[Robkk]

turns out there is this theme that has this function working

check out https://wordpress.org/themes/wp-knowledge-base

put it on a test site and see that i has what i need in that theme

now all i need is to scrape that code out and i think wrap it in an if user is logged in function and thats it

after that this topic should be done.

[sktrader]

I am using this theme https://wordpress.org/themes/wp-knowledge-base
try this theme.
i am also using https://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-bbpress-tools/
plugin

[Robkk]

@chakelan you probably need to go to wordpress.org ‘s support to see whats up with your wordpress mail functions or something to.

[Chakelan]

Thank you for the help!

I did fix the issue a bit after posting. I used this plugin.

By the way, is it an easy way to fix what shows after “to:”? For me it now says “to:noreply@www.mydomain.com”, instead of to:”the user’s email-adress”. It isn’t really a big issue, but it would be cool to know how to change that.

Peder

[Robin W]

no, we can carry on here !

I have to say I’m not sure whether it can take two, the codex seems to think it can be passed 2in the examples.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_shortcode

However you are passing an array $attr to the function, so why cant you just pass two elemenstb within that array

$attr[‘id’]
and
$attr[‘id2’]

[PinkishHue]

Yes support is a little short here but we just have to deal with that. I think support will improve as the plugin becomes more and more popular but it’s just taking a while 🙂

As bbpress is a WP plugin, your question is more WP specific, so – as you’ve mentioned – you just need to use the WordPress Codex to find out how to do things like move your installation. This is a valuable tip for everyone – if you’re having trouble finding an answer here, try the WordPress Codex or support forums as many answers can be found there.

[Robkk]

if one registers to wordpress they also are capable of posting on forum topics.

all registration is around wordpress.

bbpress may come with a register shortcode to place on a page ,but all the information still goes to wordpress.

[Robkk]

Hi Robin, so you don’t like feedback here? I seemed to have hit a sensitive nerve with you! I did try to make some positives as well as what I thought were honest concerns. I looked on the support forum and there were also other older threads with no replies, not just mine, If you can’t take feedback about what you do then I’m sorry to say you will never learn or grow. As for it been free, well I’m not going to go into a debate about that. But I believe there would be ways to make money out of this like here: http://www.packtpub.com/bbpress-complete-comprehensive-guide/book

bbpress is open source , i dont think the community is going to try to make money off of something thats open source, thats probably why there is no ads on this site too.

that book was just written by some guy thats not really affiliated with bbpress. Its like if i myself made a book of all that i know from reading all the documentation. (i dont work for bbpress, i am a volunteer )

topics with no replies, people are busy , there is like only 2 official people that check out this forum occasionly , robin and stephen

jjj might check out the forums though but he also works on wordpress core i think i am not sure.

Other than that the others are volunteers like myself , which i am helping out people because robin helped out me , idk i feel i got to repay them somehow haha

Your own layout looks promising, I hope it goes well.

im on the fence if i should put it on github or not, i feel like i dont want people jacking my forums style sometimes

As for examples

Just any thing that looks like a forum:

bbpress looks like a forum ,its just a really simple one.

which is great because not all people need extravagant features, but if they want they can add wordpress plugins, and also custom functions that you may find on this forum.

if we compare features in bbpress compared to other forum software there is not much of a difference.

All i can see that is different is shortcodes on bottom, which i showed a user how to do in a topic before. using bbpress forum statistics shortcode, and the do shortcode function.

forum icons, which is possible there is a function somewhere if you search this forum.

category and hierarchy layout , if you search the bbpress trac people have shared how to do this if users want that specific layout.

ip boards topic sorting you can create something similar using bbpress views in simple html links.

and the rest is just styling with css, in the documentation it explains… go to this https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum-part-2/

[pfswss]

Just in case anyone else wants to know what I did:

I just searched for moving WordPress from blog to root. I followed the instructions for a simple way written in the last year.

I backed up everything first. I changed the site and url settings in wordpress.

I then used Cpanel file manager to clean out the root but left the blog and forum folders, then copy the contents of the blog folder to the root and copied the forum folder to the root. I renamed the old folders for backup purposes.

[gold1]

I added the shortcode [bbp-register] for a new register page but when I click on register I end up on a page saying:
Leave a Reply
Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *
and a button saying post comment. I have no idea what’s wrong…

bbPress Version 2.5.4
bbPress WP Tweaks Version 1.3.1
wordpress Version 3.9.1

[Nicolas Korobochkin]

bbPress permalinks by default is:

• /forums/topic/TOPIC_SLUG/
• /forums/forum/FORUM_SLUG/

How to replace topic- and forum- slugs to their ID’s?

• /forums/topic/TOPIC_ID/
• /forums/forum/FORUM_ID/

I need this because I have cyrillic letters in topic names (and slugs).

Current link:

http://ru.forums.wordpress.org/topic/Пустая-страница-1?replies=3

After copy and send on Twitter, Facebook..:

http://ru.forums.wordpress.org/topic/

I try fix it and write rewrite rule (and flush, yep).

add_rewrite_rule('^/forum/topic/(\d+)/?$','index.php?topic_id=$matches[1]','top');

But after visiting /forum/topic/814 (814 topic id is exists) redirect to home page happening.

[Robin W]

try my plugin

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-topic-count/

[Capital]

Hello,

I do like to know how I am able to display the total amount of replies and topics a member created on my WordPress website. There is a (text) sidebar present where the statistics are displayed of a certain user. Is it possible to display the amount of forum topics and replies a certain user has created?

Thanks

[Robkk]

@pfswss

all i could say more is search for them

wordpress.org plugin repository

https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=social+login

code canyon plugin repository (cost money)

http://codecanyon.net/search?category=wordpress&direction=desc&order_by=best-match&term=social+login&utf8=%E2%9C%93

[Robkk]

1./ Lack of Support – check out this topic, not one reply as I waited for several days. In the end I had to do it myself on hope and lucky for me I puled it off. I hope this improves.

i saw this and had no idea what you were talking about, and i didnt have a correct answer, and since you solved it you could share so that people in the future that came across the same problem can find your topic and help themeselves in the future.

2./ Lack of dedicated Styles and themes.

phpbb inpsired forum theme by lynq

https://github.com/EpicWebs/bbPress-starter-theme-epicwebs

envatos support forum theme-is actually a wordpress theme in whole on github, idk if copying templates will work because this relies on 5 other plugins also

https://github.com/syamilmj/Supportte

I might make a better mobile responsive forum theme in the future and post it on github

here is how my theme kind of looks like , the bbpress theme i will post on github will be loosely based on this

My Forum Layout (in progress)

It was impossible to find anything like a normal forum from Invision, Vbulletin or PhpBB.

what would you like specifically like other forums??

[pfswss]

I was excited to find a wordpress forum that had good reviews and seemed the best solution after comparing a few.

I’m happy I was able to import my old PhpBB forum without much problems due to what I believe is an improved importer.

but I’m disappointed with 2 things:

1./ Lack of Support – check out this topic, not one reply as I waited for several days. In the end I had to do it myself on hope and lucky for me I puled it off. I hope this improves.

2./ Lack of dedicated Styles and themes. It was impossible to find anything like a normal forum from Invision, Vbulletin or PhpBB. There is nothing available that can make your forum look like those types of forums. There is one very basic template thing that does not do much but that is it from my many hours of research. Even the Themes section has nothing at all basically. I was expecting to find many dedicated BBPress themes. The good thing is most new themes will work with BBPress but they all look the same, simple with no organization etc.

Despite all this I am excited to have moved my PhpBB forum to wordpress and I can now make use of plugins etc.

I hope in the future BBPress improves these 2 issues.

[Robin W]

try my plugin

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-profile-information/

[Robkk]

From my experience this worked best

But requires an account from a website

only works for 2000 users only , to have more than that you would have to pay for a premium version of the service

https://wordpress.org/plugins/oa-social-login/

This didnt really work for me , and is also a free/premium service

requires an account to their website also , and is limited on users that can use the social login feature.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/loginradius-for-wordpress/

I tried this plugin before it was called super socializer

and it didnt work at all on my site

https://wordpress.org/plugins/super-socializer/

I havent really gotten into trying all the social login plugins on codecanyon.

other than my opinion , do a google search try to find other peoples opinions on the best social login plugin , and make a very decisive decision on your plugin choice.

[NewSha]

TzMarko, I already figured out how to limit access to forums for specific bbPress roles. However, I would like to know if it is possible to restrict access to some other WordPress Pages for logged in users with specific bbPress roles.

Robin W, thanks for your reply. I might end up with using ‘Restricted Content’ plugin if I don’t find any other solutions based on bbPress user roles.

[ChrisSuiter]

Anyone know if there is a fix for this Yootheme issue?

Still getting the same problem now with new templates and Yootheme pretty much dont reply to wordpress issues as far as I can see.

[pfswss]

Hi, I have a forum to convert to BBPress. it does not have any mods that are important. Is is quite old and had a lot of topics, about 8,000 members mostly inactive.

The reason I want to convert is I think it will be better to have it on wordpress and have more flexibility, plugins etc.

I do already have a blog installed on the /blog directory and the phpbb forum is on the root directory. But the blog had all the users imported from the WP united plugin and I think this could cause issues so I plan to revert back to a default install.

This is how I plan to do it:

Backup everyone and research and follow procedures to import

Backup wordpress posts and pages, there is not many

Uninstall and Delete the blog and install again a fresh default blog in the /blog directory

Install BBPress in a /forum directory

Run the importer and import the forum.

Now this is where I’m a little lost…

I eventually want the forum to be back on the root directory, how will I do this?

Is there anything else I should know before hand?

[SplitRock]

Like @rastarr two years ago and @acornale last week, I’m looking for a way to perform a unified search of both my website and the bbpress forum. (Forum results show up in WordPress search, not just in separate forum search.)

In both cases, Search bbPress was a recommended solution. Unfortunately, the plugin hasn’t been updated since 2011, and Support threads indicate it does not work well with the latest version of bbPress. The forum on my site is also behind a paywall, and the search function in this plugin would circumvent the login page.

bbPress Search Widget was the other recommendation, and the author is still active in the Support threads. However, “unified search”, or anything similar, is not one of the features listed in the description.

Does anyone know if bbPress Search Widget includes a unified search of the site and the forum? (I’ve reached out to the author and am waiting on an answer, but it seems unlikely that a feature such as unified search wouldn’t be listed under bbPress Search Widget features.)

If not, are there any current alternatives for making a unified site search? Is bbPress likely to add this function as an option in the future?

Thanks for your time.

[N. Hutter]

I’ve made 2 groups in UAM, one for partners and one to lock pages. Both aren’t bound to WordPress / bbPress Roles. If i create a page or a post i can choose one of this groups or not. If i choose one, only the members of the group can see the page / post (this works) and all subpages too (recursively).
The forum is open to all users so the forum page has no group selected. I can’t change anything else without knowing more about bbPress or UAM. And i know nothing about it =P
Could something in the topic template cause this problem or is it more a core problem?
Do you maybe know an other plugin to lock pages (with user groups) if we can’t find a solution for this one?

[Robkk]

1) Permit forum users to reply to an email

only plugin i know is https://github.com/rmccue/bbPress-Reply-by-Email

which uses mandrill and postmark for sending emails

2) Send new forum applications (registrations) to the moderator to either approve or disapprove

that plugin user profiles made easy should work on bbpress.

3) Permit forum users to post pictures e.g. .jpgs

you can use the img button in the toolbar which will use a url of a picture then embed the picture in a post.

you can use oembed which is already in wordpress core, where all you have to do is add a link to an image in a post then it will automatically embed. (imgur, flickr, are some examples that can do this.

and yes bbpress attachments plugin

[N. Hutter]

Thanks for the answer. I’ve tested all plugins and the theme like you told me to.
The problem comes form the UAM – User Access Manager (http://www.gm-alex.de/projects/wordpress/plugins/user-access-manager/). I need this plugin to protect some parts of the website (not the forum). Any idea how to solve this?