[Robkk]

Is this related to bbPress somehow?? Are you even using bbPress??

[Robkk]

Its the WordPress toolbar, and there are functions on the internet to include custom links and menu items like a create topic button.

Here is a guide that might help with that.

http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-add-custom-shortcut-links-to-wordpress-toolbar/

[Robkk]

I think currently it is 1 parent forum or all forums. I might create a ticket later for a suggestion of an improvement to the widget to include multiple parent forums/single forums.

It might be possible to use CSS to remove some links from a widget, but I would have to be able to see specifically where each forum list item is positioned in the widget.

[Robkk]

@evanevans333

It seems that’s all we got to work with. Participant role is not supposed to be for wordpress Subscribers apparently. You need to become something else, to read topics and replies inside forums marked private, and I guess shouldn’t mark a forum private with bbPress unless it’s supposed to be private for Moderators and Administrators.

That seems so … ridiculous if you pardon my French. That Forum Roles are not for forum privacy, but more for Forum administrative privacy.

You are probably experiencing a bug, or just some issues with your current configuration, private forum should be for logged in users only. Also a specific forum for mods and admins might be a hidden forum.

Im skimming through the topic right now, but I will look at this topic more tomorrow morning and see if I need to report any issues.

What I say that we do is try to fix the private forum issue in bbPress by default without using Robins plugin for now, then when its fixed you can decide to use it later if you want to.

Run the repair tools one at a time in Tools > Forums. There are a few that are definitely helpful like repairing private forum relationships.

Editing user role caps for some users could cause issues as well, so we might need to refresh each roles caps, and remap the default ones to users.

that I am supposed to set their privacy to Public and use some kind of FORUM PRIVACY plugin to make sure the content doesn’t get leaked out to Google and anonymous web surfers.

If you want a forum for only logged in users setting a forum or parent forum private will do that. Other niche privacy features could be obtained through plugins.

Now, the issue moving forward is, that topic and reply activity that go on inside those forums, is not properly being set to Private and so those Activities are showing up in widgets and shortcode locations and archives as public information

Do you want all your forums to be private? It might be better to put anything bbPress as members only content, like just block off sections of your site to only members using a different type of plugin.

If you do want some forums to be public, then I guess we can use some conditionals for some widgets to display different widgets for logged in users and those who are not. Like say the recent replies widget, I would display only replies from public forums to users not logged in in one widget, and display all replies to users who are not logged in another. If you do want to use Robins plugin, he does have custom widgets in it, but that is if you want group forums.

[Robkk]

Sorry never posted the solution.

This might be before I was even a moderator.

But for anyone that might come across the same issue.

This was related to an issue that happens when enabling threaded replies and some CSS that absolutely positions the author avatar.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2823

[Robkk]

Sorry to bump this old topic, but I’m looking over some old topics of mine to see if I put any real fixes to some issues where I had to contact people personally to troubleshoot things to find issues instead of guessing.

On this one I forgot to post the solution to the issue.

I would like to point out that @xponera posted the code that would fix the issue.

This issue could be only specific to certain web hosts like one.com hosting, but I am not totally sure on that.

Here is a step by step guide for users that are using one.com hosting to follow that come across this same issue stated in this topic.

http://one-docs.com/guides/en/wordpress-login-blocked/

[Robkk]

Here you go guys.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2994

[Robkk]

I add create a ticket and include @expectancy’s patch. Hopefully this will be included in the next version of bbPress.

[Robkk]

bbPress doesn’t have any fontawesome css file.

Check to see if its a theme or plugin. Most likely a theme.

Try some plugin and theme troubleshooting.

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

[Robkk]

@robin-w

Oh no problem Robin. 🙂

I should have stated its just my opinion that we should try to help users that may come across “forum page” related issues by creating a guide in the codex to better explain how to do it, and show how helpful it would be, but more importantly stop all these similar issues users would get that I see in these forums all the time, so that us moderators do not have to repeat ourselves or try to guess what could be causing an issue.

You can either change recommended in my earlier statement with required. As it is not required during setup. I am sometimes terrible at choosing the right words to explain what I mean. Great that you pointed that out Robin!

And although yes, it is recommended for further customization of a users forums in the settings. Like I said, my opinion is that the “forum page” is not recommended, until most of the user generated issues are laid out with possible solutions for users in a new guide, and either we or anyone that wants to can make a trac ticket to avoid these type of issues all together, and improve the bbPress plugin user experience.

I would like to talk to you privately through email if you have time, about improving your codex guides also, and I do not want to butt heads with you over just some guides.

Edit: Created the ticket https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2993

[Robkk]

@robin-w

By me, its my opinion that first time users/beginners should not create a “forum page” right now until there is a guide that could outline the possible issues users might encounter while creating it.

If you want to make a forum page an initial part during bbPress setup, then you would need to create a ticket in the trac. It could be possible to make it similar to how Woocommerce shop page is setup to avoid most of the user generated issues.

Also we are probably going to split this into a new topic. If you want to talk to me further about this like I said you can email me.

[Robkk]

Is the TinyMCE editor showing in your regular topic forms as well?? If not then you would have to just enable Post Formatting in Settings > Forums.

What specific code did you use to enable the visual editor.

Does the forum form page work fine in a WordPress default theme like TwentySixteen. If not this could be plugin related. If it works fine then it is theme related and some function in your currently active theme could dequeuing bbPress scripts.

If it is plugin related it could be a plugin that dequeue bbPress scripts unless its on forum pages.

It might be possible to come across this issue while trying to minify or combining JavaScript files too.

[Robkk]

@robin-w

Its not recommended during a setup of bbPress.

In most cases, unless there is a forum archive bug from the theme/bbPress theme compatibility, its not a requirement for a forum site.

It could be a possible recommendation for further customization, but a lot has to be laid out before then in a guide somewhere in customizing section or theme development (like I told in my email to you) so users do not come across possible issues.

If you want to debate any pros and cons of creating a “forum page” you can go ahead and email me and we can discuss that, and what I emailed you before about moving your guides content into other sections.

[Robkk]

The video looks cool too, matches the music pretty…pretty good.

I would make the video more visible without content displayed over it.

In my opinion if I had to choose whether to display content on an image or a video, I would choose an image too.

[Robkk]

I was just pointing out that its possible that you may need to use another conditional as well if you did create a “forum page”.

So you would possibly need another conditional for a user created “forum page”. If you didn’t already make sure that the “forum page” was set to have the same page slug as the default forums slug in your site set in Settings > Forums.

An example of the additional conditional you would use would be is_page{1} where “1” is the specific page ID of your “forums page”.

if (!is_bbpress() || is_page(1) ) {

You can also use is_page(‘forums’) as well instead.

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

I usually do not say use a “forums page” as it is not recommended during setup, but it could be useful to workaround bugs that I think usually happens when using a Genesis theme, but I guess use it until the bug is fixed in bbPress/Genesis. Well if there is still a bug.

I would contact your theme developers support since you have a paid theme, and they can help you better since they understand the code in that specific theme, and only if you really want to dig into the code and modify it like your trying to do, or you can just use a plugin like Widget Logic to use a conditional to hide/display widgets depending on certain conditionals like is_bbpress() and is_page{}.

[Robkk]

I like the background images, the color scheme, and the song that plays automatically on your front page.

[Robkk]

I don’t think you are using bbPress anymore.

[Robkk]

Have you tried any plugin and theme troubleshooting??

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

[Robkk]

@evanevans333

It should still work.

The function I posted only works on bbPress forum profiles, if the currently logged on user has the edit_other_forums capability, that they are viewing it on their own profile, and if you have the available hooks if you are using custom bbPress templates.

[Robkk]

I don’t think currently there is an importer for ProBoards for bbPress.

Does ProBoards even allow you to export the database from their forum?? If they can that will be a whole lot easier to create an importer.

[Robkk]

There might be a bug, because on GlotPress everything is good, its just not in that Dashboard widget.

We do ditch our own dashboard widget and merge the stats into the Default Right Now Widget in WordPress in version 2.6 though. So in the future this hopefully won’t matter.

Will contact someone for help.

[Robkk]

I think its already removed in version 2.6

[Robkk]

What country?

There are two countries language files that are not 100% complete. Then there is Spains which is 100%.

[Robkk]

What language file are you using??

[Robkk]

Okay your topic is closed and stickied, so adjust this css. Use a custom css plugin, or modify and place this css into a style.css file in a child theme.

#bbpress-forums .status-closed,
#bbpress-forums .status-closed a {
 color: #ccc;
}

.bbp-topics-front ul.super-sticky,
.bbp-topics ul.super-sticky,
.bbp-topics ul.sticky,
.bbp-forum-content ul.sticky {
 background-color: #ffffe0 !important;
 font-size: 1.1em;
}