[Robin W]

would love to find the time to write it!!

Like all open software bbpress relies on users to make it successful, and I’m not a bbpress author, just a user who got into it, and I wrote much of the ‘getting started’ guide as I installed my first bbpress site.

If you want to help, then as above the key start point is the templates. Mapping these into a user understandable chart would be a great start, so go to

bbpress/templates/default/bbress/content-archive-forum.php
This is the first template called, and all the functions and templates you want to use will cascade from here.

[Robin W]

It wouldn’t be the same ticket thread. Perhaps I’m not explaining myself clearly.

The previous comment was spam promoting a dentist site which I have deleted, so ignore that.

On private groups.

You would set up a group say called ‘users’

You would set up two forums – one public where public posts can be posted as per standard bbpress, and then one that belongs to the private group ‘users’ which you set up above.

Users are joined to users group either manually or by default.

You then enable topic permissions opn the private forum, and set the topic permisisons for that group to Create/edit OWN topics. Users will only see their own topics and any replies posted.

If just keymasters are responding, then they will see all topics on that forum. If others will be responding, then set up another group and make them able to see the whole forum.

[bhammondCVL]

No worries–I am looking forward to a nice weekend myself. Here are some more, possibly useful, details:

I installed bbPress on another, far more generic, site and got the same behavior–bounced messages to no-reply@site-name if any user had subscribed to a forum or topic.

I installed the plugin “bbPress Custom Topic & Reply Notifications” by Pippin Williamson and got its customized notifications, but also the no-reply bounces.

I deactivated that and installed “bbPress Notify (No-Spam)” by Vinny Alves, which said it provided the ability to override bbPress’s default subscription functions. Using this plugin seems to have resolved the bounces.

So it would seem to be a problem with bbPress’s subscriptions functions, and not a conflict with some other plugin or some other site-specific oddity.

[w3215]

Thanks. Something that truly gave a clean interface (like gutenberg or medium.com as mentioned) would be ideal. But if there are not currently options for that for the bbpress text editor, are there options to improve the editor from the default?

For example, to make it comparable to the text editor for ‘Discourse’ forum sites? (like https://discuss.reactjs.org/ or https://discuss.atom.io/).

I have heard there may be a way to turn on the tinyMCE toolbar in bbpress, which is an improvement.

However, I’m new to wordpress, but that seems to normally go along with a text editor that gives the writer two less than ideal options: a (i) “visual” option with the tinyMCE (the problem being it strips away a lot of formatting–for example removing tabs if you paste code in) or (ii) the basic “text” option, which is not great for a general audience bc it requires the writer deal with stuff like tags and html-jargon. Its also confusing to give users two different options that seem to do the same thing but in slightly different ways.

So, if a Gutenberg-like experience is too much to ask right now, is there anything around that can give users the straightforward toolbar experience of the “Discourse” text editor?

[Partizan]

Hi!

I have similar issue here but i can’t figure it out if this step by step guide is ment just for new forum installations?
I have already existing forum with some content and can’t change the page where its shown. I followed method 1 and got it to show on new page but links are not rebuilt – they always show to original forum root no matter what i name it.

Problem is that forum by default uses wrong theme page template and i would like to change that but can’t except if i show forum on a page done with method 1.

Some ideas or a method to solve this issue?

Thank you.

[Dggerhart]

So rather than passing back over disabling all of the other plugings (there were only a few, anyway) I flipped this over.

I disabled BBPress. And re-enabled it. Which then took me to the settings page, which I saved with defaults.

The issue no longer exists … I was able to open Forums, the Drafts, edit and publish.

Sweet. Glad to be in here with you-all.

I’m very excited about how these tools can support our community.

Very best,

[patbell101]

[New topic] opens TinyMCE on the Text tab. My users think HTML is a government department 🙂 so can I default it to open on the View tab instead?

[Robin W]

here is fine.

ok so is this a new site? has it worked before and stopped working?

What has changed – have you added a plugin upgraded plugins or done anything to themes.

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[ericross]

I think this could work try this code, may be it works.

1- Please add following code to Quick CSS in Enfold theme options under General Styling tab

.single-topic #bbpress-forums {
margin-top: 0;
}
2- They do not show up on the bottom by default. If you would like to show, please add following code to Functions.php file in Appearance > Editor

add_action( ‘bbp_template_after_single_topic’,’bbp_bottom_pagination’ );
function bbp_bottom_pagination() {
$output = bbp_get_template_part( ‘pagination’, ‘replies’ );
return $output;
}

[liderxlt]

Hi, I have a project which updates the forum daily through an import program.

What I need is to run the repair tool that has bbpress once a day, when all imports are finished.

I found this code but I can not make it work.

function bbp_register_default_repair_tools() {

  // Topic meta
  bbp_register_repair_tool( array(
  'id' => 'bbp-sync-topic-meta',
  'description' => __( 'Recalculate parent topic for each reply', 'bbpress' ),
  'callback' => 'bbp_admin_repair_topic_meta',
  'priority' => 5,
  'overhead' => esc_html__( 'Low', 'bbpress' ),
  'components' => array( bbp_get_reply_post_type() )
  ) );

  // Forum meta
  bbp_register_repair_tool( array(
  'id' => 'bbp-sync-forum-meta',
  'description' => __( 'Recalculate parent forum for each topic and reply', 'bbpress' ),
  'callback' => 'bbp_admin_repair_forum_meta',
  'priority' => 10,
  'overhead' => esc_html__( 'Low', 'bbpress' ),
  'components' => array( bbp_get_topic_post_type(), bbp_get_reply_post_type() )
  ) );

  // Forum visibility
  bbp_register_repair_tool( array(
  'id' => 'bbp-sync-forum-visibility',
  'description' => __( 'Recalculate private and hidden forums', 'bbpress' ),
  'callback' => 'bbp_admin_repair_forum_visibility',
  'priority' => 15,
  'overhead' => esc_html__( 'Low', 'bbpress' ),
  'components' => array( bbp_get_forum_post_type() )
  ) );

  // Sync all topics in all forums
  bbp_register_repair_tool( array(
  'id' => 'bbp-sync-all-topics-forums',
  'description' => __( 'Recalculate last activity in each topic and forum', 'bbpress' ),
  'callback' => 'bbp_admin_repair_freshness',
  'priority' => 20,
  'overhead' => esc_html__( 'High', 'bbpress' ),
  'components' => array( bbp_get_forum_post_type(), bbp_get_topic_post_type(), bbp_get_reply_post_type() )
  ) );

  // Sync all sticky topics in all forums
  bbp_register_repair_tool( array(
  'id' => 'bbp-sync-all-topics-sticky',
  'description' => __( 'Recalculate sticky relationship of each topic', 'bbpress' ),
  'callback' => 'bbp_admin_repair_sticky',
  'priority' => 25,
  'overhead' => esc_html__( 'Low', 'bbpress' ),
  'components' => array( bbp_get_topic_post_type() )
  ) );

  // Sync all hierarchical reply positions
  bbp_register_repair_tool( array(
  'id' => 'bbp-sync-all-reply-positions',
  'description' => __( 'Recalculate the position of each reply', 'bbpress' ),
  'callback' => 'bbp_admin_repair_reply_menu_order',
  'priority' => 30,
  'overhead' => esc_html__( 'High', 'bbpress' ),
  'components' => array( bbp_get_reply_post_type() )
  ) );

  // Sync all BuddyPress group forum relationships
  bbp_register_repair_tool( array(
  'id' => 'bbp-group-forums',
  'description' => __( 'Repair BuddyPress Group Forum relationships', 'bbpress' ),
  'callback' => 'bbp_admin_repair_group_forum_relationship',
  'priority' => 35,
  'overhead' => esc_html__( 'Low', 'bbpress' ),
  'components' => array( bbp_get_forum_post_type() )
  ) );

  // Update closed topic counts
  bbp_register_repair_tool( array(
  'id' => 'bbp-sync-closed-topics',
  'description' => __( 'Repair closed topics', 'bbpress' ),
  'callback' => 'bbp_admin_repair_closed_topics',
  'priority' => 40,
  'overhead' => esc_html__( 'Medium', 'bbpress' ),
  'components' => array( bbp_get_topic_post_type() )
  ) );

  // Count topics
  bbp_register_repair_tool( array(
  'id' => 'bbp-forum-topics',
  'description' => __( 'Count topics in each forum', 'bbpress' ),
  'callback' => 'bbp_admin_repair_forum_topic_count',
  'priority' => 45,
  'overhead' => esc_html__( 'Medium', 'bbpress' ),
  'components' => array( bbp_get_forum_post_type(), bbp_get_topic_post_type() )
  ) );

  // Count forum replies
  bbp_register_repair_tool( array(
  'id' => 'bbp-forum-replies',
  'description' => __( 'Count replies in each forum', 'bbpress' ),
  'callback' => 'bbp_admin_repair_forum_reply_count',
  'priority' => 50,
  'overhead' => esc_html__( 'High', 'bbpress' ),
  'components' => array( bbp_get_forum_post_type(), bbp_get_reply_post_type() )
  ) );

  // Count topic replies
  bbp_register_repair_tool( array(
  'id' => 'bbp-topic-replies',
  'description' => __( 'Count replies in each topic', 'bbpress' ),
  'callback' => 'bbp_admin_repair_topic_reply_count',
  'priority' => 55,
  'overhead' => esc_html__( 'High', 'bbpress' ),
  'components' => array( bbp_get_topic_post_type(), bbp_get_reply_post_type() )
  ) );

  // Count topic voices
  bbp_register_repair_tool( array(
  'id' => 'bbp-topic-voices',
  'description' => __( 'Count voices in each topic', 'bbpress' ),
  'callback' => 'bbp_admin_repair_topic_voice_count',
  'priority' => 60,
  'overhead' => esc_html__( 'Medium', 'bbpress' ),
  'components' => array( bbp_get_topic_post_type(), bbp_get_user_rewrite_id() )
  ) );

  // Count non-published replies to each topic
  bbp_register_repair_tool( array(
  'id' => 'bbp-topic-hidden-replies',
  'description' => __( 'Count pending, spammed, & trashed replies in each topic', 'bbpress' ),
  'callback' => 'bbp_admin_repair_topic_hidden_reply_count',
  'priority' => 65,
  'overhead' => esc_html__( 'High', 'bbpress' ),
  'components' => array( bbp_get_topic_post_type(), bbp_get_reply_post_type() )
  ) );

  // Recount topics for each user
  bbp_register_repair_tool( array(
  'id' => 'bbp-user-topics',
  'description' => __( 'Recount topics for each user', 'bbpress' ),
  'callback' => 'bbp_admin_repair_user_topic_count',
  'priority' => 70,
  'overhead' => esc_html__( 'Medium', 'bbpress' ),
  'components' => array( bbp_get_topic_post_type(), bbp_get_user_rewrite_id() )
  ) );

  // Recount topics for each user
  bbp_register_repair_tool( array(
  'id' => 'bbp-user-replies',
  'description' => __( 'Recount replies for each user', 'bbpress' ),
  'callback' => 'bbp_admin_repair_user_reply_count',
  'priority' => 75,
  'overhead' => esc_html__( 'Medium', 'bbpress' ),
  'components' => array( bbp_get_reply_post_type(), bbp_get_user_rewrite_id() )
  ) );

  // Remove unpublished topics from user favorites
  bbp_register_repair_tool( array(
  'id' => 'bbp-user-favorites',
  'description' => __( 'Remove unpublished topics from user favorites', 'bbpress' ),
  'callback' => 'bbp_admin_repair_user_favorites',
  'priority' => 80,
  'overhead' => esc_html__( 'Medium', 'bbpress' ),
  'components' => array( bbp_get_topic_post_type(), bbp_get_user_rewrite_id() )
  ) );

  // Remove unpublished topics from user subscriptions
  bbp_register_repair_tool( array(
  'id' => 'bbp-user-topic-subscriptions',
  'description' => __( 'Remove unpublished topics from user subscriptions', 'bbpress' ),
  'callback' => 'bbp_admin_repair_user_topic_subscriptions',
  'priority' => 85,
  'overhead' => esc_html__( 'Medium', 'bbpress' ),
  'components' => array( bbp_get_topic_post_type(), bbp_get_user_rewrite_id() )
  ) );

  // Remove unpublished forums from user subscriptions
  bbp_register_repair_tool( array(
  'id' => 'bbp-user-forum-subscriptions',
  'description' => __( 'Remove unpublished forums from user subscriptions', 'bbpress' ),
  'callback' => 'bbp_admin_repair_user_forum_subscriptions',
  'priority' => 90,
  'overhead' => esc_html__( 'Medium', 'bbpress' ),
  'components' => array( bbp_get_forum_post_type(), bbp_get_user_rewrite_id() )
  ) );

  // Remove unpublished forums from user subscriptions
  bbp_register_repair_tool( array(
  'id' => 'bbp-user-role-map',
  'description' => __( 'Remap existing users to default forum roles', 'bbpress' ),
  'callback' => 'bbp_admin_repair_user_roles',
  'priority' => 95,
  'overhead' => esc_html__( 'Low', 'bbpress' ),
  'components' => array( bbp_get_user_rewrite_id() )
  ) );
  }

[Robin W]

ok so leave in the code that you have – that will make the default into date

then add this

function rew_forum_freshness_link( $forum_id = 0) {
	echo rew_get_forum_freshness_link( $forum_id );
}

function rew_get_forum_freshness_link( $forum_id = 0 ) {
		$forum_id  = bbp_get_forum_id( $forum_id );
		$active_id = bbp_get_forum_last_active_id( $forum_id );
		$link_url  = $title = '';

		if ( empty( $active_id ) )
			$active_id = bbp_get_forum_last_reply_id( $forum_id );

		if ( empty( $active_id ) )
			$active_id = bbp_get_forum_last_topic_id( $forum_id );

		if ( bbp_is_topic( $active_id ) ) {
			$link_url = bbp_get_forum_last_topic_permalink( $forum_id );
			$title    = bbp_get_forum_last_topic_title( $forum_id );
		} elseif ( bbp_is_reply( $active_id ) ) {
			$link_url = bbp_get_forum_last_reply_url( $forum_id );
			$title    = bbp_get_forum_last_reply_title( $forum_id );
		}

		$time_since = bbp_get_forum_last_active_time( $forum_id );

		if ( !empty( $time_since ) && !empty( $link_url ) )
			$anchor = '<a href="' . esc_url( $link_url ) . '" title="' . esc_attr( $title ) . '">' . esc_html( $time_since ) . '</a>';
		else
			$anchor = esc_html__( 'No Topics', 'bbpress' );

		return apply_filters( 'rew_get_forum_freshness_link', $anchor, $forum_id, $time_since, $link_url, $title, $active_id );
	}

and where you want to show a ‘since’ freshness link change

bbp_forum_freshness_link() to
rew_forum_freshness_link()

You should put any amended templates into your child theme

come back if you don’t know how to do that

[u_Oi]

When I change to any default wordpress theme the issue seems fixed. I thought It is something related with the theme

Minimal Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode

Inline Image Upload for BBPress

WP User Avatar

Yoast SEO

[Robin W]

sorry, can you be clear, this is JUST using the search box on forum pages – yes ?

if so

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[cinsin]

thanks robin-w, I tried that plugin, changed a user back to Participant, the permissions listed for this user now indicated they can read_private_tocpic, but in effect they could not. I tried ” Remap existing users to default forum roles”, but no success.

[u_Oi]

HI,

There is a “double” space in Notice and “By Author” info. I changed my wordpress theme to one of default wordpress theme and the error is fixed. I seems a CSS error.

I using a theme called “Hitchcock”.

How can I fixed?

Thanks

[Robin W]

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[cinsin]

Hello

My participants cannot view or reply to private topics. Administrators/keymasters seem to be able to.

I’ve installed bbPress version 2.5.14, and Members Version 2.0.2 plugins. When I look at the participant’s role it:

can read_private_forums
cannot read_private_topics
cannot read_private_replies

and I cannot edit this role: “The Participant role is not editable. This means that it is most likely added via another plugin for a special use or that you do not have permission to edit it.”

I tried deactivating plugins one by one to see if I could edit this role. I thought by default Participants could read and reply to private topics…

Thanks for any help

[locutus1]

I changed the theme to twenty seventeen which is a default theme and it made no difference. I told my host about the issue. I told them everything that has been mentioned in this thread. They asked for the link to this thread which I gave them. This is their entire reply:

“We just checked the logs on the server but we did not see any issue from the server side so we suggest you contact the plugin provider and ask them to have a look into this issue as that will certainly help.”

I don’t know what info you would get from looking at logs but that’s all they said. So they give up.

[Robin W]

ok, so if you say the forum is public, but hidden in buddypress, then we are on basic fault finding.

so as a test

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

I’d start with buddypress. You are just deactivating as a test.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[bensainz]

I am having trouble getting the topic page template to default to the same page format as my forum page. I created a custom template “bbp-sidebars” that presents my forum page with a sidebar for forum page views and topic views. The forum picks up the custom template, but the topics page ignores it and defaults to the blog view template. So far I downloaded bbp Style Pack, bbp shortcodes, bbP Tookkit, Weaver for bbPress, and What the File to see if there was a setting to accomplish my goal. I also read multiple articles on custom templates, but none address the topic layout. Also, after a new topic or topic response is posted, I can manually go in and set the page settings to have it display the way I want. While my site is growing I can probably do this, but after a certain point it will be too hard to keep up.

I am using WP 4.9.4, ForeFront theme Version 1.04 as a subtheme under GeneratePress V 2.02
My Website is https://defensecareersHQ.com PW is “VetsHelpingVets”
An example of my issue can be viewed here
https://www.defensecareershq.com/forums/topic/how-about-l-3-technologies/

Also, please note I manually set the all other topic pages to display correctly. Any advice is greatly appreciated.

[Robin W]

I thought we had one, but can’t find it.

The best way into bbpress is to start with the templates – these are the most likely thing you’ll want to alter, and placing amended ones in a ‘bbpress’ folder in your theme will make weordpress use these instead.

so go to

bbpress/templates/default/bbress/content-archive-forum.php

This is the first template called, and all the functions and templates you want to use will cascade from here.

[themichaelglenn]

I know this thread is 2 years old but it didn’t have the solution I was looking for, so I did some digging and figured out how to remove the Search button entirely. (So I’m putting it here in case anyone else looks for the same thing.)

CSS will work to hide the Search button, but you can also remove it completely by modifying the bbPress template files.

It took me a long time to find the right one, but what you wanna do is go to your plugins folder, and find the bbpress folder. Then look inside bbpress > templates > default > bbpress, and find the file named ‘content-archive-forum.php’

This file outputs the <div id="bbpress-forums"> code at the top of your index page, then immediately after that it outputs the search field and the breadcrumbs.

To remove the search box ONLY from your Forum Index page, just comment out the following lines of code:

<div id="bbpress-forums">

	<?php 
    
    /* Comment these lines out to remove search from your Forum Index page.
    
    if ( bbp_allow_search() ) : ?>

		<div class="bbp-search-form">

			<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'form', 'search' ); ?>

		</div>

	<?php endif; */ ?>

	<?php bbp_breadcrumb(); ?>

This will ONLY disable the search box; if you want to remove the breadcrumbs as well, then you need to comment out (or delete) the bbp_breadcrum(); line as well.

NOTE: The safest way to do this is to create a bbpress folder inside your theme, and save the modified content-archive-forum.php there (otherwise it’ll be overwritten the next time bbPress updates.)

[Robin W]

bbpress just uses the worpress login.

On first login, users are given the default role on dashboard>settings>forums

so it should all be fine.

[Robin W]

create a directory on your child theme called ‘bbpress’
ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your child theme

find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/content-statistics.php
Make a copy of this file, and put in in the directory called bbpress that you created above, so you end up with
wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/content-statistics.php
bbPress will now use this template instead of the original
and you can amend this

so copy this file to your PC and open it up.

then remove lines 37-40 which say

<dt><?php _e( 'Topic Tags', 'bbpress' ); ?></dt>
	<dd>
		<strong><?php echo esc_html( $stats['topic_tag_count'] ); ?></strong>
	</dd>

and save the file back to your website at wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/content-statistics.php

and yes being a child theme change it won’t get overwritten.

[Robin W]

I’d suggest that something else is disrupting the setting

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Then come back