[cdonahue]

Hello, I’ve installed bbPress (v.2.5.3) to my custom WordPress website (v.3.8) and it picked up the theme perfectly. However, I can’t get the bbPress sidebar to display. It seems that even though my Forum page (which I’m calling Community) is a WP page, it behaves like something else. Here’s what I’ve done:

— Created a new template for my forum page (community.php);
— Selected that template from the community page per the WP interface;
— Created a new sidebar by registering it in functions.php;
— Moved the bbPress widgets over into my newly created sidebar;
— Called the sidebar from community.php

My community page is defaulting to the main sidebar, or page sidebar, even though I have selected a completely different template for the page. I also tried going with the default page and using bbPress Tweaks but that did not work.

I think I’m missing something about how the forum page works. Any ideas?
Here’s how the page is displaying:
innovativeapprenticeship.org/community

Regards, Cheryl

[Tearstone]

My understanding is that there is no “New Posts” functionality for BBPress. Previous support requests on WordPress.org have gone unanswered, and I do not see a plug-in that allows this. I reviewed the documentation and I’m not sure how I could construct my own view with this ability.

What I would like to know is how to craft a forum view that aggregates all the forums into one just like when you click on “Support” at the top of BBPress or Buddypress website. Whenever a new reply is posted, it puts the thread back on top. The GDBBPress tools only has the ability to sort topics when they were first created.

Recap, I would like assistance on constructing a view like the one that we normally use here on BBPress.org or Buddypress.org when clicking the “Support” button.

Thank you,
Russ Sanderlin

@Tearstone

[Shmoo]

What’s the PHP code to get this result.

[bbp-single-forum id=$forum_id] – Display a single forums topics. eg. [bbp-single-forum id=32]

I would like to include it inside a page template.

Something I really HATE about bbPress is that it’s very easy to group a bunch of forums inside another forum ( Category ) and list all those forums together at a page template by just the Parent $forum_id of all those forums and you’re done.
Just like this:

<?php if ( bbp_has_forums( array( 'post_parent' => 104 ) ) ) : ?>

Easy right, but that bbp_has_form functions doesn’t have something like this:

<?php if ( bbp_has_forums( array( 'forum_id' => 75 ) ) ) : ?>

Only show forum_id 75 out of the entire loop, or this:

<?php if ( bbp_has_forums( array( 'forum_id' => 75,88,93 ) ) ) : ?>

That doesn’t look like rocket science to me and it would give us so much more customization options.

Look at this screenshot I made.
At the top the block of 4 with the big headings, Mac … + iOS … are forum categories with a bunch a forums inside them. I gave them all their own page templates with each its own ‘post_parent’ Loop.

<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'cat-forums/mac-hardware' ); ?>

At the bottom the green row of none Apple products related are just forums ( single’s ) with no parent stuff.
It’s ridicules difficult to group them together and list them in a list or row and customize them.
You have to do something like this:

<?php bbp_forum_permalink( 98 ); ?>
<?php bbp_forum_title( 98 ); ?>
<?php bbp_forum_topic_count( 98 ); ?>
<?php bbp_forum_post_count( 98 ); ?>

That’s all needed to get the same result as at the top for just a single forum_id.

Beside all that frustration it’s even more difficult to give each single forum ( the page where you show a list of topics ) it’s own template.
You can’t customize the forums differently. Let’s say I want to give al forums at the top the Apple products relegated stuff it’s own page template and all none Apple related stuff another page template it’s simply not possible.

There should be an easy way to just add a forum_id or name after the page-template.php like WordPress does.
Maybe for starters a conditional tag inside the content-single-forum.php template that says, if forum_id’s 75,98,114 go to template X and if forum_id’s 73,120,88 go to template Z else ( if none of those ID’s ) go to template B.

This has been frustrated me for 2 years now and it’s really a game-breaker in customization of bbPress.

🙁

[talkedtv]

Thank you! The ticket has been created.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2517

[Stephen Edgar]

Done https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2516

Probably need to add some more sample topics with ‘Lorem Ipsum’ sample text and formatting next.

[Stephen Edgar]

Thanks for the report, this most likely is a bbPress issue, would you be kind enough to create a ticket on Trac for this and we’ll take a closer look. 🙂

http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org

[Anonymous User 5853594]

Not by default, but you could look for plugins which lets you manage your users.

You could use plugins to edit the capabilities of users. For instance, remove their capability to create new threads.

[Anonymous User 5853594]

Not natively, although there are ways to display members of your site/forum.

BuddyPress is a bit of overkill for just displaying a members list, but if you’ve got an active forum, you might like the addition of its many options (extended profiles, private messaging, user groups come to mind).
There are probably more plugins who could do it though, you’d have to search the plugin directory for them.

There are themes (like Twenty Fourteen) which have templates to show members on a page, you could also try that. But you’d have to find a suitable theme or extract the code you need from the theme and add it to your current one (preferably by making a child theme).

[Asynaptic]

Hi, just a quick question about this new feature that has been in the pipeline for some time:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2498

there is already a plugin that provides this functionality (http://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-post-topics/) and it is being used already on the official sites here so I’m curious why it isn’t a done deal?

thank you!

[Hamed.T]

i have a php code that help me to add any button in wordpress quicktags toolbar:

add_action( 'admin_footer-post-new.php', 'pre_add_quick_tag' );
add_action( 'admin_footer-post.php',     'pre_add_quick_tag' );
function pre_add_quick_tag() { ?>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        edButtons[edButtons.length] = new edButton( 'pre', 'pre', '<pre>', '</pre>', '' );
    </script>
}

now i want this pre button also added in bbpress (not just for admin, i want all users can use this button), any idea?

ps: i also asked this question here

[fyreus]

Hi.

I use both the current version of wordpress and bbpress and my goal is to disallow new topic creation for non-admins, but allow people to post within pre-made topics.

Will this be possible in the near future?

[axelts]

I have the same problems from October, updating WordPress and Bbpress in this months doesn’t take any difference. I did a similar solution as pointed above from “Ronthai”, I’ve disabled the “Setting->Forum->Reply Threading” check. The order come back normal but you don’t have nested reply. My solution (as some post above) was to install this small plug-in to add a Quote link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-direct-quotes/

I write down my setting for debug propose:

Wordpress: 3.8 (bug present also on 3.7)
Bbpress: 2.5.3 (bug present also on previous version)
Template: NewsPlus
Apache version 2.2.23
PHP version 5.2.17
MySQL version 5.5.34-MariaDB
Architecture x86_64
Operating system linux

[Lynqoid]

The idea with the full WordPress with bbPress integration is that you can enable/disable certain features.

Some themes already come with a breadcrumb so being able to disable the bbPress one via a tickbox in the admin section would be quite handy, same goes with disabling the sidebar via a tickbox.

I’ll take a look at your theme later see what I can see, at quick glance I’m not too sure what is happening.

[B]

After a little digging, discovered my Custom Post Type Permalinks plugin wasn’t playing nicely with bbPress.

Problem and solution (albeit temporary) documented here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bbpress-topic-links-in-forums-break

Ultimately, edited the CPTP plugin file directly (ugh) line 290-something

$parentsDirs = "";
if( !$leavename ){
	$postId = $post->ID;
	if ( !in_array($post_type, array('topic', 'forum', 'reply') ) ) {
		while ($parent = get_post($postId)->post_parent) {
			$parentsDirs = get_post($parent)->post_name."/".$parentsDirs;
			$postId = $parent;
		}
	}
}

[phatboydw]

A little background, I have about 0 knowledge of WordPress and especially BBPress. The reason I am here is I am trying to help get some basic forms working that were setup an possibly messed up by a previous admin who is currently MIA. I have figured out my way around WordPress but am at a loss as to why the posts do not display within the topics. Any help would be appreciated.

This is a link to one of the forum topics that had a few post/replies but are not visible.
http://home.outlandcraft.com/forums/topic/test/

[faithlee]

Hi all, I know that to make changes to a theme in wordpress you use a child theme to avoid losing the changes upon updating the files. I am doing this and it works fine.

My issue is doing the same for a plugin. Does anyone have any idea on how to make changes to the css files and some php files without losing the changes when I update the bbpress file?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Faith

[Lynqoid]

Hey all,

Great to hear you are working on your websites 🙂

I am slowly working on a couple of new themes for bbPress and a full WordPress theme as well. The problem with just doing a bbPress theme is that I have no control over what the sidebars class or ids are so it makes it a bit problematic to remove them.

Good luck and keep on building!

[5ngua]

I already post this topic in pollddady support forum because I don’t know who can fix this, maybe bbpress team, maybe polldaddy team…

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/polldaddy-shows-rating-on-bbpress-forum

[Stephen Edgar]

the admin icons for forums, topics and replies are missing. May you please check it? I’m using the latest wordpress.

Try clearing your browser cache/history or hard refresh

[Zoee]

Hi all, I have a members only forum on a clients site that is protected by s2Member so only level #1 members can access all /forms/forum pages. The client reported yesterday that their forum wasn’t working – all pages got to our custom 404 page.

They upgraded there website to 3.8 last week – usually we run there updates, I don’t think they checked the forum after running the update so I don’t know if the update caused the issue or not. Likewise they didn’t take a full site backup as instructed when doing updates.

When I switch off permalinks the pages work (though the forum overview /forums/ doesn’t). I’ve tried:
– resaving the permalinks (switching off, back on etc in various different combos)
– deleting the .htaccess and resaving permalinks
– uploading an old .htaccess
– reinstalling wordpress 3.8
– deactivating all other plugins
– switching to a default theme

I really don’t want to have to move them to a fresh install, the site is massive. Likewise I don’t think reverting to an older version of WordPress is really a solution.

Any more suggestions of what to try would be appreciated!!!

Thanks in advance!

[Zoee]

Hi all, I have a members only forum on a clients site that is protected by s2Member so only level #1 members can access all /forms/forum pages. The client reported yesterday that their forum wasn’t working – all pages got to our custom 404 page.

They upgraded there website to 3.8 last week – usually we run there updates, I don’t think they checked the forum after running the update so I don’t know if the update caused the issue or not. Likewise they didn’t take a full site backup as instructed when doing updates.

When I switch off permalinks the pages work (though the forum overview /forums/ doesn’t). I’ve tried:
– resaving the permalinks (switching off, back on etc in various different combos)
– deleting the .htaccess and resaving permalinks
– uploading an old .htaccess
– reinstalling wordpress 3.8
– deactivating all other plugins
– switching to a default theme

I really don’t want to have to move them to a fresh install, the site is massive. Likewise I don’t think reverting to an older version of WordPress is really a solution.

Any more suggestions of what to try would be appreciated!!!

Thanks in advance!

[Stephen Edgar]

I had a look at the data in both your previous posts and I can only find SELECT SQL statements, there are no INSERT INTO or UPDATE SQL statements that cause the creation or updates into the database so these don’t help us much, not sure what/where we should be looking for more help here.

There is the following plugin by one of the WordPress core devs @dd32 https://wordpress.org/plugins/revision-control/

I have sent him an email asking for some tips on what else we should be looking for.

[shearamariz]

the admin icons for forums, topics and replies are missing. May you please check it? I’m using the latest wordpress.

[Stephen Edgar]

Much of this is theme related, we have a ticket in Trac for some microdata additions for breadcrumbs be the actual format for forums, topics & replies doesn’t have an ‘official’ spec so there really isn’t an easy way of supporting scheme.org or microformats with bbPress at this stage.

Your best workaround is to customize your bbPress templates to fit a markup of your choice and this really comes down to how your theme is currently doing this.

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2269 “Add rich microdata markup to breadcrumbs”

[Stephen Edgar]

Thanks for the follow up.

You can backup your forums, topics and replies via the WordPress Export if you ever need to back these up 😉 http://example.com/wp-admin/export.php