[catseyepublishing]

I am building a community website which will enable groups to post help requests on a bbpress forum. To post requests, all forum users must register.

In testing, when participants register for the forum, they are being assigned WP user roles too. I have set this to be Subscriber, but this is allowing them to access JetPack and some other things from the dashboard.

I don’t want forum particpants to have any access to the dasboard – only to bbpress forums. Am I missing a settings somewhere?

Thanks for your help.

I am using WP 4.7.3 and bbpress 2.5.12

[Col_Blimp]

Hi Robin, you know images from my own site are all SSL so WordPress works in this instance but its with BBPress when the user makes a post and uses the insert image button to link an image from another site that the problems occour ie:

<img src="https://i.imgur.com/V6sg3f0.png" alt="" />
<img src="https://i.imgur.com/V6sg3f0.png" alt="" />
<img src="i.imgur.com/V6sg3f0.png" alt="" />

but this site here is changing the http to https in all links so the demonstration is a bit of a fail 🙂

But a non https url will not break a certificate as that only happens if the link is embedding something in the post.

[stefaanc]

No, unfortunately it doesn’t. Actually, it were the LearnDash developers who pointed me to bbPress for this problem 😉

We did set up a try-out course using LearnDash. As we did not find a “post first” feature, we searched the LearnDash documentation and eventually asked it in their support forum. Their answer was: “No, it’s not possible yet. We use bbPress for our forum functionality and we suggest you ask the question there.”

So we’re back to square 1, i.e. your first answer: “In basic bbPress you won’t find this, but maybe with a combination of plugins or some short coding, you should be able to achieve this.”

Any specific suggestions on the latter?

Thanks again!

[Steve]

Ok. Thank you.

I guess that answers my questions.

The question being, is there a way to add a “my profile” link to a menu.

The answer is, if I am hearing correctly. Yes, sorta, if you edit some function files.

And the answer is also, No – there is no way to do this with bbPress. bbPress does not offer a way for people to edit their profiles unless the user is savy enough to know they should click their profile name in a forum post to see/edit their profile.

I just assumed there would be an easy way to do this. It seems a core function. But I guess I am wrong.

Makes me wonder how others make “profile” pages for their users?

Thanks for the answer.

[horizon70s]

Hello,

I’m using the latest version of WP/BBpress/theme (SmartMag). With all plugins turned off, except, bbpress, I still can’t get the visual editor button to work. It’s there, you can click on it, but it won’t do anything.

The theme author swears it works with BBpress since 1.5 – so I don’t know where or how to troubleshoot?

Please advise if you have any ideas, thanks!

[Pascal Casier]

Hi Steve,

As Robin answered, you could look into his coding for the bbP Style Pack to see how it works.

There is also https://codex.bbpress.org/layout-and-functionality-examples-you-can-use/#8-add-edit-profile-to-a-wordpress-menu that might give you a hint.

Pascal.

[stefaanc]

Hello Pascal,

Thanks for your reply. Yes, the kind of forum I have in mind is one forum per question. The question would be one that triggers opinions rather than exact answers. If students would read the already available answers first, opinions tend to cluster around the ones that were given first. If they have to formulate their opinion before being able to read the others, there is much larger variety of opinions. And yet they can engage in discussions about each other’s opinions afterwards.

I’m new to WordPress and bbpress, but from the try-outs and tests we have been doing over the past week it looks like the LearnDash plugin in combination with bbpress would be suitable for our needs. We’re ready to invest some work in this if needed. Hence, if you have a suggestion about suitable plugins or would have specific advice for the ‘short coding’ you mention, we will surely investigate.

Thanks !

[KurzBaginski]

The Code is available at https://github.com/georgemichaelis/bbpress-forced-subscription too.

Regards
Jörg

[Pascal Casier]

Hi @hadesteam,

I’m currently building a converter from google groups to bbPress. When I finish that one I might have a look to help you. Can you drop me an email so we keep in touch. You can find my email on http://casier.eu/wp-dev/

Thanks.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi @col_blimp,

Not sure why you want to do this, because it will depend if the site where the picture is, is listening to https or not.

But if you look for a hook, it might be this one: http://hookr.io/plugins/bbpress/2.5.9/filters/bbp_edit_topic_pre_insert/

[Pascal Casier]

Hi @fabianno0572,

The best way to put extra functions is in a functions.php in a child theme.

Some is explained here: https://codex.bbpress.org/functions-files-and-child-themes-explained/

[Pascal Casier]

Hi @sallyruchman,

There is a standard widget for bbPress, you can find info here: https://codex.bbpress.org/features/widgets/

You could also check this page https://codex.bbpress.org/layout-and-functionality-examples-you-can-use/#21-show-5-recent-topics-after-forum-index and e.g. topic 21 or so for different ideas.

Pascal.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi @stefaanc,

In basic bbPress you won’t find this, but maybe with a combination of plugins or some short coding, you should be able to achieve this.

Just some thoughts, do you see a different forum per question, then topics would be what students answer and then eventually replies could be give to the specific topic (answers) ?
Or would your questions be topics in one or the other forum and then the answers would be replies ?

[Pascal Casier]

@dominikb-1,

Did you read till the end of the codex page ?

Custom Capabilities

[Robin W]

the code

function bbp_enable_visual_editor( $args = array() ) {
    $args['tinymce'] = true;
    return $args;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_after_get_the_content_parse_args', 'bbp_enable_visual_editor' );

in most themes should work fine. the wp-footer part was specific to the other poster.

The code goes in your child theme’s functions file

Functions files and child themes – explained !

[vikefans]

Hello I am interested in setting up bbpress but I already have a forum software that is using the page named Forums. Is this going to cause problems or can I set the default page to use as a different page? Say Forum instead?

[paperprofit]

Thank you for that suggestion. I will try that.
I do have another site created in Tesseract that have no Wishlist member or bbpress at this time. I will create a BBpress forum there and see what I get. Your suggestions are much appreciated.

I have contacted Wishlist as well, in case they know of any issues.

[paperprofit]

Ironcally, it is the newly created Topics and Replies that are not showing up. I will try reinstalling BBPress, and continue to leave Wishlist out of the equation. I will report back.
Is it not possible that the problem has to do with my Theme?
Thanks for your patients, Robin.

[Martin]

Hi!, I need to do this in my wordpress. I’ver already installed rpb-chessboard and bbpress-do-short-codes plugins, but i don’t know where i have to call function
add_filter (‘pw_bbp_parse_shortcodes_cap’ , ‘publish_topics’ ) ;

When I active bb-press-do-shot-codes [pgn] and [fen] sections were disappeard.

Thanks!

[Robin W]

ok, sorry I don’t know much about MU and bbpress functions, so can’t say if that would work

[paperprofit]

It seemed for a moment that the problem was fixed. I now see the original “topic” entry, but when I added few replies, I cannot see them, unless I log in as admin.

I had installed the bbpress style pack, and deactivated it to see if that fixed the problem. It did not.

[Robin W]

could be lots of things, but try

bbpress wp4 fix

and/or

bbpress wp4 fix2

[stefaanc]

I am looking for a WordPress forum plugin for an educational environment, and came across bbPress. It has many promising features, but there is one essential feature I need for which I cannot find confirmation in the documentation whether it is available in bbPress. This is it:

When a user (student) posts for the first time to a forum — typically in answer to the question related to that specific forum — I want they cannot read the available forum posts until they have submitted their first post: I see nothing/I submit my first post/now I see all other posts.

This is a ‘trick’ often used in educational settings, because it stimulates every student to think about the question from scratch, unbiased by the previous answers. Such an approach stimulates a larger diversity of answers.

Is such a tool available in bbpress?

Thanks for your insight!

[blasterspike]

I have to update this thread.
After the Nth time that I was uninstalling/installing bbPress 2.6 beta 2 to do a test with a new import, this time it’s just giving me a wrong password error while I’m 100% sure of the password as I have done a copy/paste from the old phpBB forum.

[paperprofit]

I have a forum that I wanted to protect for my members only. I have Wishlist-member installed and activated, but bbpress topics and replies seem erratic when I try the protection. So I removed all protections to make sure that the issue is not with bbPress or even my Theme (Tesseract).

What I found out is that even with my protections all off, bbPress is not diplaying my Topic, only the replies to them. I have 3 topics. Is there a way you could help? Here are the topics:

Market Commentary

Theta Gain / Losses

PCCRC to Genie

Incidentally, when I am logged in as admin, I do see the original posts (topic).