[tlatch89]

Hey everyone,

I started styling up a little support/development forum for my clients to use. It requires a little bit more customization but I have most of the basics down.

Wordpress – Latest
BBPress – Latest
Theme – Salient
Website Forum Page – https://wapp.guru/support/

I’m not using any short codes because this theme actually handles the default BBPress pretty well. I’m just letting the default post types do their thing with Yoast SEO attached. I’ve added a plugin that adds login, log out, and register buttons to the forum itself.

1. How do I set up my site to where people can log in with a WordPress / Gravatar account?

2. The profile page title does not show up and using the Yoast plugin I can’t find any way to target it. Any advice?

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3. What’s a good plugin to use for things such as easy navigation for users? I have a few of the widgets in the hamburger menu on the top left. There’s a default login form but nothing regarding registration so I hard coded a link in. There’s a little login form, but no register form. I’ve tried (bbk style pack) but it seems to just place links in the main navigation menu which I don’t really like. It just seems like it’s difficult to navigate around.

Overall I know the forum is open source and requires a good bit of customization. I’m just looking for the simplest way without having to use 50 additional plugins that conflict with one another.

Thanks!

[John James Jacoby]

With every iteration, bbPress writes to the _bbp_converter_query option to record the last successful query. You can use that to cross-check what the converter is putting out against what the records are that are being imported.

Usually when this happens, it’s a database encoding issue, and MySQL is getting stuck on a specific character in a specific record.

To confirm if this is the case, you’ll want to go back into phpMyAdmin (or your favorite database management tool) and bisect that range of posts to identify exactly which post in your vBulletin installation that bbPress is getting hung up on.

For example, when I converted bbPress.org from bbPress 1.2 to bbPress 2.0, it got stuck on 8 individual posts that had had encoding issues from 10 years ago when someone changed the encoding from whatever it was to latin1, and because WordPress usually expected to be UTF-8 and we have HyperDB in the middle to route queries around, bbPress’s converter would do exactly what yours is doing.

If it’s database encoding or some other anomaly, isolating what is goofy with exactly which post(s) is the only way to get around it. I’m anxious to hear what you figure out here, and very happy to improve our importer if there’s anything we can do on our end.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
It’s unfortunately a known issue in current version:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2685

Hopefully fixed in next upcoming release.

Pascal.

[martineva]

Hello there !
I’ve been on troubble since a few days, just trying to let my forum users to delete their own topics.

I tried several plugins, on WordPress, but it seems that even if I create a new role and custom it with the “delete topic” option, it won’t be memorized, maybe due to php bbpress capabilities ?? Anyway those plugins seem to create only WordPress roles, not bbpress roles. So even if there is “forum options” set, maybe it’s not the good way to do it properly.

Then I’ve been reading this : https://codex.bbpress.org/custom-capabilities/, and I was able to set a new role, but still, even if the 'delete_topics' => true," is set, the users can’t see anything like a delete button on the front end (same with the “delete replies” option, BTW).

Following this other thread https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-custom-user-role/ I created a separated php file, but once again I could see no effect, worse : I got 404 pages instead of my website pages.

I must say it’s my first forum, and I’m not a good coder, so if anybody could help me to get this solved, it would be very, very nice !

[Robkk]

The forum feeds are still there, you just have to go to the original forum feed url as stated in this new trac ticket I just created.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2888

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,

First of all to reply to your question: I have never seen a plugin like this, but then of course, I don’t know all the plugins around bbpress as every day new ones are created or updated.
If you really don’t find it and are willing to pay, you could post your request on http://jobs.wordpress.net/

But then just some thoughts: Is this really a strict/blocking requirement to move to bbPress ? Nowadays in all modern email readers, all threads are grouped one under the other. So if you have 1 new reply or 10 new replies, you will only see 1 email with (10) threads, so it should not really bother people.
And if I subscribe to a topic, I’m really interested in it and want to follow it by email. The only thing could be a ‘digest email’ on an hourly/daily bases, but that’s a slightly different topic.

Pascal.

[Robkk]

I just want to know what “bbPress ready” “works with bbPress” means
What are some characteristics that make a “theme bbPress ready/compatible”?

Most common theme related issues are not visible with the theme.

If a WordPress theme is reviewed in an article and is said to work for bbPress

There are quite a few, like a handful of paid themes that actual go out and style everything and add something custom in their forum layout. Some others just say it just works but do not really customize the layout much.

Same thing with free themes, only a few I have seen actually customize the layout. There are some good free ones.

What do the results imply when I search for themes for bbPress, what can I expect in general?

The theme has no possible theme issues with bbPress and possibly some minor or major customization in the default bbPress forums look.

I have been struggling with themes, like all bbPress newbies. I don’t understand the structure of bbPress – the layout, navigation, hierarchy and the pages it generates. It’s a new surprise with each theme I try. (Yes, I have used Theme 2015 to check things.)

It is close to a traditional forum layout (except the categories/forum layout). Can you please explain exactly why some things might not understandable so I can help you better?? I do not want to try to assume things from what you meant by structure or the pages generated.

In /forums page is the forum post type archive, same goes for the topic post type and /topics. In some themes they configure a custom page title for Archive pages. Since you can use the regular WordPress conditional is_archive() and affect bbPress, well it affects bbPress.

Here is the code in the free version of that theme that outputs the Archives title for any archive using if_archive() and some extra conditionals to check if it is a category archive or an author archive and so on. Since the bbPress archive page does not follow one of the other conditionals, the title ends up just Archives.

function ample_header_title() {
   if( is_archive() ) {
      if ( is_category() ) :
         $ample_header_title = single_cat_title( '', FALSE );

      elseif ( is_tag() ) :
         $ample_header_title = single_tag_title( '', FALSE );

      elseif ( is_author() ) :
         /* Queue the first post, that way we know
          * what author we're dealing with (if that is the case).
         */
         the_post();
         $ample_header_title =  sprintf( __( 'Author: %s', 'ample' ), '<span class="vcard">' . get_the_author() . '</span>' );
         /* Since we called the_post() above, we need to
          * rewind the loop back to the beginning that way
          * we can run the loop properly, in full.
          */
         rewind_posts();

      elseif ( is_day() ) :
         $ample_header_title = sprintf( __( 'Day: %s', 'ample' ), '<span>' . get_the_date() . '</span>' );

      elseif ( is_month() ) :
         $ample_header_title = sprintf( __( 'Month: %s', 'ample' ), '<span>' . get_the_date( 'F Y' ) . '</span>' );

      elseif ( is_year() ) :
         $ample_header_title = sprintf( __( 'Year: %s', 'ample' ), '<span>' . get_the_date( 'Y' ) . '</span>' );

      else :
         $ample_header_title = __( 'Archives', 'ample' );

      endif;
   }

[Robkk]

@tkserver

Well I think @jovito just put shortcodes in a regular WordPress static page and just wants how it looks to be across all bbPress pages, and that is where the bbpress.php would help.

with a custom file bbpress.php in my theme, would it be directed to that page when I hit submit for a new topic or new reply, instead of the topic page mentioned above?

The bbpress templates using theme compatibility will use a template like page.php or bbpress.php in your theme, but the topic page content will be inside of the loop of that template. Instead of using a bbpress.php file, you can put single-topic.php from the extras folder and customize it and place it in your child theme root for a template specific to a single topic page.

Is there sth like a template for the display of topics?

These are all the templates that are being used in a single topic. Using single-topic.php in the root of your child theme will be the main template being used instead of a bbpress.php template or a page.php template.

Also @jovito what kind of options for shortcodes are you talking about??

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,

Sometimes messages do not get out, installing the below plugin helps in most of the cases:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/asyncronous-bbpress-subscriptions/

Also consider to have a good SMTP plugin like ‘Postman SMTP’ or equal. I like this one a lot because of all the debugging to understand where it goes wrong.

Pascal.

[Pascal Casier]

Just to be sure, can you do a var_dump of $plugins_array just before the return in your my_custom_plugins function ?
Can you confirm it’s an array, because you did not initialize it as one:
$plugins_array = array();

and also remove it as parameter from your function…

See https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/mce_external_plugins

[Toni]

MultiSite with bbPress plugin – the latest
One subsite dedicated to bbPress forum

I just want to know what “bbPress ready” “works with bbPress” means
What are some characteristics that make a “theme bbPress ready/compatible”?
What do the results imply when I search for themes for bbPress, what can I expect in general?
– If a WordPress theme is reviewed in an article and is said to work for bbPress
– If I search WordPress themes using bbPress keyword

I have been struggling with themes, like all bbPress newbies. I don’t understand the structure of bbPress – the layout, navigation, hierarchy and the pages it generates. It’s a new surprise with each theme I try. (Yes, I have used Theme 2015 to check things.)

Surprise Example:
theme Ample, forum looks great but the Home/Forums/… (bbPress breadcrumb navigation) “Forums” page renders all the topics with the heading “Archives”, I had to use Edit Menu to add a custom link to add that page to the WP menu, and I had created a page to list only the forums with the bbPress short code, but then it was not part of the bbPress nav, and it was unusable – too bizarrely rendered to try to correct.

I prefer not to have to get into editing generated pages and editing whatever to get the breadcrumb navigation/menus to correlate. Little comprehension, skill, or time.

Thank you

[Rourke]

Actually just found the answer by looking at another plugin. There is a hook for it: mce_external_plugins.

I had some trouble finding it, so it might be usefull for someone else.

[Rourke]

I want to customize the TinyMCE editor with so called mini-plugins. For example, I have the emoticons mini-plugin that I want to use. When I place it in the folder /wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins I’m able to use it through a custom wordpress plugin or the functions.php from my theme. But as far as I know this mini-plugin can get removed when wordpress gets updated.

That’s why I want to know if it’s possible to use these TinyMCE mini-plugins inside my (child) theme instead of just throwing them into core?

[alex59]

Thank you for your prompt reply ^^ .
There I miss this feature in order to launch my site for good and finally be able to do like all great name.
I do not understand no one thought of before . I want to actually do that, because I want to store all the news in the forum corresponding with comments .

The plugin that is made for this kind of thing and it https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-post-topics/ , but it is not updated for 2 years.

I know a site that has managed to do this in wordpress game-guide.fr but uses XenForo this Generais me to have to repay a subscription to a forum .

If you intend to develop a plugin , I ‘m interested.
After all depends on the time that you need .

Sincerely, Alex

[Pascal Casier]

Bonjour Alex, l’anglais suffit pour ici, merci 🙂

I don’t know if you somewhere spy on me somewhere, but yesterday and this morning I had some discussions and checks on that for bbPress. There seem to be some old ‘converters’ from posts to topics and some requests to have this kind of functionality but it seems that today, nothing exists.

As I indicated yesterday, I might try to develop something around this, but don’t want to put any timeframe on it.

You can follow the discussion on https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-385

Pascal.

[alex59]

French

Lier les articles et pages de wordpress au forum

Bonjour

Je suis actuellement possesseur d’un site WordPress je, recherche le moyen de pouvoir afficher les commentaires sur le forum ?

Par exemple, lorsque je publie une actualité sur un jeu vidéo, j’aimerais que les commentaires apparaissent sur le forum là où sera lié l’article.
Voici un exemple de site http://www.gamekult.com/actu/nintendo-les-resultats-du-semestre-A155037.html.
Lorsque l’on clique sur « Voir tous les commentaires » cela nous amène sur le forum.
Je veux faire exactement la même chose est-ce que l’on peut avec bbpress ?
Si oui, merci de me dire comment je peux faire cela ?

Cordialement, Alex

in english

Link articles and pages wordpress forum

Hello

I am currently the owner of a WordPress website are, looking the way to display the comments on the forums ?

For example, when I published a news on a video game , I wish that the comments appear on the forum where the article will be linked.
An example site http://www.gamekult.com/actu/nintendo-les-resultats-du-semestre-A155037.html .
When you click on ” View all comments or Voir tous les commentaires ” that brings us on the forum.
I want to do exactly the same thing is what we can with bbpress ?
If so, thank you to tell me how I can do this ?

Sincerely, Alex

[Robkk]

It might be better to create a bbpress.php instead of a regular static WordPress page, because that 1 static page will not work for all of the bbPress pages. If you create a bbpress.php, all your bbPress pages will use that template instead.

See if this guide helps you any.

Getting Started in Modifying the Main bbPress Template

Since you using shortcodes you can echo the shortcodes in the bbPRess template like this.

<?php echo do_shortcode("[shortcode]"); ?>

[oliver_rub]

Hi @robkk
(somehow i managed to unsubscribe from my own topic…thus the delayed response). Thanks for your answer.
My forums are intended to be group forums for buddypress. And this is also the case in which I have this bug.
So in regular forums a user who has the overall moderator priviledge (set in user settings) can set tags. Works as expected.
In the case where a user has overall participant priviledges and I set a user in the group management setting (I suppose thats BuddyPress) to be moderator, then the user cant assign tags anymore although he could as a normal member. This is the behaviour I would consider a bug 😉
No I havent tried creating custom roles. I´m also not sure about the interaction with BuddyPress, thus I tried to get some help here first.
On my regular installation I have a role editing plugin, but not on the new test platform. Thus I would discard this as a cause for the bug.
I just ran the repair feature which updated 1 user on the test platform, but this didnt affect the priviledge to post tags. It just resets the overall moderator role of a person to normal participant (if the user has a WordPress subscriber role).

Regerding the other trouble shooting:
– Its a fresh installation
– With 2015 theme
– Only bbPress & BuddyPress as plugins
– I just ran the repair functions again, since this is a fresh install nothing has been updated according to the notifications from the repair functions.

I´m aware that this seems to be an issue between bbPress & BuddyPress and I´m not sure which plugin causes this bug. Since bbPress tags are disappearing I thought it might be bbPress.
Any further ideas how to approach this?

[Robkk]

@dustywhite

Make sure to create a topic and test in a default theme from WordPress to see if the issue persists there too

[Robkk]

Yeah this could be bbPress subscriptions having the issue.

See if installing and using this plugin will help you out.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/asyncronous-bbpress-subscriptions/

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,

Is this still of any interest ? If so, drop me a line https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbp-move-topics and I’ll see what I can do.

Pascal.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,

Is this still of any interest ? If so, drop me a line https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbp-move-topics

Pascal.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,

If you want tune your site and remove some informational messages, check if my plugin can help you : https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-toolkit/

Pascal.

[crzyhrse]

Thank you for all your amazing work on some really nice bbPress plugins…

I made a coupe requests, here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-385?replies=1#post-7594550 and here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-386?replies=1#post-7594604

🙂

[Pascal Casier]

Bonsoir leirof,

For the blue, if you want to make it yourself easy, go for bbP Toolkit (https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-toolkit/) to remove the breadcrumbs and other messages.

For the avatar, I will have a look later.

Pascal.