[Robkk]

Subscriber makes sense for a default WordPress role since WordPress was just for blogs, so the default registrant role would be a subscriber to see your blog posts.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities

Try creating a test user by manually doing so with an additional email you may have in the WordPress Register form. Then see what the forum role is. If it is blank still, make a test forum post to see if it changes.

You can also try some troubleshooting if something is messing with the forum role being set.

Troubleshooting

[mihirpatel7410]

When user register into website,his role default set as a participant, but user can’t ask question in forum.it throws 404 error. and when i assign role as keymaster he can access forum.
what should i do,from that participant can access forum.

[Robkk]

bbPress does not do this by default, and it might be a little tricky to do this with the subscriptions component.

What you want may be custom development and you may need to hire a developer to create this for you.

[Robkk]

bbPress does have profiles, but like I said with BuddyPress active the profiles merge by defautt.

IF you want link me to your site and I could just point it out for you.

IF you have BuddyPress the subscriptions section will be something like this by default.

yoursite.com/members/andyrushtonprogramming/forums/subscriptions/

Without BuddyPress the subscriptions section will be in your bbPress forum profile with a url simllar to this by default.

yoursite.com/forums/profile/andyrushtonprogramming/subscriptions

Did that help you find it yet?

[AilyRoot]

Hello
we are using (bbPress)recent topics default widget, does any one knows that how to make “number of reply” show like this on widget ‘s topic list?

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[Robkk]

How you want your groups set up may be custom development for now, and you may need to hire a developer for that.

Possibly the same thing for the topic form for now too, but you can just leave the topic form how it is by default and just scroll to the form.

I think you may need just a conditional around the topic form so that only a member of the forum can create topics though, but that is if you leave the topic form how it is by default. The other way you want the topic form you may have to use the forum specific topic form shortcode.

[Robkk]

You can use the default registration forms in WordPress instead. The bbPress register shortcode is not really complete in functionality. The login shortcode should work decent enough though.

[KeithAdv]

I’m going through the odious task of importing a Ning forum to bbPress. The hard part (or so I thought) is done. I was able to get about everything from Ning into BuddyPress.

However, when I get to the last phase–BuddyPress to bbPress migration–which I thought would be easy-peasy, I lose all the replies to the forum topics! I’m following the migration process exactly (as far as I know) but it always fails. Here are the details:

I’m currently on a local server using XAMPP.
WordPress 4.2.4
BuddyPress 2.3.3 (using the default theme)
bbPress 2.5.8

The only other plugins I have installed are The Events Calendar (which you kind of need for the Ning conversion) and BackupBuddy, so that I can restore/reset after every unsuccessful attempt.

I have a smallish forum of fewer than 100 people and 4 groups.

At the time of this writing, I’ve restored the site to its last successful state:
– All data successfully imported into BuddyPress
– bbPress is installed and activated
– Final migration has not yet been attempted.

So, you can see all forums and replies, etc., in the BuddyPress theme on the site. The bbPress forums section in the admin menu is empty, as expected.

Now my typical next step, which always fails, is to follow the codex on migrating forums from BuddyPress to bbPress. I’ve been following it to the letter:

Migrating from old forums to bbPress 2.2+

Unfortunately, during Step 5, the actual import step, I get the following error message:


WordPress database error: [Table 'foo.wp_bb_terms' doesn't exist]

SELECT convert(term_relationships.object_id USING "utf8mb4") AS object_id,convert(term_taxonomy.term_taxonomy_id USING "utf8mb4") AS term_taxonomy_id,convert(terms.name USING "utf8mb4") AS name,convert(terms.slug USING "utf8mb4") AS slug FROM wp_bb_term_relationships AS term_relationships INNER JOIN wp_bb_term_taxonomy AS term_taxonomy USING (term_taxonomy_id) INNER JOIN wp_bb_terms AS terms USING (term_id) LIMIT 0, 100


I can’t tell if it is just complaining or if the import has actually failed at that point. Nevertheless, I finish all the steps. At that point, the groups have become forums in bbPress and the topics have transferred but only the first post in each. All replies are gone and I haven’t found any way to restore them.

One additional detail–I don’t know if it’s relevant. In order to do the Ning conversion, it’s best if you use BuddyPress v1.6, which I did. Afterward, I updated to the latest version. (Is that why wp_bb_terms didn’t get created?)

I’d greatly appreciate any insight on this. I’m so happy to be getting away from Ning–I can’t believe I’m getting tripped up on the WP side! 🙂

[tkse]

Hi!

This is how I’m looking to structure my /forums page. Any tips? Can I create my own front page/template file, or would I have to edit content-archive-forum.php?

I notice it’s pretty much exactly like an individual forum/category page, though I want this on the home page, with all categories. The default front page (content-archive-forum.php) doesn’t give enough info about the forums as it is, and is just too compact and small.

[timsilva_]

I am migrating a forum database from the latest version of SMF to the latest version of bbPress. In SMF, many posts had multiple line-breaks in between sentences, paragraphs, images, videos, etc. It appears that WordPress, and bbPress, strip out multiple line breaks and limit them to a single line break (probably to prevent people from creating giant vertical gaps for no reason that other users have to scroll through). The way that bbPress deals with line-breaks from the SMF database migration was not very clean. It was mostly just random blocks of text and sentences without line breaks in between paragraphs that existed in SMF. There were PRE tags added in sometimes, and seemingly inconsistent P tags as well. BR tags appear to have been converted into empty TT tags. I was able to correct some of these formatting issues by tweaking lots of CSS (and a little JavaScript) in the default bbPress template. At the same time, I have also tested how line-breaks work separate from the migrated database and it appears that this maximum-of-one-line-break philosophy is on purpose. I see where that’s coming from, but I want to allow it anyways.

I have read of methods where admins (and/or other users) can manually type in br tags as html with non-breaking spaces in between them as a hacky method of moving down three or four lines for whatever reason. I don’t want to have to train users how to do something that should be as simple as press enter like in any text editor.

How can I simply achieve this in bbPress’s default comment forms? I don’t want users to have to type in…

<br />&nbsp<br />

…when they can simply just press enter twice in the textarea input.

[Robkk]

The widget doesn’t really work by days. It displayed the recently published topics by default. If a topic is published twenty days ago and none were published until one was five minutes ago, those two topics are next to each other in the widget listing.

You can change it to display topics that have been posted last though.

To style the widget you can use the class .widget_display_topics

THen you could do something like this.

.widget_display_topics 
.widget_display_topics li
.widget_display_topics a

or add whatever additional classes are in the source code.

[Shmoo]

Yes great find, thank you Robkk,

Now you can also do this, ..and make the pagination an unordered list like it should be by the default. 🙂

function ntwb_bbpress_custom_pagination( $args ) {

	$args['type'] = 'list';
	$args['prev_text'] = 'previous';
	$args['next_text'] = 'next';

	return $args;

}
add_filter( 'bbp_topic_pagination', 'ntwb_bbpress_custom_pagination' );

WP Codex: all those args should probably work now.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/paginate_links

[Robkk]

bbPress does not do this by default. Contact your theme author again if it is indeed your theme doing this.

You can do a quick test to see if it is your theme doing this. Switch to a default theme temporarily to see the default message bbPress has.

I have an idea of what the theme author might have done though. All I can say is for them to copy the default bbPress templates and start fresh and create their own bbPress styles and functionality.

Or I guess you can create a child theme and do the same thing.

If it is another plugin causing this, check that out.

[Robkk]

So you do not want to create a forum for your topics? The users who are default to the Participant role shouldn’t be able to create forums. I don’t see why your boss doesn’t to create a forum at all, it organizes everything better.

Topic type and Topic status should only be visible to Keymasters and Moderators.

Do want to allow topics/forum subscriptions, or do you just want to hide the checkbox saying notify me of follow up replies and only allow the links for the users to click on?

[Robkk]

For having a forum show up instead of the (No Forum), copy form-topic.php in your child theme.

In the code toward line 109 you would see something like this.

<?php if ( !bbp_is_single_forum() ) : ?>

 <?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_before_topic_form_forum' ); ?>

	<p>
		<label for="bbp_forum_id"><?php _e( 'Forum:', 'bbpress' ); ?></label><br />
			<?php
				bbp_dropdown( array(
				'show_none' => __( '(No Forum)', 'bbpress' ),
				'selected'  => bbp_get_form_topic_forum()
				) );
			?>
	</p>

<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_after_topic_form_forum' ); ?>

<?php endif; ?>

Remove 'show_none' => __( '(No Forum)', 'bbpress' ), so it would look like this.

<?php if ( !bbp_is_single_forum() ) : ?>

 <?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_before_topic_form_forum' ); ?>

	<p>
		<label for="bbp_forum_id"><?php _e( 'Forum:', 'bbpress' ); ?></label><br />
			<?php
				bbp_dropdown( array(
				'selected'  => bbp_get_form_topic_forum()
				) );
			?>
	</p>

<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_after_topic_form_forum' ); ?>

<?php endif; ?>

The default forum shown is whatever is first in the forum index page. It either is sorted by publish date first or the forum ordered first if you manually changed the forum order by editing the forum.

[hotconductor]

Right. I am curious, like the original poster, about setting a default forum instead of having (no forum) as the default. People compose posts, without selecting a forum… it kicks back an error, no one gets it. I’d rather have it set by default to a general category, and the dropdown is there for seasoned users. Makes no sense that it is set as (no forum) by default, especially for folks who only have a single forum.

Is there a way to change the default from (no forum) to forum1/etc?

[hotconductor]

Right Stephen, but that doesn’t change the default form that gets embedded on each forum index page.

[Robkk]

Try some troubleshooting if you haven’t already.

Troubleshooting

Try a default theme activated with only bbPress activated to see if the problem persists.

Also ask a couple of these questions.

Do you have a multisite installation?

Is WordPress installed in a sub-folder?

What is the url you get when you try to logout?

What areas did you try to logout from? The WordPress Toolbar, bbPress login widget, something else?

Did this issue occur when you immediately activated bbPress? Or did the issue occur after a certain upgrade?

Did you have any cache plugins activated? Have you tried flushing the cache? If it is deactivated reactivate the plugin and flush the cache.

Anything that can cache activated on your site, server cache, cloudflare, object cache, opcode caching?

What hosting provider do you have?

[Robkk]

Does this help?? This code appears at 320px but it probably should be by default.

#bbpress-forums div.wp-editor-container {
    width: 100%;
    overflow: auto;
}

[project_subdomain]

New topic and reply forms are cut off on the right side at screens smaller than 430px width.

Tried several combinations of FORM#new-post, .bbp-reply-form and FIELDSET.bbp-form, with width:100% or a fixed size for smaller screens. Testing with

.bbp-topic-form,
.bbp-reply-form{
width:10px;
}

for example effects that the form gets smaller in width, but not 10px or any other wished px-width. It will be always fix at a width of maybe 300px. Could there be some default CSS already that I don’t see?

Are these forms responsive by default, anyway?

Thanks for any help!

[Robkk]

I can’t find anyone else reporting the same issue after extensive searches.

Yeah your issue is pretty unique.

You haven’t been editing bbPress core plugin files right??
Have you copied the editable bbPress templates to your theme?
You did try a default theme like twenty twelve temporarily to see if it solves the problem?
Did you try disabling all plugins except bbPress, to see if there was a plugin issue?

I am also wondering why your freshness area shows the date instead of 2 months ago, and why your Freshness label is missing.

[jacguerrant]

Latest WP and latest BB installed, using private replies, moderation and attachments plugins.

Moderation plugin is set to allow everything to show without pending. But any new topic and any new reply and any private reply sits unpublished as either pending or awaiting moderation.

Thanks for your help…

Jac

[Robkk]

Try some troubleshooting to see if it is a plugin or theme issue.

Troubleshooting

Also know that the visual editor was not activated by default because it started having issues. So it might be better to just use the quicktags toolbar.

Please explain on the formatting issue.

[Robkk]

I don’t think any styles have changed in the beta release, if there is you can use the default CSS styles from the latest stable version.

It might be better to copy the files into a theme you are working on though instead of the beta plugin. It should still work.

[Robkk]

Can you link to the site so I can see everything that is happening for the user profiles?

Try bulk editing a user in Users > All Users, and give them a forum role if they do not seem to have the default bbPress roles and see if that fixes anything.

Are you importing from another WordPress/bbPress site?

I also think how you imported everything could be a possibility of why the profiles are screwed up.

I guess you could hide the profiles but the profile links would link to nothing.