[jmodine]

The easiest way is to do a custom CSS. make a child theme first i recomend this plug in “Child theme configuration” Down load the zip file once you chose your settgings. upload the child theme through dashboard> appearance > theme > add new then use a text editor and make a style.css for your theme (bbpress will be overridden with it) I use eclipse for a text editor but notepad will work in the style css add this code
(this came directly from my site so it has a few changes you can change anything you like on it for more customization) you can see my forums lay out here

#bbpress-forums .bbp-forums-list li {
display: none !important;
min-height: 50px;
font-size: 18px;
border: 3px solid black;
border-top: 8px solid #871A1A;
boder-bottom-left-radius:5px;
boder-bottom-right-radius:5px;
boder-top-left-radius:5px;
boder-top-right-radius:5px;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
margin-top: 10px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
}

.bbp-forum-title{
   display: block !important;
   font-size: 22px;
   font-weight: bold;
	border-top: 15px solid blue;
	boder-top-left-radius:5px;
	boder-top-right-radius:5px;
	-moz-border-radius: 5px;
	-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
	margin-top: 10px;
	margin-bottom: 10px;
}

.bbp-topic-title {
	 font-size: 16px !important;
}

Like I said any of these values are changeable and you can add more or take some out. hope this helps.

[Robin W]

There are two sets of roles wordpress and bbpress

It is a wordpress admin that can set bbpress roles, under Dashboard>settings>users and see if forum roles appear near the bottom of an existing user

If not come back and if you have database access I can tell you how to set an admin that can then set a bbpress keymaster.

[Stephen Edgar]

You may login to this site using your bbPress.org/WordPress.org/BuddyPress.org username and password.

Strange, did you login first? https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/login

Once your logged in, create a new ticket https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/newticket

[Jacob]

@Jeff – Thanks Jeff.

@Robin – What I want is highlighted in the question with a blockquote. So it should be pretty obvious. I am sorry for not being more explicit in my demands – but it really wasnt my purpose to suggest on specific features – just something basic as core-developed and planned groups-functionality. The intention was to get an understanding on what to expect. A word from John James Jacoby himself – just saying for example “well in the near future things arent going to go faster than the previous years” – then I would know what to expect ….. Again I refer you to the developing roadmap. Its not exactly going fast. One of the features I was looking forward to having integrated was using bbpress for comments in wordpress. Or any kind of functional integration.

However I did forget to put in group-based – along with the finegrained, nodal permissions. And yes, I am aware of the roles and capabilities. But thanks for that. And along with that I dont mean relying on a newly-developed plugin like bbpres private groups or installing buddypress. I meant having it default and taking into planning consideration. Speed is fairly obvious. Security is just a general concern, nothing really specific. But enough to keep me away from newly developed plugins.

I am sorry for any thoughtlessness in formulating my intention – and again do not mean to be arrogant. But something concrete from the team behind would be nice. I am sorry for not being more specific about the groups-thing. But I am not being specific, because that is not the point. The point is highlighted in the quote.

I can see now that it wasnt a well-formulated frustration. Wish I had made it better. So if someone could just delete it, it would be fine.

[papete100]

The last posting on this topic is very old. I wonder this is still a matter of concern. I try to move my http://www.phpages.org/phpBB3/ forum to bbPress. I used the build in tool and get the error

WordPress database error: [Table ‘u53000db1.phpbbusers’ doesn’t exist]

u53000db1 is my phppp sql base and I made a test with the plugin cms2cms and I got a nice output, but the produced bbPress forum was somwhere else not in my application, so I wonder what that means?

Anyone there can get me started in the right direction. Best regards
Peter

[Robin W]

I’ve just tried having both these plugins on my test site, and can see exactly what you mean, my forums become archive posts just as yours did, and I’m using a shortcode so that way won’t work.

So definite conflict between how these two forums are using slugs, and I suspect that the recipe one is overwriting a forum one, but don’t know how, possibly via a filter on wordpress.

I’d suggest since the recipe plugin author will have far better knowledge (as he has slug settings in his plugin) that you go back with a fresh post, and explain that on a base theme (mine was twentyten) with just bbpress and his plugin and nothing else

http://www.mysite.com/forums takes you to blog archives page

and see what he comes back with

[Robin W]

Just had a thought, what bbpress level is the username you are using

so you could be a wordpress admin, but if you are a bbpress participant, then you wouldn’t see anything.

So go into dashboard>users and edit your username and see what level the bbpress role is set to

[Stephen Edgar]

1. You shouldn’t need to manually map anything with WordPress 4.0.x and bbPress 2.5.x, bbPress 2.x can import bbPress 1.x 100% perfectly “out of the box” without any additional plugins or manual intervention.

2. If you want to integrate bbPress 1.2 with WordPress then this also works with a few tweaks also, see this post for details on this.

In summary there is no reason to be not using the latest version of WordPress with either bbPress 1.x or 2.x.

[Stefano Lissa]

Hi, I tried again to post this bug on track, but I got a “you have not ticket privileges”, so I’ll try to report it here since it can be a very general issue.

My blog is set with a permalink structure like %category%/%postname% WITHOUT a trailing slash. But on bbpress file ajax.php on function bbp_get_ajax_url() the url is generated with a trailingslashit( $wp->request ).

WordPress sends back a redirect whene there is a trailing slash and the subscription fails with an alert “undefined”. Removing the trailingslashit(…) everything works fine.

There is a specific reason for that use of trailingslashit()?

Thank you, Stefano.

[xprt007]

Hi

I’m back after a while. 😉
After a lot of research, enabling, disabling this & that, I discovered this issue only comes up if the recipepress reloaded plugin is activated.

It is recommended for the main recipe page to be at /recipes.
If you first install this, then whatever you do, bbpress will not be accessible at the recommended & preferred /forums.
Instead as explained above, if you try to access the forums at /forums, whereas the url remains correct & pointing to /forums, the content of the blog front page is loaded & if I remember well, any latest forum content appears listed as one of the normal blog posts!

I tried however to uninstall bbpress & disabled all other plugins, including the recipe plugin, then re-installed bbpress. The set up run normally & the forums were accessible at /forums. When I reactivated recipepress reloaded, all its links, including /recipes returned a page not found error. It is only when bbpress is disabled that the recipe pages are accessible again.

Conclusion: both plugins cannot run together, at least with default settings (?).

Quite perplexed regarding what to do next since the site has to shortly go online & both the recipe & forum sections are integral partS. I cannot put off the issue any longer.

In suggestion above, you suggested an alternative solution of using shortcodes.
I discovered at the that the forum I created, or at least it seemed works independent of the settings on the bbpress settings & admin pages & everything had to be done with shortcodes(?), or is there a possibility of an equivalent central admin area?
Or am I mistaken?

Ideally, a solution to the apparent conflict between the 2 plugins would be great, but if it cannot be gotten (any time soon/at all), is there any equally easy way to manage forums created via shortcodes?

Some further guidance would be very much appreciated.

Regards

[Stephen Edgar]

You shouldn’t be using ‘bbconverter’, bbPress 2.x includes its own importer now and is in fact that very same plugin now included within the core of bbPress. There has also been vast improvements and bug fixes to both the converter and the bbPress 1.x importer.

From your WordPress Dashboard -> Tools -> Forums -> Import

[Stephen Edgar]

1) Close the topic. But it seems like subscribe-notifications are only sent when the topic is open. Is there a fix for that?

I’m kind of thinking we should allow notifications to be sent from topics that have been closed.

Can you create a ticket on Trac and we can make a decision and fix this, I’m unable to test and confirm this behaviour at the moment but the ticket will remind me 🙂

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

[Scrubtek]

I’m running WordPress 4.01, bbpress 2.5.4 and buddypress 2.1.1. I have one forum installed and I have just created a second forum. The problem is when I create the second forum it basically picks up all the topics and menu choices of the original forum. The original forum is private and is password protected. I don’t want the 2nd forum private but public nor have the topics or menu choices of the original forum and not password protected. I basically want it to be it’s own forum separate from the original one. Any help would be greatly appreciated

[Stephen Edgar]

Create a ticket on Trac and we’ll take a look at adding support for Jetpack Markdown

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

[Robkk]

im kind of leanging that you might need some custom development for this

http://jobs.wordpress.net/

but im not sure if this kind of plugin is what you are after

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-digest/

[Letty2014]

Wordpress 4.0.1 running Tempera theme.
bbPress Forum

I have all of my sub forums sitting in a master forum on my site. At the end of the page there is
Oh bother! No topics were found here!

I don’t want to have any topics for the master forum. It’s only purpose is to house the sub forums.
It’s status is closed, but Oh Bother still appears.

I have searched here but failed to find a solution.

I would be grateful for any help in removing this from the Forum.

Here is the forum. it’s still under construction.

[abhishek.aphroecs]

Hi ,

I want to display forum with posts number and views in left sidebar as mentioned in below url.

http://abhishek.aphroecs.com/121clicks/bbpress_forum.png

i am using bb press plugin i.e https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/

any help would be appreciated

Thanks

[pazzaglia]

I’ve searched these forums and found mostly technical replies from developers (I’m semi-technical so making up some code from scratch and knowing where to stick it is out of my league).

I’ve tried “Everything Search” which does not index topics.

I’ve tried free “Relevanssi” search which has a check-box for tpics but shows them as “not public” (https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-relevanssi-search-include-bbpress-forms-topics-and-replies?replies=3)

I’ve tried various snippets that I found via google search – each with additions to functions.php a couple don’t work, and a third actually works, but it blanks-out the topic pages (the page is still there but the text of the topic and replies is missing).

I’ve enabled Jetpack “omnisearch” which has no options but still doesn’t show the topics in the search results.

Please point me to where I can find information to modify my WordPress, Theme, or BBPress installation so that search results from the main form include topics!!!

Thank you!!!

L

P.S. My website http://www.hippressurecooking.com – I have lots of forum topics discussing Christmas Puddings but if you search for “pudding” on the main website all you get is the posts & pages with the word “pudding” and none of the topics with valuable info.

P.P.S. I have search enabled in the forums, but in addition to that I would like the results all in one place from the basic WordPress search that shows up on every page.

[bitu134]

I am looking for a way to block Participant user level to create new topics in the Forum but allow replies on the topics.

I tried a plugin called bbPress Protected Forums(https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-protected-forums/) but it doesn’t seem to work probably because it hasn’t been updated since long.

I will really like some quick help on this

Wordpress version: 4.0
bbpress version: 2.5.4

[Robin W]

yes, use this in addition to bbpress

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-private-groups/

[Robin W]

Wordpress insists that you ether an email address, but you only need enter something that looks valid.

So for instance for my non existent test users, I simply create their accounts with a dummy unique email address such as

testuser1@qhqhttyweyywttw.com
testuser2@qhqhttyweyywttw.com

Then just give you users their username and initial password, and ask them to change the password.

Once that is done, there are no additional security risks in setting them up this way, as the only risk is of they click ‘lost password’ and that will send an email to the (hopefully!) non-existent user email above, hence the horrible email address above.

You could even disable password reset

http://wpsnipp.com/index.php/functions-php/remove-the-lost-your-password-link/

and stop that happening

[Toni]

I am new to this plugin and to running a forum. I am just a volunteer English teacher obsessed with WP.
My user count will be microscopic, a handful of people. (my ESL students)
Many of my users will not have email addresses, have not ever used PCs and do not have PCs at home – experience has shown me it is impractical to provide email initially.

Is there an option to register users without email addresses?
If I leave the forums open without registration – what are the potential issues, security or otherwise? If any?

(I do not know how to set up any WP registrations anyway!)
– WP 4.1/bbPress 2.5.4. MultiSite install.
– I have dedicated a MultiSite subsite to bbPress.
– I have Askimet and Conditional CAPTCHA https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-conditional-captcha/

Any suggestions or input about plugins, if this is a bad idea, etc. will be appreciated.

[pratik0007]

Hi All,

I am getting same issue with the following message when define(‘WP_DEBUG’, true) is set. Could you please tell me how to remove this notice instead of turning off the define(‘WP_DEBUG’, true) to define(‘WP_DEBUG’, false)

Message: “Notice: bbp_setup_current_user was called incorrectly. The current user is being initialized without using $wp->init(). Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 2.3.) in \wp-includes\functions.php on line 3245” ( line 3245 is in function _doing_it_wrong() )

It’s urgent for me please reply asap.

Thanks in advance.

[Applesauce]

Hi, I’ve changed the background color in my bbpress forum but for some reason the background color is not affecting the padding (or so it seems). I’ve searched online and found I may need to add overflow:hidden and even overflow:auto. I’ve tried to add this to many many variations and combinations of IDs and CLASSes (there are so many!) but I can’t figure it out.

I’m using a child theme from the 2014 WordPress theme but didn’t change too much.

My forum is at: http://www.pippenings.com/rv-living/rv-motorhome-life-forum/

Here is the CSS styling I’ve added to the forum so far (minus the child theme’s styling which was mostly used for changing colors…)

Can you please help me out?

#forums-list-0 .bbp-forum-title {
	font-size:1.6em;
	text-decoration:none;
}

#forums-list-0 .bbp-forum-title a:link {
	text-decoration:none;
}

#entry-content #bbpress-forums {
	background-color:#232d36;
	overflow:auto;

}

#bbpress-forums ul, #bbpress-forums li {
	background-color:#232d36;
		overflow:auto;

}

#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-replies, bbp-body, #bbpress-forums p {
	background-color:#232d36;
}
#bbpress-forums ul.forums-list-0 li.bbp-body {
	background-color:#232d36 !important;
		overflow:auto;
}

[Applesauce]

Hi, I can’t figure out how to create a new topic so i’m choosing this topic to post in because its topic title is the closest to what I’m needing help with.

I’ve changed the background color in my bbpress forum but for some reason the background color is not affecting the padding (or so it seems). I’ve searched online and found I may need to add overflow:hidden and even overflow:auto. I’ve tried to add this to many many variations and combinations of IDs and CLASSes (there are so many!) but I can’t figure it out.

I’m using a child theme from the 2014 WordPress theme but didn’t change too much.

My forum is at: http://www.pippenings.com/rv-living/rv-motorhome-life-forum/

Here is the CSS styling I’ve added to the forum so far (minus the child theme’s styling which was mostly used for changing colors…)

Can you please help me out?

#forums-list-0 .bbp-forum-title {
	font-size:1.6em;
	text-decoration:none;
}

#forums-list-0 .bbp-forum-title a:link {
	text-decoration:none;
}

#entry-content #bbpress-forums {
	background-color:#232d36;
	overflow:auto;

}

#bbpress-forums ul, #bbpress-forums li {
	background-color:#232d36;
		overflow:auto;

}

#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-replies, bbp-body, #bbpress-forums p {
	background-color:#232d36;
}
#bbpress-forums ul.forums-list-0 li.bbp-body {
	background-color:#232d36 !important;
		overflow:auto;
}