[pazzaglia]

Rob thanks for the plug-in, which I will use immediately, BUT how is it that it’s not considered a security issue to be giving out “confidential” e-mail addresses Via the BCC field?

It’s a big breach of privacy.

This should be fixed at the core! When spammers get wind of this all they need to do is reply or subscribe to a post topic to snag e-mail addresses of participants. They will.

I don’t want my e-mail address given away and both the BBPress forums and WordPress forums appear NOT to do this while the the default behavior of this application on any other wordpress installation DOES.

Please consider this carefully for addition into the WordPress core.

Ciao,

L

[Robkk]

this is great. thanks Robkk. Just one question… Do I put this into the bbpress.php file in the bbpress folder?

No. Also the bbpress.php file should be in the root of your theme.

I added it here: wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress

Just checking if that is correct?

Don’t mess with any core files.

Okay so I put the above code in here and it seems to work:

plugins > bbpress > includes > users

Again, just checking if that is correct?

Don’t mess with any core files.

Here, I forgot I did this a while back. Add this to your functions.php file in your child theme.

function rk_show_role_classes($classes) {
    $replyid = bbp_get_reply_author_id();
    $bbp_get_role = bbp_get_user_display_role($replyid);
    $bbp_display_role = strtolower($bbp_get_role);
	  
  
	$classes[] = $bbp_display_role;
	return $classes;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_get_topic_class','rk_show_role_classes' );
add_filter( 'bbp_get_reply_class','rk_show_role_classes' );

Do the CSS I said before for the above code.

It would be something like this but for each role.

.ambassador .bbp-author-role {
  background-color: blue;
}

And if you do not need custom roles but instead just role names, lets say for each role it would be like this.

Keymaster -> Ambassador
Moderator -> Team Member
Participant -> Community Member

You can just change the role names using this function. Add it to your child themes functions.php file. And rename My Custom Role to what you want.

add_filter( 'bbp_get_dynamic_roles', 'ntwb_bbpress_custom_role_names' );
function ntwb_bbpress_custom_role_names() {
	return array(
		// Keymaster
		bbp_get_keymaster_role() => array(
			'name'         => 'My Custom Keymaster Role Name',
			'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_keymaster_role() )
		),
		// Moderator
		bbp_get_moderator_role() => array(
			'name'         => 'My Custom Moderator Role Name',
			'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_moderator_role() )
		),
		// Participant
		bbp_get_participant_role() => array(
			'name'         => 'My Custom Participant Role Name',
			'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_participant_role() )
		),
		// Spectator
		bbp_get_spectator_role() => array(
			'name'         => 'My Custom Spectator Role Name',
			'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_spectator_role() )
		),
		// Blocked
		bbp_get_blocked_role() => array(
			'name'         => 'My Custom Blocked Role Name',
			'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_blocked_role() )
		)
	);
}

Oh and quit trying to copy Ultimate Members site, try to have a unique website.

[Robkk]

@ximie90

do you know that the default WordPress login page is yoursite.com/wp-login.php and the direct link to the WordPress backend (Administration area) is yoursite.com/wp-admin?

So you renamed wp-login.php to newadmin. And after you login you are redirected to the dashboard at wp-admin.

I am starting to think this is not really an issue.

I also did test the dashboard access plugin and didn’t really see an issue from it either. Maybe the redirect url you inputted in that plugin may be causing an issue?? I am not sure.

[pazzaglia]

When I receive a default e-mail alert of a topic or reply from BBPress, if I view the e-mail’s full header the e-mail addresses of all the subscribed users in that topic are visible.

This is not just the admin alerts, also users are seeing this.

Please fix!!

[Eslam Yosef]

Hi,

I’m making a multi-languages website, and I’m starting with English (original), Arabic and Chinese. My team includes original speakers of each language so we can have a good view of which words are for humans and which are not.

The Arabic translation (which located here) is suck .. really!

I tried to edit the translation and download the new files, but I can’t because there’s a current translation I don’t want it.

Since I can’t create the file myself, my question is:

How can I make my own translation in the same way and download only what I translated?

Thanks in advance!

[Robkk]

Try some troubleshooting it could be your theme conflicting with bbPress. Try a default theme temporarily to see if is in fact bbPress causing the issue with any scripts.

Troubleshooting

Contact the theme author if it just your theme, and see if they have a fix for users that want to use bbPress.

The debug information you got is explained here.

bbp_setup_current_user was called incorrectly

[Robkk]

Any plugin that hooks into the default WordPress registration and adds special fields should add fields also to the bbPress registration form.

A plugin like this could add extra fields.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/cimy-user-extra-fields/

This site uses the [bbp-login] shortcode and there is a message on the registration page that says this site uses the same registration details as WordPress.org.

[Robkk]

Heck I might not need to, it may already be in the next major release.

If you go to this sites new topic page, you will see the forum dropdown does not show the (no forum), it just displays the first form in the list by default.

Create New Topic

Will check to make sure later though.

[geog272]

That would be great — thank you for creating a ticket. Your suggestion of having the default text be “choose forum” is perfect.

[Robkk]

is it possible to make the “Forum” dropdown menu a required field, and to require that in that drop down users choose a forum and not be able to choose “no forums” (which currently shows as the the default option).

I will create a trac ticket for this later today. It might be best for it to be required and for the default text to be “choose forum” instead.

You can create a button to your new topic page easily by using the text widget provided from WordPress, and adding this simple HTML.

<a href="http://yoursite.com/new-topic" class="button">New Topic</a>

[geog272]

Hi there, I am wondering this as well — using the short code [bbp-topic-form] is it possible to make the “Forum” dropdown menu a required field, and to require that in that drop down users choose a forum and not be able to choose “no forums” (which currently shows as the the default option).

[Ernesto]

when I browse the forum and turn back from the breadcrumbs. Eyelashes root “forum and debates” give me error 404. The default configuration Can you help me please? It is urgent

[Robkk]

1. How can I get people visiting on the website to login in or register and view their profile? Whenever I look at my website in incognito mode, there is no sign up or register button or view profile button.

You may need to add login or register menu items, or you can use the bbPress login widget and add links to your default WordPress register page or the page you put the [bbp-reigster] shortcode.

2. If people can register, how can can that registered person create a new topic? I can’t seem to find that tab thing on bbpress on my website.

What tab thing? just scroll at the bottom of a forum you created and you should see a topic form.

3. How can I make the forum so that only registered people can reply and non registered people to only look at the forum?

I think as long as you do not have any private forums or enable anonymous posting you can do this by default.

4.How can i get registered users to unsubscribe

You are not really specific on what to subscribe to, but you can unsubscribe to forums and topics by following this guide. You can only unsubscribe to forums and topics if you are already subscribed to them though.

Subscriptions

In other words how can i make the forum on my page like the one on bbpress ?

Hard work and custom development.

[Robkk]

Try a default theme. All plugins deactivate except only bbPress.

I have no idea why you think private groups would help users to post, which should be in bbPress by default.

Make sure you users have the participant role and not something like spectator. You can check their forum roles in Users > All users in the WordPress backend.

[Robkk]

You told me how to unsubscribe to a forum, so I presumed you already knew how and were already subscribed to a forum.

The page I linked you to is a page on your profile where you can manage your subscriptions (if you already have some), but you can also unsubscribe to forums by clicking the unsubscribe link near the breadcrumbs of the single forum.

By default there should be a link to subscribe to a single forum. The link should be near the breadcrumbs by default and should say Subscribe.

I used post because I thought people would know what I meant, and also so I did not need to repeat forum and topic again. What I meant is below, I guess.

For a user to subscribe to a forum or topic, they need to click the link that will usually be at the top of the post (forum or topic, whatever you are trying to subscribe to) that says Subscribe.

I also thought showing the images showing the blue (its not blue by default, its whatever link color is inherited from your theme) Subscribe link for a single forum and single topic would be clear as day for what I meant.

[Robkk]

@antonhoelstad

All you had to say was that you did not edit files, if you did not edit any files.

You did not need to post ALL of the code in the templates that just included any specific keywords to search. If you started fresh from on bbPress then you just posted the default templates.

Do not post full template code, on this site use soemthing like gist.github so I do not have to scroll through all of that in this topic, or even in the forums search on this site.

Did you even try putting the templates into a child theme like I said above??

[Robkk]

This one is tough but it has to do with using <?php wpautop() ?>. Also know that the user description field is just a field inherited from the WordPress default profile fields.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wpautop

[Robkk]

For the line-breaks missing it might be some CSS from your theme maybe causing the issue, but link to a post that should have line breaks so I can check and make sure.

ALso fix the oversized avatars using this CSS.

default size bbPress 14px avatar.

#bbpress-forums p.bbp-topic-meta img.avatar,
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-reply-revision-log img.avatar,
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-topic-revision-log img.avatar,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-template-notice img.avatar,
#bbpress-forums .widget_display_topics img.avatar,
#bbpress-forums .widget_display_replies img.avatar {
   margin-bottom: 0px;
   vertical-align: middle;
   border: 1px single #ddd;
   width: 14px;
}

default size profile image

#buddypress div#item-header img.avatar {
    width: 150px;
}

[Robkk]

By default bbPress doesn’t force subscriptions on users so whatever plugin you are using you may need to contact them. If you need the default way of subscriptions to turn off and on based on certain things like being offline then that may be custom development. By default the users can just unsubscribe from notifications from topics or forums if they do not want to keep getting notified anymore.

[mystylevita]

I am building a forum for bloggers and I want to be able to control their username for accountability purposes. Each member/blogger will be given a username with their login. They will be able to add their first and last name which then allows them to change the display name to first name, last name, first/last, or username. I would like for the dropdown menu in their edit profile section to ONLY show their username no matter what they input in first/last name fields. Or at least override their selection to always default to the username given to them from the beginning.

[demonboy]

I am confused as to how to make a ‘contributor’ of wordpress automatically a ‘participant’ in the forum. How do I automate this? I am using BuddyPress, bbpress and User Role Editor plugin. At the moment even if they are a participant I have to manually go through each user and change their access to each element of the forum which, by default, is all set to ‘deny’ so that a participant can’t even see the forum.

[DevynCJohnson]

Why not add the below code to the theme’s functions.php file?

//Subscribe by default
function subscribed_by_default(){
echo '<script type="text/javascript">jQuery("#bbp_topic_subscription").prop("checked","checked");</script>';
}
add_filter('bbp_theme_after_topic_form_subscriptions','subscribed_by_default');
add_filter('bbp_theme_after_reply_form_subscription','subscribed_by_default');

[SteveW928]

Thanks Robin! (and Robkk) (I just ran across this looking for a solution too.)

I guess my question though… why isn’t this the default behavior in general?

It’s pretty much how BBSs have worked since Internet and email have been around.
(Sorry to sound a bit snarky, but I sometimes wonder if people developing social media and newer BBS systems have even used the tried & true stuff that’s been around forever. Subscription and notification functionality are kind of 1.0 stuff, IMO. And, I know it’s a lot of development work… but even Facebook – with their army of developers – doesn’t seem to get this. So, I have to wonder if it isn’t more oversight than workload oriented.)

[carlharrison1]

Hi all,

Is there an easy enough way to create two columns of forums? Instead of the default one column spanning the entire length of my page.

Many thanks

[sharingsunshine_wp]

I have ran the conversion many times and this last time I created an all new smf install using a copy of the existing database. This causes the smf board I am converting from to be in a default condition with no mods or plugins. So I thought this could be the cleanest way to import the board.

However, I am still having the same issues many replies and topics are being left off. After the conversion I ran all the applicable repair tools in the importer but still no change.

Do you have any other suggestions?