Bump for any help. The URL is aeris.com/forums. I created a new page for this, but the featured image that is supposed to be in the top section gets overwritten by the default template. Is there a way to modify the php so I can put an image in the top section that works on all pages?
Also the login button is all the way to the right using the login shortcode. How do I move it to the left?
hmm I still can’t set the featured image item at the top too. How do you access that in the bbpress section? I can set it when creating a new page, but there is no option to set it I believe because it takes a default template that is usually blank? Can I set it in the bbpress.php file somehow?
– Jason
Ok, I created a new page at aeris.com/aercloudforums and put in the shortcode for login and forum. As you can see with the login shortcode, the signup button ends up all the way to the right. How do I move it to the left with everything else that defaulted to the left?
Also, when i change the url to aeris.com/forums, it then gets overwritten by bbpress to the standard forum page. How do I make it so I don’t lose the forums structure in the url, but make my new page the one that loads at aeris.com/forums?
Hello,
I created a forum at aeris.com/forums and it is great to see it using the website’s custom default template. However, I don’t see how to add the login to this page or have it show up on any of the subpages for the forum. Also, there is a feature image area at the top that I can set when creating a new page, but there is no option in bbpress to upload a pic. Any help is appreciated!
– Jason
Hi there folks!
This has been frustrating, my forum used to be an stand alone version 1.0.2
As suggested in another tread, I updated first to 1.2, that process went smoothly, so I thought I was close to victory, but so far it still eludes me!
Each time i try to import the old forums using the 2.2.4 forum import function with my DB Name, DB User, DB Pass, DB prefix (default bb_) , it runs the process smoothly saying there is no users to import, no forums to import and so on.
Is there a step I may be missing?
Can you try disabling any User Role/Membership plugins you are using and then run the repair tool ‘Remap existing users to default forum roles’ and see if the issue persists.
bbp 2.2.4 , wp 3.5.1
I’m getting some very peculiar results with bbpress. I’ve got a forum setup and when someone replies it puts a duplicate post at the top of the page along with the reply at the bottom. I’ve been able to recreate it on my machine locally too. I’m using threaded replies and I changed the default order of the topic replies to “DESC” in the functions file. I’ve rolled back all of my changes and its still happening.
Also when I reply to a post it takes me to a new page which seems peculiar.
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?
