[packzap]

Some users are getting their posts and new topics flagged in my bbPress/Wordpress site as spam. They are long-time contributors with valid and thoughtful comments. It seems that bbPress occasionally gets too aggressive flagging valid posts as spam. I am running the latest bbPress (2.5.10) and WordPress (4.5.3) versions. Is there anyway to correct this situation?

[Robin W]

unless wordpress.com allow it, there is no way to add plugins – sorry

[Robin W]

interesting question – bbpress will add the default role you set in forums settings, so if you set this to participant this would sort the majority of users out from a forum perspective.

Which then makes this more of a wordpress question – in essence you could set up the users manually and click to not send them emails, so they would be on the live site when you transfer, but then of course they wouldn’t know their password, so it is a bit of a catch 22 !

[androguider]

The import was completed successfully. The imported topics still remain uncategorised though. I had a look at the support ticket at https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2380 . I tried the repair tool, but it did not work too. I had a widget on my theme’s sidebar which displayed the recent posts feed from the forums. The topics were visible there too.

I am ready to take the pain to categorise the topics themselves. Is it in an importer bug that the topics were not categorised? How can I categorise them manually?

Best Regards

[courtneyleonis]

My moderator needs to be notified of all activity on my forum to be able to respond. It seems that when they are subscribed to each forum, they only receive email notifications for new topics created – but not replies within topics. Is there a way to subscribe my moderator automatically to all activity? or do they really have to subscribe to each new topic as they are started?

Thank you.

website: http://www.progressivesurgicalsolutions.com
Wordpress version: 4.5.3
ppPress version: 2.5.9

[Stephen Edgar]

Use this to get rid of that silly Private prefix 🙂

https://gist.github.com/ntwb/8662354

p.s. We’ll get that removed from bbPress and/or WordPress proper one of these days ;P

[Stephen Edgar]

Excellent, glad that worked.

The full details and code for bbPress’ fix is here if that kind of thing interests you 🙂

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/6061

[Stephen Edgar]

Hmm, strange indeed, I’ve not tried Jetpack with an Anonymous forum.

If you want to track this down further creating a ticket on our bug tracking site with some detailed information on how your site is setup, what versions and what features you have enabled of WordPress, bbPress, Jetpack etc and how we’d recreate/simulate your setup.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/newticket#ticket

Also if you find just a Jetpack issue you can create a ticket for that here:
https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/issues

[Matoca]

I disabled Jetpack and have left it disabled since this happened.

However, something happened this Sunday that might be part of this problem, though I can’t be sure. Just posting it here so others can benefit.

Trying to view my forum on my phone last night, but not logged in. I get the message “oops nothing here.” No forum at all. That’s not right, the forum should be visible to everyone!

I try to log into my WP site on my phone. Instead of logging me in a form pops up that wants me to prove I am human by performing a simple math equation. This has happened before and I had no idea why, but usually only when I am trying to access the site via my phone. So now I am locked out of the dashboard by this form that is never satisfied by my answers and I can’t see the forum either. Great.

Searching the WP troubleshooting forum I discover this Prove You Are Human math form is a function of the Jetpack setting called Protect. Many people have been locked out of their dashboard for days at a time. In the forum topic three ways to defeat this are suggested. The simplest, if you can get into your dashboard, is to turn off this Protect setting. More complex is doing it via WordPress.com settings or changing a file in your server.

Today, Monday, I am able to log into my forum via my computer, and the forum is visible. Jetpack, for some strange reason, is no longer disabled. I have no explanation for that, I left it disabled.

The first thing I look at are all the Jetpack settings and I unchecked the Protect function. I noticed that the default settings for Jetpack includes many things I had no idea were part of it. Very powerful plugin.

Will this allow folks who have been blocked to post topic and replies in the forum? I don’t know yet. I would be curious if anyone has tangled with this Protect function prohibiting anonymous users from posting in the forum?

[Robin W]

Use my private groups plugin to achieve this

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-private-groups/

[beccawilson]

Hi I was wondering if anyone can help me please.

I have set up a private forum on our work-hosted instance which is running wordpress 4.5.3 and bbpress 2.5.10 and am manually adding forum users.

Until recently I was able to assign forum roles via the Users > All Users menu on left hand side. However, now when I select a forum member and select a forum role from the drop down top menu and press apply the forum role column remains the same.

This error happens when I try to edit an existing forum user e.g. to alter them from participant to moderator after hitting and also when I am manually trying to assign forum roles to new members.

As such I am unable to manage any of the forum user roles now. Does anyone have any suggestions?

[smithcreate]

I’m about to launch a website for a club which will use bbPress as their online forum. Is there a way I can add current club members to WordPress and assign their roles before I launch the website? My thought is that the site will generate emails to these users, but the link will go to localhost. I’m trying to minimize downtime with the site launch. My only thoughts are to add users after the website is launched, which will then link to the production URL. Any thoughts or tutorials on this?

[Texiwill]

Hello,

I ran the PHP 7 Compatibility test against bbPress with the following results. Be nice if they could be fixed so I can use bbPress with PHP 7.

FILE: /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converter.php
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FOUND 1 ERROR AFFECTING 1 LINE
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 310 | ERROR | INI directive 'safe_mode' is deprecated from PHP 5.3 and forbidden from PHP 5.4.
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FILE: /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/parser.php
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FOUND 3 ERRORS AND 1 WARNING AFFECTING 4 LINES
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  293 | ERROR   | Deprecated PHP4 style constructor are not supported since PHP7
 1149 | ERROR   | preg_replace() - /e modifier is forbidden in PHP 7.0
 1150 | ERROR   | preg_replace() - /e modifier is forbidden in PHP 7.0
 1386 | WARNING | The use of function split is discouraged from PHP version 5.3; use preg_split instead
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THank you,
Edward

[mynotore]

Hello,

I use WPML for a french/english website and bbPress 2.5.10 on a WordPress 4.5.3

I would have a single forum but have the ability to switch between the two languages. Is it possible ? How ?

Thanks.

[gemma09]

Good morning,

I am new to BBPress, and would like ot install it on my (free) WordPress site, noumen.wordpress.com (which is a private site).

Wordpress do not allow plugins on their free sites for the dubious reason that your plugin might be vulnerable. Is there any way to install a forum on my site?

Otherwise, I will have to devize my own method of running a forum, albeit one with a lot less functionality than yours.

Gem

[Pascal Casier]

If you want to get to the source of it, you can find the theme used here on https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sites/trunk/buddypress.org/public_html/wp-content/themes/bb-base

Pascal.

[archon]

Hello,

I am very new to bbPress. I have a few basic questions:
1. To simplify my question, suppose I create page A, B, C, D. For each separate page, I create forum A, B, C, D. When creating the forums, bbPress creates a page for each forum, let’s call them page FA, FB, FC, and FD. My goal is to add a shortcode for forum A to page A such that whenever a user submit a question, it will stay on page A instead of getting forwarded to page FA. The same goes for page B, C, and D. Is it possible to do this? I create these pages and forums, but everytime I submit a question or subscribe to the forum, the site brings me to page FA instead of letting me stay on page A.

2. Is it possible to change the front end of the text editor? here we have “b i link b-quote del img ul ol li code close tags”. For general user, they will be more familiar with more common buttons like Bold, Italic, Underline, a button to attach image, a button to add symbols, etc.

wordpress version: 4.5.3
bbPress version: 2.5.10

Thank you so much for your help!

[jlarsen01]

Need help… I need the name, email, and web site fields to always display in the “Create New Topic” entry. When my customers login to WordPress it automatically removes those field. We have multiple people using one WordPress login and I need them to be able to post using their name and email.

[jlarsen01]

When my customers login into my WordPress site the name, email, and web site fields disappear in the post. I believe this has something to do with them being logged into the site…. Is there a way to always display those fields even if people are logged in? I have multiple customers in one office using one WordPress login and they would like to post things using their names and emails.

[thwright]

Necro. I am using the Evolve theme, WordPress 4.5.3, and have tried running this code in a child theme, but the effects only take place in the parent theme’s functions.php. I tried a mu-plugin as well. I am thoroughly pleased with the results in the parent theme but would love this in a child. Any thoughts?

[uschesch]

My gravitar is wokring fine in WordPress; however, it no longer appears in the forum. Now a default image appears. Does anyone know what would have caused this issue?

Wordpress: 4.5.3
bbPress: 2.5.9-6017

Thank you.

[pleyades38]

Wordpress version: 4.5.3
bbPress version: 2.5.10
theme: Zippy Courses
site: http://escuela.palabrasalavida.com/forums/forum/el-yoga-de-las-palabras/

Hi,

Pleased I’m stuck with this. I have my WordPress installed in es_ES, I have translated the Zippy Courses theme without problems and now I am trying to translate the bbpress pluging by copying the es_ES.mo file into the languages folder and it doesn’t work. The plugin is not getting translated.

I have tried to do it using the plugin “Codestyling localization” and I get this message:

Loading Issue: Author is using load_textdomain instead of load_plugin_textdomain function. This may break behavior of WordPress, because some filters and actions won’t be executed anymore. Please contact the Author about that.

Any hints?

Thanks for your help!

[oldshaghat]

I found a old report of this bug :

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2739

So it’s a known issue. My workaround (manually hacking the str_replace) seems to work so I’ll just manage that until it gets solved.

[melvinwu]

Is there any plugin that can help me to achieve this:

my website is using wordpress + bbpress. I want to create personalized experience for user. I have pages that dedicate to baby names: if the user has login to the bbpress, he is able to save the baby names and retrieve it later.

This means that I need to check whether the user has login to bbpress or not, if yes, i will need to get his/her user id.

May i know whether there is any plugin or program that can help me to achieve this.

Thanks in advance.

[Leonyipa]

Oh, I have been looking for themes in https://wordpress.org/themes/

But most themes that barely synergize with BBPress and Buddypress.
Like the theme outside of BBPress and BuddyPress are in one colour, while the plugins are using a white theme. This makes the theme very not “fit” the plugins.

I have also tried themes labelled with Buddypress, but they look very “different” too.

Do you know if there are any free forum themes available?
Thanks!