[Stephen Edgar]

Just follow the steps in the document https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-in-your-language/

Set `define (‘WPLANG’, ‘fr_FR’);` in your WordPress `wp-config.php`

Download the .po & .mo files

• 0% Translated – https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/2.2.x/fr/default
• 11% Translated – https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/dev/fr/default

Rename the files

• bbpress-plugin-fr-fr.po to bbpress-fr_FR.po
• bbpress-plugin-fr-fr.mo to bbpress-fr_FR.mo

Upload both files to `/wp-content/languages/bbpress/ `

I would suggest you use the following page to ask if anyone in the French WordPress community has fully translated bbPress as the translations linked above are 0% & 11% https://fr.wordpress.org/contact/

If you are trying to translate the theme DynamiX or ‘codestyling localization’ plugin then they are issues with their respective authors.

[xmasons]

Let’s try this again…

Open up the following PHP document in the bbPress plugin, found at –

bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/user-profile.php

Using the AIM field as an example, add the following –

`
`

Now you probably shouldn’t alter these files, as the next time bbPress is updated, the update will overwrite this. You’ll need to make a copy of the file under your theme directory. So it should look like this –

yourTheme/bbpress/user-profile.php

[Erlend]

Hmm, how strange that it shows correctly for you, as it’s like this for me on two different machines.

Regarding the custom buttons, I don’t think those should be displayed by default in the forum editor, no. Custom buttons and icons can be very useful in posts, but I don’t see them being useful to the majority of forum users. That said, I also think that custom buttons/shortcodes is plugin territory.

[PaulieP]

Looked for an answer and couldnt find it…

For the Forum page, I have a full width template selected. So initial view of the forums is fine, but once you click on an individual forum, or topic within, the width is squashed since it apparently ignores the page template and uses single.php…..

The forum defaulting to single.php which is useless in most circumstances where you have a 300px sidebar (many sites) as the default bbpress forum theme gets squashed.

How do I fix it so that it properly uses the full width? Thanks.

[JavaDjie]

how do I remove the sidebar on wordpress forums?
Since the forum does not appear on the list page.

and secondly, how do I customize bbPress login widget?
Because the default widget does not match my template.
thank you

[Stephen Edgar]

I tried to reproduce your issue but cannot, are you using any plugins that might cause this to be alter from the default WordPress 3.5.1 & bbPress 2.2.4/2.3 behaviour?

Create a user `1 2 3` via WordPress /wp-login.php?action=register
`ERROR: This username is invalid because it uses illegal characters. Please enter a valid username.`

Create user `1 2 3` via bbPress widget/page template (page-user-register.php)
`Registration complete. Please check your e-mail.`

Confirmation email with username and password
Username:`1 2 3`

Via /wp-admin/user-edit.php user details are:
Username: `1 2 3` Nickname: `1 2 3` Display Name:`1 2 3`

Via phpMyAdmin `wp_users` database table:
user_login:`1 2 3` user_nicename: `1-2-3`display_name:`1 2 3`

To log in to bbPress using the either a page using the the page template page-user-login.php or the bbPress widget I must use the username `1 2 3`

[Stephen Edgar]

What did you use for the ‘Table Prefix’?

The default for bbPress 1.x is `bb_`

You can find that either with phpMyAdmin or from bb-config.php in your bbPress install folder.

`$bb_table_prefix = ‘bb_’;`

[MarjoriesDaughter]

I have a client who would like to keep participants from creating new topics. I have checked out the file bbp-core-caps.php, but when it comes to giving Participants capabilities, the code is
// bbPress Participant Role
case bbp_get_participant_role()
instead of defining the capabilities list like it does for Adminstrator, Moderator and default.

I could use a clue where to go to shut off the topic creation capability for participants.

Thank you!

[Bryan Eggers]

I just imported a phpBB forum of 2000 members and 100,000 posts.  I was getting an error that MySQL died so I changed a couple of settings in my.cnf to keep the connection alive.  You can also change the default wait time in the importer from 1 to 3 to give everything time to catch up.

Unfortunately, the forums get imported in seemingly random order so you’ll have to edit each forum and use the Order field to display them properly.

If you’ve already run the importer once, check to see if you’ve already imported the members.  Clearing the previous attempt doesn’t clear the members you imported, only the forum data.  So if you run the entire import again you’ll get duplicate usernames (like Joe and ImportedJoe) and all the forum links will be wrong.  I used a plugin in that lets you mass delete members, and then started over from scratch.  Honestly, it took me several times to get it right.

[Lynq]

bbPress is a wordpress plugin, for me personally I love it, everything I can do in wordpress I can then bring into my forum. If you have ever developed any wordpress plugins then bbPress will be a good choice for developing something custom inside a forum.

Some small things aren’t quite there yet as default, but there is usually a way to solve it using plugins or community suggestions. I would say the biggest selling point for me using bbPress is the way you can customise it using the power of wordpress, you don’t get that with many if any other forum solutions.

[bob marteal]

Hi,

So how do we make that form go back to the page it came from? By default it just dumps you back on the homepage.

[sdocpublishing]

Hi Stephen–
I’m taking you up on your invite to talk about phpBB imports.
In advance of upgrading a client’s site from (very VERY outdated WP and phpBB) I created a sandbox with WP 3.5.1 and phpBB 3.
There’s not a whole lot here, as I’m just using it to find the best way to integrate the bulletin board w/ the WP site, so the BB can be access-controlled for paid members.
Site: sdocplayground.com/wordpress
Imported forum: http://sdocplayground.com/wordpress/index.php/forums/
bbPress v 2.3 beta 2
Theme = twenty twelve
The phpBB install has about 1400 users and at least 50K posts and was created in mid-2004. My client wants to keep *everything*.

Here’s what happens when I run the import:
Default settings are left alone (pause after 100 lines, 1 second between, etc
All users are imported seamlessly.
When the import process gets to “calculating board hierarchy”, it hangs. I let the import run for an hour then check the results in the “forum” admin tab.
It appears that all of the posts have been imported. (The numbers in each of the categories is right.) But when you try to visit any of the forums/categories, they’re empty.
So then I run the “repair” functions one by one. Now it seems that most of the posts are gone and the most recent are from 2004. (Most recent should be from 11/2012). Some posts are visible but there are no responses where they should be.

Am I missing a step, or is some setting not correct, or is the beta version of the plugin just not doing what I need it to do? I would love to have all of my site’s content in one interface but I can’t find where the content goes. What am I missing?

[Darren1981]

Hey again, Sorry 2 questions in one day 🙁

OK here is what i am thinking… Rather than using /forums/ for my main forum page i would like to create my own custom Forums page.. Now would this need to be done via a BBpress template or simply by creating a WordPress page and then using shortcodes to display specific forums..

Doing the above assuming it was possible.. i would call the WP page “Forums” but this would conflict with the BBpress Forums base which by default is “forums” so yeah i am at a little bit of a loss here.

Again as always THANKS in advance to anyone who takes the time to reply / assist me with this.

Regards, Darren

[Bryan Eggers]

I’m also a new user and trying to resolve some issues with an installation using the Frisco theme.  I have the theme set to default to the Forum page which is this link (I’m still in Maintenance mode but hopefully you’ll know the answer anyway):

http://www.wwe-club.com/wordpress/

The list of Forumsworks fine.  When I click on a specific forum, the breadcrumb link looks like this:

Forums › Forums › General Wrestling Discussion

The question is, why two “Forums”?  The first one links to the default home page and works fine.

The second one leads to:

http://www.wwe-club.com/wordpress/forums

which is a blank page. How can I get rid of that second “Forum”? Thanks!

[jeffacubed]

@ashenkargmailcom – I did make ‘some-sort’ of progress on this today, taking a previous multisite install (wp 3.5.1) and then running the latest bp + bbp ‘trunk’ (bp 1.7 beta2 & bbp 2.3 beta1). In this test I had:

a. Buddypress network activated
b. bbPress only activated in the root (site 1 in my case of a 3 site multisite)

The inability to create group forum topics persists with the default buddypress theme, my Genesis Theme (Agency running Genesis Connect) HOWEVER, creating new topics (w/in group forums) does seem to work if I activate the twenty-twelve theme OR activating the genesis theme (agency) without Genesis Connect. I’m still not 100% sure what this means, though it leads me to think the the issue may not be in the database (which is where I previously thought the malfunction-at-the-junction happened…).

In a second test, I did this:

a. Buddypress only activated in the root (site 1 in my case of a 3 site multisite)
b. bbPress only activated in the root (site 1 in my case of a 3 site multisite)

& any theme (genesis w/ genesis connect, buddypress default) will allow the full creation of group topics. The same applies (as Fee) pointed out above if both bp & bbp are network activated. The only unworkable situation (for me) seems to be bp (network active) & bbp (single (root) site active).

Still not resolved (to my liking) but perhaps eliminating some variables…

[amusingblog]

Thanks. I’ll try that. I don’t think it’s a theme OR a plugin issue, since I deactivated (and actually ended up deleting all plugins but BBpress) and switched the the default theme.

[jasoncoffee]

I would like to make Recent Posts the default view for http://coffeecupnews.org/forum , Currently it is Forums. (I think it’s more beneficial to the community to see what’s new than to see a list of forums every time they visit the page.)

[macbort]

While I am also experiencing the create group topics issue already documented on other threads, this issue sounds more like the one @sydneydesigner noted a couple of months ago. However, his workaround does not work for me, and you will see why below.

Issue background:

My client’s site has BuddyPress installed alongside bbPress. They want group forums as an option within BuddyPress groups.

In order to use bbPress for this functionality, I have unchecked Discussion Forums within the BuddyPress settings and enabled the Allow BuddyPress Groups to have their own forums option under the bbPress forums settings (Settings > Forums > BuddyPress section).

What’s happening:

When I navigate to a BuddyPress group admin and go to enable forums for it, I see the following (image link):

However, when I check the box and click Save Settings, nothing happens. Looking at the html for the page reveals the following:

• Gist
• screenshot

It appears that the form tag(s) are missing, so there is nothing there to POST against.

I was able to enable/disable the option by temporarily switching the theme to the BuddyPress default theme and saving the setting that way. It does not appear to work from client’s normal theme, however.

Doing some digging, the edit_screen() function found in bbpress/includes/extend/buddypress/group.php seems to generate the checkbox and text for enabling/disabling a group forum, while the form element that should be there looks like it’s from the groups/single/admin.php template file.

Does anyone have any insight into why the form element wouldn’t be loaded into this group admin page?

Version information:

WordPress version: 3.5.1
bbPress version: 2.2.4
BuddyPress version: 1.6.4
Genesis Connect for BuddyPress version: 1.2
bbPress Genesis Extend version: 0.8.4
Genesis version: 1.9.1
Genesis Child Theme: Blissful version 1.0

[davidfan]

I managed to create a child theme and upload the default theme from 2.1.3 and everything works fine now. Still trying with the default template from 2.2.4.

[moonoi]

I’m no expert on bbpress theming, but I got it working on my site.

The bbpress theme files are in the `bbpress/templates/default` folder.

Whatever you copy from this core bbp theme folder into your own theme folder will override the core bbp theme files. (I think).

Probably someone more knowing about bbpress theming should help you out further, but until then, I hope I might have gotten you going again.

This is a nice guide to what the individual theme files actually do:
http://perishablepress.com/bbpress-theme-template-files/

[Pieterp]

Hey all

I’m running bbpress with wordpress, WPML, buddypress and the buddybosstheme. I have three fora with three subfora each, two fora and their subfora are translations of the default EN fora and subfora respectively.

When I want to create a new topic in NL or FR, these are posted under the default langguage and do not show up in the list of topics of the subforum.
Changing the language in the backend to the correct one does make them show up. If you view a topic you can’t see the actual content.
Same thing for replies. Replies don’t show up, even if you change the language.

Could anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance

Pieter

[moonoi]

It is in the template files `form_reply.php` and `form_topic.php`

The line that calls the WP_Editor class to create the textarea using the relatively new WordPress core front end editor is this one:

`bbp_the_content( array(‘context’ => ‘reply’)`

You can look into the `bbp_the_content` function to see how BBP does it and how you can circumvent default behaviour.

Notice that this line only applies if the fancy editor is enabled for the current user*. Otherwise the template file falls back to display the classical textarea (which is also the one used in this forum).

*) It seems there’s a bug in BBP 2.2.4 making the fancy editor available only to the keymaster. This can be overridden in the code of course.

[FlipFlop]

Thanks for this guys, fantastic stuff. Should be included by default.

[Cask]

I would like to be able to create custom user roles for bbpress

We have a premium membership feature for the communities with our organisation and one of the things I would like to do is to be able to create a custom user role for the communities who have paid for premium without screwing up future upgrades as indicated in this post.

By default, when a user creates a group you are automatically granted with powers to create forums. There is an option to turn this off but that would make my intended function redundant. I would like to have it so that by default you can’t create forums unless you have paid for premium. FYI, we do not have site-wide forums activated, only group forums.

Is it possible to create a user role for each community, with subset permissions to be able to have a keymaster, moderator, participant etc. for their own group forums?

On a side note, I cant seem to be able to change the group forums from fixed to liquid… any ideas how I can do this?

[oneshortleg]

I installed bbpress on my wordpress site. It is a new site, I have no other plugins installed. It still have the default 2012 theme.

I can access the forum menus from the dashboard, and I’ve created a few forums. If I click “view” in the list of forums from the dashboard, I can see them.

However, when I go to see my web page, there is no option on the navigation menu for the forums. There is just “Home”, “Blog”, and one other page I already created.

How is one visiting the site supposed to find the forums?

I tried Simple Press briefly and it just created it’s own page and a menu link. I also tried Mingle, and for that I needed to create a page on the navigation menu for it before I did the install. What do I need to do for bbpress?

Thanks