[John James Jacoby]

There are shortcodes for sign-up, login, and lost-password forms. Since there’s no UI for shortcodes in WordPress, you’ll need to check the bbPress codex to find them.

[John James Jacoby]

You’ll want to research ‘WordPress multisite” and bbPress will take care of the rest. Most of the issues you’ll run into aren’t up to the software, but rather the user’s experience of visiting two forums, and how you choose to handle that strict divide.

[John James Jacoby]

This should be fixed in 2.1.1 actually. The problem is each user has a meta value stored with ‘Phpbb’ when it should be ‘phpBB’. Updating the old meta keys should fix it, and I’ll add that bit into the next bbPress update.

[Stephen Edgar]

This has now been fixed and will be in the next update v2.12

As a workaround you can download the updated phpBB.php file here.

Seeing as you wiped bbPress and tried the import from phpBB again, if you do the same again with this update users no longer need to reset their password 😉

[nick_w]

I had successfully converted a phpBB3 (3.0.10) Forum to bbPress Plugin 2.1, under WP 3.4.1 with bbPress’ built-in converter. phpBB usernames were converted, but passwords had to be reset and users were prompted to enter either their emails or usernames. Everything worked fine.

Then the other day, I upgraded to bbPress 2.1.1 (plugin), and now when a user tries to log in and supplies a password, instead of being redirected to an alert, I get this error (full path is truncated) – see below. Line 1467 is simply an instruction to process scripts in the “converters/” directory. I tried wiping out the Forum database and converted from phpBB again – same difference… Any idea?

Thanks,
nick

Warning: require_once(converters/Phpbb.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /[…]/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-user-functions.php on line 1467

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘converters/Phpbb.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /[…]/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-user-functions.php on line 1467

[ken481]

Hi

I have a wordpress based site with buddypress and BBpress. I use S2member for user management.

I have been unable to find a way to make a user a forum moderator.

Any help please?

[Starejosel]

Jared,
the widget doesn’t even show up for non-users. It works fine once you log in.
Martin

[Starejosel]

I recalculated private and hidden forums. The Forum List widget still works only when I am logged in. It should be at the top of a sidebar on the right hand side. The website is here:
http://poetryroundup.us/whup
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[Tharindu]

Hello,
I’m using bbPress plugin with WordPress. But the problem is whenever I post a new topic or reply on forum, it shows up on recent post widget on my blog sidebar. I would like to know if there’s a way to stop this.
http://tjosm.com/

Thanks!

[John James Jacoby]

Sounds like cookies or caching, both of which are up to you to tune and troubleshoot, since bbPress’s stock settings play nicely with WordPress core in those regards.

[John James Jacoby]

You could use a subdirectory multisite installation of WordPress, and then activate bbPress on each site.

[Stephen Edgar]

Cheers, I think there is the start of the FAQ page in ‘drafts’ on the codex.

[Asif Mushtaq]

Try this plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members . By using this plugin you can easily create new and existing users rules. You can see some screenshot here.

Select Components Screen
Edit Roles Component
New Roles Component
Content Permission

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[Stephen Edgar]

> The other issue is that subscribers cannot embedd pictures into posts but editors/administrators can. I have auto-embedd links ticked. It looks like it could be a permissision thing but I wanted to check if there is anything in bbpress that prevents subscribers from doing this?

Confirmed: Admin & Editor can embed images using <img src=hxxp://example.com/test.jpg />

Forum Participant, Forum Moderator, Subscriber, Contributor and Author roles cannot. https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1916

• This reply was modified 13 years, 9 months ago by Stephen Edgar.
• This reply was modified 13 years, 9 months ago by Stephen Edgar.
• This reply was modified 13 years, 9 months ago by Stephen Edgar.
• This reply was modified 13 years, 9 months ago by Stephen Edgar.
• This reply was modified 13 years, 9 months ago by Stephen Edgar.

[Stephen Edgar]

You can only run a single instance of the bbPress plugin per WordPress install.

[Jared Atchison]

Thanks for helping out 🙂

[LabSecrets]

Hi Shep,
Suggestion is that you use a role management plugin, such as Justin Tadlock’s “Members”, that allow ou to edit Roles.

Carefully…..

Check to see if your admin Role includes bbPress moderator, and whether your default member Role (presumably “subscriber”) includes bbPress posting capability.

Be careful with role management, it is very powerful

Cheers!
Spence
http://labsecrets.com
http://labZip.com

[itwip]

Hello there, is it possible to make the “WP-Filebase” plugin working within a bbPress forum topic? Thank you.

[John James Jacoby]

NOTE: The update to 2.1.1 did not fix this bug.

It certainly should have. Try going into Tools > Forums and using the tool to recalculate private and hidden forums. If that doesn’t fix the issue for you, something else is broken fairly specific to your configuration.

[John James Jacoby]

It’s true. The little shiny pieces of polish, and the things you don’t have to do, are what make software easy to use for everyone, and ultimately more successful as a result.

If you’re holding off on using bbPress because it doesn’t do everything you need it to do out of the box, you’re just not the audience for the software (yet.) Clearly it’s not useless; we’re using it here very successfully.

If your users can’t figure out how to use your site, it’s up to you to cater the theme to fit their wants and needs. If turn-key bbPress isn’t it, that’s totally okay – you’re free to manipulate the design however you’d like.

Future versions of bbPress will receive more and more refinement. Hopefully they improve your outlook – if not, hopefully you contribute code changes upstream to improve the software.

[Siobhan]

Hi all

I’ve been trying to help out with the bbPress Codex when I get some free time. Something I’d like to create is an FAQ covering issues that come up again and again. Or even two FAQs:

FAQ – Getting Started with bbPress
FAQ – Troubleshooting

The best resource for an FAQ is often a support forum so if there are any questions you’d like to see in an FAQ please add them here. Or just drop in a link to a support forum post where a question has been raised. I’ll turn it into a question in the FAQ.

Also – if there are any other docs that are desperately needed let me know and I’ll put them together. I don’t have loads of time but I reckon if I make a list I could write doc a week.

Thanks!
Siobhan

[Jared Atchison]

So the widget is empty for non-users?

[mattyprimmer]

I know BBpress is supposed to be very lightweight, but it is super confusing not having the basics like a “reply” link. Even if the link led to the bottom of the page. Not everyone knows to scroll to the bottom of the page to respond. At least responding at bottom is an extra feature that is on most message boards if you don’t want to use the separate page, but to start a new thread it at least needs a link that will scroll to bottom – if not it needs a link to an additional page. Way to confusing for my basic users. I have been holding off on using BBpress since this new built in version came out because of simple stuff like this.

These are just a few of the issues I’m having – I want people to actually use my forum if I add it to our site, and I can’t see people even being able to figure out what to do to use it – I know they want it!

I hope this makes sense. Other than that I think BBpress has a load of potential – just small things like this that make it seem useless right now. Maybe I’m missing something though. I didn’t have these issues with the old stand alone version.

[jmatthewgore]

I love the fact that bbPress now has native WYSIWYG editing, but the default theme for the editor doesn’t work on my site very well, it’s hard to read.

I know that other skins are available, but I don’t know how to actually select them for use with the bbPress editor. Is there a way?

[Starejosel]

NOTE: The update to 2.1.1 did not fix this bug.