[samtime]

Hi, I would really like to give forum moderators access to the “Topics” and “Replies” section of the WordPress Dashboard. So they can easily see all replies and topics that need moderating in one place like I can as WP admin.
Is there a way to give moderators access to the WordPress Dashboard without giving them the full “Contributor” or “Editor” WP role capabilities?

I have tried creating a custom role with the “User Role Editor” plugin, but can’t find a way to give them dashboard access, without also giving them the ability to edit non-forum posts on the website.

Or, does anyone know a way/plugin that shows moderators all the topics/replies that need moderating on the front end?

Thank you, Sam

WordPress 5.3.2
bbPress 2.6.3
bbPress – Moderation Tools plugin 1.2.4
User Role Editor plugin 4.52.2

[randrcomputers]

Funny reading this as i had to install Disable Embeds plugin to STOP the previews in bbpress/wordpress/buddypress as it made a mess to my format and overlapped everything.i can only assume my Kleo theme caused it to “work” in bbpress. So maybe try a different theme?

[dsallanson]

We have exported our forum data using the wordpress menu – Tools – Export We have exported the Forums, Topics and Replies and then imported them to our new site. When looking at the WordPress menu it shows the 4 forums we have imported with the number of topics and replies but when you click on to view the forum we receive the following message

This forum has 963 topics, 2,570 replies
Oh, bother! No topics were found here.

If I click on the Topics menu in the wordpress i can see all the topics and read them but does not show the replies but it has the replies cunt and voice replies

and if i click on the replies menu in WordPress i can see the replies

But not working all together – has any one got any suggestions

I have tried creating a new forum and this works fine so i know my theme etc works ok with forums we are using wordpress 5.3.2 and PHP 7

Thanks

David

[Robin W]

bboress has widgets for latest topics and latest replies

My style pack plugin has latest activity widget and several shortcodes including one to display latest topics

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>shortcodes
dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>widgets

for details

[Juha Metsäkallas]

The proper location of translation files for bbPress was a mystery for me too. It looks like, that for bbPress 2.6 you only need to put them into (a change from previous version)
…\wp-content\languages\plugings\

And yes, if you download from

      https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/bbpress/

you get a po file with a wrong name, like
wp-plugins-bbpress-stable-fi.po
which you must chagne.

[Editor Mike]

WordPress 5.3.2 running Corvus theme.

BBPress Version 2.6.3

I have just updated BBPress and now my forum toolbar buttons are really hard to read.
How do I change the button text colour from white to black?

(On the text tab, the visual tab is fine)

Here is a link to a topic:

ID these oldhammer goblins

[samtime]

SOLVED: I was able to fix this issue by changing the following setting…

In the WordPress dashboard, go to Settings > Forums
Under “Moderation Options” change moderation from “None” to “Custom”
Then select the “All posts below the English character threshold” option.

Now new users can still post replies/topics without having to be manual approved. But posts from users with a moderation flag will be held for review.

Hope that helps and works for you!
Best, Sam

[Robin W]

Private groups

and set up topic permissions tab, which allows for this

[Robin W]

bbpress and buddypress just use WordPress login, and WordPress lets plugin authors do this – only so much you can expect the WordPress authors to support. Wanguard shut down due to stress on author.

As a plugin author, I sympathise – it’s amazing how much abuse you get for providing something for free.

Plenty of solutions out there that use a variety of methods. eg

The Best Alternative For WangGuard With Scaled Protection

[randrcomputers]

Ive never understood why bbpress, wordpress or buddypress dont have option for random questions where Admin can setup a dozen or so questions and answers to registration form. Seems like a simple way to help fight spam registration and simple too! If answer is not correct then registration is not possible. Wangaurd plugin had this and never had spam registration when that was installed.
Must be a reason bbpress, wordpress or buddypress dont offer such a simple solution to at least help stop spam does anyone know why?

[Robin W]

the theme for bbpress is here

https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sites/trunk/buddypress.org/public_html/wp-content/themes/bb-base

[samtime]

Hi, I would like to hide user’s IP addresses from moderators, but keep them visible for keymasters.
Searching this topic I found solutions to hide the IP addresses for everyone, but not to keep it visible for keymasters.
Any ideas?

Thank you,
Sam

Using WordPress 5.3.2
bbPress 2.6.3

[digifessor.com]

Greetings,

I would like for ALL other Topic Pages, Reply Pages, (etc.) to maintain the same page look as the Forum Home Page.

Example of Forum Home Page – https://digifessor.com/community/

How can I make ALL other Topic Pages, Reply Pages, (etc.) the same as the Forum Home Page?
Link above.

Current example of what ALL other pages look like (I do NOT want this look)-

General Discussions 1

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WordPress – Version 5.3.2
bbPress- Version 2.6.3
Theme – Astra – 2.1.4
Theme Builder – Elementor / Version 2.8.2
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Thanks for your help!

[johnnyontheweb]

Hello, thanks for you reply. So you suggest to disable all the plugin and try with bbpress and GD Att. alone.
I’ll try it and let you know.

I queued to an existing topic here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permission-to-attach-image-isnt-working/

It seems there’re others with my problem.

[Milan Petrovic]

Hi,

My GD bbPress Attachments plugin gets file uploaded through media library, and MIME Types check is done in WP core. So, MIME control code should work. But, many security plugins also limit MIME types, so it might be related to that.

But, my GD bbPress Toolbox Pro https://plugins.dev4press.com/gd-bbpress-toolbox/ has MIME Types control alowing you to add new types and limit upload to select types.

Problem is that WordPress checks actual MIME Type for files, so if the extension is not registered with the file’s real MIME Type, it will fail. If you have archive that you connect to text file MIME, it will fail, because WP uses PHP function to read file MIME if possible.

Milan

[Robin W]

also read

How to Fix the “Sorry, This File Type Is Not Permitted for Security Reasons” Error in WordPress

might be worth trying one of the plugins?

[johnnyontheweb]

I’d suggest you raise a ticket in bbpress attachments

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gd-bbpress-attachments/

Done, I hope this will help to find a solution. By now, many thanks for your help.

[Robin W]

I’ve had a quick look, but could spend the rest of Christmas looking in code

I’d suggest you raise a ticket in bbpress attachments

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gd-bbpress-attachments/

[Robin W]

have a look at this

https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/44777/upload-mimes-filter-has-no-effect

seems maybe you can only have one text/plain entry?

the types are listed in

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

and maybe try

add_filter( 'upload_mimes', 'wpse44777_upload_mimes' );
function wpse44777_upload_mimes( $mime_types )
{
    // First we unregister the old key
    unset( $mime_types['txt|asc|c|cc|h'] );

    // Then we add a new one
    ! isset( $mime_types['txt|asc|c|cc|h|nvn'] ) AND $mime_types['txt|asc|c|cc|h|nvn'] = 'text/plain';

    return $mime_types;
}

[Chuckie]

I thought I would widen this out to the broader community too.

I started my query here:

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/showing-download-counts/

Would it be possible to display the number of times an attachment has been downloaded in parentheses? This is for the GD Attachments Plugin.

[jimandms]

Hello all, this is probably a strange request but what the hell, I will give it a shot…

My site is not live yet, it is at https://jimandms.com/ running the latest version of BuddyPress, bbPress and WordPress. I keep them all updated…

Anyway, I have added some posts to the forum. Just general housekeeping stuff mostly. And the complete post shows in my feed on my homepage as well as in the forum. Ideally, I would not want anything to show on the home screen when a forum post is made. I want to keep the two separate to a certain extent.

Or if this cannot be done, then a short blurb about the post with a link to the forum would be acceptable. As it is right now, it shows on the newsfeed as I said and you get a read more on the post and when you click it it shows the whole post.

Anyone have any ideas about how to accomplish this? I checked all of the settings and I didn’t see anything that would help but it is always possible that I missed something.

Thanks for reading!
Jim

[Robin W]

ok so you’ll need to work through what capabilities let this happen

bbPress User Roles and Capabilities

Roles and Capabilities

and then amend these for what you want

[renegade1]

Hello,
I’m trying to merge two topics together. I select the topic to merge into, press the submit button, then an empty page opens with the message “A variable mismatch has been detected”.

I’m using
Wordpress 5.3.2
bbPress 2.6.3
on my site http://www.renegadeskutr.cz/forums/forum/srazy-a-akce/

I also tried editing a topic, pinning/unpinning, etc. and these functions work properly.

It seems this is a common issue with many plugins since WordPress 5.0.1. I googled and found many topics with the same issue from other plugins. Apparently “WordPress checks if GET and POST inputs match and, in case of mismatch, it throws the error.”
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-variable-mismatch-has-been-detected-6/page/4/

How can I fix the problem?

[Robin W]

I’m pretty sure this is WordPress not bbpress, so you are looking at WordPress admin vs subscriber rather than bbpress keymaster vs. participant.

You don’t say how you added the capability

eg

https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-add-additional-file-types-to-be-uploaded-in-wordpress/

anyway I’d suggest you do some tests eg set up a user with

admin and participant
subscriber and keymaster

and see which is preventing upload

[Barry]

Hey there @wproyal,

Do you happen to be using the GetShopped Support Forums plugin? The reason I ask is I see hooks or functions in the error message you shared as follows:

bbps_lock_to_author

bbps_get_all_premium_topic_ids

The bbps_* prefix is used by the plugin I mentioned (though it’s entirely possible it is also used by other plugins). So, a good starting point toward resolving this could be to temporarily deactivate that plugin, if you can, and see if things clear up.

If that does fix things and you still need this plugin, perhaps a good immediate step would be thinking about what recently changed to introduce the problem (an update either to it or to bbPress itself? A change in some custom code someplace? A settings change?) and then think about ways to roll back.

Of course, you could also reach out to the author/support team for the GetShopped plugin and see if they can offer help with this 🙂