[Barry]

Interesting!

Driven by curiosity, I put this plugin together. You could try installing and activating it: it should make it possible to use [topic-author] from both the new reply subject and body.

It doesn’t do much else, though it could itself readily be extended (but perhaps the better course of action would be to see if the original author of bbPress Notify can make a change there or, if it is no longer receiving updates, fork it).

At any rate, I hope this is helpful, if only as a starting point 🙂

[isc-admin]

bbPress Notify plugin

Hi, can I add tags that include the author name so that the name of the author can be added to the Notify email Subject line and email body (for both Topics and replies)?

for example: reply author name, topic author name

[Robin W]

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Themes

As a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Plugins

If that doesn’t work, also deactivate all plugins apart from bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Then come back

[Robin W]

bbPress Styling Crib

[hmprivate]

Is there a simple solution to force the site to ignore bbpress fonts and sizes?

I want bbpress to respect and use the default font and size of the theme.

Preferably in a form of few lines to be added to custom css of the active theme? I would prefer no to create child-theme (I’m using Neve) and definitely do not want to install additional plugins.

My forum: ibf.lv

I have made my forum as light as possible + made it full width and the 1st thing that can’t be ignored are different sizes and font of the forum 🙁

Thank you 🙂
Helmuts

[Robin W]

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Themes

As a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Plugins

If that doesn’t work, also deactivate all plugins apart from bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Then come back

[mngerhold]

Thanks very much for taking the trouble to come up with that. At this point I should admit that I don’t use bbPress myself, but was asking on behalf of (and unbeknownst to) a forum I visit. So I know too little to pursue it myself (at this stage anyway), but will pass on the idea to them in case they want to run with it. They don’t really need more work at the moment!

I may be back – Martin

[Barry]

There are some different ways you might tackle this.

https://gist.github.com/barryhughes/ae5ca5a4684f347e8ba81e88a6501801

One is to use some code like I shared above, which could be added either to a custom plugin (preferred) or else to your theme’s functions.php file.

Alternatively, you could create a custom template override for loop-single-topic.php and make a change within the <p class="bbp-topic-meta"> section.

If that’s of interest/if you think you might prefer the second approach, we could explore the code you’d need to add to make it happen 🙂

[timgoodenoughza]

Hi

When I create a forum I can link it to my related LearnDash course. I have multiple courses, each with its own private forum. The challenge I am having is that when I click on a topic in a forum, either Learndash or bbPress “forgets” which course that topic is linked to – which means any of the course navigation menus that are part of the course then get ‘lost’ too. My Gamipress rules to show specific badges for specific courses also gets messed up with this loss in connection.

How do I link the topics to their respective Learndash courses in the same way I do the forums? When I create the topics I link them to the forums that are linked to the course, however that is not working to keep me in the correct course, when I click on a topic.

Thanks in advance
Tim

[Robin W]

doesn’t work that way. Sidebars are a theme thing, so bbpress has no control on how your theme author designs their sidebars

[douget]

did that before making this post on bbpress, wouldnt it just be easier to include these settings in bbpress ?

[Robin W]

hmmm… sidebars will be theme specific, not part of bbpress.

If you have a paid theme, suggest you contact their support

otherwise try googling ‘xx theme sidebars’

[douget]

this is how my forum looks on my website https://lightforge.web.primedtnt.com/forums/ I would appreciate any help in making this clearer to read and understand. I’m looking into finding ways to remove sidebars on forum page, but not until i can read the forum.

[artichoku]

using the added converter that was found here: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/fix-for-phpbb3-to-bbpress-conversion-script/

all I get is “Starting Conversion”

[vtm5978]

hi there,

i have a list of topics in the forum but its not listing all of them.
kindly assist?

1) WordPress 5.2
2) bbPress 2.5.14
3) link to my site – http://www.meddirect.co.za/forums

[stanislavozernyi]

We have some custom code in the mu-customisations plugin which filters bp_core_fetch_avatar to add a variety of little image overlays to the user’s avatar (e.g. instrument icon, “Team” logo). (mu_add_overlays_to_avatar() in mu-buddypress.php)

This has been working fine throughout the site, but as of today (I suspect with the upgrade of BuddyPress from 2.8.2 to 4.2.0) it no longer works in bbPress discussions.

It does still work correctly in BuddyPress content, e.g. the “login widget” at the top of the sidebar with the user’s own avatar, the activity feed in the sidebar, member profile pages. But in the author info in bbPress discussion posts, the overlays are no longer appearing.

Could you please look into what might have changed here, and why the bbPress template for showing the author avatar seems to no longer be affected by our mu_add_overlays_to_avatar filter? Thanks!
http://prntscr.com/nig5is http://prntscr.com/nig6jw

[artichoku]

if it helps, this is the error i get when using the phpbb converter that comes with the installation of bbPress 2.5.14…

WordPress database error: [Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes]
CREATE TABLE wp_bbp_converter_translator ( meta_id mediumint(8) unsigned not null auto_increment, value_type varchar(25) null, value_id bigint(20) unsigned not null default '0', meta_key varchar(255) null, meta_value varchar(255) null, PRIMARY KEY (meta_id), KEY value_id (value_id), KEY meta_join 

[artichoku]

hey there. So I’ve been trying to get the import to work for a few weeks and have zero luck whatsoever. I’ve tried the updated script found here:

Hi All,

Had the same issue as described above. The default phpbb.php import script didn’t convert anonymous users of topics and replies and the Pixenated script looped infinately with the conversion of users.

I’ve fixed the script and uploaded to PasteBin. Feel free to share widely.
https://pastebin.com/FpWsxsUG

How To:
1) Upgrade phpBB to v.3.2.5
2) Install BBpress 2.6 RC7
3) Upload to /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converters/phpbb.php

Remember that real men don’t do backups. They cry a lot. 🙂

but it has not aleviated the import problem. I no longer see errors, but it just sits at “Starting conversion”. Not sure what my next step is…

[zenoism]

Hi,

I really like bbpress, but i’ve been having a problem on my website. I’ve downloaded the plugin, activated it. Created forum, register, and lost password pages. Checked “Anyone can register” in settings. Yet, when I try to to register with username and email address in Incognito mode to test it out. after clicking the final “register” button the page just acts as if it refreshed. and no verification is sent to my email address.

Somebody help..

[bdd]

I was JUST looking for a solution for this! I’d noticed the tab order was off when I was using tab to add a new post in a bbPress forum on my site.

Did a little exploration, and found this post:

WP Accessibility Plugin

In this section about removing tabindex from focusable elements…

WP Accessibility Plugin

…it mentioned this plugin that might help:

WP Accessibility

And I found a few others along similar lines:

WP Accessibility Helper (WAH)

Accessibility by UserWay

Just with installing the WP Accessibility Plugin (without making any tweaks to default settings), I noticed a difference. (Need to explore a bit more to see if my issue is solved.)

[tlhInganHom]

Hi,

It was recently pointed out to me that the tabindex attributes all over the place in the bbPress plugin are causing accessibility problems for users who are blind or due to mobility, navigate my website using the tab key. Disrupting the tab sequence of a page is almost never an OK solution on a site, as it creates a confusing and unpredictable navigation, and that is what bbPress is doing by setting its own tabindex attributes.

For my own site, I have copied all the bbPress templates into my child theme and am working on removing all the tabindex attributes manually. This, however, seems like a very poor solution to a pretty big accessibility problem. Can you just remove all the tabindexes, or at minimum, offer an option in the plugin to toggle tabindex attributes off?

Thank you!

[shwetaku2010]

HI

I have added bbpress and started forum http://www.thelogicalnews.com/forum/index.php

Could you please let me know if its a do follow?

Thanks

[yiprichie]

Hi,

The bbpress search box isnt returning the search results from the forum replies. Im using shuttlethemes as my theme. When i contacted them regarding my issue, this was their response below. Is there another way to go around and get the search box to work?

‘Often plugin developers will have different settings for specific use cases. It is certainly something that the plugin developer should be supporting you with, as the search is a part of WordPress core and our themes don’t manipulate the search functions.’

Thank you in advance!

Richard

[cephalo]

Things are looking much better (check the link again), but I am having trouble changing the color of the bbPress sidebar. I’m using the bbPress specific sidebar from ‘bbPress WP tweaks’ and it doesn’t seem very customizable.

CSS is still a bit mysterious to me, but it seems that I should be able to have a snippet that changes the background color for this particular widget.

[Barry]

There are a few ways you might tackle this, but custom CSS is often a nice way to go, both because it’s “safer” than custom PHP and because you can easily tweak it to achieve a better fit. Plus, most themes make this really easy: simply navigate to Appearance ‣ Customize ‣ Additional CSS and add your code 🙂

/* Remove the titlebar area on forum archive pages */
.bbpress.forum-archive #page-titlebar {
  display: none;
}

/* Retain some whitespace for consistency with other pages */
.bbpress.forum-archive #site-content {
  margin-top: 75px;
}

In this case, perhaps some rules like I’ve listed above could be a nice starting point?