Hi
I have just set up BBpress on one of our websites (not live yet) and everything seems to be working ok except for one little problem:
I have marked the forum private as I would prefer people to register first rather than bombard the forum with spam etc. But this generates a new problem as the private forum is automatically given a prefix of “Private:”
Please advise how I can removed the said prefix? I saw a thread for a bit of code to change this but it doesn;’t say which page it needs to be added to:
Please any help is gratefully received.
Thanks
I’ve got a couple thousand users that I’ve signed up as WordPress subscribers using Gravity Forms User Registration addon. So none of these users have an actual “Forum Role” assigned.
I’ve been using bbPress 2.2.4 for awhile now and after updating to bbPress 2.3.4, any of these users trying to view a forum get the 404 error page. I can fix the issue for an individual user by manually giving them a “Participant” Forum Role. Or if I put my site back to bbPress 2.2.4, forums come back for everyone.
Also, what’s interesting is that forums come up fine if a user isn’t logged in at all. But after they login, 404 errors.
Is this some sort of bug in the updated version, or did something change in this regard I should be aware of?
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And I’m not sure if this is relevant, but this is on a multisite network using Multisite User Management plugin.
thanks, but meta description not working since it will insert embed code and image code to header if the first brand of the post have markup code. thats an unsatisfactory thing ryt?
my blog
Hi – I’m having the same problem on a fresh install using Headway Themes: public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/extend/buddypress/group.php on line 308
I created a new parent so that group forums aren’t added to the Forum Root.
This is using bbPress 2.3.2, Buddypress 1.8, Headway 3.5.5 and WordPress 3.5.2.
Thanks.
That’s how you should change it — except copy that file and put it into your theme’s directory:
wp-content/themes/yourtheme/bbpress
We are considering BBPress to power discussions on our high traffic website. The site also runs WP and we’ve had our share of scalability issues as we’ve grown. Searching the forums here I was terrified to read about known issues with slow query times and with private forums.
Can anyone confirm that these problems have been fixed with the latest version? is BBPress really scalable?
Our traffic / setup info:
– over 150k registered users
– over 1M unique visitors per month
– running latest version of WP v3.5.2
– have APC and Memcache installed on Apache
– use W3TC
– use HyperDB
@dani-girl, I got it to work! Whew!
I did a lot of different things, including installing an older version of bbPress, but I don’t know if that matters. Actually, it probably does, because I was then able to see the forums on the backend again.
What did seem to make a difference was downloading the Members Plugin and changing the roles for Administrator. A bunch of them were not checked, including the role of a Participant. I checked everything and was able to post again.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/members/
I hope that it doesn’t do this again. A major pain!
I want to increase the size of an avatar on a forums landing page. I could just go into loop-single-topic.php and change this line:
<?php printf( __( 'Started by: %1$s', 'bbpress' ), bbp_get_topic_author_link( array( 'size' => '14' ) ) ); ?>
But I’d rather not edit core files. I’m having troubles making this change in my functions.php with apply_filter. Wondering if anyone can help me out here.
In form-reply.php after the line:
<div class="bbp-template-notice"><p><?php _e( 'Your account has the ability to post unrestricted HTML content.', 'bbpress' ); ?></p></div>
I inserted <?php else : ?><div class="bbp-template-notice"><p><?php _e( 'PLEASE NOTE: Your post will be sent to AWAITING MODERATION folder, will be posted if approved!', 'bbpress' ); ?></p></div>
Which is not so good because I am changing the core file. Is there a better way to do this?
Hello, just download bbpress for the first time. I believe it is version 2.0. While the bbpress works great with theme, I’d like have the topics be a big more defined. I was doing some reading about bbpress and wondered is someone can explain the difference in a Skin and Theme? Or what is the css I can make changes too?
Thanks
Hi,
I have just installed bbpress moderation plug-in, but my question is not about the moderation plug-in, it is about putting a default text into the reply field, so that the users can read before posting. This is because currently bbpress moderation plug-in does not notify the user that the reply/post is held for moderation. So the user posts something in the forum, but nothing happens, there is no message saying that user’s message is awaiting moderation. The plug in author was asked about this 8 months ago, and he replied that it would be difficult to do something about this, and apparently the color of the reply is yellow, hinting that the reply is held for moderation. But there is no way of knowing this. So I decided to put the default text into the reply field so that the user can read before posting. I don’t know how to do this, I am quite new to bbpress.
I see the Group Extension in BBPress checks to see if the BBP_Forums_Group_Extension class is already defined, but I cannot figure out which action I need to hook into so that my custom BBP_Forums_Group_Extension is used instead of the default BBPress Group Extension.
Please help!
Hey guys –
The page load times were due to a couple slow plug ins which I was able to identify with the P3 Plug In Profiler and remove. Load time is now sub 1.5s per page (once you load the heavy banners – I need to reduce the size on those but I haven’t found the time yet since they are site-wide and it will take me a while to reconfigure everything).
Thanks for the feedback. I still haven’t been able to make BuddyPress play nice but bbPress is at last fully functional with Pinboard.
Zach
wow just wrote long reply press post and all is gone??
came down to that you can mail me at seedism@gmail.com and i will send code to thank you for your reply.
I am not yet posting it here cause I want to use it for a theme i am trying to create.
preview here:
P.H.
The two examples you gave are close, but do not actually show what I need, this link is more like what I mean.
But, they did make me realize that the desired hierarchy can be achieved with a combination of css and selecting the right category/forum/topic order, and that the existing three levels (categories/forums/topics) is one too little.
This is what I think is a solution.
1.Create/give parent Categories a name to display as title in a new category header, remove all other data through css from the header, like the “topics” and “freshness” text since this needs to be echoed only in the next level of categories.
2.Create categories in parent category and change functions and css so they show as a list under each other and include topics and hierarchy text.
3.create another level of categories to act as main forums, here we include the freshness-links and topic count.
4.Topics/threads are created inside the fourth level.
5.remove the original bb-header to allow the first level categories to take over this function.
I think this makes sense to me, will have to try tomorrow if this works.
I can not yet make my solution of the freshness-topic-title public since I am working on a theme with this function included, I can not send private messages on the bbpress forum else I would have pm’ed you it as appreciation for your reply.
You can send me a mail and I will send you the code but please keep it to yourself.
seedism@gmail.com
Here is a link to a live demo, this is a work in progress and site is not close to finished but you can get an idea of what I did.
http://cultivators-forum.com/cultivation-forum/
Peter Hamilton
At the moment, the only way to get a hierarchy is to do it with template edits. I haven’t gotten there since I’m working on WordPress, bbPress and BuddyPress all at once, so I can’t help you out there. There is a trac about it here, though: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1958
Looks like it’s coming in bbPress 2.5, if there’s time.
How did you go about getting the title for the freshness link? I was actually going to do that last night, but I haven’t gotten around to it — so a quick heads up there would be awesome.
Oh, and a couple of examples of bbPress forums I’ve seen with a hierarchy (in case you’d like to see it live):
http://tamrielfoundry.com/forums/
http://www.dev4press.com/forums/
Thanks to a page of spam only threads on bbpress I added another reply to get back on top.
Not a very busy forum this is, although I am an impatient guy…
Will check every day until there is an answer to the question.
btw, i did manage to get post titles of the last replies in my freshness link, like you can see in the image I attached at the start of this thread, this is a much asked for adjustment of the forums-list and I find it weird that a noob like me finds a way to do this when there are 3 years of topics/requests of this feature.
P.H.
I love BBpress but this is so annoying I have searched here and googled it but there just isn’t anything anywhere that shows how to place a simple link to the BBpress users profile in your menu or on a page, this must be possible as it is the most basic need for a forum.
Is there anyone that can shed some lite on this for us poor mortals that have exhausted all avenues ??
Thanks in advance
Or maybe it’s down here
/**
* Output the view url
*
* @since bbPress (r2789)
*
* @param string $view Optional. View id
* @uses bbp_get_view_url() To get the view url
*/
function bbp_view_url( $view = false ) {
echo bbp_get_view_url( $view );
}
/**
* Return the view url
*
* @since bbPress (r2789)
*
* @param string $view Optional. View id
* @uses sanitize_title() To sanitize the view id
* @uses home_url() To get blog home url
* @uses add_query_arg() To add custom args to the url
* @uses apply_filters() Calls 'bbp_get_view_url' with the view url,
* used view id
* @return string View url (or home url if the view was not found)
*/
function bbp_get_view_url( $view = false ) {
global $wp_rewrite;
$view = bbp_get_view_id( $view );
if ( empty( $view ) )
return home_url();
// Pretty permalinks
if ( $wp_rewrite->using_permalinks() ) {
$url = $wp_rewrite->root . bbp_get_view_slug() . '/' . $view;
$url = home_url( user_trailingslashit( $url ) );
// Unpretty permalinks
} else {
$url = add_query_arg( array( 'bbp_view' => $view ), home_url( '/' ) );
}
return apply_filters( 'bbp_get_view_link', $url, $view );
}
Please someone help – I am a designer not a programer – honestly I hadn’t realized that bbpress WOULDN”T have the forum name associated with the topic…
Or maybe it’s down here
/**
* Output the view url
*
* @since bbPress (r2789)
*
* @param string $view Optional. View id
* @uses bbp_get_view_url() To get the view url
*/
function bbp_view_url( $view = false ) {
echo bbp_get_view_url( $view );
}
/**
* Return the view url
*
* @since bbPress (r2789)
*
* @param string $view Optional. View id
* @uses sanitize_title() To sanitize the view id
* @uses home_url() To get blog home url
* @uses add_query_arg() To add custom args to the url
* @uses apply_filters() Calls 'bbp_get_view_url' with the view url,
* used view id
* @return string View url (or home url if the view was not found)
*/
function bbp_get_view_url( $view = false ) {
global $wp_rewrite;
$view = bbp_get_view_id( $view );
if ( empty( $view ) )
return home_url();
// Pretty permalinks
if ( $wp_rewrite->using_permalinks() ) {
$url = $wp_rewrite->root . bbp_get_view_slug() . '/' . $view;
$url = home_url( user_trailingslashit( $url ) );
// Unpretty permalinks
} else {
$url = add_query_arg( array( 'bbp_view' => $view ), home_url( '/' ) );
}
return apply_filters( 'bbp_get_view_link', $url, $view );
}
Please someone help – I am a designer not a programer – honestly I hadn’t realized that bbpress WOULDN”T have the forum name associated with the topic…
Hello,
I am having the exact same problem.
2 weeks ago I had downloaded the forum and was able to have others test it and it worked fine without anybody having to register.
However, now that is not the case. I have gone to forum settings and made sure that I unclicked the ‘anonymous posting’ box, making it possible for anybody to post (Theoretically).
I have also gone to the “Discussions” settings and unclicked the box “users must be logged in and registered to comment).
Originally when I uploaded the forum, people who replied had to enter their name, email and optionally their website. That was fine. Where did it go? I can’t recall if there has been an upgrade since then.
My site is http://www.cclhdn.org and you can see “MEMBER FORUM” on the top menu (far right).
I use Suffusion theme, and have also recently dowloaded Askimet and bbPressCaptcha. However, the problem was there before I did this. Also, I can’t figure out how to use bbpressCaptcha with bbPress, but maybe that will come when people can actually respond.
I would really appreciate some help with this, I’ve been trying to fix this for about 3 days now and need it to be done by the time of a newsletter launch this Thurs!
Thanks,
Rebecca
Just downloaded the bbPress for the forum option and trying to mess with it before I can tell my company to use it. Able to create forum and topic and link them to each other. Also, able to embed the forum in a page. Now everything is set up on the forum for public and open, but when I visit the forum to test it, it won’t let me reply to it.
I am doing this in a different browser and not logged in on that browser so that doesn’t mess it up. Please help.
I think that you have to disable the buddypress side of it, but thought that was taken care of in the last update. This video really helped me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8mh3f6Vzbo
I disabled the sitewide forums because I found it so confusing to have both. But, even just with the group forums things are confusing. The problem we are having is that the reply function doesn’t follow through on the posting in all of the places it shows up: Activity Streams, Group Home page and Group Forum page. If you reply on the activity streams, it will show up on the group home page, but not on the forum page. Here’s our site if you want to take a look:
http://www.tafaforum.com/
