[Robkk]

I have found a way to hide most notices by CSS. Question is, can I keep it that way, or will there be any important notices not showing up later when the user is interacting with the form:

Well that is the thing , I would have to know what is important to you. The notice that shows when a users post is in moderation might be useful so that they know the moderator has to approve their post , but that will not be in til 2.6 of bbPress. Some plugins might hook into that , and some notices might be for post flooding and maybe some users might think their is a bug on your site if they do not know why they couldn’t post.

The Topic/Forum descriptions could also be removed with some PHP using this function and you can place it in a plugin like this.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/functionality/

It should be Plugins > Edit Functions. You can place any code snippet you might see useful into this.

You can place the snippet after the plugin information.

add_filter( 'bbp_get_single_forum_description', 'ja_return_blank' );

add_filter( 'bbp_get_single_topic_description', 'ja_return_blank' );

function ja_return_blank() {

    return '';

}

The users plugin you suggest is from 2 years ago; I would not install that. I am told again and again by my hoster and main plugin providers that old plugins are one of the greatest vulnerabilities.

It should be fine , it is a fairly small plugin and very well coded.

You can see the plugins main code functionality in the link below. There is also an empty languages folder and a readme.txt file also in the plugin.

https://gist.github.com/jaredatch/3868274

And then I had to turn off the buttons for html because they are badly formatted, barely legible in white text on light-grey background.

You can fix that with some CSS too. Here is a simple black background to fix it.

#bbpress-forums #qt_bbp_reply_content_toolbar input,
#bbpress-forums #qt_bbp_topic_content_toolbar input {
  background-color: #000;
}

I also would like to offer my clients a possibility to create a profile page with some background on themselves and the business project they are working on.

There is a bunch of plugins that add custom fields like BuddyPress some premium plugins add social features too , just like BuddyPress. The thing I am guessing you want is to highlight it on the Home of the users profile page with the forum role and user stats. This would require some PHP coding to achieve. By default the user can add a description and it would show up on the front-end , nothing too crazy.

[Anonymous User]

Hello robkk,

Thank you very much for your answers. They helps me get started.

I have found a way to hide most notices by CSS. Question is, can I keep it that way, or will there be any important notices not showing up later when the user is interacting with the form:

/* bbpress */
div.bbp-template-notice.info {
display: none;
}

div.bbp-template-notice {
display: none;
}

The bbpress pages cause me headaches. The original bbpress pages for forum index and user page all come out unformatted in my theme, practically useless. I have created a forums page by using shortcodes for forum index and topics index. That is well formatted and informative. But only with one level of hierarchy.

The users plugin you suggest is from 2 years ago; I would not install that. I am told again and again by my hoster and main plugin providers that old plugins are one of the greatest vulnerabilities. Isn’t there a way to block all access to pages containing mysite/forums/users/* in .htaccess or something like that?

And then I had to turn off the buttons for html because they are badly formatted, barely legible in white text on light-grey background.

I also would like to offer my clients a possibility to create a profile page with some background on themselves and the business project they are working on. I have tried BuddyPress but it is not for me. I cannot code and this seems to be necessary to effectively use BuddyPress. So, I have not found a good solution for that yet. For the moment I have chosen to go with the wordpress.com/gravatar profiles and encourage people to introduce themselves and their project in the forum.

Nicole

[Robkk]

How do I eliminate:

Notices from “This forum is empty.” and “Oh bother! No topics were found here!” That’s obvious when I open a new forum. I would post welcomes if that would solve the problem. But I have seen that this replaces the notices with even longer info that probably nobody wants to read.

You can create a topic. A super sticky topic should show above all forums if you want to have a welcome topic or a general rules topic, if that is what you want. Creating a topic in a forum should remove that notice.

What wouldn’t they want to read? Please explain more on this. Is it the Topic/Forum descriptions??

“Maximum Length: 80″ for the title – People will notice.

Well yeah that is the point so that they know the max characters to use in a topic, you can remove it but it would require a template edit.

Do you know how to use FTP , use a file editor like notpad++ , and possibly create a child theme?? I can what file to edit as long as you put the file in your child theme in a folder called bbpress.

Further notices like “Your account has the ability to post unrestricted HTML content.” makes people probably think: When do I get to the posting form?

Only Keymasters/Admins can see this notice. Regular participants cannot post unrestricted html content for security reasons. This is another notice that would require a template edit to remove the specific notice?? I can show you some CSS to remove all notices but you might find them handy. Do you want to remove all the notices?

Topic status: … closed. In an open discussion, who decides when a topic is closed?

Keymasters and Moderators should only close topics.

Is there any plugin with which I can deactivate this?

No.

How can I block these pages from being publicly viewed? The forums and the participants profiles shall all be private.

You can use this plugin , but it is best without BuddyPress.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-members-only/

[Garrett Hyder]

Hi @viratsteelgroup,
You can check out the documentation here – https://codex.bbpress.org/
If you’d like assistance with anything specific I suggest opening a new topic as this is an old unrelated one so no one is going to read your post.
I did notice you’re with wordpress.com and not a self-hosted wordpress.org instance so you won’t be able to use bbPress as it’s an installable plugin for wordpress.org instances. You can look into creating a free forum on another site, more information here;
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-add-forum-capability?replies=17
Cheers

[Robkk]

Did you read the reply I linked to on your last topic?

I believe this is because of DB differences between phpBB 3.0x and 3.1x.

Current import only supports phpBB 3.0x

I was able to get rid of the error messages by creating the columns it complains about.

You can also try this: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/2716/2716.1.diff

If you did try the patch and it did not work, I can contact the devs for that because some other user had an issue also.

[Anonymous User]

Hello,

I’d appreciate your help on this.

I’d love to integrate forums into my wordpress site, but how do I get rid of all the clutter in bbpress?

There is really cool community software out there like Flarum or the P2 theme that put the focus on the people discussing and on the topics, not on status infos.

That makes me wonder: How do I get bbpress to be more like them while maintaining the basic functionality of the forum software and the look and feel of my theme?

How do I eliminate:

– Notices from “This forum is empty.” and “Oh bother! No topics were found here!” That’s obvious when I open a new forum. I would post welcomes if that would solve the problem. But I have seen that this replaces the notices with even longer info that probably nobody wants to read.

– Further notices like “Your account has the ability to post unrestricted HTML content.” makes people probably think: When do I get to the posting form?

– “Maximum Length: 80” for the title – People will notice.

– Topic status: … closed. In an open discussion, who decides when a topic is closed?

These are just some examples.

I do not know how to edit functions.php. I have fields for Filters and Hooks in my theme options, but I would need clear instructions where to put what, or some CSS.

Is there any plugin with which I can deactivate this?

Thanks a lot for some hints.

Nicole

[OscarGuy]

I’ve been trying for weeks now to import a version of phpbb 3.1.5 to my bbPress 2.5.7 version on WordPress 4.2.2. I can’t seem to get past a particular set of errors. I do not know what this means. Is this a wordpress issue, a bbpress issue or a phpbb issue? I can’t seem to find any support topics in the forums that address this and the last couple of posts I’ve made haven’t gotten any replies. Do I need to open a repair ticket of some kind to have it looked into? Someone please help. I’d rather not continue using phpbb, but if I can’t get this resolved soon, I’m going to have to abandon bbPress altogether.

WordPress database error: [Unknown column ‘topics.topic_replies’ in ‘field list’]

SELECT convert(topics.topic_id USING “utf8”) AS topic_id,convert(topics.topic_replies USING “utf8”) AS topic_replies,convert(topics.topic_replies_real USING “utf8”) AS topic_replies_real,convert(topics.forum_id USING “utf8”) AS forum_id,convert(topics.topic_poster USING “utf8”) AS topic_poster,convert(posts.poster_ip USING “utf8”) AS poster_ip,convert(posts.post_text USING “utf8”) AS post_text,convert(topics.topic_title USING “utf8”) AS topic_title,convert(topics.topic_status USING “utf8”) AS topic_status,convert(topics.topic_type USING “utf8”) AS topic_type,convert(topics.topic_time USING “utf8”) AS topic_time,convert(topics.topic_last_post_time USING “utf8”) AS topic_last_post_time FROM phpbb_topics AS topics INNER JOIN phpbb_posts AS posts USING (topic_id) WHERE posts.post_id = topics.topic_first_post_id LIMIT 0, 100

[Carliff]

Hi,

I was trying to customise my theme and the next thing I know is I can’t access my website anymore. White screen.

First, i went to my files in cpanel and deleted the bbpress plugin. Not fixed.

Then I set the WP_DEBUG to true in wp-config.php file and this is the message i got:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function listify_theme_mod() in /home2/saba2359/public_html/wodchaser.com/wp-content/plugins/code-snippets/includes/snippet-ops.php(446) : eval()’d code on line 5

Please somebody help me.

I have been searching and reading forums about this for 12 hours and I still have no idea at all what to do about it.

Note: WordPress and bbpress is latest version (newly installed and updated)

[viratsteelgroup]

Need help for our blog, we want to integrate forum in our blog to related query, how to integrate the forum in our WordPress blog

[uucmadmin]

Greetings!

Do I have any options to alter what happens when users “subscribe” to a topic or forum? Specifically, I would like a way to display something like “There is a new topic on our forum”, but not the actual text of the new topic or reply.

I work for a church that occasionally needs to delete/moderate inflammatory or inappropriate topics and replies from our members. We don’t want the content of these topics and replies to go to anyone’s inbox, if possible, but we want members to have a “subscribe” option and be alerted of new posts.

I’m using the most current BBPress and WordPress editions on an Envato theme called “Risen” (we are not married to the theme, and it can change if it is the problem). Our forums are all private and access is controlled with user groups in a plug-in called UAM.

[Robin W]

Custom Menus

[monica44]

Hi All,

My site is http://www.buyineastvale.com

I am using the latest version of WordPress.

I downloaded the bbPress plugin to use for my site’s forum.

Now I want to add a page of Forum FAQ’s as a sub-page underneath the “Forum” parent page.

However, when I create a new page on my site’s back end and then designate the “Forum” page as its parent page and upload it, that page on my site then gives me a message on the front end when clicking on it that says “Sorry, no such page. It seems we can’t find what you’re looking for. Perhaps searching, or one of the links below, can help.”

For the sake of this example, I created a page called “My Name Is” and assigned its location as a sub-page (with “Forum” being its parent page on the back end). And when clicking on the “My Name Is” page on the front end, I get the same “Sorry, no such page” message.

This leads me to believe it is an issue with bbPress (and not my theme, which is Weaver Xtreme).

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Thank you SO MUCH in advance!

[Robin W]

try

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-private-groups/

[stiffmeister12]

Is there anyway to add image to the BBpress toolbar besides the “img” quicktag? Im afraid my members on my forum will not know how this works or there image wont have a link. Right now i have the GD bbPress Attachments plugin which can make a user add an attachment but the problem is when someone adds an attachment it gets added to my wordpress media which I do not want. Is there anyway to add an image to the visual side of the BBpress toobar?

[Robin W]

you can put a button on the forums pages using

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-style-pack/

go to settings>bbp-style-pack>forum display and no. 5

[rolyestemonio]

Is there a way to redirect bbpress user profile to wordpress author page? Can anyone tell me some hooks that can be possibly put in the function.php?

Your help is highly appreciated.

[ashu2106]

Hello

As admin i m able to create new Topic from frontend and bckend both
but as a user, i m not seeing create new Topic button on Forum page and Create new Topic button is also not present on Topic page

ps: i used [bbp-topic-form] to show new Topic on another page , but i do not want to show Create New Topic on Main Menu rather then i want to show create new Topic on Forum menu :like

Topics Started
Replies Created
Favorites
Subscriptions
create new Topic or as show default that comes with bbpress
i m new in bbpress

i m using
latest version of wordpress
latest version of Buddypress
latest version of bbpress

can u please suggest any idea how to get resolve this problem
thanks

[Robkk]

You can let me check it out , contact me through email.

Contact

[Robkk]

I am still not able to understand it. First I dont know how to create a child theme and second I dont know how to do what you are suggesting. I am also facing some issues with buddy press. The buttons are not displaying properly.
Can you suggest any other good community plugin?

There is no plugin to just fix it. bbPress is inheriting a template from your theme that is causing this issue. Since all themes are different creating a plugin to fix them all would be really difficult.

To create a child theme you can read this: https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

If you need help with anything , please tell me exactly what you need help with or at least tell me what you understand.

And what buttons are not displaying properly?? This is probably CSS so I could do this for you easily.

Also since you are using a paid theme (Canvas) , you might want to consider contacting your theme author for help.

I cant just do it for you for free, you can contact me through email if you want me to do it for you.

Contact

[peppecol]

I have the same problem I can not put a file to download.
The shordcode I should put it: [wpdm_package id = ‘12529’]
How can I do?
I also installed
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-do-short-codes/ but nothing has changed I could explain what I do?
Thanks!

[billreefer]

Users are experiencing issues logging into and posting to forums at contracostabee.com

Even as Admin I log in on the front page in the MY FORUM and select News Tip (a forum with nothing posted in it as yet)

I get the oh bother you must be logged in and oh bother nothing is here.

I do this several times. I am logged in but same error.

Then I go to the wp-admin and re login there in the wp-admin login window. And then it works. I thought registration and login was supposed to be seamless between bbpress, buddypress and wordpress user database. Why is this happening and confusing and frustrating user to no end?

[webappdesigner]

Hi, Firstly thanks for making such a great plugin, which once I can get working, will really change the lives of so many people.

I have clean install on XAMMP of just the following;
WordPress 4.2.2
BuddyPress 2.3.2.1
BBPress 2.5.7

However when both BuddyPress and BBPress are activated i get the following error message across the top of most screens

“Strict Standards: Declaration of BBP_Forums_Group_Extension::display() should be compatible with BP_Group_Extension::display($group_id = NULL) in C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-content\plugins\bbpress\includes\extend\buddypress\groups.php on line 28″

If I deactivate either BBPress or BuddyPress it goes away…

I have no other plugins install as only just started trying to use them.

I have seen some old previous messages about this same issue with a patch, however they see to be talking about the very different file structure to what this BuddyPress has…

Thanks in advance

[JustATraveller]

wordpress version: 4.2.2
bbPress version: 2.5.7
Normally after activation of bbpress, I would be directed to a new page and 3 items (forums, topics, replies) would show up. The new website site I am currently working on (with X theme installed), however, doesn’t happen to do so. What happens is that right after I active the bbpress, it stays on the plugin page and says the plugin is activated. But there are no items showing up on left menu bar and also in the setting I do not find bbpress. All other plugins work well except for bbpress…

[Robkk]

Check out the screen shots to see what I was talking about

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-report-content/screenshots/

[Robkk]

@lilmisskatie

Its the themes CSS causing an issue with the input box for the topic title.

This custom CSS should do it.

#bbpress-forums input#bbp_topic_title {
	float: none;
	padding: none;
}

#bbpress-forums .bbp-form p {
	float: none;
	margin: 0;
}

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