[Robkk]

@atfpodcast

did you have Add toolbar & buttons to textareas to help with HTML formatting checked
in the forum settings which are in settings>forums in the back-end of WordPress

[Multimum]

Hi

Sorry for posting this here, I have been searching around for an answer but cannot find it. I am fairly new to word press and have not used bbpress before.

I am trying to build a website that will have a forum on for people to sign up to, comment, receive notifications, follow certain threads, that type of thing. A fairly normal forum, so I have installed bbpress on my new wordpress website, it is very basic at present but can be seen here if needed, http://www.multimums.com the problem I have at the moment is that if I go to the website as a normal user, ie not logged into wordpress, then I can see a box for login with user name and password but nothing for registering as a new user. I have the option selected in general settings for anyone to register, but there is no option on the site. Do I need to install a plugin for this to work?

Normally in a forum when you look at a thread there is a line saying something like ‘you are not logged in, to post please login or register.’ How and where do i get this statement to appear, and how do i get people to to be able to register, to be able to post.

Will they then receive an email with their login details and a link to confirm their email address?

Where will these email addresses be stored for my reference, do i need to create a database to store users details in?

I can’t seem to find a guide to setting up the forum other than creating topics and threads, which I have been able to do successfully.

Once users are registered I assume that they will then be able to create new threads?

Thanks very much in advance for your help, sorry if I am asking questions which seem to basic.

[lauracdd]

Hello,

I updated to WordPress 4.0.1 and updated my bbPress to 2.5.4. The Forum page is a complete mess, it is just a bunch of unformatted text taken from headers and links that were on the page:

Search for: Welcome! Logout › Forums Forum Topics Posts Freshness General Member Posts Feel free to post what you like here! 1 1 2 years, 4 months ago Member News Use this to let us all know your news! 1 1 1 year, 10 months ago

Please let me know what I need to do to get the Forum back!

Link to the site (no spaces) http:// 4 t h s t r e e t c l u b .org/

[kup1986]

Hi

We are using this plug in for one of our clients. Their site just went live after being designed, built, and tested on our beta server. Everything worked great, so we moved it to the live server this week.

However, now that they’re on the live site, new forum users are not receiving their email notifications containing their password. In Beta, there was no email “link” as far as I could tell between the Beta site and our hosting. When a new user would register, they would receive an email from wordpress@clientname.org. Within our hosting back end, I can see that emails were actually sent from ourusername@ourbetaserver.com.

Within the Dashbaord/Settings/General, I’ve made certain that the email account listed on that screen matches what was set up with their hosting provider. I’ve dug through the files until I can see code with my eyes close and cannot figure out how to make this work again.

I’ve just now learning development, so please help (at a 101 level). I appreciate any insight!!

[allanlud]

Hi all,

I have just installed bbpress here – forum.I’ve been looking through the forums here and found a few posts relating to the style of PHPBB.

What I am trying to do is have something like the this:

Forum#1
–Sub Forum #1
—-Description
–Sub Forum #2
—-Description

Forum#2
–Sub Forum #1
—-Description
–Sub Forum #2
—-Description

Forum#3
–Sub Forum #1
—-Description
–Sub Forum #2
—-Description

And have topics for each sub forum displayed – hope that makes sense. I’m not too sure about forums & categories so feel free to comment.

I have read about editing the plugin files in a child theme but not too sure how to go about that. I have worked with child themes in WordPress before (and am currently), but is there a ‘plugin child theme’?

Thanks,
Al.

[Robkk]

you would need to contact the plugin author about resolving the issue with the bbPress plugin

also make sure that you dont have any of the following problems listed here

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bolcom-partnerprogramma-wordpress-plugin/faq/

other than that try to find an alternative.

[Robin W]

It should ‘hold’ ie stay the same for that screen.

The actual setting is deep within wordpress not bbpress, so sorry can’t say where or what it is !

[Robkk]

hide the wp-login.php page

you can do a redirection from that login form to the other.

Is there any way to turn off the login form portion of the (bbPress) Login Widget though so that it only displays the profile portion when a user logs in?

this is kind of funny since you dont want the login widget for what it does , but i guess you can use a plugin like jetpacks widget visibility and show it only if users are logged in.

there are a bunch of plugins that do what jetpack widget visibility module does.

like this plugin for example

https://wordpress.org/plugins/restrict-widgets/

[Robin W]

Can’t you modify plugins to work only on forums with a certain parameter? And create your own parameters to use on forums that you want to use the plugin on?

Of course you can – all wordpress and wordpress site free plugins are open source so you can do what you like!!

[rock17]

I know it’s possible. I saw a post in trac where @johnjamesjacoby created a WordPress page under the forums directory (https://bbpress.org/forums/new-topic/) but he didn’t say how he did it.

[Robin W]

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpressmoderation/

[Robkk]

I manually add the users as admin.

dont do that, just leave them as subscriber/participant and just manually change the roles of the particpants you want as a moderator .

if you want another admin make sure they are really trust-worthy like a person you knew for a couple months not a few days/weeks.

for people to create topics/replies they have to be a user to your site.

you can go the allow anyone to register which would allow any person to register to your site usually on a fresh wordpress install it would be here

http://www.yoursite.com/wp-login.php?action=register

if you dont want anyone to register try to go to a invite-only type site i guess.

there is some plugins for WordPress that add this type of functionality they usually allow you to customize your login/registration form too.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=invite+only

here are some that might be useful

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-mu-secure-invites/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/register-plus-redux/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-invites/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/invitereferrals-customer-referral-program/

[Robkk]

@rachelvt

this idea in a forum is kind of weird

i would just create a category in your blog , and use wordpress comments instead.

its just my opinion though.

[Robkk]

@minoumimi

i dont recommend users creating new topics from the admin bar or the backend unless there just keymasters and maybe moderators too.

i would even allow only keymasters and moderators in the backend of my site.

users should only edit the topics/replies using the admin links on each post.

if you only do this they should only edit their own posts

as for being the proper tools ,

there is a tag input box by the topic if you have tags enabled

tinymce toolbar can be activated using
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-enable-tinymce-visual-tab/

and the revisions should show up if you activate revision logs

attachments can be available with some plugins

other than that the other stuff the users shouldn’t touch.

[Preston]

I’m finally getting back around to working on this and realized I’ll need to hide the topics from a specific user role as well. I can’t just remove spectate/participate capabilities because I need them to be able to post topics, just like users who aren’t logged in.

I’m having trouble finding a way to get the current user’s role for bbPress so I can use it in the same manner I used the user’s ID above.

I found this function, but it returns the WordPress role (administrator, editor, etc):

function get_user_role() {
    global $current_user;

    $user_roles = $current_user->roles;
    $user_role = array_shift($user_roles);

    return $user_role;
}

Can I somehow adapt it to return the bbPress role instead? (keymaster, moderator, etc.)

[Minoumimi Senpai]

i am still trying to find answer to this problem !!
Unless i add the role edit_others_post my users cannot edit they’re own posts using the Advanced posting option of wordpress
And well i cannot trust all those people to not touch each others posts..
and without it well the Topic creation is not that versatile unless they are html pros

[Nicolas Korobochkin]

I have solution for this issue!

First of all — in web published a lot of strange and bad solutions for this issue. Add some rules to .htaccess, change wp-signup.php directly, blah blah blah…

I dig into the source code and found something interesting. WordPress have wp_signup_location filter which set up the signup page URL (location).

require_once (TEMPLATEPATH . '/wp-signup.php');
function selena_signup_page () {
	return home_url () . '/signup/';
}
add_filter ('wp_signup_location', 'selena_signup_page');

After this create page-signup.php template in your theme folder with your custom forms (buttons, inputs, etc). Forms and other stuff can be grabbed from wp-signup.php. So I took wp-signup.php from root WP folder and put them to my theme folder. But it needs to edit. I remove some requires, functions and function calls (checkout the wp-signup.php). Be careful!

Right now I dont know how this technique works with caching (but I use Memcached and Batcache on my sites and all works great).

Next problem is – activate account page. Similar solution. Create page-activate.php template with require_once ( TEMPLATEPATH . '/wp-activate.php'); call inside. And copy wp-activate.php to your theme folder and then edit them (remove requires, filters and actions). Don’t delete this:

if ( is_object( $wp_object_cache ) )
$wp_object_cache->cache_enabled = false;

This line for caching (I write about this above). Maybe someone tell us about object caching in WP? 🙂

Now you need disable activation letters (WP sends its twice after this manipulations :). Use wpmu_signup_user_notification filter and your function needs to send emails and return FALSE (or WP send second activation email).

And that’s all!

Working example is my sites:

1. http://armyofselenagomez.com/signup/
2. http://selenaselena.ru/signup/

Activation:

1. http://armyofselenagomez.com/activate/
2. http://selenaselena.ru/activate/

It’s a multisite! And both sites also have:

1. http://armyofselenagomez.com/wp-signup.php
2. http://armyofselenagomez.com/wp-activate.php

1. http://selenaselena.ru/wp-signup.php
2. http://selenaselena.ru/wp-activate.php

[bcrider]

Hello,

I’m using WordPress 4.0 running the Valeni Theme.

In my bbpress forum on the topic pages, usernames longer than 12 characters are being truncated.

See example:

Is there any way to prevent this?

Thanks!

[colinsp]

On my site I have several boards in each Forum. Is there a way of showing which of the boards have the latest post? Or alternatively is there an option to show unread posts?

Wordpress 4.0, bbPress 2.5.4. The forums are not available to view as they are member only.

What I want is some indication of which board the red circled item refers to in the attached image.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/7515926@N08/15602098719

[authorarticle]

I used wordpress 4.0 and bbpress 2.54
I try to register to my site but e-mail not sent anything.
I ‘ve tried to over and over again.
but same result.
Please help me .
How can i solution this problem.
Thanks

[chrischros34]

Hi everyone, I need help, so I am appealing to the community.
I spent many hours trying to fix this display, but I can not.
Version of WordPress: 4.0
Version of bbpress: 2.5.4
Template: WP-Critique

I can not be specific to the forum sidebar to the racine, but I have elsewhere (subjects, answers …).
Here is my forum http://www.googland.fr/forums/
I carefully followed the help provided on https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum/ (part 8), I have certainly misunderstood.

I created my bbpress.php based on page.php, here is the code.

<?php get_header(); ?>

	<?php global $wp_query; $postid = $wp_query->post->ID; ?>

	<div id="page" class="clearfix">

		<div id="contentleft">

			<?php if ( get_post_meta( $postid, 'post_featcontent', true ) == "Narrow Width Featured Content Slider" ) { ?>
				<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/featured-narrow.php'); ?>
			<?php } ?>

			<?php if ( get_post_meta( $postid, 'post_featgalleries', true ) == "Yes" ) { ?>
				<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/featured-galleries.php'); ?>
			<?php } ?>

			<div id="content" class="maincontent">

				<?php if ( function_exists('yoast_breadcrumb') ) { yoast_breadcrumb('<p id="breadcrumbs">','</p>'); } ?>

				<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/banner468.php'); ?>

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

				<div class="post clearfix" id="post-main-<?php the_ID(); ?>">

					<div class="entry">

						<h1 class="page-title"><?php the_title(); ?></h1>

						<?php if ( get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'video_embed', true ) ) { ?>
							<div class="single-video">
								<?php echo get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'video_embed', true ); ?>
							</div>
						<?php } ?>

						<?php the_content(); ?>

						<div style="clear:both;"></div>

						<?php wp_link_pages(); ?>

					</div>

				</div>

<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
				
			</div>

			<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebar-narrow.php'); ?>

		</div>

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

Can anyone tell me how to edit the file and what I have to put into it.
I would be very grateful for help.
Thank you

[rock17]

What’s the best way to go about adding a custom page under the bbPress directory (/forums)?

I’ve created a new page in WordPress that uses bbPress shortcodes. I’d like the URL to remain under ‘/forums’ like ‘/forums/new-page’. WordPress automatically converts the directory to /forumsnew-page (due to a conflict with bbPress using /forums)

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[biscuitier0]

…3) I configured bbP Members Only to redirect non-logged-in users to the above page when they try to access forums

4) I created a menu item which is a custom link, directing to ‘…/forums’

5) I installed Peter’s login redirect https://wordpress.org/plugins/peters-login-redirect/ and configured it to take users directly to ‘…/forums’ when they log in and the home page when the log out.

[biscuitier0]

Okay I managed to do roughly what I wanted without changing the functions.php. Here’s how:

1) I installed bbP Members Only plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-members-only/, I then created a test forum and topic

2) I created a page called ‘member login’ and put the [bbp-login] shortcode in this page (no menu link for this page)….

[Woltan]

Dear forum,
I am new to WordPress and bbPress. I am looking for the following solution and hope some of you can help me along. Unfortunately, all my attempts of getting the stuff together myself failed.
I have a very simple site that only displays some information on a couple of pages. Now I would like to introduce a forum that is only accessible for registered users. (I am in no need to automate a process of registration since the number of users is very small.) I figured out how to set up the forum with categories etc. and it looks charming. However, I am not able to create any topics in the forums (apart form the admin panels) and the following message appears: “You must be logged in to create new topics.”

I have now the following question: How can I get a user to login in order to post to the forum?

Thank you in advance for any help, link, suggestion.
Regards
Woltan