[Robin W]

try here

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1

[yourfishfinder]

Hello there everyone and thank you for reading my post.

I have just installed BBPress in order to make a forum very similar to that of “http://www.ultimatereef.net/forums/forum.php”, but I literally do not even know where to begin. May someone attempt to offer me some assistance in where I can start and what I need to do and how to do so.

Thank you very much, a huge appreciate in advance

my website is : http://www.yourfishfinder.co.uk

[Serchgdl]

I was the same on my site, google searching I found this, I do not remember where I found it but works.

You must add the following to functions.php of your chil theme, for the title:

//Titulo bbpress
add_filter( ‘aioseop_title’, ‘packeteater_bbpress_forum_title’ );
function packeteater_bbpress_forum_title( $title ) {
if ( is_post_type_archive( ‘forum’ ) ) {
$title = “Your forum tittle”;
}
return $title;
}

And for the description:

//Descripcion bbpress
add_filter( ‘aioseop_description’, ‘packeteater_bbpress_forum_description’ );
function packeteater_bbpress_forum_description( $description ) {
if ( is_post_type_archive( ‘forum’ ) ) {
$description = “Your forum description”;
}
return $description;
}

I hope it helps you

[heisenberghb]

Hello guys when I activate both plugins bbpress and buddypress my admin panel + login panel is going away. When I activate only one of them it’s working again.

I hope sb knows how to fix this

[Robkk]

@robin-w

By me, its my opinion that first time users/beginners should not create a “forum page” right now until there is a guide that could outline the possible issues users might encounter while creating it.

If you want to make a forum page an initial part during bbPress setup, then you would need to create a ticket in the trac. It could be possible to make it similar to how Woocommerce shop page is setup to avoid most of the user generated issues.

Also we are probably going to split this into a new topic. If you want to talk to me further about this like I said you can email me.

[Robin W]

@Robkk

Its not recommended during a setup of bbPress.

BY whom???????????????????????????????

[Robkk]

Is the TinyMCE editor showing in your regular topic forms as well?? If not then you would have to just enable Post Formatting in Settings > Forums.

What specific code did you use to enable the visual editor.

Does the forum form page work fine in a WordPress default theme like TwentySixteen. If not this could be plugin related. If it works fine then it is theme related and some function in your currently active theme could dequeuing bbPress scripts.

If it is plugin related it could be a plugin that dequeue bbPress scripts unless its on forum pages.

It might be possible to come across this issue while trying to minify or combining JavaScript files too.

[Robkk]

@robin-w

Its not recommended during a setup of bbPress.

In most cases, unless there is a forum archive bug from the theme/bbPress theme compatibility, its not a requirement for a forum site.

It could be a possible recommendation for further customization, but a lot has to be laid out before then in a guide somewhere in customizing section or theme development (like I told in my email to you) so users do not come across possible issues.

If you want to debate any pros and cons of creating a “forum page” you can go ahead and email me and we can discuss that, and what I emailed you before about moving your guides content into other sections.

[Robin W]

@Robkk

I usually do not say use a “forums page” as it is not recommended during setup

1. Can’t see where it is not recommended -Indeed in dashboard>settings>forums it says “Customise your Forums root. Partner with a WordPress Page and use Shortcodes for more flexibility.”

2. There’s a massive difference between recommending something and saying ‘it is not recommended’ As far as I know bbPress is just neutral – either works fine.

[Robkk]

I was just pointing out that its possible that you may need to use another conditional as well if you did create a “forum page”.

So you would possibly need another conditional for a user created “forum page”. If you didn’t already make sure that the “forum page” was set to have the same page slug as the default forums slug in your site set in Settings > Forums.

An example of the additional conditional you would use would be is_page{1} where “1” is the specific page ID of your “forums page”.

if (!is_bbpress() || is_page(1) ) {

You can also use is_page(‘forums’) as well instead.

https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/is_page/

I usually do not say use a “forums page” as it is not recommended during setup, but it could be useful to workaround bugs that I think usually happens when using a Genesis theme, but I guess use it until the bug is fixed in bbPress/Genesis. Well if there is still a bug.

I would contact your theme developers support since you have a paid theme, and they can help you better since they understand the code in that specific theme, and only if you really want to dig into the code and modify it like your trying to do, or you can just use a plugin like Widget Logic to use a conditional to hide/display widgets depending on certain conditionals like is_bbpress() and is_page{}.

[Robkk]

I don’t think you are using bbPress anymore.

[Robkk]

Have you tried any plugin and theme troubleshooting??

https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started/troubleshooting/

[Robkk]

@evanevans333

It should still work.

The function I posted only works on bbPress forum profiles, if the currently logged on user has the edit_other_forums capability, that they are viewing it on their own profile, and if you have the available hooks if you are using custom bbPress templates.

[themichaelglenn]

@siparker @natesirrah Thank you both for your work on this plugin! Any news on where the current project stands? I’ve just used siparker’s github plugin and it seems to be work, but if there’s a better, improved version, I’d love to know about it and/or help test it.

I’m working on migrating a site that I’ve had up for just over a year, from Joomla 3.4 to the current version of WordPress. I use Kunena forums, and by making some slight modifications to siparker’s plugin on github, I was able to set my bbPress URLs to match the structure Kunena uses, namely:

forum/forumName/topicID-topicName

(I don’t think they actually use forumName, topicName, etc., that was just the easiest way for me to write it out)

so that when my forums are set up like this:

Forum = Final Fantasy VII
Topic = Cloud’s Limit Break

I have, for example:

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

I should tell you that the only experience I have with php is a couple of 4-hour courses on udemy (in other words, not that much…) Still, by very carefully changing or removing one line at a time, I was able to produce the desired result.

One thing that didn’t quite work out, though, was forums within a top-level category. For example:

Top Forum = Square Enix
Child Forum = Final Fantasy VII
etc.

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.

Everything I’m doing is on localhost, as I don’t want to change my site over to WordPress until I’ve got all the details worked out, and I’m brand new to web development so I’m not sure exactly how to share my code with you guys, or if I need to share it all or perhaps just a part of it? So if you can help me with that, I’ll be happy to share.

Meanwhile to any bbPress devs following the thread, I want to say thank you for all that you do, and please consider making this permalink option part of the bbPress core!

I have been wanting to move from Joomla to WordPress for months, as I tend to believe that WordPress is overall easier and better for me and my users, and one of the few things that’s prevented me from making the move was the lack of options in bbPress permalinks. I strongly agree that the URL for a topic should include the name of the forum that topic resides in. (Or at least, admins should be able to choose that option, if they want it.)

[Scott Hartley]

I feel like this should be directed to their page..

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/all-in-one-seo-pack

I will say though that this is a common issue with bbPress and BuddyPress when it comes to SEO tools. They need to find a way to get proper meta descriptions and titles without borking everything :p

[Robin W]

I still can’t seem to mod the caps of Participant role.

ok, I’ll bite once more – can you post EXACTLY what you have as code to fix that, and tell me where you have put it.

and set the forums I wish to be private, to PUBLIC (ironic and backwards that is)

Private groups is my plugin, and yes agree gthat public seems wrong, but I can only work with what bbpress gives me, and use code to improve !

[ugarnono01]

Hi.

I am building my new site and integrating bbpress. I am a novice at coding but my issue is that BBpress won’t work with the theme.

I have got it styled in by creating bbpress.php file in my themes folder and copying single.php over. The issue I have is that the posts will not show. I have threads which appear but any posts created do not show.

Here are some links:

Forum Home: http://sugarnono.co.uk/newdev/sugar-free-forum/
General thread: http://sugarnono.co.uk/newdev/forums/forum/general-talk/ You will see that there are 9 topics and 14 posts yet they do not show.

Any ideas where I have gone wrong?

Thanks

Stephen

[evanevans333]

Ok, on the above theory, I got it to work. Well the functionality anyway. I still can’t seem to mod the caps of Participant role.

But, what I did was use the plugin: “bbp private groups”
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-private-groups/
and set the forums I wish to be private, to PUBLIC (ironic and backwards that is) in the bbPress Forum Attributes for a Forum, and in “bbp private groups” assigning the Subscriber role to the bbp Private Group “role” of GROUP1 (which I aptly named Subscribers). Additionally you need to set a user to that GROUP1 and select the option in “bbp private groups” to add users to that GROUP1 anytime they login (or you can manually in bulk update everyone (or just those matching a particular role) to have that permission).

[Bingo Bongo]

still some work to do….

but, it’s up & running now, and starting to get used 😉

used a couple of widgets here & there (homepage for recent topics, sidebars for /forums/ page)

and a little bit of css tweaking.

starting to get there.

zetaunit.com/forums/

[Stephen Edgar]

I’m pretty sure you’d be able to get what you’re after 🙂

Once bbPress is activated, enable “threaded replies” in the settings.

Use bbp_show_lead_topic(), grab the snippet from https://codex.bbpress.org/bbp_show_lead_topic/ and create a custom plugin using that code snippet.

Then I’d suggest hoping over to the docs and do some reading:

Theme Compatibility

[evanevans333]

I’m starting to get the feeling, that because Forum Roles are not meant to handle Forum privacy (as per the bbPress spec), 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. Is that the intention of bbPress? 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.

If I might back up for a moment, what I’m trying to achieve, is that Forums that I set to Private, contents are not visible by anonymous/bots/spiders, but are visible to registered users of the website (Subscribers, which I can set to automatically default to the Participant Forum role inside bbPress settings). It seems a sane, rational, logical concept. But I do see that this issue has been going on for YEARS.

[evanevans333]

I can confirm though, your fix did not resolve the issue, using the minimal Theme “Twenty Fourteen” with all plugins except “bbPress” disabled. So, I’m not sure how it is fixed for you on your end. Are you running the latest bbPress? Do you have a minimal test configuration?

Thank you anyway though Robin, for your help.

If anyone else can help, I appreciate it. Thanks in advance! I will be monitoring this thread. I need a solution to this ASAP. It’s been almost 3 weeks and it’s holding up our website launch.

[Serchgdl]

As always apologize for my English, it is a translation from google translator. Searching google I got an answer of course to bbpress forums.

The patch works, provided that the issue of the response is made by the author. If it is effected by a moderator or administrator keeps repeating in the line of activity

I looked directly into buddypress forums, but as is almost always the subject had no answer, linking to the core or incompressible explanations and as always in this forum recommend hiring a developer and close the issue. It seems that they forgot the essence of wordpress: Community.

In fact it seems that in the future buddypress will be absorbed by bbpress. It’s just my appreciation and sorry to say nonsense.

WP 4.6
bbPress 2.5.10
Buddypress 2.6.2

The patch works, as long as the issue is made by the author.

Regards

[Robin W]

That’s IE for you !

For some reason that I can’t immediately see, IE is ignoring the background setting, so is just saying it has no background so showing white

I’d suggest you try changing line 999 on dark.css from

/*media all*/
media screen #bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form p, #bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form textarea, #bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form select, #bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form input {
    background: rgba(18, 21, 24, 1);
    color: #fff !important;
    border: 0px !important;
}

to

/*media all*/
media screen #bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form p, #bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form textarea, #bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form select, #bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form input {
    background: rgba(18, 21, 24, 1) !important;
    color: #fff !important;
    border: 0px !important;
}

It may or may not work !

[Robkk]

I don’t think currently there is an importer for ProBoards for bbPress.

Does ProBoards even allow you to export the database from their forum?? If they can that will be a whole lot easier to create an importer.