[Stephen Edgar]

@tharsheblows I think your looking at bbp_edit_reply_handler rather than bbp_new_reply_handler, you should be looking here (I think, if I’m following you correctly) scroll up to /includes/replies/functions.php#L426

[tharsheblows]

I can see how that would work. I mean this:

Another idea would be allowing the user to add an RSS feed to his profile and get the latest content from that rss feed

I used this to make a widget to pull in rss feeds – this post was very clear and helpful:
http://perishablepress.com/import-and-display-rss-feeds-in-wordpress/

You could do something similar – make a new user meta field where people could put in their rss feed links, then, if they have filled that out, display it on their profile page somewhere or make a new tab for it (like “topics” “replies” etc).

[Stephen Edgar]

Checkout bbPress’ ‘Conditional Tags’ https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-conditional-tags/

I think they are pretty straight forwardly named so then checkout WordPress’ page and this specific sidebar example:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags#Variable_Sidebar_Content

[Stephen Edgar]

This is fixed in the upcoming bbPress 2.6:

bbPress Trac Ticket #2162
Very long load times when posting replies if topic has many subscribers

Refactor subscription notifications functions to send 1 email with all subscribers BCC’d rather than 1 email per subscriber. This speeds up posting significantly in forums or topics where there are any number of subscribers, particularly on configurations with slow email servers or when using external email services.

[Magic-Komplex]

Ok now, I installed your plugin and after spending some time removing another wordpress error I can say it works great, there’s just one problem for me.
I’m using buddypress login and signup and cannot change to bbpress version of this, cause I’m also using super socializer plugin, which is written for buddypress.
So now I’m getting a 404 error when I’m not logged in and try to enter one of my forums. I tried to change the permalink of my registration page to “sign-up”, as described in your doc, that didn’t work. I guess this is because I’m using buddypress sign up instead of bbpress.
About changing the code in the php file, I’m not sure what to change. I tried adding the url of my registration page in line 103, that didn’t work as well.
Do you have an idea how to fix this?

[lasmanis]

Hi all,

I have a function tied to the filter bbp_theme_before_reply_form_submit_wrapper and I noticed that this function was called twice every time I refreshed the topic page. This happens only when pretty permalinks are on (/%postname%/) and only on FireFox.

After investigating bbpress and WordPress source code I found out that the template_include filter (found in wp-includes/template-loader.php) is applied twice.

It only happens on bbpress pages, only on FireFox, only with pretty permalinks on.

I’m using WordPress 3.8 and bbpress 2.5.3

I’m using a custom theme but I already tested on TwentyThirteen and I experience the same problem.

Any help would be appreciated!!!
Thanks!!

[iphotonica]

Thank you for your answer, but…

-s2member: add new roles in wordpress members, not in bbpress members
-BadgeOS: there is not way to do what I need with this plugin.
-Bbp topic count: this is not what I need. I need to show a specific rank for a specific number of comments.

Thank you anyway.

[jslom]

@peterwsterling No problem, thank you. Will do!

I could suggest you sell on some of the popular wordpress plugin sites, as the exposure is much greater..

One of them
http://codecanyon.net/category/wordpress

[Stephen Edgar]

I have been having a horrid time the past few days with Fonts by Google.

There is a known issue with fonts in Chrome 33 so if your theme is using custom fonts from Google this could be the issue.

All of my ‘development’ installs I gave up yesterday cursing and swearing far to much and have now installed the following plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/chrome-33-webfont-fixer/

I am not a happy camper with Google and Chrome at the moment…

[Stephen Edgar]

There are heaps of plugins to what you are looking for…

https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=welcome+email
https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=login
https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=register

[Halo Diehard]

Hey guys, just searching around and trying to find answers on another issue I’m having with setting up bbPress w/ BuddyPress on two different sites. Users on both sites are having trouble posting – – if they’re using Chrome. Thing is, apparently most of them are! If they switch to another browser, they can post.

Any direction you can send me in to try and learn more so I can remedy this would be appreciated, thanks.

Versions etc:

WordPress 3.8.1
bbPress 1.0.4
BuddyPress 1.9.2

Theme: Custom Community

I’ve tried it with all plugins deactivated except bbPress and BuddyPress and the problem persists.

[Robin W]

what capabilities do you need for the other role?

see

https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-user-roles-and-capabilities/

It’s quite east to add, just let me know what you need.

On ranking, you can have no. posts quite easily using

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-topic-count/

[Stephen Edgar]

I cannot replicate this with just bbPress active

Make sure that ‘Jerusalem’ isn’t in the WordPress bad words list

WordPress Dashboard -> Settings -> Discussion (/wp-admin/options-discussion.php)

[Robin W]

‘Sorry still newbie to all these codes thing 🙂 ‘ – Don’t worry I was there only last year, you’ll soon pick it up.

Start with

https://codex.wordpress.org/Functions_File_Explained

So you need to add this to your theme’s function file.

If you are using a main theme, then any updates to the theme may overwrite your addutions, so a child theme is better. However if you put it in your main theme, just keep a note of the changes so that you can add them back if needbe.

Ideally you should create a child theme – google ‘child theme videos’ and you’ll see how to create this – it is very simple, and just lets you ‘add stuff’ to your main theme without any risk of losing it.

Have fun !

[Robin W]

Try

function annointed_admin_bar_remove() {
        global $wp_admin_bar;

        /* Remove their stuff */
        $wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('wp-logo');
}

add_action('wp_before_admin_bar_render', 'annointed_admin_bar_remove', 0);

(stolen from the wordpress support forum, so haven’t tested)

[batmanfan]

Robin, you are a champion. I never knew this feature exist. good job!

by the way, the top of the page display tools incl new forum/topic and reply. That’s great. But how to hide the ‘WordPress’ icon on the top left corner? because the wp icon has links to ‘about wp’ document, feedback etc. I’d like to hide that too if possible.

Thanks again. You are very helpful.

[Robin W]

I’ve not used it, but try

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-social-network/

and please come back and let us know if it does what it says !

[batmanfan]

How to set up permission access? i.e. I am admin but want to set up another ‘admin’ or ‘moderator’ person to manage the forum (just the forum), therefore he/she will manage everything on the forum side, including create/modify/delete forum or topic, but he/she can’t access or edit the wordpress backend which include install/delete pages/post or any plugin.

How to set this up or give permission? thanks.

[Stephen Edgar]

I have yet to look closely at the code in each of the following plugin (I’m scared of Javascript, jQuery and AJAX ;)) though they might be a good starter for the functionality you are after.

bbPress – Ajax Replies and bbPress – Ajax Topics

[KWMHoldingsLLC]

My bbPress site will be a network of people, many that already have their own wordpress sites.
I want an option or plugin so that when a user creates a blog post on his own site- it will auto post to BB Press as well. Just like there are plugins to post from WordPress to Facebook.
Does this exist?

Another idea would be allowing the user to add an RSS feed to his profile and get the latest content from that rss feed.

[Robin W]

Just put an add in

http://jobs.wordpress.net/

you’ll find lots of takers

[Daniel J. Lewis]

I would love to see this accept shortcodes, too. And it looks like I’m not the only one.

[Stephen Edgar]

Basically take your original idea of using comments though substitute part of that idea with replies (or topics if you wanted new topics).

bbPress has ‘mirror’ functions of WordPress for most things, if you could programmatically do ‘xyz’ with a comment in WordPress you can do the same ‘xyz’ function with a topic or reply in bbPress.

Thats the easy bit by saying that, so either start reading our codex on what these functions are or look to hire a programmer who can do that for you. https://codex.bbpress.org/

[Stephen Edgar]

This started dues to an issue when importing from phpBB. If a user had depeted their own account on a phpBB forum, phpBB didn’t reattribute the post author to a different author, rather just removed the account from being able to login etc. phpBB stores the author name alongside each topic and reply so once said author has been deleted you have the option to also not delete the users topics or replies and when viewing said topic the original author’s name will still be attributed to the topic or reply.

The goal was then to bbPress support this as when you import from a phpBB if the user doesn’t exist then we wouldn’t create a new user and as seen above if the user doesn’t exist then each topic and reply is attributed to the ‘Anonymous’ user.

Over in bbPress Trac Ticket #2347 we came up with a solution.

If you take a look at the patch I currently have sitting there (Keep in mind the current ‘Example.php’ customised importer you are using)

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/2347/2347.diff

The first part in the phpBB.php section I added parts to import the topics user name, the replies username and then added a flag on the user that was being imported _bbp_phpbb_user_type. That gets enough of the data that we need into the WordPress database to enable us to manipulate that once the data has been imported.

So at the moment if your Lotus DB has these details already attached to the topics and replies then adding this to your custom import would be the first step.

Firstly in regards to Anonymous users in bbPress, an anonymous user CAN have a username and/or display and this is stored in wp_postmeta table as _bbp_anonymous_name and is what my comments in my previous reply were alluding to.

Next up I added a new Repair Tool to basically post process this imported data, I create a query that joins all the topics data from wp_posts and wp_postmeta along with the topics old phpBB stored username. Once all that is in a SQL result table each topic that is by an ‘anonymous’ author is then updated to change the _bbp_anonymous_name associated with that particular topics store phpBB topic author name. Then the same process is repeated for each reply.

So now we have deleted, closed, spammed users that were deleted or deactivated in some way form the legacy phpBB forum but the topics and replies were never deleted to keep the context of the original discussions.

These are now all anonymous users in WordPress/bbPress but actually have the original display name/ user name keeping that same original context.

So that is my theory I was getting to, make each of your imported Lotus users an anonymous user using their old original user/display name to keep that context of conversation.

Now this is why you don’t need to worry about email addresses nor passwords as the accounts are not actual accounts just placeholders of the names from the original discussion.

The next part of the puzzle is when your users now sign up to reactivate and participate in the new bbPress they are free to create there account, choose their username, customise their profile, pick a password, use any email address they choose etc etc.

And the final part is now ‘Joe Blogs’ has created a new account on your site we just need a tool that will reattribute the posts currently under the anonymous user account ‘Joe Blogs’ to the now active user ‘Joe Blogs’ and the job is done. You can currently do just that with the standard WordPress User administration to delete a user and then reattribute that users posts to another user during the delete process. We just go and tweak that process to also allow/mimic/recreate that process to be able to reattribute the anonymous ‘Joe Blogs’ topics and replies to now active user ‘Joe Blogs’.

So how’s all that sound? Clear as mud?

I wrote another ‘post import’ repair tool yesterday that I had planned on integrating with the above tool today but time got away from me so hopefully I’ll have time in the morning to do this and will keep the scenario I outlined above in mind so it can be used for more than just imported phpBB forums and can be extended for other imported forums and custom imports.

[Stephen Edgar]

Essentially you want a WordPress theme that works well on mobile (I haven’t looked at your site) and once that is sorted then replicate the CSS media queries that the theme uses for posts/pages etc for your bbPress templates.

To get started modifying your CSS check out the codex docs https://codex.bbpress.org/