[Darren1981]

Hey all,

How would one go about extending the default BBpress post editor ? I would like my users to be able to add images and links.. the current editor seems very basic (I am using the latest version of BBpress)..

Even the editor used here on bbpress.org is much better than the default one.

Thanks in advanced for any assistance on this matter.

Regards, Darren

[Anonymous User 7670885]

Eg: no captha, no wordpress plugin include! I think it work in different mode or with different class… Is there any way to change this? 😐

[Lynq]

Inside the bbPress plugin is a folder called: \wp-content\plugins\bbpress\templates\default – if you add this into your current theme then you can edit this file to customize it.

[Shane Gowland]

The ‘participant’ role is one of WordPress’ user roles. bbPress assigns the bbp_participant role, which makes me think there is something else going on here. Are you running any other plugins or custom functions?

Perhaps you could use something like Multisite User Management to set ‘no role’ as the default across the network. You might need to make some code changes to it though.

What does your add_user() function look like? It sounds like this could be resolved by wrapping your code in a !is_admin() conditional.

[sontru]

You misunderstand – I don’t want network users to be added as a participant! (The bug is that bbPress does this even, at installation/activation, the default option says not too!)

The second bug is a bigger problem here, as there is no work-around except disabling bbPress!

(I did see your plugin and article before posting, and thought the code had been absorbed into bbPress, but obviously not. If the feature is already present, why write this plugin?)

[sontru]

If bbPress is running on a WordPress Multisite subdomain, then it seems to be adding network users who visit a sub site to the sub site’s users as participants – this includes the super-admin!

Activate bbPress plugin on a subdomain and ths default setting is unchecked:

`
Auto role | Automatically assign default role to new, registered users upon visiting the site.
`

Visit the sub site as any network user, and they are added as a participant! Only after checking the Auto role option, saving and unchecking it and saving again, does this work as intended.

The second bug is a major one and can only be stopped by deactivating bbPress!

I am writing a plugin which creates users and adds them to blogs. I am using the add_user_to_blog* function and each time I call it with bbPress activated, it adds the admin user who is calling the function to ALL blogs as a participant! If I go into a subdomain as a admin user of that site, this admin user is not listed (even in subdomain who have bbPress enabled), but I as this admin can see all sites are listed in my Sites drop down. I manually look into the database and see in the wp_usermeta table that this user has capabilities and level (of 0) entries for all blogs!

Of course if I deactivate bbPress and call up the add_user_to_blog, everything works as expected, and the user calling up the function does not get added as a participant to ALL the sub sites! I think there is some sort of filter that bbPress is applying that is causing this.

Could someone look at this and see if they can replicate it and fix it?

[TheSeoGuy]

http://www.claverton-energy.com – running WordPress since 2008. In Dec 2012 I was asked to rebuild it, enhance its features, including installation of bbPress / BuddyPress etc.

PROBLEM: an item I have not been able to solve is that users with Admin access can log in, but cannot access the default Admin page. However, they are able to use the Edit option when viewing a page whilst logged in.

I’ve read through numerous forum posts on WordPress.org and other sites, and tried solutions others have found, but have not solved the problem. Some ‘solutions’ have created additional setbacks! Trying to force a database upgrade resulted in all user’s passwords ceasing to work, requiring manual resets via MySQL… 🙂

Over the past month;
– the site has been successively upgraded to 3.5.0 and then to 3.5.1
– wp-admin / wp-includes directories have been replaced with fresh copies to eliminate possibility of a corrupt file
– wp-config has been replaced with latest version
– Database “repair” run from Cpanel
– checked for “curly” quotes in user meta-data
– site used standard wp_ table prefixes
– disk space is not an issue
– max memory use test shows +80mb which seems ok
– directory / file permissions are 755 / 644 respectively throughout

And yet, the problem persists…

An additional / presumably related issue: whilst the Super Admin can access all WP Admin areas, including plugin sub-pages. However, the BackupBuddy plugin does NOT show the menu subpages, and entering the URL for those gives that same “you don’t have permissions to access that page” error! Deactivating & deleting it and adding it back via FTP does not resolve that problem.

NB: The underlying problem pre-dates the rebuild, the site now runs:
– BuddyPress / and the Buddy theme,
– Quick Cache
– Stop Spammer Registrations & Confirm User Registration plugin
– User Spam Remover
– Wordfence security
– BuddyPress backup

Any suggestions on how to solve our “permissions” issues would be greatly appreciated.

Regards
Ben

[Halo Diehard]

Copy all the files to your themes root directory and it should look something like this:

/wp-content/themes/my-theme/bbpress-functions.php
/wp-content/themes/my-theme/bbpress
/wp-content/themes/my-theme/css

(Where ‘my-theme’ is the name of your theme, there is nothing you need to activate.)

Now I am *really* confused! Because the file I downloaded for this theme is called “default”, and none of those files are in it 😀

[Halo Diehard]

Hello, thank you for creating this theme! I am trying to install it and have copied the “default” file into my theme’s root. Was I supposed to only copy the files inside the default file? I don’t see any difference in my bbPress look.

Or is there somewhere on my dashboard I have to activate it?

Thanks 🙂

[Shashank Shekhar]

Hello,
As per bbpress doc I found by default it uses page.php in wordpress theme to render all its contents. But since I have to use different template with a different sidebar and widgets I created forum.php copied from page.php in my wp-theme and luckily it worked. Dont know why its not mentioned in bbpress docs. Also, forums.php working fine, so I am in more doubt which file naming conventions is correct. Is it something missed to mention in bbpress docs? Please let me know.

Further, for the bbpress user pages, like profile, edit profile, topic started etc. I need to use a custom template file in my theme. In bbpress templates as per documentation, I have checked all user templates inside are just contains the content part only not including header, footer, sidebar etc. And by default it also renders by page.php.

How can I make a custom user template file other than page.php or forum.php which control all user related contents, so that I can have different template for forum or other pages?

Suggestion:
BBpress should have capability to use different template files for different kind of pages, or their should be settings in bbpress admin to select which template to use for what kind of pages.
This is somewhat, wp-members, woocommerce and other plugins do for better integration in wordpress. These plugins have the ability to create different pages in admin editor having selected particular template to render and putting inside their shortcodes to render various types of contents. And also have the settings in their admin to set different pages/template for different stuff.

Please let me know if this possible with bbpress 2.2.4 with wp 3.5.1 currently.
If not possible please let me know how I can achieve the effect, with some sample custom code hints. Currently I dont need help to create bbpress admin side settings dropdown etc., becoz these are the thing I mentioned as suggestions to make bbpress better theme compatible.
Right now, just need help how to use different template for user pages than other forum pages.

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Thanks
Shashank

[poorgeek]

WP: 3.5.1, bbPress: 2.2.4

From the documentation I can tell that the ‘Auto Role’ applies the default user role to new user accounts. However since ‘Auto Role’ is not turned on by default I’m curious what the default behavior is? Or more importantly, why isn’t ‘Auto Role’ enabled by default?

Thanks,
-j

[Shashank Shekhar]

Thanks for replying Shane! Me replying as per your points below:
1) Yes I know manipulating sidebar is out of bbpress, but the templating of bbpress pages is within the scope. And so for the same, I already stated that I have used forum.php (just by luck it worked, where I used a different sidebar, and it accepted it instead of page.php). I just needed to know am I did the right template (forum.php, forums.php), since no where its documented to use a custom template for bbpress pages.

2) I have stated that I have used twenty-twelve with very little customization. BBpress user pages should work as forum pages accomodating in it. Its not possible to easily do it, just one trick that I already explained is to forciby display:none the sidebar, and make primary area wider with !important. But this is not good in the case if I need sidebar on this page, or in the case to remove sidebar rather than just hiding it from visibility.
This issue is not exactly theme specific as I already posted a link where other users facing it too. The thing is just little incompatibility of bbpress user pages with several themes.

3) Yes I can use the template, but I didn’t find any template which wrapping up all the user pages like profile, edit-profile, topic started, replies created, etc. There are several files inside bbpress templates, but none are there which include header, footer, sidebar tags in them; they just have the inside-content portion. For templating user pages I need a custom template which it is by default taking page.php and now forum.php which I luckily made. So, let me know which file should I create inside my theme which wrap all user pages and other pages already working with custom forum.php made. I asked for the possibility of using two or templates for bbpress forum and user pages, rather than all falling on page.php, as per bbpress documentation.

Further surely I asking for the help from bbpress authors and users, and just expecting to fix the things if they are the issue, or let me know the solution if exists which can help other users too.
Also, I am also acting as a little volunteer, done some research and so stated how I was trying to fix and what ways solved my problem somewhat. And also posted some deficiencies of bbpress which if solved, make it more better. And I will surely post fixes if I get myself.

So I hope my issues are more clear now, hope I will get better answer from someone.

Thanks.

[Shashank Shekhar]

Hello, I am using lates bbpress 2.2.4 plugin with wordpress 3.5.1, php 5.4.3 & php 5.3.2.
This plugin is showing me many issues specially for user pages (profile, edit, etc.)
I am using twenty twelve theme, very little customized.

1) I wanted to set a different sidebar for bbpress forum pages than other wordpress pages, so I checked and found the default template used by bbpress is ‘page.php’. I copied it, renamed to ‘forum.php‘ and added a new dynamic sidebar and commented default sidebar. It worked fine and now I can set any widget to this sidebar. I have checked that either I place ‘forum.php’ or ‘forums.php’ both working fine similar. Not sure which one is more correct.

2) On the bbpress users pages the profile content and edit form is not displaying full in widht cutting as its width overridden by sidebar, breaking layout. The content area ‘primary’ div is given a width in theme and having ‘secondary’ as sidebar. All other contents properly adjusted on every bbpress pages, but only this bbpress user profile edit page have the issue. The form should also be adjusted within the content area. Ex. url: http://mysite.com/forums/users/testuser/edit

3) Now, suppose to fix the issue mentioned above in point 3), I want to remove sidebar from users pages and give the primary content area more full width, how I can do it? One way is to forcibly hide the sidebar with css and make primary content wider with !important. But I want a way to change user pages template. Is it possible to have different template for user pages than bbpress other pages? I found that users pages also generating using ‘page.php’, in my case ‘forum.php’ template now. I tried alot by copying and changing ‘page.php’ to ‘user.php’, ‘users.php’, etc. but its not working. Please let me know how can I set user pages to use a different template file and rest bb pages use my forum.php or forums.php whatever.

4) For any user when I click ‘topic started’ or ‘replies created’ link, both show counts properly but the table didn’t appear. I checked in firebug, it present there but hidden somehow. Same issue mentioned here http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/profile-topics-or-replies-posts-not-being-displayed/ , I tried with the same thing, but till now no proper solution there. Please let me know proper way to fix it.

5) If suppose I want to completely hide the user-profile links on all bbpress forum/topic authors, on all bb pages, I mean want to display only author gravatars and usernames but want no link on them, so other people cannot go to their profile pages, how can I do that? A little help given here http://forum.graphene-theme.com/graphene-support/show-the-author-but-hide-its-link, but its not working properly. But I think it can be done with right filters in the same way. Please let me know with sample code.

6) Used the official facebook plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/facebook/ , and displayed the like button, like box for my facebook page using it in my site footer, header etc. But I found that on the user pages like edit profile, profile view etc. facebook widgets are completely disabled and not visible. On other bbpress forum pages they are displaying well. I checked with page source and found even facebook sdk is not embeded in page source. Their must be an conflict on bbpress user pages with facebook sdk which stopping it to be enqueued. This need to be checked and fixed.

These all issues mentioned here are serious issues with bbpress specially for user pages and must be solved and have proper solutions.
I dont expect from a single person to answer or fix all of above points, but hope different people will help me for different points (just mentioning points in their replies).

Further I expect from bbpress authors to work on these issues and release a fixed version. May be some of above points just because of lack some documentation, so they can mention some solution in its FAQ itself, so people having same problems can get help without searching or posting here in forum.

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Thanks
Shashank

[unimatrix]

This is with bbpress 2.2.4. If I switch to default settings under permalinks, all is well. I want to use Day and Name option, but when I do this I notice that attempting to go to a sub forum under a category would return a file not found error.

So I looked at the URL’s and I am getting:

http://mysite.com/site-forums/site-forum/support/bug-reports/

However when I delete the /support from the URL string and use this:

http://mysite.com/site-forums/site-forum/bug-reports/

Everything works and the correct forum is displayed. Is there somewhere I can edit that will take the forum parent topic out of the sub-forum’s URL?

[Erlend]

I’m not asking for something that’ll work out of the box. Some pointers on what pieces of code to look at to have a go at this ourselves would go a really long way. Same goes for excluding forums and topics from default index.

[Unsal Korkmaz]

FirmaSite Social

How to download:

http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/firmasite

Theme Features:

• Its GPL and free 
• Based on Twitter Bootstrap  and all WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress files using only bootstrap css. That means you can use custom bootstrap styles and all of your site will use same theme style. There is already 13 custom bootstrap theme is included in theme from Bootswatch. In future, i will explain how you can add custom bootstrap styles
• Using Bootstrap Responsive so all your site will be mobile ready. BuddyPress and bbPRess too!
• Using Theme Customization API for theme options. It means you can see changes on live edit and you can easily extend options with wordpress functions directly. A video on action: http://youtu.be/F95TngS9er8  (Its a bit old version of theme but a good example for main theme options)
• Google Fonts! lots of! You can choose google fonts from theme options ( watch example video from above)
• 4 different layout:

1. Content – Sidebar
2. Sidebar – Content
3. Only Content (Long)
4. Only Content (Short)

• Unique 2 feature: ShowCase and PromotionBar. ShowCase letting you show your special post in home page header like: http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/examples/carousel.html and PromotionBar is letting you promote your posts in content header, footer or sidebar. You just marking your posts from your post panel. Both feature is using Bootstrap’s carousel component so there is no extra  javascript. An example post panel screenshot:
  
• You can upload logo,disable comments, activate facebook comments, activate sharing buttons (facebook,twitter and google+1), upload custom background and option to remove responsive for fixed width if you want.
• Supporting Post Formats! Formats have special template parts with get_template_part  and video,audio formats calling necessary js that need to play video or audios. System supporting oEmbed links too.
• Ready for translation. Theme’s default language is English and Turkish translation is included. ( You can send me your translations if you have). You can use Codestyling Localization for translating theme.
• I will add lots of filter and action (already have lots of) so you can use it as starter theme for your projects. I will explain how you can keep your customization while keeping theme up-to-date.

Themes are in review for publishing on WordPress.Org Theme  Directory but in meantime, you can download and try it from links above. Please share your opinions on theme in this topic.

[aberglas]

You say “Capabilities are saved in the database, per user, per site”. That is clearly NOT the (normal) case. The wp_usermeta table wp_2_capabilities row stores ROLES, not capabilities. Those roles appear to index into the wp_2_options tble row wp_2_user_roles row which contains a list of capabilities.

I have no idea what “Dynamic” roles are nor why bbpress contains a vast amount of capability fidling code, including no less than three files called capability.php. If someone could explain it in terms of actual table rows and colums that might help.

I want a simple setup where Authors can access Private forums but only in the site which they are an Author. The simple coupled set up that JJJ says is too simplistic. But now it cannot be done at all?

By default private sites are hidden to users. There is a weird “Auto Role” option that can adds bbp_participant to all users. But that means that users get access to all forums on all sites. Is that the “Dynamic role” feature?

So turn that off. Try to add bbp_participant role explicitly using action ‘add_user_to_blog’
$user->add_role(“bbp_participant”);
However, that failed to add the user. WordPress really only supports one role per user, certainly set_role() only accepts a single role and purges any others. So I think something is resetting it.

Then I try simply
get_role( ‘author’ )->add_cap( ‘read_private_topics’ ); // for bbpress.
That successfully updates the database (wp_2_user_roles), but has no effect on bbpress. I suspect because one of the capability.php files in bbpress has
case bbp_get_spectator_role() … ‘read_hidden_forums’ => false,
rather than just leaving it out. So capabilities do not merge properly between roles.

I am new to WordPress/bbPress, and having spent many hours in this mess am getting very frustrated. How hard can it be? Users/Roles/Capabilities.

Anthony

[aberglas]

The title says it. I have mutliple sites, and I need users that are registered to a site to be able to participate in the private forums of just that site. The problem seems to be bbPress’s totally confused capability model.

By default private sites are hidden to users. There is a weird “Auto Role” option that can adds bbp_participant to all users. But that means that users get access to all forums on all sites.

So turn that off. Try to add bbp_participant role explicitly using action ‘add_user_to_blog’
$user->add_role(“bbp_participant”);
However, that failed to add the user. WordPress really only supports one role per user, certainly set_role only accepts a single role and purges any others. So I think something is resetting it.

Then I try simply
get_role( ‘author’ )->add_cap( ‘read_private_topics’ ); // for bbpress.
That successfully updates the database, but has no effect on bbpress. I suspect because one of the three(!) capability.php files in bbpress has
case bbp_get_spectator_role() … ‘read_hidden_forums’ => false,
rather than just leaving it out. So capabilities do not merge properly between roles.

There is something called Dynamic roles whatever they might be.

Maybe I need to abandon capabilities altogether and hook somewhere else? Maybe one of the numerous plugins works multisite?

Regards,

Anthony

[matrixd]

Thanks JJJ that was it! The most common mistake!

I was already update wordpress, buddypress, bbpress and my plugins, and then I follow these steps:

1. I deactivate every plugin, except Buddypress and BBpress,

2. I change my theme to the default buddypress theme, (without 082net’s fix on my function.php),

3. I run the Tools > Forums > Remap existing users to default forum roles

4. I change moderator users to moderator role, and then everything works! The moderator has his privileges and everyone can see my forums!

5. Then  I change back to my child theme (still working without 082net’s fix on my function.php),

6. and starting activate my plugins one by one, while I was checking if everything works.

At the end, my upgrade forums works fine and the moderators too has there privileges.

My installation is now:

WP Multisite 3.5.1 (was 3.4.2)

Buddypress 1.6.4 (was 1.6.1)

BBpress 2.2.4 (was 2.1.2)

+420k posts, 11k members

Thanks for your help and for your time!

 

[ckpepper02]

GOT IT!!!

Turns out the default forum user role was set to participant upon activation. This was blocking my access to the Forum Admin button. To get around this, I had to create a new WP user account, set it as an administrator, and the change the Forum role of my original username to Moderator. When I logged back in, I can see the Forum button.

Hope this helps someone else!

[ckpepper02]

GOT IT!!!

Turns out the default forum user role was set to participant upon activation. This was blocking my access to the Forum Admin button. To get around this, I had to create a new WP user account, set it as an administrator, and the change the Forum role of my original username to Moderator. When I logged back in, I can see the Forum button.

Hope this helps someone else!

[John James Jacoby]

My short answer is to turn off bbPress’s built in per-topic notifications, and build your own.

Since it’s a blanket on/off for each user, save a usermeta option whether or not they’ve opted in; save this when they create their account. There are plenty of actions and filters in the default profile templates that will allow you to intercept the input/output process, so adding an additional field is not too difficult, though not exactly easy either (lots of touch points.)

In all, this could be built as a completely self-contained plugin, and released to the community. I’d be surprised if someone isn’t already trying to build the same thing.

[Erlend]

Defaulting to plain-text, like bbpress.org now does, seems like a perfectly good compromise to me.

[verlaine76]

I know this was a while ago, but in case anyone else stumbles across this topic, here’s how I did it.

In your wordpress install find the folder `/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/css`

Open the file `bbpress.css` in a text editor
Within the bbpress.css file, search for the text `#bbpress-forums .status-closed`

When you find this text, below is the entry `color: #ccc;` This is the colour for your text in closed topics. Change it to #000 for black.

[moebis]

Not sure if this is a bbpress or buddypress issue (BTW can’t post on buddypress support forums, when I log in to bbpress.org, but that’s a separate issue, I also see the admin menu on buddypress.org)…

Ok, so I’ve been playing around with both bbpress and buddypress for the last 2 weeks. I have checked out of svn both of the latest trunk versions. I’ve gotten pretty adept at setting everything up from scratch during my testing. When creating a group, let’s say “group1” in buddypress, I allow bbpress to create the corresponding forum during group setup. Now, when I go into the bbpress admin backend and create a forum from there, let’s say “subforum1” and make “group1” the parent, it works. Yeah! Just what I wanted, parent groups and sub-forums, however, it doesn’t work the way I expect it to. I can see the subforum in the group now from the front end, and post something in the subforum, but not in the main forum/group “group1”, and every time I click on the group, and then the forum tab, it shows the sub forum(s) and topic posts (only from the last post to the last subforum), and then a create topic form on the bottom, defaulting to the last subforum I created. Meaning I can never post anything in the parent forum “group1” or any other subforums that might have been created under group1. No dropdown to select a different forum to post it to. This is not how would expect it to work. I would expect that you default to the main parent forum (group1) for posting and reading of topics, and the subforums (which do show on the group1 forum page) you can click on and then post within them. It seems this functionality is almost there, and I want to make sure this is either something that is getting fixed, or a mistaken capability that I stumbled upon and it not meant to operate that way.

Thanks for all of you hard work on these 2 projects, you guys are awesome! I can help contribute to the dev as a tester if you want.