[Matoca]

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

[shazzhy]

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,

[poetic824]

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.

[dhelegend]

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

[jjazzbel]

Problem: the private forum entry header / title is displaying this content instead of the title:

<span class=”screen-reader-text”>Private article:</span>Title‘

I use the Members plugin for content restriction. Roles are set up for access to some forums but not others. e.g. beginners should not see instructor forum content or topics.

This works with pages and posts, but forums and topics are displayed even when content is restricted for a given user level or role.

With that not working, I then made the forum private. Now, the forum still displays in the forum list even when content is restricted for a given user level but now shows 0 topics. On displaying private forum posts, the same html span tag precedes the title.

This is happening whether users have access to restricted content or not. Although content is finally restricted correctly at the topic level.

WordPress Version: 4.7.5
bbPress Version: 2.5.12
Site: http://www.windrivertaichi.org/ Site is members only. Please message for test access.

[srjmukherjee2]

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>

[dhelegend]

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

[srjmukherjee2]

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.

[paullas]

Hi, Is the a way or plugin i can add custom fields when someone posts a new topic.

Many thanks

Paul

[Robin W]

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

[AiratTop]

It’s 100% done:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/roadmap

[SalCollaziano]

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.

[Ryan Hellyer]

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 🙂

[scrawny]

I have installed another forum program. Too many problems with bbPress.

[smithcreate]

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/

[Arize Nnonyelu]

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?

[scrawny]

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.

[scrawny]

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.

[wci]

Hi support team,

I was trying to use your translatetion instructions but unfortunately it has not worked on my case.

1. I downloaded files mo./po. (Go to https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/bbpress)
2. renamed them accordingly “bbpress-de_DE”
3. uploaded to my server folder “wp-content/languages/buddypress”

But still are not working. Any ideas?
Screen shot – https://www.screencast.com/t/Ke8sEFj5

Looking forward to your help.

BR, Alex

[emiliano1991]

Hi,

I’ve many questions.

With BbPress is possible make this ? :

– The administrator can manage new members and assign roles ;
– Depending on the role the user can see, read the discussions, or just one or the other ;
– Do not show the answers to the discussion, but only the topic ;
– Instead in another discussion can do everything.

thanks for attention

[forums1234]

Rats! Almost!

Unfortunately, this solution returns to a third page created by bbPress that displays the entire forum, which is great but not what I need.

I need it to return to the previous “page” that I created with the forum shortcode that got them to that particular topic. This way, members could go from host page to topic, back to host page and to second topic, and back to the host page and to a third topic.

This would open unimaginable opportunities for web designers for creativity. For instance, hosting multiple forums on the same page without any need for navigation.

[sharlene_c]

I am having this problem also. Not getting email notifications as should be according to https://codex.bbpress.org/features/subscriptions/

Is there anything else that needs to be checked? so that subscribers are notified of new posts and new comments.

[Robin W]

try

dashboard>settings>permalinks and just click save

This resets the links and fixes 404 in most (but not all!) cases

bbpress 2.0.7 is very old, suggest you try 2.5.12 on your test site.

[afinkdesign]

Hey there!

I have installed bbPRess on my test system and then installed it the same way on my live system.
Now I have an issue with the page titles of bbpress pages.

When I log in as a non-admin user in live system the page titles are broken and all tites of bbprss pages are 404 errors. The content is showing just fine.
This issue orrurs only on live system. The ther things are working correctly.

Maybe thats relevant:
I set in bbpress settings the root to /forum
Then I have created a WP-Page called “forum”
Now the root seems to be this WP-Page

Thank you very much for your help!
Regards,
Alex

WP-Version: 4.7.5
bbP-Version: 2.0.7

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[bullarni]

Hi @casiepa

Are you able to provide any update on this issue? Is it possible to review and incorporate the fixes @nesiditsa has discussed into the bbPress core or are there any plans to do so?

Thanks