[Robkk]

Pretty permalinks should work fine in bbPress if you have set up the permalinks to use the post name structure in Settings > Permalinks.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_Permalinks_Screen

I don’t think it would be a step backwards, I am not sure all that the vbSEO plugin did SEO wise, but I bet there is a WordPress plugin that works fine with bbPress.

There are two different vBull converters, vBulletin and vBulletin3. The last one is what you would want to use.

[Robkk]

Yeah I think you could just use amembers login if it works fine with WordPress. You may need to check if the user registering into amembers registration forms acquire their bbPress forum role to even participate in the forums correctly.

They are technically logging into your site not just the forums, everything is unified when using bbPress with WordPress. Unless you want everyone to redirect to your forums, or if you want a referer redirect like if a user registers from a bbPress forum page and they should be redirected back where they were previously before registering.

From posts I see on the amember forum they should integrate nicely. The amember plugin also has some kind of plugin integration with bbPress. If you need any extra help from users setting up with amember with bbPress and WordPress, you may need to contact their support forums as there are more topics about the integration between the software on their site.

[Robkk]

I am not sure using Visual composer, but since bbPress has dynamic pages and not static WordPress pages, I am not sure a page builder will help much.

If you have a custom bbpress.php file in your theme you can add a banner to all bbPress pages or just the ones of your choice with some conditionals.

If you are adding the banners using a shortcode you can echo the shortcode like this.

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

Just make sure to edit the bbpress.php file in your child theme and place the shortcode in the template.

[TallSam]

I’ve got a gravatar account (with pic) with an email address that is the same as for my keymaster account for my wordpress.org site. But doesn’t seem to be linked. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Sam

[sbskamey]

Hi support,

I would like to add a banner design to the bottom of my topics and replies pages, but I’m not sure how I do this? What WordPress page do I use?

I am using Visual Composer.

http://sincebeingsingle.com/forums/forum/relationships/

I have done this with the main forum index page using the shortcode:

http://sincebeingsingle.com/insight/

Any help would be great!

Thanks,
Kam

[Robkk]

You find this in your theme, most likely in the functions.php file, but it could be different depending on the theme. You would spot by the register nav menu function like what is listed in this page.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_nav_menus

If you have a free theme I could check it out and get the arguments you need.

If not there may be some arguments like menu slug that could help, but I need the name of the menu you are wanting to put the profile link in.

[Robkk]

Interesting survey results!! I keep forgetting to comment my thoughts on this!!

I am surprised that theming bbPress is split between all three of the choices listed, I expected most people to rely on their custom built themes and theme compatibility of bbPress like last year. So it seems not just developers/knowledgeable coders know how to use bbPress with any theme.

I can see there is a small increase of developers creating sites with bbPress forums for others, but a decrease in users creating themes and plugins. So at least more developers are interested in bbPress, but I bet once the plugin and theme development guides are finally up, that there will be an increase in plugin and theme development.

There is an increase in multisite usage of bbPress, which is good to see.

I believe Gaming, Academic, and Music site types could possibly use an increase in site types using bbPress.

Users contributing to bbPress has seem to have lowered quite a bit, which is not good. Hopefully there are a few things that can change that. People are joining slack though, so there is that.

Desktop and Laptop is being mostly used by users, while they seem to want a better mobile experience. I will keep that definitely in mind as times are changing, and people browse while on mobile more than in the past.

I am surprised unread replies and quotes have dropped a tad for being a requested feature, but there are some great plugins that can add that functionality.

People want bbPress topics to replace WordPress comments more than ever.

There is a lot more positive feedback on the comments left in the survey listed at the very bottom on this. Which is very good. I also think these comments are one of the most important parts to pay attention to of the survey.

http://mercime.github.io/bbPress-2015-survey-results/

@mercime thanks for doing a wonderful job with the survey. 🙂

[Robkk]

Hmm, the repair tools should have fixed it. There is even a repair tool named

Recalculate the sticky relationship of each topic

There is not really a setting for sticky topics, it is basically a post status similar to sticky posts in WordPress. The query for topics just displays sticky posts first then the rest of the topics after that.

Did you sort the topics differently by using a code snippet from this website, like sort topics by date or something different??

[Robkk]

I think this plugin will allow you to customize how the notifications look in Settings > Forums. There might be shortcodes to change the content to use excerpt instead.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-custom-reply-notifications/

[Robkk]

They shouldn’t be able to create blog posts in the WordPress backend by default.

Make sure that you have the New User Default Role set to Subscriber in Settings > General in the WordPress backend. Make sure to also set the default forum role in Settings > Forums to Participant for any new users to get for the bbPress forums on your site.

If the social login plugin/or any other plugin you are using has a setting to configure the default role make sure to check on that.

Also know that the SUbscriber role can go into the WordPress backend, but since they have low level capabilities compared to an Admin or an Author, they can only edit their profile in the WordPress backend.

If you need to disallow users from the backend entirely by user role, install a plugin like WP No Admin.

[Robin W]

you can play with the styling using

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbp-style-pack

[Robkk]

Why did you contact bbPress support??

I think that plugin is for WordPress themes??

Also links to that plugin are quite about 5 years old, and it is not on the wordpress.org repository.

You may need to contact the plugin author, if it is still supported.

[KubiK888]

Hi all, I am new to bbpress support forum and I have no idea how to create a new support topic, and no way to contact site admin directly, so please forgive me to post it here.

Could someone please tell me how I can create a new support topic on bbpress.org support forum? I am able to login using my wordpress account information, but nowhere I can see any button for me to create my own request of support topic. Any help is highly appreciated.

[Kasi Salyer]

Hi,

Here is what I see using codestyling localisation :

Loading Issue: Author is using load_textdomain instead of load_plugin_textdomain function. This may break behavior of WordPress, because some filters and actions won’t be executed anymore. Please contact the Author about that.

Thanks.

[Robkk]

It is weird that you got this new issue. I just tested the snippet again on my WAMP server to check with the latest version of WordPress, switched to German again, and also see if it conflicts with the last code snippet I gave you, but I do not see an issue on my side.

[dayan89]

Hi,

I have two menu areas on my website: main and top. I would like to add user profile link to top menu only.

I found this example, which was were useful: https://codex.bbpress.org/layout-and-functionality-examples-you-can-use/#8-add-edit-profile-to-a-wordpress-menu But it adds link to both menus, top and main. I would like to add user profile link only to top menu, without adding it to main menu.

Can you help me please?

[project_subdomain]

just had the problem that on all not bbpress-related pages the title was ” ‘s “.
When commenting out the part for “User is viewing someone else’s profile” it’s working correctly on all pages, also when viewing another profile:

else {
			$new_title['text'] = sprintf( esc_attr_x( "%s's", 'User viewing another users profile', 'bbpress' ), get_userdata( bbp_get_user_id() )->display_name );
       }

fyi new occurred, just had a wordpress update recently

[Robkk]

I think it is how the subscriptions work, this might be a reason TinyMCE was disabled by default too, and also for security reasons.

There may not be an easy way to fix this without editing the core files of bbPress.

Like I said I created this trac ticket awhile ago that is about this issue. It might take awhile before a patch is made into the bbPress plugin update though.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2865

[Robkk]

This might do it since it says it works with custom post types.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/aspose-pdf-exporter/

[Robkk]

Okay I tested this theme again today and found some issues are actually in the bbPress plugin right now, but it is fixed in the latest dev version.

The user profile page being transparent is related to this bug listed here for theme compatibility.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2545

This is what the profile page and its sub pages looks like this with the modification in the bbPress plugin and without any WP Fix plugins, a custom bbpress.php, without transferring the bbPress templates into the theme.

There is also a possibility to fix the forum search, views listing, topic tag archive, moving replies, easily by either using archive and single for most of these bbPress pages to have better compatibility with these type frameworks. For example it might be best to use is_tax() for topic tag archives but using is_archive() will definitely work for most themes and theme frameworks.

Creating a bbpress.php is sort of a workaround for this. I do not have that much familiarality with the theme and framework that you have to know exactly how it needs to be to post anything to help with this quite yet.

I thought that guide would help you get most of the way there, since all you would need to change is the urls of your site, but I guess you are just transferring basically from bbPress to bbPress.

Something like this would definitely help in your case though.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2605

I guess you can try Exporting and Importing through the regular WordPress tools provided in the Tools section. I tried just exporting all the bbPress post types Forums, Topics, Replies, then run the repair tools, but that did not help and kind of messed up my test site. You can try that, maybe using ALL content instead or not running the repair tools though I recommend using a test server/local development area first.

[Robkk]

If the amember software unifies with the wordpress accounts it should work fine with bbPress. You do not need to use the bbPress authentication forms if it does this as bbPress just uses WordPress for authenticating users.

[tw_crowther]

WordPress Version: 4.3.1
Theme: Omega
bbPress Version: 2.5.8

Issue: I installed the bbPress plug-in. Created a Forum called Forum, and created one Topic so I can test. All bbPress settings are left as default.

I created a Page called Forums and added this page to my site navigation.

My issues are 3 fold.
1) When I click on “Forum” in the site navigation to access the page I created I do not see any forum imbedded on this page, all I see is are the words “Archives” then the title “Forums” in the main body of text.
2) If I click on the title Forums this does direct me to the bbPress Forum I created – How do I integrate the Forum directly onto the “Forums” custom page I created?
3) I notice the Forum URL is <sitename>/forums/forum/forum/ is there a way to remove 2 of these levels so the URL is simply <sitename>/forums

I hope this makes sense and you are able to help.
Kind regards,
Tom.

[tvirtual]

I am trying to add a forum to my site and have it protected by aMember. The user must have access to a certain product in aMember in order to access the forum. I’m totally confused as to whether I should be creating a bbPress login page or if the user should login through aMember. Nothing seems to be working.

Can someone help map out how this should look with the two integrated? I don’t want the user to have to login twice and I don’t believe they should since aMember and WordPress share a database (I think). Thanks for any assistance you can provide. Or if you know someone that would do this for a fee that would be great too. 🙂

Thank you,
Tanya

[Robkk]

Try to see if it could be a plugin issue, like a spam plugin scanning a reply before it is posted or something.

Troubleshooting

It could also be the bbPress subscriptions hogging everything down. This plugin will hopefully help things out.

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

[Robkk]

bbPress authentication forms are incomplete in functionality. It should stay on the same form and show the errors above the forms and all that, but it doesn’t just yet.

I recommend just using the default WordPress authentication forms.