theres a bunch of plugins that do this type of thing
badge OS like you said
mycred can show some badges
achievements for wordpress also does this
userpro has this kind of thing too
do a search and see what is the best fit for you
Hi, my needs are pretty simple. I’m looking for an alternative to google groups. I need a place in my WordPress site where only members can post and only members can read the posts. And I need a way for members to receive one email each time there is a new post. There needs to be an archive that members can consult to dig around and find a particular post from the past.
I have had various frustrations with google groups and yahoo groups. In theory the way they work would suit our group just fine, but in practice, there have been some problems, so now it’s time to look for an alternative.
As you can see, I don’t need to do anything fancy. My question is, shall I install the Private Groups plugin, the bbpress plugin, or both?
Thank you.
Hi, I tried to file that on trac, but it seems not working today… anyway the issue is very simple. When notifications are sent, the from email address is composed as:
$do_not_reply = ‘<noreply@’ . ltrim( get_home_url(), ‘^(http|https)://’ ) . ‘>’;
but for blogs installed in subdirs that creates wrong email address. It should be better to follow the technique used by WordPress, which extracts the domain name and uses and address wordpress@mydomain.com.
More, some providers does not allow emails from unknown mailboxes and blog owners are used to register a mailbox for “wordpress”, so it should be better to use that address, or let to specify a different one.
Thank you, Stefano.
Yes, the area on my wordpress dashboard for bbpress labeled as “forum” is no longer there. My forum is still there and functioning on my main page.
Hello,
I moved my site to a new server a couple of months back. My forum and all functionality is still present. However, in my WordPress dashboard the plugin “Forum” tab is missing for me to make any adjustments to my settings. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling BBPress and the issue persists. Any idea how I can get BBPress back in my WordPress Dashboard? Thanks.
The only plugin I found so far that could be of use is the BadgeOS plugin and BadeOS Community Add-on. But I want the badges to appear under the users avatar, for example like under my avatar on this page that I am posting a topic in.
I asked for some help here, and they provided some code which I dont know how to make use of it : https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-can-i-get-badges-to-appear-under-users-avatars-in-forum-topics?replies=3#post-6301447
what levels for both wordpress and bbpress are you using for your dummy account, and what other plugins are you using?
bbpress allows you to build and use templates, so yes it is technically possible
I’d suggest you post a project on
http://jobs.wordpress.net/
I’m very much a newbe to the world of WordPress and as I installed a few plug-ins at the time, I happend to give the blame to bbPress. Thanks again !
1. Custom vBulletin BBCodes are not supported eg. [youtube] – You will have to manually change these yourself either before importing in vBulletin or after importing into bbPress using phpMyAdmin.
Indeed this is now fixed to work with vBulletin’s default YouTube BBCodes:
Specifically the two following BBCodes are the only ones supported (many vB forums used to use custom BBCodes and this was primarily the main issue here)
// Replace '[video=youtube;$1]$2[/video]' with '$2"
// Replace '[video=youtube_share;$1]$2[/video]' with '$2"
For example [video=youtube;eOUq4Z6R7xI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfW2UJMIQvQ[/video] will be replaced with just the YouTube link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfW2UJMIQvQ, bbPress (and WordPress) will automatically embed the video using the direct URL.
2. All ‘Ordered Lists’ will be displayed as numerical lists.
This is also fixed
3. You may find extra page breaks <br> and paragraph <p> elements in topics and replies and is less than ideal and is from the way the BBCodes are converted during the forum import conversion. You will find these primarily around ‘blockquotes’ and ‘lists’
This is fixed also 🙂
#1 If I create the exact bbcodes in BBPress prior to the import, I assume this would rectify this area correct?
Yes, modify your custom BBCodes to either a) Match the supported vBulletin BBCode above or b) completely strip the vBulletin BBCode so just the YouTube link remains 🙂
I have updated the codex article and removed quite a few things that were listed there that are now fixed including full support to convert user passwords and the items in red in this image are fixed and/or supported 🙂
With that said “some” of these features are not in the currently shipped bbPress 2.5.4 such as Forum and Topic subscriptions and guest/anonymous topic and reply support, I’m going to post an announcement here on the site in the coming day or two on the improvements and where and how to get this test release.
I was building a website with wordpress (including the bbpress plugin) and decided to make a dummy user account in order to test everything out. It would not let me log in with the dummy account, sometimes it came back with a message about “too many redirects” but most times it just timed out and went nowhere. It would however let me log into the site with my “admin” account. I deactivated all of the plugins and then re-activated them one at a time, logging out and attempting to log in with the dummy account after each one. I was able to log in with the dummy account after each one was re-activated…until I re-activated bbpress. Any ideas on what the issue could be?
see if this helps
https://github.com/robkk/bbPress-Hierarchical-Forum-and-Category-Layout
download the .zip file and upload the loop-forums.php file to your bbpress folder in your child theme.
you create a category by create selecting new forum in the WordPress backend and changing the type to category.
to put forums under each category make sure all the forums you want under a specific category has the parent as that category
the docs should help out alot for learing how to use a child theme for your bbPress installation
Codex
@korobochkin
in the trac they are trying to add this feature and at least an option to disable it.
-started 2010 -last reply 3 months ago
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1430
if you do not want pingbacks and trackbacks remove any code that is for the comments section when you create a bbpress.php and see if that fixes it.
https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/getting-started-in-modifying-the-main-bbpress-template/
this is not CSS its mostly PHP
from what it looks like just copy the templates the userpro plugin author gave you and place it a folder called bbpress in your child theme. the url to it should be wp-content/themes/avada-child/bbpress.
more info about bbpress theme compatibility
https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/
info on creating a child theme
https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
thats not CSS at all …most of its PHP
it seems like you just put the PHP files that the userpro plugin author gave you and put it into a directory named bbpress in a child theme and it should work fine from there.
so the url to the directory should be wp-content/themes/avada-child/bbpress
if you havent created a child theme , here hows to
https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
more about bbPress theme compatibility
https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/
Hi I just updated to WordPress 4.0.1. and now I can’t see any of the posts in my forum. Here is the main forum page:
http://www.chmaonline.com/bulletin-board/
Then when you click on the forum, you see nothing, there are supposed to b3 39 posts there.:
http://www.chmaonline.com/forums/forum/chma-members-bulletin-board/
I am using version 2.3.1.
Thanks!
Hello, i have set up some categories and forums, but I see that something is going wrong, everything is one forum next to the other one on the listing on the index and category index.
I have checked bbPress forum files to see I i can manage to edit some html out but I can’t figure this out, heres a screenshot.
WordPress version: 4.0.1
bbPress version: 2.5.4
Link to site
The bbPress Codex is back up and runninng for the users listed in @JJJ’s post abbove, a couple more tweaks are needed to fix a couple of outstanding issues.
@robkk I’ve added you as an Administrator, @robin-w you are also an Administrator now 🙂
If you have any questions please drop by the #bbPress Slack channel 🙂 https://chat.wordpress.org
Hello,
I’m loving wordpress and trying to love bbpress, I think I’m very close to getting there. I have a large phobia community I’m working to convert to bbpress.
On my Forum list view the alignment of the Topics and Posts (also called Voices and Replies in the stock install?) looks good.
But on the Topic view, the alignment is off and pushed over to the right. Is there any way to fix or control this alignment issue?
You are correct, the string Last comment, Topics/Replies are NOT bbPress strings, these strings will be in either the theme you are using with custom bbPress templates or a plugin you are using.
As a side note, WordPress 3.9 and bbPress 2.5 and above versions no longer need define(‘WPLANG’, ‘tr_TR’); in wp-config.php, and coming in WordPress 4.1 you can select your language from in WordPress settings 🙂
The biggest advantage of the above is translations will be included when you update WordPress or bbPress, the only condition to receive the language packs automatically is that the language pack is 100% translated, if that is the case then translations are automatically delivered. 🙂
It would be amazing if you could help get the Turkish locale 100% for bbPress 🙂 If you use BuddyPress that would also be awesome, WordPress is already 100% 🙂
https://translate.wordpress.org/languages/tr
Hello,
It has been 2 years since I couldn’t resolve this issue.
I have a bbpress forum installed on my wordpress site. http://www.outdoorhaber.com/forum
The site is in Turkish.
Some information for you to eliminate errors
I added define(‘WPLANG’, ‘tr_TR’); to wp-config
I exported https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/2.5.x/tr/default po and mo files
I renamed the exported files to bbpress-tr_TR.po and bbpress-tr_TR.mo
I put those 2 files both in wp-content/plugins/bbpress/languages and wp-content/languages/bbpress (I tried to put files only in 1 of the folders and vice versa, but did no good)
I am about to have a complete brain meltdown, just because of bbpress language issue.
The weird thing is; I download bbpress turkish files from various sources. 1st the official project page (by exporting), then some people translated the files.. I want to translate “Last comment” but there is no match (nothing to translate) in po file. (The one exported from here https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/2.5.x/tr/default)
Come one please export a po file from the link above, and ctrl+f “Last comment” in poedit. You will see, there is nothing to translate..
Here is a screenshot for what I mean
Here are my po and mo files
http://www.outdoorhaber.com/wp-content/languages/bbpress/bbpress-tr_TR.po
http://www.outdoorhaber.com/wp-content/languages/bbpress/bbpress-tr_TR.mo
The reason why I gave so much detail is to eliminate unnecessary “did you do this, that” replies.
Please someone help me.
When I imported bbpress forums into wordpress, some posts had html code remaining. This is very simple code like <p></p>, . Is there a plugin that will clean up this simple html code in the posts?
