[Robkk]

To make everything more organized, I decided to switch to forum instead of wordpress comments.

so you are you using bbpress topics for posts plugin??

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-post-topics/

well this functionality will be implemented on bbpress in the future

so you could add a suggestion for a feature in the trac topic

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2498

[Robin W]

You might be able to so something with multi-site, but beyond my knowledge

I’d just install wordpress and my theme in the sub-domain and add the bbress plugin, and have maybe a coupe of menu items, eg forums and login

[Robin W]

Best way to find out if it is their plugin is to deactivate it and do a test post to see if that goes through.

Email is at best a shaky medium, and many things from host provider, server, links, wordpress, plugins and just plain complexity can make something that worked stop. Switch it off and on again can fix quite a lot, so even deactivating a plugin and reactivating it can fix.

good luck !

[Robin W]

Don’t know ay plugin that restricts wordpress based on bbpress roles.

I use the plugin ‘restrict content’ to limit wordpress pages and then my plugin ‘bbp private groups’ to limit forum access.

On one site I then use manual registration to give users wordpress ‘subscriber’ and bbpress ‘participant’ roles, and on another automatic registration that does the same

[Arturo Ramirez]

Try this one
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-protected-forums/

[NewSha]

Is there a way to create simple WordPress pages with limited access to users based on their bbPress roles?

For instance, only Participants can access forums and see topics. Similarly, I want to create a normal WP page which would be accessible only to Participants (and admins of course).

[Yolle]

Hi!
On my site I have to reply to hundreds of comments daily. To make everything more organized, I decided to switch to forum instead of wordpress comments.
I like the organized layout of the forum but I really don’t like to answer to topics on forum, because I have to click so many times for every topic… With my previous arrangement, where people posted comments, I could just open the comments section on WordPress backend and would reply one after another with just clicking the Reply button, and all the comments were on the same (backend) page no matter where they ere originally posted.
Now, on the other hand, I have to click the forum, the subforum, the topic, and scroll down to the end, to be able to reply.
Is there any way to combine “the best of both worlds?” So – to be able to reply to all the topics (from all the forums and subforums) from one single page?
Thanks!

[Yolle]

Hi!
The screenshots were supposed to be just to give a rough idea… Not to look at the details. At the incorrect one, one should see that the forum is at the top, and only then the logo image appears, whereas on the correct one, the logo image is at the top and the forum is on the left and the sidebar on the right, footer at the bottom.
I am using s2member for the membership management.
So, as an aministrator of the wordpress blog I can see the correct layout. As a s2member with an access to the specific forum, I see the incorrect layout. But, only at the parent forum, the subforums have the correct layout.
Thanks for your help!

[Robin W]

have to say I am struggling from the screenshots to see what your issue is, the ‘correct’ one is all squashed up and impossible to read !

What plugin are using for the ‘paid’ bit? suspect that this works at wordpress user levels (subscriber, author, admin etc. ) not bbpress (participant, keymaster etc.)

[Robin W]

ok, this theme has annoyed me so much that I have down loaded it.

I then saw that it claims to be a bbpress friendly theme, aghh!!! why not include a fullwidth forum????

so had a little play

on my test site the following works

bbpress.php looks like

<?php get_header(); // Loads the header.php template. ?>
 
<main>
 
	<?php if ( have_posts() ) : // Checks if any posts were found. ?>
	
	  
 
		<?php while ( have_posts() ) : // Begins the loop through found posts. ?>
 
			<?php the_post(); // Loads the post data. ?>
 
			<article <?php hybrid_attr( 'post' ); ?>>
 
				<?php if ( is_singular( get_post_type() ) ) : // If viewing a single page. ?>
 
					<header class="entry-header">
						<h1 <?php hybrid_attr( 'entry-title' ); ?>><?php single_post_title(); ?></h1>
					</header><!-- .entry-header -->
 
					<div <?php hybrid_attr( 'entry-content' ); ?>>
						<?php the_content(); ?>
						<?php wp_link_pages(); ?>
					</div><!-- .entry-content -->
 
				<?php else : // If not viewing a single page. ?>
 
					<header class="entry-header">
						<?php the_title( '<h2 ' . hybrid_get_attr( 'entry-title' ) . '><a href="' . get_permalink() . '" rel="bookmark" itemprop="url">', '</a></h2>' ); ?>
					</header><!-- .entry-header -->
 
					<div <?php hybrid_attr( 'entry-content' ); ?>>
						<?php the_content(); ?>
						<?php wp_link_pages(); ?>
					</div><!-- .entry-content -->
 
				<?php endif; // End single page check. ?>
 
			</article><!-- .entry -->
 
		<?php endwhile; // End found posts loop. ?>
 
	<?php else : // If no posts were found. ?>
 
		<?php locate_template( array( 'content/error.php' ), true ); // Loads the content/error.php template. ?>
 
	<?php endif; // End check for posts. ?>
 
</main><!-- #content -->
 

		<footer <?php hybrid_attr( 'footer' ); ?>>

			<div class="wrap">

				<?php hybrid_get_menu( 'social' ); // Loads the menu/social.php template. ?>

				<p class="credit">
					<?php printf(
						/* Translators: 1 is current year, 2 is site name/link, 3 is WordPress name/link, and 4 is theme name/link. */
						__( 'Copyright © %1$s %2$s. Powered by %3$s and %4$s.', 'stargazer' ), 
						date_i18n( 'Y' ), hybrid_get_site_link(), hybrid_get_wp_link(), hybrid_get_theme_link()
					); ?>
				</p><!-- .credit -->

			</div><!-- .wrap -->

		</footer><!-- #footer -->

	</div><!-- #container -->

	<?php wp_footer(); // WordPress hook for loading JavaScript, toolbar, and other things in the footer. ?>

</body>
</html>

[gogitossj34]

Ok, now I’m noticing this.
If the forum content is at
http://www./forums which is where my forums page is at ( the page content bbp-index )
It wont show sidebar as the page is using the full width layout.

If the content is at http://www./forum which is where bbpress root is at, it will have the sidebar.

Maybe you’ll figure something out from that

And I’m just curious why is it hybrid_get_sidebar and not get_sidebar ?

Remove the hybrid caused problem with line 21 which is the
Copyright © 2014 The young marketers community . Powered by WordPress and Stargazer sentence.

[Robin W]

The fact that your theme has coded the sidebar in the footer is really annoying !

No idea why that isn’t working, but plan b

change footer.php back to how it was, that way all the other pages will work.

now go back into bbpress.php and instead of the

<?php get_footer(); // Loads the footer.php template. ?>

paste the footer.php code, but without the two sidebar lines

</div><!– #main –>
</div><!– .wrap –>
<footer <?php hybrid_attr( ‘footer’ ); ?>>
<div class=”wrap”>
<?php hybrid_get_menu( ‘social’ ); // Loads the menu/social.php template. ?>
<p class=”credit”>
<?php printf(
/* Translators: 1 is current year, 2 is site name/link, 3 is WordPress name/link, and 4 is theme name/link. */
__( ‘Copyright © %1$s %2$s. Powered by %3$s and %4$s.’, ‘stargazer’ ), 
date_i18n( ‘Y’ ), hybrid_get_site_link(), hybrid_get_wp_link(), hybrid_get_theme_link()
); ?>
</p><!– .credit –>
</div><!– .wrap –>
</footer><!– #footer –>
</div><!– #container –>
<?php wp_footer(); // WordPress hook for loading JavaScript, toolbar, and other things in the footer. ?>

and see what that does ! Sorry without having your theme, I’m guessing at some of the code, and am as before likely to miss some grammer so you may need to play a bit with it.

[arminius]

BBDT Forum will bring you to enter username/password, but no link to new user registration. That page is using: [bbp-forum-index] and is one I setup in wordpress, no link. Does that answer your question? Also, do I need to have a page called Forum Registration using: [bbp-login] that seems redundant. When I initally started I used this link as a guide if that helps: https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum/

[Robkk]

3. My main beef with bbPress is the way categories and forums are shown. Forums are placed under categories like sub-forums which looks un-forum like to me.

bbpress has worked on this , https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1958

since you commented on my layout topic too, ill tell you which one i used , which is

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/timeline?from=2014-03-04T09%3A51%3A07Z&precision=second

i copied all of his files from pastebin and used it as my own. then i style with css

But another way to the have the layout lets say like phpbb , is download Lynqs starter theme.

https://github.com/EpicWebs/bbPress-starter-theme-epicwebs

3. can you give an example of how you would like it to look? doesn’t need to be a bbpress site

heres an example of what he is talkingn about robin

http://thefastdiet.co.uk/forums/

http://teamoverpowered.com/forums/

[Robin W]

yes it shouldn’t be so confusing !

so ignoring the safari for the moment.

If I click BBDT forum on the menu, and I being taken to a page in wordpress that you have set up or a link? IE how is that menu item set up?

[Robin W]

The ethos behind bbpress is keep it light and let other add plugins for the functionality you require, so you don’t get tons of code for functions that you don’t need.

1. You can create menu logins such as

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

or

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

or add this code to your functions file

//add login to top of index
function index_login () {
if (!is_user_logged_in() ) {
echo do_shortcode('[bbp-login]');
}
}
add_action ('bbp_template_before_forums_index', 'index_login' ) ;

see

Functions files and child themes – explained !

2. Easily added as a plugin

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-signature/

3. can you give an example of how you would like it to look? doesn’t need to be a bbpress site

[Robin W]

yes use

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-do-short-codes/

[SAPinfoASAP]

Hi,

Is it possible to allow shortcodes in the forum? These shortcodes are not part of bbpress, but other wordpress plugins I have installed.

For example one short code allows me to add an optin form, I would like to add this to the end of my forum post.

Thanks in advance,

[Robin W]

very high chance it will be fine, but risk that your developer will have changed some core files.

Since your trying to learn stuff, then I strongly recommend that you create a test site, which will let you try it there first, but also will teach you loads about wordpress and how it operates, and give you confidence to make other changes in a test area first

https://codex.bbpress.org/creating-a-test-site/

[Robin W]

not sure if private groups will help you, might be worth a look

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-private-groups/

[gogitossj34]

Okay, now this is what I did:
I replaced the line above

<?php the_title( ‘<h2 ‘ . hybrid_get_attr( ‘entry-title’ ) . ‘>‘, ‘</h2>’ ); ?>

with this line in my old bbpress.php file because I see they are in the similar position and the page work ok.

<?php the_title( ‘<h2 ‘ . hybrid_get_attr( ‘entry-title’ ) . ‘>‘, ‘</h2>’ ); ?>

But at the topic page, it pushed the sidebar to the bottom. So, I deleted the get footer line and everything looks exactly how I want them to be.

Only that now I don’t know if they’ll be any problem, especially when I removed the get footer line.

The fact that I changed your code also is worrying me since I have absolutely no knowledge about php coding. I mean, I’ve found out there is a something called php coding.

Anyway, here is my footer.php content, can you check if anything is important ?

<?php hybrid_get_sidebar( ‘primary’ ); // Loads the sidebar/primary.php template. ?>

</div><!– #main –>

<?php hybrid_get_sidebar( ‘subsidiary’ ); // Loads the sidebar/subsidiary.php template. ?>

</div><!– .wrap –>

<footer <?php hybrid_attr( ‘footer’ ); ?>>

<div class=”wrap”>

<?php hybrid_get_menu( ‘social’ ); // Loads the menu/social.php template. ?>

<p class=”credit”>

<?php printf(

/* Translators: 1 is current year, 2 is site name/link, 3 is WordPress name/link, and 4 is theme name/link. */

__( ‘Copyright © %1$s %2$s. Powered by %3$s and %4$s.’, ‘stargazer’ ),

date_i18n( ‘Y’ ), hybrid_get_site_link(), hybrid_get_wp_link(), hybrid_get_theme_link()

); ?>

</p><!– .credit –>

</div><!– .wrap –>

</footer><!– #footer –>

</div><!– #container –>

<?php wp_footer(); // WordPress hook for loading JavaScript, toolbar, and other things in the footer. ?>

</body>

</html>

[Robin W]

also either use or crack open my plugin that does exactly this, you’ll find all the code in there

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

[Stephen Edgar]

Use WordPress’ user_contactmethods

https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/user_contactmethods

https://gist.github.com/ntwb/c70caf5a0aa9d3062a6d

[Stephen Edgar]

You’ll need to download the translations manually per the details here:

https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-in-your-language/
https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/2.5.x

Save them into /wp-content/languages/plugins

With some luck these two direct links will get you the .mo and .po. Make sure you rename both files so they are named bbpress-fr_FR.mo and bbpress-fr_FR.po respectively.

The reason I asked for the language you are using is because if the language translation is 100% translated then bbPress translations are delived to you automatically by the same WordPress Core ‘Automatic Updates’ mechanism, sadly bbPress French translations are not at 100%. (Technically they are at 100% translated but there are 228 strings waiting to be approved.)

[dingxiaohan]

I’m extremely new to WordPress and totally new to bbpress. I have designed a community website in 2012 which seems fine, and want to add a forum.

It needs to be compact and waste no space, or people won’t use it. That doesn’t seem to be possible in 2012, which forces a sidebar if you want a search facility, and which consumes a lot of vertical space with the identity of the contributor, including a large avatar. My very first experimental shot is here:
http://www.hundredthmonkey.eu/?topic=wish-list
and you’ll see what I mean. I wish I could attach a screen shot of the Sibelius.com forum, which is my ideal.

I am thinking that the only solution will be to link out to a separate site with a really compact, unfussy, uncluttered theme. Can anyone suggest?