[matrixd]

Sorry, I was talking about the bbpress-unread-posts plugin!

[matrixd]

Hi, with 082net’s fix participants and all other roles are able to see the forums.

In my forum I have a problem with moderator role privileges they can’t edit, split, or delete any post.

I have check everything

Is something else that you suggesting me!

Thanks

[Paulo Pires]

Hello good people
This is my very first request for help and I’m a very, very newbie with all this.

I’ve designed a film photography forum using bbpress and Fanwood theme. I’ve managed to customize some CSS but something does not work.

When writing a post or answering to a given post the “text box” allows me to write all I want and it even assume the line breaks, but when I submit the post all the line breaks are gone and the text turns into a single “block”.

Can anyone please help me?
Thank you

[markmaxdavid]

I have opted for SMF hosting from Hostpaedia but i am having some issues with SMF and the forum doesnt seems good for my use.

I am impressed with bbPress and i want to use it on my new host. i dont know the process of installation as i am not techie. Hostpaedia Guys told that they provide with Softaculous where i can instal bbPress with one click. but i dont know from where to start.

Is there any handy guide for it ?
any help will be appreciated.

[Erlend]

Defaulting to plain-text, like bbpress.org now does, seems like a perfectly good compromise to me.

[mariobca]

I had the exact same problem, and have found a solution that worked for my case:
I have a custom theme running and the site.com/forums/ page was not listing the forums, even though I had created a couple sample forums and topics to make sure there was dummy data.

Thanks to Jared, it became quite apparent that the “the_content()” WordPress function was not properly generating the forum.

At first I tried disabling all the plugins, except bbpress, to see if perhaps a plugin was conflicting with the “the_content()” function; but no luck.

I then installed the TwentyTwelve theme, and switched to that, and voila, the forums were showing! Something was different in the TwentyTwelve theme that I didn’t have in my custom theme… and I narrowed it down:

SOLUTION: Make sure you have the “the_post()” function call BEFORE the “the_content()” function, in your page.php template file in your theme folder. Something in bbPress must be getting triggered by the “the_post()” function which ties into the “the_content()” function displaying the forums content properly. All subsequent pages also display properly.

Simply, ensure “the_post()” is called before “the_content()”. Did the trick for me! Good luck!

[Erlend]

I think I finally found a caching plugin that’s actually compatible with the latest bbPress plugin:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lite-cache/

It’s by the same developer who made the quite popular “Hyper Cache“. Why he decided to make yet another caching plugin I do not know, but it appears to be working great on our site!

[kanex32]

I don’t understand why moderators are allowed to create forums (only admins should be allowed to do this).

Is there a way to take this capability away from moderators in bbPress?

Thanks for the help.

[Shane Gowland]

Custom bbPress functions can go into your functions.php file, but I prefer to create a custom functions plugin.

[Erlend]

Thanks for sharing @will-brownsberger . So it’s been 3 weeks, how are you doing? 🙂 There’s also a mention of a fix in that thread you linked to, but I’m not sure if it’s been applied yet.

We’re on a constant lookout for bbPress-compatible plugins to use on jmonkeyengine.org. It could really save us from a very costly hardware/hosting investment.

[Erlend]

Thanks a lot, this is a very welcome tweak! I never did understand the point behind this “feature”. I rarely close topics because the OP shouldn’t be read at all…

Is there a way to safely override this css in my child-theme’s style.css as well, maybe by importing the bbpress.css? The problem with your method is that the change will be overwritten as soon as bbPress is updated.

[cfree]

I’m assuming that if I want to override the template files inside the plugin directory, I need to place a file of the same name (ex: archive_forum.php) inside the bbpress directory within my theme folder.

So where do custom bbpress functions go? My theme’s functions.php?

[verlaine76]

I know this was a while ago, but in case anyone else stumbles across this topic, here’s how I did it.

In your wordpress install find the folder `/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/css`

Open the file `bbpress.css` in a text editor
Within the bbpress.css file, search for the text `#bbpress-forums .status-closed`

When you find this text, below is the entry `color: #ccc;` This is the colour for your text in closed topics. Change it to #000 for black.

[Stephen Edgar]

You can grab the 2.3 beta 1 now, see https://bbpress.org/blog/2013/01/bbpress-2-3-beta-1/

In theory changing `post_parent` should do the trick though you need to run the ‘Repair Tools’ after doing this to recount all the things.

[nadir]

Hi Stephan, that’s great to hear! Any idea when you plan to release? I’m just doing demo runs right now; I’ll be officially moving my phpbb3-based community over to this bbpress install next month.

I have already been doing a lot of user pruning and forum configuration on the live phpbb forum to make it as close to what I want the bbpress to look like.

I guess I will need to figure out how to mass move topics from a regular forum into a group designated forum. I tried mucking with the database by changing the “post_parent” field to match up with the new group forum, however it didn’t work… the front end looked a little wonky. Tips?

[bdrums]

I’m trying to do a WordPress XML import on a site with BBPress installed. When I get to the page that asks if a user’s posts should be assigned to an existing user or not, the list is over 100 users long, but never finishes. I know it’s not finished because I see that it’s listing BBPress users, and there are 3700+ of them in the WP-Admin. Consequently, the Submit button never gets created for the import form, so I can’t finish the import.

Please help!

[ringishpil]

@Netweb, thanks I got it.

Now I want to make a reverse function like I want to display all freshest topics except the one I displayed before.

So I am doing something like:

$left['show_stickies']=false;
$left['order']='DESC';
$left['post_parent']!=1263;

and then

if ( bbp_has_topics($left) )
		bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/loop', 'topics' );

but its listing all of the topics.

When I go like $left['post_parent']=1263; its ok, but when I want a negation (list all topics from all forums except the forum with 1263 ID, then in var dump of $left['post_parent']!=1263; I am getting NULL

[zurdog]

I had used the code (below) prior to posting here in the forum and it didn’t work for me…

and it outputs nothing… what am I doing wrong? I put this in my header.php file in my wordpress theme directory.

[Stephen Edgar]

There are very little in the way of options for bbPress and this is by design.

I’m also from the Stonehenge forum era and am far from a developer but saw the potential of bbPress, now I’m learning PHP due to the awesome inline docs in the code of bbPress (and WordPress).

Speaking of proud things in bbPress… Search is really new and works really well 😉

eg. https://bbpress.org/forums/search/?bbp_search=remove+sidebar

(I’m not meaning to be lazy or dismissive of your specific query just that this question has been asked many times and there are quite a few topics on this subject and you might even find one specific to the WordPress theme you are using)

[Stephen Edgar]

Excellent, the BBCode cleanup bits are the main changes that will ship with bbPress 2.3, I think I have most of them sorted now.

Moving topics is a manual task at the moment, it is planned for a future release. (#1838 & #1721)

Are you able to configure your old phpBB forums (or a copy of them) and set these forums the way you want them to exist in bbPress and then do the import?
(Essentially use the phpBB mod tools to get the setup you want before importing into bbPress)

[Stephen Edgar]

Hows this for starters? https://codex.bbpress.org/bbp_list_forums/

[zurdog]

How do I call bbpress template tags inside of the wordpress theme files? For example, I’m in header.php of my wordpress theme, and would like to list the forums in the header. I found this code: bbp_list_forums(); but I’m not sure how to get it to work?

I understand I can use widgets or use the admin with various slugs… but I’m wondering how to do this on the backend with code.

[Stephen Edgar]

There are a couple of minor updates for the importer with bbPress 2.3 but these do not relate to mismatched topics and replies. How many are we talking? 1 or 2? 10 or 20? 5,000? What percentage?

Don’t worry about user passwords, they are stored in usermeta until the user logs in for the first time.

[Stephen Edgar]

Your phpBB database is NOT erased, you can reset bbPress and import from phpBB as many times as you want.

It is still advisable to make backups of everything still.

[Aechus Tea]

I’m converting one of my ancient sites to wordpress and have decided to use bbPress as the support forum system.

My question is, how do I get rid of the wordpress sidebar? In my theme I can select different layouts, but I see no similar option in the bbPress administration tools.

I’m an ancient forum developer and user from the Stonehenge days of the 80’s and I like what I see in bbPress so far. Simple and powerful at the same time. I hope the developers are proud of what they’ve accomplished with this.