[bobwhallz]

Hi
I have a transparent header built with Astra theme and Elementor page builder. I am also using BuddyPress on my site.

I would like to change all the bbpress forum pages header to a different background color, none white, so the header menu can display properly.

What css codes should i use?
Bbpre Version 2.6.5 on latest WordPress installation
Thank you

[Robin W]

bbpress just uses WordPress login.

When a user first logs on without a bbpress role (eg keymaster, moderator, participant spectator or blocked) bbpress looks at

dashboard>settings>forums>roles and if set gives the user that role – yours is almost certainly set to ‘participant’ – so you can switch off or amend that settings as you wish.

participants have then ability to create topics and replies.

[KenTheriot]

I’m using version 2.6.5. I’m looking at all the subscribers on my WordPress site and wondering what “Participant” means? Are these the folks that signed up to the forum rather than just to comment on my posts? In other words, do people who sign up to the forum get assigned as “Participant?”

Thanks!

[Mushlih Almubarak]

Hi
I have a login page for my users (generated by one of my plugins). however, when I download bbpress, it directs users to login on WordPress deafult log in page, how can I change the login page for my users to the login page generated by one of the other plugins?
Thank you

[lonelydime]

It’s been about 10 years since I’ve attempted anything WordPress or PHP for that matter, but while this works it feels like it’s going to break in an update.

add_filter( 'bbp_default_styles', 'rew_dequeue_bbpress_css' );

function rew_dequeue_bbpress_css ($defaults ){
	fixed_bbp_enqueue_style("bbp-default", "css/bbpress.css", array(), bbp_get_version());
	unset ($defaults['bbp-default']) ;
	return $defaults ;
}

function fixed_bbp_enqueue_style( $handle = '', $file = '', $deps = array(), $ver = false, $media = 'all' ) {
        // Attempt to locate an enqueueable
        $located = bbp_locate_enqueueable( $file );
	$located = str_replace('/bitnami/wordpress', '', $located);
		
        // Enqueue if located
        if ( ! empty( $located ) ) {

                // Make sure there is always a version
                if ( empty( $ver ) ) {
                        $ver = bbp_get_version();
                }

                // Make path to file relative to site URL
                $located = bbp_urlize_enqueueable( $located );

                // Register the style
                wp_register_style( $handle, $located, $deps, $ver, $media );

                // Enqueue the style
                wp_enqueue_style( $handle );
        }

        return $located;
}

From what I can tell your snippet does, it just clears out the default css object so the loop to bbp_enqueue_style skips including it and then I can inject my own function. The scripts function seem more complicated because there are many more includes than one file and they’re based on pages from what I can tell. Is what I’ve done what you were referring to?

[Robin W]

lists re very subjective – what I find useful you will find useless or not how you want it.

https://colorlib.com/wp/bbpress-plugins/

gives a list

I’d add bbp style pack to that list, but I wrote it, so I’m biased

bbp style pack

That plugin also lists other plugins that I have found added value to forums

[Tobias Claren]

Hello.

I have installed WordPress.

For testing, also MyBB in /forum.
I ask myself the question, is BBpress an alternative to extra forum scripts now?
A few years ago, BBPress was quite rudimentary, wasn’t it? Did this change?
Can BBpress keep up with all available plugins in the range of functions with forum scripts such as SMF, MyBB, phpBB etc.

Is there a good clear list of all plugins for BBPress?
Possibly with usage ranking. There will be a reason if certain plugins are used very often.
But also curated recommendations.
The plugin list here is very “simple”.
21 pages with 10 plugins each, not sortable, no recommendations or rating based on usage (not quality rating) …
I saw user avatars. But there may be different plugins for the purpose.
Or a map with the members.
I don’t know where to start.
And doesn’t want to try out hundreds of plugins.
E.g. such an insignificant little thing as using homemade forum icons.

[cassel]

I am not sure if I am not doing it right, but I am not sure how to get to tag someone with @someone correctly.

I might have more than one user with the same display name (currently, I have two Susan in one thread) and I would like to identify which one I am responding to. However, if I put @Susan, I have no clue which one will be tagged.

I am also using BuddyPress, so I am not sure if it is controlled by bbPress or BuddyPress (or even by WordPress for all I know).

Can someone point me to a way to tag/mention someone correctly when I respond?

[Robin W]

ok, thanks, but sorry I can’t really help further.

I will state again that WordPress handles both registration and login, and as long as you don’t use the login widgets or shortcodes then bbpress should not be involved.

I hope you get a resolution

[chaosfranklin]

I watched tutorials of the setup and see people testing the registration. They showed new users were required to activate their accounts by email.

Unfortunately, I cannot give the url due to the mature nature of the content. I don’t want to get ban.

I am using this plugin to to hide the administration login.

Hide login page, Hide wp admin – stop attack on login page

[lonelydime]

Hello,

I’m running a fresh install of WordPress from the bitnami helm chart using persistent storage on an NFS share. The path used by the containers is /bitnami/wordpress/wp-content/ to pull in plugins/etc. When I install bbPress, all of the css files and js files use the wrong path to include the assets.

Here’s an example:

<link rel='stylesheet' id='bbp-default-css' href='https://example.com/bitnami/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/css/bbpress.min.css'>

<script type='text/javascript' src='https://example.com/bitnami/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/js/editor.min.js?ver=2.6.5'>

I haven’t had any issues with other plugins thus far, but for some reason bbPress is wanting to use the full installation path instead of the web root. Is there a way of fixing this with some WP constant that I’m not setting? The installation of wordpress is in /opt/bitnami/wordpress and wp-content/ and wp-config.php are symlink’d to /bitnami/wordpress/wp-content and /bitnami/wordpress/wp-config.php.

I have a temporary fix right now which will be wiped out when bbPress updates.

File: wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/core/template-functions.php

function bbp_enqueue_style( $handle = '', $file = '', $deps = array(), $ver = false, $media = 'all' ) {
        // Attempt to locate an enqueueable
        $located = bbp_locate_enqueueable( $file );
        //Ghetto fix
        $located = str_replace('/bitnami/wordpress', '', $located);

function bbp_enqueue_script( $handle = '', $file = '', $deps = array(), $ver = false, $in_footer = false ) {
        // Attempt to locate an enqueueable
        $located = bbp_locate_enqueueable( $file );
        //Ghetto fix
        $located = str_replace('/bitnami/wordpress', '', $located);

[Robin W]

bbpress doesn’t have a ‘your account is activated’ page – something in WordPress is doing this, not bbpress.

[sillyninja]

Hello,

I have installed bbpress on my WordPress website. I have created 4 categories in the main forum, but when I click on the categories, topics do not show on the category. Each category has more than 4 threads.

I saved permalinks too, but it did not work.

[Robin W]

ok, so where are the registering ? ie from what part of your site – I need to understand what is sening the ‘activated’ email.

the incorrect login is fixed by :

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Login Failures

[Robin W]

there is no separate bbpress login. If you login using WordPress on first login bbpress will allocate the role that you have set in

dashboard>settings>forums>roles.

so bbpress does not use a url for login.

so when you say ‘ However, bbpress is using this url for members to login. ‘ where are you seeing this ?

[Robin W]

and this is also a useful discussion

How to Stop WordPress Registration Spam (Plugins and Tactics)

[Robin W]

not tested (I manually approve new users, but that is just because of the type of sites I run) but this might help

Stop Spammers

[Robin W]

bbpress just uses WordPress login, so if you’ve changed the url, just use any WordPress login and ignore the bbpress one.

[Robin W]

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Topic/Reply Form

[Robin W]

ok, without getting heavily involved in coding a solution for you (which is my paid day job 🙂 ) I guess that you have hooked to ‘template redirect’ which fires on everypage, so when WordPress displays the test-page it looks again for a value of topic_id, which on the test page does not exist, so returns zero.

if your code is working in that it redirects to test page, then you could try appending the topic id and picking that up in $_REQUEST

eg (untested)

wp_redirect('/test-page/?topic_id='.bbp_get_topic_id());

and then on test page use the code

if (isset($_REQUEST['topic_id'])) $topic_id = $_REQUEST('topic_id') ;

[Robin W]

easiest way is to use

bbPress Notify (No Spam)

[Robin W]

bbpress just uses WordPress login, so you just need a plugin or code that does that for WordPress

there are several and I have not tried any, but

Home

or if you are into coding

How to Share Logins and Users Between Multiple WordPress Sites

[Robin W]

you will need

Private groups

so once installed create a group called whatever you like

dashboard>settings>bbp private groups>group name settings
then in
dashboard>settings>bbp private groups>assign groups to roles
set subscribers to get the group above
then in
dashboard>settings>bbp private groups>topic permissions
set this to active
Finally for each forum, go into it and set the forum group you set up, and click save
then you will see topic permissions and be able to set this group to only create/edit replies

then all subscribers will only be able to create/edit replies

[Robin W]

this is one of the good and bad things about WordPress plugins.

It is good that they warn you that plugins have not been updated for a long period.

It is bad that it puts people off using perfectly good plugins because the author has had the goodness to release for free useful code to the world, but does not have the time or wish to be involved in supporting it.

But a well written plugin rarely needs changing if it does all that is required.

And since moderation tools hooks to bbpress functions that are long standing and stable, there are no issues I know with this plugin and I suspect it will work for years to come. If it breaks though minor issues, I’d clone it and re-issue.

You can sort of consider the warning a bit like a warranty. You don’t stop using the dishwasher because the year long warranty has run out, you just accept that maybe one day in the future it will stop working. When it does, then you may need to stop using it, but you do not go back to hand washing your dishes just because the warranty has run out on the dishwasher 🙂

If moderation tools stops working, you are no worse off than now. so if you use it for a while and it makes life easier, then that is a bonus.

[cassel]

I do get a few spams but not many. And typically, one member will email me if I didn`t see it, but since I get a notification of all the posts and all the new topics, I usually catch them. My main issue is mostly for those legit posts that end up in the spam. I get the notification they were posted, but not that they were flagged as spam, so I have no way to know to go check in the backend to “un-spam” them.

2. I also use https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/moderation-tools-for-bbpress/ that way the topic or reply does not ‘disappear’ the author sees it as pending, and you get an email so you know to take action.

This plugin might no longer be supported, it seems.