Clicking the hidden link should show the normal post lists of either replies with the spam posts (either caught by Akismet or a moderator) marked with a red tint.
In the WordPress backend filtering the posts to only see spam posts, then you can see the actual text content by clicking the little icon in this image.
Robb:
I shoulkd have also added that I did not change or add to any of the slugs that are set up in the Forums console within WordPress.
Robkk:
Thanks for your note. Let me respond to some of your questions with what I know (which isn’t much).
I created the forum by trying to follow the steps in the Step by Step guide provided on the bbPress site. I have not done any editing of the template other than adding some css to make the topics flow in a list, rather than horizontally as is the default layout and also to change the comment text to black instead of gray. I am also using a couple of plug-ins. One is called bbPress New UI which changes the basic layout but doesn’t seem to otherwise change the forum plug-in. The other is called Bbpress Login Register Links On Forum Topic Pages, which does what the title says.
I am not using a child theme currently but I have deactivated all of the plug-ins so what you should now see is the default bbPress forum that is created.
I hope this is helpful. Let me know if you need anything else from me to help figure this out.
I am new to WordPress and bbPress and clearly have a lot to learn. I appreciate your assistance with all of this.
Regards,
David
@davidschwartzer
Your forum urls for each section is weird for some reason. Have you added a slug that is something like this forums/forum for the forum root slug in Settings > Forums in the WordPress backend?
Your forums archive page is blank and only showing a sidebar login widget.
appletechtalk.com/forums/
Yet strangely here is how your forum archive should look like and yet it is in a single forum page. Since this is a single forum page there is a reason there is this notice, as single forums should have topics and not a forum archive. I think you could have possibly echoed a forum index shortcode in the single forum bbPress template?? I am not sure though, I am just guessing.
Oh bother! No topics were found here!
appletechtalk.com/forums/forum/forums/
A single forum page should have this by default.
yoursite.com/forums/forum/forum-name/
Or if you have categories
yoursite.com/forums/forum/category-name/forum-name
Your topics are fine though.
appletechtalk.com/forums/topic/notes-not-syncing/
I am not sure how much template editing you may have done, but can you rename your bbpress folder in your child theme to like bbpress-1 so I could see without any template edits what were your original issues then I can try to help you on that.
Sorry you had to start over, but glad you got bbPress working fine on your site.
Make sure to take regular backups, so that you do not have to just redo everything and just restore to a previously saved backup.
https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups
Backing up your Database and Files
In a single forum or a topic, you would usually see a description like this describing what a topic or forum contains.
This topic contains 12 replies (+ 1 hidden), has 1 voice, and was last updated by robkk 6 days, 7 hours ago.
To see any all the posts especially those marked as spam per forum/topic just click the (+ 1 hidden) , “1” is how many topics/replies are marked as spam or pending moderation.
To just see all of the topics/replies sitewide marked as spam/pending, login into your WordPress backend and to see all the topics go to Topics > All TOpics and you should see an action link labeled spam and pending to filter the posts. Similar with replies except it is Replies > All Replies.
Here is an example of the action links in Topics > All Topics.
I do not think there is any plugins for this but this functionality should be in the 2.6 version of bbPress.
Here is the trac ticket.
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/459
This might be related to your theme and bbPress theme compatibility. I think what you are experiencing is similar to what other theme frameworks could experience with bbPress.
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2545
There might be a workaround for this though by using the template you are already using and creating a bbpress.php template from that so that all your bbPress pages you that template.
Use what the file to find out what template is being used from your theme for the other bbPress pages, then copy that template and rename it bbpress.php.
Getting Started in Modifying the Main bbPress Template
I have a fairly large vbulletin 4.0.3 forum (sql dump installed locally), and am currently testing importing it into bbPress on a local xampplite install. I have a clean install of WordPress 4.3.1 and latest bbPress. Running the importer, it has run through 1600 users, 1300 topics and so far 4200 replies (100 at a time), at which it has paused, with the wheel turning happily. My question is, what’s causing the pause? Are there limits (such as sql queries per hour) that I can change to speed up the process? And if so, where do I change them? Given it’s a local install, I’m not worried about performance impact if I allocate max resources to this task. Any info welcome!
And how long should I let it spin before deciding it’s stuck and terminating it?
TIA
Hi,
I’d like to know if it would be possible to get a preview of posts that are in the spam folder. I have the function in WordPress.
Akismet is quite sure but I’d like to check out for guests are allowed to post and my own posts as a guest had been sent in the spam folder.
I thank you in advance
Regards
Mei Ling
Hi, I tried again to post this bug on track, but I got a “you have not ticket privileges”, so I’ll try to report it here since it can be a very general issue.
My blog is set with a permalink structure like %category%/%postname% WITHOUT a trailing slash. But on bbpress file ajax.php on function bbp_get_ajax_url() the url is generated with a trailingslashit( $wp->request ).
WordPress sends back a redirect whene there is a trailing slash and the subscription fails with an alert “undefined”. Removing the trailingslashit(…) everything works fine.
There is a specific reason for that use of trailingslashit()?
Thank you, Kasi.
My site is appletechtalk.com running WordPress 4.3.1 and the current version of bbPres.
When a user enters text into a topic box, the font color is a light gray and very hard to see. Can anyone tell me how I can change the text color for text in that box?
Thanks,
David
I have gone through the prior threads on this issue and I still can’t change the text in the Oh Bother box.
My site is appletechtalk.com. If you click on the Forums taband look at the bottom of the page, you will see the Oh Bother! text.
I have modified the feedback-no-forums.php file so that the text line reads “Please select a topic”. I thought that would be easier than trying to remove the box completely (which is what I would rather do).
I placed the file into my child theme. First I put it in the root of the bbpress directory and that did not help. I also recreated the directory structure in my child theme:
bbpress/templates/default
and that didn’t help either.
I am new to WordPress and bbPress as well as css and php files so I have a bit of a learning curve but I’m wondering if you have any thoughts on why this isn’t working.
Thanks,
David
Stephen:
I have gone through this topic thread and I still can’t change the text in the Oh Bother box.
My site is appletechtalk.com. If you click on the Forums taband look at the bottom of the page, you will see the Oh Bother! text.
I have modified the feedback-no-forums.php file so that the text line reads “Please select a topic”. I thought that would be easier than trying to remove the box completely (which is what I would rather do).
I placed the file into my child theme. First I put it in the root of the bbpress directory and that did not help. I also recreated the directory structure in my child theme:
bbpress/templates/default
and that didn’t help either.
I am new to WordPress and bbPress as well as css and php files so I have a bit of a learning curve but I’m wondering if you have any thoughts on why this isn’t working.
Thanks,
David
Hi, I am new to WordPress and bbPress, I have recreated my blog using WordPress, and i want to have a forum on my blog for my students to participate in discussion. However, I don’t seems to get the member registration for my forum. Any idea whats going on?
In the code I posted the menu links should lead to the default WordPress forms.
Login, Register, Lost Password links
Other plugins can add frontend forms like Theme My Login, woocommerce, some other membership plugins.
I am basically saying the bbPress forms are incomplete in functionality, it might be better to use something else like the default WordPress forms.
Do you have any hidden forums?? Hidden forums are only for Admins and mods, participants might get a 404. There might also be a bug if you are using it with BuddyPress groups for group forums.
You can test to see if it could still be a user capability issue on your site too. Just installing a plugin that modifies the bbPress user role capabilities could mess it up and it could still mess up even if you removed the plugin. Some users say the Members plugin by Justin Tadlock resolves some user role capability issues just by installing it, so you can try that.
Makes sure to test this in a default theme to make sure you do not have multiple issues regarding capability issues and a theme issue.
Make sure to test with your normal Keymaster role and also with a testuser accout with a Participant role.
Hello,
We are a nonprofit organization providing permanent supportive housing for individuals who use to be homeless (and are now productive citizens). We have 39 buildings and we are creating a WordPress site for the tenant community. We want to have a Bulletin Board and Calendar that is exclusive to EACH building.
Can I use bbPress in such a way that when a tenant logs in, he/she will be able to participate on the Bulletin Board that is unique to his/her building?
Is there detailed documentation anywhere that can help me with this? I’d love to read it and have feedback on how to do this.
Thanks very much,
Cyndi
Yes, I am using the bbpress forms. Where would I find the default WordPress forms? Also, by other frontend forms – I am not sure what you mean? It is just difficult for me to understand that by not using the bbpress forms, redirects will show error messages without any code?
Are you trying to use the bbPress shortcodes in pages for logging in and registering??
These forms are really incomplete in functionality, they don’t redirect back to the login form and show error messages above that form, it just redirects to the default WordPress form to show the error messages. I think using the default WordPress forms or other frontend forms are better for now.
@robkk I have now tried your code and it works beautifully. The links show up in the sub-header-menu. The login and logout redirect works too. As I am trying this out on my local computer I don’t know if the reset and lost password redirect would work as well?
There is another problem: if I click on login or reset or lost password button without giving a user name and password, it goes to the standard WordPress login page which is not good at all. Can this be remedied? We are almost there.
Many, many thanks.
I have also now tried reinstalling WordPress and still have the exact same issue.
I could really use a hand trying to solve this.
Thanks,
Paul
I am having issues with the forums, I can’t see the forums. No matter what I set the forum user role too; even moderator. The forums are public and open. My administrator account can see the forums but not the moderator account. I am using buddypress with about 15 other plugins I figured it may be a plugin conflict so I disabled all the plugins except bbpress and buddypress. but I still don’t see the forums. Also on a side note my site has been doing weird stuff. I have all the latest versions of wordpress and bbpress. I was wandering if there is a way to clear the server side cache as this may be the problem not just with the forums not showing up but with the other issues as well
Hi
we just found that default bbpress search function does not honor hidden forum setting at all
If you set a forum to be “hidden”, then you go to search for thread contents inside that hidden forum, search results still show those info under “hidden forums”.
We are using default bbpress search function, not wordpress search
hope this could be fixed soon
thanks for great plugin
