Once subscribers have logged in (we use manual approval of users) I would like a link to our forum titled “Discussion Group” to appear in the wpAdmin bar at the top of the page, preferably adjacent to their login name. How do I make this happen?
WP 4.7.5
BBPress 2.5.12
Using Fire Department Theme
home page: bdpnnetwork.org
Hi @TKServer, I’m glad you revamped this topic.
Although since my last post I didn’t work further on the code, I’m still very much interested in the discussion.
Originally, I was going in the same direction that you just suggested but, ultimately, I thought that a separate API would be desirable for a variety of reasons.
I can name the ones I thought of, but I’m sure others might have even stronger (and more educated) motivations:
- the most general and obvious: a separate API makes you less dependant on certain builtin constraints of WP API and let you take design decision which are more tightly connected with bbPress specifically; even though bbPress leverages WP’s custom post types and tags, there’s a higher layer of abtraction (read: forum functionality) which implies a whole set of requests for which the existing endpoints’ structure is not ideal
- depending on what info you want to get with a single request, the default WP API queries might not serve the scope well (ie. they could force the user to make multiple queries where just one would be desirable and sufficient; also, where multiple database calls are required, it might not provide those in the best performing way)
- from a user standpoint, I believe it is better to offer schemas (and filters) which reflect more the semantics of a forum, than the ones of a blog; I believe you can still build those custom terms in the existing API, but it might become confusing soon, and in my opinion you’d loose the advantage of staying with a single API, anyway
- additionally (and actually the main reason for me personally), I see bbPress as part of an ecosystem, with WP and BuddyPress. Since BuddyPress already went for a separate API, I thought it would make sense to do the same with bbPress, keeping things clean and separate. Utlimately, the ideal would be to have the bbPress API live with the bbPress plugin itself, so that the development of the two can progress together (and therefore be more efficient and optimised, both ways)
- finally, speaking of bbPress BuddyPress, there’s an area where the two plugins overlap (bb forums in BP groups); I believe it is already a non-trivial problem to solve in a separate API and it would likely be even more complicated to try and stay within the WP limits; I was mentioning this in another post too, which I believe is still awaiting approval from moderators (please pardon me if I dare poking them here, once more) 🙂
Again, this is just my opinion; there are probably pros and cons in both options and I’d be more than happy to hear from anyone who’s more bbPress-savvy than I am.
Cheers,
s t e
Sorry – I misread the topic as being related only to that plugin. Now it makes more sense to me. I thought you’d made a more general question. I guess I would have expected questions about a plugin to be in the general WP plugin forum, but it makes sense to be here too.
My plugin should be posted in a week or so – depends on the approval queue for plugins.
It is intended to be sort of a turn-key solution to starting a bbPress forum. Major difference from any other plugin I’ve found is that it has a bunch of pre-defined subThemes for bbPress – look a lot better than the default, will match most themes.
Hi everybody,
I was actually starting a topic about this, a few days ago, but my post contains a bunch of links (more than 3) to help contextualize the discussion and it’s still pending approval.
If moderators can help with that, the link to the topic is:
https://bbpress.org/?post_type=topic&p=181440
(I hope it’s not a problem to link it here; in case, feel free to delete or edit this reply)
I was trying to start writing a first version of a REST API too, as I missed the latest posts by Pascal. Also, I looked for existing code here:
https://github.com/ePascalC/bbp-API
but found only empty files. Am I missing something?
Anyway, I downladed the plugin and checked the code there.
Mine differs a bit as I was using BP-REST as a starter: I saw they had an extensive discussion about how to frame the whole work and structure it for the longer term, so I thought it was a good idea to take that into consideration.
If you think we might join efforts on this, let me know; I have limited time to invest on this but I’d be pleased to give my contribution whenever I can.
Cheers,
s t e
Pascal,
Did you receive the previous post with the data or do I need to resubmit? It had several links and I only assumed that it was suspended for moderator approval due to the links.
Please advise. Thanks!
FYI – I sent a post earlier today with the info, but it must be pending approval due to the multiple links in the post.
This codex article is quite comprehensive about how to fight SPAM. (https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started/forum-moderation/dealing-with-spam/)
However, although it acknowledges profile SPAM, it fails amongst the many solutions to actually identify a method that is targeted at battling profile SPAM. You could switch to manual registration approval (which would be a pain in any moderate to high traffic site), but that would not solve the problem since the approved user can still post links in their profile.
Akismet, WangGuard, etc, appear to only work on post/comment spam, not on profile spam, no?
I don’t even have discussions enabled or commenting enabled so I don’t even care about post/comment spam!
So as far as I can tell there is no plug-in or feature that will prevent profile SPAM. Someone please tell me I’m wrong!
Hi, I got some spam, people who register and post spam. I delete it.
How to prevent it from post, and wait until I approve? (to do like comments on posts).
Thanks
Hi all,
I’m a newbie with a site with latest BuddyPress and WP. I have BBPress plugin installed with only sitewide forums and I need admin approval for new users. I saw there are several plugins but it seems that each of them manage just WP or BBPress.
How I can prevent a user interacting with the whole site until he is approved by an admin?
e.g. I saw the BuddyPress Registration Options plugin blocks the user until approval only for the BP area of the site but the user have the role “subscriber” immediately.
Thank you in advance
Thank you in advance
There I have a problem
Which any member when writing topic or reply
Be in a state (Awaiting moderation)
Is there a way that the user is writing the subject without the need for management and supervisors approval
If you are using bbPress moderation you go to the plugin settings and disable only allow approval once.
Hello community:
I’ve been testing the BBPress, and when a suscriptor user posts a message, only first time, his message must to be approved by the administrator. When the admin approves the message, automatically, the next follow messages are approved with the previos approval of the admin. The question is, How I set the BBPress for each message must to be approved by the admin?
@selenii
- Are you using the plugin bbPress moderation?? This plugin has a feature to confirm each topic or reply submitted by users.
- Do you have anything in your comment blacklist in Settings > Discussion?? bbPress uses this comment blacklist for its topics and replies and this could mark the posts as pending until approval.
Sometimes plugins can add words to this comment blacklist, and sometimes a host can install a plugin that may have its own comment blacklist words that you may not be aware of is installed because it may be installed in the root of your site.
Do these posts you are approving have any foul language?? Because that is usually the words in these comment blacklists.
Hi selenii,
From what I understand, you say that a certain user is posting topics, but the keymaster/moderator has to approve them ?
But you have another user that can post a topic without any problem ?
If my understanding is correct, can you please tell me:
– what is the role (participant, moderator, …) of the user that has the problem?
– what is the role of the user that can post a topic without the need for approval?
In most of the cases there is a security plugin or a setting that causes this, but please start by confirming my assumptions above are correct.
Pascal.
Robin.. thanks for pointing to topic-subscribe.
It works for me mostly. In testing, I found that when a new topic is held for moderation (I have things set for user’s first topic to be moderated), then once the topic is approved all other users get subscribed to the topic except the submitter, who is left unsubscribed. I guess the approval process is unsubscribing.
However, I modified your plugin to hook it on last in the actions:
add_action (‘bbp_new_topic_post_extras’, ‘rw_topic_subscribe’, 1, 99) ;
and now it seems to work even for moderated topics.
I also have bbPress auto subscribe for new topics and replies installed and moderated topics are not getting subscribed despite this plugin ticking the box. {I tested your plugin with this other plugin deactivated. This is probably the same issue although the solution may not be so simple – I have raised it on its support forum.
This may be a bit off-topic as it is not about new forums but I see no better place.
Tony
Hi,
There is one known issue with a closed/sticky post that is not seen when reopened.
Do you have the topic in draft (when you check the backend) ?
Or do you have it in ‘Approval’ status ?
Pascal.
Hi,
bbPress builds on top of WordPress. Any WordPress user that has at least ‘participant’ access can post on your forums.
So you need to make sure your users stay ‘clean’. I use wangguard for that and Theme My Login with a captcha so I’m rather sure that my users are real and they get checked if they would be sploggers or not. So you will need some extra plugins to safeguard, or you make sure that everybody is set ‘for approval’ so you can decide.
But this is a pure WordPress matter, not a bbPress one.
Pascal.
Hi,
What you describe seems to me more a caching issue, as any topic/reply should be there immediately if you don’t have any approval process. Try to see if you have any plugins or anything in your environment that would cache and deactivate it.
Pascal.
Hi @casiepa ..
I already check..there’s no plugin that would put the topics waiting for approval. I don’t Know what kind of plugin is that.
The topic should have a content inside, but the content does not appear at all. Only replies does appear on there.
What should i have to do?
Hi,
I see 2 topics, so bbPress should be working fine.
Are you sure you don’t somewhere have a plugin that would put the topics waiting for approval or something ?
Pascal.
I’ve found the reason!!!
All my topics and replies created by participiant are waiting moderation…
I just go to “topics” in WP-dashboard and see all topics have status “waiting for approval”
But how to turn off this function? I need participiants can to create new topics without approval…
P.S. Words in topics were not in black-list or spam-list.
I must admit I’m a newbie to WordPress and php in general. I have a wordpress/woocommerce site I’m building, and it is membership controlled. I’m using the FEuser plugin to control membership. It has a lot of features we wanted, such as email confirmation, and admin approval. Plus it keeps members separate from the wordpress user database, as we don’t want to give customers access to the dashbboard. We recently decided to add a forum to the site, and I’m having a problem getting bbPress to use the membership data from FEuser, instead of the wordpress user database. I don’t even know where to look to change this. I know the fields in the database I want it to use, but I don’t know what file, or where, I have to modify to point bbPress at that instead of at the normal wordpress fields. Can someone point me in the right direction?
Have you checked the moderation possibilities of the ‘Theme My Login’ plugin ? You have the admin approval there …
Pascal.
I do not use the plugin, I just found it in the WordPress repository.
The plugin author has been active in the support forums in the past few weeks, so I assume people are using it still and with at least most with the latest version of WordPress.
You can contact the plugin author in their support forums if you have any concerns with the plugin working with the latest version of WordPress.
If a bbPress post contains a word that you put in the comment blacklist, the topic or reply will be marked as pending, and will be pending until moderation approval.
Moderation and BlackListing
The plugin I linked to just replaces profanity words you list with characters such as ***
Hi,
Is there an option(or a plugin) for bbPress that will allow me to moderate posts of certain users? I’d like to have some users moderated so that each post they make(replies to existing posts) will have to wait for admin’s approval.
Thank you.