[Robkk]

It is missing on the frontend of your site on the topic and reply forms right??

Did you make sure you have the Post Formatting enabled in Settings > Forums?

You can also see if it is a plugin issue by trying some troubleshooting. You can also see if you have some code snippet in your theme by switching to a default theme temporarily to see if it fixes the issue.

Troubleshooting

[sittle]

By default in topics([bbp-single-view id="asc"] will give) pagination as

1 2 3 4…..n

Can anyone let me know how to make it alphabetical pagination as

A B C D ….Z

Thanks in advance

[tw_crowther]

WordPress Version: 4.3.1
Theme: Omega
bbPress Version: 2.5.8

Issue: I installed the bbPress plug-in. Created a Forum called Forum, and created one Topic so I can test. All bbPress settings are left as default.

I created a Page called Forums and added this page to my site navigation.

My issues are 3 fold.
1) When I click on “Forum” in the site navigation to access the page I created I do not see any forum imbedded on this page, all I see is are the words “Archives” then the title “Forums” in the main body of text.
2) If I click on the title Forums this does direct me to the bbPress Forum I created – How do I integrate the Forum directly onto the “Forums” custom page I created?
3) I notice the Forum URL is <sitename>/forums/forum/forum/ is there a way to remove 2 of these levels so the URL is simply <sitename>/forums

I hope this makes sense and you are able to help.
Kind regards,
Tom.

[Robkk]

bbPress authentication forms are incomplete in functionality. It should stay on the same form and show the errors above the forms and all that, but it doesn’t just yet.

I recommend just using the default WordPress authentication forms.

[Robkk]

Try a default theme, disable all plugins except bbPress, and hopefully you didn’t try to modify the roles and permissions.

Troubleshooting

[Robkk]

bbPress uses the WordPress registration process, they are unified. THe bbPress shortcodes for lost password, registration, and login are there for frontend forms but they are incomplete in functionality, there shouldn’t be a problem with using the default WordPress registration form by default.

You can customize the default the WordPress forms by a plugin, or using some PHP functions too.

[regeisle]

Thanks for the quick reply! I think the issue is that even with plain text pasting, there’s still some formatting that’s not getting stripped out.

Following these steps, https://codex.bbpress.org/enable-visual-editor/, I’ve disabled the <text> tab to lock it on visual editing and set it to paste as plain text.

My ideal setup would be to make everything paste in as totally unfortmatted plain text so it’s just like they typed it directly, but then use the visual editor features to let people add links, bold things, etc. It’s not a knowledgeable userbase so I can’t default it to text/code mode, but I also need to get rid of these formatting bugs.

Any suggestions to achieve what I’m after above? This seems like it would be a pretty common setup for basic user editing needs….

Thanks again! Rich

[davellan]

Still having an issue, although it seems to have evolved.

So now using the roles and capability manager, the changes I make stick.

Even so, bbPress roles don’t seem to work. So I made a new WP role I called member, and assigned it participant capabilities. I then changed subscriber (the default) and assigned it spectator capabilities. These roles new allow users to function as I wanted. A hack but it works reliably.

But now, as the WP admin and keymaster, I cannot moderate the forums through the dashboard or inside the forum. Since none of the bbPress roles actually work, I can’t do anything with them. I suppose I will have to make yet another role and call it moderator, and give it all the keymaster capabilities.

But this shouldnt have to be like this. Really lost on why this is broken.

[Robkk]

I split this topic off just so confusion does not start in the other topic.

All plugins deactivated except bbPress?
Try a default theme with the only plugin on your site activated being bbPress?

Also check to see what is your Forum Role in Users > All Users. If it is Participant you may not be able to see the menu items, make sure if you are an Admin that your Forum Role is Keymaster.

[mihirpatel7410]

Hi sir,
Forum is not working in my website, There is no keymaster role for admin, and Forum, Topic and Reply menu are not visible in my admin panel and also there is no default role is selected for user and when assign user participant role, he cant access forum(cant see question and reply on questions).
Please help me to resolve this issue. Its an emergency.
Thanks in advance.

[davellan]

I got a role and capability manager, and I see that the WP subscriber role (by default is selected) gives users both “spectate” and “participant” roles (even though I have it set to only form role specatator by default).

I edited this and left the subscriber role only with specatate capability. It would then not allow spectators to post (yay) but also blocked participants (boo). I switched roles to moderator to see if it would allow posting and it did. When I switched back to participant, it worked (yay) but then when I went to spectator it also worked (boo).

So I went back to the roles and capability manager, and also the capabilities I toggled off were toggled back on! How does this happen?

[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?

View post on imgur.com

[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?