Some say any reply over what you could reveal person´s identity needs to be removed, if User wishes so.
If, only if, it is the true there is no way any forum owner/admin will ever bother searching through thousands of User´s replies. Whole account and all replies will be deleted.
Will leave a mess, but will save admin´s hours, days and nerves.
Specially as it is gray area. What is personally “revealing”. Admin would not only need to quick browse through replies, but study them very well. Cannot imagine any Admin would like to lose so much time on this stupid thing.
Second big problem are quotes, and nested quotes. How to deal with it. Of course if it is true about replies at all.
My personal feeling is as this law, regulation, is made specifically to target Facebook and Twitter. How will they deal with it. BbPress problem is a piece of cake compared to them.
I know users who are registered to use my site are automatically able to use bbpress. I dont understand the technical details. Do I need to install a another login page when installing bbpress or can registered users just go ahead and post etc. Would appreciate someone setting out the steps for me … thanks.
@stagger-lee,
I have been busy with it for a while. In fact the ideas behind GDPR are not new, it just that now they become clear and mandatory. Data protection has and should always be priority one.
GPDR is now specifying that how and what things are done need to be completely clear.
When a user asks for ‘what do you collect’ or ‘Give me my data’, it can be as simple as a csv file with all data (user profile, topics, replies) which seems to comply.
The ‘right to be forgotten’ is the one that needs much more investigation. Deleting the user is easy, deleting the replies too. But what about topics that were started and have replies from others? Or replies to the replies of this user? How about backups? How about search engines that indexed public forums? Mentions to this user?
I have started drafting some things that I will share (hopefully next week) with the bbPress team with my thoughts. I hope it can serve as an extra guideline.
Hello Robin, Yes. I have raised problems of bbpress to the theme author many times. But They told it is not covered by the theme support range as it is a third party plugin. So I am very embarrassed as I don’t have any help and support on BBPRESS.
You are not the only one. Today was first time I heard about it.
It involves a bit design consideration. Checkbox when submitting topic reply. Option for User to be able to delete account with all comments. Dedicated Page for bbPress about what is saved in database.
Some are strange and complicated. What to send to User when they ask what bbPress is collecting in database.
@adchix Did you try to import in bbPress v2.6 ? The import procedure have been reviewed so you might have more luck.
Try to install v2.6 from https://bbpress.org/download/ in a test environment.
Pascal.
When AMP plugin just update to Enable for bbpress,
But my website got 404 error with bbPress Permalinks with ID plugin
(https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-permalinks-with-id/)
Has anyone solve this problem?
Thank you.
I have a BuddyPress group “Sherlock Holmes” with a forum at https://andrewteg.com/bp/groups/sherlock-holmes/forum/ and have created two sub-forums (Watson & Moriarty).
I’d like for the sub-forums to stay in the group template. Is there a known way to go about this?
I’ve seen the main forum https://andrewteg.com/bp/forums/forum/group-forums/holmes/ redirects to the group forum and keeps topics in the group template, but the subforums like Watson do not.
This is a cross-post with https://buddypress.org/support/topic/sub-forums-inside-a-group/ as it was suggested bbPress may have the answer, since this is that area where they work with each other, and I’m not sure yet which I’d have to work with to get this done.
Thanks,
Andrew
In power from 28.05.2018.
What is stance of bbPress core about it ?
What needs to be done.
I have not seen anyone is working on a plugin for compliance.
create a directory on your theme called ‘bbpress’
ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress
where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme
find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/content-single-forum.php
Make a copy of this file, and put in in the directory called bbpress that you created above, so you end up with
wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/content-single-forum.php
bbPress will now use this template instead of the original
and you can amend this
so change line 26 from
<?php bbp_single_forum_description(); ?>
to
<?php if (bbp_get_single_forum_description != 'This forum is empty.') bbp_single_forum_description(); ?>
Can anyone tell me where I can find someone? I’ve tried Upwork.
I need someone to import Invision Powerboard forum to BBPress. I have tried importing myself. I have the correct credentials, but I get WP database errors that are beyond me. The forum will be archived once moved to new location. The client just wants to keep the old forum for reference and history, but they don’t want to continue paying Invision for use.
If you prefer to use other forum software for the import rather than WP/BBpress, this is okay. I am happy to take suggestions.
bbpress doesn’t override permissions, and works fine on several hundred thousand sites. Sever or webpage cache is the almost certainly the culprit – why it was affecting you we will never know.
No not on the back button. I just mean they navigate back to the forum.
If I set the registration process to direct users to the page with the forum on, when they get there you have to refresh the page for the site to realise you are logged in and it can show the previously hidden forums.
To be honest I actually swapped over to Asgaros this morning. The fact BBpress overrides all permissions was the killer in all this. There was no way around it.
Not sure if its a server cache or something causing my original problem?
Hello Robin,
I have checked. But still I cannot find out why.
When I installed the bbpress, it is not installed as the default looks. maybe because the theme author revised it automatically ? So this plugin does not work?
Merci de ce retour 😉
Comment puis-je faire pour que des users puissent s’inscrire et poster sur le bbpress ?
Jen e comprends pas forcement commet faire, étant donné que mon site n’intègre pas d’article ni de Blog. Juste des pages statiques sans commentaires.
Thought I could maybe get around this with somemthing like wp-members and just hiding the page altogether until a user is logged in but it seems BBpress has other ideas for a users permissions that override anything wp-members does…
Just realised what might be causing some confusion but the problem still seems to exist.
I am using a plugin to hide the forums so they are private. Thats why when your not logged in you see a bbpress message that I have modified to say you need to login (Think it said there are no forums here by default).
I have now made some of the forums available to the public in the hope that might work but I just tested. Went to the site, loaded the forum, logged in, went back to the forum and I have to refresh the page/cache before I can see the form to post a new topic.
Its not just my local cache either, someone else had the same problem.
Feel like I am missing something stupid! Gravity forms is powering my registration process if that makes any difference?
Im confused.
Guests come to my website and see the forum link, they click it at which point BBPress has a message saying you need to register to view the forums.
They then go to register, fill out their details, create an account and login.
Once they are logged in they go back to the forum.
Because of caching the forum page still doesnt load the forums, it continues to show the “You must register/login” type message.
Is there a way for forum users to flag abusive posts (like a Twitter-style ‘Report tweet’ function)?
I tried the plugin “Safe Report Comments” and a later fork, but they didn’t work.
(I’m on the latest WP/bbPress.)
i mean once they have registered and logged in.
if they visited the page with forums on before all that when they return logged in it still shows the default bbpress you must register message.
you have to refresh to see the forum?
Hi,
Just setup BBPress for the first time and have one problem. If you go to the forum page and then register, login and go back to the forum page it still shows the “You need to register to view the forums” message until you clear your cache.
I am not using any caching plugins on the site at all yet.
Is this normal? Is there a work around?
TIA
Unable to Delete, Edit or Close *Some* Topics
During cleanup, I came across topics that I was trying to close and wouldn’t close. This happens both in the front end and back end. In the backend, the message ‘Topic…has been closed successfully’ is displayed; however, the topic remains open. In troubleshooting, I tried to edit the topics. When I update the topic, it just reverts changes. I have found about 40 topics that have this behavior, but other topics close just fine. I am doing a massive cleanup and have about 4800 more topics to review and potentially close, but presume I will run into more as I go along.
Steps I took to troubleshoot further: deactivated all plugins except, bbpress; switched to default WP theme, reset permalink, ran repair tools and turned on debug. The same behavior exists and debug is not throwing any errors.
I looked at underlying records for some of these problematic topics in the database and the post status is published, comment status is closed in wp_posts. Not sure if this information helps, but I also took a look at the wp_postmeta and found that there are ~4 entries for _bbp_status with meta value published on each of these topics and 25+ entries for _sticky_post with meta value 0. I thought the _sticky_post meta was interesting because these topics were not sticky.
I’m using WP 4.9.2 and bbpress 2.5.14
Probably more info than needed —- but I really need to close these topics if anyone can help.
Hello,
how is it possible to add rel=”next” & rel=”prev” for paginated content/archives without a plugin, maybe with a function?
I am using BBP 2.5.14, WP 4.9.1 and Forum – A responsive theme for bbPress plugin by Dannci | ThemeForest.
Thank you,
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