[Rachel Biel]

Help! I’ve been at this for hours and am going out of my mind…

I have the latest of everything, bbpress, buddypress and have deactivated all plugins except for buddypress, bbpress, members and akismet. I actually even deleted and reinstalled buddypress, bbpress and members. I deactivated my theme and am using the default buddypress one.

The site is visually a mess: http://www.tafaforum.com/

I am the only one who can post on the forums. Everything was fine until yesterday when several plugins updated, including bbpress. I had also been mucking around with trying to get a tinymce plugin to work for the forums.

If I disable everything and just have bbpress, I can post (as a fake member). Add buddypress, and I get a “You cannot reply to this topic” message at the bottom.

I messed around with roles and have enabled everything possible that could contribute to this, but the one thing that I notice is that the members all have an author role for their wordpress roles (as I want them to post on our blog), and even though they all show participant for their forum roles on the Users Page, when I go into the settings for the roles, I only see the author role as having any users, not the participant one.

Yes, this could be a buddypress or members issue, but bbpress is the one that had the latest update, so I figure that the problem starts here. If not, please send me where I need to go….

[Stephen Edgar]

Use this plugin, it was updated today to also support the new forum subscriptions 🙂

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-custom-reply-notifications/

[Toxed2loss]

I’m running wordpress 3.7.1, using Twenty-twelve, and Bbpress 2.5.1.have my site is http://www.theholisticchatterbox.com If you go to this page and click on any of the “recent Reply” links, it will take you to the first page of the replies. You have to click on the page numbers above to get to the last page. It started doing this after the last update. How can I fix it? I’ve looked in the widget & appearance menus. I’ve removed it and reinstalled it. Please help?

[jswartzendruber]

Hi 3tonine/Rachel – As a followup, make sure to have the latest version of the bbPress Enable TinyMCE Visual Tab plugin. I’m using WP 3.7.1, bbPress 2.5.1 with TinyMCE Advanced 3.5.9. I had to use bbPress Enable TinyMCE Visual Tab 1.0.1 in order for it work properly, and this doesn’t appear to be available yet from the WordPress Plugin Directory.

More info: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-working-in-bbpress-24

Regardless, thanks for the pointers to all the bits/bobs, once I got the correct versions it works great.

[markthedoc]

Hi

I’m trying to set my forum so that a non-member can view the list of topics in a forum but when they click on a topic to read it they get a message telling them they must be logged in to view the topic.

This bbPress forum does exactly what I’m trying to achieve.

I can hide the forums entirely using this code, but I want to show a list of topics to non-members but not allow them to view the content of the topic.

Thanks in advance for any help and advice.

[moxjet200]

Hey everyone. I’m new to BBPress and I may not be understanding portions of it correctly.

1. If someone registers for my wordpress website and sign in can they automatically start posting to my bbpress forums? (Do they then have a forum membership too?)

2. Currently the registration is as follows: user inputs username and email and then the password is sent to them via email which they have to reset… How can I build a custom registration form for my wordpress/bbpress site and forums that looks more like http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/register.php where the user can specify their password, agree to terms, etc? (I guess this also depends on if registering for wordpress or bbpress registers for each other as well)

The site I’m building right now is http:/www.thenextarpg.com with the Avada wordpress template.

Any help would be appreciated! Thanks guys

[AkhilAniyan]

Check my sites:

http://www.sparkyhub.com/
http://www.androidizer.com/
http://www.designerbrave.com/

All are my sites and WordPress based. Because of this one error, all the sites are offline:-(

My hosing is Linux. Can you please tell me more about the tools?

[FreeWPress]

Have you recently update wordpress or other plugin and after you receive this error?
I think is not bbpress related..

[LeoBCpt]

Hi there

Using bbPress Version 2.3.2
We’ve got Premise member access module installed. It manages access to posts by adding meta tags to the wp_postmeta table. We then check member access levels against these meta tags to see if the user can access a post.

We also use these member access levels to restrict access to our forums. Unfortunately the member access tags are only added to the forum categories and parents, and not to the individual replies and posts.

This means that restricted posts turn up in search results, and have to be excluded by checking the user access level against that of the forum category or parent.

I’ve managed to exclude the posts from the search results, by adding the following lines of code I found in these forums to the loop in loop-search.php just before get_template_part is called:

$parent = array_reverse(get_post_ancestors($post->ID)); // get an array of all the parent pages in order from most distant to closest.
$first_parent = get_page($parent[0]); //get the first page in the array, which is the most distant parent
$int = apply_filters(‘the_ID’, $first_parent->ID); //filter the $first_parent to get only the wordpress page/post ID, which is an integer like 49 or 565. store it as a variable $int
//Skip post if user can't access it.
if (!IQS_can_user_access_post($int)) {
continue;
}

This code works, however the pagination results still show for all the excluded posts.

I’ve been trying to figure out how to modify the bbpress()->search_query results but I’m not very good with PHP.

Any advice on how I can exclude posts from a search query or fix my pagination?

[ronthai]

Hi,

I got version 2.5.0 and could update and should.
I made some little changes in design, css and a few templates.

I looked at this page: http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches#2.5
and if I understand correctly, only the bbpress.php has changed (and readme.txt).
Would it be enough to just download that file and replace it or must it be done the official way, by installed plugins/update?

Regards, Ron

[Stephen Edgar]

can somebody tell me where to copy the template files so I can customize bbpress. the information here

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

As to extending profile information take a look at how the ‘signature’ is implemented in GD bbPress Tools as a good starting point.

[Stephen Edgar]

Here are some themes in the WordPress Theme repo that specifically include bbPress out of the box.

• https://wordpress.org/themes/lobster
• https://wordpress.org/themes/firmasite
• https://wordpress.org/themes/ward
• https://wordpress.org/themes/tonic
• https://wordpress.org/themes/wp-knowledge-base
• https://wordpress.org/themes/snowblind
• https://wordpress.org/themes/magazine-basic
• https://wordpress.org/themes/the-skeleton
• https://wordpress.org/themes/mesocolumn
• https://wordpress.org/themes/voyage
• https://wordpress.org/themes/suffusion

As others have already mentioned you can use any theme you want and typically it will just work and if you want to style up your forums to match your theme then you can do that do as per the links already mentioned above.

[Stephen Edgar]

FYI https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1958 Is where we are tracking and getting feedback on implementation, ideas, feedback and so forth for this feature in bbPress Core.

[Aleksandar Adamovic]

Hi all,

I am the author of the permissions plugin. Sorry for coming into the discussion this late in, but got the topic link from matrixino. I have not done much with bbPress (or WordPress) in a very long time (.NET shop), so please excuse while I refresh my memory.

I will look into this as soon as I can.

[julfontaine]

Is it possible to display the RSS feed of the forum replies in a given group?

http://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-lotsa-feeds/
I tried this plugin but it seems to not work anymore. The section “Individual Group” is exactly what I’m looking for. Is there someone who can help me to display the RSS feed replies in a given group?

Thanks

[Sornin]

I agree that a fully-functioning visual editor with feature parity to WordPress would be great to see. In fact, I would like to see it be made a very high priority as forum users certainly have come to expect a WYSIWYG editor. To me, this feature trumps any other as it has the greatest effect on users and their ability to post.

Either the problem is difficult to fix or the main developers do not agree a great visual editor is very important because it has been disabled by default since April, which surprises me a bit. When it initially was disabled I figured it would be a temporary thing and would be back for 2.4, and now work is being done on 2.6 without mention of this. :/

[Robin W]

Holly,

bbPress will work out of the box for most implementations. How much you then customise it is up to you.

Typically you might want to change a little of the styling – that depends on how much styling your existing site has – There wasn’t a link to your existing site in your original post.

Then you might wish to alter some layout – although the default is pretty standard

The documentation

Codex

will show you what you need to do to set up, and if you already have wordpress, then you could see how well bbPress would suit you in a couple of hours by following the set up guide and creating some test forums.

[FreeWPress]

Hi, this is a little bug of 2.5 version.. you can add this patch: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2481 or wait for 2.5.1 version..

[ronangelo]

I’m not sure but I’m guessing this is not an intended effect or am I wrong? The voice count works as expected until one uses the forum repair tool and performs a Count voices in each topic which then excludes the guest topics and replies from the voice count. Also tested on a new bbPress install with other plugins disabled.

I’m using WordPress 3.7.1. and bbPress 2.5
I’m not sure but I think this only came up around the time I upgraded to bbPress 2.5

[Robin W]

You can also use hidden forums to allow only registered users to view

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1

step 5

or

https://wordpress.org/plugins/members/

[Hdm89]

Hi guys over there!

I have a little problem with my forum… and I hope you can help me with it.
I’m setting up a new forum and I’m trying to set-up custom permissions for each forum
e.g.:
Forum A -> Access & View only to Group A
Forum B -> Access & View only to Group B
Forum C -> Access & View only to Group C

To solve this problem I have found two plugins:
Members -> http://wordpress.org/plugins/members
bbPress Permissions -> https://github.com/ZanderAdam/Tehnik-bbPress-Permissions

The problem is that when i activate the second plugin (bbpress permission) I see all forums more than one time…
I see something like that:
FORUM A
FORUM B
FORUM C
FORUM A
FORUM C
FORUM B
FORUM A

Instead of a simple:
FORUM A
FORUM B
FORUM C

Someone had this problem with the plugin?

Ty for response 🙂

[jlow82]

Hi!

I am choosing a suitable forum plugin to use on my wordpress site.
I wish my end product to look like this: http://www.tokyohive.com/forums

Please advice if bbpress layout can be edited to look like this, and if yes, how difficult or easy is it?

I am really new to wordpress. Thank you everyone for all your help!

[Stephen Edgar]

Thanks for the links, I hadn’t see Moot before

Personally I am not sure about ‘remember your place’ at all, if I had of used that feature today when I opened bbPress.org would have that put me half way reading topic ‘abc’ in forum ‘xyz’ rather than the home page showing me a summary of what happened recently? Maybe an iterating on that idea a little further where you could have a button/link to ‘Take me to where I last left off’.

Reply directly inline to search results… That wouldn’t be too difficult to implement.

Another good read/watch is this post by @sadr https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/any-plans-to-merge-o2-features-into-bbpress/ on the upcoming O2 theme from WordPress, some really cool stuff in this.

Lastly is the WordPress Heartbeat API and @mordauk has a bit on his blog on an implementation idea in one of his plugins http://pippinsplugins.com/using-the-wordpress-heartbeat-api/

Needless to say there are lots of ideas on future directions of bbPress and BuddyPress, we also have a few features that have been on users want list for quite a while.

[Stephen Edgar]

Nice, glad the issue is resolved, thanks @freewpress for digging into this 🙂

Follow up also https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-conflict-with-bbress-warning-illegal-offset-type

[s1r0n]

Hi there, I’m trying to add new profile fields to the bbpress profile screen. so far I’ve been able to add the profile items I want like so

add_action(‘bbp_user_edit_after_name’,’lp_add_profile_settings’);

question now is, how to I get the profile items to save properly. is there a bbpress hook or wordpress hook that I can use to get my user_meta settings to save?