[Robin W]

As far as I can see it all looks ok. Presume you have permalinks and that the forum slugs set as directed.

If so try this – sometikes the bbpress sidebar doesn’t quite get there.

Deactivate bbpress tweaks
Dashboard>plugins>bbpress tweaks>deactivate

Go into widgets
Dashboard>appearance>widgets

And look at the bottom of the left hand side. You’ll see an “inactive sidebar”, with your entries on
Below this is an “inactive widgets”
Drag all the entries from the inactive sidebar to the inactive widgets area.
This then allows wordpress to delete the sidebar
I normally log out and in again at this stage – probably not needed, but I’ve never bothered to check
Then basically reverse the above
Re-enable bbpress tweaks
You see the bbpress sidebar returns
Drag the entries back from the inactive widgets area to the sidebar

If this works, come back and let me know

[Stephen Edgar]

One of these plugins might do what you need.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-bbpress-attachments/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-bbpress-tools/

[pacheko]

У меня установлен WordPress3,8. Что надо сделать чтобы пользователи моего форума (на моем сайте http://malenkij-mir.ru/) могли в сообщение вставлять фотографии. Что для этого надо сделать?

[Chitcher1]

I have installed the latest bbpress plugin to my wordpress site. There isn’t a single tab or subcategory to be found in my dashboard that relates to BBPress. I keep reading about this forum tab but its nowhere to be found on my dashboard. I hope someone can shed some light on this 🙂

[ronthai]

I would recommend a captcha for posting, unless you love to get hundreds of spam posts a day
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-recaptcha/

[Stephen Edgar]

This is a start…

https://gist.github.com/ntwb/8037110

add_filter ( 'bbp_before_has_search_results_parse_args', ntwb_bbpress_custom_search_results);
 
function ntwb_bbpress_custom_search_results() {
 
	$default_post_type = array( bbp_get_forum_post_type(), bbp_get_topic_post_type(), bbp_get_reply_post_type() );
 
	$args['post_type'] = $default_post_type;
	$args['orderby'] = 'date';
	$args['ignore_sticky_posts'] = 'false';
	$args['order'] = 'DESC';
 
	return $args;
}

Just need to work out how to parse the other $args :/
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/includes/search/functions.php
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/includes/search/template.php

[Stephen Edgar]

Just enable ‘Anonymous Posting’ in the bbPress forums settings.

WordPress Dashboard -> Settings -> bbPress

[Stephen Edgar]

I think you will find the docs for that reference the_content in a WordPress context.

For bbPress things are similar but the following best explains it though in this case it was related to Jetpack, the methodology is still the same though.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/social-media-share-button-missing/#post-125857

This won’t work out of the box, and is by design. Jetpack hooks sharing options to the end of the ‘the_content’ filter. bbPress doesn’t use this filter, because blog content doesn’t have the same rules as forum content does; they work differently. To make it work, Jetpack’s sharing options would need to hook into bbp_get_topic_content and bbp_get_reply_content instead.

Someone could write a piggyback function to do this, but it may be more difficult than this first step once you’ve gotten this far. Replies don’t use the same “premalink” logic as topics, forums, pages, and posts do, since they are technically children of topics. There could be other quirks, too.

[Stephen Edgar]

The best place to start would be the WordPress Plugin Developer Center
https://wordpress.org/plugins/about/

And checkout the bbPress Codex https://codex.bbpress.org/context/developer/

[Stephen Edgar]

I didn’t make it but I expect it was a decision made not an option for the broadest compatibility.

Decisions, not Options https://wordpress.org/about/philosophy/
When making decisions these are the users we consider first. A great example of this consideration is software options. Every time you give a user an option, you are asking them to make a decision. When a user doesn’t care or understand the option this ultimately leads to frustration. As developers we sometimes feel that providing options for everything is a good thing, you can never have too many choices, right? Ultimately these choices end up being technical ones, choices that the average end user has no interest in. It’s our duty as developers to make smart design decisions and avoid putting the weight of technical choices on our end users.

Though as you point out if you want HTML emails you can enable this pretty easily.

[Matoca]

I am preparing WordPress as a website with a forum for owners with sick dogs. Included in the website is a medical glossary plugin. It has worked so well on the pages that I have purchased their Pro+ version.
http://wordpress.org/plugins/enhanced-tooltipglossary/

The problem I am having is that the tooltip plugin is not recognizing terms inside the forum topic or posts and the tooltips are not coming up on hover:
http://www.secondchanceaihadogs.com/forums/topic/test/

CM support says “I am not sure how bbpress use post and if it use the content filters on them. If it does it will show the tooltip”

I could use some help. Should I be asking here about this, the designer of the theme or go back to CM support for the answer how to make this work?

[JakubMarian]

Have you created the topic using the form that’s part of the forum, or using the administration panel? If I use the administration panel, everything is saved as it should; however, when I use the submit form in the forum, characters get converted to HTML entities.

I tested it using a clean installation of the latest version of WordPress with the default theme where the only plugin installed was bbPress, with exactly the result I have described above.

[Lynqoid]

I would highly recommend looking into learning a little CSS, even a small amount can let you achieve a lot in bbPress and even WordPress.

Something you can do for example is: #bbpress-forums { background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; } – this is just an example.

Good luck! 🙂

[Lynqoid]

I would recommend learning a bit of css, even a little CSS lets you do amazing things with bbPress and even WordPress!

Some like: bbp-title { line-height: 20px; } This is just an example. I don’t know the exact html of your website.

Good luck!

[Rollsjoyce]

Thanks for your reply!
You are right it is the combinations of the two plugins causing this error. That is a shame because I need both plugins;-) I can try to remove the edit option in the bbpress profile view. So users can only edit there profile with the wordpress function but still see their topics etc in the bbpres profile view.

[Stephen Edgar]

You can try the ‘Remap existing users to default forum roles’ repair tool to see if that fixes the bbPress Roles: https://codex.bbpress.org/repair-forums/

I had a quick look at https://wordpress.org/plugins/role-scoper/ and they make no specific mention of supporting bbPress’ ‘Dynamic Roles’ and that could be where the core of the issue is.

Yes, Role Scooper is the issue and it appears there will be no longer further development or support:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/role-scoper/faq/

With the production release of Press Permit, is Role Scoper still supported?
Basic Role Scoper support (bug fixes but not necessarily plugin conflict resolution) will be provided while WP 3.6.x is the active WordPress version. Compatibility with WP 3.7 and beyond is not assured, as I do not plan any further unfunded development of the Role Scoper code base. Further development and support will be available on a consulting basis as indicated on agapetry.net, but I will encourage migration to Press Permit – a superior platform with a sustainable funding model.

The good news is the new plugin ‘Press Permit’ does support bbPress’ Dynamic Roles 🙂

https://wordpress.org/plugins/press-permit-core/
Customize bbPress forum permissions

[Stephen Edgar]

Cool, glad your taking a look at it.

“It seems to have appended an extre Re: in front of each (so they read Re:Re:Topic)”

The Re: should only be added to the title of a reply, this should not be adding them to the topics and this shows that the SQL in the importer isn’t quite matching up with your database.

The SQL queries below are based on the Kunena1.php importer and use the prefix jos_ as the table prefix for the bbPress importer.

When the importer fails you should see an error message like the following:
WordPress database error: [Unknown column 'kunena_categories.locked1' in 'field list']

In this particular case the importer was looking for jos_kunena_categories.locked1 where jos_kunena_categories is the table name and locked1 is the field name. I used ‘locked1’ as a way to force an error to show the example, so if I knew my version of the database should be looking at the field locked instead of locked1 you can find the 'from_fieldname' => 'locked1' in Kunena1.php and update that with the correct field mapping 'from_fieldname' => 'locked',.

Another way you can go about this is to jump directly into phpMyAdmin and test each of the following SQL queries, there are primarily four queries are as follows:

Again I used prefix jos_ for my database and you will need to change this to match your own database table prefix.

Forums

SELECT 
kunena_categories.id AS id,
kunena_categories.parent AS parent,
kunena_categories.numTopics AS numTopics,
kunena_categories.numPosts AS numPosts,
kunena_categories.name AS name,
kunena_categories.description AS description,
kunena_categories.ordering AS ordering,
kunena_categories.locked AS locked 
FROM jos_kunena_categories AS kunena_categories

Topics

SELECT 
kunena_messages.thread AS thread,
kunena_messages.catid AS catid,
kunena_messages.userid AS userid,
kunena_messages.ip AS ip,
kunena_messages_text.message AS message,
kunena_messages.subject AS subject,
kunena_messages.time AS time,
kunena_messages.locked AS locked 
FROM jos_kunena_messages AS kunena_messages 
INNER JOIN jos_kunena_messages_text AS kunena_messages_text 
ON kunena_messages_text.mesid = kunena_messages.id 
WHERE kunena_messages.parent = 0

Replies

SELECT 
kunena_messages.id AS id,
kunena_messages.catid AS catid,
kunena_messages.thread AS thread,
kunena_messages.ip AS ip,
kunena_messages.userid AS userid,
kunena_messages.subject AS subject,
kunena_messages_text.message AS message,
kunena_messages.time AS time 
FROM jos_kunena_messages AS kunena_messages 
INNER JOIN jos_kunena_messages_text AS kunena_messages_text 
ON kunena_messages.id = kunena_messages_text.mesid 
WHERE kunena_messages.parent != 0

Users

SELECT 
users.id AS id,
users.password AS password,
users.username AS username,
users.email AS email,
users.registerDate AS registerDate 
FROM jos_users AS users

That’s a bit to digest so I’ll leave it at that for now and it is probably as clear as mud unless you are a seasoned SQL junkie.

If anything I wrote above doesn’t make sense just ask away and remember 🙂
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_such_thing_as_a_stupid_question

[ronthai]

As Lynqoid said it all depends on your needs and skills in adding and changing things if the standard + additional plugins, is not enough.

BBPress has the big advantage that it is part of WordPress, but a disadvantage is the limitation in all the bells and whistles that other forum software gives, which most forums don’t need anyway.
BBPress is lightweight compared to other stand-alone software, but that also makes it attractive to use.

You should also think what your readers/members will need and do with it.
My experience with forums is that the majority just comes to read and sometimes posts, if they have questions or answers, but that will be if you are lucky at the most 10% of the readers/members.

Crowd-moderation as you call it is not a real feature on BBPress, a simple report link is there, which does not even sends you an email.
Other software has more complex report systems, but don’t think users will use them, since that is not why they are on your forum.

[Lynqoid]

It might be easier to list out everything that you need a forum software to do and then see if bbPress meets your list.

The thing for me personally is that if bbPress doesn’t currently do something then with the power of WordPress behind it, you can make it work with a little development. Other forum software is not quite as easy in my opinion.

Good luck!

[Rollsjoyce]

Hi,
I am using version 2.5.1 of the bbpress plugin and 3.8 wordpress 3.7.1.
It is not possible for forum role:participant as well as forum role:Keymaster to edit any field in profile in the page with [bbp-register].
There appears an error message:
ERROR: Password couldn’t be empty.
ERROR: Password confirmation couldn’t be empty.

Even when the password area is blank and I also tested it with the password area filled in.
http://www.paragliding-holland.nl/test-registration/

Maybe this is a bug, but I am not sure.

What can I do to fix this problem?

[Stephen Edgar]

Give this plugin a try

bbPress Forum Redirect
Allows you to override the default behaviour of bbPress forums, linking them to an external site. bbPress Forum Redirect requires no real configuration… it simply adds a metabox to the forum edit screen allowing you to specify an override URL.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-forum-redirect/

[netfux]

Hi, there are some forums as Forum Rules or What is this about?, that when clicked I just want the users to see a regular wordpress page where I expose those rules, or thos explanations that’s it. I don’t want they to fins a subforums and then click again and the they will see a topic explainig those details… So, what I need is to know how can I make a Title Forum to become a link to another regular page. Thank’s

[Stephen Edgar]

It does work fine with WordPress 3.8 🙂

We should also update bbPress to also say “Compatible up to: 3.8” rather than the current 3.6.1 😉

[Stephen Edgar]

I have used this plugin to test email, seems to test what’s needed.

Remember to deactivate/delete it after you have done your testing.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/diagnostic-tool/

[nickprebezac]

I’m having the same problem:
bbpress 2.3.2
WordPress 3.6.1.