[mithrandir]

If you could provide more information regarding which WordPress theme you are using and any more specific areas in detail that are causing issues I could try my best to help out.

Many themes include there own styling which can interfere with bbPress styling, so it is best to take that into consideration before modifying the CSS.

As far as my experience goes, bbPress provides bare minimal styling, Personally I find this to be advantageous, in the case of adding your own styles to match your theme, one does not have to override too many complex styling rules. yet, I agree there is still room for improvement with default bbPress responsive styling.

[Kristian Yngve]

I’ve noticed there are some issues when the forums are displayed on handsets.

Users names from under their profile pictures trail off the right side of the screens, and worse still, 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.

** Note that if I rotate my handset to the landscape side, it all works great and no issues at all with the profile pictures going back to the normal places…

Everything else works great, just this little incompatibility. Any of you guys can suggest anything like a CSS rule that only targets this issue with the BBPress plugin to fix this?

Many many thanks all.

[domifo]

last version of WordPress 4.8 2 and bbpress 2.5.14

I have just installed bbpress on our website http://www.ceipa.eu

I have some question:

– how to remove the field “WEB” for “Anonymous” (guest users without account) ?
I found a similar question in other topic but this question (posted more than 5 months ago) did not receive any answer

– is a catalog or list of those Anonymous users existing ? not only for the users which have replied in a topic (or created one) but also for those who have placed a comment and/or answered to a comment on a post

– which is the best plug-in for “register” or “subscriber” to install to avoid the intervention of the admin (present methodology applied for members untel now) – our site was build with a pro version of the theme “Exibit”

many thanks in advance for your answers

[Kristian Yngve]

I’ve noticed there are some issues when the forums are displayed on handsets.

Users names from under their profile pictures trail off the right side of the screens, and worse still, 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.

** Note that if I rotate my handset to the landscape side, it all works great and no issues at all with the profile pictures going back to the normal places…

Everything else works great, just this little incompatibility. Any of you guys can suggest anything like a CSS rule that only targets this issue with the BBPress plugin to fix this?

Many many thanks all.

[John James Jacoby]

We’ve changed the email address gathering & sending methods in bbPress 2.6 to try and accommodate bigger sets of users. You could try upgrading your forums to the latest 2.6 release candidate, and see if it makes a difference.

[richard.miller]

I was able to add a graphic that appears on every Forum page (“Secret Star Society), and I’d like to add the same one (with link back to the Forum home page) to User Profile pages.

I assume I have to edit a template, but can’t figure out which one!

http://fluentself.com/forums
WP 4.8.2
BBPress 2.5.13

[robbinwwok]

WP version: 4.8.2
bbPress version: 2.5.14
Website: courses.wisdomwayofknowing.org

Even working with an experienced developer, we are at a dead-end with trying to get working a function essential to our online courses (without ditching all of the plug-ins and having a platform built from the ground-up), that has to do with group registration of group leaders without the leaders having to pay for all of the seats for their students; those teachers (or admin) being able to set them up on the back-end as a group leader and then be able to assign anyone to them as a group leader; and the group leader/admin having the ability to set up private forums for each group leaders when they need a private forum. And, finally, that this same group leader will be able to have several ongoing but separate groups of students who will be taking the course with him/her.

I’ve also sent this query as a support ticket to WisdmLabs (the group registration plug-in we purchased that, at this point, doesn’t have the features we need), and LearnDash as the course platform.

What we need from this query: any possible solutions or help pinpointing where we need to look next. Any help/ideas you can provide will be GREATly appreciated. And time is important as we’ve already had queries for group registrations with the ability to host private forum discussions and we can’t help them until this issue is solved.

Here’s a list of functions/features we need and the issues we’ve encountered.
• Group leaders to be able to register singly (we want to offer the course to leaders at no cost or low cost), and then when their students register, to be able to assign the students to them as a group leader.
• Group leader to have the ability to create and moderate private discussion forums with their students. (They would have access to the general course forums that are visible to anyone who has registered for the course, but the leader, at his/her discretion, could create a private forum area for only those registered students whom they “allow” in.)
• Students to be able to register for a course as a single user (we can offer these users, who have indicated who their group leader is, a coupon code provided to the group leader to share with the students who will be taking the course with them). Currently, there is no way on the back-end to assign students who register singly to a particular group leader. And, there is no way currently for that group leader to set up private forums for their students.

The way the current group registration plug-in works we have installed (by WisdmLabs), the group leader has to purchase all of the “seats” both for themselves and for any student they want to register. Yet, NONE of the teachers who are currently interested in our first course are in a position to purchase on behalf of their students.

How can we allow teachers/group leaders to:
• register as any other single user would (or have a portal for this because someone has created a plug-in!)
• have us set up (or the group leader set up) that leader as a course group leader on the back-end
assign students who have registered using a distinctive coupon to a group leader
• allow group leaders (or admins) to create a private course forum for any group that they are leading?

What are we missing? Many thanks for any insight you can provide!

Robbin Whittington
robbin@wisdomwayofknowing.org

[mithrandir]

bbPress does not currently have such a feature, A similar topic is posted bellow:

Guest Notification

However you might be in luck since a plugin exists for this very purpose:

bbPress – Anonymous Subscriptions
By Stefano Ottolenghi

I can not post the link due to spam blocking.

As for the ‘anyone can register’ check box, Do you have administrative credentials? Also just wondering are you using a multi site?

[mychildis]

Hi,

I’ve just created first bbPress forum. when I write a post, I have this check box, but unregister visitors on the site can create new posts and comment existing posts, but there is no option for notify me via e-mail. There is no also the subscribe to forum option.
Visitors have to subscribe to my website in order to have this option?
I created another user using the /wp-signup.php/ but this user didn’t even have the option to comment or to create any post.
One last detail:
in my Dashboard > Settings > General. I could not find the ‘anyone can register’ check box.

I just want visitors to be able to comment & create posts, with option to get notify by mail for their comments.

Any help will be very appreciated!
Thanks

[mithrandir]

Dont mean to waste your time any further, but a quick google search using the keywords “bbpress edit redirect url”, will list a few results with a similar issue. Searching on the bbpress support also returns similar topics. Hope you can get it sorted out soon.

[sarwarc]

Hi there,

I am a newbie to wordpress. I am using bbPress for my site. I have an existing form that doesn’t have any approval process. I am manually adding the users after receiving the forms. I did some digging and found the “New User Approve” plugin. I went ahead and installed the plugin. But not sure how to link/connect the plugin to my form so that the new user registrations can be moderated (approve or deny). Any help will be greatly appreciated.

[mithrandir]

I understand, just my two cents, it is most likely an issue with one of the plugins.

In the wordpress dashboard under settings > bbP private groups –> under the topic permissions tab try to disable topic permissions or change configuration in the plugin.

I can not replicate your issue as i have tested the smart magazine theme and bbpress is working just fine for me. I am not familiar with the bbP private groups plugin, but i have just tested it, and it is throwing some php errors for me. It might be a compatibility issue with the latest version of wordpress or bbpress.

I would recommend to start by disabling the bbP private groups plugin first and disable plugins one by one to trace the cause of the issue.

I’m sorry if i could not be much help, hope you can share your results , and perhaps someone else could offer a solution

[mithrandir]

The problem is most likely not specific to bbPress and is with your server settings or htacess. WordPress may not be able to generate or modify the .htaccess file for your website due to file permissions issues. It might help to delete the htaccess file, grant correct permissions and refresh permalinks which will generate a new htaccess file. Try to enable php error log in htaccess as well.

# enable PHP error logging
php_flag  log_errors on
php_value error_log  /path/to/htdocs/PHP_errors.log

Create a blank PHP_errors.log file in the directory specified in your .htaccess file and set its permissions to 777. Now refresh the page that’s giving the 500 error and check if that log file now contains an error(s).

[pmbordeaux]

Thank you mithrandir.

The time for disallow editing is not the point… I try to create a subject then editing the post and was transfer to the othe subject (see 1st post)

About my configuration :

WordPress 4.8.2 avec le thème Smart Magazine

Admin Menu Editor
Version 1.8 | Par Janis Elsts | Afficher les détails

BBP pack Style
Version 3.6.0 | Par Robin Wilson | Afficher les détails

bbP private groups
Version 3.5.9 | Par Robin Wilson | Afficher les détails

bbP Toolkit
Version 1.0.10 | Par Pascal Casier | Afficher les détails

bbPress
Version 2.5.14 | Par La communauté bbPress | Afficher les détails

bbPress – Custom KSES Allowed Tags
Version 0.2 | Par Stephen Edgar – Netweb | Aller sur le site de l’extension

bbPress Advanced Statistics
Version 1.5 | Par Jake Hall | Afficher les détails

bbPress Enable TinyMCE Visual Tab
Version 1.0.1 | Par Jared Atchison | Afficher les détails

bbPress New Topics
Version 1.0.1 | Par c.bavota | Afficher les détails

BuddyPress
Version 2.9.1 | Par La communauté BuddyPress | Afficher les détails

Dynamic To Top
Version 3.5.1 | Par Matt Varone, Tim Berneman | Afficher les détails

GD bbPress Attachments
Version 2.5 | Par Milan Petrovic | Afficher les détails | FAQ | Upgrade to GD bbPress Toolbox Pro

GD bbPress Tools
Version 1.9.1 | Par Milan Petrovic | Afficher les détails | FAQ | Upgrade to GD bbPress Toolbox Pro

Hide Admin Bar From Non-admins
Version 1.0 | Par Stranger Studios | Afficher les détails

If Menu
Version 0.7.1 | Par Layered | Afficher les détails

Logged In Content
Version 1.1 | Par The Tarpon Creek Agency | Aller sur le site de l’extension

TinyMCE Advanced
Version 4.6.3 | Par Andrew Ozz | Afficher les détails

Widget Logic
Version 5.8.2 | Par wpchefgadget, alanft | Afficher les détails

WP-Optimize
Version 2.1.1 | Par David Anderson, Ruhani Rabin, équipe Updraft | Afficher les détails

[mithrandir]

In the WordPress dashboard under settings>forums –> under the Forum User Settings, you will see the option:

Disallow editing after x number of minutes

You could try increasing the limit, however it does not explain why the keymaster or administrator can not edit a reply or topic.

It might help in finding the problem by changing the theme to the default wordpress themes and disabling all plugins except bbPress.

If you could provide more information, regarding the bbPress/wordpress version, themes and plugins, I could try my best to help.

[mithrandir]

To find the location of the template files navigate to:
‘wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bppress/’

You will find all the template parts in this folder. It is recommended to not modify the files directly, instead create a folder named bbPress in the ‘generatepress’ theme root folder. ie. ‘wp-content/themes/generatepress/bbpress/’ copy any files you wish to modify into this folder. This way updates to bbPress wont overwrite any files you have modified and your changes wont be lost.

Test this by copying the content-archive-forum.php to the newly created bbpress folder and begin to modify the file.

a simple php echo command will confirm it is working by printing a message at the top of the content-forum-archive template.

<?php echo "Hello world!"; ?>

The Example provided in the previous reply can be pasted on top, or wherever you would like to display the topics. Some formatting is required, by adding appropriate div classes and styling with css as necessary. Would be happy to help with any of the html, php or wordpress functions if there is any difficulty.

*my apologies if this a duplicate reply, previous reply did not get submitted properly,spam protection may have blocked it, since it included links to screenshots on imgur.

[lauradimitra]

Hi Mithrandir,

thank you for your reply.

I’m using the GeneratePress theme and I figured out that I don’t have (or cannot find) the template “content-archive-forum.php”. I’ve looked for it in my theme (GeneratePress) and the plugins bbPress and BuddyPress. Can you tell me where I can find it?

I’m starting a forum for an open source product. One of our users prefers to see the unanswered questions immediately because he wants to help all user with an answer, so that’s the reason I’m asking it. My HTML and CSS skills are good,and now I’m using wordpress already for some months. My PHP knowledge is very basic and passive, but I’m used to it in WordPress.

Kind regards,
Laura

[durvilchat]

How to create Topic Info like on the supports of the sites BBpress and Buddypress? thanks

[Gareth@alined.com]

Hello,

I’m a developer trying to implement bbPress on a clients website and I’m running into some issues.

Firstly anything related to “Replies” is returning a 500 error. For example:
– “/forums/users/admin/replies/”
– “/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=reply”
– The recent replies widget.

We’re running:
– Windows Server
– PHP 5.6.30
– Memory Limit is set to 128M
– PHP error log doesn’t report back any errors (???) related to this issue.

I’ve tried:
– Removed the replies widget, obviously.
– Repair Forums
– Refreshed Permalinks

I know a few other people have had a similar 500 issue/s regarding replies, particularly the admin panel. Has anybody got a solution?

Thank you in advance,

Gareth

[DiegoM0urah]

When I upgraded my Wp to version 4.8.2 the “forum” information disappeared from the “dashboard”.
Bbpress keeps running, but I can not create a new forum or topics.

Is this a compatibility issue with version 4.8.2 of WP?

Can you tell me when we will have a bbpress update for version 4.8.2 of WP?

[mithrandir]

The code below loops through specified number of topics in the forum. eg ‘posts_per_page’ => 100 .
Please the read the link included below.

if ( bbp_has_topics( array( 'author' => 0, 'show_stickies' => 'false', 'meta_key' => '_bbp_last_active_time', 'orderby' => 'meta_value', 'order' => 'DESC', 'post_parent' => 'any', 'posts_per_page' => 100 ) ) )
		bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/loop', 'topics' );

Link to topic:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/display-list-of-topics-under-specific-forum/

[sysix]

Hello Guys,

I think I have found a bug. But at first some Info from the System:

WP version 4.8.2
PHP version 7.0.22-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
bbPress version 2.5.14-6684

I want the hide the Tag-Input for all “normal” Users. So only the Keymaster and the mods can assign tags. I found, that I can hook into the capatiblities with bbp_get_caps_for_role and set the settings to false:

`
add_filter(‘bbp_get_caps_for_role’, function ($caps, $role) {
// only the admin can delete and manage topic tags
if (!in_array($role, [‘bbp_keymaster’])) {
$caps[‘manage_topic_tags’] = false;
$caps[‘delete_topic_tags’] = false;
}

// only mods and admin can edit or assign tags
if (!in_array($role, [‘bbp_keymaster’, ‘bbp_moderator’])) {
$caps[‘edit_topic_tags’] = false;
$caps[‘assign_topic_tags’] = false;
}

return $caps;
}, 10, 2);

But the problem is, that in template\defaults\bbpress\form-reply.php we check with:

<?php if ( bbp_allow_topic_tags() && current_user_can( 'assign_topic_tags' ) ) : ?>

current_user_can calls WP_User->has_cap and there is $capabilities['assign_topic_tags'] = true.

—–

Workaround:

`
add_filter(‘user_has_cap’, function($caps, $metaCaps, $args) {
$forumCaps = bbp_get_caps_for_role($args[0]);

return array_merge($caps, $forumCaps);
}, 10, 4);
`

[lauradimitra]

Hi all,

I’m starting a community page in WordPress with the plugins bbPress and BuddyPress.

I have a nice Forum page with my topics. At the top of the forum page I would like to have an overview about the topics with no replies for the logged in users with a certain role. So not a link to the page with all unanswered questions, but, if possible an overview of the questions.

Is this possible? Thanks for your help!

Kind regards,

Laura

[mithrandir]

The problem is not not in bbPress itself. After inspecting your website, at first glance, it appears you have the plugin bbPress – New UI installed which modifies the appearance of bbpress. It is possible the plugin has compatibility issues with your bbpress installation.

In the browser I locally disabled the CSS loaded by the plugin and it fixed the overlapping and alignment issues. The reason changing themes does not help is that the plugin remains active regardless what theme you are using. I would recommend disabling the plugin and manually adjusting css.

If you are not familiar with CSS, I highly recommend the plugin Yellow Pencil by Waspthemes. It is a visual CSS style editor and makes it very simple to style any WordPress theme or plugin, including bbPress.

[mithrandir]

The theme you are using is most likely overriding the bbpress default template, any template files you modify in the plugin folder are most likely being bypassed by theme or child theme. It would help to visit the bbpress codex which explains the template hierarchy in detail.

Getting Started in Modifying the Main bbPress Template

Step-by-Step Guide to Creating a Custom bbPress Theme

I could try my best to help out if you could provide more information regarding which theme you are using, folder structure, child theme etc.