[mpriola]

How would that happen?

I didn’t change any of the bbPress pages or alter any of the classes.

The page was working properly and displaying correctly. I made no change other than upgrading the bbPress plugin.

Would the bbPress plugin have removed or changed such things? If so is there a safe way to replace them where I won’t have this problem every time the plugin is changed?

[MTPrower]

My website is suffering because nobody is saying anything, and I am extremely annoyed. I was going to be much more impolite, but I decided that wouldn’t get me any answers.

Don’t take it personally– I’m not making a statement about your guys’ skills or competence, but this is still very bothersome.

It’s simple, so simple. The “forums index” or “forums root” puts all categories inside one table, and strips it of “forum content” (usually used as a description of the individual forums), sub-forum “freshness” ( including avatar, author name, and date), and sub-forum post and topic count.

WHATEVER ends up replacing the current “forums index” or “forums root”, it needs to show all categories under their own table, and not strip “forum content”, “freshness”, or post and topic count out of forums or sub-forums.

Like J.J.J. said, I could edit the .php file, but I don’t have time to learn PHP. I’m assuming all I have to do is copy some PHP from loop-single-forum.php or something, but I am at a loss as to figuring out what. I’ve tried and tried all sorts of things.

A “normal” forums wouldn’t have a stripped-down index. I simple don’t understand why bbPress’ index is stripped down– and worse, why nobody knows how to make it NOT stripped down.

Don’t take it personally. You guys aren’t doing anything wrong. It’s just that my site is going to stay practically dead until I get this problem solved, and I am losing what members I have slowly. Most people don’t have the patience I have, which is why I think most people don’t use bbPress…

[folgerj]

I tried a couple ways to put a comment form shortcode in my topic post (works outside of BBpress) but not inside. I also would like to have my topic/replies show in reverse order. Instead of default of newest to oldest I would like the most current reply on top… I don’t see an easy way to do this. I’m not using a totally compliant theme (weaver pro) since I’m about the blog more than the forum but it seems to work well enough… http://jeff-foliage.com/forums/topic/2012-fall-foliage-reports/ is my site and most recent post. Jeff Foliage

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

[rameesareno]

Nice suggestion Amunds! I have to ftp the files and edit the bbpress/compat css file.

its all good now. http://www.sarenosolutions.com/forums please check 🙂 leave a good tip for us then. thanks guys!

[amunds]

Wordpress: 3.4.1.
BBPress: 2.1.2.
Site: http://www.prototype-gw2.com/forums/
Happens with default themes as well: Yes.

Hi, I`ve set up a BBPress install without much trouble, however there is some odd behaviour with private forums, namely they keep disappearing when I make changes to the forum. I use the recent topics widget, and the forums and posts are listed there as they should.

My setup is the following: 1 private category with 2 private forums. If I make 1 forum public I still can not see any forums. If I make 2 forums public I can see both forums.

Now if I make the category public and each of the forums private I can see the forums, however this time it says 0 topics and 0 replies and Freshness is “No topics” in the header. The topics and replies for the forum name is still correct though.

Am I doing something wrong or is there a bug in the permission system? If so, is there anything I can do to help resolve it?

[SlimTrigger]

Hello,
I am also completely new to wordpress and bbpress, and have a similar, if not identical, question.
I successfully installed wordpress and created a new blog – it still only has the original home page and sample page.
I then successfully installed bbpress, and created a forum. I can view the forum through the link on the Dashboard, which also shows me the website name for the forum.
But my issue is this – neither the home page nor the sample page have any hyperlink to forums – so the reader of the home page has no idea that a forum exists, or how to access the forum.

Can you please point me to instructions as to how to get links to my forum on the other pages of my website??

Thanks very much

[miguelcortereal]

I’ve been going crazy with this and what I’ve concluded is this:

• I’ve made a new fresh installation of WP, Buddypress and bbPress on a subdomain, without any plugins more, tweaks or whatever.
• My setup was sitewide forums.

IT JUST DON’T UPDATE ANYTHING FROM FORUMS.

Then I’ve switched to Group forums and it works perfectly.

In the process I found another bug for sitewide forums: At user profile page –> forums option –> topics replied to, it gets blank.
I’ve confirmed this bug at buddypress testdrive site, it has the same problem.

So I believe that for now sitewide forums has no buddypress activity integration.

Should I open a ticket ?

[miguelcortereal]

Edit or create forums and topics from dashboard painel. Once in the editor at your right you’ll see a box forum or topic attributes.

I guess this is only for the latest version of bbpress.

[rameesareno]

How do we align the submit button when writing a topic using the bbpress forum.

website is: http://www.sarenosolutions.com/forums.

where will we code the plugin to do fix this?
Tks

[witwolf]

I just started creating a site. installed bbpress. added some categories and forums…not done yet. There is one category with around 64 subforums. when looking at the page i can only see 50 with nowhere to move to the next page or to view more.

Everything should be the latest versions. Only downloaded and installed 3 days ago. Still using default twenty eleven theme.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[joynic]

im a user of bbpress, thx for your work.
as a chinese user, i have some troubles with the link of a topic, for example:

http://www.*****.com/topic/%a7%e5%8f%8a%e9%87%91%e9%92/

could i know how i can modify the format as following (end with the topic ID):

http://www.*****.com/topic/123456/

many thanks

[RichardWantsToKnow]

Miguel,
I just looked at my install of bbpress, and on none of the Forums I’ve set up are there options to make them Public, Private or Hidden. That’s one of the points that has me stuck.

[leeryloons]

Hi, I need some help with the translation in bbPress 2.1.2 as well. I’ve tried everything (well, obviously not) so I would be thankful for some guidance with this one!

[RichardWantsToKnow]

Miguel,
Thanks. I’ll give your suggestions a run in the next couple of days. I have to decide upon bbpress or buddypress per your criteria.
I didn’t see this info on the bbpress and buddypress sites. Is it in the codex or where?
Thanks again.

[kpolkson]

that’s what i’ve got, but when the documentation says I am only copying the plugins/bbpress/bbp-theme-compat/bbpress files, I wonder whether they just mean /plugins/bbpress/bbp-theme-compat files , including the css, extras and js folder…not sure why they’d only want part of the file copied to my theme…so that’s where I am confused.

[Lynq]

Inside plugins/bbpress/bbp-theme-compat you should have a folder for:

bbpress FOLDER
css FOLDER
extras FOLDER
js FOLDER
bbpress-functions.php FILE

Then inside the css folder you will have all the css stylesheets to edit and change fonts that you need. Does this look familiar?

[Lynq]

Have you created the login and register pages using the shortcodes: https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/ ?

Are you just having trouble with getting the actual links onto the forum area or you need to create the pages aswell?

Are you using a sidebar?

[poppykalash]

Hello – I’m trying to sort out a couple of private forums for two different but small groups on my site. I have installed bbpress and something called forum restrict which allows admin to choose who has access to which forum. The two forums appear on the front static page and non members of the forum are able to APPLY. Problem is there is no LOG IN available. Do I have to install another plug in so approved forum users can LOG IN?

I’m very very new to all this and wondering if like the originator of this thread I’m barking up the wrong tree. At present people do not have to LOG in to my site to view the pages. I want all the pages to be freely available to the public but I do want control over who can use the forums. Any help in layman’s language gratefully received
Thanks in advance

[miguelcortereal]

A subdomain is a good idea to ease a lot of extra configurations to keep your forum private from the other site members.

When opening the forums use attributes (private, hidden) and give your members the matching privileges so that a stranger to the site that happens to visit it don’t see what’s going on.

On your WordPress dashboard (subdomain install) at Options –> Privacy block search engines other wise you will have your forums at google listings and other search engines listings.

If you just want those people debating around subjects bbpress is all you need.
If want them to debating on several subjects, and iteracting between them one to one or one to many, maybe buddypress should be better choice and leave bbpress.

Concerning to have your site locked to outsiders there are plugins for that.

[kpolkson]

Hi all,

thanks for making such an easy forum solution, I’ve been quite pleased with how much functionality comes right out of the box.

Though I am getting confused when it comes to best practices for making some typical theme customizations so that I can keep a custom look with future updates of bbpress.

At this time, I am really only trying to change font styles and sizes and some of the coloring and minor layout items with how the forum renders to match my custom wordpress theme (built off of HTML5 boilerplate).

I’ve reviewed:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-2-0-theme-compatibility/ &

http://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

but, I don’t feel like it helped and am not sure if things have already changed since those have been written. either that or i am just lost in the number of files that seem to control the theme in bbpress with the added bbp-theme-compat files.

For instance, i am told to copy over everything from bbpress/bbp-theme-compat/bbpress directory, yet none of those files include the bbp-theme-compat/css files. which is what I will probably doing the most modification of (right?)

Then it says to copy over the bbpress/extras directory (optionally), but all I can find is the bbpress/bbp-theme-compat/extras directory, is this what was meant?

Again, really just want to make minor style changes that universally affect the bbpress fonts and colors, yet still want to specifically target those bbpress items.

Might increase the complexity of the customization, but right now just want to start small and use bbpress best practices so that I don’t lose my customization when upgrading anything.

thanks

[Paul]

Profile pictures are a WordPress setting, not specifically bbpress. WordPress calls profile pictures ‘Avatars’ and you will find the settings for Avatars under the ‘Discussion’ link under ‘Settings’ on the Admin Dashboard.

By default WordPress does not allow users to upload their own Avatars to your WordPress website but instead uses a third party host called Gravatar. If you want your uses to upload directly to wordpress then you will need to install a plugin that allows them to do this. Search in the plugin directory on wordpress.org for ‘avatar’. I am currently evaluating Add Local Avatar for the the site I manage, seems to work OK.

[jtbw911]

When creating a new forum using the bbPress plugin, I am able to preview it, which shows it using a link such as “http://support.website.com/wordpress/?post_type=forum&p=58&preview=true”. However, after publishing and attempting to “View Forum”, I get the following 404

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Not Found

The requested URL /wordpress/forums/forum/knowledge-base/ was not found on this server.

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I have enabled permalinks, as you can see.

I don’t believe this has anything to do with any other plugins I am using; however, I am willing to post what those are if necessary.

Any assistance with this would be greatly appreciated.

[RichardWantsToKnow]

Has nothing to do with bbpress, but why does every initial post in a new subject always have a date of 42 years, 7 months ago? It seems quite odd; and, makes it difficult when searching on a subject or keyword to know whether the topic is timely or not.
Thought I’d just ask…..

[RichardWantsToKnow]

Totally new to bbpress and buddypress; very experienced in WP.
One of our sites is a public site that services a new interest group. There is an informal small number of people (a fraction of total visitor population who visit the WP site) who are very active in developing the group and expanding the geographical adaption of the subject of the website. They interface with municipal departments, community events organizations, the educational community (public and private), etc; all of whom will be invited to participate in this private forum.
The Goal: We need a separate forum for this group where they can communicate within on each persons results and ideas on a number of projects. We don’t care if these people are already registered users of the WP site. In other words, it’s just fine if the forum is ‘stand-alone’ with it’s own registration. It does have to be private however; i.e., the opening home page needs to be a log-in page not showing the forum(s) content, and access is only available to registered users who will be added by the forum administrators only.

Not being at all informed on either bbpress or buddypress, and not finding the answers I need after many hours of reading through both the bbpress and buddypress sites, I installed bbpress in a subdomain to the WP install. (I used the Simple Scripts install from the hosting company we use, so I’m assuming that it was not a plugin install, but instead a full bbpress install; which appears to be working fine – just not provding me with the secured login we need.)
So the Questions: Is bbpress the right choice here, or should I be looking at something else? If something else, I’m open to suggestions.
Thanks in advance.

[streidl]

Hello,

I would like to restrict the topic content to certain user roles, so that subscribers and non-logged-in user can see the topics inside the forum, but when they click on the topic, they get a message “for premium members only”. This doesn’t work with private or hidden forums, because I want them to see the topics they are missing… 😉

I installed the latest bbpress plugin 2.1.2, WordPress 3.4.1, and Members 0.2

Editing the Subscribers role, I tried to add a Capability filter “bbp_get_topic_content” and disabled it, but that didn’t work (it disappeared, so doesn’t seem to be the correct capability).

Any idea, how I can achieve that?

Thanks