[Stephen Edgar]

Sorry, but all three of your the links you referenced are referring to the old stand alone version of bbPress, we are trying to get all the docs updated but as some still use the 1.x versions we still need them though I know it becomes rather confusing if you hit a link relating to that old version.

bbPress 2.1 has built-in theme support, if you want customize bbPress to closer look like your WordPress theme please see https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/ to get started.

[James Thomson]

UPDATE: I have now upgraded to the latest version, v2.1.2 and Buddypress v1.5.7 but still get the same error – every status update I try to make shows up as a single ‘0’ character in the stream.

So how can I roll back bbPress please?

[Stephen Edgar]

That plugin is for the old stand alone bbPress v1.x, you should look at https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ to find if a plugin exists to use with ‘bbPress Plugin v2.x’

[viktora]

OMG! :-(( You still can not see the right code.:-( This bbpress is filtering some strings… I will spell the strings in “”, you should write the code without spaces.

$content = str_replace(“& l t ;”,”<“,$content);
$content = str_replace(“& g t ;”,”>”,$content);

Hopefully I will succeed this (and last) time.:-)

[Stephen Edgar]

This is a known issue for phpBB & Invision forums and the way it looks at the BBCode as its being imported, we are hoping to get this fixed for bbPress 2.2.

You can see more details on the problems here https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1884

[viktora]

What the hell! This row is still being removed by the local bbpress… grrrr.
$content = str_replace(“>”,”>”,$content);

Add it in front of the “return” row.

[viktora]

Sorry, for some reason, one row was removed from the code. Here is the complete code. Additionally, the characters which were replaced by bbconvertor were replaced by the bbpress.org/forums reply content as well…:-) But you can see from the code what was replaced with what.:-)

add_filter("bbp_get_reply_content", "ps_bbp_get_reply_content");
function ps_bbp_get_reply_content ($content) {
$content = str_replace("<","",$content);
return $content;
}

[viktora]

Another observation + summary to the topic “bbpress is ignoring my customized index page file page-front-forums.php in my template directory”…

Default setup for forum base slug is “forums”. With this setup page-front-forums.php is being ignored. After change to “discussions”, the /discussion/ URL still ignores the template file BUT /forums/ URL is still working and it is working fine! (no shortcode usage).

BUT only for logged in users.:-)) Other users are redirected to web index page.

Anyway, I am happy to have at least some progress here.:-))

[viktora]

I have found the problem. bbConverter has imported all the first topic posts from my old forum to bbpress 2 with small modification: all “” characters were replaced with “<” and “>” (probably to remove HTML tags). I have resolved the issue by following code in my bbpress-functions.php file:

add_filter("bbp_get_reply_content", "ps_bbp_get_reply_content");
function ps_bbp_get_reply_content ($content) {
$content = str_replace("<","",$content);
return $content;
}

[fatfrog]

2.12 did not resolve this issue??

but i resolved it by changing the name of the file phpBB.php to Phpbb.php in wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-admin/converters

[buildyourtech]

Hello, I just installed bbPress a couple of hours ago, but I’ve been reading and struggling to make it work!
I changed the Theme Packages from bbPress Default to TwentyTen but it looked horrible.
Why is the bbPress Default not working? Nothing is showing up…
Here is the direct link to the forums, http://techandmake.com/forums/ and here is a topic example http://techandmake.com/forums/topic/envios-en-monterrey/

Please help!

[newpress]

I created a fresh forum and selected it as the “Parent Forum” of group forums through bbpress settings panel

[klo-wp]

Hi everybody,

After a long “war” with spams in lost in end. I cant prevent them with plugins or even ban IP on .htaccess.

Now, I’m planing to close new registration, and to leave forum like it is, no new posts.

I have deleted code from register.php but again bot get registered on forum, I dont really know how they do it, since humans sent me emails why cant register on forum.

Anyway, I need help to stop them!!!!

if is needed here is forum im talking about
http://www.deluxetemplates.net/forums/

[apena916]

I have the bbpress plugin installed in my custom theme and everything works great, except that I can’t get users to post topics and replies without me approving it all the time. I need some kind of control where if approved once there’s no need for approving every time. For some reason, I’m not getting that, i read a in a few places and seen that it could be done, but its not working for me. Everytime it says it’s pending and the admin needs to approve it. I changed the role to a user and tried even forum moderator and I’m able to moderate but when i create a new topic or reply using that role it’s still needs to be approved. I even used a plugin called bbPress Moderation and it still doesn’t do what it says. How can I change this?

[George]

Someone gave me this snippet:

http://pastebin.com/EnPCaDdF

But all that does is display the user’s role.

[Stephen Edgar]

The codex is currently setup with a ‘context’ category that lets us split the docs between developer and user.
https://codex.bbpress.org/context/developer/ & https://codex.bbpress.org/context/user/

Building on that already existing theory as we reply to questions in the forum we should start tagging them appropriately ‘user’ or ‘developer’ and thus being able to follow each tag.
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic-tag/user/ & https://bbpress.org/forums/topic-tag/developer/

Should we also add other tags like ‘faq’ or ‘addtofaq’ or something along those lines so we can add tags to be able to follow topics we think need docs/updated docs/better docs and priority of that need etc etc… Suggestions?

Is ‘User” to dis-ambiguous in the ‘docs’ vs ‘end user username’ context for bbPress though?

(If we were able to edit the current topic tags we could quickly tag the past couple of weeks topics, als that will have to wait a little while longer)

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[George]

Tried this:

http://pastebin.com/UetpUXeN

And it didn’t work. Wouldn’t display text, or an image. Thank you for trying, but no luck.

Any other ideas?

[Azerty514]

Thank you, I just remove the line where sidebar on all files, but the right column still appears: (

[ryan_m27]

Hi All,

The strategy that’s outlined here seems at odds with the method of integrating bbP into an existing WP theme described here: https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/. In that recent post, it describes how I’m to copy files from the bbp-theme-compat folder into a subdirectory in my theme. That includes content-archive-forum.php but not archive-forum.php. I can also achieve customization by, as mentioned above, copying archive-forum.php directly into my theme.

Which is better and why?

Also, I’d like to add a list of the ten most viewed topics above the forum list on the main forums page. I can’t figure out how to limit the output of the topics list or sort by most views (don’t even know if that information is stored). Any help there would be appreciated.

Thanks!

[christineccr]

Okay,stupid question, but I don’t want to risk making a major mistake. Do I use BBpress as a plugin on an existing site (acts like a category or page), or do I need a separate WordPress site?

[ecoevolver]

Hi there,

I just installed bbPress, and I’m logged in as an Administrator.

When I clicked the “Edit > Forums” menu link, I get the error “Cheatin’ uh?”

What does this mean, and how do I fix it?

Cheers,

[Lesley Austin]

Hello,
A few weeks ago, after I updated WP and bbpress, I noticed that I couldn’t see post content in the forums any more, nor could I see and information in the columns labeled “freshness” “voices”, etc.

I’ve finally realized that it is visible in IE, but not in Safari, Firefox or Chrome.

Does anyone know why this would be?

[erobertwald]

A quick follow-up question. I’ve already found that the clear: both; rule in the bbpress.css file conflicts with my theme. I’ll need to override that. If I make changes in that file, will they be overwritten in an update? Is there a place to override styles elsewhere from within my theme?

[Siobhan]

It’s a good idea to split docs out into Developer Docs and User Docs – the user docs could then be split into installation, troubleshooting, and using.

@lynq – can you drop links to some of the commonly asked questions in here?

[erobertwald]

Thanks, natweb. This already looks a lot better, though I’ll be styling for a bit. At least now it’s coming up only as one list of forums instead of over 200! Hopefully this will make things less painful!