[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.

[jbdizzle]

So I have been running bbpress for the past month now. Today I had some free time and decided to try and make it look more appealing. So I searched for wordpress bbpress plugins and suffusion bbpress pack come up. I installed, activated, and went to its settings. So in the settings was the following:

(RE)BUILD BBPRESS FILES
If you are starting out afresh with bbPress on Suffusion or Suffusion on bbPress, this is the first thing you should do. Since the default bbPress HTML markup is different from Suffusion’s markup, this step will help (re)create your templates. You should be using a child theme of Suffusion before you start using this theme. Otherwise if you update Suffusion from the WP themes repository you will lose all the bbPress-specific files.

Please note that all your template files will be written to /home4/kingdox1/public_html/demigodlegion/wp-content/themes/arcade-basic.

So I clicked “rebuild bbpress files” and looked at the forum to see the changes. Once I looked at the forum I noticed that all it did was expand the forum layout horizontally and removed the (right) sidebar. I need the sidebar so removed the suffusion bbpress pack plug in and now there is no forum whatsoever. If I re install the suffusion plugin, the forum reappears.

I tried doing a full restore through my hosting company to no avail. If there is a way that I could backup all of the topics and forums. Re install bbpress, then import topics and forums…. unless there is an easier way.

[tsabar]

after moving a post from one forum category to another, i noticed the category did not update in the main forum listing, only within the forum post itself.

also, when i tried deleting the forum post, it still shows up in the main forum listing even though the category itself is now empty

as you can see in the forum main listing, the post still shows up and in the original category (OCD) instead of the new category (הפרעות אכילה) even though it has been deleted:
http://cbtisrael.co.il/forums/

wordpress v3.9
buddypress v2.0
bbpress v2.5.3

[Stephen Edgar]

Why hello there… I can now reproduce the issue 🙂

I have the cause of the issue identified and a patch 100% complete that prevents this from occurring in the future. 🙂

The cause is one of our repair tools “Count replies in each forum” 🙁

Immediate Workaround: Run the “Count replies in each topic” repair tool and DO NOT run the “Count replies in each forum” repair tool, it deletes data needed to calculate new replies displayed order.
NOTE: This will only prevent the issue from re-occurring, it will NOT fix existing replies affected.

We still need to create a repair tool to update existing replies that are affected by this issue. I have a rough outline of the tool though it isn’t quite right yet as it is not picking up all the possible permutations and combinations of how replies can be ordered with or without ‘threaded replies’ enabled.

It’s 1:15am here my local time and I’m beat thus I’m pulling the pin for the evening. 😉

Thanks for your all of your patience along the way, sorry it wasn’t sooner but until we could reproduce the issue coming up with a fix is really hard 😉

If you want further technical details you can look at ticket #2586 in trac.

Once I’ve had some Zzzzz’s I’ll update this post.

[obasimvilla]

I tried on a new wordpress installation and realized ’twas the guest posters that were changed to my admin account.

How do I make it import them either as anonymous, guest or even random names?

[Robin W]

should read

<p><a href="<?php bbp_user_profile_url( bbp_get_current_user_id() ); ?>edit" >Amend Profile/Change password</a></p>

sorry, wordpress tends to not like code, and keeps trying to edit it !

have amended the codex !

[sunriseweb]

Thanks – although Jerusaelm was not in the WordPress bad words list I had many others – clearing the Comment Blacklist seemed to do the trick though!

[leopolds]

Hi,

I am using the latest WordPress (Twenty Fourteen theme) and bbPress.

There is a problem with my forums root page. Besides the regular forum listing section, all forums are also listed like posts below the regular section.

How can I fix it? Thanks

[Robin W]

please be patient, all the responders on here are volunteers and are not dedicated to this site.

It doesn’t go in your theme or child theme folder.

You should upload the bbpress plugin, which will then place the bbpress files in your wp-content/plugins folder. Whiolst you can do that yourself, let wordpress and the plugin do their work

so Dashboard>plugins>add new plugin and search for bbpress, then load it and activate

Do the same with buddypress

on your 2 questions

1. yes there are plugins that allow an upload – for instance https://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-bbpress-attachments/
2. Just disable that part dashboard>settings>forums> look for forum root slug, and you’ll see a tick box to disable it.

[dice2dice]

Hi folks,

The forums on my site don’t stand out. They typeface, borders and just general appearance is dull, it’s not bold enough.

Is there perhaps a plugin that would smarten up the appearance of forums?

I can’t find one or another solution.

My forums are here: http://www.whichinvestmenttrust.com/better-investor-forums

I’m using the latest version of everything WordPress/BBPress/Buddypress.

Thanks

[batmanfan]

I’ve been looking for a plugin to force strong password for all new user registration and tried a few but no luck. Found one that comes very close but too strong 🙁 http://wordpress.org/plugins/login-security-solution/
Can anyone recommend one? that is flexible and strong enough.

[Matthew Rowland]

Hey guys, I’ve just submitted a plugin to the WordPress repository that should cover the basic functionality you’re after. Here’s the description:

== 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

I’ll post again here with a link when it’s been approved!

http://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-go-to-first-unread-post/

[Matthew Rowland]

Hey guys, I’ve just submitted a plugin to the WordPress repository that should cover the basic functionality you’re after. Here’s the description:

== 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

I’ll post again here with a link when it’s been approved!

[Sascha.H]

Hey guys i have a little problem. Actually i installed wordpress on my server and created a standard clean theme. Here is the Screen:

Than i created a child theme connected it with my parent theme via the style.css

And now i thought i have to put the bbpress folder into my child theme. Is this correct? The question is just which folders? Just copy all from default in my child theme or just the content of bbpress?

The same problem with buddypress i want to put it in my child theme but i dont know what. All folders copy paste? Or just the content of my bp_template or maybe bp_theme folder?

PS: I tried a bit on my local server at the plugin folder and want would change 2 things at my bbpress forum. 1) Is there a solution that i can upload images when using the editor? I think its very uncomfortable to put a link from another server in the editor. I want to handle it like facebook just upload it on my server and its in the post. 2) How can i delete the /forums in my url? i want my url like http://www.myurl./forumname but actually its http://www.myurl.de/forums/forumname.

Hope you can help me i want to start with this awesome plugin but 🙂

[Robin W]

Try

rewrite rules
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.

and if that doesn’t work try

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.