[John James Jacoby]

This is the problem with open-source software… complete lack of support. At least with YaBB the people were passionate enough about their project to answer questions.

Howdy. Not sure where in the world you live, but in America, this was a holiday weekend, and most of us chose to be with our families. Also, last night was WordPress’s 10 year anniversary, and many of us were celebrating with our colleagues.

That said, our forum staff are volunteers and not under any obligation to assist, just like you weren’t obligated to post your reply on how you solved the issue. Scolding them for not being around won’t motivate them to help you (or anyone else) any faster.

…bbPress String Swap…

David Decker keeps an eye on these forums, and would likely be open to feedback on how to improve this plugin. It’s only filtering words on output, so if it’s inefficient, it’s probably an easy’ish fix.

Thanks for posting your experiences, and thanks for the feedback.

[Shmoo]

First of all you should go to this location:

wp-content / plugins / bbpress / templates / default / css / bbpress.css

Copy-/Paste the bbpress.css file into your Theme’s folder.

Like so:

wp-content / themes / [ your-theme-name ] / css / bbpress.css

When there is none css folder inside you theme folder just create one.
What you’ve done right now is created you’re own custom stylesheet for bbPress that can’t be overwritten by software updates.

What styles you have to change I can’t tell from looking at your picture, but it’s pretty easy to find them.
Make sure you have a Webkit browser installed on your computer ( Google Chrome is reallt the best for this ). View your website and right-mouse-click on the element you would like to change and pick the option ” Inspect Element ” ( I think it’s called )

Now you have at the bottom all the style , there’s also a location + line number where to find the elements inside your bbpress.css file.

Look at this video for some instructions.

It’s not that difficult.

[justinwhall]

fasle alarm. Turns out, when unzipping. “Tehnik-bbPress-Permissions-master” is the folder you will see. In my haste, I uploaded that and didn’t realize that “tehnik-bbpress-permissions” was actually inside. Oddly, the meta box that restricts acces to forums, still showed up – just didn’t do anything.

[Ravi Kasarla]

I have installed the bbpress latest version 2.3.2 and added the bbpress forum search widget in side bar.

When i used to search the forums, I am always getting the below error message as search result.

“Sorry, but nothing matched your search criteria. Please try again with some different keywords.”

I tried with “http://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-search-widget/” and “http://wordpress.org/plugins/search-bbpress/” plug-ins but the result is same.

Please suggest the solution to overcome this issue.

[ZachMatthews]

I ran the P3 Plugin Profiler and figured out that the plug in WP User Frontend and bbPress String Swap were the ones killing us.

Once I disabled those, query times to reach a new page dropped from 6-8 seconds down to less than a second.

[ZachMatthews]

This is the problem with open-source software… complete lack of support. At least with YaBB the people were passionate enough about their project to answer questions.

This is what my host is saying:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the update and patience, it is just a function of slow forum
> software and please note slow query or unoptimized query falls under the
> forum software. Please check with your vendor and make sure your mysql
> queries are optimized properly.
>
> Feel free to contact us if you need further assistance.
>
> Regards,
> Nasir M
> Level 2 Technical Support

Is that really true? My host (JaguarPC) loves to use the term “unoptimized” when they can’t understand what is going on.

[sublbc]

Hey all, i run this site, and im determined that it should all be ran by wordpress, its all going great etc. But, as soon as i installed my forum, i see that it uses this ugly style, with background color etc.

What id really like is no shadow on the text, no background, small border around the different forums and thats pretty much it.

Heres before: http://puu.sh/32WkF.png
Heres how i want it to be: http://puu.sh/32Wpf.png

I hope you understand my problem :/
Ive read this http://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-creating-a-custom-bbpress-theme/ but i cant seem to find the necessary files.

I hope you can help me out 🙂

[Robin W]

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/include-mention-in-bbp_get_reply_author_link-function-args/

[Vanilla_Bing]

Well, I managed to get the Dashboard item back up via the first 5 bullet points of
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/missing-forums-directory/ .

But we’re still unable to render the actual forums anymore, e.g. from the forums’ “View” links, or /forums/forum. Just blank white pages, maybe the occasional 404. For that, we tried just moving to Mingle forum, but it doesn’t have subcategories (or even let you move forums between categories), so that’s a no-go. So, we’re still interested in fixing bbPress’s other issues…

[koolthing]

Hi, I’m thinking get rid of vbulletin and looking to switch to bbpress. Is there a converter for this? and if there is a converter, this converter successfully convert everything? I mean, users, topics, posts, passwords, forum permissions.

thanks in advance.

[Shmoo]

Go to the next path.

wp-content / plugins / bbpress / templates / default / bbpress / content-archive-forum.php

Copy the BOLD file into your Theme folder inside a new folder called [ bbpress ]

Like this:

wp-content / themes / [ your-theme-name ] / bbpress / content-archive-forum.php

Open the new ‘ content-archive-forum.php ‘ file and remove the following lines of code and save the changes.

<div class="bbp-search-form">

	<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'form', 'search' ); ?>

</div>

[Shmoo]

You can find the Widgets of bbPress right here.

wp-content / plugins / bbpress / includes / common / widgets.php

Thats the file you need to have. By default I don’t think you can drag your Widget-code out of there and start using it inside any other WP project. You probably have to add and redesign it to make it work.

[capsx]

the same here – Forum menu is disappeared …

[BlackLotuss]

Hello!

I’ll be direct here and get to the point, I did not like bbpress so I do not use it for forum purposes. Now the only thing I find really usefully is the login widget it comes with, so I was wandering if there is a way to just have this login widget installed as a separate plugin, since having bbpress installed just for this one thing is kind of an overkill.

Cheeers

[Shmoo]

The first block goes inside your functions.php i guess,

And all others you have to add where to show – inside your template files. example loop-single-forum.php

That fie can be found in your bbpress plugins directory.
wp-content / bbpress / templates / defaults / bbpress / ** here **

Don’t edit files from the bbpress folder inside your plugins folder because those will be overwritten when bbPress updates.
Just copy files that you need to edit towards your theme folder just like this:

wp-content / themes / [ your theme name ] / bbpress / ** here **

[jeteran]

Hey thanks for your response.

Yes I have being trying disabling other plugins and still doesn’t work.

I don’t know if reinstall it should work. Let’s wait for someone that had this issue to help us.

Have a great week.

[axeleus]

After installing the plugin and view the topics, found in the Error Console

Error: TypeError: $(...).on is not a function
Source: /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/js/topic.js?ver=2.3.2
Line: 22

Fixed bug with changing the .on to .live at line 22 and 27

[Vanilla_Bing]

Funny that. We got the same double-separation and missing menu on our end, but its the latest of our mysterious problems preventing rendering the forums on our website at all. (They used to work fine, but they first stopped showing on the site, then the menu too.) Disabling other plugins doesn’t fix this, apparently.

[Allan]

On one of my posts the background header colour is showing on the Breadcrumb line and where there are links … it makes them unreadable, other posts are fine. Seems it is assigning the formatting incorrectly.

On the demo site the avatars are nice and small on my site they are much larger causing a very untidy layout.

How are these edited .. can not use as it is.

Allan

[Sam Rohn]

you will need these plugins to accomplish what you want

paid (or free) memberships by wp role

https://wordpress.org/plugins/s2member/

create roles and restrict content

https://wordpress.org/plugins/members/

restrict bbpress forums AND child topics/replies by user role (also requires members plugin)

http://www.tehnik-design.com/tehnik-bbpress-forum-permissions/

this plugin may be helpful too for organizing roles and capabilities

https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/

also search this forum via the tags i have added to this thread, this has been discussed a few times recently

Forum visible to specific role

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/per-forum-permissions-by-group/

sam

[Shmoo]

Just test this..

Copy the following file into your Twenty Ten Theme folder.

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/extras/archive-forum.php

And inside that file delete this line <?php get_sidebar(); ?>
Hope that gives you an idea.

[helibosse]

I am new with both WordPress and bbpress and I need your help. I have managed to set upp bbpress forum, but I want the pages to be as simple and clean as possible. So, I want to get rid of right hand column, the navigation column, which I am not going to use anyhow. On the normal WordPress pages I have found how to disable this feature, but not for bbpress.

I am using Theme Twenty Twelve, and I have downloaded both WordPress and bbpress this week, so I guess I have the latest version.

[pocome]

Here comes a hugely disappointed bbPress user of just a few hours. I was so excited to have found a bb seemingly meant to integrate well with WP. What a pain this thing is. The only easy part is to get the plug in and see it in the back end, after that it is mostly an illogical disaster, from the basics (like trying to figure out how to see the forum), to making it work with a theme, to tweaking a theme, to trying to make some sense of bb structure etc. I think the developers have taken a completely wrong route to make things work, with too much of WP back-end reuse without giving it a second thought of how it was going to be implemented, and then used by the followers. I am yet to find ONE board that looks half as good as majority of other free bb software out there. It is sad, that a team responsible for WP development would drop a ball to this degree.

My excitement lasted just a few hours, I even started participating in the translation routine, but unfortunately I don’t see how it is worth it.

[michaelw90]

Ok, so here’s the solution. For all of you who wants to translate bbPress, do not get hosting from one.com. I sent a support ticket to them and here’s what they answered:

“I am sorry, but POT-files is not supported on our servers.”

So there you go, and I’m screwed I guess..

Does anyone of you know any good hostingalternatives to one.com who supports POT-files?

Michael

[mangtimo]

I’m having issues with user role capabilities.
Keymaster & Moderators could not moderate any post. (except the super admin account)
I need to set the roles into:
site role: Subscriber
forum role: Moderator

Tried multiple combinations of roles, just can’t moderate.
Prior to this, I’ve used the reset user roles because I’m getting the error:
“You do not have permission to post”
That’s despite any user role I’ve created. After that was fixed, I encountered this.

Fresh install. Multisite, Buddypress 1.7.2, BBpress 2.3.2