[Jeff Farthing]

Yes, I figured this out on my own.

[Heavenlyz]

Wordpress version: 3.5.1
bbPress version: 2.3
site: http://www.heavenlyz.com

Apologies if this is considered cross-posting, as this appears as a reply to another thread (but that other thread title isn’t similar). The other thread is… http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/non-functional-index-page-when-bbpress-2-1rc4-is-used-with-woothemes-canvas-5-05/#post-133638

Ok, so newbie here who knows html and understands coding but is really keen to not screw up the site that someone else has built for me (so apologies if the answer is above and I’m not seeing it).

The site is http://www.heavenlyz.com and, I think, I’m using the “Nollie” theme.

I’ve installed bbpress, created a couple of forums and – via the great info on this thread – created a page called “Boardroom”, into which I’ve inserted the “[bbp-forum-index]” shortcode. Hey presto, after much head scratching, I can now see a forum index on http://www.heavenlyz.com/boardroom/…woohoo

But, my next challenge is to be able to open one of the forums shown. Am struggling with this.

Having searched, the most relevant answer seems to be… http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/non-functional-index-page-when-bbpress-2-1rc4-is-used-with-woothemes-canvas-5-05/#post-133638

If you think there is a better (read “easier” 🙂 solution, then please suggest but if not, please read on…

Because I am using the Nollie theme – I think – the parent/ child argument in that thread doesn’t apply, so am looking at changing the root page.php only (to be honest, I wouldn’t know how to work out whether the child page exists/ how to find the child page).

In the thread linked to above, Lab says

Next, change the entry div as shown, to modify the current conditional check to ALSO see if you are on a bbPress page. Without this extra bit, it assumes that you want the page to show the_excerpt() on every page other than single.php …. not true. We want full content on bbPress pages as well

But my page.php says…

ID, ‘mfn-post-layout’, true) ) {
case ‘left-sidebar’:
$class = ‘ with_aside aside_left’;
break;
case ‘right-sidebar’:
$class = ‘ with_aside aside_right’;
break;
default:
$class = ”;
break;
}
?>

Where’s the “entry div”? Apologies if this is a laughably stupid question.

All help appreciated. N.b. As I’m learning, to start with, I’d rather keep the changes simple and effective rather than complex and golden.

[Heavenlyz]

Ok, so newbie here who knows html and understands coding but is really keen to not screw up the site that someone else has built for me (so apologies if the answer is above and I’m not seeing it).

The site is http://www.heavenlyz.com and, I think, I’m using the “Nollie” theme.

I’ve installed bbpress, created a couple of forums and – via the great info on this thread – created a page called “Boardroom”, into which I’ve inserted the “[bbp-forum-index]” shortcode. Hey presto, after much head scratching, I can now see a forum index on http://www.heavenlyz.com/boardroom/…woohoo 🙂

But, my next challenge is to be able to open one of the forums shown. Am struggling with this.

Because I am using the Nollie theme – I think – the parent/ child argument doesn’t apply, so am looking at changing the root page.php

Above, Lab says

Next, change the entry div as shown, to modify the current conditional check to ALSO see if you are on a bbPress page. Without this extra bit, it assumes that you want the page to show the_excerpt() on every page other than single.php …. not true. We want full content on bbPress pages as well

But my page.php says…

ID, ‘mfn-post-layout’, true) ) {
case ‘left-sidebar’:
$class = ‘ with_aside aside_left’;
break;
case ‘right-sidebar’:
$class = ‘ with_aside aside_right’;
break;
default:
$class = ”;
break;
}
?>

<div id="Content" class="subpage”>

<?php
if( $class ) echo '’;

while ( have_posts() )
{
the_post();
get_template_part( ‘includes/content’, ‘page’ );
}

if( $class ) echo ”;
?>

Where’s the “entry div”? Apologies if this is a laughably stupid question.

All help appreciated. N.b. As I’m learning, to start with, I’d rather keep the changes simple and effective rather than complex and golden.

[Pippin Williamson]

There is a plugin that makes the Subscribe to Replies option checked by default. Would that work for you? It would only apply when users posted a reply though.

[NewSha]

I’m running bbpress for a small group of users. I need to make all current and future users to be automatically subscribed to everything.
I’m looking for the easiest way to make all users subscribed to all topics by default.
Similar topic, but the solution was not found.

Thank you!

[webheadcoder]

I just figured it out. I found a bunch of other topics on this and found a hint at: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-2-3-default-role-not-assigned/

Basically I went to Settings->Forums and checked the “Auto role” checkbox that says “Automatically assign default role to new, registered users upon visiting the site.”. After checking this the Forums, Topics, Replies menus showed up and my user was assigned a role. I then unchecked the Auto role setting since it was originally unchecked. not sure if it should be checked or unchecked in the long term.

[sertefi]

Hi Guys,
this might sound easy to achieve but I am newbie 😀

how can I change the sidebar of the forum.
I have created (registred) a new sidebar named it ” forum “.
I went to : plugins\bbpress\templates\default\extras and edited this: into this :

But it’s still showing the sidebar of the default wordpress pages.
am I editing the right files?

Thanks for your help.

[kraigg]

@ovizii

It could be one of your plugins that is blocking regular users from posting. I had a similar problem last month and I thought it was a bbPress problem, but it turned out to be another plugin.

If you have a production version of your website, try to deactivate all of our plugins except bbPress and User Role Editor. Also try to switch back to the default theme, just to confirm that it’s not something in your functions.php that is causing problems. What version of bbPress and WordPress are you using?

The other thing to try is to use User Role Editor to add capabilities to your Participant role, and keep adding until it fixes the posting issue. Then at least you’ll be able to pinpoint the capability that is causing the problem. But first make sure to create a backup of the Participant role so you can revert back to it.

[John James Jacoby]

Looks like it did change, but only for the positive in this regard:

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/4336

[John James Jacoby]

My guess is no; or that the default option value changed in 2.3 (I don’t recall) and there is no option in the DB.

[Jared Atchison]

Do you have auto role set in the bbPress settings?

[Jeff Farthing]

Ever since I have upgraded to 2.3, new users are not assigned the default forum role.

WP Version: 3.5.1 (Multisite)
bbPress Version: 2.3

http://www.jfarthing.com/support/

[Chip Bennett]

Upon update to bbPress 2.3, I appeared to lose a considerable amount of my style customizations. To isolate the issue, I manually enqueued [theme]\css\bbpress.css, and all styling returned. So, it appears that the issue is merely that this file is not getting enqueued by bbPress.

As it turns out: I have a bbpress-functions.php file in [theme]\bbpress, which was taking precedence over the Plugin’s templates\default\bbpress-functions.php file, which handles the stylesheet and script enqueueing.

Apparently, unlike with WordPress Child Themes, in which the Child Theme functions.php merely loads *prior* to the template (Parent Theme) functions.php, with bbPress Theme compat, if the Theme includes \bbpress\bbpress-functions.php, that file will take *precedence* over the Plugin’s \templates\default\bbpress-functions.php file, and prevent it from loading at all.

The solution is simple: if you include a functional file (e.g. for adding/removing various filters) as part of your bbPress Theme compat, don’t include it as [theme]\bbpress\bbpress-functions.php file. In my case, I renamed that file as [themename]-bbpress-functions.php, and the problem was resolved.

Hopefully this will help someone else who encounters the same issue.

[Mudstacle]

Hi there,

I’ve got a forum that doesn’t show, I believe it is a theme issue as default wordpress theme works okay, I’m running ExtremeSport 2.0 from http://smthemes.com/ ( http://smthemes.com/extremesport/ )

It worked okay with 2.2.4 I’m not sure where to start looking for the issue (I’m a c# developer by trade 🙂 ).

[kraigg]

@ovizii

How I got it working was to set the Forum Role for all existing users (non-admin) to ‘Participant’. I did this in Dashboard > Users > All Users, then found the users that had no forum roles. Once I changed these users to ‘Participant’ they were then able to post again.

To automate this process, I set ‘Participant’ as the default forum role for users. I did this in Settings > Forums
“Default user role”: Participant
“Auto role”: (tick) Automatically assign default role to new, registered users upon visiting the site.

However I think this problem may have been fixed in the latest bbPress

[Michael4fm]

Can anyone help me with sizing of navigation tabs?

Using:  WordPress 3.5.1, BuddyPress 1.7, Montezuma (Bytesforall) theme. Difficult to ‘just switch’ to Twenty Ten / Twenty Eleven as it’s a ‘presentation’ problem.

I’m trying to resize BP navigation tabs to match others I’m using – see this example. As you can see, I’m managing to resize the ‘sub menu’ navigation, but not the ‘top level’ … even though they’re using (as far as I can ascertain) exactly the same CSS classes, ID, etc.

I’ve played with CSS in the Montezuma theme, in BP Template plugin, and in ‘default.css’ in the main BP plugin. Can anyone suggest where I should be looking? Driving me mad that I can’t crack what should be such a simple thing!

[smithgt]

Simple noob question, but where do I specify the default page template for the forum? I need to switch for a FullWidth Template.

thanks

[premitheme]

Okay, not sure if this is the reason, but after your last reply a searched a little bit, found this ticket https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2070 and started to think that it’s a problem in the URL.

The only difference between XAMPP and MAMP (free) is that XAMPP uses “localhost” host name, while MAMP (free) uses “localhost:8888” when using MAMP ports by default (MAMP pro uses “localhost” that tell why it works OK with you). So I went to MAMP preferences and changed the ports settings to use default Apache and MySQL ports to use “localhost” instead of “localhost:8888”, and finally posting topics and replies is available again 🙂

Even better I setup a virtual hostname manually in MAMP (free) and the everything works fine.

I hope this will help others with the same issue with MAMP (free). Thanks for your time @johnjamesjacoby and @netweb, great work and keep it up.

[John James Jacoby]

Not entirely sure how you arrived at that solution, but I can’t imagine any of it ever working correctly. 🙂

The wp action happens before WP_Roles is called, so it’s too soon in the stack. You’re also missing a bunch of sanity checks that bbp_set_current_user_default_role already does for you; no sense in duplicating only some of that work.

You could try hooking into init but, again, I suspect something in the iMember360 plugin is interfering and won’t allow that to work correctly either.

You *should* actually be debugging the setup_current_user action, to see if bbp_set_current_user_default_role is even firing, and if it is, where it’s failing.

If you’re looking for a brute-force kludge, something like this is probably closer to what you need:

function earthman_force_current_user_caps() {
	global $current_user;

	// Only for logged in users
	if ( ! is_user_logged_in() )
		return;

	// Reload the current user with correct capabilities
	$current_user = bbpress()->current_user = get_user_by( 'id', bbp_get_current_user_id() );

	// Try to give them a role on the site, if they need one
	bbp_set_current_user_default_role();
}
add_action( 'bbp_template_redirect', 'earthman_force_current_user_caps', -99 );

[Earthman Media]

Well I got this far, but every time I try to call the function you suggested, or try to add the role manually, it breaks. Any ideas what I might be missing, please?

add_action( 'wp', 'bbp_check_user_role_on_load' );
function bbp_check_user_role_on_load() {
	global $user_ID;
	
	//do they have a role set already?
	$has_bbp_role = bbp_get_user_role( $user_ID );
	if(!$has_bbp_role){ //nope, add default BBP role 
	
		//tried this but it breaks it
		//bbp_set_current_user_default_role();
	
		// Load up bbPress once
		$bbp = bbpress();
		$new_role = 'participant';
		
		//this breaks too - wtf?
		//$bbp->current_user->add_role( $new_role );
		
	}	
}

[John James Jacoby]

@earthman100 – Search for `bbp_set_current_user_default_role` – it’s hooked to `bbp_setup_current_user`, which is hooked to `setup_current_user`, which seems odd that any plugin would bypass completely, since pretty much everything a user does is linked to it.

Which is to say, I don’t think manually handling the login or user-creation process is the problem; I think this plugin is `_doing_it_wrong()` by invoking the current user far too early, before bbPress ever has a chance to hook in.

[John James Jacoby]

Anyone having issues with MAMP, I run MAMP Pro locally, and have used it to develop bbPress since years back. MAMP isn’t the issue, something else is, and it should not have changed between bbPress 2.2 and 2.3.

For people having issues accessing the administration area, your account needs the “Key Master” role to access the “Forums” menu, and at least “Moderator” to access “Topics and “Replies.”

• In the past, these checks were using the `is_super_admin()` function, which would default to users with the “Administrator” role on single-site installations.
• Those that have fixed it using the auto-role setting, bbPress is automatically granting Administrators the Key Master role.
• Auto-role should most likely be turned on anyways; it’s only a setting to allow site-owners the option to let other role plugins handle that instead.

People wanting to go back to using an old version of bbPress, I’d highly advise that you troubleshoot your installations and stick with 2.3. Rolling back is a temporary fix that doesn’t help track down what’s going on; when we’re willing and available to help you figure out what is going on, it’s best to take advantage of the free support instead.

[Stephen Edgar]

@alexiousrahl Search is enabled by default, you should be able to see the search form at the top of your forums list eg. http://example.com/forums/

I have also updated the Shortcodes and Widgets codex pages.

[WayneM1]

With the most recent botnet attack on WordPress powered websites, I’m (once again) reviewing the measures I take to secure my WP installations.

Most WP admins understand the importance of not using the default “admin” username when setting up a site. Many WP admins do not realize that simply using a different main admin username is not enough. That username should be “obscure” (not easily guessed) and it certainly should not be the same as the publicly displayed “nickname” that is associated with the user account. Those need to be different – this helps to prevent bots and bad people from getting the first part of your login credentials = your username.

While I been taking action to ensure this is the case on the WP sites I manage, I’ve noticed a problem with the way that bbpress displays username information. Even if a user has a “nickname” that is different from the actual username – when you hover over a link to the user’s profile the URL will show the actual username (the one you are trying to hide through obscurity).

There is an older thread on the WP forums that seems to suggest that this is not a WP core issue, but rather a plugin/theme coding issue. I don’t know if that is correct, or not. But, it is an issue in any case and needs to be addressed.

[atburi]

@dpmcalister very strange. Once I went to Settings / Forums / and ticked the check box:

“Automatically assign default role to new, registered users upon visiting the site.”

then saved, the ‘Forums’, ‘Topics’, and ‘Replies’ admin menus showed up.

Guess this is a bug they’ll fix shortly, but for now there’s a quick fix!