[Robin W]

@netweb

@brovashift

Ok I’ve done some testing.

bbpress uses the display_name as stored in wp_user table.

If you allow registration

ie – Dashboard>settings>membership – anyone can register

then yes, the user_nicename and the display_name in wp_user table are the same and the same as the username entered by the person registering.

If you don’t allow registration, and you add users manually

ie Dashboard>users>add new user

and you don’t enter the first and last name, then the user_nicename and display_name are the same

BUT if you enter the firstname and lastname, then the nice_name is the username, but the display_name is saved as firstname followed by lastname !

So a bit of inconsistency by WordPress.

Now display_name is all that we can play with in bbpress, and users can change their display_name under bbpress in the profile area.

So I plan to put a function in my style pack that will let the user choose what the default display_name is, and optionally disable users from creating a nickname and/or changing the default.

[nilay89]

Hello,

When i create topic for buddypress group forum and add topic “What’s up..”, it’s show “what\’s”.

How can i remove it?

Wordpress: 4.4.2
Buddypress:2.4.3
Bbpress : 2.5.8

Thanks

[Pascal Casier]

Bonsoir JF,

First of all, please try to change your permalink settings (Settings > Permalinks) to plain and save. Then try the events calendar again.

If that didn’t work, could you please try (if this makes sense to you):
In Admin > Events > Settings > Community > Access Control, UNcheck the “Block access to WordPress Admin” and have all “Roles to block” UNchecked

If that didn’t work, could you please try to copy this code into your functions.php and let me know if it fixed your issue ?

function casiepa_pre_get_posts( $query ) {
    global $wp_the_query;

    if ( $query === $wp_the_query && $query->is_main_query() && is_array( $query->query_vars['post_type'] ) && in_array( 'forum', $query->query_vars['post_type'] ) ) {
        $query->query_vars['post_type'] = 'forum';
    }

    return $query;
}

add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'casiepa_pre_get_posts', 11);

Please get back to us with some news.

Pascal.

[jfboisvert]

I just installed the latest version (2.5.8) on bbPress on a WordPress site where The Event Calendar plugins (vers. 4.0.7) was installed. After that, I wasn’t able to add or modify an event. I disabled bbPress, and then The Event Calendar works well as before.
Does anayone khow about this problem ? I would like to keep using The Event Calendar but also start using bbPress.

Thank you for your help!
Jean-François Boisvert

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
Give us at least some time to eat 🙂

I think there is something inside the ‘bbp style pack’ plugin.

If not, have you checked https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-unread-posts/ ? It has not been updated recently, but it might still work.

Pascal.

[Robkk]

You can use this plugin.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-improved-statistics-users-online/

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
Is your site public ? Can you publish a link ?
This could be a theme or plugin issue, so try to switch to a standard WordPress theme and check again. If the issue is still there, deactivate all plugins except bbPress and reactivate them one by one to find the culprit.

Pascal.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
That seems to be a WordPress question, not a bbPress specific one. Please try the WordPress forum where you might have more luck.
Pascal.

[anisk2s]

Hi,

I am new to WordPress bbPress. I’m using theme smartmag and bunyad bbpress login widget. The registration button was working fine till day before yesterday and then suddenly stopped working. Now if I click on the register now button it makes the screen grey and hangs the screen as well. Any lep will be greatly appreciated.

http://ask-parents.com

Thanks

[Robin W]

have you seen

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-a-404-error-off-of-js-support-ticket-page?replies=4

[Pascal Casier]

After the import, for sure try to run the repair functions (one after the other) on Tools > Forums > Repair.

For the users, if you just want to import them, there are tools like https://wordpress.org/plugins/import-users-from-csv-with-meta/ that I already used, but of course you don’t have the link with the topics/replies.

Pascal.

[Nicolas Korobochkin]

Hi @mairag. Updated step by step tutorial with working source code example available in next article https://wpmag.ru/2015/wordpress-multisite-signup/ (on Russian but you can use Google Translator to translate this) 🙂 Inside article you can find the links to Github with source code. Feel free to leave any questions here.

[ozss]

What files and what way am I supposed to modify if I wish to change the appearance of bbpress login form in this way? My forum: http://www.posuzujeme.cz

Original login form layout:

Original

Bewished login form layout:

Custom

WordPress v. 4.4.2
bbPress v. 2.5.8.

[Robin W]

suggest you turn on debugging and see what come up

https://codex.wordpress.org/Debugging_in_WordPress

[Robin W]

load up my stylepack plugin and use latest activity widget

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-style-pack/

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
Yes, there are multiple plguins that provide a facebook login for WordPress.
An example search: https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?type=term&q=facebook+login
Pascal.

[Robkk]

@shadynicnack

You are probably going to end up using this plugin, I do not really have much knowledge of setting it up for what you want though.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/hyperdb/
https://codex.wordpress.org/HyperDB

[Pascal Casier]

It’s because you use the standard page that is generated on /forums

Try to create a new page in WordPress, make sure the slug is /forums (give it any title you want) and then as only text put [bbp-forum-index]

Pascal.

[Robin W]

ok, given your answer, sorry but I don’t think you are going to achieve this.

To do what you want would require a level of wordpress and PHP knowledge that you don’t have – don’t take this as a criticism, I know virtually nothing of say Joomla, or deep sea trawling, or brain surgery. That doesn’t make me stupid, I just don’t have the knowledge on these things to be able to do these things. Nor could someone talk me through this in a forum.

I’d suggest you hire someone to achieve what you want.

[karlbenn73]

Hi All

I’m still new to BBPress and to WordPress if I’m to be honest…

I am using the Woo Storefront Theme.

I have created a new page on my website and called it “forum” and then used the
[bbp-forum-index] shortcode on that page.

1. I have installed a plugin that allows me to turn off my page title but for some reason BBPress seems to be overriding this feature which is working fine on all my other pages? How do I turn my page title off within BBPress?

2. I have also set up a few forums, one of them called “School Community Discussion”
Inside this “parent” forum I have created two child forums called “Michael Mount Waldorf School” and “Moore House Academy”

When I click on one of the child forums to post a new topic, there is no “new post” window for me to add a new post. This window is only available at the parent forum level!? How do I resolve this?

3. I must say that I’m dumbfounded that BBPress doesn’t have a “Post new Topic” button that will allow you to click and then select whichever forum you want to post into from a dropdown menu. I there any way to create a button like this?

Thx
Kb

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
This is a known issue for the moment. A ticket has been opened: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2906
Pascal.

[shadynicnack]

I’m a bit new and trying to get back into wordpress again. I have a wordpress website that needs to use the wordpress database that we first set up, and 2 external databases to obtain information and even at times to edit, and update information. Tried using external database but that is for one external database coming in. Want to use an external database to first set up login meaning when they enter username and password, it will find it through g h the external database. So my question is… What is the best way this situation? If it is coding, is there some tutorials that I can do this?

Did some research, and someone said that I can use this code in the functions.php to help access another database… Is it functions pho in main or themes?

$newdb = new wpdb($DB_USER, $DB_PASSWORD, $DB_NAME, $DB_HOST);
$newdb->show_errors();

So I add this in the functions, but where do I put the second database’s info like host, username, password and etc? Where do I put the query code at?

Will this work to connect to an external databases?

Please Help!!!!

[stussi]

So it isn’t taking you to where you want it to also huh? I click on public discussion and it takes me to my post page, which I dont have any post since this is not a blog site. I have latest bbpress and wordpress.

[bodybyloud]

I’m having the same issue. I’m using divi theme and bbpress shortcode for forum index. http://bodybyloud.com/Bodybyloud%20LoudTalk%20Forums/forum/introduction/ the post page comes up when you click on the Introduction forum I created.
wordpress- 4.4.2
bbppress – 2.5.8

[Robkk]

@swstarone this could be bbPress theme compatibility/WordPress theme related issue, an seo plugin could possibly cause this, title tag updates in WordPress could cause this too.

you can notice that there no username or nickname displaying on the page.

This could be a bbPress theme compatibility issue/theme issue. The title could be outputted if the page is_single(), but the user profile pages do not do this.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2545

This php code snippet could help with the issue though.

function rkk_add_title_to_user() {
    ?>
        <h1 class="entry-title"><?php bbp_displayed_user_field( 'display_name' ); ?></h1>
    <?php
 }
 add_action( 'bbp_template_before_user_details', 'rkk_add_title_to_user' );