[Robkk]

With bbPress activated and logging out from the backend using the WordPress toolbar.

http://localhost/mysite/wp-login.php?loggedout=true

Without bbPress activated and logging out from the backend using the WordPress toolbar.

http://localhost/mysite/wp-login.php?loggedout=true

With bbPress activated and logging out from the bbPress login widget on my front page.

localhost/mysite/?loggedout=true

Did you already go through some troubleshooting to see if it was an issue in your plugins or theme??

[Robkk]

What is the error??

I have my localhost server running the latest WordPress and bbPress and I do not see an issue.

I also tested one of my live test sites, and still do not see an issue.

[Extreme4x4Dude]

My server auto updated my website to the new WordPress 4.2.3 and now when bbPress is active my site breaks. I’ve since change the setting on my server so that it does not auto update but I still have the problem of my bbPress plugin wont work. When activated a Fatal Error occurs. Has anyone else had this problem?

[Robkk]

In Settings > Forums in the WordPress backend.

Set Forum Root should show Topics by Freshness.

[drinkingsouls]

I created a fresh install of WordPress and bbpress here:
test.webshrimp.uk
BBpress is currently activated, note how the logout links are not working. As soon as I deactivate Bbpress it works fine

[Robkk]

@david13_13

There are probably a bunch of alternatives, but this works for both topics and replies.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-auto-subscribe-for-new-topics-and-replies/

[Mei Ling]

Hi there,

When I insert a picture from WordPress in topic, there is “a blank” between the “top” of the topic and the picture. I get the same issue with “blockquote”.

Here is an example.

How can I solve it?

I thank you in advance

Regards

Mei Ling

[Stagger Lee]

Forgot about this and that I did it without buddyPress. Took code from this plugin and adapted it to my needs. But I see you already found it and adapted it self. Added some additional thing, Non logged User doesnt see online/offline icons, logged in User see them. Good to force curious people to log in.

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/show-a-red-green-circle?replies=16
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-user-online-status/screenshots/

[Robkk]

the first kuena link the forums look too busy.

Second link is what I was talking about but for bbPress, make it look cleaner. I have made something kind of similar, not exact but some parts are similar. (I know the icons are off a bit, idk what I did to mess them up, but they were fine before.)

the third and fourth link remind me of old bb boards, some phpbb inspiration I can see though.

Almost all of those Github plugins have almost non discussions, issues, requests. It doesnt mean they are perfect, it means they will be abandoned very soon. As much you here would abandon bbPress if nobody used it and nobody come to this forum. As much Drupal core and other Drupal developers abandoned Drupal forum because nobody used it. So simple.

I get what you are saying but what about plugin forks or just plugins with similarities.

Here are the other github plugins and their alternatives and why I might and might not fork them.

• VIP support -> bbpress-VIP-Support-Plugin-for-Latest-WordPress (will think about pushing to WP.org)
• Simple Support -> bbResolutions
• EDD bbPress Support Dashboard (this is a fork of VIP support too and was specific to the EDD site)
• bbPress Spam Cleaner -> This is the plugin that was made for a job for a specific user
• bbPress Report Abuse (needs paid plugin gravity forms) -> bbPress Report Content
• bbPress Avatar -> Basic User Avatars
• bbP Quote -> bbPress Direct Quotes(I said I might add this into a different plugin, and users can also install GD bbPress tools)
• bbPress Ajax Replies (not touching, do not know much about ajax)
• djb bbPress last read plugin -> closest I think to this exact plugin is the one I said I might add to WP.org
• bbPress Live Preview -> Just enable TinyMCE(but I will think about forking it more)

Tell me one thing sincerely. if you so much trust all those plugins why you dont install them here and use it as showcase for newcommers ?

I told you some of the plugins in there could be some ideas for functionality and that is why it is there, which leads to me sprucing up the page again.

[Robkk]

if you need to use the user nicename replace

$user = $current_user->user_login ;

with

$user = $current_user->user_nicename ;

How could I possibly find out the correct menu slug id? Right now the menu appears in every menu (sidebar as well) and regardless of an user’s login status.

I guess you can try doing what the top answer said here.

http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/104301/get-menu-id-using-its-name

[Robkk]

I think multisite would be the best option in my opinion. Let the specific language users go to their own specific language forums. No automatic translation for the forums, just let specific language users create their content like normal. I think that is how wordpress.org does it, but I am not entirely sure??

[Robkk]

And see if they have time for some plugin.

What plugins exactly need help?? There are some alternatives to some old plugins that might be better, and there are solid plugins that are fine how they are now.

I have some ideas of making bbPress more acceptable to Pods or ACF. It would open many possibilities. Some of them could be, polls, attachments (very regulated and narrowed), SVG icons, reply title (it is just text input field), avatars, etc..

Most of these have some kind of plugin and could be accomplished.

Polls -> Pollka Polls
Attachments -> GD bbPress Attachments or BuddyPress with Forum editor plugin
SVG Icons -> Easy to add with CSS skills
Reply title -> bbPress Reply Titles
Avatars -> Basic user avatars or BuddyPress or bbp Avatar
And some of the github plugins on the feature plugin tracking page have alternatives.

—
Making bbPress more acceptable to Pods or ACF -> This might just be a separate compatibility plugin.

There is a lot of plugins for bbPress v1 that give me an idea where in some circumstances might be useful to carry over their functionality into a bundle if it is achievable in WordPress and bbPress v2.

Do you have anything unique to mention that is very important that it needs its own plugin??

Ugly as hell when installed, takes lot of time.

I want to talk about design so much, don’t be afraid to speak on any issues about it. I have some ideas that would be great for theme compatibility but not really fancy layout. A really fancy layout could be achieved with some nice themes, and hopefully later when I get the docs done for that theme developers would have no problem designing for bbPress.

[sbskamey]

Hi guys,

I am looking to have the same setup these guys https://ultimatemember.com/forums/

Page 1: A Page that shows all my forums
Page 2: A Page that shows the topics of each forum
Page 3: A Page that shows the replies of each topic.

Simple simple.

Here is my website: http://sincebeingsingle.com/forums/

Fyi: I am using the latest versions of WordPress, bbpress and Bridge theme (from themeforest).
Fyi: I am a bit of a newbie at this.

Issue 1:

The first issue I’ve got is when you click ‘Forum One’, it shows the message, ‘This forum contains 1 topic, and was last updated by…” but doesn’t actually show the topic.

Issue 2:

When I click on ‘Forum One’ I’d like it to go to a page where the yellow header banner replicates title of the forum. And that goes the same for, clicking on a topic and a reply.

The Ultimate Members forum above is the best example of this. You can see that each blue header banner has the title of the forum, topic and reply.

fyi:

I have got the forum working for the bbpress-forum index using [bbp-forum-index] shortcode. My header banner is showing perfectly as I have designed the page for the forum to sit on.

I’m struggling with getting the topics and replies sitting on a wordpress page that I’ve designed.

I am literally going around in circles trying to work out how to get my bbpress to sit within my own WordPress pages.

(I would like the same setup as UM, where the Forum page has the Forum title in the blue banner, Topic page has the Top title in the blue banner and Reply page has the Reply title in the blue banner).

Any guidance or step by step instructions would be massively appreciated from bbpress community.

Kam

[Stagger Lee]

Thank you. Dont mind my writing. I know developers dont like topics like this. Despite everything, even if you dont do anything about it I stay on bbPress because it is so fun. Much more fun than SMF or phpbb.

Talk to your friends from bbPress core circle on your private channels. And see if they have time for some plugin. Report just back to us results. It they are bussy with private projects nobody will be mad about it. Just to know.

Or announce on the WordPress Slack that you are underpowered and ask for some help from other core, other strong plugins developers. There is no shame in it.

[Robkk]

@stagger-lee

alright if it is out of those plugins I will probably just get one and that is the direct quotes, plugin. Take some features from the vip support forum plugin, and maybe just fork the new topics plugin into a seperate new plugin with the code improvements and post that on wordpress.org.

[Stagger Lee]

Robby, i told you already. I counted 13-14 plugins from here:

Feature Plugins Tracking

not in the WordPress repository. Translated nobody cares about update notifications, etc.
I have no clue what they do on Github, private websites, and why. Beginner User have less chance to know.

You can start with this list. Clean it and set a goal to make all possible to move all plugins to WP repository.

If not possible, well it is GPL. Take code and dont care what original developer thinks.

[runamuck]

I am importing from SMF to bbpress and this is the error message that I’m receiving:

WordPress database error: [Unknown character set: ‘utf8mb4’]
SELECT convert(messages.id_msg USING “utf8mb4”) AS id_msg,convert(topics.id_board USING “utf8mb4”) AS id_board,convert(messages.id_topic USING “utf8mb4”) AS id_topic,convert(messages.poster_ip USING “utf8mb4”) AS poster_ip,convert(messages.id_member USING “utf8mb4”) AS id_member,convert(messages.subject USING “utf8mb4”) AS subject,convert(messages.body USING “utf8mb4”) AS body,convert(messages.poster_time USING “utf8mb4”) AS poster_time FROM messages AS messages LEFT JOIN topics AS topics USING (id_topic) WHERE topics.id_first_msg != messages.id_msg LIMIT 0, 25

I’ve upgraded from PHP 5.3 to 5.4, but still running into the same problem.

Anyone else run into this problem? And how did you fix it? TIA.

[Stagger Lee]

Thanks Robby.

Dont want to talk about design and style. It would ruin all from my title.
But yes, bbPress is ugly as hell when installed and takes lot of time to design. Better to keep written notes what you do and how, to be able to use it next time.

I have some ideas of making bbPress more acceptable to Pods or ACF. It would open many possibilities. Some of them could be, polls, attachments (very regulated and narrowed), SVG icons, reply title (it is just text input field), avatars, etc..

Dont know what to say about buddyPress serving as “Jetpack”. I like to install buddyPress along with bbPress and think they do better with design. Guess it is up to them, will they be standalone WP plugin or serve as filling gaps for bbPress.

Anything that is the same as Jetpack. Lots of modules all deactivated on default, to not force people use what they dont need and want. And without connection to wordpress.com.
If you make some better cooperation with Pods you get automatically mass of new developers and possibly mass of custom tweaks shared around. Same would be with bbPress “Jetpack” or buddyPress if they want it.

Back to your question. Cannot point exactly what is hard for begginers and users. It is all small bits and parts making it difficult. Even to me is hard and takes lot of time to have one bbPress forum ready for live server.
Guess it is huge amount of time spent searching on Google and forums howto. I made those mistakes on my first 2-3 instalaltions and noticed it is impossible to continue this way. Now I have searchable and filterable database with bbPress, buddyPress snippets. Just for bbPress circa 150 of them and some tutorials. But not many people will do this. When they spend half day searching on Google how to solve something they will simply go to phpbb, SMF forum and it is one user less.

Most of this time lost is fixing and tweaking third party plugins, using their adapted code in functions.php, etc. Design OK, but usually easy to find answer on Google.

In some way I try to imagine how would it be to charge a client for a bbPress installation and customization. I dont do it for money, i spend time on it because I think it is fun. But so many spent hours and days is impossible to charge. Hence, nobody will setup bbPress forum for living and earning. Web companies goes to other solutions.

In matter of fact price of one bbPress installation and customization goes easy to level of one very advanced web shop. Only know it is not sustainable and should not be this way.

Dont want to talk about money, just took it as example of how many hours and days bbPress takes to be finished and looks professional.

[illwriteit]

A few problems with this i wanted to comment on, as I’ve completely re-wrote your entire theme.

A. The way you do forum.php is going to break a lot of templates. Premium templates on theme forest, many of them have other functions to generate the WP header and footer. When you do it the way you have done it, any template that does this will be broken by this template.

B. Enabling white.php completely broke my website just by turning it on.

I stripped out all your javascript, completely re-wrote your forum.php file to use standard wordpress protocol, and turned your forum template into this:

http://www.illwriteit.com/forum/

Each forum is color coded, each forum has custom font icons assigned to it. When you view a sub forum, I completely re-wrote your loop-forums so it displays all sub topics within all child forums.

I also custom integrated mycred so that your badges and rank are shown in the topic view like:

http://www.illwriteit.com/forum/topic/patriotic-writings/

I also custom designed a privacy system so that some topics are only shown to people I give access to based on their ultimate member role.

[Robkk]

Because I see potentioal and how WordPress self can make bbPress powerfull. Or buddyPress, I install it all the time together.

I know a lot of users who ask for more features like other forum solutions are like this because they all do see potential.

But, one thing is very specific for bbPress. I would not dare to touch it as average User, who installs and setup phpbb or SMF forum without big problems. It is extremely hard for beginners

In what ways is it difficult? Is it anything about user experience, or from just going from one to another?? Any ideas to improve it for beginners?

At least take those 10-12 plugins from Github and put them in WP repository. Dont ask developer, it is GPL. Developer had 2-3 years or more to decide to do it byself, and he did not wanted it.
Problem there is notification about updates.
Just one example, lost many hours to see why Live preview stoped to word and by chance checked on Github versions. If it was in WP repository I would be notificated directly there is an update for it.

There is some plugins on Github but that doesn’t mean everybody should use them. Some plugins on github were made from developers from jobs they did for people(might contain specific db table names for a specific site), are just some custom plugins they use on their site(might contain several referances to a site), custom projects for themselves(just playing with stuff/learning development). There is a difference between building a plugin for yourself, and building a plugin for everybody to use. When you begin to build one for everybody to use, you definitely take into consideration some plugin conflicts that might happen(I think GD bbPress attachments and bbp live preview comes to mind). There are some plugins on there that actually should be considered to be on WordPress.org, so I will keep that in mind.

Just to not be missunderstood. I personally dont have any problem whatsoever with this list above. Implemented with help of code tweaking and those plugins all of this. And much, much more. All except proper Polls. For this I cannot find a solution.

The polka polls plugin is the best plugin for polls for bbPress. It does require use of shortcodes, I do not think you have to whitelist the shortcode or anything, I think it just works. I guess it could get inspired from some ideas of the bbPress polls plugin for v1 that _ck_ made.

I am not telling about design, despite this too is hard for Users beginners to tweak.

Please say any issues you might have on this, I have ideas for users to make design for theme compatibility easier.

Github should never be primary source of plugins. Additional OK, but only and one never.
I know there is a plugin that makes updates from Github possible, but demands some lines added by author in plugin self.

It isn’t, any plugins listed on the featured plugins list are really just plugins that might have functionality similar to what might be suggested to core. Github was never really a plugin repository for WordPress, mostly development. Some of the information why some plugins might not be in what I already said above. Plus some plugins were pretty neat not to leave in.

Something like Jetpack for bbPress would be a killer, perfect. But I do understand when you say there are not many developers of bbPress. Wish just you start discussion about it and report back to us how it went. Jetpack probably started with few developers, and with years come to number of 46. It doesnt have to start great, developers are attracted later to all good staff by itself.
Do you know what all those names behind Jetpack say to me ? Not in the first hand anything about code quality, but about security. I know it will flow huge amount of years before this plugin is abandoned. And with all new WP versions they adapt code before new version get out.

If we are talking about Jetpack as a plugin full of features, then BuddyPress could be something like that. There is also another plugin but it is paid (has minimized free version) that has several other features like bbcode, attachments, quotes. Creating another plugin like that I will keep in mind.

[Robkk]

@vizcano

I don’t think you need to just start over like that.

Can you post a link to your site? did you try the order function for regular WordPress pages to see if it is functional?

[Robkk]

There should be a clear cache button at the top of the WordPress toolbar. I suspect it to be just page cache so just clear that.

[Robkk]

What happens if you logout from the WordPress toolbar, which has nothing to do with bbPress?? If you come across the same issue something is just redirecting you.

You might have to do some troubleshooting

Troubleshooting

<?php bbp_logout_link(); ?> pretty much uses wp_logout_url{} in WordPress.

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

[Robkk]

now for the mobile navigation I need to get all profile pages into the main menu, too.

This might be custom development.

followed this which also uses the add filter above, but did not get it to work: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/user-porfile-page/

Does it just not show up?? I am starting to think you have some fancy slideout mobile menu and you want the profile link to show up there?

1. links don’t work. on profile page no nicename is used. and the created menu links give a 404page as the username is not inserted.

Does the login widget with profile links not work?? or does the actual links on the profile not work?

2. cannot set the location of profile page as submenu item.

This might be a little tough. I think you have to construct a small menu, but it may not work well with your header menu for example. And also if you decide to put just a sub item under something you constructed in the menu section in the backend of WordPress.

[Unicornis]

Please check https://wordpress.org/plugins/pollka/