[peripatew]

In searching the forum, it seems that I can use the Member’s plugin to allow users and user roles to access the private/hidden forums. But, most of the posts (all over a year old) indicated that this couldn’t be specific to one individual forum within bbPress.

I have multiple groups that each need their own forum, but, I only want them to access one specific forum that’s completely private for only that group of users.

I read that this can be accomplished with BuddyPress groups and forums, but BuddyPress is overkill for what I’m trying to do, as I only need a simple forum.

Thoughts? Options? I have this functionality right now within Vanilla Forum’s, it’s quite easy, but I need tighter integration with WordPress.

[Stephen Edgar]

All this is handled by the WP plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-importer/

Typically a WordPress site would not have ~3,700 authors…

I would suggest posting on https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordpress-importer and see what feedback you get and we can go from there.

[Stephen Edgar]

Sounds like we need a bbPress widget for topic tags…

https://codex.bbpress.org/widgets/

Maybe create a ticket in trac https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/

[Stephen Edgar]

Ask your host Hostpaedia if they have any instructions on installing WordPress (if not here is the generic Softaculous info) and once you have WordPress running then you add bbPress as a plugin.

Full instructions on installing bbPress are here:
https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/

[Stephen Edgar]

Create a new WordPress page called ‘New Topic’ and add the shortcode [bbp-topic-form] to the page content.

https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/ & https://codex.bbpress.org/widgets/

[Stephen Edgar]

I think this plugin will do what you want.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-string-swap/

[Stephen Edgar]

It is planned for a future release see trac ticket #2055.

If you search the WordPress plugin repo you should find something that works for you though…
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ try searching for author and/or authors as bbPress users are just WordPress users after all.

[kshade]

We’ve got a problem on our site where random logged in users without the read_private_forums capability can still view and post in stickied topics (not super stickied) in private forums if they know the URL. We’re using s2member, but that probably isn’t relevant to the issue. Also I’ve disabled reading private forums for the Participant role using Capability Manager Enhanced.

bbpress version 2.2.4, wordpress version 3.5.1

[ckpepper02]

I installed BBPress 2.2.3 on wordpress 3.5 and the admin panel doesn’t display a Forum button for me to add forums and topics. When I go to settings, I can see the Forum settings, but nothing else.

I’m using a custom theme, but when I reverted back to twentytwelve, it was the same issue.

Any ideas?

[tred1975]

Hi there,

I am using a WordPress site and i want to use the Plugin WP-Members to get Members registered. The Forum only becomes visible when you are a registered user. As i saw in WP-Members, i can add custom fields to the registration (required or not) I want that users allready kinda have to fill in some more information about theirselves = Profile at the registration

My question is: Can all this information username/password and the whole Profile information submitted while the registration in WP-Members automatically added to BBPress. So the user is also autmaitcally registered at the forum BBPress and allready have a Profile with some info which he filled in at the registration in WP-Members.. ??

Thanks for any help
tred

[ry0ta.ma2da]

Please teach me how to display search button on page only for bbpress posts.
Is it required any plugin?

* WordPress Ver : 3.5.1
* Theme : Twenty Twelve
* bbPress Ver : 2.2.4

[moebis]

Created ticket within buddypress trac: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4797

[John James Jacoby]

It’s nice to see a few CSS tweaks providing deep integration into an existing WordPress site.

Thanks for sharing!

[matrixd]

Sorry, I was talking about the bbpress-unread-posts plugin!

[chasernl]

This has been fixed in the WordPress plugin of deckbox.org.. can be closed

[Marcel Brinkkemper]

Lately, I find a lot of lines with SQL syntax errors in my error log

`[31-Jan-2013 08:06:53 UTC] WordPress database error You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘) LIMIT 0, 8’ at line 1 for query SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp_posts.ID FROM wp_posts WHERE 1=1 AND (((wp_posts.post_title LIKE ‘%’))) AND (wp_posts.post_password = ”) AND wp_posts.post_type IN (‘post’, ‘forum’, ‘topic’) AND (wp_posts.post_status = ‘publish’ OR wp_posts.post_status = ‘closed’) ORDER BY FIELD(wp_posts.ID, ) LIMIT 0, 8 made by require(‘wp-blog-header.php’), wp, WP->main, WP->query_posts, WP_Query->query, WP_Query->get_posts`

It seems like the ‘%’ should have been something like ‘%s’ and replaced by a string?

[mariobca]

I had the exact same problem, and have found a solution that worked for my case:
I have a custom theme running and the site.com/forums/ page was not listing the forums, even though I had created a couple sample forums and topics to make sure there was dummy data.

Thanks to Jared, it became quite apparent that the “the_content()” WordPress function was not properly generating the forum.

At first I tried disabling all the plugins, except bbpress, to see if perhaps a plugin was conflicting with the “the_content()” function; but no luck.

I then installed the TwentyTwelve theme, and switched to that, and voila, the forums were showing! Something was different in the TwentyTwelve theme that I didn’t have in my custom theme… and I narrowed it down:

SOLUTION: Make sure you have the “the_post()” function call BEFORE the “the_content()” function, in your page.php template file in your theme folder. Something in bbPress must be getting triggered by the “the_post()” function which ties into the “the_content()” function displaying the forums content properly. All subsequent pages also display properly.

Simply, ensure “the_post()” is called before “the_content()”. Did the trick for me! Good luck!

[Erlend]

I think I finally found a caching plugin that’s actually compatible with the latest bbPress plugin:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lite-cache/

It’s by the same developer who made the quite popular “Hyper Cache“. Why he decided to make yet another caching plugin I do not know, but it appears to be working great on our site!

[Ryan Gatto]

Does anyone know how to stop forum topics from showing up under the WordPress Recent Posts Widget?

[verlaine76]

I know this was a while ago, but in case anyone else stumbles across this topic, here’s how I did it.

In your wordpress install find the folder `/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/css`

Open the file `bbpress.css` in a text editor
Within the bbpress.css file, search for the text `#bbpress-forums .status-closed`

When you find this text, below is the entry `color: #ccc;` This is the colour for your text in closed topics. Change it to #000 for black.

[bdrums]

I’m trying to do a WordPress XML import on a site with BBPress installed. When I get to the page that asks if a user’s posts should be assigned to an existing user or not, the list is over 100 users long, but never finishes. I know it’s not finished because I see that it’s listing BBPress users, and there are 3700+ of them in the WP-Admin. Consequently, the Submit button never gets created for the import form, so I can’t finish the import.

Please help!

[zurdog]

I had used the code (below) prior to posting here in the forum and it didn’t work for me…

and it outputs nothing… what am I doing wrong? I put this in my header.php file in my wordpress theme directory.

[Stephen Edgar]

There are very little in the way of options for bbPress and this is by design.

I’m also from the Stonehenge forum era and am far from a developer but saw the potential of bbPress, now I’m learning PHP due to the awesome inline docs in the code of bbPress (and WordPress).

Speaking of proud things in bbPress… Search is really new and works really well 😉

eg. https://bbpress.org/forums/search/?bbp_search=remove+sidebar

(I’m not meaning to be lazy or dismissive of your specific query just that this question has been asked many times and there are quite a few topics on this subject and you might even find one specific to the WordPress theme you are using)

[Stephen Edgar]

Excellent, the BBCode cleanup bits are the main changes that will ship with bbPress 2.3, I think I have most of them sorted now.

Moving topics is a manual task at the moment, it is planned for a future release. (#1838 & #1721)

Are you able to configure your old phpBB forums (or a copy of them) and set these forums the way you want them to exist in bbPress and then do the import?
(Essentially use the phpBB mod tools to get the setup you want before importing into bbPress)

[zurdog]

How do I call bbpress template tags inside of the wordpress theme files? For example, I’m in header.php of my wordpress theme, and would like to list the forums in the header. I found this code: bbp_list_forums(); but I’m not sure how to get it to work?

I understand I can use widgets or use the admin with various slugs… but I’m wondering how to do this on the backend with code.