[mica123]

I am afraid that I have many problems finding my way around bbpress.
One of the things I didn’t realise is that anyone who registers is actually
going into the list of users in WordPress. How do I know that they are all participants?
If there are many users the list will be very long which is rather worrying.
I also would like to know how I assign the moderator role to a user? I can’t find anything about it anywhere.
I would very much appreciate your help.
Many thanks.

[UgoDimma]

Hey buddy

I have bbpress install with buddypress in my WordPress, all with the latest version as at the time of writing this post.

My forums and topics redirects to 404, page not found when my users clicked on any of them, except the forums that are part of the buddypress group the said user is a member of.

As an admin, I can view all of them the normal way without any form of restriction and redirection both at the front and back end.

Even forum category that is the mother of some forums and topics are been redirected to 404 page even if the user has a forum he/she has an access to.

I have followed some directives of people on similar cases, but none works for me, wp-admin –> tools –> forum and recalculated everything there, and went to wp-admin –> tools –> buddypress and recalculated everything.
I went to permalink and update it, but nothing seems to be working.

Please some help.

[bo-oz]

I suppose activating the plugin should create some tables in the database… but this doesn’t happen. Only thing I see is 3 records added to the wp_options table. Is there something I can do to pinpoint why the plugin is not working?

I even uploaded a the plugin from another website to the current website. This plugin is working on the other wordpress, but still doesn’t do anything on my new installation. It’s not running any plugins different from the one on which it’s working. The working website has about 50 records in the wp_options table.

[thunksalot]

I have a private WordPress community in which I am not concerned about members posting malicious code. The site is a dues-paying professional networking site and the profession is non-techie, so it would be really odd for someone to get malicious on it, and I have back-ups I can restore with were that to happen. That said, I don’t want to make everyone an Administrator because that gives users control over other people’s content, which I don’t want to give them. I just want to give all Participants the ability to paste unrestricted HTML content so that they can copy and paste from Word or a website and have it come through looking just fine, the way I can as an Admin with the “unrestricted HTML” permission. How can I achieve this?

[bo-oz]

Hi,

I tried installing bbPress, after activation I was redirected to a page which told me “you have insufficient rights”. After a refresh, the plugin was activated but nothing changed in the menu (no formums menu option, also no settings -> forums was added). I tried deactivating -> activating and completely re-installing the plugin, but nothing worked so far.

I use wordpress 4.3.1 and the latest version bbPress to automated plugin install.

I’m also using WPML, could that be causing conflicts?

[Robkk]

I do not use the plugin, I just found it in the WordPress repository.

The plugin author has been active in the support forums in the past few weeks, so I assume people are using it still and with at least most with the latest version of WordPress.

You can contact the plugin author in their support forums if you have any concerns with the plugin working with the latest version of WordPress.

If a bbPress post contains a word that you put in the comment blacklist, the topic or reply will be marked as pending, and will be pending until moderation approval.

Moderation and BlackListing

The plugin I linked to just replaces profanity words you list with characters such as ***

[mica123]

Thanks very much. I had a look at the wp-content-filter but this is compatible
to WordPress 4.0.8 and it was last updated more than a year ago. Are you using this
plugin yourself?

I read the topic you pointed me to. It is not clear to me if bbPress has its
own profanity filter?

Thanks.

[Robkk]

Which one did you link me?

Robin’s plugin for just bbPress fields.

What I did, which seems to work fine for now…

Yeah I told you the WordPress code would work. If you want cleaner templates you may nee to use the hook.

bbp_theme_after_reply_author_details

I might be saying very stupid things here (gotta learn some way), but I tried changing bbp_theme_before_topic_title to bbp_topic_class which is what my inexperienced self thought would do the trick, but it didn’t.

Oh, you are trying to make a post class. You can try this to see if it adds a new-topic post class to any new topics. I haven’t tested this though.

add_filter( 'bbp_get_topic_class','rkk_unread_topic' );
function rkk_unread_topic($classes) {
	$offset = 60*60*1; 
	if ( get_post_time() > date('U') - $offset ) {
			  $classes[] = 'new-topic';
		  return $classes;
	}
}

[Robkk]

A good topic to read.

Profanity filter or notification with Comment Moderation

A plugin I found.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-content-filter/

[Woutermesker]

Stuck @ 80%

Hi all,

I’am converting a phpbb forum. I tweaked my php.ini apache settings allready but it keeps getting stuck.

Is there a way to start over where it’s left. Or to speed up the proces….

I importing the forum into a clean wordpress website,

[rebecca-paisley]

BBPress Version: 2.3.3
WordPress Version: 4.3.1

http://www.flasco.org

The forums are completely private from public view via a membership plugin (WPMUDEV Membership2). However, every time anyone (members) posts into the BBP forums, everything is going to spam. None of it is actually spam though.

Any idea of why everything would be going to spam?

I deactivated all plugins related to BBBPress, but that didn’t remedy anything either ..

[Robkk]

The custom profile fields, what exactly do they do? I get that I can now add my Twitter handle from profile settings, but it’s not displayed anywhere on the site.

Yeah you have to manually place the any extra fields you want on the frontend of the user profile and and place the code in the template user-profile.php, that should be in your child theme for easy customization.

in user-profile.php you will already see an example of the user’s description field being displayed, and you would need to do some of the same procedure.

<?php if ( bbp_get_displayed_user_field( 'twitter' ) ) : ?>

    <p class="bbp-user-twitter">
        <a href="<?php bbp_displayed_user_field( 'twitter' ); ?>" title="<?php bbp_displayed_user_field( 'display_name' ); ?>'s Twitter" rel="nofollow">
             <?php bbp_displayed_user_field( 'twitter' ); ?>
        </a>
    </p>

<?php endif; ?>

I will probably put an example for user’s to place the links on their profile templates later on that guide.

I would love for it to be displayed beneath my avatar and username phpBB-style in topics, or at least on my visible forum profile.

Yep, there is a way to that too. I can’t remember much but I think it just involves a hook to place the data. There is a plugin Robin made that can basically do that. There is also a different plugin for displaying BuddyPress profile fields. You can dig around the plugins code if you want to see how he did it.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-profile-information/

This doable? Obviously I can’t use the_author_meta() in bbpress, so…

I think it is possible to just use the WordPress code with bbPress. bbPress is just a plugin of WordPress now.

Also, instead of adding labels to certain topics. Can I add classes so I can do changes in CSS?

Yeah you do not have to leave the [status] and just leave the classes there so you can style with just CSS.

[yoshimitsu1234]

Hi,
After doing this I had noticed that now forums and topics have a featured image section but normal WordPress posts, no longer shows featured image setting option in new post page at site.com/wp-admin/post-new.php

How Do I resolve this issue?

[Robkk]

Try not to bump very old topics at least older than a year, especially ones that are 8 years old!!

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There is an API or an example API in the Jetpack plugin.

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/jetpack/trunk/class.jetpack-bbpress-json-api-compat.php

There have been users trying to make apps with bbPress.

WordPress JSON Rest API bbPress and Android

Also know there has been work to introduce an API into WordPress.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/json-rest-api/

And there already have been plugins in development for compatibility between the WP-REst API and bbPress like this one.

https://github.com/thenbrent/BB-API (Alpha version)

Any contributions for any work toward any type of bbPress Rest API are welcome and much appreciated.

[Robkk]

Pretty permalinks should work fine in bbPress if you have set up the permalinks to use the post name structure in Settings > Permalinks.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_Permalinks_Screen

I don’t think it would be a step backwards, I am not sure all that the vbSEO plugin did SEO wise, but I bet there is a WordPress plugin that works fine with bbPress.

There are two different vBull converters, vBulletin and vBulletin3. The last one is what you would want to use.

[Robkk]

Yeah I think you could just use amembers login if it works fine with WordPress. You may need to check if the user registering into amembers registration forms acquire their bbPress forum role to even participate in the forums correctly.

They are technically logging into your site not just the forums, everything is unified when using bbPress with WordPress. Unless you want everyone to redirect to your forums, or if you want a referer redirect like if a user registers from a bbPress forum page and they should be redirected back where they were previously before registering.

From posts I see on the amember forum they should integrate nicely. The amember plugin also has some kind of plugin integration with bbPress. If you need any extra help from users setting up with amember with bbPress and WordPress, you may need to contact their support forums as there are more topics about the integration between the software on their site.

[Robkk]

I am not sure using Visual composer, but since bbPress has dynamic pages and not static WordPress pages, I am not sure a page builder will help much.

If you have a custom bbpress.php file in your theme you can add a banner to all bbPress pages or just the ones of your choice with some conditionals.

If you are adding the banners using a shortcode you can echo the shortcode like this.

<?php echo do_shortcode("[shortcode]"); ?>

Just make sure to edit the bbpress.php file in your child theme and place the shortcode in the template.

[TallSam]

I’ve got a gravatar account (with pic) with an email address that is the same as for my keymaster account for my wordpress.org site. But doesn’t seem to be linked. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Sam

[sbskamey]

Hi support,

I would like to add a banner design to the bottom of my topics and replies pages, but I’m not sure how I do this? What WordPress page do I use?

I am using Visual Composer.

http://sincebeingsingle.com/forums/forum/relationships/

I have done this with the main forum index page using the shortcode:

http://sincebeingsingle.com/insight/

Any help would be great!

Thanks,
Kam

[Robkk]

You find this in your theme, most likely in the functions.php file, but it could be different depending on the theme. You would spot by the register nav menu function like what is listed in this page.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_nav_menus

If you have a free theme I could check it out and get the arguments you need.

If not there may be some arguments like menu slug that could help, but I need the name of the menu you are wanting to put the profile link in.

[Robkk]

Interesting survey results!! I keep forgetting to comment my thoughts on this!!

I am surprised that theming bbPress is split between all three of the choices listed, I expected most people to rely on their custom built themes and theme compatibility of bbPress like last year. So it seems not just developers/knowledgeable coders know how to use bbPress with any theme.

I can see there is a small increase of developers creating sites with bbPress forums for others, but a decrease in users creating themes and plugins. So at least more developers are interested in bbPress, but I bet once the plugin and theme development guides are finally up, that there will be an increase in plugin and theme development.

There is an increase in multisite usage of bbPress, which is good to see.

I believe Gaming, Academic, and Music site types could possibly use an increase in site types using bbPress.

Users contributing to bbPress has seem to have lowered quite a bit, which is not good. Hopefully there are a few things that can change that. People are joining slack though, so there is that.

Desktop and Laptop is being mostly used by users, while they seem to want a better mobile experience. I will keep that definitely in mind as times are changing, and people browse while on mobile more than in the past.

I am surprised unread replies and quotes have dropped a tad for being a requested feature, but there are some great plugins that can add that functionality.

People want bbPress topics to replace WordPress comments more than ever.

There is a lot more positive feedback on the comments left in the survey listed at the very bottom on this. Which is very good. I also think these comments are one of the most important parts to pay attention to of the survey.

http://mercime.github.io/bbPress-2015-survey-results/

@mercime thanks for doing a wonderful job with the survey. 🙂

[Robkk]

Hmm, the repair tools should have fixed it. There is even a repair tool named

Recalculate the sticky relationship of each topic

There is not really a setting for sticky topics, it is basically a post status similar to sticky posts in WordPress. The query for topics just displays sticky posts first then the rest of the topics after that.

Did you sort the topics differently by using a code snippet from this website, like sort topics by date or something different??

[Robkk]

I think this plugin will allow you to customize how the notifications look in Settings > Forums. There might be shortcodes to change the content to use excerpt instead.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-custom-reply-notifications/

[Robkk]

They shouldn’t be able to create blog posts in the WordPress backend by default.

Make sure that you have the New User Default Role set to Subscriber in Settings > General in the WordPress backend. Make sure to also set the default forum role in Settings > Forums to Participant for any new users to get for the bbPress forums on your site.

If the social login plugin/or any other plugin you are using has a setting to configure the default role make sure to check on that.

Also know that the SUbscriber role can go into the WordPress backend, but since they have low level capabilities compared to an Admin or an Author, they can only edit their profile in the WordPress backend.

If you need to disallow users from the backend entirely by user role, install a plugin like WP No Admin.

[Robin W]

you can play with the styling using

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