[samibz]

Thanks I am now a keymaster and I thought that would make the Forum button magically appear in the dashboard menu but it hasn’t.

I deactivated the bbpress plugin, have cleared my cache and nothing seems to work to allow me to actually create a forum.

Thank you for your help though, I at least have the role of keymaster next to my name in the users panel.

[samibz]

I installed bbpress and it is activated – when I go into users there is a forum users option for every other wordpress user other than me the administrator.I did not get a welcome page. I have no option to edit my role under my users – I can do this for all the other users on my site.

I use X-theme which is supposed to support this plugin. I have a feeling this has to do with the fact that I am not listed at the keymaster, but there seems to be no way to do this.

I am not good at coding or knowing where to put code, so if it involves any please be very specific – where it needs to go, what to type in etc…

Thanking everyone in advance

[Robin W]

users need to register, bbpress just uses wordpress registration, so you have lots of options for doing this.

[Robin W]

hmmm…

bbpress just uses wordpress registration, so users should be able to just register and get participant access.

what have you got set in

dashboard>settings>forums>Roles?

[mballa3rdo]

Hi, for my business website I’m trying to get a working forum together, I’m using WordPress.com, and I’ve got bbpress and bbpstyle pack active right now.

The issues I keep getting prevent users who do not have WordPress accounts from registering, it redirects the users to the WordPress login page and doesn’t send an e-mail.

In my Settings, if I remove the ability to login with WordPress accounts, it functions perfectly, but I lose access to editing and updating the site, I’m lost on how to get this functional.

[Robin W]

I think your theme is adding another one in the bbpress templates

so in 2.6.x they are added in

\bbpress 2.6.6\templates\default\bbpress\form-reply.php
\bbpress 2.6.6\templates\default\bbpress\form-topic.php

so your have 2 choices

a. the better one
Look in each of the files you listed as being bbpress in your themes template and look for a line which says something like

bbp_get_template_part( 'form', 'user-login' );

and edit out this line

b. If you can’t find it there, then

find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/form-reply.php

transfer this to your pc and edit

remove the line which says

<?php bbp_get_template_part( ‘form’, ‘user-login’ ); ?>

and save

create a directory on your theme called ‘bbpress’
ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

Then transfer the file you saved above and put in in the directory called bbpress that you created above, so you end up with
wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/form-reply.php
bbPress will now use this template instead of the original

Repeat this for form-topic.php

[Robin W]

it could be a theme or plugin issue

Themes

As a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwenty, and see if this fixes.

Plugins

If that doesn’t work, also deactivate all plugins apart from bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

If you cannot do this to your site (say because it is live) then use the ‘troubleshooting’ features of this plugin to let you test without affecting other users

Health Check & Troubleshooting

Then come back

[Robin W]

Still waiting to see if people using the Forums are having any issues using them.

not sure what this means 🙂

I would like to change the font color against the maroon top bars, from black to yellow, or grey, but I am not finding the right tab to do so.

probably theme related, but link to an example on your site please.

Why are there tabs for setting up logins/logim failures, if logging in is accomplished at the WordPress level?

bbpress has some widgets and shortcodes that let users enter username and password. these details are passed to wordpress security to go through login.

[Robin W]

what do you mean by ‘send message’ ? do you mean submit topics and replies? bbpress does not have messages as standard.

[satyrography]

I am installing a new page with bbpress.
But the messages are not working! The buttons “send message” are there, but are not working.
What is wrong here? 🙁

[Robin W]

‘Private’ is a wordpress/bbpress conflict – and it is annoying !!

either

Put this in your child theme’s function file –

ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/functions.php

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

or use

Code Snippets

add_filter('private_title_format', 'ntwb_remove_private_title');
function ntwb_remove_private_title($title) {
	return '%s';
}

or use

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Forum Display

[Back to Front]

Hi! I’m trying to allow users to assign their topics to custom taxonomies from the front end bbpress topic form. I thought it would be cool to be allow users to sort topics in multiple ways, and not just the anarchy that comes with unhierarchical ‘tags’.

With a lot of searching on forums, I’ve managed to register the taxonomies, display them, include topics in the archives, and added inputs to the form to allow uses to select the relevant ones.

But I’m totally stuck with saving the value from the checkboxes. You can tick the box, but nothing is saved. I’m guessing I need to use wp_set_object_terms()? and hook into bbp_new_topic() to save the terms? But I have no idea how to save the value from the checkboxes in there.

Any ideas, tips, scorn, alternative suggestions are welcome. Do i need to learn more js and use AJAX to accomplish this? Or is this achievable with php and am I even close?

// Add custom taxonomies to topic form

add_action ( 'bbp_theme_after_topic_form_content', 'bbp_extra_fields');

function bbp_extra_fields() {

$value = get_post_meta( bbp_get_topic_id(), 'issue', true);
	echo '<div id="custom-meta">';
	echo'<fieldset>
        <legend>Issues</legend>';
	$issues = get_terms('issue', array('hide_empty' => 0));
	foreach ($issues as $issue) {
	echo '<span><input type="checkbox" class="issue" for="issue" value="'.$issue->slug.'"></input><label>'.$issue->name.'</label></span>';
	};
	echo '</fieldset>';

$value = get_post_meta( bbp_get_topic_id(), 'region', true);
global $region;
$region = get_terms('region', array('hide_empty' => 0));
echo'<fieldset>
        <legend>Region</legend>';
$regions = get_terms('region', array('hide_empty' => 0));
foreach ($regions as $region) {
echo '<span><input type="checkbox" class="issue" for="issue"value="'.$region->slug.'"><label>'.$region->name.'</label></span>';
};
echo '</fieldset></div>';
};

// Save the terms from the form
add_action ( 'bbp_new_topic', 'bbp_save_extra_fields', 10, 1 );
add_action ( 'bbp_edit_topic', 'bbp_save_extra_fields', 10, 1 );

function bbp_save_extra_fields($topic_id) {

  $post_id = get_the_ID();
  $category_id = $region->id;
  $taxonomy = 'region';
  wp_set_object_terms( $post_id, intval( $category_id ), $taxonomy );
};

[Back to Front]

I was having a bunch of trouble with this too, 8 years later!

I tried
bbp_topic_excerpt('200')
and
wp_trim_words( bbp_topic_excerpt(), 200, '...' );
But they wouldn’t actually change the excerpt length.

Anyway I found this other function in bbpress files, that does the job.
bbp_get_topic_excerpt($topic_id = 0, $length=200)

[nomadsland]

I use Buddypress and Bbpress togather.

But when a member tags another member in the forums, it comes in their notifications with the link to view the mention. But, clicking on that takes them to the newsfeed/activity stream, not the forum post that they were tagged in.

Anyone for a solution ?

Thanks.

[Robin W]

hmmm.. this seems to be wordpress capability and looks difficult to remove.

The best I could find is

https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/29000/disallow-user-from-editing-their-own-profile-information

but it would need some work to make it work for bbpress

[Robin W]

no idea if this has anything to do with the bbpress plugin. Please advise what widget

[eeyyjohn]

I have used the plugin to troubleshoot the issue and I can confirm that there were no issues with the theme and the plugins we used. After doing the following it still didn’t fix the issue that the subscribed forum is not showing on the list.

1.) I switched to Twenty-twenty theme.
2.) I disabled all the plugins and just enable the “bbPress” and “BuddyPress”.

[juventino199]

Hi there, does anyone know if there’s any compatible GIF keyboard for bbPress?

[ViNOJ]

Hey this doesn’t seems to work for me.
Currently I am using following plugins.
* bbPress
* BuddyPress
* Ultimate Member

For all bbPress widgets and shortcode I am unable to force BuddyPress user profile pic.
Can anyone please guide me what am I missing?

[Robin W]

At a guess you might want to start by looking at

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1

and particularly items 3 & 5

[Robin W]

bbpress just uses wordpress login, there is no ‘double security’ sorry, no idea what the above is trying to say, or what exactly the problem is.

Perhaps you could start by stating what you are trying to achieve?

[Steve Keller]

Here are some facts and ideas my friend brought up, as we were trying to figure a way to make the site and forums security effective, non-redundant and non-annoying…

Well, you indeed have proved that the root cause of the insecurity = bbPress!
That is the good news.

The bad news is by changing that Forum Root Slug setting, the NEW 79ers-Forum page I set up is now exposed publicly.
Try opening an incognito Chrome browser, do not log in, and go directly to my new page: http://79exies.com/79ers-forum

No password needed.. bbPress lets you right in. 🙁

So we can now be positive that my theory from yesterday is correct: bbPress is bypassing the security system and managing the Forum page itself.

My suggestions are to contact their support and ask how to get bbPress to “play nicely” with our password protection system (plug-in = WP-Members) or go find a different plug-in to manage the Forum.

My guess is bbPress DOES have its own security system with a user registration system (which we are not invoking). So alternatively you could use that. The downside is unless you can get them to “sync” somehow to our WP-Members plug-in, then all our users will have to register in TWO places to use the Forum: once for the website and then again for the Forum. Pretty cumbersome. Anyway, I suggest you start with the bbPRess Forum, explain what is happening, and see if they have any ideas.

===================

Hi Steve –
I looked, and indeed the original URL to 79exies/forums is still alive.
But I do see it is gone from within the WP site, so you successfully removed it there. Very strange.

I have to assume bbPress is doing something in the background. I won’t have time to work on this right now, but I suggest going to the bbPress support page (they have their own Forum) and maybe find answers there.
Or consider a different plug-in to manage the Forums interface if there is one.

I do notice that my WP interface does NOT show the bbPress “Settings” or “Forums” tabs that their documentation says should be there. Maybe there is a “Forum Administrator” role (you presumably) that makes them visible? But I cannot see them. If those are also missing for you, then there’s some pretty fundamental compatibility issues with this plug-in and WP.

Thanks,
Steve

[r083r7]

I edited the POT file found in wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbpress.pot using Poedit app. Saved the two needed files:
– bbpress-en_US.mo
– bbpress-en_US.po

After reading the instruction I was putting them in the wrong directory. Created and moved those two files to this directory:
/wp-content/languages/bbpress/

But same results, changes are not loading. Grrrr not sure what I’m doing wrong here.

[r083r7]

Feel like I’m making progress.

I created and uploaded both these files to the wp-content/languages/plugins folder.
– bbpress-en_US.mo
– bbpress-en_US.po

But the changes do not appear on the front end. There must be something else I’m missing 🙁

[Steve Keller]

bbPress version 2.6.6.
Wordpress version 5.7.1
website…79Exies.com

Wondering if it is necessary to have login/pw for bbPress forums on a site that already has WP Security login/pw coverage. It seems redundant, and especially so for a site with a maximum of 325 users, though we only have 93 right now.

I can share some email back and forth I have had with a classmate/colleague, which can better explain the shortcomings and non-syncing we faced.

Thanks,
Steve