[Thaddeous]

Having issue with our site pages and BBPress. We are using WP 3.8.1 and the latest version of BB Press.

email: theig072@gmail.com
site: http://www.fretbuzz.com
site password: test12

We want to customize our BB Press page (title, maybe input a button or two… who knows) BUT there is no actual BB Press page to customize? The forum seems to be automatically created upon install. Normally we can edit any page by selecting “edit page” at the top of the screen and in this case, there is no edit page button because the page doesn’t exist.
Following? So the logical next step is to create the page right? Well… when we go to the backend of WP in the admin dashboard -> Settings -> Forums -> we read (about halfway down this page) this text:

“Forum Root Slug – Customize your Forums root. Partner with a WordPress Page and use Shortcodes for more flexibility.”

So we created a WP Page named forums. (http://www.fretbuzz.com/forums/) If this page is created then the forums appear until we edit anything. We cant select any option or input any text or the forums do not appear. So we deleted the page and the forums appear again. Then we created a separate WP page and labeled it test (http://www.fretbuzz.com/test/) and then moved the forum root slug to it, the forums again appear but If we again try to put any button shortcode or text or whatever in the page then nothing appears. So this begs the question…. What are the shortcodes BB Press talks about in the settings panel? How do we customize our BB Press Forums page?

End goal = Create an actual page that hold the forum roots on which we can add a button or two (with maybe some text). With an actual page as the root slug, I have access to turn on or off options as well such as “ratings” and “Author Bio”, which is quite annoying on the forums currently.

Our theme (DynamiX) has almost 9000 support members and this is what one of the support moderators said:

“Hi Tad,
I am not sure if this feature works correctly as I have tested it with DynamiX and the standard WP theme and they both have the same results. It must be a feature of BBPress that does not work properly.
Tom”

This cannot be so…. Any suggestions. Any help is highly coveted. 🙂

[Robin W]

Not totally sure what end result you are after, but the following plugins add a topic count and 4 extra user fields

bbp topic count plugin

(it’s also on wordpress plugins)

bbp-profile-information

(will be on wordpress plugins in a few days)

[Apokh]

Okay, one more try now 🙂

There is one thing I want do do, so I have 2 questions according to that:

1.) (how) is it possible (I guess it is) to get WP userdata for display in bbpress? Lets say the First Name of the WordPress User Information.
Must be something get_userdata( <strong>bbpressuser</strong>) ?!

2.) As I learned, the Userinfos (Avatar, Role etc) of the Reply must be somewhere in loop-single-topic.php – but I really don´t find it.

Thanks in advance. Hope someone can help with that for the german forums (i´m from germany) are really dead :/

Best regards
Apokh

[Mycelus]

Hey guys, so I dont know whats happening, Ive looked around everywhere but cant find a server.

I transferred from Goldsboro Web hosting (local NC based host) to Fatcow today. All my plugins work fine, but when I install bbPress, it gives me 500 internal server error when trying to get into http://www.skyforgelabs.com/wp-admin (thats my site)

When I delete the bbPress folder via FTP, I can get into my admin panel just fine

When I install bbPress via the WordPress dashboard, it gives me the 500 error mentioned above and stops me from getting into wp-admin

My site is hosted on Fatcow, and my friends site is also. He faced the same issue and was unable to get it resolved.

Im using the latest stable version of WP and bbP

Someone please help me out here?

[NovaSev]

I have a breadcrumb plugin, it’s all working quite well other then one thing:

With the bbPress forum it shows my “Forums” slug twice. Both link to the Forums index page, but it’s weird to have it double it’s self. Any ideas? I don’t have this issue with the plugin on anything else.

Using latest of WP and bbP – website is http://www.novasev.com

[NovaSev]

I’m trying to figure out a few things – I’ve done a search and read through a couple dozen or so items without much luck.

I’d like to incorporate some more info into the bbPress user profiles – I know I can probably do this using the $curauth params but want to make sure. I also want to make authors/contributors/etc link to the bbPress profiles as well. Is there a quick piece of code I can use to do this within my WordPress theme files?

I have this function to return an author profile page when the name is clicked on:

function new_comment_author_profile_link(){

    /* Get the comment author information */
    global $comment;
    $comment_ID = $comment->user_id;
    $author = get_comment_author( $comment_ID );
    $url    = get_comment_author_url( $comment_ID );

    /* Return the default WordPress comment author link if comment author is not
    a registered user */
    if ($comment_ID == 0){
        if ( empty( $url ) || 'http://' == $url )
            $return = $author;
        else
            $return = "<a href='$url' rel='' class='author-url'>$author</a>";
    } else {
    /* Return the link to the comment author's profile page if otherwise */
        $return = '<a href="'.home_url().'/?author='.$comment_ID.'">'.$author.'</a>';
    }

    return $return;
}

Can I plug in some line/piece of code to direct it to the bbPress profile instead? If so, what piece?

Wordpress & bbPress are latest versions – website is http://www.novasev.com
Appreciate the feedback.

[shanshan51]

Wordpress Version 3.8.1
bbPress version – Version 2.5.3

It seems that I got the bbpress import from phpbb to work with all the topics and replies. The problem is that the users are imported wrong so the topics are credited to the wrong user. I went through other forums which said it was a WP United issue but I do not have this installed.

Please help. I see some suggestions of writing a MySQL query which I see are back from 2012 so they are not working for me. Any assistance would be appreciated.

[Nino]

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1997

[SK]

@sooskriszta Well you asked for it, so I have just written a plugin that gives date and time instead of freshness.

@robin-w Awesome! Looking forward to seeing it on wordpress.org repo

[Bob1nz]

Hi

I have roles setup in wordpress which i would like to display in the forums in place of the bbPress roles.

Or is there a way to create new bbPress roles with the titles I want then have the roles synchronized with wordpress?

eg.
Wordpress –> bbPress
Guest –> Guest
Builder –> Builder
Moderator –> Moderator
Admin –> Admin
Co-Owner –> Co-Owner
Owner –> Owner

Each role has different capabilities but i would like them to show as different roles on the forums as the titles link up to our small gaming server.

WordPress Version: 3.8.1
bbPress Version: 2.5.3-5249
BuddyPress Version: 1.9.2

Testing Website: http://bob1nz.com

[bidiesman]

hello everybody,
I’m trying to import my phpbb linked to wordpress with wp-united to bbpress.

first thing, is that I got some troubles to access to the bbpress menu from the wp-admin panel. (not visible and access denied) to solve this first issue, I had to install “user role editor” wordpress plugin and click on reset, right after. bbpress menu was well present.

After first import I noticed that some topics where started by Anonymous and after that all my topics where written by another user;… I finally understood the fun part.

In phpbb you have from id 3 to 51 robot crawler user…due to that, it’s not syncing well with wp_user…
I will try a manual fix tonight but if anybody already did the manip I’m ready for any extra info. (about attachement, mp,…etc,…)

cheers,

[John James Jacoby]

bbPress does perform some elaborate queries which can make things feel slow, especially on sites with many thousands of topics and replies. Installing a caching plugin for WordPress will help, as well as any general PHP performance tuning on the server side.

[Robin W]

Haven’t used this one, but it gets good reviews

https://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-bbpress-attachments/

[inspirationally]

ok, got it.
I was sorting the topics by number of replies with this:

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Set Post Order In Admin
Version: 0.1
Plugin URI: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/336715/
Description: In Posts->Edit, display posts in title order.
Author: MichaelH
Author URI: https://codex.wordpress.org/User:MichaelH/MyPlugins
*/

function set_post_order_in_admin( $wp_query ) {
  if ( is_admin()) {

$wp_query->set( 'orderby', 'meta_value_num' );
$wp_query->set( 'meta_key', '_bbp_reply_count' );
    $wp_query->set( 'order', 'DESC' );
  
}}

add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'set_post_order_in_admin' );
?>

this seems to cause the replies not to be deleted, too, curiously.`

Any idea why this happens? And how to delete the orphan replies + postmeta.

[Robin W]

Ok, I think I understand

BBpress doesn’t have a “theme”, it uses your theme to get many of it’s display elements.

If you simply want to just use bbpress, then pick a wordpress theme, and off you go !

It’s only if you want to alter how bbpress forums look or behave that you need to copy files.

bbPress uses “templates” to order and decide what to show, and a bbpress.css file to style bbpress specific elements.

Therefore you should use a wordpress theme.

Within that wrodpress theem, you create a bbpress folder for any templates you want to alter, BUT only for those, so if you don’t want to alter, then you need do nothing.

If you wish to alter the bbpress.css, you’d create a css subfolder in your theme and copy the default bbpress.css into their and then alter it, or simply add styling to your themes style.css.

[Robin W]

@rammoskostas
Can you explain exactly what you did to import and where you imported from and was it also bbpress, and confirm that you used wp export and wp import, and which versions of wordpress and bbpress you are using

[Robin W]

great, would be good to load it to wordpress

[Robin W]

Ok, so

1. Can you tell me what wordpress theme you’re using or post the url.
2. If I said “copy, rename and edit this xx.php file” would you be terrified ?

[Mike]

Hi,
The menu options Forums, Topics and Replies appear on some of my sites in a multisite install, but not all.

If I change this in bbpress.php:

'show_ui' => current_user_can( 'bbp_topics_admin' ),

to

'show_ui' => current_user_can( 'manage_options' ),

I can see the Topics menu. Same if I change the permissions for the Forums and Replies menu.
Why should it be that the Forums, Topics and Replies menus are showing in some of my sites, but not others? I am administrator and keyholder in all of my sites.

I am using WordPress 3.8.1 and Buddypress 1.9.1 and I’ve set up bbPress for Sitewide and Group forums.

[rammoskostas]

I Have the same problem in wordpress

[Robin W]

hmmm… not sure you’re going to achieve this without some major coding and probably wordpress rather than bbpress related for sign in part.

maybe try

http://jobs.wordpress.net/

You can post a ‘project’ on there and someone will offer to do it for you

[full moon]

Hello,

I have been searching for something very similar. The “plugin author” label on all the plugin pages on wordpress.org is what I am after. The “plugin contributor” option too would be useful. Although I don’t want the text as it is, but this ability to label to indicate the users importance within a forum is essential to my project. My issue is that they Keymaster, participant, ect ect labels are useless as the forum master wont have any moderation/admin capabilities. So i need to be able to select a user to have a custom label like “offical representative”. I was looking at the code above, but I’m not sure if it would work as I need, and across a multisite install.

I guess I am asking the same question, but is there a plugin that can allow a user to be given a unique label in the forum per site?

Thanks in advance for any responce

Leigh

[snakiest]

Hello everyone

Sorry for asking a simple question, but i have just spent an hour figuring out how to increase the font-size in the html text editor. That is, the one we use to make replies or post topics. I don’t think it is related, but the font size is also very small when I submit a quick message on the Activity page in BuddyPress, ut just saying if somebody knows something about it.

I am using WordPress 3.8.1, Fruitful theme and WP USer frontend. The font size is small only on the Activity page in BuddyPRess and in bbpress. The comment section and WP user frontend seem to work fine picking up the 14px font size from my theme. To remind you, I am talking about the html editor, not the visual editor (which doesn’t even show up in topic/reply fields, I believe)

Thank you in advance!

[Robin W]

Now available as a plugin on

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-last-post/

[eternal noob]

Hi all.

What can be done to get bbpress page load faster ? What are best practices ? Is there a tutorial I have missed ?

It appears as if I have a redirection-problem, where my browser is stalling ?
Is there still a gravatar-issue where I have to remove some code for speed optimization ?
What ressources can be cached with htaccess or otherwise ?
And so on …. ?

BBpress is really looking better and better and the bbpress-for-wordpress-comments in 2.6 feature would be quite a fix for wordpress which doesnt even have an edit feature for commenteers. I like how things have gone so far. But seriously – SPEED, SPEED, SPEED.

I am definately no coder just an annoying end-user. But it is simply not decent for such a relatively simple set of functionalities to be so slow as it appears to me. I simply cannot annoy forum members with such page loads and also making wordpress load slower with bbpress installed.

What is a boy to do if he really would like to use bbpress ?

Thanks for anything.