[PatJenningsBigGloves]

Hi. I’m setting up a fitness site with a forum and I’d like each member to be able to have their own ‘Training Log’ area in the forum, i.e. they start a post called “Jim’s Training Log”, and only they and I (forum owner) can post, or potentially the user can specify whether other forum members can view/comment on the post. Is this possible in bbpress? Is it as simple as each user starting a new post in the ‘Training Log’ category, then choosing whether to lock it or not?

Thanks for any responses, hope that makes sense!

[mcarrico]

Two Questions:

1. The Edit post button on the bar of the post is throwing a 404 error. It is trying to take me to the following url: http://intranet/index.php/forums/topic/the-cooking-thread/edit/?view=all and there does not seem to be a corresponding page. Is there something during initial setup that I missed to allow for this url to be populated upon post creation? I am still able to edit via the “Topics” area of the dashboard but I would like for this functionality to work for my users.

2. I am trying to override the front-end post editor to be a rich editor. I have tried installing the tinyMCE plugin and replace the built in editor with the html tags via http://codex.bbpress.org/enable-visual-editor/ with the following code:
function tmceeditor( $args = array() ) {
$args[‘teeny’] = false;
return $args;
}
add_filter( ‘bbp_after_get_the_content_parse_args’, ‘tmceeditor’ );

but am having no luck. Again, the editor in the dashboard editor seems to be inheriting the tinyMCE functionality but I would like the user front-end to use this editor as well.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I am on WP 3.5.2 and bbPress 2.3.2 with a custom theme.

[sportsbanter]

We are having trouble removing the left margin on our BBPress Forum http://sportsbanter.com.au/forums/

It throws out the headings on the forum main page and everything is out of alignment.

Any ideas on how to remove the left margin (the white bar running down the left hand side of our forum)?

[Robin W]

where are they logging in? are you using the bbpress login wideget or going via WP-admin If using wp-admin, then take this away from them….

I use bbpress WP tweaks, this creates a forum specific sidebar.

Into this you can drop the BBpress login widget, which means that when they go to your forum page, they then get to login using the widget and remain on that page.

Like you I then give them “no role for this site”, and “participant” for the forum.

I also untick the “show toolbar when viewing site” , so that they don’t see anything wordpress-ish, just my theme. They can amend passwords and profiles through the forum, so don’t need it.

[Monika]

I like to customize BuddyPress and bbPress,
but both of you told me to use a child-theme,

how can I do this?
Thanks in advanced for any ideas

[neiluk]

Hi, I’ve installed bbpress and created my forum, and I am able to create topics and post without any problems

Now the not so good part – and I know it’s something I am missing….

I tried experimenting and created a user, and assigned them – site role ‘no role for this site’, and forum role ‘participant’.

the problem is that when they enter the login details, and click login, it displays the ‘You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page’. error message, (but if I then enter the url for the forum they have indeed logged in successfully.)

what I am trying to achieve is that users can access the forum only and not my site’s dashboard.

If I change the site role for this user to ‘contributor’ then there are no errors when they try to login, and the user is taken straight to the site dashboard instead of the forum, which is not what I am wanting.

I apologise my crudeness in explaining this as I am new to wordpress.

any help will be much appreciated!

thanks
Neil

[eonelson]

I want to be able to have a form template that shows up when someone goes to post in a forum. i.e. I have a form for businesses to post if they have plants available. Instead of typing out the information in the forum, I would like a form to show up so they can just do drop downs or fill in the blanks.

I’ve read lots of information, but some is a bit over my head so I’m not sure if I have found anything that will do this EASILY. I am not a coder, and do not feel comfortable editing code.

Can a form be built in something like contact form 7 and then shortcoded in? I tried what I thought was that, and it didn’t work and not sure how to figure out what else to do.

Thank you for all suggestions.

Using WP 3.5.2, BBPress, 2.3.2 I don’t have a site that has anything to look at yet – just practicing for now.

Thanks.

eileen

[begattokitchen]

Did you find a solution? I installed BBpress on a site with latest WordPress and Buddypress, but I cannot create new topics from the forums. I have the exact same problem you had…

[Unsal Korkmaz]

This week’s question about bbPress:
The default display of the current user is the fullname (also here in this forum), but I want to change it into the nickname they have entered. How can this be achieved?

Answer: http://theme.firmasite.com/support/topic/display-username/

[somuee]

been having this exact problem. definitely not a theme issue and i’m able to successfully set up bbpress on another server. one difference between the 2 servers was that on the one that doesn’t work, i already had a page called ‘forums’ before install. tried uninstalling the forums, deleting the page and deleting the bbpress tables in wp_posts, but i still don’t get anything displaying on the ‘forums’ page (they DO display on the sidebar if i install the widget)
thanks for any help

[arcandio]

I’m now having this same problem. I’ve been all over the site so far, and all I’ve really found is that I need to fix my mod_rewrites or reset my permalinks. To restate my problem, when I test a post on my forum, it loads a page similar to what ryandoz posted. If I refresh/reload the page, the proper page comes up.

I’m working with a pretty vanilla install here, until this happened, I hadn’t even changed the permalinks from the default install (done by SimpleScripts). I don’t know enough about apache to know how to properly fix my .htaccess file to rewrite the urls, and anyway, I would prefer if I could set it up in WordPress.

So, what’s the deal with the rewriting? What exactly is actually going on? bbPress is asking for a url that isn’t rewritten, then the server tells the client the page was moved? Is that not something that bbPress can handle? I really have to put extra Rewrite rules in my .htaccess if I want to have a vanilla install of WordPress use a vanilla install of the bbPress plugin?

[SickSquirrelTwo]

Activate it and the categories disappear from the sidebar. Yesterday we found Ultimate WP Filter did the same thing. I deleted it but as soon as I activated your plugin, bam, most of sidebar goes away.

[Pebbleontheshore]

Sorry i didn’t meant to do this. Wanted to check whether this is working in bbPress demo. it seems the illogical li usage without “ul” or “ol” causes this problem. and it seems editor does not filter improper html tags. You helped a lot of people with technology and you will also reach a great height..!

[glasscitymashers]

I just used the ‘Import Forum’ tool after installing bbPress, and 99% of everything is there! The only thing I need help with is that all posts and replies show the author as Anonymous. Is there a fix for this that I am not aware of? Something I’m doing wrong? I’ve ran all the repairs, as well.

[zintarweb]

I have a newish install of WP and bbPress on a WISP (win, iis, sql server, php) server. I have them both running. But, bbPress won’t show a “topic” (a message), instead, it jumps directly to the reply function.

go to:
dev.teamfishco.com
forums
test
pick a topic.

instead of showing the message, it goes directly to the reply… any help?

[SickSquirrelTwo]

I enabled plugins today. The site broke (every other post is blank; I use bbPress with WordPress) so I deactivated those plugins.

Posts are still missing.

I decided mid-type to test again. One by one was activated. Ultimate WP Filter caused it to happen.

So … y’all have a similar plugin? You enter a list of words not allowed.

[Laughing Cat]

+1
I’m having the same issue, it only happens for non-admins on bbpress home archive, where I have latest topics and forum list shortcodes too (which work fine)

has this issue been solved?

[rewindcaz]

I’ve been trying to figure out how to add another Forum Role to bbPress. Does anyone know or use a simple function or plugin that hooks the bbpress user roles and creates another role with specified permissions? I know there’s a WordPress plugin that can add new user types, but I’m trying to figure out how to do this for bbPress user forum roles.

[jennylee1988]

It’s cool, I used this fix in zencart, it’s nice, you can see it Timberland Paris blog. perfect!

[MoniqueR]

Hello,

I wonder if someone can help me out. For the last few days I am looking for a slider for my WordPress site. I am using the bbpress plugin. What I want to accomplish, what I am looking for is a featured slider which can display the latest topics and replys. I know there is a widget for it, but I would like to have it in a slide on my homepage. I cannot seem to find it. There a several beautifull sliders but they don’t support the option for adding topics and replys. They only work with latest posts/pages.

Anybody who knows a plugin for this? (There are several which support custom content, but then I would have to right code for it, which I can’t.

Hope someone can help me out.

Regards,
Monique

[ocloren]

After a couple of months I’ve learned that using Group forums instead of Sitewide forums is a good idea. THe organization of the content is appealing.

Anyway, when I had installed bbPress I chose both Sitewide AND Group forums. Now I’m wondering if there is a way to disable/uninstall Sitewide forums and just keep group forums.

I know existing topics in the Sitewide forum can be moved to a group (as far as I can tell) so that’s a solution so far, but in terms of disabling the rest, I’m not sure.

Any suggestions?

[nickzee]

I believe I have a good grasp of how bbpress and buddypress work together. My current setup is using bbpress as the forum and buddypress as the networking for members.

My issue and questions are related to the links created by each of these plugins.

Instead of linking to a forum archive page, I’ve created a separate page and am using short codes to add in the forum. I did it this way because I don’t like how WordPress (or the theme) adds “Archive” to the page header (in my case it’s “Forum Archive”). I also don’t like that Archive pages have limited sidebar options, and poor SEO (thanks to Yoast for making it better). But anyway, you can see I’m trying to stay away from the archive pages.

The problem with my setup is the breadcurmbs above the forums. When navigation backwards, the breadcrumbs take you to the “forum archive”. Additionally, a link that is directly to a reply or topic, it is based off the forum archive. Foe Example:

FORUM LINK: website.com/mvp-members/mvp-forums/ (shortcode method.)
TOPIC/REPLY LINK: website.com/mvp-forums/topic/search-first/#post-18143

Are there any tricks to getting these links to work seamlessly with each other? Or a different method of setting up the forums? Or any other advice?

I appreciate it with thankfulness.

[Svetoslav Marinov]

Hi,

I am the author of Orbisius bbPress Enhancer plugin. The plugin does support changing the author of the bbPress reply.

Sometimes WordPress just hides it. To show the author dropdown menu you need to go to click on Screen Options near help (top right corner under the admin nav bar). Then you’ll need to check box near Author.

[ZachMatthews]

This is the answer I came up with and provided to some other people who have asked:

Set Pinboard to 2 content columns, 2 Boxes Sidebar Columns, and 4 Footer Columns. Choose the first (farthest left) “Preferred Layout” option.

Now, this is obviously going to dictate the look of the rest of your site. I got around that by doing a three-tier Multisite layout. It’s not hard to set up but it is a pain in the ass to have to re-install Pinboard and re-set every single option so the site is all the same, but that gives you the flexibility to have multiple different layouts and formats all within the same blog. I actually have one blog running my Blog, Articles, Podcasts, Video and About pages, then a second blog running my Photoblog database (which keeps the posts separate), and then finally the third blog running only bbPress. However, user profiles are integrated in a multisite so people stay logged in throughout the environment.

One more thing to note: I moved the slider feature to my header by putting the slider section of the functions.php file actually in my search.php page, then deleting all other content from search. (My site only has search on the forums page). That makes the slider get called on each page first and you can tweak the menu layout and stuff to make it all appear up top. The only catch is the slider itself only works on the first page of a given blog (so it works on three of my pages). Everywhere else it is a static image, dictated by the oldest image chronologically amongst the slider pictures.

Here’s my CSS:

#slider .entry-title a {
	display:none;
}
.flex-direction-nav, .flex-pauseplay {
	display:none;
}
#bbpress-forums iframe, #bbpress-forums embed {
	max-width: 640px !important;
	height: 480px
!important;
	margin-left: 0px
!important;
}
fieldset {
	border: 0;
}
.fluid-width-video-wrapper {
	padding-bottom: 20px !important;
	padding-top: 53% !important;
}
.bbp-reply-content {
	margin-left: 120px !important;
}
.bbp-topic-content {
	margin-left: 120px !important;
}
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-the-content-wrapper textarea.bbp-the-content {
	font-size: 15px !important
}
#bbpress-forums {
	font-size:14px !important;
}
.bbp-topic-permalink {
	font-size: 16px !important;
}

.bbp-reply-header a.bbp-reply-permalink {color: #00548c;}

a.button.logout-link {
	color:#f1f1f1 !important;
	background-color: #111;
}
p {
	font-size:14px;
	margin-right: 20px;
}
button {
	color:#fff !important;
	background-color: #555;
	padding: 6px 18px !important;
	border-style: solid !important;
	border-color: #000 !important;
	border-width: 1px !important;
        border-radius: 5px;
}
input {
	border: #9e9e9e 1px solid !important;
        border-radius: 5px;
        margin: 0 0 8px;
        box-shadow: inset 1px 1px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, .2);
        background-color:#FCFCFC;
}
#sidebar-header {
	float:none !important;
	width: auto !important;
	height: auto !important;
	margin: 0 !important;
	border-top: solid 1px #333 !important;
	border-bottom: solid 1px #333 !important
}
#sidebar-header a {
	padding:0 !important;
}
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-header {
	background-color:#c3c3c3;
}
.bbp-admin-links a {
	color:#00548c !important;
}

.bbp-admin-links a:hover { 
	color:#d54e21 !important;
}
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-replies {
	border: 1px solid #ccc;
}
#bbpress-forums .bbp-topic-content ul.bbp-topic-revision-log, #bbpress-forums .bbp-reply-content ul.bbp-topic-revision-log, #bbpress-forums .bbp-reply-content ul.bbp-reply-revision-log {
	border-top: 1px solid #ccc;
}
#bbpress-forums .bbp-reply-content ul.bbp-reply-revision-log {
	color:#666;
}
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-reply-revision-log img.avatar {
	margin-left: 3px;
	margin-right: 3px;
}
.entry-content a img {
	padding: 0;
	margin-bottom: -3px;
}
.wp-editor-container {
	border-color:  #aaa #aaa #aaa !important;
}
.quicktags-toolbar {
	border-bottom: 1px solid #aaa !important;
}
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-topics {
	border: 1px solid #ccc;
}
.bbp-topics-front ul.super-sticky, .bbp-topics ul.super-sticky, .bbp-topics ul.sticky, .bbp-forum-content ul.sticky {
	background-color: #f0f8ff;
!important;
}
#bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form {
	border: 1px solid #ccc;
}
#bbp_topic_title {
	box-shadow: inset 1px 1px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, .2);
}
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-the-content-wrapper textarea.bbp-the-content {
	box-shadow: inset 1px 1px 20px rgba(0, 0, 0, .2);
}
input#bbp_topic_tags {
	box-shadow: inset 1px 1px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, .2);
}
.bbp-forum-title {
	font-weight:400 !important;
        margin-left: 0px !important;
}
#bbpress-forums div.odd, #bbpress-forums ul.odd {
	background-color: #f3f3f3;
}
#access {
	background: #333 url(http://www.itinerantangler.com/global/body-bg12.png) repeat top left !important;
	padding-left: 0 !important;
	padding-right: 0 !important;
}
#access ul {
	padding-left: 35px;
}
#bbpress-forums li.bbp-header {
	background: #f1f1f1 url(http://www.itinerantangler.com/global/body-bg12.png) repeat top left !important;
	border-top: none !important;
        width: 100%;
}
#footer-area {
	background: #333 url(http://www.itinerantangler.com/global/body-bg12.png) repeat top left !important;
}
.entry-content a:hover {
	color: #d54e21;
}
.entry-content a img, #attachment-nav a img {
	border: none !important;
	box-shadow: none !important;
}
.entry-content a:hover img, #attachment-nav a:hover img {
	border: none !important;
	box-shadow: none !important;
}
.onecol .onecol .entry-summary, .entry-content {
	padding: 20px;
}
.entry-title {
	margin-left: 20px;
}
.single .entry-title {
	margin-left: 0 !important;
	margin-bottom: -10px !important;
}
#bbpress-forums li.bbp-body ul.topic {
	border-top: 1px solid #eee;
	padding-top: 5px !important;
	padding-bottom: 0px !important;
        padding-left: none !important;
        padding-right: none !important;
}
#bbpress-forums p.bbp-topic-meta {
	margin: 0px 0 5px;
}
li.bbp-topic-title {
	padding-left: 20px;

}
#url, #email {text-indent: 0px !important;}

a.bbpl_button {width:25px !important;}

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

#bbpress-forums li.bbp-header {padding-left: 0px !important;}

li.bbp-forum-info {text-indent: 50px;}

#bbpress-forums .bbp-forum-info .bbp-forum-content, #bbpress-forums p.bbp-topic-met {margin: 0px !important;}

#bbpress-forums p.bbp-topic-meta img.avatar {margin-bottom: -3px !important;}
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-template-notice img.avatar {margin-bottom: -3px !important;}

li.bbp-header div.bbp-reply-content span#subscription-toggle {margin-right: 10px}

div.bbp-template-notice, #bbpress-forums ul.bbp-replies, #bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form {border-radius: 5px !important;}

.quicktags-toolbar {border-top-right-radius: 5px !important; border-top-left-radius: 5px !important;}

#bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form input {padding: 3px;}

[SK]

How come 2.3.3 hasn’t been released yet?

Both tickets for the milestone are closed https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/query?group=status&milestone=2.3.3

As are https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2334 and https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2337