[evanevans333]

I’m about to post this same issue. Getting it as well. His screenshots perfectly represent my experience as well. Was this a BuddyPress or bbPress issue in the end?

[themichaelglenn]

Alright, I probably didn’t do this in the best way, but I figured out how to “fork” your github code and create a separate branch but it’s under my username (I didn’t know if it’s okay to just go creating branches in someone else’s repository, so I just set up in my own):

https://github.com/themichaelglenn/bbpress-vbulletin-permalink/tree/no-f-s-or-id-s-in-forums

Again I need to make clear that I do not know what I’m doing – but whatever I did is working on my localhost and on my test site (which site will only be up long enough to test everything on an actual server, so no link to that site, sorry)

I don’t know if I would still get the topic URLs forum/forum-name/ID-topic-name if I kept removing more code, to get it down to where we were only rewriting the topic URLs? I’d like to try that but I don’t know how much more I can remove before the plugin just stops working altogether.

[AndroidAvenger]

Could someone please confirm whether we could set-up multiple levels of security on a BBpress Forum?
For example, approved users can post new topics and reply to topics on one board but only read topics on another board?

Example:
Forum Topic 1: Marvel Games (anyone can post) in this area
Forum Topic 2: Known Bugs (only moderators can post in this forum, or people with special permissions)

Many thanks for any advice.

[Robkk]

For beginners use a plugin like widget logic.

That piece of the guide I wrote was a simple approach to creating a bbPress only sidebar for a default theme, it needs to be explained more for beginners, and requires some theme dev knowledge.

[Robkk]

@mimbelli

I am going to sum it up really quick why bbPress is taking so long.

bbPress has few contributors to the plugins core.

Less contributors > Less contributions > Longer release time

While it would be better to have.

More contributors > More contributions > Shorter release time

We have to get more developers interested in the project somehow to get more contributors and contributions.

[Robkk]

Is this related to bbPress somehow?? Are you even using bbPress??

[Robkk]

@evanevans333

It seems that’s all we got to work with. Participant role is not supposed to be for wordpress Subscribers apparently. You need to become something else, to read topics and replies inside forums marked private, and I guess shouldn’t mark a forum private with bbPress unless it’s supposed to be private for Moderators and Administrators.

That seems so … ridiculous if you pardon my French. That Forum Roles are not for forum privacy, but more for Forum administrative privacy.

You are probably experiencing a bug, or just some issues with your current configuration, private forum should be for logged in users only. Also a specific forum for mods and admins might be a hidden forum.

Im skimming through the topic right now, but I will look at this topic more tomorrow morning and see if I need to report any issues.

What I say that we do is try to fix the private forum issue in bbPress by default without using Robins plugin for now, then when its fixed you can decide to use it later if you want to.

Run the repair tools one at a time in Tools > Forums. There are a few that are definitely helpful like repairing private forum relationships.

Editing user role caps for some users could cause issues as well, so we might need to refresh each roles caps, and remap the default ones to users.

that I am supposed to set their privacy to Public and use some kind of FORUM PRIVACY plugin to make sure the content doesn’t get leaked out to Google and anonymous web surfers.

If you want a forum for only logged in users setting a forum or parent forum private will do that. Other niche privacy features could be obtained through plugins.

Now, the issue moving forward is, that topic and reply activity that go on inside those forums, is not properly being set to Private and so those Activities are showing up in widgets and shortcode locations and archives as public information

Do you want all your forums to be private? It might be better to put anything bbPress as members only content, like just block off sections of your site to only members using a different type of plugin.

If you do want some forums to be public, then I guess we can use some conditionals for some widgets to display different widgets for logged in users and those who are not. Like say the recent replies widget, I would display only replies from public forums to users not logged in in one widget, and display all replies to users who are not logged in another. If you do want to use Robins plugin, he does have custom widgets in it, but that is if you want group forums.

[Robkk]

Sorry never posted the solution.

This might be before I was even a moderator.

But for anyone that might come across the same issue.

This was related to an issue that happens when enabling threaded replies and some CSS that absolutely positions the author avatar.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2823

[Stephen Edgar]

See https://buddypress.org/support/topic/remove-bbpress-from-buddpress/

[Arize Nnonyelu]

Hello, i am running bbpress and i used the forums widget on my front page, but i can’t control the number of forums to be displayed. I don’t want it to display all of them, it made the front page look too crowded. And there is no option to moderate the number of forums to display.

Is there a way to reduce the number of forums being displayed from the widget? if yes, how? if else, comment either ways. Thanks

[themichaelglenn]

Thanks @siparker

I’m actually good with forum/subforum/ID-topic-name

(which for all purposes is the same as the Kunena forum/forumName/topicID-topic-name

FWIW, I have bbPress set so the “Forums” slug is NOT pre-fixed, so my bbPress URL structure for any given forum is ‘forum/subforum-name’ without any ID, and I removed the lines in your plugin that assign an ID to anything other than the topic name, and everything still works for me.

(It’s only when I try to remove ID from the topic-name part, that the URLs no longer work – and now I know why) 🙂

[priom]

I would also like to know this! Love the bar bbpress.org uses 🙂

Please help out if possible!

[priom]

Hey guys,

I’ve been slowly configuring css on bbpress (amazing btw) but having some issues with odd and even replies. I added code to add a border for each reply and spaced out the bottom by about 10px.

All works fine for the first reply (initial topic).
But for next consecutive ones – the “right” border is missing.

you can find my site forums at weareoblivion.com/forums

-> Navigate to General Discussions > Test Topic
and you’ll see what I mean.

I added in these to create the borders:

#bbpress-forums div.odd, #bbpress-forums div.even {
  border: 1px solid rgba(44,130,201,.22) !important;
  border-bottom: none !important;
  margin-bottom: 10px;
}

div.bbp-forum-header, div.bbp-topic-header, div.bbp-reply-header {
  border-top: 1px solid rgba(44,130,201,.22) !important;
  border-left: 1px solid rgba(44,130,201,.22) !important;
  border-right: 1px solid rgba(44,130,201,.22) !important;
}

I have tried different browsers and same issue occurred.
Tried changing it to add individual borders (like i did for the header)
– Still the same issue
Even removed alot css
– still same issue

Any help is appreciated please ! 🙂

[Robin W]

ok.

I am the author of the private groups plugin, which I wrote to get over the limitations of bbpress. I have no relationship to bbpress, and can only work with what bbpress gives me, hence we end up with something that is ‘public’ and then using a plugin to make it private.

…so those Activities are showing up in widgets and shortcode locations and archives as public information

In the private groups plugin there are shortcodes and widgets that work with my plugin to hide stuff, go into

Dashboard>settings>bbp private groups

and look at the ‘widget warning’ and ‘shortcode warning’ tabs you will see the replacements.

[Stephen Edgar]

Hi @roozbehrah, we try to fully support RTL languages.

The bbPress translations are an indicator of that, Hebrew and Arabic are also RTL languages and as far as I am aware there is no issues with URLs with these RTL languages.

https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/bbpress

There is also this plugin that uses numeric permalinks, i.e. “topic/forum ID”:
https://github.com/korobochkin/bbpress-permalinks-with-id

If you could add some further explanation and examples of how bbPress could support RTL locales and URLs better I’d be happy to add these improvements to bbPress 🙂

[ajiaim]

Can anyone point me in the right direction to learn how to add a menu on all Forum pages?
For example, I would like to add a custom menu here: http://prntscr.com/cgnz6p
When people are on Forum pages. Not sure if anyone has written a similar tutorial or anything?

[evanevans333]

Hi Robin, thanks for helping some more…

What I’m saying is, I used a plugin called BBP PRIVATE GROUPS in order to “privatize” certain forums because the forum was set to be viewable only by people of a certain “group”. In that plugin, the main group is called GROUP1, which I just named “Subscribers” (just a coincidence that I name it that) and I can apply it to everyone who has registered (Subscriber role) on my website across the board.

Then I set the bbPress privacy of the Forum, to PUBLIC, and made it so that only GROUP1 people can access it in the privacy settings of BBP PRIVATE GROUPS, by setting that Forum to require GROUP1 access.

It’s an absolutely absurd workaround, because I’m literally setting the privacy to PUBLIC in bbPress and than using another plugin to make the Forum Private, but by doing it this way, at LEAST my Participant Subscribers can access the “Public” forum, so long as they are members of the BBP PRIVATE GROUPS – GROUP 1 “Subscribers” group.

So basically, I am doing what bbPress should do by default, but as a workaround with an entirely different plugin to handle it. The privacy restriction or permissions could not be properly handled with bbPress setting a forum to “Private”, so I am using that BBP PRIVATE GROUPS plugin to set it to private.

The ultimate goal of all this, was, to make sure that people who are registered to my site, can view and participate in Forums that anonymous/google/bots cannot see. But when I tried to do that by setting a forum’s privacy to “Private” bbPress annoyingly made it so that Participants registered with my website could go INTO the forum and see the Forum and Topic counts, and could post topics, but could NOT see the topics in there nor replies or reply to anything.

In order for a role to “See” those Topics and Replies, they had to be a Moderator, Keymaster, or Administrator. Even IF bbPress team wants Participant member caps to behave like this, they should at LEAST provide a role between Participant and Moderator, so that normal registered users of a bbPress enabled website, can participate in forum discussions cutoff from anonymous web viewing because they are set to “private”.

Now, the issue moving forward is, that topic and reply activity that go on inside those forums, is not properly being set to Private and so those Activities are showing up in widgets and shortcode locations and archives as public information, because those kinds of presentations of the information inside those forums are not governed by the BBP PRIVATE GROUPS plugin. In other words, it’s a mess, and this really should be handled by bbPress. bbPress should give us the ability to modify caps on Participant, or like I said, at least provide a ROLE that is an inbetween that is compatible with the development of all other plugins that work with bbPress (ie: we need bbPress to create this role as a standard).

[siparker]

@themichaelglenn @readmenow
You are welcome.

No one actually made any contributions in the end.

the f- part of the plugin was in order to replicate exactly my old vbulletin urls. So it can be removed if not required for your install.

We are just putting a few final touches to our bigger plugin for bbpress / buddypress which includes all the various bits of development we have done in order to make bbpress work more like vbulletin. should be launching in the next few weeks. One of the main aprts of this is i want a configurable permalink structure part in there so things can be added / removed from the rewrite rules to provide variations on the hierarchy.

One thing is the way it deals with forums and subforums.

for your query about removing the number before the forum name and the structure bit

The URL for the child forum is now

forum/square-enix/final-fantasy-vii

and I want it to be

forum/final-fantasy-vii

The interesting thing is that the topic “Cloud’s Limit Break” still shows as

forum/final-fantasy-vii/143-cloud-s-limit-break

which is the URL structure that I want, when someone clicks on a topic, so I’m happy with that.

But I can’t seem to figure out how to remove the parent or top level forum from the forum URL.

You Cannot currently remove the identifying number from the last url part.

if it is a forum or a topic or a reply you must have the ID of the final item in the last url part.
the reason for this is because of the way BBpress saves these as custom post types the id is required to determine what post type it is. forum topic or reply.
without the ID you cannot govern what is displayed. There is no other (correct me if i am wrong @netweb ) for the system to know if /new is a forum a reply or a topic without the id being passed in.

We can certainly build it so the Id is after the name rather than before it. i will sort that out so it works.

So you can have

forum/subforum/ID-topic-name
or
forum/ID-topic-name
or
forum/subforum/topic-name-ID

for topics to be shown. basically the pieces preceding the final topic item are not really relevant its just what you want in there. you can have as much or as little hierarchy as you want. So long as the ID is in the last url part.

however you cannot have

forum/subforum-name/ because we must have an ID

so it would always be

forum/ID-sub-forum-name/ or forum/subforum-name-ID/

IF you check you can actually remove mostly anything before the final url part which contains the ID. discussion on that in github where i explain why this is not an SEO problem. its how most things work in WP.

If you want to post your current forum structures here i will create permalink optioins to replicate these. or rewrites to deal with moving from them to the new structure.

I have the Kunena one from above

forum/forumName/topicID-topicName

[Roozbeh Rahmani]

thanks for the answer Robin!

i checked it. apparently bbpress does not support Persian (an RTL language) in URL so all pages go missing. i actually decided to make my forum a subdomain to avoid this problem. but i am still having some trouble, i explained it in another topic here:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-and-rtl-languages/

[Roozbeh Rahmani]

i am trying to manage a bbpress forum in Persian (it is an RTL language) and i am facing some troubles.
apparently bbpress does not support RTL languages in URL so whenever i have anything Persian in my URL i get a 404 error on the page and as you know bbpress by default takes forum/topic name to URL (i can not tell everybody on the forum to write topic names in English) what i want to ask is one of these two:
* is there anyway to make bbpress support RTL language in URL?
* if not, how can i change Forum and Topic permalink from “topic/forum name” to “topic/forum ID” (so i don’t have anything Persian in URL)

thanks in advance for answers

[Themezly]

2 months not even a hint and you know it is a bug. is_bbpress does not work as advised.

[skyynet]

Since installing 2.5.10 of the BBPress Plugin the corresponding function improved a bit. The function which creates the noreply sender sits in includes/common/functions.php and reads

function bbp_get_do_not_reply_address() {
	$sitename = strtolower( $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] );
	if ( substr( $sitename, 0, 4 ) === 'www.' ) { $sitename = substr( $sitename, 4 ); }
	return apply_filters( 'bbp_get_do_not_reply_address', 'noreply@' . $sitename );
}

In my case the domain is something like subdomain.domain.de

The above function creates the noreply address noreply@subdomain.domain.de
Correct would be (in my case) noreply@subdomain.de

IMHO the function could create the sender by parsing the $sitename from right to left (TLD DOT DOMAIN until DOT or //). I was too lazy and just added my specific case

function bbp_get_do_not_reply_address() {
	$sitename = strtolower( $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] );
	if ( substr( $sitename, 0, 4 ) === 'www.' ) { $sitename = substr( $sitename, 4 ); }
	else if ( substr( $sitename, 0, 10 ) === 'subdomain.' ) { $sitename = substr( $sitename, 10 );}
	return apply_filters( 'bbp_get_do_not_reply_address', 'noreply@' . $sitename );
}

[Robin W]

seems to be too hard a question !

For whatever reasons 2.6 doesn’t seem to be progressing, and no-one seems able to tell us why. JJJ seems to have disappeared from the authors of bbpress.

I think you can have two attitudes to this.

1. That bbpress id dead, and going no-where
2. that bbpress is mature, and that there are lots of plugins out there which add the functionality that you need, built on a stable solid base.

Given FB, Twitter, Instagram, pinterest etc. it is easy to see forums as yesterday’s technology, but the content in the list above seems to be transient, with no sorting, logic or permanence. Read and forget.

With forums you get logic, easy to read threads, and search capability – so I think forums still have their place.

So if you are like me, you have bbpress, but also have several other plugins (including my own published ones) that give my forums the functionality they need.

so go into wordpress plugins and search for both bbp and bbpress to see what is available.

[Robin W]

you can use the sidebar that your forum page is displaying – if it is showing one then read the rest of this, if not then come back !

If you want specific items for bbpress and maybe others on other pages, then add https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/widget-logic/

and then use

is_bbpress() as a condition for widgets to be shown and !is_bbpress() for widgets that you don’t want on forum pages, but do on others.

[van24]

Found it – it was being loaded with the GD BBPress plugin