[Robkk]

I don’t think viewing a blog automatically registers the user.

Do you just need a better way to manage who registers on your site?? Maybe manual approval or by invites only?

Or do you just not want users to register and also be able to be a participant in the forums?

[Robkk]

Sorry for the late reply your post was marked as spam and was awaiting moderator approval.

This is very theme specific, but you may need knowledge of editing theme templates but definable some CSS knowledge. I suggest you contact your theme author for better help for just creating a right sided sidebar.

[Robkk]

Sorry for the late reply your post was marked as spam and was awaiting approval.

bbPress themes are basically just WordPress themes, you can use any WordPress theme and theme compatibility in the bbPress plugin will do the rest. You may need to edit some files though, because some themes may be tricky to work with.

I explain it better here.

Installing Themes

[Antipole]

A request for guidance from a bbPress newbie, who has searched for help and tried various plugins but not found a solution.

I am setting up a WordPress site (V4.2.2) with bbPress (v2.5.7). I want most forums to be browsable by registered logged-in users but not by the public. A logged-in user should be able to subscribe to a topic without admin approval, so they can contribute and get notified of new discussions or comments.

If I make the forum Private that seems to stop unsubscribed but logged in users from seeing the forum. I need something like a ‘Logged-in users’ permission.

Any guidance on how to set this up will be much appreciated – thank you.

[Matoca]

I want to prevent “anyone” writing a topic or reply in the forum from posting any links. Period. I am flummoxed that I can only find one topic on this in bbPress or WP and that topic is almost 5 years old.

I do not require users to register to create topics and make replies and I would like to keep it that way. However, I don’t want to allow anyone to be able to write HTML or post links to “anything” in the forum. If it has to include moderators, even me, that’s fine.

Lately unregistered users have been able to post links to images within their topic or reply that takes users to another website or they are able to post links to image websites in a way that the images are embedded in the reply, without the image being manipulated. One image was so large that all that displayed was an ankle!

I have a plugin in the forum sidebar for users to upload images to a gallery where the images are checked for needing approval. From the dashboard I can edit and size the image and then insert them into the topics and replies. The moderators also know how to do this. This has worked well.

I am leery of links to inappropriate websites and I need to stop this now. Does anyone know how to set bbPress or WP to ban links or is there a plugin that does this?
Thank you, Matoca

[BewitchingFiction]

I have checked and the comment blacklist is absolutely empty, there is nothing in there, or in the comment moderation which contains the capability for 8 links to be added before an item is added to the mod list for approval.

[Food Research Collaboration]

Hi there,

I’m looking for an option to hold new topics by non-admin users in moderation for approval before they are visible. I’ve tried looking at this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpressmoderation/ but it deals with topics and replies together- you have to moderate both or not moderate both. I’m not interested in moderating replies, just topic starters.
Could anybody by any chance suggest a different plugin, a code snippet to use etc. to work around this issue?
(I’m running the latest versions on WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress).
Thank you very much!

[John Theodorou]

Hi,

We have installed the latest bbPress + latest WP on our site. Also we have Disqus if this matter.

We read that bbPress is integrated with ‘Discussion’ settings from WP installation.

In our ‘Discussion’ settings we have:

In ‘E-mail me whenever‘ section:

‘Anyone posts a comment‘ – Checked

In >Before a comment appears section:

Comment must be manually approved – Checked
Comment author must have a previously approved comment – Checked

…however it seems that in our forums anyone can post without our approval. (We have the ‘anonymous posting’ in bbPress’ settings ‘on’).

What we want to do is:

Anyone can post but their first post must be approved in order for the author to have the right to post freely from there on.

How can we achieve this?

[cyclesha]

First, I believe I do have permalinks enabled, however, I’m such a novice I don’t know where to look.

4.1 isn’t much different than 4.0.1 and 4.0 wasn’t much different than 4.0.1. I’ve had all of them and everything else worked. Oh well, I research it further.

I definitely want forums. I just need to clear (approve) topics before they appear and approve replies as well. Other so called motorcycle websites have real problems with their forums and and have found themselves deleting a lot of what users put in. It’s all about approval.

I found bbPress shortcodes: https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/ Would any of these help? and where would I put them?

Between the two of us we’ll get this straightened out.

[Robkk]

I’ve typed a reply to you and submitted it but bbpress isn’t displaying it. If I try again it tells me I’ve already submitting that comment but it isn’t showing up?? Is this a bbpress bug or is my comment awaiting approval or something? Is there a limit to adding links in the post? I had 3.

no its not a bug its a spam prevention measure since the spam attack only 2 links can be posted now.

if you need to link us with more than 3 just post the url without the http://

i can just highlight and google search it.

—

this is for the padding.

#bbpress-forums li.bbp-body ul.forum, 
#bbpress-forums li.bbp-body ul.topic {
overflow: hidden;
padding: 8px;
}

—

the tiny avatar CSS is ok but just so you know if it was any bigger the css will make the image distort and look blurry.

you can change the avatar size in the templates if you go to the loop-single-topic.php file and find something similar to 'size' => 14 i think in your case it would be 16 maybe

and change that number to 24

you should also do this to the loop-single-forum.php file too.

—

also add this additional CSS so you can remove the voice count number making everything awkward

.bbp-body li.bbp-topic-voice-count {
display:none;
}

to remove it in the templates go to loop-single-topic.php

and remove this

<li class="bbp-topic-voice-count"><?php bbp_topic_voice_count(); ?></li>

[bcrider]

Thanks Robkk

I’ve typed a reply to you and submitted it but bbpress isn’t displaying it. If I try again it tells me I’ve already submitting that comment but it isn’t showing up?? Is this a bbpress bug or is my comment awaiting approval or something? Is there a limit to adding links in the post? I had 3.

I sure would love to share my comment regarding your last suggestion.

[spektator]

I am using bbPress with Forum Restrict plugin. I am getting the following error when I access a single private forum out of a number of private forums that are set up. Here is the message:

Check TypeError: Unable to get property ‘getElementsByTagName’ of undefined or null reference

I am not able to access the approval page nor see the approved members. I am running WordPress 4.0 with bbPress and Forum Restrict.

Any assistance?

[Team Startbit]

I also need user to post on a forums without admin approval from backend.Anyone can help me!!

[Stephen Edgar]

@farsite281 Thanks for this though you should submit your translations in the GlotPress project you linked above:

https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/2.5.x/ca/default
https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/dev/ca/default

Catalan Language

• /dev 43% translated, 466 strings translated, 602 Strings untranslated and 401 strings waiting approval
• /2.5 44% translated, 467 strings translated, 572 Strings untranslated and 160 strings waiting approval

The best resources to help get you started are:

The main transators handbook: https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/handbook/

The WordPress translator community blog: https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/

bbPress translations reference: https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-in-your-language/

WordPress Catalan project site: https://ca.wordpress.org/

The reason I state that it is best to provide (and update) the bbPress (including WordPress, BuddyPress and Akismet) translations at https://translate.wordpress.org/projects is because each of these projects can have the translations updated as part of WordPress’ “Automatic Updates”, just like you see updates for your plugins and themes, if any of these projects are 100% translated you will be offered to update all of your translations from the WordPress dashboard updates page.

[Stephen Edgar]

There’s some nice feedback up there, thanks 🙂

.WYSIWYG for input field. I know there is a plugin for it, but it should be in core and you should have the option to turn on and off in admin.

With the new TinyMCE added in WordPress 3.9 and further improvements coming in WordPress 4.0 I am keeping an eye on this and due to several incompatibilities we had when we previously had this as a bbPress option there is a bit of work to be done here to not make it a crappy experience if we do add it back as a bbPress option.

.Organisation for forums. Forum grouping has been a standard since 1999.

Yes 😉

.Topic and forum indicators for new topics. Finding new topics should be at a glance.

There are a couple of plugins that do this, you can see the list here https://codex.bbpress.org/feature-plugins-tracking/. One of the issues with this feature is for larger sites is WordPress’ database performance and is one of the reasons we haven’t gone down this road yet, once a plugin can do this without crippling larger sites we would definately take a closer look.

.Moderation should be available for all forums individually and on a board basis.

This will be in bbPress 2.6 https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/459

.Permission masks per usergroup to control who can read, reply and post in different forums.

Once the previous ‘Forum Moderation’ is shipped as part of bbPress 2.6 we can look to extend that functionality further to encompass this.

.Content approval for new posts and to take individual posts offline for review.

This is also coming in bbPress 2.6, see https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2645

.Warning system for handling member mayhem.

Not sure what this would entail, I get what your saying, I suppose the current way to do things is block/ban the user though you are suggesting there should be a way to handle/have some way/form of communicating with said user. (See private messages below)

.Report center where moderators and admins can handle reported threads/posts/members.

This is mostly also handled as part of https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2645

.Private messages should not require Buddypress. It should be in BBPress.

I’m not 100% sold on this idea that bbPress should include this, with that said though, as per above a way to ‘communicate’ in some form either with the moderators (or in this use case other users) I have an idea for this, how exactly it would implemented I’m not sure of just yet but the idea is there, just need to get some time to give it a try and see what happens 😉

.Custom Profile Fields should not requires Buddypress…

Custom profile fields do not require BuddyPress, bbPress 100% fully supports custom profile fields as part of WordPress ‘Custom Profile Fields’.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/user_contactmethods
https://gist.github.com/ntwb/c70caf5a0aa9d3062a6d

.Notifications should not require Buddypress…

I think I am with you here…

.Buttons to take actions at the top of the thread and post is also standard since 2003.

The following ticket covers half of this, firstly for accessibility issue, most likely this will extend to include links.

.Out of the box functionality so there is no need to create additional pages like bbpress.php to actually make things look the way you are.

This is near impossible, with the ~2,000+ themes in WordPress’ theme repo we cannot support this many themes yet alone when we start counting the number of commercial themes available. We do our best to have template compatibility with as many themes as we can and think we work ‘out of the box’ on more themes than we don’t.

[Jimi Wikman]

Some of the things that are missing in the core:

.WYSIWYG for input field. I know there is a plugin for it, but it should be in core and you should have the option to turn on and off in admin.

.Organisation for forums. Forum grouping has been a standard since 1999.

.Topic and forum indicators for new topics. Finding new topics should be at a glance.

.Moderation should be available for all forums individually and on a board basis.

.Permission masks per usergroup to control who can read, reply and post in different forums.

.Content approval for new posts and to take individual posts offline for review.

.Warning system for handling member mayhem.

.Report center where moderators and admins can handle reported threads/posts/members.

.Private messages should not require Buddypress. It should be in BBPress.

.Custom Profile Fields should not requires Buddypress…

.Notifications should not require Buddypress…

.Buttons to take actions at the top of the thread and post is also standard since 2003.

.Out of the box functionality so there is no need to create additional pages like bbpress.php to actually make things look the way you are.

…and so on 🙂

[RILEYP]

Hi all,
We are working on a forum in BB Press but wish to have the following:
1) Permit forum users to reply to an email (e.g. to their yahoo or gmail account) to respond to a post rather than logging in and posting on site.
2) Send new forum applications (registrations) to the moderator to either approve or disapprove
3) Permit forum users to post pictures e.g. .jpgs

We have been told that 3) is possible via a plugin: http://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-bbpress-attachments/

Can you assist?
Regards,

Simon
P.S.
Software is out there that can do 2) but not BB press
E.g. http://codecanyon.net/item/user-profiles-made-easy-wordpress-plugin/4109874
See User Profile Approvals allows admin to manually approve users before they login (New Feature)

[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 🙂

[nivin007]

user should get new topic notifications only after approval. is it possible?

[nivin007]

awaiting topics/replies should not notify to the user. it it possible?
now all users geting awaiting notification by email. but, i neet all members get notification after approval. is it possible?

[Stephen Edgar]

Dutch (nl) is at 98% in the /dev branch
https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/dev
Dutch (nl) is at 0% in the /2.4.x branch
https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/2.4.x
Dutch (nl) is at 100% in the /2.3.x branch
https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/2.3.x

Most likely you have downloaded the 2.4.x branch as noted above as it is at 0% as there are translations waiting for approval.

Download the .po & .mo from the /dev branch

Rename and upload both bbpress-nl.po & bbpress-nl.mo to /wp-content/languages/bbpress/

[no one]

Hi, we have installed the follow:
WordPress Network version 3.6.1
bbPress version 2.4

I do not have found some way to prevent the instant publish of topics and replies loaded by Participants.
There is a way, to do the approval for the publish of the topics and replies by the Blog Administrator or by Blog Editor ?

[puffnstuff1]

I can’t seem to find anything the closest thing I found was New User Approval which only works for WordPress registration. Any ideas?

[dman578]

wordpress = 3.6.1
bbpress = 2.4
theme = twenty ten with bbpress child (css heavily modified)

so when a new user registers, i have a plugin that allows me to accept or deny the new user registration. PLUGIN = New User Approve(1.5.2)

the new user gets email being sent during the approval and acceptance process:

“You have been approved to access MySite Community
Username: testdan1
http://www.mysite.com/community/wp-login.php”

That is all that the users gets when i approve them? where is the password? If i deny the user, they get:

“You have been denied access to MySite Community”

[jezza101]

update: Submitted to the WP repository for approval, it’s here if anyone wants the zip. Note that this is a 1st release and whilst I have checked it works I have done limited “real world” testing. This will add a db read/write to each page load so that may have an impact – personally I think it’s unlikely on all but the bigger sites but who knows until tested.

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