[Robkk]

Your theme is causing the issue , especially its styles for WordPress comments.

Try this custom CSS

#bbpress-forums .reply a {
  font-size: inherit;
  line-height: inherit;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  float: none;
  color: #c1052c;
}

#bbpress-forums .reply a:hover {
  color: #42a202;
}

Also in your CSS your links do not really have a defined color to them. There is this CSS, but it should be something like this #c1052c

p a, a {
  color: c1052c;
}

[ovbg]

Update: For anyone else who has the same issue, this plugin seemed to solve it for me.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/asyncronous-bbpress-subscriptions/

[Robkk]

I decided to install bbpress without wordpress

I am not seeing bbPress at all.

[confessng]

I am a New-bie at this …..
I decided to install bbpress without wordpress because i preferred the look,i want to edit the site ,create a banner add plugins and all that
but it looks like there is no information online available for that or if there is i havent come across it yet,does anyone know where i can find such info?
thee site is http://confessng.com

I want to create a banner,change the colours ,add some sharing to social network buttons and more
Can i get some help ? Articles or video links will be most welcome
Thank you

[mfjj]

Hi, I am setting up a forum for my website but stuck at user profile links. User profiles are linking to wordpress profile links like “/members/admin” instead of “/forum/users/admin”.

It can be viewed here: http://www.poemsurdu.com/forum/urdu-poetry-forum/

On this page there are two users’ activities ‘admin’ and ‘khan’ both are linking to a 404 /members/ page.
Please help me resolve this problem. I could not find any thread exactly on this problem.

[Robkk]

I created this trac ticket awhile ago because of this topic, and also I found a plugin that kind of does similar functionality.

The plugin I mentioned is quite broken and has fixes mentioned in the plugins support forum by users.

If a developer or anyone else wants to fork/fix the plugin I mentioned in this trac ticket they can go ahead. Even better if you help add this to core.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2819

[Robin W]

ok, we’ll need a link, as I suspect that ‘page into bar ‘ is either a theme related thing or your theme is doing something with the wordpress toolbar.

[Stagger Lee]

It is not problem to hardcode WP-Polls function inside specific bbPress custom template, to bypass activating shortcodes in topics and replies.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-polls/installation/

But main problem is User interaction. Shame, WP-Polls is very nice Polls plugin.
It would be needed one modal popup where User opening topic can add new poll. believe Roles and permissions are not problem to fix with plugin filters, but other doesnt exist.

It is not acceptable to send Users to separate page (backend) just to make poll for topic they opening.

[Stagger Lee]

This one is closest I could find. Still has to be guessed to hit 24-48 hours, or exact week time ban for instance. But there is no better out there.
Strange, considering WP has plenty plugins for everything.

It is permanent ban logics fault. Sometimes it is enough to cool down User by time ban of 1 day, one week or one month.

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

Maybe you can borrow code and make something for bbPress core.

[ana_angel]

This is a really great step. I really appreciate that you are here and working to make wordpress more professional
Thank you
Ana

[Robkk]

You can also use this plugin if you have BuddyPress installed too.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-forum-editor/

[Robkk]

This plugin might help.

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

[Robkk]

So maybe, I should create the learning platform as I envision it and take a more relaxed stance on the fact that parts of the profile and member information are visible for guests.

Hey I mean it is your website you can do whatever you want to it. If you feel the information people are passing on your forum should be private you can make it private. The other solution that I thought of is similar to Robins code and that is to just put a conditional if the user is logged in to a bbpress.php file so it would only work on bbPress pages (and hopefully not mess with woothemes sensei). But this would require code editing/WordPress template knowledge.

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/getting-started-in-modifying-the-main-bbpress-template/

[Solomontee]

Gud day all,
I noticed thread Created with bbprrss Forum on my wordpress don’t appear on the LATEST POST in the site index.

Pls what did i need to do to set dis up.?
Your respond is highly appreciated

[Uncle Jimmy]

Hello everyone!

I wasn’t sure where to post, or what exactly to ask..lol! Is it possible to make the changes in the image with CSS? Or does it have to be done within the php files?

I’ve looked all over the internet for specific tutorials to accomplish this and can’t find anything definitive enough.

Wordpress/Buddypress/bbPress.. That’s the combination I want to stick with but wrapping my mind around it is very difficult, even with all the great documentation! Ha!

Any suggestions are welcome and thanks. Jim :o)

[project_subdomain]

ok, the code above could not work.

the remaining issue comes from a different singular/plural form of “Your” in my language.

came across this, but I’m not sure what’s been the specific purpose of that changeset:
trac 5105

[Robkk]

Hmm I probably need to contact the author about the incompatibility with the WooThemes Sensei online courses, or I will just check out what is causing the issue later.

Robins zip file does not contain a plugin, it is just custom bbPress templates with some conditional code.

You can email me about all these issues, and also since this topic is messing up too. I am going to be busy today though because of celebrating July 4th with the family though, but I will be there to help you out definitely tomorrow.

Contact

[timsilva_]

Hi Stephen! Thanks for all of your volunteer work on this, I greatly appreciate it. 🙂

Just a few questions, and I did do a few days of research (with no luck) before asking.

1.) Any plans to support importing of private messages? I plan to use BuddpyPress + bbPress, so the feature will be covered. What are the chances of adding another checkbox to “optional settings” that says “Attempt to import private messages to BuddyPress”

2.) I have noticed that my existing SMF database had a handful of deleted accounts, so my settings left those posts behind as “Guest” posts (and it displayed the deleted user’s old username). In WordPress + bbPress, I created the original admin/keymaster user in my fresh install. After doing the SMF to bbPress import, the “Guest” posts from the deleted account are automatically assigned to the existing admin/keymaster user that I created in WordPress. Is there a cleaner way to handle this default behavior? Do these posts from deleted accounts require being assigned to an account? If not, could I somehow mass re-attribute these posts to a different account?

[Cyberdogs7]

When I edit a reply I get a white screen with a 500 error code. Refreshing the page brings the reply back up just fine.

Running on a dedicated server with plenty of memory, tested with multiple themes, including twenty fifthteen, and even made sure the wordpress memory was increased in the wp-config.php file.

Anything else I can do to get rid of this issue?

[Stephen Edgar]

You’ll actually need a couple more bits and not just the 2716 patch, if your working locally you can download the “development branch” of bbPress 2.6 and this includes everything you need.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/5804/trunk?old_path=%2F&format=zip

This version of bbPress will NOT allow you to update to the next version or revision of bbPress, you’d have to delete this version of the plugin and replace it with the official release when released, it also has the potential of breaking in other ways not related to importing phpBB, in other words it may be full of other bugs and if you decided to use it it’s the use at your own risk disclaimer 🙂

[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.