[Robin W]

personally I wouldn’t bother for such a small number, but there are lots of plugins to do this.

Just go to the repository https://wordpress.org/plugins/ and type in ‘revision’

[shanebp]

If you are a site admin and want to give your moderators the power to block spammers, then this plugin may be of interest to you.

It allows mods to change the forum role for a user to blocked which will stop them from using the forum.
It does not allow mods to change a user’s WP role.
It does not give mods additional access to wp-admin.

You can get it from the WP repo:
bbp Auto Block Spammers

Or from PhiloPress.

[Robin W]

Emails are notoriously difficult to fault find, as so much is beyond the website.

So start with

1. You should be aware that many spam filters strip messages that do not come from the correct address. So if your site is mysite.com and your email address in wordpress setting/general is fred @gmail.com then it is likely that messages will be dumped in transit. You need to set up email to come from your site eg fred @mysite.com, your hosting provider can help if needed.
2. Different email providers have different rules, so an email to fred @aol.com may be treated differently than fred @google.com if google and aol have different rules as the email passes through their servers, so some may get through and others not.
3. Just bbpress?
Then you need to see if this is wordpress wide or just bbpress.
Try https://wordpress.org/plugins/check-email/
4. Some people have fixed it with this plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/asyncronous-bbpress-subscriptions/

[maksanse]

Hi ! I encounter since a few days a strange and very annoying issue :

When I am logged in as an admin to my bbpress forum, the editing toolbar does not appear :
NOT WORKING

But when I log in with a subscriber account, I see it correctly :
WORKING

I got the same issue with Twenty Fifteen theme from wordpress. So I thought it was a matter of plugin.

I deactivated all the plugins excepted bbpress & bbpress Toolkit and I still have the same issue.

So : The problem occurs on Chrome, Safari & Chrome for iOS

– it seems not to be an issue of theme,
– it seems not to be an issue of plugin compatibility,
– it’s not an issue of css either… (the editor elements just don’t appear in DOM)
– it seems not to be an issue of bbpress version (I tried to revert to version 2.5.13 and it still doesn’t work)

I am a little bit confused… Can you please help me ?

Best regards

[Robin W]

bbpress just users wordpress login, so not really a bbpress issue.

I can only suggest you either post in the wordpress support forum, or the easy WP SMTP forum

[Hitesh Chandwani]

Try following plugin to add google reCAPTCHA on your bbPress forum. Option to enable/disable for logged-in users.

reCAPTCHA for bbPress

[Hitesh Chandwani]

Try following plugin to add google reCAPTCHA

reCAPTCHA for bbPress

[Robin W]

by code

//create vertical list subforum layout
function custom_bbp_sub_forum_list() {
  $args['separator'] = '
';
  return $args;
}
 add_filter('bbp_after_list_forums_parse_args', 'custom_bbp_sub_forum_list' );

or this plugin has it as a setting in

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Forum Display

bbp style pack

[Robin W]

Oh, how can I get rid of the search function in the admin bar?

Don’t have the admin bar – it is horrible and breaks away from your theme, bbpress has profile edit which let the user access their profile.

There are plenty of plugins to hide the admin bar

https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/search/admin+bar/ lists lots

[Gregg]

Forgot to provide the URLs.

Old phpBB forum: http://www.cpakayaker.com/forums/
New Site: http://cpakayaker.wpengine.com/

Current versions of WordPress and bbPress

[Vili]

That is indeed it, thanks! So I was barking the wrong tree, nothing wrong with WordPress being able to access bbPress.

Where should one look for bbPress function documentation these days? I notice that I have difficulties finding information, and when I do find something, figuring out if the functions are for bbPress 1, bbPress 2, or BuddyPress is sometimes difficult. There is some sort of a list here but bbp_get_topic_tag_names() is not included, among others.

[Robin W]

bbpress uses wordpress login, so they only need to login once.

a public forum is visible to logged in AND not logged in
A private forum is only visible to logged in

If you set anonymous posting then everyone can post topics and replies, otherwise just logged in users can post

[Robin W]

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>freshness display and set it there

[lookingahead]

Hi!

So….aaaallll I really want to do is change the default URL path for each new forum.

I do not want the word ‘forum’ to be in any URL, not ever. I want the word ‘forum’ to be ‘chat’ — not ‘forum’….

Example:
– current default URL path: https://sitename.com/interaction/talk-name/forum/
– desired default URL path: https://sitename.com/interaction/talk-name/chat/

No matter what I do to set it up in the ‘settings’ area in WordPress, ‘forum’ is tacked on to the end of the URL….I don’t want the term, ‘forum’ to be ANYWHERE — I want ‘chat’ to be there instead.

Suggestions?

[Vili]

How would I make bbPress functions available for a WordPress template file?

Specifically, I’m building some custom RSS feeds, one of which lists the latest topics posted on the website, but with some modifications. While I can pull the latest topics with a query_posts() call using (‘post_type’ => ‘topic’) and parse them with a standard post loop, I can’t figure out how to access tags related to each topic. I assume that bb_get_topic_tags() should get me the tags but the function is not available for the RSS file template which is in my WordPress template directory. I have basically been using this method for custom RSS feeds.

Since a function_exists() call for bb_get_topic_tags() returns false, I assume that I should first prime or load the bbPress plugin somehow. But how? Or am I approaching this completely wrong? I suppose I could always do a direct SQL query but I would like to avoid that if possible.

I have tried searching here and elsewhere but keep drawing blanks. The closest I could get to is this topic but it doesn’t really give an answer, or at least not one that I can understand.

I’m running the latest public bbPress and WordPress versions.

[AiratTop]

bbPress 2.5.14:

FILE: /var/www/test.site/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converter.php
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FOUND 0 ERRORS AND 1 WARNING AFFECTING 1 LINE
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 310 | WARNING | INI directive 'safe_mode' is deprecated since PHP 5.3 and removed since PHP 5.4
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

FILE: /var/www/test.site/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/tools.php
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FOUND 0 ERRORS AND 1 WARNING AFFECTING 1 LINE
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 144 | WARNING | Function create_function() is deprecated since PHP 7.2; Use an anonymous function instead
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

In bbPress 2.6-RC6 everything is good.

bbPress 2.5.14
PHP Compatibility Checker 1.4.6

[Robin W]

this should do it – make sure anonymous is turned on to allow creation, then this stops topics being created – ie the topic form being shown

add_filter ( 'bbp_current_user_can_publish_topics', 'rew_prevent_anonymous' );

function rew_prevent_anonymous ($retval) {
	// prevent topic creation if user is not logged in
	if ( !is_user_logged_in()) {
		$retval = false;
	}

return $retval;

}

if you don’t know how to add to the functions file, use this plugin and put the code in there

Code Snippets

[Robin W]

bbp style pack

[Robin W]

this message appears if users post topics ir replies with words that are in the wordpress blacklist

the list is in dashboard>settings>discussion

this list will catch fragments so ‘class’ will be blacklisted if you have ‘ass’ in the blacklist

[maxlevel]

I wonder If I can set an email address for bbpress that is different from my WordPress admin email address? Ideally I should be able to set a different email addresses per forum (to send notifications to the moderators and/or the keymasters).
Does anyone know of a plugin or some code to make that possible?

[jh20001]

I finally gave up and spent the ungodly amount of hours repairing and bringing the phpbb board back to life and went with that. This was a nice hope for a good change though as WordPress is so much easier to work with stability wise.

[Robin W]

ok, can’t help you further, suggest you post on

https://wordpress.slack.com/messages/bbpress/

and see if one of the devs can help

[Robin W]

go to

bbPress

and select Advanced view on the right hand side

and at the bottom of the page you will find ‘previous versions’

you can select and download from there

[alanbuddyboss]

Can anyone point me the place where i can find the unit test for specific bbpress version?

In the trac repo, only the trunk/beta/rc have the unit test folder. But on the standard release, it’s just the production version.

Maybe there’s already a way to do it in trac’s interface but I couldn’t figure out.

For example, I want to get the unit test for version 2.5.12 to run some compatibility test on my plugin. How can I get that?

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags

Thanks much 🙂

[AdventureRidingNZ]

Bumping this as the sentiment in the original post about the lack of progress with maintaining bbbpress as an active project seems to be even more relevant now than when this topic was made.

While somehow wordpress.org indicates the bbpress plugin was last updated a week ago, the current version 2.5.14 was released in September 2017.

The next release as far as I can tell is 2.60, for which the latest development version, rc5, was first put out for feedback 13 months ago.

it is not reasonable to call this project under active development.