[Shmoo]

Not, because Forums is a Post Type like Posts, Pages, Topics, Replies, Products, Books and more of those options you often see in WordPress.

You order the items them when they get pulled from the database based on X or Z.

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I’ve been trying for years now to find the best ‘new’ way to GROUP + ORDER custom lists of forums without having to make Parent forum categories.

Think about how Menu’s work inside WordPress, it’s one of the most powerful and easy to use features in WordPress and it can + should be used in more ways then just making menu’s. It can’t be that difficult to alter or hook into that wp_nav_menu functionality.

To be honest the main functionality is already there,
If you go to the Menu’s page inside your WordPress back-end you can see on the left side an option to add all, or most used forums, or just a single forum item to your website’s menu-bar.
( if this option is visible from the options menu at the top )

That’s a feature almost nobody uses right now because lets face it, how often do you link to a single-forum-item from your website’s main navigation bar? If so you can also use the Add Custom Link option, visit the single-forum-page front-end > copy the link and add a custom Menu Link to you menu. Done!
Mostly you just link to the general forums-index page with a list of all forums, that’s a link you show inside your website’s main menu-bar.

Just try it, add a single forum-item to your menu bar but now think about how cool it would be if that link would also show your topics + posts count behind it.
Default right now:
– /single-forum-title/
What it could be:
– /single-forum-title/ – ( 7 ) – ( 32 )

See where I’m going with this, if you have that structure of a link layout you can group and order very easily your index forum pages or at any other page where you can add a menu – even in de sidebar you could make powerful easy to use lists of forums you want to group together.
This is so flexible you can make 50 different versions of lists – all you need is a few custom_menu_locations who are made for bbPress forums only.

All this isn’t rocket science for somebody who knows PHP, wp_nav_mennu already has special hooks to add to page_nav_items so you can include data behind those menu-links, even bbPress already has a forums Widget that can do almost the same as I just told you by just adding 2 lines of PHP.

I think this is the way forward in making unique forums index pages.
I think we all love to group X forums together without using a category forum and try to pull that list behind the scene based on the category_forum_id. You just want to make forums + group the manually together like Menu-items, combine + order -items > Add them them into unique menu_locations and you can make little kinda Widgets of related forums content.

Look what I made over the years and it was a frustration to find the right tags to use while it can be so much easier done by just hooking into the WP Menu function.

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!! Of course keep your respect to the people doing all the hard work on this lovely bbPress source !!

[Shmoo]

Just go to the Plugins section of your WordPress admin + Click Add New Plugin –> Search for bbPress and activate it!

After that change some bbPress settings and start adding forums, topics and replies.

– Always make sure you back-up WordPress once in a while!

[SickSquirrel]

I backup daily, twice, just to be safe. It’s automatic no having to remember fortunately. I don’t think the kid I hired did coding in the site but was install, integrate, load old phpBB site in and go.

WordPress was just the vehicle to carry bbPress. I’d hire someone but don’t want to invest any more $$$ I can’t afford.

Thanks. I guess since you gave a standard response and not a warning about specific issues, there are no known issues between WP 3.81 and bbPress 2.3.2.

[SickSquirrel]

I backup daily, twice, just to be safe. It’s automatic no having to remember fortunately. I don’t think the kid I hired did coding in the site but was install, integrate, load old phpBB site in and go.

WordPress was just the vehicle to carry bbPress. I’d hire someone but don’t want to invest any more $$$ I can’t afford.

Thanks. I guess since you gave a standard response and not a warning about specific issues, there are no known issues between WP 3.81 and bbPress 2.3.2.

[Mycelus]

This is something else I don’t understand. Who uses numbers to manually order stuff? Is this a joke? This is something I would expect from 2 decades ago. This is WordPress / bbPress, why is drag and drop re-ordering not supported outta the box?

How do I go about re-ordering my forums via dragging and dropping rather than manually renumbering every forum?

Ive searched online and couldn’t find a post on how to do it.

[Shmoo]

I know they don’t try to keep information from us but it can be frustrated at times if you wanna learn something but for X reasons you can’t find it or you just can’t understand it :S

And it becomes extra frustrated if you know for sure something similar works 1000 times easier inside WordPress out of the box.

The link you gave me explained it very well, I’ve read it twice and now I made my very first filter.

bbPress

// Adding extra CSS
function shmoo_extra_css( $classes ) {
		$classes[] = 'tab-row';
		return $classes;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_get_topic_class', 'shmoo_extra_css' );

Doing the same thing in WordPress

<?php body_class( 'tab-row' ); ?>

Because this simply doesn’t work.

<?php bbp_topic_class( 'tab-row' ); ?>

[Shmoo]

I think this question belongs at BuddyPress – but for one you always need to join groups to be part of them, the Groups functionality is completely different from Forums and Topcis.

Groups are more based on a social layer. Try searching for: BuddyPress auto. join group I believe there is a plugin that does something like that.

2, You can change them in your WordPress admin / Users profile there is a select menu where you can change the Role of a user.

[Shmoo]

We can’t tell you if your site will break or not because we don’t know what your developer has customized and how he has doen that.

The best solution is something you should always do. Back-up your WordPress site so that you can always go back to a safe position if your update doesn’t work or breaks some functionality.

Always make sure you have back-ups of your site.
https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups

[SickSquirrel]

I run 3.7 right now. I was afraid to upgrade WP in case there wee issues with bbPress. So … if I update to 3.81 (the latest) can I expect issues or should it go smoothly?

I hired someone o set up my site with WP and bbPress. He hasn’t worked on the site after that so if I run into issues, I’m stuck. I’m only online two hours a day and can no longer code or fix errors (due to illness).

I’m leery about upgrading but know I have to do it.

[Jeff Hester]

UPDATE: Apparently it’s broken for everyone due to a change in the Twitter API: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/26844

[Shmoo]

What happens if you do the same inside a WP Blog Post ?

Do you have the right Twitter link?

Version 3.8 “Parker” is available with a redesigned, responsive admin, theme browser, and a new magazine theme: http://t.co/n9Kwk2n27P

— WordPress (@WordPress) December 12, 2013

Version 3.8 “Parker” is available with a redesigned, responsive admin, theme browser, and a new magazine theme: http://t.co/n9Kwk2n27P
— WordPress (@WordPress) December 12, 2013

Edit:

Looks like it doesn’t work here at bbPress.org as well so maybe a core problem 🙁

[Shmoo]

Because it doesn’t work like that out-of-the-box.

WordPress checks some values based on a Submit action – a page-load is needed to check and push the error_msg into your page and because of the page-load the browser will go back to the top of the page by default.

If you want functionality like that you have to search at Javascript Validations ,there are lots of them online.

Personally I really like Foundation’s Abide
http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/components/abide.html

It can check if a field is valid when writing and if it’s not it blocks the Submit button from being pushed in the first place.
I used it in a BuddyPress site and it works very nice.

[Robin W]

best explanation I know is here :

Filters Explained

I plan to write some bbPress specific documentation for this when I get my head around it enough to pass it on (I am relatively new to wordpress as well).

[Nathan Hawkes]

I am currently using bbPress 2.5.3 with WordPress 3.8 and the default bbPress theme, as inside the plugin folder. I am wondering how I change the tags prefix (“Tagged:”) on the topic page. I have looked through the theme files and can’t find it in any of them. Can anyone assist me? It’s really annoying me right now.

Thanks

[Shmoo]

My Forum posts are returning 404 messages. How can I fix this?

This could be an issue with your rewrite rules. To fix this try resetting your permalinks. In your WordPress Administration Screens navigate to Settings > Permalinks, select a different permalink structure and save. Then select your preferred permalink structure and save again.

[Shmoo]

My Forum posts are returning 404 messages. How can I fix this?

This could be an issue with your rewrite rules. To fix this try resetting your permalinks. In your WordPress Administration Screens navigate to Settings > Permalinks, select a different permalink structure and save. Then select your preferred permalink structure and save again.

[KaitlinFNF]

Hello,

Clicking a username from within the BBPress section generates a 404 error.

I’ve done extensive research on this problem, and haven’t been able to find a fix in the forums so far.

I’ve deactivated all plugins besides BBPress – no dice.
I’ve switched the default theme and still get the 404.
I’ve changed the permalinks and the subscriber role – didn’t make a difference.

Some code fixes I’ve found in the forums just make it so that the 404 page doesn’t generate, but it shows a blank page, which isn’t really the point. I need it to actually go the member profile.

I believe all of the software is up to date:
Wordpress v3.8
BBPress v2.5.3
Theme is Dante, v 1.5.1

Here is a user link: essential-essentials.com/forums/user/Essential-Essentials/

(The site is still very much in development)

Thank you for any help you can provide : )

[Shmoo]

I’ve look at it a few times in the WordPress Codex and it probably explains GREATLY how it works and what it does but maybe I just don’t get it.

I understand the concept of taking a function that exists <—> edit it <—> return it to WP Core but how!

Lets say I just simply want to replace the text inside a HTML “… class=”bbp-topic-spam-link”> ” of the spam link.

First step I do is search for the function: bbp_topic_spam_link()

Second step found it inside plugins/bbpress/includes/topics/template.php [ line 2832 ]

Third step copy the entire function to my functions.php file or plugins functions file.

Fourth step, edit the code that you want to edit but after that, how do you add the filter to this function to make it a new or your function.

/**
 * Output the spam link of the topic
 * @uses bbp_get_topic_spam_link() Topic spam link
 */
function bbp_topic_spam_link( $args = '' ) {
	echo bbp_get_topic_spam_link( $args );
}

	/**
	 * Return the spam link of the topic
	 */
	function bbp_get_topic_spam_link( $args = '' ) {

		// Parse arguments against default values
		$r = bbp_parse_args( $args, array(
			'id'           => 0,
			'link_before'  => '',
			'link_after'   => '',
			'sep'          => ' | ',
			'spam_text'    => esc_html__( 'Spam',   'bbpress' ),
			'unspam_text'  => esc_html__( 'Unspam', 'bbpress' )
		), 'get_topic_spam_link' );

		$topic = bbp_get_topic( bbp_get_topic_id( (int) $r['id'] ) );

		if ( empty( $topic ) || !current_user_can( 'moderate', $topic->ID ) )
			return;

		$display = bbp_is_topic_spam( $topic->ID ) ? $r['unspam_text'] : $r['spam_text'];
		$uri     = add_query_arg( array( 'action' => 'bbp_toggle_topic_spam', 'topic_id' => $topic->ID ) );
		$uri     = wp_nonce_url( $uri, 'spam-topic_' . $topic->ID );
		$retval  = $r['link_before'] . '<a href="' . esc_url( $uri ) . '" class="bbp-topic-spam-link">' . $display . '</a>' . $r['link_after'];

		return apply_filters( 'bbp_get_topic_spam_link', $retval, $r );
	}

Thanks.

[fantasysixpack]

Sorry very new to BBPress and WordPress. How do I back up the template and rename it?

[Matt]

Just did all of that but still no luck. It says its there in my FTP but it wont appear any place on wordpress. But it does show on the plugin page.

[Shmoo]

Well the normal ‘WordPress’ workflow would be something like this..

– Register a new Sidebar inside your functions.php
– Duplicate the default sidebar.php file inside your theme folder and call the duplicated file sidebar-bbpress.php
– Open sidebar-bbpress.php and change the default mark-up.
– Go inside that community.php page template what is showing your forums page and search for the tag <?php get_sidebar(); ?> and change it to <?php get_sidebar( ‘bbpress’ ); ?>

Save it and that should do the job.

If everything goes well it will load the sidebar-bbpress.php if not it falls back to the default sidebar.php

[cdonahue]

Hello, I’ve installed bbPress (v.2.5.3) to my custom WordPress website (v.3.8) and it picked up the theme perfectly. However, I can’t get the bbPress sidebar to display. It seems that even though my Forum page (which I’m calling Community) is a WP page, it behaves like something else. Here’s what I’ve done:

— Created a new template for my forum page (community.php);
— Selected that template from the community page per the WP interface;
— Created a new sidebar by registering it in functions.php;
— Moved the bbPress widgets over into my newly created sidebar;
— Called the sidebar from community.php

My community page is defaulting to the main sidebar, or page sidebar, even though I have selected a completely different template for the page. I also tried going with the default page and using bbPress Tweaks but that did not work.

I think I’m missing something about how the forum page works. Any ideas?
Here’s how the page is displaying:
innovativeapprenticeship.org/community

Regards, Cheryl

[Tearstone]

My understanding is that there is no “New Posts” functionality for BBPress. Previous support requests on WordPress.org have gone unanswered, and I do not see a plug-in that allows this. I reviewed the documentation and I’m not sure how I could construct my own view with this ability.

What I would like to know is how to craft a forum view that aggregates all the forums into one just like when you click on “Support” at the top of BBPress or Buddypress website. Whenever a new reply is posted, it puts the thread back on top. The GDBBPress tools only has the ability to sort topics when they were first created.

Recap, I would like assistance on constructing a view like the one that we normally use here on BBPress.org or Buddypress.org when clicking the “Support” button.

Thank you,
Russ Sanderlin

@Tearstone

[Shmoo]

What’s the PHP code to get this result.

[bbp-single-forum id=$forum_id] – Display a single forums topics. eg. [bbp-single-forum id=32]

I would like to include it inside a page template.

Something I really HATE about bbPress is that it’s very easy to group a bunch of forums inside another forum ( Category ) and list all those forums together at a page template by just the Parent $forum_id of all those forums and you’re done.
Just like this:

<?php if ( bbp_has_forums( array( 'post_parent' => 104 ) ) ) : ?>

Easy right, but that bbp_has_form functions doesn’t have something like this:

<?php if ( bbp_has_forums( array( 'forum_id' => 75 ) ) ) : ?>

Only show forum_id 75 out of the entire loop, or this:

<?php if ( bbp_has_forums( array( 'forum_id' => 75,88,93 ) ) ) : ?>

That doesn’t look like rocket science to me and it would give us so much more customization options.

Look at this screenshot I made.
At the top the block of 4 with the big headings, Mac … + iOS … are forum categories with a bunch a forums inside them. I gave them all their own page templates with each its own ‘post_parent’ Loop.

<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'cat-forums/mac-hardware' ); ?>

At the bottom the green row of none Apple products related are just forums ( single’s ) with no parent stuff.
It’s ridicules difficult to group them together and list them in a list or row and customize them.
You have to do something like this:

<?php bbp_forum_permalink( 98 ); ?>
<?php bbp_forum_title( 98 ); ?>
<?php bbp_forum_topic_count( 98 ); ?>
<?php bbp_forum_post_count( 98 ); ?>

That’s all needed to get the same result as at the top for just a single forum_id.

Beside all that frustration it’s even more difficult to give each single forum ( the page where you show a list of topics ) it’s own template.
You can’t customize the forums differently. Let’s say I want to give al forums at the top the Apple products relegated stuff it’s own page template and all none Apple related stuff another page template it’s simply not possible.

There should be an easy way to just add a forum_id or name after the page-template.php like WordPress does.
Maybe for starters a conditional tag inside the content-single-forum.php template that says, if forum_id’s 75,98,114 go to template X and if forum_id’s 73,120,88 go to template Z else ( if none of those ID’s ) go to template B.

This has been frustrated me for 2 years now and it’s really a game-breaker in customization of bbPress.

🙁

[talkedtv]

Thank you! The ticket has been created.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2517