[askcdy]

can you tell me how to active activate jbimages plugin in TinyMCE with wordpress

[Stephen Edgar]

You are correct in bbPress does not support this at this stage, BuddyPress Group Forums can only have a single bbPress forum.

That said, we are working towards adding this, there are more details here.

[flipdamusic]

Hi,
i have the challenge to show the latest topics for the role members in the topic index view. I’m new to bbpress so i’ve to learn a lot.

I’m using buddypress with sidewide and group forums. Each group has one forum.
When I’m using a site and shortcode [bbp-topic-index] only all topics from the sidewide forums are shown. What I’ve learned is that this is a default behavior – i hope i’m not wrong 🙂

Now I want to show all latest topics / posts for all members belonging to their group / group forum – optimal on the latest topic page. The users are members (bbpress) and abonnents (WordPress).
How do i accomplish that ?

[elaborate]

The site is hosted locally so I can’t give you an actual live URL if that’s what you mean?

The page is a ‘customized’ version of the BuddyPress Settings page located at DOMAIN/members/USER/settings/.

Just think of it as a blank WordPress page with that URL.

By “the content” I mean the <form id="bbp-your-profile> element, and everything within it, on the Edit page at DOMAIN/forums/profile/USER/edit/.

The template file that contains the form is called form-user-edit.php.

[ovizii]

The plugin author of the plugin I mentioned coded What I asked for, you can find the thread here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-some-help-getting-this-right-1

Fixes the Recent Replies perfectly!!!

[Tom Dyer]

@robin-w I fully understand that, and I’m grateful that you released it before making it ‘perfect’ because that definition to you might be somewhat different to what it is to me.
The minor issues I have had with this plugin have been completely outweighed by the perks and it’s saved me a LOT of time had I needed to build something similar myself – not to mention the fact that I would have overlooked a lot of things and ended up with something much less functional. So I apologise if any of my feedback seems negative because that’s not my intention at all – at the end of the day, the plugin (from day one, without any improvements) is exactly what I needed.

Thanks for going out of your way to help the WordPress community – it’s very much appreciated. And say thanks to your wife also for being cool about the hours you put into it 🙂 This developer right here certainly appreciates it 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

It looks like we won’t get the threaded replies in v1, I had a similar issue with vBulletin 5 and which is not included in bbPress at this stage. Trying to get a single query to handle all of the replies doesn’t look good at the moment for WPS.

You can take a look at the vBulletin5.php importer, rather than just ‘Forums’, ‘Topics’ and ‘Replies’ sections I had to add a 4th, ‘Comments’ this then meant I had to extend the main converter to handle this extra step.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/2440/

I’ll have a think about this over the next couple of days and come up with some options, there is a chance I can add this extra section to bbPress and then included WPS threaded replies, vBulletin5.php in the next version of bbPress. There is just a ton of testing needed to ensure the ~20 other importers continue to work and fix any issues that arise…

[Stephen Edgar]

I know some tables are named bb-something, but do the post have a “tell” ?

This, you should not have ANY tables named bb-something, are you using the old v0.9x/1.x version of bbPress? The standalone version or are you using bbPress v2.x plugin for WordPress?

[fumbling]

Oops forgot! Using: wordpress 3.9.1 and bbpress 2.5.3

[fumbling]

I’ve set up a forum, by making a page, and for some reason the bbpress sidebar isn’t showing up. My pages sidebar is coming up. How can I fix this?
http://fumblingfitnesscom.fatcow.com/test/wordpress/ask/

any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks 🙂

[CathieHeart]

Hello,

I’m struggling to get a new subscriber user I created to test functionality and found that they are unable to upload pictures / files. I understand that only users who are able to upload media will be able to add new media but I’ve edited the access rights to allow subscribers to upload their own media.

I’m using:
Wordpress: Version 3.9.1
bbPress: Version 2.5.3
bbPress Enable TinyMCE Visual Tab: Version 1.0.1 –

I’ve setup a fresh install of wordpress and I’m running a minimum of plugins, user switching, bbpress, bbpress genesis and the bbPress Enable TinyMCE Visual Tab plugin. I’m also using a plugin by WP-Types called Access to that I’ve used to make a subscriber able to read, edit, delete and publish their own media files.

How do I get the basic subscriber user to be able to:

• create a topic
• reply to topics
• be able to upload media as a forum participant

I’ve got the settings > forum > set to ‘Automatically give registered visitors the Participant forum role’. What else do I need to do?

Thanks
Cathie.

[Tom Dyer]

FYI: If it helps, here’s the versions of all stuff currently running:

Core:
WordPress version: 3.9.1
Configuration setup for multisite. Currently, only one site installed and running (but with the intention to add ‘micro’ sites at a later date).

Plugins:
bbP Private Groups version: 1.6
bbPress version: 2.5.3

Theme:
Twenty Fourteen version 1.1

[Tom Dyer]

Nope, I’ve not touched the Twenty fourteen theme since I added it. It’s been updated whenever required anyway though (I don’t like the seeing the update icon in the admin, so I tend to always keep things on the latest version whether I’m using it or not).

This is a multisite install of WordPress though – Would that affect the $wpdb->get_col() visibility?

[kowarler]

I’m working on a test wordpress site for a car club and I’ve tried to add a Forum…

http://thesaabenthusiasts.co.uk/Forum/forum/forum/

Is there anyway of showing the Forum (and it’s topics) on the Forum page, rather than having to click on ‘Forum’ in the Menu, then click on Forum again?

[Stephen Edgar]

Just to be clear on two things, first this is awesome the plugins you are writing and supporting Robin 🙂

Second https://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#The_Bad_Stuff

* Forum members should not post their email addresses, ask others to post their email or solicit contacting people off of the forums.
* Plugin and theme authors may post their contact URL or even their email address in their own support sub-forum, but that should be a last resort thing.
* Forum members, including plugin and theme authors, should never ask for admin or FTP access to a server, MySQL, or WordPress installation.

Thus far in this thread, nothing is ‘out of order’, these rules are designed to protect both user and supporter, if something does go horribly wrong and the ‘supporter’ breaks things really badly or the ‘user’ has a change of heart and accuses the ‘supporter’ of breaking their site things get ugly very quickly and neither party will be very happy.

These rules are designed to safeguard all parties and the vast majority of time things can be explained using just the forums, just take your time and explain it clearly so the other party can reproduce the issue, step by step with the resulting outcome and what you’d expect the outcome to be.

Edit: So carry on doing what your doing, I just thought I should point this out and probably should add this to our ‘create new topic form’ as a reminder…

[Stephen Edgar]

I considered that the content could at least be imported, then the admin would do whatever he wants to with that content. But maybe the groups ownership and membership will be impossible to mimick at bbPress level solely, so it’s better to avoid importing rather than making public content that was private to begin with…?

– Groups forums (either drop topics, leave them as parentless, or create hidden forums as per the group name)

I don’t think leaving them parentless is the best way to go, maybe creating a hidden forum might be the way to go. Let’s leave this out for now, we can revisit this in the future easily enough and get v1 out and revisit this for v2.

I’m adding a Users section to your own version of the converter module (based on other converters available). If we want to import user-related settings, like forums/topics subscriptions and favorites, is this possible ? WPS uses usermeta, and I would assume bbPress does so…?

– user meta (forum subscriptions, favorites)

Yes, mainly, I haven’t looked at importing subscriptions or favorites yet in any of the importers, will get there one day.

What you have added looks fine via your latest commit here.

WordPress database error: [Table ‘xxx.wp_bp_groups_groupmeta’ doesn’t exist]

You only get this error if you don’t have BuddyPress installed and activated, I need to add some inline docs for this and help docs.

How do you access a parentless topic in bbPress ? Could these be used for WP Symposium groups forum topics ?

You will see them in the topic list in the backend, you won’t see them on the front end unless you make them a sticky or know the url but they will be publicly accessible. Finding them in the backend is not so easy unless you know the title of the topic. Not the best experience, but also was never really planned for, it was just never enforced that a topic must have a forum either.

– Could you clarify what a forum and a category refer to, in bbPress terminology ? Is a category a subforum, which has necessarily a parent forum, while a forum has no parent ? In such a case, there should be a test over symposium_cats.cat_parent in callback_forum_type(), otherwise it can be simply disregarded…

Both a forum and a category can have sub forums or sub categories, forums can have topics, categories cannot have topics.

Thus symposium_cats.cat_parent is already being used with _bbp_forum_parent_id and this is how we get the forums, sub-forums, categories etc all ordered correctly in their correct nested levels.

I think we are good, I’ll grab the latest shortly and the patch to bbPress Trac Ticket #2603 and I’ll take it for a test drive then commit it and it will be part of bbPress v2.6.

[Tom Dyer]

@robin-w I’m using a customised version of the Roots theme (http://roots.io/).
The site is in development at the moment, but I’ll send you a personal email with a login to the beta site. I’ll also set you up as a wordpress admin and forum keymaster so you can take a look around. Thanks for your help on this by the way – I’ll be sure to make a donation once I get paid myself 🙂

[Robin W]

New version 1.6 available from wp-plugins

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

or my site

bbp Private Groups

This version fixes the [bbp-topic-form] shortcode so that it only displays allowed forums (previously it showed all forums, but only allowed posting in authorised).

@smileyriley21 – love, wealth and happiness should now abound ! 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

It is not a bug, we removed the default behaviour to have both editors enabled by default in 2.3.1, switching between editor types would more often than not change the content of the users topics or replies.

Now that TinyMCE v4 has shipped with WordPress v3.9.x once we have a few more architectural fixes in bbPress we can take another look, it is far from a small bug, quite complex to be honest.

[Mycelus]

Hey guys. So Ive been wondering this for a long time, and I just dont understand. Why is bbPress’ editor so bad? Everything uses lame tags and is very primitive. WordPress already has color and bold and italic and linking and everything integrated, so why doesn’t bbPress add this?

No one can actually tell me that bbPress is meant to be this way? Is there something stopping the devs from just importing the full editor over…?

Very curious…

[demonboy]

The image is coming from your images folder, /images/header_bg.png. If this is a wordpress install then it will be something like http://saveourgrace.com/wp-content/theme/advantage/images/header_bg.png. Once you have identified this you could either swap it with another image called bg.png that’s just white, or you could delve into the CSS (is there an option to add your own custom CSS in your theme?) and hide the background with .background img {visibility:hidden;}.

Chrome Inspector or Firefox Firebug are useful tools, if you’re that way inclined. They will help identify elements in the page and where images are coming from.

[NewSha]

I want the users to get email alerts every time their forum role changes to a specific role.

Namely, I have to notify them only if their role has changed from Spectator to Participant.

I found a way to do this with standard WordPress roles, but it doesn’t work with bbPress roles.

http://clicknathan.com/web-design/notify-a-wordpress-user-when-their-role-has-been-changed-to-a-specific-role/

I tried changing if ($new_role == 'contributor') to if ($new_role == 'participant') and even to this if ($new_role == 'bbp_participant') – nothing worked.

Perhaps someone knows the solution?

WordPress version: 3.8.2
bbPress version: 2.5.3

[lagrou]

I forgot to mention that while “repairing missong information”, I got the following error message several times, not sure where it comes from:
WordPress database error: [Table ‘xxx.wp_bp_groups_groupmeta’ doesn’t exist]

Other than that, as of tonight the WPS > bbP converter / importer works for the following:
– WPS categories, parent / child
– topics, sticky topics
– replies
– users

Yet to be done:
– Groups forums (either drop topics, leave them as parentless, or create hidden forums as per the group name)
– user meta (forum subscriptions, favorites)
Anything else ?

[peter-hamilton]

It is possible when combining buddypress/bbpress and wordpress.

I have (after long hard work) found a workaround/hack to do that, have a look to see if this is what you meant at: http://www.cultivators-forum.com/activity

[helmutforren]

This is regarding http://saveourgrace.com/forums/

I believe I followed all the instructions properly. However, initially, my WordPress “Page” with link above was blank. I found advice at http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-forum-blank-pages/ that it may be a theme issue, so I simply added the short code [bbp-forum-index].

This got the page working as you can see it now. It properly shows the “Fundraising” forum. However, the number of topics is listed as 0, and when I click on the forum name, I get the otherwise blank page at http://saveourgrace.com/forums/forum/fundraising/ .

I did add a topic per the instructions, and confirmed on the topics list page that my topic belongs to the fundraising forum.

I am using the theme “Academica” version 1.2.2. I changed to “Twenty Thirteen” temporarily, and things seemed much better. I could see and get into the topic. If I figure out how to make the topic show with “Academica”, am I nevertheless going to find myself fighting an endless battle with this theme? Or should one more fix take care of it? (Of course, if it is just one more fix, what might that fix be?)

Note I’m using WordPress 3.9.1.

Thanks very much,
Helmut