[Jared Atchison]

If you need messaging, activate BuddyPress and enable the messaging component.

We have no plans to bring private messaging to bbPress.

[panagos13]

The changes on visual editor (2.3.1, 2.3.2) breaks ultimate tinymce compatibility.

[Nate]

[bbp-topic-form] – Display the ‘New Topic’ form where you can choose from a drop down menu the forum that this topic is to be associated with.

https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/

[Nate]

Add me to this list of bbPress needing the messaging functionality. We have over a thousand users and just moved from forum software built 9 years ago to bbPress, and messaging was considered a fundamental feature. Every other piece of competing forum software out there includes messaging.

I’ve been running this successful forum for close to 15 years and I’m a digital marketing manager for a living. It could be argued that I know what I’m talking about.

I fully understand that bbPress wants to keep it lean & mean, yet we have odd, little-used features built into core like Twitter & YouTube embedding. But really obvious items, like quoting, signature files and private messaging, require separate plug-ins? There’s some logical missteps in there. What’s up with Yahoo, Jabber and AIM still having fields? NO ONE USES THOSE SERVICES ANY MORE. Even dropping the Visual editor (in 2013?) in the latest release is a step back.

(A note on Avatars: Listen guys, this expectation of users to register an account with another service like Gravatr, and then return to their account with our site, is clumsy and far-fetched at best. Again, a separate plugin for Avatar? C’mon)

With that said, I switched to bbPress because I think the code is more pure and I think it has better longevity due to its affiliation with WP. It isn’t clunky and bloated. The SEO options for WP sites in general are more impressive, and there’s a wide support community – and I knew it would be intuitive and relatively painless for myself and my team.

Would love to get JJJ’s take and that of others.

[Laughing Cat]

I managed to fix the issue in a strange way… Went to bbpress plugin settings, temporarily set default role to keymaster (was still showing there), updated options – from then on, I was able to see “keymaster” role also in edit users panel. I assigned “Keymaster” to my admin and problem was fixed.

[sertefi]

Hi, It might sound silly to ask, but I want to have a page where users can create new topic and select which forum they assign their topic to.
Exactly like this page https://bbpress.org/forums/new-topic/
I can’t find how to do it.
Thanks you

[andriuss]

Nobody knows ?

I just saw in bbpress new version. In profile where are :

https://bbpress.org/forums/profile/andriuss/replies/
https://bbpress.org/forums/profile/andriuss/favorites/
https://bbpress.org/forums/profile/andriuss/subscriptions/

how can I make my custom ?

[andriuss]

In user profile I want to add custom pages is it possible ?

To edit profile there is the link: http://www.example.com/users/username/edit/

Is it possible to get custom page for example?

http://www.example.com/users/username/myphotos

http://www.example.com/users/username/aboutme

Where should be template files for these pages ?

I dont know how permalinks is working and how to create additional custom page…

Sorry for bad english, hope you understood.

[athalas]

I’m attempting to convert a phpBB2 forum to bbPress version 2.3.2.

I’ve selected the option to convert users, but it’s failing with the following error:

WordPress database error: [Unknown column 'users.user_form_salt' in 'field list']
SELECT convert(users.user_id USING "utf8") AS user_id,convert(users.user_password USING "utf8") AS user_password,convert(users.user_form_salt USING "utf8") AS user_form_salt,convert(users.username USING "utf8") AS username,convert(users.user_email USING "utf8") AS user_email,convert(users.user_website USING "utf8") AS user_website,convert(users.user_regdate USING "utf8") AS user_regdate,convert(users.user_aim USING "utf8") AS user_aim,convert(users.user_yim USING "utf8") AS user_yim,convert(users.user_icq USING "utf8") AS user_icq,convert(users.user_msnm USING "utf8") AS user_msnm,convert(users.user_jabber USING "utf8") AS user_jabber,convert(users.user_occ USING "utf8") AS user_occ,convert(users.user_interests USING "utf8") AS user_interests,convert(users.user_sig USING "utf8") AS user_sig,convert(users.user_from USING "utf8") AS user_from,convert(users.user_avatar USING "utf8") AS user_avatar FROM users AS users LIMIT 0, 100

Is there anything I can do the resolve the issue?

Thank you

[rushibhatt8]

Hello there,
I am using bbpress from more then 2 weeks. But now a days i am getting an error
Forum.
Click on the link to view the error. please reply ASAP.

[andersontherapy]

Hi there,

I’m new to WordPress and BB Press so if this is a stupid question I am asorry!

My website forum is located here: http://www.clinicalrecoveryspecialists.com/forums/

2 questions:

Is there a way to Create a Header or Welcome Announcement at the top of the page above the forum itself?

Also, it loooks like the name of the Forum is pulling from the Title of the Website, is there a way to change that? I would like to rename it if possible.

Just a note: I am using most updated versions of WordPress and BBpress as well.

I appreciate the help!!

Ashley

[Tbermudas]

The changes on visual editor (2.3.1, 2.3.2) breaks Ckeditor compatibility.

[tharsheblows]

Hi – I’d like the same tags allowed in my WordPress comments – <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong> – to be allowed in my bbPress posts. In particular, I’d like people to be unable to link to images in their posts. I think the allowed tags in WordPress comments are determined by the wp_filter_kses so was trying to use that.

I’ve tried many many different things and have the img tinymce (which I’ve enabled) button disabled and the html editor disappeared, so the only way to get an image is to type in <img src="whatever" /> to the visual editor, but I’d still like it to just not be possible.

I thought this would work but it hasn’t (I’ve also tried making a custom filter function which, of course, didn’t work, so I think it’s something here):

remove_filter( 'bp_get_the_topic_post_content', 'bp_forums_filter_kses', 1 );
add_filter( 'bp_get_the_topic_post_content', 'wp_filter_kses', 1 );

Anyone know? Or just stripping the img tags somehow would be great.

I have bbPress 2.3.2 installed and WordPress 3.5.1. Thanks. The site’s not live so I don’t have a link, apols.
(have edited so I can tick “follow up replies via email”)

[DFC005]

Is it possible to replicate the theme/layout of the bbPress.org forums homepage easily?

Love the forums on the left and the latest topics layout. Would love to see this as an option in the settings for the future.

Any ideas in the meantime?

[Footyplace]

Hi guys,

Since upgrading from version 2.3 of bbPress to 2.3.1 (and now 2.3.2) I’ve lost the Forums/Topics/Replies options from the menu down the left of my site dashboard.

‘Right Now in Forums’ is still there, but if I click on anything (Forums, Topics Replies, Hidden Topics, Hidden Replies) I get the message ‘Cheatin’ uh’ as if I am not the site administrator, which I am. It’s a problem as we occasionally get ‘pending’ posts.

Also, I can no longer edit posts from the forum itself once the time set in ‘Disallow editing after’ has passed.

Is this a common problem that’s likely to be fixed, or could there be a conflict on my site?

It’s http://www.footyplace.com incidentally.

[doxaliber]

Hi everyone.
First, my system:
wordpress 3.5.1.
buddypress 1.7.1 (with bbpress 2.3.2 integrated).

I’ve changed my site from buddypress group forums to bbpress 2.3.1. The transition went fine, but now I have this problem:

Users can’t edit their own messages.
I have also set option “Disallow editing after” to 15 minutes, but still users can’t edit their own posts.

Then, I have some difficulties to understand how forum visibility settings of bbpress (public, private, hidden) correlates to group visibility settings (public, private, hidden). If I set a group as hidden and than bbpress settings to “private” or “public”, new topics of groups forum appears in “latest topics”. Users that are not members of group that try to enter the forum get 404 error, but they still can read the topic, and this is not a good thing. If a users sets his group as hidden I think he don’t want to see it visible in latest topics, don’t you? 🙂

[Nashwan D]

Nice version, More fixes… Better bbPress 🙂

[zeaks]

This didn’t work. I went to tools > export, selected forums, exported it, did the same with replies and topics. If I select posts, it will export the blog posts.

Some of the forum info shows up like, forums and sub forums and sticky posts. In the sidebar widget it is showing forum topics, and I can go to them, but in the actual forum, it’s empty besides the sticky posts.

[tomodaore]

env
WP 3.5.1 / bbpress 2.3.2 / PHP5.4.14 / IIS 5.1 / WinXP SP3

Hello.
My WP site looks working well and I can post a blog entry or a comment.
After creating a topic on dashboard and subscriber tried to submit Reply, an error occuerred.
“HTTP 405 – Resource not allowed”
I googled around and found something about XML-RPC, but from WP3.5 it is already turned on in default.
I also checked my IIS settings and confirmed PHP is mapped to GET/HEAD/POST.

Any ideas to solve this?

Tom

[Tbermudas]

Simple question. It’s possible to convert or export group forums to site wide forums??

[Jared Atchison]

Copy

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

to

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

Edit as you see fit. You’ll likely want to place whatever before <div id="bbpress-forums">.

You can copy any template elements that you want/need to change to a bbpress folder inside your theme and bbPress will automagically use those template files instead of the default ones.

[DNBrawler]

Hello!

I’ve been having this problem for so long I didn’t really notice it until some members on my site complained about it. Apparently, my forums page’s load time is quite long when you’re loading mysite.com/forums. I have buddypress running and I’m not able to configure my wordpress page to buddypress forums, I guess since bbpress is running. Everything is updated to the highest update. My breadcrumbs directly links most of my pages to the forum index; is there a way to have my page not redirect to itself?

[dieuw26]

I have exactly the same question. Al my pages start with my header, precontent with page-title and then page-content. BBpress only repeats my header and not the page-title. I also want some intro tekst on the page-content before the forum starts. Does anyone know which bbpress php file i should edit? Or, and this would be easier, is there a way in which i can load a forum in a page?

Would be really nice if someone knows

Thanks!

[zeaks]

Great thanks, i never even thought of using the import/export options.

Is there any way to clean up the original sites database after moving the forums? Looks like forum information is within the WordPress tables instead of its own wpbb_ whatever tables, I don’t know much about databases so I could be wrong.

[Erlend]

Hum sorry, must’ve gone into the spamfolder. I tested it myself and it works. Aw well, I sent you an e-mail via your contact form, cheers.