[Chuckie]

Well, the issue here is that bbPress is using a catch all for pre when it should be applying a class to the pre objects that it creates. Then we wouldn’t have this issue would we? Because they would just be classes that are used by either application with their own pre code usage.

The issue is that I don’t know how or where bbPress makes use of the pre tag so that the logic can be adjusted to use a class to indicate the styling rather than that global pre catch all.

[Robin W]

hmm…can’t see that bbpress is loading either, so since I can’t access the forum, I suspect you have it set somewhere to only load on forum pages ?

[Robin W]

bbpress will do fine, buddypress is not forum software, but the two work together if you want.

add this to get the styling of bbpress to match your forum

bbp style pack

[lilvinci]

Hi guys!
I am pretty new to all of this but I have an idea for a website and wanna create as good possible. The problem I have is that i dont know what theme and plugins are necessary for it…
The website is for my local university, where I want to create a kind of forum for people to post activities and forums that they wanna do so other people can join. For example if somebody want to create a chess or poker tournament they can create this event or project and other people can “join” and also write the creator a message about it, but in private.
I imagine bbPress as being the best plugin for this as this is a kind of forum, but I have also heard that other plugins like BuddyPress may be better for it. The theme is also something I have a lot of questions about, as my forum should look more like a page where someone can view the events and forums like posts in a normal forum, but here I dont want public answers and all that kind of stuff.
Is there theme and plugin you can recommend me? Is bbPress the plugin for this or is something different better? Is it actually possible to do this?
Thank you so much if you quickly can write me an answer, I am really in need of one.
LiLVinci

[Chuckie]

Turns out @robin-w that my additional css is not the solution. When the user clicks “Raw” on the code block it is supposed to toggle the raw code block to be visible. And since I added that css style it has forced it to never display.

so I need another way for bbpress to do what it wants with pre blocks that does not conflict with enlighterjs.

[bbpresshelp]

We have only just set up our WordPress page so have the latest business version and latest bbpress version. We are using a Hero theme.

We have added a ‘block’ to our home forum page. The title is showing “welcome to our local community forum” but the text that we have written underneath isn’t showing up. We have tried adding this text as another block but that doesn’t show up either. How can we get this to show on our home page?

Also, we would like to edit the text type of the title ‘welcome to our local community forum’ and reduce the size. We can’t seem to find where to do this.

We had the following reply from the help at WordPress: I checked the page for your homepage here: https://wordpress.com/page/connectbuzz.net/197 If you will look at “Page Attributes” on the right side, then “Template” you see you assigned this page for the bbPress Forum Index. It makes the page inevitable. The page has to be blank, because bbPress will override anything that’s in there.

How can we get the text to show up?

[Alpo]

Hi everybody!

I have users from several places in our service. That means there are also several bbpress- forums in use.

I am looking for a short code which shows the forums where a user has joined. Do you have any idea? That information is available on the Buddypress profile, but it needs some clicking and our users are frustrated.

It would be nice to place the short code on sidebar so users can go directly to the forum without clicking hassle 🙂

Thanks you in advance, bbpress is dynamite 🙂

[sitm01]

Hello, I am running WordPress 5.4, we have Memberium 2.158, and we have installed Image Upload for bbPress Pro so our users can import images. Our issue is that a forum user cannot import more than one image unless they are the Keymaster. Image Upload says that’s not their problem, that it’s another plugin’s issue. Do others have a similar setup and have any advice on how to fix this? I can’t have all forum users set as Keymasters just so they can upload images? Thank you very much.

[lesbelleshistoires]

Hi,
In my “social wall” (Activity of the site with bbPress), the subject post (after being created a subject) is not shown in its last version (and the design of the page Activity is broken). I tried to use Dashboard>Tools>Forums and checked all cases for repair but it does not fix the pb.
URL : https://agora.aqua.support/activity/

[falabart]

The process was as follows:

First, we added a field to our Active Directory, where we related each user to the WordPress role.

Then we downloaded that database from Active Directory to WordPress, syncing users and their WordPress roles

Also, once a day, WordPress syncs with Active Directory by rewriting the database with the modifications for that day.

Therefore, taking into account that the database is overwritten every day, I think that the most logical thing would be for bbpress to automatically assign the forum role of “Participant” to all users, except the administrator.

[Chuckie]

let me deal with q1 first. — I’d suggest you stick with the theme version, and use custom css to fix any issues you find between the newest version of bbpress and your theme version css file.

Understood.

[Chuckie]

I use a plugin called WP Sweep. I have asked on their forum but no reply to date. And for the issues I did raise they were not willing to do anything.

Their plugin is useful but when it sweeps all “revisions” it purges out all of the changelog history for various bbpress forum topics and replies. I would like the SW Sweep plugin to omit any bbPress changelog entries.

[Robin W]

ok, a long post from you, let me deal with q1 first.

bbpress has a style sheet. Theme authors may want to change that sheet to improve how bbpress works with their theme, so correctly they put a changed version in their theme and bbpress will use that. But that will be a css file that related to a specific version of bbpress – say 2.5.14. When bbpress releases version 2.6.x, your theme will still use the version that your theme author changed unless eh cares to update it. The 2.6.x version will be a different length and have changes to the style sheet, hence why you might well see 1048 lines in then theme versiin – it is most likely a css sheet amended from a previous version of bbpress.

so it is unreasonable to expect bbpress to never change their style sheet, and equally unreasonable to expect every theme author to update their css versions everytime bbporess acres to issue a new version. So unless your theme is a paid theme that guarenhtees to keep bbpress style updated, you have to make a call on what you do.

I’d suggest you stick with the theme version, and use custom css to fix any issues you find between the newest version of bbpress and your theme version css file.

[Robin W]

ok, I’ve done some more thinking whilst trying to compose a support ticket.

so the once a day ‘update’ what is this supposed to do and which way – eg are you adding and deleting users based on AD, or updating AD based on WordPress/bbpress

Does your WordPress/bbpress site have a local user database or is the AD database used for authentication?

[Chuckie]

Hi

I have some queries and I wonder if you can help me get to the bottom of them. I would be grateful for your guidance. Here is the background.

I am using the latest bbPress plugin and I notice that the bbpress.css file is 1702 lines long.

I am using a premium theme (seos-video-premium) and even though I am using a child theme, I have noticed that my Support forum is actually using:

wp-content/themes/seos-video-premium/seos-video-premium/css/bbpress.css

I assume this is because there is no bbpress.css in my child theme css folder so it uses the themes one instead of the bbPress plugin’s one?

So I have two specific questions here.

1/ the bbpress.css file in the premium theme folder is actually 1408 lines of code. So it is 300+ lines shorter than the plugin version. To be honest, I was not expecting to find a bbpress.css file inside the theme. So what am I supposed to do? Simply replace the theme version with your plugin version?

2/ I have been trying to use a beta version of EnlighterJS Plugin (it is their beta that uses EnlighterJS v3. There was an issue with these styles:

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-content pre,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-content pre {
	display: block;
	line-height: 18px;
	margin: 0 0 24px;
	padding: 5px 10px;
	white-space: pre;
	overflow: auto;
}

In their classes they have this styling:

.enlighter-default .enlighter-raw {
    display: none;
    min-width: 100%;
    line-height: inherit;
    font-size: 12px;
    font-family: inherit;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    white-space: pre-wrap;
    word-wrap: break-word;
    border: none;
    box-shadow: none;
}

The HTML is:

<pre class="enlighter-raw">.textMaterial {
  /* Uncomment to hide the material */
  /* display:none;*/
  font-size: 10pt;
  font-style: italic;
  font-weight: 700;
  background-color: yellow;
}
.textMethod {
  /* Uncomment to hide the method */
  /* display:none;*/
  font-size: 10pt;
  font-style: italic;
  font-weight: 700;
  background-color: cyan;
}</pre>

Notice that ttheir CSS style uses display: none;? The bbpress CSS file pre class has a display:block;. This causes a problem with the plugin I am trying to use.

The author does not want to use !important because he says it is bad design. So how do we fix this? How can we allow bbpress to do what it wants with pre and EnlighterJS do what it wants?

[Robin W]

yes, that’s what I’m trying to get you to 🙂

So if you were using a WordPress user database, then the roles I posted a link to above would give you exactly what you want – participants would be able to post.

However I suspect this plugin references the AD database, and is not storing bbpress roles – so when it looks for permissions it finds no roles to allocate permissions against, so does not allow access.

now bbpress roles are stored in the same part of the database as WordPress roles, so it may well be that this plugin is not storing these settings, hence no access.

I’ll put a post in their support forum to see if they can help

[falabart]

Active Directory updates the database daily, adding or deleting users. This database also synchronizes the WordPress roles of each user. But the bbpress forum roles do not appear in our Active Directory …

Would forum roles need to be synced from a specific Active Directory field?

Would this help the role “Participant” have the permissions it should have?

[Robin W]

yes, participants should be able to create topics and replies viz :

bbPress User Roles and Capabilities

I strongly suspect the issue is with active directory, you already have said that it rolls back settings, which makes me suspect that the entire WordPress database is being rolled back – if you create say a test post on the website, does it stay overnight, or does it disappear – this would help determine where to go next.

[falabart]

This intranet was developed by an external agency with whom we no longer have contact.

I have run into this problem since the project was handed over to us.

Is there no place in bbpress to determine the actions that each role can take? Do you know if the “Participant” role can by default create topics and reply to messages?

Thanks for your help.

[Robin W]

thanks

so is this a new installation of bbpress, a new problem with bbpress, or when did this start

[falabart]

In addition to bbpress, the intranet incorporates other functionalities: static pages, blog, messaging, gamification …

[Robin W]

great – thanks for your helpful responses. Appreciate the intranet, been there !

is this website just for bbpress, or are you running a bunch of other stuff on it – just need to know as it will help how we go forward

[falabart]

Good Morning,

I am managing a company intranet with bbPress, and I have a problem with user roles.

I need that among all the users there is only one Keymaster (me) that manages the entire forum and that the rest are only participants.

The problem is that if I assign users the Participant role, they cannot create topics or reply to created topics. In fact, with the role of Moderator they cannot do it either. Only the Keymaster role allows you to do that, but it also gives permissions that I don’t want to give to all users, like deleting topics.

Another problem I run into is that my user database is connected to my company’s Active Directory. And every time it is updated (once a day) the roles I have assigned manually are lost …

Could someone help me with these problems?

Thank you very much.

[Robin W]

you’d do better to put that amended template into your child theme – that way bbpress updates won’t overwrite it

find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/user-details.php

transfer this to your pc and edit

and save

create a directory on your theme called ‘bbpress’
ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

Then transfer the file you saved above and put in in the directory called bbpress that you created above, so you end up with
wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/user-details.php

bbPress will now use this template instead of the original

[ilhat]

hello guys,

i have few sentences what are displayed in french for all my languages i dont know why, my default language is english, and my theme’s developer are saying that the issue is comming from bbpress.

look pictures this sentence is translated in all language
but displays french for all languages

https://paste.pics/e3ffc065ef3ef5c140d05fc85747960d
https://paste.pics/0ac43ae103b834aca3aaf608f125fa99

help me pls

best regards