This plugin seems to do that and claims bbpress support
I have not tried it, so please come back and let us know if it works
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which version of bbpress are you using ?
Good Afternoon,
I am currently having an issue with getting my template overrides to work on bbpress pages, like forums and questions( indlucing shortcodes). I have the files located in /wp-content/themes/mytheme/bbpress/ but they are not working. Is there something I have done wrong? Or something I need to do? I am trying to edit loop-forums.php and others.
Many thanks in advance for any help or advice,
Kind regards,
Dave
this will close topics with no activity in the last 10 days
/*
Plugin Name: BBPress Close Old Posts
Description: Close BBPress 2.0+ posts that haven't been updated in X days.
Author: Raygun
Version: 0.1
Author URI: http://madebyraygun.com
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
*/
register_activation_hook(__FILE__, 'bbpress_topic_scheduler');
add_action('bbpress_daily_event', 'bbpress_close_old_topics');
function bbpress_topic_scheduler() {
wp_schedule_event(time(), 'daily', 'bbpress_daily_event');
}
function bbpress_close_old_topics() {
// Auto close old topics
$topics_query = array(
'author' => 0,
'show_stickies' => false,
'parent_forum' => 'any',
'post_status' => 'publish',
'posts_per_page' => -1
);
if ( bbp_has_topics( $topics_query ) )
while( bbp_topics() ) {
bbp_the_topic();
$topic_id = bbp_get_topic_id();
$last_active = strtotime( get_post_meta( $topic_id, '_bbp_last_active_time', true ) );
if ($last_active < strtotime( '-10 days') )
bbp_close_topic( $topic_id );
}
}
?>
I would like to remove forum posts from my marketplace forum that haven’t been active for 10 days.
I’ve been looking around online but the only answers I’ve found were from 5+ years ago and don’t work (anymore).
I’ve tried doing it with PHP, and looked around on the bbPress website for developer documentation, but that doesn’t exist yet, and has been under construction for around 5 years according to the Wayback machine.
I’m really not trying to argue, Robin. But, in both initial bbpress setup guides. That format is what is shown. Yet, neither say anything about categories or specify how to get that layout. In layouts and functionality, it does say how to style it.
Can you please tell me how to get to that? I did follow the step by step guide exactly and it returned what I have, not remotely what is pictured.
Also, I still have the archive question. I can’t find anything saying that should be there. I certainly haven’t asked it to be there.
Thanks again.
wow well that’s stupidly embarrassing. This is what I was expecting:
https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/53/2013/11/forum1.jpg
taken from here:
Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1
Any advice on the archives heading?
Thanks again!
sorry, not into selling stuff. and no I’m not the bbpress author.
Thank You Robin,
I know it’s not a design service per se, You are the creator. Right? So who best to know the length and depth and breadth of your product? 🙂
And if I need this guidance maybe there are others who want it – who knows? perhaps my question could have been the gateway for some sort of template-like / cliff-notes on exactly how to get certain forum configurations 🙂 That you could sell to go with your free plugin.
Yes it is bbpress.
Actually its one of their ‘flagship’ examples of what bbpress can do.
Peace
Josie
my site is deleted. I had bluehost absolutely wipe out WP and I started out adding bbpress and trying this again. I really haven’t yet added anything else back except for elementor. Am I misunderstanding thinking that [bbp-forum-index] should return a forum name and then have topics listed underneath and then the next forum and so on? If so, disregard and tell me I’m just silly please. Anyway, I threw something up and created a gyazo of what I think you might be wanting to see. But, if you need to get in there I can create some credentials for you if you want to message privately.
So, left to right. Topics…I created a couple in topics and one by going to the page and opening the forum. Next, the page created with just the shortcode. I didn’t even use elementor. Just straight to add new page and shortcode using the name in the root. The last one, I opened the site and used an incognito window to view the page.
As you can see, it’s like it’s calling up archives. Looking back, I didn’t mention that before. That was really dumb. It’s been doing that all along. After deactivating all plugins, this is what made me believe I actually needed to reinstall WP. Honestly, this index thing is not my actual issue. LOL maybe we can address that one later? But bc of the archives thing, I am afraid to move forward.
Hopefully, now that you have the whole story, you will recognize my error and be able to just say comment this code out with your child’s functions.php or add that to some other file or whatever. And all will be well 🙂
Thank you so much, Robin. I look forward to hearing from you.
Storm
https://gyazo.com/ab8f8fd010ba5967cce876c547b971b4
Hi all, I think I figured it out. I upgraded ibp 3.1 to 3.4 and then use bbpress covnerter and it work fine 🙂 Thanks
that is not happening. I have completely deleted wp and started over fresh. I tried bbpress first with just a wp stock theme. Still. I have created forums and topics. Topics are not listed.
Hi. Forgive me. I’m new to all of this…trying but new. My frontpage containing [bbp-forum-index] is not working. It shows the forums but not the topics.
I did try using Topics for Posts but decided I couldn’t see the benefit. So, at this point, I have tried the following things:
checked permalinks
reset forum root should show to topics by freshness
I have repaired and reset bbpress
And, at that point, I rolled the entire thing back with backup to before the bbpress install. And did not update any plugins. Also, though I have bbpress styling code thingies I had intended to use, I had not gotten past adding a bbpress folder to my theme’s child.
At this point, I am deactivating plugins but am not confident that will solve it. But if it does, I will come right back and try to delete this or just plain apologize.
Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.
I checked the database posts table via phpmyadmin and confirmed that replies posts did not come over to bbpress. Is there a way I can fix this manually by running some manual sql code?
I’m using latest wordpress just downloaded today, and latest version of bbpress (bbPress 2.5.14).
During the conversion I only get the following error which I don’t think tied to the replies posts not coming over.
Repair any missing information: Continue
WordPress database error: [Table ‘*.*_core_tags’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT convert(core_tags.tag_meta_id USING “utf8mb4”) AS tag_meta_id,convert(core_tags.tag_text USING “utf8mb4”) AS tag_text FROM *_core_tags AS core_tags LIMIT 0, 100
No tags to convert
No super stickies to stick
Please forgive me my ignorance – don’t worry we were all there when we started !!
bbpress uses the wordpress database and pages so is contained entirely within wordpress.
at it’s simplest, just put a ‘custom link’ menu entry of url ‘/fourms/’ and navigation label of ‘forums’ into your menu.
Alternately create a page with a title of say ‘forums’ and put [bbp-forum-index] in the content.
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)
