Sounds like you’ve put some good thought into it @mapofemergence and I hope to contribute on the front end side with suggestions and reports on how I’m able to get it to work, if you’d like some input/help.
I hope to start on my bbPress mobile app in the next week or two.
Hey there,
Search Console reports some errors on some topics URL. I fetched as Google and see they are in fact redirected, not 500 error. The problem:
– Sitemap indexes URLs with end slash;
– BBpress keeps redirecting to the no slash version;
No idea why is doing this. There is a setting?
Hi @TKServer, I’m glad you revamped this topic.
Although since my last post I didn’t work further on the code, I’m still very much interested in the discussion.
Originally, I was going in the same direction that you just suggested but, ultimately, I thought that a separate API would be desirable for a variety of reasons.
I can name the ones I thought of, but I’m sure others might have even stronger (and more educated) motivations:
- the most general and obvious: a separate API makes you less dependant on certain builtin constraints of WP API and let you take design decision which are more tightly connected with bbPress specifically; even though bbPress leverages WP’s custom post types and tags, there’s a higher layer of abtraction (read: forum functionality) which implies a whole set of requests for which the existing endpoints’ structure is not ideal
- depending on what info you want to get with a single request, the default WP API queries might not serve the scope well (ie. they could force the user to make multiple queries where just one would be desirable and sufficient; also, where multiple database calls are required, it might not provide those in the best performing way)
- from a user standpoint, I believe it is better to offer schemas (and filters) which reflect more the semantics of a forum, than the ones of a blog; I believe you can still build those custom terms in the existing API, but it might become confusing soon, and in my opinion you’d loose the advantage of staying with a single API, anyway
- additionally (and actually the main reason for me personally), I see bbPress as part of an ecosystem, with WP and BuddyPress. Since BuddyPress already went for a separate API, I thought it would make sense to do the same with bbPress, keeping things clean and separate. Utlimately, the ideal would be to have the bbPress API live with the bbPress plugin itself, so that the development of the two can progress together (and therefore be more efficient and optimised, both ways)
- finally, speaking of bbPress BuddyPress, there’s an area where the two plugins overlap (bb forums in BP groups); I believe it is already a non-trivial problem to solve in a separate API and it would likely be even more complicated to try and stay within the WP limits; I was mentioning this in another post too, which I believe is still awaiting approval from moderators (please pardon me if I dare poking them here, once more) 🙂
Again, this is just my opinion; there are probably pros and cons in both options and I’d be more than happy to hear from anyone who’s more bbPress-savvy than I am.
Cheers,
s t e
When I uninstall bbPress, the Dashboard link disappears and Administrator rights to access the WP dashboard is denied.
I have disabled all plugins and switched to standard WP theme, only running bbPress. Still a problem. Checked all roles. I cannot remove the plugin without this problem. bbPress version 2.5.12-6148
Am I the only one baffled by this?
I’m happy to have found this discussion. Shortly after making an iOS/Android app out of one of my WP blogs I will embark on making a mobile app for my bbPress based forum at UteHub.com. So naturally I started google bbPress API.
I have yet to look at what’s returned by the bbP api plugins in this thread, but why not just use a custom post type function to add to the WP api? Is there something coming from these bbP api’s not in there?
I will be developing my bbPress app in Angular JS 1.x. I’m sure I’ll be participating more as I get into the project.
Thank u for posting, sure i am updating my solution,
I have used one hook to customize the topic pagination link. I was the issue with the total number of topic count as per my requirement.
function ntwb_bbpress_custom_pagination( $args ) {
$topic_per_page = bbp_get_topics_per_page();
$ttt = bbp_get_forum_id();
$total_topic = custom_forum_topic_count($ttt); //get your topic count as your requirement[This is my own function]
$total = ( $topic_per_page === $total_topic ) ? 1 : ceil( (int) $total_topic / (int) $topic_per_page );
$args[‘total’] = $total;
return $args;
}
add_filter( ‘bbp_topic_pagination’, ‘ntwb_bbpress_custom_pagination’ );
@robin-w i wasn’t referring to you. I assumed you couldn’t help further, so i was putting it there for any other person who payed less attention. I was actually referring to the whole open source community. But it’s OK.
I believe this will improve bbpress, if i had the skills i would have made it available as an appreciation to the people that developed bbpress it’s self. Maybe one day i will still find a way.
I use anonymous posting for all visitors. Only the admins and moderators need to log in. As far as bbPress is concerned, an anonymous user is identified solely by a “name” and an email address. Once that combination is used, any time they visit again, they will be identified. If they change it to anything else, they are not recognized. It actually works quite well. However I have found that users who do a lot of social media get so confused about this and try to log in all the time, locking them out of the site after so many tries. I finally had to put up a pop up on the forum page that reminds them that they may post anonymously, only a name and email is required in the Create New Topic or Make New Reply.
However, this won’t work for a hidden forum that is accessible to only logged in users. I have several forums besides the public anonymous forum and those forums are for logged in users only. One is for the moderators and another is for users who have special needs for privacy and I make them a username and and password, which I email them.
You can set this under Settings>Forum. Look for this line and check it to set your forum to allow anonymous posting:
Anonymous posting: Allow guest users without accounts to create topics and replies
Make sure you have Akismet plugin installed and activated. I also run WordFence for extra coverage. Between the two, I never have any problems with anon posting. I’ve been using this like this for 7 years.
If you want your normally logged in users to be able to post anonymously to a public forum, you could have them use a different name and email combination, making sure the anonymous posting setting is set under Forum Settings. I have myself set as keymaster with one combination and I use another name and email so I can post anonymously for testing purposes.
my best
matoca
Good afternoon,
I’ve developed a plugin that will programmatically create topics in BBPress from a form (external to BBPress). I’m using bbp_insert_topic and it is working quite good.
But I’ve noticed that if a user has subscribed to the forum, he will not receive the email notification when the new topic is programmatically created (but will if a new topic is manually created). Is there any extra step to perform in order to trigger notifications?
Thanks,
Hey there, I am relatively new to bbpress – what I am trying to achieve is that people can tag each other in forum topics and replys. I can @mention someone alright but its not showing me the list of users from a dropdown when I enter “@”. This may be a bit unspecific, but I am using the latest WP, BBPress and BuddyPress. Theme is GeneratePress. Its not working either in TinyMCE nor Texteditor.
Heya!
I have a few questions about bbpress, i’m new to it and would like to learn a thing or two aswell!
– Currently when in a Forum, you have this gigantic “Create new topic” box at the bottom of the page. Can i remove this and instead create a button that (on another page) displays the create new topic customizer?
– Currently the message edit is quite basic, you can put your text in italics, bold and other stuff. Is there an option to also enable underlining, font size, font group and text color?
– Finally, i find that bbPress is quite slow, whenever i post something i first need to empty the website cache before it shows up (pressing submit refreshes the page but then it doesn’t show the post created). Is there a way to fix this?
Kind regards!
Legend
No it didn’t work.
More Information :
My htaccess looks like this : (Do I need to make any changes here?)
php_value max_execution_time 500
php_value upload_max_filesize 64M
php_value post_max_size 80M
php_value memory_limit 128M
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
<IfModule mod_security.c>
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterPost Off
</IfModule>
And in my bbpress forum user settings the forum root is set to
<b>forums</b>
Heya!
I have a few questions about bbpress, i’m new to it and would like to learn a thing or two aswell!
– Currently when in a Forum, you have this gigantic “Create new topic” box at the bottom of the page. Can i remove this and instead create a button that (on another page) displays the create new topic customizer?
– Currently at the Freshness it only shows the username, but not the topic it has created (name), where can i add this, if possible?
– Currently the message edit is quite basic, you can put your text in italics, bold and other stuff. Is there an option to also enable underlining, font size, font group and text color?
– I’d like to have a ranking system, not based on the amount of posts, but ranks in general, that shows under your name, like Owner, Admin, Moderator, Member and Guest. Is this possible?
Kind regards!
Legend
Each and every link in my localhost bbpress link is working but after hosting it is not working.On opening certain pages I get 500 internal server error.However there is one page that loads correctly here is the link: Link.However the other pages like this one is not working :Not Working link even I am also not being able to open the link to the All Forums section of bbpress.How to fix this.
Hi, Is the a way or plugin i can add custom fields when someone posts a new topic.
Many thanks
Paul
ok think you need to do some testing.
suggest you start by seeing if the issue only occurs with bbpress login widget, or with a standard worpdress login – they are effectively the same as bbpress merely uses a wordpress login, so you shopukld see the error with both, but worth checking
if both create the issue, then follow the instructions in the https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/before-posting/ thread on troubleshooting and then come back
I’m pretty sure this happened after I updated my server to php7 from 5.6… I’m getting the following error:
This page isn’t working
cadillacmagazine.com is currently unable to handle this request.
HTTP ERROR 500
…when clicking “Forums” in the admin area – which brings me to the following url:
https://website.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=forum
…and when clicking “Forums” in the top admin bar – which brings me to the following url:
https://website.com/forums/
However, clicking the “Forums” submenu from “Settings” works and brings me here:
https://website.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=bbpress
Any idea what could be going wrong here?
Sal C.
This is very old thread, but I just want to clarify something, as this keeps showing up in Google searches for this topic.
Technically WordPress could work out the post-type; it already does this in the case of posts and pages using the same URL structure. It is however faster if it knows the post-type in advance, hence bbPress prefers to use those slugs by default.
There is also a secondary problem, which is probably why there isn’t even a common hack to work around this problem, in that if you allow people to create topics and replies at the root level, there could easily be clashes between slugs. This isn’t such a big problem with posts and pages, as usually it’s only the blog admin/editor creating the posts, but in the case of a forum it would be very easy for a member of the public to inadvertently create a clashing slug. You could also ensure that forum posts didn’t clash with existing content in other post-types, but forum users could use page slugs which the admins may want to use for other posts in future. Basically, things get messy.
Having said all that, this should in theory be possible I think (I haven’t tried to figure out how yet, I’m just searching around to find an existing solution), there would just be a few potential drawbacks. If anyone knows how to do this, please post the solution for the rest of us to see 🙂
I have installed another forum program. Too many problems with bbPress.
I’ve noticed recently that when users login to the website, they are getting an error message.
ERROR: The password you entered for the username xxxxxx is incorrect.
But if you enter your information a second time into the login fields and submit, the login works fine. I can’t seem to figure out why the initial login fails, but the second attempt works. The login area is using the (bbPress) Login Widget. Does anyone have any suggestions as to why this is happening and how I can fix it?
I’m running bbPress Version 2.5.12, WordPress Version 4.7.5.
http://www.ccghpa.com/forums/
Sorry i didn’t get the mail alert, i thought i would be notified. Related topics are going to be spotted with their tags. A list of topics with the likely tags or high views, voices etc something to make the forum more interesting. Other forum CMS like phpBB and so on has it. But they don’t have fine UI like BBPress. I wonder why BBPress don’t have that feature. Right now viewing this topic someone will just go out of the website, showing other topics at the buttom would make them stick around more. You get me right?
Upate:
bbPress fails to create Forums, Topics, and Replies in Menu section. It does create Forums, Topics, and Replies in the left sidebar in the Dashboard listings. But as mentioned above, no Forums appear when I click on ‘All Forums’ after creating Forums.
Latest WP version, latest php version, 2016 Theme, latest bbPress version, site under construction.
I installed bbPress, followed the setup and create a forum following directions. When I click on View page or copy/paste url for the forum I get a blank page.
I deactivate and delete bbPress, clean cache and reinstall bbPress. Do everything according to directons and get a blank page.
When I click on the ‘All Forums’ link I get a blank screen even after creating forums. All forums set to no parent and order is set to 0.
I’ve installed and deactivated and cleared cache and mysql and reinstalled bbpress 7 times and keep getting a blank page no matter which url I try to display the forum. What’s that saying about people repeating the same mistake over and over and over??
I’ve run vBulletin for years, and phpBB, but no matter what I keep getting a blank forum screen with bbPress.
