[ohara8]

bbpress 2.2.
twenty-eleven theme
wp 3.4.2

My forum used to be setup so unregistered users could post but then I got hit with tons of spam and changed it. I thought it would automatically provide me with a user registration/login option, but things cant be that easy, right?

I need help with setting up the option for people to register before posting to my forum. I looked into buddypress, but didn’t think it was a good idea since I’m a newbie.

Info—
Under general settings, I have “anyone can register” checked, with new user role as “subscriber”.
The only forum settings unchecked are: Allow topic and reply revision logging, Allow guest users without accounts to create topics and replies, and Use the fancy WordPress editor to create and edit topics and replies. The default forum user role is participant.

No one is able to reply or post new topics and there is no option to login. It says, you must be logged in to reply or create new topics.

I am very new to coding and had a web developer friend of mine put together my site for me and teach me the basics. I am now at a point of teaching myself anything new. I’ve read all the wp/bbpress documentation and searched Google for weeks with no luck.

I would appreciate any help if anyone has time. Please be as specific as possible 🙂

[Mike3853]

hello,
after the latest bbpress update my forums don’t work (when you click a forum topic, there are no posts or replies) and my navigation bar is also gone, along with my logo. It seems something has broken the buddypress system, I even use the default bp theme. http://msflights.net/forums/forum/general-discussion If you click any of the topics, there are no replies, it is just blank once it loads up.

What should I do to fix this?
thanks

[hlwinkler]

Done, upgraded immediately. Everything seems to work fine but i can’t see the theme selector in main settings.. is it normal or is a bug? I’d love to find it back cuz I need to set it back from default theme compat to twentyten

I have the same issue, and in the plugin folder there is no bbp-theme-compat folder after the upgrade.

[rossagrant]

Assigning a forum role of ‘participant’ to the free members that for some reason cant post fixes the issue.

If everyone could be assigned a ‘participant’ role as default that might be the way forward with this?

Not quite sure where the role named ‘member’ is being assigned from to my free members in the forums, as it doesn’t seem to be selectable role in the drop down for forum role.

I have ‘Participant’ set as the default role which I think it was preset to in the forums options now.

I notice the tick box to assign this role to all new signups, but a box to assign it to existing members except admins would be cool.

I’m not sure what the best way is, but I’m guessing there will be an awful lot of sites breaking if they do this upgrade.

Would love to hear some suggestions.

Not to sound ungrateful though, I love BBPress. I’ll gladly help test everything on my staging site until we can work it out for everyone.

🙂

[NickMackz]

I use custom user roles on my website with ‘Member’ as the default role. After the update, all members show up as ‘Participant’ on the forums, and all users from roles other than ‘Member’ show up as ‘Member’. I also found that the permissions for different roles had been edited. One of my roles lost all permissions other than read and the ‘Member’ role gained the edit_posts permission.

The forums are also only visible to admins, and 404 for all other roles.

I have downgraded back to 2.1.3 until I can find a way to solve these problems.

[kraigg]

Good morning,

I upgraded to the latest bbPress 2.2, and now clicking on any of my forums return “Page not found. We’re sorry, but we can’t find the page that you’re looking for. Perhaps searching will help.”

I thought it might’ve been my custom theme, so I went back to the default theme but I still have the same problem. The strange thing is that the page title at the top of the browser shows the correct forum title, so it is going to the right URL. But it is just not loading any of the forums

I have my forums in the following URL structure, which worked in bbPress 2.1.3 and below:
http://www.mywebsite.com/groups/general-groups/my-test-group/forums/

I tried repairing the forums, but that didn’t work either. Please help? How do I fix this?

[ochiba77]

John,

I applied default theme but the same result.
The following is my permalink and it looks normal.

http://mydomain.com/groups/aaa/forums/topic/reply-to-game/edit/

[I.g.C.]

Done, upgraded immediately. Everything seems to work fine but i can’t see the theme selector in main settings.. is it normal or is a bug? I’d love to find it back cuz I need to set it back from default theme compat to twentyten..

[hypnoscribe]

Ok, sorry for that… Still, im am new to all this. I am not afraid to get my hands dirty. But what exactly should i be looking for in the css code? I tried testing the default bbpress theme and the problem is not there… So yes, this is a theme problem… :/

[SK]

Is bbPress language defined by WPLANG in wp-config?

I would like my bbPress language to different from my WP language.

I use WPML and have a multilingual site. For several reasons, I have set my WP Default language as English.

I wish to deploy bbPress as a Hungarian language forum. I will not have forums in other languages.

What do I do?

[Verra]

Hi, funny thing is I currently want to add sidebar for my bbpress forum plugin. It alway shows the wordpress sidebar!

Anyway, to remove sidebar use the fullwidth forum like this: http://www.ytecongcong.com/forums/
Just follow
1. Clone page.php of your WP themes and rename it to forum.php
2. use BP Tweaks WP plugins to choose forum instead of page as default
3. Open forum.php, remove the php code content php get_sidebar()

• This reply was modified 12 years, 12 months ago by Verra.
• This reply was modified 12 years, 12 months ago by Verra. Reason: SOLVE

[DramaticBaby]

Hi! My layout is like this:
[Category 1]
[Forum 1]
[Forum 2]

[Category 2]
[Forum 3]
.
.
As you know, bbPress’ default layout is to fetch the Category description, not the Forum descriptions. I’ve tweaked the bbp_list_forums function, so now I want to show the forum descriptions instead. But when I add the_content() to my loop-single-forum.php it fetches the category description.

I think I must add the_content() in my_bbp_list_forums, but don’t know where or how.

The code can be found here (Kudos to Lynq): http://pastebin.com/GLhCHYze

And what I’m after graphically: http://i649.photobucket.com/albums/uu216/DramaticBaby/forum_description.jpg

How can I make the_content() fetch the forum descriptions? Or is there a bbp_get_sub_forum_description() function somewhere? 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

Hang of for a day or two, the ‘default’ theme in bbPress 2.2 uses lists and will be released very soon.

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

[dprundle]

Thank you! To fix this I changed the settings > forums “Theme Packages” setting back to default “twentyten” and the tinymce editor is back.

[dprundle]

Hello! I just want to first thank everyone for this great plugin forum.

I have enabled “Enable Fancy Editor” in settings > forums , however my tinymce editor does not show. I simply see the generic HTML editor. Is there a known fix for this problem?

I’m using the default wordpress twenty eleven theme. Thanks!

[HululusLabs]

I installed wordpress and the bbpress plugin from built-in plugin installer and made a forum which I previewed , which was fine during preview, but after I published it, the forum returns HTTP error 404 on the forum itself and when viewing the preview. This is my second installation with the same problem. A forum on my previous install showed up after a while, but the others didn’t. After following advice I changed the permalinks back to default and all the forums came with the same HTTP error 404. My website structure is “…com/worpress/index.php/forums/forum/…” for some reason.

• This topic was modified 13 years ago by HululusLabs.

[mhk1058]

OK in the online documentation it mentions the settings for ‘Default user role’ and ‘Auto role’ – where on earth are those settings because I can’t find them in the forum settings.

[kausikc]

I guess that no one has seen this issue. I have this problem with the setting “bbPress Default (bbp-theme-compat)” when WordPress theme is anything other than twenty ten (bbpress). Just nothing shows up with other WP themes.

[kausikc]

I installed bbPress 2.1.3 on WordPress 3.4.2. In the settings page, I see the following:

Theme Packages

How your forum content is displayed within your existing theme.
Current Package
– bbPress Default (bbp-theme-compat)
– Twenty-ten bbPress

If I select the 1st option, forum page comes up nicely, none of the existing forums show up. If I select the 2nd options, existing forums show up, but the layout is completely broken.

I am using custom WordPress theme. What am I doing wrong?

[enihongo]

Correction:

My current theme’s structure seems like follow..

By default BuddyPress templates use this HTML structure: — to be deleted.

[HEADER]
[SIDEBAR CONTENT]
[PAGE CONTENT]
[FOOTER]

[enihongo]

I am trying to set up the bbforum in my theme.

I tried hard to go for the Step Three to adjust my theme to cope with the default BuddyPress templates, using this HTML structure:

[HEADER]
[PAGE CONTENT]

[SIDEBAR CONTENT]
[FOOTER]

My current theme’s structure seems like follow..

By default BuddyPress templates use this HTML structure:

[HEADER]
[SIDEBAR CONTENT]
[PAGE CONTENT]
[FOOTER]

Therefore, I’d like to use the alternative method to set up the theme, in adding following files, copied from header.php, footer.php, and sidebar.php from my purchased theme : header-buddypress.php, sidebar-buddypress.php, and footer-buddypress.php.

After this, it seems I need to modify the above x-buddypress.php files.. yet.. I have no idea of what to do here.. ’cause, these 3 files are parts of a page. Should I modified those index.php file in the forum folders?..

Could anyone help me to solve the problem? or.. any suggestion, please.

[Anointed]

If you use the default WordPress theme twentyten, or twentyeleven, you will see that bbPress lines up perfectly with the sidebars. There is no way that bbPress can work perfectly with all themes on the market as everyone builds themes differently.

That is up to the theme developer to get straightened out For the most part it is usually just a few css tweaks and very easy to do. So I would ask the author who built the theme. If he/she is unable/unwilling to fix it, then post a link to your site here and maybe someone will find the time to help out. There is NO WAY for anyone to help without seeing your actual site.

[markramos83]

By default, bbPress will validate new topic fields and reload the page with errors, but all content is lost. This is pretty frustrating to a user that has entered a long post, but forgot to enter a topic title. Is there any easy workaround for this, whether it be PHP, jQuery, etc?

[kannued]

Reread your message @netweb. I also installed the bbpress plugin, ver 2.1.3. It appears it may have worked, see below. It still says I have no forum parents, even though I have 5 forums. I can’t see anything when I go to visit site, as I still have 1 post as in the fresh default of WP. Doesn’t the bbpress plugin also convert the theme that I used into WP? Or now do I have to build my old bbpress theme into WP?

Recalculating the topic for each post … Complete!

Recalculating the forum for each post … Complete!

Recalculating forum visibility … Complete!

Counting the number of topics in each forum… Complete!

Counting the number of replies in each forum… Complete!

Counting the number of replies in each topic… Complete!

Counting the number of voices in each topic… Complete!

Counting the number of spammed and trashed replies in each topic… Complete!

Counting the number of topics each user has created… Complete!

Counting the number of topics to which each user has replied… Complete!

Removing trashed topics from user favorites… Nothing to remove!

Removing trashed topics from user subscriptions… Nothing to remove!

Recomputing latest post in every topic and forum… Complete!

Repair any missing information: Continue

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Starting Conversion

[IanSymonds]

HI There

I Don’t have Jetpack installed. For me, the problem appears to be related to the 2011 theme.

The steps as I recall them.
1. Brand-new installaiton of WP 3.4.2. This installation is using the 2011 theme by default. I have not done any changes to the theme.
2. Added some pages, changed some basic config (time zone etc)
3. Installed bbpress via the Add new plug-in dialogue in WP

When I returned to the pages added in step 2, there is no menu bar in the editor.
New pages have a menu bar.
When I return to the newly added pages to edit them,

If I change the theme to bbpress 2010 or the vanilla 2010, the problem does not occur.

I think I have enough to proceed with my installation.
Let me know if you need any more information.

Ian