[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..

[EricSchmitz]

Thanks! I’ll go with the latter. I’ll be testing it on a site that I only just started, so if I hose it I can easily rebuild. Using cpanel and phpmyadmin actually sounds a lot safer, and I do know how to do that.

Much appreciated!

[Charly_ZA]

Thanks, when I go to mywebsite.com/wordpress/forums the page is white. I did copy the bbpress files to the forum folder. When I get it installed will I be able to change the colours to match my current template?

[LabSecrets]

You use the default wp menu creator and create a new menu item for the slug that matches your selection when you setup bbPress (default is “forums”). See this sticky for a tutorial video step by step

The Definitive Guide To BuddyPress & bbPress Configuration

Cheers!
Spence

[LabSecrets]

The plugin is https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpvn-username-changer/

I’ve not used it lately, and it is over 2 years since an update….so please test it before on a demo site.

I suggest you merely use cpanel and phpmyadmin to change username for admin in row 1 of wp_users table…..be sure to backup your db beforehand in case something goes wrong 🙂

Cheers!
Spence

[Stephen Edgar]

Nice to see your ‘ Posts-to-bbPress’ plugin at GitHub
https://github.com/nosecreek/Posts-to-bbPress

[Charly_ZA]

Sorry, does anyone know how to do this? Is it possible? My template is “admired”

[Worthdesigning]

I am using Profile Builder. Excellent plugin for registration.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/profile-builder/

[cavenewt]

Anybody tried WangGuard?

[cavenewt]

I wouldn’t mind requiring new registrants to be moderated, or at least new posts. I think post moderation is supported in bbpress v2, isn’t it? What about registrant moderation? I am currently using standalone v1.02.

[cavenewt]

I found the list of spammed posts. It’s in the Admin area under Posts; filter for Spam. Duh.

[cavenewt]

Same question here–I have a standalone 1.02 I’d like to upgrade to v2. Don’t care about WordPress but bbPressv2 is strictly a plugin for WP, right?

[Pippin Williamson]

Hmm, I’m not sure then. I’m only familiar with bbPress.

[Charly_ZA]

Is there any way to create a navigation bar link saying forums on my website. I have installed bbpress but I don’t know what to do next. I looked at a few tutorials. My website is tbolmc.com/wordpress

[stickFinger]

think the WordPress Adminbar is now been called the Toolbar.

Yep

Another good example is ServerPress

Try to register at that site . All is done through frontend.

Still wondering if the guys here could spread some light on 🙂
Thank you Shmoo

[EricSchmitz]

Hi again, Spence. I had another question… You mentioned in your video that it is a good idea to use something other than “admin” as the main admin username, and I have heard that elsewhere and agree. Is there a way to safely change that username? Basic WP install indicates that a username cannot be changed (at least admin cannot), but I wondered if there is a plugin that could facilitate this? Or should I just wipe-and-replace? Thanks!

[Stefano Lissa]

Hi,

I discovered that (replies) pagination printed inside each topic on topic list does not work if the replies counts more than 1000 entries. This is due to the use of

$total = bbp_get_topic_reply_count( $topic_id );

on function

bbp_get_topic_pagination()

on bb-topic-template.php. The total from bbp_get_topic_reply_count is returned as a formatted number, for example 1,449 and passing this value to the core WordPress paginate_links() from general-template.php leads to empty page list.

The bbp_get_topic_reply_count() should accept a second parameter to stop the formatting.

Version in use: bbPress 2.1.2.

Have a nice day, Stefano Lissa.

[Shmoo]

I think what he’s trying to say that somebody is working on it.

This means somebody outside WordPress is making a replica because i can’t believe WordPress giving away the code to the same sites they own. Normally nobody would do so.

But usual it’s not problem to recreate them and make them look the same, it’s just somebody has to do it in there free time so it takes a little time to complete.

But maybe i’am mistaken and WordPress is giving you this layout by default inside bbPress.
Maybe instead of the Twenty Ten option.

And last, bbPress.org is running on WordPress + bbPress version 2.2 this version hasn’t been released yet and don’t know why the team would do so or tell people that they do. It’s against WordPress ‘thinking’ they never tell people to use development software (code) on Live websites. Always test it on local websites.

You can find stuff about bbPress version 2.2 and up on this website.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/roadmap

[Shmoo]

I think the WordPress Adminbar is now been called the Toolbar.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Screens#Toolbar

Read and searsh a bit i think it’s very easy to add a link and remove stuff from this Toolbar.
there are filters i believe you can add to your functions.php to make this happen.

• There is also a plugin for locking members from going to your back-end made by @jjj

[Shmoo]

That’s very strange looks like the WP Loop is going somewhere through the sidebar.php file.

Make sure nowhere in the file is this code also look in the footer or other files that will be used.

( without the * )

But why would you copy stuff form the archive-forum.php template to the page.php template ?
page.php is used to generate a default WordPress page.

bbPress has it’s own Custom Templates
https://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Creating_Your_Own_Page_Templates

Those can be found in the extra’s folder. For example if you copy page-front-forums.php from the extras folder to your WordPress theme folder you can find it while adding a new Page inside the WordPresss Dashboard.

Just: Add New Page and in the sidebar on the right side you can find an option the select a different Page Template.
Pick the new bbPress page template and name your page like Support of whatever the title or (url) of this page has to be and Save it.
Visit the Page and all the forums will show on that new page.

Now if you like to add some WordPress (blog) stuff to that page copy it from whatever WordPress template inside the page-front-forums.php

Make sure you delete the sidebar() code that i showed above out of that template.
Thats the logic way of working i believe. Don’t touch the page.php because it’s a default WordPress template for making new pages on your website.

[stickFinger]

Hi all

My first time using bbpress, so please be patient 🙂

I´m using bbpress plugin (last + WP last)
I´d like to prevent my registered users to access the dashboard. On my test install i had no look. After login users get the WP Toolbar at the top with the dashboard access, but looking to this site i´ve realised that you´re using my dream toolbar: users can only edit their profiles and post new topics via the frontend.

Is that a native function and i loose something? How can I achieve that?

I´ve read also a thread regarding the possibility of users upload their avatars via the frontend but in case of using jetpack with gravatars on i guess i´l be ok, isn´t it?

Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks

[Gary3000]

Oh, so it is in fact a different version than the current release. I assume the sidebar widgets are also new compared to current? I had asked a similar question the other day, but had no replies.

Is it anticipated that this new theme will be released with bbPress 2.2?