[lookingahead]

@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?

[Robin W]

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

[Robin W]

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

[Gregg]

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

[Robin W]

what version of bbpress are you using ?

[Robin W]

‘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.

[potentdevelopment]

So how does one exclude the “closed” forums from bbpress search?

Thanks

[Vili]

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.

[Robin W]

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

[orientsee]

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.

[lookingahead]

@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?

[Robin W]

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.

[Vili]

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.

[AiratTop]

bbPress 2.5.14:

FILE: /var/www/test.site/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/converter.php
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FOUND 0 ERRORS AND 1 WARNING AFFECTING 1 LINE
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 310 | WARNING | INI directive 'safe_mode' is deprecated since PHP 5.3 and removed since PHP 5.4
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

FILE: /var/www/test.site/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/admin/tools.php
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FOUND 0 ERRORS AND 1 WARNING AFFECTING 1 LINE
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 144 | WARNING | Function create_function() is deprecated since PHP 7.2; Use an anonymous function instead
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

In bbPress 2.6-RC6 everything is good.

bbPress 2.5.14
PHP Compatibility Checker 1.4.6

[billysgtr]

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!

[huggymir]

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!

[Robin W]

@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

[Robin W]

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

[marketing050]

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

[Milan Petrovic]

Hi,

It does use the template of the page because themes with full support for bbPress are very rare, so bbPress is injecting own content into the virtual page, and it uses the page template. You can create a bbpress.php template based on the page.php, and create styling for it, or you can modify styling for the page template when the bbPress is using it to change the width of the content.

Milan

[maxlevel]

I wonder If I can set an email address for bbpress that is different from my WordPress admin email address? Ideally I should be able to set a different email addresses per forum (to send notifications to the moderators and/or the keymasters).
Does anyone know of a plugin or some code to make that possible?

[piixell]

Hello everyone,
I have installed bbpress on to my webpage in order to create a forum. I just dont seem to find a way to fit bbpress into the template of a static page. It always looks like using the format of a post. I have tried several Plugins (e.g. bbtweaks) and wrapped the forum in page.php.
http://www.fibio.de/fibio-forum is the site I am having trouble with. I would like to have the forum as big as the static pages are..
Everything is up to date.
hanks for your help!

[Robin W]

ok, can’t help you further, suggest you post on

https://wordpress.slack.com/messages/bbpress/

and see if one of the devs can help

[Robin W]

bbpress does not set any pending.

I don’t know if buddypress does, or if you are using another plugin to do pending?

[Robin W]

go to

bbPress

and select Advanced view on the right hand side

and at the bottom of the page you will find ‘previous versions’

you can select and download from there