[tnts]

i was a smart boy and found my way to generate the download link for bbpress 1.0.3

[Robin W]

@derock299 – sorry I don’t offer Skype support for this plugin, sorry but I have too much else on 🙂

Private groups would limit them, but you would need to set this manually after registration.

so you would have sitewide forums and general chats with no restrictions.

Then you would set the ‘year’ forums up to belong to a ‘year’ group so you would have the 91 forum set up a group name 91.

A user registering would not have access to or see the existence any of the private group restricted forums, so on registration would just see the [edit] public forums.

Then after registration you would simply edit that user to add them to say the 91 group, and they would see the 91 forums or forums (and obviously the open forums) and no other restricted ones.

I would suspect that automating this would allow anyone to register and immediately get access to a ‘year’ forum, or register multiple times and get access to lots of years, defeating the restriction, so manual adding (allowing your to verify) should be fine.

Howveer if you want this automated, you would need to email me via my website http://www.rewweb.co.uk but it might be expensive to code (I’d need to work that out) or try http://jobs.wordpress.net/

[robertosalemi]

Wordpress 4.0
bbPress 2.5.4

Hi,
in admin toolber, I would disable the section about buddyPress, I detected it by css code:
ul#wp-admin-bar-my-account-buddypress.

Can I hide it?

Thanks.

[Nicolas Korobochkin]

If site have enabled option

Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks)

Then if you try to create a post with links to your forum topics WordPress creates comments for… topics. I guess this is a bug, because comments not showing on topics pages.

[robertosalemi]

Wordpress 4.0
bbPress 2.5.4

Hi,
in the function ‘bbp_get_single_forum_description’, I would concat a message for user not logged in.

I wrote:

add_action( 'bbp_get_single_forum_description', 'msg_for_user_loggedin' );
add_action( 'bbp_get_single_topic_description', 'msg_for_user_loggedin' );

function msg_for_user_loggedin( $args = '' ) {
	if ( !bb_is_user_logged_in() )
	{ 
		$custom_msg = "You must be logged in to see all topics.";
	}
	else 
	{
		$custom_msg = "";
	}
	
     echo $custom_msg . bbp_get_single_forum_description( $args );
}

But it not works, why?

Thanks.

[vale12]

Hi,
I have upgraded a website to wordpress 4.0.1 and bbpress to version 2.5.4 and after that topics have disappeared. If I click on each forum appear two messages:
This forum contains 7 topics and 102 replies
but no topics are shown and after this message there is this other message:
Oh bother! No topics were found here!

We have tried to change the template and to deactivate the plugins but there are no conflicts and the issue still exist.

[tharsheblows]

If you want to add fields (including captchas) to your registration form, you can make a custom registration form – there are a lot of plugins that allow you to do this and tutorials on creating your own. I use Gravity Forms but I’m sure many others are good too.

One of the best things to me about WordPress is its user management; it’d be a shame not to use it! 🙂

[sidelancer]

Just curious, is there any way to have a registration and login system that is separate from WordPress? Like the kind they have at most forum websites where you input captcha, details about yourself, etc.

[Stephen Edgar]

Indeed this would work converting the JSON to a CSV but I’d suggest another route first if you haven’t tried it. There is a long discussion on the Ning Importer support forum here that should help you get the Ning importer “working” (read some of the other replies before and after the one I linked for more context).

[digiblogger]

Hello Everybody.

I hope you understand my “german Englisch”.

I tried many many membership and capability plugins to empower bbpress. But with no success.
This is because bbpress has capabilities, but don´t used them the right way.

I am not a developer, so I don´t know, if everything I suggest is possible or not. But I know, for some of these features, that it worked for former versions of bbpress with plugins that are outdated for years.

What bbpress really needs are capabilities in this way (marking new capabilites with (*)):
When talking about forums, I mean forums and categories.

Forums/Categories

can_see_forum
can_see_thread

Threads

can_create_topic_in_forum (*)
can_edit_owntopic_in_forum (*)
can_edit_anytopic_in_forum (*)
can_delete_owntopic_in_forum (*)
can_delete_anytopic_in_forum (*)

Replies

can_create_reply_in_forum (*)
can_edit_ownreply_in_forum (*)
can_edit_anyreply_in_forum (*)
can_delete_ownreply_in_forum (*)
can_delete_anyreply_in_forum (*)

Moderators/Admins

Capabilites to create, edit, delete, move or split forums, threads and replies.

With these capabilites, bbpres itself or every capability addon could add members or groups to forums and categories.

This would make bbpress more like full featured forum software (vbulletin, burning board, phpbb and other) than it ever was.

I asked a developer a long time ago, how long it would take to build an extension or add this to the bbpress core features.

He said something like: BBPress is well coded. I think, adding these capabilities and rules to forums, adding some metaboxes for assigning groups, members or capabilites to forums post types.. I think a good developer could do this in no time.

Well… he is specialized in another section of wordpress plugins and not interested in creating for bbpress. But I think, every wordpress user and forum lover would love these features.

And I think, this is also a great way to prevent spam in forums. on non-english websites, most spam plugins block users that are definetly no spammers, because they search for things, that are not present in non english languages.

Hoping for feedback and… hope this can be realized.

Plugins I tried:
– press permit
– advanced access manager
– advanced capabilites manager
– s3members
– members
– and many many more (used keyword in wp repo: bbpress, member, access, restrict, capability, capablites, read, write, permission and more)

Hope for positive feedback

Digi

[Robin W]

ok,
Firstly bbpress roles and wp roles are entirely different, and are set in different places in wordpress, although they share the wp-capabilities space in wp_options.

So you can have an author who is also a keymaster and an administrator who is only a participant.

what other plugins are you running ? and how and where were/are you setting up the bbpress roles?

a membership plugin might be responsible for this??

[hassebasse]

I’ve got a problem with Administrator / Keymaster and other roles when installing bbPress.

When setting up the site in 4.0 I created 2 administrators beside myself, and the rest of the members of the club I gave the roles of Authors or Editors (but in French Auteur and Editeur). When installing bbPress everyting screwd up. Suddenly everyone had the lowest role and the other administrators couldn’t log in to the Dashboard but of some reason my previliges as Administrator remaind. When attempting to give back the roles as Admins to the other 2 accounts, there where no Admin in the list to so I couldn’t give them that role. The highest role I could give them was Editor

I then deinstalled bbPress. My Administrator account then turned into Keymaster and the other two former Adminstrators turned into Editeurs (editor in French) but all the other members got their old roles.

So when now trying to give back the Administrors role to myslef (who is a Keymaster for the moment) and to the other 2 accounts there is no Administrator in the list just a mitchmach of roles in English and in French. What turnes up are (rmember that bbPress is deinstalled now):

* Abboné
* Participant
* Moderator
* Blocked
* Spectator
* Keymaster
* Contributeur
* Auteur
* Editeur

(FYI I have now upgraded WordPress to 4.0.1)

What is this all about. How do I give people the roles of Adminstrator ??? And why did the roles change in the first place ?

[antderdog72]

i am using wordpress 3.9.2 and bbPress 2.5.4-5380.
I want to change user role automatically based on total replies created by user, so when user reached the number of total replies it will change the user role automatically.
Is it possible to do that? How I can do that?

[Robkk]

this is not CSS its mostly PHP

from what it looks like just copy the templates the userpro plugin author gave you and place it a folder called bbpress in your child theme. the url to it should be wp-content/themes/avada-child/bbpress.

info on creating a child theme

https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

[peter-hamilton]

Been a while, spent quite a lot of time looking for a solution for the “name” issue.

Wordpress registration checks if a “username” is already used, this is great.

Buddypress is the problem cause they also add a “Name” field to registration, and this can be duplicate creating issues when multiple John Doe’s appear in my forums and activity.

Solution

I created a dirty solution by changing the label for (buddypress) Name to Username, and added a line of text urging new members to fill in the exact same name as the did in the “Username” field.

Although people can type whatever they want there, I hope most will just copy the first name.

This way the @name and username should be similar on all pages.

Then I also removed the option to change this name in the profile edit.php through CSS so no longer can people change their nicknames.
Unless a code savvy member goes to change the CSS in chrome, then the box will appear and they can change their names.

Wishlist

A solution/function where Buddypress or BBpress copies the username and adds that in the nickname field by default.

Anyway, here is a link to my current register page:

BBFacelook registration page

P.H.

[lynnham]

Dear bbPress,
I am contacting you all on behalf of my client who is currently having problems with their website. One of her staff members sent me an email saying they were unable to edit, delete or remove posts on my site’s forum. Not even their own. Their also experiencing problems with posting and/or responding to post. It sometimes allows them to write the post and press the post button but when they check to see if their post has loaded, it is nowhere to be found. I reached out to the organization that powers the forum but I don’t think they will be able to assist me. I’m not sure if WordPress or Buddypress controls the forums on various websites or if the organization that powers the forum can help with forum issues.
My client is using WordPress 3.7.4. and bbPress 2.4.
http://www.motherswithsonsinprison.com

[Robkk]

@atfpodcast

did you have Add toolbar & buttons to textareas to help with HTML formatting checked
in the forum settings which are in settings>forums in the back-end of WordPress

[Multimum]

Hi

Sorry for posting this here, I have been searching around for an answer but cannot find it. I am fairly new to word press and have not used bbpress before.

I am trying to build a website that will have a forum on for people to sign up to, comment, receive notifications, follow certain threads, that type of thing. A fairly normal forum, so I have installed bbpress on my new wordpress website, it is very basic at present but can be seen here if needed, http://www.multimums.com the problem I have at the moment is that if I go to the website as a normal user, ie not logged into wordpress, then I can see a box for login with user name and password but nothing for registering as a new user. I have the option selected in general settings for anyone to register, but there is no option on the site. Do I need to install a plugin for this to work?

Normally in a forum when you look at a thread there is a line saying something like ‘you are not logged in, to post please login or register.’ How and where do i get this statement to appear, and how do i get people to to be able to register, to be able to post.

Will they then receive an email with their login details and a link to confirm their email address?

Where will these email addresses be stored for my reference, do i need to create a database to store users details in?

I can’t seem to find a guide to setting up the forum other than creating topics and threads, which I have been able to do successfully.

Once users are registered I assume that they will then be able to create new threads?

Thanks very much in advance for your help, sorry if I am asking questions which seem to basic.

[lauracdd]

Hello,

I updated to WordPress 4.0.1 and updated my bbPress to 2.5.4. The Forum page is a complete mess, it is just a bunch of unformatted text taken from headers and links that were on the page:

Search for: Welcome! Logout › Forums Forum Topics Posts Freshness General Member Posts Feel free to post what you like here! 1 1 2 years, 4 months ago Member News Use this to let us all know your news! 1 1 1 year, 10 months ago

Please let me know what I need to do to get the Forum back!

Link to the site (no spaces) http:// 4 t h s t r e e t c l u b .org/

[kup1986]

Hi

We are using this plug in for one of our clients. Their site just went live after being designed, built, and tested on our beta server. Everything worked great, so we moved it to the live server this week.

However, now that they’re on the live site, new forum users are not receiving their email notifications containing their password. In Beta, there was no email “link” as far as I could tell between the Beta site and our hosting. When a new user would register, they would receive an email from wordpress@clientname.org. Within our hosting back end, I can see that emails were actually sent from ourusername@ourbetaserver.com.

Within the Dashbaord/Settings/General, I’ve made certain that the email account listed on that screen matches what was set up with their hosting provider. I’ve dug through the files until I can see code with my eyes close and cannot figure out how to make this work again.

I’ve just now learning development, so please help (at a 101 level). I appreciate any insight!!

[allanlud]

Hi all,

I have just installed bbpress here – forum.I’ve been looking through the forums here and found a few posts relating to the style of PHPBB.

What I am trying to do is have something like the this:

Forum#1
–Sub Forum #1
—-Description
–Sub Forum #2
—-Description

Forum#2
–Sub Forum #1
—-Description
–Sub Forum #2
—-Description

Forum#3
–Sub Forum #1
—-Description
–Sub Forum #2
—-Description

And have topics for each sub forum displayed – hope that makes sense. I’m not too sure about forums & categories so feel free to comment.

I have read about editing the plugin files in a child theme but not too sure how to go about that. I have worked with child themes in WordPress before (and am currently), but is there a ‘plugin child theme’?

Thanks,
Al.

[Robkk]

you would need to contact the plugin author about resolving the issue with the bbPress plugin

also make sure that you dont have any of the following problems listed here

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bolcom-partnerprogramma-wordpress-plugin/faq/

other than that try to find an alternative.

[Robin W]

It should ‘hold’ ie stay the same for that screen.

The actual setting is deep within wordpress not bbpress, so sorry can’t say where or what it is !

[Robkk]

hide the wp-login.php page

you can do a redirection from that login form to the other.

Is there any way to turn off the login form portion of the (bbPress) Login Widget though so that it only displays the profile portion when a user logs in?

this is kind of funny since you dont want the login widget for what it does , but i guess you can use a plugin like jetpacks widget visibility and show it only if users are logged in.

there are a bunch of plugins that do what jetpack widget visibility module does.

like this plugin for example

https://wordpress.org/plugins/restrict-widgets/

[Robin W]

Can’t you modify plugins to work only on forums with a certain parameter? And create your own parameters to use on forums that you want to use the plugin on?

Of course you can – all wordpress and wordpress site free plugins are open source so you can do what you like!!