[mglasser]

Our forum is open to members only, utilizing private forums and private topics. Something happened and my Participant users can no longer open private topics. Setting aside the “something happened”, how can I verify that my users all have the read_private_topics and read_private_replies capability? If they do not, how can I give them all that capability? We have about 3,000 users, so it cannot be done one at a time.

If they do have read_private_topics and read_private_replies capability, what could be another cause for them being able to see the private categories and forums, but not see the list of topics or see the topics directly?

Thanks,
Mike

WordPress 4.2.2
bbPress 2.5.7-5693

[PascalKroeze]

Hi guys,

In the passed I created a website with bbpress.
The default bbpress theme was horrible bad readable.
So I found a way to change the theme so it would match my wordpress theme.
After update the theme got reset to the default bbpress theme again.

Now I have created a new wordpress website.
I stumble at the same problem again.

Is there something simple how I can change the bbpress theme (user friendly)
I have been reading forums and this is really giving me an headache, all solution are based on editing files, creating child theme ccs files etc etc, all complicated stuff.

There must be something user friendly to change the default bbpress theme right?
Is does not have to match my wordpress theme, if I can just select something different that would be great.

Friendly regards,

Pascal

[Robkk]

@amelliya

It might be that some comment form data is on the template that bbPress is inheriting.

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/getting-started-in-modifying-the-main-bbpress-template/

You can create a bbpress.php and remove any comment code , or you can install this plugin and disable comments and trackbacks on bbPress post types.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/no-page-comment/

[Robkk]

Peter’s Login Redirect plugin should work for what you want to do.

I am guessing since you are saying “forum page” and you made that private , that you created a page and put the forum index shortcode in it.

Well since you chose to make that page private , it makes sense that Admin rights can only see it.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Content_Visibility#Private_Content

What you should do is just redirect to yoursite.com/forums and whatever forum you want private

make the forum private by editing the forum and setting it to private there.

[ccarlow]

New install of bbpress v2.7.5 on wordpress v4.2.2

Question: How can I redirect to /forum after login? I have forum page set as a private page. bbpress forums need to be private and only accessed by registered users.

I have searched for info on how to login/register and then redirect to a forum and haven’t been successful in finding a simple solutions. Some solutions look too complicated regarding writing code. I would assume there is a simple solution here.

I have tried a redirect plugin (peter’s) and doesn’t work for bbpress users set with any bbpress role but does work if I login in as wp-admin with wp admin rights.

[ghoush]

It was https://thedomain.com/ for wordpress and bbpress was standard, so https://thedomain.com/forums/

For the path, it was standard for WP Engine:

/nas/wp/www/cluster-1234/thedomain/

The log was just getting spammed with that error until I added that array(). But it wasn’t the big problem, so I wouldn’t have looked or noticed it unless I was having some other unrelated issue.

[Robkk]

not yet but there are plans to include something to list moderators

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/459#comment:41

[Robkk]

@armando1625

try this solution in this post

Top WooThemes Canvas Code Snippets for Customizing Your Website

[Robkk]

@krissieg @bursahpsamsung

read this first while I test out the login widget.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Common_WordPress_Errors#Internal_Server_Error

[howl2154]

WordPress 4.2.2
bbPress Version 2.5.7
s2Member Pro Framework Version 150311

From Users when using Bulk Actions to change an s2Member Role (from e.g. Free Subscriber to Level 1) bbPress Forum Role changes from e.g. Participant to No Role.

Updating Role 1 User at a time (clicking Username then Edit User) bbPress Forum Role remains Participant. So no problem updating Users 1 at a time.

[Qeelin]

I have searched the webernets tirelessly for an answer to this problem with no luck. I was checking out the example forums you list here bbpress.org/about/examples/ when I came across a site called tamrielfoundry.com/ and I noticed that they break up groups of forums. If you look at the first section “General Discussion” and click on one of the forums you will notice that the URL changes from tamrielfoundry.com/forums/ to tamrielfoundry.com/forum/general/general-discussion/ If you click on the top forum in the next section you jump from tamrielfoundry.com/forums/ to tamrielfoundry.com/forum/classes/class-discussion/ They seem to have the ability to have more than one single forum. Is this even possible with bbpress or has this site changed to a different forum? If this isn’t bbpress, is this kind of thing even possible. I would love the ability to break up sections of forums even if I have to somehow create a main forum page and build it by hand. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

WordPress version 4.2.2
bbPress version 2.5.7
http://4nerdsgaming.com

[Robkk]

No problem 🙂

If you want you can donate some money for a beer here.

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[Robkk]

@mette_chr

Email me a link to your site and create me a subscriber/participant account
I bet could get this fixed fast with some CSS.

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[Robkk]

Your theme is causing the issue , especially its styles for WordPress comments.

Try this custom CSS

#bbpress-forums .reply a {
  font-size: inherit;
  line-height: inherit;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  float: none;
  color: #c1052c;
}

#bbpress-forums .reply a:hover {
  color: #42a202;
}

Also in your CSS your links do not really have a defined color to them. There is this CSS, but it should be something like this #c1052c

p a, a {
  color: c1052c;
}

[ovbg]

Update: For anyone else who has the same issue, this plugin seemed to solve it for me.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/asyncronous-bbpress-subscriptions/

[Robkk]

I decided to install bbpress without wordpress

I am not seeing bbPress at all.

[confessng]

I am a New-bie at this …..
I decided to install bbpress without wordpress because i preferred the look,i want to edit the site ,create a banner add plugins and all that
but it looks like there is no information online available for that or if there is i havent come across it yet,does anyone know where i can find such info?
thee site is http://confessng.com

I want to create a banner,change the colours ,add some sharing to social network buttons and more
Can i get some help ? Articles or video links will be most welcome
Thank you

[mfjj]

Hi, I am setting up a forum for my website but stuck at user profile links. User profiles are linking to wordpress profile links like “/members/admin” instead of “/forum/users/admin”.

It can be viewed here: http://www.poemsurdu.com/forum/urdu-poetry-forum/

On this page there are two users’ activities ‘admin’ and ‘khan’ both are linking to a 404 /members/ page.
Please help me resolve this problem. I could not find any thread exactly on this problem.

[Robkk]

I created this trac ticket awhile ago because of this topic, and also I found a plugin that kind of does similar functionality.

The plugin I mentioned is quite broken and has fixes mentioned in the plugins support forum by users.

If a developer or anyone else wants to fork/fix the plugin I mentioned in this trac ticket they can go ahead. Even better if you help add this to core.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2819

[Robin W]

ok, we’ll need a link, as I suspect that ‘page into bar ‘ is either a theme related thing or your theme is doing something with the wordpress toolbar.

[Stagger Lee]

It is not problem to hardcode WP-Polls function inside specific bbPress custom template, to bypass activating shortcodes in topics and replies.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-polls/installation/

But main problem is User interaction. Shame, WP-Polls is very nice Polls plugin.
It would be needed one modal popup where User opening topic can add new poll. believe Roles and permissions are not problem to fix with plugin filters, but other doesnt exist.

It is not acceptable to send Users to separate page (backend) just to make poll for topic they opening.

[Stagger Lee]

This one is closest I could find. Still has to be guessed to hit 24-48 hours, or exact week time ban for instance. But there is no better out there.
Strange, considering WP has plenty plugins for everything.

It is permanent ban logics fault. Sometimes it is enough to cool down User by time ban of 1 day, one week or one month.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-blocker/

Maybe you can borrow code and make something for bbPress core.

[ana_angel]

This is a really great step. I really appreciate that you are here and working to make wordpress more professional
Thank you
Ana

[Robkk]

You can also use this plugin if you have BuddyPress installed too.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-forum-editor/

[Robkk]

This plugin might help.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-custom-reply-notifications/