@greenshady – Thanks for chiming in. Your Members plugin has always been our go-to while we sorted out Role/Capability issues in bbPress core.
Since 2.0, getting them dialed in and playing nicely with WordPress and Multisite has been a challenge. Creating update scripts for new functionality has a tendency to leave things in a semi-broken state, with some sites behaving, others not so much, and leaving users of bbPress powered communities sometimes wondering why certain functionalities of their accounts don’t work anymore.
Also, why can’t a blog Editor also be a Forum moderator? These are problems that should be solved with multiple roles, not with mapped blanket ‘moderator’ super capabilities like we tried to do previously.
I can’t say that storing roles and capabilities in the database is the entire problem, but moving to a dynamic setup like we have now all but eliminates the issues we’ve had the past year or so.
I appreciate you investigating things and updating Members. I haven’t had a chance to check out the updated version, but I have about a million feature requests for it. 🙂
Number of topics listed for each forum on my /forums page is not matching the number of topics in the forum!
It’s a recently installation so I only have 3 topics. and it’s saying there are 2…
I’m using the latest versions of wordpress and bbpress
Thanks!
Hi I was wondering what version of bbPress is in the GlotPress (here) I’m pretty sure it’s behind.
I’m trying to complete the Dutch one but in the reference files I see its referencing wrong (thus old?) folders like `bb-admin` instead of `admin`.
Also when using the `.pot` file that comes with bbPress it shows 952 strings while an exported version from the glot only shows 927 strings.
Is there any indication when the Glot gets updated? If it does get updated soon I will complete the Dutch Translation.
Not sure if you guys are still struggling, this far down the line. But in case you come back to the thread, we’ve created a video that will make it easy for you:
http://labzip.com/the-definitive-guide-to-buddypress-bbpress-configuration/
Cheers!
Spence
You should be able to do this inside your wordpress admin area, users > add user?
I would suggest doing a google search for css dropdown menus – Once you know how you want to create your dropdown menu, then you can edit your bbPress 0r WordPress theme to add the menu in.
Good luck!
Making a child theme is beyond the scope of this forum, but there are plenty of good resources if you google “create a wordpress child theme”. In a nutshell, you need “at least” to have a new folder, with a style.css file that references the proper header elements of your parent, including its name and the location of the parent theme’s style sheet.
If you are using the shortcode method, please try the default method instead, which is to change bbPress’s default root slug to something that is “NOT” an existing page (try “sitewide-forums” for example). This will allow you to keep your existing page / shortcut method index. Please show us what happens when you do this? (provide the URL)
There is a plugin that will accept WP post comments via a new forum topic… maybe not exactly what you wanted, but sounds like it might be interesting?
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-post-topics/
When you are subscribed to a topic you will be emailed via WordPress of any new topic replies.
Favorites are like bookmarks and can be viewed/shared with other users on the site.
eg. Yours – https://bbpress.org/forums/profile/mia-pak/favorites/
Mine – https://bbpress.org/forums/profile/netweb/favorites/
Hi guys!
Having a huge struggle trying to make a custom loop in bbPress. I’ve tried to find the solution for 2 days no but I’ve had it. I’m too sucky at both wordpress and php to make it on my own.
So what i want to do is to make a loop for my front-page.php that contains all of the forums (I think). Like this
And for you who doesn’t understand swedish I want to grab all the forums (with description if possible), and for every forum I want to show a counter of both topics and replies. As well as I want to grab the most recent topic, display the author and the time it was published.
Now I might be able to do that i i just know how to make a loop like you do it in wordpress (). So if anyone can be a champ and point me in the right direction I’d be forever thankful!
Hey all,
I will be adding a Forum to an existing WordPress site, and I am familiar with both PHPBB and vBulletin, and I would like to use the “Category” features — where Forums are listed under an appropriate category.
I would like to use bbPress for the common look and feel, and single sign on four our users.
Can I set up Categories?
TR
I wonder if anything has changed on this since last year.
I’ve got a WordPress Custom Taxonomy that i’d like the forum, topics and replys to be tagged with – has anyone ever got this working?
I’m having this exact same problem. Unfortunately my WordPress page does not win when I set them to the same slug. Because of this, I want to use different slugs for my WordPress page that contains the shortcode and my Forums Base. This works just fine, the only problem is in the breadcrumb the “Forums” link takes the user to the forum index instead of the WordPress page with the shortcode.
hi,
i’ve just installed bbpress 2.2 (released 19th november 2012) on a clean install (no other plugins have been activated) of wordpress 3.4.2. However, whenever a reply is added to a topic the browser is redirected to a 404 not found page. When i navigate back to that topic the reply has been added however. I’m using the default template without any modifications. Anyone know whats going on and how to solve this issue?
Thanks in advance
I just upgraded WordPress from 3.3.1 to 3.4.2 and now the spam and trash admin links on my topics/replies do not work. They bring me to the same URL as before, but nothing happens to the topic/replies.
when i click on “replies created” or “replies to” button in my bbpress forum i cant get any replies created by a user! how can i do this? actually i installed bbpress beside buddypress inside WordPress! everything seems fine but i cant get this. Topics created by user work just fine but replies don’t!
i found out “user-topics-created.php” controls topics created inside bbpress but we dont have such file for Replies! like “user-replies-created.php”!! Any help will be appreciate.
Hi
I have a wordpress(3.4.1) installation and I don’t use standard WordPress
Authentication. I have my own login page(mylogin.php) where I capture the
userid/password and then compare with values in my own user table.
Now I am using BBPress plugin(2.2.2). I have created a page(askanexpert) in
wordpress and inside that page I have put the BBPress shortcode [bbp-forum-index].
Now from frontend when the user does login and go to forum(http://www.domainname.com/askanaexpert),
bbpress forum is visible and all the topics are visible, but forum shows the message that
“You must be logged in to create new topics.”
I think it happens because BBPress is perhaps looking for some authenticated cookie which
was not created due to my custom authentication.
Is there a way to create the cookie from my custom authentication page, which
bbpress will understand ?
I can not get rid of my custom authentication. Is there a way to fix it, so that when user is
logged in to wordpress site he/she can use the forum as regular logged in user without login again?
I am fine to do some programming, but not sure which way to go.
I’m new to WordPress, and I have installed buddypress, which I understand installs bbpress.
Is there a way to promote promote a topic to a blog post, and vice versa?
Thanks.
Edit: I changed the topic title and moved it to the plugins forum. Cheers, Netweb
I know! You guys have great product. I love that it is so light-weight at not packed down with features I may never need! Plus the seamless integration into WordPress is fantastic. I hope I can get it to work.
I’m really hoping someone can help me figure out some sql queries I would like to run (especially spwestwood). I have been working on migrating a forum for a number of days now and would love if I could get some help on this last piece. I started out with a Phorum > migrated to SMF > migrated to phpBB3 > migrated to bbPress. The first 3 conversions were all successful. I would stay with phpBB3 but even after I loaded WordPress I could not get all my PHP to work properly on the forum page and I really like the bbPress integration into WordPress. But, I have the same anonymous error on the majority of my posts (55k) because, I believe, these are actually anonymous users who were not required to sign-up in order to post. The problem seems to be that bbPress uses only an ‘id’ to attach the name of the poster to the post and phpBB3 uses a ‘username’ field that actually contains the name within the table. All of these unregistered users simply default to user id = anonymous (1998 in my case). Here’s my solution… only, I don’t really know how to implement it as I have limited mySQL experience.. so please bare with me as this is all theoretical and I have no idea if it will work… and how to write it out in sql commands.
Step 1: I want to take phpbb_posts.post_username and assign new users in wp_users for each unique user name (I want to avoid duplicates obviously!). I would like that user_name assigned to both wp_users.user_login and wp_users.display_name. Now I have user accounts for all these anonymous posters.
Step 2: Convert the date format in phpbb_posts.post_time from an integer to the ‘datetime’ php format using the from_unixtime sql command… or something. That way I can accurately match the date/time field in both databases since they currently use different encoding.
Step 3. When wp_posts.post_date = phpbb_posts.post_time match phpbb_posts.post_username to wp_users.user_login GET id and assign to wp_posts.post_author
Does this make any sense? Or am I completely off the ball here? THANK YOU SO MUCH for any help!!
Go into wp-admin>settings>forums. You can set the slug there for the different levels within the forum and then create a custom menu link to that slug. By default the root slug for bbPress 2.2 is yourdomain.com/forums. …In case anyone runs across this forum…
1) Create a new page
2) Add the bbPress ShortCode for forum index: https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/Â which is [bbp-forum-index]
3) Save the page
4) Go to Settings/Reading and choose this new page as the default home page (instead of your blog).
This will get you a bbPress Forum index on your home page.
To make a “mix” of your bbPress and blog posts, you need to modify your home page template file. This differs per theme, but may be called home.php or index.php (it’s in your theme folder). You would add the bbPress shortcode above the WP loop that displays blog posts. Use the do_shortcode method shown here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/do_shortcode
so it would be (within php tags): do_shortcode('[bbp-forum-index]')
If you do this, then you won’t need to create a page and modify your Settings/Reading as elaborated in steps 1 to 4 above.
Good luck!
