[cavenewt]

‘This questions sound a bit silly, but is it helpful if someone tag a spam topic as “spam”, “spams”, “spamming”, or “spammer”? (I always do this when I see a spam topic)’

That explains why, when I come here looking for spam-fighting solutions, I turn up so much spam.

[POS2012]

IF you use bbPress 2.0 or newer, you can just install BuddyPress, and during the install you can tell BP that you have an existing forum. I did that, and BP + bbP integrated well.

[Nate]

Problem: Remove sidebar from bbPress

Solution: My theme has a Full Width option

I know that if I input my shortcode into a Page, it will display the forum in the Template of my choosing. Presto, the forum index is within Full Width.

Yet when the user decides to choose a forum, they’re relegated to the Theme’s default Template, which includes the sidebar.

Meeeeh.

Is there a quick and dirty way to tell bbPress to use the Full Width template that’s already available?

[Sniper Kitten]

I recently noticed that when I try to start a topic or posting a reply, it’s taking about 30+ second before the topic/reply is show up. If you try to tell me there may be a “bad plugin” and try to disable all of it except bbPress, save it. I have tried the following:

1. Using different browser.

I find out that when I try to use Firefox 12.0 to post, it’s loading extremely slow. But this is not happening in Internet Explorer 9 or Google Chrome 18.

Try to start Firefox in safe mode? Yes I have tried to do that but it doesn’t make a difference.

2. Using different user/computer.

It’s still the same.

3. Try to post a comment in a normal post.

I was able to comment a post without any problems, so I think it may be a “bad plugin” problem.

4. Disable all plugin (except bbPress & BuddyPress)

But the same thing happen. FYI I don’t edit either the bbPress or BuddyPress files.

5. Using different theme.

I replace my modified custom community theme with BuddyPress Default theme and see if I putting bad codes in my theme. But this doesn’t solve problem even I tried other themes.

6. Change permalink structure.

It doesn’t make any changes, and I don’t think it will help.

7. Reinstall WordPress, bbPress & BuddyPress

Still doesn’t make any changes.

8. Create a new install in another domain.

I use http://scirefs.com/ as my main and http://www.scirefs.org as a sandbox (with the same configuration as in SCIREFs.com) with only bbPress and BuddyPress activated. But everything works fine in SCIREFs.org with either bbPress 2.02 or 2.1 and I have no issue with Firefox 12.

9. The Cloudflare……

Since I have Cloudflare as my CDN for SCIREfs.com but not SCIREFs.org, I tried to remove SCIREFs.com from Cloudflare and add SCIREfs.org to it and see what happens. The result: The issue with Firefox at SCIREFs.com disappear but SCIREfs.org is now facing the old issue.

Do anyone here have any ideas what’s wrong with it? Or someone here is facing the same problem? This seems to be the first and the only problem I can’t figure it myself.

You can login to SCIREFs.org using the following information:

Username: demo

Password: demo

URL of the forums: http://www.scirefs.org/test-forums

And try to start a topic or post a reply using Firefox and see if it’s happening to you.

[pimarts]

I don’t know if it’s a “great” example, but http://www.swnk.org/ is running on WordPress + BuddyPress + bbPress.

[ZedsDed]

Hello! I’d love to see some examples of sites that utilize WordPress for its blog and bbPress for its forum/messageboard. I’m poking around this forum now for examples but would love to see any that you may know of. Thank you

[neviga]

That seems to be a workaround but as long as the post keeps in the list and not moved/removed to a different queue, it will stay there till a moderator takes action I think.

[Sniper Kitten]

This questions sound a bit silly, but is it helpful if someone tag a spam topic as “spam”, “spams”, “spamming”, or “spammer”? (I always do this when I see a spam topic)

[Stephen Edgar]

The page /forums is a generic page part of bbPress.

You can create your own page/s and use the bbPress Shortcodes

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes

Go to Appearance > Pages and give it a title (Discussion, The Teams, Leagues etc)

Then in the content of that page use the bbPress shortcodes with how and what you want on that page.

This for example would show what you currently have on /forums plus add the ‘new topic form’ below that list.

[bbp-forum-index]

[bbp-topic-form]

You could also create a page called ‘New Topic’ and just have [bbp-topic-form] on that page and then using the same method from Jarad above add those pages as menu items.

[Stephen Edgar]

Head on over to http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org and have a read of the links there.

Perform a search to see if there are any similar and/or open bugs already

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/search

To submit a bug and bug fix https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/newticket

[kennymcnett]

Thanks mattsimo and jaredatch. Worked the charm.

Here are all of the $args and the defaults, FYI (pulled from bbPress core file: bbp-common-template.php)

// HTML

'before'          => '<div class="bbp-breadcrumb"><p>',

'after'           => '</p></div>',

'sep'             => is_rtl() ? __( '&lsaquo;', 'bbpress' ) : __( '&rsaquo;', 'bbpress' ),

'pad_sep'         => 1,



// Home

'include_home'    => $pre_include_home,

'home_text'       => $pre_front_text,



// Forum root

'include_root'    => $pre_include_root,

'root_text'       => $pre_root_text,



// Current

'include_current' => $pre_include_current,

'current_text'    => $pre_current_text

[earnshae]

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.

[Faisaal]

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.

[kennymcnett]

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?

[Jared Atchison]

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.

[Jared Atchison]

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.

[damjtoh]

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.

[katmmad]

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!

[baldg0at]

@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.”

[Nate]

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!

[landonritchie]

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

[survivalbill-2]

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?

[Nate]

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!

[Miniflowers]

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!

[guy2131]

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?