[Stephen Edgar]

p.s. Robin -> https://en-gb.wordpress.org/ 😉

[Stephen Edgar]

The string Keymaster is being translated to Super Administrator(here)

If you login to http://translate.wordpress.org using your wordpress.org/bbpress.org username and password you can also suggest an updated translation and the Spanish translation team will review the translation and accept it or not.

The first link above is for the ‘development’ version of bbPress, upcoming 2.6 release, you should also suggest any translation updates for the current bbPress v2.5 here.

Once you have done the above you should let the Spanish translation team know:

Contacto

[itisix]

I’ve been using wordpress for about 6 months now and I’m using the “luminescent lite” theme. I now decided it was time to move my old phpbb board over to bbpress and I’m struggling a bit with the design. So:

1 – The theme is universal, so not much chance to change much without hard coding or a new theme

2 – I use categories and forums and it’s messy. I get:

Category
Forum nº 1 (14,54) Forum nº 2 /1,445 4,754)

Can I add a paragraph for each forum or even not show the forums at all (they would open on a click on the category).

3 – No “unread topics” display (icon/different colour)

Not all is bad. I’m using buddypress and I’m loving it. BBpress ported quite well from phpbb3 and I lost no data at all (except PM’s). Even BBcode is looking good. My users are giving me a hard time, but they are just idiots anyway… lol

[Stephen Edgar]

I haven’t looked closely at the GD bbPress Attachments plugin (And never at GD bbPress Toolbox) though I was presuming that GD bbPress Toolbox included the same/similar/enhanced version of GD bbPress Attachments which I believe does allow participants to upload attachments.

So, can you use (and/or ask @gdragon) if running both plugins side by side is the best solution.

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

[K-Path]

Version 3.9.1
Twenty Ten Theme with some very simply, barely noticeable CSS modification.
http://hcrd.foundation/journal/forums/

I need to know where to get the Registration URL?
Seems to me that WordPress would make that one of the more obvious and prominent links on the page. I haven’t figured out where it is. I need it to complete the bbPress Login Widget configuration.

Also

As you can see this is what my menu looks like now.
Home Forums About
Forums
Home › Forums
Forum
Raisons d’être
Corporate Charter Of The Foundation
The Declaration of Universal Rights

How do I make it look like this?
Home Forums About
Forum ›
Raisons d’être
Corporate Charter Of The Foundation
The Declaration of Universal Rights

I got the Forums link in the menu to work. Now how can I remove the totally redundant Forums labels beneath the main menu?

Thank you for you help.

Auriel

[ajshanahan]

Hello all – I know that the issue of user capabilities has been covered before but I’m stuck

First off:
http://www.manvfat.com/talk
WordPress 3.9.1 running BuddyBoss 3.2.0 theme.
BBPress 2.5.4
GD BBpress Toolbox 3.1.3

I have used GD BBpress Toolbox to allow the “Add Media” button to show up for all logged in users. Fine.

However, the Participant role cannot actually upload an image – it tries to upload gets nearly to the end and then throws an error message:

“An error occured in the upload. Please try again later.”

After experimentation (I changed one test user to Moderator from Participant – and this allowed the image to be uploaded) it appears to be down to the fact that Participants do not have the capability to upload media.

Using this plugin http://wordpress.org/plugins/capsman/ I am able to assign that capability to Participants but it still fails. My *guess* is that this is because the capability is not actually being saved, but I don’t know why or how to change it.

Does anyone know how I can allow the Participant role to upload files – and thus be able to add images inline?

Many thanks in advance for your help!

[Stephen Edgar]

I’ve not looked at doing do that personally, I saw something recently on adding short codes to WordPress quicktags so you could explore that option (WordPress’ quicktags are the buttons you see here ‘b’, ‘i’ etc)

Also take a look at the source of bbPress Shortcode Whitelist plugin to see their implementation, and see if you can adapt it for your own needs.

[Stephen Edgar]

It could be the posts are getting caught by WordPress’ moderation settings:

Dashboard -> Settings -> Discussion

Also look via the admin topic and reply panels to see if any have a status of ‘pending’.

If there is a topic or reply pending and you create another with duplicate content you will see that warning message.

Also if you think it may be a conflict with another plugin then disable them and see if the conflict is resolved.

[Stephen Edgar]

No, you cannot use shortcodes within bbPress.

This is more of a security issue than a technical issue, you don’t want users adding login shortcodes and the like into the content.

There is a ‘bbPress Shortcode Whitelist’ plugin (It’s in the wordpress.org plugins repo) that will allow you to ‘whitelist’ a list of short codes so you can use the ones you approve.

[Robin W]

Try

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

[greenhoe]

I was wondering can I use my normal worpdress shortcodes in bbpress? So my users could take say a certain query shortcode and post in the forums and allow it to work?

[Robin W]

These are exactly the questions I was asking 6 months ago, so I sense your frustration !!

I was expecting to write some stuff on filtering, but having had a quick look at ‘bbp_new_topic_handler’ this doesn’t have any real filtering capability, although it does have some url filters.

Fuller than probably needed answer for the benefit of others !
Ok so you can usually
either filter a function either using bbp_parse_args where you want to change some paramters that are being passed to wp-query

or filter the whole function – if it ends with ‘return apply_filters(..)’ then you can easily copy the whole function and alter it within your child theme, just rename it slightly and then add a filter
so a fictional function called ‘add_name’ in bbpress ends with
Return apply_filters (‘add_name’, $name) ;

you simply copy the whole function and change ‘add_name’ to say ‘my_add_name’ then add a line
add_filter (‘add_name’, ‘my_add_name’)

and wordpress will use your function to replace the original.

But for your function, there is a url filter near the edn but otherwise this is a function that does, so no neat parameters that are replaceable at the end !

I searched bbpress for where this function is used, and in includes/core/actions.php it is added as an action to wherever bbp_post_request is used

Searching for that gets me a bit confused, as I’m not familiar with what this does, and have limited time to chase it down.

Now, having written all that as I was going along, if I were you I’d do one of two things

1. Go further back and find what is calling the function, and then change that. If it is a template, you can alter that in a bbpress folder within your theme to call your function instead, and neither will get overwritten by upgrades.

2. There is no problem in changing core bbpress files as long as a) you are happy you know what you’re doing and b) you make a note of the changed function.

Then on each upgrade, you’ll need to look at whether any code in the function has changed, and if not just overwrite it again. If it has changed, then you’ll need to redo your amendment taking into account the new code. But you sometimes need to do that anyway for a child theme function where bbpress is dealing differently with it.

Yes changing core is ‘frowned’ upon, but only because people do it and then get upset when it is overwritten and they can’t remember what they changed !! Do it with knowledge and you’ll be fine !

After all it just some code that someone’s written, and any ‘rules’ are just made up and have no authority !

[Robin W]

@lumartist

Ok I have fixed this issue – can you download version 1.9 from

bbp Private Groups

and test it to ensure it also works for you.

if so, I’ll load it to wordpress plugins for general release

[itisix]

Hi,

I’ve been running wordpress for a few months and I now was confident enough to move my phpbb to bbpress. All went very smooth.
Problem is, the theme I use (and that I like a lot) is not very bbpress friendly.

I don’t suppose I can change the bbpress part too much without some hard coding, so any suggestion would be useful (probably change the theme altogether?). Any theme suggested?

My site is http://www.smartistas.com and the theme is luminescente lite.

Thanks

[absurdity69]

I need some help, this issue is making me go crazy.

Sometimes threads posted won’t show up but I know they are there because when I use another user’s login and post the same thing it says “Duplicate post detected”. I noticed this happens only with longer posts and replies.

Currently I have these plugins:

bbPress Notify
bbPress WP Tweaks
Floating Social Media Icon
Math Captcha
WordPress Social
Login WP Modal Login

The only plugin interference I can think of is bbpress WP Tweaks.

The only potential issue I can think of is that there is a limit to how much characters a thread/post is and this limit causes threads/replies to be hidden. Having said that, I’ve never heard of such setting.

I appreciate the help.

[Stephen Edgar]

@leanderbraunschweig Feel like creating a ticket on Trac, I never did 😉

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

Add it as an ‘enhancement’ type ticket with the component ‘users’ and leave it in ‘Awaiting Review’, add a bit of the detail of what is outlined above though the general consensus of the feedback above and we can start working towards adding support for this into bbPress 🙂

[tharsheblows]

@robinw – I just came across this too and thought exactly the same as you, that it needed that filter or something like that. I was trying to change the “Topic tags: ” (or something like that) bit of the tags archive pages.

It was picking up the default taxonomy-topic-tags.php file. This must have been picked up from the plugin default theme, not mine – it’s in /extras in my theme folder but changing it there had no effect, I had to move it out of there to the root of the theme folder. This totally makes sense from a WordPress standpoint but was non-obvious because I was looking in the bbPress folder in my theme.

ANYWAY it’s sorted now but if someone else comes across it, check for some hidden template. I couldn’t get that filter to work for anything. I tried very very hard to make it work. It didn’t.

@saulmarq – what you can do is make a new page and make the permalink your forum root. So my forum root (in settings) is forums and the page is at example.com/forums. Then use the [bbp-forum-index] shortcode. The gotcha is that this page will *only* use the bbPress template, I think – you can’t make a custom template for it. I might be misremembering that, but I do know you can’t change the default template. Someone tried to tell me this was a good thing, whatever.

Doing it this way is nice because then you can write an intro like:

Hi! Welcome to our forums. Dive right in. Post a lot, whoo!

[bbp-forum-index]

[localplayer]

Hi Stephen, thank you.
Here’s the link:
You need to login to see the content: localp / localplayer1
http://www.thework-coaching.de/forums/forum/beziehungsprobleme-gibts-nicht-die-challenge/
Wordpress Version: 3.9.1
bbPress Version: 2.5.4
Buddypress: 2.0.1

[Stephen Edgar]

Doesn’t this require the person to put the image somewhere – ie on Smugmug – and then use the IMG tags to reference that image?

Yes

I was looking for something that allows you to just decide to show a photo in a forum post and upload it then and there to the site and have it display inside the post.

For this a common a plugin is this one https://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-bbpress-attachments/

[Stephen Edgar]

You’ll have all sorts of shiny new and cool things when you do 🙂

Check your web hosts support and FAQ section, they should have some pretty good docs on how to backup your WordPress site and your database. They might even have those fully automated and implemented for you so you only need to confirm the backup is there, it is current, and it has all your content that you expect to be.

[Deamion]

Hi Stephen,

Are you talking about the bbPress toolbar when creating a topic or reply?

Yes.

What happens if you switch to the Twenty Fourteen theme?

The Twenty Fourteen theme has the same issue.

Have you disabled any TinyMCE plugins?

I didn’t install a plug-in called TinyMCE. I thought it was included by default.

Have you tried disabling all your plugins except bbPress to see if the issue is resolved?

No. As I said, the site works find when using Chrome, or IE on the Linux/Apache box (with all plug-ins enabled). When I use the site hosted by Windows Server/IIS 8.5, Chrome, IE, and Firefox work.
So it looks like a bug that only shows up when Firefox + Apache + bbpress are all working together. Any other combination seems to work fine.

What version of WordPress and bbPress are you using?

Latest version of both.

Note: Please don’t bump old topics, create a new topic please, things change and most of the time the issue will be a different issue.

Very sorry. I’ll do that next time.

Note: I’ve decided that I’m just going to leave it as is. If Firefox users want to post, they can forfeit the editing tools, or use another browser.

Sorry to have wasted your time. Maybe I’ll try to troubleshoot it again when I have more time.
Thanks for your reply.

[Stephen Edgar]

Are you talking about the bbPress toolbar when creating a topic or reply?

What happens if you switch to the Twenty Fourteen theme?

Have you disabled any TinyMCE plugins?

Have you tried disabling all your plugins except bbPress to see if the issue is resolved?

What version of WordPress and bbPress are you using?

Note: Please don’t bump old topics, create a new topic please, things change and most of the time the issue will be a different issue.

[Stephen Edgar]

Some more information would be helpful, a link to your site, what version of WordPress and bbPress are you using etc.

Note: I split this from the other topic, no sense bumping old topics for something that sounds familiar but 99% of the time never is…

[Stephen Edgar]

Firstly, you should update WordPress to v3.9.1, if you have some reason you must remain using the 3.7.x version upgrade to 3.7.3.

That said line #1198 of your style.css has the following:

.hentry {
border-bottom: 2px solid #f7f7f8;
margin-left: 120px;
padding-bottom: 15px;
position: relative;
}

You will need to override that for your bbPress forums with a custom entry in a child themes CSS.

eg.

#bbpress-forums .hentry {
margin-left: 0px;
}

[Ihatetomatoes]

Hi,
I am using iThemes Exchange and bbPress Membership Add-on and want to include access to a specific forum in one of the memberships.

The issues is that the list of forums is not showing on a page where it should list all the forums available for that membership. I have logged this issue with iThemes, but replied with the following:

—
I was installing bbPress on my site to test this issue and I got the following:

Notice: bbp_setup_current_user was called incorrectly. The current user is being initialized without using $wp->init(). Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 2.3.) in /public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3245

Can you start a ticket with them as well. There’s a good chance this could be part of the issue.
—

Thanks for any help.
P.