WordPress version: 3.5.1
bbpress version: 2.2.4
http://cchfh.org/test
I created a user role called Board using “members” plugin and assigned all roles shown here for participant (http://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-user-roles-and-capabilities/#participant)
I set the WordPress General settings, New User Default Role, to Board.
I set the Default role for the Forum to Participant.
I created a test user account which is set to Board and Participant. When I login with that account and go to the test page the forum doesn’t show up. But it does show up with my Admin role account.
What am I doing wrong?
It seems like every so often when I run the “Remap existing users to default forum roles” option, it’ll get a little further, but this doesn’t happen always. Still looking for an answer. I will leave a comment if and when I find the solution to this.
It is very easy. You just don’t need this HTML code!
This text box should use the defaults of the WordPress installation or the theme basic css instructions. The problem is that you specify the DIR in the html code, so there is no way around it using css.
If it is really important for some reason, you can use css: direction=”ltr”. We could walk around it using the rtl.css or using !important or something.
@rewindcaz I actually disabled all of the default avatar systems that WordPress provides and created my own with a few small functions. I needed a custom made plugin because each avatar on the site is unlocked when you receive a new card to your collection. Users can also customize their chosen avatar with nine alternative colours, which helps provide individuality.
As I’ve received a ton of feedback from the Rats Clan bbPress forum I’m going to start blogging about my code – I’ll make sure this is one of my posts! 🙂
http://www.may81.com/forums/forum/may81/
Again, you shouldn’t put the dir=”ltr” in the code. It is better to be inherited from the defaults of the website.
This is enabled by default in the upcoming bbPress 2.3.
You can grab the bbPress beta 2 from here https://bbpress.org/blog/2013/02/bbpress-2-3-beta-2/
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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`
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_’;`
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!
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.
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.
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.
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?
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
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!
@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…
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.
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.)
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
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.
