[leopolds]

Hi,

I am using the latest WordPress (Twenty Fourteen theme) and bbPress.

There is a problem with my forums root page. Besides the regular forum listing section, all forums are also listed like posts below the regular section.

How can I fix it? Thanks

[Robin W]

please be patient, all the responders on here are volunteers and are not dedicated to this site.

It doesn’t go in your theme or child theme folder.

You should upload the bbpress plugin, which will then place the bbpress files in your wp-content/plugins folder. Whiolst you can do that yourself, let wordpress and the plugin do their work

so Dashboard>plugins>add new plugin and search for bbpress, then load it and activate

Do the same with buddypress

on your 2 questions

1. yes there are plugins that allow an upload – for instance https://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-bbpress-attachments/
2. Just disable that part dashboard>settings>forums> look for forum root slug, and you’ll see a tick box to disable it.

[dice2dice]

Hi folks,

The forums on my site don’t stand out. They typeface, borders and just general appearance is dull, it’s not bold enough.

Is there perhaps a plugin that would smarten up the appearance of forums?

I can’t find one or another solution.

My forums are here: http://www.whichinvestmenttrust.com/better-investor-forums

I’m using the latest version of everything WordPress/BBPress/Buddypress.

Thanks

[batmanfan]

I’ve been looking for a plugin to force strong password for all new user registration and tried a few but no luck. Found one that comes very close but too strong 🙁 http://wordpress.org/plugins/login-security-solution/
Can anyone recommend one? that is flexible and strong enough.

[Matthew Rowland]

Hey guys, I’ve just submitted a plugin to the WordPress repository that should cover the basic functionality you’re after. Here’s the description:

== Description ==

bbPress Go To First Unread Post is a literally named plugin that allows registered users to jump to the first Reply in a Topic that they haven’t viewed yet. This gives your bbPress forum the simple and expected functionality of non-WordPress counterparts like phpBB, without a lot of coding.

First, you activate the plugin on a blog that already has the bbPress plugin enabled. This is all you need to do to activate the basic functionality of the plugin, which includes:

* Automatic tracking of last reply viewed, per topic per user.
* Link next to the title of a topic if the user has unread posts (between the title and pagination)

The plugin also includes two template tags for extra functionality:

* Mark Topics as Read link
* Mark Forum as Read link

I’ll post again here with a link when it’s been approved!

http://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-go-to-first-unread-post/

[Matthew Rowland]

Hey guys, I’ve just submitted a plugin to the WordPress repository that should cover the basic functionality you’re after. Here’s the description:

== Description ==

bbPress Go To First Unread Post is a literally named plugin that allows registered users to jump to the first Reply in a Topic that they haven’t viewed yet. This gives your bbPress forum the simple and expected functionality of non-WordPress counterparts like phpBB, without a lot of coding.

First, you activate the plugin on a blog that already has the bbPress plugin enabled. This is all you need to do to activate the basic functionality of the plugin, which includes:

* Automatic tracking of last reply viewed, per topic per user.
* Link next to the title of a topic if the user has unread posts (between the title and pagination)

The plugin also includes two template tags for extra functionality:

* Mark Topics as Read link
* Mark Forum as Read link

I’ll post again here with a link when it’s been approved!

[Sascha.H]

Hey guys i have a little problem. Actually i installed wordpress on my server and created a standard clean theme. Here is the Screen:

Than i created a child theme connected it with my parent theme via the style.css

And now i thought i have to put the bbpress folder into my child theme. Is this correct? The question is just which folders? Just copy all from default in my child theme or just the content of bbpress?

The same problem with buddypress i want to put it in my child theme but i dont know what. All folders copy paste? Or just the content of my bp_template or maybe bp_theme folder?

PS: I tried a bit on my local server at the plugin folder and want would change 2 things at my bbpress forum. 1) Is there a solution that i can upload images when using the editor? I think its very uncomfortable to put a link from another server in the editor. I want to handle it like facebook just upload it on my server and its in the post. 2) How can i delete the /forums in my url? i want my url like http://www.myurl./forumname but actually its http://www.myurl.de/forums/forumname.

Hope you can help me i want to start with this awesome plugin but 🙂

[Robin W]

Try

rewrite rules
This could be an issue with your rewrite rules. To fix this try resetting your permalinks. In your WordPress Administration Screens navigate to Settings > Permalinks, select a different permalink structure and save. Then select your preferred permalink structure and save again.

and if that doesn’t work try

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[Stephen Edgar]

WP just updated to 3.8.3 (without my input…) so would that have some version of tinyMCE in it?

No, it is the same TinyMCE version that shipped with WordPress 3.8, the new TinyMCE v4 is included in WordPress 3.9 and should be available within the next 24 hours.

This topic can indeed stay open and if you could post an update after you have updated to WordPress 3.9 that would be helpful.

[Halo Diehard]

There are so many cool options right now! Besides private messages, like the plugin listed above, there is a chat at the bottom bar that users can chat with but it’s also one on one privately, it is iFly.

Also, the plugin Quick Chat can be integrated into bbPress in two different ways:

1. This chat plugin can be put into different WordPress pages with shortcodes, so you can put it on any pages at the top or bottom of your forums that are on WordPress pages using shortcode, or in any sidebar widget.

2. You can also use a different chat on each WordPress page using shortcode, so coupled with the plugins BuddyPress and BuddyPress Groups Extras (which adds extra pages to BuddyPress Groups) you can give each of your bbPress forum groups their own private chat!

[Halo Diehard]

If you name your forum root slug (in forum settings) the same as your WordPress shortcode page slug (in that page’s settings), doesn’t that sort out the url problem @robmcclel speaks of above?

[Halo Diehard]

Thanks so much, @netweb! So I can create a file called “editor-style.css”, and put it in my theme. Does it go in the root?

And I’m a little confused: doesn’t bbPress have it’s own editor that’s separate from WordPress? I have an awesome editor for WordPress, but it doesn’t show up for bbPress.

Edit: PS, I did not get an email that there was a reply on this, and it’s definitely checked…

[bustel]

I have updated my wordpress to the newer version, wordpress version: 3.8.3, bbpress version: 2.5.3.

I have a problem with “edit” on the front-end, if i want to edit a post then the page says: “The page you requested could not be found.”….

What can be done to prevent this problem? or to fix the problem?

the permalinks on my website are: /%postname%/%category%/

the url to edit the post is: http://…../…./…./…./post01/edit/

thanks for the answer.

[kiwi3685]

Thanks Stephen, a useful link. I have now installed https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-auto-subscribe-for-new-topics-and-replies/ which does what I need.

But still my personal preference is for a single configurable tool (bbPress in this case) rather than a proliferation of different plugins.

In particular I am always uncomfortable using plugins that have no reviews. In this case I took a chance as I have seen other work by it’s author. I have now added a review for him, so at least there is no one!

[Robin W]

try the following

rewrite rules
This could be an issue with your rewrite rules. To fix this try resetting your permalinks. In your WordPress Administration Screens navigate to Settings > Permalinks, select a different permalink structure and save. Then select your preferred permalink structure and save again.

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

come back and let us know if any of the above fixes

[Stephen Edgar]

There was a change to handle reply slug titles in bbPress 2.5

http://elitegamingcomputers.com/reply/operation-auctus-10/

http://elitegamingcomputers.com/reply/12078/

http://elitegamingcomputers.com/reply/operation-auctus-12/

http://elitegamingcomputers.com/reply/12095/

The above is what the updated slugs should be though as those replies were created before the 2.5 update they a) don’t work though that is what format your new slugs would use.

Looking at a recent topic http://elitegamingcomputers.com/topic/hello-everyone-3/ your reply to that topic is and works fine: http://elitegamingcomputers.com/reply/17556/

Thus this will only affect your pre bbPress 2.5 replies and there are probably a couple of options available if you wanted to retrospectively apply this to your pre 2.5 replies either with a custom PHP repair tool or directly in phpMyAdmin to grab each reply and copy it’s post ID to the post_name field in the wp_posts table.

EDIT: If you want to see the code and ticket background on this change see this and this

[Stephen Edgar]

Cool, glad your up and running, it also looks like you haven’t run the repair tools to update the counts. Go to the WordPress Dashboard -> Tools -> Forums and run each of those to update the counts.

[Stephen Edgar]

I think this is what you are after https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-private-replies/

[John James Jacoby]

Our navigation is custom built into the header template.

[batmanfan]

Spending a lot of time with different setting on role – keymaster and moderator. no success 🙁 What I wanted was, to have another keymaster person to manage the forum but doesn’t want this person to have access to the wordpress back-end or plugin etc but only can add/edit/delete forum/topic and replies. Though I have set WP: ‘no role for this site’ and forum role: keymaster, but this person can see forum/topic and replies fine. But this role also see forum tools – which he/she can ‘repair/import and reset forum’ and “Forums Settings”.
How to disable the ‘Forum Tools’ and ‘Forums Settings’? Thanks

[Stephen Edgar]

This is not a bbPress issue, bbPress only uses the standard WordPress avatars.

Check out the FAQ and/or support forum for the plugin you are using that let’s users upload their own avatar.

[Stephen Edgar]

The WordPress language pack for zh_CH includes the following code:
https://i18n.trac.wordpress.org/browser/zh_CN/tags/3.8.1/dist/wp-content/languages/zh_CN.php#L84

83	/**
84	 * Youku wp_embed handler
85	 *
86	 * Embed code last updated:
87	 *  Wed, 06 Jun 2012 00:36:11 -0400
88	 *
89	 * Feel free to submit or correct URL formats here:
90	 *  https://cn.wordpress.org/contact/
91	 *
92	 * @since 3.4.0
93	 */
94	function wp_embed_handler_youku( $matches, $attr, $url, $rawattr ) {
95	        $embed = sprintf(
96	                '<embed src="http://player.youku.com/player.php/sid/%1$s/v.swf" allowFullScreen="true" quality="high" width="480" height="400" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed>',
97	                esc_attr( $matches['video_id'] ) );
98	
99	        return apply_filters( 'embed_youku', $embed, $matches, $attr, $url, $rawattr );
100	}
101	wp_embed_register_handler( 'youku',
102	        '#https?://v\.youku\.com/v_show/id_(?<video_id>[a-z0-9_=\-]+)#i',
103	        'wp_embed_handler_youku' );

So as you should be able to have this in WordPress posts and pages etc that ‘should’ flow on down to bbPress to allow you to use youku 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

Hi 🙂

bbPress follows WordPress list here https://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds

Oh…. Look… You should be able to 🙂

Are you running WordPress with define('WPLANG', 'zh_CH'); in your wp-config.php?

[Stephen Edgar]

WordPress can only have one page titled page_name and use the slug page_name thus this then extends to bbPress.

I thought we had a bbPress ticket for this on Trac but I can’t find it right now https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org

[Stephen Edgar]

There are a few bbPress signature plugins, maybe one of these will do what you are looking for
https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=signature+bbpress