[Asynaptic]

@tieptoep No problem. I’m glad it is clear now.

It is way beyond ‘inelegant’. It is beyond baffling why it hasn’t been fixed yet. And beyond frustrating that the devs strongly push back instead of simply acknowledging the issue and working on fixing it.

Unfortunately I’m not a coder and have no idea how to even open a ticket or word it properly in this context. But as a user, it is self-evident that the way bbPress uses permalinks needs fixing.

Also, through this thread and many others, it is also very obvious that this is a very important and irritating issue that has been brought up going back as far back as 7 years!

As I mentioned, there is or was a plugin which claimed to fix the issue. I don’t have access to the code and even if I did, there is a chance that the code is now out of date with bbPress’ core development since the plugin would be a few years old.

All I can do is to clearly state the case for permalinks, their importance and request that it be placed at the highest priority. I hope you and other bbPress users add their voice so that the devs take this seriously.

Unfortunately, there is no way to prioritize issues in bbPress development. Other projects have a way to measure the community’s voice in terms of what needs to be fixed first. For example, here’s symposium’s page:

http://www.wpsymposium.com/voting/

Both buddypress and bbpress need this functionality. Like yesterday. That way issues like this do not fall through the cracks.

Of course, this is assuming that the dev team is serious about creating a 2 way communication channel with the wider community rather than a 1 way.

As Matt M. mentioned in a recent video, he measures the success of wordpress in general by how well and fast it reacts to the needs of its community. I would suggest the same applies to bbpress and buddypress.

[orionghf]

Hi
yes this is what Im using .. but Im still using WordPress 3.8.3
The MCE editor is displaying perfectly and I can use all its features .. but when I save the content from the front end, the content is displayed with the html codes ..
Could it be a theme problem?

[Stephen Edgar]

I’m not sure of the exact issue you are having a problem with!

The snippet of code you have looks correct via https://codex.bbpress.org/enable-visual-editor/

I have done a fair bit of testing of WordPress v3.9/v3.9.1 and bbPress v2.5.3 compatability with the above snippet to ensure things are not broken with the new TinyMCE v4.0.x in WordPress v3.9.

I have also used this plugin to test the above also https://wordpress.org/plugins/tinymce-advanced/

[Stephen Edgar]

I dug around and per my previous comment this is the current expected behaviour and design.

That said I think we can improve this ‘user experience’ but we can’t do it directly in bbPress at this stage, you see the same experience when using the ‘text’ editor to create new post with WordPress.

I have created a ticket upstream for WordPress to improve this here, once WordPress has this then bbPress will also have this improved UI/UX 🙂

[orionghf]

Hello
I have a problem with the editor in bbpress .. the content is displayed with the html code ..
I am using Ultimate TinyMCE editor with the option of wpautop set off and I put this code in the functions.php of the theme to enable mce editor :


function bbp_enable_visual_editor( $args = array() ) {
$args['tinymce'] = true;
return $args;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_after_get_the_content_parse_args', 'bbp_enable_visual_editor' );


What could be the problem, I tried using Tiny MCE Advanced but the same problem occurred
is this a theme problem?

Im using :
Wordpress version 3.8.3
bbpress version 2.5.3
Ultimate TinyMCE version 5.3

Thanks

[Stephen Edgar]

Have you tried using just %postname% rather than /index.php/%postname% ?

I have a sneaky suspicion this will be your issue.

If you are not able to remove the /index.php/ before %postname% check your “WordPress Address (URL)” and “Site Address (URL)” in Settings -> General. If these include the /index.php/ I’d suggest you contact your web host and have these updated.

(I only say contact your host as if you change these to something your web host doesn’t support you may lose access to your site)

[Robin W]

This is done by putting some code into the footer.php

If you’re into coding, then google ‘wordpress post footer’ and you’ll find several examples of how to put posts into footers. You’d be looking to add a parameter of ‘post_type’ = ‘topic’,

Alternately you could try

https://wordpress.org/plugins/nurelm-get-posts/

and see if that works in your footer – no idea if it will !

the code would be something like

[get_posts post_type=”topic” numberposts=15 orderby=”post_date” order=”DESC”]

or maybe order = “ASC” !

[JBBoY]

This plugin (fork of Simple Local Avatars) do the job! :))

Basic User Avatars

[Stephen Edgar]

Apologies, this should be fixed for the next release of bbPress:

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2518

[Robin W]

You could try my plugin

bbp Private Groups

which lets you create private groups as you seem to want

@netweb – I’ll be adding it to wordpress plugins as soon as I’ve changed it unlimited groups!

[Robin W]

I presume you mean the profile in the toolbar?

If so, I turn the toolbar off for all users apart from admin. It is ugly and takes away from your theme.

You can then put it as a menu item see

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

for details

[Stephen Edgar]

It looks like ‘however’ all the things on your site are working it is making the topic ‘private’

The good thing is we will have this fixed for bbPress 2.6

Details are here https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2593

[southcot]

WordPress: 3.9
bbPress: 2.5.3
User Access Manager: 1.2.5.0
Theme: Twenty Eleven (no mods)

I don’t know whether our use of UMA is relevant here. We have a group in UAM called “Panel” and all of those users have the “Forum Role” of “Participant”

I have set up a forum “panel Discussions” which is restricted to the members of “Panel”:-

and in it a topic “Panel **********************”:-

When I’m logged into WP I can see the forum and the topics:-

And the topic thread shows as I would expect:-

Users that aren’t logged in cannot see the “Panel Discussions” Forum as I would expect:-

And as expected another “Panel” member can see the “Panel Discussions” Forum:-

.. and the topics:-

However when they open the topic “Panel **********************”:-

The initial Topic intro is not visible.

Can anyone help please?

[BeethovenWC]

Please, how to redirect all normal wordpress profiles to bbpress profiles?

Thanks

[Stephen Edgar]

The bbPress shortcodes are:

[bbp-login] – Display the login screen.
[bbp-register] – Display the register screen.
[bbp-lost-pass] – Display the lost password screen.

I suspect some of your issues are more WordPress related rather than specificly bbPress

[smashthegame]

Hi there,

I’ve started using your bbPress plugin for wordpress. I’ve followed every instruction I could find to disable the sidebar and have a full width page on the forums page. I’ve tried nearly everything including some css posted in another thread, using a full-width page template and commenting out get_sidebar() from every file in the extras folder.

Please help! I don’t want to have to delete my forum data and start all over again simply because I can’t get a sidebar to disappear. This should be a simple excercise.

Cheers
-STG

[Stephen Edgar]

I wonder if there is any way to convert/transfer the attachments so that they will work as well?

I haven’t seen any particular effective ways to do this yet, I have a few ideas on how to add support to import the attachments into the WordPress media library but it only exists in imagination at this stage, once I get the time to take a look I most certainly will have a crack at it.

[Stephen Edgar]

@buzzybee24 In your WordPress theme folder eg \wp-content\themes\mytheme

Look for a file named page.php and make a copy of this file and rename it to bbpress.php

[theENiGMAman]

Firstly thanks to bbpress for the great plugin for WP – it’s made forum integration so much better for everyone!

I’ve run into a issue on bbpress that I am unsure how to remedy, On our bbpress forums replies made by users (of any forum role) do not display the avatar or username, instead it only displays their forum role. I’ve Googled the issue but there doesn’t seem to have been an issue like this before that I can find.

Here is a link to show the problem: http://exodus-esports.com/forums/topic/bug-report-enigmas-hideaway/

Wordpress Version: 3.9
Buddypress Verion: 2.0.1
bbpress version: 2.5.3

Thanks in advance for any assistance 🙂

**Update: Checked for any conflicting plugins by disabling all but bbrpess & buddpress – issue was still there**

[Pasquale Galasso]

I confirm

insert

asdasdasd
and
asdasdasd

total forum visible and (plugin not found)

With wordpress 3.9 and bbPress 2.5.3-5249 on pc windows seven (wamp server)

[Robin W]

Ok so you’re a wordpress site – so see

Codex

for step by set how to install

[Daniel King]

I don’t know if you still need it, but there is a plugin for that: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-last-post/

Discussion here: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2031

[Homika]

I found this one: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/javascript-error-on-pages-without-sharebar
The hack proposed in that topic solved my issue which was caused by JS error. Hoping that plugin will be fixed at some point, so I don’t need to hack into its code with every update…

[Homika]

I had something similar and my issue seems to be related to Sharebar plugin of WordPress. Disabling that plugin makes the toolbar buttons appear properly. Will research more what can be done w/o disabling it, the plugin itself is pretty nice besides this issue.

[John James Jacoby]

It’s a WordPress site, so… sure!