[maegras]

Hi all i’m new to bbpress. I read lot of docs but i was unable to solve this issue

I’m setting up a forum for my website, i installed bbpress, created a forum, created a page with bbpres shortcode and now i’m able to see forum root clicking on the link in menu.

I can create discussions from backend but when i try to create a new topic from frontend, logged in as admin, i got “you don’t have permission to post”.

How could it be?

[kentwest]

Usually:

– bbPress
– Connections
– Simple WordPress Membership

But as mentioned, I’ve also tried it with all but bbPress deactivated. No difference.

– Check email
– Childify Me
– Huemon Addons

have also been installed, but they’ve been deactivated for a while. I’ll try uninstalling those.

—

Okay, those three have now been uninstalled. Now I only have the following three plugins installed:

– bbPress
– Connections
– Simple WordPress Membership

and of those three, only bbPress is Activated.

No difference.

[Stephen Edgar]

If it’s taking 15 seconds to do add a reply or a topic you most definately have a plugin or theme manipulating post queries, most likely pre_get_posts filter is running in a plugin, maybe a theme.

Please disable ALL our plugins and test the speed again please.

If the speed remains the same, try switching to the Twenty Fourteen theme.

You’ll also notice here on bbpress.org it does not take 15 seconds

[kentwest]

When I first installed bbPress, I found an item in the WordPress Dashboard that said “Forums”; I clicked on that, and then on “New Forum”.

I typed in a title, and a brief blurb in the content box, and then clicked on “Publish”.

I then, in the WP Dashboard, clicked on Appearance/Menus, expanded the “Forums” category, found my newly-created forum, and added it to my menus.

Then when I load my site in a web-browser, and go to that menu item, I got a forum page where I could add entries, which result in what I posted above.

[mrtylershin31]

Hi, I’m pretty new to everything and I’ve been pretty much enjoying the first couple of days.
One thing that I’m trying to accomplish with bbpress is in the threaded replies section and its’ layout.

this is how a new topic currently looks – it keeps the author avatar separate from the content(this is mainly in order to maintain a decent readability-level on mobile devices)

The reply section also behaves the same until I enable threaded replies but
when threaded replies is enabled, it loses that layout(probably because of how my bbpress css is currently setup)

I would like some help to achieve the same ‘author-content-separated’ layout in the threaded replies.

I hope I have given enough detail for everyone to understand my situation 🙂
I’m currently using all the latest versions of everything.
My theme is twenty-fourteen and I am working with a child theme

[Robin W]

something is broken !

can you tell me how your page is set up?

see https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum/

and which of item 3?

[heideli]

I habe disabled all plugins but bbpress and bbp private groups, and it still doesn’t work. I cannot create new topics.

I am no developer, so am totally at a loss.

[heideli]

Hello,

I’m using WP 4.6.1 and bbpress 2.5.10 with bbp private groups 3.2.6.

When starting a new forum I cannot create new topics. I have no idea what’s wrong because I never had problems before and I didn’t change anything. Any idea would be appreciated, thank you!

[kentwest]

Caveat: I’m new to WordPress, themes, CSS, and bbPress.

I’ve got a website that seems to be working properly (using the hueman theme (well, actually, hueman-child)), and have installed bbPress, and created a forum page, but the form is cluttered. It looks like:
instead of like how the documentation shows it to look:

I’ve deactivated all my plugins except bbPress, and have tried all 6 or 7 of my installed WordPress themes, but nothing seems to help? Suggestions? Thanks!

—
Kent

[Robin W]

bbpress has no special entries, so yes this should work fine – as long as it copies the database – everything should be fine

[hughman]

G’day;

I have spent a lot of time reading and trying to understand the various confusing and sometimes contradictory comments made about whether or not bbPress is a responsive design or not.

As best I can figure out from that material, bbPress is not a responsive design. Rather it relies upon website themes being responsive. However, even if a theme is responsive, that does not mean that a bbPress forum will be responsive.

People have posted information about lots of problems they have had trying to use a responsive design forum with bbPress. Some people have also posted various technical workarounds to at least some of those problems (which I can’t understand).

So, the bottom line for an ordinary person like me, is that there is no point in using bbPress as a responsive design forum.

Have I understood the situation correctly?

Cheers,
Hugh

[Torkel]

I will be moving my website to a new host, it will keep the same URL, but not the same password/username/hostname for mysql/the database.

I’m using akeeba to move my wordpress site where I’m using bbpress as a plugin, complete with wordpress’ databases.

Does anyone know if bbpress will be fully moved and operational using this method? Akeeba should (I think?) move bbPress’ databases, but is there a place where I’ll have to change username/password/hostname for mysql in bbpress?

(Alternatively, is there a simple way to backup all the content on the forum and import them on the new webhost after doing a clean install of bbpress in case akeeba doesn’t take care of things?)

[contemplate]

Hi All. Needed this exact behavior as well. It really should be the default behavior. But if you don’t want to hack the core here is the code to place in your functions.php or custom plugin:

/**
 * Format the BuddyBar/Toolbar notifications
 * Fixed: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/new-reply-notification-link-to-the-reply/
 */
function bbp_format_buddypress_notifications_custom( $action, $item_id, $secondary_item_id, $total_items, $format = 'string' ) {

	// New reply notifications
	if ( 'bbp_new_reply' === $action ) {
		$topic_id    = bbp_get_reply_topic_id( $item_id );
		$topic_title = bbp_get_topic_title( $topic_id );
		$topic_link  = wp_nonce_url( add_query_arg( array( 'action' => 'bbp_mark_read', 'topic_id' => $item_id ), bbp_get_reply_url( $item_id ) ), 'bbp_mark_topic_' . $item_id );
		$title_attr  = __( 'Topic Replies', 'bbpress' );

		if ( (int) $total_items > 1 ) {
			$text   = sprintf( __( 'You have %d new replies', 'bbpress' ), (int) $total_items );
			$filter = 'bbp_multiple_new_subscription_notification';
		} else {
			if ( !empty( $secondary_item_id ) ) {
				$text = sprintf( __( 'You have %d new reply to %2$s from %3$s', 'bbpress' ), (int) $total_items, $topic_title, bp_core_get_user_displayname( $secondary_item_id ) );
			} else {
				$text = sprintf( __( 'You have %d new reply to %s',             'bbpress' ), (int) $total_items, $topic_title );
			}
			$filter = 'bbp_single_new_subscription_notification';
		}

		// WordPress Toolbar
		if ( 'string' === $format ) {
			$return = apply_filters( $filter, '<a href="' . esc_url( $topic_link ) . '" title="' . esc_attr( $title_attr ) . '">' . esc_html( $text ) . '</a>', (int) $total_items, $text, $topic_link );

		// Deprecated BuddyBar
		} else {
			$return = apply_filters( $filter, array(
				'text' => $text,
				'link' => $topic_link
			), $topic_link, (int) $total_items, $text, $topic_title );
		}

		do_action( 'bbp_format_buddypress_notifications', $action, $item_id, $secondary_item_id, $total_items );

		return $return;
	}
}
remove_filter( 'bp_notifications_get_notifications_for_user', 'bbp_format_buddypress_notifications', 10 );
add_filter( 'bp_notifications_get_notifications_for_user', 'bbp_format_buddypress_notifications_custom', 10, 5 );

/**
 * Hooked into the new reply function, this notification action is responsible
 * for notifying topic and hierarchical reply authors of topic replies.
 * Fixed: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/new-reply-notification-link-to-the-reply/
 */
function bbp_buddypress_add_notification_custom( $reply_id = 0, $topic_id = 0, $forum_id = 0, $anonymous_data = false, $author_id = 0, $is_edit = false, $reply_to = 0 ) {

	// Bail if somehow this is hooked to an edit action
	if ( !empty( $is_edit ) ) {
		return;
	}

	// Get autohr information
	$topic_author_id   = bbp_get_topic_author_id( $topic_id );
	$secondary_item_id = $author_id;

	// Hierarchical replies
	if ( !empty( $reply_to ) ) {
		$reply_to_item_id = bbp_get_topic_author_id( $reply_to );
	}

	// Get some reply information
	$args = array(
		'user_id'          => $topic_author_id,
		'item_id'          => $reply_id,
		'component_name'   => bbp_get_component_name(),
		'component_action' => 'bbp_new_reply',
		'date_notified'    => get_post( $reply_id )->post_date,
	);

 	// Notify the topic author if not the current reply author
 	if ( $author_id !== $topic_author_id ) {
		$args['secondary_item_id'] = $secondary_item_id ;

		bp_notifications_add_notification( $args );
 	}
 
 	// Notify the immediate reply author if not the current reply author
 	if ( !empty( $reply_to ) && ( $author_id !== $reply_to_item_id ) ) {
		$args['secondary_item_id'] = $reply_to_item_id ;

		bp_notifications_add_notification( $args );
 	}
}
remove_action( 'bbp_new_reply', 'bbp_buddypress_add_notification', 10 );
add_action( 'bbp_new_reply', 'bbp_buddypress_add_notification_custom', 10, 7 );

[Jon Fergus]

Just for reference, the site linked to in this discussion seems to have figured out how to get the reply form to appear directly under the intended reply.

https://buddydev.com/support/forums/topic/show-bbpress-reply-form-beneath-each-reply/

[Milan Petrovic]

Hi,

Does anyone know how to use bbPress conditionals when bbPress is used for group forums? None of the bbp_is_ functions is working outside of the bbPress templates, and the point of the conditional functions is to have them work outside of the bbPress own template so that some other piece of code knows what is the page context. I am trying to use these functions inside the page BODY.

So, how to determine which forum is loaded as group forum, which topic is currently displayed, and anything else related to subpages for edit of topics and replies?

Milan

[r-a-y]

The reply form showing directly beneath the reply should be fixed as of:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2971

Edit – Haven’t tested with TinyMCE though.

[zoldos]

I want to add a “Create Topic” link on my bbPress ABOVE all the existing topics on the forum home, and in each category. How can I do this? Thanks!

[Robkk]

One other little thing though. I notice that the reply form appears below all sub-replies of a reply, instead of directly beneath the intended reply.

I think the reply.js code and possible other areas for threaded replies code can be improved to fix this. No idea how right now.

When the reply form is at its default location in a bbpress topic, the Visual tab works fine. But when the reply form pops up after clicking “reply” on a comment, the Visual tab fails to work (can’t type in it or see the contents).

I think this is another known issue. One of these tickets need to possible be reopened and include a patch for this issue.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2700

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2646

[Robkk]

Look at some of the unread posts plugins for bbPress. It may not be exactly what you are looking for, but very similar. Most unread posts plugins just use the regular topic list view in a forum, instead of a separate area.

bbPress mark as read adds an area in the subscriptions seciton of a user profile. And bbPress pencil unread supplies a function on its plugin page.

[zoldos]

Loving bbPress, but I can’t seem to find a simple way to add a button/link that will display new posts/topics since a member’s last visit.

This is a common feature on almost any forum.

Is there a way to do this? Thanks!

[Jon Fergus]

Damn, another issue has come up. On my main site I’ve added the “Visual” tab to the reply form, using the following code in my functions.php file:

/* add visual editor to bbpress replies */ 
function bbp_enable_visual_editor( $args = array() ) {
    $args['tinymce'] = true;
    $args['teeny'] = false;
    return $args;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_after_get_the_content_parse_args', 'bbp_enable_visual_editor' );

When the reply form is at its default location in a bbpress topic, the Visual tab works fine. But when the reply form pops up after clicking “reply” on a comment, the Visual tab fails to work (can’t type in it or see the contents). I reproduced the issue on my staging site for you to see:

http://staging-nexus.universaltheosophy.com/groups/test-group/forum/topic/test-group-topic/

I’m also using the “TinyMCE Advanced” plugin, but can verify that the issue with the Visual tab is independent of that plugin.

[benzouye]

Hi,

GD bbPress Toolbox Pro seems to propose what I want … In their “Integration tweaks” there is a “Logged in user reply in topic” option …
https://bbpress.dev4press.com/features/integration-tweaks/
Wish I could see the code only for this option 🙂

I’ll continue working on it !

Thanks.

[Robkk]

I think this feature is in the premium plugin GD bbPress Toolbox. It shows some icon before the topic title that you participated in.

Unread post plugins could also be a good alternative too.

[Robkk]

I think group moderators are not the same as bbPress forum moderators that you can choose to get notifications in the bbPress notify plugin.

[Robkk]

Here I just added a bbpress-functions.php file to a twentysixteen child theme. I edited out the conditional causing the issues with groups. You can test this on my test site as well.

You would have to remove the file later if the trac tickets patch I linked to is committed and you are using version 2.6 of bbPress, so that you can have the file enqueued on the pages where it is needed.

https://cloudup.com/czqFBqJE8TE

I think this will do it for you.

After you are done testing I will start nuking my test site.