[Vili]

I’m looking for a solution to moderate new subscribers, preferably in a way that regardless of whether it’s a comment on the WordPress side of things or a topic or reply on the bbPress side, once a new subscriber’s first post is approved, that user is allowed to post comments, threads and replies freely (unless caught by Akismet).

Has someone here faced the same challenge and successfully implemented a solution that works well and is a pleasant user experience for visitors?

The bbPress Moderation plugin should in theory be the answer to this, but it appears to no longer be maintained, I couldn’t get it to work on my website (it moderates all posts for me, even for a user whose posts have already been approved), and based on the plugin’s support section it doesn’t really seem to work optimally anyway. Which is a pity.

Another approach that I have been thinking about is making a new subscriber’s default user role something else than Subscriber, and never displaying comments, posts or threads written by a user with that user role (or displaying a “waiting for moderation” text instead of the post) until the user’s role has been updated to Subscriber. So, moderate a user rather than the content. I’m just not entirely sure how to implement this. Modifying the theme to accomplish it should not be difficult, but how about dealing with RSS, email notifications, etc. so that posts by these users don’t show in them? It seems that many things could go wrong and not play nicely with other plugins.

At the WordPress side, things work flawlessly spam-free with anonymous comments disabled, a custom question in the registration form (stops most spam bots), a mandatory e-mail confirmation for new subscribers, auto-moderation of the first comment (stops manual spammers) and Akismet (which doesn’t really have anything to do at the end). On the bbPress side, I’m only missing the moderation of a user’s first comment, which is letting through some spam.

Any ideas or experiences about a solution to this particular problem?

[Robkk]

You could switch to his account using the User Switching plugin

https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-switching/

With BuddyPress installed you can see the users subscriptions by going to their profile. Hitting the Forums menu link, then you should see a sub nav with Subscriptions then you could hit the red X for any topics/forums you do not want him to be unsubscribed to.

THere might be a SQL way to, but I don’t want to get that complicated.

[K.Rens]

Is there a way I can send you a private message with a wordpress login and password so you can see it?

I tried to uninstall and re-install, but I always have the same issue.
No new items are added inside the admin panel and visiting direct links does not have permissions.

The submenu Forums inside “Tools > Forums” for instance does not exist.

[Robkk]

You have to create a new role and it has to have these set capabablites

'publish_topics' => false,

and

'publish_replies' => true,

While what I listed is oversimplified, you may need to adjust extra capabilities to your liking. To learn how to create a new user role with its own custom capabilities read this guide.

Custom Capabilities

You then set the default role in the forum settings in Settings > Forums in the WordPress backend.

To change existing users you have to change their forum role in Users > All Users in the WordPress backend.

[Robkk]

I think you can use emoji in the latest version of WordPress.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Emoji

🎅 👻 👹 👺 💩 💀 👽 👾

[SalCollaziano]

What if you want to change two different phrases? I’m trying to play with the code and I can’t get the second phrase to work…

Sal C.

edit: Found it:

Change or Translate Text on a WordPress Theme

[Robkk]

1. How do I link a topic to a forum (restrict it to the linked forum)?

You might have to use this plugin, but I am not entirely sure.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/page-links-to/

2. What does it mean to stick it to the front end?

Sticking a topic to the front, means to stick it above all forums instead of just the forum the topic was in.

3. how do I integrate BBPress with MemberPress, Member Press does not use WordPress Registration, it has its own.

Their site says the plugin should work seamlessly with bbPress, if it doesn’t work to your liking with bbPress, you may need to contact their support for help.

[mgfarnum]

Hello:

Please treat like a complete newbie on this subject matter:
1. How do I link a topic to a forum (restrict it to the linked forum)?
2. What does it mean to stick it to the front end?
3. how do I integrate BBPress with MemberPress, Member Press does not use WordPress Registration, it has its own.

[killer_x10]

Hello there everyone, I have searched all over the Forum and many Sites but I had no luck finding any bbcode Editor. The only thing that I found was the “bbpress Post Toolbar” Plugin which wasn’t maintained anymore, I took the risk and tried it out. But then I found out that it was actually coded to work with HTML and as many of you already know, your participants cannot use all the HTML tags. It used some Codes used that was not allowed for a participant to use. When I was searching I came up with the Idea to edit the Toolbar so that it uses bbcode. But for WordPress to support bbcode I had to install another Plugin, “GD bbpress Tools”. Everything is working except the “Close HTML Tags”, where I really don’t know how to do it, I was hoping any of you guys could help me.

You can download the Edited Plugin here: http://bit.ly/1KramlM

I used 2 Plugins:
bbpress Post Toolbar
GD bbpress Tools

Thank you 🙂

[Robkk]

Current version of bbPress does not support imports from phpBB 3.1, next major release will.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2716

[MargaretGilliland]

There are many different plugins available to efficiently manage WordPress multi-author blogs. You can get your needed plugin here http://goo.gl/W3VP.

[Robkk]

@bergblume

This issue is most likely caused from your theme and the the styles it used for WordPress comments.

Link to site so I could give you some CSS.

[richard.wil]

Hi All,

Hoping someone out there can help me. I am converting my old website into wordpress and am trying to import my forum into bbpress but have run into a problem. I can’t seem to get the import to start.

I fill in the database details on the import page using the details from my config.php file and then click start, the page displays the “Starting Conversion” status and the loading circle is spinning but that is as far as it gets.

I had read all the pages and guides and forum posts I can find for a week but cannot figure out where I am going wrong.

The forum I am importing is a very small forum compared to other websites and I have tried leaving the page on this status for 4 hours without any change.

Is there somewhere I can find an error log that would tell me what is going on or would anywhere have any ideas would could be the cause of this

Im running phpbb 3.1.5
Wordpress Version 4.2.3

Thanks in advance

Richard

[Robkk]

Well backing up your forums, for all the data on your site,you backup your database. Just the bbPress post types and data from all that, I might need to do some testing. It might just be using the export tool in WordPress Tools section, it might be using a plugin to backup one forum at a time, or whatever alternative I can find.

[Robkk]

If you guys haven’t already try some troubleshooting.

Troubleshooting

Also check out these possible solutions for this specific error.

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

[Robkk]

Don’t know what you mean by FTP, the only I don’t think normal users on your site would know your sites FTP information. You can edit theme and plugin files though, but disallow that.

You can deactivate features by going to settings > forums in the WordPress backend.

[Robkk]

The regular WordPress email a user gets when registering, and hopefully no confusion with BuddyPress??

[Robkk]

@steo83

This topic was for issues made in bbPress version 1 which was a standalone version, the latest is a plugin for WordPress. The registration process on your site is mostly handled by WordPress. bbPress does have a registration form shortcode, but even that kind of piggybacks off of the WordPress registration form. If there is something wrong with your regular WordPress emails, which might include new comment emails for WordPress comments then you definitely need to hear from your hosting provider. If it is just the registration emails sent to users, you might need to contact WordPress support on their forums. https://it.wordpress.org/forums/

[Stefano De Prophetis]

Hello there,

8 year after the making of this thread, i’m still having the same problem. I’m italian (sorry for my english), and i’m using and italian hosting (Aruba.it). I’ve tryed the email script in PHP (mailer.php) and it worked (even if the email arrived as spam), i’m using an email created on the service provider as email for WordPress…so what’s wrong? Looks like BBpress changed a lot and can’t work on the files as someone said in the thread cause they’ve changed. I’m also trying to contact the hosting, but still didn’t get any answer.

Any ideas?

[SimpleCerts]

wordpress version: 4.2.3
bbPress version: 2.5.8
site url: http://simplecerts.co/forums/

I’ve create a few forums on the back-end but only my first forum created displays on the page. What additional information would you need to potential identify the issue?

[Robkk]

send the details to my email, but only for subscriber/participant role for now.

Contact

[drinkingsouls]

Are you running any special bbPress set up?
– I’m just running the default bbPress fresh from install

Does this happen to all user roles?
– Yes, it happens to all roles

I am going to assume on your fresh install you just have the latest stable version of bbPress and WordPress and no other plugins activated while using a default theme?
– Yes. I am using Twenty Fifteen theme. Up to date. No other plugins activated. The moment I activate bbPress users can no longer log out.

Thanks

[Robkk]

Go to Appearance > Widgets in the WordPress backend.

whichever sidebar you placed the bbPress login widget, go to it, edit the widget settings and change the links in the widget.

[Marcus Pearson]

Hello. I use bbPress on the latest wordpress version and running into trouble. I spent half of hour exploring bbPress source code but i couldn’t find the file which generates “Forgot password” and “Register” links in bbPress Login Widget. I really need to changed, for my site, to do not use wp-login page. I want to use my own configured pages /login and /register.

How can i do that?
Thank you very much!

[richard.wil]

Hi All,

Hoping someone out there can help me. I am converting my old website into wordpress and am trying to import my forum into bbpress but have run into a problem. I can’t seem to get the import to start.

I fill in the database details on the import page using the details from my config.php file and then click start, the page displays the “Starting Conversion” status and the loading circle is spinning but that is as far as it gets.

I had read all the pages and guides and forum posts I can find for a week but cannot figure out where I am going wrong.

The forum I am importing is a very small forum compared to other websites and I have tried leaving the page on this status for 4 hours without any change.

Is there somewhere I can find an error log that would tell me what is going on or would anywhere have any ideas would could be the cause of this

Im running phpbb 3.0.14

Thanks in advance

Richard