[cdwed]

How do I enable a moderator for my forums? I have been the Auto-Role feature in Settings. However a Spammer keeps getting into the forum and I have to enable a moderator to approve forum action.

WP: 5.2.2
bbpress: 2.5.14

TNX
Peter

[armyadarkness]

My experience with BBPress is definitely that it’s over-complicated in so many areas, and then completely misses the boat on the most basic of features. Until reading this thread, I had no idea just how outdated that it was.

WordPress won’t support BBPress… But BBPress is the ONLY reason that I use WordPress. I’ve spent the last year searching for the basic requirements that I need in order to keep my current and future sites here, but I’m constantly striking out.

Thanks to the internet… You can’t even hire a pro anymore. There’re so many liars and cheats out there that it’s impossible to tell who you’re hiring.

Unfortunately, It’s now easier to just switch platforms altogether than it is to continue wasting days on end, trying to get help for antiquated platforms. I’ve lost so many of my followers and subscribers, because they just couldnt deal with the glitches.

[duchesscorp]

We migrated one of our sites from Ultimate Member to BuddyPress because UM conflicted heavily with our custom plugin. Started with a fresh site for the most part and exported data because there are over 750 users on the site. Everything worked fine except exporting bbPress data. All the forums, replies, and posts show up in the admin but they will not show up on the front end. I can see the forums but if you click a link it says no topics or replies but in the backend, you see topics and replies. We’ve tried everything we can think of from removing metadata from Ultimate Member’s leftover data to deleting all the data and doing fresh imports. Same result every time.

The link is https://junipersl.com/community but I’m not sure how helpful it will be since the forum is members only. You can see some information but it’s like…it shows there are topics and replies but when you click, you get the error “Oh bother! No topics were found here!”

bbPress 2.5.14-6684
WP 5.2.2
Beaver Builder Theme

Any insight would be amazing.

[jeepcreed]

hmmm, ok, I’ll contact the theme author… the socialize theme is made for buddypress sites and says that it integrates with bbPress, but it’s not doing a very good job!! Thank you!

[jeepcreed]

Hello, just installed and activated bbpress with several extensions to improve functionality; however, my forum page does not look like a forum at all. I even set up the bbpress sidebar, and it isn’t showing either. I’m using WordPress version 5.2.2 and bbPress version 2.5.14. The link to my staging site where I am testing this is http://www.jeepcreed.com/stagingnew/forums

[John James Jacoby]

Oh… and it’s true that I spend a lot less time in these forums than I used to.

That isn’t for any particular reason relating to bbPress itself.

Huge props and 👏👏👏 to the moderator team here (@robin-w, @netweb, @robkk, @casiepa, @mercime) for being immensely helpful, cleaning up spam, and being amazing.🙏

[John James Jacoby]

Hey everyone! I got a nudge from @jeffr0 that this thread had some replies, and I just wanted to chime in and say thank you, very much, for being patient.

I understand everyone’s feelings. I get where they come from.

bbPress is a 15 year old piece of forum software based on and specifically for WordPress. The last thing it will ever do is die. (That’s a terrible play on words, but keep reading!)

The GPL (and it being open-source in general) guarantee everyone that as different people use it, different people will contribute to it, and it will continue to grow, evolve, and be iterated on in perpetuity.

It being based entirely on WordPress gives it one of the largest and most stable foundations to be built off of.

The projects spiritual commitment to backwards compatibility through the years means that as the software grows, your content will always grow with it.

Other forum projects have made sweeping changes without migration paths from old to new versions. bbPress as a project simply appreciates and respects its users and their communities and content too much to not provide great tools to scale your community along with the software.

bbPress as a project gets developed in bursts. Like it or not, I think that’s the honest truth. If you look at its life as a piece of software as a whole, there is a ton of evidence to support the idea that sometimes a few months will go by with nothing, and then a few months will go by with tons of activity.

The dips might make your stomach drop at first, but it’s a long ride… a fun ride… and one that I hope others see from a distance as a beautiful effort. One that provides a platform that empowers WordPress users to give their visitors a simple, clean, and dedicated place to enjoy communicating with each other.

Lastly… strictly on numbers alone, WordPress.org relies heavily on bbPress as the primary method of communication & support for over 75k plugins in 200 languages, and 11 million registered users. bbPress is actively installed in over 340k websites. It’s a fraction of the total WordPress installs (but if the numbers on builtwith and other tools are accurate) it is currently the most widely installed piece of forum software in the world.

bbPress will never die. It will only get better.

Thank you, everyone, again, for being patient and for your interest in bbPress. It’s a pretty cool piece of software with some of the best contributors and forum moderators around! I’m working on bbPress everyday, sometimes in my head, and sometimes on other projects that bbPress will inherit someday. It’s always on my mind, even if the commit log doesn’t show it. 💕

[dunritetech]

Great! Yoast works well with bbpress

[amritdhr58]

in my bbpress topic index I want to show view counts like how many people see that topic

[Robin W]

bbpress is nofollow by default

[Sujatha]

Hello friends,

I have read in some SEO tips, we need to give nofollow for all other site’s links placed in our website. I want to know how to do that in my BBPress website.

Thanks.

[austex]

Looked further, it’s “99%” complete:

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/milestone/2.6

[danielleoverman]

Solved, found this code snipped from a previous post https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/prevent-users-from-creating-topics-2/ which removed the topic form for everyone but admins and moderators.


add_filter( 'bbp_current_user_can_access_create_topic_form' , 'rew_only_mods' , 10 , 1) ;
function rew_only_mods ($retval) {
// Users need to earn access
$retval = false;
//check if admin
if ( bbp_is_user_keymaster() ) {
$retval = true;
}
//check if moderator
$role = bbp_get_user_role( get_current_user_id());
if ($role == 'bbp_moderator') {
$retval = true;
}
// Allow access to be filtered
return (bool) apply_filters( 'rew_current_user_can_access_create_topic_form', (bool) $retval );
}


[Robin W]

add this to the custom css part of your theme settings

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-content a {
	color: #12526f !important;
}

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-content a {
	color: #12526f !important;
}

Close and re-open your browser

Please come back and confirm that this works

[Sujatha]

Hello Everyone,

I want to know the best plugin for add a paid membership in my BBPress website.

Thanks.

[Sujatha]

I want to add multi language translate option for my website. User can translate the content in my by website by select the language they want. I want to know how to do that.

[robin0212]

Hey together,

i created a forum and set it up. So far so good!
But if I click on a topic, it doesnt show the answers or the options to post a answer.
It only says “nothing to show here” please create a new post.
I tryed to deinstall all plugins. Set the forum new and it is still the same mistake. Also I reinstalled BBpress. But nothing worked out so far.

http://fleisch-und-bier.com/fleisch%20und%20bier/topic/operationen/

Thank you for the reply! Greetings.

[austex]

Okay, just check the dev tracker. JJJ put some work in last month on 2.6.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/report/1?sort=modified&asc=0&page=1

[stuartataltitude]

I have tracked through to bbp_replies(). bbpress()->reply_query->have_posts() seems to give different results when logged in and logged out (iff WP-Members is active).
When logged in, if a topic has 1 original post and 1 reply, this returns 1 first time, then 1 second time (for the reply) then “” (for no more). When logged out it only returns 1 (for the reply to the original post) then “”. So at first sight it seems to be something to do with querying the database (as opposed to posts being filtered out later for example).

I know it is perhaps more something for the WP-Members plugin to look at (as they have broken your plugin and not vice versa) but if you have any ideas what might be going on – so I can point them in a direction for what to look for, that would be great. Must be lots of sites that are using both WP-Members and bbpress together – but maybe most don’t want visitors seeing forums and so haven’t hit this issue.

[fantomx90]

Hello Everyone. I am a novice still at using wordpress, but I am using bbPress forums for my website. I currently have a bunch of Forums, with many topics underneath them.

I was just wondering if there was a way to have a small icon or picture beside each Forum.

For example – Rules (With a small picture of a book beside it or below it)

I tried messing with Add Media or Featured Image, but they dont seem to apply the image anywhere I can see it.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

[amitkool21]

Hello,

I wanted to know if its possible to embed Google input tools in bbPress forums comment sections.

Thank You.

[austex]

Ironically, this thread is the last time that @johnjamesjacoby the (bbPress project lead) posted on bbPress.org.

Maybe somebody can ask him on twitter https://twitter.com/JJJ

[stuartataltitude]

I am using wp-members and bbpress together (I guess there are many sites that do this). The normal bbpress behaviour is for non-logged-in site visitors to be able to view forum topics but not reply to them. If I deactivate the wp-Members plugin then this is what happens. However, with wp-members activated, site visitors cannot see topic content (though they can see replies to a topic).

Maybe there is a setting somewhere that I am missing but I’d like the default bbpress behaviour to continue to work with wp-Members activated. I’m hoping that there are other sites that have experienced the same issue – maybe someone has found a solution?

[theatereleven]

I’m chiming in here too – Trying to decide whether to use Discourse or WordPress. BBPress seems to be the only reliable and clean option for WP, but I need to know there’s a future before investing the time. Thanks anyone for an update!

[asz-creations]

Hi Guys,

Ive been trying to find the solution here but i couldnt find it yet. Where can i give the users a option to log out on bbpress on the website (for example an option in the sidebar). Also when you are logged in once, there is no menu for logged in users (or an option to see an extra menu like activities, profile and what so ever). Is it possible to fix this?

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