[Sreekanth Reddy]

I tried to install bbpress for several times . Its installing correctly but no links were displayed to create a new forum or settings.

One time it shown an error ” you have no sufficient permissions”

Please let me know where i did wrong.

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Thank you

Sreekanth

[jmessick]

It may be a problem with your settings. Under general make sure that you didn’t leave the “.com” off of either the WordPress address or the site address. I got an error which I clicked on Register, it tried to send me to http://www.meechanchronicles/Install/Register which was invalid. When I changed it to http://www.meechanchronicles.com/Install/Register it directed me to the registration page properly.

[AuthorAdam]

Thanks so much! I’ll investigate the WordPress end now. You’ve been a great help. Thanks again!

Adam

[John James Jacoby]

Sure did; thanks. I ways able to create an account easily enough, but it looks like logins are completely broken on your site; they do not even work through WordPress’s traditional wp-login.php directly (which is what bbPress sends login data to.)

Something else is wrong, outside of bbPress, though it’s difficult to troubleshoot on this end. It might be the case-sensitive URL (with “Install” in there) or it could be any other server config, plugin, theme, or random cookie issue.

Sorry I can’t be much more help, but hopefully this helps you sniff it out.

[John James Jacoby]

Maybe this is already obvious, but if you’re already logged in, those pages aren’t going to work for you; bbPress will either show a message, or redirect away from them, depending on what you’re setup is.

The login page here is a (much more complicated) version of what is already in bbPress core, using a WordPress Page and the shortcode. (It’s only complex because of shared logins and integration with WordPress.org, Trac, BuddyPress.org, etc…) Meaning, it can’t be broken for you, because if you’re only using bbPress’s method and shortcodes, it’s exactly what’s also working here.

We’ve considered a few different ways of auto-creating the login/register/lost-password pages (and maybe there are some improvements we can make in this regard) however we haven’t settled on a solution we feel works for the 80% of users that want the out-of-the-box experience, that also doesn’t conflict with existing WordPress registration plugins.

If you could describe what you think the ultimate experience would be, we’re all ears. 🙂

[Asynaptic]

How do I remove "Voices"?

this might also help for changing other things:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-string-swap/

[Erica]

I don’t even know that this is really an error with the plugin itself but I’m hoping someone may have some suggestions. I currently host my WordPress site through DreamHost. After a recent upgrade (I think to 2.5), I started getting a lot of complaints about socket errors after people tried to post a new topic or reply. It comes and it goes, I haven’t found any consistent time, nor have I experienced it myself because it’s not an every time sort of problem.

DreamHost talked about other sites loading down the server, but after they fixed that, it continued. So I requested my site be moved to a new server, but it’s STILL happening. Does anyone have any ideas of what I can do? My users are getting rather frustrated.

Thanks!

WordPress: 3.8.1
bbPress: 2.5.3

Homepage

[Drrr]

Hey Community,

I’m pretty sure bbpress.org is running on WordPress. Is there any way to copy the admin bar especially the one seen by non-logged-in-users?

I mean this to be precise (black bar with anonymous button):

The only alternative is this plugin:
http://wordpress.org/plugins/admin-bar-login/

But the hover effect which the plugin adds to the admin bar is really ugly.

Any advices someone?

[Corey.stinar]

I am using the theme responsive, and I downloaded bbpress to access the forums. I have my forums set up on wordpress, but I get the error message “Please go to the admin section and change your Website Toolbox forum settings” when I try to visit my site and view them. I had a plug in called website tool box but I deactivated and deleted it. Please help!

[AuthorAdam]

Hello!

I’ve searched the forums for a topic that has the same issues as I’m having, to no avail. I have created a website using wordpress.org (http://meechanchronicles.com/Install), and installed bbPress version 2.53. I’ve been able to create the forum, and using wordpress, I’ve created a couple of forums and one topic.

I followed the bbPress codex for adding Login/Register pages, as well as a Lost Password page. Whenever I try and access the forum from the outside (ie not logged into WordPress), I seem to be stick in a circular link that never actually does anything.

In addition, neither the Register/Lost Password pages work, returning a 404 error. I’ve double checked the shortcode links as well as made sure that the permalink addresses are spelled correctly and match the shortcodes.

I am totally new to creating forums, but I feel that I’m missing something simple. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
Adam

[Shmoo]

The themes WordPress.org + bbPress.org use are not available for downloading.

They’re custom made.
You could search for a WP theme called P2 , it’s a very clean and almost the same kinda style theme.

[Alex]

Fix slated for 3.9: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/18962

[Rolf Allard van Hagen]

Running bbPress 2.5.3 on the main/primary site of a WordPress 3.8.2 Multisite installation, I notice that the bbPress admin pages are only accessible to Super Admin. Regular admin users do not have access to the bbPress back-end. Not even the admin user with keymaster role…

Is there any way this can be fixed 🙂

[Drrr]

Sure but try to rewrite it in your own words. Dublicate Content is deadly for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and senseless for the internet as a public database of information.

To complement your knowledge:

4 or 5 years ago there was a working plugin for the standalone-version. But bbPress now is on the one hand a Plugin for WordPress and on the other hand it has gone through some serious changes (Updates/Improvements).

I’m not sure if there’s still a standalone version managed and maintained by the developers. But in the past there were working methods to customize the URL structure individually (Mostly “core-hacking”).

[Shmoo]

I think there are WordPress plugins who hook into the WP outgoing e-mail function and wrap them into a HTML e-mail or give you the option to edit the content.

Try searching for them. bbPress doesn’t have special e-mail templates, they just use the WP mail function.

[brightbell]

I have recently lost access to most of bbPress.
There is no backend access at all, even the link to settings in the plugin list is not present
and nothing at all down the LHS however the forum listing does appear on the front end if no user is logged in.
Also some shortcode widget items appear on the front page in the footer.
When anyone logs even the keymaster the forum is less visible.
I had to recreate the keymaster which dissapeared and became a moderator.
The keymaster was no longer listed as an option to reselect so I had to
change the role thus in this line with phpmyadmin

a:3:{s:13:”administrator”;b:1;s:20:”add_ultimate_auction”;b:1;s:13:”bbp_keymaster”;b:1;}

I am not sure whether this occurred exactly as 2.5.3 was installed but it became evident soon after.

WordPress 3.8.1 running Hueman theme.

[fisherofer]

i have multisite network based on the latest WP
when i try to activate the plug in my WP-dashboard crushed
the web site is working and i cant access into the admin panel
i have to delete the plugin and only then i can access into to admin dashboard

[dannefaerd]

Wordpress 3.8.1
BBPress 2.5.3
BuddyPress 1.9.1
Site link: http://www.nzp8nt.com

Hi team

I have a new install of BBPress (within BuddyPress) on my site.

I imported my old forums (which have been un-used for around 18months) from vBulletin. No issues with the import.

However my members (we haven’t launched yet, and they are not registered as active in BuddyPress) are getting email notifications on topics that are in the system.

Any ideas?

I’ve turned off notifications in BuddyPress just in case that is it, but would love if someone could tell me what might be causing it, and how I can turn it off for historic posts.

Thanks!
Martin

[brightbell]

When I installed BBpress I was able to add a topic and a form and the Forums entry was visible to the administrator account.
Now if I log in as administrator or any account the forums are not visible or available.
You can see a basic list but as soon as you click on anything page not found 404 comes up
The shortcodes do produce an output from the forum if put in a new page or in the footer but
the url
http://racingpigeon.com/forums/ is blocked whereas the same shortcode in
a new page added at http://racingpigeon.com/forumsx/ produces output

If I log out then I see the output at

http://racingpigeon.com/forums/
I have tried all different levels of forum access but none lets me see it.

bbPress Version 2.5.3
Wordpress Ver WordPress 3.8.1 Maintenance Release January 23, 2014

Thanks Ian

[Drrr]

Instead of creating a new topic I’d like my question to be answered in here.

I downloaded and installed the bbPress-Plugin for WordPress and set it up for my website. Here’s the link to my forum.

I changed the permalinks /forums/forum/ to /forum/kategorie/ (engl. category)

Does anyone by this time know a guide (for non-coders) or plugin to customize the permalink structure in bbPress?

I’d like to change the structure from: (Origin)

forums -> forum(folder)/topic(folder) -> forum/topic

To: (Personalized / SEO Optimized(imho))

forums -> forum -> topic

I did some research beforehanded:

• no support by developers cause it’s made the wordpress way
• no negative effect for SEO of the original url structure

I.e.: website.com/forum/tech/technical-question…
instead of website.com/forum/topic/technical-question…

It has no negative effect but it would grant two more positive ones.
(1) More freedom for the user in terms of customizability and (2) the new customizability grants free space for keywords in the URL which are not only nice to read for search engines

What about the htaccess rewrite ideas, I didn’t get any of these working and many say it’s not recommendable.

[David Barber]

WordPress 3.8.1 running Suffusion theme.
bbPress Version 2.5.3

bbPress 2.1 now available!

On a registered participant login, I keep getting “The forum ‘Private: Small Stars’ is closed to new topics and replies.”
or “This forum is marked as closed to new topics, however your posting capabilities still allow you to do so.” if I’m on admin privileges.

The forums are definitely open.

Repair forums gives me (As Admin and Keymaster) “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.”

I have searched for this topic, but the phrases around “This forum is marked as closed to new topics” bring up almost every webpage that uses bbPress, as it’s the default text at the bottom of so many topics!

What could be wrong here?

Thanks in advance for any help.

David.

[luckydumpling]

Wordpress Version: 3.8.1
BBPress Version: 2.5.3

Hi guys, the UL LI elements of my forums are following the styling declared for UL LI in my style.css file instead of the bbpress.css file. How do I correct this? Any help is appreciated.

Here’s the site: http://www.uptmcaa.com/forums

[Stephen Edgar]

Thanks, can you create a ticket on Trac for us and we can take a closer look at the issue and your fix.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org

[Hiro22]

I am using WordPress-bbpress at the my site.
When many messages were contributed to a topic and it became 10 pages or more, the link to 10th page had broken.

The following code is the cause.
It will replace from “&paged=10” to “0”.

bbpress.2.5.3
C:\xampp\htdocs\bb\wp-content\plugins\bbpress\includes\topics\template.php
895 line

// Remove first page from pagination
if ( $wp_rewrite->using_permalinks() ) {
	$pagination_links = str_replace( $wp_rewrite->pagination_base . '/1/', '', $pagination_links );
} else {
	$pagination_links = str_replace( '&paged=1', '', $pagination_links );
}

One solution for correcting this is the following. (Insert “if($pagination[‘total’] == 1)”)

// Remove first page from pagination
if ( $wp_rewrite->using_permalinks() ) {
	$pagination_links = str_replace( $wp_rewrite->pagination_base . '/1/', '', $pagination_links );
} else if($pagination['total'] == 1) {
	$pagination_links = str_replace( '&paged=1', '', $pagination_links );
}

[Stephen Edgar]

The documentation was wrong. Moderators cannot create/modify forums.
I’ve updated the documentation to match what each role can do.

Actually they can, the documentation was correct 😉

				// Forum caps
				'publish_forums'        => true,
				'edit_forums'           => true,
				'read_private_forums'   => true,
				'read_hidden_forums'    => true,

I have added those changes back to the codex.

The caveat to this is that they can only create and edit forums in the ‘front end’ and not via the admin dashboard. (Details of this are noted in Trac as part of the wider scope Moderator control panels)

To allow moderators to create forums you need to use the [bbp-forum-form] shortcode on a page.