[fmckinnon]

Hey Rob,
Yes – thank you. Dan has been very helpful. At this point, I think it’s becoming more of a preference question … as I am struggling with what path to take.

We definitely already have sitewide forums w/ vBulletin, so we could easily just keep WordPress as our blog and use site-wide forums w/ bbPress. The thing I feel like I’m missing there is the added sense of community that can be built via the “add friend” type thing you get w/ BuddyPress.

Beyond that, my biggest question is the use of Groups in BuddyPress. My concern I expressed in the other thread was that you can get the discussion happening inside a group (via the comment/status system) that is NOT part of the forum, and vice-versa. So, discussion is not happening in the same place. The big idea we had was to bring it all together.

I suppose the simplest idea would be to not enable groups, and use site-wide forums … but if not using Groups, I’m not sure what other big plus there is to BuddyPress.

Again – I realize at this point, it’s all subjective and preference. I’m enlisting some beta-testers to hit our staging site from our existing forums to see what they like/dislike.

[Hope]

Actually I already added ‘style’ to ‘span’, I added the paragraph ‘p’ as you mentioned but still the same issue!

Here’s the part of the HTML page that is treated in the function but still HTML tags appear in the post:

<p>
<span style="text-decoration: underline; color:
<a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow" href="http://localhost/wordpress/forums/search/?bbp_search=%23000080">#000080</a>
;”>
<em>
<strong>
<span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif">test</span>
</strong>
</em>
</p>

Again, have I missed something?

Thanks for your help
Hope

[Robkk]

its all self explatory really.

you can test them out by creating a test page and putting each shortcode into it to see what it does.

if you need help finding ids of bbPress post types install this plugin, then look in the certain post types section.

like say forums , you go to the WordPress back-end and go to forums> all forums and you will see all the forums post id to use for these shortcodes. It would be close to the same procedure for topics and replies.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/reveal-ids-for-wp-admin-25/

[Robkk]

i tried to make this and failed at it.

you can look for tutorials on the web for creating this type of thing like this.

bbPress Recent Replies Shortcode

or you can hire a developer to create this type of functionality for you.

if you need to post a job at http://jobs.wordpress.net/

[Robkk]

sorry for the late reply and nope i don’t have a quick fix

you might need to hire a developer to fix this for you.

if you want to share what the issue was you can do so here, and see if its a bug that needs to be reported for anyone else in your situation.

http://jobs.wordpress.net/

[Robkk]

i dont know what to tell you.

you might need to hire a developer to do this for you.

http://jobs.wordpress.net/

[Robkk]

hire a web designer

post a job at http://jobs.wordpress.net/

[Robkk]

ahh i get what you are saying now.

maybe when we get @mentions and its notifications and that might be sort of what you are looking for.

im not that great at developing with php but im learning.

you could post a job at this site and hire a developer so they could create whatever you want though.

http://jobs.wordpress.net/

[Robkk]

post a job and hire a developer to create this for you.

http://jobs.wordpress.net/

[Robkk]

this might help you.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-members-only/

[Robkk]

I’d set these to show short excerpts only

is this an option in your themes settings??

but im going to assume your theme thinks bbPress is a blog post , adn that you should create a bbpress.php file and remove any unwanted code.

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/getting-started-in-modifying-the-main-bbpress-template/

this plugin will help you find the right file to copy to create a bbpress.php file.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/what-the-file/

[Robkk]

bbPress shouldnt have comments??

if you havent already create a bbpress.php file and remove any code for WordPress comments.

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/getting-started-in-modifying-the-main-bbpress-template/

this plugin will help find the file you have to make a copy of to create a bbpress.php file

https://wordpress.org/plugins/what-the-file/

[Robkk]

create a bbpress.php and remove any post meta code like by (author) published (post date)

basically your theme thinks that the bbPress archive page is a blog post so it structures it like so , it keeps the forum limit low as if it was an excerpt.

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/getting-started-in-modifying-the-main-bbpress-template/

this plugin will help you find the file you would need to copy and create a bbpress.php file from.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/what-the-file/

[Robkk]

you can use this as an alternative if you want.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-postviews/

you would have to put this code somewhere in your loop-single-topic.php file in your child theme.

<?php if(function_exists('the_views')) { the_views(); } ?>

Maybe replace voice count?? or create a new column?? or just like simple view counts has like this.

function rk_bbp_postviews() {
  if (function_exists('the_views')) { 
	
	echo the_views(); 
  
  }
  
}  

add_action( 'bbp_theme_after_topic_started_by', 'rk_bbp_postviews' );

heck you can even use jetpack for post views.

[alandc12]

Further to this, I tried also installing it on a site where I have optimize member installed. It now appears that bbpress has created a user category called “keymaster” and has placed myself (the administrator) in that category. However, I am now unable to access my wordpress dashboard….. seems that bbpress broke the back end – I hope there is someone out there that can help me.

I have even logged in via ftp to try and clear any bbpress files, but there is no files remaining after deletion. thanks.

[alandc12]

When installing bbpress I am not directed to any setup page – instead, I am told that I do not have permissions to see that page. I am logged in as the administrator and running the latest version of wordpress. I can see that the plugin is installed, but there is nowhere for me to make edits and set it up. I have even tried heading to the /forums page, on my site, but nothing.

Any ideas?

[DevynCJohnson]

I love the bbpress-simple-view-counts plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-simple-view-counts/). However, it has not been maintained in months. Could the bbPress developers consider integrating this plugin into bbPress and include a dashboard widget (or admin page) showing a list of topic-pages and their view counts? If such a feature is added to bbPress, can it be made to migrate the bbpress-simple-view-counts plugin’s data?

[knowlengr]

Wordpress 4.2.2
BBPress 2.5.7
Parent theme Genesis, child theme also by StudioPress

Need to make the content and reply body font size slightly bigger. Looks like it’s rendering at the equivalent of 5 or 6 pt. I tried theme Twenty Twelve with the same result. Styling for all other classes is fine.

http://pharmacytechnology.kryptonbrothers.com/forums/topic/complex-event-processing/

the class is “bbp-reply-content” – And same result for “bbp-breakcrumb.”

I see that these are set as 12px in bbpress.css which would be fine, so I have an override in place somewhere.

Is there an existing topic for this? I use Firebug occasionally but not often enough to avoid this post in the bbPress forum.

Thanks

[snecz]

Hello,
I’m creating own new WordPress theme for my website.
On the forum page I can see the forum [bbp-forum-index]
But I can’t see individual topics pages.
Am I missing any template in my theme?

[Robin W]

suggest you post on

http://jobs.wordpress.net/

where you should be able to find someone to help you

[fmckinnon]

Hope this is the correct forum to post this request. We are considering a major platform change for our website, TheWorshipCommunity.Com (http://www.theworshipcommunity.com) – I’ll refer to it as TWC in this post.

TWC is built on two platforms:
The blog/articles are based on WordPress.
The forum is based on vBulletin, which is out of date, and needs major overhaul.

I’m strongly considering BuddyPress and bbPress. bbPress is a no-brainer because we HAVE to keep the forums. That’s where the bulk of our community exists.

So, my question is should we also use BuddyPress? I get a little confused on the difference between “Groups” in Buddypress and the forums … and “Group” forums.

I know that the vBulletin importer works because we’ve already tried it. I guess my big question is when you use BuddyPress and bbPress together … are the user accounts shared? Meaning … once we import all of our thousands of users from vBulletin, is there user accounts now created for both bbPress and Buddypress .. or is it still treated like two separate accounts?

I would be beyond grateful if someone who is experienced in both could look at our site and give some honest evaluation on if this combination would be right for our community.

Thanks!
Fred

[o0Corps0o]

I have installed the bbPress plugin and have managed to get the Posts into the Topics of the forum (using bbPress Topics for Posts plugin). But I can’t seem to bring across the comments to be replies from the topics? It seems to just remove the comments and not show anything, and in the admin side of things, comments become -1 where there was usually 34 which is strange cause they are still there… Deactivating the Topics for posts plugin seems to bring back the comments however. Any ideas? or does anyone know what the best way would be to Bring an already made wordpress blog into a forum style (along with comments)?

Thanks.

[TheMusicianGirl1]

Guys, I DID IT! After spending the better part of a day sweating over this problem, I finally fixed it. The solution is so simple, I have no idea why it took me so freaking long to think of it!

1. Download and install the “page links to” plugin at https://wordpress.org/plugins/page-links-to/
2. Go to Dashboard –> All pages –> and then click edit on your default forum page (usually http://www.yoursite.com/forums)
3. Once you’re on the editing page, scroll down to where your new plugin has two, magic little options for you. The first one, “this is a normal wordpress page,” is probably checked. Instead, check the one right below it, the one that says “custom url” or something like that. Enter the url for the page that you WANT your default forums page to be. Click publish.

TA-DA! Now, when you click on “forums” in your breadcrumbs trail, instead of taking you to that default index page, it’ll take you to the special one that you made using the index shortcode.

You’re welcome!!

Maya 🙂

[Robkk]

its not just for Admins , it could be useful to moderators in bbPress’s case , and also be handy for participant users if you have BuddyPress installed.

you can install this plugin to remove access for certain user roles.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-admin-no-show/

[Master]

Sorry tags work, just subscription not use for now in theme will in the future be added, and i published changed plugins https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-new-topics/ to work for all users http://prntscr.com/72a5me