[John James Jacoby]

Change the default role of new users to be a “Contributor” and let them go to town. That way you can moderate their posts, and publish the ones you want to publish.

[Robin W]

probably a conflict

Check other plugins

Check that no other plugins are affecting this.

Turn off all other plugins apart from bbpress, and see if that fixes the problem. If the problem is resolved, add back one at a time to see which is causing the conflict.

Check themes

If plugins are not the cause, then it may be a theme issue. Switch to a default theme, such as twentytwelve, and test.

[Robin W]

you can edit the profile page to prevent them changing it

In your theme create a bbpress folder

wp-content/themes/%yourtheme%/bbpress

where %yourtheme% is the name of your theme

then navigate to

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/form-user-edit.php

and copy this file to the bbpress folder you created above

bbpress will now use this one instead of the default.

edit this new file and take out lines 33 to 45

ie take out the following

<div>
			<label for="nickname"><?php _e( 'Nickname', 'bbpress' ); ?></label>
			<input type="text" name="nickname" id="nickname" value="<?php bbp_displayed_user_field( 'nickname', 'edit' ); ?>" class="regular-text" tabindex="<?php bbp_tab_index(); ?>" />
		</div>
		<div>
			<label for="display_name"><?php _e( 'Display Name', 'bbpress' ) ?></label>
			<?php bbp_edit_user_display_name(); ?>
		</div>
		<?php do_action( 'bbp_user_edit_after_name' ); ?>

This will remove the ability to set a nickname and to change the display name.

[sainfoinc]

Dear MTPrower (@mtprower),

Do you have resolve this issue? I am also surviving with same issue. I want to show certain list of forum in separate loop. Kindly help me.

My link is http://sainfoinc.net/zroor/forums
I created two Recent Forum (Help & Announcements)
i want to show them in different loop by using same design format.

If i succeed to show certain two forum separately, then how can i restrict to show them in main default forum list.

[Robin W]

I’d check to see if two plugins are conflicting or theme issue, or if it is server related.

Check other plugins

Check that no other plugins are affecting this.

Turn off all other plugins apart from bbpress, and see if that fixes the problem. If the problem is resolved, add back one at a time to see which is causing the conflict.

Check themes

If plugins are not the cause, then it may be a theme issue. Switch to a default theme, such as twentytwelve, and test.

Come back and tell us if any of those speeded it. If so then you know the problem, if not contact your service provider as it should be a few seconds at most.

[Robin W]

Sorry to hear this.

Try it with a default theme such as twentytwelve.

If this fixes, then it is a theme issue.

[arivuword]

Hi,

Forum search is not working. I am using bbpress version as 2.5.3. When i search the topics its redirecting to home page.

I have changed the Permalinks as default. then search is working fine.

When i changed the permalink as custom structure(/%category%/%postname%/), forum search is not working. I need Permalink as custom structure.

Kindly need help. Thanks in advance.

[Stephen Edgar]

Rather than the forum subscribe link we are actually in a topic 😉

bbPress has the two default links ‘Favorite’ and ‘Subscribe’ seperated by a |

The default before args forbbp_get_topic_subscription_link is 'before' => ' | ', so the below fork of Robin’s code should do what you need.

function hide_before ($args = array() ) {
$args['before'] = '';
return $args;
}
add_filter ('bbp_before_get_topic_subscribe_link_parse_args','hide_before')

[Robin W]

bbPress is tested against all the common browsers, so unlikely that it is a default issue (indeed mine works fine on all those browsers)

Could be any number of things, but as always start by eliminating plugins and themes viz ;

Check other plugins

Check that no other plugins are affecting this.

Turn off all other plugins apart from bbpress, and see if that fixes the problem. If the problem is resolved, add back one at a time to see which is causing the conflict.

Check themes

If plugins are not the cause, then it may be a theme issue. Switch to a default theme, such as twentytwelve, and test.

Come back and let us know if that helped, and what the issue was, or if still happening.

[Robin W]

You’ve been busy with this site, hope it’s getting there !

First I’d eliminate plugins and themes

Check other plugins

Check that no other plugins are affecting this.

Turn off all other plugins apart from bbpress, and see if that fixes the problem. If the problem is resolved, add back one at a time to see which is causing the conflict.

Check themes

If plugins are not the cause, then it may be a theme issue. Switch to a default theme, such as twentytwelve, and test.

If still doing it – come back.

[Stephen Edgar]

The [bbp-topic-index] shortcode will use the default 15 topics based on bbPress ‘Topics per page’ setting, upping this to 25 will show 25 topics per page on the topics view (example.com/topics), the topics page for each single forum and again the same for any place you use the above shortcode.

[lizat]

Hi all,

Robin suggested that it is possible to expand and collapse the replies in a thread. However my php skills are rudimentary so I am wondering if someone has the solution?

This is what I want – in perfect world:

• to allow replies to have a title (they do in the back end but never when the user is posting)
• to display a thread as a collapsed, and indented, list using the title (or first line if titles proves impossible) as the default view
• to offer an expand “button” to allow the user to see the full text of anything that is collapsed
• to offer a collapse”button” to allow the user to collapse and expanded item
• to complete the usability it would be good to have a config parameter that the user sets to indicate if he wants collapsed or expanded threads as default – but this is a plug-in change, I include it here for completeness

If anyone has don anything similar please share it, I think it may be a good addition to the dev requests in the long-run?

Thank you……… liz

[Stephen Edgar]

I just had a quick look and I’d say the following thread has some tips and suggestions.

https://wordpress.org/ideas/topic/default-links-to-open-in-new-window-ie-target-_blank

I am also of the belief that target=_blank is not a good thing at all, I’ll happily call out people using it and not return to their site because they use it, and I know I am far from the only person with this opinion.

[Robin W]

Ok, sorry yes I get it now !

Try

function hide_before ($args = array() ) {
$args['before'] = '';
return $args;
}
add_filter ('bbp_before_get_forum_subscribe_link_parse_args','hide_before') ;

Let me know if it works – it is blank by default, so not sure why your’s has a | in it.

[shpitzyl]

The script in the link is working, you probably haven’t closed it with php tags.

Put this in bp-custom.php in the plugins folders

<?php
function bp_exclude_profile_tabs() {
global $bp;

$bp->bp_nav['forums'] = false;
}
add_action( 'bp_setup_nav', 'bp_exclude_profile_tabs', 999 );
?>

If you prefer to do it with css, you need to copy bbpress.css from:
plugins/bbpress/templates/default/css

And put it in:
themes/[your child theme folder]/css

(if you don’t have a css folder in your child theme, create one)
Then put the css rule mentioned above somewhere in the file.

[Robin W]

This warning is contained in three templates all in
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/tempates/default/bbpress/

form-forum.php
form-reply.php
form-topic.php

You can create a folder in the root of your theme called ‘bbpress’ and copy these three themes to it, and then alter this text to read whatever you like, or remove it.

Or you could add the following code to your functions file

//This function changes the text wherever it is quoted
function change_translate_text( $translated_text ) {
	if ( $translated_text == 'Your account has the ability to post unrestricted HTML' ) {
	$translated_text = 'new text';
	}
	return $translated_text;
}
add_filter( 'gettext', 'change_translate_text', 20 );

Just make ‘new text’ whatever you want.

or you could probably get you function to do something, but I don’t offhand know what you’d need to do.

[Robin W]

Looks like it’s wider than just bbpress from this post.

http://evidentiasoftware.com/forums/topic/object-stores-not-found/

Have you added/upgraded any software lately?

Ok, first I’d check plugins and theme to discount these.

Check other plugins

Check that no other plugins are affecting this.

Turn off all other plugins apart from bbpress, and see if that fixes the problem. If the problem is resolved, add back one at a time to see which is causing the conflict.

Check themes

If plugins are not the cause, then it may be a theme issue. Switch to a default theme, such as twentytwelve, and test.

come back if that doesn’t pinpoint your problem.

[batmanfan]

I tried but seem to have no success with this ‘tags’ 🙁

1) on the default ‘topic tags’ widget, how to increase the number of tags display e.g. up to 100 tags?
2) I tried this plugin “Simple Tags” set up, but nothing is displaying. Perhaps I didn’t set up correctly? or any plugin that might work better?

Thank you so much for your help.

[Stephen Edgar]

In the theme here on bbpress.org they are the ‘default’ sizes, it is just a sidebar with the shortcode [bbp-topic-tags].

If you want to add custom sizes to a custom template part then something like this is a goo d start:

<?php wp_tag_cloud( array( 'smallest' => 12, 'largest' => 16, 'number' => 16, 'taxonomy' => bbp_get_topic_tag_tax_id() ) ); ?>

[Robin W]

Ok, on your first :

This is to do with your theme and it’s page templates, not bbPress directly.

what you will need to do is create a bbpress.php file and into that put the page layout

see

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1

for creating a bbpress page to use

Then see

http://brookswebdesign.net/how-to-create-a-wordpress-template-with-left-sidebar/

for creating a left hand sidebar.

On your second, this is either

related to your theme and how it is displaying content. Switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve for a moment and see it is it then displaying – in default all with not be indented.

or

maybe because you are using threading on dashboard>settings>forums>reply threading

Let me know which, and I’ll take a lokk to see how to get all to ident

[lizat]

I want to change the default look of my forums.

1. I like the way this forum and the index looks. The Index has a summary of the forums and the forum threads page has a summary of forum stats. In both cases these are in a left sidebar. How can I achieve this?
2. Currently the first item in the forum is justified left. The first reply under it is also justified left, rather than indented. Subsequent replies are then indented as I would expect. How can I get the first reply indented…. a CSS change?

Thank you……….liz

[lizat]

I want to change the template used for my forums index and the forum itself – currently it is using a default that has a sidebar that I don’t want.

I think they live in …/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress. So I can create new ones in my child theme if I only knew which to copy?

Is there a list anywhere of which is what…. the codex doesn’t seem to have it. Right now I need to know the ones for:

• Forums Index page
• Forum list of threads page
• Thread Page

Thank you

liz

[batmanfan]

Thanks Robin.
I could see something… /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/js/editor.js?ver=2.5.3-5249

what does this mean? which theme/template they use?

[kvr28]

copy loop-forums.php from plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress into your theme directory, overwrite whats in the file with this code. bbpress will look for the file first in your theme before it looks in the bbpress directory, that way if bbpress updates, you won’t lose the file update. Should get the look you want

    <?php
     
    /**
     * Forums Loop
     *
     * @package bbPress
     * @subpackage Theme
     */
     
    ?>
     
    <?php do_action( 'bbp_template_before_forums_loop' ); ?>
     
    <?php while ( bbp_forums() ) : bbp_the_forum();
                   
                    /* We print the header only if we want to show a category or if it's the first item of a no-parent forum list */
                    if (bbp_is_forum_category() OR !$bbp_forums_noheader)
                            { ?>
     
                            <ul id="forums-list-<?php bbp_forum_id(); ?>" class="bbp-forums">
     
                                    <li class="bbp-header">
     
                                            <ul class="forum-titles">
                                                    <li class="bbp-forum-info"><?php if(bbp_is_forum_category()) { ?><a>"><?php bbp_forum_title(bbp_get_forum_parent_id()); ?></a><?php } else { _e( 'Forum', 'bbpress' ); } ?>
                                                    <li class="bbp-forum-topic-count"><?php _e( 'Topics', 'bbpress' ); ?>
                                                    <li class="bbp-forum-reply-count"><?php bbp_show_lead_topic() ? _e( 'Replies', 'bbpress' ) : _e( 'Posts', 'bbpress' ); ?>
                                                    <li class="bbp-forum-freshness"><?php _e( 'Freshness', 'bbpress' ); ?>
                                            
     
                                    <!-- .bbp-header -->
    <?php           } ?>
     
                            <li class="bbp-body">
           
    <?php           /* If the forum is a category, we're gonna make another loop to show its subforums and sub-subforums as if those were forums */
                            if(bbp_is_forum_category())
                                    {
     
                                    $temp_query = clone bbpress()->forum_query;
                                    bbp_has_forums('post_parent='.bbp_get_forum_id());
                                    while ( bbp_forums() ) : bbp_the_forum();
                                    bbp_get_template_part( 'loop', 'single-forum' );
                                    endwhile;
                                    bbpress()->forum_query = clone $temp_query;
     
                                    }
                                            else /* Otherwise, we print the forums the normal way */
                                    {      
     
                                    bbp_get_template_part( 'loop', 'single-forum' );
                                    $bbp_forums_noheader = 1; /* This prevents the header part to be printed again on next post in the loop */
     
                                    } ?>
     
                            <!-- .bbp-body -->
     
    <?php           /* Prints the footer only if :
                                    - it's a category
                                    - or if it's the last forum of a no-parent forum list
                                    - or if the next forum in the loop is a category */
     
                            if(     bbp_is_forum_category()
                            OR      (bbpress()->forum_query->current_post+1) == bbpress()->forum_query->post_count
                            OR      bbp_is_forum_category(bbpress()->forum_query->posts[ bbpress()->forum_query->current_post + 1 ]->ID))
                            { ?>
     
                            <li class="bbp-footer">
     
                                    <div class="tr">
                                            <p class="td colspan4">&nbsp;</p>
                                    </div><!-- .tr -->
     
                            <!-- .bbp-footer -->
     
                    <!-- .forums-directory -->
     
    <?php   unset($bbp_forums_noheader); /* Needed if we have 2+ no-parent forums with at least 1 category between them */
                    }  ?>
     
    <?php endwhile; ?>
     
     
    <?php do_action( 'bbp_template_after_forums_loop' ); ?>

[Robin W]

ok, you need to eliminate whether it is a plugin or theme issue

Check other plugins

Check that no other plugins are affecting this.

Turn off all other plugins apart from bbpress, and see if that fixes the problem. If the problem is resolved, add back one at a time to see which is causing the conflict.

Check themes

If plugins are not the cause, then it may be a theme issue. Switch to a default theme, such as twentytwelve, and test.

and come back and let us know