[Robin W]

ok, presume this is a new install?

also presume that you have set yourself up as at least participant in the user profile – the forums permissions are near the bottom when you edit a user

If so then

maybe a plugin or theme conflict

try

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[Robin W]

@funin

Not quite sure I understand

You can have multiple forums with multiple access levels

In combination with the default bbPress access a forum can be

totally public – everyone can see and contribute – even anonymous users can make posts
public – everyone can see, but only registered users can contribute
private – only logged in user can see the forum exists, and can either contribute as participants or just see as spectators
group visible – everyone can see that a forum exists, but only logged in users with permission for that forum can see forum topics and replies, and can either contribute as participants or just see as spectators.
Group invisible – only users with permission for the forum can see that they exist, and can either contribute as participants or just see as spectators.

Basically you have a great deal of flexibility on how you set your forum site up.

so if you want a forum that people can see and contribute to alongside ones that are either private or with just topics visible, then this is possible.

[Robin W]

By default users are not notified, they have to tick a box on each topic/reply to say that they want emails for anyone who posts to that topic. Is that what you are after?, or do you positively want to stop any emails? Seems a bit harsh for your users not to let them know that someone’s just rubbished the post that they made, but am sure you have valid reasons !

[Robin W]

suggest it is a theme issue – try changing to a default theme such as twentytwelve and see if that fixes.

If so, then contact woothemes for a fix to their theme.

If not come back

[Robin W]

‘Sorry for my english. ‘ – do not apologise your English is excellent !

Ok, I have just re-tested and I do not get that issue – I can create pages and posts fine.

You could just try deleting and re-installing the plugin just to eliminate any load issues – unless you have just downloaded it, maybe download the latest version from my website so that we are both on version 1.4.

Then maybe we should try to eliminate plugin and theme conflicts

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

Come back and let me know.

[Robin W]

If you’re not seeing settings>forums in the reading/writing list then either your install is faulty or you have a conflict – these can cause parts of the backend to not display/go missing.

The easiest way to check would be to disable all plugins except bbp and switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve. If it all show up ok in that then either theme or plugin related, and you can start to work out which. However you may not want to do that on your live site !!!

Maybe get your test site going, and then revisit bbpress ?

[laternastudio]

For future readers, I was able to accomplish the redirect with this simple line of code:

add_filter( 'bbp_pre_get_user_profile_url', function() {
	return get_bloginfo('url').'/profile';
});

Very simple, really!

You can also change the default url for favorites and subscriptions by doing this:

// Replace the default link for the favorites
add_filter( 'bbp_get_favorites_permalink', function() {
	return get_bloginfo('url').'/profile/forum-favorites';
});

// Replace the default link for subscriptions
add_filter( 'bbp_get_subscriptions_permalink', function() {
	return get_bloginfo('url').'/profile/forum-subscriptions';
});

Of course, if you’re using pre PHP 5.3.1 (or are developing a plugin) you’ll need to create actual functions rather than using anonymous functions.

[Will Brownsberger]

I posted in this thread 15 months ago that W3 did not work with bbpress.

Have to love the speed though and I thought I’d try again with latest versions:
WP 3.9
W3 0.9.4
bbPress 2.5.3

My first round of testing, prior to trying it on live site, willbrownsberger.com, was successful — I focused most heavily on whether bbpress replies would trigger refreshes. They do seem to. Occasionally, a very little bit of a lag, enough to make a fast-fingered tester wonder, but it seems to OK.

So we are using it live now and will report back if we have any real problems.

For the record, my settings are as follows:
bbpress — anonymous topics and replies allowed (and that is what I carefully tested)
w3 total cache as follows:

GENERAL

Page Cache Enabled
Minify, not enabled
Database Cache enabled
Object Cache not enabled
Browser Cache not enabled (have settings in .htaccess)
CDN not enabled
Reverse Proxy not enabled
Monitoring not enabled
File locking not enabled
Verify Rewrite Rules enabled.

PAGE CACHE SETTINGS (all not checked except the following)

Cache front page
Don’t cache pages for logged in users
Automatically prime the page cache (default interval 900 seconds, 10 pages)
Preload the post cache upon publish
Purge Policy — defaults (front page, post page, blog feed, rss2)
Default advanced options

DATABASE CACHE SETTINGS
Don’t cache pages for logged in users
Default advanced options

[Robin W]

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[Robin W]

New bbpress installation?
Old installation with new problem?

Have you other plugins?

Try

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[Chad]

Bueller? Bueller? Anyone?

So here is what I have done since. I created a fresh install of WP 3.9. Deactivated any default apps. Installed BuddyPress. Installed bbPress. Checked to see what roles were created. None. Still had the standard WP Roles.

Can someone please correct me if I am wrong? Isn’t bbPress supposed to create the following roles:
Keymaster
Moderator
Participant
Spectator
Blocked

There is a good chance that I am totally missing something here and this is an easy fix. Does anyone have any thoughts? Suggestions?

If I’m just being totally ignorant and new roles don’t get created. Please tell me that too. Thanks!

[Stephen Edgar]

Switch to one of WordPress default themes, Twenty Thirteen or Twenty Fourteen.

If bbPress works try your theme again, if bbPress doesn’t deactivate the plugin, delete it and reinstall.

And or try deactivating all your plugins except bbPress then reactivate one by one until the error occurs to find a conflicting plugin.

[Mike]

Thanks, but I finished and moved on. I tried and failed with several different approaches like this, but copying and altering 2 functions took less than 2 minutes as the //comments were clear about how to disable the AJAX.

I took me almost 2 weeks part-time to customise the bbpress forum. I spent a lot of time messing with IDs and classes to target CSS changes and trying to figure out the proper code to modify defaults.

For example finding the code to return just an “edit” for replies was a matter of great googling and some luck.

[Robin W]

add the following to your functions file, and the sub forum descriptions will display

//This function adds descriptions to the sub forums
function custom_list_forums( $args = '' ) {

	// Define used variables
	$output = $sub_forums = $topic_count = $reply_count = $counts = '';
	$i = 0;
	$count = array();

	// Parse arguments against default values
	$r = bbp_parse_args( $args, array(
		'before'            => '<ul class="bbp-forums-list">',
		'after'             => '</ul>',
		'link_before'       => '<li class="bbp-forum">',
		'link_after'        => '</li>',
		'count_before'      => ' (',
		'count_after'       => ')',
		'count_sep'         => ', ',
		'separator'         => ', ',
		'forum_id'          => '',
		'show_topic_count'  => true,
		'show_reply_count'  => true,
	), 'list_forums' );

	// Loop through forums and create a list
	$sub_forums = bbp_forum_get_subforums( $r['forum_id'] );
	if ( !empty( $sub_forums ) ) {

		// Total count (for separator)
		$total_subs = count( $sub_forums );
		foreach ( $sub_forums as $sub_forum ) {
			$i++; // Separator count

			// Get forum details
			$count     = array();
			$show_sep  = $total_subs > $i ? $r['separator'] : '';
			$permalink = bbp_get_forum_permalink( $sub_forum->ID );
			$title     = bbp_get_forum_title( $sub_forum->ID );
			$content = bbp_get_forum_content($sub_forum->ID) ;

			// Show topic count
			if ( !empty( $r['show_topic_count'] ) && !bbp_is_forum_category( $sub_forum->ID ) ) {
				$count['topic'] = bbp_get_forum_topic_count( $sub_forum->ID );
			}

			// Show reply count
			if ( !empty( $r['show_reply_count'] ) && !bbp_is_forum_category( $sub_forum->ID ) ) {
				$count['reply'] = bbp_get_forum_reply_count( $sub_forum->ID );
			}

			// Counts to show
			if ( !empty( $count ) ) {
				$counts = $r['count_before'] . implode( $r['count_sep'], $count ) . $r['count_after'];
			}

			// Build this sub forums link
			$output .= $r['before'].$r['link_before'] . '<a href="' . esc_url( $permalink ) . '" class="bbp-forum-link">' . $title . $counts . '</a>' . $show_sep . $r['link_after'].'<div class="bbp-forum-content">'.$content.'</div>'.$r['after'];
		}

		// Output the list
		return $output ;
	}
}

add_filter('bbp_list_forums', 'custom_list_forums' );

[Robin W]

ah..

I would expect it to look like the second by default. If you take out the starter theme does it revert to that?

[Robin W]

maybe theme or plugin related.

Try

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[dustinarmstrong]

I just ran through and did a brand new install of WordPress with Twenty Fourteen as the theme, only plugins are bbPress and BuddyPress. It appears to have worked. I wiped the plugins, and tried again with no luck. Here’s a rundown of my process:

Permalinks set to postname.

bbPress installed first, forum root url set to ‘sound-off-forums’, saved. All other settings left default.

Page created with slug ‘sound-off-forums’, page works, shows forums as expected.

BuddyPress installed, default configuration left alone. ‘http://example.com/sound-off-forums’ fails to load, showing a 404 page.

I have no idea. It sounds like I’ll likely need to scrub the DB any trace of bbpress and buddypress from my environment and start over. Thanks for the help with everything. It must have just been an installation error.

[Robin W]

can you post a link?

I’d try switching themes to test if it is a theme issue

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[dustinarmstrong]

Been looking into this for a few days, and I can’t find a solution.

By default, bbpress offers two solutions for the index of a forum page:

• Using the default settings, and a customizable ‘forum root’ available in the settings panel
• Using a page with a shortcode to implement the section that you want

However, when you use the shortcode solution, there are two ‘forum root’ urls. The one that is associated with the page you want to use, and the one generated with the ‘forum root’ url.

For example, let’s say that I created the forum using the shortcode on site.com/discuss, and I need to use custom fields to customize the appearance of that page with a header, a hero graphic, and some descriptive text. I can style it, and it looks perfect. However, the site.com/forums url is still present in the forum topic urls (site.com/forums/post, not site.com/disucss/post), and as it’s own page without the custom styling.

While I could customize the page template for bbpress on site.com/forums, there are no methods for displaying fields defined by the client/user in the dashboard on that template, completely eliminating the purpose of using the custom page & shortcode option.

Are there any solutions for this or am I stuck? I’ve yet to find any solutions on this.

[Stephen Edgar]

Make sure you have the settings correct, check the e107_config.php file for the correct seetings:

eg.

$mySQLserver         = 'localhost';
$mySQLuser           = 'my_database_user_name';
$mySQLpassword       = 'my_database_password';
$mySQLdefaultdb      = 'my_database_name';
$mySQLprefix         = 'e107v1_';

[Stephen Edgar]

Add this code to your `themes functions.php file:

add_filter( 'bbp_after_get_the_content_parse_args', 'ntwb_bbp_enable_visual_editor' );
function ntwb_bbp_enable_visual_editor( $args = array() ) {
	$args['quicktags']         = array( 'buttons' => 'strong,em,block,del,ins,ul,ol,li,code,close' );

   return $args;
}

I have removed the default link and img items from the list so they do not show.

[Stephen Edgar]

Participants can create topics by default:

See the default capabilities here https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-user-roles-and-capabilities/

[tharsheblows]

Ah ha – and hmm, would it still pick up the rest of the defaults, eg img and blockquote and those? The correct answer to this question is “You have a test install, play with it and figure it out yourself.” so I will. Later.

I know what you mean about the amount that can be learned in 12 months. 12 months I was trying and trying to convince a client that they didn’t want a forum! Of course, that was for reasons other than development but it has turned out very well – cheap and easy (ok maybe not cheap and maybe not super simple when you count in moderation and user issues and all that) but an excellent way to get constantly updated content.

[Robin W]

could be plugin or theme related

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[Robin W]

bbpress largely picks up on your wordpress theme, use any of thevdefault ones and you’ll get a great look.

I use twentyten very successfully.

and look at the set up guides

Codex