[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

[Robin W]

I strongly suspect it is theme related or maybe other plugin.

In either case, it is not directly bbpress, so yes, I’d hide it with css

[ricks033]

I have two websites running custom php to create Log In/Log Out entries on the menu.

The Log Out behavior is different on the two websites. I finally tracked down the problem to bbPress. The URL created by my custom code with w_logout_url() on the bbPress site includes:
&redirect_to=…

where the URL created by the site without bbPress installed does not.

Disabling bbPpress removes the &redirect_to=… and reenabling bbPress makes the redirect_to return.

That leads me to believe bbPress is changing /setting this value somewhere, but I don’t see any choice to change that value in the bbPress settings?

add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_items', 'ccc_add_loginout_link', 10, 2 );
function ccc_add_loginout_link( $items, $args ) {
    if (is_user_logged_in() && $args->theme_location == 'header-menu') {
        $items .= '<li><a href="'. wp_logout_url() .'">Log Out</a></li>';
    }
    elseif (!is_user_logged_in() && $args->theme_location == 'header-menu') {
        $items .= '<li><a href="'. site_url('wpflogin') .'">Log In</a></li>';
    }
    return $items;
}

Thanks!!

[Robin W]

can you list your plugins please- the original error
Line 1: <div class="error"> <p>This Plugin needs BBpress to work, pls. install it first and activate.</p></div>

is not from bbpress

[Solitary_bee]

Yes I get that, and I see my settings are configured to automatically now give this status to new additions, and supposedly the ability to post, but ‘half’ of those that already have the status cannot.

It’s a real shame that there are no codes written into the error messages.

I guess my two questions are (in the context of my above post)

1. When did all my historically inactive users get all their statuses changed to participants, it could only be with a recent BBpress plugin update?
2. Is there another encoded condition that has to be satisfied aside from “if user = Participant then validate post or reply?”.

I know an invalid or heavy file may stop posting, but I have increased the values of the attachments so this is out. Failed posters have however not always been uploading anything more than their text.

Anyway I should stop speculating and see when the successful and failed posters were entered into the system.

[Robin W]

presuming in

dashboard>settings>forums you have Roles set to participant, then users will get the participant role upon their next login or if ‘remember me’ set tehir next remembered visit to the website (the website, not just forums) after you installed bbpress.

[Solitary_bee]

Hello I have been looking at this for a number of days.

I reactivated plugins one by one and then a couple of people successfully posted, then two or three more couldn’t post then one did.

My bizarre theory is that it has something to do with a bbpress update quite a while ago. I already had Buddypress for two or three years with every member of my community manually given a basic S1 level when I created their account (so additional info was password-protected). When I added the recommended bbPress to develop a forum, I noted that only a number of my more active members got the status “Participants”, the numbers seem to reflect a few active users out of my total pool of users. It wasn’t automatic that everyone was assigned the Participant status, especially if they had never logged in. I assumed that it came from them reading forum/bbPress generated pages.

Since the beginning of the year, this has changed; everybody but the three Admins have been marked as a participants – 30% of these have never even logged in to my Buddypress environment, have never even reacted to the initial password email. The term ‘participant’ in a sense has become meaningless to me as an admin, because it tells me nothing any more.

I have to investigate there’s an ‘arrival date’ relationship with those who have posted and those who can’t.