The other day I downloaded bbpress and was just messing around with it and I found a setting to change the ranks and the amount of posts you need to earn them etc. Now I can’t find that though, can someone show me where these settings are?
I am starting a new Web-site and the client wants a forum. I downloaded the wpbbpress Plug in. I added the widget for the login to my sidebar and I Created the First Forum and a topic for that forum. NOW WHAT?
Where is a list of the shortcodes?
HELP????
I tried displaying the reply form in my WordPress theme’s single.php file by putting [bbp-reply-form] but it just outputs [bbp-reply-form] as text on the site.
I am using the “bbPress Topics for Posts” plugin to automatically create a new topic with every new post and I want to display the latest replies as well as the reply form under the article but it only displays the replies, not the form. So I thought by adding the shortcode, I would get the form but that didn’t work.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks so much in advance!
The only thing to remember is that you can register for wordpress and register for bbPress (bbPress creates a wordpress user). So potentially they could be registering in a different part of your site, which could potentially mean you don’t get an email.
You can usually tell by their email address and username if it’s some kind of bot or something registering for wordpress sites, I just tend to delete them. If I am really unsure I just send them an email from a random email account asking if they recieved their password correctly, don’t recieve an email for two days then I just delete it.
Just to let you know I have no updated the original link but I don’t think it has the changes you made. Good thing to know for anyone using Github, always sync before you make any changes that is what got me stuck.
I meant to say I HAVE updated the original link.
Inside the bbPress plugin is a folder called: \wp-content\plugins\bbpress\templates\default – if you add this into your current theme then you can edit this file to customize it.
Potentially you could look at doing something with htaccess to redirect /blog/forums to /forums but I am not sure if that is going to cause any issues anywhere else.
Not sure of another way because bbPress sits inside wordpress as a plugin.
Just to let you know I have no updated the original link but I don’t think it has the changes you made. Good thing to know for anyone using Github, always sync before you make any changes that is what got me stuck.
Aww man git is doing my head in lol.
I currently have windows.github.com but it won’t let me commit anything because of conflicts, then it redirects me to the command line tool. I can probably just make a local backup, delete my repo, resync it and then add the new files back in so it allows me to commit (hopefully).
If not then I will do some reading up on github I guess.
I am using: Windows, Wamp, Notepad++
Thanks a lot for all the help netweb, I will be trying to sort this mess out over the next couple of days!
How did you solve it? I want to make the different URL like the way you wanted. I also want /blog and /forums url separately. Please help.
Hello All,
I have installed wordpress on my site in a folder named /blog and installed bbpress for forums. The issue is, bbpress url is set as /blog/forums and I want to change it to /forums. Is it possible? Please help me.
thanks!
Hello,
I’m a newbie so on forehand sorry for stupid questions.
I’ve installed WordPress 3.5.1, a fresh bbpress 2.2.4 forum, BuddyPress 1.6.4, Better WP Security 3.4.8 and WP Super Cache 1.2.
Besides that the forum (under the tab Forums) doesn’t show up, the question is:
How is it possible that only one person takes an account on the forum, I’ve received only one e-mail, and there are 3 new users. I suspect they are not the chatting-type, so I will delete these accounts anyway.
Is there a way to prevent this? Is it a bug? What can I do about it?
Thanks for your answers.
Hello, I am new to bbPress and I am currently using a theme called GamePress. I’m pretty sure this theme isn’t compatible with bbPress because when I go to create a page the templates aren’t located in the themes drop-down. Is there a way to make my theme compatible with my theme.
Also, The forum shows up if I type in my url http://www.website.com/forums but I don’t like the way it looks where do I go to change the themes? I didn’t see an option in the Admin of wordpress anywhere. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Jordan
You can set the forum order from your WordPress dashboard, see the following docs for more info:
https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/#creating-your-first-forum
I currently have a new version of my theme sitting locally but I am fairly certain the updates you did aren’t included. I am thinking it might be best to try and extend the bbpress-functions.php from yet another custom functions file so that this can almost sit on top of that and never need to be changed?
Any thoughts about it?
I am not sure what the best practice approach is as I am wrestling with the same issue myself for a project I am doing at the moment. I’ll ask @jjj his thoughts and get back to you.
Hey all, I am pretty bad with Github at the moment, I broke something so I made a new git repo.
https://github.com/EpicWebs/bbpress-starter-theme-v2.0
Its all good, I took a look at the code and will submit another pull request against your original GitHub repo with all your updates and the bbPress 2.3 updates.
(I think it’s best to keep the original repo as people are following/starred/bookmarked it etc)
If anyone has any good git tutorials let me know lol.
What platform and devtools are you using to develop with?
Windows/Mac, MAMP/XAMP, Sublime Text 2/Notepad++/Netbeans etc etc
These tools below take some of the daunting command line horrors out of your learning Git.
If you are on Windows then use this http://windows.github.com/
(I use this for %90+ of anything to do with GitHub)
If on a Mac grab this http://mac.github.com/
(I don’t have a Mac but this looks from my quick look the equiv of the Windows features above)
If you want to get into Git via the command line check this out
http://try.github.com/
Stephen Edgar
I will try to install bbPress 2.3.
Thank you for answering my question!
Thanks @lynq and @mostafaghanbari. That’s something to think about..
Hi Lynq!
Thanks for the tip. The problem was with my theme css. Luckily I found a better theme than the last one and it solved my problem. I really appreciate your help.
Regards!!
I think youre right that the first is a bug. Ive been able to reproduce.
The second issue doesnt seem very bug-like though. Could you share the code that is calling the add_user function? As I said before, I suspect you’re not doing any validation on the situations ion which the function is allowed to run.
hello @blogjunkie. for number 2 and 3 u can install User Role Editor to manage your customers access roles. for number one you have many different ways! please explain it more!
That’s going to need quite a bit of custom work, unless someone knows of a plugin you can use.
You will need to somehow map the user to their forum and then in their custom login page pull all the topics based on that users forum id. I can see how it could be done.
When the customer registers you could create the forum, update the user_meta with that forum id and then have a custom view which fetches the customers user_meta forum id and then displays all of the topics based off that forum id.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_user_meta
Good luck!
If I get any strange issues the first thing I do is updated the permalinks and resave them.
Have you made any changes inside settings > forums you can change the base url and things like that,
Hi there!
As the title suggests, I am wondering if it is possible to make it so that when I create a new post in my WordPress, it automatically creates a new topic in bbPress. Ideally, it would automatically be created in the right forum, maybe via a custom field or category?
Also, if that’s doable at all, is it possible to automatically put the permalink somewhere on the page of the article that is the post? Or maybe even turn the WordPress comment area into the bbPress reply section, if you know what I mean? So that directly underneath the article in my WordPress, users who are logged into the board can reply and those who aren’t logged in get a log-in link.
If one of you could let me know if any of that is possible and point me in the right direction, that would be greatly appreciated! Thanks so much in advance.
-Jess