I used the Private Forums plugin for a year or so… it would randomly turn all my private posts public!
Then I checked the comments on that plugin, and a number of other users had reported something similar:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/private-forums/page/4/#post-1621
I don’t recommend using Private Forums for that reason… especially since Hidden Forums does the same thing. I’ve been using that for a year or two now, and have never had any problems.
This is what they said, but he wasn’t the support guy who fixed it:
It appears that they added the correct rewrite rules for WordPress to resolve the issue with the permalinks this can also by done from the WordPress admin under Permalinks.
My new issue with this plug-in is trying to get it to NOT create a new bbPress post every time I edit a WP post.
Addendum: To check a user’s role anywhere in your code use
<?php if (bb_current_user_can('administrate')) { ?> .....
(by replacing administrate by the proper role description)
as proposed here:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/page-elements-viewable-only-to-admin
I had that same problem when trying to make only one register & only one login from my site with bbpress integration.
register is easy, I just wrote directly to the db from php using the hash classes included. but for login i made a kind of webservice. When I login from tomcat I just request the next url…
http://www.mysite.com/bbpress-root-dir/bb-login-check.php?user_login=USER&password=PASSWORD&remember=yes
and i wrote the next code for bb-login-check.php
<?php
// Load bbPress.
require(‘./bb-load.php’);
// Redirect to an SSL page if required.
bb_ssl_redirect();
$user = bb_login( @$_GET, @$_GET, @$_GET );
if ( $user && !is_wp_error( $user ) ) {
echo “0”;//login successfully
exit;
}else{
echo “1”; //login fail
exit;
}
?>
i hope that’s usefull…
for any question or help needed for bbpress or wordpress try fran.rod.rod [at] gmail.com
makeupalley? no, not using bbPress.
is that site using bbpress?
Hey Everyone,
What is the easiest way (as of the latest BBPress release) to get the avatars for ‘topic’ authors?
I have avatars showing correctly for ‘posts’ with <?php post_author_avatar_link(); ?>
but it doesn’t seem to work correctly for the first post in topics and on the front page.
I’ve seen some other posts on this, but so far no elegant solutions. Any help?
Thanks!
Oh Kawauso, thank you so much!! This code works perfectly!!
But do you mean that normally, I should have just one profile page for WordPress and BBpress?
Easy answer. Number one requirement is, that it also has a wordpress theme.
Does anyone have any suggestions for showing the bbpress avatar next to comments in wordpress. I know a couple suggestions were given here, but, I don’t want to try the first suggestion, because they say to delete a file in my plugins, and I have a feeling that will cause more trouble than it’s worth. I saw another suggestion, tried it, but the avatar didn’t show. This probably won’t happen, but, it would be nice if there was a sister plugin to this one for wordpress… and you installed it and magically the bbpress avatars showed up. 
Wouldn’t that be nice. Unfortunately I don’t know php very well.
Here’s hoping someone can come up with a solution!
Is it possible to change the language after installation of bbPress? If yes, can you please tell me how to do it? I already uploaded the .mo & .po files in a new folder called “my-languages”.
Thank you very much for your help.
<?php if ( $wp_profile_user = bb_get_user( get_post_author_id( $post_id ) ) ) : $wp_profile_link = esc_attr( "/members/{$wp_profile_user->user_nicename}/" )?><a href="<?php echo $wp_profile_link?>">View profile</a><?php endif?>
Your profile pages from bbPress and WordPress should be in sync anyway if you’ve integrated properly…
Read through register.php in bbPress’ base directory and function bb_new_user under functions.bb-pluggable.php in bb-includes to get an understanding of how normal registration works.
Normally the user is given an auto-generated password, but the function used in the registration function will hash anything anyway.
Ah…. add a sidebar capability 
One of the things I try to do on my own bbPress-based forum, is trying to make it more and more user friendly. By saying user friendly, I want my users to click less, as that is really annoying. And give as much as information possible on the page they are.
Think of:
• Adding a search bar on every page
• Navigation should be visible from all pages
A few options that you’d need plugins for:
• Upload plugin, so users can upload images
• Signature, users love that too
• And PM system
Worth considering:
• AJAX replies (just like we have in vBulletin)
So if you’re gonna incorporate those things into your theme, think about the design.
I want to use Wishlist member to protect a page called Forum – with the slug shiftselling.com/forum.
That means I need to move the files for the forum to a different directory – currently shiftselling.com/forum.
Should I move it or rename it?
Should it be moved to a directory or a sub domain?
I am also trying find what code I could put into a the page called forum that would display the forum inside my page.
Regards,
Craig
Cell: +1.403.874.2998
Hello everyone,
I’ve just installed bbpress 1.0.2 and bbpress integration plug-in over my 2.8.4 wordpress blog… and I am in hell.
The blog still works, from the viewer point of view (www.teknologik.fr), but the backend is a mess.
First of all, I couldn’t log in at all in the wordpress admin panel. My login and password took me to a white page saying that I didn’t have the rights. Hopefully, I had a second login with administrator right so I was able to change my “own” rights, under the second administrator login. But that was just the beginning…
Articles and Pages counter, in the main admin windows now shows “0”, although there are over 700 articles, when I do click on “Articles”.
When I try to add a new article, the ID at the end of the permalink is “1”… when the previous permalinks (when I still worked) showed four digits, like “5414”.
I’ve deleted both “bbpress” folder and “bbpress integration” pug-in but it didn’t change anything.
On top of all, I was working on a fresh re-install of the blog and the database backup wasn’t set yet, so my last backup is 3 weeks old, with tenths of new articles in between that would be lost if I had to re-install that backup.
What can I do without returning to the last backup ? Any idea ?
A million thanks, in advance…
Benjamin
Any other idea maybe?
Actually, it would be really great if I could use WordPress profile page instead of BBpress profile page, you know? Because on my WordPress, members (users=authors) can change their profile and fill up some custom fields I added and I think it’s better if they don’t have to fill up two profile pages…
Thanks
looking for more suggestions? I do get a few hits from this page but the responses are very minute as compared to that. Please take out some time to comment or suggest here on a new bbPress theme – Pour in your suggestions for an ultimate bbPress theme
Try matching the code with the default theme and if you need to show more additional info then you can take a look at this too https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/unhide-profile-email-adresses
I was researching this for ya, and noticed that your host had fixed it for you:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/wordpress-bbpress-syncronization/page/9/#post-4698
Glad it worked out! Let us know if your host ever lets you know what they changed/fixed, if you could… thanks!
My host took care of that issue, but now I’m getting this from the plug-in:
Not allowed: [bbPress part] Invalid anonymous user id
I’m not getting a lot of help where the plug-in is actually posted. As best I can tell my settings are correct. I’m getting this response though:
URL is incorrect or connection error, please verify it (full variant): http://hoosierhoopsreport.com/bbpress/my-plugins/wordpress-bbpress-syncronization/bbwp-sync.php
When you click on that link, it brings up a 404 page, but having checked my server files, it’s there. The plugin has been uploaded in the my-plugins folder of my bbPress folder.
Why not just use bbPress native functions and adapt code?
