1. The legend of bbp-form gives no indication of the difference between a reply to topic versus a reply to a reply. I have to look at the URL displayed by the browser to tell the difference.
Will take care of this in the ticket you created 🙂
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2509#comment:5
2. When I go to the link of a post given by the RSS feed, it displays starting below the post’s toolbar. Now I know there is a toolbar above the post and can scroll up to click the REPLY link, then go reply. BUT – I really, really don’t want to have to educate every one of my moderators and users about this. From some Google searching about this, it seems that having the post’s reply link above the post is a more recent feature. I don’t think it is very intuitive, especially when a post link ending in “…/#post-416″ gets me to post 416 with the toolbar for that post invisible until you scroll up to see it (if you knew to do that).
I get where you are coming from on this and this is pretty hard to implement in bbPress as we don’t know what toolbars, headers etc your theme uses and there are soooo many.
I’m far from a CSS guru but is there some CSS trick that will allow some margin padding to fix this?
3. Some of my moderators have pointed out to me examples of the “Freshness” column in the Forum index pages being just plain wrong. To be more specific, the “Freshness” entries in question say a particular category is several days old (even after an F5 browser refresh), when by going down to a topic in that category you can see that it should have been 30 minutes old.
This does happen from time to time, hopefully with the patch in #1925 this will also be resolved. https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1925
I get the same ordering issues with only some of the Topic threads.
Is there/ Have you seen anything that determines if the issue occurs?
Are the topics that work as expected before Threaded Replies were enabled for example?
I also have a particular thread where a reply to a reply does not show any thread indentation and ends up after all comments on the topic, just as if it had been a reply to topic.
Probably need to take a closer look at that entire topics topic, replies and replies to looking at the post id’s and relevant data.
The ‘Threaded Replies’ issues I am tracking in ticket #2397 if you come across anything that may help diagnose these issues further that would be great.
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2397
@netweb, I get that and that’s where the CSS files are, but when I try to change any php files that are located in the subfolder which is also names “bbpress” it simply doesn’t see them. My understanding from the WordPress documentation is that if you put the file in a child theme in the exact same heirarchal location as it is in the parent theme it should pick it up, but that’s not how it’s working.
I made a custom loop-forums.php. The structure of the default folder is that this file is inside a folder already called bbpress. When I copy over all the files form default in my parent theme to bbpress in my child theme I end up with a bbpress folder containing all of the php files inside of the bbpress folder that I created for the child them. Then upload my custom loop-fourm.php to the folder where it normally resides, it doesn’t pick up the change. When I put it at the root it does pick it up. However, changes to the CSS files in bbpress/CSS get picked up.
I’m having this same problem with other files in the child theme where I can’t figure out where to place php files to have them be recognized in the child theme, so it might be something wrong with the way the theme handles child themes, but I have no way to know this.
I can directly add the vimeo url to the topic and it seems to work. Is that the best way to do it?
This is the easiest and best way to do it as WordPress is actually controlling this rather than you having to use shortcodes.
See this for more info (and other links that work the same way) https://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds
Sweet 🙂 Will have a play later 🙂
In a similar vein there is also this from @MZAWeb https://github.com/MZAWeb/bbpFauxData
I have a set of sample data that I use for all the different forum importing tests I have done and should really package it up as a WXR file, similar to the WordPress Theme Tests Data as it includes virtually every type of bbPress forum, topic, topic tag, reply and reply to options available.
The subscribe to email notifications was a bug, it is now fixed in bbPress 2.5.3
I installed that plugin, pulled up a user who was a Participant, and changed “View hidden forums” from “Default” (which was set to “Denied”) to “Allowed.”
And then boom, the Participant account could then view the forums.
Here’s the odd part though: we have 3 forums and they are all set to Private, not Hidden. So changing this setting shouldn’t have made any difference. Private forums are visible to Participants by default.
…
I realized that one of two things were off: either the participants were NOT allowed to view private forums, or else the forums were NOT private. Had to be one or the other.
The repair tool “Recalculate private and hidden forums” has a bug in it 🙁
When that repair tool is run private and hidden forum are assigned both _bbp_private_forums and _bbp_hidden_forums statuses so this is why a user with the Participant role could not read a private forum as after that tool had been run it was also been given the hidden status also.
The workaround for this is to do exactly what you did by “changing each forum from Private to Public back to Private” as this doesn’t touch the broken repair tool and sets the visibility status correctly.
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2512
Thanks for your patience here @martyn-chamberlin and your detailed info helped a great deal finding said bug, just need to write a patch for it now. 😉
Firstly looking at https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_in_Your_Language#Finnish_-_Suomi_.28fi.29 and https://i18n.svn.wordpress.org/fi/trunk/dist/wp-config-sample.php
You should be using define ('WPLANG', 'fi'); for WordPress
You should be using bbpress-fi.po and bbpress-fi.mo for the bbPress filenames.
Now the Finish translations they are only at 77% translated, 814 translated, 234 untranslated & 48 waiting approval.
You can add the missing translations using your WordPress.org user/pass via https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/dev/fi/default
Then I’d suggest contacting the Finish translation team via https://fi.wordpress.org/contact/
There also might be some related translation discussion at https://fi.forums.wordpress.org/
Let me know if there is anything else I can help out with 🙂
Hey all!
I have recently been developing with bbPress and created myself a plugin for inserting test data into a local WordPress install. Be careful when using this plugin as it does a lot of writing to the database and runs the bbPress repair tools too.
- Adds a forum with nested forums
- Adds a forum with loads of topics
- Adds a topic with loads of replies
http://www.epicwebs.co.uk/bbpress-tutorials/test-data-for-bbpress-plugin/
I hope it helps someone, good luck!
Discuss bbPress 2.5.3 here!
Check the milestone for a list of fixes: http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/milestone/2.5.3
Hello!
I have the newest version of WordPress and bbpress.
My users with participant role can’t see the widgets for newest post, etc. Mods can. The forums are private.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance.
regards.
bbPress version: 2.5.2
WPtouch version: 3.1.5 (all of its official themes available see the same situation below)
WordPress version: 3.8
bbPress topic contents are not displayed on the mobile phone with only topic title seen on the topic detail page.
So is in all of the older versions of them above.
Could you help me out?
Thanks.
Tom
MTParticipant
Trying to put forums on a page with full-width-page template–no right sidebar. Reading other Topics here with similar problem, I followed the remedy posted, i.e., I created two php files labeled bbpress.php and buddypress.php with a copy of the full-width-page code in them in my file manager under my theme. Created page for forums and checked the full-width-page.
The page loaded only in default page template, though sidebar widgets not visible. I deactivated bbpress, reactivated, repeated everything, now shows in the default template only but this time widgets showing.
WordPress 3.8 running Twenty Fourteen theme. bbPress 2.5.2. http://mtmcclanahan.com/thepainterstongue/.
Thanks
I have the latest version of wordpress installed on my site. I followed the instructions to install bbPress, then clicking to activate it. But after I do, it just tells me that the plugin has been activated successfully on the top of the page, then shows the normal lists of all plugins on my site. There’s no “Welcome Page”
Additionally, there is no “Forums” option on the left sidebar. Basically, it looks like nothing happened. I uninstalled and tried again, twice. Still no difference.
Is there something I’m missing?
Thanks!
Kay Hagen, a contributor on the WordPress Core, developed this Post by Email Plugin that could be extended, probably extremely easily, to support Custom Post Types. Which it could then be adopted into BBPress to create a support ticket or help desk scenario.
Yeah, I’m currently using the Yoo Corona theme. It uses the WARP framework which is something I’ve never worked with before, It doesn’t have a traditional layout so I cant map many of the pages to what people have mentioned in other posts (page.php) etc
Everything on the forums work except delete and edit posts, when I change to the wordpress default theme they work without a problem, I just cant seem to find where in the Corona theme the problem would be located
Two questions:
1. Does anyone know of a way (like a Plugin) to extend BBPress so that users can post by email? For example, a customer emails support@ourdomain.com and it’s forwarded to BBPress and a post is created. We receive an email notification about their post and reply to that notification via email as well. It also posts to the forums and sends a similar notification back to the customer to which they can respond via email as well. Ultimately they’ll never really have to interface with the forums if they don’t want to.
2. We have customers mention and message us on social media outlets but are tired of having to log into that system to respond. We’d like to respond from within WordPress and it seems like having them become BBPress Posts would make sense since they’re usually support requests anyway.
Thanks!
Hi Stephen,
I’m having similar issues to @aje_1985, however my theme does not have a page.php file. Is there any other way to get the index page to show?
My forum index should be showing at: http://rad.mosaicearth.com/gatherings/
I’m using a minimal child theme, whose parent theme is the default theme from pagelines.com. Their templating system is a little different than traditional wordpress themes, and hence there is no page.php.
Just to try, I duplicated page.php from the twentyfourteen WP theme, and renamed to bbPress.php and put directly into my child theme folder. (Is this the right place to put it?) The result was my forum index page became white, and nothing showed.
Next I tried copying the whole bbpress templates folder to my child theme and again no luck. I’d really appreciate any advise here, as I’m reaching a dead end for what to try.
Thank you.
I have WordPress 3.8 installed with the bbPress 2.5.2. The WP is in Finnish so it’s important that the forums are in Finnish as well, so I attempted to add the translation file as told here.
http://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-in-your-language/
I took the latest dev branch Finnish translation, downloaded the .po and .mo files, renamed them to bbpress-pt_FI, even attempted bbpress-fi_FI, uploaded to /wp-content/languages/bbpress/ but no results. The forums are still in English.
I also checked that the language is set to fi in the wp-config.
Why is the translation not working?
Here is my setup info:
Wordpress: 3.8
bbPress: 2.5.2
OS is Linux, Fedora 11
PHP is 5.2.13
Apache is 2.2.15
Theme is a copy of TwentyFourteen with light modifications to margins, colors, fonts and font sizes only. No php mods at all.
bbPress Plugins are “bbPress Admin Bar”, “bbPress Notify (no spam)”, “Global Hide/Remove Admin Bar Plugin”
Wordpress plugins are “bbPress”, “Bad Behavior”, “Akismet” and “Mailchimp”.
I get the same ordering issues with only some of the Topic threads.
I also have a particular thread where a reply to a reply does not show any thread indentation and ends up after all comments on the topic, just as if it had been a reply to topic.
Finally, at least in the TwentyFourteen theme I have some complaints:
1. The legend of bbp-form gives no indication of the difference between a reply to topic versus a reply to a reply. I have to look at the URL displayed by the browser to tell the difference.
2. When I go to the link of a post given by the RSS feed, it displays starting below the post’s toolbar. Now I know there is a toolbar above the post and can scroll up to click the REPLY link, then go reply. BUT – I really, really don’t want to have to educate every one of my moderators and users about this. From some Google searching about this, it seems that having the post’s reply link above the post is a more recent feature. I don’t think it is very intuitive, especially when a post link ending in “…/#post-416” gets me to post 416 with the toolbar for that post invisible until you scroll up to see it (if you knew to do that).
3. Some of my moderators have pointed out to me examples of the “Freshness” column in the Forum index pages being just plain wrong. To be more specific, the “Freshness” entries in question say a particular category is several days old (even after an F5 browser refresh), when by going down to a topic in that category you can see that it should have been 30 minutes old.
hello all,
I have searched the forums here and not found a solution yet, so sorry if I have missed it.
I recently installed bbPress to my site and all seemed fine. I have not done anything that I can think of this evening but the dashboard options have all disappeared. I think this could be user settings issue but the forum repair tool in the Tools panel has disappeared too so I am unable to repair the user settings. anyone got any ideas how I can reset the admin access?
I have checked that I am set as Keymaster and have also noticed that the forum settings when editing profiles has also disappeared
Wordpress 3.8 and bbPress 2.5.2
Thanks in advanced for any help.
Matt
Happy New Year all!
Just noticed a slight bug I think with the way that BBPress deals with @mentions since this TRAC ticket for the way BP handles usernames with spaces in.
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/7570
So basically a new username can now HAVE spaces in it.
When we use that username with spaces in BBPress it isn’t happy and wont work, unless it’s hyphenated.
Let me know if you’d like me to make a TRAC ticket for it.
🙂
I just tried with a default theme but it does not work either.
My plugin enable are :
bbPress
bbPress Enable TinyMCE Visual Tab
Light – Responsive LightBox
NextGEN Gallery by Photocrati
Regenerate Thumbnails
Relevanssi
Responsive Lightbox
Sidebar Login
Theme My Login
TinyMCE Advanced
User Role Editor
WP-PageNavi
WP Minify
WP Wall
You can test on http://www.lsa-clan.fr/wordpress/forums (register is open)
I’d suggest taking a look at the bbPress Repair Tool to remap users forums role as it shows pretty much what you are trying to achieve using bbp_set_user_role
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/includes/admin/tools.php#L771
That’s possible but most of that is not my expertise and a little beyond my skillset. 😉
I’d probably suggest you do some debugging, grab the following plugin as it will add a few other debug plugins, in particular ‘debug bar’ and you will be able to view the SQL queries being made to MySQL that might help track what actions are causing a post revision to be added.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/developer/
Jillianne, glad you found the issue, it might be worthwhile adding a post to the support section on CodeCanyon here http://codecanyon.net/item/pages-by-user-role-for-wordpress/136020/comments
p.s. I moved your topic is it was a different issue 🙂
