Interesting I just started bbPress site and someone already left it behind. I believe in bbPress powers and I will still dig into it.
Interesting I just started bbPress site and someone already left it behind. I believe in bbPress powers and I will still dig into it.
Actually I see it is only super-admins that can edit their profile via the forums/user/username link from the frontend. I am using the default twenty ten bbpress theme. I note that if I embed the bbp-your-profile form then I see the form okay but on post it submits to the edit page, which updates but quickly then redirects back to the user page. This way my user won’t see any error messages.
Does anyone know where I can override the super-admin restriction which prevents non super-admin users from going to the profile edit page (forums/user/username/edit)?
Thank you
@shooo, that was my solution. “^?” means any one character in a string. I had to repair the database sql file. One bbcode tag after another. Well, It works and looks ok now but it’s a lot of work.
Some bbcode tags had to be replaced with <span>. I don’t know if it is possible to define custom bbcode tags in wordpress. So I had to replace all with “<span class=”size150″>”, etc.
Rest of the tags work fine thanks to “bbPress2 BBCode” plugin.
I’ve got another question,
How to change parent forum for many topics ??? It would take ages to move topics one by one when there are hundreds and thousands of them.
Hello, and congratulations on your wedding. I hope the honeymoon does not your too tired:)
bjj_pl did you find the solutions for [IMG:^?….]?
i’ve the same probleme.
after, i try to save the avatar and the url on post like <!-- m --><a href="http://example.com">http://example.com<!-- m --></a> are all broken…
pfff it’s a real mess
I’ve been battling with wordpress to get bbPress and buddypress to work on them by wordpress bbpress team…
and nothing works as you would expect.
I’m using the BuddyPress Default 1.5.2 theme which gets the most part of BuddyPress working.. them I try to install the site wide forum option (inside the BuddyPress Menu) and nothing works.
I get a messages that your current them doesn’t support the templates needed by bbPress… so I install the BuddyPress Template Pack and do the manual movement of files because it can’t copy them.
I still get the message “Your active theme does not include bbPress template files. Your forums are using the default styling included with bbPress.”
only problem is that nothing is shown in the forums.
see for yourself at http://www.powertumbling.dk
can anyone “clearly tell me what I should do”… I’m amazed that the people that create wordpress can mess up so much with bbPress and BuddyPress
Peter
Hello everyone,
I’m new to this – and not an experienced coder – so I apologise if what I write doesn’t make much sense.
I’ve just taken over running our internal forum in my job and it’s a bit of a mess. We’re running bbPress 1.0.2 and we don’t really have much set up. For example, only admins can create new threads.
Anyhow, I’m trying to install a plugin to enable me to create user groups and levels of permission. Here’s the plugin link – http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/role-manager/
I can download the plugin but can’t find anywhere to install it. Can anyone help please? I’d be very grateful!
Thanks, and a happy new year to you all,
StevieBee
waiting for JJ to reply..
Hi please can you assist. For some of my users the default edit profile link in BBpress does not work. It simply refreshes to the same page without going to the user/edit link. Yet for some of my users it works fine. I don’t see any relationship between those that can and those that can’t, any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
I am using the plugin version of 2.02 with latest wordpress in MU.
I am back guys from christmas/wedding/hunneymoon/ and new years. I will respond when I catch up here.
I set up bbPress on a website today and where the topics are displayed it is blurry. I’m wondering if this is because of my theme, or a plugin resizing the content or something. You can see what I’m talking about here: http://masternate.us/forums/forum/baseball-pros-academy/
Any and all help will be much appreciated.
And what if there was no need for forum segregation at all? It appears topics don’t require a forum once they are deleted, but editing and replies aren’t working afterwards. Does/will bbPress have a setting where the forum custom post type can be disabled?
Hi all
I´m Alex and I try to set up a new forum in my webpage. Now is “hiden” to people but you can see at… http://www.mundoferroviario.com/forums/
I installed the spanish language in the bbp-languages and works correctly as you can see in the web.
But I try to install a new theme but not running. I created my-templates folder and uploaded it but I can see the option to activate it.
And occurs the same with the plugins. I uploaded to my-plugins and I cannot activate it.
I´m using last version of bbPress, 2.0.2 and Atahualpa theme for WordPress.
Thanks a lot and Happy New Year for everybody,
Alex
I have bbPress 2.x installed and running with hybrid theme on wp 3.3, everything seems to be working fine …
I registered a new user, which got the “forum participant” role assigned. But if I click to edit the user profile: “/wp-admin/profile.php” I get a permission warning: “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.”
I have installed the “members” plugin to view the capabilities of the role which are:
assign_topic_tags
0
edit_replies
edit_topics
publish_replies
publish_topics
[solved]
When I add the “read” capability to the “forum participant” it all seems work!
I could swear I saw John write somewhere that bbPress 2.0 was successfully working with W3 Total Cache, but don’t take my word for it.
SKParticipant
Thanks, anointed! That helps.
Can someone please chime in on the caching aspect?
How to change parent forum / category for many posts in bbpress plugin for wordpress? I’ve got much too mmany posts to do the change posts one by one.
Wordpress:3.2, BBpress 2
There truly is no way to build a plugin like bbPress that would integrate with any theme on the market and take on the themes characteristics perfectly.
Because of that what bbPress has done is to build a very basic structure that is not to difficult to extend to fit your own theme. Yes, it does take a lot of work, but in the end it is very easy and run to work with.
Most of what you are asking for could be accomplished with just a bit of css work. It would take a ton of work to make it look exactly like your forums, but making bbPress look decent in the theme wouldn’t be that hard. Mostly just time is all.
It looks like you didn’t add descriptions to
health, mind, and relationships. If you add descriptions for those ‘categories’ then the descriptions will show up.
The theme by default does not show descriptions of sub-forums on the homepage, though it could be modified to show them.
First time I’ve seen that theme. It’s very nice looking
**I sent you a contact form on your website with a bunch of css you can apply to make bbPress look better on your site
Hey Anointed.
Thanks for your nice reply and offer to help out if you’re able.
Here’s a list of what I find lacking as far as theming goes in my current them.
– the forum descriptions are missing, other than the first one.
– there’s no borders defining the layout of forums and sub-forums
– the styling of the avatars isn’t carried over from the main them
– indented comment threading (though this might be a shortcoming of bbPress itself)
– I’d personally like to get rid of that ‘Freshness’ column too. Reasoning: when you’re trying to get increased activity in a forum that has a lack, seeing a bold indicator that it’s slow has a tendency to keep people away (that’s just a marketing point of view)
– the fonts, Title styling, icons and shadows
– check out the same theme’s style for BuddyPress here – http://para.llel.us/themes/mingle-wp/groups/web-design/forum/
– you can see that’s simply beautiful.
– it’s a great pity there’s so much confusion around BuddyPress, bbPress and how it’s made out that they’re integrated with WordPress until you come to discovering there’s so much that isn’t transferred from WP into a plugin like bbPress.
Anyway, ideally it would have been fantastic if the theme creator had done bbPress as well as BuddyPress however that isn’t going to happen as he says it’s too much work. As a relative newbie to WordPress, I simply wasn’t aware there were these sorts of pitfalls – I naively thought theming was a global site thing [groan]
Thanks
Martin
ebiznet88, yep, converter created 9 individual characters for each post.
Well, I am ashamed to say it, but I used MS Word 2003 to make changes in my sql file.
Seems to work fine and no errors occured later. Coded as UTF-8 text file with no additional MS WORD characters.
I used something like:
find
[/img:^?^?^?^?^?^?^?^?]
replace with
[/img]
and so on.
Hi there,
I’ve got a problem with custom page templates and wordpress pages with bbcode shortcodes.
I’ve created a page “Forum “with shortcode [bbp-forum-index] and made it main Forum Page. Since most of my pages use sidebar, the one with forum index was meant to be fullwidth. I tried to set a custom page template but with no effect. The Twenty One template uses only default theme template and keep displaying sidebar.
I do know how to create custom page templates for wordpress but they just don’t work with bbpress plugin 
Anyway, I don;t know how to make bbpress work with my custom templates.
Any ideas?
NO, bbPress really shouldn’t slow your site down any more than adding in the same amount of pages to your site as the amount of topics and replies you have in your forums.
That is the nice part about bbPress. It basically used custom post-types and is totally native WordPress code.
There is no extra code loaded that I am aware of, other than a small javascript file, which is only loaded on bbPress pages anyhow.
No idea on the cache part, so can’t help there as I don’t use cache plugins.
@Tammy
I don’t think that the template files are currently used, even if placed within your currently active theme. According to JJ< bbPress 2.1 should make this much easier.
Right now, the only way I know how to change the appearance in your own theme is to actually remove the shortcode actions and write your own custom shortcodes.
You can of course add a bbpress.php/forums.php page and place that within your theme to do some basic changes such as removing sidebars.
@seancam4
Without a link to your site, there is nothing we can do to help out.
@Rastarr
Can I ask what it is about the bbPress theme that you don’t like on your site?
From the quick peek that I took, it does seem to be setup correctly. If it’s just some small tweaks then maybe it’s something I can help with. (not tonight, it’s 3:30am my time, but maybe later).
Yes, I’m in the same situation with the Mingle theme from ThemeForest, for my site at http://www.geekandjock.com
Great theme and styling which looks like cr*p when viewed with the bbPress plugin. Seems like the forum capability for WordPress is still in the dark ages, in my opinion.
I’ve migrated from Drupal to WordPress recently. I’d have thought that plugins would respect and act like child components of any theme being used for WordPress. Sadly, this sort of logic isn’t the case.
I’ve scoured the bbPress forums and styling seems to be the major problem as well as requiring a whole lot of work and effort, not to mention it also appears (to me) to be a convoluted exercise. This is my major regreat in migrating from Drupal to WordPress.
