in full now.

The best forums that I have seen used bbPress are the developers of the Tameriel Foundry and HigherExistence forum for bbPress v2, and the wpmudev.org and ACF forum for bbPress v1.

All the developers that created each of those forums are leading the herd in my opinion, and you should check them out.

[Robkk]

Robin there is a few functions already in bbPress that might be useful to use, and it might cut some of your code some.

http://hookr.io/plugins/bbpress/2.5.8/#index=u&search=bbp_user_profile

[Robkk]

Try to hire a developer to try to do what you want on your site.

Yes allowing users to post iframes has its security risk, so you may need to look into an alternative to doing that specific feature. Maybe hiring a developer could steer you in the right direction for how you want to create your site, and implement some features to your forum.

[Robkk]

I don’t think there is a character limit when you post a reply or topic with more than 300 characters.

Check to see if it could be some spam plugin with a feature for this, or a custom theme feature by doing the listed plugin and theme troubleshooting.

https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started/troubleshooting/

[Robkk]

You weren’t very specific but this plugins should do it.

Go to the users list by the user you want to see how many posts they made a certain month by clicking the view stats link by their avatar, then filter by month to see how much they posted.

https://github.com/mharis/bbpress-user-stats

[Robkk]

@stevecl

The issue also does happen in TwentyFifteen.

The issue is because in the bbPress default theme package, there is a template called content-search.php. In some newer themes there is also a template of the same name. And since the bbPress templates don’t necessarily need to be in a bbPress folder, the bbPress plugin is choosing the template from your theme before the template that is actually in bbPress.

Copy content-search.php from the bbPress plugin templates and place it in a child theme in a folder called bbpress. This fixed the issue you are getting in a free version of your currently active theme.

https://codex.bbpress.org/themes/theme-compatibility/

Also just created a trac ticket for this issue.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2966

[Robkk]

@rda5009

Thanks for sharing that you found a plugin that does this kind feature. I am sure it will be really useful to a ton of other users that use Group Forums using bbPress and BuddyPress.

[Robkk]

@robin-w

Go to his site’s topic archive (sitename.com/topics) the search is there and you can see the issue if you just search anything.

[Robkk]

@scootsafe

Since you enabled threaded replies, which has an issue with some mobile responsive styles because how they are by default. Try this custom CSS, or disable threaded replies and see if your forums have a better layout, though I am not sure how the mycred badges will react.

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-author a.bbp-author-name {
  display: block !important;
}

[Robkk]

My bad it is called the (bbPress) login widget.

I got confused of this custom widget I created that is a fork of the same code.

[Robkk]

Something like this might work. In the post views plugin you will need to edit how it displays so it does not show “views” at the end of the number. If you do not want to mess with anymore files, or change the template view, just use the function in this post I created in this kind of similar topic.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/new-feature-viewhit-counts/#post-161937
loop-topics.php snippet

<ul class="forum-titles">
	<li class="bbp-topic-title"><?php _e( 'Topic', 'bbpress' ); ?></li>
	<li class="bbp-topic-voice-count"><?php _e( 'Voices', 'bbpress' ); ?></li>
	<li class="bbp-topic-views-count"><?php _e( 'Views', 'bbpress' ); ?></li>
	<li class="bbp-topic-reply-count"><?php bbp_show_lead_topic() ? _e( 'Replies', 'bbpress' ) : _e( 'Posts', 'bbpress' ); ?></li>
	<li class="bbp-topic-freshness"><?php _e( 'Freshness', 'bbpress' ); ?></li>
</ul>

loop-single-topic.php

<li class="bbp-topic-voice-count"><?php bbp_topic_voice_count(); ?></li>

<li class="bbp-topic-views-count"><?php if(function_exists('the_views')) { the_views(); } ?></li>

<li class="bbp-topic-reply-count"><?php bbp_show_lead_topic() ? bbp_topic_reply_count() : bbp_topic_post_count(); ?></li>

CSS

#bbpress-forums li.bbp-topic-views-count {
  float: left;
  width: 15%;
  text-align: center;
}

#bbpress-forums li.bbp-topic-title {
  float: left;
  text-align: left;
  width: 43%;
}

Also make sure to surround your code with the backticks from the code button in the toolbar.

These-> '' <-these

[Robkk]

Whatever functionality this is coming from, with that either being a theme or plugin, contact the author in their respective support areas.

[Robkk]

Use the listed function on this page, and use it to get the id of a reply, that is the response to another reply, and then you can use this with other bbPress functions to get a threaded replies information.

http://hookr.io/plugins/bbpress/2.5.8/functions/bbp_reply_to/

[Robkk]

@rda5009

Or how would I go about adding the reference lookup to obtain the user’s bp group(s), the forum tied to that bp group(s), and then display the recent 5-10 topics?

If you are really not that good with code, try to hire a developer to create this for you.

Here is a couple of links that might be helpful though.

http://hookr.io/plugins/buddypress/#index=g&search=bp_get_group

http://hookr.io/plugins/buddypress/#index=i&search=bp_is

https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/is_user_logged_in/

https://github.com/ntwb/bbPress/blob/master/src/includes/common/widgets.php#L674

[Robkk]

I think this plugin has that feature.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-toolkit/

[Robkk]

Lynqs suggestion in the topic you linked to will not work if you just put his code into a text widget, because the text widget does not output PHP just HTML.

I see you just placed the bbPress login form shortcode into a text widget, why not just use the bbPress profile widget which includes a login form and register, lost password, and logout links.

[Robkk]

As I state in this post, you may not need to even add an emoticons plugin, older conservatives may not even use it, but they might every now and then use the simple smilies like :) :( >:( :P

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/smiley-emoticons/#post-175672