Hello,
I installed bbpress and I really like it.
I found that there is an alignment issue that is caused by the return of the bbp_reply_class function for the default theme bbp-twentyten.
I noticed that others were having the same problem.
So I fixed it in my version and would like to submit my bug fix…
How do I go about doing that for this project. I have never contributed a patch to an open source project before but would like to submit this bug fix.
Thanks for your help.
Dear good friends,
I installed the latest bbpress.2.0.2 into my arabic site and it fits OK but the english words like:
Forums ‹ Home
Forum
Topics
Posts
Freshness
are in English. My website is Arabic and would like to make it Arabic.
Here you can see my website after installing bbpress 2.0.2 to it:
http://jubailcompanies.com/?page_id=74
is there any way?
Thanks and good day to all of you.
Hi, I’m integrating bbPress with s2member and need to restrict access to certain categories, forums and their topics.
For example, here’s a hierarchy:
Home > Forums > Category1 > Subcategory1 > Forum1 > Subforum1 > Topic1
If someone tries to look at Topic1 or any of its parents, I need to check to make sure they have access to Category1.
Access is managed by s2member.
For typical wordpress posts, I attach this filter, run a wp_query, then detach it:
attach_s2member_query_filters(); // only fetch content the user can access
If that query is not empty, then I let the user view the page they’re trying to look at. If it is empty, it means they don’t have access to any posts and so I redirect them.
But I don’t know how bbPress works well enough to figure it out.
It seems I need to
1. Find what the root category is
2. Check if the user can access the root category
3. If so, allow access to whatever they’re trying to see. If not, redirect or give an error message.
Any ideas on how I can do this?
Correct, with bbPress 2.1 the “Theme compat” bbPress theme will work for most people out of the box.
The problem is that some WordPress themes do weird things – such as modify the loop and/or query (things that are not normal) – and this causes bbPress to break.
I completely agree things could be improved.
I’m just not sure how much of that is on bbPress and how much of that is on Akismet.
On bbPress.org one of the major problems we run into is the majority of the spam is from human spammers – so no matter what reCaptcha/human test (etc) is in place they will get around this.
Some of the plugins (such as https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpressmoderation/) try to get around this where a user must have a previously approved post before their posts show up.
I edit the template.php bbp-forum, although I do not sound right to modify the core.
I changed bbp_list_forums function () original:
function bbp_list_forums( $args = '' ) {
[...]
// Build this sub forums link
$output .= $link_before . '' . $title . $counts . '' . $show_sep . $link_after;
}
// Output the list
echo $before . $output . $after;
}
}
by:
function bbp_list_forums( $args = '' ) {
[...]
// Build this sub forums link
//$output .= $link_before . '' . $title . $counts . '' . $show_sep . $link_after;
$output[] = array(
'permalink'=>$permalink,
'title'=>$title,
'count'=>$count
);
}
// Output the list
return $output;
}
}
and I returned:
Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[permalink] => http://localhost/wpv1/foros/seccion/dota2/torneos-y-competencias
[title] => Torneos y competencias
[count] => Array
(
[topic] => 1
[reply] => 5
)
)
[1] => Array
(
[permalink] => http://localhost/wpv1/foros/seccion/dota2/dota-chat
[title] => Dota chat
[count] => Array
(
[topic] => 0
[reply] => 0
)
)
)
The only drawback is that I can not get the last comment of each forum.
Oh — also when working with a bbPress theme (with the Custom CSS File plugin or with a custom theme), everything says to copy things to “your current theme.” Does that mean Prose (my WP theme)? or to the folder named bbpress/bbp-themes in the plugin folder? Thank you again!
(FWIW, I’m trying to copy the instructions for the CSS File plugin you link to above, as well as the instructions for how to create a custom theme from this thread: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-theme-compatibility).
TIA!
@jaredatch
Ok, so now imagine you come in one morning and the amount of SPAM you have to clean up is 1000 times the normal amount. Literally, 1000 times.
I understand that there will always be some SPAM that gets through, but we went from averaging .25 missed SPAM posts a month in the previous 12 months to having 1,138 missed SPAM posts in April.
We pay the enterprise level for the Akismet service and it has always done a great job for us until now.
I don’t want to come off as sounding angry, because I’m really not. I just want to make sure that we aren’t too quick to dismiss the possibility that bbPress’ implementation of the Akismet API could be improved.
Perhaps the ticket I noted is an indication that there could be an improvement made?
Here is the description from that ticket —
“The Akismet folk have suggested that adding user roles to the info submitted to Akismet would allow them to do a better job of checking comments for spam. The forthcoming patch adds the appropriate info.”
W/ regards to privatizing the profiles, I’m fiddling with the ‘user-details.php’ file in the bbpress twentyten folder, and I’m wondering if a is_user_logged_in will satisfy this need?
And if it will, I would probably need some slight direction on implementing it …
Thanks!
Ok found a good fix for this!
in bbp_signature.php
in function bbp_reply_content_append_user_signature & function bbp_topic_content_append_user_signature
change
$signature = bbp_get_user_signature ( $user_id );
to
$signature = xprofile_get_field_data( ‘Signature’, $user_id );
Then in Buddypress profile fields add a field called Signature.
Bam fixed.
I even went ahead and added a bbcode parser to the plugin so it works real nice. you can download the full fix here
http://vigilsoft.net/bbp-signature_buddypress_edition.zip
yes I want mine to look like yours what did you do to get it like that?
the layout it did on mine is just stupid any idea on how to get it to look like yours?
I’ve been able to solve most of my dilemmas with good ol’ fashioned plug-ins and browsing this and the interweb, but there’s two issues that … until I get resolved, I think will cripple us from proceeding (I work for a small nonprofit) w/ bbPress …
1) Linebreaks – In the ‘About’ section, linebreaks are somewhat necessary for users to discuss their unique story.
2) Profiles – Since they’ll be sharing somewhat sensitive information about themselves, we would love if this was protected.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Hi, we’re using bbpress for our forum and only registered users have access to it. It’s located on our public blog (Serenity child theme) at http://www.noonesthebitch.com.
Unfortunately, it seems that the forums are showing up, but when a user clicks on the Topic of any forum, it says no topics are found. As an admin, the topics are visible to me.
Also, if we go in and add a topic, all the topics are then visible to users, but eventually disappear again. It’s like they’re resetting or something.
We’re using Wishlist Member as well and I’ve made sure that none of the content is hidden.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Looks alright to me @survivalbill-2. I use bbpress on my site http://www.ibikiniwax.com/forum and it looks similar to yours – do you mean the layout or the list of Forums up top?
Oops, that looked wrong. Just check here instead: http://dn-ragnarok.ucoz.com/forum
As you can see, “Dragon Nest”, “Yggdrasil Guild”, “Video Productions” and “Classes” are the sections while under them are the Forums. I can only see Forums > Topics in bbPress. I’m looking for a way to have Sections > Forums > Topics.
Unfortunately Pagal does not do themes for the plugin version of bbpress, is there anyone else that does? Thanks
Sure it helps:) From time to time I visit the forums and
when I saw these spams, I looked for a button/link to report them
but I think there isn’t such feature yet or if there is any way
for normal users to delete these spam messages, that would be perfect. e.g marking these sort of message by us and if a threshold is reached, spam can be moved to a spam queue or something like that or if there is anything I can do to mitigate this issue, please let me know.
It’s likely your theme that is screwing things up.
Temporarily switch you theme to TwentyTen/Eleven and see if that fixes it. If it does then your theme is doing some odd stuff behind the scenes that is screwing with bbPress.
I’m the author of bbP Genesis Extend and bbP Custom CSS.
For bbP Custom CSS, you will need to create the CSS it will use.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-custom-css-file/installation/
Unfortunately re-ordering the columns would require creating a custom theme, it’s not something that can be done with a CSS solution.
bbPress is very much under active development. You can see that in the trac timeline – https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/timeline.
The spam periodically gets to a high level on the forums because
1) There are only a handful of moderators at the moment
2) The spam is human generated and most of it does not get caught by akismet
Hope that helps 
As a moderator here (and this runs pre 2.x bbPress) there is a *lot* of spam that gets through. Every morning I go through and delete everything that has popped up over night 
Hi everyone! I’m new to BBPress and I’m quite the technology newbie, so please be as simple and specific as possible when answering my question otherwise I’m liable to not get it
Here goes: I have WordPress and installed BBPress. I have the Piano Black theme. My site is called Pro Football Chick (profootballchick.com/forums if you want to see what I’m talking about). Anyhow, I want the forums to have a tab on my front page at the top — like the About, Home, and Contact pages. I also noticed that there’s no way for someone to add a topic — how can I fix that?
Thank you SO much!
@jaredatch I already have recaptcha set up on registration. I’ll check to see if there are other plugins that will assist, but SPAMMERs are actually using humans to do the registration part these days. They’re tenacious.
@John James Jacoby
It just seems very odd that I’ve had such a huge spike in missed SPAM since switching from the standalone to the plugin.
I was hoping this ticket would make it into 2.1 and help with the issue
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1623
I can see several spam messages on this forum and they stay quite a long time. This worries me about BBpress itself. Can someone shed some light if BBpress has a future? Is it actively developed?
thanks.
Actually you can edit the other role (beside admins & moderators) so that they can read, post & reply in private forums. Just add read_private_topics, read_private_replies & read_private_forum to the role you desired
