[Robkk]

Yeah that makes sense since the original file was for a user with a german/english forum I think.

You may not need this either since the original user had a german forum.

/**
	 * Set languages, add more languages if needed
	 *
	 * @param int $language WBB v4.x numeric forum status
	 * @return string WordPress safe
	 */
	public function callback_topic_language( $language = 4 ) {
		switch ( $language ) {
			case 4 :
				$language = 'German';
				break;

			case 5  :
			default :
				$language = 'English';
				break;
		}
		return $language;
	}

[UbbeGubben]

Hi all

Me again

Default there is one field (Subjekt title) and then the comments box!
But how can i make my own field instead of the (subject title)?

I would like to have 3 of my on spec fields (and the user Must fill them in)

Tnx

Urban Eriksson
tjuvkoll.se

[tkse]

No, I clicked, let it run and it never finished. I messed about for a couple hours after I wrote this and eventually got it to work by resetting the language to English, resetting forum, deleting bbPress and install/importing all over again with the default language. Don’t know if it’s a language files issue, but at least it worked for me.

[Vili]

I’m looking for a solution to moderate new subscribers, preferably in a way that regardless of whether it’s a comment on the WordPress side of things or a topic or reply on the bbPress side, once a new subscriber’s first post is approved, that user is allowed to post comments, threads and replies freely (unless caught by Akismet).

Has someone here faced the same challenge and successfully implemented a solution that works well and is a pleasant user experience for visitors?

The bbPress Moderation plugin should in theory be the answer to this, but it appears to no longer be maintained, I couldn’t get it to work on my website (it moderates all posts for me, even for a user whose posts have already been approved), and based on the plugin’s support section it doesn’t really seem to work optimally anyway. Which is a pity.

Another approach that I have been thinking about is making a new subscriber’s default user role something else than Subscriber, and never displaying comments, posts or threads written by a user with that user role (or displaying a “waiting for moderation” text instead of the post) until the user’s role has been updated to Subscriber. So, moderate a user rather than the content. I’m just not entirely sure how to implement this. Modifying the theme to accomplish it should not be difficult, but how about dealing with RSS, email notifications, etc. so that posts by these users don’t show in them? It seems that many things could go wrong and not play nicely with other plugins.

At the WordPress side, things work flawlessly spam-free with anonymous comments disabled, a custom question in the registration form (stops most spam bots), a mandatory e-mail confirmation for new subscribers, auto-moderation of the first comment (stops manual spammers) and Akismet (which doesn’t really have anything to do at the end). On the bbPress side, I’m only missing the moderation of a user’s first comment, which is letting through some spam.

Any ideas or experiences about a solution to this particular problem?

[K.Rens]

About: It’s the default page after you activate it.
Repair: it’s tools.php?page=bbp-repair I think. Found it on fora on how to fix it.

I simply do not see it in any of my menu’s and the pages direct links cannot be opened due to permissions.

[Robkk]

You have to create a new role and it has to have these set capabablites

'publish_topics' => false,

and

'publish_replies' => true,

While what I listed is oversimplified, you may need to adjust extra capabilities to your liking. To learn how to create a new user role with its own custom capabilities read this guide.

Custom Capabilities

You then set the default role in the forum settings in Settings > Forums in the WordPress backend.

To change existing users you have to change their forum role in Users > All Users in the WordPress backend.

[project_subdomain]

this works great for replies, Robkk.
Unfortunately it changed the default settings for public forums the same as for private forums.

Public forums
should be:
-logged in and out: read lead and replies
-logged in, also unsubscribed: read both and write replies

[drinkingsouls]

Are you running any special bbPress set up?
– I’m just running the default bbPress fresh from install

Does this happen to all user roles?
– Yes, it happens to all roles

I am going to assume on your fresh install you just have the latest stable version of bbPress and WordPress and no other plugins activated while using a default theme?
– Yes. I am using Twenty Fifteen theme. Up to date. No other plugins activated. The moment I activate bbPress users can no longer log out.

Thanks

[Robkk]

Alright I might report this as a bug, but I need steps to duplicate the issue. And could you answer these questions to help me, know where you are at?

Are you running any special bbPress set up?
Does this happen to all user roles?
I am going to assume on your fresh install you just have the latest stable version of bbPress and WordPress and no other plugins activated while using a default theme?

[PinkishHue]

I’m assuming by category you mean the forum that the topic is in?

You can remove the forum dropdown menu and use a hidden field here instead.

In your theme you need to have this file:

wp-content/your-theme/bbpress/form-topic.php

If you don’t have it, copy it over from the bbpress default templates at:

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress

Then open your new form-topic.php in a text editor and find this part of the code:

<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>

and replace it with this:

<input id="bbp_forum_id" type="hidden" name="bbp_forum_id" value="20">

Where 20 is the ID no. of the forum you want all topics to be created in.

Hope that helps 🙂

[Robkk]

Sorry for the late reply, I am going through some old topics to see if I missed something.

Have you tried disabling all other plugins AND using the default theme at same time? (difficult if the site is live of course)

If it’s not on a live site maybe try a fresh bbpress install? Also there are some repair tools in the settings you can try (I haven’t had experience using these but it’s worth a try)

Do this to see, and report back.

If it doesn’t work I might have to report a bug.

[Stagger Lee]

Yes, busy is the right word for Kunena official forum site.

It is nice and elegant indeed. Doesnt need to be complex and overdesigned. Why not put something like this as default ?
Wont add any new miliseconds to page load, just do it.

[Robkk]

You modify the template bbPress is inheriting from your theme. Use what the file and go to the page with the forum index shortcode to see which template has the banner in it, then go to other bbPress forum pages to see what template bbPress is inheriting by default.

A step by step is pretty difficult since all themes are different.

Getting Started in Modifying the Main bbPress Template

If you really want the banner, use what ever template that is coming from.

The first issue I’ve got is when you click ‘Forum One’, it shows the message, ‘This forum contains 1 topic, and was last updated by…” but doesn’t actually show the topic.

Try some troubleshooting, try a default theme to see if the issue is present, you should also try leaving only bbPress active to see if could be a plugin issue.

Troubleshooting

[Stagger Lee]

Thanks Robby.

Dont want to talk about design and style. It would ruin all from my title.
But yes, bbPress is ugly as hell when installed and takes lot of time to design. Better to keep written notes what you do and how, to be able to use it next time.

I have some ideas of making bbPress more acceptable to Pods or ACF. It would open many possibilities. Some of them could be, polls, attachments (very regulated and narrowed), SVG icons, reply title (it is just text input field), avatars, etc..

Dont know what to say about buddyPress serving as “Jetpack”. I like to install buddyPress along with bbPress and think they do better with design. Guess it is up to them, will they be standalone WP plugin or serve as filling gaps for bbPress.

Anything that is the same as Jetpack. Lots of modules all deactivated on default, to not force people use what they dont need and want. And without connection to wordpress.com.
If you make some better cooperation with Pods you get automatically mass of new developers and possibly mass of custom tweaks shared around. Same would be with bbPress “Jetpack” or buddyPress if they want it.

Back to your question. Cannot point exactly what is hard for begginers and users. It is all small bits and parts making it difficult. Even to me is hard and takes lot of time to have one bbPress forum ready for live server.
Guess it is huge amount of time spent searching on Google and forums howto. I made those mistakes on my first 2-3 instalaltions and noticed it is impossible to continue this way. Now I have searchable and filterable database with bbPress, buddyPress snippets. Just for bbPress circa 150 of them and some tutorials. But not many people will do this. When they spend half day searching on Google how to solve something they will simply go to phpbb, SMF forum and it is one user less.

Most of this time lost is fixing and tweaking third party plugins, using their adapted code in functions.php, etc. Design OK, but usually easy to find answer on Google.

In some way I try to imagine how would it be to charge a client for a bbPress installation and customization. I dont do it for money, i spend time on it because I think it is fun. But so many spent hours and days is impossible to charge. Hence, nobody will setup bbPress forum for living and earning. Web companies goes to other solutions.

In matter of fact price of one bbPress installation and customization goes easy to level of one very advanced web shop. Only know it is not sustainable and should not be this way.

Dont want to talk about money, just took it as example of how many hours and days bbPress takes to be finished and looks professional.

[project_subdomain]

I’m using the default backend design -> menu for all my menus. Tested this at the main navigation menu on my usual desktop version. Actual links show up but throw a 404-page only when clicking.

My mobile navigation menu (plugin: Responsive Menu) then simply could use one of those menus.

Should be also possible to make new menu items via functions to one of the menus created in backend design -> menu, right? Already tried this, but really have no idea if the correct slug ID is correct (mobile-menu is the name I gave the menu in backend):

add_filter ('wp_nav_menu_items', 'add_account-link');
function add_account_link ( $items, $args ) {
 if (is_user_logged_in() && $args->menu->slug == 'mobile_menu') {

$items = '<ul><li><a href="#">Account</a></li>';

$items ='<ul><li><a href="<?php bbp_user_profile_url( bbp_get_current_user_id() ); ?>" >Profile</a></li>';
$items ='<li><a href="<?php bbp_user_profile_url( bbp_get_current_user_id() ); ?>replies" >My replies</a></li>';
$items ='<li><a href="<?php bbp_user_profile_url( bbp_get_current_user_id() ); ?>topics" >My topics</a></li>';
$items ='<li><a href="<?php bbp_user_profile_url( bbp_get_current_user_id() ); ?>favorites" >My favorites</a></li>';
$items ='<li><a href="<?php bbp_user_profile_url( bbp_get_current_user_id() ); ?>subscriptions" >My subscriptions</a></li>';
</ul></ul>;
}
return $items;
    }

[Robkk]

As long as the users have registered and their default role is a participant they should be able to create topics.

You can try troubleshooting for other possible issues too.

Troubleshooting

[jambla]

Hi I am using bbPress version Version 2.5.8, website link is http://fantasypremierhq.com/

I cannot seem to style the register button on http://fantasypremierhq.com/register/, it defaults to in line css. The submit button class is button.submit.user-submit. I have managed to style everything else fine, including other buttons on the profile page. Any suggestions?
thanks

[Robkk]

well I don’t think you can merge forums by default in bbPress.

Hello, I have set my forum up with four different forums, but I want to strip this down to two, so effectively merging three forums into one.

How can I do this?

I think there is a plugin to export all the topics and replies of a forum and then you can import the that data into another forum.

I think there is also a different way to do this, some other guy did this with some other plugin. I might have to look that up and see the plugin he used.

Is it better to rename one forum, then move everything from the other two forums into the first?

Or, should I somehow merge all three into one?

I don’t think it matters really?? It might be best just to move all the data in a new forum though.

In any case, how will this affect posters subscriptions? Will they still have direct access to the forums once moved if people add to a topic?

This is a great question about the subscriptions, this will need some testing. I think they can have direct access to the topic once it is moved.

[PinkishHue]

@julia_b (If you’re still waiting for a reply!) – you need to put this in your functions.php file, more info here: https://codex.bbpress.org/functions-files-and-child-themes-explained/

This works great, thanks so much for sharing this code!

I’ve also managed, with very little tweaking, to get this displaying replies under topics within the topics list (this is very rough with some bits commented out but pasting here in case it helps someone)

// https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-to-add-latest-reply-or-topic-to-forum-list/
function jagreplies_add_last_reply() { { 
 $jagreplies_last_reply_id = bbp_get_topic_last_reply_id();
 //$jagreplies_last_topic_id = bbp_get_forum_last_topic_id();

$new_args = array(
    'post_type'=> 'reply',
    'p' => $jagreplies_last_reply_id
);
$post_title_args = array(
    'post_type'=> 'topic',
    'p' => $jagreplies_last_topic_id
);
$other_args = array(
    'post_type'=> 'topic',
    'p' => $jagreplies_last_topic_id
);
$jagreplies_query = new WP_Query( $post_title_args );
$nest_query = new WP_Query( $new_args );
$another_nest_query = new WP_Query( $other_args );

   if ( $jagreplies_query->have_posts() ) : while ( $jagreplies_query->have_posts() ) : $jagreplies_query->the_post();
     $this_post_id=$post->ID;
     $this_post_permalink= get_permalink(); ?>   
                             
     <!--<a href="<?php //echo $this_post_permalink; ?>">-->

<?php endwhile; 
   endif; wp_reset_query();

   if ( $nest_query->have_posts() ) : while ( $nest_query->have_posts() ) : $nest_query->the_post();
     $this_post_id=$post->ID;
     //$this_post_title= get_the_title();
     //$this_post_content= get_the_excerpt(); 
     $this_post_content= the_content(); ?>

     <h1><?php echo $this_post_title; ?></h1></a>
     <div class="the_content"><?php echo $this_post_content; ?></div>
                     
   <?php endwhile;
elseif ( $another_nest_query->have_posts() ) : while ( $another_nest_query->have_posts() ) : $another_nest_query->the_post();
     $this_post_id=$post->ID;
     //$this_post_title= get_the_title();
     //$this_post_content= get_the_excerpt();
     $this_post_content= the_content(); ?>   
                                  
     <!--<h1><?php //echo $this_post_title; ?></h1></a>-->
     <div class="the_content"><?php echo $this_post_content; ?></div>
                     
   <?php endwhile; 
   endif; 
    }} 
// Hook into action
add_action('bbp_theme_after_topic_freshness_author','jagreplies_add_last_reply');

This is extremely useful in creating a ‘Facebook’ style site where all content can be displayed on one single page (I know, Facebook, yuck! But it’s what ‘the people’ like)

Now I just need to try to get the bbpress Ajax Replies plugin working in conjunction with this so people can post and reply from that single page. Interesting!

**edited to add – if using my code above you may just want to change the last line ‘bbp_theme_after_topic_freshness_author’ to a different hook depending on where you want to display it, I am using customised templates but I’m not sure how it would look loading the content there if using the default templates

[bzwb]

Hello,

I installed a plugin(Sceko/White) to style my bbpress but after uninstalling, the forum page is now disorganized. Topics, Posts and freshness is listed vertically (screenshot attached). I tried uninstalling and reinstalling bbpress but the forum layout is still disorganized.

View post on imgur.com

Pls how do i revert back to the default bbpress settings?

Thanks

[bzwb]

Hi @sceko,

thanks for the effort you put into the bbpress plugin but it didnt work out well for me.
I tried uninstalling the white plugin and reinstalling bbpress but the forum layout is disorganized.

View post on imgur.com

Pls how do i revert back to the default bbpress settings?

[Media Cookery]

Here is the site: http://www.stacknfade.com/forum

Default email notifications for subscriptions and topic replies are not working. Thanks for any help.

[Media Cookery]

I’m having this same problem, but I have not installed WP-SMTP or bbPress Notify (no spam). The default bbPress subscription and topic reply notifications do nothing. They should be sending email notifications, correct? I get nothing for subscriptions or reply notifications.

Any suggestions? Thank you.

[Stephen Edgar]

There might be a bug if your site contains a port in the url though.

This is what I am suspecting it might be, we’ve had issues in the past with users using MAMP on Mac using port 8888

Have a look at the following post, you’d want to diagnose the issue in a similar way to that it is described here:

How to get bbPress to work on a local WAMP installation

If your site is using the standard port 80 then I’d suggest disabling all of your plugins and switching to one of the default themes Twenty Fifteen, Fourteen, or Thirteen with no plugins activated, if you cannot view the dashboard with the above configuration then it will be something in the setup environment, if that works activate bbPress, if that works then start activating your other plugins and you should eventually get to a plugin that causes your dashboard to disappear, when you do thats the offender.

[carlharrison1]

Good afternoon all,

Please try to ignore my stupidity but I am a novice in this game 🙂

I have set up my main forum page with a fusion slider behind my header, now is there anyway I can get this style to copy to each forum POST that is added within the main forum section? From what I gather each new post is picking up the default style settings but Im not sure how to copy the main template to each new post.

Please help

Thanks