hi,
i’ve just installed bbpress 2.2 (released 19th november 2012) on a clean install (no other plugins have been activated) of wordpress 3.4.2. However, whenever a reply is added to a topic the browser is redirected to a 404 not found page. When i navigate back to that topic the reply has been added however. I’m using the default template without any modifications. Anyone know whats going on and how to solve this issue?
Thanks in advance
I am currently manipulating with the function that was posted on forums a few days ago and I can’t find a way round a funny issue.
I erased homepape as a first part of my breadcrumb.
There are two options right now and neither are working for me. I will present it underneath (bold means clickable). I either get this
forum>forum | forum>category1 | forum>category1>topic
or this:
forum | forum | forum>category1
I want:
forum | forum>category1 | forum>category1>topic
or this:
(nothing) | forum | forum>category1
Any ideas?
The function I’m trying to get to work is diplayed below
function mycustom_breadcrumb_options() {
// Home - default = true
$args['include_home'] = false;
// Forum root - default = true
$args['include_root'] = true;
// Current - default = true
$args['include_current'] = true;
return $args;
}
Thanks to @johnjamesjacoby & Co for their hard work on this great forum software.
Just added bbPress to appglobe.com ( http://appglobe.com/forums ) an hour ago and it looks very promising.
Also, since bbpress 2 doesn’t use tables as much as previous versions it can easily be made responsive.
Didn’t even have to change much of the default colors since they were very similar to the site style.
Great work, great software…greatings from Sweden
I made it work for me, hope it works also for you all.
Go to Settings – Forum and select the “auto role” box ( Automatically assign default role to new, registered users upon visiting the site.)
After selecting this box in my website everything works fine.
I’m really hoping someone can help me figure out some sql queries I would like to run (especially spwestwood). I have been working on migrating a forum for a number of days now and would love if I could get some help on this last piece. I started out with a Phorum > migrated to SMF > migrated to phpBB3 > migrated to bbPress. The first 3 conversions were all successful. I would stay with phpBB3 but even after I loaded WordPress I could not get all my PHP to work properly on the forum page and I really like the bbPress integration into WordPress. But, I have the same anonymous error on the majority of my posts (55k) because, I believe, these are actually anonymous users who were not required to sign-up in order to post. The problem seems to be that bbPress uses only an ‘id’ to attach the name of the poster to the post and phpBB3 uses a ‘username’ field that actually contains the name within the table. All of these unregistered users simply default to user id = anonymous (1998 in my case). Here’s my solution… only, I don’t really know how to implement it as I have limited mySQL experience.. so please bare with me as this is all theoretical and I have no idea if it will work… and how to write it out in sql commands.
Step 1: I want to take phpbb_posts.post_username and assign new users in wp_users for each unique user name (I want to avoid duplicates obviously!). I would like that user_name assigned to both wp_users.user_login and wp_users.display_name. Now I have user accounts for all these anonymous posters.
Step 2: Convert the date format in phpbb_posts.post_time from an integer to the ‘datetime’ php format using the from_unixtime sql command… or something. That way I can accurately match the date/time field in both databases since they currently use different encoding.
Step 3. When wp_posts.post_date = phpbb_posts.post_time match phpbb_posts.post_username to wp_users.user_login GET id and assign to wp_posts.post_author
Does this make any sense? Or am I completely off the ball here? THANK YOU SO MUCH for any help!!
Go into wp-admin>settings>forums. You can set the slug there for the different levels within the forum and then create a custom menu link to that slug. By default the root slug for bbPress 2.2 is yourdomain.com/forums. …In case anyone runs across this forum…
For anyone else looking for this info:
First forum page (if using [bbp-forum-index] shortcode): wp-content>plugins>bbpress>templates>default>bbpress>content-archive-forum.php
Second forum page (if using forum categories and click on a category): wp-content>plugins>bbpress>templates>default>bbpress>content-single-forum.php
aaclayton, couple things:
1) Justin Tadlock just updated Members plugin to address the fatal error warning. Should work now.
2) If you have custom WP roles, we’ve found you can use Members plugin (Role Editor) to add the appropriate capability to an existing custom role. Participate and Spectate being the relevant capabilities for most visitors. This is how we gracefully merge WooCommerce (which has default role of “Customer”) with bbPress. We modify the Customer Role to add “participate” to it, so that anyone who visits site and purchases as a customer or registers free with WP (because we’ve set this as our our default role for WP under General/Settings) has the ability to post to bbPress.
1) Create a new page
2) Add the bbPress ShortCode for forum index: https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/ which is [bbp-forum-index]
3) Save the page
4) Go to Settings/Reading and choose this new page as the default home page (instead of your blog).
This will get you a bbPress Forum index on your home page.
To make a “mix” of your bbPress and blog posts, you need to modify your home page template file. This differs per theme, but may be called home.php or index.php (it’s in your theme folder). You would add the bbPress shortcode above the WP loop that displays blog posts. Use the do_shortcode method shown here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/do_shortcode
so it would be (within php tags): do_shortcode('[bbp-forum-index]')
If you do this, then you won’t need to create a page and modify your Settings/Reading as elaborated in steps 1 to 4 above.
Good luck!
I would like to weigh in here and agree with @xmasons sentiment. The “Members” plugin, for example, is a great example of role/capability management done right IMHO. I am unable, however, to modify the capabilities of the bundled bbp roles within the Members interface.
What I have been forced to do is create my own role for “forum moderator” with additional capabilities added on top of the bbp_moderator defaults. The resulting outcome is that I am deliberately not using the bundled bbPress role, which effectively defeats the purpose of having implemented it in the first place.
I’m not sure why the new bbp roles are incompatible with the Members plugin, I get the following error when attempting to modify their available caps.
Fatal error: Call to a member function has_cap() on a non-object in /home/tamrielfoundry/tamrielfoundry.com/wp-content/plugins/members/admin/role-edit.php on line 31
Same issue here, also a bit scared to remap user roles. I looked into it, turns out as part of the new bbPress update that restructured some of its own user roles, it actually removed certain capabilities from existing roles. For example, my site-wide administrator role didn’t have the capability to read_hidden_forums or read_private_forums, in addition to 20 or so other bbPress specific capabilities.
If you are using default (or custom) WordPress roles in a bbPress environment, you may need to go in and grant them some of the bbPress specific capabilities.
I just want to make sure it was the 2.2 update that did away with the ‘Forum Participant’ role. It seems to have set all non-admins ‘Site Role’ to ‘Participant’ (even though that’s not an option in the Role dropdown), and left the ‘Default User Role’ to Administrator which caused a few outsiders to accidentally be signed up as an Admin.
My current theme is the default TwentyEleven theme. Are you saying I should check in the TwentyTen theme?
Hey. Not sure if I’m missing something, but I’ve been looking around the forums following advice on using a custom bbPress CSS file, but it isn’t working.
I’m creating a theme based on underscores.me 1000 headstart theme.
I’ve copied the CSS file from ‘plugins/bbpress/templates/default/css/bbpress.css’ to ‘themes/underscores/bbpress.css’. I’ve read previously that that bbPress will then detect the custom CSS file and use it. Doesn’t appear to be the case.
Have I missed something?
I have the same problem. Hidden and Private forums are not available for any users. (got 404) If I make them public(as a test) they are available.
This happen after update.
UPDATE: “Repair Forums” -> “Remap existing users to default forum roles” solved the problem.
Yes! Thanks @silviorelli! Tried everything to get Private forums to show, was about to revert to 2.1 but ran the repair on ‘Remap existing users to default forum roles’ and now it seems to work! Phew…
Full details are explained in the link (https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/roles-and-capabilities-in-bbpress-2-2/)
It shouldn’t be, no.
Few things I recommend when upgrading is pre-upgrade temporarily switch to TwentyTen and the default bbPress theme (if you are using a custom one), then do the upgrade. If everything works, then switch back to your normal theme/bbPress theme. Then if it starts giving errors at least you know where to look.
Another thing that can be helpful is to temporarily turn on WP_DEBUG which can sometimes reveal problems with your theme or plugins you have installed that are preventing bbPress from running correctly.
I’ve been running bbPress on sites since 2.0 and haven’t had any problems upgrading, but I wrote the themes from scratch and am real particular on what plugins get installed.
Just be aware that activating shortcodes in bbPress can open up a whole can of worms, which is why its disabled by default.
If they are enabled there is nothing stopping someone from using bbPress shortcodes in a reply/topic, eg [bbp_login].
Polls in 2.x is definitely something that is needed. However it’s really plugin territory, and so far no one has written one!
Once I enabled the TinyMCE visual editor, the text is stripped out of for standard users. Obviously, they are not available in the default editor either. However, what is the point of implementing the enhanced editor with all these fantastic buttons, if almost none of the html tags are enabled by default.
Also, even if I deleted the function for the editor, logged in as standard user and wrote “a”-enter-“b”-enter-“c”-enter”d”-enter-“e” – the result was “abcde”. This is just simply wrong…
ATM, the only way to sort it out is to give permission to all users to write unrestricted HTML. But apparently it is dangerous and someone could write a melicious javascript in the post.
And yeah, the smilies don’t work even for the admin…
Hmm, if the tags are being stripped, there is a chance a plugin is doing that.
bbPress by default uses the WordPress wpautop on all content which automagically handles the paragraph tags. There isn’t anything in core that should strip tags unless those tags aren’t allowed in normal posts. What tags are being stripped? It sounds like even the base paragraph tags are being stripped, which shouldn’t be the case unless you ahve wpautop disabled via a plugin.
Zdravo!!
Ok, that helps.
First suggestion:
What happens if you use shortcodes to create a forum index? https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/
Take the shortcode of: [bbp-forum-index] and add it to a blank page.
Does that create a visible forum index?
If so, then your problem imho is that your theme is hijacking the content area in a way that prevents the new bbPress code from working. As such, the solution would be found most likely in your theme’s page.php or similar, where the default archive pages are created. I don’t have access to the Gonzo theme since it is on ThemeForest ;-(
but you can see in my recent post, we fixed a similar solution for Canvas 5 from WooThemes. https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/non-functional-index-page-when-bbpress-2-1rc4-is-used-with-woothemes-canvas-5-05/
If not, then please share the link to the page where you posted the shortcode so I can see the underlying output.
Hvala!
Spence
function mycustom_breadcrumb_options() {
// Home - default = true
$args['include_home'] = false;
// Forum root - default = true
$args['include_root'] = false;
// Current - default = true
$args['include_current'] = true;
return $args;
}
add_filter('bbp_before_get_breadcrumb_parse_args', 'mycustom_breadcrumb_options' );
I think the above will do what you are after… Just add it to your themes functions.php
I also have a user experiencing this issue (where they can’t see the first post in a thread) on our BuddyPress + bbPress site. We are using the default bbP-theme within DynamiX WP/BP theme. I will attempt to change our theme and report back if that fixes it.
Any other ideas what might be causing this? Anyone else experiencing this issue?
Hmm, I haven’t tested this so I can’t say, but it definitely sounds like an issue. Maybe someone else can chime in and try to duplicate it.
This is probably happening because the default WordPress search isn’t looking at information bbPress stores when it makes things as private. WordPress just grabs results from all post types that are supported, makes sure they are published, and runs with it.
This doesn’t help your current situation, but I just wanted to say the search is something we are trying to address in 2.3.
Having bbPress search results come up in the regular WordPress search is weird, and leads to problem such as this, which is why bbPress topics/replies are not searchable by default. To skirt around this problem, we are likely going to make a bbPress specific search with its own search results page. This will give us more control over how the results are returned and make sure stuff that should be hidden doesn’t show up.
But how can we make minor edits on the bbpress default theme? For example, my site’s theme has a place for breadcrumb and I want to put bbp_breadcrumb() there to show the correct breadcrumb. How is it possible? Thank you.
