[DNBrawler]

Hi, i’m new, obviously, and I want to say that bbpress is a wonderful forum software for WordPress.

I have edited my own share of bbpress files; removing the topic tag system, multiple site notices, and several other aspects.

I have ran into a problem, I simply can’t remove the topic-form that is shadowing my main forums. My only intention is having the topic form in a completely seperate page so that way users can click a Create New Topic button and the hyperlink will guide them. I tried to go into all the single-form php files in my theme folder with no avail. Can anyone point me to the right php file, so I can remove this.

Thank you very much

I also intend on removing the “Voices”, if someone can point that out too–that’d be great, would save me some time.

[Jared Atchison]

bbPress is going to handle all of this fully in core soon (likely in 2.2).

Check out https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1694 for more details.

[LIB53]

I’m making a post count plugin for bbpress 2.1, but the problem is that I’m new to PHP/MySQL, WordPress, and bbPress. From what I understand, I need to add a row called ‘post count’ to the usermeta table and hook the ‘bbp_theme_after_reply_form_submit_button’ action hook with a function that increases ‘post count’ by 1. I believe I must assign this newly hooked action a low priority as well so that the increase only comes after the post gets submitted into the database.

I should also add a function that builds all post counts for first time run, and even leave a button possibly called “rebuild post count” in the dashboard to run the function. Preferably, I’d like to add a feature where it can run itself every now and then to ensure things the posts are accurate.

I can count up everyone’s post count by filtering through the ‘posts’ table. All replies and topics are labeled as ‘reply’ and ‘topic’ in the post_type column, and there is a post_author column as well. Given these two columns, writing this function should be very simple. But I’m new to PHP/MySQL, and only a computer science student… So even this is a bit of work for me

Additionally, I can add another row so we can add artificial post count increase or decrease as well. Another row is needed because we don’t want the build/rebuild post count function mentioned above overwriting any increase or decrease an admin wants to have in effect. I personally need this row because I’m moving a 2yr old community off of IPB.

[mike_tnt]

Hello,

I have just installed bbpress plugin in my last version of wordpress.

I wanted to get mails notifications when somebody replies topics and so so, so I have installed the following plugin:

bbPress Email Notifications

Desactivar | Editar

Provide notification emails and controls for bbPress subscriptions, merge, and split functions.

Versión 0.2 | Por Jennifer M. Dodd

But it seems not to work. could anybody help me?

thank you in advance!

Miguel

[Milan Petrovic]

GD bbPress Tools is a new free plugin for bbPress 2.0/2.1 for WordPress. Currently adds these new features:

* BBCode shortcodes support

* Quote Reply or Topic

* User signature with BBCode and HTML support

* Additional custom views

* Basic topics search results view

* Toolbar menu integration

* Limit bbPress admin side access

Plugin supports BBCodes based on the phpBB implementation. Right now, plugin has 30 BBCodes. Latest plugin version is 1.2:

http://www.dev4press.com/2012/blog/plugins-news/gd-bbpress-tools-1-2-0/

[New Joerg]

I am experiencing exactly the same problem. I’ve set up wordpress (3.3.2 de) one or two weeks ago, bbpress last sunday. But I’ve nothing migrated.

In the role of a webmaster I can view and edit everything in the forum. During the first tests I changed the visibility to private and back. As a contributor I can only post a new entry. But I can’t even view my own posts. This was on the first day. I deactivated bbpress.

Today I reactivated bbpress. Forums and posts seemed to have gone. I set up a new forum and moved the old posts (topics) to it. With/without allowing anonymus posting everything worked fine for the contributor’s role.

But after setting the visibility to “private” (later to “hidden”) and than back to “public” the same error occurs: contributors can see the forum from the outside but none of the topics/posts.

http://zukunft-stadtbahn.de/forums/forum/redaktionsbesprechung/

Anonymous posting is not allowed, visibility is public

We need to have an internal forum for the contributors to discuss our articles before publishing them.

Who can help? Thanks in advance

Jörg

[timbeck]

Hi,

I’m integrating bbpress into a wordpress site. The client wants to create multiple login identities, but each identity will potentially be used by multiple people. SO . . . in the comments section, I need the comment author to be able to enter his name in the name field, then display comment author’sname in the comments section.

Currently, no matter what I put in the comment author name field (then using ‘bbp_reply_author’ to display the author name), what I get is the admin name, not the name I typed in the field. Where does the name go? I’ve looked all over the files trying to find out where the author name typed into the form goes, and nothing comes up. Ditto for how to display it.

Thanks in advance . . .

t.

[111222klmadnfcklawnme]

I think I broke my forum.

I am using the plugin version of bbPress on WordPress, and recently deactivated all of my plugins trying to troubleshoot a theme error. I reactivated them, and when I go to Forums in the dashboard, “All Forums”, my forum is still there, but when I click on “View” it says:

Permission Denied

Not Found / No Access

The page you are looking for either does not exist, or you do not have the permissions to access it.

Going to http://mysite.com/forums takes me back to the main page.

Any suggestions?

[John James Jacoby]

How can i disable HTML and/or VISUAL editor? (2.1 plugin version)

Have you tried Settings > Forum?

Unless you’re talking about conditionally toggling the mode, in which case you’re on your own to build that as a plugin, similar to WordPress.

[martin_style]

Hello everybody

What should I use blugin for not accept spamer comments my blog. I use wordpress

Thanks you for interesting

[Laurent]

Hi,

I recently upgraded my VPS from Debian 5 to Debian 6.

Related to this were the following changes :

PHP : 5.2.6-1 —> 5.3.3-7

MySQL : 5.0.5a —> 5.1.49

It was a few days ago. Apparently everything was OK.

On my website there is a forum which is not very active so I don’t know exactly when the problems appeared but I think it must be related to this :

Today I saw that 2 people had posted an answer to a recent topic but something went wrong : both answers are not linked to the topic and when I want to add this manually through the backoffice the topic just don’t appear in the list.

Moreover, I tried to post answers to this topic but I immediadely get Erreur HTTP 500 (Internal Server Error). Of course the problem is the same when I try to answer to other topics.

Any idea about what the problem is and how to solve this ?

I’m using WordPress 3.3.2 and bbpress 2.0.2

Thanks for your help !

Best Regards,

Laurent

[neodoxa]

Is there a way to add total post count and roles (moderator, etc.) under the avatars/usernames of users in the forum?

I’m using the BBPress plugin with a Buddypress / WordPress site.

Thanks.

[kennymcnett]

I considered Buddypress, but it’s way more robust than what I’m needing, and installing it was breaking my custom theme (jquery conflict somewhere).

Thanks for looking at this.

For anyone else out there, here’s my solution for restricting bbPress access using s2member. In short, this checks if the current user has access to the most distant ancestor of the current page. For example:

Level 1 Forum/Category > Subforum1 > Subcategory > Subforum2 > Current Topic

No matter which page they arrive at in the tree, they must have access via s2member to the top-most level. Then it’s a simple matter of assigning a ccap to that Forum, or a membership level.

1. Include the following in your functions.php file

2. Include a call to the function in EACH of your bbPress template files BEFORE the template calls for the forum content. Match the HTML structure of the error message to suit your theme. You need to include closing tags for any open divs.

3. Test!

/******* bbPress Forum Access *******/

function checkForumAccess() {

if(get_post_type() == 'forum' OR get_post_type() == 'topic' OR get_post_type() == 'reply') { // check if user is viewing a forum page. If so, continue.

//check if they have access to the top-most parent forum/category (both are Pages in wordpress). If not, show the error verbiage. If they have access, continue and show the content like normal

$parent = array_reverse(get_post_ancestors($post->ID)); // get an array of all the parent pages in order from most distant to closest.

$first_parent = get_page($parent[0]); //get the first page in the array, which is the most distant parent

$int = apply_filters(‘the_ID’, $first_parent->ID); //filter the $first_parent to get only the wordpress page/post ID, which is an integer like 49 or 565. store it as a variable $int

if (!is_page_permitted_by_s2member($int)) { // this is an s2member function. Check if the current user can access the $first_parent, via the stored page/post ID in the $int variable

// here comes your custom error message. Remember to escape any apostrophes

echo ‘

<div>

<h1 class=”entry-title”>Sorry!</h1>

<div class=”entry-content”>

<p>It looks like you don’t have access to this forum.</p>

<p>If this is an error and you should have access, please contact us here: (contact URL)

</div>

</div><!–.postWrapper–>

</div><!– #content –>

</div><!– #contentWrapper –>

</div><!– #primary –>

‘;

get_sidebar();

get_footer();

exit; // Important. This prevents the rest of the page (the secure forum content) from displaying

}

}

}

[Sniper Kitten]

I recently noticed that when I try to start a topic or posting a reply, it’s taking about 30+ second before the topic/reply is show up. If you try to tell me there may be a “bad plugin” and try to disable all of it except bbPress, save it. I have tried the following:

1. Using different browser.

I find out that when I try to use Firefox 12.0 to post, it’s loading extremely slow. But this is not happening in Internet Explorer 9 or Google Chrome 18.

Try to start Firefox in safe mode? Yes I have tried to do that but it doesn’t make a difference.

2. Using different user/computer.

It’s still the same.

3. Try to post a comment in a normal post.

I was able to comment a post without any problems, so I think it may be a “bad plugin” problem.

4. Disable all plugin (except bbPress & BuddyPress)

But the same thing happen. FYI I don’t edit either the bbPress or BuddyPress files.

5. Using different theme.

I replace my modified custom community theme with BuddyPress Default theme and see if I putting bad codes in my theme. But this doesn’t solve problem even I tried other themes.

6. Change permalink structure.

It doesn’t make any changes, and I don’t think it will help.

7. Reinstall WordPress, bbPress & BuddyPress

Still doesn’t make any changes.

8. Create a new install in another domain.

I use http://scirefs.com/ as my main and http://www.scirefs.org as a sandbox (with the same configuration as in SCIREFs.com) with only bbPress and BuddyPress activated. But everything works fine in SCIREFs.org with either bbPress 2.02 or 2.1 and I have no issue with Firefox 12.

9. The Cloudflare……

Since I have Cloudflare as my CDN for SCIREfs.com but not SCIREFs.org, I tried to remove SCIREFs.com from Cloudflare and add SCIREfs.org to it and see what happens. The result: The issue with Firefox at SCIREFs.com disappear but SCIREfs.org is now facing the old issue.

Do anyone here have any ideas what’s wrong with it? Or someone here is facing the same problem? This seems to be the first and the only problem I can’t figure it myself.

You can login to SCIREFs.org using the following information:

Username: demo

Password: demo

URL of the forums: http://www.scirefs.org/test-forums

And try to start a topic or post a reply using Firefox and see if it’s happening to you.

[pimarts]

What works for me (I’ve had my share of spammers, but they’re no problem whatsoever anymore):

Only do this if you know what you’re doing.

1) Put the following blacklist thing in your htaccess:

http://perishablepress.com/5g-blacklist-2012/

2) Put a question in the registration process with BuddyPress Humanity (I’m sure something like this exists for WordPress too).

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-humanity/

3) Install the Bad Behaviour plugin :

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bad-behavior/

4) Install the Ban Hammer plugin :

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ban-hammer/

Works like a charm. For me at least.

[pimarts]

I don’t know if it’s a “great” example, but http://www.swnk.org/ is running on WordPress + BuddyPress + bbPress.

[ZedsDed]

Hello! I’d love to see some examples of sites that utilize WordPress for its blog and bbPress for its forum/messageboard. I’m poking around this forum now for examples but would love to see any that you may know of. Thank you

[Stephen Edgar]

Head on over to http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org and have a read of the links there.

Perform a search to see if there are any similar and/or open bugs already

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/search

To submit a bug and bug fix https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/newticket

[kennymcnett]

Hi, I’m integrating bbPress with s2member and need to restrict access to certain categories, forums and their topics.

For example, here’s a hierarchy:

Home > Forums > Category1 > Subcategory1 > Forum1 > Subforum1 > Topic1

If someone tries to look at Topic1 or any of its parents, I need to check to make sure they have access to Category1.

Access is managed by s2member.

For typical wordpress posts, I attach this filter, run a wp_query, then detach it:

attach_s2member_query_filters(); // only fetch content the user can access

If that query is not empty, then I let the user view the page they’re trying to look at. If it is empty, it means they don’t have access to any posts and so I redirect them.

But I don’t know how bbPress works well enough to figure it out.

It seems I need to

1. Find what the root category is

2. Check if the user can access the root category

3. If so, allow access to whatever they’re trying to see. If not, redirect or give an error message.

Any ideas on how I can do this?

[Jared Atchison]

Correct, with bbPress 2.1 the “Theme compat” bbPress theme will work for most people out of the box.

The problem is that some WordPress themes do weird things – such as modify the loop and/or query (things that are not normal) – and this causes bbPress to break.

[Jared Atchison]

I completely agree things could be improved.

I’m just not sure how much of that is on bbPress and how much of that is on Akismet.

On bbPress.org one of the major problems we run into is the majority of the spam is from human spammers – so no matter what reCaptcha/human test (etc) is in place they will get around this.

Some of the plugins (such as https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpressmoderation/) try to get around this where a user must have a previously approved post before their posts show up.

[John James Jacoby]

You’re doing it exactly backwards to accomplish what you want to do.

You do *not* “need” a page with the slug “forum” or “forums” to make your forums appear. They will just work, based on the slug you set in Settings > Forums.

If you want the index of your “forums” to show “forums” then it’s slug needs to be “forums” and not “forum”

If a WordPress page has the same slug as something else (“forums”), the page wins.

(If your forum archive slug in Settings > Forums is “forums” but you have a page with the slug “forums” then the page will appear and it will be whatever the_content of that page is.)

You can have an unlimited number of permutations on the forums to look and work. It comes with the most obvious (and working) settings out of the box.

You can include slashes in your archive slugs, so hierarchical pages work, too.

This part is not broken, it is not a bug. It’s two settings that you need to make match, and you’re in control of both of them on your own to operate however you want your site to operate.

[Jared Atchison]

I’m the author of bbP Genesis Extend and bbP Custom CSS.

For bbP Custom CSS, you will need to create the CSS it will use.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-custom-css-file/installation/

Unfortunately re-ordering the columns would require creating a custom theme, it’s not something that can be done with a CSS solution.

[Jared Atchison]

bbPress is very much under active development. You can see that in the trac timeline – https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/timeline.

The spam periodically gets to a high level on the forums because

1) There are only a handful of moderators at the moment

2) The spam is human generated and most of it does not get caught by akismet

Hope that helps

[NFLpigskingirl]

Hi everyone! I’m new to BBPress and I’m quite the technology newbie, so please be as simple and specific as possible when answering my question otherwise I’m liable to not get it

Here goes: I have WordPress and installed BBPress. I have the Piano Black theme. My site is called Pro Football Chick (profootballchick.com/forums if you want to see what I’m talking about). Anyhow, I want the forums to have a tab on my front page at the top — like the About, Home, and Contact pages. I also noticed that there’s no way for someone to add a topic — how can I fix that?

Thank you SO much!