[sacredandsequential]

I have started http://www.sacredandsequential.org just recently, and I am trying to move over the forums from http://www.captionbox.net. Both domains are running WordPress 3.9.1 and the bbPress 2.5.4. The forums can be found at http://www.captionbox.net/forums/forum/empanelment/

After going to Tools -> Forums and selecting the Import Forums tab, I am entering what I believe to be all of my correct database information. (The only info I am uncertain of is the Table Prefix, but I have tried wp_bb_, forums_, forum_, and even utf8_ to no avail.)

Would anyone have advice as to what I’m overlooking or how to remedy this? I would rather not abandon all the discussions we’ve had leading up to this new site!

Please help!

[thecatholicwoman]

None of the links work I followed all of the steps indicated here http://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum/#3-%C2%A0creating-a-forum-page

It is not a compatibility issue because even before I had someone add the DIVI theme to the CSS for me the links were not working and I thought that it was because it was not incorporated into my theme.

My website is thecatholicwoman.com
Direct link t the forum below.
http://www.thecatholicwoman.com/forum/

I am using WordPress 3.9.1
and BBpress 2.5.4

HELP!!!!!
Thanks so much for any help that you can provide.

[Robkk]

oh yeh create a new menu, name it , and any links to your forums with the link module in the wordpress menu system . make sure when you see theme locations click bbpress Forum Menu

now save and your menu should show up in your forum archive

[Robin W]

suggest you try their support forum

https://wordpress.org/support/theme/montezuma

[Andi North]

Hello,

We are working on a WordPress site using a theme.

The website url is: http://tottoncollege.wpengine.com/

The theme is called Smartmag: http://themeforest.net/item/smartmag-responsive-retina-wordpress-magazine/6652608

We want forum functionality and were going to use bbPress, but as soon as we activate the plugin the featured slider breaks and stops displaying properly. We think this is a javascript related issue, but we aren’t quite sure what exactly the issue is.

Please can you advise? We can provide login details to the staging area if needed.

Thanks!

[ajshanahan]

Ok, thanks for your time and help @netweb. I’ve asked @gdragon on the Toolbox support forum but he said it was a BBpress thing:

This is purely WordPress/bbPress feature and my plugin has nothing to do with this. My plugin adds extra control to the WP editor you can use for bbPress, and you can use that to enable different features (like button). But, the way all that actually work is beyond this plugin, and depends on WordPress and bbPress only.
But, you are correct that Participant has no capability to upload files, but I think that bbPress handles this wrong and should not allow media button to be visible in the first place if user has no capability. You need to add ‘upload_files’ capability to bbp_participant user role to enable this.

I am now at the point where I simply need to know how to add ‘upload_files’ to bbp_participant – do you know Steve? Alternatively, do you know how I add a new user type into the BBPress environment (as shown here – http://screencast.com/t/raxzzyIuSL)

Many thanks again.

[Stephen Edgar]

I’m not frustrated, though I fully understand where you are coming from 😉

It is as simple as (to me at least) that bbPress does NOT include ANY support for uploading attachments, this includes any role or capability to facilitate that.

That said, there is the plugin “GD bbPress attachments” that adds support to bbPress to upload attachments, how it does this and what changes it makes to either bbPress or WordPress roles and capabilities I do not know, as I stated above I have not looked closely at it (i.e. I have not looked at the source code to see how it works)

If you want attachments in bbPress that is the ONLY solution I know of. 🙂

[Robin W]

Thanks for that, it lets me know that there are two of you with the issue (so far – there will be more!)

When does the error occur – as soon as you enter the website, when you enter the forums or some other action?

Can you also tell me

What versions of
Bbpress
Wordpress

You are using

And what theme

And what plugins.

[greenhoe]

Hi,

I have a custom wordpress theme which I also use a child theme and I know to edit and customize the buddypress theme you need to place the files such as archive-forum.php in your child theme folder or main theme folder.

I was wondering is it possible to have a folder for all the bbpress main theme components so that they don’t clutter up my main child theme?

In the plugin all the main theme files are stored in a folder called extra, I would like to be able to have a folder called extra in my child theme and have worpdress recognize all the bbpress theme files.

[Stephen Edgar]

p.s. Robin -> https://en-gb.wordpress.org/ 😉

[Stephen Edgar]

The string Keymaster is being translated to Super Administrator(here)

If you login to http://translate.wordpress.org using your wordpress.org/bbpress.org username and password you can also suggest an updated translation and the Spanish translation team will review the translation and accept it or not.

The first link above is for the ‘development’ version of bbPress, upcoming 2.6 release, you should also suggest any translation updates for the current bbPress v2.5 here.

Once you have done the above you should let the Spanish translation team know:

Contacto

[itisix]

I’ve been using wordpress for about 6 months now and I’m using the “luminescent lite” theme. I now decided it was time to move my old phpbb board over to bbpress and I’m struggling a bit with the design. So:

1 – The theme is universal, so not much chance to change much without hard coding or a new theme

2 – I use categories and forums and it’s messy. I get:

Category
Forum nº 1 (14,54) Forum nº 2 /1,445 4,754)

Can I add a paragraph for each forum or even not show the forums at all (they would open on a click on the category).

3 – No “unread topics” display (icon/different colour)

Not all is bad. I’m using buddypress and I’m loving it. BBpress ported quite well from phpbb3 and I lost no data at all (except PM’s). Even BBcode is looking good. My users are giving me a hard time, but they are just idiots anyway… lol

[Stephen Edgar]

I haven’t looked closely at the GD bbPress Attachments plugin (And never at GD bbPress Toolbox) though I was presuming that GD bbPress Toolbox included the same/similar/enhanced version of GD bbPress Attachments which I believe does allow participants to upload attachments.

So, can you use (and/or ask @gdragon) if running both plugins side by side is the best solution.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-bbpress-attachments/

[K-Path]

Version 3.9.1
Twenty Ten Theme with some very simply, barely noticeable CSS modification.
http://hcrd.foundation/journal/forums/

I need to know where to get the Registration URL?
Seems to me that WordPress would make that one of the more obvious and prominent links on the page. I haven’t figured out where it is. I need it to complete the bbPress Login Widget configuration.

Also

As you can see this is what my menu looks like now.
Home Forums About
Forums
Home › Forums
Forum
Raisons d’être
Corporate Charter Of The Foundation
The Declaration of Universal Rights

How do I make it look like this?
Home Forums About
Forum ›
Raisons d’être
Corporate Charter Of The Foundation
The Declaration of Universal Rights

I got the Forums link in the menu to work. Now how can I remove the totally redundant Forums labels beneath the main menu?

Thank you for you help.

Auriel

[ajshanahan]

Hello all – I know that the issue of user capabilities has been covered before but I’m stuck

First off:
http://www.manvfat.com/talk
WordPress 3.9.1 running BuddyBoss 3.2.0 theme.
BBPress 2.5.4
GD BBpress Toolbox 3.1.3

I have used GD BBpress Toolbox to allow the “Add Media” button to show up for all logged in users. Fine.

However, the Participant role cannot actually upload an image – it tries to upload gets nearly to the end and then throws an error message:

“An error occured in the upload. Please try again later.”

After experimentation (I changed one test user to Moderator from Participant – and this allowed the image to be uploaded) it appears to be down to the fact that Participants do not have the capability to upload media.

Using this plugin http://wordpress.org/plugins/capsman/ I am able to assign that capability to Participants but it still fails. My *guess* is that this is because the capability is not actually being saved, but I don’t know why or how to change it.

Does anyone know how I can allow the Participant role to upload files – and thus be able to add images inline?

Many thanks in advance for your help!

[Stephen Edgar]

I’ve not looked at doing do that personally, I saw something recently on adding short codes to WordPress quicktags so you could explore that option (WordPress’ quicktags are the buttons you see here ‘b’, ‘i’ etc)

Also take a look at the source of bbPress Shortcode Whitelist plugin to see their implementation, and see if you can adapt it for your own needs.

[Stephen Edgar]

It could be the posts are getting caught by WordPress’ moderation settings:

Dashboard -> Settings -> Discussion

Also look via the admin topic and reply panels to see if any have a status of ‘pending’.

If there is a topic or reply pending and you create another with duplicate content you will see that warning message.

Also if you think it may be a conflict with another plugin then disable them and see if the conflict is resolved.

[Stephen Edgar]

No, you cannot use shortcodes within bbPress.

This is more of a security issue than a technical issue, you don’t want users adding login shortcodes and the like into the content.

There is a ‘bbPress Shortcode Whitelist’ plugin (It’s in the wordpress.org plugins repo) that will allow you to ‘whitelist’ a list of short codes so you can use the ones you approve.

[Robin W]

Try

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

[greenhoe]

I was wondering can I use my normal worpdress shortcodes in bbpress? So my users could take say a certain query shortcode and post in the forums and allow it to work?

[Robin W]

These are exactly the questions I was asking 6 months ago, so I sense your frustration !!

I was expecting to write some stuff on filtering, but having had a quick look at ‘bbp_new_topic_handler’ this doesn’t have any real filtering capability, although it does have some url filters.

Fuller than probably needed answer for the benefit of others !
Ok so you can usually
either filter a function either using bbp_parse_args where you want to change some paramters that are being passed to wp-query

or filter the whole function – if it ends with ‘return apply_filters(..)’ then you can easily copy the whole function and alter it within your child theme, just rename it slightly and then add a filter
so a fictional function called ‘add_name’ in bbpress ends with
Return apply_filters (‘add_name’, $name) ;

you simply copy the whole function and change ‘add_name’ to say ‘my_add_name’ then add a line
add_filter (‘add_name’, ‘my_add_name’)

and wordpress will use your function to replace the original.

But for your function, there is a url filter near the edn but otherwise this is a function that does, so no neat parameters that are replaceable at the end !

I searched bbpress for where this function is used, and in includes/core/actions.php it is added as an action to wherever bbp_post_request is used

Searching for that gets me a bit confused, as I’m not familiar with what this does, and have limited time to chase it down.

Now, having written all that as I was going along, if I were you I’d do one of two things

1. Go further back and find what is calling the function, and then change that. If it is a template, you can alter that in a bbpress folder within your theme to call your function instead, and neither will get overwritten by upgrades.

2. There is no problem in changing core bbpress files as long as a) you are happy you know what you’re doing and b) you make a note of the changed function.

Then on each upgrade, you’ll need to look at whether any code in the function has changed, and if not just overwrite it again. If it has changed, then you’ll need to redo your amendment taking into account the new code. But you sometimes need to do that anyway for a child theme function where bbpress is dealing differently with it.

Yes changing core is ‘frowned’ upon, but only because people do it and then get upset when it is overwritten and they can’t remember what they changed !! Do it with knowledge and you’ll be fine !

After all it just some code that someone’s written, and any ‘rules’ are just made up and have no authority !

[Robin W]

@lumartist

Ok I have fixed this issue – can you download version 1.9 from

bbp Private Groups

and test it to ensure it also works for you.

if so, I’ll load it to wordpress plugins for general release

[itisix]

Hi,

I’ve been running wordpress for a few months and I now was confident enough to move my phpbb to bbpress. All went very smooth.
Problem is, the theme I use (and that I like a lot) is not very bbpress friendly.

I don’t suppose I can change the bbpress part too much without some hard coding, so any suggestion would be useful (probably change the theme altogether?). Any theme suggested?

My site is http://www.smartistas.com and the theme is luminescente lite.

Thanks

[absurdity69]

I need some help, this issue is making me go crazy.

Sometimes threads posted won’t show up but I know they are there because when I use another user’s login and post the same thing it says “Duplicate post detected”. I noticed this happens only with longer posts and replies.

Currently I have these plugins:

bbPress Notify
bbPress WP Tweaks
Floating Social Media Icon
Math Captcha
WordPress Social
Login WP Modal Login

The only plugin interference I can think of is bbpress WP Tweaks.

The only potential issue I can think of is that there is a limit to how much characters a thread/post is and this limit causes threads/replies to be hidden. Having said that, I’ve never heard of such setting.

I appreciate the help.

[Stephen Edgar]

@leanderbraunschweig Feel like creating a ticket on Trac, I never did 😉

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

Add it as an ‘enhancement’ type ticket with the component ‘users’ and leave it in ‘Awaiting Review’, add a bit of the detail of what is outlined above though the general consensus of the feedback above and we can start working towards adding support for this into bbPress 🙂