[neodoxa]

Is there a way to add total post count and roles (moderator, etc.) under the avatars/usernames of users in the forum?

I’m using the BBPress plugin with a Buddypress / WordPress site.

Thanks.

[kennymcnett]

I considered Buddypress, but it’s way more robust than what I’m needing, and installing it was breaking my custom theme (jquery conflict somewhere).

Thanks for looking at this.

For anyone else out there, here’s my solution for restricting bbPress access using s2member. In short, this checks if the current user has access to the most distant ancestor of the current page. For example:

Level 1 Forum/Category > Subforum1 > Subcategory > Subforum2 > Current Topic

No matter which page they arrive at in the tree, they must have access via s2member to the top-most level. Then it’s a simple matter of assigning a ccap to that Forum, or a membership level.

1. Include the following in your functions.php file

2. Include a call to the function in EACH of your bbPress template files BEFORE the template calls for the forum content. Match the HTML structure of the error message to suit your theme. You need to include closing tags for any open divs.

3. Test!

/******* bbPress Forum Access *******/

function checkForumAccess() {

if(get_post_type() == 'forum' OR get_post_type() == 'topic' OR get_post_type() == 'reply') { // check if user is viewing a forum page. If so, continue.

//check if they have access to the top-most parent forum/category (both are Pages in wordpress). If not, show the error verbiage. If they have access, continue and show the content like normal

$parent = array_reverse(get_post_ancestors($post->ID)); // get an array of all the parent pages in order from most distant to closest.

$first_parent = get_page($parent[0]); //get the first page in the array, which is the most distant parent

$int = apply_filters(‘the_ID’, $first_parent->ID); //filter the $first_parent to get only the wordpress page/post ID, which is an integer like 49 or 565. store it as a variable $int

if (!is_page_permitted_by_s2member($int)) { // this is an s2member function. Check if the current user can access the $first_parent, via the stored page/post ID in the $int variable

// here comes your custom error message. Remember to escape any apostrophes

echo ‘

<div>

<h1 class=”entry-title”>Sorry!</h1>

<div class=”entry-content”>

<p>It looks like you don’t have access to this forum.</p>

<p>If this is an error and you should have access, please contact us here: (contact URL)

</div>

</div><!–.postWrapper–>

</div><!– #content –>

</div><!– #contentWrapper –>

</div><!– #primary –>

‘;

get_sidebar();

get_footer();

exit; // Important. This prevents the rest of the page (the secure forum content) from displaying

}

}

}

[Sniper Kitten]

I recently noticed that when I try to start a topic or posting a reply, it’s taking about 30+ second before the topic/reply is show up. If you try to tell me there may be a “bad plugin” and try to disable all of it except bbPress, save it. I have tried the following:

1. Using different browser.

I find out that when I try to use Firefox 12.0 to post, it’s loading extremely slow. But this is not happening in Internet Explorer 9 or Google Chrome 18.

Try to start Firefox in safe mode? Yes I have tried to do that but it doesn’t make a difference.

2. Using different user/computer.

It’s still the same.

3. Try to post a comment in a normal post.

I was able to comment a post without any problems, so I think it may be a “bad plugin” problem.

4. Disable all plugin (except bbPress & BuddyPress)

But the same thing happen. FYI I don’t edit either the bbPress or BuddyPress files.

5. Using different theme.

I replace my modified custom community theme with BuddyPress Default theme and see if I putting bad codes in my theme. But this doesn’t solve problem even I tried other themes.

6. Change permalink structure.

It doesn’t make any changes, and I don’t think it will help.

7. Reinstall WordPress, bbPress & BuddyPress

Still doesn’t make any changes.

8. Create a new install in another domain.

I use http://scirefs.com/ as my main and http://www.scirefs.org as a sandbox (with the same configuration as in SCIREFs.com) with only bbPress and BuddyPress activated. But everything works fine in SCIREFs.org with either bbPress 2.02 or 2.1 and I have no issue with Firefox 12.

9. The Cloudflare……

Since I have Cloudflare as my CDN for SCIREfs.com but not SCIREFs.org, I tried to remove SCIREFs.com from Cloudflare and add SCIREfs.org to it and see what happens. The result: The issue with Firefox at SCIREFs.com disappear but SCIREfs.org is now facing the old issue.

Do anyone here have any ideas what’s wrong with it? Or someone here is facing the same problem? This seems to be the first and the only problem I can’t figure it myself.

You can login to SCIREFs.org using the following information:

Username: demo

Password: demo

URL of the forums: http://www.scirefs.org/test-forums

And try to start a topic or post a reply using Firefox and see if it’s happening to you.

[pimarts]

What works for me (I’ve had my share of spammers, but they’re no problem whatsoever anymore):

Only do this if you know what you’re doing.

1) Put the following blacklist thing in your htaccess:

http://perishablepress.com/5g-blacklist-2012/

2) Put a question in the registration process with BuddyPress Humanity (I’m sure something like this exists for WordPress too).

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-humanity/

3) Install the Bad Behaviour plugin :

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bad-behavior/

4) Install the Ban Hammer plugin :

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ban-hammer/

Works like a charm. For me at least.

[pimarts]

I don’t know if it’s a “great” example, but http://www.swnk.org/ is running on WordPress + BuddyPress + bbPress.

[ZedsDed]

Hello! I’d love to see some examples of sites that utilize WordPress for its blog and bbPress for its forum/messageboard. I’m poking around this forum now for examples but would love to see any that you may know of. Thank you

[Stephen Edgar]

Head on over to http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org and have a read of the links there.

Perform a search to see if there are any similar and/or open bugs already

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/search

To submit a bug and bug fix https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/newticket

[kennymcnett]

Hi, I’m integrating bbPress with s2member and need to restrict access to certain categories, forums and their topics.

For example, here’s a hierarchy:

Home > Forums > Category1 > Subcategory1 > Forum1 > Subforum1 > Topic1

If someone tries to look at Topic1 or any of its parents, I need to check to make sure they have access to Category1.

Access is managed by s2member.

For typical wordpress posts, I attach this filter, run a wp_query, then detach it:

attach_s2member_query_filters(); // only fetch content the user can access

If that query is not empty, then I let the user view the page they’re trying to look at. If it is empty, it means they don’t have access to any posts and so I redirect them.

But I don’t know how bbPress works well enough to figure it out.

It seems I need to

1. Find what the root category is

2. Check if the user can access the root category

3. If so, allow access to whatever they’re trying to see. If not, redirect or give an error message.

Any ideas on how I can do this?

[Jared Atchison]

Correct, with bbPress 2.1 the “Theme compat” bbPress theme will work for most people out of the box.

The problem is that some WordPress themes do weird things – such as modify the loop and/or query (things that are not normal) – and this causes bbPress to break.

[Jared Atchison]

I completely agree things could be improved.

I’m just not sure how much of that is on bbPress and how much of that is on Akismet.

On bbPress.org one of the major problems we run into is the majority of the spam is from human spammers – so no matter what reCaptcha/human test (etc) is in place they will get around this.

Some of the plugins (such as https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpressmoderation/) try to get around this where a user must have a previously approved post before their posts show up.

[John James Jacoby]

You’re doing it exactly backwards to accomplish what you want to do.

You do *not* “need” a page with the slug “forum” or “forums” to make your forums appear. They will just work, based on the slug you set in Settings > Forums.

If you want the index of your “forums” to show “forums” then it’s slug needs to be “forums” and not “forum”

If a WordPress page has the same slug as something else (“forums”), the page wins.

(If your forum archive slug in Settings > Forums is “forums” but you have a page with the slug “forums” then the page will appear and it will be whatever the_content of that page is.)

You can have an unlimited number of permutations on the forums to look and work. It comes with the most obvious (and working) settings out of the box.

You can include slashes in your archive slugs, so hierarchical pages work, too.

This part is not broken, it is not a bug. It’s two settings that you need to make match, and you’re in control of both of them on your own to operate however you want your site to operate.

[Jared Atchison]

I’m the author of bbP Genesis Extend and bbP Custom CSS.

For bbP Custom CSS, you will need to create the CSS it will use.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-custom-css-file/installation/

Unfortunately re-ordering the columns would require creating a custom theme, it’s not something that can be done with a CSS solution.

[Jared Atchison]

bbPress is very much under active development. You can see that in the trac timeline – https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/timeline.

The spam periodically gets to a high level on the forums because

1) There are only a handful of moderators at the moment

2) The spam is human generated and most of it does not get caught by akismet

Hope that helps

[NFLpigskingirl]

Hi everyone! I’m new to BBPress and I’m quite the technology newbie, so please be as simple and specific as possible when answering my question otherwise I’m liable to not get it

Here goes: I have WordPress and installed BBPress. I have the Piano Black theme. My site is called Pro Football Chick (profootballchick.com/forums if you want to see what I’m talking about). Anyhow, I want the forums to have a tab on my front page at the top — like the About, Home, and Contact pages. I also noticed that there’s no way for someone to add a topic — how can I fix that?

Thank you SO much!

[baldg0at]

@jaredatch I already have recaptcha set up on registration. I’ll check to see if there are other plugins that will assist, but SPAMMERs are actually using humans to do the registration part these days. They’re tenacious.

@John James Jacoby

It just seems very odd that I’ve had such a huge spike in missed SPAM since switching from the standalone to the plugin.

I was hoping this ticket would make it into 2.1 and help with the issue

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1623

[Sniper Kitten]

What are your hosts using as web hosting control panels? cPanel, vDeck or something else?

Take me as an example (I’m using vDeck 4), in your control panel, navigate to “File Manager” (or similar name). If your install your website in root directory, then navigate to /wp-content/plugins/ and upload your bbPress zip file there. For sub-directory, navigate to /”sub-directory”/wp-content/plugins/ and upload it there. Uncompress the zip file.

In your wordpress dashboard, go to Plugin section. You should see the bbPress in your plugin list. Activate it and you’re done.

Actually there’s an easier way to do this. Navigate to Plugin > Add New. Search for bbPress and click “install now” and activate it.

You can also refer:

https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/2/#bp-sitewide-forums

[Sniper Kitten]

Do you all know that spammer like to target website with these words (or similar)?

“Proudly powered by WordPress”

“Proudly powered by WordPress and BuddyPress”

“Proudly powered by bbPress.”

Just try this in google search: “inurl:/register/ Account Details Proudly powered by WordPress and BuddyPress” and see it for yourself. There’s lot of it.

Yes we’re so “proud” of it until our site is flooded with spammers.

So you may want to remove those words from your footer, etc. You may also want to change the /register/ (in BuddyPress) to something like /gimmeanaccount/.

My site was once flooded by spammers especially from China with the @126.com before I make those changes and I’m pretty amazed with the result.

[Sniper Kitten]

Do you all know that spammer like to target website with these words (or similar)?

“Proudly powered by WordPress”

“Proudly powered by WordPress and BuddyPress”

“Proudly powered by bbPress.”

Just try this in google search: “inurl:/register/ Account Details Proudly powered by WordPress and BuddyPress” and see it for yourself. There’s lot of it.

Yes we’re so “proud” of it until our site is flooded with spammers.

So you may want to remove those words from your footer, etc. You may also want to change the /register/ (in BuddyPress) to something like /gimmeanaccount/.

My site was once flooded by spammers especially from China with the @126.com before I make those changes and I’m pretty amazed with the result.

[Sniper Kitten]

I don’t think so. The default bbPress works differently compared to BuddyPress Group Forums, (it’s not like bbPress to SimplePress or vice versa) so it would be troublesome to migrate it from one to another one, and I don’t see a reason to create a plugin for that.

You say “hidden forums” don’t work. Can you describe it?

And it’s unfair to say that the bbPress developers stopped updating their plugins. FYI they are currently developing bbPress 2.1 which is still under development and bbPress project is still alive.

You can see it for yourself:

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/timeline

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/milestone/2.1

[Sniper Kitten]

Looks like you ask in the inappropriate place. You should ask this in WordPress or BuddyPress Support Forums.

You’ll need to create a custom page template for those pages, but there’s no easy way to do this unless you have some knowledge about PHP.

For a quick start, you can refer:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Pages

To create a page template:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Creating_Your_Own_Page_Templates

[katmmad]

Hi — I’m trying to add BBPress to my WordPress blog. I’m currently running Genesis, Prose theme (although that may change soon). My BBPress version is 2.21+, and I’m also trying to use Genesis Extend (I think successfully) and, at the author’s suggestion, I am trying to use the bbPress Custom CSS File. The immediate thing that I’m trying to do is to rearrange and remove some of the forum column headings. The default is:

Topic / Voices / Posts / Freshness

I’d like to change that to

Topic / Posts / Author

And include information in the Topic column about what category it’s in, as well as include Freshness data in the Author column.

Is there an easy way to do this, or is this all CSS Styling? (Or should I try to find a bbPress theme I like?)

The NEXT question then becomes, um… does anyone know where the bbPress Custom CSS File is? I poked around a bit in FTP and couldn’t find it. Do I have to generate it myself and upload it? Do I stick the file in the Prose theme folder, the Genesis theme folder, or the bbPress folder? Or the bbPress Custom CSS File plugin folder?

Many thanks in advance!

[guy2131]

Hi Guys,

I need help resolving small issue that I have with my installation and I am ready to pay for the time of whoever knows (or can find out) the answer.

To see the problem go: http://www.ibikiniwax.com/forum/topic/jannet and scroll to the bottom of page.

<b>The replies show at below the reply box.</b>

I run bbpress plugin 2.0.2 on one of Template Monster premium themes. WordPress 3.3.2.

I did not do any modifications to bbpress themes (To be honest, I don’t quite understand it) I just installed the plugin, activated it, setup and voila – everything works but this one issue. I suppose it uses the themes css – I like the simplicity of it and I’d rather keep it this way.

So there you go. Please help. Let me know your price before hand. If you feel more comfortable, we can do it through freelancer of elance.

Thanks

[Andrew]

Hi Sam,

I had a hard time looking for the archive-forums.php, until I found it in the bbp-twentyten theme folder in bbp-themes folder. From my understanding I’m not using this theme for bbPress (or am I?)

I made the changes as you described and nothing takes effect. I’ve tried moving about the archive-forums.php into different areas, my main theme folder, the bbPress includes folder and others to see if I could find the right spot it needed to be in order to be called, but without luck.

Where do I need to place this file in order to have it activated or used by bbPress?

I also tried creating a new ‘theme’ for bbPress following the direction here.. https://codex.bbpress.org/legacy/themes-and-templating/

But it seems to call in my bbPress theme into my main WordPress theme area, and I don’t want to change th WP theme, I just want bbPress to use this file to generate it’s <h1> Title.

Any help would be awesome. Thanks for your time!

[pagal]

You should also try theme my login plugin for WordPress.

[Jared Atchison]

Look through the WP.org repo (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=bbpress) – there are a few plugins that should help with this depending on what method you want to use (such as recaptcha etc).