[zaerl]

The function doesn’t accept an array. See get_avatar: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.4.2/wp-includes/pluggable.php#L1583

bbp_topic_author_avatar(0, 80);

[mighty_fox]

Hi,

I have installed BBPress from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress/
to the latest version.

Ideally what I want to do is create custom pages which uses BBPress, an example of doing this I found is http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/heres-how-to-show-bbpress-info-inside-wordpress-without-full-integration/page/2/

If I create a custom template and page from WordPress BBPress functions do not work. Other forums have mentioned including bb-load.php but from the download link from above there is no bb-load.php in the zip file.

From looking at the second link there suggests that new tables for BBPress would be in the database, however I have no new tables just standard WordPress ones and BBPress posts stored in wp-Posts

Is this correct?

I am trying for example to create a page (customized page) where a user can enter their post and then choose what topic etc. they want to post from a drop down box. However I don’t know how to go about this.

Thanks in advance.

[Stephen Edgar]

Thanks for this, sadly the code you have posted has been stripped in your post.

Could you try posting it again and/or post the code to pastebin.com, a Gist on GitHub

Better still you could create a ticket over at Trac and submit your patch directly for us.
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/

[Cpellow]

We are using WordPress 3.4.2 and latest BBpress and Twenty eleven them and got it to look like this on our website: http://scotpcg.org/member-area/forums/

However, we would like it to look like this: http://www.polyclay.co.uk/
The different forums nicely displayed with different headers so there is a clear distinction.

Our forum is for members only – so past the first page a member sign up will show up (which is not active as yet). If you can help us with the lay-out we can create a temporary access.

Many thanks.
Chris

[zaerl]

“disable the ability to create new accounts”: Admin panel -> Settings -> General -> Anyone can register (no)

“What’s the prefered way for a newbie to do that? “: Admin panel -> Forums -> All forums -> The selected forum -> right column (Visibility)

“Are these the preferred plug-ins?”: yes indeed

“Do I just copy the code that the author lists into my .htacess file?”: yes, those two vulnerabilities affect every single non-trivial piece of dynamic web software, not only WordPress

[mazcar]

I am new to WordPress/BBPress and am coming from PHPBB.

I am creating a bulletin board using the BBPress plug-in for WordPress. I’m not planning on really using WordPress (yet) for my website. It’s just a few static pages, a css file, and, soon, a forum.

My board will be for just fifty people and I would like to create all the accounts myself so that I don’t have to worry about spam posts from bogus accounts.

• In PHPBB, there is a control panel option to disable the ability to create new accounts? I don’t see that option in WP/BBPress. How would I do that?
• I think I read on this forum that I can make my board invisible to non-members, but that is not a control panel option. What’s the prefered way for a newbie to do that?

Also, I read an article on WP security, Top 5 WP Vulnerabilities and How To Fix Them.
http://www.esecurityplanet.com/open-source-security/top-5-wordpress-vulnerabilities-and-how-to-fix-them.html

Vulnerability # 1: SQL Injection & URL Hacking.
Vulnerability # 2: Access to Sensitive Files.
Vulnerability # 3: Default Admin User Account.
Vulnerability # 4: Default Prefix for Database Tables
Vulnerability # 5: Brute-Force Login Attempts

3, 4, and 5 seem pretty obvious to me. However, for help with mitigating the threat of Brute-Force Login Attempts, the author refers to two plug-ins: Limit Login Attempts and Better WP Security. Are these the preferred plug-ins? Although, I really must ask you guys why these two plug-ins aren’t written into the core software in the first place? In fact, shouldn’t the control panel also allow me to limit the creation of new accounts, as well?

I know BBPress, as a plug-in, is new, but WordPress has been around for ten years. Are the features that I list above planned for future releases, or is security not really an issue for the WP community, but rather up to each user?

Before I forget, how do I implement the solutions to the first two vulnerabilities? Do I just copy the code that the author lists into my .htacess file?

I don’t want to sound critical of WP/BBPress, or be the guy who is constantly comparing it to PHPBB. I just want to know the mentality behind it and, really, what I am getting myself into. I had a pretty secure PHPBB board that was easy to set-up and manage, but it was boring and looked like every other PHPBB board out there. I was told that WP/BBPress is customizable (some guy on your board showcases a beautiful board about Stratoliner motorcycles) and more secure than PHPBB. I hope to explore these features without becoming a full-time board developer nor becoming a php guru.

Thanks. I really appreciate this forum. I have been reading all sorts of posts. So if these questions have been answered, please don’t flame me; it’s not for lack of searching.

[wpmhweb]

I have a forum with the latest bbPress called “Windows 8” and then when I tried to create a page called “Windows 8” and WordPress saves it a duplicate page, because of the forum with the same name. Is there a way to keep forums slugs away from WordPress?

Thanks,

[EricSchmitz]

Thanks for the reply! As I read more about these, that stuff is starting to become more clear. I need to learn a lot more about how to use BuddyPress. bbPress is pretty straightforward — it’s a BBS running inside WordPress. The introduction of Groups with BP adds a whole new nulti-dimension to it all. Cool stuff!

Gotta catch some of your other vids now.

[mighty_fox]

I am currently trying to customize the default BBPress profile page. For each forum user’s profile I would like to display the user’s description (which for a WordPress user account is called “Biographical Info”. What functions or how can I display this?

[Shmoo]

Another update:

Switching the page.php template with the code of the page-front-forums.php doesn’t work either..

It will output all forums twice.
I really hope @JJJ or somebody else would comment on this because i can’t believe this is default bbPress and WordPress stuff.

It has to be a bug.

[Shmoo]

Hi Tom,

Well i don’t know much about Artisteer because WordPress is not like iWeb or RappidWeaver where you can drag&drop to make your lay-out, If you would like to build or customize your lay-out you need some understanding of HTML , CSS and a bit PHP.
I’ve helped lots of people at the Dutch WordPress forums and most of them often had trouble with Artisteer because the software often didn’t supported some simple WordPress Codex.
https://nl.forums.wordpress.org/profile/macpresss

[tamarazuk]

zaerl,
Thank you for your help. Unfortunately, I now get a different but similar error (notice the addition of the ‘FOR’:


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 'FORCE INDEX FOR JOIN (PRIMARY, post_parent) WHERE 1=1 AND (wp_posts.ID = 647 OR ' at line 2]
SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp_posts.* FROM wp_posts JOIN wp_icl_translations t ON wp_posts.ID = t.element_id AND t.element_type IN ('post_topic') JOIN wp_icl_languages l ON t.language_code=l.code AND l.active=1 FORCE INDEX FOR JOIN (PRIMARY, post_parent) WHERE 1=1 AND (wp_posts.ID = 647 OR wp_posts.post_parent = 647) AND wp_posts.post_type IN ('topic', 'reply') AND (wp_posts.post_status = 'publish' OR wp_posts.post_status = 'closed') AND t.language_code='en' ORDER BY wp_posts.post_date ASC LIMIT 0, 15


I am still learning programming in WP and my SQL skills are pretty much non-existent.

[Shmoo]

Update:

I think it’s very strange we can’t touch the defaul $slug with a custom page template!
This is totally not WordPress like.

Now i have to offer my page.php (default page template) to bbPress and make sure when i draft a new page inside my Dashboard i use a different (custom) page template to prevent my lay-out from breaking..

I tested to following:
Dashboard > New Page > Name it HELP > pick my custom Page Template with the bbPress forums index inside it > Saved it and it works 100%.

I don’t know if it’s a bug or glitch but this is totally not the way to do so, because the default slug keeps showing up in the breadcrumbs.

Hope somebody reads this..
Thanks,

[Shmoo]

Just curious, i’ve worked with bbPress before but it looks like the WordPress Hierarchy is broken by bbPress.
http://codex.wordpress.org/images/1/18/Template_Hierarchy.png

Normally i could make a page template and call it page-forums.php to make sure WP would use this page template for a new page created by the slug forums

But for some strange reason this doesn’t work anymore with bbPress 2.2.1 and WP 3.5 Beta and Twenty Twelve.

How can i make sure WP or bbPress uses a different page template then page.php for showing the forums and category -index on the forums slug?

I’ve tried everything, Copy/Paste the page-front-forums.php from the Extra’s folder to my Theme’s Root -> Created a new page inside my Dashboard and called it Forums… Nope doesn’t work.. Even when i use the Shortcode [bbp-forum-index] on that last created page.. It keeps using the page.php by default..

Anybody who can help ?
Because this it totally not very cool 🙂

[Pippin Williamson]

The GetShopped Support Forum add-on does this really well. I use it on several of my sites.

[Michael]

I haven’t been able to find a simple solution for building a topic/reply excerpt. I’ve checked for plugins and widgets, but can’t seem to find anything out there. I’m also using Advanced Post List plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-post-list/) for building excerpts for other (non-bbpress) post types, and it does not seem to know how to to query the database correctly for the forum, topic and reply post types.

What I’m trying to do is build a list of the most recent N posts to the forums (any/all), and list the member name, ideally their avatar, the topic name, and a ~100-200 word excerpt of the post.

Certainly someone has done this before, and I’m just looking in all the wrong places. 🙂

Any ideas on how to do this? Many thanks in advance.

Michael

[Shane Gowland]

bbPress is a WordPress plugin. It doesn’t operate independently; so you will need to either create a second install of WordPress on the subdomain or create a WordPress network.

[Trilient]

So recently my website has switched from just being a forum to becoming an actual website. We chose wordpress as a CMS because it seemed to fit all of our needs.

I’m no PHP programmer, at most I can do HTML/CSS so I need a little help. There’s a comma in my forums sub-forum list. You can visit this page: http://ludosnet.com/bbpress and see there’s an unneeded comma after every subforum. I’d like to know how to remove that. I’m using the 2010 theme with a few of my own customizations.

We’re in the process of importing all of our forums over to bbpress from xenforo, but it’s a rather complicated task. So any help would be appreciated.

Also concerning bbpress what plugins would you recommend to make the software have a few more features?

[rfhurley]

How does one install bbPress as a SUB-domain of an existing WordPress installation? If I install it in the plugin folder, how do I get it to work as a subdomain?

[joshuaslate]

Hello! I’m helping a friend with his website. He’s trying to make a community for investors. We’re having trouble with the bbPress forums. You can see that http://investorswap.com/board/forum/general-stock-talk/ works, but if you go up a level to http://investorswap.com/board it is showing the category and boards, but they aren’t clickable. I’ve never used bbPress or BuddyPress before this, so I’m pretty lost. Any help would be very appreciated! This is intended to be a site-wide forum and not group specific.

Using the latest version of WordPress, bbPress, and BuddyPress!

Thanks!

[Rethink]

Wordpress and bbPress are up to date. This is part of a WordPress multisite install.

http://anabaptistworship.com/category/community-music/

I am using a custom child theme and there is no error when I switch to twentyeleven.

I recently started getting this error, even on pages that aren’t part of bbpress on my site. I’m not sure when it started–maybe with a recent update?

---

Error:

Warning: Missing argument 2 for _bbp_has_replies_where() in /hermes/waloraweb048/b1387/as.rethink/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-reply-functions.php on line 1381

Fatal error: Call to a member function get() on a non-object in /hermes/waloraweb048/b1387/as.rethink/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-reply-functions.php on line 1384

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Lines 1381-1385 of the file it mentions:

function _bbp_has_replies_where( $where, $query ) {

    // Bail if no post_parent to replace
    if ( ! is_numeric( $query->get( 'post_parent' ) ) )
        return $where;

Any suggestions? Thanks!

[WHUK_Barb]

It’s a weird incident where despite all my efforts, I just not able to get bbpress correctly installed on one of our servers. Though infact I’ve done this in the past for couple of our clients, but just unable to figure out what’s going wrong this time. After installing bbPress from the WordPress plugins menu, I get to see a 500> Internal Server Error for one of the clients site. I tried renaming the bbPress folder to bbpress-bak in wp-content/plugins, it didn’t give me an error, but I couldn’t activate bbPress with the folder name changed.I’ve set 755 for bbPress. But no luck with that, still trying. Can someone please help me with it ?
Regards,
Barb from Webhosting UK

[JamesWagner]

By the way, those comments about ways to manage searches are more of a wishful hope. The real issue is getting searches that include the forum. At this point, I am assuming that it is a configuration issue, rather than capability that needs another plugin.

Thanks for your help….
Jim Wagner

[JamesWagner]

Greetings –

A very green WordPress user, here, who still has a LOT to learn. One thing I do need to learn is about the Search function. Installation: bbPress 2.1.2, Responsive Theme, WordPress 1.7.7.

When I enter a search term in the search box on any forum page, it finds nothing in the forum, even though there are entries with exactly the same tag as the search term. But it finds multiple entries on the rest of the site.

At the very least, search needs to find entries in both the forum and the site, generally. Preferably, to reduce response clutter, it would be nice to have searches originating on a forum page return results only from the forum. Or, even better, would be a selector that says “search in:” documentation, application notes, blog, wiki, forum, or site as a whole.

Can someone suggest any strategies to get a search that at least works in the forum?

Many thanks
Jim Wagner
Oregon Research Electronics

[citizenkeith]

Hello!

I am having a problem with my site. I have had the bbPress plugin installed on my WordPress for some time now, but it has not been activated. I just kept it there, and updated it regularly, until I finished working on my theme. Well, that work is finished now. When I activated the bbPress plugin, the entire website doesn’t load (“View Page Source” reveals nothing).

I would like to delete bbPress from my database, but I have no idea how to do that. I just want to start over from scratch…

Anybody? 🙂