[Robin W]

As far as I can see your theme author has rewritten some (maybe all) of the theme templates, renaming all the bbpress css codes, to harmonise in with the theme, which effectively neuters my plugin.

It would take considerable effort to change all that to make the two work.

I think that is as far as I can help.

[Robin W]

ok, thanks – can you list the files in the bbpress folder ?

[sbarkin]

I created a custom page for the forum “home page”. bbPress has clickable breadcrumbs and “Forum” will load the default bbPress forum home, as such I added the following to my .htaccess to redirect the user to my custom page:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule /forums$ /the-forum

This redirects the user:
from: http://ok.thissiteworks.com/forums/ (bbPress forum home)
to: http://ok.thissiteworks.com/the-forum/ (custom forum home)

That works – but only for logged in users. When a user is not logged in the redirect does not work.

1. Can someone advise why this would not work for not logged in users?
2. Is there perhaps a better way to redirect the users to the custom page?

[paladinbrewer]

1. Nope, no caching software
2. I set the css location and saved changes, nothing has changed that I can see?
3. Yes my template does have a bbpress folder

[timsilva_]

Robin, just wanted to drop in and say that you rock! I’ve seen you and other donate tons of time to this place and ironically, I wish bbPress[.org] had a like/reaction feature so that I (and probably many others) could passively support your posts haha.

@paladinbrewer – I also wish that some of these features were built in, but I appreciate elements of how it works as well. Where stacking plugins get complicated is with conflicts; every so often you’ll find two plugins/features that you need, and one of them breaks the other one somehow. Free and open-source software has its pros and cons. 😉

[Robin W]

So I am trying your bbp style pack, it looks like I have a lot of options I’d like to use. Is there some particular short code I’m supposed to use? I tried:
[bsp-display-forum-index forum= ‘46,50,52,54,56,59’]
And in the bbp style pack settings -> Forum Templates, I changed it to “Alternative Forum Template 1” but I dont see any changes. Am I using the wrong shortcode?

style pack will work against the standard forum code, so if you have a forum(s) displaying without style pack being activated, then it should work against that url with the changes

ok, that is my plugin, and I’ll try to get to a resolution

It may be as simple as closing and restarting your browser, so try this first !!

If that doesn’t work…

Style pack works with many/most sites, but it can fail due to a myriad of reasons, including (but no means limited to) site permissions, other plugins and most often site themes where the theme author has altered bbpress files.

My plugin uses two different techniques to make changes.

For some I change how bbpress sends information by changing or overwriting bbpress code, for some I change what is called css, which your browser uses to display information.

Therefore some changes may take effect, whilst others don’t seem to.

Additionally you may have :

1. ‘caching’ software that speeds up the download of your site, but may not recognise and immediately make changes from my plugin
Do you know if you are using caching software?
2. Site permissions issues – you site might (quite validly for it) not allow my plugin to write code to certain areas
Try
Dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>css location
check the activate box and set the location to
wp-content/uploads/
and save these changes

For the template, are you able to look at the site files to see if your theme has a directory called bbpress ?

ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

[Robin W]

you will have a plugin in addition to bbpress that is doing file uploads, that plugin author should be able to help.

[riggie11]

I have WordPress ver. 4.8.2–en_GB and bbpress ver. Version 2.6-rc-3.The forum I created can be seen here:
https://freyer.com/forums/topic/this-is-a-very-long-topic-as-i-have-loads-to-discuss-2/?csshero_action=edit_page&rand=272

After setting up bbpress I have this search issue that when I search the forum, the results are messy as you can see above.
Any idea where I can make changes, so the page displays properly?

thanks,
Riggie

[Robin W]

And it doesn’t end up the same, not really. Everytime bbpress is updated now I have to hope 20 different authors of 20 different plugins also update their code in a timely manner, and if any of them decide to stop the project I now lose functionality.

not really here for a philosophical argument – that’s the way bbpress authors (which I am not) wrote it, and as free software they should be able to write what they want.

I just write some additional plugins which again I do for free and yes I have to update for free, and provide some support here for free.

[paladinbrewer]

No answer to the other ones? 🙂

And it doesn’t end up the same, not really. Everytime bbpress is updated now I have to hope 20 different authors of 20 different plugins also update their code in a timely manner, and if any of them decide to stop the project I now lose functionality.

[Robin W]

bbPress – Mark as Read

[Robin W]

bbpress is a lite forum which lets you add other plugins to add functionality. Therefore you can pick and choose what you want.

so

1. https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-style-pack/

dashboard>settinngs>bbp style pack>forum templates

2.

dashboard>settinngs>bbp style pack>other bbpress plugins will give you a useful list, including signature

bbPress – Mark as Read

more follows …

[slanglois]

Thanks for the suggestions. No luck though.

When I visited the URL you suggested with yoursite.com replaced with my site domain I got the following error message: ‘Sorry, you are not allowed to edit posts in this post type.’

I was logged into my site at the time.

I tried deactivating and reactivating bbPress plugin. Nothing changed.

I tried deactivating all plugins. Nothing changed.

I tried reactivating each plugin and nothing changed.

I had this problem before and solved by updating the bbPress plugin. Things worked for a while and then one day (without any changes to the site) the forum access on the admin menu disappeared.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks!

[paladinbrewer]

Hello,

So I am new to wordpress and bbpress. For forum usage I am very used to phpbb3. I installed bbpress + buddypress because my wordpress theme supports it, but upon playing with it, it doesn’t feel like forums at all.

1) Why can’t I do a normal forum layout:

Category 1
Forum 1
Forum 1 description
Forum 2
Forum 2 description
Category 2
Etc

2) Where is the normal forum functionality? Signatures, Mark all as read, statistics, Who’s Online, etc

3) No usergroups or controls? How do I set private forums? Some forums I want people to read and reply, but not create new posts. I can’t do this?

4) It doesnt seem it even tells me which forum has new posts and which doesn’t? Maybe that’s a Theme issue?

So is bbpress actual forums or meant for something else? Or am I missing it all entirely?

[torpeyisgod]

Hello all,
For some reason, the posting form is not visible on internet explorer. it works on all other browsers.
I am using the current version of wordpress and bbpress
http://www.iron-bru.co.uk

[Mushi]

I am getting 404 error on the bbpress topic feed. For example https://www.xyz.com/forum/feed
is working but when i try “https://www.xyz.com/forum/topic/lorem-ispum/feed” then it don’t work and takes me to 404 page.

Can anyone help me on this please?

Thanks

[hohohonhk]

I just install and use BBpress, all settings are fine for me, but only the below issue.

I would like to integrate WordPress Social Login 2.3.3 into my forum, in which I find that there is no Login/Register box for visitors to register/login before creating/commenting topics.

May any specialist provide solutions to me?

THanks a lot!!!

[roby80]

Hi everybody, first post here! 😉

I hope somebody can help me, since I’m having problems with the translation of a new bbPress installation… It’s kind of strange actually, because it seems to translate only part of the strings, but if I check my .mo & .po files they’re fully translated, just how it should be.

I’ve been using WordPress for years but it’s the first time I used bbPress as well, so I followed these instructions religiously.
(I actually only had to change the directory in which I put the .mo & .po files to wp-content/languages/plugins, since putting them in wp-content/languages/bbpress/ – I had to create this folder to try – like written in the documentation won’t work. After that I tried to put them in every other “logic” place that came to mind with no success)

Here are a couple of screenshot to let me show my “half translated/half not” situation:
EDIT: img’s won’t work so here are the links
https://imgur.com/2PkKazk
https://imgur.com/GHeexfT

Thank you very much for any input!

WordPress 4.8.2
bbPress 2.5.14
URL: http://www.guitarpub.it/forum/

[nanpress1]

WP 4.8.2
Site is not yet live to public
Paid theme

Hi- I’m trying to create a bbpress sidebar template on the forum page. The sidebar works on the default page but it’s not optimal to have a bbpress sidebar on every page of the site. Therefore, I’d like a template just for bbpress.

I’ve searched the forums and have consulted used the bbpress documentation.
Here’s what I’ve done. Any input is appreciated.

I’ve created a bbpress specific sidebar using css and php in my child theme (using bbpress instructions)

I’ve populated the sidebar with widgets and saved it. However, when I go to page>templates there is no bbpress sidebar template to choose from.

To fix this, I went to the theme root page templates and copied ‘template-sidebar-left.php.’

Per the bbpress instructions, I renamed it bbpress.php and moved it the file to the theme folder. Now it’s wp-content/themes/%mytheme%/bbpress.php

This didn’t add a bbpress sidebar template. So I went into bbpress.php and changed
<div id=”primary” class=”container”>
to
<div id=”primary2″ class=”container2″>

No luck.

Also, I checked and there are no inactive sidebar widgets.

Still no luck. What am I doing wrong? What else can I try to get a bbpress template sidebar to appear?

Again, any insight is appreciated.
Thanks

[Vinod Dalvi]

The RC 5 is not getting downloaded for me from the page https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/advanced/

https://ibb.co/cfQDB5

I am getting the following error.

This site can’t be reached

The web page at https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bbpress.2.6-rc-5.zip might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.
ERR_INVALID_RESPONSE

[Vinod Dalvi]

Sorry to hear of the problem you are having.

I have tested it on my test site and it’s working fine for me using latest version of bbPress plugin.

Are you getting it on visiting the following URL where you have to replace yoursite.com with your site domain?

http://yoursite.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=forum

Try deactivating and reactivating bbPress plugin.

This can be due to plugin conflict on your site so please try temporary deactivating all plugins except bbPress plugin and see whether everything works fine and then enable the plugins one by one to see which plugin is conflicting if any.

[mwbartko]

When I use the script you provided it works but I also start to get the following errors.

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/solida17/public_html/wp-content/themes/campaign-child/functions.php:7) in /home/solida17/public_html/wp-content/plugins/gd-bbpress-toolbox/modules/features/mod.tracking.php on line 313

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/solida17/public_html/wp-content/themes/campaign-child/functions.php:7) in /home/solida17/public_html/wp-content/plugins/gd-bbpress-toolbox/modules/features/mod.tracking.php on line 325

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/solida17/public_html/wp-content/themes/campaign-child/functions.php:7) in /home/solida17/public_html/wp-login.php on line 396

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/solida17/public_html/wp-content/themes/campaign-child/functions.php:7) in /home/solida17/public_html/wp-login.php on line 409

[slanglois]

WordPress 4.8.2 running GeneratePress theme
bbpress Version 2.5.14

‘Forums’ has disappeared from the wordpress admin menu. They are still there on the front end but I can’t access forums on the dashboard.

Help?

[clearscope]

Not sure what you mean – are you suggesting that this is a conflict with the site itself?

This issue is occurring with the default Twenty Seventeen theme, the most recent version of WordPress, the most recent version of bbPress, and with no other plugins installed.

It seems that this is an issue with bbPress itself, not any sort of conflict with a site.

[lovechard]

@johnjamesjacoby Yes, members and admins are getting notifications for bbpress mentions… but it doesn’t take them to the forum they were mentioned in when they click on it.. it just takes them to the news feed.

@netweb that mention just goes to my profile. What I am wanting… is the notification for the mention to take them to the actual mention in the forums.

Thanks for your help!