[MT]

I’ve been trying different variations of things and I assume that’s probably what you mean by “Try just leaving the page with the default template”. To make it work I had to name the copied “Full Width Page” file “forum.php” (to get rid of sidebar widgets) and to extend bbp over the entire page I added this width to css…

#bbpress-forums {
	width: 900px;
	background: transparent;
	clear: both;
	margin-bottom: 20px;
	overflow: hidden;
	font-size: 12px;
}

I do also have a bbpress.php file but it doesn’t work alone and haven’t wanted to delete it, just in case, now that the forum.php has resolved things. But again I assume that it’s not needed–the bbp.php file, in my case.

So now that that is done, the “Replies” button in Admin will not open “All Replies”, only the “New Replies”. I started a new topic as this may be unrelated.

Thank you much.

[Stephen Edgar]

This cannot be achieved at this stage with bbPress, the only option is to ‘Opt-In’ and there is no availability to have the defaults the other way around.

[Stephen Edgar]

The subscribe to email notifications was a bug, it is now fixed in bbPress 2.5.3

I installed that plugin, pulled up a user who was a Participant, and changed “View hidden forums” from “Default” (which was set to “Denied”) to “Allowed.”

And then boom, the Participant account could then view the forums.

Here’s the odd part though: we have 3 forums and they are all set to Private, not Hidden. So changing this setting shouldn’t have made any difference. Private forums are visible to Participants by default.

…

I realized that one of two things were off: either the participants were NOT allowed to view private forums, or else the forums were NOT private. Had to be one or the other.

The repair tool “Recalculate private and hidden forums” has a bug in it 🙁

When that repair tool is run private and hidden forum are assigned both _bbp_private_forums and _bbp_hidden_forums statuses so this is why a user with the Participant role could not read a private forum as after that tool had been run it was also been given the hidden status also.

The workaround for this is to do exactly what you did by “changing each forum from Private to Public back to Private” as this doesn’t touch the broken repair tool and sets the visibility status correctly.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2512

Thanks for your patience here @martyn-chamberlin and your detailed info helped a great deal finding said bug, just need to write a patch for it now. 😉

[Stephen Edgar]

Try just leaving the page with the default template as this might be confusing things a little.

(Keep the bbpress.php file with Twenty Fourteens full width page code in it.)

How’d that work?

[Stephen Edgar]

Firstly looking at https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_in_Your_Language#Finnish_-_Suomi_.28fi.29 and https://i18n.svn.wordpress.org/fi/trunk/dist/wp-config-sample.php

You should be using define ('WPLANG', 'fi'); for WordPress
You should be using bbpress-fi.po and bbpress-fi.mo for the bbPress filenames.

Now the Finish translations they are only at 77% translated, 814 translated, 234 untranslated & 48 waiting approval.

You can add the missing translations using your WordPress.org user/pass via https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/dev/fi/default

Then I’d suggest contacting the Finish translation team via https://fi.wordpress.org/contact/

There also might be some related translation discussion at https://fi.forums.wordpress.org/

Let me know if there is anything else I can help out with 🙂

[MT]

Trying to put forums on a page with full-width-page template–no right sidebar. Reading other Topics here with similar problem, I followed the remedy posted, i.e., I created two php files labeled bbpress.php and buddypress.php with a copy of the full-width-page code in them in my file manager under my theme. Created page for forums and checked the full-width-page.

The page loaded only in default page template, though sidebar widgets not visible. I deactivated bbpress, reactivated, repeated everything, now shows in the default template only but this time widgets showing.

WordPress 3.8 running Twenty Fourteen theme. bbPress 2.5.2. http://mtmcclanahan.com/thepainterstongue/.

Thanks

[Ghafoori]

There isn’t any Good Tutorial available to install a new Theme in bbpress 2.X.
However, I found its much easier to customize the default theme other than installing a new one. The structure of the default theme is good to use, but somehow I needed to include its stylesheet into my site’s main style.css file because it was picking all styles from my website’s stylesheet and there was no structure and layout formatting at all.

Here is a quick and easy way to customize the default theme and apply it:

1. Copy “bbpress” folder from wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default into your websites theme root folder.

2. Create a folder called “css” (if you dont have one) into your website’s theme folder and copy bbpress css file from wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/css/bbpress.css to this folder.

3.Open your themes style.css and include bbpress.css file. (@import url(“css/bbpress.css”).

4. You can start customizing bbpress.css and now you will see the default sturcture of bbpress theme.

Hope that helps.

Thanks,
Shah

[zubeek]

Yeah, I’m currently using the Yoo Corona theme. It uses the WARP framework which is something I’ve never worked with before, It doesn’t have a traditional layout so I cant map many of the pages to what people have mentioned in other posts (page.php) etc

Everything on the forums work except delete and edit posts, when I change to the wordpress default theme they work without a problem, I just cant seem to find where in the Corona theme the problem would be located

[piccart]

ok, I’ve figured it out.

the files which have to be edited are:
bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/content-single-forum.php
bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/content-single-topic.php

in the first one you’ll have to cut off this line in each place it comes:
<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'form', 'topic' ); ?>

and substitute with something like this, to make the new-topic link:
<a href="http://mywebsite.com/form-new-topic/?forum_id=<?php bbp_forum_id(); ?>

then you create a new template page (which you’ll assign to a page called “Form New Topic”) copying your theme default page, and adding at the top /* Template Name: Form New Topic */ . then you can substitute the function which displays the content, or just add this below it:

$forum_id = $_GET['forum_id'];
echo do_shortcode("[bbp-topic-form forum_id=$forum_id]");

at the same you can edit the second file (the topics list) substituting this:
<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'form', 'reply' ); ?>

with something like this:
<a href="http://mywebsite.com/form-new-reply/?topic_id=<?php bbp_topic_id(); ?>

and then create a new template called “Form New Reply”, and add a code similar to the other one but using the shortcode to display the reply form. unfortunately the shortcode for the reply form seems to don’t have a topic id attribute, according to this list: https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/

I’ll make some test to see how it react, the only other solution I see is to make a spoiler with the reply form, so it’s hidden till you click.

p.s. you can also store the ids into variables, using these functions:

$forum_id = bbp_get_forum_id();
$topic_id = bbp_get_topic_id();

[Deepak Mahendru]

Hi,

I am looking for a solution for this:

After activating “Allow users to subscribe to forums and topics” we see subscribe option by default so that interested user can subscribe.

But what I want is an unsubscribe option by default in place of subscribe after activating “Allow users to subscribe to forums and topics”. So that by default every user receive notifications for new posts and replies as they will be treated as subscribed by default. Every user will have unsubscribe option so that if they want to unsubscribe from the post they can any time.

Please help…Any help would really appreciated.

Thank you;

[mosaicrob]

Hi Stephen,

I’m having similar issues to @aje_1985, however my theme does not have a page.php file. Is there any other way to get the index page to show?

My forum index should be showing at: http://rad.mosaicearth.com/gatherings/

I’m using a minimal child theme, whose parent theme is the default theme from pagelines.com. Their templating system is a little different than traditional wordpress themes, and hence there is no page.php.

Just to try, I duplicated page.php from the twentyfourteen WP theme, and renamed to bbPress.php and put directly into my child theme folder. (Is this the right place to put it?) The result was my forum index page became white, and nothing showed.

Next I tried copying the whole bbpress templates folder to my child theme and again no luck. I’d really appreciate any advise here, as I’m reaching a dead end for what to try.

Thank you.

[AJD]

I have tried the plugin that is supposed to do this, but it didn’t work. In frustration I edited the core file: includes/core/capabilities.php But sadly nothing has changed, participants still can not delete their own topics. Clearly I’m missing something.

		// Participant/Default
		case bbp_get_participant_role() :
		default :
			$caps = array(

				// Primary caps
				'spectate'              => true,
				'participate'           => true,

				// Forum caps
				'read_private_forums'   => true,

				// Topic caps
				'publish_topics'        => true,
				'edit_topics'           => true,
                                // manually added this
				'delete_topics'         => true,

				// Reply caps
				'publish_replies'       => true,
				'edit_replies'          => true,
                                // manually added this
				'delete_replies'        => true,

				// Topic tag caps
				'assign_topic_tags'     => true,
			);

[Martyn Chamberlin]

Bingo! Finally getting some traction here, Stephen. I installed that plugin, pulled up a user who was a Participant, and changed “View hidden forums” from “Default” (which was set to “Denied”) to “Allowed.”

And then boom, the Participant account could then view the forums.

Here’s the odd part though: we have 3 forums and they are all set to Private, not Hidden. So changing this setting shouldn’t have made any difference. Private forums are visible to Participants by default.

Any ideas why this might be the case?

I am now off to find a way to make a universal fix for our users so we don’t have to do this one by one…

Thank you for your help, super appreciate it.

[NarOneR]

I just tried with a default theme but it does not work either.

My plugin enable are :
bbPress
bbPress Enable TinyMCE Visual Tab
Light – Responsive LightBox
NextGEN Gallery by Photocrati
Regenerate Thumbnails
Relevanssi
Responsive Lightbox
Sidebar Login
Theme My Login
TinyMCE Advanced
User Role Editor
WP-PageNavi
WP Minify
WP Wall

You can test on http://www.lsa-clan.fr/wordpress/forums (register is open)

[Stephen Edgar]

Try installing the plugin I linked below and compare the roles of your users in particular ‘keymaster’ to what the defaults should be in the codex.

https://github.com/johnjamesjacoby/bbp-capabilities
(Open a users profile from the Users section in wp-admin and scroll down)

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

[piccart]

Hi there!

Thanx for answering! I’ve read your answer to a similar issue in an old post and I’ve already checked that, but unfortunately it seems that in the new versions, or at least in this installation, the bbpress class is added to the body of the post content and not to the page wrapper, so the sidebar is outside and I can’t target it with that class..

it’s a bit weird though, cause it seems that the shortcode which calls the forum archive in the post content, is actually overriding the template chosen with the page attributes. it’s set as default template, but in the theme default page should be displayed the default sidebar, and in the forum page is displaying the forum sidebar instead, even if is set on default template and there is just a shortcode into the post content..

[walkingmiller]

In case anyone else out there is having similar issues, I figured out a work-around. It is very hacky and I would love it if someone happened to have a better solution. In essence, the problem was with bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/form-topic.php. For some reason, the labels that were associated with bbp_stick_topic, bbp_topic_status, and bbp_topic_title were not wanting to adhere to the forms or drop down menus and the titles were being printed up by the forum title. To work around the issue, I just deleted the titles of the form and drop down menus. It is only a temporary solution, so I would love it if anyone had any ideas about why the labels might be breaking. I uninstalled every other plugin and reinstalled bbPress but still had the issue. Thanks for the help!

[James Dilworth]

Same problem.

I solved this by :

Going into the BBPress Plugin settings
Check Auto Role : Give everyone default access to Keymaster role. (Still available here)
Update
Change it back to the way you had it.
The Keymaster role should now be available for individual users again

[James Dilworth]

I solved this by :

Go into the BBPress Plugin settings
Check Auto Role : Give everyone default access to Keymaster role.
Update
Change it back to the way you had it.
The Keymaster role is now available for individual users again

[mth75]

Hello all,

On my website i’m trying to use the wp-editor as editor for my bbpress forum (always latest stable version). I use the same code as I use for my WP comments section (to keep the appearances the same).

The code I use does show the tinymce, doesn’t “parse” the content though (with an “ERROR: Your reply cannot be empty” as result.

My guess is that I haven’t found the right parameters (***) in the wp_editor function. Help is much appreciated.

Regards.

Marc

 
add_filter( 'bbp_after_get_the_content_parse_args', 'bbp_enable_visual_editor' );
function bbp_enable_visual_editor( $args ) {
	wp_editor( '****', '****', array(
		'media_buttons' => true, // show insert/upload button(s) to users with permission
		'textarea_rows' => '10', // re-size text area
		'dfw' => false, // replace the default full screen with DFW (WordPress 3.4+)
		'tinymce' => array(
        	'theme_advanced_buttons1' => 'bold,italic,underline,strikethrough,bullist,numlist,code,blockquote,link,unlink,outdent,indent,|,undo,redo,fullscreen',
	        'theme_advanced_buttons2' => '', // 2nd row, if needed
        	'theme_advanced_buttons3' => '', // 3rd row, if needed
        	'theme_advanced_buttons4' => '' // 4th row, if needed
  	  	),
		'quicktags' => array(
 	       'buttons' => 'strong,em,link,block,del,ins,img,ul,ol,li,code,close'
	    )
	) );
}

[piccart]

Hello!

I am using the default template of bbpress and I’d like to customize it

My issue is divisible in 3 parts:

1- I’d like to cut off the “add your reply form” from the bottom of the comments list
2- I’d like to make a custom page with the form, which I’ve seen I can make with a shortcode
3- I’ll need to build up a button “post reply” on the topic page, which I think it will have to pass to the form page a variable with the id of the topic, otherwise it won’t be possible for that form to append the reply to the correct topic, isn’t it?

I think I’ve found where to cut off the displaying of the form but I’d like you to confirm before I make mess. is it in this file:
bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/content-single-topic.php
and if I’d like to cut off the form from the topics archive lists as well, the file should be this:
bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/content-single-forum.php

point 2 should be easy, but I am wondering how I’ll have to pass the variable of the topic which has to be commented.. anyone can explain me how this works?

in point 3 I have no idea.. I’ve browsed millions of files today and found millions of functions and hooks so I don’t know which I have to use and how. by instance I’ve found a bb_get_forum_id() and a get_forum_id() and who knows if there are more similar that I’ve missed. which has to be used to retrive the current topic id? and how it has to be used?

Thank you very much for reading this topic, I hope someone will help me.
Cheers!
Andrea

[mallika12]

I tried this using while creating forums page with the tag [bbp-forum-index], i selected the dropdown of page template to my custom page template but its not reflecting in the topics page and reply page and when point the forumindex page using the breadcrumb also its coming with default tempalte.

Please can any one help regarding this. I feel there should be code where its picking default template page if you know where its picking i can manually put custom page template there

Thanks in advance

[Stephen Edgar]

It looks like the ‘Freshness’ column has been removed from your templates or your theme has custom bbPress templates that have removed the ‘Freshness’ column.

What theme are you using and/or have you modified the default bbPress templates?

[Stephen Edgar]

The default ‘freshness’ is calculated by the last reply.

Have you run each of the repair tools after your import?
https://codex.bbpress.org/repair-forums/

[Stephen Edgar]

The ONLY thing you need to do is make sure embeds are turned on for bbPress, that’s it and it is I believe enabled by default (I thought there was a setting in WordPress for this but the setting was removed and is enabled by default)

Essentially you shouldn’t have had to do anything, just post a YouTube link in a topic or reply in your forum and it should work as you expect it should.