[John James Jacoby]

Any of the themes from bbshowcase.org are for the retired version of bbPress (1.x), which is to say it won’t work inside of WordPress, or for bbPress 2.x.

[Stephen Edgar]

There are no issues using bbPress 2.5.3 and WordPress 3.9 they are 100% compatible.

Any issues will be as @phpnukes points out theme issues or plugin conflicts.

I suspect your issue @buzzybee24 is indeed a theme issue, check your themes faq and/or support sites for information on using your theme with bbPress v2.x. If you can’t find anything most likely you will need to make a copy of your themes page.php file and rename it to bbpress.php in your theme folder.

@phpnukes Your issue will be a plugin conflict as to why some of the items are missing in the dashboard.

[phpnukes]

Your forums are showing in your settings.
Mine are not so maybe since bbPress are claiming 2.5.3 is compatible to 3.9 there could be a confict with the theme: I’m using twentyfourteen or another plugin installed could be the problem.

Plugins installed could be the issue try deactivating all your plugins to see if it fixes things. Then active each plugin one by one to establish which plugins are causing the problem.

Don’t install an older version of wordpress quite just yet.

[Stephen Edgar]

You should look to a WordPress plugin for this, not specificly bbPress.

You should look at using a 3rd party email provider for this to ensure your emails sent to 22k user is not flagged as spam as there will be a high change it will if you do yourself unless you do it over the space of a few days in batches.

E.g. Start from here and find one that can do what you are looking for:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=mass+email

[Stephen Edgar]

I read this today, it gives a good run down of the options you have. 🙂

http://torquemag.io/4-ways-to-turn-wordpress-into-a-multilingual-website/

[buzzybee24]

Hi, thanks!
Okay so I have 3.9 how do I instal an older version of WordPress?

[phpnukes]

What version of wordpress are you using?

Looks like this development is still alive judging from their date of blog posts.

However bbpress is not up to date as from today’s date with wordpress 3.9

Broken
2.5.3 Tested on wordpress 3.9 it says installed but no admin forum links in the wordpress admin settings.

may work with older versions of wordpress

Must be work in progress

[Stephen Edgar]

I moved this to it’s own topic….

You have an advantage that you are already using v1.2, now you just install WordPress, install bbPress v2.x plugin and convert your old v1.2 forums to v2.x.

I’d suggest the best place for detailed instructions on what to do in this regard would be to check out this existing topic:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/upgrade-bbpress-1-0-2-to-2-1-2/page/2/#post-127780

[Livebyalancoltart]

Hello … I’m using bbPress 1.2 … I am very pleased with this standalone version …
My question is how could I add WordPress to my bbPress 1.2 … So as to update to the latest version of bbPress … Alan

[Robin W]

As I think you have guessed as you posted a while ago on the Emphaino wordpress support site, this is a theme issue.

I can only suggest you try a basic bbpress page to see if this will display sufficiently well to fit in with your theme.

So create a file called bbpress.php and into this drop the following code

<?php
get_header(); ?>

		<div id="container">
			<div id="content" role="main">

			<?php
			/* Run the loop to output the page.
			 * If you want to overload this in a child theme then include a file
			 * called loop-page.php and that will be used instead.
			 */
			get_template_part( 'loop', 'page' );
			?>

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

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Then save this file in the root of your theme.

bbpress will then use this file instead of your theme’s page file for the display of bbpress pages.

Give it a go, and if it fixes the problem come back and let us know. If it doesn’t then you will need to do some styling, and that will take some research to fix !

[Robin W]

Without using code for 21K users, I can get it to 42 quick actions – or the same action 42 times !

NOW be careful – make sure you know who you want to be different – eg administrators, as if you bulk change and then log out without changing back, then you may lose admin access – and then you’ll need to use phpmyadmin using nasty sql stuff to correct this.

So start by making a list of users with admin, or other wordpress roles you’ll want to be different – write these names onto a post it note and stick this to your screen so you won’t forget !!!!


Then go into

Dashboard>users>all users

At the top right of the page you see ‘screen options’ click this and typically you’ll see a part that says

20 users apply

Change this to 999 users and click the apply box.

This will then display 999 users at a time, so you can bulk change 999 in one go.

Then next to the ‘username’ heading you’ll see a tick box which is the ‘select all’ option, click this and it will select all 999 of page 1 users

Above this you’ll see a ‘bulk actions’ and then the bits we want to the right of that – the ability to change the wordpress and forum roles.

So having ticked to select all the 999 users displayed on page 1, click the ‘change role to’ and select the subscriber role, and then the change box, and hey presto all 999 are now subscribers.

Tick the ‘select all’ again, and select the bbpress participant role, and change that.

so now all page 1 users are correctly set.

Now select page 2 on the right just below the bulk change forum role and repeat !

So for each page (21 or 22 of them) you do

Select page
click ‘the select all’ box,
click forum to ‘subscriber’ and click change
click ‘the select all’ box,
click role to ‘particpant’ and click change
select next page

THEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CHANGE THE ADMINS BACK BEFORE LOGGING OUT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Probably taken me longer to type these instructions than for you to execute them !

Mod Note: I edited your post Robin 😉 Cheers, Stephen

[Robin W]

Hi, sorry you didn’t get answered the first time

bbpress roles are separate to wordpress roles, and confusingly don’t appear as part of the user creation.

So

go into

Dashboard>users>set up new user

set up your user for wordpress, and click confirm/save or whatever it says.

It will come back with a screen saying ‘user created – edit user’ click the edit part and go back into the user (you can also do this anytime by just editing the user through ‘all users’)

At the bottom of this screen you will now see forum role, and here you set their forum level.

Click save, and you user will now have the appropriate forum level access.

I know you’ll be screaming by now – I’m just a volunteer so don’t blame me that this is how it works !

If you go back up to the worpress roles, you also see in the wordpress role dropdown that you can set “no role for this site” – so you can have a user who has say participant role for the forums but no role for the wordpress bit. I use this in conjunction with the ‘restrict content’ plugin to have a membership site where club members have access through the wordpress subscriber role to members only pages (and access to the forums through the participant role), whilst letting non-members access and contribute to the forums by having no wordpress role, but just a bbpress participant role.

Come back if any of that isn’t clear !

[mshafshak]

i have 21k users that have site roles “none” and empty forum roles thats maybe coz ijust shfted from a joomla website into wordpress & bbpress. I want to make the site role ‘subscriber’ and forum role ‘participant’ to all users how can this be done with writing a code ??

[LaReinaVaca]

Hello there,

I use WordPress version 3.9, bbPress Forum 2.5.3, Theme Emphaino.

Forum works if you make an entry, but answering the entry the forum looks deformed, the actual entry is whole covered by the answer. I the answer is very long it is cut by the forum and you can only see a part of that.

Like here
http://lareinadelasvacas.es/foro/topic/circuito-por-russia-en-juniojulio-2014/
http://lareinadelasvacas.es/foro/topic/test/?view=all

The sense of my forum is answering the entries of my users. Already working hours to fix that but I just don´t get it.

Help me please!

[mshafshak]

I have more than 22k users i want to send a mass email to all of them, i just converted my website from joomla to wordpress and bbpress, so what can i do to send all users?
i tried
mass email http://wordpress.org/plugins/mass-mail/installation/
Sitewide newsletter http://wordpress.org/plugins/sitewide-newsletter/

but non worked

[batmanfan]

Thanks tharsheblows. Is this a paid plugin?

Is there a free plugin for this? I tried a few but no success… including this one https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-password-policy-manager/

maybe all these plugins don’t work with bbpress?

[Stephen Edgar]

Thanks for this, partially confirmed what you are seeing, I am going to reply in the ticket so we can track this explicitly in a single location, if you could keep your feedback to that ticket in future that would be great.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2593

[mlocke90]

Here are some pictures to better explain what is happening;
*Sorry everything looks so bad, had child theme disabled while testing.*

Viewing a topic as a user with administrator via wordpress – works as intended.

View post on imgur.com

Viewing a topic as a user marked as subscriber via wordpress and keymaster via bbpress. – topic content does not show.

View post on imgur.com

Again, thank-you so much!

[mlocke90]

I checked the user capabilities using the plugin you linked. The user has read_private_replies.

I also did some further testing and it seems that only users marked as administrator in wordpress can view private topic content. Users marked as Keymaster are unable to view private topic content.

[Stephen Edgar]

We have a ticket in Trac for this here, no patch yet though.https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2204

[Stephen Edgar]

The patch should work fine for any user with the capability read_private_replies which includes the included bbPress Keymaster and Moderator. Are you sure the user/role you are using has the read_private_replies capability?

Install this plugin and navigate to the users profile in the WordPress dashboard to confirm the role and capability of a user.

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

[Stephen Edgar]

If they are commercial plugins and are not GPL licensed they will not be listed.

License

If they are GPL licensed and they are in the WordPress plugin repository they will be automatically included in our plugin list https://bbpress.org/plugins

[Primus Palus]

If I view the index of the bbpress forum I can see my background image for my theme. When I click to go into a specific forum, the background is replaced with a color (off white).

I imagine this is all CSS related and somewhere in the code. I however would like to set all forums to show the same background. I am using a theme called “Explicit” for my wordpress site.

Thanks. I hate being new to this.

[Jax35]

This attachment Plugin does not work because of a jQuery error.

(I am new to CSS, Java, and WordPress)

The developer of the plugin is not the best at getting back with people about problems they are having.

Is there another way to add attachments? or is there a known jQuery error and a way to fix it?

[Primus Palus]

I have created a new bbpress forum on my site. If I click on the link through the top menu I get this:

If I click on the announcements section/forum/category… I get this:

I want the index to show up the same as the in forum view. But it seems to be not wanting to work right. I’m also unable to override the background image for that page for some reason.

Any help would be appreciated. I’m at a point now where I’m about to install a different forum and just use it on a sub-domain with no integration with WordPress. This is the second forum I’ve gone through and it’s annoying that there isn’t some simplicity here.