[Robkk]

I guess bbPress does not show the revisions for replies in the backend like I thought, I guess only topics then??

Use this php code snippet to enable the metabox for revisions, add it to your functions,php file in your child theme or use a plugin like functionality.

I think after 2 edits it will show up I think.

function rkk_add_revision_support_for_replies() {
  add_post_type_support( 'reply', 'revisions' );
}
add_action( 'init', 'rkk_add_revision_support_for_replies' );

[Robkk]

Technically it is not an issue, as the devs made it that way for now.

But maybe follow this https://wpup.co/bbpress-threaded-nested-replies-with-paging/, or just go without using threaded replies for now.

[Robkk]

You probably have threaded replies enabled, threaded replies does not have pagination right now.

[Robkk]

@mark-bigrock

Do threaded replies just not work at all in Internet explorer?? Have you tried other browsers as well?
While testing IE 11 on my windows 7 cpu, threaded replies seems to work exactly like it should, it even brings up the reply form like @kineta noted.

For some reason the form does not pop up to the reply you are trying to thread if you use firefox or chrome for some reason. But this is a seperate issue, does not break the whole functionality of threaded replies, it just doesn’t move the form.

This could also be a theme issue, Ive seen themes like Divi have issues with threaded replies.

[Robkk]

To see their edits you have to go to the edit post screen for the reply in the WordPress backend and then cycle through the revisions as you would any other regular WordPress post.

There is a trac ticket to make this easier, like being able to cycle through the post content history with ajax.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1989

[Robkk]

What will be the action code for this section?

Use these two hooks instead.

add_action( 'bbp_theme_after_reply_content', 'rkk_add_reply_link' );
add_action( 'bbp_theme_after_topic_content', 'rkk_add_reply_link' );

[Robkk]

@soulkitchen

Can you link me to the exact patch you worked on??

@kineta

Create a ticket in the bbPress trac. Login using your WordPress.org/bbPress.org login credentials. Find any more bugs, please report them.

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

@rf0854

Yeah not having wp_footer(); will mess up the editor because the script is enqueued in the footer of your page.

[Robkk]

Here is the CSS you will need add it to your child themes style.css file or in a custom css plugin.

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-the-content-wrapper textarea.bbp-the-content {
  font-size: 16px;
}

[Robkk]

here when I click insert link tab – I see only topics and replies under “Link to existing content”

When you type bbPress in the search bar to look for existing content on this site, you will see the sites blog posts pop up too.

I might create a ticket for removing that search bar entirely, its really not useful for participants in a forum, more of a blog post seo thing.

[Robkk]

This is caused by some styles from your theme that is for WordPress comments reply link.

Add this custom CSS snippet to a custom css plugin or in a child themes style.css file

#bbpress-forums .reply {
  text-transform: inherit;
  font-family: inherit;
  font-size: inherit;
  letter-spacing: inherit;
}

[Robkk]

@janeakshar

You have to create a child theme, and copy and edit the feedback-no-search.php template, and put that edited file in a folder called bbpress in that child theme.

[Robkk]

Ehh just had a funny feeling it had to do something with the custom slugs in Settings > Forums, saw that you made edits there just confirmed it.

No problem.

[Robkk]

@janeakshar

Just fixed the search issue, it is because you had your forum search slug as “search forums”. The space between the two words outputs as something like this %% I think, and it causes a weird url and it just redirects to your homepage for some reason. You can change it to “search-forums” if you really want to change it, just don’t leave a space.

You can delete the admin account you created for me for security purposes.

3am is pretty late, like damn take a nap already ya night owl haha.

[Robkk]

If you are using bbPress moderation you go to the plugin settings and disable only allow approval once.

[Robkk]

This have clickable category links though, but you can use this file in a folder called bbpress in a child theme.

https://github.com/robkk/bbPress-Hierarchical-Forum-and-Category-Layout

[Robkk]

@janeakshar if you don’t mind, could you contact me through email and send me login details so I could see what could be causing this issue on your site.

https://robkkdev.wordpress.com/contact/

[Robkk]

Maybe try something like this I guess. Place this php code snippet into your child themes functions.php file or use a plugin like functionality.

add_action( 'bbp_theme_after_reply_author_details', 'rkk_add_reply_link' );
add_action( 'bbp_theme_after_topic_author_details', 'rkk_add_reply_link' );
function rkk_add_reply_link() {
 if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {
	echo bbp_get_reply_to_link();
 }
}

[Robkk]

@bwarntzen

Okay definitely not just CSS.

So any new simple text post will not submit in the frontend of your site in a topic?? If a participant say had the the link limit you set in Settings > Disscussion their post would have the status pending which won’t show up regularly in the topic list of a forum.

It could be a possible tricky caching issue.

If you do not mind, you can contact me through email, and give me login details of a participant user so I could test out what is the issue.

https://robkkdev.wordpress.com/contact/

[Robkk]

@zimmermannc You can use this code php code snippet/plugin and it will put the forum form in bbPress user profiles for users that can moderate.

https://gist.github.com/ntwb/9887310

[Robkk]

You can use something like this.

Add this php code snippet into your child themes functions.php file or add the function to a plugin like functionality.

add_action( 'bbp_theme_after_topic_author_details', 'rkk_add_register_date' );
add_action( 'bbp_theme_after_reply_author_details', 'rkk_add_register_date' );
function rkk_add_register_date() {{ ?>
  <span class="bbp-user-register-time">
    <?php printf( __( 'Member since: %s',    'bbpress' ),
    date( get_option( 'date_format' ), strtotime( get_the_author_meta( 'user_registered' ) ) )
    ); ?>
  </span>
<?php }}

[Robkk]

Could you link to the site you are experiencing this issue, it could just be some CSS hiding the replies?

[Robkk]

If you are already using BuddyPress you can configure group forums using BuddyPress and bbPress, and these groups each have a cover image and it will look consistent to the rest of your site.

I think this is the simplest thing to do without telling you to customize/create certain templates and use custom CSS.

[Robkk]

There is no special optionYou would have to edit the bbPress templates, and I guess replace the reply form with the comment form.

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

And I guess you might need to do more work like remove any other mentions of replies in bbPress entirely like in topic/forum stats, notices/descriptions, user profile data, activate show lead topic, find a plugin to allow mods to move comments to other topics. Then you might need to find different plugins that you need if you want quoting, attachments, bbcode, and more for custom features.

Then I guess if you want to ever leave bbPress with your custom comments integration, you will need to create a custom import for whatever you are importing to.

Still do not recommend it, but if you really really want I suggest hiring a developer if you do not have the knowledge or time to do all of this by yourself.

[Robkk]

no, it wasn’t turned into von. It looks like this: http://screencast.com/t/FLR74UlGQaYp

This almost looks like the default way bbPress displays the last post column and seems to be the default way in your theme for single forum post pages. The “by” could probably only be shown on the forum archive on your site. At least that is how I see it when I see a demo of your premium theme.

One of the issues is that a multilingual single site requires a translation for forum posts for them to show up… You can imagine that it would not be feasible to translate every forum post…

Yeah I can.

I’m not sure though if I can create one community if I separate the installs for the languages.

Your right it is probably better if you could just have a single forum for a small community of users (whatever is the minority of either English or German users). Maybe a theme/bbPress plugin translation switcher if the user comes from an IP in Germany. I am not sure just brainstorming.

I see what you mean. I think I’ll check with the author of my theme (Buddy) and see what he says. Thanks for the tip!

I kind of 90% think it is just something in the theme in a function or straight up in a forum archive template file. It could be a simple fix with a just a child theme and using the bbPress templates in your currently active theme.

[Robkk]

Devs say that its intentional for now and looking for a way to implement it without any further issues.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2523

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2340

There is a couple of fixes out there.

1. This patch enables threaded replies, but will not work in private forums.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2785

2. I have not tested this proposed fix.

https://wpup.co/bbpress-threaded-nested-replies-with-paging/