[Robkk]

Maybe what you are using to display two different menus for logged in/logged out users you have to make sure the child menu items are correct and under parent menu items?

[Robkk]

I do not recommend trying to use WordPress comments with bbPress, just use the default replies.

[Robkk]

You create a custom 404.php file in your theme and add a link to login/register.

[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/

[Robkk]

@maketheest

When you enable the tinymce editor in bbPress, for now you have to edit that snippet you posted and edit it for every buttons html tags that you will end up using. Whenever you may be quoting another user using a different plugin you may need to use the paste as a text php code snippet in the guide.

https://codex.bbpress.org/enable-visual-editor/

Read this WordPress guide about the character entities.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_Code_in_Your_Posts

[Robkk]

I think the plugin the plugin author listed in the topic might be what you are looking for.

[Robkk]

The plugin description on WordPress.org states it should show up on the premium version of the plugin, contact the plugin author about this.

[Robkk]

It seems fine.

[Robkk]

@zimmermannc

Mods should be able to create a forum fine on the frontend, it is just they cannot edit the forums in the backend, only Keymasters.

I am sure there are plugins that might be able to find the keep_gate capability, so you can change certain users and allow them to have that cap.

[Robkk]

adjust the padding for the input

#wp-link,
#wp-link p {
  font-size: 13px;
  line-height: 1;
}

#wp-link input {
  padding: 0 5px;
}

#wp-link .screen-reader-text, .screen-reader-text span,
#wp-link .ui-helper-hidden-accessible {
  position: absolute;
  margin: -1px;
  padding: 0;
  height: 1px;
  width: 1px;
  overflow: hidden;
  clip: rect(0 0 0 0);
  border: 0;
  word-wrap: normal!important;
}

[Robkk]

@zimmermannc

Moderators cannot see the forums menu in the WordPress backend. To see the Forums menu item they need the keep_gate capability which only Keymasters have.

Moderators can create forums on the frontend of your site if you used the [bbp-forum-form] shortcode in a page

Editing forums, I am not sure how they are supposed to do that on the frontend, maybe bbPress had some functionality for managing BuddyPress group forums that is broken. Have to look into it.

[Robkk]

Try this custom CSS instead.

#wp-link,
#wp-link p {
  font-size: 13px;
  line-height: 1;
}

#wp-link input {
  padding: 6px;
}

#wp-link .screen-reader-text, .screen-reader-text span,
#wp-link .ui-helper-hidden-accessible {
  position: absolute;
  margin: -1px;
  padding: 0;
  height: 1px;
  width: 1px;
  overflow: hidden;
  clip: rect(0 0 0 0);
  border: 0;
  word-wrap: normal!important;
}

[Robkk]

@let-me-see

I don’t subscribe to every one of these topics on the forum that I help users in.

i was going to just delete the login information after you posted it, and tell you to delete the user you just created after too.

instead just email me the login info.

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

[Robkk]

See if this post can help lead you to create what you want.

https://wpshout.com/wordpress-custom-post-backgrounds/

[Robkk]

@let-me-see

Can you post some login details for a user with the role of participant so I can check out this issue first hand to see if CSS would even help with this.

[Robkk]

I used the plugin wp-members

Is it this plugin??

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-members/

I cannot seem to figure out how you did the members area thing with this plugin (if it is the correct plugin).

So I have done loads more searching and it is known problem which BBPress do nothing about

Well there might be related issues to search redirecting to the home page, some had issues with the search query having a url structure and query different than intended by default, and some had issues with search plugins on their site, and I think some I tried to contact personally to help them since they had a premium theme and it is hard to just figure it out on premium themes that might have some kind of fancy ajax search having conflicts with the default bbPress search for example. Your issue could be somewhat related to the url structure.

Do you have any steps that maybe I can try to replicate to find the cause of this issue, like explain how you set everything up?

So you ditch the BBPress function, it does not work. And amend the normal search to include forums.

Yes this can be a workaround for some, but since you may have private members only content this solution may not be practical.

Does the default bbPress search work fine on a fresh installation with just your theme and no other plugins like wp-members?

If you haven’t already known if bbPress search works by default with just your theme and bbPress activated, consider created a localhost setup to test the default bbPress search to see if it works on a default fresh installation, then we can work backwards and try to find the cause of this issue that you are experiencing.

https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started/testing-your-bbpress-installation/creating-a-test-site/

[Robkk]

Yeah I can confirm it is a bug, I created this trac ticket on the issue awhile back.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2869

[Robkk]

I’ve added a new site to my multisite installation, set the language to German and activated bbPress. The ‘by’ did not show.

Was the word “by” turned into “von”, or was there an entirely different layout when you activated your theme on new site install? If it was “von” by default in the new site installation then, then maybe it could be a possible cache issue on your original site, so flushing the cache could then update the word to “von”.

Could it be that the theme only causes the ‘by’ to show if two (or more) languages are active or that a plugin is causing it?

Are you planning to have a multilingual single site? You might be on to something here if you are trying to run a multilingual single site.

Just so you know, I thought the root issue could be the “by” not changing in your forums is because it might have outputted the text using code from a custom phpbb starter pack theme created by @lynq, here is an example of the custom forum freshness column from the starter pack.

https://gist.github.com/ntwb/3133450

[Robkk]

Does this custom CSS help any?? This is what I have making a custom theme in twentytwelve.

#bbpress-forums #wp-link {
  font-size: 13px;
}

#bbpress-forums #wp-link .screen-reader-text, .screen-reader-text span,
#bbpress-forums #wp-link .ui-helper-hidden-accessible {
  position: absolute;
  margin: -1px;
  padding: 0;
  height: 1px;
  width: 1px;
  overflow: hidden;
  clip: rect(0 0 0 0);
  border: 0;
  word-wrap: normal!important;
}

[Robkk]

@mgdel

There is subpages, only 2 subpages, but there is still something. I did update the forum moderation page just now.

i need to be able to set up a list of wp users to be the admin/moderators of the forum
i need to be able to make them know about a new post (i can do it via mailing list)
and they should be able to reply and make the question public via front end. and the op must be notified when someone replies to or publish the post.

Maybe try this plugin to allow, anonymous users to be able to subscribe to posts.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-anonymous-subscriptions/

You can tell your moderators to subscribe to whatever forum they want to moderate, by clicking the subscribe link on the single forums page on the frontend.

If you are talking about per forum moderation for you forums, I do not think you cannot do that as of now.

[Robkk]

Edit the code in the Gist and add style to the Span tag like so.

  // Span
‘span’ => array(
‘class’ => true,
‘style’ => true,
),

I am not sure why you would even want the more tag, as it might be useless in the frontend of your site and bbPress forum posts.

[Robkk]

Unfortunately, using just CSS, there is no way to assign different colours to each forum.

Yeah there is. I used to do this with CSS way back.

Here is something I did real quick and an image to show you, that you can do it.

#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-parent-forum-8 span.bbp-topic-started-in a {
  background-color: #00a6eb;
  color: #FFF;
  padding: 3px 5px;
  vertical-align: middle;
}

#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-parent-forum-0 span.bbp-topic-started-in a {
  background-color: #E25E00;
  color: #fff;
  padding: 3px 5px;
  vertical-align: middle;
}

[Robkk]

Okay I tested the bbPress forum search on my localhost setup with the latest bbPress, BuddyPress, and WordPress, and I have no issues.

I am running a default setup, and I do not have the forums under a directory called “members area” though. If you run bbPress in the default setup without putting it under the “members area” directory would it work on your site if you searched “forum” for your only forum on your site?

I am not entirely sure how you did the members area directory on your site in the first place, I am not entirely sure it is a sub directory in a multisite setup.

[Robkk]

Thanks for helping out Peter.

[Robkk]

bbPress reply posts are having issues with CSS from your theme that is for WordPress comments.

Try this CSS, add it to your child themes style.css file or add it to a custom css plugin.

#bbpress-forums .reply a {
  float: none;
  padding: 0;
  color: inherit;
  font-size: inherit;
  display: initial;
  position: initial;
}