[Shane Gowland]

Hi Lesego,

As a general rule, we strongly advise users not to modify core WordPress/bbPress files under any circumstances. There are a whole host of issues you could be causing.

I recommend taking a look at “Customizing the Login Form -> Make a Custom Login Page”

 

[nizamani619]

http://www.getarailroadjob.com/forum
http://www.getarailroadjob.com/
Not sure why original person who installed forum was not able to use original wp-admin for installing but they installed it on forum/bb-admin instead.
now i want to upgrade bbpress to latest version and The version I have is old and I think back then it was just a theme that was uploaded and NOT a plugin…. Now they have switched from a bbpress theme to a plugin
so how can i install and update new version
thanks

[dyspersion media]

For anyone else who comes here trying to programmatically display the forum index list, you can call shortcodes like this:


echo( bbpress()->shortcodes->display_forum_index() );


For what it’s worth, I don’t know why a function called “list_forums” would display *sub* forums. I would think that would be a function named “list_sub_forums” but, oh well. At least there’s a work around. It’s also worth noting that this might not be the best way to do this. I haven’t done much testing (I’ve done none).

Cheers!

[Stephen Edgar]

It is also in the codex https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-in-your-language/

[Olivier Lettinga]

Got it, Thnx!

[Stephen Edgar]

This.

Indeed, I have pimped it up a level… https://bbpress.org/about/examples/

[Stephen Edgar]

I haven’t got a fix for you though hopefully @jjj can do some magic.

The issue relates to how your user profiles /users/admin/ are including ‘recent topics’ on that same page rather than the default bbPress /users/admin/topics/, thus if you go to /users/admin/topics/page/2/ everything is perfect.

In your custom template file user-details.php you have added lines 16-33 but this is causing bbPress to generate the pagination links for the current /user/admin/ URL.

I know I have found the problem, but a solution, nope, I’m stuck, my PHP skills are not quite there yet 😉

References: Changeset 4322 and /includes/topics/template-tags.php#242 bbp_is_single_user_topics pretty permalinks.

Your site is awesome to say the least and I see you have pimped it…

[guidoh]

Very cool, thank you!!! That actually worked. 🙂

Now if I could only get my posts to show. Still having these problems as described here – https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/forum-broken-after-update/

[Stephen Edgar]

Activate bbPress first, then follow Pagelines docs for their plugin <a href=”http://www.pagelines.com/wiki/How_to_Use_the_bbPress_for_PageLines_Plugin”>here, also make sure you have the latest version of their plugin for bbPress 2.2 compatibilty.

[spiritbear]

Many thanks Stephen, sorry I missed this. I have a Pagelines compatibility plugin for bbPress – does it matter which I activate first?

[Stephen Edgar]

Can you please create a new ticket in the bug tracker detailing your request please.

[Stephen Edgar]

The default bbPress breadcrumb behaviour is the same behaviour that you are looking for, that’s presuming you are using the default ‘forums’ as the forum prefix in bbPress settings.

I personally haven’t used Yoast breadcrumbs plugin but if you want to continue using it I’d suggest you head over to Yoast’s support for the plugin and ask what options you have.

[Stephen Edgar]

Try creating a page and use the [bbp-register] shortcode or use a login widget in a sidebar.

[Stephen Edgar]

The process is still the same, I just updated the page you mention and it was only a minor modification for the default template location in bbPress 2.2.

[guidoh]

I cannot get user registration to work. I tried t ocreate a page and apply the bbPress – User Registration template, but there is not a single bbPress template in my drop-down menu. All there is is “Default” and “Contact Info”

Does anyone know what could be causing this? Or is there some other good way to create a user registration page/section/widget?

Thanks for any leads.

[guidoh]

I just upgraded bbPress and now forum posts are no longer displayed. I can see the forums, but when I click on them the following page has no content. The source of the page shows me a

where the posts and page content should be.

I am also having the problem that no author profiles work. Clicking on them always takes me to the front page of my blog.

Here’s a link if anyone wants to take a look.

http://thorvalla.com/message-board-2/

[andymacleod]

I’ve been working on a MMORPG guild site with 3 distinct levels of Membership with posting rights:
– guests/potential members who can post on PUBLIC forums
– full member who can post of the guild’s PRIVATE forums
– officer/moderators who can post of HIDDEN forums.

I chose to use WordPress and bbPress instead of a dedicated guild-hosting solution to make the site different from most other guild sites, taking advantage of WordPress’s theming and bbPress’s simplicity.

bbPress 2.2.1 only seem to expect only 2 levels of membership – there is no option to have a “guest/registered” user who can post on public forums. However, I did manage to create 3 levels of member by making a small change to a core file, found here:
bbpress\includes\core\capabilities.php

Go to where the Spectator role is defined (lines 134 to 169) and change them to have the same capabilities as for the participant role (lines 225-260). Then change line 146 ‘read_private_forums’ back to ‘false’.

The problem with this approach: Your “spectator” role is now no longer merely a spectator. And, of course, this amendment would be overwritten by updating bbPress. Alternatively, you could create another role here (would be good addition for bbPress 2.3) but you need to edit other parts of the file to do so…

Another issue: I wanted custom titles to appear on topic posts beside member’s avatars. To do this, I had to create new WordPress roles using Justin Tadlock’s Member plugin. I copied the WordPress default permissions for the “Subscriber” role and gave it the name “Guest”. I did the same for the “Member” role, and I copied the default Editor roles for the guild “Officer” role – because I wanted them to be able to edit pages and posts too.

The solution seems to work although it is not ideal… I thought I’d pass it on in case there were other people in a similar position who wanted more flexibility in terms of roles. Please, please, please could making it possible to change forum roles and titles a priority update for the next major update to bbPress.

Thanks,

Andy

[John James Jacoby]

You’ll have better luck looking into the existing templates, and copying existing functionality. Check in: templates/default/bbpress/content-archive-forum.php

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/templates/default/bbpress/content-archive-forum.php

[John James Jacoby]

Don’t listen to Pippin, he’s incorrect. 🙂

Put your bbPress translations in:

wp-content/languages/bbpress/bbpress-*.*

[John James Jacoby]

@rossagrant — Anytime. What you just described is exactly what this aims to accomplish. Thanks for being patient and dealing with the initial misstep.

[John James Jacoby]

That’s a pretty clever approach to fixing that specific problem. Nice work.

[jakewho]

Okay…I will try that…but the event which caused the forums to “disappear” was the upgrade to bbPress v2.2. Prior to that it was working just fine.

[John James Jacoby]

It’s possible you have some other plugin that isn’t playing nicely with bbPress. Typical trouble shooting rules apply: start deactivating things, and keep reverting changes, until you find the source.

[Michael]

Gotta agree with John James Jacoby, you’ve gotta expect to spend a decent amount of money to hire a contractor to do this kind of work. It’s not trivial, and was never meant to be (my opinion).  My guess is you’re looking at a decent project size of 20-40 hours minimum, unless the task is very basic.

To put it in perspective, I’ve put in about 20+ hours to customize my bbPress installation so that it matches my Wootheme. bbPress documentation could be better, but it’s not too difficult if you can do rudimentary CSS3 coding (or pick it up on the fly, as I have).  Now, getting Buddypress to integrate and play nice with my theme and Woocommerce site, on the other hand, has consumed a lot more time than bbPress integration has.

Best of luck, and don’t skimp on a good WordPress consultant.

Michael

[spwestwood]

I’m also getting this problem upgrading from 1.03 to 2.2.
As far as I could see the only problem was the post author field in the wp_posts database. It was all set as ‘1’ (the first user, ie me), instead of copying across from the orignal table (bb_topics/bb_posts). The users all seemed to be ok in wp_users. I therefore ran the following MySQL:
update wp_posts
inner join bb_topics
on wp_posts.post_title=bb_topics.topic_title
set wp_posts.post_author = bb_topics.topic_poster

and then:
update wp_posts
inner join bb_posts
on bb_posts.post_time = wp_posts.post_date
set wp_posts.post_author = bb_posts.poster_id
where wp_posts.post_author = ‘1’

(I found that this worked for me, but please be careful and backup before running it)