[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
posts are just custom post types (topic, reply) and have metadata attached. bbPress is following standard WordPress rules in the database.

For bbPress functions and filters, I normally end up on http://hookr.io/plugins/bbpress/2.5.6/functions/

Pascal.

[Momshof]

Wordpress: 4.3.1
Divi Theme: 2.5.5
BBPress: 2.5.8
bbp style pack: 2.8.3
http://dtcdancecentral.com/DTCTest/forum/

Hi – I am new to BBPress. I am hoping some one may be able to assist with the page formatting of the forums/category/topic pages et etc. I am trying to get it as close to this:

http://dtcdc.freeforums.net/

as I can.

With bbpress style pack I was able to do alot without having to mess with any code of files -I do not have alot of coding experience or working within the server on files.

Right now – I have the following short codes in a Divi Page – this is my Forum Index Page:

[bsp-display-forum-index forum= ‘1106’ breadcrumb=’no’ search=’no’]
[bsp-display-forum-index forum= ‘1130’ breadcrumb=’no’ search=’no’]
[bsp-display-forum-index forum= ‘1154’ breadcrumb=’no’ search=’no’]

1. This is giving me the “boxed” look for each separate forum I want – I can not figure out how to get the header title of each forum changed. Where it says “Forums, topics,posts, freshness” instead of Forum – I would like it to state the name of the forum I have created (like the first one be “Community Forum”, then the 2nd one would be “Platinum Members Forum” & the 3rd “Diamond Members Forum”).

These would not be links to anything. Just the forum title. So that when an actual forum below in the “box” is clicked on it goes straight to that forum page showing all topics under that forum.
(I hope I am using the correct terminology here.)

2. I can not get the description to show up underneath each category on the forum index page. Is the only way to achieve this to do something to the files in wp?

3. The topic pages (submit & view) have a big line running down the right side of the pages down into the footer – is there anyway to remove that line and make the pages full width or a custom width?

Divi Theme does provide an Epanel where I can put css coding in without having to change any files. If anyone has any ideas how to achieve these changes (hopefully without altering files) I would appreciate the help & guidance.

Thanks!

[Robkk]

@omj-1

This is the CSS causing the issue.

#bbpress-forums .bbp-body div.bbp-reply-content {
    clear: both;
    margin: 10px;
    padding: 0;
}

The reason why when reply threading is enabled fixes the issue is because the list .bbp-body self closes and makes the above CSS not work.

Here is the ticket about the reply threading markup bug.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2757

You can use this custom CSS to fix the issue.

#bbpress-forums .bbp-body div.bbp-reply-content {
    clear: none;
}

[Robkk]

Check out this guide for help with an internal server error.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Common_WordPress_Errors#Internal_Server_Error

You can also check out this guide for any help with login issues.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Login_Trouble

[Robkk]

1. How do I set up my site to where people can log in with a WordPress / Gravatar account?

Jetpack has a module in it for users to login using their wordpress.com account, if that is what you want.

https://jetpack.me/support/sso/

2. The profile page title does not show up and using the Yoast plugin I can’t find any way to target it. Any advice?

You have to use a filter and use custom code to customize the titles. Here is an example of some custom code to that that type of thing for some of the profile pages.

Change meta/page title for user pages

3. What’s a good plugin to use for things such as easy navigation for users?

It depends on what exactly you want. I really do not have any opinions on this type of thing, but it depends on how the rest of your site is set up and the look you are going for.

[Robkk]

I think you guys can just hot-patch the issue until the bug is fixed in core and so you guys do not mess with any other core code to cause any other possible issues.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/5852

[Pascal Casier]

Hi Filip-T,

What I know is that forum moderation is being reviewed and improved a lot for v2.7 of bbPress. For now there is standard moderation and blacklisting as described here: https://codex.bbpress.org/moderation-and-blacklisting/

I’m not aware of other plugins then the one you have found, but it seems to have some issues with the latest WordPress/bbPress.

Pascal.

[Filip-T]

Hello there!

I’m looking for a feature to approve all topics before they appear on the site.
I can’t provide bbPress version or a link to the site, as i haven’t installed bbPress yet.

I’ve been looking around the forum and the documentation, but i haven’t been able to find anything, except for the following, which is outdated now: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpressmoderation/

So does bbPress, support this feature?

Thanks in advance 🙂

—
Filip

[nrangana]

when i search for a topic or forum, search result is not directed to the topic or forum. just display a text as below.

HAITI › Forums › Search › Search Results for ‘carnival’ Viewing 1 results (of 1 total) Author Search Results October 31, 2015 at 9:03 pm #1731 Topic: carnival 2016 dates in forum Travellhaiti Forums neilranganaKeymaster (200.113.203.71) I’m thinking about visiting…

please help me to fix the problem.

wordpress version – 4.3.1
bbpress version – 2.5.8
theme – travelify – 2.2.0

Thanks
neil

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
The closest one I see is https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-date-time-change/
It seems to show ALL post types, but I didn’t test it at all. Use with care as it’s probably changing directly at database level.
Pascal.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,

If you are still interested, I have added it into my bbP Toolkit. It does NOT need any files to be copied or created. https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-toolkit/

Pascal.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
It should work if you pasted it correctly somewhere.
If you don’t manage, you can try to install the bbP Toolkit (https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-toolkit/) as it is now one of the options.
Pascal.

[Billistic]

When I edit the forum and look at the Publish box, there’s no date edit option. The box only has a preview changes button.

Wordpress Version 4.3.1

BBPress Version 2.5.8

[Toni]

Outstanding!!! So much more than I had expected.

This makes such a huge difference for me. I greatly appreciate the time and careful effort to thoroughly explain this all for me so clearly. This will help me get to a new level in Things WordPress.

Thank you
Cheers!

[tlatch89]

Hey everyone,

I started styling up a little support/development forum for my clients to use. It requires a little bit more customization but I have most of the basics down.

Wordpress – Latest
BBPress – Latest
Theme – Salient
Website Forum Page – https://wapp.guru/support/

I’m not using any short codes because this theme actually handles the default BBPress pretty well. I’m just letting the default post types do their thing with Yoast SEO attached. I’ve added a plugin that adds login, log out, and register buttons to the forum itself.

1. How do I set up my site to where people can log in with a WordPress / Gravatar account?

2. The profile page title does not show up and using the Yoast plugin I can’t find any way to target it. Any advice?

View post on imgur.com

3. What’s a good plugin to use for things such as easy navigation for users? I have a few of the widgets in the hamburger menu on the top left. There’s a default login form but nothing regarding registration so I hard coded a link in. There’s a little login form, but no register form. I’ve tried (bbk style pack) but it seems to just place links in the main navigation menu which I don’t really like. It just seems like it’s difficult to navigate around.

Overall I know the forum is open source and requires a good bit of customization. I’m just looking for the simplest way without having to use 50 additional plugins that conflict with one another.

Thanks!

[John James Jacoby]

With every iteration, bbPress writes to the _bbp_converter_query option to record the last successful query. You can use that to cross-check what the converter is putting out against what the records are that are being imported.

Usually when this happens, it’s a database encoding issue, and MySQL is getting stuck on a specific character in a specific record.

To confirm if this is the case, you’ll want to go back into phpMyAdmin (or your favorite database management tool) and bisect that range of posts to identify exactly which post in your vBulletin installation that bbPress is getting hung up on.

For example, when I converted bbPress.org from bbPress 1.2 to bbPress 2.0, it got stuck on 8 individual posts that had had encoding issues from 10 years ago when someone changed the encoding from whatever it was to latin1, and because WordPress usually expected to be UTF-8 and we have HyperDB in the middle to route queries around, bbPress’s converter would do exactly what yours is doing.

If it’s database encoding or some other anomaly, isolating what is goofy with exactly which post(s) is the only way to get around it. I’m anxious to hear what you figure out here, and very happy to improve our importer if there’s anything we can do on our end.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
It’s unfortunately a known issue in current version:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2685

Hopefully fixed in next upcoming release.

Pascal.

[martineva]

Hello there !
I’ve been on troubble since a few days, just trying to let my forum users to delete their own topics.

I tried several plugins, on WordPress, but it seems that even if I create a new role and custom it with the “delete topic” option, it won’t be memorized, maybe due to php bbpress capabilities ?? Anyway those plugins seem to create only WordPress roles, not bbpress roles. So even if there is “forum options” set, maybe it’s not the good way to do it properly.

Then I’ve been reading this : https://codex.bbpress.org/custom-capabilities/, and I was able to set a new role, but still, even if the 'delete_topics' => true," is set, the users can’t see anything like a delete button on the front end (same with the “delete replies” option, BTW).

Following this other thread https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-custom-user-role/ I created a separated php file, but once again I could see no effect, worse : I got 404 pages instead of my website pages.

I must say it’s my first forum, and I’m not a good coder, so if anybody could help me to get this solved, it would be very, very nice !

[Robkk]

The forum feeds are still there, you just have to go to the original forum feed url as stated in this new trac ticket I just created.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2888

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,

First of all to reply to your question: I have never seen a plugin like this, but then of course, I don’t know all the plugins around bbpress as every day new ones are created or updated.
If you really don’t find it and are willing to pay, you could post your request on http://jobs.wordpress.net/

But then just some thoughts: Is this really a strict/blocking requirement to move to bbPress ? Nowadays in all modern email readers, all threads are grouped one under the other. So if you have 1 new reply or 10 new replies, you will only see 1 email with (10) threads, so it should not really bother people.
And if I subscribe to a topic, I’m really interested in it and want to follow it by email. The only thing could be a ‘digest email’ on an hourly/daily bases, but that’s a slightly different topic.

Pascal.

[Robkk]

I just want to know what “bbPress ready” “works with bbPress” means
What are some characteristics that make a “theme bbPress ready/compatible”?

Most common theme related issues are not visible with the theme.

If a WordPress theme is reviewed in an article and is said to work for bbPress

There are quite a few, like a handful of paid themes that actual go out and style everything and add something custom in their forum layout. Some others just say it just works but do not really customize the layout much.

Same thing with free themes, only a few I have seen actually customize the layout. There are some good free ones.

What do the results imply when I search for themes for bbPress, what can I expect in general?

The theme has no possible theme issues with bbPress and possibly some minor or major customization in the default bbPress forums look.

I have been struggling with themes, like all bbPress newbies. I don’t understand the structure of bbPress – the layout, navigation, hierarchy and the pages it generates. It’s a new surprise with each theme I try. (Yes, I have used Theme 2015 to check things.)

It is close to a traditional forum layout (except the categories/forum layout). Can you please explain exactly why some things might not understandable so I can help you better?? I do not want to try to assume things from what you meant by structure or the pages generated.

In /forums page is the forum post type archive, same goes for the topic post type and /topics. In some themes they configure a custom page title for Archive pages. Since you can use the regular WordPress conditional is_archive() and affect bbPress, well it affects bbPress.

Here is the code in the free version of that theme that outputs the Archives title for any archive using if_archive() and some extra conditionals to check if it is a category archive or an author archive and so on. Since the bbPress archive page does not follow one of the other conditionals, the title ends up just Archives.

function ample_header_title() {
   if( is_archive() ) {
      if ( is_category() ) :
         $ample_header_title = single_cat_title( '', FALSE );

      elseif ( is_tag() ) :
         $ample_header_title = single_tag_title( '', FALSE );

      elseif ( is_author() ) :
         /* Queue the first post, that way we know
          * what author we're dealing with (if that is the case).
         */
         the_post();
         $ample_header_title =  sprintf( __( 'Author: %s', 'ample' ), '<span class="vcard">' . get_the_author() . '</span>' );
         /* Since we called the_post() above, we need to
          * rewind the loop back to the beginning that way
          * we can run the loop properly, in full.
          */
         rewind_posts();

      elseif ( is_day() ) :
         $ample_header_title = sprintf( __( 'Day: %s', 'ample' ), '<span>' . get_the_date() . '</span>' );

      elseif ( is_month() ) :
         $ample_header_title = sprintf( __( 'Month: %s', 'ample' ), '<span>' . get_the_date( 'F Y' ) . '</span>' );

      elseif ( is_year() ) :
         $ample_header_title = sprintf( __( 'Year: %s', 'ample' ), '<span>' . get_the_date( 'Y' ) . '</span>' );

      else :
         $ample_header_title = __( 'Archives', 'ample' );

      endif;
   }

[Robkk]

@tkserver

Well I think @jovito just put shortcodes in a regular WordPress static page and just wants how it looks to be across all bbPress pages, and that is where the bbpress.php would help.

with a custom file bbpress.php in my theme, would it be directed to that page when I hit submit for a new topic or new reply, instead of the topic page mentioned above?

The bbpress templates using theme compatibility will use a template like page.php or bbpress.php in your theme, but the topic page content will be inside of the loop of that template. Instead of using a bbpress.php file, you can put single-topic.php from the extras folder and customize it and place it in your child theme root for a template specific to a single topic page.

Is there sth like a template for the display of topics?

These are all the templates that are being used in a single topic. Using single-topic.php in the root of your child theme will be the main template being used instead of a bbpress.php template or a page.php template.

Also @jovito what kind of options for shortcodes are you talking about??

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,

Sometimes messages do not get out, installing the below plugin helps in most of the cases:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/asyncronous-bbpress-subscriptions/

Also consider to have a good SMTP plugin like ‘Postman SMTP’ or equal. I like this one a lot because of all the debugging to understand where it goes wrong.

Pascal.

[Pascal Casier]

Just to be sure, can you do a var_dump of $plugins_array just before the return in your my_custom_plugins function ?
Can you confirm it’s an array, because you did not initialize it as one:
$plugins_array = array();

and also remove it as parameter from your function…

See https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/mce_external_plugins

[Toni]

MultiSite with bbPress plugin – the latest
One subsite dedicated to bbPress forum

I just want to know what “bbPress ready” “works with bbPress” means
What are some characteristics that make a “theme bbPress ready/compatible”?
What do the results imply when I search for themes for bbPress, what can I expect in general?
– If a WordPress theme is reviewed in an article and is said to work for bbPress
– If I search WordPress themes using bbPress keyword

I have been struggling with themes, like all bbPress newbies. I don’t understand the structure of bbPress – the layout, navigation, hierarchy and the pages it generates. It’s a new surprise with each theme I try. (Yes, I have used Theme 2015 to check things.)

Surprise Example:
theme Ample, forum looks great but the Home/Forums/… (bbPress breadcrumb navigation) “Forums” page renders all the topics with the heading “Archives”, I had to use Edit Menu to add a custom link to add that page to the WP menu, and I had created a page to list only the forums with the bbPress short code, but then it was not part of the bbPress nav, and it was unusable – too bizarrely rendered to try to correct.

I prefer not to have to get into editing generated pages and editing whatever to get the breadcrumb navigation/menus to correlate. Little comprehension, skill, or time.

Thank you