[Jared Atchison]

Lynq this is the second awesome theme like this you’ve done. When we get cracking on 2.4 I’d love for you to give us a hand and your expertise with #1958 🙂

[Jared Atchison]

Hmm, would you mind adding this to bbPress trac? https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/

[Manny Fleurmond]

I ran into this messing around with a fresh install of bbpress installed on WordPress 3.5. Basically if you follow these steps, you can cause a forum’s permalink to get stuck in a redirect loop:

Create a category
Create a forum
Make the category the parent of the forum
Trash the category without removing the forum as a child
Go to the forum edit page and update it with no parent selected

After doing this the permalink of the forum becomes an infinite redirect loop and you’ll get an error from your server and browser. When you get the error screen, your browser should show the old permalink that includes the category slug, even though the new permalink shouldn’t have it. The bad part is that even if you untrash the category and make it the parent of the forum again, the redirect loop stays the same. This also makes the slug of said forum unusable.

I did this by accident and then was able to reproduce using the previously mentioned steps. Just wanted to let you guys know. Can’t find a way to fix this but to prevent it from occurring, make sure you unlink forums from a category BEFORE you want to delete said category.

[apet083]

Thanks for your reply Stephen. The site is live on Windows Server 2008 with IIS 7.5

All other links seem to work, it is just when people reply to topics that it jumps around…

After resetting permalinks on my dev environment and setting the slugs to the WordPress defaults these are the URLS.

Navigating to a topic from the list of recent topics:
http://localhost/sitename/forums/topic/test-topic/

Navigating to a forum from the list of forums:
http://localhost/sitename/forums/forum/forum-name/

Navigating to a topic after clicking on a forum from above:
http://localhost/sitename/forums/topic/test-topic/ (this is consistent with the first link which is good).

Posting a reply from inside test-topic
http://localhost/sitename/forums/forum/forum-name/#post-158293

Posting a reply from http://localhost/sitename/forums/topic/test-topic/#post-158277:
http://localhost/sitename/sitename/forums/topic/test-topic/#post-158294

Note that it doubled the sitename ^ but this doesn’t seem to affect it and lands back at the topic which is what I want.

[Stephen Edgar]

Quite sure if you have reset the permalinks as I noted in the previous post if that does not fix it then it is definitely the ‘URL Rewrite’ module settings in IIS. (Thats is if you have it installed as you do need it for rewrites with IIS)

The easiest Windows option is to use the Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Web PI) and follow the guide outlined here:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Easy_5_Minute_WordPress_Installation_on_Windows
http://www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/wordpress.aspx

If you are manually installing IIS, MySQL & PHP then you have some work ahead of you getting your environment configured correctly and need to make sure you have the ‘URL Rewrite’ module installed and working with IIS http://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/url-rewrite#additionalDownloads

I have not tried any of the ‘WAMP’ (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) packages referenced here but that is another option.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#WAMP

[Stephen Edgar]

Your topic replies URL should be displaying in the format:

http://localhost/sitename/forum/topic/butterflies/#post-158277

When I set my bbPress settings to the same settings you use above these are the URL’s:

Forums base: forum (Note: Default bbPress setting is ‘forums’)
Topics base: topics (Note: Default bbPress setting ‘topics’)
Forum Prefix ticked (Note: Default bbPress setting ‘ticked/checked’)
Forum slug: forums (Note: Default bbPress setting is ‘forum’)
Topic slug: topic (Note: Default bbPress setting ‘topic’)

http://localhost/sitename/forum/forums/butterflies/

http://localhost/sitename/forum/topic/test-topic/

http://localhost/sitename/forum/topic/butterflies/#post-158277

I would try resetting your permalinks. In your WordPress Administration Screens navigate to Settings > Permalinks, select a different permalink structure and save. Then select your preferred permalink structure and save again.

If you have no luck I would read up on the LAMP/MAMP (Linux/Mac, Apache, MySQL, PHP) package you are using on what settings are needed for mod_rewrite to work on your local machine.

There are also a few (and a few broken links here) installing WordPress Locally
https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Installation_Techniques#Installing_WordPress_Locally

[rixtertrader]

Wordpress Version: 3.5
Theme: Optimize Press
Plugins: WishList Member v2.71 and bbPress v2.2.3
=====================================================

Greetings!

I’ve been tackling this problem for so long now that my mind is turning to mush. I really need some direction on this…please?

Task: My site contains static PAGES for subscribers to view/download content. I have also created some PAGES that are to be DISCUSSION pages, where each PAGE deals with just ONE (1) topic only.

Example: On my site you have a PAGE called FORUM DISCUSSIONS. On this page you will find 4 links representing the TOPICS.

TOPIC ONE
TOPIC TWO
TOPIC THREE
TOPIC FOUR

If you click on the link TOPIC ONE, you arrive at the TOPIC ONE PAGE. Here, I would like to allow my members to post their questions, comments, and even embed a picture if they wish.

Each member that posts on this PAGE would see their comment show up at the very top, pushing previous posts down the page. And of course, the member name, date and time of post is important for each post made.

While I know how to create a PAGE where I want a specific TOPIC discussed (and only that TOPIC), I don’t know how to give it the ability I just described above (allow users to post, include picture, have it show up at the top, etc.)

I’m thinking this is not difficult but I can’t seem to find the answers to my specific needs. I do not want my members creating the topics. I don’t want all the other fluff that shows how many members there are, how many are online, or any other additional information. Just a simple editor box to create the post, and for that post to show up at the top of the PAGE.

Can this be done?

Thank you in advance!

🙂

[krioteh]

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[erwinodendaal]

I have the “Members”-plugin installed. After updating bbPress and changing all roles of the users from “(wordpress-)”participants” into “subscribers”, the “participant”-roles of bbPress were empty. Now all subscribers can participate in the private forums. Not what I’ve had in mind…

But in my functions.php I have a script to notify users of their updated capabilities. It starts with:
function user_role_update( $user_id, $new_role ) {
if($new_role == 'bbp_participant') {

But that doesn’t seem to work anymore. Did the name of the bbPress participant role change? Will
function user_role_update( $user_id, $new_role ) {
if($new_role == 'participant') {

work?

[Lynq]

If you want to do it yourself then I would recommend looking here first: https://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development – It tells you a bit about getting to grips with wordpress themes in general and then you can move onto bbPress which sits inside your wordpress theme.

Good luck.

[Lynq]

Have you done much editing with wordpress templates? You will need to edit the bbPress template files to move the make new topic button, or do what I did and add in a new button which scrolls you down using jquery.

[Lynq]

I downloaded the latest version of bbPress and the latest version of wordpress, did a local install probably only 5 days ago at max and then re created it using the functions from my teamoverpowered.com site.

[erwinodendaal]

I guess my problem that subscribers/forum participants after the update of bbPress 2.2 can no longer edit their profile page (and all subscribers/participants before could) are a result of the incompatibility of bbPress and the Members plugin?
Do I still need the Members plugin now that the roles for WordPress and bbPress are no longer one?

[Stephen Edgar]

Firstly, I am currently looking for feedback on the vBulletin importer and there have been reports that users do not get imported correctly, did your users get imported correctly?

eg. Migrating vBulletin 4.0.4 to bbPress 2.2.3 and bug tracking ticket #1991.

What version of vBulletin and bbPress are you using?

I personally don’t have access to vBulletin so I haven’t been able to test much of anything relating to vBulletin basically so helping out with your .htaccess would also be a bit of hit and miss.

Stack Exchange has some great examples of rewrites

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/.htaccess+mod-rewrite
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/mod-rewrite

This is one of my favourites even though it is not specific to any of your needs here it is a good example of mod_rewrite regex rules.

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4318171/how-to-regex-and-htaccess-rewrite-url

A couple of other resources to help along the way:

• htaccess tester
• An In Depth Guide to mod_rewrite for Apache
• reFiddle regex expression testing

[Lynq]

Download the Zip from github and then unzip it into your wordpress theme. It will take care of the rest.

Good luck!

[Hansaplastique]

Thanks Stephen – and here I thought the “code” button would do that for me 😉
I’ll paste the code again, as you can see I removed some buttons (that have no purpose anyway) and added some …


add_filter('tiny_mce_before_init', 'tinymce_other_css_for_content');

function bbp_mce_override( $args = array() ) {
$args['teeny'] = false;
return $args;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_after_get_the_content_parse_args', 'bbp_mce_override' );

if (!is_super_admin()) // remove/add buttons for non admins
{
function add_tinymce_buttons($buttons)
{
$arr_size=count($buttons);
$remove_these=array('blockquote','wp_adv','fullscreen','wp_more');

for ($counter=$arr_size; $counter>=0; $counter--)
{
if ( in_array($buttons[$counter],$remove_these) )
{
unset($buttons[$counter]);
}
}

array_push($buttons,'separator','cut','copy','paste','separator','undo','redo','separator','sub','sup','forecolor','backcolor','charmap');

return $buttons;
}

function add_tinymce_buttons_2($buttons)
{
unset($buttons);
return $buttons;
}

add_filter('mce_buttons', 'add_tinymce_buttons');
add_filter('mce_buttons_2', 'add_tinymce_buttons_2');
}


For some of these to work I had to expand the allowed_tags in WordPress (be carefull when doing this) using the following code;


function my_allowed_html_tags_in_comments() {
define('CUSTOM_TAGS', true);
global $allowedtags;

$allowedtags = array(
'a' => array(
'href' => array (),
'title' => array ()),
'blockquote' => array(
'cite' => array ()),
'cite' => array (),
'code' => array(),
'em' => array(),
'strong' => array(),
'pre' => array(
'class' => array()),
'p' => array(
'style' => array()),
'span' => array(
'style' => array()),
'sup' => array(),
'sub' => array()
);
}

add_action('init', 'my_allowed_html_tags_in_comments', 10);


Hope it’s helpful to someone 🙂

[Prometheus Fire]

I can report that I’m experiencing the same issue that TranThe is experiencing. Many users, once they get logged in are getting 404 errors.

I can’t seem to figure it out. It does not seem to be entirely user role related and doesn’t seem to effect all the users, but I have a number of users and a testing account that get a 404 error.

I see TranThe’s fix above, but that seems pretty drastic, I’m not in a position to re-install WordPress and rebuild the database yet because of this. I’m running BBpress on the mainsite of a multisite install that hosts nearly 100 websites. His fix is great for a single site, but for me that’s a major operation, my database is huge.

[Prometheus Fire]

I’ve been following the updates to user roles in BBpress, but I think I’ve got a problem that may actually be a bug.

My setup is WP 3.5 multisite with BuddyPress. I have BBpress activated only on the main site. It’s not available to the subsites at all.

It seems however, that network members are being added to the subsites with the user role of participants. It doesn’t happen on all the sites, but I haven’t been able to narrow it down to what and why.

Generally speaking, the users don’t need to be added to the subsites since they are all just blogs anyhow and buddypress handles all the networking stuff associated with that. The issue is that the user’s My Sites menu in the WordPress admin bar for all those user seems to continually proliferate with with websites as they get added to them. It doesn’t seem to be a situation where the user visits the site and gets added as a participant (note, they are not added as a subscriber). The issues does not effect the Sites tab of the user’s BP profile. It is only the menu bar.

I keep getting messages from users saying that they aren’t users of the other members blogs but they keep showing up in the list. If this is intended, it creates a rather awkward user experience, and how do I turn it off? If its not intended, say so and I’ll create a trac ticket.

[Rasheed Bydousi]

It is a known problem:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2047#comment:2

[ough]

After upgrading from WordPress 3.4.2 to 3.5 and bbPress from 2.1.2 to 2.2.3. The private forums are inaccessible for both admin and regular users.

I am using the Twenty Eleven theme. I also tried with the new Twenty Twelve theme, same thing.

Any ideas?
Thanks

[Lynq]

I am not sure of any plugins, but you could create one.

You could use the post_publish action – https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/publish_post

And then check the post type using https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_singular and then the email after grabbing the contents of the topic that was just posted.

Good luck! 🙂

[Tareq Hasan]

I am running the latest WordPress and bbPress. Few days back everything was ok. But somehow I am noticing that when making new replies, it’s not showing up in frontend single topic display. It’s showing up after few hours I guess. But it’s normally showing in admin area. There is no caching plugin installed.

Some weird behaviour:
1. The reply count is showing on topic list page. But not showing on single topic.

2. Showing on widget, but their order is not right.

Not sure whats coming wrong.

[Stephen Edgar]

I am currently looking for feedback on the vBulletin importer and this issue has been raised previously in our bug tracking #1991.

At the moment I am working on updating all the forum importers for the next major release of bbPress and waiting and seeking feedback from more users as this still appears broken for some and not others but as I don’t have access to vBulletin myself I cannot test this directly myself, let alone the different versions etc

I would be more than happy to take a look at this for you and make any fixes as needed.

Drop me an email to stephen@netweb.com.au and we can discuss it further.

[AllenPayne]

I would like to add that it the Ultimate TinyMCE editor works well with wordpress posts…It just doesn’t work with bbpress anymore (after last update).

[JuaninLAdP]

The actual problem that I have is that participants can set a topic’s attribute using the WordPress Administration Screen. Is there a way to remove this feature from participants?