[muffinbomb]

Andre: that was EXACTLY what I was looking for. I scoured the net, looked through BBPress documentation for hours and FOUND NOTHING. Absolutely nothing. The ‘veterans’ of BBPress responses were in loops or archaic at best.

I’ve been working on WordPress and web development for over a decade and so often do I fall on searches that yield really unhelpful ‘answers’. HOWEVER, FINALLY there has been ONE ANSWER that beats them all!

Even though your post was made over a year ago, IT HELPED! Now I can finally stop figuring out how to use templates for BBPress 2.2.4! Thank you!

[Stephen Edgar]

The good thing though is that the majority of what is included in the 2.3 update can be used manually on your MySQL database to convert the BBCodes & Magic URL’s to WordPress friendly HTML.

I just haven’t written any docs on this yet, I also haven’t actually done it on a site I desperately need to do this with. Hopefully in the next couple of days I can get some time to get this started.

[ssmedia]

Hi,

I’m having a very strange problem with bbpress.

I’m using the lastest version of WordPress and bbpress and I created a super stick topic. These are just rules and guidelines so I closed it to replies. I can see it in the category forum page such as this (http://causepages.com/sw/forum/health-insurance-finance/) when logged in as a user but when I actually click into it, it’s not shown. (I just get my sidebar).

Can anyone help with this please?

[Diver Zant]

Please help, what is wrong with my bbpress forum 2.2.4 ? Since I uploaded it is too small on page and with Newcast template of WordPress looks terrible. how can I fix it, do I need to know some coding ? Thank you for your help really appriciate it.

http://urbex.cz/forums/

[jessecarllane]

Additional information:

bbPress version: is 2.2.4
WordPress version: 3.5.1

Site: http://www.ElectricityClub.org

Settings:
For the forum Anonymous posting setting, “Allow guest users without accounts to create topics and replies” is unchecked. So how did an anonymous user manage to post a snoring advertisement?

Is there some other setting to block anonymous postings?

[rklockner]

The setup:
1 site that is a WordPress/bbPress Forum site.
1 site that is a pay (non-Wordpress) forum site that is answered by industry professionals.

When a question is answered by a pro in the pay site, I run a series of insert statements that adds the topic/reply to the WordPress site.

All works as planned with one exception. I can’t edit any of the replies (I can edit topics).

When I click to edit the reply, it brings up the page to edit. I make the desired change and hit Post. It takes me right back to the same edit page with my changes still in tact. However, as soon as you leave the page and attempt to view the changes in the forum, all work has been lost.

I should also note that I did not build the WordPress site, so I don’t know if there are any errors being suppressed, or some other scenario (I don’t know where I would turn these on either).

Any thoughts?

[Shashank Shekhar]

I am getting the same issue in bbpress 2.2.4 with wordpress 3.5.1. In my site Profile pages have body class “error404” included automatically. Other bbpress pages are fine. “error 404” is defined with styles in theme which disturbing layout of the page. What I have done is just put bbpress/single-user.php inside my theme for custom editing (still not edited, just putting inside the theme created the issue).
My theme is built using wordpress twenty-twelve theme very little customized.

This issue is also mentioned here in bbpress trac: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1478 , closed, but dont know why I getting this problem.

Is this really fixed with bbpress? Please let me know what I can do to fix the problem?

[Shashank Shekhar]

Hello,
As per bbpress doc I found by default it uses page.php in wordpress theme to render all its contents. But since I have to use different template with a different sidebar and widgets I created forum.php copied from page.php in my wp-theme and luckily it worked. Dont know why its not mentioned in bbpress docs. Also, forums.php working fine, so I am in more doubt which file naming conventions is correct. Is it something missed to mention in bbpress docs? Please let me know.

Further, for the bbpress user pages, like profile, edit profile, topic started etc. I need to use a custom template file in my theme. In bbpress templates as per documentation, I have checked all user templates inside are just contains the content part only not including header, footer, sidebar etc. And by default it also renders by page.php.

How can I make a custom user template file other than page.php or forum.php which control all user related contents, so that I can have different template for forum or other pages?

Suggestion:
BBpress should have capability to use different template files for different kind of pages, or their should be settings in bbpress admin to select which template to use for what kind of pages.
This is somewhat, wp-members, woocommerce and other plugins do for better integration in wordpress. These plugins have the ability to create different pages in admin editor having selected particular template to render and putting inside their shortcodes to render various types of contents. And also have the settings in their admin to set different pages/template for different stuff.

Please let me know if this possible with bbpress 2.2.4 with wp 3.5.1 currently.
If not possible please let me know how I can achieve the effect, with some sample custom code hints. Currently I dont need help to create bbpress admin side settings dropdown etc., becoz these are the thing I mentioned as suggestions to make bbpress better theme compatible.
Right now, just need help how to use different template for user pages than other forum pages.

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Thanks
Shashank

[Stephen Edgar]

Standard bbPress & WordPress do NOT support ‘signatures’ in the user profiles.

What are you using for bbPress signatures?

[chevymanusa]

I have looked around. Profile builder (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/profile-builder/) will allow me to do what I want, but I have to redirect the page or something to that extend. I was looking for a way to just to allow users to change their signature and not their display name.

Still hoping, someone somewhere has an answer to this and they will post here shortly.

Thanks for the tip. I’ll keep looking.

[Chris Collins]

I have a fresh multisite/buddypress/bbpress.   I installed sitewide forums and made sure group functionality was turned on for forums.  This is on a sub site with buddypress multisite turned on.  I had previously had the same issues I have now on a already installed site.  Because of these issue I scrubbed the install, wiped the database and reinstalled fresh.  I still have this issue.  when I create a topic from buddypress group forum page it goes to a blank page with this error

“<br /> <b>Fatal error</b>: Call to undefined function bb_get_id_from_slug() in <b>/home/spanef/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bp-forums-functions.php</b> on line <b>178</b><br />”

 

I have seen previous solutions about deleting the forum ids in bp_group_meta which i did and upon recreation still didn’t work.

I have the newest wordpress, buddypress and bbpress .  This is a fresh install.   Do you have any idea what i can do, I have to have this working.

[Stephen Edgar]

It is limited to embedding a linked image only.

GD bbPress attachments is fully compatible with bbPress 2.2.x as far as I know.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gd-bbpress-attachments/

[dannyjimmy]

I’m in the same camp as @Nova; I’ve got custom taxonomies that I want to be included with forum posts.

In the meantime I’m just creating my own post type “discussion”, i.e. faking a forum with wordpress posts.

(the trick there is to find/create a view where posts are sorted by “last comment”)

Did you figure anything out? (Nova or anyone else…)

[Stephen Edgar]

Some progress at least which is a good thing…

The WordPress import has an option import_allow_create_users: return false if you only want to allow mapping to existing users and I think that should work for you to fix the mappings.

Details are here: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-importer/other_notes/

[steilenhang]

I made the first step work. Waiting for a while and then just continuing did the job.

However I am having trouble with the WordPress import/export function. When I am about to import at the live site it wants me to manually fit the users who wrote the posts with the ones on the site. When you import from one site to another I can see that this is needed, but in my case the users are a exact match, and we are talking about a couple of thousands users.. *Scratching the back of my head*

[steilenhang]

Well that almost worked! It imports for a while (no loop, all good), but then I get this error. I don’t know if that is a memory issue or what?

WordPress database error: [User ‘steilenhang’ has exceeded the ‘max_updates’ resource (current value: 36000)]

[Stephen Edgar]

I would look updating whatever it is holding you back from upgrading to WordPress 3.5.1 for the security fixes 3.4 & 3.5 have introduced at a bare minimum.

That said give it a try on a test site and if that works use the builtin WordPress Import/Export tool to export all the forums, topics & replies and then import them https://codex.wordpress.org/Importing_Content#WordPress

[Stephen Edgar]

Have you looked in the WordPress Plugin Directory for something to do what you are after?

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/

bbPress uses WordPress to maintain/manage users and usernames etc so there might just be something that suits your needs. I am not sure if any would be compatible with the bbPress front end profile editor but it might be worth a shot. (eg https://bbpress.org/forums/profile/chevymanusa/edit/ )

[John James Jacoby]

For users that are experiencing 404 issues for non-admins, it’s likely another plugin that’s causing the problem. In some cases, it might actually be BuddyPress, as I found a bug and fixed it yesterday. 🙂

If you’re having these issues, share what plugins you have active, and let’s see if we can sniff out what’s going on together.

[logikgate]

I am having an issue with permalink duplication of topics. When one of my users creates a topic with the same name as a previous topic the backend correctly serializes the permalink (i.e. domain.com/forums/topics/math-4) but in the front end the link is always to domain.com/forums/topics/math and that link shows all of the topics that had the name math. Furthermore, if you actually go to domain.com/forums/topics/math-4 it comes up as a 404.

This would not be a problem except if the wordpress visual editor is used for replies the users cannot type anything unless they first click on the html editor tab.

Here is a link to the problem http://www.wolverinetutors.org/forums/forum/math-2/

You can see many topics that have the name “math help” these have the issue. I have disabled the visual editor in order to temporarily fix the problem.

I am using wordpress version 3.4.2 and bbpress version 2.2.4

[satochan]

WordPress Ver: 3.5.1
bbPress Ver: 2.2.4
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I can add Forums and Topics in the frontend page but can’t add “Replies”…

To analyse this issue, I did the following things.
1. Deactivated plugins other than bbPress –> No change
2. Switch the theme to Twenty eleven –> No change
3. Change the web brouser from IE to Google chrome –> No change
4. downgraded WordPress ver. to 3.4.2 –> No change
5. downgraded bbPress ver. to 2.1.2 and 2.2.2 under WordPress Ver.3.4.2 –> No change
6. downgraded bbPress ver. to 2.1.2 and 2.2.2 under WordPress Ver.3.5.1 –> No change

Therefore I think the rootcause is in bbPress itself.

I really need the help from the people who know a lot on bbPress as soon as possible.

[Shashank Shekhar]

Hello, I am using lates bbpress 2.2.4 plugin with wordpress 3.5.1, php 5.4.3 & php 5.3.2.
This plugin is showing me many issues specially for user pages (profile, edit, etc.)
I am using twenty twelve theme, very little customized.

1) I wanted to set a different sidebar for bbpress forum pages than other wordpress pages, so I checked and found the default template used by bbpress is ‘page.php’. I copied it, renamed to ‘forum.php‘ and added a new dynamic sidebar and commented default sidebar. It worked fine and now I can set any widget to this sidebar. I have checked that either I place ‘forum.php’ or ‘forums.php’ both working fine similar. Not sure which one is more correct.

2) On the bbpress users pages the profile content and edit form is not displaying full in widht cutting as its width overridden by sidebar, breaking layout. The content area ‘primary’ div is given a width in theme and having ‘secondary’ as sidebar. All other contents properly adjusted on every bbpress pages, but only this bbpress user profile edit page have the issue. The form should also be adjusted within the content area. Ex. url: http://mysite.com/forums/users/testuser/edit

3) Now, suppose to fix the issue mentioned above in point 3), I want to remove sidebar from users pages and give the primary content area more full width, how I can do it? One way is to forcibly hide the sidebar with css and make primary content wider with !important. But I want a way to change user pages template. Is it possible to have different template for user pages than bbpress other pages? I found that users pages also generating using ‘page.php’, in my case ‘forum.php’ template now. I tried alot by copying and changing ‘page.php’ to ‘user.php’, ‘users.php’, etc. but its not working. Please let me know how can I set user pages to use a different template file and rest bb pages use my forum.php or forums.php whatever.

4) For any user when I click ‘topic started’ or ‘replies created’ link, both show counts properly but the table didn’t appear. I checked in firebug, it present there but hidden somehow. Same issue mentioned here http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/profile-topics-or-replies-posts-not-being-displayed/ , I tried with the same thing, but till now no proper solution there. Please let me know proper way to fix it.

5) If suppose I want to completely hide the user-profile links on all bbpress forum/topic authors, on all bb pages, I mean want to display only author gravatars and usernames but want no link on them, so other people cannot go to their profile pages, how can I do that? A little help given here http://forum.graphene-theme.com/graphene-support/show-the-author-but-hide-its-link, but its not working properly. But I think it can be done with right filters in the same way. Please let me know with sample code.

6) Used the official facebook plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/facebook/ , and displayed the like button, like box for my facebook page using it in my site footer, header etc. But I found that on the user pages like edit profile, profile view etc. facebook widgets are completely disabled and not visible. On other bbpress forum pages they are displaying well. I checked with page source and found even facebook sdk is not embeded in page source. Their must be an conflict on bbpress user pages with facebook sdk which stopping it to be enqueued. This need to be checked and fixed.

These all issues mentioned here are serious issues with bbpress specially for user pages and must be solved and have proper solutions.
I dont expect from a single person to answer or fix all of above points, but hope different people will help me for different points (just mentioning points in their replies).

Further I expect from bbpress authors to work on these issues and release a fixed version. May be some of above points just because of lack some documentation, so they can mention some solution in its FAQ itself, so people having same problems can get help without searching or posting here in forum.

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Thanks
Shashank

[LaurenceAtFree]

For people like me new to php this is how to make a plugin with John’s code :
paste this code in an editor and save the file as teenybb.php :
<?php

/*/
Plugin Name: Teenywithbb
Plugin URI: https://bbpress.org/
Description: Enable Teeny Mce in bbpress
Version: 1.0.1
Author: John James Jacoby
Author URI: https://bbpress.org/
/*/
function foo( $args = array() ) {
$args['teeny'] = false;
return $args;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_after_get_the_content_parse_args', 'foo' );

copy this file in your plugin directory where you usually copy other plugins.
You can see the plugin named Teenywithbb in wordpress you juste have to active it.
and then you have tinyMCE Advdaced as editor in bbpress 2.2. 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

We would definitely make sure the bbPress tools would support maintaining ‘BuddyPress Group Relationships’ and #2089 might even end up defining which direction is taken.

It could also be done in bbPress as a ‘Moderation Tool’ to bulk move topics/replies that includes BuddyPress Groups support which is already planned for future bbPress Moderation Tools.

[Stephen Edgar]

What version of WordPress are you using?