[OMD2]

I’m using bbpress forum and holding all submissions for moderation. Users are complaining that they get no feedback whether their form submission was accepted or not. Upon hitting submit, the form just turns blank and that’s it. Is there are way to have any sort of feedback: like “Your submission is being held for moderation” or a similar message?

• This topic was modified 13 years, 8 months ago by OMD2.

[Charly_ZA]

Thank you very much for helping me.

[Charly_ZA]

The item won’t appear in the menu. I can go to the forums if I type it in manually. These are the steps I took: 1. I created a new menu item called forums 2. I added a custom link to the forum 3. I saved the menu

[Kr3m1in]

No solution yet… I just ended up getting ip.board.

If there is a solution to this issue, I’d gladly switch back to bbPress.

[zeaks]

Wondering if it’s possible to change what the “Code” button outputs on the bbpress editor (html and visual). I want it to use [code] instead of < code .

Either that or is there a way to add a new button to the editor?

• This topic was modified 13 years, 8 months ago by zeaks.
• This topic was modified 13 years, 8 months ago by zeaks.

[GardenFork]

thanks zaerl, can’t seem to get it to work. i’m not a rocket scientist with databases.

happy to hire a programmer who can make this happen, posted a job request on http://jobs.wordpress.net/

thx again. eric + gardenfork.tv

[noski2009]

Hi, I’ve been having trouble with bbPress, first I couldn’t post a new topic without getting referred to “This Topic Has Been Closed”. So I thought it might be a theme problem so I changed theme and now it’s stuck to that theme and wont let me go back! I haven’t touched the following or any code for that matter, does anyone have any ideas, really need help with this! Thanks,

• This topic was modified 13 years, 8 months ago by noski2009.

[zaerl]

You can import BuddyPress data from http://example.com/wp-admin/tools.php?page=bbp-converter

It supports BuddyPress forums as far as I know.

[zaerl]

I’m glad but yours is a workaround the problem. Maybe in future release bbPress will reconsider the FORCE INDEX.

[zaerl]

1) Create a bbpress.php file in the root directory of your theme (or archive-forum.php).

2) bbPress is a plugin and so every single function that are include()d are automatically available on the global scope. Take a look at the bbpress() function.

3) By testing. bbPress isn’t obtrusive and at 99% it will not raise problems.

[boatkorachal]

dddd

> sdfasdf

ds![asdf][1]

[fuzzybee]

It has been a week now.
Does anyone have any ideas how I can achieve this?

[LabSecrets]

Actually no.
Event though it’s not maybe intuitive… the point is that you are creating and setting the default “slug” for bbPress to use, and then this slug needs a menu item in order for someone to point to it (obviously they could type in the url directly, but no one would know that).

In sum: You don’t need to create a page. You should “not” copy the bbPress files to the forum folder… what you should do is:

1) Visit forums page in bbPress link of dashboard and set the sitewide-forums slug to whatever you want;

2) Use this slug in the appearance/menu creator to add this slug to any menu you wish (primary navigation, whatever…) with the format of: “/slug”. So, if your domain was “http:/something.com” and your sitewide forum slug was “sitewide-forums”, you would create a new menu item using “/sitewide-forums” or if you prefer absolute urls “http://something.com/sitewide-forums&#8221;

Cheers,
spence

[Charly_ZA]

Thanks for the help but isn’t that just creating a link to the forums in the navigation bar? Is there a way to treat it like a page? Simple press does it like that. I don’t like simple press and I want to change to bbpress. I have it installed on my website at tbolmc.com/wordpress.

[tamarazuk]

[SOLVED]
First I’d like to thank villagora and zaerl for their help!

I have realized that the issue was that I had set the CPTs Forums, Topics and Replies to “Translate” in WPML settings. It was probably something I did when I installed bbPress and overlooked the fact after during my debugging.

For anyone else who is trying to run WPML and bbPress together please note that Forums cannot be translated with WPML. Instead, you must create a separate forum for each language.

Cheers!

[GardenFork]

i posted this in the install forum and i’m thinking that’s the wrong place for it.

i have a BuddyPress 1.5.6 forum with about 1,600 users and i’d like to convert or import those members and their posts into a bbPress forum.

i like the simplicity of bbPress and that it will work on a page of my website’s theme, so the look and feel of the forum is the same as the site.

i’ve searched here and have read about importers in the works for different forum software, but not for a BuddyPress to bbPress conversion.

thanks for any suggestions! eric.

[chromancer]

Hey folks, I had the same problem as you all. With no solution forthcoming, I dug down into the code and used a bunch of debug_zval_dump() statements to see the actual SQL.

The problem is that the code is producing this query to find out whether or not you have subforums:

SELECT ID FROM wp_posts WHERE post_parent = 31 AND post_status IN ( 'publish' ) AND post_type = 'forum' ORDER BY ID DESC

But the status for your private subforums is ‘private’. You want to see this:

SELECT ID FROM wp_posts WHERE post_parent = 31 AND post_status IN ( 'publish','private' ) AND post_type = 'forum' ORDER BY ID DESC

I found this on line 1287 of bb-common-functions.php:

    $post_status = array( bbp_get_public_status_id() );

That line of code is what puts the ( ‘publish’) list in the SQL. I changed it to:

    $post_status = array( bbp_get_public_status_id(), bbp_get_private_status_id() );

Now my subforums are showing up correctly. To see if this fix would have any adverse affects, I created a public forum, added a private subforum and logged out. The private subforum was not visible. Seems like this fix worked for me.

If you don’t have access to the actual source code, I’m afraid you won’t be able to do what I did, but I wanted to share that for those who do. Perhaps somebody can make some sort of plugin to help everyone else. I’m actually not a PHP guy and hardly know what I’m doing at all and I’m new to bbpress as well. If anybody comes up with anything better, I’d love to see it!

[BizAdventure]

Hello! I was experimenting with BuddyPress and bbPress, using the tutorial. When I went to check the site, I saw that it completely changed my layout, so I went ahead and removed the plugin and deleted the files. When I went back, I have no site! I still had access to my dashboard, so I quickly went ahead and put my site in maintenance mode: http://www.thehcgshop.com Can someone tell me how I can get it back? All of my posts and such is there, it seems that my theme is broken. Completely. Help? Biz

• This topic was modified 13 years, 8 months ago by BizAdventure.

[Shmoo]

Looks like single-topic-tag ID isn’t a supported short code.

It’s [bbp-single-tag id=12] or [bbp-topic-tag id=12]

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

[Shmoo]

First you don’t need to create a new page.

When you install -/activate bbPress you get the slugs forums and topics by default look at the settings.

When you type just forums behind your url (as it would be a page) you go straight to the forums index page.
And if you would like to edit the layout of the page you should copy the archive-forums.php file from the plugins folder to your theme folder and make some changes.

[Durazell]

I searched and none of the suggested solutions work. The forums page is blank while sub-pages works fine. Take a look:

Blankpage: http://gamerslounge.dk/forums/
Looks fine: http://gamerslounge.dk/forums/forum/genrer/

Versions: WP 3.4.2, bbPress 2.1.2
Plugins: W3 Total Cache, and few standrad ones like SOE, Login.

I’m on a shared virtual platoform with LiteSpeed as server. So I only have the access to the standard tools.

Regards Jan

[JoanBotella]

Hi everyone.

I’m developing a web site with multilingual support, using WordPress 3.4.2 and the Polylang plugin 0.9.4 . I’d love to add a forum to the site, so I downloaded, installed and activated bbPress 2.1.2 .

The first problem was that bbPress didn’t switch from one language to another, always keeping the default WordPress language. I solved this calling again bbpress()->load_textdomain() before loading the header template:

function cbp_bbPressTranslate(){
bpress()->load_textdomain();
}
add_action('get_header','cbp_bbPressTranslate');

This worked great, but soon other problem appeared. If topics and replies doesn’t have translations, they doesn’t show up. I can add translation posts for they from the admin panel, but of course my users can’t. I’ve isolated the problem to the Polylang plugin: switching back to Twenty Eleven theme and deactivating all plugins but Polylang didn’t do anything. Deactivating Polylang showed the topics again.

I’ve tried other multilingual plugins like xili-language, which works great with bbPress, but lacks of customizing menus panel, wich I need on my site.

Anyone can help me? Encouraging words will be welcomed too! 😀

[Drag0ntamer]

I have been trying to figure this out for the life of me but I cannot. I created a page called Forums. What I want is to have ALL of my forums WITHIN the forums page. So for example if someone goes to my website and clicks the forums button they will see all the available categories and be able to access this way. Is this possible?

As it is now the forums do not have their own button on my website and seem to be going to domainname.com/forums/forum/forum-5 which is not even accessible without typing the link directly.

[bjstone906]

I’m using the bbpress Login Widget in my sidebar but I’d like to move it to the top of the page outside of the main content area. I was thinking something similar to ebay. Can someone tell me where the code is for this widget or the best way of going about doing this? The site is http://retreadwerks.com/wordpressNew/

[Shmoo]

Just go to your forum settings page inside your WP Dashboard.

And look at the slug for forums and topics field.

By default it looks like this:
forums
topics

If you put both names behind your url (as a it would be a page) you will find the url to the forums and last topics.

You don’t need to do anything with files at this point.
Just vist the forums page and copy the browser url > go back into your WP Dashboard > Menu’s and creat a new Menu + custom menu link. > Save

Done
People can now visit your forums page from the menu-bar of your website..