[Asynaptic]

@hillofbeans with respect, I don’t think that is what’s happening exactly. The bbpress team is not jumping up and down with joy to tackle this issue but as jjj said:

bbPress and WordPress are designed to allow those with specific needs and wants to customize the codebase, and contribute the changes they needed up-stream to the parent project. If this is something multiple people would like, I suggest you group up and build it. If it works, and more people want it, we absorb it into bbPress core.

This is why I searched and found previous discussions in the forum and a solution which was arrived at several years ago via a plugin (See above). It doesn’t seem like the creator of the plugin took it anywhere though, other than sharing it on the bbpress forums. They didn’t create a plugin officially at the plugin.wordpress.org or update it, etc.

If I could make a constructive suggestion to the bbpress team, it would be that while they are very busy and it can seem like we are just throwing constant suggestions, critiques, etc. at them, it would be wise to set up a method to gauge the community’s interest or desire for specific issues.

This can be done very simply with something like uservoice or similar ‘suggestion box’ apps where suggestions are shown and community members here can vote on them to show their interest towards them and move them up the priority list.

I made a similar suggestion to the buddypress team and I read from jjj or boone that this inspired the recent survey (hopefully we’ll see the results of said survey soon!)

That was great, btw! at the same time, a survey is a very short lived ‘snapshot’ whereas a uservoice type idea collector and sifter would be continuous

of course, I’m not at all suggesting that we convert the bbpress or buddypress projects to ‘mob rule’! nope. just that when we have such a communication channel, things like this specific issue would be addressed (rather than linger for 7+ years) because there would be transparency and a collaboration between the wider community and the dev team

🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

If you are using custom templates then adding <?php bbp_forum_subscription_link(); ?> should be all you need 🙂

Here is the original source depending on what templates you are using: /templates/default/bbpress/content-archive-forum.php#L26
and/or
/templates/default/bbpress/content-single-forum.php#L16

[Stephen Edgar]

This is fixed in the next release of bbPress 2.5.4 and/or 2.6

See https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2518 for more details and a patch/fix if you want to implement it.

[HillofBeans]

I’m with all the non-coders here. This url situation is nuts from a UX and SEO point of view.

Having built over 200 WordPress sites in the last few years, I’m really surprised to find that bbPress has these fundamental structural flaws when it comes to url organization.

This topic was raised 1 year and 9 months ago.

Have we got any further with this?

[Stephen Edgar]

There isn’t such a feature yet, most likely we will add it in a future release as part of #459/#1721.

[Stephen Edgar]

This is a known issue, please see bbPress#2412 and we need to wait for the issue to be fixed upstream WordPress Core per WP#24169

[Robin W]

I’m sure there are plenty of highly active bbPress sites, with 20% of the world’s websites being wordpress they’re bound to be. That these people don’t come to the attention of a support site – and that this site only gets 20 queries a day – is surely testimony to how good the software is !!!

[Soprano]

That’s what motivated my choice with bbpress, its ease of installation. I’m not really interested in money, I’m just asking the question because I would really like to have an active forum community but apart from a few exceptions (like the studiopress, wordpress etc communities) many forum communities, well established and with large amounts of members seem to have gone inactive.

So it’s all a bit discouraging, and I was hoping to see a few examples of successful ones 🙂

[e1ght]

Hello,
I have been trying to replace topic-tags with the default wordpress post_tag for a long time without success. For my purpose, having two different tag systems isnt´t user-friendly. Is there any possibility to achieve this?

[Robin W]

We could do with a bit more information than just the error!

Have you just installed, or is this an existing bbpress site that has gone wrong?
What were you doing at the time?
Have you added any plugins or done any upgrades recently?
Does it work at all?
Does you site work but bbpress not?
What versions of bbpress and WordPress are you on?
what theme?
what plugins are you using?

[Soprano]

Hello,

Recently I’ve been contemplating installing buddypress along with bbpress onto my wordpress. I want to make it a community that focuses on the same desire of self-improvement and spirituality.

I was fortunate to have a few traffic spikes and started getting 20,000 unique hits a day for a few months so I thought it would be a good time to try and capture this visiting audience somehow by motivating them to register and return to be active in a forum community to discus the topics of the articles that brought them there.

However, after visiting showcases of forum sites like http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top100 and http://bbpress.org/about/examples/ I notice the majority of them, even ones with millions of members, seem quite inactive. The latest posts being a few weeks or even months old. Even these bbpress.org forums seem to only get about 20 new threads a day. I know facebook has taken away a large chunk of forum users who now prefer groups and pages.

I always wanted to create a forum community, but when I tried I failed due to lack of traffic to my site, and now that I do have traffic, it seems forums aren’t as stimulating for internet users anymore unless the niche of the forum is very specific. So is it worth going through all the trouble of setting everything up?

Thank you

[danieldude]

hi
i just added bbpress to my wordpress site and i am interested in making the sign-in button on the top right pop up a sign-in form rather than redirecting the user to a sign-in page

as well would like to add a register button and maybe some more links

could anyone please help me with this

i saw exactly what i want it to act like on this site:
24baby shop (click on sign-in button on top right to see what im talking about. its actually “inloggen” now sure what language it is)

my website is this one – tikanti

[John James Jacoby]

Both editor.js and bbpress.css are loaded similarly, as well as other scripts and styles in certain situations (single forums/topics, and when editing your password). Are any other SSL errors present, or is it just bbPress? What version of bbPress are you using?

Without deeper investigation, I’m unsure how this is possible when using core functions and templates. bbp_enqueue_style() calls content_url() which uses set_url_scheme() which is the WordPress core function for correctly determining the http/https/relative scheme for every link on the site. This means it’s difficult for one to be wrong, and another to be right.

[Frumph]

Notice: bbp_setup_current_user was called incorrectly. The current user is being initialized without using $wp->init(). Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 2.3.) in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 3049

[koendb]

You can add all sorts of changes to your theme or bbpress from the general wordpress functions.php file. You can find this file here:
/wp-content/themes/%theme name%/functions.php

But if you update your theme your changes to this file will be overwritten, that’s why you should make a child theme with your own functions.php file. It’s not that hard and after you’ve made your child theme it’s easy to tweak other things as well.

[Denver Prophit Jr.]

@netweb can you guys create an article post based on http://www.highposition.com/blog/how-to-send-author-content-groups-wordpress-google-analytics/ for bbpress content grouping?

[Robin W]

try :

http://jobs.wordpress.net/

someone should pick this up and help you

[Robin W]

ahh..if you are saving in ‘text’ view, try changing to ‘visual’ or if you are in visual view try going to text. Sometimes the editor does funny things to stuff it sees as code. Once you have fixed it, try and not edit anything on the page, or if you do check whether it has changed the code, and change the code back as last thing.

It’s an annoying bug in the wordpress editor where it get’s over-keen to ensure that code doesn’t screw up how it stores, but I’d prefer it to do that than muck up the database !

[thefruitnation]

Yea I forgot to mention I had tried that fix Robin, sorry.. I did some more searching and found
that one person fixed it using a multisite install and another

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bbpress-forum-homepage-displaying-oddly

Pinboard with BBPress

I’m in the process now of trying Defkon1’s solution from the first url

[Nathan Hawkes]

I can definitely foresee a mobile theme would be required, as I can’t seem to get 2.5.3 to work properly on mobile, and I have no idea how to modify the default theme to work best on mobile. I have a custom theme installed on my WordPress site, so definitely a mobile “modification” at least would be applauded in my mind.

[Jerry]

I am using WordPress MS (version 3.8.1) with bbpress and buddypress.

I have the wp-admin folder on the host server password protected as a security measure.

There are two things occurring that I cannot figure out:
1) When a logged-in user tries to go to any forum, or a topic, the web browser is asking for a password to access wp-admin. Entering the password or clicking cancel does not appear to change anything. This does not happen when someone is not logged in.

2) When logging out from the “edit profile” screen, the user again gets the password request, and after clicking cancel is taken to a registration/lost password default screen.

These things occur on both Firefox and IE. Thanks in advance for any help I can get to solve this annoying issue. 🙂

[sebbat]

Hi,

I started a bbPress to test and i have a huge problem.

My theme have a few page templates, including full width pages and pages with sidebars. bbPress, in my case, uses full width for the index and a sidebar page template for the topics.

I want bbPress to use the full width template everytime, but i don’t know if the modification needs to be made to bbPress or my template.

Maybe someone can help me with that ?

Regards.

[Stephen Edgar]

You want to use the /dev branch of both projects:

https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/dev/sv/default
https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/buddypress/dev/sv/default

On each of the above pages select ‘.mo’ from the dropdown at the bottom of the page and click export.

Rename each file to buddypress-sv.mo & bbpress-sv.mo

The extra instructions on the BuddyPress site might also help, I’ll try to get the bbPress updated soon also.

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/translations/

[Robin W]

Suspect that there are values in a “forum” post that you need to populate.

I suspect (but don’t know) that the forum will be a category, and the topics will be posts. Therefore you need to link your topic to it’s forum so need to link the post to it’s category.

Try searching round phrases such as “wordpress post category in database” which got me a bunch of articles eg

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2848505/how-does-wordpress-link-posts-to-categories-in-its-database.

‘I guess the developers don’t visit their own forum anymore?’ – sounds critical, the developers are busy developing – remember this is all free stuff, and no-one pays their, or indeed my time to do this. They do regularly visit, but I would not expect to get a load of development advice for free to do something that is not in significant demand. Even writing this took ten minutes !

I hope you find a solution, and in the spirit of free open source, post the solution when you get it. I’ll add it to the codex, so that others can benefit.

Regards

Robin

[marknadsafeteam]

@netweb Thank you! But I have found this https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/2.3.x/sv/default but how do I get it in my .mo file? Sorry, but Im a newbie to this! =(