[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

[eightbitmagnets]

First and foremost, I am very new to bbPress and fairly inexperienced at PHP. If the solution to my problem is simple, I apologize in advance.

I would like for the homepage to display full-text recent topics, but not all recent topics–only ones that I want there. I think I would like only topics with a specific tag to display on the homepage. Is that possible?

If not, I would be okay creating a single forum dedicated for this purpose, so that every topic created within that forum gets displayed on the homepage. If that is a simpler option, I would like to know how to implement it.

Thank you greatly.

I am using WordPress 3.4.1, bbPress 2.1.2, and BuddyPress 1.6.1.

[Beastmode]

Hello guys,

I’m new to wordpress and bbpress and started to learning it today. I recently installed wp which succeeded and added bbpress through the plugin tab on the admin page. I installed WP on my root page so how do i access my forums via typing in the linkbar in any browser?

I’ve browsed for a solution before i decided to make a topic and I’m very lost. Also the bbpress forums http://bbpress.org/forums/, how would I organize mine with the forum category on the left side and latest topics in the middle?

Thanks very much in advance.

[selise]

i have yet to test this, but it appears that the answer to my question above is ‘yes’…. with the plugin bbPress Topics for Posts by David Dean:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-post-topics/changelog/

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-bbpress-topics-for-posts-export-post-comments-to-new-topic

[selise]

very cool!

is there a way to transfer a standard wp blog to this? … iow, turn previous blog comments and comments threads into replies and a topic thread?

[metate]

I’ve at least found a work around although I don’t understand the cause.

s2member has an option of “Alternative View Protection”. When I work with this option, the original post displays. I definitely don’t understand the relationship between s2m and bbpress on this (why this option hides the original post), but I’m glad the original posts are showing!
Do share any thoughts!

[Will Earnhardt]

I’ve seen numerous threads on this very subject for the last few years and JJJ has been posting the same response every time. It more or less says “This is the way it is. If you don’t like it, come up with your own solution.”

I understand his reasoning for saying that’s just the way it is, but IMO, I wouldn’t have released this product with the URLs in this format. How can a topic be considered part of a forum, yet the URL not represent that?

This is the logical structure. (assuming everything exists in a forums subdirectory):

Viewing a Single Forum:

domain.com/forums/forum-name/

Viewing a Thread (or topic):

domain.com/forums/forum-name/thread-name

With comments being this or something similar:

domain.com/forums/forum-name/thread-name#comment-35

.

This is what we actually get.

Viewing a Single Forum:

domain.com/forums/forum/forum-name

Then click on a Single Thread:

domain.com/forums/topic/thread-name

You lose all acknowledgement that you were in a particular forum. It’s like the threads are just floating about aimlessly…not attached to anything in particular.

If BBPress operated like WordPress, Let’s say that “Forums” are “Categories” and “Topics” are “Posts”. Well, with WordPress, you can set your permalinks to read:

domain.com/category-name/post-name/

So why not be able to do that with BBPress? The problem is that in order to get all of the various settings applied to both Forums and Topics, they have both been created as separate Custom Post Types. The individual Posts in Topics simply have a custom field that ties them to a specific Forum.

Now, I haven’t tested this at all, but in theory it may be possible to tap into some WordPress action and filter hooks and create our own rewrite rules to fix what I see as the biggest flaw with BBPress. I found a thread on another site recently where the user used a custom field value to generate the permalink for a custom post type. That seems to me would be exactly what we need to do here. If I can get some free time, I’ll see if I can get it working and maybe build a plugin to handle it.

[metate]

Hi,
We are having this same problem and I need your help!

wp 3.4.1, bbpress 2.1.2, Elegant Themes

When I’m logged in as admin, I can see all topics and all replies in the forum.

When I’m logged into the website (front-end) as a user of the website, I can ONLY see the second and on replies – the original entry/post is missing.

We have s2member, but this problem used to NOT exist, and there haven’t been any updates to s2member. I think the only thing I’ve done is update bbpress from 2.? to 2.1.1. I updated 2.1.1 to 2.1.2 today to see if it’d help and it didn’t. I hate that I can’t be more specific.

But basically, it seems to be when I’m logged in as a user of the website, I can only see replies and not the original post.
I’d greatly appreciate any help, I’m quit unsure what to try next!

[Indexfive]

Just installed bbpress, but I’m having trouble putting links on the forum page for registration and login. Any tips???