[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

[marneen]

So, my current theme is setup with a right and left side bar. When I tried to setup bbPress it just did not seem to layout right. Is it possible to some how use a more open theme for just the forums?
When creating a new forum there does not seem to be an option for theme like there is on a Page creation.
Any advice?

[undsatca]

I am currently trying do the same thing, set newest to oldest with the original topic post remaining on the top.
I am a novice with code and CSS, and was curious where the code you provided for grex22 went. I am familiar with the .php location of bbpress, but can not find the information you posted.

Thank you

[Limbobski]

I installed an old backup of WordPress incl. the forum

I have some bb_ tables… bb_forums, bb_meta etc.

Are these from the new bbPress 2? Or are these the old bbPress 1 tables, that I had before upgrading?

I have rows in the bb_forums table, but nothing showing in the forum topics :/ What table does bbPress 2 save table topics in?

I upgraded from bbPress 1 to bbPress 2 before, but I am not sure if this is backup is before or after the upgrade.

[edwardbarker]

Well after more than a week of total frustration I’m just about to give up. I’ve tried endlessly to find a solution without luck. I’ve hired a developer who has done a week’s worth of work at significant expense without any luck.

We’ve imported some of the old forum but not all of it. http://www.unitedrant.co.uk/forums/ – as you can see while some replies are as fresh as 3 months old none of the topics imported are newer than 9 months old. Nobody can work out why the importer won’t bring all of it over.

I’ve reset the BBPress 2.3 forum twice and each time not only the metadata associated with the forum posts is deleted but that associated with blog posts too (resulting in mass deletion of categories and tags).

I’ve also tried 3 times to post on this forum without any help at all. After using BBpress for fours years I feel very let down by the community.

[Robin W]

the following article should help !

http://9seeds.com/tech/moving-forums-from-simplepress-to-bbpress/

[HD80]

I spoke too soon lol….
the format I would get is Home>forums>forumsTest
the Forumstest I created would have no sidebars, as soon as I click on Forums or any of the post the sidebars would return

[HD80]

I have no idea what’s going on, I think my theme doesn’t support bbpress. I removed [<?php get_sidebar(); ?>] from all the file I copied from the EXTRAS folder but the side bar is still there. I switched to twenty eleven them and the forum page seems to work properly without the side bar. And I haven’t copy any file from bbpress and extras folder.
Shmoo, do you know a way to get around this?

EDIT: OMG, I’m so stupid…it’s so simple. All I need to do was create a new page, Select Content Layout as NO SIDEBARS, then select template bbpress forum…

I still need more experiment before I can transfer to my website. 🙂

[armando_e]

Hello, I am using the latest version of bbPress (2.3.2), buddyPress and WP 3.5. In the settings-forums, I cannot get the check box to use the fancy editor to stick. I click it on, hit save, and when it refreshes the box is un-checked and not working. I tried to switch to the default themes and it still doesn’t work.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you.

[hamzahali]

BBpress Says

You must be logged in to create new topics.
or
You must be logged in to reply to this topic.

I think besides this there should an an option to register/login to make it easy for users/visitors