[Robin W]

Getting bbpress to work with the many very clever (too clever!) themes is not always easy

Ok, we could spend a lot of time getting a forum specific sidebar for your theme, but maybe easiest to get your sidebar working to display in bbpress

so install widget logic

https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-logic/

Then set up whatever sidebar is being displayed on the bbpress page for all the widgets that you want it to display, both for the homepage and bbpress

Then you’ll see each widget now has a widget logic condition.

For items you want to display only on bbpress add the logic

is_bbpress()

For items say only on a home page add

is_home()

for items you want on all pages apart from bbpress use

!is_bbpress()

Come back if anything is not clear

[Robin W]

It may well be that you’re search form is just including the forum posts.

bbpress uses custom post types of ‘topic’, ‘forum’ and ‘reply’. You site wide search may well need to exclude these types so that forums results do not get filtered into the search.

see https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_search_form

In particular

<input type=”hidden” value=”post” name=”post_type” id=”post_type” />
Here we submit the value post. The default value is any, meaning, posts, pages and custom post types.

ie the default is any would include forum entries.

[Robin W]

my plugin private groups should do what you want

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbp-private-groups

[Stephen Edgar]

I can’t reproduce this using bbPress 2.5.4, BuddyPress 2.01 and WordPress 3.9.1 with the Twenty Fourteen theme.

[Stephen Edgar]

Everything here is working and is expected behaviour for bbPress.

You are correct replies no longer have a title, the slug of a reply is now the reply ID.

You would typically only notice this working in the backend by not seeing a reply title in the ‘edit reply’, yet when you look at the list of replies in the backend just like bbPress you will see all the replies have a title, this title is inherited from the topic title.

The key thing here is that when viewing a single reply on the front end it has no context without it’s parent topic. We also encourage the use of the vast majority of bbPress via the front end and not the backend, the backend is really only meant to be used if you cannot do something via the front end, we try to make everything work via both interfaces but due to other issues further upstream in WordPress Core we can’t replicate all the functionality we implement.

As you stated via @JJJ until WordPress 3.7 replies had to have a title, this imposed some limitations on what we could and could not do with replies, further to this change in bbPress there will be even further enhancements coming to bbPress, maybe 2.6, if not 2.7 due to this new found freedom and functionality we have with our replies.

As I continue reading the previous page I knew this was coming 😉

Why do I want this?
1. permalink without reply-title, but only with reply-ID is not good for search engines.

Neither is duplicated content, previously if your topic URL was /topic/topic-title, then your replies would be /reply/topic-title-1, /reply/topic-title-2 etc, similar content but not the same content, now each reply has a unique URL.

2. if I open a reply-post in the admin area, there is no title “reply to: …. (topic title) …” (the title bar is empty) and I do not know to which post this reply refers. This is not good for handling the forum in practice.

This is one of those things I just mentioned above, about working via the frontend vs the backend and until the updates upstream flow from WordPress Core this field will remain empty until we can actually hide it completely. You should be editing replies via the frontend, moderators and users all use the frontend to perform all the tasks required. I’m only a moderator here on bbPress.org and can perform any task bbPress needs just fine, it is the preferred experience as just because you can do something in the backend does not always mean you should.

Apologies that I only saw this this morning, crazy week last week.

[Robin W]

ok, with the code in, try the following

Deactivate bbpress tweaks
Dashboard>plugins>bbpress tweaks>deactivate

Go into widgets
Dashboard>appearance>widgets

And look at the bottom of the left hand side. You’ll see an “inactive sidebar”, with your entries on
Below this is an “inactive widgets”
Drag all the entries from the inactive sidebar to the inactive widgets area.
This then allows wordpress to delete the sidebar
I normally log out and in again at this stage – probably not needed, but I’ve never bothered to check
Then basically reverse the above
Re-enable bbpress tweaks
You see the bbpress sidebar returns
Drag the entries back from the inactive widgets area to the sidebar

[Stephen Edgar]

Can you create a ticket on Trac please and we can take a look.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress includes the WordPress natively supported embed providers:

Flickr Videos & Images WordPress 2.9
Hulu Videos WordPress 2.9
Imgur Images WordPress 3.9
Instagram Images WordPress 3.5
Photobucket Images WordPress 2.9
SmugMug Photos WordPress 3.0

(SmugMug and Photobucket support is being removed for WordPress 4.0 is released, see #28379)

For any of the above you simple paste the URL on a new line by itself:

e.g. https://flic.kr/p/57FFQn

Any other images hosted elsewhere you simple link to them using the <img src=''> HTML

e.g. <img src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3130/2701069417_4d5234fc18_o.jpg" width="198" height="49" alt="bbpress">

[aslauda]

That make sense, do i have to manually add in the members on wordpress under “users” even if i only want them to have access to the website and simplify it for them or do i have to find a plugin for that as well?

Because as far as i know, (unless im told differently) they only want a forums for members, it wont be used for anything else for the time being besides the general public website

[Robin W]

Example of my set up: On forum topic is open for all member’s to see and comment on
the other topic is set for Officers only.

You’ll need my plugin :

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

[Robin W]

have you used

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-genesis-extend/

[joeyaberle]

I just noticed that spectators and even blocked users, can see the Forum Settings page on the WordPress Dashboard. This is an issue because they can then go and change any of the settings of the forum.

Has anyone else noticed this (or am I just crazy) and is there a solution to this?

bbPress: 2.5.4
Wordpress: 3.9.1
BuddyPress: 2.0.1

[Robin W]

Yes wordpress does like to try and show the toolbar which I hate !!

Put the following in your functions file

//disable toolbar for non-admins

if (!current_user_can('manage_options')) {
show_admin_bar(false);
}

This will mean that only admins can see the toolbar

If you don’t know how to add code to the functions file, work you way through

https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
https://codex.wordpress.org/Functions_File_Explained

How To Safely Add PHP Code To WordPress

[Robin W]

I haven’t tested or used this plugin with buddypress, but this sets up private groups to prevent search and /topics revealing topics, and has widgets for recent topics and recent replies

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

[charris25]

I’m having the same/similar issue when I click into a group and click on the forum tab I can see

“This forum contains 1 topic and 1 reply, and was last updated by Admin 1 week, 2 days ago.”

“Viewing topic 1 (of 1 total)”

But under “Viewing topic” topics are not showing up for any user.

I had turned the search engine option on the dashboard on/off… that didn’t work.

I changed the theme to the word press default theme and topics seem to be working properly there so I believe its something with the theme but I’m not sure I’m currently using the salutation theme. http://themeforest.net/item/salutation-responsive-wordpress-buddypress-theme/548199

I’m using WordPress 3.9.1 bbpress 2.5.4 and Buddypress 2.0.1

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[garyc14569]

Hi I have a problem with having members register on my website. I have set up the login widget and register page. When I do a test registration it brings me to my wordpress login page and says user registration is not allowed.

So I went to general settings and put anyone can join. When I did another test registration, it went successfully but it allowed me access to the dashboard/backend. I set the new user title as subscriber and contributor but both lead to the dashboard. How do I have the user subscribe but without access to my dashboard?

[ste81]

Hi all,
I’m asking if it’s possible to change user login interface. I mean, actually users have a login inside wordpress and once they’re logged in they’re logged into wordpress admin interface. I would like to understand if it’s possible to have an external user management interface separated from wordpress administration area.

Thanks
Ste

[Morgensonne]

Hi Robin,

it seems that Stephen had no idea about this.
In the meantime I have heard by John James, that this is not a bug. It would be correct. Replies only ever had titles because WordPress forced all posts to have them until 3.7. I’m confused about that, because at bbpress 2:41 I have reply-titles with WordPress 3.9.

And you had written that your reply-titles are still there and also in the permalink (bbpress 2:54 and twentyten-theme). So I want to ask you to have a second look on it: is it really the REPLY-title in the permalink? Topic-titles I also have in the permalinks, only the replies have no title and the permalink shows only the ID.

My permalinks should contain the post NAME (not the ID) like this:

mytestblog.de/blog/foren/reply/reply-to-this-is-a-test/

bbpress 2.41 does exactly in this way!
Now – with bbpress 2.5x – the permalink is like this:

mytestblog.de/blog/foren/reply/140/

140 is the ID of the topic reply.
I would like to have it again that way as it runs under bbpress version 2.41. 🙁

Why do I want this?
1. permalink without reply-title, but only with reply-ID is not good for search engines.
2. if I open a reply-post in the admin area, there is no title “reply to: …. (topic title) …” (the title bar is empty) and I do not know to which post this reply refers. This is not good for handling the forum in practice.

Robin, would you be so kind to look again to see if it really is th REPLY-title, which you have in your permalink? I can also take a screenshot to illustrate where my problem is.

Thank you very much for your help!
Morgensonne

[Robkk]

yeah i might have to

but before that im going to contact the developer , because they have this plugin where you can implement it into wordpress comments and im sure that an akismet integration would be a hell of a feature on wordpress comments or other post types.

[tharsheblows]

It looks like it’s a known issue – I think it’s this:
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/15551

I’ve tried everything. Rewriting the query, trying the redirect_canonical filter, whatever. I can’t get it to work.

However why it’s working on one site and not the other? No clue. And omg, it’s now working on the staging version of the live site (it wasn’t before) as well as the dev site. I moved a widget and poof! it works. HOWEVER, moving the same widget on the live site does *not* work.

Utterly bizarre.

[Robin W]

It is of course possible, but would require coding, suggest you hire someone

http://jobs.wordpress.net/

[Stephen Edgar]

Also you can export Forums, Topics, and Replies using WordPress Export (Tools -> Export)

You could then export updated topics and replies and import them again into your other install.

The issue of needing to use the a custom importer that you added a comment on in #2605 is to maintain legacy user meta.

[Stephen Edgar]

I’m not sure how ‘duplicator’ works but if it sync’s the database it should be fine to sync bbPress’ forums, topics and replies as they WordPress ‘Custom Post Types’, topic tags are a taxonomy and users are users.

So presuming Duplicator is copying/replication WordPress’ posts and pages which are stored in wp_posts and wp_postmeta adding support for bbPress should ‘just work’ if Duplicator supports custom post types.

[Stephen Edgar]

Do Bluehost implement any plugins that override WordPress site or home URL’s?

If your site URL and home URL’s are http://www.example.com I am trying to work out where they are getting box557.bluehost.com from to make that the email address that is being used.

[Robkk]

okay so i have found a great post rating plugin

with a simple count , with just vote up and vote down

https://wordpress.org/plugins/like-dislike-counter-for-posts-pages-and-comments/

heres a picture of how i have my layout

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_Ue9ryY5cmYU3BHMDRkNzJsNU0/edit

is it possible that whenever the post count goes down a certain number of times lets say 4 times that i can send data to akismet to recognize the post type (topic or reply) as spam?

Like akismet would react the same as if i clicked the spam link in my bbpress reply admin links?

just wondering if this possible?