[Dragonfighter]

Hi all, I am hoping that y’all can help me or at least allay some anxiety.

I am using WordPress 4.2.2 and b Pres 2.5.7. Guest users posting is unselected and the menu does not even display forums unless the user is logged in. If you know the URL and try to enter it directly you will get a 404 page. I am also using bb P private groups 3.0.7. Registered users are only allowed as spectators until promoted AND placed in one of the private groups.

So today I deleted a user from the site and chose to delete all content. Later I found out he had posted to the forums complaining about his “treatment”. It was under “Anonymous” and showed the role of “Participant”. I also noted that his other posts, which I had not deleted showed “Anonymous” for the user. I have since deleted all of his posts and blocked the posting IP.

The questions are these. Is there an exploit or some known issue where an anonymous user can post even though no guests can even see the forums, much less post in them? OR, was he able to still see the menu item and post as anonymous because his previous posts were still there?

If the latter then I can rest a little easier as it should be handled. However if anyone knows why this happened, I’d be obliged if it could be explained.

Thanks,
Kyle

[Tony]

I’ve searched but not found a solution. I’m running the current version of WordPress on a multisite network with a new install of bbPress.

I’m the superadmin of the network and everything works great. However, when I try to give access to another user and give that user a keymaster role the links in the admin bar for Forums, Topics, and Replies is missing.

So far I’ve tried running the repair tool with no change. I can even access the tools with the login that doesn’t show the admin bar links. The forum is located here: q4intel.softwiredweb.net.

[qbow-admin]

i found it somewhere on the web that users cannot use iframe code because wordpress prohibits it for the sake of security. -it says that – if they r allowed to use iframe codes, they might be able to attack you –

[Robkk]

as long as you have embed media checked

and also a full hyperlink from youtube.

then it should work.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds

[shanesams]

Using the newest versions of wordpress and bbpress 5/26/2015

[vpontin]

Hi all!

After some search here on support forum and in bbpress itself (v2.5.7, wordpress 4.2.1), i dont find anything about this (only Multsite-related, which isn’t my case).

My question is: Is possible to bbpress use forums.example.org instead of example.org/forums ? I want to setup a small website consisting of a forum and a portal (blog), and i want to know if this is possible.

Thank you in advance

[Robkk]

Well the file you are suppose to copy and create a bbpress.php file from is index.php

And although putting the forum index shortcode in a page is “easier” in a sense , you will still come up with issues just like you are going through. This is why I have been editing the Codex for the last few days to hopefully fix these issues that users might come across.

As for that weird wp tweaks issue you have , I do not know how to fix that. if you are only using that plugin just for a bbPress specific sidebar there are better plugins than that one.

And it is not hard to manually create a bbPress specific sidebar too.

Thanks so much – although I am wondering if it is going to solve my problem (but please do!)

it might help a little, there is a bunch of post meta that you would have to remove for it to look correct.

You can also contact me later today through email, if you need help during the process.

Contact

[paulosebin]

I need help. Work in a news portal for trade shows and events in Brazil. The site was made in WordPress.I wish to point to the portal directors the possibility to create a forum within the portal for users to discuss about holding events during the year. It is a way to get list of e-mails.

My question is whether we can install an independent layout of the portal. This layout can be a free or a designer can create the unique layout for this forum. It’s possible? How to do?

The site that I intend to create forum is http://meuguru.com.br (Brazil), should you need to consult.

[Prabin]

Hi @robkk
Here are my answers :
1. I haven’t imported any forums, and this issue wasn’t there berfore ( I think ).
2. I haven’t modified core plugin and there is no other user capability plugin in my site.
3. Yes default WordPress role is “participant”.
4. Nope, not spam.
5. No any security issue detected till now.

[Robkk]

If they get the keymaster role make sure you disable registration til you get this fixed.

can you please answer these questions so i can narrow down what the issue might be??

has this issue always been there when you first installed bbPress?
did you import any forums and this issues has started?
did you install any plugins that modify s the capabilities of users?
is your default WordPress role for registration a subscriber in settings>general?
have you had a large amount of spam lately?
have you had any security issues lately?

Right now i cant tell what what causing the issue?? It is either some capability plugin settings that are messed up , or that you have been hacked??

[Robkk]

How do your users register through your site?? Do they use the normal WordPress login forms, or do you use the bbPress shortcodes , or something different??

Also do you have multi-site??

[caniwigirl]

Nice to see that other people would like to see this as part of the standard set-up as @roberts-1 says… I am running the same versions using Momizat’s ‘Goodnews’ theme

I’ve just tried @undergroundnetwork ‘s code and it works great for me as an admin… but for some reason, the other users with lower levels of access, don’t get the same result – they only get WordPress results, none from bbPress.

Any ideas why? I’d really like to just have one search that does it all instead of one for forums and another for blogs etc.

Cheers

[Robkk]

if your using BuddyPress you can overwrite friends for followers

https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-followers/

[Robkk]

Hi, im having this weird issue where the members of my site copy an image on their desktop and paste it on the bbpress text box.

This is not an issue with bbPress , it is expected for it not to work since the url of the image is from the users computer.

Just give your users a place to insert images from the users computer correctly.

There are two plugins which you can use.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-bbpress-attachments/

and this if you have BuddyPress installed and do not mind the visual editor being activated in bbPress. this plugin also allows inline image uploading.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-forum-editor/

[Robkk]

@hunniemaid

you place the code in your child themes functions.php or you can use a plugin like this

https://wordpress.org/plugins/functionality/

with that plugin you go to plugins> edit functions then place the code i gave you.

[Robkk]

i could do it for you , it is pretty easy.

email me.

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[Robkk]

Thanks @robkk, my bigger interest is having the reply-to author populate in the text box. That would be awesome so the notifications can be triggered. I am leery about posting jobs on there, I get a ton of spam when I have done so in the past.

Yeah it would be awesome , all i can do is reccommend extending the feature of @mentions when bbPress adds its own.

As for the spam maybe i shouldn’t reccommend that site anymore?? But you know what i meant though you can go to any freelance website you can find that has users experienced with WordPRess and bbPress.

[Robkk]

@juggledad

@robkk: Just to clarify something, the OR function_exists(‘is_bbpress’) was added (with some other code, to get around a bug that bbpress doesn’t seem to want to acknowledge or fix. see https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2723

Thanks for pointing that out, i did not know about that bug.

Okay with this bug in bbPress you cannot use the WP conditional is_single() to affect all of the bbPress pages, since for some reason there is a bug for single user pages.Thanks for creating the trac ticket, I tested out and see that yes it does not work on user pages. Over the next few days/week i will check it out and see I can come up with a fix.

But this bug is easily avoidable by creating a bbpress.php for your theme and just using the_content() instead of bfa_post_bodycopy() and removing OR function_exists('is_bbpress') from the bfa_post_bodycopy() function. The bbpress.php file also helps remove other post meta that might not be useful for bbPress forums instead of using CSS to hide them.

The OR function_exists('is_bbpress') you can keep in bfa_get_options.php though as i do not see any problems with that.

If there is something you can find on your end to fix the issue with your theme and bbPress then please drop an answer on this topic, because i haven’t looked and learned your theme 100% yet. Removing the function exists and creating a bbpress.php is the quickest solution to the problem that I could find.

@kitfreeman

This excerpt issue that you are seeing affects all of these areas

category pages
tag pages
author pages
archive pages
search result pages
and the home page

which is where all the excerpt theme settings modify.

[Robkk]

sorry Friday through Sunday you can expect slow support responses.

it should be like that by default , participants shouldnt be allowed to mark topics spam, they can edit but for whatever time you have allowed in settings> forums.

you can answer these questions to help me help you.

has this issue always been there when you first installed bbPress?
did you import any forums and this issues has started?
did you install any plugins that modify s the capabilities of users?
is your default WordPress role for registration a subscriber in settings>general?

[Robkk]

@fmckinnon

you do not have to be subscribed to the topic for it to be unread and show if i remember correctly, and its just the area the plugin developer put it.

that plugin should display a list of topics that are unread in the subscriptions area.

it should kind of similar to these screenshots here, it looks really different because the developer was using a custom theme.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-mark-as-read/screenshots/

if there is a way to use custom user meta in wp-query then i could just give you a snippet to add a custom view for bbPress that would list all the unread topics in one place , and you just place a shortcode in a page and all.

viewing unead forums is not part of both of these two plugins i think but you could mark a forum read in both to clear any unread topics in it.

unread replies go to first unread post shows which topics that are unread replies using that little [>] icon.

[Galador]

I tried to google a fix and nothing has worked yet. I definitely think it has to do with my theme and I’d just edit that if I knew how. I just started wordpress about two hours ago… Can I have some advise on how to fix my replies from cutting off?

roleplaycentral.org is the url

[Robin W]

1. Use mu plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-style-pack/ to alter
2. This is a css issue which I am not the person to fix !

[kylestubbins]

I am a little confused on how and when updates are included in the released versions.

Specifically, I am working on converting / importing a forum, but have run into errors, such as the sync table not being created. I do a Google search and find this –> https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2650 which states that the problem has been corrected. Great!

The problem is, the code shown here –> https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/5525 is not included with bbPress version 2.5.7, which is the latest release as of this writing. Lines 1023 through 1038 do not exist (just as an example as they are only comments… I picked this as it was easy to spot and just for reference).

In fact, there are a bunch of things that are said to be fixed in the Trac (Thanks, Stephen), but they do not appear to be included with the official release of bbPress.

Am I missing something?

(Just a comment, but it would be nice to have version info in the headers of files as I cannot tell which version of converter.php is included with 2.5.7 without doing a diff on them and figuring it out from GIT.)

[Robin W]

No, do you have any idea why i can’t see topics below Forum names?

What you are seeing is the list of forums, you then click a forum to see the topics for that forum.

if you want each forum to have then topics below it, then use shortcodes within a page

[bbp-single-forum id=$forum_id]
[bbp-single-forum id=$forum_id]
[bbp-single-forum id=$forum_id]

see

https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/

or use the shortcodes from

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-style-pack/ in a page

Also i was wondering how i can order Forums by some hierarchy?

If not using the shortcodes above, then use dashboard>forums>all forums and edit a forum. On the right hand side you’ll see ‘parent’ and ‘order’ boxes that let you build a hierarchy

[Chad R. Schulz]

I know this is an old post. However, I’ve been screwing around with various javascript suggestions from other forums and came up with a solution that works (no problems yet discovered). I’m not exactly a code ninja, so if anyone can help to streamline the code let me know.

Just insert the following lines into a custom javascript for your theme (if you need guidance on this there’s a lot of help available all over wordpress.org and other forums).

jQuery(function($) {
	var forum_input = $( '#bbpress-forums textarea' );
	var forum_button = $( '#bbpress-forums .submit' );
	var forum_limit = 50;
	var forum_class = $( '<div class="forum_limit_info"><span>' + forum_limit + 
	    '</span> characters needed</div>' ).insertAfter( forum_input );
	forum_button.hide();
	forum_class.show();
	
	forum_input.bind( 'keyup', function() {
		var forum_length = $(this).val().length;
		var chars_left = forum_limit - forum_length;

		$( '.forum_limit_info span' ).html( chars_left );

		if (forum_input)
			( chars_left > 0 ) ? forum_class.show() : forum_class.hide();
		
		if (forum_button)
			( chars_left > 0 ) ? forum_button.hide() : forum_button.show();
	});
});

Basically this function hides the submit button and displays a countdown text counter until the minimum length is reached and then the button appears and the counter disappears.

There are ways of hard-coding a minimum into php but I believe you have to edit core files and then insert these modified php files into a child theme. I couldn’t figured out how to insert a simple php function that would do what I wanted in a clean and simple way. So javascript it is.

The forum_limit setting can be anything you want it to be, just change it. And you can customize your topics and replies minimums separately, if needed, with separate javascript functions using textarea#bbp_reply_content, textarea#bbp_topic_content instead of #bbpress-forums textarea.

For my CSS stylings I chose to put a :before message on the left and the character count on the right using these:

.forum_limit_info {
  text-align: right;
  font-size: 13px;
  color: red;
  line-height: 1.2;
  margin: 5px 5px 0px;
}

.forum_limit_info:before {
  float: left;
  content: '(Minimum Length: 50)';
  color: blue;
}

CSS Styling is theme dependent and can basically be however you want/need it to be–very flexible.

I also created a similar javascript function for my site’s commenting system. Here’s that code as well:

jQuery(function($) {
	var comment_input = $( '#commentform textarea' );
	var comment_button = $( '#entry-comment-submit' );
	var comment_limit = 25;
	var comment_class = $( '<div class="comment_limit_info"><span>' + comment_limit + 
	    '</span> characters needed</div>' ).insertAfter( comment_input );
	comment_button.hide();
	comment_class.show();
	
	comment_input.bind( 'keyup', function() {
		var comment_length = $(this).val().length;
		var chars_left = comment_limit - comment_length;

		$( '.comment_limit_info span' ).html( chars_left );

		if (comment_input)
			( chars_left > 0 ) ? comment_class.show() : comment_class.hide();
		
		if (comment_button)
			( chars_left > 0 ) ? comment_button.hide() : comment_button.show();
	});
});

Good luck to all,

Chad