[Robkk]

1. you can add a custom link to your forums in the menu section of your site.

2. Well since bbPress is a WordPress plugin most of the Content Management is done through the WordPress back-end. To manage the users in the back-end of WordPress you would have to go to users > all users. For them or you to edit their bbPress profile they could go to the front-end by defalt should be yoursite.com/forums/users/username/edit/.

to manage bbPress specific settings go to settings > forums in the back-end of WordPress.

if you need anymore help come back.

[Robkk]

@teamoo

i think just like the standard WordPress search form the bbPress search form only searches title and content but only for bbPress custom post types (forums,topics,replies).

both searchforms arent that great by default but you could enhance it with this plugin
For a more enhanced searchform for bbPress ive seen users use this plugin.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/search-everything/

i have also seen a site just use the google custom search engine provided by google to search through their site.

But to use this properly you would have to allow bbPress custom post types to be searchable in all your site search.

[Robin W]

hmmm.. I have been playing with my car’s engine, and now it makes a funny sound – can you tell me what I have done wrong?

Sorry, I’ll try to help but hopefully my silly sentence above will help you understand why this might be difficult.

bbpress doesn’t have a theme, so do you mean you have been changing the bbpress plugin, or making changes to your wordpress theme?

[Touda]

Solved!

Deactivated Role Editor plugin.

Installed and activated Members plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/members/

(Permissions changed with Role Editor remained.)

Added, for Author role, with Members plugin, the following permission:

read_hidden_forums

That seemed to do the trick. Hope this helps other people with the same problem while bbPress developers don’t fix the bug.

[billy1983]

Hi,
I have downloaded and installed bbpress plugin and I have created a forum with multiple topics and replies from my wordpress dashboard. However, I am unable to do any of this from my forum page directly. I have looked in the common functions php file and can see that there is a filter for reverse proxies as i thought it might issue as I have seen this whilst searching posts for a solution. I am using Mamp and running server on port localhost:8888. Can anyone help me solve this issue please. My website is not public at the mo but i have tried to open the ports to my machine in the hope that you can access it. here is the url: http://88.107.65.111:8888/brighton-and-hove-school/wordpress3
Many thanks
Billy

[sharlene_c]

Like Dropbox https://www.dropboxforum.com/hc/communities/public/questions
we would like to include a button at top right of forum page to post a question or idea.

Topic options would be provided as a dropdown list for the user to select from.

The user would provide title of question or idea and more details if required.
Title and topic would be required fields, more details would be optional.

Like this: https://www.dropboxforum.com/hc/communities/public/questions/new

Is this possible with shortcodes or can some tell me how to accomplish this. Our wordpress version 4.1.1 and bbPress version is 2.5.6

Thanking you in advance for any help

[sharlene_c]

We would like to have our forum looking like https://www.dropboxforum.com/hc/communities/public/questions.

That is:

A link to view All Topics at the top of page for each Forum followed by
Links to Newest, Recommended and Following topics.

Can anyone tell me how to do this.

Wordpress version is 4.1.1 and bbPress is version 2.5.6

Thanking you in advance.

[vaviv]

I use wordpress 4.1.1
bbpress 2.5.6

[teamoo]

Yes, this is very strange.

I’ve placed the link for my forum and for my “test” topic below. I’ve been searching with the word “Wellsville” as that is unique to topic below. All it returns is the newest blog post which does not have Wellsville in it anywhere.

My standard search within WordPress works as it should. Should the bbPress search be limited to the forum? That would be good.

http://www.ohio-offroad.com/forums

http://www.ohio-offroad.com/forums/topic/wellsville-still-operational/

[darlookoka]

Good day house, please can anyone help me with this, i have created a forum using bbpress but when user click on register, the register page opens but once you fill your username and email, the wordpress admin page opens saying check your email for your password.
Please i don’t want the wordpress login page to show to my user when they subscribe to my forum and secondly when the password is being sent to the user via their email, the sender ID is wordpress, is there no way i can customize the sender to be my site name?

Thank you

[Robkk]

i think using this instead will allow more customization options to the widget

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-search-widget/

[Robkk]

@lhughes16

i suggest you go to http://jobs.wordpress.net/ and post a job so a developer can help you with this.

[Robkk]

@drsarf

sorry i forgot about your topic

in page is kind of hard to do since there is usually multiple forums.

the only thing i can think of is maybe outputting the shortcode in a template

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

but then since there is multiple forums you will need multiple shortcodes for each slider.

which would require you to use a bunch of if statements for each forum.

i suggest go to http://jobs.wordpress.net/ and see if a developer can do this for you.

[Robkk]

the only way i think is to manually switch to the users account and manually unsubscribe.

this plugin might help to switch to the users account.

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

other than that i dont think there is a way to unsubscribe particular users from the backend.

[Robkk]

1.

this sounds kind of like custom development , but i think it would require maybe adding featured images support to topics. Placing the featured image template tag from WordPress and put it near the topic title maybe with a hook. Then use this plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/get-the-image/ to catch any attachment in the post and have it as its featured image.

like i said this is some custom development so im not completely sure how it would turn out , but post a job at http://jobs.wordpress.net/ and maybe someone else will develop this for you.

2.

there is a few plugins that add this kind of functionality but i think a paid plugin like userpro will have this type of thing for sure.

[user-aaron]

I am using WordPress 4.1.1, and bbPress 2.5.6 with the Theme Twenty Thirteen, and bbPress does not display correctly, all pages of the forum look like this, and the rest of website look fine. Does anyone have any suggestions I could try in order to fix this?

View post on imgur.com

[curvemeister]

I want to offer this php script in exchange for the help Stephen’s script provided. It ran successfully on my installation, going from SMF 2.0.4 to bbPress 2.5.6 / GD bbPress Attachments 2.2. Most of my time is taken up with consulting, and I regret that I will not be providing much in the way of support for this script.

This is a stand-alone php script that you must modify to target your SMF install. I suggest using notepad++ to edit for readability, and something like FileZilla to transfer your file to your host. Install and run the script in the root folder of your WordPress folder. I used Putty configured for an SSHconnection. Do not try to run it via http – the script will time out.

Thanks to Stephen Edgar for providing the original php on which this is based.

Mike Russell – final result at: http://www.curvemeister.com/forums
==============================================================================

<?php
//Standalone script to import smf attachments for the GD bbPress Attachments plugin
//Execute after you have imported smf into bbPress
require( 'wp-load.php' );
require( 'wp-admin/includes/image.php' );

$verbose = false;
//$limit = " LIMIT 0,1";
$limit = " LIMIT 0,99999";

// source database connection
$host="localhost";
$uname="xxx";
$pass="xxx";
$database = "xxx";
$site_url = 'http://xxx/forum';
$forum_path = 'forum/attachments/';

echo "start smf_attachments-to-bbpress\n"; flush();

//get the attachment rows from SMF
$smf_db = new wpdb($uname, $pass, $database, $host);
$smf_rows = $smf_db->get_results("
								SELECT * FROM <code>smf_attachments</code> 
								WHERE file_hash != '' 
									AND filename NOT LIKE '%thumb' 
								ORDER BY <code>id_attach</code>"
								.$limit);
								
echo "processing ".$smf_rows->num_rows." rows total\n";

// process each row
$count = 0;
foreach ($smf_rows as $smf_attachment_row) {
	if($verbose) { echo 'next row, id_attach = '.$smf_attachment_row->id_attach."\n"; flush(); }

	//look for both a new and old style filename.  If neither exists, skip this attachment
	$smf_filename = $forum_path.$smf_attachment_row->id_attach.'_'.$smf_attachment_row->file_hash;
	if(!file_exists($smf_filename))
		$smf_filename = $forum_path.$smf_attachment_row->id_attach.'_'.$smf_attachment_row->filename.$smf_attachment_row->file_hash;
	
	if(!file_exists($smf_filename))
	{
		echo "no file, skipping attachment for ".$smf_attachment_row->id_attach.", missing SMF file: ".$smf_filename."\n"; flush();
		continue;
	}
	
	$uploads = wp_upload_dir('SMF');
	$new_upload_dir = $uploads['path'];
	$new_full_filename = $new_upload_dir.'/'.$smf_attachment_row->filename;
	if($verbose) { echo('old->new = '.$smf_filename.' -> '.$new_full_filename."\n"); flush(); }
	
	//copy the enclosed file if necessary
	if(!file_exists($new_full_filename) && !copy($smf_filename, $new_full_filename) ) {
		echo "cannot copy: ".$smf_filename."->".$new_full_filename."\n";
	} else {
		//look for bbPress's previously imported topic or reply for the current attachment
		$parent_args = array(
			'post_type' => array('topic', 'reply'),
			'meta_key' => '_bbp_post_id',
			'meta_value' => $smf_attachment_row->id_msg
		);
		//echo "$parent_args = ".print_r($parent_args)."\n";
		
		$parent_query = new WP_Query($parent_args);
		$parent_query->get_posts();
		if($verbose) { echo $parent_query->post_count." posts found for smf_post id ".$smf_attachment_row->id_msg."\n"; flush(); }

		//normally only one post references a given enclosure, but handle possible multiples anyway ...
		while($parent_query->have_posts()) {
			$parent_query->the_post();
			$post_id = get_the_ID();
			$attachment_data = array(
				'guid' => $uploads['url'] . '/' . basename( $new_full_filename ),
				'post_mime_type'	=> 'image/'.$smf_attachment_row->fileext,
				'post_title'		=> $smf_attachment_row->filename,
				'post_status'		=> null,
				'post_content'		=> '',
			);
			//if($verbose) { echo "attachment_data = ".print_r($attachment_data)."\n"; flush(); }
			
			$attach_id = wp_insert_attachment($attachment_data, $new_full_filename, $post_id);

			//echo "attach_id = ".$attach_id."\n"; flush();
			if($attach_id) {
				//update_post_meta($attach_id, '_bbp_attachment', 1);
				if($attach_metadata = wp_generate_attachment_metadata($attach_id, $new_full_filename)) {
					//echo 'attach_metadata = '.print_r($attach_metadata)."\n"; flush();
					wp_update_attachment_metadata( $attach_id,  $attach_metadata );
					set_post_thumbnail( $post_id, $attach_id );				
				} else {
					echo 'wp_generate_attachment_metadata failed, fname = '.$new_full_filename."\n"; flush();
				}
			}
			wp_reset_postdata();
		}
	}
	$count++;
	if($count%100 == 0)
	{
		echo $count." attachments processed\r";
		flush();
	}
}
echo "Done, processed ".$count." records\n\n";

//clean up message body text
//convert <tt> -> <br />
mysql_query("UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = REPLACE (post_content, \'<tt>\', \'<br />\') WHERE post_content LIKE \'%<tt>%\'");

mysql_close($connection);
exit;
?>

[shogunteam]

It is still in english:/
Do you have any idea why?

http://dojczland.info/forums/forum/praca-w-niemczech/

P.S. I dont know if it is important, but I installed the old version per WordPress and not FTP.

[Robin W]

Yes, deactivate and delete the current plugin – you won’t lose the forums !

then

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/developers/

and download the appropriate version at the bottom of the screen to your pc and then uploads it and activate

[Skvirly]

I am trying to install bbPress 2.5.6 with the Sweetdate theme using WordPress 4.1 Everytime I install the bbPress plug in I get the 500 Internal Server error. Removing bbPress using FTP resolves the issue so it looks like a bbPress issue. Other plug ins install fine. Any suggestions ? The site is not yet up. Thanks.

[Matteo93]

Hi,

When I go to create a group in the front end;

1) I enter group name and description;
2) I insert the name and description of the group I want to create
3) If i press next step, i am faced with a Wp error page asking: “Si è davvero sicuri di voler far questo?”, clicking on the “riprovare” me page not found.

The group is not created.

I installed WordPress 3.8.5 with the theme Avada version 3.6.1 of ThemeFusion.

The main plugin installed are: bbpress (version 2.5.6), buddypress (version 2.2.1), wpml, GEO my WP (version 2.5 with add-ons: Groups Locator, Xprofile Fields, Post Types Locator and Members Locator) and U BuddyPress Forum Attachment.

Thanks in advance

Matteo

[mvaneijgen]

I still have this problem on the latest bbpress and wordpress. Im trying to embed the shortcode on the feedback-no-search.php so that it displays when there is no search result and the user can ask the question on the forum. For admins it works fine but for non-admins get the message “You cannot create new topics.”

The fix that @satrya and @robin-w posted also doesn’t work on this version of bbpress, but again thats ia comment from a year ago.

[Robkk]

bbPress doesnt output shortcodes use something like this

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-do-short-codes/

[Robkk]

you really shouldn’t edit core code…i hope you havent messed something up and now are getting a domino effect of issues.

you should also contact wp user avatar plugin support just in case too.

i gotta say email me , so i can double check your setup

Contact

im mostly going to ask how you set up your forum and see if i can duplicate the issue.

[Robkk]

create me an admin account , so i can see what could cause it , i will email you when i enter the wp-admin and when i leave.

Contact