[Pascal Casier]

Hi Mantelli,
That issue is coming from the toolkit, so you should use the support there: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbp-toolkit

(I can confirm that it only works for English, but I have to ask you to open the support case there to get the workaround)

Pascal.

[xponera]

Hi, this was a good lead. My host had another recepie for .htaccess

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/
RewriteRule .* - [CO=wordpress_test_cookie:WP+Cookie+check:%{HTTP_HOST}:1440:/]

It worked at once.

Thx

[nickharambee]

Hello,

I have experienced an issue importing posts from a BuddyPress group forum. Originally I lost the link to all topics when I manually deleted some spam users directly in the tables wp_users and wp_bp_groups_members. In the group forum it simply stated “Sorry, there were no forum topics found.” So I thought I would upgrade to bbpress using the instructions here: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/guides/migrating-from-old-forums-to-bbpress-2/

I followed all instructions up to the import process and then the import just got stuck – i.e. nothing was imported.

Then I noticed no forums are now listed under Forums.

So I created a new forum, which looks different to the previous forum (presumably because I am now using bbpress and not the old Buddypress group forum – how to tell?). I can link this forum to my one Buddypress group, but now none of the old topics show – they are all still in the WordPress database, but I need to know how to get them into the new forum that I have created, or import them some other way.

I would be grateful for any advice.

Thanks,

Nick

[Adri Oosterwijk]

This is an issue I am struggling for a long time now.
I have wordpress 4.3.1 installed and bbPress 2.5.8. The formerly created forums are running but I don’t see any Forum options in my dashboard. I have deleted the plugin and installed it again, to no avail.

Even when bbPress is the only plugin activated it don’t show.
Please help.

[mfiguerasma]

I’m using TwentyFifteen theme, and the versions:
WordPress 4.2.2
BuddyPress 2.2.1
BBPress 2.5.7

[AndyF]

Hi Pascal,

Thanks for answering so quickly. I installed WordPress, then I added my Weaver Xtreme Pro template, and then I added bbPRess.

At this point I am not using any plugins that deal with members’ roles or anything like that. It pretty much plain vanilla settings except for the settings.

I do have the settings set for auto role but it doesn’t appear to be saving the “Participant” role that I preset.

So far we are still in testing mode so we haven’t promoted the site to customers yet. I just noticed that the logins that I was creating didn’t have the forum role specified in the profile.

One of the issues is that someone subscribes to the site, they get the subscriber role in WordPress but that doesn’t automatically give them a forum role. Most of the people that we are dealing with are “low tech” so If they have to log on and give themselves a forum role that will make things difficult for them. Is there a way to automate the process?

Thanks again,

Andy

[Pascal Casier]

Hi Andy,

1. If you just installed bbPress on top of WordPress, then your usermanagement is done by having normal users in WordPress (see the extra fields like setting the forum roles)

2. Are you using any plugins that deal with members or roles ? If you have set the ‘Settings > Forums > Auto role’ it should be sufficient. Try also to run the repair tool “Remap existing users to default forum roles”

For the forums on the frontend, have a look at this: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/is-it-possible-to-allow-all-users-create-new-forum/

Hope it helps,
Pascal.

[Robkk]

If the issue is just with that plugin. post on that plugins support forum for help.

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbp-style-pack

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,

Most probably a security issue or a redirect to your login page that does not work. If you have any security plugins (like Theme my login) or captcha (like in Jetpack), try to deactivate. Somebody found this: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/users-unable-to-register-and-login/

Just be careful : Editing .htaccess can block your complete site. Make sure you have a contact point with your provider and you know what you are doing

Defaults for the .htaccess can be found here: https://codex.wordpress.org/htaccess

Let me know if it helped,
Pascal.

[tmg]

Thanks for the clarification. At this point I feel pretty lost though, as I’ve never actually had to add functionality to WordPress.

Do you know of any working examples or tutorials that show how to post a topic from an external app or client?

[tmg]

TK, I’ve already extended an existing plugin of mine to post regular wordpress posts to the website using the wp_insert_post function. Is that the same function I need be using to post to bbpress, just with additional metadata?

[yolandal]

Finally I’m working on the forum changes, but I’m stuck with the instructions:
Getting There
Log in to your WordPress Admin Dashboard
Select the ‘Tools’ tab select ‘Forums’ from the navigation menu
Select the ‘Import Forums’ tab at the top of the screen.

I don’t see the Import Forums tab?

[James Jams]

Hello peoples,

We have a WordPress site running WP 4.3.1 and bbPress 2.5.8. We have a instance coming up that we would like to open up one of the forums parent groups on our forum to allow anonymous posting, but keep the rest of our forums locked up.

Is this possible? Either through coding on bbPress or through a 3rd party plug-in? Hmmm

[Robkk]

It is a common theme issue related to styling wordpress comments.

Your theme has this CSS to style the wordpress comments. Thing is bbPress has an entire class for each reply which is .reply and it affected any link in a bbPress reply.

.reply a {
    font-weight: bold;
    float: left;
    padding: 0;
    font-size: 12px;
}

[Robkk]

I don’t think there is a free version of this plugin.

There isn’t even a free extension for users to use to make it work with bbPress from what I can see.

I would like to know how to remove the link to main Forum page that appear in the course unit when I embed the topic ( [bbp-single-forum id=$forum_id]) . for instance, Which file and where is it located, and what I have to change?

bbPress uses custom post types which are similar to the WordPress posts, it just outputs different templates for the display of the forum posts.

Deleting these posts, would make the shortcode not owrk.

What you would need to do is conditionally allow only users of a certain course to be able to see a certain forums or topics from bbPress’s pages not just use a shortcode to place a forum on a course page.

I have found that some user recommend some additional membership/restrict content plugins to make it work for bbPress forums this way.

It might be best to contact the wpcourseware plugins support to know what is best to hook up bbPress with that plugin.

[Andreas Andersen]

But my link is not ending with a “/”. And it is not only when using the shortcode [url] but also when using wordpress toolbar for inserting the link.

[Robkk]

@balmfoc48

As the user above states some hosts have a limit of emails that are able to be sent out.

Install this plugin to fix possibly part of the issue. The code used in the plugin will probably be used in a future version of bbPress.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/asyncronous-bbpress-subscriptions/

You may need to also look into asking your server support to increase the email limit if your emails sent grow significantly or use a service like sendgrid or mandrill.

[Robkk]

I don’t want to import from my yahoogroups

Ok

I just want the feature of having an email address that will post to the forum subscribers without having to go into the website.

This is the only post via email plugin for bbPress I think. I am not sure if it does exactly what you are wanting by sending the message to the user they are replying to as I never really tested it out.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-post-via-mail/

[Robkk]

I forgot about this plugin which will essentially allow certain shortcodes like the caption shortcode.

Just add caption to the input box for the allowed shortcodes in the plugins settings page.

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbpress2-shortcode-whitelist

[Robkk]

This might related to the issue in this trac ticket since you said bbcode.

The plugin author of the plugin you are probably using created the ticket.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2889

[Andreas Andersen]

When I insert a link in bbpress it does not show correct on my page. All links will be stacked on the left site of the message. Here is a picture of the HTML code that is generated and how it is showed.

The problem is only in bbpress, not when inserting links in WordPress in general. It is the same no matter i I insert the link using bbcode or using the WordPress toolbar.

What can be the problem here? Is there some CSS that controls this in bbpress?

[Pascal Casier]

Hi Rhonda,
Is it a public site ? If so, could you post the link ?
Did you create a dedicated WordPress page with a [shortcode] or you just want the use the built-in page by adding /forums after your domain ?
Pascal.

[TKServer]

I’ve been working for weeks (on my off time) on a threaded view of bbpress posts and replies. Here’s the beta:

Ute Fan Board

A different look more similar to an old school list forum style. Lots of work to do but here’s what it does so far:

1. Different format, more list/threaded. Recent topics show with the topic replies below
2. Works on a page outside of bbpress, but hooks some bbpress functions.
3. Posts new messages and replies, with metadata.
4. Allows user to expand/shrink content area of each post/reply
5. Posts/replies show as modal popup window instead of at the bottom of the forum.
6. WordPress visual editor enabled (some bugs)
7. Pagination

Current bugs and pending additions:

• Edit post/reply
• Posts made from forum-threads do not show up in buddyPress “recent activities”
• Visual editor add link does not work.
• Twitter share button not setup yet
• Facebook share button not setup yet

It’s pretty hacky and I’m sure the code is not all that great, but it “seems” to work. I’ll be working on my bugs and new features soon.

[wymaroo34]

Hey

I”m trying to use ldap accounts with bbpress (AuthLDAP plugin)

Wordpress roles are working pretty nice but bbpress roles are lost after each connection:

for example , i give admin role for a user ,then when he logs in his rights are deleted (or replaced by blank)

I think it is because it is considered like a new user ( default role option is NOT activated)

Any idea to deactivate?

Thx

[Axel13]

Since the page you refer to, Pascal, says:

Unfortunately, it’s difficult to ascertain from within bbPress exactly what other plugin causes this to happen, so bbp_setup_current_user comes up in the logs.

Perhaps it’s useful to know that I also see this notice, yet only on localhost and that Yoast SEO has something to do with it. The notice disappears when deactivating Yoast SEO. I do not see any notice when activating both plugins on my site.

Here is the error with some more details:

( ! ) Notice: bbp_setup_current_user was called <strong>incorrectly</strong>. The current user is being initialized without using $wp->init(). Please see <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Debugging_in_WordPress">Debugging in WordPress</a> for more information. (This message was added in version 2.3.) in C:\wamp\www\wp\wp-includes\functions.php on line 3622
Call Stack
#	Time	Memory	Function	Location
1	0.0026	424608	{main}( )	..\plugins.php:0
2	0.0032	493464	require_once( 'C:\wamp\www\wp\wp-admin\admin.php' )	..\plugins.php:10
3	0.0035	511616	require_once( 'C:\wamp\www\wp\wp-load.php' )	..\admin.php:31
4	0.0037	522552	require_once( 'C:\wamp\www\wp\wp-config.php' )	..\wp-load.php:37
5	0.0042	620608	require_once( 'C:\wamp\www\wp\wp-settings.php' )	..\wp-config.php:89
6	0.1986	28145704	do_action( )	..\wp-settings.php:237
7	0.2427	32127520	call_user_func_array:{C:\wamp\www\wp\wp-includes\plugin.php:503} ( )	..\plugin.php:503
8	0.2428	32127584	wpseo_admin_init( )	..\plugin.php:503
9	0.2432	32196168	WPSEO_Admin_Init->__construct( )	..\wp-seo-main.php:292
10	0.2464	32361392	WPSEO_Admin->__construct( )	..\class-admin-init.php:31
11	0.2493	32460912	WPSEO_GSC->__construct( )	..\class-admin.php:42
12	0.2493	32462088	current_user_can( )	..\class-gsc.php:60
13	0.2493	32462120	wp_get_current_user( )	..\capabilities.php:1441
14	0.2493	32462392	get_currentuserinfo( )	..\pluggable.php:60
15	0.2516	32513872	wp_set_current_user( )	..\pluggable.php:125
16	0.2520	32542032	do_action( )	..\pluggable.php:41
17	0.2525	32547552	call_user_func_array:{C:\wamp\www\wp\wp-includes\plugin.php:503} ( )	..\plugin.php:503
18	0.2525	32547632	bbp_setup_current_user( )	..\plugin.php:503
19	0.2525	32548072	_doing_it_wrong( )	..\sub-actions.php:147
20	0.2527	32549376	trigger_error ( )	..\functions.php:3622

I hope that helps!