[Halo Diehard]

Hey guys, just searching around and trying to find answers on another issue I’m having with setting up bbPress w/ BuddyPress on two different sites. Users on both sites are having trouble posting – – if they’re using Chrome. Thing is, apparently most of them are! If they switch to another browser, they can post.

Any direction you can send me in to try and learn more so I can remedy this would be appreciated, thanks.

Versions etc:

WordPress 3.8.1
bbPress 1.0.4
BuddyPress 1.9.2

Theme: Custom Community

I’ve tried it with all plugins deactivated except bbPress and BuddyPress and the problem persists.

[Robin W]

what capabilities do you need for the other role?

see

https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-user-roles-and-capabilities/

It’s quite east to add, just let me know what you need.

On ranking, you can have no. posts quite easily using

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-topic-count/

[Stephen Edgar]

I cannot replicate this with just bbPress active

Make sure that ‘Jerusalem’ isn’t in the WordPress bad words list

WordPress Dashboard -> Settings -> Discussion (/wp-admin/options-discussion.php)

[Robin W]

‘Sorry still newbie to all these codes thing 🙂 ‘ – Don’t worry I was there only last year, you’ll soon pick it up.

Start with

https://codex.wordpress.org/Functions_File_Explained

So you need to add this to your theme’s function file.

If you are using a main theme, then any updates to the theme may overwrite your addutions, so a child theme is better. However if you put it in your main theme, just keep a note of the changes so that you can add them back if needbe.

Ideally you should create a child theme – google ‘child theme videos’ and you’ll see how to create this – it is very simple, and just lets you ‘add stuff’ to your main theme without any risk of losing it.

Have fun !

[Robin W]

Try

function annointed_admin_bar_remove() {
        global $wp_admin_bar;

        /* Remove their stuff */
        $wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('wp-logo');
}

add_action('wp_before_admin_bar_render', 'annointed_admin_bar_remove', 0);

(stolen from the wordpress support forum, so haven’t tested)

[batmanfan]

Robin, you are a champion. I never knew this feature exist. good job!

by the way, the top of the page display tools incl new forum/topic and reply. That’s great. But how to hide the ‘WordPress’ icon on the top left corner? because the wp icon has links to ‘about wp’ document, feedback etc. I’d like to hide that too if possible.

Thanks again. You are very helpful.

[Robin W]

I’ve not used it, but try

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-social-network/

and please come back and let us know if it does what it says !

[batmanfan]

How to set up permission access? i.e. I am admin but want to set up another ‘admin’ or ‘moderator’ person to manage the forum (just the forum), therefore he/she will manage everything on the forum side, including create/modify/delete forum or topic, but he/she can’t access or edit the wordpress backend which include install/delete pages/post or any plugin.

How to set this up or give permission? thanks.

[Stephen Edgar]

I have yet to look closely at the code in each of the following plugin (I’m scared of Javascript, jQuery and AJAX ;)) though they might be a good starter for the functionality you are after.

bbPress – Ajax Replies and bbPress – Ajax Topics

[KWMHoldingsLLC]

My bbPress site will be a network of people, many that already have their own wordpress sites.
I want an option or plugin so that when a user creates a blog post on his own site- it will auto post to BB Press as well. Just like there are plugins to post from WordPress to Facebook.
Does this exist?

Another idea would be allowing the user to add an RSS feed to his profile and get the latest content from that rss feed.

[Robin W]

Just put an add in

http://jobs.wordpress.net/

you’ll find lots of takers

[Daniel J. Lewis]

I would love to see this accept shortcodes, too. And it looks like I’m not the only one.

[Stephen Edgar]

Basically take your original idea of using comments though substitute part of that idea with replies (or topics if you wanted new topics).

bbPress has ‘mirror’ functions of WordPress for most things, if you could programmatically do ‘xyz’ with a comment in WordPress you can do the same ‘xyz’ function with a topic or reply in bbPress.

Thats the easy bit by saying that, so either start reading our codex on what these functions are or look to hire a programmer who can do that for you. https://codex.bbpress.org/

[Stephen Edgar]

This started dues to an issue when importing from phpBB. If a user had depeted their own account on a phpBB forum, phpBB didn’t reattribute the post author to a different author, rather just removed the account from being able to login etc. phpBB stores the author name alongside each topic and reply so once said author has been deleted you have the option to also not delete the users topics or replies and when viewing said topic the original author’s name will still be attributed to the topic or reply.

The goal was then to bbPress support this as when you import from a phpBB if the user doesn’t exist then we wouldn’t create a new user and as seen above if the user doesn’t exist then each topic and reply is attributed to the ‘Anonymous’ user.

Over in bbPress Trac Ticket #2347 we came up with a solution.

If you take a look at the patch I currently have sitting there (Keep in mind the current ‘Example.php’ customised importer you are using)

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/2347/2347.diff

The first part in the phpBB.php section I added parts to import the topics user name, the replies username and then added a flag on the user that was being imported _bbp_phpbb_user_type. That gets enough of the data that we need into the WordPress database to enable us to manipulate that once the data has been imported.

So at the moment if your Lotus DB has these details already attached to the topics and replies then adding this to your custom import would be the first step.

Firstly in regards to Anonymous users in bbPress, an anonymous user CAN have a username and/or display and this is stored in wp_postmeta table as _bbp_anonymous_name and is what my comments in my previous reply were alluding to.

Next up I added a new Repair Tool to basically post process this imported data, I create a query that joins all the topics data from wp_posts and wp_postmeta along with the topics old phpBB stored username. Once all that is in a SQL result table each topic that is by an ‘anonymous’ author is then updated to change the _bbp_anonymous_name associated with that particular topics store phpBB topic author name. Then the same process is repeated for each reply.

So now we have deleted, closed, spammed users that were deleted or deactivated in some way form the legacy phpBB forum but the topics and replies were never deleted to keep the context of the original discussions.

These are now all anonymous users in WordPress/bbPress but actually have the original display name/ user name keeping that same original context.

So that is my theory I was getting to, make each of your imported Lotus users an anonymous user using their old original user/display name to keep that context of conversation.

Now this is why you don’t need to worry about email addresses nor passwords as the accounts are not actual accounts just placeholders of the names from the original discussion.

The next part of the puzzle is when your users now sign up to reactivate and participate in the new bbPress they are free to create there account, choose their username, customise their profile, pick a password, use any email address they choose etc etc.

And the final part is now ‘Joe Blogs’ has created a new account on your site we just need a tool that will reattribute the posts currently under the anonymous user account ‘Joe Blogs’ to the now active user ‘Joe Blogs’ and the job is done. You can currently do just that with the standard WordPress User administration to delete a user and then reattribute that users posts to another user during the delete process. We just go and tweak that process to also allow/mimic/recreate that process to be able to reattribute the anonymous ‘Joe Blogs’ topics and replies to now active user ‘Joe Blogs’.

So how’s all that sound? Clear as mud?

I wrote another ‘post import’ repair tool yesterday that I had planned on integrating with the above tool today but time got away from me so hopefully I’ll have time in the morning to do this and will keep the scenario I outlined above in mind so it can be used for more than just imported phpBB forums and can be extended for other imported forums and custom imports.

[Stephen Edgar]

Essentially you want a WordPress theme that works well on mobile (I haven’t looked at your site) and once that is sorted then replicate the CSS media queries that the theme uses for posts/pages etc for your bbPress templates.

To get started modifying your CSS check out the codex docs https://codex.bbpress.org/

[Stephen Edgar]

It can be done with just WordPress and bbPress but is not a good experience as basically we only have partial support thus far and a fair amount of work needs to be done to have it work ‘out of the box’

Checkout Pippin’s ‘Restrict Content Pro’ and his bbPress extension along with S2Member and Members. Those three seem to be quite popular though I have limited experience with any of them 😉

https://wordpress.org/plugins/restrict-content-pro-bbpress/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/s2member/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/members/

[Stephen Edgar]

Yes, the issue is fixed and will be released as part of WordPress 3.9 on 16th April.

If you want to implement the fix yourself without waiting those 13 days you can grab the code from here and it it to your Twenty Fourteen themes style.css.

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/27587

EDIT: With or without the shortcodes it only works with the above patch.

[Stephen Edgar]

I just had a quick look and I’d say the following thread has some tips and suggestions.

https://wordpress.org/ideas/topic/default-links-to-open-in-new-window-ie-target-_blank

I am also of the belief that target=_blank is not a good thing at all, I’ll happily call out people using it and not return to their site because they use it, and I know I am far from the only person with this opinion.

[SauLustig]

I am facing the same issue!

The embed YouTube Video width is cracking my page
As far as I can see its embed with 920px

Nothing seems to work here!

What I already tried is to add
if ( ! isset( $content_width ) ) $content_width = 500;
to the functions.php of the Theme!

Here are some information about my settings:
WordPress 3.8.1
Theme Graphene
bbPress 2.5.3-5249
bbPress-Columnmode : One Column

Can anyone please help me out here?!

[Stephen Edgar]

Thanks, you should let the plugin authors know this so they can update their plugin to fix whatever caused it the issue.

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/nk-google-analytics

[pswanson22]

I am setting up a school web-site and I want to have forums for parents, students and teachers. The first two forums should be open to anyone who is registered, but the Teachers forum needs to be password protected. What is the best way to do this? Plugins like eMember seem to be more set up for paid levels of access, not to having a list of users that can access.

I know it’s possible to set up a password on a regular WordPress page – is this possible for a forum as well? Could I just pick a password, give it to the teachers and be done?

The site is at http://tech.unishanoi.org.

Thanks in advance for helping!

[Robin W]

The issue is not so much the export/import of the forums/topics and replies

This is available in

Dashboard>tools>export and just select what you want to export. The opposite import to get them in.

However if you don’t have the users on the new site, then they cannot be allocated against them. Can’t remember what it does, I think it just allocates them to admin, maybe with an offer of a choice.

there are several plugins that let you move users for instance
https://wordpress.org/plugins/export-user-data/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/import-users-from-csv/

If your into phpmyadmin, you could just move the user tables, but of course that’ll overwrite the new sites, but if they’re just copies, that will be fine.

Back everything up before so you can revert if needbe !

I haven’t directly played with doing this, but suggest you move your users first, the just move the forums, topics and replies

[Piani]

I think I have the same issue here. Strange that the topics is not sorted by #ID ?

Topic 1 last 3 replies:
2014-04-01 kl. 21:17 #395
2014-04-02 kl. 18:40 #445
2014-04-01 kl. 22:31 #402

Topic 2 last 3 replies:
2014-04-01 kl. 13:32 #389
2014-04-02 kl. 18:22 #443
2014-04-01 kl. 22:43 #404

WordPress Versions eg. 3.8.1
bbPress Version eg. 2.5.3
Operating System eg. Linux (Debian)
Web Server eg. Apache
Theme eg. Techism
PHP Version eg. 5.3.28

I can confirm that George Stephanis sollution to deactivating threaded replies in settings solved the problem.

[Majijiboo]

Wordpress version 3.8.1
bbPress version: latest version
Link to site: manupmyhealth.com/locker-room

I used “display: none” for .bbp-topic-voice-count to remove it, and now want to use a larger portion of the table that displays topics to show the content in .bbp-topic-title.

When I set the width to 75% for .bbp-topic-title, the desktop version looks good, but the mobile version looks disoriented. Is there a way to disable responsive design for mobile so people see the desktop version even when they are on a mobile phone?

Also, any thoughts on what to set the width parameter to so .bbp-topic-title takes a larger width in the desktop version and the mobile version will still look good? Thanks.

[Robin W]

it should if you use this plugin

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-genesis-extend/