@Chrisdfr – if you are using the bbPress plugin (i.e. NOT the standalone), I would just download it directly from the WordPress backend by going to mysite.com/wordpress/wp-admin. Then Plugins > Add New > Search for ‘bbPress’ and Install 
I have Bpress intergrated with wordpress. Everytime A new user joins the site the user is added to the forum but there user role is unaasigned. If I go into the bbpress admin and then wordpress intergration and just save the user settings, not change them just save them it updates the new users. Any ideas?
May I ask a simple question ?
I install my wordress here:
mysite.com/wordpress/
To help to the bbpress plugin in wordpress to work. I need to install my bbpress forum here ? :
mysite.com/bbpress/
Or in a new folder here ? :
mysite.com/wordpress/bbpress/
Last, just to be sure:
First, WordPress install
Second, BBpress install
Third, bbpress wordpress plugin install and activation
Right ?
Thank you
Chris.
Hi there,
We are experiencing really odd behavior on our WordPress 3.1.2+bbPress 2 beta 2b installation. People can post replies, but when they edit them, they disappear from the topic. They are, however, still counted towards the “posts in topic”-count, and I can find the posts in the admin console (“Replies”), but they don’t show up in the threads.
If anyone would be able to help me out with this, I would be eternally grateful – we were planning on launching the site by the coming weekend (5th of June, 2011).
Admin-access to the site is of course no problem either.
Here are the settings. It doesn’t matter if I’m logged in as admin or a vanilla user, same problem. And the other problem I have is I can’t post to this forum from FF in my Mac. I’m in a Win7 VM now using IE 9.
Settings are currently restrictive while I sort this out.
Main Settings
Main settings for the bbPress plugin
Lock post editing after 15 minutes
Throttle time 60 seconds
Allow Favorites No Allow users to mark topics as favorites?
Allow Subscriptions No Allow users to subscribe to topics
Allow Anonymous Posting No Allow guest users without accounts to create topics and replies
Per Page
Per page settings for the bbPress plugin
Topics Per Page 15 per page
Replies Per Page 15 per page
Per RSS Page
Per RSS page settings for the bbPress plugin
Topics Per Page 15 per page
Replies Per Page 15 per page
Archive Slugs
Include custom root slugs to prefix your forums and topics with. These can be partnered with WordPress pages to allow more flexibility.
Forums Base forums
Topics Base topics
Single Slugs
You can enter custom slugs for your single forums, topics, replies, and tags URLs here. If you change these, existing permalinks will also change.
Forum Prefix Yes Incude the Forum Base slug in your single forum item links
Forum slug forum
Topic slug topic
Topic tag slug tag
Reply slug reply
User base users
View base view
I’ve just installed the bbPress 2.0-beta-2b in WordPress 3.1.3. Regardless of the browser (FF Mac, FF Win7, IE 6-9) I get the Slow down error, and cannot post.
Here’s a url to the error screen. It offers no clues so I’m hoping you can. I’m happy to provide any info that can help solve this.
http://lampguild.org/images/bbPressError.jpg
Thanks!
@caming – Thanks for taking the time to search around and give it a go on your own. The missing piece to your puzzle can be found at the link below:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
Cheers
i hate asking for help with opensource (free) software, but i can’t seem to resolve this via the issues presented by others. which sucks, because that’s my normal course of action …
my problem: going to mandressed.com/forums results in just the display of my Home page. Choosing to ‘View’ a forum displays the following: mandressed.com/?forum=mandressed-forum
i’m using a wordpress theme developed by another provider (themefuse), and it involves their own framework. and i’ve followed john’s theme compatibility post by doing the following:
-copied all files from bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten into my theme folder (/wp-content/themes/lifestyle), including single-forum file, etc etc, and creating a /bbpress/ folder within it for the single bbpress css, respective js file, etc.
-i am admittedly confused by the ‘modify your style.css to make it a custom child theme of whatever your current theme is.’
maybe that’s the dilemma.
if i’m missing the obvious or you guys can’t respond, that’s cool. normally i have a lightbulb moment and resolve it in time. just asking for some direction.
thanks,
nate
The thing with mod_security is getting it dialed in. Since WordPress traditionally has a limited set of data entry points, I imagine we’ll see more of these issues arise. What surprises me is this hasn’t been an issue for BuddyPress yet, and everything within a BuddyPress site happens from within the theme. Glad you’ve got it sorted out though.
I’ve gone through my fair share of forum transitions and they always manage to upset everyone. Forum software is not unlike any other *thing* in that the person interacting with it gets attached to the way it works at a behavioral level. When you move any 1 thing around, it upsets their workflow, and makes things difficult again. When you move everything around, it’s a nightmare, and rarely do forum users rejoice at the change.
No worries, I try not to take anything personally.
Well it’s not so much a matter of censoring, it’s a question of security. Until I had them whitelist a rule in ModSecurity, I couldn’t post a lot of stuff in WordPress either, whether from admin or not. ModSec is treating certain words as SQL language and assuming they are an injection attack attempt. I’ve seen this problem before many times in the past but never realized what it was until this issue and subsequent conversation.
They’ve now whitelisted /topic/, /forum/, and /edit/ and that seems to have fixed this issue. I’m guessing this isn’t really something that can/should be fixed from within bbP itself, but if I’m wrong feel free to do so.
And though I personally believe that bbP is the way to go for my community, my users are used to PHPbb and VBulletin sites and so this already seems “weird” to them. Adding technical issues and using beta software isn’t really helping instill confidence but hey that’s my choice to do. They’re spoiled by forum solutions with all the bells & whistles that I’ve had to add with plugins for things like Private Messaging, showing unread topics, protecting content for members only, signatures, etc. This is of course by design, and though I’m essentially putting back in a lot of the stuff that bbP has intended to leave out, I believe I wouldn’t be happy with the lack of integration of any other forum solution within WP so… bbP it is!
They’ll get used to it, I just hope I don’t lose any because they can’t make the leap. Time will tell, and bbP keeps getting better with time. I hope my posts never suggest a lack of appreciation for this plugin and all the work you’re putting into it!
Jonathan
What do you guys think about adding wp_register(); to the login widget?
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_register
qzplx: For theme integration, you can either do deep integration – looks like that didn’t work for you OR create a new theme based on your wp theme on your own. There is a theme integrator too.
Are you not receiving emails? I just fixed a bug where the checked state of the checkbox wasn’t displaying correctly, but emails should still come through.
Note that if you’re subscribed to a topic, and you are the one that replies, you won’t receive an email.
Link to checkbox state fix: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3266/
This fix will be included in the next release.
Your first core contribution on day 1. Not a bad start.
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3257/
@powerspawn
Check out Justin’s members plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/
Steps I took to get it working:
1. In dashboard go to Settings – members components
turn on edit roles and new roles
*If you want to create a custom role like a custom admin/mod etc
2. In dashboard go to Users – new roles
Create a new role and assign all the relevant capabilities you wish them to have
*If you would rather just use an existing user group to give permissions to
2. In the dashboard go to Users – roles
Choose the group you want to give permissions to read private forums/topics/relies to, and click edit.
3. Add the capabilities to post/edit/read_private_forums/topics/replies (whatever you want)
*If you create a new role, then you need to go and edit the users you want to give the new role to.
Warning:
You really need to have a good understanding of all the capabilities on the screen. Meaning, you could give people permissions to do things they should not be able to, or vice versa. Pay very careful attention to the added capabilities you add/remove to a group
Hope it helps
How i translate this plugin. I have started this to my blog forum, but i can’t activate my translation.
I upload bbpress-fi.mo and bbpress-fi.po to bbPress languages folder, but this doesn’t work.
Help?
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress/
That’s probably a better answer. There is no shortage of existing login/registration plugins for WordPress, if you’re anxious to get something going.
I was just looking into this topic a bit – I wonder if it’s useful to add a “Register” link at the bottom of the login widget inside /bbp-includes/bbp-core-widgets.php? This would bring a user directly to /wp-login.php?action=register and would only display if WP’s “Anyone can register” option was turned on.
I’ve also just installed the Register Plus Redux plugin (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/register-plus-redux/) which allows you to upload your own image for the registration page and gives other nice options.
@bkno – @powerspawn is asking about bbPress 2.0, so those plugins won’t help him.
@powerspawn – Right now you’ll need to write a piggyback plugin for bbPress, that will add the read_private_forums capability to the roles that you want to have it.
This is one basic feature that I wish was included as standard.
Only way currently is to use a plugin, there are three but none look like they’re actively being updated.
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/hidden-forums/
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/zaerl-visibility/
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/private-forums/
Not tested any yet, will be doing so soon. Zaerl is the most recent so that’s the one I’ll try first.
If anyone could feedback any experiences with using these on bbPress beta2 that would be great.
I can guarantee you with 100% confidence that a bbPress plugin update alone will *never* nuke any files outside of the /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/ folder.
When you update any WordPress plugin through the auto-updater, it deletes the plugin folder, recreates it, and puts the contents of the new version in there; that’s it.
@Jonathan – No. You should *never* modify core files, ever. If you’re modifying the core, you should share what you’re changing and why, so someone can show you a better way, or we can improve the core. If you’re creating a custom theme based on the core files, then until 2.0 drops you’re on your own to monitor the traclog and see what changes might impact you.
@Johnathan – Can you use a tool like Firebug or Inspector, and look at the hidden input fields in your reply form?
Should look like the following
<input type="hidden" name="bbp_reply_title" id="bbp_reply_title" value="Reply To: Updated to bbPress 2.0 pre-beta 2" />
<input type="hidden" name="bbp_forum_id" id="bbp_forum_id" value="138" />
<input type="hidden" name="bbp_topic_id" id="bbp_topic_id" value="439" />
<input type="hidden" name="action" id="bbp_post_action" value="bbp-new-reply" />
<input type="hidden" id="_wpnonce" name="_wpnonce" value="0b78bb87eb" />
<input type="hidden" name="_wp_http_referer" value="/discussion/topic/updated-to-bbpress-2-0-pre-beta-2/" />
Also, some details about your configuration would be great. WordPress version, Multisite/single-site, custom theme/theme compatibility, etc…
There’s absolutely no way that bbPress is responsible for doing anything inside your wp-content/themes/ directory. If you made changes to files inside the bbPress plugin folder, then you broke the first rule of using a WordPress plugin.
Ah ha. That’ll do it. WordPress doesn’t have built in collision detection for these manually entered slugs. Mind creating a trac ticket and I’ll look into preventing this in the next release.
