[John James Jacoby]

It sounds like this theme added bbPress specific templates to both the parent theme, and the child theme, both of which are overriding bbPress’s default template compatibility (because bbPress will yield to those overrides, which is how you can customize bbPress without needing to hack bbPress.)

Can be a bit confusing at first, especially since there’s no real indication of what is being loaded from where.

You could try installing the WordPress Debug Bar plugin, and then install the bbPress Debug Bar extension: https://wordpress.org/plugins/debug-bar-bbpress/

This will give you some information about what bbPress template is loading from where, but it’s still only providing a small window into a somewhat hidden experience.

[Matoca]

Update. Monday I asked my iPad, iPhone moderator to see if she could get a keyboard to come up, see what she was typing and actually post to the forum. She reported that it was working perfectly! No kidding! So after the WordPress 3.9 upgrade, the tinyMCE 4 upgrade has improved interaction with iPads and iPhones.

See: http://www.tinymce.com/index.php
Also: tinyMCE 4 has a presentation that explains what is different.
http://www.tinymce.com/presentation/index.html#/

I did a little research about tinyMCE because honestly it sounds like the name of a toy. So once I found the name, Tiny Moxiecode Content Editor, it made more sense to me. Wikipedia describes it as “platform-independent web-based JavaScript/HTML WYSIWYG editor control.” So, in a sense, this is the core element of WordPress (and other CMS platforms), giving the user the ability to get content on the blog without having to necessarily understand anything about HTML.

After browsing some forums I better understand that this upgrade of WP and tinyMCE has rendered many previous plugins dead in the water. It means that users need to do some serious spring cleaning and get rid of any plugins that have not been specifically updated for use with WP 3.9.

A lot of plugins have necessarily cropped up over time to add back lost functionality in tinyMCE as functions were removed. So the bbPress plugin I was using in the past that added back the visual tab to the forum message field was just one of many. Luckily I did disable it prior to the release of 3.9 but it clearly was already unstable with 3.8.

I made a mistake when I posted earlier, enabling the tools in the dashboard does give them to everyone who is not registered or logged in, not just those logged in as moderators. So I have rethought having the text editor tools on the open forum. I don’t like the ability of non-registered posters to add images directly nor do I like them adding links. These people don’t register so I have removed all editing tools from the forum in forum>settings. I have asked moderators to use the tools in the dashboard for adding images and links. Perhaps there will be a plugin in the future that will allow moderators with administrator rights to have these tools directly in the forum, but not have them accessible to the general public?

So if you do want your moderators to have undo, redo, add link, remove link and insert/edit image in the forum then enable this in forum>settings, it standard with tinyMCE 4, and looks exactly as it does on this forum

I became interested in more functionality and I installed TinyMCE Advanced plugin this afternoon to play with. I realized the many things I could do just with tables! So it’s a versatile plugin and they claim has been tested with 3.9.
my best, matoca

[jbdizzle]

Man, I tried just about anything that I can think of other than installing a new wordpress theme and starting from scratch… I ran across this by the way:

How to Use
The plugin creates a new menu item, Appearance → Suffusion bbPress Pack. Once you click on that, you will see the capability to (Re)Build bbPress Files. If you click on this button, all your bbPress-specific templates will be regenerated. You can selectively pick specific folders that you want to overwrite.Note that this action is irreversible.

So what are my options?

[Matt]

Hello,

My sidebar is missing with my newly installed Striking MultiFlex theme. I’ve tried many of the solutions from this board, but none have worked.

These did not work:
http://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

http://bpsocialnetwork.wordpress.com/2013/06/02/twenty-eleven-theme-compatibility/
I think Step 3 is missing a ‘)’, but I don’t know where to put it.

Any ideas on how to make my sidebars appear on all of my bbpress pages? My site is in maintenance mode, so I can’t post a link.

Thanks,
Matt

[batmanfan]

Has anyone used this plugin and successfully set up? I tried with no success 🙁 Is it compatible with bbpress forum? Thanks

[Stephen Edgar]

This could be an issue with your rewrite rules. To fix this try resetting your permalinks. In your WordPress Administration Screens navigate to Settings > Permalinks, select a different permalink structure and save. Then select your preferred permalink structure and save again.

[janfeng]

I want wordpress = post_name
and bbpress = post_id

[Stephen Edgar]

You can select from various default avatars included with WordPress in the WordPress Dashboard -. Settings -> Discussion (/wp-admin/options-discussion.php)

Or look at adding one of the many avatar plugins:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=avatar and/or https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=avatar+bbpress

I don’t mind editing core files if that is what needs to be done.

This should never be done, when WordPress or bbPress has an update you will lose the changes you made.

[DietPipsi]

Hello. I would like to know if there is a plugin or work-around to have a folder or drop-down list of folders to choose from a listing of pre-uploaded avatars, similar to other forum softwares.

I do not want users to use gravatar, twitter or upload their own avatars. I just want a listing from the folder on my website. However, I am having trouble finding a plugin or tutorial on how to do this.

I apologize if what I am asking for is something simple to do, because I am completely new to wordpress and bbpress (I came over from phpbb). I don’t mind editing core files if that is what needs to be done. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Stephen Edgar]

I just moved @conundrum89 reply to it’s own topic:

Plugin: bbPress Go To First Unread Post

== Description ==

bbPress Go To First Unread Post is a literally named plugin that allows registered users to jump to the first Reply in a Topic that they haven’t viewed yet. This gives your bbPress forum the simple and expected functionality of non-WordPress counterparts like phpBB, without a lot of coding.

First, you activate the plugin on a blog that already has the bbPress plugin enabled. This is all you need to do to activate the basic functionality of the plugin, which includes:

* Automatic tracking of last reply viewed, per topic per user.
* Link next to the title of a topic if the user has unread posts (between the title and pagination)

The plugin also includes two template tags for extra functionality:

* Mark Topics as Read link
* Mark Forum as Read link

[Matthew Rowland]

Here it is!

bbPress Go To First Unread Post

I hope this suits your needs, guys. If there’s something that doesn’t work or you’d like added, you can let me know here or send me an email through the Plugin page.

Please consider donating if you enjoy it! 🙂

[Matthew Rowland]

Here it is!

bbPress Go To First Unread Post

I hope this suits your needs, guys. If there’s something that doesn’t work or you’d like added, you can let me know here or send me an email through the Plugin page.

Please consider donating if you enjoy it! 🙂

[Hardeep Asrani]

@tharsheblows That’s not only. I have also submitted a ticket to add this in core & fortunately, it will be the part of the next bbPress release: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2519

[Robin W]

‘I am using bbpress forum for Members Only’

do you mean

Add bbPress Members Only Forums to Your WordPress Membership Site

or another plugin?

[Steve Weiss]

Wordpress version 3.9
bbPress Version 2.5.3
http://stevethehurricane.com/

I am having an issue where only the Keymaster can see topic questions submitted by participants. The participant can’t see the questions they submitted, only responses. How do I fix this? Do I have to have BuddyPress installed to use bbpress?

I am using bbpress forum for Members Only.So unless you long in you can’t access the page where the forum is.

Thank you in advance for your help with this.

[tharsheblows]

Editing the template files is fine – that’s one of the big draws of open source to me.

If you add this to your current theme’s functions.php file, you should get login forms for non-logged in users in the appropriate places. NB: never ever edit your functions.php file through the WordPress admin area – you need to have ftp access or your access to your hosting control panel (ie independent of WordPress) so you can undo whatever you’ve just done in case it all goes wrong.

I can try to explain where the functions.php file is but I do tend to make people more confused sometimes so won’t unless you ask!

//this adds the login form on a single topic so someone can leave a reply. It uses the same logic as form-reply
function mjj_new_reply_login(){
	if( !bbp_current_user_can_access_create_reply_form() && !bbp_is_topic_closed() && !bbp_is_forum_closed( bbp_get_topic_forum_id() ) ){
		bbp_get_template_part('form', 'user-login');
	}
}

add_action('bbp_template_after_single_topic', 'mjj_new_reply_login');

//this adds the login form on a single forum so someone can start a topic. It uses the same logic as form-topic
function mjj_new_topic_login(){
	if( !bbp_current_user_can_access_create_topic_form() && !bbp_is_forum_closed() ){
		bbp_get_template_part('form', 'user-login');
	}
}

add_action('bbp_template_after_single_forum', 'mjj_new_topic_login');

[kepilif]

Hello,

I’m working on website for NGO. I use WordPress 3.9; theme: Twenty Fourteen; plugins: Fourteen Extended 1.2.31, Fourteen Colors 1.0.2, bbPress 2.5.3. In theme which i use, have two sidebars. Primary sidebar it’s main sidebar that appears on the left, and the Content Sidebar he’s appears on the right.

Now forum appears on center of page, at content column. (look: http://tata-dzieciom.malopolska.pl/forums/). I want that appear on space right sidebar too so that it will be wider. How to do it? I hope I wrote everything clearly.

[Matoca]

I was using a specific bbPress tinyMCE plugin, but I disabled that over a week ago when you mentioned that there may be some issues with it. Was it successful? I don’t know, you can read my moderator’s varied results above. When I had originally added the plugin it was specifically so moderators could edit photo size in the forum and not have to go into the dashboard to do that. I still ask my moderators to always be logged in when they are posting. If it is as simple as asking my moderator with the iphone issues to not log in when she needs to post replies or start topics, that is what we will do.

The latest upgrade WP 3.9 has ver 4.0 tinyMCS in it. See:

TinyMCE 4.0 is in core

So, rather than confuse my troubleshooting, I have no tinyMCE plugins installed. Whatever tinyMCE capabilities 3.9 has is what I now have.

When I am logged in, on the text tab there are the standards plus insert/edit link, url img, code and close tags, the same as we are seeing on this forum.

On the visual tab, logged in, in addition to the standards there is undo, redo, add link, remove link and insert/edit image. Perfect, exactly what I wanted for the moderators.

When I am not logged in there are only the standard fields for name, email and website and add message. There are no text or visual tabs. I have the Nextgen gallery plugin for Upload Photos so that solves the issue of users wanting to post photos. They go directly into a specific gallery and I get an email telling me that something has been uploaded and needs approving.

I have Post Formatting in the forum tools settings unchecked for “Add toolbar & buttons to text areas to help with HTML formatting.” So that is probably why they are not allowed to have visual or text tabs. I do not require registration for posting. If I have trouble with someone I can put their IP on a blacklist. Akismet works well.

But it’s only been a couple of days since I upgraded to 3.9. The developer of the theme I am using has notified me that he is also reworking his theme so that may change things as well.

Once my moderator gets back in touch with me I will post here. Perhaps this WP upgrade has solved the problems with iPhone and iPad?
my best, matoca

[tharsheblows]

I’m not quite clear on your code, so can’t help with the last piece.

As I mentioned, I did it differently and specific to the forum I was working on which has categories with forums but no sub-forums and one single forum without a category. I don’t think this will help you unless you decide to try something different but this is what I did – in loop-forums.php replace the while loop with :

<?php while ( bbp_forums() ) : bbp_the_forum(); ?>
   <?php if( !bbp_is_forum_category() ) {
     bbp_get_template_part( 'loop', 'single-forum' ); 
   } else {
     bbp_get_template_part( 'loop', 'single-categories' ); 
   } ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>

and then I made a loop-single-categories.php https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/1958/loop-single-categories.php

[tharsheblows]

Yep – use get_post_time() – https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_post_time

function mjj_post_reply_date(){
  printf('<div class="mjj-post-date">');
  $reply_id = bbp_get_reply_id( $reply_id );
  printf( get_post_time( get_option( 'date_format' ), false, $reply_id, true ) ); 
  printf('</div>');
}

add_action ('bbp_theme_before_reply_content', 'mjj_post_reply_date') ;

[tharsheblows]

Hi – I think this is being / was discussed on trac a while ago. I have a solution I use there but it is specific to my needs and is one of those pieced-together-on-the-fly things. You might find Bob1nz’s files in the last post on the thread more helpful.

Sorry if I’ve completely misunderstood, but hope that helps some.

[tharsheblows]

Oh good – I have this in a header – it’s about the same but $user_identity is the display name rather than the login. This explains the different global variables from get_currentuserinfo() – https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_currentuserinfo . Just in case you want the full reference – I hadn’t really looked at it before and noticed we used different variables and wondered why and thought you might be interested too. 🙂

<?php if ( is_user_logged_in() ) { ?>
  <span class="break-me">
  Welcome, 
  <?php 
	global $user_identity;
	get_currentuserinfo();
	printf('%s', $user_identity); ?>! 
  </span>
  <span class="break-me">
	<a href="<?php echo wp_logout_url( get_permalink() ); ?>" title="Logout">Log out?</a> &bull; <a href="<?php echo bbp_get_user_profile_url(get_current_user_id()); ?>" name="Your profile and posts">Your profile</a> 
  </span>
<?php } ?>

[Robin W]

You plugin authors may need to make some changes.

Suggest you post onto the plugin support are viz:

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gd-bbpress-tools

[thejosephplan]

I have two WordPress open sites. I have installed BuddyPress and bbpress on site two.
Site #1 sends participants to site #2 to join the forum. All partisipants are graduates of a training course. Upon completion of course they receive the invitation to the forum and a password.

Site #2- http://biblicalspiritualwarfare.org/

I set this scheme up on the advise of a blogger.

Does any one have any idea how to translate this situation into a private forum. There are hundreds of participants and I am trying to NOT manually register each on my end.

I would be very grateful for your advise.

Rev Thomas

[DeanGrey]

The image shows “The Pub”, “Introductions & Farewells”, and “Suggestions & Ideas”. These are all part of the category “General Discussion”. What I want to do is remove the part that is crossed out in red in the image as it is unnecessary.

Any help would be appreciated. I have been tinkering at “loop-forums.php” for a while now with no success. pastebin

My site has access blocked to guests so if you want a temp account just say so and I will pm you info. I am using WordPress 3.8.3 and bbpress 2.5.3.