[Robkk]

Any testing for the issue in this ticket is greatly appreciated.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2739

[blakeage]

My WordPress plugins directory is sym-linked to another folder on the server. So, the following path:
/wp-content/plugins

Is actually a symlink to /home/bayb_qa/shared/plugins

However, for some reason bbpress uses the absolute path (/home/bayb_qa/shared/plugins), rather than the relative path “/wp-content/plugins” when including its css and javascript, such as bbpress.css and editor.js.

This causes 404 problems loading the two files. Is bbPress not designed to handle a symlinked plugins dir?

[jscmusic]

Hello, after updating to WordPress 4.3.1, I’ve noticed that there is no content area for topics in my 2.5.8 bbPress Forum. What gives?

https://www.area103ppg.com/forums/topic/international-flights/

Thanks for your help!

[Dominykas]

You should try Rating Manager by Elementous. https://www.elementous.com/product/premium-wordpress-plugins/rating-manager/

It’s compatible with bbPress, buddyPress and WooCommerce, but Rating Manager is a premium WordPress plugin.

[UgoDimma]

@Robkk
Thanks for your support.
I finally added define( 'WP_DEBUG', true); in my wp-config.php, and I am getting this error report;

Notice: bbp_setup_current_user was called <stromg>incorrectly. The current user is being initialized without using $wp->inot(). Please see debugging in WordPress forore onformation. (This message was added in version 2
3.) In ******\blessed\wp-includes a functions.php on line 3622

Notice: the called constructor method for WP_Widget is deprecated since version 4.3.0! Use
__construction()
Instead. In ******\blessed\wp-includes\functioms.php on lime 3457

Please am sorry to bore you this time again, am not good incoding, how can I resolve this issues

[Robkk]

Since you are not very confident with PHP you can just install this plugin.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-enable-tinymce-visual-tab/

[Robkk]

Thank you. I found this not on the All users page but on clicking the Edit button for a user I was able to get to another page and there I could change the role for the Forum.

Yeah that works too.

Do moderators have access to the backend? If they do, how can I disable it? They should do all the editing or deleting posts from the front end only. I sincerely hope this is possible.

Only for moderating topics/replies in the backend. If they are also a subscriber they can also edit their Profile from the backend too and nothing more than that.

There is a confusion in the General settings for automatic registration of new users – should this be for Contributor or Subscriber?

It is subscriber by default in WordPress for users that can only read blog posts. Contributers can edit blog posts and delete them too.

Also, how do I know if all users w3ho register on the front end are participants? They should not have access to the backend.

You can install a plugin like WP Admin No Show

[Robkk]

You can download this plugin and edit the function and add on to it what html tags you want to allow in your forums.

https://gist.github.com/ntwb/7797990

You can also just create a new WordPress user role with the capability, but I think going with the plugin I placed above is the best route.

[samuelstraka]

Hi Rob,

I have single site installation only. I could try it with Chrome and Firefox and it was same in both browsers.
But I tried to install bbpres 2.6 alfa yesterday. After installation same problem exist. Today afternoon I tried to look once again to WordPress dashboard and there was added menu item Forum with submenu Settings where I could setup bbpress.
I don’t know how it make. I didn’t make anything after this unsuccessful installation. It seems bbpress is OK now.

[Robkk]

You should be able to see the Forum role beside each user in Users > All Users in the WordPress backend.

You can change the Forum Role of a user by checking the checkbox by the user and then you will see a change forum role dropdown above the user list. Click the forum role dropdown and select the role Moderator, then hit the change button next to it and the user will now be a moderator.

[Robkk]

On this site it is custom links in the WordPress toolbar.

You can follow this tutorial to add custom links to the admin bar.

http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-add-custom-shortcut-links-to-wordpress-toolbar/

There is also this plugin that can add links above forum pages.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-login-register-links-on-forum-topic-pages/

And also you could just place the bbPress login widget in a sidebar you have and input additional authentication links in the widgets input fields.

[mica123]

I am afraid that I have many problems finding my way around bbpress.
One of the things I didn’t realise is that anyone who registers is actually
going into the list of users in WordPress. How do I know that they are all participants?
If there are many users the list will be very long which is rather worrying.
I also would like to know how I assign the moderator role to a user? I can’t find anything about it anywhere.
I would very much appreciate your help.
Many thanks.

[UgoDimma]

Hey buddy

I have bbpress install with buddypress in my WordPress, all with the latest version as at the time of writing this post.

My forums and topics redirects to 404, page not found when my users clicked on any of them, except the forums that are part of the buddypress group the said user is a member of.

As an admin, I can view all of them the normal way without any form of restriction and redirection both at the front and back end.

Even forum category that is the mother of some forums and topics are been redirected to 404 page even if the user has a forum he/she has an access to.

I have followed some directives of people on similar cases, but none works for me, wp-admin –> tools –> forum and recalculated everything there, and went to wp-admin –> tools –> buddypress and recalculated everything.
I went to permalink and update it, but nothing seems to be working.

Please some help.

[bo-oz]

I suppose activating the plugin should create some tables in the database… but this doesn’t happen. Only thing I see is 3 records added to the wp_options table. Is there something I can do to pinpoint why the plugin is not working?

I even uploaded a the plugin from another website to the current website. This plugin is working on the other wordpress, but still doesn’t do anything on my new installation. It’s not running any plugins different from the one on which it’s working. The working website has about 50 records in the wp_options table.

[thunksalot]

I have a private WordPress community in which I am not concerned about members posting malicious code. The site is a dues-paying professional networking site and the profession is non-techie, so it would be really odd for someone to get malicious on it, and I have back-ups I can restore with were that to happen. That said, I don’t want to make everyone an Administrator because that gives users control over other people’s content, which I don’t want to give them. I just want to give all Participants the ability to paste unrestricted HTML content so that they can copy and paste from Word or a website and have it come through looking just fine, the way I can as an Admin with the “unrestricted HTML” permission. How can I achieve this?

[bo-oz]

Hi,

I tried installing bbPress, after activation I was redirected to a page which told me “you have insufficient rights”. After a refresh, the plugin was activated but nothing changed in the menu (no formums menu option, also no settings -> forums was added). I tried deactivating -> activating and completely re-installing the plugin, but nothing worked so far.

I use wordpress 4.3.1 and the latest version bbPress to automated plugin install.

I’m also using WPML, could that be causing conflicts?

[Robkk]

I do not use the plugin, I just found it in the WordPress repository.

The plugin author has been active in the support forums in the past few weeks, so I assume people are using it still and with at least most with the latest version of WordPress.

You can contact the plugin author in their support forums if you have any concerns with the plugin working with the latest version of WordPress.

If a bbPress post contains a word that you put in the comment blacklist, the topic or reply will be marked as pending, and will be pending until moderation approval.

Moderation and BlackListing

The plugin I linked to just replaces profanity words you list with characters such as ***

[mica123]

Thanks very much. I had a look at the wp-content-filter but this is compatible
to WordPress 4.0.8 and it was last updated more than a year ago. Are you using this
plugin yourself?

I read the topic you pointed me to. It is not clear to me if bbPress has its
own profanity filter?

Thanks.

[Robkk]

Which one did you link me?

Robin’s plugin for just bbPress fields.

What I did, which seems to work fine for now…

Yeah I told you the WordPress code would work. If you want cleaner templates you may nee to use the hook.

bbp_theme_after_reply_author_details

I might be saying very stupid things here (gotta learn some way), but I tried changing bbp_theme_before_topic_title to bbp_topic_class which is what my inexperienced self thought would do the trick, but it didn’t.

Oh, you are trying to make a post class. You can try this to see if it adds a new-topic post class to any new topics. I haven’t tested this though.

add_filter( 'bbp_get_topic_class','rkk_unread_topic' );
function rkk_unread_topic($classes) {
	$offset = 60*60*1; 
	if ( get_post_time() > date('U') - $offset ) {
			  $classes[] = 'new-topic';
		  return $classes;
	}
}

[Robkk]

A good topic to read.

Profanity filter or notification with Comment Moderation

A plugin I found.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-content-filter/

[Woutermesker]

Stuck @ 80%

Hi all,

I’am converting a phpbb forum. I tweaked my php.ini apache settings allready but it keeps getting stuck.

Is there a way to start over where it’s left. Or to speed up the proces….

I importing the forum into a clean wordpress website,

[rebecca-paisley]

BBPress Version: 2.3.3
WordPress Version: 4.3.1

http://www.flasco.org

The forums are completely private from public view via a membership plugin (WPMUDEV Membership2). However, every time anyone (members) posts into the BBP forums, everything is going to spam. None of it is actually spam though.

Any idea of why everything would be going to spam?

I deactivated all plugins related to BBBPress, but that didn’t remedy anything either ..

[Robkk]

The custom profile fields, what exactly do they do? I get that I can now add my Twitter handle from profile settings, but it’s not displayed anywhere on the site.

Yeah you have to manually place the any extra fields you want on the frontend of the user profile and and place the code in the template user-profile.php, that should be in your child theme for easy customization.

in user-profile.php you will already see an example of the user’s description field being displayed, and you would need to do some of the same procedure.

<?php if ( bbp_get_displayed_user_field( 'twitter' ) ) : ?>

    <p class="bbp-user-twitter">
        <a href="<?php bbp_displayed_user_field( 'twitter' ); ?>" title="<?php bbp_displayed_user_field( 'display_name' ); ?>'s Twitter" rel="nofollow">
             <?php bbp_displayed_user_field( 'twitter' ); ?>
        </a>
    </p>

<?php endif; ?>

I will probably put an example for user’s to place the links on their profile templates later on that guide.

I would love for it to be displayed beneath my avatar and username phpBB-style in topics, or at least on my visible forum profile.

Yep, there is a way to that too. I can’t remember much but I think it just involves a hook to place the data. There is a plugin Robin made that can basically do that. There is also a different plugin for displaying BuddyPress profile fields. You can dig around the plugins code if you want to see how he did it.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-profile-information/

This doable? Obviously I can’t use the_author_meta() in bbpress, so…

I think it is possible to just use the WordPress code with bbPress. bbPress is just a plugin of WordPress now.

Also, instead of adding labels to certain topics. Can I add classes so I can do changes in CSS?

Yeah you do not have to leave the [status] and just leave the classes there so you can style with just CSS.

[yoshimitsu1234]

Hi,
After doing this I had noticed that now forums and topics have a featured image section but normal WordPress posts, no longer shows featured image setting option in new post page at site.com/wp-admin/post-new.php

How Do I resolve this issue?

[Robkk]

Try not to bump very old topics at least older than a year, especially ones that are 8 years old!!

—

There is an API or an example API in the Jetpack plugin.

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/jetpack/trunk/class.jetpack-bbpress-json-api-compat.php

There have been users trying to make apps with bbPress.

WordPress JSON Rest API bbPress and Android

Also know there has been work to introduce an API into WordPress.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/json-rest-api/

And there already have been plugins in development for compatibility between the WP-REst API and bbPress like this one.

https://github.com/thenbrent/BB-API (Alpha version)

Any contributions for any work toward any type of bbPress Rest API are welcome and much appreciated.