[devsam]

Hi Robin, thanks for taking the time to read and reply. No problem, will try and explain it better.
I am upgrading a site that was one of the earliest versions of joomla to a fresh wordpress. The oldest site used the forum plug-in kunena but I am afraid there is no way to export all the entries made to that forum through the years due to its age and lack of current support.

What I am trying to do is copying and pasting every single forum topic from the joomla site to the newer WP and the idea is for them to showcase the original date they were published.

90% of this topics consist on just the first comment made by customers with normally no more replies. What I find now replicating these topics on bbPress is I can set a publishing date internally but, as it shows in the screenshot below, the ‘last post’ date matches the moment in time I created that topic on the new site instead of the original creation date I want them to have.

Here’s the screenshot again.

Hope it makes sense. If not, please let me know.

Thanks again.

[Chuckie]

Hi

If I disable comments completely on my wordpress site in the discussion settings will this affect bbPress or will bbPress function ok?

In the past I allowed comments but now I have bbPress I don’t want to allow comments anywhere except in bbPress topics/replies.

I ask because I know that bbPress takes moderation settings from Discussion settings.

Andrew

[samtime]

Hi Robin, the WordPress top toolbar doesn’t seem to appear for users with Moderator forum role and Subscriber WordPress role. And trying to go to a dashboard link (like …/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=reply), redirects that user to their account page.
Giving them “Contributor” or “Editor” role makes the toolbar show up.

Hmmm…
Let me know if you have any ideas (if you have time, super appreciated).

Here’s the website if it helps: https://funkytime.tv/forums/

[samtime]

Hi, I would really like to give forum moderators access to the “Topics” and “Replies” section of the WordPress Dashboard. So they can easily see all replies and topics that need moderating in one place like I can as WP admin.
Is there a way to give moderators access to the WordPress Dashboard without giving them the full “Contributor” or “Editor” WP role capabilities?

I have tried creating a custom role with the “User Role Editor” plugin, but can’t find a way to give them dashboard access, without also giving them the ability to edit non-forum posts on the website.

Or, does anyone know a way/plugin that shows moderators all the topics/replies that need moderating on the front end?

Thank you, Sam

WordPress 5.3.2
bbPress 2.6.3
bbPress – Moderation Tools plugin 1.2.4
User Role Editor plugin 4.52.2

[randrcomputers]

Funny reading this as i had to install Disable Embeds plugin to STOP the previews in bbpress/wordpress/buddypress as it made a mess to my format and overlapped everything.i can only assume my Kleo theme caused it to “work” in bbpress. So maybe try a different theme?

[dsallanson]

We have exported our forum data using the wordpress menu – Tools – Export We have exported the Forums, Topics and Replies and then imported them to our new site. When looking at the WordPress menu it shows the 4 forums we have imported with the number of topics and replies but when you click on to view the forum we receive the following message

This forum has 963 topics, 2,570 replies
Oh, bother! No topics were found here.

If I click on the Topics menu in the wordpress i can see all the topics and read them but does not show the replies but it has the replies cunt and voice replies

and if i click on the replies menu in WordPress i can see the replies

But not working all together – has any one got any suggestions

I have tried creating a new forum and this works fine so i know my theme etc works ok with forums we are using wordpress 5.3.2 and PHP 7

Thanks

David

[Robin W]

bboress has widgets for latest topics and latest replies

My style pack plugin has latest activity widget and several shortcodes including one to display latest topics

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>shortcodes
dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>widgets

for details

[Juha Metsäkallas]

The proper location of translation files for bbPress was a mystery for me too. It looks like, that for bbPress 2.6 you only need to put them into (a change from previous version)
…\wp-content\languages\plugings\

And yes, if you download from

      https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/bbpress/

you get a po file with a wrong name, like
wp-plugins-bbpress-stable-fi.po
which you must chagne.

[Editor Mike]

WordPress 5.3.2 running Corvus theme.

BBPress Version 2.6.3

I have just updated BBPress and now my forum toolbar buttons are really hard to read.
How do I change the button text colour from white to black?

(On the text tab, the visual tab is fine)

Here is a link to a topic:

ID these oldhammer goblins

[samtime]

SOLVED: I was able to fix this issue by changing the following setting…

In the WordPress dashboard, go to Settings > Forums
Under “Moderation Options” change moderation from “None” to “Custom”
Then select the “All posts below the English character threshold” option.

Now new users can still post replies/topics without having to be manual approved. But posts from users with a moderation flag will be held for review.

Hope that helps and works for you!
Best, Sam

[Robin W]

Private groups

and set up topic permissions tab, which allows for this

[Robin W]

bbpress and buddypress just use WordPress login, and WordPress lets plugin authors do this – only so much you can expect the WordPress authors to support. Wanguard shut down due to stress on author.

As a plugin author, I sympathise – it’s amazing how much abuse you get for providing something for free.

Plenty of solutions out there that use a variety of methods. eg

The Best Alternative For WangGuard With Scaled Protection

[randrcomputers]

Ive never understood why bbpress, wordpress or buddypress dont have option for random questions where Admin can setup a dozen or so questions and answers to registration form. Seems like a simple way to help fight spam registration and simple too! If answer is not correct then registration is not possible. Wangaurd plugin had this and never had spam registration when that was installed.
Must be a reason bbpress, wordpress or buddypress dont offer such a simple solution to at least help stop spam does anyone know why?

[Robin W]

the theme for bbpress is here

https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sites/trunk/buddypress.org/public_html/wp-content/themes/bb-base

[samtime]

Hi, I would like to hide user’s IP addresses from moderators, but keep them visible for keymasters.
Searching this topic I found solutions to hide the IP addresses for everyone, but not to keep it visible for keymasters.
Any ideas?

Thank you,
Sam

Using WordPress 5.3.2
bbPress 2.6.3

[digifessor.com]

Greetings,

I would like for ALL other Topic Pages, Reply Pages, (etc.) to maintain the same page look as the Forum Home Page.

Example of Forum Home Page – https://digifessor.com/community/

How can I make ALL other Topic Pages, Reply Pages, (etc.) the same as the Forum Home Page?
Link above.

Current example of what ALL other pages look like (I do NOT want this look)-

General Discussions 1

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WordPress – Version 5.3.2
bbPress- Version 2.6.3
Theme – Astra – 2.1.4
Theme Builder – Elementor / Version 2.8.2
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Thanks for your help!

[johnnyontheweb]

Hello, thanks for you reply. So you suggest to disable all the plugin and try with bbpress and GD Att. alone.
I’ll try it and let you know.

I queued to an existing topic here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permission-to-attach-image-isnt-working/

It seems there’re others with my problem.

[Milan Petrovic]

Hi,

My GD bbPress Attachments plugin gets file uploaded through media library, and MIME Types check is done in WP core. So, MIME control code should work. But, many security plugins also limit MIME types, so it might be related to that.

But, my GD bbPress Toolbox Pro https://plugins.dev4press.com/gd-bbpress-toolbox/ has MIME Types control alowing you to add new types and limit upload to select types.

Problem is that WordPress checks actual MIME Type for files, so if the extension is not registered with the file’s real MIME Type, it will fail. If you have archive that you connect to text file MIME, it will fail, because WP uses PHP function to read file MIME if possible.

Milan

[Robin W]

also read

How to Fix the “Sorry, This File Type Is Not Permitted for Security Reasons” Error in WordPress

might be worth trying one of the plugins?

[johnnyontheweb]

I’d suggest you raise a ticket in bbpress attachments

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gd-bbpress-attachments/

Done, I hope this will help to find a solution. By now, many thanks for your help.

[Robin W]

I’ve had a quick look, but could spend the rest of Christmas looking in code

I’d suggest you raise a ticket in bbpress attachments

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gd-bbpress-attachments/

[Robin W]

have a look at this

https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/44777/upload-mimes-filter-has-no-effect

seems maybe you can only have one text/plain entry?

the types are listed in

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_allowed_mime_types

and maybe try

add_filter( 'upload_mimes', 'wpse44777_upload_mimes' );
function wpse44777_upload_mimes( $mime_types )
{
    // First we unregister the old key
    unset( $mime_types['txt|asc|c|cc|h'] );

    // Then we add a new one
    ! isset( $mime_types['txt|asc|c|cc|h|nvn'] ) AND $mime_types['txt|asc|c|cc|h|nvn'] = 'text/plain';

    return $mime_types;
}

[Chuckie]

I thought I would widen this out to the broader community too.

I started my query here:

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/showing-download-counts/

Would it be possible to display the number of times an attachment has been downloaded in parentheses? This is for the GD Attachments Plugin.

[jimandms]

Hello all, this is probably a strange request but what the hell, I will give it a shot…

My site is not live yet, it is at https://jimandms.com/ running the latest version of BuddyPress, bbPress and WordPress. I keep them all updated…

Anyway, I have added some posts to the forum. Just general housekeeping stuff mostly. And the complete post shows in my feed on my homepage as well as in the forum. Ideally, I would not want anything to show on the home screen when a forum post is made. I want to keep the two separate to a certain extent.

Or if this cannot be done, then a short blurb about the post with a link to the forum would be acceptable. As it is right now, it shows on the newsfeed as I said and you get a read more on the post and when you click it it shows the whole post.

Anyone have any ideas about how to accomplish this? I checked all of the settings and I didn’t see anything that would help but it is always possible that I missed something.

Thanks for reading!
Jim

[Robin W]

ok so you’ll need to work through what capabilities let this happen

bbPress User Roles and Capabilities

Roles and Capabilities

and then amend these for what you want