[Robkk]

it worked for me, and just so you know bbPress uses some of the WordPress comments code for anonymous posting.

link to a topic i can test on and make sure you have the code placed.

the way i tested it is i tried normal anonymous posting when logged out of my test site inputted my email and name then posted a reply and topic. by default the name and email should populate automatically for my next reply and topic.

with my code it should display empty text inputs even when you already made a reply or topic.

[Robkk]

on my test site i tested twentyfifteen and it worked fine.

the author link lead to the profile like default.

did you do any kind of import on your site??

[Robkk]

@palmdoc

in that specific plugin it imports forums one at a time.

the settings are in whatever forum you are trying to export/import

i think how you would do it is setup your forums again on your new site

then export each forum one at a time from your old site

then import your old forum data to the new forums , one at a time.

i tried the plugin and it seems to not work 100% as i was missing some topics during the import.

im not 100% sure though , but i think you could just export/import your bbPress installation using

the default WordPress export tool , and the WordPress importer plugin.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-importer/

[crzyhrse]

In case someone else comes this way with a similar issue, as I did, I want to add to this thread… I used the “Tools” -> “Forums” -> “Remap existing users to default forum roles” for a different issue as recommended by a moderator elsewhere in this forum…

What that did was take away the Keymaster role from the primary Admin user, I.E., me… The Administrator role that is set up on the original install in other words… This also removed all trace of bbPress from the Dashboard… I did all the usual, caches, de/reactivate, check some possible plugin conflicts, different browsers, etc… I even changed the version number of bbBress in my contents>Plugins folder so I force a reinstall… Nothing fixed it…

What I was finally able to do, because I luckily had a different Admin set up for someone else, was log out and in via that admin user, and add the keymaster role back to my main admin account…

I would not recommend the use of that option, and I find myself more that a little wary of all the form tool options now…

Kind regards…

[Robkk]

Mybe it is coded so closed topics are excluded from topic query?

i just closed a topic in an empty forum , i didn’t see anything like this.

Are you seeing anything that should be in a blog post in your bbPress forums.

You did do all of the general issues troubleshooting steps?? like switch to a default theme and deactivate all your plugins except bbPress to find something conflicting??

[Robkk]

1. i could see those dumb mojo marketplace links in your admin bar , you should consider removing that.

2. what CSS did you add to your site , because by default it shouldnt shift left , it should be narrow but not shift left.

[hazedesigns]

2nd finding:

The answer was in the codex!

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

This page explains the way to make copies of the files from the plugin directory into the theme directory and/or subdirectories in the theme directory for the purpose of customising those templates. Turns out that the only problem was that warp7 couldn’t find them in their default location within the plugin folder, so simply copying the /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress folder into the /wp-content/themes/my-theme/ folder and then copying the files from /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/extras/ into the /wp-content/themes/my-theme/ folder seems to have rectified all issues! Yet to test completely but this is looking good – I was praying for an easy fix! Thanks so much to Robkk for pointing me in the right direction!

[novicechess]

I believe the left shifting aspect of the posts is the default, but centering my home page and play page posts involved adjusting those specific page dimensions. It seems as though something in the bbforum code is conflicting with the left-shifting aspect of the twenty fourteen theme.

[Robkk]

i agree with these

Posts Count & Join Date Under Username – just post count and join date on profile.

“Report” Option – It would be good for moderation.

Attachments – but just using the Add Media button , ive been messing with this lately.

Things that should be a plugin

Private Responses – kind of a toss up , its not hard to create though. or are you talking about Private messages??

“Like” button – bbPress has a favorites option , like buttons per reply should just be a plugin, there are nice options for plugins though.

dictate if there are “new” or “unread” posts – there is a lot of options in plugins for this and they are quite different too, it really depends if its good for users to have an option on what they want or what.

Ability to “Quote” users – we have threaded replies as an alternative. it could be a feature in the future , but i think it should stay in plugin territory for now.

things that are easily possible to create in my opinion

Icons for Subcategories that help to differentiate between subcategories – simple css

“New” icons for new posts – show icon from date of creation.

“Sticky” icons for stickied posts – simple css

“Hot” icons for posts that are popular -show the label when a reply level hits

Ability to Rename bbpress specific vernacular (IE “Last Post” in place of “Freshness”) – put the templates in your child theme / create a custom language file for your site/ custom function.

Format Categories vs SubCategories in Traditional Forum Style – there is three ways you can have this functionality.

Signatures – you can create a custom text description box in your profile and then just show it after your reply content with a function.

things that are already in bbPress

Sort Forum by Recently Updated, Most Replies, Most Viewed, Etc. – bbPress views does this.

Basic editor for responses including format help – the default quicktags seem basic

[N3gATiVE]

Hello

This is forums main page https://www.jkyog.org/forums/
and this is a sub-forum https://www.jkyog.org/forums/forum/yoga-meditation-2/

In Sub-forums Freshness is: 1 week, 2 days ago and in main forums page it display 4 weeks ago with some other random user..

When users are posting non stop then Freshness is coming correct but if i delete any spam replay, or if we don’t post anything from long time then main forums page Freshness will change itself into some random user and time..

Tried couple of things like:

All plugins disable expect bbpress
Caching disabled
Recalculate everything from Tools
Changed theme to default / All plugins, wordpress version etc updated to recent version

But no success will appreciate if someone can provide solution or hint!

Thanks.

[j0n4h]

More functionality without plugins and options to change certain aesthetics would be, in my opinion, pretty routine for a forum codex.

Now I realize that these options are all viable in bbpress, however, not everyone has the time necessary to learn how to implement these things themselves. Many of these things I already have in my forums, but now without extensive research in addition to plugins designed to enable such desired functionality. The thing is, though, should I really need a plugin to allow for signatures or post count?

If you’re interested, this is a list I would recommend for bbpress to be more competitive out of the box and more user friendly:

Out-of-the-Box Recommendations:

Functionality:

• Ability to Rename bbpress specific vernacular (IE “Last Post” in place of “Freshness”)
• Posts Count & Join Date Under Username
• Ability to Change Default Titles & Permissions for Usernames
• Icons for Subcategories that help to differentiate between subcategories & also dictate if there are “new” or “unread” posts in certain categories
• “New” icons for new posts
• “Sticky” icons for stickied posts
• “Poll” icons for posts containing polls
• “Hot” icons for posts that are popular
• Sort Forum by Recently Updated, Most Replies, Most Viewed, Etc.
• Attachments
• Private Responses
• “Like” button
• Signatures
• Ability to “Quote” users
• Basic editor for responses including format help
• “Report” Option

Aesthetic:

• Different color names or title icons for easy recognition between staff & general members
• Option to change colors of backgrounds to differentiate between posts or headers and posts
• Format Categories vs SubCategories in Traditional Forum Style

I also completely understand this may not be within the parameters that the bbpress developers have in mind for this product. They may only be interested in providing the foundation for such things, though without these features, this product is not a feasible option for a comprehensive community forum project for a layman such as myself.

[Robkk]

try all the general troubleshooting first, if you have other plugins deactivate them, and switch to a default theme like twentytwelve or twentyfifteen.

create me a simple subscriber/participant account so i can check out the quicktags toolbar, send the login details to my email.

Contact

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[KrisxWolf]

I would like for my users to have the option of creating topics for the forum through the toolbar option ‘+ New‘ that the admin or moderators have. Many users will not understand the minimalist editor (the same that this forum has) and may discourage user threads and possibly replies. One of the plugins I installed was User Role Editor as you cannot change permissions by default. Is there something that I am missing within that plugin or what are the available options? Even if users could not use the editor I use TinyMCE Advanced I would be happy; though I would prefer if they had access to that editor.

WordPress Version: 4.2.1
BBPress version 2.5.7

[23creative]

you’re welcome mate. my code actually changed quite a bit form what I posted here. the tag list is pulled from wp-admin > Topics > Topic tags

updated code below

//change the seclected terms to string and return
function restrict_topic_tags( $terms, $topic_id, $reply_id ) {
    if(isset($_POST['bbp_topic_tags'])){
        $bbp_topic_tags = filter_input(INPUT_POST, 'bbp_topic_tags', FILTER_DEFAULT, FILTER_REQUIRE_ARRAY);
        return returnFormattedTags($bbp_topic_tags, $topic_id);
    }else{
        return $terms;
    }   
}
add_filter( 'bbp_new_reply_pre_set_terms', 'restrict_topic_tags' );

//change the seclected terms to string and return
function restrict_new_topic_tags( $topic_data ) {
   //$bbp_topic_tags = $data   = filter_input(INPUT_POST, 'bbp_topic_tags', FILTER_DEFAULT, FILTER_REQUIRE_ARRAY);
   if(isset($_POST['bbp_topic_tags'])){
        $bbp_topic_tags = filter_input(INPUT_POST, 'bbp_topic_tags', FILTER_DEFAULT, FILTER_REQUIRE_ARRAY);
        $topic_data['tax_input'] = array('topic-tag'=>checkTags($bbp_topic_tags)); 
   }
   return $topic_data;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_new_topic_pre_insert', 'restrict_new_topic_tags' );

//change return the correct tag on a form error submission, we might need to go through the spam check here. But lets see how this goes
function loadPostTagArray( $topic_tags ) {
   if( $topic_tags == 'Array'){
        if ( bbp_is_post_request() && isset( $_POST['bbp_topic_tags'] ) ) {
            $bbp_topic_tags = filter_input(INPUT_POST, 'bbp_topic_tags', FILTER_DEFAULT, FILTER_REQUIRE_ARRAY);
            $topic_tags = returnFormattedTags($bbp_topic_tags); 
        }
   } 
   return $topic_tags;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_get_form_topic_tags', 'loadPostTagArray' );

function returnFormattedTags($topicTags){
    foreach ($topicTags as $key => $topicTag){
      if($key > 0) $terms .= ', ';
      $terms .= esc_attr( strip_tags( $topicTag ) );
    }
   return $terms;
}

function checkTags($selectedTags){
    $tags = get_categories( array('hide_empty'=> 0,'taxonomy' => 'topic-tag'));
    $toReturn = array();
    foreach($tags as $tag){
        if (in_array($tag->name, $selectedTags)) {
           $toReturn[] = $tag->name;
        }
    }
    return $toReturn;
}

function displayTagElements($selectedTags, $userRole, $task){
    $html = array();
    $tags = get_categories( array('hide_empty'=> 0,'taxonomy' => 'topic-tag'));
    $selectedTagsArray = explode(', ', $selectedTags);
    if($userRole != 'bbp_participant' || $task != 'edit'){    
        $html[] = '<select class="chzn-select" multiple="multiple" name="bbp_topic_tags[]" id="bbp_topic_tags">';
            foreach($tags as $tag){
                $selected = '';
                if (in_array($tag->name, $selectedTagsArray)) {
                   $selected = 'selected="selected"';
                }
                $html[] = '<option '.$selected.' value="'.$tag->name.'">'.$tag->name.'</option>';
            }
        $html[] = '</select>';
    }else{
        $html[] = $selectedTags;
    }
    return implode('',$html);
}

[Robkk]

it should be by default , you probably installed a plugin that caused this issue or you messed with some users capabilities.

follow the basic troubleshooting in this topic

Before Posting

[Robkk]

FriendlyCase should work, i tested with some default themes.

it works in twentytwelve , twentythirteen , and twentyfifteen.

link to your site so i can check on it maybe there is some CSS messing it up or something else.

[Robkk]

@kellygree

but when I try to register it direct me to my wordpress login page

ive looked into this and its normal, its because the register form functionality isnt really finished

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2137

you can use the default WordPress registration pages if you want they are fine for user registration for all your users, and you could customize the default WordPress registration pages with some other plugins too.

if you want dedicated front-end forms use a plugin like this

https://wordpress.org/plugins/theme-my-login/

our login shortcode [bbp-login] works fine though.

[mrjarbenne]

I found the culprit. I don’t know how I missed it before, but by default a registered user is added as a participant. This toggle was forcing me on the site, even when I removed myself.

I can hack the plugin and set that as false by default. I’ll just need to remember to fix that every time the plugin updates, and I’ll need to let users know that they need to add a forum role to their users (which shouldn’t be a big deal).

Looks like I can do that on bbpress/includes/admin/settings/line 532 changing the true to false.

<input name="_bbp_allow_global_access" id="_bbp_allow_global_access" type="checkbox" value="1" <?php checked( bbp_allow_global_access( true ) ); bbp_maybe_admin_setting_disabled( '_bbp_allow_global_access' ); ?> />

I can understand why it’s set this way. It does make the plugin work “out of the box” in a way that users would otherwise need to sort through what is already a very intricate settings panel.

[yoshimitsu1234]

While trying the trial and error method of disabling the plugin, I was using tools.pingdom.com/fpt/ to test the website from different server location each time whether it is working or not. And each time it showed a blank page.
I didn’t try switching back to default theme.
Going back to bbpress 2.5.6 made everything fine.
Cpanel error log was totally empty.

[Stephen Edgar]

I can’t reproduce this issue at all 🙁

Did you try switching back to a default theme? Twenty Fourteen or Fifteen before rolling back bbPress to 2.5.6?

Any change you have a detailed error message? Anything in your web server logs that may help us track it down?

[Stephen Edgar]

I can’t reproduce this issue at all 🙁

Doesn’t matter what i try I can’t seem to reproduce it.

Theoretically, your saying if a logged out users views the site it breaks, is this also the case for any visitor visiting your site for the first time?

Did you try switching back to a default theme? Twenty Fourteen or Fifteen before rolling back bbPress to 2.5.6?

Any change you have a detailed error message? Anything in your web server logs that may help us track it down?

[Robkk]

@w-sky

the theme actually works pretty well by default

is there any CSS rules you added to customize bbPress for your site??

it might be conflicting with that section.

[sharongraylac]

Well this is embarrassing… lol

I figured out what was wrong. It appears the link picked up a default color on my theme, which happened to be the same color as the background! 🙂

All I need to do was change the color and… poof! The links appeared! lol So consider this issue RESOLVED.

Thanks SO much again for all of your help, in ALL of my recent threads! 🙂

Kindly,
Sharon

[Robkk]

where is your favorite and subscribe links??

they should by default be in your bbPress topic header.

[Robkk]

@sharongraylac

more of a WordPress thing, as the biographical info doesn’t allow line breaks by default.

you can create a new topic but at the WordPress support forums if you really need this type of thing

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