It takes a while doesn’t it, but with all the detailed information around hopefully more and more users will see the beauty of bbPress. You can get stuck into it if you know WordPress where as other forum software is not quite as simple.
older versions of bbpress can be downloaded from the wordpress plugin repository, here –
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/developers/
sam
A couple things I need help with. Is there a way to move the BBpress forum to the right on the page? The box fields are overlapping one of the widgets on my side menu. The other thing I need to change the color of the box fields. Which php file would I modify? I have WordPress vs. 3.8.1 and bbpress 2.5.3.
This I would say is an issue for your web hosting provider and has nothing to do with bbPress or WordPress.
Contact them about upgrading your plan for greater database queries per hour and/or bandwidth.
I’d suggest you contact the plugin author on their support page
https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbpressmoderation
Whilst much of this link is blanked out, it does seem to indicate a problem with conflicting page templates.
http://www.experthelp.com/question/74882/i-have-installed-two-plugins-shopp-and-bbpress-a-shop-and-a-forum-the-start-page-of-each-plugin-is-showing-up-blank-on-my-wordpress-site-how-do-i-fix-it
What I’d suggest you do is create a page template for your bbpress so that it only uses that one, leaving shop to use whatever template it is using.
https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum/ part 8
You don’t say what theme you are using – and in fact it could be the theme’s page template that is causing the issue.
But let’s suggest for a starter that you look in your theme, and copy then rename it’s default page template as per part 8 above.
If you need further help doing that, or it doesn’t work, come back
Hi e11eca,
You can access both your WooCommerce and bbPress through a single account. So any registered user would not have to create different accounts for the forum and the shop.
Here is a blog post on the integration on WooCommerce and bbPress to create a paid forum.
bbPress WooCommerce Integration: Tutorial on How to setup a Paid Forum on WordPress
This i’m sure will give you in depth information on what you want.
There are several plugins eg
https://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-bbpress-attachments/
The bbpress philosophy is “We’re keeping things as small and light as possible while still allowing for great add-on features through WordPress’s extensive plugin system. What does all that mean? bbPress is lean, mean, and ready to take on any job you throw at it.”
So it’s not in the core because you then have the option of adding a plugin.
Hello,
today I created a new WordPress site and installed bbpress, but I have the problem that the toolbar over the textarea is not available. My website is: plusthemes.de/support
You would paste that code into your theme’s function file.
If you do not have a child theme you should consider creating one, just google “wordpress child theme video” and you’ll find lots of help. You’d then put this code into that theme’s function file.
If you put it in the main theme (or indeed bbpress) it will be overwriten by any upgrades to those.
I have tried some live chat plugin on my blog before but they are not so good. So please suggest me a new live chat plugin for my WordPress blog.
1. Can admin set forums as private – by invitation only?
Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1
2. A search function to search for topic and keyword?
it’s there
3. A notification can be set to follow certain topics e.g. network or mobile, therefore any of these topics posted, an email notification will be sent to me?
plugin bbp notify
4. Member can upload and download files?
gd-bbpress-attachments plugin
5. Is it mobile responsive?
yes
6. Member can create new topic
yes
7. Admin or assign moderator can accept or reject new users?
Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1
and
plugin bbpressmoderation
8. Can admin block certainly users? on users’ email or ip?
plugin wp-ban
9. hosted on any share hosting provider? e.g. godaddy?
yes with any wordpress setup
12hoursofmesaverde.com (I have Shopp deactivated right now)
WordPress = 3.8.1
bbPress = 2.5.3
Shopp = 1.3.1
I’m not sure if this is a Shopp issue or bbPress so I am reporting it to both of you.
I can’t run Shopp and bbPress at the same time without bbPress breaking. When I have them both activated, many of the Shopp admin UI abilities go away (no forums tab, some forums disappeared). I also tried to make a new forum and got an error that the post type was not valid. When I deactivated Shopp, bbPress started working normally again.
Hi,
When i place any of the BBPress default widgets that ‘list’ (ie ‘Recent Replies’, ‘Forums’, ‘Recent Topics’) on a category.php WordPress template, the listings
shows recent ‘posts’ from wordpress rather than BBPress objects?
Is this a bug or is there anything any one can suggest? I’ve tried resetting the query etc right above the widget output and underneath but nothing seems to work?
Thank you for any advice here!
I’m a bit of a newbie to this area, having just created my first settings page, so of this is irrelevant, please ignore !
The following talks about needing to register
https://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_API
eg “NOTE: You MUST register any options you use with add_settings_field() or they won’t be saved and updated automatically. ” – which seems to describe your problem
and
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_setting
That may not be necessary as you’re adding it as a filter??
anyway my code cribbed from elsewhere looked like
// register the plugin settings
function ui_register_settings() {
// create whitelist of options
register_setting( 'ui_settings_group', 'ui_settings' );
}
//call register settings function
add_action( 'admin_init', 'ui_register_settings' );
where ui_settings was my array.
Just to add to this thread as I’ve been experiencing the same sort of issues with edited replies appearing at the bottom of the thread and some other anomalies regarding posts being given strange “Reply to” post numbers (too inconsistent to reproduce).
All resolved for me by turning off the “Reply Threading” setting in Forums Settings. This also reactivated the paginating which hadn’t been working with this setting active.
Not running anything unusual although someone mentioned php version which I know not to be the latest on our server. Details below:
PHP Version: 5.2.5
Wordpress Version: 3.8.1
Active Theme: Twenty Fourteen 1.0
bbPress 2.5.3 (active)
BuddyPress 1.9.2 (active)
Disqus Comment System 2.74 (active)
Fourteen Colors 1.0.1 (active)
Jetpack by WordPress.com 2.8 (active)
Unconfirmed 1.2.3 (active)
WP Approve User 2.3 (active)
Well perhaps I was being silly to begin with – the bbPress import/export tool didn’t seem to list bbPress 2.x on their options. There is a slim chance I did a lot more work than I needed to. However, at the end of the day, the hard work is complete. Over 8,000 threads + replies imported, as well as over 2,200 users. All users properly associated with topics.
The key step was importing users as a separate process — do it BEFORE you import forum threads+replies! When I relied on Pippin’s plugin to do this, it associated the users to admin. It was very messy. Using an existing plugin (make sure you tweak the import plugin to *NOT NOT NOT* send WP notification!) I was able to do this process very fast.
I used the plugin “Export Users 2 CSV” by Yoast ( https://wordpress.org/plugins/users-to-csv/ ) to import users.
Then I used a modified version of Import Users by DagonDesign ( http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/import-users-plugin-for-wordpress/ ) to import the users.
Again, you will need to instruct your users to fill out the Lost Password form, as these plugins do not preserve MD5+salt.
I too am trying to import an existing bbPress into another WordPress site, and as a note I must say that the reason I have to do this is because the bbPress importer does not play well with my server (or I SHOULD say my server does not play well!) and I get a similar result you speak of, @specialtactic, where the majority of the posts are attributed to the admin. This has been verified as not being a bbPress importer issue, but a server issue, as I was able to use the importer successfully on my local test server.
Now that I know I can import onto my local, I need to be able to import that local bbPress (converted from the phpBB3) into my live WordPress site, but alas I haven’t had the time to try and wrap my brain around how to accomplish it and so have been waiting for an importer to be written.
Just wanted to clarify for you that it’s possible that the PippinsPlugins is not at fault, if you were attempting to use it in similar circumstances to my own.
Heh, stop being so awesome in your replies. 🙂
Anyway, me, the non-coder, still doesn’t understand why it(bbpress plugin) can’t simply have an option to use styles from other themes. If nothing else, the CSS etc would be a nice “base” for things like link colors, font sizes, whatever.
*sigh*
I tried bbPress Tweaks. Meh.
I’ll read the link you posted. Hopefully it doesn’t suck.
bbPress has such a non-WP feel about it though in everything I’ve come to expect from WordPress. Part of it is my frustration with PHPBB, and part of it is my frustration with not being able to get a non-sucky looking forum with bbPress.
And, I have yet to see a non-sucky bbPress based forum. Most are fairly crappy in how they present and deal with the content.
Easy of me to throw stones in a glass house when I don’t code I guess. I just wish there were more sane defaults in bbPress that looked better out of the box.
bbPress by default tries to use your themes default templates as it’s base. So it is already using your theme’s page template, maybe not the particular one you’re after, but it will be for your theme, or one you have created.
It will look for the following files in your theme in this order, and use that for it’s forums
plugin-bbpress.php
bbpress.php
forums.php
forum.php
generic.php
page.php
single.php
index.php
See https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum/ for more detail and how to get it to use a particular template.
Since some theme writers create a bbpress template, and some have variously named page templates, it would be kinder hard to get bbpress to work out which of your themes files are page templates, and which you want to use.
Yes, getting the right template to display forums can involve you in renaming and moving some files, but that’s because you have decided to use a non-default theme (no criticism), and so your theme writer and the writers of bbpress would need to be telepathic to know how the other one is going to code. As I said some themes actively allow for bbpress, for others it is just one of thousand of plugins.
The plugin bbPress Tweaks
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-wp-tweaks/
In dashboard>settings>bbpress tweaks allows you to select from available templates as a dropdown, so partly achieves what you are after.
I fully appreciate that WordPress and plugins can cause a lot of frustration, and no you’re definitely not a troll (yet!), but less heaven and hell in your posts would be better!
The WordPress plugin “404 Redirected” was actually responsible for this redirection and lack of pagination.
All solved!
My apologies for wasting anybody’s time.
Laurie,
Would need some code to do this
If you’re into coding, suggest you download
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-notify/
and crack open the code
It should give you a good idea on how to create your own code.
if not try putting it on wp-jobs
http://jobs.wordpress.net/
and see if someone will pick it up for you
@synaptic It’s not always obvious but the links in your post that link to old discussions or sites (which I just edited) regarding the old ‘standalone’ bbPress and not the current bbPress v2.x plugin, circa anything over 2-3+ years of age won’t be relevant.
As to meeting some kind of demand quota, bbPress v2.x Plugin is sitting at 1,125,146 downloads as I write this, so whatever the magical formula is it would appear it has not reached tipping point.
Edit: That said, has anyone tried the code in the link you posted?
http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/77441/how-to-edit-bbp-forum-freshness-link-format
Ok, you need to do the following
If you have a child theme, then do this in there
If you don’t have a child theme, then seriously consider creating one, it’s very quick and easy, and will ensure that changes you make don’t get lost on theme or bbpress upgrades. Just google wordpress child theme videos and you’ll get lots of help.
In your theme create a bbpress directory
wp-content/themes/yourthemename/bbpress
then copy
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/loop-single-topic.php to this directory so that you have
wp-content/themes/yourthemename/bbpress/loop-single-topic.php
Edit this file to delete line 60 which says
<span class="bbp-topic-started-by"><?php printf( __( 'Started by: %1$s', 'bbpress' ), bbp_get_topic_author_link( array( 'size' => '14' ) ) ); ?></span>
and save.
bbPress will now use the file in your theme’s bbpress folder instead of the default, and you won’t lose your change on bbpress upgrades – but will it it is in your main theme, so if you don’t create a child theme, keep a note of what you changed, as if your theme updates, then you may/will lose the bbpress folder and file.
