Hi Robin,
Many thanks for that!
One and last question: does bbPress creates all forum files by itself (or uses existing WordPress pages within website) or will it need anything ‘external’ (such as completely external forum hosted by someone else). Please forgive me my ignorance as I’m a bit ‘old date’ from past times when website was a website only and forums were completely separated story 🙂
TIA,
Kris
bbpress is just a plugin that sits within wordpress, so you would just install it and typically have a menu entry to
yoursite.com/forums
see
Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1
Hi guys,
I’m completely new to WP and bbPress and trying to find right solution for my website so please forgive me a noob question and dont kick me too hard::
heres the question:
does bbPress whole forum, mean would I need to link it up with external forum?
I’ve got my domain set for WP already.
Many thanks in advance,
Kris
yes, in effect create the subdomain you say, and install wordpress and bbpress.
Then you could just have a home page with the code [bbp-forum-index] in it and that is all that site would contain
this is a theme conflict issue, and you need to get your theme to recognise bbpress.
Not bbpress’s fault and not your theme’s fault, both just use wordpress
see
Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1
section 8 on trying to get them to work together
I use
bbPress Notify (No Spam)
to notify me of new topics/replies
forum order is controlled under bbpress by
dashboard>forums>all forums>edit forum and on the right hand side you’ll see forum attributes and in that ‘order’
forums will display in that order, with 0 being the first and higher numbers in number order. Forums with equal numbers appear I think in either date created or alphabetical order – can’t remember which but you topic suggests alphabetical
wplms may well display in a different order, and you’d need to ask wplms about that
Haha. This is amazing. I added the code to my php and it worked. Thanks a million. Some other experts couldn’t help me with this.
Robin, two more questions. Related.
Can you also tell me how I as administrator get all forums in a alphabetical order, but my students/members not? It’s totally random? How can I fix that? I think the most recent one is on top. How can I change that? I can’t seem to change to date of publication.
And how can I get notified when some starts topic in a forum. I tried the plugin bbPress Notify Admin, but it didn’t work. Perhaps I didn’t follow the instructions correctly.
Any help would be great. Let’s make this 3 out of 3 😉
Gijs (Holland)
small tweak to not break for users with names that include spaces. the issue was not a permissions one as i posted above.
/*
* attempt to handle generic request for current user
* https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-link-to-profile-page/
*
* if the url is passed as forums/users/current/
* this function detects that the permalink has been set to bbp_user=current
* and
* - if the user is logged on, the query is changed to the current user
* - if the user is not logged on, the user is redirected to login screen
*
*/
function ink_bbp_request_current_user( $query_vars ) {
if ( isset( $query_vars[ 'bbp_user' ] ) ) {
switch ( $query_vars[ 'bbp_user' ] ) {
case 'current':
if ( get_current_user_id() ) {
$query_vars[ 'bbp_user' ] = bbp_get_user_nicename(get_current_user_id());
} else {
auth_redirect();
}
}
}
return $query_vars;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_request', 'ink_bbp_request_current_user', 10, 1 );
Hello, at bbPress, the search bar only appears on the general page: forums and search for what you are looking for does not return anything. How to add a search bar within a forum, and how to make the search bar work at least on the general page? Thank you
I have created a forums page using bbpress, and linked it to my main header menu. Below is the page
https://honingds.com/activity/
I am not sure why the forum page is starting at almost middle of this page. What should I do to make it appear just below the header. I am noob at wordpress and bbpress so please bear with me. My theme is Impreza wordpress theme.
not sure where ‘groups’ is coming from – youzer, buddypress, not directly a bbpress thing unless you have renamed forums/topics/replies
sorry, I only provide some of the tools, this is not a design service 🙂
and I’ve no idea whether the site you show is even bbpress.
Dear team,
We’re using bbpress plugin along with youzer. The section ‘Groups’ I want to replace with ‘Rides’ As I am developing Riders Community using bbpress.
Also the Create Group, Join Group, Exit Group button text want to change to Ride related titles.
I don’t know what the BBPress Knowledge Base plugin is – where did you get this from ?
I am trying to get section descriptions to show up within the employee manual knowledge base I created with the BBPress Knowledge Base plugin. I have multiple sections with multiple articles but nowhere do I see the descriptions I added for sections.
Do I need to modify a PHP file?
Any help is appreciated.
editing users is a wordpress rather than bbpress function
It may well be possible, but the easier way would be to use a wordpress role to do this.
This link will give you code to make the ‘editor’ role able to do user stuff, and you may want to hide admins as per their suggestions
Let Editor Manage Users in WordPress
so you would just set your moderators to be editor as well as moderator
I will need to spend long periods of time away from my site and bbpress forum, and want the Moderators to have the ability to delete users that are clearly just there to spam. I want them to have more than blocking capability and the ability to delete posts and topics.
I have not found much on this topic through searching. I am willing to implement some specific code. If there is something I can edit with Buddypress to allow this, please let me know. However, I don’t want to make the moderators Keymasters – I only want them to have authority over the forums and who uses them.
I would rather use code than a plugin. Not sure if it is simple as adding a line to the bbpress moderator capabilities that allows them to essentially ban Buddypress users.
WordPress version: 5.2.3 (Vantage theme)
bbPress version: 2.5.14
Site: https://pirateswithben.com/forums/forum/pirates-csg/
Thank you!
Ben
I can demonstrate if you go to bbpress.org/forums you see this but I would like something more like this I am running astra as a theme if that helps.
Thanks for your help.
Any news on 2.6 it’s on RC 7 now.
It’s been on RC 7 since December of last year. You can check the dev tracker for 2.6 here (still being worked on) –
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/report/5?sort=modified&asc=0&page=1
It was listed at 99%, but now back to 98% as a result of some bugs.
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/milestone/2.6
I found out how to fix it by using Multiple Domain plugin. I think the problem might have been the site address url because if i set it to craftnations.ddns.net i cant access the website on my network because i use a different ip to noip so if i have nothing in the site address url i guess the bbpress plugin cant get the response so using Multiple Domain plugin and setting the domains for my network and craftnations it now works. i dont know if that makes sense for you guys but trust me it now works. Thanks for the help and i hope others will find this helpfull. 🙂
http://www.livingdipfree
I have tried to rename page.php to bbpress.php – didn’t work. I have looked all over forums and I don’t understand why I have 2 inches of blank space to the left of my forums. Pleas help/advise. Thank you.
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