[domainhorizon]

Hi, I’m on WordPress 3.8.1 and have just installed bbpress 2.5.3

I’ve set up a forum here: http://www.luciddreamingland.com/dream-journal/

The set up documentation was great, thanks!

It’s looking great except that there’s a white box covering the main part of the forum.

I’ve tried everything to get rid of it including turning off other plugins and moving to TwentyEleven without success.

Any suggestions on how to remove it?

Thanks so much.

[crzyhrse]

You are welcome, and thank you… I’ll watch out for ways to help out as I bounce around the WordPress world… I’ll also offer that I have what seems to be pretty good test site set up, in case it is helpful…

[iambob]

Didn’t see a ticket in Trac yet per RavanH, so I just created it: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2543#ticket. Seeing the upstream looks to be 5+ years open I hope there’s a quicker fix! 😉

Best regards,
Bob

[aravindbachu]

I just don’t understand how WordPress.org manages to have a “view your profile” button in its support forums which are said to be bbpress forums.

[crzyhrse]

Because I have no idea how Robin might get it otherwise, I’ll put this here as well, though the subject may call for a new thread? (although in a sense the subject here has also been about communication…)

In case you want to put this in the crib..?

Went looking for a way to change the submit button in bbpress, bigger, colors… Finally was able to assemble searched out bits and pieces from a couple places and with some experimenting accomplished my goal with this, put into the theme’s child style.css:

#bbpress-forums .submit {
background-color: #a0668d;
color: #FFFFFF;
float: center;
vertical-align: middle;
border-radius: 10px;
height: 35px;
width: 80px;
font-size: 18px;
}

I laud your efforts Robin, there really are not that I’ve ever found any organized simple ways or directions to make simple changes to simple and common things for us simple and common folks, neither for bbpress or wordpress… And a lot of what is there is old… The two links you’ve offered above are the best I’ve seen so far, and are apparently still works in progress…

No complaints here at all, just a recognition of the difficulties that are present in volunteer community efforts, especially one as widespread as all this is… WordPress is amazing, sort of like the whole world reaching to itself for shared community, open source community, so to speak…

[Andreasjj]

I am using the listings theme by umbrella, and would like to use the supprtte theme for the bbPress forum at my site.

I have no clue about how to install this bbPress theme while still using the listings theme.
– How do i do this? 🙂

Thanks in advance,
Andreas.

[Robin W]

Think that’s pretty well how it was intended, and agree that some bits could be clearer.

If a user clicks their avatar they will be taken to their profile and can amend it.

I have downloaded the enhanced text widget

https://wordpress.org/plugins/enhanced-text-widget/

and then I have a text entry of

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

in my widget sidebar to make it obvious for users.

[Robin W]

John,

Thanks for this – I have been playing with WordPress for less than a year now, so still consider myself to be a newbie at this, but one who is keen to share stuff I have learnt, and one who has spent many hours googling for solutions.

I try to write for those with little knowledge, so if you think the wording can be better on any post/documentation entry, please come back. What is clear to an author is often not clear to everyone else, so please add to improving the codex and posts where people like me are not clear, and as you learn more, please visit the support forum and see if you can help one or two others with their problems.

All the support people on here are volunteers, no-one is paid and we give back time as we got the code and support for free when we needed it. Join us in helping others !

[Darth]

I made the change, but it did not reflect on my page. I cleared browser cache and all caches on my WordPress install.

What am I missing?

[craftersuniversity]

Hello

I just noticed a problem that i don’t know how old it is. I have not had much activity on my sites forum area, and no replies to any topics, so this problem might be as old as the forum itself.

When i try to make a reply to a topic, the reply get saved in the database, but i get a completely blank page. Even when i check the “page source” it too is completely empty. If i hit reload, another copy of the reply is entered into the database, but still a blank page. However, if i click the browsers address bar and hit enter, then i get the correct page, the updated forum thread. This is true both on my official site CraftersU.com, and its dev site.

I have tried both Chrome and Firefox, same thing. I’ve deactivated all plugins except BuddyPress and bbPress, same thing. Different themes, same thing. I even deleted and re-installed bbPress without getting rid of this problem…What could possibly be the cause of this?

Wordpress 3.8.1
BuddyPress 1.8.1
bbPress 2.5.3

You are of course welcome to register as a user in order to test this bug for yourself.

[Gokuuu]

Hey guys, i’ve installed the BBpress plugin last version 2.5.3 while running latest wordpress 3.8 version, and i had nothing in the dashboard, no tab, nothing related to BBpress.

I’ve deactivated all my plugins and set up basic wordpress theme.
I figured out that once i activate WPML Multilingual CMS, the three tabs related to BBpress : forums, topics and replies disappear from the dashboard…but i can still access to the forums, the pages are still available, because i’ve created it so i could test, the only issue is that if i want to create new category or anything else, i need to deactive my WPML plugin so the BBpress tabs appears again, and then reactivate and so on…

I can’t run my website without the WPML Multilingual CMS plugin because i run a multilingual ecommerce and most of my contents is translated in two languages…

So just wanted to let you know the issue in case it was unknown, and you might know what i can do for it ?

Meanwhile i would have to found another forum plugin 🙁

Thanks in advance and Have a nice day 🙂

[Gokuuu]

Hey guys, i’ve installed the BBpress plugin last version 2.5.3 and i had nothing in the dashboard, no tab, nothing related to BBpress.

I’ve deactivated all my plugins and set up basic wordpress theme.
I figured out that once i activate WPML Multilingual CMS, the three tabs related to BBpress : forums, topics and replies disappear from the dashboard…but i can still access to the forums, the pages are still available, because i’ve created it so i could test, the only issue is that if i want to create new category or anything else, i need to deactive my WPML plugin so the BBpress tabs appears again, and then reactivate and so on…

I can’t run my website without the WPML Multilingual CMS plugin because i run a multilingual ecommerce and most of my contents is translated in two languages…

So just wanted to let you know the issue in case it was unknown, and you might know what i can do for it ?

Meanwhile i would have to found another forum plugin 🙁

Thanks in advance and Have a nice day 🙂

[FlyFishersCorner]

EDIT note: Running bbPress 2.5.3 on WordPress 3.8.1
My theme does not support sidebar widgets, so I instead created a page to house my forums. Additionally, I like the idea of being able to add some content above the forum index. I am running everything through a child theme.

EDIT note: The breadcrumbs display in the bottom right of the header, in case it’s not obvious when looking.

As it stands, I’ve added a login box and some content to the page, then used the [bbp-forum-index] shortcode to add my forum index. See the page here.

Clicking into the first forum, “General Fishing Discussion” (my site is a fly fishing related one), I have no issues. The breadcrumbs can get me perfectly back to the page where the index resides. See here.

Finally, I have created a couple test topics. Once I click on one of those topics, this is where my problem arises. Instead of the breadcrumbs being Forum>General Fishing Discussion>Topic Title, they switch to Home>Topic>Topic Title. Clicking the Topic link takes me to a 404 page. See it here.

I’ve been tinkering with this for days, trying several different solutions from this site that I thought might work. The most recent was a fix suggested about two weeks ago whereby I copy the page.php file from my theme folder and rename it to bbPress.php to force bbPress to use it. I have seen no change. I will note that I tried placing it in the theme-child folder as well as the theme-child\bbPress\default folder. Neither worked.

The other fix I tried that I thought might get me there was one posted here about 4 months ago that offered a replacement code for the loop-forums.php. Unfortunately, that didn’t work either.

Does anyone have any other ideas? I really appreciate any help you guys can offer! I love the look and integration of bbPress, I just can’t have users running into walls after reading a topic and trying to navigate back out to other forums.

Thanks in advance!

[gillis]

I’m finding it very tricky to import my Vanilla forum to bbPress 2.5.3 on WordPress 3.8.1. I was not completely sure about the settings to use for the import, and so have tried every combination I can think of, but to no avail. The conversion still results in:
No users to convert
No passwords to clear
No forums to convert
No forum parents to convert etc etc.
My site is http://www.wansteadium.com, and my vanilla forum is at /talk.
Any suggestions or links would be much appreciated.

[neo82]

Hi bbpress forum,

How can i do this?

I use bbpress 2.5.3 and wordpress 3.8…

Thanks for help. 🙂

[neo82]

I searched a white with google, and yeah – now i found this post! But this doesn’t work… Can anyone help please?

I use bbpress 2.5.3 and wordpress 3.8

[Jaina “Jazzy” Jaslyn]

Exciting news!

The forum was imported successfully to a test development site.

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.

Important Note: When importing users with this plugin it WILL send notification emails to the Admin and the User. I ALMOST pressed “go” on importing 2,200 users — but then I decided to check the plugin code just in case; sure enough there’s this line of code wp_new_user_notification($user_id, $password); you should delete or comment out.

Yes, the users will have to re-create their passwords. We will instruct them how to do that on the new forum. That’s perhaps the only drawback of this method. But since out of the 2,200 users there are perhaps only 100 current active users, it shouldn’t be too much of a hassle.

I did have to write a custom PHP script to help this user export/import process, because the import and export plugins do not match in formatting. You can either do this custom in CSV or make a simple PHP script (took me 10 minutes) to take data from the export CSV and reformat it to meet the delimiters and the stricture of the import CSV. I can help people with this, just ask.

This user import/export had to be a separate process because using bbPress Export and Import by PippinsPlugins ( https://github.com/pippinsplugins/bbPress-Export-and-Import ) did not properly attribute users to posts if it had to create the user. (It attributed the admin to most of the posts.)

After the users were imported, I imported my 20 CSV files (~2,000 rows each file) and after much scrutiny in examination, I find that all users have been properly attributed to posts.

Now all that’s left is performing this process again onto the live site, the fresh bbpress install. (Remember, always back up your site and database before you do this stuff.)

[sontru]

If we run bbPress on a subsite of a WordPress Multisite installation, administrators of the subsites can’t change a user’s capability. Has anyone written a plugin to allow admins to change a user’s forum role?

[IceReaper]

I just installed WordPress the latest version on WordPress with plugins BuddyPress and bbpress.

I created a dummy user under the role “Participant” but when I login to it and go to the forums I see no “Create New Topic” button anywhere.

Also I already created a category forum.

I want my users to be able to make their own topics in my categories that I make.

[dilmuhammad717]

Hi Everyone,

I am currently using bbpress in my wordpress site. I want to modify the comment before saving it,I mean I want modify the content of comments in a forum. like I want to capitalise the comment text or want to add some extra text,
Please help

Thanks!

[MBonner]

ok, so I did a fresh install of wordpress and began to install each plugin one-by-one. Here’s an update on what’s happening:

– Buddypress released a new version Feb 5th (yesterday) with a new component or something.
– I get a blank page as soon as I activate Buddypress with bbpress (no other plugins or themes installed).
– WooCommerce works with bbpress until I install a specific theme but I will take that up with the theme.

I’m going to post this thread in BuddyPress forums to see if they are aware of what’s going on but any help here would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

[Debayne]

Hi guys,

I am using an Artisteer 4 theme on a Buddypress/BBpress site, but seem to have a problem with the search.

Under the forums there is a search function, but when I put in a search phrase it returns a wordpress post rather than searching the forums.

Has anyone come across this and solved it?

Thanks

[MBonner]

I’m doing a fresh install of wordpress and have come to find that

– the current version of bbpress is not working with the current version(s) of buddypress
– I also found that WooCommerce isn’t working with the latest version of buddypress but I’ll post that on the buddypress site.

When I mean by not working, it’s causing my site to go blank.

If anyone has a solution, please advise and I will do likewise. Thank you.

[mccammonrb]

Hi there,

Just installed bbpress on http://www.blogging4jobs.com/forum but I can’t see the topic I posted in our “Off-topic” category called “Introduce yourself!”

You are using bbPress 2.5.3-5249.
Wordpress 3.8.1

P.S. If you notice an Internal Server Error just refresh, we’re trying to troubleshoot why this issue keeps coming up. Thanks

[malkah]

Hi Gautam

Im rather new to this.
in wordpress dashboard I went to appearance>editor>Theme Functions (functions.php)

where exactly in the code should I enter the code you indicated?

thanks.