[nit233]

Hello, Is there a way to Display Topic Tag Description as Meta Description. That is the way it works in WordPress Tags but unfortunately Meta Name=”Description” is missing in the current version of BBpress.

[Pascal Casier]

Yep, what you put there is valid for your whole WordPress instance.
Pascal.

[chackem]

Wordpress: 4.3.3
bbPress: 2.5.8

I’m not sure if this is where I should ask this. I am trying to create my own gui under the author profile in wordpress that combines several different plugin information in one place. I thought bbp_get_user_topics_started() would return an array of the topics a user created, but instead I get boolean true.

ie: $user_id = 1; $result = bbp_get_user_topics_started($user_id);

Now it correctly tells me that user_id 1 has created topics, and bbp_get_user_topic_count_raw returns the right number of topics. Am I using this function incorrectly?

[Robin W]

https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/global-admin-bar-hide-or-remove/

or if you know code

add_filter('show_admin_bar', '__return_false');

[Robin W]

yes my plugin private groups

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-private-groups/

[wpdpp]

Hello,

I have BBPress 0.9 on an older website of mine and I would like to upgrade to the current WordPress version. Since my website is a simple static website I was thinking about installing WordPress in the /forums/ directory and add the BBPress plugin.

Is the above possible?

Thank you.

[blux78]

Hi all,

I’m working on a website (being hosted locally for now) which should have a forum translated to Dutch. I’m following all the necessary steps to my knowledge, have downloaded the stable, 100% completed language files, uploaded them to the correct folder as mentioned on this site, but the translation isn’t kicking in.

Under Settings in our WordPress Admin panel we have set the language to Dutch (Formal), I read that this isn’t desired because the translation for the forum might not kick in? Should I use the other route instead, adding a line in the wp-config file, pointing to accompanying translation files?

WP version is 4.4.2
bbPress version is 2.5.8.

I hope some of you may recognize the problems I’m having and can steer me in the right direction. Thank you in advance for your time and help!

Kind regards, Blux78

[RONO2]

I am quiet new to this whole WordPress and bbPress world lol, but I am learning at a very quick pace. I have a blog-style page where my forum is located. Now two things first; Is there a way that I can add an image into the (i believe its called) menu sidebar area of the page my forum is on? Second; is there a way that I can permanently rewrite the forum background color at all to a black background or transparent? I have a black background on my website and then this white box appears with the forum in it. Hopefully pretty easy stuff to fix/or alter. Thanks ahead of time for all the help!

John “RONO2”

P.S. Must add that I’m doing this all in a sub-domain visible to only me. So at best I can only provide screen shots.

[RONO2]

Pascal, so where exactly would I put those particular 3 codes at in the wordpress? or actually in the css section of the theme editor?

[Robin W]

Whilst I can see some of your concerns, there are no security concerns that bbpress will let your users access your wordpress site backend – none of us would use bbpress if it had backdoors like that.

You core issue seem to stem from

I had to install some bbPress code in my functions file to stop non-administrator profiles from seeing the WordPress main menu at the top of the forum.

Please explain further? or give us the code you used.

With that, in having to add code such as this I subsequently shut down my entire site due to adding code the functions.php file that it didn’t like. Not a good situation for me.

That is a wordpress issue, and if you are not good at coding you should not be editing files ion a live site. You really need a test site

https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started/testing-your-bbpress-installation/creating-a-test-site/

Yes you can set up a separate domain/sub-domain with wordpress and bbpress running, and just show bbpress in this site. BUT you can’t have this administered by the other wordpress site (well at least not at any level of understanding that you would have – you are not ready for multisite 🙂 )

So either you run one site or two sites. 1 site will not give you security issues if set up correctly in wordpress. 2 sites will mean lots of duplication of usernames, double updating, and more room for error.

I’d suggest you look strongly at the test site route – this will force you to learn about how a wordpress site is put together, which will allow you to do changes with confidence of more technical knowledge and no risk to live

Good luck, and do come back and let us know how you get on

[selenii]

But why have I to participant group, default from wordpress and other from bbpress. Is it rigth?

[jaspervanveenhuizen]

Hello! My website currently has a forum for ‘news’ and a forum for ‘other’.
I want my users only to be able to create topics under ‘other’, but not under ‘news’. I do want them to be able to reply to both topics made in ‘news’ and ‘other’.

I tried setting the ‘news’ forum status to closed, and the topics under there on open. But it still makes users unable to reply on them.
Any way I can achieve my goal? Maybe with the help of another plugin?

I’m currently using bbpress with buddypress and the free version of the theme Quest.
I’m running WordPress 4.4.2, bbpress 2.5.8, buddypress 1.9 and Quest 1.4.1 (which are all the latest versions at creation of this topic)

Thanks,
Jasper

[Robin W]

use

https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/

and click the ‘website details’ section of the report

if it’s wordpress it will say.

Don’t offhand know what the others appear as

[yellowhippo]

Hello,

Thank you for your reply. To answer your questions:

1. Jetpack was installed, but I removed it
2. No security plugins
3. I tried this, but the error still occurs
4. No membership plugins
5. Yes – I have verified my SQL & PHP time is the same as my WordPress time

I have also tried disabling ALL plugins, except for bbPress.

[pencilhossain]

What is the difference between bbpress/wordpress/joomla??

(relax-iplant.com) like this website what this this made with ?? </srtrong>

[stewmills]

Ok, here’s my dilemma. I have a corporate website and we are working on adding a forum. After working with bbPress for a couple of weeks I like what I see and have a good working shell, but as I get deeper I have some concerns with integrating a forum into my WordPress site versus completely stand-alone.

My question is, on a single host is there a way to have bbPress installed and totally separate from the main website. For example, current forum requests get added to my users within WordPress. While they get credentials to only have forum access and not WordPress access, it still concerns me that this is leaving open back doors for smart hackers to sneak in to my WordPress administration. I had to install some bbPress code in my functions file to stop non-administrator profiles from seeing the WordPress main menu at the top of the forum. This just seems too loose, as if hiding it with code really stops someone that knows what they are looking for from finding it.

With that, in having to add code such as this I subsequently shut down my entire site due to adding code the functions.php file that it didn’t like. Not a good situation for me. So, my second and really primary question is how I can have a forum administered in WordPress but totally separate from my main website. What I feel this gives me is 1) totally separate sites where my forum user profiles are not intermingled with my WordPress corporate site administrators and 2) a separate place where I can make site changes that I know only impact the forum and not the main site at all, so if I hose the forum temporarily it’s not as big of a crisis as if I shut down our entire web presence.

Can this be done on the same host where I have a subdomain and a separate WordPresss login for the forum as if the main website didn’t exist, or am I better off just having these creates separately under truly separate hosts and just pointing a URL on the corporate site’s menu to the stand-along forum that’s on the separate host and managed as a totally independent website?

I appreciate your suggestions.

[Robin W]

you can also then style it using

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-style-pack/

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
Most of the themes are compatible for bbPress and the ones that are not can be tuned with some CSS.
So I would say, go for a theme you like, install a WordPress in a test environment, get bbPress and play with it !
Pascal.

[Pascal Casier]

http://wialmalaysia.com/wp-admin/users.php

THe users are on WordPress …

Pascal.

[Pascal Casier]

Hmmm, well, as passwords is a WordPress issue (bbPress is just using the WordPress environment in this case), I would propose that you post your question on the WordPress forums and I don’t see where to start.

If you get an answer that solved your issue, please post it back here.

Thanks, Pascal.

[Pascal Casier]

Hmmm, never tried. They only thing I found is this: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/will-you-add-these-emoticons-to-comments-in-the-future?replies=9

Pascal.

[Pascal Casier]

For the forum list in your sidebar, check the widget: https://codex.bbpress.org/features/widgets/

To edit the ‘index forum page’, create a standard WordPress page and change the slug to ‘forums’. This new page will then be used in stead of the standard list. You can then of course use the [bbp-forum-index] shortcode to display the list of forums.

Pascal.

[Pascal Casier]

As bbPress is using WordPress below, it supports the basic ones.
When I type :-) or :-P, it automatically converts them to 🙂 or 😛

So if you have set that option, it comes automatically.

Pascal.

[selenii]

I need basic. I have activated it in the WordPress, but how can I insert into my bbpress form?

[Pascal Casier]

As said, the basic ones are already in WordPress (Dashboard: Settings > Writing > Formatting).

If you want more, but no full plugin, check the code of the above plugins to see how they did it.

Pascal.