[thetalltree]

I would like to moderate all forum posts before they are published..

We all know the amount of spam out there and how this can impact the image of a forum. People can get offended, they can click on bad quality links, search engines could penalize your site cause of the presence of bad outgoing links etc. etc. The simple solution would be to have an option to moderate posts before they are published.

But surprisingly enough, it is not there and there seems to be no way to activate such a feature except if you are some coding genius. No pugins (that work with the latest version) or any simple workaround or am I missing something?

Is there any way this can be achieved or is this an impossibility for someone whoz not too good with coding?

[ericaski1]

Just installed bbpress 2.0.2 in WordPress 3.3.1. I am going to want the user databases to be shared. Have read forums for hours on this issue but most deal with much older versions. I am new at WordPress so this may be simple and I am just missing it.

An article I found on this forum indicates the following:

In the “WordPress Integration” section of the “Settings” area in your bbPress admin you will find a “User Role Map”. I do not see a WordPress Integration section in the Settings area of bbpress. It only has a few main settings and slug stuff.

Please advise?

[thetalltree]

Any other updates on how you can moderate posts prior to them getting published? I think this is one of the “MOST” basic function that one expects from a good forum software. I am surprised that such a basic function is missing from this software including some very basic profile features.

I think it is important that the developers/owners of bbpress write/disclose this (lack of features) clearly on the homepage of the site so everyone will know what they are going to deal with once they install the software. Would save someone who absolutely requires these basic features a lot of time.

I spent quite a few days installing and configuring the software only to find out later that such simple features are missing and there is no way to install them except by hiring a high end developer and spending loads of money.

The software in its current form is great for running an internal/private/inhouse forum but not a public forum.

[oremining]

Im waiting on the release of the beta

I have a website.

sand sieving equipment

[nosdk]

If its possible i’m looking forward to a solution for this as well.

[LabSecrets]

HI there,

sounds to me that you have missed a couple simple but necessary steps:

1) You need to ensure that the sitewide forums have been installed as well as the buddypress group forum. Both are installed from the “forums” tab of the buddypress setup menu;

2) You need to be sure to delete AND empty the trash, of any page slug that was created which has “forums” as its name. This is necessary to allow the sitewide forums to use that slug.

3) Be sure that you create a new page for buddypress group forums that is anything other than “forums” (call it “group-forums” for example)

4) Be sure to go to Settings/Permalinks and hit “save” one time after all of this is setup.

We’ve done a little tutorial video to show how you can setup either a BuddyPress Group Forum, a SiteWide bbPress 2.0 Forum, or a custom hybrid forum page using shortcodes. You can have all three at one time. Hope this helps

http://labsecrets.com/2012/01/23/buddypress-and-bbpress-forums-made-easy/

Cheers!

Spence

http://labsecrets.com

[nax_89]

Do you find a way to disable tags?? Im looking for the same

[Millen]

Is my questions stupid or why is no one answering?

I’m not asking for help on how to learn CSS I know that perfectly fine. I would just like to be pointed to some documentation or information on how to mkae it possible to theme bbpress. Maybe someone personally got this very same problem and could help me out with some hints.

Thanks again!

[Millen]

Here is two great sites to get you started:

http://www.w3schools.com/

http://css-tricks.com/

[michaelh1990]

Hi everyone.

I have a problem at the moment with the heading in my forums list. It always names itself the last forum I created. Please check my site. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can fix this? I’m running version 2.1 of bbPress.

Thanks for your help!

[Jared Atchison]

Thanks for your response.

I’m going to take a look at that plugin and see why it’s not working and see if I can fix it.

I’ll try to get the author to updated the plugin with a fix, if not I’ll fork the plugin.

Anyways thanks for the kind works and I’m glad you are taking a fancy to the bbPress project

Please let us know whenever you have any questions and we will do our best to help!

[chuckingit]

Hi Jaredatch – thank you for looping back to me and your links … i did indeed read in a post by John James Jacoby about security issue(s) so i can appreciate that … i also tested the plugin you mention but it kicked out errors which i posted in the WP forums so perhaps the plugin author will have info or fix down the road ..??..

in a bit of thinking outloud and in the for-whatever-its-worth depts … the first time i saw shortcodes work in a WP forum solution was with Simple:Press plugin … i was actually suprised that shortcodes did work and then i got excited about using them – e.g., wrapping some forum content so that it was public, while other forum content reserved to be private and require login … also, the audio shortcode to play clips within forum posts, all of which was cool … thus not sure if Simple:Press introduces security issues by allowing shortcodes or not ..??..

my only problem with Simple:Press was / is that it was too much configuration (in turning off stuff) and i liked the clean, minimalism inherent in bbPress … and now that it is plugin and works within WP, means i’m throwing my hat in this bbPress forum ring and look forward to seeing it’s ongoing growth …

in the meantime, i’ve had to rethink my shortcode issue – namely media files … e.g., where do i put these files in WP if i don’t want to create a post for them, but have them referenced from within forum posts … which lead me to discover a really cool program, open source, and share as fyi in case others might be interested …

the program = http://ajaxplorer.info … it comes with a bridge for WP so user accounts can be shared by both … it is a file manager of sorts for your web site that makes it pretty easy to keep files private or make them shareable … i’m almost done testing this and i’m pretty sure at this point that it will be my go to tool to upload media files*, then create the shared-encrypted links, then put those links into my bbPress forum posts … thus keeping my forums to mostly text, yet linking out to media files as need be via using Ajaxplorer …

lastly, i just wanted to go on record with BIG gratitude for all the hard work your bbPress team does in helping the rest of us in the WP worlds have really nice forum solution – Kudos to you and your seed – and i hope the Divine blesses you all for i certainly feel blessed / lucky to have tools like bbPress and forums like this for knowledge sharing – THANK YOU!

cordially, chuck scott

*yes i know that i could use WP Media Gallery but that gets a bit unruley since uploads are stored in blog-id-year-month folders … thus if i had ten pop tunes i wanted to upload to server, easier to create a dedicate library system with folder called music and subfolders under that … then it is easier to add new files to those folder collections versus having to track down different folders and try to remember what is in the 2011 folder vs 2012 let alone what blog-id it might have been uploaded under but i digress …

[Richard]

I want to make the corners rounder, more smooth. And make the bakground at the forumheader red.

I’m not that familiar with CSS i’m afraid.

[Number_6]

I was thinking so, yes.

I downloaded it. And maybe I’m stupid. But how do I use it to identify the CSS of the tables in one of the many many many CSS files Buddypress & bbpress use?

[Jared Atchison]

I’m not quite sure I understand.

It’s all controlled through your CSS like was mentioned here https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/change-forum-color#post-100130

[AAShepAA]

FOLLOW UP:

This may help someone. I had not deactivated all the plugins from both bbPress installations. When I did, it imported, with a few errors as it did create by users and users meta tables. Fortunately I had done my own backup of the database. So, I pulled those two sections of the backup and imported them back into the database. Users, meta, and login are now working.

I still have a problem with the admin side of things though. When I select “Forums” – it gives me this incorrect link http://stratoliner.me/wp-admin/admin.php?page=edit.php?post_type=forum when it should be http://stratoliner.me/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=forum. The first errors with insufficient permissions and the latter goes to the forums.

I have disabled any and all plugins to test and I still get the first error!

I sure could use some help.

[Richard]

Hi,

Is it something i can do to change the style and looks on my bbpress forum, without changeing the theme?

Atm i looks very windows 95ish… http://brabet.se/spelforum/forumet-3/

/Richard

[Jared Atchison]

If you don’t know CSS it’s not going to be an easy task, however this should help you get started:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/change-forum-color#post-100130

[jmatthewgore]

I’ve noticed the same thing. Did you ever figure out a solution for this?

– Matthew

[DELETE ME]

Ok, for someone who is NEW to ‘how to do’ this .. that did not help much. Just saying.

Does anyone know how I can Change the Forum Background Colour, Text Colour, Font Type? I am not very CCS friendly or do not know much coding .. would be helpful if you can either provide a code or a plugin/fix that can do this for me.

The website I am trying this on right now is http://revivechallenge.com – please check the forum it is ‘WHITE and text is invisible’ because the entire font is white too and the website theme is black/dark.

Please help.

Thanks

SzebastianOne

[gsp]

Hi

We installed bbpress in our wordpress site

We created some forms using bbpress

Also we created some posts inside the created forms using bbpress

From this link http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes we found short codes.

We used

[bbp-topic-index] – this is listing forms

[bbp-topic-index] – this is listing topics.

Is there any way to list form wise topics that is we need to list first form name then all topics in that then second form name then all topics in that etc. Please advise.

In some sample bbpress sites we could able to see all form names listing and then if we click on any one form name all topics in that form will be listed like http://singletrackworld.com/forum/forum/classifieds-wanted Please advise how to achieve this.

Thanks

[harnold007]

I changed bbpress.css in folder /bbp-theme-compat/ which I was able to get it they way I want it to look.

However, it is using my wordpress default page theme. I would like it to use a full width page theme that I have.

Example it is using:

<div id=”main-wrapper”>

<div id=”main”>

<div id=”post”>

<h3 class=”section-title”>testing 2</h3>

<div class=”post-entry”>

// Then it goes to the forums tag

<div id=”bbpress-forums”>

Also, under the default page theme it grabs the sidebar, which I do not want it to do.

If someone can please point me in the right direction on changing the wordpress page theme that is being used for the forums. Thank you!

[Jared Atchison]

You could use something like this

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-new-topic-notifications/

[areaphoto]

Quick question. Do the Permalink settings/structure matter to bbPress?

[areaphoto]

I’m thinking using the certified compatible theme of TwentyTen would be the wisest choice. My dilemma is not knowing how to customize it to “pretty” it up more. Knowing that full integration is the intended use of bbPress makes me even more motivated to figure out how to do it. Starting with a fresh WP install and building it from the ground up is not too out of the question for me at this point. I would much rather spend a few hours redoing the site than having to login to an entirely different sites for the next few years! Thanks so much for diligent responses. I will let you know how it goes. I may reach out to the theme developer and see if this is something that is a common error for them. If it is, then TwentyTen it is and some learning and elbow grease customizing it!