[r083r7]

I would like to edit the wording of some of the bbPress prompts and messages. As I understand this can be done using a language file as described here.
https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started/bbpress-in-your-language/

I’m a little confused though since I am not actually changing from English to another language. Since I’m not changing languages what does the process look like? I went here to download the English version but there’s English (Canadian, UK, Australian, or South African versions) Which further ads to the confusion as to which language file I should download and edit 🙁

Any idea on how to go about editing the bbPress prompts and messages in the same language I am using?

https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/bbpress/

[Robin W]

try adding this to the custom css part of your theme

#bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form input[type="text"] {
	height: inherit;
}

[ASR Martins]

Hi, the Username field on the bbPress login page is different from the Password field (the same width but not the same height). This causes the Username to be halfway “cut off” (visible) on smartphones.
I am using WordPress 5.7.1 and bbPress 2.6.6
Thanks
Basie martins

[Robin W]

you either want

dashboard>settings>forums>anonymous if you want anyone to be able to post

or add registration – bbpress uses wordpress registration, so anyone of then methods here will work.

https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-allow-user-registration-on-your-wordpress-site/

there is also a bbpress registration login which includes registration and bbpress shortcodes

[bbp-login] – Display the login screen.
[bbp-register] – Display the register screen.
[bbp-lost-pass] – Display the lost password screen.

[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

[raghavan2004]

I installed the forum and the Divi theme with the version : Version: 4.9.4. and the bb press Version 2.6.6.

The link is below : https://hlpwld.olvdigitalsolutions.com/,

when i clicked on the forum, i am redirecting to the wp default login page. Please guide me.
I also installed few plugins listed below
1. bbPress Members only Pro Multi-Site License
2. bbPress WooCommerce Payment Gateway

[jeppot]

Hello!
I need to remove the tag private that is shown before every forum i have created.

I can see after some googling that there is a fix in creating a functions.php and upload that somehow but I do not understand how I do that? Where in wordpress do I uppload that php file? And what do I put in the .php file? Or is there a plug in that can helt me?

I also need to change the order of the forums instead of alphabetic order.

PLease help! Thank you!

[Robin W]

yes, just affects bbpress

[ljmac]

I do not want the standard behaviour to be modified in any way, except that the topic itself be updated when a reply is posted to it. Nothing will look any different to standard bbpress behaviour as far as the user is concerned – I just want to simulate hitting the submit button on the topic when a reply is posted, nothing more.

[ljmac]

Hello,

Can somebody give me a simple function to update bbpress topics when a reply to it is posted? i.e. The equivalent of hitting the update button on the topic when a reply is posted to it.

[franklinss]

Thanks for your answers!

I do not have a lot of experience. I see the following notice for BBpress messages: This plugin hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.

Do you know if its safe to use?

[franklinss]

Hi,

Is there a possibility to let forum members send eachother private messages? If so, is there a plugin (compitaible with latestversion of wordpress and total theme) that works good with bbpress or do you know any other possibilities?

Thanks in advance!

[acb93]

Yes, the bbpress style pack!

Well I don’t know exactly when this problem started unfortunalely…

Regards.

Adrià Calendario.

[Robin W]

hmmm…interesting..

the shortcode [bsp-display-topic-index] is from my stylepack plugin, whereas [bbp-topic-index] is from bbpress.

If this was working ok, I’ll need to work out what has changed to make it not work 🙂

[acb93]

This problem appears 1 or 2 week ago people tell me (but I didn’t notice)

I didn’t do anything, no new bbpress or whatever…

I tried to re-save permalinks as you said but didn’t work!

So strange… and I need to fix it soon as posible 🙁

[Robin W]

so has this just started? new site? new bbpress?

try

dashboard>settings>permalinks and just click save – I don’t expect this to fix, but it will eliminate !

[flamuren]

Note to others looking for tips: I found BuddyX theme. Its free and seems to solve issues with bbpress and buddypress in one go. Thus far its a good solution for my site atleast 😊👍

[Robin W]

usual fault finding applies

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

[cristofayre]

I set up my forums with the help of “bbp style pack”, but unfortunately had to deactivate it as it kept causing fatal errors stopping me from logging in, and sometimes throwing errors in admin panel. But now something weird has happened to the layout. It seems to be “double spacing” lines. I have removed bbpress and bbp style pack from the plugin area, and then reinstalled the plugins … but the same error persists.

I have looked at the code, and there doesn’t seem to be any clues; all entries are still within their

<ul id="bbp-forum-447" ...
</ul>
<p><!-- #bbp-forum-447 --></p>

So no clues there. Anyone any ideas?

[Robin W]

Sorry, I’m being brain dead this afternoon.

Spectate is a capability shared by many roles, so the code above is rubbish !

Try this

function forum_user_is_spectator(){
if ( is_bbpress() && is_user_logged_in() ) {
    $user_ID = get_current_user_id() ;
    $role = bbp_get_user_role( $user_id );
    if ($role == bbp_get_spectator_role()){
       wp_enqueue_script( 'spectator-js', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/spectator.js', array(), false, true);
       }
    }
}

[Robin W]

you add action is right, and I’d have this as the function (not tested!)

function forum_user_is_spectator(){
if ( is_bbpress() && is_user_logged_in() ) {
   $User_ID = get_current_user_id() ;
	$Spectator = (!empty(current_user_can( 'spectate' )) ? 1  : 0) ;
    if ($Spectator){
       wp_enqueue_script( 'spectator-js', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/spectator.js', array(), false, true);
       }
    }
}

[haddlyapis]

Hi there,
Due to a high number of spambot registrations, any user who registers for the forum initially gets “Spectator” rights. Once I check (usually within 12-24 hours) that they are not spam, I change them to “Participant”.
Some people get annoyed that they cannot post immediately. And I would like to create a popup banner that appears when users login for the first time but cannot post. I am capable of the JS and the CSS, but not quite the PHP.

Basically, I want to enqueue a JS file if the user is a “spectator” and is “logged in”.

Could you please advise how to complete my function (hopefully just the commented parts), which will go in the functions.php file, and what add_action arguments should be applied if I am wrong?

function forum_user_is_spectator(){
if ( is_bbpress() && is_user_logged_in() ) {
    //$User_ID = get user ID
    //$Spectator = find out if User Has Spectator rights
    if ($Spectator){
       wp_enqueue_script( 'spectator-js', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/spectator.js', array(), false, true);
       }
    }
}

add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'forum_user_is_spectator');

thx in advance

[Robin W]

It’s kinda weird that when I edit this php file you mention “content-single-topic.php”, it didn’t show those changes on the forum pages.

ok, question, does your theme have bbpress files associated with it? or is a plugin affecting this

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

[flamuren]

Hi,

I am not good at coding or custom css. My level of knowledge is: I just know how to install and activate stuff on wordpress more or less.

I am looking to get a clean, crisp and modern design on my forum and member site (located on a subdomain of my main homepage). However I cant really find a good theme. I am looking for a cheap solution – if possible free. I use BBpress and Buddypress and thats mostly the features I need. I will use a custom register plugin also and the main page should present news and some quick info for the members to be updates whats going on. Do you have any tips on themes that works well for this and looks good?

I googled and found these mentioned in a list and they where free (however not having a presentation on the main page as I want):
https://zakratheme.com/
https://wpastra.com/

Please help if you have any ideas 😊🙏

[cristofayre]

Having done a little digging in the CSS that “bbp style pack” creates, I THINK I have isolated the buttons to the class of

#bbpress-forums.button{
background-color:#9e9e9e
color: 000000
}

… which is the correct grey / black that the editor buttons SHOULD be. But it seems that something after that is picking up the theme colours, and setting it to those. (Unless there is some code earlier that is !IMPORTANT! that is setting it.

Also, “bbPress” seems to have a mind of it’s own, disregarding settings made within WordPress. For example, the editor has been set up with two rows of buttons … but “bbPress” will only display the default 12 or 13 buttons in one row, (and not even those match what’s been set up elsewhere in WordPress) The same plugin that sets up two rows of buttons has an option with “Don’t use visual editor in bbPress” Guess what … “bbPress” loaded the visual editor anyway.

Another plugin states “Switch this on to use the membership profile rather than the bbPress profile” Turn that on, and … rather than link to the profile, the link shows “#” so that it simply reloads the same page. And the big profile button (beside “Create Topic”) STILL jumps to the bbPress profile !!

OK, appreciate that some of those things are bbPress not accepting the settings of the other plugins … but it gets somewhat annoying when you bat your head against a brick wall all day!