[Marius]

Hi,

An old similar topic is here.

We are in Europe, so we must to conform to GDPR.
Users sometime post theirs personal information’s like phone, email or ID in a support forum and this cannot be stopped with a warning. So you must to admit that possibility to made topics visible by author and moderators only is a must!

I do not understand why this option isn’t in plugin core?
Will have a lot of benefits: act like a CRM, a lot of teams will use this plugin instead of a ticket system, the privacy according to GDPR will be 100%.

Please allow us to have some forums with “Topic visible by author and moderators only!“.

[jaykaybee]

I’m new to wordpress and bbPress. I found a post that described the problem I am having, but a “keymaster” closed the thread… I don’t see how to solve this problem.

The original thread was:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/breadcrumb-and-forum-index-issues/

Here is my restatement of the issue:

I am new to WordPress and BBpress, using Astra theme. I have read some forum topics on the problem I am having, but some are now closed and did not provide answers in remedial enough fashion! (I’m not a coder.)
Here is how I am experiencing the problem, you can follow along on the links below (I used BBP stylepack to remove the “home” link)
1. I navigate to https://devgo.jeffbelkora.com/forums/. This presents a blank page.
2. As suggested in a prior forum here, I set up a WordPress page called forums with a bbpress shortcode [bbp-forum-index]. Still, the URL /forums/ presents a blank page.
3. Bizarrely (to me), I can see this forum index only if I change the URL to Forums/ with a capital F. Huh? Now this page displays a list of forums, namely one I created called “Resource Messages”. Very confused as to how the uppercase F came to display the right index. I stumbled on that accidentally.
4. I click on “Resource Messages” This takes me to /forums/forum/resource-messages/. The URL now has a lowercase f in forums. This will be a problem in a minute!
5. Now I click on “Resource Message 2” link and I’m taken to /forums/topic/20181219-resource-message-2/. Incidentally, I am working on an entire project to strip down the forum into a one-way bulletin board… but this post is just about the forum breadcrumbs.
6. Now the problem arises where I click on the breadcrumb for forums, whose link is /forums/. As seen in item 1, this presents a blank page.
Now, other posters pointed to BBP StylePack “breadcrumbs” setting. And I have tried to insert my forum page (with the shortcode [bbp-forum-index]) URL (/forums/) into their “override” box. But instead of showing the forum index, it shows a blank page.
Help! I am so confused. I would really appreciate any tips or links to further resources, in very remedial terms.

[sightup]

This is all under “Forum Root Slug” too? Because under “Forum Root” it says “forums” and next to that it says ” Possible bbPress conflict: Forum slug” and I was wondering if that was an issue?

[Robin W]

latest BBPress – do you mean 2.5.14?

[spaceman_qc]

I have the latest WordPress (5.0.2) and latest BBPress. I enabled the visual editor with the bbPress tweak plugin and then every time I tried to edit a reply it will not let me submit it again. The page would just like reload and my text was gone. No error in the console but saw thing flashed there.

But if I login, logout, return to bbPress and uses the text editor and kept the visual editor in the back, everything worked ok. So I disabled it and since then no more bugs.

Is there other WYSIWYG editor that I can use? Is there something I can do to make it work correctly?

[Robin W]

ah – thanks – try this

// Force ping_status on bbPress post types
add_filter( ‘pings_open’, ‘rew_force_ping_status’ ); 
function rew_force_ping_status( $open, $post_id = 0 ) { 
// Get the post type of the post ID
$post_type = get_post_type( $post_id );
// Default return value is what is passed in $open
$retval = $open;
// Only force for bbPress post types
	switch ( $post_type ) {
	case bbp_get_forum_post_type() :
	case bbp_get_topic_post_type() :
	case bbp_get_reply_post_type() :
	$retval = false;
	break;
	// Allow override of the override
	return apply_filters( ‘rew_force_ping_status’, $retval, $open, $post_id, $post_type );
	}
} 

[cdwed]

I dont get it. I copied your code exactly as below. Is there an AND symbol getting in there in the copy function?

// Force ping_status on bbPress post types
add_filter( ‘pings_open’, ‘rew_force_ping_status’ );

function rew_force_ping_status( $open, $post_id = 0 ) {

// Get the post type of the post ID
$post_type = get_post_type( $post_id );
// Default return value is what is passed in $open
$retval = $open;
// Only force for bbPress post types
switch ( $post_type ) {
case bbp_get_forum_post_type() :
case bbp_get_topic_post_type() :
case bbp_get_reply_post_type() :
$retval = false;
break;
// Allow override of the override
return apply_filters( ‘rew_force_ping_status’, $retval, $open, $post_id, $post_type );
}

[Robin W]

ok, that is quite ambitious, so well done for getting so far.

As I think you are doing, you should only change files in the templates and then only by copying them to a bbpress folder in your child theme. The originals can (and should) stay in the bbpress plugin file. bbpress will see your files in the child theme and use them instead.

to move the topic content – the word ‘test’ in your example

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-content, #bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-content, #bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-content {
	margin-left: 0px !important;
}

[cdwed]

I put in the code and got a syntax error. I loaded it in just as you wrote it. So it will not run.

Can you check on this please?
Here is what you posted:

// Force ping_status on bbPress post types 
add_filter( 'pings_open', 'rew_force_ping_status' ); 

function rew_force_ping_status( $open, $post_id = 0 ) { 

<strong>// Get the post type of the post ID 
$post_type = get_post_type( $post_id ); 
// Default return value is what is passed in $open 
$retval = $open; 
// Only force for bbPress post types 
switch ( $post_type ) { 
case bbp_get_forum_post_type() : 
case bbp_get_topic_post_type() : 
case bbp_get_reply_post_type() : 
	$retval = false; 
break; 
// Allow override of the override 
return apply_filters( 'rew_force_ping_status', $retval, $open, $post_id, $post_type ); 
} </strong>

[gwebpro]

You can also try Magazine Pro by StudioPress. It’s a bbPress ready WordPres theme with a very professional look and a lot of features.

Magazine Pro Theme

[jaykaybee]

I am trying to configure bbpress for one way announcements to an audience of members in my website. Meaning I as the author am posting topics in chronological order, with no possibility of replies. So not a normal forum.

This has meant removing a lot of extraneous information normally displayed: I don’t need or want author, freshness, voices, etc.

I am new to WordPress, BBpress, and I am not a coder. I have proceeded, through trial and error, to “inspect” the pages and use custom CSS to hide objects that I don’t want (display: none !important), and to look at the php files such as content-single-topic-lead.php and remove any references to author (e.g. bbp-topic-author).

Without understanding much of what I’m doing, I’m getting very close to achieving the intended effect. Now I’m stuck because when someone clicks in Resource Messages (the “forum” name) on an actual topic, they see an indented display of content, because the author column (which normally displays author name and avatar etc, which I hid using CSS display: none !important) is still present (if empty).

Please see https://devgo.jeffbelkora.com/square/topic/20181219-resource-message-2/

So my questions are:
1. Can anyone instruct me on how to remove that first author/avatar column?
2. How to resize column 2, or otherwise adapt it so each topic’s content displays as a left-justified text?

Please be very remedial in any tips you can give me. I have created a “bbpress” subfolder inside my “astra” child theme via “files” in my cpanel. I am deleting code in php files there adding custom css inside the astra child theme “customizer”.

If you are going to suggest changing files, could you please specify how I need to place them in my child theme to make this futureproof to updates etc.?

Thank you!

[Robin W]

I should say that I am not the plugin author, just an experienced user.

bbpress just uses wordpress custom posts, so in most cases having the forums within the main site would be no problem. Of course I don’t know your site, so cannot recommend, but most sites just have it within. If the main site is down, chances are that most will not access the forums directly, but rather via the main site, so the forums would ‘appear’ to be down as well.

It is an option to uncheck the box, it is not a recommendation (the box I quoted in settings recommends that you do display the prefix, but I think this is just for clarity in the url).

unticking the box would achieve https://forums.X.com/ and putting the forums in your main site would achieve https://X.com/forums/

[Robin W]

I cannot replicate that on my test site, and from its positioning I suspect it is theme related rather than bbpress as it seems to be within after an <article> div that bbpress doesn’t use, and I cannot find ‘comments-area’ anywhere in the bbpress plugin.

If you want to prove that, switch to a default theme and check that it disappears.

[Robin W]

the first ‘forums’ is the sub domain where he has installed it (what you call ‘in its own folder) so that cannot be changed.

The ‘/forums/’ is what bbpress uses, you can omit that in the sub-domain wp installation

dashboard>settings>forums>fourm root slug, and untick the ‘Prefix all forum content with the Forum Root slug (Recommended)’

That might achieve your first objective, but probably what you really want is the forums within your site, unless your site is massively complicated or your forums are huge, there is no reason not to have bbpress within your main site

[Foliferous]

Hello,

I noticed a weird thing, the Admin profile has this empty DIV on its page:

Check it out.

Other profiles don’t have that. Check it out.

It seems to be this here:

<div class="comments-area"></div>

What is this and what is it doing there? How do I remove it? Is it some space for user comments on profiles? And why do other users don’t have that?

Thanks!

By the way I love bbpress, it’s awesome. I used a lot of other forum software (IPB, vBulletin, phpBB), but this one’s really the best!

[sightup]

I paid a website dev to install bbPress forums on our site. bbPress is in its own folder and uses a different database than the stock site.

The url shows up like this: https://forums.X.com/forums/

Is it possible to either get the URL to be either https://forums.X.com/ or https://X.com/forums/ ?

The dev I paid says it’s not possible. That kind of seems strange to me that it wouldn’t be possible.

[Robin W]

has been set to 2.6 defect by the bbpress authors

[Robin W]

no idea what you are saying, so I’ll leave it there. Bbpress is what it is.

[tapiohuuhaa]

Hi

Why bbPress could use visual editor without chaning the function.php of themes.

When thems needs to be updated, it would need every time alter that function.

In my mind bbPress should support better visual editor. Otherwise bbPress seems to be a little bit too much self-made solution. Not like professional XenForo, which supports visual editor without tricks.

I got it work in https://www.sanaristikkofoorumi.net/wordpress/forums/forum/sanaristikot/

but I was not happy searching how to do it.

[asperina]

Check out this link https://wpml.org/forums/topic/bbpress-pagination-problem/ – Regards Asperina Technosoft

[Milan Petrovic]

This is theme related, it has nothing to do with bbPress, and without providing the link, no one can help you without seeing the issue.

[mattbru]

Okay, I GOT IT!
The key is to compare the topic id and the reply id. If they are equal, then its the first reply in bbpress.

Here is my full solution:

<?php
function add_content_before_first_reply_content($content,$id){

	$post = get_post($id);
	$topic_id = bbp_get_topic_id();
	$reply_id = bbp_get_reply_id();
	$content_to_add = '';

	if ($topic_id === $reply_id) {
		// do whatever you need to in  here
		$content .= $content_to_add;
	}

	return $content;

}
add_filter( 'bbp_get_reply_content', 'add_content_before_first_reply_content', 99, 2 );

[mattbru]

wp v5.0.1
bbpress v2.5.14

How can I hook into the FIRST reply on a single topic page? I want to add an image attachment only to the first reply, but i cannot find how to do so. I hooked into the action “bbp_theme_before_reply_content“, but it adds the image to every reply on the page!

I thought about getting a list of all reply ids, then comparing the current reply id (bbp_get_reply_id()) with the first id in the array, and showing content if they are equal. That would solve the problem. BUT I also failed at getting the list of ids – I tried with bbp_get_all_child_ids

I also wish the FIRST reply in the loop would have a unique id or class, but it does not 🙁

Here is the page:

Meet My New Crested Gecko

[Info Ekonomi]

PekMez your solution does work, but still modifying the core code will be overwritten on the upcoming update, and we will probably forget about this in the future. So after upgrade our BBPress version we forget to re-modify this code.

Anyway how about now, is there a solution for BreadCrumbs without modifying the core?

[livroo]

Hey, I’m a french user of bbpress and I need your help to solve my problem.

I installed a theme that uses the features of buddy and bbpress, no problem. But when I go on the profile of a user and I click on “my topics = mes réponses” I have a 404 error, while the page “my favorites” works well.
https://livroo.fr/membres/admin7317/forums/ => https://livroo.fr/membres/admin7317/forums/Mes%20R%C3%A9ponses/

but my favorites works for same url
https://livroo.fr/membres/admin7317/forums/
https://livroo.fr/membres/admin7317/forums/Mes%20Favoris/
Could you help me ?