[docguy]

I’ve got a new website I’m setting up, and this is my first time using forums. I’m not sure what to tweak so that my forums don’t also activate the “blog” tab.

Currently when you look at my site (http://n7hrc.org), the menus work fine except when you are on the forum menu. When you are on the forum menu, the forum menu AND the blog menu show up as active pages.

What I want is for only the forum menu to show active when you are on the forum page or any of its subpages (subforums).

Is there a setting I missed somewhere?

Wordpress version: 3.5.1
bbPress version: 2.2.4
link to site: http://n7hrc.org

[Leezig]

This seems to do the trick…

Bbpress Protected Forums

[moonoi]

It is in the template files `form_reply.php` and `form_topic.php`

The line that calls the WP_Editor class to create the textarea using the relatively new WordPress core front end editor is this one:

`bbp_the_content( array(‘context’ => ‘reply’)`

You can look into the `bbp_the_content` function to see how BBP does it and how you can circumvent default behaviour.

Notice that this line only applies if the fancy editor is enabled for the current user*. Otherwise the template file falls back to display the classical textarea (which is also the one used in this forum).

*) It seems there’s a bug in BBP 2.2.4 making the fancy editor available only to the keymaster. This can be overridden in the code of course.

[DanBlumenfeld]

I’m currently working with/foisting my testing on @Clicknathan (Hi, Nathan!) on a plugin to address the goals of indicating unread topics, indicating topics that have unread replies, and providing a means to jump to the first unread reply for a given topic. (This is my first foray into the wild-n-wacky world of bbPress, PHP, and WordPress plugins…very educational thus far…)

My first cut is another solution using user metadata; I store a map of topic IDs to last-read-reply IDs. It looks like this `$TOPIC-ID:$LAST-REPLY-ID|$TOPIC-ID:$LAST-REPLY-ID|$TOPIC-ID:$LAST-REPLY-ID`.

When rendering topics in the loop, I check the topic’s metadata for last-reply ID, and compare it to the last-read-reply ID in the user’s map. If there is no matching topic in the map, I add a CSS class for “unread topic”; if there is a matching topic, and the last-read-reply ID is less than the last-reply ID, I add a CSS class for “unread replies”.

When handling replies, I update the map (only in memory!) as I loop through each reply, then commit the map back to user metadata after processing all replies. I also check each reply ID; if it is the first one I find greater than the last-read-reply ID from the map for the current topic, I throw in a “first-unread” anchor tag, so it can be easily jumped to on the client side.

Currently, I don’t limit the number of topic/last-read-reply pairs I store in the user metadata; I’m quite sure there will be a point where performance suffers.

I’m also unsure how best to handle pagination for the “jump to first unread reply” question; while dropping the anchor tag is easy enough, I’m not sure how to properly form the URL to which to append the anchor tag ref, without some fairly complex logic involving looking up the relative index of the first unread reply in the set of all replies for the topic.

Anyway, I’d love some feedback at the conceptual level now, and I’d even more appreciate some solid criticism when I get the plugin whipped into shape and submitted.

[Stephen Edgar]

I don’t see any problems there with the topic & reply I just created
http://www.big-data-forum.org/?topic=via-netweb-bbpress-org

A couple of things though… You may want to change your ‘permlink’ structure to use ‘pretty permalinks’ https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks

When you are trying to find a problem with your site try disabling all your plugins except bbPress and see if the problem still occurs, if it is fixed reenable each plugin one by one and check for the problem again to isolate if it is a plugin causing the problem.

You should also test using the ‘Twenty Ten’ or ‘Twenty Twelve’ themes included with WordPress to make sure it is not an issue with the theme you are using.

[Stephen Edgar]

Here are some step by step instructions to add an item to your menu.
And add http://example.com/forums as the link where you replace example.com with your domain name.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Appearance_Menus_Screen#Custom_Links

[bornakke]

I’m trying to setup a really basic forum for the first time i WordPress, but I must admit that it has shown more difficult than first expected.

Well after hours of bug finding I’m down to one problem, which is that BBpress doesn’t refresh when you make a post. The problem seems to be related to caching, cause when I disable caching in Chrome it works. No matter what I do I however just can’t seem to figure our how to make my browsers (firefox + Chrome) not cache the page in the first time.

The test forum is located here:
http://www.big-data-forum.org/?forum=big-data-3

bbPress Version 2.2.4
Wordpress Version 3.5.1

To post you have to login with:
Usr: Test
Passw.: 123456

Hope that somebody can help me out 🙂

Best regards
Tobias

[zilveer]

Hello people..

I love the simplicity of WordPress and one of its best plugin bbPress.
Thanks for creating this great plugin, I love IT!

Now to the question, I would like to customize the layout/design of the search page.
How do I do it? In which file is the search result located?

Regards

[Stephen Edgar]

Here are some step by step instructions for what I mentioned above that hopefully will be a little clearer and the link you add would be http://example.com/forums where you replace example.com with your domain name.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Appearance_Menus_Screen#Custom_Links

[brickwhale]

IE9 is throwing this error for me on a fresh installation of WordPress 3.5.1 and bbPress 2.2.4. Same as above – it only applies to visitors who have not logged in. Any suggestions?

[VictorTookes]

I’m transferring my forums from a drupal site to wordpress, basically copying the forum post from the old site, and creating a new post on the new site. It would be nice to be able to edit the author information to reflect the original author of the post/comment/reply, instead of it looking like I posted every topic in my forums.

[nitzanginsberg]

Hi,

I installed bbpress on wordpress 3.5.1 (on localhost),

How can I see the forum on the top menu ?

Thanks

[Stephen Edgar]

Open your WordPress admin dashboard and got to ‘Appearence’ -> ‘Menus’ (/wp-admin/nav-menus.php)

Add a link eg http://example.com/forums your menu and click save.

[oneshortleg]

I installed bbpress on my wordpress site. It is a new site, I have no other plugins installed. It still have the default 2012 theme.

I can access the forum menus from the dashboard, and I’ve created a few forums. If I click “view” in the list of forums from the dashboard, I can see them.

However, when I go to see my web page, there is no option on the navigation menu for the forums. There is just “Home”, “Blog”, and one other page I already created.

How is one visiting the site supposed to find the forums?

I tried Simple Press briefly and it just created it’s own page and a menu link. I also tried Mingle, and for that I needed to create a page on the navigation menu for it before I did the install. What do I need to do for bbpress?

Thanks

[dasped]

Hi all,

New install: WordPress 3.5.1 MU joint Network with x7 Mapped domains

New install: Buddypress 1.6.4 Running all sites on Dynamix WP/BP theme

New install: BBPress 2.2.4 With Network & Group forums configured.

Buddypress has been installed ‘without’ the discussion forums tab enabled.

<code>define( ‘BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG’, true );</code> Is located in wp-config.

Other plugins installed all network enabled:  WP SEO (Yoast), WPMU Domain Mapping, Ultimate coming soon page & Join my multisite.

Followed all Buddypress and BBPress latest instructions to the letter!

I can create new forums, and group forums with no problems. All forums and groups are traceable throughout all MU sites with no problems and I have used bp-custom-php with;

<code><?php

/* This fixes the MULTIBLOG avatar problem */

function nfm_bp_avtar_upload_path_correct($path){

if ( bp_core_is_multisite() ){

//   $path = ABSPATH . get_blog_option( BP_ROOT_BLOG, ‘upload_path’ );

$path = ABSPATH . ‘wp-content/uploads/’;

}

return $path;

}

add_filter(‘bp_core_avatar_upload_path’, ‘nfm_bp_avtar_upload_path_correct’, 1);

 

function nfm_bp_avatar_upload_url_correct($url){

if ( bp_core_is_multisite() ){

$url = get_blog_option( BP_ROOT_BLOG, ‘siteurl’ ) . “/wp-content/uploads”;

}

return $url;

}

add_filter(‘bp_core_avatar_url’, ‘nfm_bp_avatar_upload_url_correct’, 1);

?></code>

To carry user and group avatars throughout all networks.

Problem being, once a forum post is created I’ as keymaster cannot Edit, Close, Stick, Merge Trash or Spam “Any” forum posts. The page just refreshes without any actions taking place.

I have read two other posts relating to this similar/same issue, one from over a year ago, and one from as little as two weeks ago, both without solution, one without any replies.

Further to the above, I have noted that BBPress is not sending emails out on replies to forum posts with the Notify me of follow-up replies via email tab checked.

I sincerely hope someone may be able to help shed some light on this issue as it is really going to render my project useless if I can’t manage to resolve it.

I’m happy to offer a bbpress admin, administrative access to my site if they feel they may be able to assist in some way.

Here’s hoping .. !

Regards,

Sped

 

[jonte_linkan]

I’ve spent lots and lots of time trying to make this work in Swedish. Finally I took @dykarna files and used them and then it worked. So my conlcusion is that there was something wrong with my .po & .mo files…

Those files i downloaded from https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/2.2.x but for some reason could not make it work.

The solution proposals for this problem are scattered in different parts of this forum and I think not properly adressed by bbpress for the new versions as far as I see it.

https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-in-your-language/ is of course explaining the way to do it but does not adress the possible .mo and .po problems, I think. I agree to what @dykarna have said:

After having read this thread and I sit with the same problem. Then it would probably be appropriate to maybe get to a function so you can thru the admin panel choose which language you wish. Yes, and that all language files included with the package when installing bbPress.

Or one might even in the admin panel to add a “upload” of language files so they end up where they should and is automatically activated .. yes I’ve seen it in Joomla but there is something quite different but the principle

However, i’m very pleased that it works for me now. I just need to find the non-translated parts now…

[jimabshire]

Ironically, the use I plan to make for bbPress is to create a model for “Living Documentation” as described in the book “Specification by Example” for various types of software projects.

I am new to the Open Software model after having spent 30 odd years working within the “private” model. I see clear sustainability problems if users behave like typical users: demanding more and more from people who are being paid a fraction they are in the private model. Something has got to give. The proliferation of modules reflects current design methods of keeping each one fairly small/simple. The problem with that approach is that it indeed requires key overview docs including use of things like stepwise refinement and UML docs in order to obtain a cohesive grasp of the whole. As in baseball, “you can’t tell the players without a program!”

wordpress at least has several “apparently good” books to explain the development paradigm. bbPress users are not so lucky.

It is a very big job to create this very useful software and we should be more appreciative to those who have accepted this challenge – consider how long it would take any of us to write the volume of php code or even do the design work!

I think Mr. Jacoby is correct – if everyone who ran down a problem bothered to leave a little “map” or narrative of his journey we might get a better picture of how this thing works. The only problem I see with that is too many requirements: 1) user has to be able to ferret out the problem; 2) user has to be correct; 3) user has to be able to write carefully. There may be others requirements as well.

Ideally, we need better docs that reduce the abstractions presented to us in the form of raw code. It seems to me that the community needs to decide that bug fixes and new features should wait until the overall design can be made clear to nearly all of us.

[Stephen Edgar]

You could also find some inspiration (or even use) this plugin

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-courseware/

[Stephen Edgar]

This is already fixed in 2.3 see https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2138

[Anonymous User 7670885]

Hi!

I’ve make a plugin to work in wordpress comments form for guest but it don’t work with bbpress.

It use this hook:

add_filter(‘pre_comment_on_post’, ‘wp_stopforumspam_check_query’);

How i can make compatible also with bbpress? 😐

[ben66]

Hi there, Am trying to add a captcha plugin for my forum registration. The bbpress forum has been installed as a plugin in my wordpress site.

The problem I’m getting is where to add the captcha plugin? I can only find it if it’s installed in the main wordpress plugin directory, however I then can’t get to settings to enter the keys etc and bbpress doesn’t seem to see its there.

any advice? Thanks in advance

[maggieymae]

Yep Good point- I did do the import with no plugins installed and that’s why I reported it was a success…then I looked at it later and the topics were gone. After I posted here I realized I went a little crazy adding plugins so I disabled them all and activated them until the problem showed up again. Thanks again for offering a way to grab the posts from vbulletin and thanks for the bbpress wordpress plugin.

[Sambora5150]

@hoppare can you tell me how did you put the avatars at the left of the post? and how did you do the image categories? and the images for each user role? 

 

please help the bbpress community and help me too.. thanks

[steelmaiden]

I run a WordPress 3.5.1 Multisite and when i enable bbpress pluigin on my parent site the server goes crazy to over 100 (usually its below 2).

What could be the reason for this?

http://geek.hr is the website.

Thank you

[bruceleebee]

Did you end up finding a solution to this? I’m trying to do the exact same thing.

I have found a few threads from 4 or 5 years ago, and supposedly someone wrote a plugin for an old version of bbpress that can do this. But BBpress has gone through some serious changes (for the best) and now operates as a plugin for wordpress not a stand alone platform – so they no longer work.

Does anyone know of a plugin/rewrite rules/functions.php code we can use to make this a reality?