[nickhepp]

Hello, I will apologize in advance if this has been covered but I see bits and pieces around these topics but the solutions are outdated or I just dont get the whole solution.

I would like to modify two things about the bbPress forum registration process:
1) I would like the user to go to a page of my choosing on successful registration, not WordPress backend login.
2) I would like the registration email to contain a link of my choosing (same as 1) instead of to the WordPress backend login.

I have seen many posts on this forum suggesting to edit certain php pages which I am comfortable with, but the details must be for old versions of bbPress b/c I cannot find the PHP pages in question. I have downloaded most of my website through FTP and tried to text search for the specific functions and cant find them either. I know I am missing something. Other things I have seen mentioned are including filters. I am really unsure of how filters are integrated into the solution (I am very new to WordPress). I think I am close to a solution, or if someone has a really nice plugin I would love that.

Here are my environment specs:
bbPress 2.4
WordPress 3.6

Thank you in advance.

[connielk]

That’s the Forum Root Slug. As set under Settings, Forums.

Forum Root Slug

Customize your Forums root. Partner with a WordPress Page and use Shortcodes for more flexibility.
Forum Root=forums
Forum Prefix=Checked Prefix all forum content with the Forum Root slug (Recommended)
Forum root should show=Forum Index

The page with the shortcode is:
redhorsecrm.com/forum

[Stephen Edgar]

Your sign in issues are WordPress & MediaWiki issues, nothing to do with bbPress, I suggest you ask on WordPress Support https://wordpress.org/support/

Your bbPress issue is not existant now as all I see is SimplePress on your site.

[Stephen Edgar]

Having a quick look you should be able to export the ‘questions’ via /wp-admin/export.php

As the plugin uses ‘Custom Post Types’ you should be able to then edit the exported XML file and find do a search and replace:

Find <wp:post_type>question</wp:post_type>

Replace <wp:post_type>topic</wp:post_type>

I had issues with the plugin on my site so I am not sure if it uses ‘question’ for the answers or uses ‘answers’ as a CPT for them, if it does use ‘answers’ then search and replace:

Find <wp:post_type>answers</wp:post_type>

Replace <wp:post_type>reply</wp:post_type>

Once you have done that then import them back into WordPress and see how they look, no doubt there will be a few issues such as topics not associated with a forum and depending on how many of these you have editing them in bbPress topic/reply panels should help you fix up any issues, if you have thousands then doing some more tweaking in the XML would be your best bet.

To get an idea of what you would need the best idea would be to export some bbPress forums, topics & replies and have a look at the XML and this should help you work out what values you need to use for search and replace.

[handhugs]

My simple avatar plugin works really well with BBPress, except for the ability to delete the avatar from the bbpress profile editing page. When you click that button, the avatar does not get deleted. It still works from the wordpress admin Edit User page, but not on the site’s front end. Any ideas on this?

[josefelix]

Hey @fskrdla, can you please help me? I’m having the exact same issue, I’m in no way a programmer but I get around. I tried installing both Bbpress (2.4) and Buddypress (1.8) on WordPress (3.7) and I can’t for the life of me to get them to work. I updated the settings on my server to PHP 5.3, but I can’t seem to activate both BB and Buddy at the same time, I get a memory allocation error.

Do you have any tips on how to solve this? Thanks so much either way!

[VegasKev88]

This issue is not resolved on my installation for some reason. I notified trac here: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2327#comment:11

[channelwiki]

I am currently using BBPress and will integrate it with MediaWiki.

However, the problem is as my forum’s index is set to display as a shortcode on a page called ‘Forums’, which is set as my site’s homepage the breadcrumbs display as follows:

Forums >> Forums >> Digital Terrestrial

See: http://www.channelwiki.org/forums/?forum=digital-terrestrial

As you can see the second ‘forums’ link takes a user to the default BBPress Forum index (not my sites homepage). How can this second ‘Forums’ link be removed?

The second issue is, as users are signing in via MediaWiki and will then be signed in to WordPress when they access the site automatically, how can I disable sign in via WordPress and registration, but still allow access to private messages and sign in via the wiki? The WP-Admin bar will also be hidden

Another issue is that I do not know how to redirect users back to the wiki. I’ve though about placing a ‘Log in’ link in the site’s main navigation, which links to the wiki’s login page but I’m not sure how to redirect them back.

Many thanks in advance,
channelwiki

[Hudson Atwell]

Hello I’ve taken a crack at this:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-auto-delete-spam-replies/

Please feel free to help me improve it:
https://bitbucket.org/atwellpub/bbpress-auto-delete-spam-replies

[Lisa Van Ahn]

I don’t have any place on the left side bar to edit BBpress and when I go into the settings of the plugin I see this message:

You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.

I have 3.7.1 of wordpress installed

I just uploaded the most recent version of bbpress

My site is http://www.bodyredesignonline.com

[Stephen Edgar]

Everything looks pretty good 🙂

I could only see the one issue

You have:

// Forum parent id (If no parent, then 0. Stored in postmeta)
$this->field_map[] = array(
'from_tablename' => 'forum_forums',
'from_fieldname' => 'ForumGroupID',
'to_type' => 'forum',
'to_fieldname' => '_bbp_forum_parent_id'
);

And this should be either 'from_fieldname' => 'ParentID', or 'from_fieldname' => 'GroupID'

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?

This looks right in that using your cPanel login, I would double check your webhost help section to confirm what your MySQL user/pass are (You can also grab these typically from your WordPress wp-config.php file via FTP.

The ‘——–‘ is a horrible bug that happens more than I would like but debugging this has been a pain to say the least and I haven’t been able to find what causes it yet alone a fix for it. Typically logging out and logging back in ‘seems to fix it’ most of the time.

With all that said though if you can get past that ‘bug’ then it looks like you are good to go.

EDIT: With ~200 posts the whole process should be completed in under 5 minutes.

[luis123.intl]

Do you have your wordpress installed on another port other than 80? If so, the problem might be with the nonce verification. I was receiving the wrong requested url and when used returned a false validation. The problem is it uses $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’] which gives something like this ‘192.168.1.50:8080’ concatenated with $_SERVER[‘SERVER_PORT’] (‘8080’). The verification should be, instead using $_SERVER[‘SERVER_NAME’] (e.g. ‘192.168.1.50’) concatenated with $_SERVER[‘SERVER_PORT’] (‘8080’) to succeed.

[fatpat76]

Hello there, I just went through some problems where the bbPress capabilities were not registered in the wp_user_roles option_name row entry. I don’t know what caused it but I was trying to see if I uninstalled/reinstalled bbPress it might reset the capabilities. It didn’t.

So I got hunting through the code and I found this function:

/**
 * Adds capabilities to WordPress user roles.
 *
 * @since bbPress (r2608)
 */
function bbp_add_caps() {

	// Loop through available roles and add caps
	foreach ( bbp_get_wp_roles()->role_objects as $role ) {
		foreach ( bbp_get_caps_for_role( $role->name ) as $cap => $value ) {
			$role->add_cap( $cap, $value );
		}
	}

	do_action( 'bbp_add_caps' );
}

But nothing seem to ever call this function. I did a search through all of the plugin code and there aren’t any references to this function. What gives?

In the end I was able to force the capabilities to be rebuilt by adding this function call inside another function that I knew was being called and it worked (I’ve since removed this).

BTW, this is on WP 3.7.1, bbPress 2.4.1.

Thanks!
Patrick

[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.

[Mailhilfe]

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.