[TheDalyPatriot]

Hello, I am new to bbPress and I am currently using a theme called GamePress. I’m pretty sure this theme isn’t compatible with bbPress because when I go to create a page the templates aren’t located in the themes drop-down. Is there a way to make my theme compatible with my theme.

Also, The forum shows up if I type in my url http://www.website.com/forums but I don’t like the way it looks where do I go to change the themes? I didn’t see an option in the Admin of wordpress anywhere. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Jordan

[Stephen Edgar]

You can set the forum order from your WordPress dashboard, see the following docs for more info:

https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/#creating-your-first-forum

[Stephen Edgar]

I think you are looking for this plugin:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-post-topics/

[whatisajess]

Hi there!
As the title suggests, I am wondering if it is possible to make it so that when I create a new post in my WordPress, it automatically creates a new topic in bbPress. Ideally, it would automatically be created in the right forum, maybe via a custom field or category?
Also, if that’s doable at all, is it possible to automatically put the permalink somewhere on the page of the article that is the post? Or maybe even turn the WordPress comment area into the bbPress reply section, if you know what I mean? So that directly underneath the article in my WordPress, users who are logged into the board can reply and those who aren’t logged in get a log-in link.

If one of you could let me know if any of that is possible and point me in the right direction, that would be greatly appreciated! Thanks so much in advance.
-Jess

[Shane Gowland]

I think youre right that the first is a bug. Ive been able to reproduce.

The second issue doesnt seem very bug-like though. Could you share the code that is calling the add_user function? As I said before, I suspect you’re not doing any validation on the situations ion which the function is allowed to run.

[mostafaqanbari]

hello @blogjunkie. for number 2 and 3 u can install User Role Editor to manage your customers access roles. for number one you have many different ways! please explain it more!

[Lynq]

That’s going to need quite a bit of custom work, unless someone knows of a plugin you can use.

You will need to somehow map the user to their forum and then in their custom login page pull all the topics based on that users forum id.  I can see how it could be done.

When the customer registers you could create the forum, update the user_meta with that forum id and then have a custom view which fetches the customers user_meta forum id and then displays all of the topics based off that forum id.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_user_meta

Good luck!

[sontru]

I found the bug report pages and have logged the two issues:

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2205

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2206

[sontru]

Participant is not one of WordPress’s user roles! It only gets introduced with bbPress.

There’s nothing wrong with my add_user() function (I don’t have one!) The problem occurs when calling up the WordPress function ‘add_user_to_blog’ when bbPress is active.

Is there a way of reporting bugs found in bbPress?

[David Wang]

Hi! I’m new to bbPress and have some questions. I wouldn’t mind paid consulting so if you’re an expert please let me know how to get in touch.

I run a business providing support plans which customers subscribe to for ongoing tech support for their WordPress site. I want to have a system where I am able to log all the support activities for each customer. Each post would then be a support incident for the customer. They would then be able to login to see a history of the activity in their account.

I am thinking of creating a forum for each customer and a new thread (topic) for each support incident. Customers are not allowed to create new threads – they can only comment. My question is how to setup bbPress so that:

1. Customers can only view threads in forums that they have access to
2. Customers can only comment on existing threads and cannot create new threads
3. Customers receive notifications of new threads to forums that they are assigned to.

I would really appreciate any pointers. Thanks all!

[Shane Gowland]

The ‘participant’ role is one of WordPress’ user roles. bbPress assigns the bbp_participant role, which makes me think there is something else going on here. Are you running any other plugins or custom functions?

Perhaps you could use something like Multisite User Management to set ‘no role’ as the default across the network. You might need to make some code changes to it though.

What does your add_user() function look like? It sounds like this could be resolved by wrapping your code in a !is_admin() conditional.

[sontru]

You misunderstand – I don’t want network users to be added as a participant! (The bug is that bbPress does this even, at installation/activation, the default option says not too!)

The second bug is a bigger problem here, as there is no work-around except disabling bbPress!

(I did see your plugin and article before posting, and thought the code had been absorbed into bbPress, but obviously not. If the feature is already present, why write this plugin?)

[mostafaqanbari]

i really don’t understand why bbpress includes topics inside “user replies created”!. i just designed a forum based on bbpress and i want to show just replies in “user replies created”. by using sql i checked type of each reply and if “topic_type” is not equal to “reply” so ignore it. everything works fine until i realized pagination(page numbers) functionality doesn’t ignore topics! for example assume page limitation is 5, i have 3 replies and 3topic and as i said i ignored topics and i see just 3 replies but also page numbers! the worst thing is ordered items with their dates and if date of replies are older that topics i see the very first page empty and for seeing replies created i should navigate to see them! how can i tell pagination that ignore topics in this particulate page?!
PS: i installed BBpress beside Buddypress for having powerfull profile abilities. wordpress 3.5 and lates bbpress till now(2.2.3)

[Shane Gowland]

Here’s a solution I came up with a few months back. http://shanegowland.com/wp/2012/wordpress-plugin-multisite-bbpress-forum-participants/

[sontru]

If bbPress is running on a WordPress Multisite subdomain, then it seems to be adding network users who visit a sub site to the sub site’s users as participants – this includes the super-admin!

Activate bbPress plugin on a subdomain and ths default setting is unchecked:

`
Auto role | Automatically assign default role to new, registered users upon visiting the site.
`

Visit the sub site as any network user, and they are added as a participant! Only after checking the Auto role option, saving and unchecking it and saving again, does this work as intended.

The second bug is a major one and can only be stopped by deactivating bbPress!

I am writing a plugin which creates users and adds them to blogs. I am using the add_user_to_blog* function and each time I call it with bbPress activated, it adds the admin user who is calling the function to ALL blogs as a participant! If I go into a subdomain as a admin user of that site, this admin user is not listed (even in subdomain who have bbPress enabled), but I as this admin can see all sites are listed in my Sites drop down. I manually look into the database and see in the wp_usermeta table that this user has capabilities and level (of 0) entries for all blogs!

Of course if I deactivate bbPress and call up the add_user_to_blog, everything works as expected, and the user calling up the function does not get added as a participant to ALL the sub sites! I think there is some sort of filter that bbPress is applying that is causing this.

Could someone look at this and see if they can replicate it and fix it?

[TheSeoGuy]

Hi Stephen

Indeed – I’d already done all that, and made no progress – not a single response on WordPress.org after a week! 🙂

I’ve also posted on BuddyPress, and have received 1 helpful suggestion that I’m about to try this morning.

BackupBuddy thought their next release may solve the missing sub-pages, and supplied me with the pre-release Dev version – sadly, the problem persists.

Cheers
Ben

[Stephen Edgar]

Try posting WordPress questions on https://wordpress.org/support/

(I would also break up your question into multiple questions eg. Post your BackupBuddy plugin question in there support section for the plugin.)

[panthercove]

Ok i have installed wamp 2.2 wordpress 3.5 on my xp pro all worked fine with the install i can call up with http://localhost/wordpress my page and i can call up with http://www.panthercove.org/wordpress fine on my local computer display is fine in IE but if i go on my local network ore from out site the internet browser gives me just a wide(collar)and black display and all settings are of. can some one tell me what did i miss in my setup then i have on the same wamp server drupal what is doing fine you can check it ad http://www.panthercove.org/drupal do i have my promission set rong?

[Mitesh Patel]

Same problem here as well.

What’s more, this is a problem on testbp.org as well! Although on testbp.org the ‘discussion’ page correctly gets the current_page_parent class, it fails when you go to any forum or topic page. The ‘support’ menu item on both buddypress.org and bbpress.org remains highlighted no matter where you are in forums area.

So my question would be, how did they set-up forums on bbpress.org and buddypress.org? I searched high and low – everywhere, but failed to find a solution. What are we doing wrong? IS it a wp_nav_menu specific problem or with bbpress?

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2204

[Shashank Shekhar]

Hi I am using bbpress 2.2.4 with user-role-editor 3.10 ( http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-role-editor/ ) and wordpress 3.5.1.
I have created a custom role ‘SiteAdministrator’ with permissions lying between Administrator and Editor. (it have all capabilities of editor including user creation/edit/listing etc. and not have edit-dashboard permission).
I have given all forum permissions also to this role.

But on logging-in with this user in admin, I am getting only ‘Topics’ and ‘Replies’ menus in admin sidebar. There is no ‘Forum’ menu available.
Topics and replies are working well for all creation/editing.
For forums I can list it by direct url pasting in address bar after login, ex. http://mysite.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=forum . Also I am able to edit any forum and update.
But when I try to create a new forum by using http://mysite.com/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=forum, it not working giving error on blank page “Invalid post type”.

Please let me know why there are no forum menus/submenus available in admin sidebar and not able to create new forums by direct url?

Tried giving permissions various ways in user-role-editor panel but not working. May be there some incompatibility of user-role-editor with bbpress roles.
Please someone help.

[matrixd]

Hi Erlend, I found where is the problem, but I dont know the solution!

In WordPress in General settings I have setup the time of my country (Greece) which is +2 hours UTC.

If I change to UTC the problem with unread icons solved, but I have wrong time in my bbpress posts.

Is something you can do?

Thanks

[muffinbomb]

Andre: that was EXACTLY what I was looking for. I scoured the net, looked through BBPress documentation for hours and FOUND NOTHING. Absolutely nothing. The ‘veterans’ of BBPress responses were in loops or archaic at best.

I’ve been working on WordPress and web development for over a decade and so often do I fall on searches that yield really unhelpful ‘answers’. HOWEVER, FINALLY there has been ONE ANSWER that beats them all!

Even though your post was made over a year ago, IT HELPED! Now I can finally stop figuring out how to use templates for BBPress 2.2.4! Thank you!

[Stephen Edgar]

The good thing though is that the majority of what is included in the 2.3 update can be used manually on your MySQL database to convert the BBCodes & Magic URL’s to WordPress friendly HTML.

I just haven’t written any docs on this yet, I also haven’t actually done it on a site I desperately need to do this with. Hopefully in the next couple of days I can get some time to get this started.

[ssmedia]

Hi,

I’m having a very strange problem with bbpress.

I’m using the lastest version of WordPress and bbpress and I created a super stick topic. These are just rules and guidelines so I closed it to replies. I can see it in the category forum page such as this (http://causepages.com/sw/forum/health-insurance-finance/) when logged in as a user but when I actually click into it, it’s not shown. (I just get my sidebar).

Can anyone help with this please?

[Diver Zant]

Please help, what is wrong with my bbpress forum 2.2.4 ? Since I uploaded it is too small on page and with Newcast template of WordPress looks terrible. how can I fix it, do I need to know some coding ? Thank you for your help really appriciate it.

http://urbex.cz/forums/