oh, and take a look at this thread
BBpress: Registration mails fail
bbpress just users wordpress login, so not really a bbpress issue.
I can only suggest you either post in the wordpress support forum, or the easy WP SMTP forum
Try following plugin to add google reCAPTCHA on your bbPress forum. Option to enable/disable for logged-in users.
reCAPTCHA for bbPress
Try following plugin to add google reCAPTCHA
reCAPTCHA for bbPress
@robin-w oh, i used a string modifier to change ‘forum’ to ‘discussion’ — that is how i got the tabs in buddypress groups to say ‘discussion’ versus ‘forum’
i’ll go back and modify it to say ‘chat’ later, but for now many things in the site that used to say ‘forum’ say ‘discussion’….because i can change that at-will and it’s not causing conflicts, i’ve not updated it yet to say ‘chat.’
the problem that is currently unmovable though is the group forum slug name; it still says ‘forum’ at the end of all buddypress groups. that was unaffected by the string modifier, and is apparently hard-coded.
i went to the wp_options table and it does currently say ‘chat’…..sooooo…….apparently that setting is not being used in buddypress when it creates group forum slugs. it is defaulting to ‘forum’ no matter what i do.
is there another place within bbpress where the instructions on how to create a slug for any type of forum whatsoever is listed…even ‘hard-coded’ as a default setting?
On the home of the forum, I have categories with sub forums in them, but need to change the layout to be 2 columns instead of comma separated forums. What file can I add to my theme to override this? bbPress has a crazy common between the <li> tags and drives me nuts because you can’t remove that using css.
@robin-w oh no worries on this being a ‘new’ thing for you to hear — as someone who does not work with buddypress like yourself you’re never going to hear this. it’s because it is a way that bbpress sends information to buddypress when buddypress pulls info from bbpress into it, when it uses bbpress programming to create ‘group forums.’
it’s not a bug; it’s how the interface between bbpress and buddypress works.
at least, that’s what i’m gathering now, after reading other people’s posts with the same issue in forums all over the web.
so my question to you now: what is the file that bbpress uses to say what the slug is — the URL name, which in this case is just ‘forum’….not ‘forums’ but ‘forum’ — so i can alter that?
i HHAAAATE altering core files, but in this case it’s likely needed.
whatever ‘default URL/slug’ command is used when buddypress pulls in forum creation/function into bbpress……chances are, that is the file i will (gulp!) need to modify.
i’m guessing that the same code/file is used to be the ‘default slug name’ in bbpress. which is….’forum’
what file does that? creates a default ‘forum’ in the URL/slug when a forum is created?
what is confusing me is that in
dashboard>settings>forums>single forum slug you have
discussion where I have forum, and it is this slug that is the extra one showing in the url.
Why you have discussion, I have no idea, I have not seen this before
all I can suggest is that it could be a theme or plugin issue issue, so you’ll need to test to find out which
Themes
As a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.
Plugins
Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.
and see what is setting this to discussion
Then come back
Oh, how can I get rid of the search function in the admin bar?
Don’t have the admin bar – it is horrible and breaks away from your theme, bbpress has profile edit which let the user access their profile.
There are plenty of plugins to hide the admin bar
https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/search/admin+bar/ lists lots
Forgot to provide the URLs.
Old phpBB forum: http://www.cpakayaker.com/forums/
New Site: http://cpakayaker.wpengine.com/
Current versions of WordPress and bbPress
what version of bbpress are you using ?
‘closed’ in bbpress just means that the area cannot have new things added.
If you want to have an old forum that is not seen by users, then make it hidden.
So how does one exclude the “closed” forums from bbpress search?
Thanks
That is indeed it, thanks! So I was barking the wrong tree, nothing wrong with WordPress being able to access bbPress.
Where should one look for bbPress function documentation these days? I notice that I have difficulties finding information, and when I do find something, figuring out if the functions are for bbPress 1, bbPress 2, or BuddyPress is sometimes difficult. There is some sort of a list here but bbp_get_topic_tag_names() is not included, among others.
bbpress uses wordpress login, so they only need to login once.
a public forum is visible to logged in AND not logged in
A private forum is only visible to logged in
If you set anonymous posting then everyone can post topics and replies, otherwise just logged in users can post
I am not clear how bbPress works with a site. If I have member only pages (which require a login) where I intend to install bbPress, will my members have to login a second time to use bbPress?
Will that they then have two accounts to deal with? Most of my users are older and not tech savvy. They need things to be simple. They will not self register. We will have a controlled set of users not open to outsiders.
@robin-w LOLOLOL — ‘the work of the devil’ hahaha….yeah it’s pretty messed up as a program goes at times, hahaha…. 😀
disabled, did not fix
the buddypress people said on another thread to someone else asking the same question to ask it here, because it was a bbpress issue….now you tell me to go ask it there, because it might be a buddypress issue LOL
i even tried modifying the ‘bp-custom.php’ file for setting the name of the default URL slug; nada (tho that is a buddypress thing, figured i’d mention it here to show you how long i’ve been trying to solve this)
isn’t there a plugin out there that can accomplish the ‘change the default URL slug for forums’ issue?
not quite sure what you mean by ‘archived’ content
bbpress has statuses of
public,
private
closed
spam
trash
spam and trash depend on the user capability – so keymasters and moderators see these, but not participant level.
How would I make bbPress functions available for a WordPress template file?
Specifically, I’m building some custom RSS feeds, one of which lists the latest topics posted on the website, but with some modifications. While I can pull the latest topics with a query_posts() call using (‘post_type’ => ‘topic’) and parse them with a standard post loop, I can’t figure out how to access tags related to each topic. I assume that bb_get_topic_tags() should get me the tags but the function is not available for the RSS file template which is in my WordPress template directory. I have basically been using this method for custom RSS feeds.
Since a function_exists() call for bb_get_topic_tags() returns false, I assume that I should first prime or load the bbPress plugin somehow. But how? Or am I approaching this completely wrong? I suppose I could always do a direct SQL query but I would like to avoid that if possible.
I have tried searching here and elsewhere but keep drawing blanks. The closest I could get to is this topic but it doesn’t really give an answer, or at least not one that I can understand.
I’m running the latest public bbPress and WordPress versions.
bbPress 2.5.14:
FILE: /var/www/test.site/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converter.php
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FOUND 0 ERRORS AND 1 WARNING AFFECTING 1 LINE
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310 | WARNING | INI directive 'safe_mode' is deprecated since PHP 5.3 and removed since PHP 5.4
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FILE: /var/www/test.site/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/tools.php
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FOUND 0 ERRORS AND 1 WARNING AFFECTING 1 LINE
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144 | WARNING | Function create_function() is deprecated since PHP 7.2; Use an anonymous function instead
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In bbPress 2.6-RC6 everything is good.
bbPress 2.5.14
PHP Compatibility Checker 1.4.6
I have enabled the Visual Editor for topics and replies using the following:
function bbp_enable_visual_editor( $args = array() ) {
$args['tinymce'] = true;
return $args;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_after_get_the_content_parse_args', 'bbp_enable_visual_editor' );
The problem is that only administrator can add text-colors font-styes and other things like that.
I am getting html format when a subscriber uses colors and font-styles
<span style=”color: #00ff00;”><span style=”font-family: ‘book antiqua’, palatino, serif;”>wfwffwwf</span></span>
WP Version 4.9.8
bbPress Version 2.5.14
I would really appreciate any help,
Thanks!
I have tried to read about this here, I looked and try to find the solution but I was unable to find it. Firstly, I’m beginner in both WP and bbPress but have learned a lot while reading around and also try to find solutions on my own. But now I’m basically stuck.
My two main problems, since the original forumtext on my page is grey (the text when you want to write a post) and collide with the background of the forum who also is grey. And I can’t change the forum post-text nor the background (if I want to change the background at my main page to some other color, the bbPress-forum remains grey).
Where do I change this? If anyone could help me out I would appriciate it a LOT! Thank you!
@illuminstr
If you do not have caching software that might be not accepting the change to the settings, then
It could be a theme or plugin issue issue, so you’ll need to test to find out which
Themes
As a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.
Plugins
Deactivate all but 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
you’ll need to do some fault finding
It could be a theme or plugin issue issue, so you’ll need to test to find out which
Themes
As a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.
Plugins
Deactivate all but 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
Hello,
I use bbPress as an forum on the Woffice theme from Alkaweb. I created 5 forums, and the index can be viewed at …./forums/. However, only I as administrator can see the index and 5 forums, but my the user roles cannot. They constantly get an 404 error. I checked the roles permissions and even make them all the same as the administrator, but it still won’t work. How can the other user roles also view the forum index?
Thanks!
Plugins: Members, Members – Role Hierarchy, Nav Menu Roles, Unyson
