[Robin W]

Strangely this is quite difficult to achieve, as the url for a user profile edit is

http://mysite.com/forums/users/username/edit/

where the username is the actual username of the person logged in.

so you can’t add it as a menu item as far as I can work out.

2 solutions to this :

Solution 1 – the harder way !
One solution and the one I use is adding this as a line in the login widget, so that it appears under the “account” in your sidebar

I use the (bbpress) Login widget for the sidebar. This widget is set up in

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/widgets.php

I added this line after line 145

line 145 reads
<?php bbp_logout_link(); ?>

and I add a new line 146 saying

<p><a href="<?php bbp_user_profile_url( bbp_get_current_user_id() ); ?>edit" >Amend Profile/Change password</a></p>
This then comes up when someone is logged in

Of course you’ll need to make a note of this change, as it is lost whenever you upgrade bbpress versions

the advantage (and why I use it ) is it then only gives this line when someone is logged in

Solution 2 – the easier way

If you’re not keen to change code, the download the enhanced text widget

https://wordpress.org/plugins/enhanced-text-widget/

Then in your sidebar add the enhanced text widget, and put this code in content, check the “don’t display header” and click save

<p><a href="<?php bbp_user_profile_url( bbp_get_current_user_id() ); ?>edit" >Amend Profile/Change password</a></p>

Much easier to do, but displays whether someone is logged on or not.

[connielk]

The forum import page automatically puts in the wordpress admin username and password. When I ran it with that, it says there was nothing to import. So I tried it again using my cpanel login which should be a sql login and now it’s got a growing line of dashes across the screen. It’s been running for over 30 minutes and there are less than 200 posts, so I’m not sure what it’s doing. Is there anything I can check to see what it’s doing? If anything?

Hard to tell if it connected or not. Would be nice if it would tell that it is beginning a connection, then when it connects, or that it has failed to connect.

I’ll let it run for a while and report back the results.

[FreeWPress]

Exist a plugin, is called GD BBpress attachments is work fine..

[Denver Prophit Jr.]

@LabSecrets I like your video help format. Did you create or purchase the video intros? I started out creating buddypress group forums and I now want to change those to sitewide. I don’t see any way that I can do that in WP Admin.

[connielk]

I had a sneaking suspicion.

So…

I converted my microsoft sql databases to mysql by exporting from mssql into csv and then importing into a new database on my wordpress hosting with phpMyAdmin. Then I modified the sample you pointed to above as “basis of what ended up being used” to match my table structures. Then I tried the import. It doesn’t error, but it says there are no forums to import, no topics to import, etc.

What’s the next step to see why it’s not importing anything? Could it be a connection issue?

[Unit9]

Wordpress: 3.7.1
Buddypress: 1.8.1
BBPress: 2.4.1

Hi guys,

I realised I posted this in the wrong forum so I’m adding it here. 🙂

Is there any way for me to adjust the current BBPress and get back profile activity posting, so whenever someone posts in the forum, it shows on their BuddyPress profile activity feed?

This works in previous versions of BBPress but is broken in the current version.

Thanks!

[Marcosbcn]

Hello

I installed bbpress but the forum comes close by the presence of the sidebar, how can eliminate the sidebar to the full width of the page is for the forum?

http://www.adelgazarrapidoweb.com/forums/forum/foro-para-adelgazar/

wordpress 3.7.0
bgpress 2.4.1

Regards

Mark

[Rogelio]

Hi,

I managed to create a TinyMCE plugin and add it to wordpress editor (which is the same as bbpress).

So far so good.

Using

$ args ['teeny'] = false;

config, my tinymce plugin’s button show normal.

But, I need to be displayed in the default editor for bbpress, in teeny editor.

Any ideas?

Thanks a lot.

[Schaum]

I have the same problem with “Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress” .
A rule in the robots.txt is very bad idea. You got a lot of errors in the WMT…

[Stephen Edgar]

@unklee Thnaks for your feedback, all great ideas and it is just really a time issue, our 9-5 day jobs get in the way of spending more time with bbPress 😉

Anyone with a WordPress/bbPress/BuddyPress username & password can edit and update the codex so we may not mention this fact as often as we should and are extremely grateful when new contributions occur.

Just go to https://codex.bbpress.org/ and click ‘login’ and have at it 🙂

[unklee]

Guys, I have been a WordPress user for a couple of years, but just beginning to work out bbpress. It looks great (thanks!) but I’m finding a few difficulties working out a few things.

I want to suggest that you enlarge the Codex slightly to assist new users, with a section titled something like “Some common issues”. It could include your recommendations and suggestions on the following:

Getting sidebars the way you want them:
Outline the various common problems and the recommended approaches/plugins to solving them (there are many threads on this, not all resolved):

• remove all sidebars
• Get the same sidebars as your blog
• Different sidebar to blog

Styling
Do we need a special CSS or can we use the CSS from the blog?

Features of most forums
Most forums have features that it is sometimes hard for newbies to find the right way to get them, so giving us some good advice would really help:

• List of forums in sidebar
• List of recent posts in sidebar
• Login/register box
• HTML/BBCode buttons – is a separate plugin useful?
• Admin & moderation

I know you probably don’t want to favour some plugins over others, but giving us your best advice, and maybe listing a couple of alternatives, would be very helpful.

Thanks.

[baylock]

Hi there,

In order to get the login form, I added it as a shortcode into my forum page via WP admin.
So far so good but the login form only shows up on the main forums page. If I openn the topics or replies views, the login form is not there anymore.
Am I missing something? Are the topics list and replies list not supposed to use the same wordpress page as the forums list?

What can I do to get a persistent login form, whatever the forum’s page if the user is not connected yet?

Thanks.

[tajenli]

I installed bbPress on Customizr theme. It’s supposed to show a list of forums in a table view. But all forum title becomes plain (no link) & stacks up like no format.
http://tajenli.org/wp01/forums/
Other forum page works just fine:
http://tajenli.org/wp01/forums/forum/web-developers/
I am not sure this is bbPress issue, or the theme issue. But I have tried it on other themes, like 2013, 2012, and elegant themes, all works just fine.

Could you help? If I can’t solve this issue, which means I have to change the theme. That won’t make my life easy.

Thanks,
Darren

[CezKrol]

Hi there,

I want to open my website for discussions other than just about our articles. Therefore, I would like to allow unregistered users to create topics and write replies without the need to register (that’s already done). To encourage posting, I want the avatars and names to link (no-follow) to their own blogs. I’ve spent 5 hours trying to do this. I’d be very grateful if someone could help.

Thanks,
Cez

Link to forum: http://etramping.com/forum
Wordpress version: 3.7
BBpress version: 2.4.1

[Stephen Edgar]

Onto the ‘other’ bits of your last post.

For the most part the standard /wp-admin/users.php user admin dashboard panel is ‘enough’ to get day to day tasks done for ‘most’ situations as it does have search (top right) to make this usable.

The delete users wp-admin/users.php?action=delete&user=123 is all WordPress and bbPress does not alter this behaviour though as you state it would be nice if this could be improved for sites with large user bases. To resolve this we will have to wait until WordPress implements some changes here.

None of the bbPress widgets do this Widgets – the list of users is loaded under one or more widgets

So yes, these things are not just under consideration they are actively thought about constantly and we have tried to keep from implementing this pain in bbPress, but for now until we can get some changes upstream in WordPress core some of this pain will remain.

As I mentioned above on the ‘clobber-spam-users’ plugin I mentioned this plugin as it is not very complex and could be modified to ‘help’ with your cleaning up of 17,000 users topics & replies.

[Stephen Edgar]

Stephen, I don’t think I ever said I had a handful of users. The actual number is over 17,000

This snippet from your original post was the only context I was referring to for the ‘handful’ term so that even though the experience is painful it will get THIS part of your job done as long as you are not trying to do this for 17,000 users.

A way to delete users an reattribute their posts/topics/replies to another user (mainly for a handful of folks who already had accounts on the WordPress side before migrating vBulletin over)

[Nova]

Hello

A forum without inline attachments to display image etc. is not really a forum and can’t really be used (nobody wants to go to imageshack etc. to upload images, they do it just because they are forced). I saw people asking for that since almost 5 years (each time i type “inline image bbpress” on google it returns messages from 4-5 years of people asking this feature and wondering why it”s not included).
Even classifieds from WPMUdev, which is a wordpress plugin allow to uplad images within classifieds, so why not bbpress? And the better is that they allow this through access to wordpress media library via FRONT END ACCESS (which is great because nobody wants his users to have access to wp-admin backend. and that what you upload, even if it’s on the wordpress media library can’t be seen by others memebrs, so nobody can “still” image”.

So will you finally include the front-end upload of inline images into bbpress? And if yes, when can we be excepted it? Any time soon?

Thanks

[baylock]

There are two ways for achieving what you need and it took me quite a long time to figure it out too:

1) You create a child theme just like you did but what I didn’t know is that, after doing it (not forgetting to declare the parent template and the “@import” path accordingly in the css file located inside your child theme folder), you NEED to activate the child theme in your theme section of your WordPress admin. This last part is the one I didn’t know about, which is why it didn’t work at first.

2) the easier and a little more messier technique is straight forward:
Just write your custom BBpress css styles at the end of your main theme css file. It’ll work.
And if you need to change the bbpress template files, just copy the needed files inside your main WordPress theme folder and make the changes there. These files will overwrite the default ones that are in the original bbpress template folder. As simple as that

Both will work and will not be a problem in case of a WordPress or BBpres update.
The first technique is to be preferred because you will gather your BBpress children files within a same recognizable folder when the second technique will blend the BBpress children files among the ones of your main theme. Not to mention that if you decide later to switch the WordPress theme, you will have to extract the bbpress children files and styles from the previous WordPress theme to put them in the the new one.
But ultimately, the result will be the same.

Hope it helped.

[RealitiesCrossed]

I’ve got the bbPress post toolbar plugin installed to bbPress on my WordPress site, which is a private roleplay site for myself and a couple of friends…but two out of the current three of us are feeling a bit OCD about the arrangement of the smilies.

We have emotes I have created and/or some I have gotten permission to use that represent each character we play with, a full range of emotions, hug emotes etc. for each character, which right now is probably 60 odd smilies, all characters combined.

I have worked out how to arrange the names of the smilies in the package-config file to keep the characters relatively organized, but I’ve tried adding line breaks between each of the character sets and all that does is break the entire website down until I remove them, I can’t seem to edit package-config outside adding new smilie codes without crashing the site…but what I would love to know is this:

Is there a way that I can insert line breaks or separate the smilies into tabs somehow by character rather than having them all smushed into one big group?

edit: WordPress 3.6 and bbPress 2.3.2 are running on my site, I haven’t gotten around to the WP update and refused to upgrade bbPress because a plugin I was using was incompatible with the new version and I didn’t wish to break it.

[Jeff Hester]

Stephen, I don’t think I ever said I had a handful of users. The actual number is over 17,000.

There are several pages in the WordPress admin where a pick list with ALL users is displayed. These pages will tend to several minutes to load and allow me to use them. I mention this because for bbPress to be useful for a volume of users (> 10000) there needs to be some adjustment to the way the user lists are created.

Here are two problem pages:

• Delete Users – the list appears under “Attribute all posts to”
• Widgets – the list of users is loaded under one or more widgets

For the same reason that /wp-admin/users.php only displays 20 users per page, these lists should do something similar. Or rather than a list, use a search.

I figure this isn’t something quickly or easily fixed, but suggest that it be considered in the future. And certainly bbpress.org has the same issue… how do you/they deal with it?

[koendb]

Hey.

If you haven’t created a child theme, start with doing that.

Create the file bbpress.php in your child theme.
Copy the content of your page.php file into this new file.
Remove the line

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

You’ve removed the sidebar 🙂

Now you only need to change / add some classes / ID’s and adjust your CSS file to give the forum a 100% width.

Keep me updated 🙂

[atunio]

hey you i am using bbpress forum 3.4.1 i am using wordpress 3.6 i have install and follow all step final the when all open form page all forum display on my page but when i click any form title there is this error “Fatal error: Class ‘WP_Post’ not found in /home/rm1969/public_html/silverandbluereport.com/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/core/theme-compat.php on line 375″

please help me

[atunio]

where are you all i have problem please help me i am using bbpress 2.4.1 i am using wordpress 3.6 i have install and follow all step final the when all open form page all forum display on my page but when i click any form title there is this error “Fatal error: Class ‘WP_Post’ not found in /home/rm1969/public_html/silverandbluereport.com/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/core/theme-compat.php on line 375″

[atunio]

i have bbpress forum i am using wordpress 3.6 i have install and follow all step final the when all open form page all forum display on my page but when i click any form title there is this error “Fatal error: Class ‘WP_Post’ not found in /home/rm1969/public_html/silverandbluereport.com/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/core/theme-compat.php on line 375”

i am waiting for answer

[tansu]

Hello,
I am very new to bbpress.
I have successfully convert my 54000 user vbulletin forum in to bbpress. Also converted more than 1 gigabyte contents database without issues. There were some problematic turkish characters but i solved that issue too.
But, i am sure it was a very well written document about how to modify and adding new themes to bbpress, I understand completely nothing from them. I also read forum topics about the issue, but most of them pointing the links where the docs are.
I also tried copying folders and files in to wordpress themes directory or my theme’s directory, nothing is happening. Most probably i did not understand anything from the docs here:
http://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/
Can someone please explain to me what to do like explaining to an idiot.Assume my wordpress theme’s name is “wptheme” and please direct me into it by real examples like: Put your wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/bbpress folder to wp-content/themes/wordpresstheme folder. or whatever is true 🙂
Best regards