the function to use for a check is is_bbpress()
There is a plugin that enables attachments – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gd-bbpress-attachments/, however past that currently there is no other method. It’s certainly on the list for core, we just haven’t gotten to it yet.
My client may be interested in hiring someone to update our bbPress forum to make it more user friendly and fresh.
Where is the best place to find bbPress developers?
Thanks
I would like to weigh in here and agree with @xmasons sentiment. The “Members” plugin, for example, is a great example of role/capability management done right IMHO. I am unable, however, to modify the capabilities of the bundled bbp roles within the Members interface.
What I have been forced to do is create my own role for “forum moderator” with additional capabilities added on top of the bbp_moderator defaults. The resulting outcome is that I am deliberately not using the bundled bbPress role, which effectively defeats the purpose of having implemented it in the first place.
I’m not sure why the new bbp roles are incompatible with the Members plugin, I get the following error when attempting to modify their available caps.
Fatal error: Call to a member function has_cap() on a non-object in /home/tamrielfoundry/tamrielfoundry.com/wp-content/plugins/members/admin/role-edit.php on line 31
Same issue here, also a bit scared to remap user roles. I looked into it, turns out as part of the new bbPress update that restructured some of its own user roles, it actually removed certain capabilities from existing roles. For example, my site-wide administrator role didn’t have the capability to read_hidden_forums or read_private_forums, in addition to 20 or so other bbPress specific capabilities.
If you are using default (or custom) WordPress roles in a bbPress environment, you may need to go in and grant them some of the bbPress specific capabilities.
Still NO luck here either…. MY FORUM still doesnt work….I have tried all your ideas…
Im going to deactivate – delete and start all over…. NOT positive thinking from me….
I just want to make sure it was the 2.2 update that did away with the ‘Forum Participant’ role. It seems to have set all non-admins ‘Site Role’ to ‘Participant’ (even though that’s not an option in the Role dropdown), and left the ‘Default User Role’ to Administrator which caused a few outsiders to accidentally be signed up as an Admin.
Previously, if we wanted to modify the roles and capabilities of end users, we would use one of the several plugin offerings. With the folding of roles into bbPress changing those capabilities and access, it seems as if our pervious granular control is now removed. I understand the reasons, and I’m also feeling quite hamstrung on my choices.
Previously I had two user levels that are similar to the updated Participant role. One allowed for addition and edits of publicly available forums. The second one allowed for not only publicly available forums, but also private ones as well. The new Participant role fills that latter role, but now I no longer have the user identity for the former role.
It appears that I can’t change the capabilities of the bundled roles, nor am I able to create new roles that will play nice with bbPress. What are my options around this? Will there be tools to add new roles or change the capabilities?
Thanks for any input.
My current theme is the default TwentyEleven theme. Are you saying I should check in the TwentyTen theme?
I have repaired all items in the tools section and still only two forums out of six are listed on my forum page. (http://keyblogging.com/support/). Please help!
You can try ‘bbp_template_before_forums_loop’ and ‘bbp_template_before_topics_loop’ hooks…Those two are fired right before any forum or topic is generated at template level.
Yes, you need to put it inside the CSS folder. So it should look like this:
themes/underscores/css/bbpress.css
I have a normal WordPress site with the bbPress Plugin installed.
Is there a hook or template tag I can use to run code when any type of front end bbPress page is displayed (forum/topic/reply etc.)?
I want to run some custom code, but only if the current page is a bbPress page. I don’t want code to run on every page on my site when it’s not needed (i.e. for non-bbPress pages).
Thanks.
Hey. Not sure if I’m missing something, but I’ve been looking around the forums following advice on using a custom bbPress CSS file, but it isn’t working.
I’m creating a theme based on underscores.me 1000 headstart theme.
I’ve copied the CSS file from ‘plugins/bbpress/templates/default/css/bbpress.css’ to ‘themes/underscores/bbpress.css’. I’ve read previously that that bbPress will then detect the custom CSS file and use it. Doesn’t appear to be the case.
Have I missed something?
Actually this sounds more like the bbPress plugin isn’t activate. Double check that first.
Hi!
I’m not sure if this is the right forum, but…
I’m trying to create separate page for creating new topic (user presses some “New topic” button, it redirects him to the page).
I know I have to create new page in WP. I also know I have to use [bbp-topic-form] shortcode for that page. My problem is that I don’t know how to correctly setup the address for that page. I would like it to be in the form: “www.mydomain.net/forums/new-topic”. But I can’t select bbPress’s pages as the parent for my new page, so it looks like “www.mydomain.net/new-topic” in my case.
Any ideas how to make this work?
Yes! Thanks @silviorelli! Tried everything to get Private forums to show, was about to revert to 2.1 but ran the repair on ‘Remap existing users to default forum roles’ and now it seems to work! Phew…
Full details are explained in the link (https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/roles-and-capabilities-in-bbpress-2-2/)
Take a look here: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/roles-and-capabilities-in-bbpress-2-2/
I fixed my disappeared forum using the forums role repair tool, located in: Admin > Tools > Forums
HELP ME – I updated – like other users – and my FORUM disappeared! What to do??
Need my site to be running again SOOON!
Mille;o)
Hi everybody,
I work on a WP site which has BBPress integrated. I did not created the site, I just got the job passed to me. I was doing good, until I created a page with the BBPress:Create New Topic template. The page comes blank, and in the source, I get the PHP error:
Call to undefined function bbp_get_template_part() in /home/affinity/public_html/aaplonline.com/new/wp-content/themes/parallelus-salutation/page-create-topic.php on line 27
I realize it is because BBPress is NOT correctly integrated in the theme. BBP functions are not alive I guess.
Theme is already customized.
is there any way to fix it at this stage?
It shouldn’t be, no.
Few things I recommend when upgrading is pre-upgrade temporarily switch to TwentyTen and the default bbPress theme (if you are using a custom one), then do the upgrade. If everything works, then switch back to your normal theme/bbPress theme. Then if it starts giving errors at least you know where to look.
Another thing that can be helpful is to temporarily turn on WP_DEBUG which can sometimes reveal problems with your theme or plugins you have installed that are preventing bbPress from running correctly.
I’ve been running bbPress on sites since 2.0 and haven’t had any problems upgrading, but I wrote the themes from scratch and am real particular on what plugins get installed.
Do a search in the plugin repository for it, there was a plugin that added that for bbPress 2.x at one point, however I haven’t personally used it so I can’t say how well it works or if it still runs with 2.2.x.
Edit: nevermind, just go to the part that you tried the plugin. It’s definitely something we would like in core. Ideally someone would write an awesome plugin that does it (correctly) and then it would be eventually folded into core.
Not easily, no.
That shortcode calls the content-single-forum.php template file. So you’re options are to copy that file to your theme and edit it (but this will be reflected globally, not just in the shortcode). Or create your own shortcode based off the bbPress one and have it use a custom template file.
