[Audiomonk]

Hi thanks for your reply, that’s a big undertaking for my site given the amount of plugins, and combinations of plugins that may be conflicting with bbpress. I tried another theme, that seemed to work a little better, so am guessing it could be a theme conflict with bbpress.

I was more after guidelines of things that could go wrong to look out for, am guessing it uses a tags with an id to jump to the relevant post?

I think I’ll wait until I get a staging setup done, so I can test things on a non live site.

[Robin W]

In basic bbpress, if you subscribe to a forum, then you should receive an email when a new topic is posted. If you subsequently subscribe to that topic, you should receive emails when a reply is posted.

As for the symbols, since you’re using the buddyboss theme, then I suspect that this is part of that, and as a paid product, you should check the documentation and/or raise a support ticket with them.

[Robin W]

thanks for the post

bbpress includes a version of the wordpress ‘after..parse_args’ which will let you do this so for

•File …/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/template.php line 1735:
change ‘tinymce’ => false, into ‘tinymce’ => true,
•File …/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/template.php line 1736:
change ‘teeny’ => true, into ‘teeny’ => false,

you could put this code into a functions file or plugin

//editor bbpress
function rew_enable_visual_editor( $args = array() ) {
    $args['tinymce'] = true;
    $args['teeny'] = false;
    return $args;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_after_get_the_content_parse_args', 'rew_enable_visual_editor' );

and the ability to filter functions so for

•File …/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/template.php line 1858:
Remove array_push( $buttons, ‘image’ ); to remove the ‘standard’ image insert button that asks for a full url to an image, since we are replacing this by the [photo] shortcode generator.

use this code in your functions file or plugin

function rew_remove_image_button ($buttons) {
	if (($key = array_search('image', $buttons)) !== false) {
		unset($buttons[$key]);
	}
return $buttons ;
}

add_filter( 'bbp_get_teeny_mce_buttons', 'rew_remove_image_button' );

The you don’t need to alter bbpress files

Let me know if I can help further

[Robin W]

hmm, apart from the standard elimination tests below, I can’t think of anything obvious

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.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

[WP Strap Code]

@heero I know this thread is old but it still shows up 1st page when I search bbPress themes. So I thought it would be worth providing an upto date answer for future viewers.

The 1st stop I would recommend is checking out wordpress.org/themes where you can find thousands of themes.

However, if you don’t want to spend all day looking through their directory then check out Softwarefindr a platform were forum owners using bbPress give a shortlist of their recommended bbPress themes.

[dcweb]

Hi,

I have setup bbpress on admin.site.com and i currently already have site.com setup with user authentication. I’m currently looking into making the login from site.com auto detected in bbpress forum.

Looking in bbpress.php it seems that i might have to modify current_user to be set from the session that i currently set after the user logs in to site.php but not sure how to set the user for bbpress to be able to detect the login.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

[Robin W]

It could be a theme or plugin issue

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.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[Audiomonk]

Driving me a bit crazy this, I have BBpress widgets showing. When I click on them it puts me past the actual forum thread, so I have to scroll back up to read it. I tried the last reply plugin, doesn’t work.

Even clicking on the forum links doesn’t take me to the post, but to somewhere past it.

Can you give me some pointers on how to fix this basic functionality?

[Robin W]

ok, put it into the child theme and remove form the parent theme – that way it doesn’t get lost on updates

so you have a bbpress specific sidebar as per

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

yes ?

If so then in your new bbpress.php replace

line 49 ish

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

with

<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'bbp-sidebar'); ?>

[Robin W]

ok, much of this will be your theme or standard bbpress

add this plugin and use it to style

bbp style pack

on registration, bbpress uses wordpress registration, so looks like that needs troubleshooting

[skiank]

Yes, now the only plugin available is a wordpress plugin.
But some times ago Tapatalk relased an official and supported bbPress plugin.

[webgardengeek]

That was it!

So… filters need to be passed a variable which gets returned in order to function properly?

Good to know, definitely not clear in the bbpress codex.

Thanks, Robin. Means alot!

-Dave

[yoyo12ping]

Hello,

I got few problems with BBpress. I asked the support of Boldgrin, after investigation they told me to contact BBpress support.
First, when users try to register, they dont receive the confirmation email. (support confirmed than nothing was sent).
Second, the font text of the forum is very small, is it possible to edit that?
Third, the font of the title of the registration page is too big, plus the Button “validate” on the bottom right is way too small. Also possible to edit that?
Fourth, at the bottom of this very same page （registration）there is “Website comming soon” shows up?! How to delete this!

I know that was a lot but Im a newbie, any advice will help!
Thanks in advance!
Yohan

[Bharat Karavadra]

@robin-w,
That worked.

It’s showing the page sidebar, as opposed to the blog sidebar.

I added the bbpress.php copied file in the parent theme. I am using a child-theme but haven’t tried it yet, but it would be better to get this working there.

And also next…. how do we create and show a bbPress specific sidebar?

Thank you.

[Robin W]

ok, the following assumes you know how to use FTP, if not come back

You need to find

wp-content/themes/salient/page-sidebar.php

copy this and rename it to

wp-content/themes/salient/bbpress.php

so that you end up with both ie

wp-content/themes/salient/page-sidebar.php
wp-content/themes/salient/bbpress.php

bbpress will now use this for all forums, so you should see a sidebar on all forum pages

then see which sidebar is appearing, and we can amend it if needed.

We do need to talk about child themes at a later stage

[Robin W]

bbpress will use your wordpress theme. If you want to style and add features use

bbp style pack

[blogkenhlaptrinh]

Hello,

I have a website with domain xx and I install plugin bbPress. I want ask how I change theme bbPress?

I upload theme in folder theme wp-content > themes but not working

Thanks

[Perrorist]

I should add that the site is using WordPress 4.9.1, bbPress 2.5.14, and bbp style pack 3.6.9, and bbPress Enable TinyMCE Visual Tab 1.0.1.

[Bharat Karavadra]

@robin-w,

1) I use two sidebar widget areas from the theme. One for blog archives and posts, and one for pages. These function and appear OK. There is also a WooCommerce sidebar but I don’t have WooCommerce installed so I can’t comment on that.

2) When using the instructions at the link on the first topic post I made here, and also the bbPress WP tweak plugin the bbPress sidebar widget area appears, I’ve added the text area and some dummy text, saved it, but the sidebar does not appear on any of the forum pages (e.g. main forum index, topic list, topic).

It came to mind that I’m quite sure that I used the linked instructions to they the sidebar to appear and it worked OK with a previous version of the theme. There have been a few updates since, where I have copied the customisations over to the updated theme, but I had assumed that the bbPress sidebar would continue to work. It was only when I looked at the forum recently, it looked and felt odd and that is when realised the sidebar had stopped working. But I’m not sure why the plugin does not work, but again these two non-functioning issues with the sidebar may be related.

I hope that helps.

And thank you.

[strike3]

Hi,
Here are the ones that are tied to email/Buddypress/BBPress. I’m wondering–do new topic notifications work for approved topics on a clean BBPress install? I don’t think I can disable many plugins on this site since it’s getting a lot of traffic, but I could probably test it out on a different live site. I think it would have to be a live site or at least have an SMTP provider set up for the notification emails to go out.

Plugins
1. Buddypress

2. AsynCRONous bbPress Subscriptions (added because the default method of BCC’ing all subscribers created too many recipients for our SMTP provider)

3. bbP Toolkit

4. BP Profile Search

5. BBPress Moderation Tools (allows us to put all new topics into moderation, seems to use default BBPress actions for moderation)

6. Fix Forum Emails (fixes issue where HTML tags/entities show up in notification emails: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2865)

7. WordPress Mail Queue (queues/chunks all mail from wp_mail so we don’t go over SMTP provider limits)

8. Wordfence Security

[Robin W]

what plugins other than bbpress are you using?

[strike3]

When a new topic goes to moderation and is approved, some, but not all, of the regular new topic actions take place. One thing that does not seem to happen is sending out the new topic notification email. If possible, can the bbp_notify_forum_subscribers action be added when a forum topic is approved by a moderator (after checking to make sure notifications are enabled)? The new topic notifications are a great way to drive visitors to our forums, so this is turning into an issue on our site. The site owners want to be able to moderate most (or even all) of the new topics, but then no notification emails are sent out.

If this is something I should try to figure out on my own, please let me know and I’ll give it a shot. I didn’t want to mess with the bbpress core code since it would get overridden on the next update.

Thanks!

Matt

Wordpress Version: 4.7.8
BBPress Version: 2.5.14

[webgardengeek]

I thought I followed the codex instructions pretty clearly, but this add_filter in my functions.php file is resulting in a 502 error and… I have no clue why!

Sorry, bbpress newbie here… any help that anyone can offer would be awesome.

Thanks in advance,

-Dave

PS Here’s the code I popped in my functions.php file:

function cxr_subforum_filter() {
bbp_list_forums(array (
‘before’ => ‘<tr>’,
‘after’ => ‘</tr>’,
‘link_before’ => ‘<td>’,
‘link_after’ => ‘</td>’,
‘separator’ => ‘<br>’,
));
}
add_filter( ‘bbp_before_list_forums_parse_args’, ‘cxr_subforum_filter’ );

[Robin W]

or is this not a support forum for BBpress users

yes this is, but you misunderstand how open source software works

People write open source software in their own time and offer it for free. Under the open software foundation the software is offered without any warranty or support. You use it if you like and not if you don’t. It is perhaps a bit much to expect software authors to answer every question someone might have about that software, or indeed having offered that software to the world for free, that they should invest any time to this unless they wish to.

If someone gave you a car for free, would you complain because they don’t come and service it for you?

I am not a bbpress author, I’m just a guy who uses this software, and in turn spends some of my time in trying to help others.

I have seen your questions, and there are many reasons why it might not work.

The most obvious are in https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/before-posting/ and in particular the troubleshooting section on plugins and themes will probably get you to a root cause.

Once you have worked through those, do come back.

[Bharat Karavadra]

@robin-w,
The theme developers say they don’t support the theme’s use with bbPress.

If you can help, I would sincerely appreciate it. Thank you.