[Stephen Edgar]

Could you create a ticket/bug report on Trac with detailed reproduction steps so we can look into this please.

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

[Stephen Edgar]

Create a ticket on trac https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/

[Stephen Edgar]

From https://codex.bbpress.org/widgets/

Register URI: Link to your custom signup page eg. A WordPress page using the [bbp-register] shortcode.
Lost Password URI: Link to your lost-password page eg. A WordPress page using the [bbp-lost-pass] shortcode.

[Stephen Edgar]

Try resetting your permalinks : WordPress dashboard go to Settings -> Permalinks

https://codex.bbpress.org/faq/#troubleshooting

• This reply was modified 13 years, 3 months ago by Stephen Edgar. Reason: Added FAQ link

[pcgs51]

I just installed bbPress to a single install of WordPress. I found the bbPress login widget. But how do I determine the register/lost password URI to set it up?

[digitalXCESS]

Can I just ask is bbPress compatible with WordPress 3.4.1 and Buddypress Version 1.6.1?

I’m having a nightmare installing bbpress, i’ve setup many forums before using software such as phpbb and even with all the file editing, database changes etc – it was never this difficult 🙁

I’ve followed the guides with various levels of success, sometimes I get ‘unauthorised to view this page’ sometimes I get no link to the forum page – sometimes I get a page with no forum topics.

So, just wondered if I’m wasting my time? lol

[witwolf]

I know this is almost 7 months later, but i need some help.

Not seeing all forums created

[Radyium]

Hi everybody, i use :
bbpress 2.1.2
wordpress 3.4.1

Situation :
Forum_1
Topic_1
Post_1
Post_2
Post_3

Question :
If i want to reply in the topic_1, i write my comment and i submit the reply. The new reply will be append on the topic_1 after Post_3.
Now i would like allow to reply to a specific post, for exemple i would like reply on Post_2, the new reply will between Post_2 and Post_3.

Can we do that natively on bbpress ? i can’t find, or i need a plugin, if need it, which one ?

[amunds]

I`m not sure how familiar you are with WordPress and PHP, I consider myself a novice in PHP but well-versed in WordPress. It might be a bit technical and it might be the wrong way to do things, but here is how I quickly put it together.

Open functions.php in your theme.
Add the following function to the file (within the PHP tags):

function bbp_get_user_replies( $user_id = 0 ) {

// Validate user
$user_id = bbp_get_user_id( $user_id );
if ( empty( $user_id ) )
    return false;

// Query defaults
$default_query = array(
    'author'         => $user_id,
    'show_stickies'  => false,
    'order'          => 'DESC',
);

// Try to get the topics
$query = bbp_has_replies( $default_query );
if ( empty( $query ) )
    return false;

return apply_filters( 'bbp_get_user_replies', $query, $user_id );
}

Then to list the replies just add to whatever page you want to list them:

As you can see this is basically the same code as the bbp_get_user_topics_started function, just modified to get the replies instead.

If anyone have a better solution I`d love to hear it.

[Robert]

I would like to force specific topic tags on all topics in a forum. For example, if the forum name is Forum 1, I would like any topics created to automatically include the tags “tag a and tag b”. If the forum name is Forum 2, I would like any topics created to automatically include the tags “tag b and tag c”. Is this possible and if so, how can it be implemented? Thank you for your time and consideration, Robert WordPress version: 3.4.1 bbPress version: 2.1.2

• This topic was modified 13 years, 3 months ago by Robert.
• This topic was modified 13 years, 3 months ago by Robert.

[MTPrower]

I’m going to explode, here.

You’re kidding me, right? Who or what are you getting defensive about? I’m not even TALKING about that! We can already DO exactly what I’m talking about inside a normal page with only several single-forum shortcodes! The problem is, because of breadcrumbs not linking to the new page I can create for that, I can’t use a different page. I have to use the .php page that is the forum-index.

Let me make this as simple as humanly possible. This is all I want on my “forums index”: what you get when you put the following into a page:

[bbp-single-forum id=$forum_id-1]

[bbp-single-forum id=$forum_id-2]

[bbp-single-forum id=$forum_id-3]

Let’s assume those are the id’s of forums of my choosing. In this case, those are the id’s of my three top-level categories. Whatever you get when posting those three shortcodes into one page is EXACTLY what I want as my forums index page. (By the way, all other forums systems already look like this. And don’t assume that everyone likes bbPress’ current index page, which is the only index page of its kind. That is speculation.)

That is all. Nothing more. We can do it on a single page or post, so I know we can do it on a .php file.

And finally, don’t be smart with me. bbPress is the only forums system that integrates with WordPress as well as it does. To have a multimedia site with a completely separate forums is to KILL YOUR SITE. I understand why, if your forums isn’t the landing page of your site, you MUST have full integration between your site and forums in order to keep traffic. That is why I can’t use things other than bbPress.

If you’re going to respond to me, at least read the first post. Just reading the latest two posts isn’t going to give you enough info to respond well without annoying the poster. Please, for the love of god…

[amunds]

Wordpress: 3.4.1.
BBPress: 2.1.2.
Site: http://www.prototype-gw2.com/forums/
Happens with default themes as well: Yes.

Hi, I`ve set up a BBPress install without much trouble, however there is some odd behaviour with private forums, namely they keep disappearing when I make changes to the forum. I use the recent topics widget, and the forums and posts are listed there as they should.

My setup is the following: 1 private category with 2 private forums. If I make 1 forum public I still can not see any forums. If I make 2 forums public I can see both forums.

Now if I make the category public and each of the forums private I can see the forums, however this time it says 0 topics and 0 replies and Freshness is “No topics” in the header. The topics and replies for the forum name is still correct though.

Am I doing something wrong or is there a bug in the permission system? If so, is there anything I can do to help resolve it?

[SlimTrigger]

Hello,
I am also completely new to wordpress and bbpress, and have a similar, if not identical, question.
I successfully installed wordpress and created a new blog – it still only has the original home page and sample page.
I then successfully installed bbpress, and created a forum. I can view the forum through the link on the Dashboard, which also shows me the website name for the forum.
But my issue is this – neither the home page nor the sample page have any hyperlink to forums – so the reader of the home page has no idea that a forum exists, or how to access the forum.

Can you please point me to instructions as to how to get links to my forum on the other pages of my website??

Thanks very much

[miguelcortereal]

A subdomain is a good idea to ease a lot of extra configurations to keep your forum private from the other site members.

When opening the forums use attributes (private, hidden) and give your members the matching privileges so that a stranger to the site that happens to visit it don’t see what’s going on.

On your WordPress dashboard (subdomain install) at Options –> Privacy block search engines other wise you will have your forums at google listings and other search engines listings.

If you just want those people debating around subjects bbpress is all you need.
If want them to debating on several subjects, and iteracting between them one to one or one to many, maybe buddypress should be better choice and leave bbpress.

Concerning to have your site locked to outsiders there are plugins for that.

[kpolkson]

Hi all,

thanks for making such an easy forum solution, I’ve been quite pleased with how much functionality comes right out of the box.

Though I am getting confused when it comes to best practices for making some typical theme customizations so that I can keep a custom look with future updates of bbpress.

At this time, I am really only trying to change font styles and sizes and some of the coloring and minor layout items with how the forum renders to match my custom wordpress theme (built off of HTML5 boilerplate).

I’ve reviewed:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-2-0-theme-compatibility/ &

http://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

but, I don’t feel like it helped and am not sure if things have already changed since those have been written. either that or i am just lost in the number of files that seem to control the theme in bbpress with the added bbp-theme-compat files.

For instance, i am told to copy over everything from bbpress/bbp-theme-compat/bbpress directory, yet none of those files include the bbp-theme-compat/css files. which is what I will probably doing the most modification of (right?)

Then it says to copy over the bbpress/extras directory (optionally), but all I can find is the bbpress/bbp-theme-compat/extras directory, is this what was meant?

Again, really just want to make minor style changes that universally affect the bbpress fonts and colors, yet still want to specifically target those bbpress items.

Might increase the complexity of the customization, but right now just want to start small and use bbpress best practices so that I don’t lose my customization when upgrading anything.

thanks

[Paul]

Profile pictures are a WordPress setting, not specifically bbpress. WordPress calls profile pictures ‘Avatars’ and you will find the settings for Avatars under the ‘Discussion’ link under ‘Settings’ on the Admin Dashboard.

By default WordPress does not allow users to upload their own Avatars to your WordPress website but instead uses a third party host called Gravatar. If you want your uses to upload directly to wordpress then you will need to install a plugin that allows them to do this. Search in the plugin directory on wordpress.org for ‘avatar’. I am currently evaluating Add Local Avatar for the the site I manage, seems to work OK.

[jtbw911]

When creating a new forum using the bbPress plugin, I am able to preview it, which shows it using a link such as “http://support.website.com/wordpress/?post_type=forum&p=58&preview=true”. However, after publishing and attempting to “View Forum”, I get the following 404

---

Not Found

The requested URL /wordpress/forums/forum/knowledge-base/ was not found on this server.

---

I have enabled permalinks, as you can see.

I don’t believe this has anything to do with any other plugins I am using; however, I am willing to post what those are if necessary.

Any assistance with this would be greatly appreciated.

[streidl]

Hello,

I would like to restrict the topic content to certain user roles, so that subscribers and non-logged-in user can see the topics inside the forum, but when they click on the topic, they get a message “for premium members only”. This doesn’t work with private or hidden forums, because I want them to see the topics they are missing… 😉

I installed the latest bbpress plugin 2.1.2, WordPress 3.4.1, and Members 0.2

Editing the Subscribers role, I tried to add a Capability filter “bbp_get_topic_content” and disabled it, but that didn’t work (it disappeared, so doesn’t seem to be the correct capability).

Any idea, how I can achieve that?

Thanks

[eightbitmagnets]

First and foremost, I am very new to bbPress and fairly inexperienced at PHP. If the solution to my problem is simple, I apologize in advance.

I would like for the homepage to display full-text recent topics, but not all recent topics–only ones that I want there. I think I would like only topics with a specific tag to display on the homepage. Is that possible?

If not, I would be okay creating a single forum dedicated for this purpose, so that every topic created within that forum gets displayed on the homepage. If that is a simpler option, I would like to know how to implement it.

Thank you greatly.

I am using WordPress 3.4.1, bbPress 2.1.2, and BuddyPress 1.6.1.

[Beastmode]

Hello guys,

I’m new to wordpress and bbpress and started to learning it today. I recently installed wp which succeeded and added bbpress through the plugin tab on the admin page. I installed WP on my root page so how do i access my forums via typing in the linkbar in any browser?

I’ve browsed for a solution before i decided to make a topic and I’m very lost. Also the bbpress forums http://bbpress.org/forums/, how would I organize mine with the forum category on the left side and latest topics in the middle?

Thanks very much in advance.

[selise]

i have yet to test this, but it appears that the answer to my question above is ‘yes’…. with the plugin bbPress Topics for Posts by David Dean:

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

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-bbpress-topics-for-posts-export-post-comments-to-new-topic

[Will Earnhardt]

I’ve seen numerous threads on this very subject for the last few years and JJJ has been posting the same response every time. It more or less says “This is the way it is. If you don’t like it, come up with your own solution.”

I understand his reasoning for saying that’s just the way it is, but IMO, I wouldn’t have released this product with the URLs in this format. How can a topic be considered part of a forum, yet the URL not represent that?

This is the logical structure. (assuming everything exists in a forums subdirectory):

Viewing a Single Forum:

domain.com/forums/forum-name/

Viewing a Thread (or topic):

domain.com/forums/forum-name/thread-name

With comments being this or something similar:

domain.com/forums/forum-name/thread-name#comment-35

.

This is what we actually get.

Viewing a Single Forum:

domain.com/forums/forum/forum-name

Then click on a Single Thread:

domain.com/forums/topic/thread-name

You lose all acknowledgement that you were in a particular forum. It’s like the threads are just floating about aimlessly…not attached to anything in particular.

If BBPress operated like WordPress, Let’s say that “Forums” are “Categories” and “Topics” are “Posts”. Well, with WordPress, you can set your permalinks to read:

domain.com/category-name/post-name/

So why not be able to do that with BBPress? The problem is that in order to get all of the various settings applied to both Forums and Topics, they have both been created as separate Custom Post Types. The individual Posts in Topics simply have a custom field that ties them to a specific Forum.

Now, I haven’t tested this at all, but in theory it may be possible to tap into some WordPress action and filter hooks and create our own rewrite rules to fix what I see as the biggest flaw with BBPress. I found a thread on another site recently where the user used a custom field value to generate the permalink for a custom post type. That seems to me would be exactly what we need to do here. If I can get some free time, I’ll see if I can get it working and maybe build a plugin to handle it.

[killix]

the link to the site is http://www.geniushow.com/forums/forum/announcements/ wordpress and bbPress are up to date i have tried it on twentyten and still didnt work. Im not sure what more info i can include to be honnest i set up the site and the pages are just blank white?
Thanks.

[pranaya]

can someone look into my website and tell me what to do with the right sidebar?? its really frustrating…

[pranaya]

Hi I am using wp 3.4.1 and using bbpress plugin for the forum. However I am trying to install a new theme but dunno how to start. I have already downloaded a new theme [derleth-bright] , just need a little bit of nudge on my head how to implement this.

And also as I am using the wordpress plugin for the bbpress forum , can someone tell me how to make it full-width page. Its by default coming as a post which includes also the author name, creation time etc. which I also dont want.

Can someone help me?

my website: atCampus