[Zachary DuBois]

So is this a problem I am having or an actual bug?

[markusloffler]

Hi all,
I installed the latest version of wordpress and then bbpress on top of it.

How do I install themes, like the ones that can be found here: http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/available-themes/page/2? I searched through the web, but I couldn’t figure out how.

[home1985]

If yes, could you please kinldy provide some information to us?? Thx

[Zachary DuBois]

So, I am just noticing that when you post to a forum on another site on your activity isn’t updated. Also, your topics aren’t shown on your profile if you made them on a different site on the same network.

My problems:

• Activity isn’t updated for new topics and replies made on other networked sites.
• On your BuddyPress profile under forums, it does not show topics you have made on other networked sites.

Any way to fix these? Or should I submit a bug report. I just want to make sure it is a bug.

[Daniel J. Lewis]

I figured this out. I had to add this in my bbpress_functions:

function my_topic_class($classes) {
	$classes[] = 'test-class';
	return $classes;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_get_topic_class','my_topic_class' );

[Daniel J. Lewis]

This was never quite answered. How is bbpress.org running a page that lists all the threads in order of freshness?

[yanis97]

Hi;

I have a theme WP 3.51 which uses bbpress 2.3.2 for the group forums and I would like to modify the GUI for the forums : how change and customize the look for the group forums in my theme (modify the css, javascript of bbprees).

Regards;

[Koen]

Hi bbPress people,

I’m currently working on a designers portal. I’ve installed buddypress and bbPress and made a forum. But when I click on the Forum tab in a group I only see “This forum contains 2 topics, and was last updated by”. How can I make it look normal (like here; a list)?

http://cl.ly/image/3q2C0Y0e2v2l

Thanks for your help!

[hamzahali]

Please see it this can help
https://github.com/rmccue/bbPress-Reply-by-Email

[Robin W]

Is it easy for you to summarise what “extra” you found out that would help others searching this forum in future?

[Zé Fontainhas]

From https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2151 ,here’s a quick hack to turn bbPress activity recording on, on sites that have the Discourage search engines option checked. Put this somewhere in functions.php or in your own plugin’s code:

<?php

add_filter( 'bbp_is_site_public', 'yourownprefix_enable_bbp_activity', 10, 2);

function yourownprefix_enable_bbp_activity( $public, $site_id ) {
	return true;
}

?>

[Zé Fontainhas]

I was having the exact same problem, and yes un-checking Discourage search engines from indexing this site, does make bbPress activity start being recorded.

As to why this is so and if the behaviour is intended, your guess is as good as mine. If it *is* intended, I am extremely curious to know the twisted logic that dictated this implementation.

[Marcin Biegun]

1. create bbpress directory in your theme directory
2. copy there loop-single-forum.php from /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress
3. add wherever you wish the image to appear:
<?php echo get_the_post_thumbnail($post_id, 'full'); ?>

[Erlend]

Today I had a guest post published on WP Tavern which is largely about bbPress. It also talks about functionality like @ddean ‘s Topics for Posts plugin.

Dear Automattic: You Are Losing The Debate

[Xarcell]

I think I figured it out on my own…

[Xarcell]

There are several tutorials on ow to create your own bbpress theme to work with your wp child theme, but none of them work. Can someone point me in the right direction or tell me how to do it?

I’m planning on making a WordPress theme that also works with buddyPress and bbPress. However, I cannot figure out how to create a custom bbPress theme that will be installed with my WP theme.

Thanks.

[dtbaker]

@aaclayton – currently using this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-unread-posts/

yes this plugin does add a meta key to each post for tracking unread status. Do you know of a better plugin that does this in a more elegant fashion?

[Dani-Girl]

I can’t get bbpress to work.

I’ve uploaded bbpress to my plugins directory.

After I click on “activate” in the Plugins list, I get this message:

You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.

I’m logged in as the main Administrator (since there is only 1 user right now)

What am I doing wrong?

[aaclayton]

@dtbaker perhaps I’m misunderstanding, but you are adding a postmeta key=>value for every user that visits your forum? That seems fairly suicidal.

The other problem I see, is that if you are pulling posts for which:
bbpress_unread_posts_last_visit_X < _bbp_last_active_time

You will be omitting topics that were created after _bbp_last_active_time, which are quite clearly also unread by the particular user.

[blg002]

For posterities sake, i think i figured this out thanks to this article. I was close just had few things I didn’t know about, hopefully I’m not doing anything too terrible.

function add_custom_role( $bbp_roles ) {
  $bbp_roles['my_custom_role'] = array( 
    'name' => 'My Custom User',
    'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_participant_role() ) // i just want them to have the same capabilities as participants
  );

  return $bbp_roles;
}   
add_filter( 'bbp_get_dynamic_roles', 'add_custom_role', 1 );

[Daniel J. Lewis]

I’d like this, too. It seems that the bbpress.org forums even do that. Have you figured out a way?

[Anders]

Not sure if it’s related, but here goes:

I’m not using Recent Topics and Private and Hidden forums does not appear in search results for me.

I do however have a couple of “private” forums that I’m restricting access to with the “Members” + “Tehnik BBPress Permissions” plugins, and with those the protected posts and replies appear in the search results.

I’m also using “bbPress – Private Replies” and “bbPress – Private Topics” (same as “Private Replies” but modified to work on topics) and that combo is able to hide the private content from the search result.

Another equally serious problem is that when a user uploads and attaches confidential images or data to a post and marks the post as private, the post is correctly hidden but the files are accessible to all users in the media manager. I have been unable to restrict access to the media manager.

[draftcalc]

Hello, I apologize if this is addressed elsewhere, but doing a quick couple searches, I was unable to find a concerete way to convert my Vanilla Forums over to bbPress… pixelnated, what did you use to convert? I’m nervous about converting, any suggestions?

[Drover]

I found THIS in the Codex, which almost tells me what I need. But where do I place the new, modified file?

Thanks.

[Timo]

After about two hours I could find a solution for me. It turned out that current_user_can( 'bbp_forums_admin' ) resulted in false. This is why I could not access the menu or even write replies although the user admin showed me as WP administrator and forum keymaster.

I wanted to check why my user did not have the capability “bbp_forums_admin” and installed the plugin Capability Manager Enhanced. After activation of the plugin everything worked fine again. All menu items showed up and I could post replies. Maybe this plugin fixed what bbpress messed up after updating to 2.3.2…