[chill1padi]

Hi, I am new to WordPress and bbPress, I have recreated my blog using WordPress, and i want to have a forum on my blog for my students to participate in discussion. However, I don’t seems to get the member registration for my forum. Any idea whats going on?

[Robin W]

try adding this plugin to your bbpress set-up

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

[Robkk]

In the code I posted the menu links should lead to the default WordPress forms.

Login, Register, Lost Password links

Other plugins can add frontend forms like Theme My Login, woocommerce, some other membership plugins.

I am basically saying the bbPress forms are incomplete in functionality, it might be better to use something else like the default WordPress forms.

[Robkk]

Do you have any hidden forums?? Hidden forums are only for Admins and mods, participants might get a 404. There might also be a bug if you are using it with BuddyPress groups for group forums.

You can test to see if it could still be a user capability issue on your site too. Just installing a plugin that modifies the bbPress user role capabilities could mess it up and it could still mess up even if you removed the plugin. Some users say the Members plugin by Justin Tadlock resolves some user role capability issues just by installing it, so you can try that.

Makes sure to test this in a default theme to make sure you do not have multiple issues regarding capability issues and a theme issue.

Make sure to test with your normal Keymaster role and also with a testuser accout with a Participant role.

[cynematik]

Hello,

We are a nonprofit organization providing permanent supportive housing for individuals who use to be homeless (and are now productive citizens). We have 39 buildings and we are creating a WordPress site for the tenant community. We want to have a Bulletin Board and Calendar that is exclusive to EACH building.

Can I use bbPress in such a way that when a tenant logs in, he/she will be able to participate on the Bulletin Board that is unique to his/her building?

Is there detailed documentation anywhere that can help me with this? I’d love to read it and have feedback on how to do this.

Thanks very much,
Cyndi

[mica123]

Yes, I am using the bbpress forms. Where would I find the default WordPress forms? Also, by other frontend forms – I am not sure what you mean? It is just difficult for me to understand that by not using the bbpress forms, redirects will show error messages without any code?

[Robkk]

Are you trying to use the bbPress shortcodes in pages for logging in and registering??

These forms are really incomplete in functionality, they don’t redirect back to the login form and show error messages above that form, it just redirects to the default WordPress form to show the error messages. I think using the default WordPress forms or other frontend forms are better for now.

[mica123]

@robkk I have now tried your code and it works beautifully. The links show up in the sub-header-menu. The login and logout redirect works too. As I am trying this out on my local computer I don’t know if the reset and lost password redirect would work as well?

There is another problem: if I click on login or reset or lost password button without giving a user name and password, it goes to the standard WordPress login page which is not good at all. Can this be remedied? We are almost there.
Many, many thanks.

[paul-burwell]

I have also now tried reinstalling WordPress and still have the exact same issue.

I could really use a hand trying to solve this.

Thanks,

Paul

[Gnostic_Thought]

I am having issues with the forums, I can’t see the forums. No matter what I set the forum user role too; even moderator. The forums are public and open. My administrator account can see the forums but not the moderator account. I am using buddypress with about 15 other plugins I figured it may be a plugin conflict so I disabled all the plugins except bbpress and buddypress. but I still don’t see the forums. Also on a side note my site has been doing weird stuff. I have all the latest versions of wordpress and bbpress. I was wandering if there is a way to clear the server side cache as this may be the problem not just with the forums not showing up but with the other issues as well

[AilyRoot]

Hi
we just found that default bbpress search function does not honor hidden forum setting at all
If you set a forum to be “hidden”, then you go to search for thread contents inside that hidden forum, search results still show those info under “hidden forums”.

We are using default bbpress search function, not wordpress search

hope this could be fixed soon

thanks for great plugin

[davidschwartzer]

My web site is: Apple Tech Talk

I am running WordPress 4.3.1 and the current version of bbPress.

I have installed bbPress for my forum and have a registration page set up. The page has a message that says:

By registering with this blog you are also agreeing to receive email notifications for new posts but you can unsubscribe at anytime.

I seem to recall I added that text and now I would like to remove it but for the life of me I can’t find it. I have check the widgets, menus, forums settings and it doesn’t appear anywhere.

Perhaps this is standard text and I really think I added it and can’t find it now. Anyone have a clue where I should look?

Thanks,

David

[paul-burwell]

Hi,

Running WP 4.3.1
Running bbPress 2.5.8

Recently installed bbPress and have been trying, so far unsuccessfully, to have it function the way it should. If a user is logged in (standard user) or not logged in and they try to access the forum (https://bsop.staging.wpengine.com/forum/lightroom-2/) they get a 404 error. If I log in as an admin I can visit that URL without issue.

I’ve tried every one of the debugging suggestions (deactivated everything but bbPress, used the 2012 theme, reset permalinks, reinstalled bbPress, etc.)

I finally activated the WP_Debug flag and see the following error being thrown:

Notice: bbp_setup_current_user was called incorrectly. The current user is being initialized without using $wp->init(). Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 2.3.) in /nas/wp/www/staging/bsop/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3622

I’m testing on my staging server through WP_Engine so I have full ability to play as required to resolve this.

Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

Paul

[vizcano]

I created a personalized language translation.

But every few days it goes to the standard Spanish translation.

i want to keep my own translation. How can i do this?

WordPress 4.3.1
bbpress 2.5.8

[summerfeeling]

Hello there,

I run at the time a vBulletin Forum with the version 4.2.2. I have placed a new WordPress installation today and bbPress install the latest version. I want to migrate all the data of vBulletin to bbPress.
Primarily are important to me, posts, attachments, users and especially the side structure (SEO).
I have the Importer with the correct credentials filled the Vbulletin Forum.

However, I get the following error message:

Repair any missing information: Continue
WordPress database error: [Table ‘dbxxxxx-11.forum’ does not exist]
SELECT convert (forum.forumid USING “utf8”) AS forumID, convert (forum.parentid USING “utf8”) AS parentid, convert (forum.threadcount USING “utf8”) AS thread count, convert (forum.replycount USING “utf8”) AS reply count, convert (forum.title USING “utf8”) AS title, convert (forum.title_clean USING “utf8”) AS title_clean, convert (forum.description USING “utf8”) AS description, convert (forum.displayorder USING “utf8 “) AS displayorder FROM Forum AS forum LIMIT 0, 100
No boards started to convert passwords reset Conversion

Why is that and how can I implement my plan successful? What am also very puzzled: Why is behind my database name, a point with forum added?

I would be your help very, very grateful. :))

[vale12]

Hi,
in my website when I try to restore the discussions of some specific user, wordpress give the error “Are you sure to do this? Retry”, what could be the reason?

[BewitchingFiction]

This is something I did look at – I deactivated all the plugins and went back to square one – still got the same issue.

I have the following plugins active on my site:

Akismet
BBpress
Buddypress
Buddypress Group Chat
Buddypress Security Check
Firmasite theme enhancer
Jetpack
Mailchimp for WordPress Lite
Pinterest Verify for WordPress
Polls
Registration Honeypot
Sitewide Newsletters

Several of these weren’t activated until after the site was already experiencing these issues.

I have looked in Jetpack settings (as this is the only one I can see that could affect the blacklist (logically) but there is nothing in there I can see.

Some of my users are obviously getting frustrated by these strange messages all because they have used something in a joking manner – and we are all adults (I have an age rating on my forum which I moderate quite carefully – and manually – with the site moderators).

[Robkk]

Well I am glad the workaround fix worked for you.

Could you CC the trac ticket so you can be notified of any new patch added onto there so you might test it in the future.

Login using your WordPress.org credentials then scroll down to the bottom of the ticket then click the add to CC checkbox, then hit submit changes.

[Robkk]

The bbPress search searches news items?? It only searches for bbPress post types really.

Are you sure you are not confusing this with the default WordPress search??

[Robkk]

Are the posts marked as spam?? Since you have Akismet make sure it is not too aggressive in finding spam. You could set this in the Akismet plugin settings.

Other than that maybe look for a different spam plugin an alternate plugin to Akismet if it is too aggressive in stopping spam.

This for frontend posting/commenting.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/spam-destroyer/

And this for Registration might be a good combination.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wangguard/

[Robkk]

It might be possible to use some code to calculate the posts like this or wait til 2.6 adds this feature.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-topic-count/

Then I guess setting the role using the code below when they reach the count. I am not sure entirely though, I have never tried something like this yet.

bbp_set_user_role();

Right now this is most likely custom development and you may need to hire a developer to create this for you.

[Robkk]

This should show the items in the specific menu.

add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_items', 'rkk_add_auth_links', 10 , 2 );
function rkk_add_auth_links( $items, $args ) {
    if (is_user_logged_in() && $args->theme_location == 'sub-header-menu') {
        $items .= '<li><a href="'. wp_logout_url() .'">Log Out</a></li>';
    }
    elseif (!is_user_logged_in() && $args->theme_location == 'sub-header-menu') {
        $items .= '<li><a href="'. site_url('wp-login.php') .'">Log In</a></li>';
        $items .= '<li><a href="'. site_url('wp-login.php?action=register') .'">Register</a></li>';
        $items .= '<li><a href="'. site_url('wp-login.php?action=lostpassword') .'">Lost Password</a></li>';
    }
    return $items;
}

By default it leads to the regular wordpress login form. if you want to change that to a frontend page, you can change this site_url('wp-login.php') to something like this site_url('/login/').

login redirect you would need to use something like this.

function rkk_login_redirect($redirect_to, $request, $user) {
    return (is_array($user->roles) && in_array('administrator', $user->roles)) ? admin_url() : site_url('/forums/');
} 
add_filter('login_redirect', 'rkk_login_redirect', 10, 3);

This login redirect code redirect admins to the WordPress backend, but anything else to the forums.

[Robkk]

Okay sorry for the late reply.

This is how I tested it.

Without reply threading

Topic author gets notified like normal no problem. It shows the repliers name and everything fine.

With Reply threading

Topic author gets notified of a unthreaded reply like normal no problem. It shows the repliers name and everything fine.

If the topic author threads under a reply. The reply author who commented that is being threaded does not get a notification, neither does the topic author.

If a user replies to their own reply the topic author gets notified.

if the topic author replies to an already threaded reply by another user, the topic author gets notified of the other user replying although it was the topic author. So although the user being replied to should get the notification, the user replying is.

iF a user replies to an already threaded reply created by the topic author, the topic author gets notified that they have replied although it was the other user.

If a user replies to an already threaded reply, sometimes the topic author may receive two notifications one with the user who replied and also one that says the topic author just replied also.

All i can really say that these notifications are a mess…

I am creating replies as a test user but for some reason the topic author is getting all of the notifications, even for threaded replies being posted under my test user’s reply even though in the code for the notifications it states that the test user should receive a notification.

I created a ticket for this bug in the trac though.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2869

[artstellars.com]

Hi robkk, you’re exactly right. Using extra characters as a user id would be a tough challenge. I’ve created a new topic by a Chinese user id in my forum so that you can see what’s going on by clicking on its id. http://artstellars.co.nz/forums/forum/art-stellars-forum/

The url for the user profile is http://artstellars.co.nz/forums/users/username such as http://artstellars.co.nz/forums/users/admin/ or http://artstellars.co.nz/forums/users/anna/ but with the Chinese id it still redirect to http://artstellars.co.nz/forums/users/

I’ve downloaded the pluggin you mentioned above but once it’s activated, the Art Stellars Forum even can’t be opened by Chinese username logon. Hope WordPress can fix such issues like Discuz or another BBS program that can support other characters and have more fancy options for a forum.

Thanks.

[GreatOldiesDJ]

Hi,

I am just setting up my first website with BuddyPress and bbPress. I have worked through most of my issues but I can’t find the answer to this one. The page background on my site seems to the the same color (nearly) as the Search bar above the Forums. The color is close enough that you might not know there was a Search Bar there at all. Is there a way to either change the color of the Search Bar or maybe add the words “Search Our Message Boards” to the Search Bar?

Thanks.

Oh yes … I am running the most current version of WordPress, BuddyPress, and bbPress and I am using the Kleo theme.