[Robkk]

There are a few guides in the codex that might help.

Are there any specific things you want to know how to customize??

Customize is such a broad term, and relating to bbPress it can go from creating code snippets, installing plugins, to styling, to adjusting the bbPress theme to your needs in a child theme, or just creating a custom theme/theme package all together.

[mlvc1958]

is there any tutorials that best show how to customize bbpress forums. ive looked in youtube, basically they are about installing the forum but no in depth customization.

[Jon Fergus]

I assume this is pretty standard, but on our forum site (http://nexus.universaltheosophy.com/), the bbpress “reply box” is located at the bottom of any given Topic post. So, when someone wants to reply, they need to scroll all the way down. Also, directly beneath each existing reply is a “reply button”. If someone wants to reply to an existing reply, they click this button…. but what happens is that the Topic post reloads in their browser and then they’re taken to the bottom of the Topic where the reply-box resides.

What we want, is this: when someone clicks reply, a reply-box appears directly beneath the existing reply they’re replying to (basically, how reddit works). I’ve seen at least one site that has managed to do this with some kind of customizing of bbpress, but nobody seems to want to share.

In order to see how the reply button on our site currently works, you can use our dummy-test-account to login (just please be respectful and don’t make me delete too much spam) UN: [redacted] PW: [redacted] And use this discussion to see how the reply function currently operates: http://nexus.universaltheosophy.com/groups/key-concepts-study-group/forum/topic/reincarnation/

Any help at all would be hugely appreciated. The current functionality really makes for a poor forum experience for our members.

Also, we’re currently running bbpress 2.5.10 and WordPress 4.6.1.

[giobby]

Happy it worked for you. Unfortunately it’s more a workaraound than a solution so I don’t think it will be implemented. I’ve shared my feedbacks already and i truly believe there’s a bug in the converter. The temp table in which bbpress stores the metadata for the conversion works fine, so it’s probably about how the converter uses that table.
Anyway, enjoy your new converted forum! 🙂

[senatorman]

Great! it works. All authors are correct now, and there is no post with anonymous as author.

Thx for your help and patience.

Hopely the BBpress creators implement this in the convertor.

[haddlyapis]

Is there any way to do that automatically? I have installed “Topic subscribe”, but i have just realised this only subscribes you to new posts. I also installed “AsynCRONous bbPress Subscriptions” as before no emails were being sent. This seems to have helped. but not with older posts.

[Robkk]

There is a few guides that might be helpful for you in the codex.

Import Forums

Custom Import

Import Troubleshooting

Share your custom import file here if you imported successfully, and maybe a detailed explanation for other users. If you need anymore help please reply back and someone will help you.

[abdurhman]

The problem has been resolved
The problem was because of the addition (bbPress Moderation )

But I have another problem which I have added a section Moderation of a particular
It can modification and deletion on all other sections
How can solve the problem and these are made Moderation of powers does not exceed its own partition
How can I add Moderation general , You can manage all sections

[charlfcoetzee]

Hi

I am planning to help a friend move over his forum from websitetoolbox.com to bbpress.

They allow CSV and MySQL exports.

Can you please assist me on how I should go about doing this move.

I know how to handle CSV files, even open phpAdmin but from there on I know just enough to break the system 🙂

If there is a tool or guide to assist me I will defiantly try it out.

Thanks

[Don46]

WP 4.6 BBpress plugin 2.5.10
I am using some of the super BBpress code suggestions at https://codex.bbpress.org/layout-and-functionality-examples-you-can-use/ and most work just fine ‘out of the box’ but I am not sure what I should be putting in place of ‘ my_nav_menu_profile_link’ in this one. If I put in the code as is….

// Filter wp_nav_menu() to add profile link
add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_items', 'my_nav_menu_profile_link' );
function my_nav_menu_profile_link($menu) {
    if (!is_user_logged_in())
        return $menu;
    else
        $current_user = wp_get_current_user();
        $user=$current_user->user_nicename ;
        $profilelink = '<li><a href="/forums/users/' . $user . '/edit">Edit Profile</a></li>';
        $menu = $menu . $profilelink;
        return $menu;
  
}

I get this when trying the menu link……
Object not found!
The requested URL was not found on this server. The link on the referring page seems to be wrong or outdated. Please inform the author of that page about the error.
If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
Error 404
localhost
Apache/2.4.23 (Win32) OpenSSL/1.0.2h PHP/5.6.24

If I replace the ‘ my_nav_menu_profile_link’ with the actual link like this…..

/* Profile link in menu....................*/
// Filter wp_nav_menu() to add profile link
add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_items', 'http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/profile.php' );
function http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/profile.php($menu) {
    if (!is_user_logged_in())
        return $menu;
    else
        $current_user = wp_get_current_user();
        $user=$current_user->user_nicename ;
        $profilelink = '<li><a href="/forums/users/' . $user . '/edit">Edit Profile</a></li>';
        $menu = $menu . $profilelink;
        return $menu;
  
}

I get this as soon as I go to the site…

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘:’, expecting ‘(‘ in C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-content\themes\twentytenchild\functions.php on line 49
What should I be entering and when I move to a live site will it need to be further changed?

[haddlyapis]

Hi,
i have found the plugin “bbpress-login-register-links-on-forum-topic-pages”, which has mostly solved my problem.
The only thing it doesn’t do i redirect back to the forum page after loggin in.
Even better would be to go back to the forum post i was on before clicking “login”.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thx

[Robin W]

ok, I’ve spent several annoying hours trying to work out how to do this, and failed miserably!!

I expect the answer is just a few brief lines of code, and linked to the way bbpress handles both templates and wp-rewrite, but can’t fathom it out in the files

Sorry, but I am having to give up !

[gratefulweb]

This is a super old thread, but I thought I’d post a solution that I used to get by the issue of having to choose a parent forum, when creating a new forum, on the front end of the site.

In my case I just need to default to “NO PARENT” and will never want a user choosing a parent forum when creating a forum. So…

First, put a copy of “form-forum.php” into your child theme (childtheme/bbpress/form-forum.php).

Within form-forum.php, scroll down to the Parent Form label, which has an id of “bbp_forum_parent_id”.

You can comment out then entire bbp_dropdown function and then add an html input field with same name, id and a value of -1.

<input type=”hidden” name=”bbp_forum_parent_id” id=”bbp_forum_parent_id” value=”-1″>

The key part being the value of “-1”

Hope that helps someone!

[Robkk]

Here is for the revision log avatar fix. You can remove the custom CSS you added earlier that I think you tried to fix this issue with. The reply author avatars looked fine yesterday, now today they look small at 24px.

use this code anywhere you can put custom css. I see that you are modifying the bbPress stylesheet, so hopefully you have placed that bbpress.css file in a child theme in a folder called css instead of editing core files.

https://codex.bbpress.org/themes/theme-compatibility/

#bbpress-forums p.bbp-topic-meta img.avatar, 
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-reply-revision-log img.avatar,
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-topic-revision-log img.avatar,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-template-notice img.avatar, 
#bbpress-forums .widget_display_topics img.avatar, 
#bbpress-forums .widget_display_replies img.avatar {
  float: none;
  margin: 0;
  vertical-align: middle;
  border: none;
  width: 14px;
  height: auto;
}

[stevexoh]

Hi there,

New to bbPress but couldn’t find an answer to this on another thread.

I want to embed my forum into a page on my self hosted site. I’ve tried using the [bbp-forum-index] shortlink but it displays rather weirdly on the page.

I’ve tried to show what I mean below:

Is there a different shortlink I can use or another way of getting it to show up as I want it to on the page.

Hope that makes sense and apologies if it is a dumb question.

Steve

[SGURYGF]

Hi,

is there any package available with only the changed/updated files? I want to upgrade my customized 2.5.9 BBpress to 2.5.10 but instead of having to re-apply all the customisations I did, I want only to upload the changed files.

Thanks in advance

[Developer 7002]

Hey there

we’ve WordPress site for which we’ve setup BBpress for forum section. Forum section topic threads are not included in the default search. can you please let me know how we can make the changes so we can also have BBpress forum topics as a search result on our site?
http://cathlab.com/

Thanks in advance.

[portalintegratorsstaging]

Hi there,

Our staging site has the BBPress and WooCommerce plugins, but when we update the BBPress from version 2.5.8 to 2.5.10 the Forums, Topics and Replies are not showing in the Admin Dashboard. When we tried to deactivate the WooCommerce plugin, the Forums, Topics and Replies are showing. But before we do the update, even these two plugins are activated, the Forums, Topics and Replies are displaying in the Admin Dashboard.

We have the latest version of WordPress which is 4.6.1 and we are using Divi theme. Our staging site is: http://staging.edurolearning1.flywheelsites.com/.
I hope you can help us.

Thanks,
Portal

[Robkk]

Do you still want to use bbPress.

I think I could fix this issue pretty easily since you are using a free theme.

[Robkk]

I think you are using the bbPress moderation plugin, or a fork of it possibly.

There might be a case you might not be using that plugin, and it could be the link limit bbPress uses that is located in the Discussion settings of your site.

https://codex.bbpress.org/moderation-and-blacklisting/

If the posts are pending it might be what I stated above, if its marked as spam, then of course its a spam plugin.

[Robkk]

2. I just created a topic to post under a forum. Under my keyholder account, I am able to see the topic when I click on it but when I try clicking on it as a user, it doesnt show up. It just tells me there is “0 replies, has 1 post, and last updated by me” and the topic is not there.

Follow the solutions posted in this topic below. It sounds like the issue is similar.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/first-post-not-showing-3/#post-177978

There are several links in the user profile area but they all seem to direct me to the user activities only…I cannot link to any of the content posted by other users through those links. (Same with the tool bar at the top of the page and all of the drop down menus).

Are you saying you cannot see for example forum topics created in their BuddyPress profile?? Be a little more specific on this please.

[Robkk]

You are probably going to have to rename the custom post type “topic” in bbPress then. And areas that might be needed to modify the topic post type.

I think you need to check out the bbpress.php file in the bbPress plugin where the custom post types are registered. There might be a filter you can use that will make you be able to modify the code externally and safely without changing the core files internally, which I don’t suggest you do if you are a beginner in coding.

[Robkk]

@darrenbergman93

We also do not want another log in. We want them to be able to log into their profile in our student portal and that is it. They have access to the forum aswell and no additional login or registering, as right now we pre-create their profiles, no one registers.

Like @netweb said bbPress and WordPress share user data, so as long as your student portal is compatible with WordPress it should be fine. You do not need a separate login for the forum as long as the student login, logs into your WordPress site.

We need a forum that has all the features that a forum system includes, such as:
Adding/Creating Threads by both Student and Admins. Instructors also need to be able to create them.
We do not want external links like Share to facebook and such. As this is a forum in a portal and do not want anyone but Students having access to it.

Ok, you can manually create users and assign different forum roles if need be. And you can create custom forum roles with help form a code snippet. You definitely need private forums, but I am not sure how private. Do you want private user groups for specific forums, only logged in users can see the forums, or only logged in users can see the whole site.

We do not want a profiling. We already have a profile system where the profile in wordpress is their student profile which includes their address, email, username, phone number and also their student id. This information cannot be visible to other students.
So either if this plugin gives an external profile system where it does not interact with the profile already made in the USERS area of wordpress it would work, but if it works with the USERS part of wordpress then the clickable link to view a profile, edit profile would need to be removed for our sake.

There is a php code snippet around these forums to remove the author link in replies and topics from going to their profile and instead show up in the forum as text. Removing profile links in descriptions and a widget might need another code snippet, or it could be easily avoidable by not using a widget and removing the descriptions.

bbPress doesn’t add any additional user meta fields if I remember correctly.

Removing the profiles, I haven’t looked at what code you could possibly need, but it could be possibly avoidable by redirecting any user forum profiles (if users somehow reach them) to somewhere else.

[Robkk]

Email address is required to post using anonymous/guest posting.

In this stackoverflow topic, there is a php codesnippet/plugin you can use that might be helpful.

http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/131550/how-do-i-set-up-real-anonymous-posting-in-bbpress-forums

[Robkk]

I think what you are looking at is specifically for blog posts.

I think there is a plugin to display bbPress forum post counts there if you want that feature. I am going to try to find it right now. I think it may not be on the WordPress plugin repository.