Hello!
WP version: 4.8.2
bbPress version: 2.5.14
I am looking for a method of tracking how often users participate in forums and even tracking their use of specific forums.
The information should be visible to each user so they can see which forums they still need to participate in. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to accomplish this?
Many thanks!
http://babble.epizy.com/
4.9 beta 1 wp
bbPress 2.5.14-6684.
I have already made my site and just now realized there’s no live notification widget of any kind. why is that? i cant expect my users to always run to their email to check for notificatioons. how could bbpress miss such an integral thing? is there any way i can notify users of replies, mentions, votes without them having to check the email every now and then???
I have an old forum running on phpBB 2+ version. It has nearly 70000 users and 400000 artcles.
Now I need to migrate it to latest bbPress. In bbPress documentation I read that it support importing from phpBB 3.0+, So how can I achieve this migration?
I’m running: BBPRESS 2.5.14, WordPress 4.8.2 and BuddyPress 2.9.1
Website: http://www.bigidolforum.org
I am currently building the site, utilizing the “Highend” Theme. Feel free to create user accounts and test at will.
1: The hyperlinks attached to profile images and usernames work perfectly in BuddyPress sections of the site such as Groups and Profile Pages.
2: The hyperlinks attached to profile images and usernames do not exist on bbpress pages. This makes it nearly impossible to navigate to other user profiles.
3: While logged out and viewing Forum Index, usernames and respective profile images appear under Freshness display time. There are no hyperlinks on these while logged out.
4: While logged in and viewing the Forum Index, Freshness displays only time, no usernames or profile images.
The most important thing to me right now is repairing the missing hyperlinks while viewing the forum. I would like to stabilize the Freshness situation by removing profile images/usernames completely or making it entirely functional. I am an entry level site builder looking to learn as I go. This site will be used by hundreds or thousands due to a large social media following. I love the challenge but it’s hard to find where to start on these issues.
Hi @robin-w,
Did you get a chance to take a further look at this?
I noticed that if I change the “Dashboard > Settings > General” timezone to UTC+0, bbPress starts displaying the correct time freshness, but all other timestamps across the website become incorrect, because UTC+0 is the incorrect timezone for the website’s location. It should be UTC-7.
Please tell me how I can apply the “UTC+0” timezone exclusively to bbPress alone, so that it starts displaying the correct freshness?
Hi,
this is a pre-installation question, havent used bbpress yet:
can registered users mail other users (if they allow)?
Thanks and kind regards from Germany,
Carola
Are there any plugins out there that will allow forum members to reply to forum posts form their email? I’ve been trying to get bbPress Post Via Mail to work without any luck. No answers to support requests either. Does anyone know if that plugin is still being supported? Or does anyone know of another option?
Thanks!
PS. to answer your original question, a plugin does not exist for this purpose, as what you are trying to achieve is a custom built solution. Any plugins that exist are for more general purpose and commonly used bbPress styling patterns.
This is not very difficult to achieve, and does not require any plugins. A similar look is possible with modifying the bbPress template files, and some custom CSS styling. Although it depends on your experience with HTML,CSS and a bit of knowledge about PHP and how WordPress templates work.
To find the location of the bbPress template files navigate to:
‘wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bppress/’
Here you will find various template files which serve various purposes.
for eg. loop-topics.php is the template file for the topics ( like in the kleo theme ).
You should not modify the original files.
Instead create a folder named bbPress in your theme root folder (or child theme root folder)
ie. ‘wp-content/themes/YOUR-THEME/bbpress/’
Any changes you make in this newly created folder will be given priority over the originals.
Copy any files you wish to modify from the original location into this folder.
This way updates to bbPress wont overwrite any files you have modified and your changes wont be lost.
The avatars you see, can be selected as an option in the WordPress dashboard.
Navigate to Dashboard> Settings > Discussion –> Default Avatar
Here you will have the option to choose from:
- Mystery Person
- Blank
- Gravatar Logo
- Identicon (Generated)
- Wavatar (Generated)
- MonsterID (Generated)
- Retro (Generated)
The (Generated) avatars are the ones to choose from.
If you are willing to invest some time ( since without fluency in the aforementioned skills, it could take a little bit of trial and error), I could help you in achieving this.
It is a little late in the night at the moment(in my country), ill post back tomorrow to get the gears rolling with some examples.
Hello please how to create the new post Link on bbpress thanks?
Not sure why its not working, seems to work on my end.
I believe the cause of the issue is the wordpress theme your website is using.
The best solution would be to contact the authors of the theme WPZOOM, and im sure they can find a quick solution.
If not, you could try adding the CSS once more, the following should work:
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-content p a, #bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-content p a{
background: none;
color: black !important;
position:relative !important;
display:inline-block !important;
visibility: visible !important;
}
In truth it is difficult to address any styling issues without being able to see the website, if you can not get in touch with the authors of the theme I could try my best to find a solution.
Thanks @mithrandir786 there are no plugins to alter the appearance of bbPress. And the CSS didn’t work. What else can I try? I don’t want to change the colour using code as none of our participants would be able to do that. Unless there is a visual editor?
Thanks,
Jan
I’m trying to use Post Via Mail so that forum users can reply to forum posts directly from their email. I’ve had a rough time getting it set up with Postmark (required in order for Post Via Mail to work) and can’t get it to work properly. Any reply from email does not get posted to the forum. Any thoughts?
WordPress 4.8.2 running GeneratePress theme
bbPress Post Via Mail Version 1.2.8
http://www.belfastareahomeschoolresourcecenter.com
Thank you!
I have a multisite wp installation (4.8.2) with bbPress forum (2.6-rc-3) and Akismet activated. Only logged in members are allowed to write in forum. One of our members is of unknown reason blacklisted and we have to approve his posts every time. Is there any way to get him whitelisted?
@media only screen and (max-width: 480px){
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-author,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-author,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-author {
position: relative;
}
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-author img.avatar{
position: relative;
display: block;
}
}
Appears to be a css issue, are you using any plugins to modify the appearance of bbPress ?
The following css should fix this
.bbp-body .hentry p a{
color:#3f3f3f !important;
}
you could change the color for the link to one of your preference by modifying the color property.
If you are using wordpress version 4.7 and above, To add the css, in the WordPress dashboard navigate to:
Appearance>customize>Additional css
copy and paste the code and save changes.
Hi. I’m using bbpress 2.5.14 and bbp private groups 3.5.9. The theme is EduPress by WPZOOM. The site is private so I can’t share.
Links aren’t showing in forum posts. They might be white because you can locate them with the cursor. See screenshots.
@johnjamesjacoby Thanks, would you be able to help me with any of my other issues? I have posted them and have gotten no replies in days and I seriously need help with them asap.
Here are the links to the topics:
Display # of deleted replies
First & Last Pagination Button
Thank you
Found another plugin
<?php
/*
Plugin Name: .html in url
Plugin URI: http://www.witsolution.in/
Description: Adds .html to pages.
Author: witsolution
Version: 1.0
Author URI: http://www.witsolution.in/
*/
add_action('init', 'witsolution_page_permalink', -1);
register_activation_hook(__FILE__, 'witsolution_active');
register_deactivation_hook(__FILE__, 'witsolution_deactive');
function witsolution_page_permalink() {
global $wp_rewrite;
if ( !strpos($wp_rewrite->get_page_permastruct(), '.html')){
$wp_rewrite->page_structure = $wp_rewrite->page_structure . '.html';
}
}
add_filter('user_trailingslashit', 'witsolution_page_slash',66,2);
function witsolution_page_slash($string, $type){
global $wp_rewrite;
if ($wp_rewrite->using_permalinks() && $wp_rewrite->use_trailing_slashes==true && $type == 'page'){
return untrailingslashit($string);
}else{
return $string;
}
}
function witsolution_active() {
global $wp_rewrite;
if ( !strpos($wp_rewrite->get_page_permastruct(), '.html')){
$wp_rewrite->page_structure = $wp_rewrite->page_structure . '.html';
}
$wp_rewrite->flush_rules();
}
function witsolution_deactive() {
global $wp_rewrite;
$wp_rewrite->page_structure = str_replace(".html","",$wp_rewrite->page_structure);
$wp_rewrite->flush_rules();
}
?>
for posts and pages its working fine. How to make it work for topic and forums for BbPRESS?
I am disallowed to continue relying at this time in:
Device Display Compatibility
@robin-w, @johnjamesjacoby
Thankyou very much for replying,
I am currently working on a solution, That was my initial observation aswell, regarding hard coded values. Users will be able to opt-in or opt-out by submitting a checkbox input field. I was hoping I could post back soon, once I had accomplished a (not so embarrassing) solution.
Thanking you again for your help, and for all your exceptionally amazing work with bbPress.
Yes that would be the best solution, depending on their support for theme customization. I have extracted(just for testing purposes) the CSS from there live demo site for ‘discoverypro’, and can confirm it is the cause of the bbPress styling issues.
Users names from under their profile pictures trail off the right side of the screens
fix:
.bbp-body .bbp-topic-meta .bbp-author-name{
display:block;
}
when reading posts and replies within topics, all the users profile pics squash themselves all together at the top left hand-side of the screen.
*I cannot recreate this issue as it is specific to your website, however if you could provide a link to your forums/website it would be possible to fix the issue.
Hi,
Is there any way to convert all my bbpress topics and replied to WordPress posts and comments respectively
I have 1000 topics and I want to convert them with a plugin.
I installed this plugin https://github.com/jmdodd/bbpress-topic-post-converter but the option to convert does not come.
Please help.
I have had this wp theme for 3 years
I cant seem to see the name of the theme in your last reply, could you please include it again and ill have a look.
Also just wondering, If you open the bbpress dot org support forums does a similar alignment problem exist?
Sure, here’s all that info:
I am using the very latest WordPress, I updated recently but unaware if the problem existed beforehand. I have had this wp theme for 3 years and I remember BBpress working well when I first installed it just over 2 years ago.
The only affected area is only within topic at the point of conversation threads. The issue happens when the screen is at iPhone6+ size and smaller when viewed on the portrait side.
All avatars shift to the top left-hand side of screen together as they all sit on top of each other. I have viewed this on the chrome and safari browser.
Any ideas upon what I can do to overcome this?
