[Robin W]

if you just want forums where people can have topics which are discussed, then bbpress will be fine.

Otherwise is you want private messaging and group activity streams, then you may want buddypress, or run bbpress with buddypress.

[smartfinds]

Hi Robin,

Thanks for your help. Not having used bbPress or BuddyPress…is there a difference? Do you have a suggestion?

Our needs are basic for what we’re trying to do.

Thanks.

[Robin W]

yes if you use bbpress/buddypress, but add my private groups plugin, then you can add groups which can have separate access to some forums, and if wanted common access to others

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbp-private-groups

[smartfinds]

Hello,

We are looking to setup a WordPress website in which we are bringing Group A together with Group B to exchange knowledge.

Since this is WordPress we were investigating bbPress, BuddyPress, and something like CM Answers.

Anyone have any experience being able to separate registered users into specific groups using any of these plugins?

Thanks for your help.

[evanevans333]

I don’t think so. According to this, those caps are not listed for Participant:

bbPress User Roles and Capabilities

But it makes sense they should be part of Participant caps right? I’m not insane? 🙂

[evanevans333]

Oh no kidding. Well yeah that makes sense right? On my install, even with all plugins off (except bbpress), the user Participant does not get Read Private Topics and Replies perms. Yes, I can confirm that.

I am using the Thrive Community theme by Dunkahkdis, and he said that was not happening inside his Theme and to come over to bbPress and ask in here. He’s not irresponsible either. He’s an amazing coder, and excellent with tech support. But, you never know. You never know.

So, just for clarity. You are saying, outright, that the Participant Role by default in bbPress is supposed to HAVE the caps: Read Private Topics and Replies
?

[Robin W]

ok – thanks for that

Having re-read your thread then I think what you want is:

User : Participant
Forum : Private
Should be able to read, publish toics and create replies

which is what bbpress does as default.

Can you confirm that this is what you want, and what is not happening, and if so can you let us know

what theme you are using
what plugins you are using

[Robin W]

given previous experience of one line questions – can you try and write a bit more about quite what you want to do with bbpress.

[Robin W]

ps

I just cribbed this code from elsewhere, so the capabilities may not be the participant ones, you’ll need to check what they should be

bbPress User Roles and Capabilities

[john7456]

Hi, I have been using punbb, but now I would like to change it to bbpress 2.0. I found unipoint provides data import service. Can someone give me guidelines and suggestions about this? Also I want to know whether it is efficient enough for me or else would like to get some alternatives. Expecting your valuable suggestions.
Thank you.

[evanevans333]

Well I appreciate the fast answer. Thanks for that. And yeah, I tried all those plugins. They no longer can reach in there and modify the Participant role. That role’s caps are apparently hard coded into the bbPress plugin itself, somewhere. I sure would like to transfer the ability that Moderator has to Participator, just on those two issues, Read_Private_Topics, Read_Private_Replies. That just makes sense, is logical, and practical. A lot of people have been posting about this, trying to make this right, for years now. We need at least a solution that works moving forward.

The concept is, that if you set a forum to Private, it’s because you don’t want anonymous users and search engines having access to those posts. It’s not because you want to restrict registered users from seeing the content, especially if they are Participants. And if to Participate means to just POST, not reply or see topics and replies in private forums, than there needs to be a User Role with those upgraded permissions, between Moderator and Participant. Because beyond Private, there is even the Hidden permission level. And that’s good for Moderator/Admin level access, but it’s too much if you just want users to be able to see and reply (Participate) in content that is not publicly accessible by anonymous website visitors and search engines.

Well, very well, I hope some fix comes someday. Somebody who coded bbPress needs to come up with an idea here.

[Stephen Edgar]

This is fantastic @idlamalif, I’ve added it to https://bbpress.org/about/examples/

[Arturo]

When using a translated bbpress, some titles in the WordPress Admin Dashboard for “Right Now in Forums” are missing. Where can I check this in the code?

Here is a screeshot http://prnt.sc/ccs85f

Using bbPress 2.5.10-6063

[mglasser]

I am sorry, but I cannot recall the fix for this. Our web site security is sort of messed up and cobbled together, but it is working now. I think “bbpress Advanced Capabilities” plugin is the one that lets me alter the view_private_topics and view_private_replies for an individual use. And I do have to use this for manually created users.

I am not sure that I did anything to edit a role, but again it has been so long I could be wrong. Part of me feels like it fixed itself with plugin and/or WP version updates.

FYI, a few months later I had these same symptoms with version 4.4 of WP, which was solved by switching the forums from Private to Public, saving it, and then switching it back. And doing that for every forum.

Good luck.

[evanevans333]

Any progress on this? I am having this problem, and I am using the latest version of bbPress. Also at this point, bbPress Advanced Capabilities, nor Capability manager Enhanced, nor Members, nor any other Role Editor, will allow me to edit the Participant role.

[Bingo Bongo]

Hi –

(For our forums here – http://www.zetaunit.com/forums/ – W.P. V 4.5.3, using Avada 4.02)

I see in the documentation that it is possible to replace the default bbpress wordpress template for

the Forum Root Slug ‘Forums’

by adding a page in WordPress called /forums/

and then inserting the bbpress shortcode for forum archives.

I tried this also with ‘forum’ for individual forums, and I see other Slugs available in Settings > Forum

Single Forum Slugs

Custom slugs for single forums, topics, replies, tags, views, and search.

Forum
Topic
Topic Tag
Topic View
Reply
Search

Am I missing something, or is there a simple way to replace each of the pages used by bbpress by default, just by creating pages named e.g. ‘topic’, ‘topic-view’ etc? And then insert the relevant shortcode for that content?

It seems like ‘it should be there’ but can’t find documentation apart from customising my child theme etc.

Thanks in advance 🙂

[vizcano]

i have a personalized translation of forum, i was told to put it in a folder on my theme so everytime bbpress updates languages mine wouldnt be afected, it was working fine until last update. it made changes on the translation, and it wont change the translation for mine

can anyone help me?

thanks

[kgroneman]

I’m looking into installing bbPress. I would like to know how many levels of sub-categories are supported? For example if I were to set up forums for various products I’m thinking of something like this, with some even having more sub levels:

[Category X]
[Product A]
[Installation]
[Administration]
[Product B]
[Installation]
[Administration]
[Category Y]
[Product C]
[Installation]
[Administration]
[Product D]
[Installation]
[Administration]

Thanks in advance

[senatorman]

i’ve update phpbb to 3.1.9 and use BBpress 2.6 alpha

I’ve downloaded te latest version of the phpbb.php importfilefrom:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/includes/admin/converters/phpBB.php?rev=5795

When i run the converting i get this error:

Repair any missing information: Continue
WordPress databasefout: [Unknown column ‘forums.forum_topics_real’ in ‘field list’]
SELECT convert(forums.forum_id USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_id,convert(forums.parent_id USING “utf8mb4”) AS parent_id,convert(forums.forum_topics_approved USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_topics_approved,convert(forums.forum_posts_approved USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_posts_approved,convert(forums.forum_topics_real USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_topics_real,convert(forums.forum_posts USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_posts,convert(forums.forum_name USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_name,convert(forums.forum_desc USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_desc,convert(forums.left_id USING “utf8mb4”) AS left_id,convert(forums.forum_type USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_type,convert(forums.forum_status USING “utf8mb4”) AS forum_status FROM phpbb_forums AS forums LIMIT 0, 100
Geen forums te converteren
Verwijder standaard wachtwoorden van WordPress gebruikers (500 – 599)
Verwijder standaard wachtwoorden van WordPress gebruikers (400 – 499)
Verwijder standaard wachtwoorden van WordPress gebruikers (300 – 399)
Verwijder standaard wachtwoorden van WordPress gebruikers (200 – 299)
Verwijder standaard wachtwoorden van WordPress gebruikers (100 – 199)
Verwijder standaard wachtwoorden van WordPress gebruikers (0 – 99)
Gebruikers aan het converteren (500 – 599)
Gebruikers aan het converteren (400 – 499)
Gebruikers aan het converteren (300 – 399)
Gebruikers aan het converteren (200 – 299)
Gebruikers aan het converteren (100 – 199)
Gebruikers aan het converteren (0 – 99)
Geen gegevens om op te schonen
Conversie starten

[stall20080]

my problem is I using a page called “forums” for index [bbp-forum-index] with sidebar left.
it works great until I click the breadcrumbs home/forums/……. to goback to forums.
then Im getting the url version with no sidebars.

my page details:
forums
siteurl/forums/

bbpress setting no changed still

Forum Root = forums
Forum Prefix =ticked
Forum root should show =forum link

[MalMac]

Continuing on….

In my themes function.php file I have the following which creates my thumbnail:

	// /bbpress/templates/default/content-single-forum
	add_action('bbp_template_before_single_forum', 'pym_print_featured_image_single_forum', 11);
	add_action('bbp_template_before_single_forum', 'pym_print_forum_description', 12);
	
	function pym_print_featured_image_single_forum() {
		if (has_post_thumbnail()) {
			echo '<div class="pym-bbp-topic-thumbnail">';
			echo get_the_post_thumbnail(null, 'thumbnail' );
			echo '</div>';
		}
	}

I have been calling this elsewhere in my template using ”

 <?php do_action( 'bbp_template_before_single_forum' ); ?>

I am now trying to edit content-single-forum.php to call this thumbnail using the following:

<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'loop', 'topics' ); ?>

How do I go about getting the thumbnail to be called in the loop?

Thanks, Malcolm

[Thakksy]

Thanks @robkk I added that css and it ended up removing the entire bbpress topic widget. I’ll have to keep thinking of way 🙁

[Stephen Edgar]

Maybe try deleting any bbpress-es_ES.po files, and then get new translations by going to http://example.com/wp-admin/update-core.php and click “Update Translations”

[Robkk]

I think your looking for an unread posts plugin. There are quite a few you can use for bbPress.

bbPress Pencil Unread

bbPress Mark as Read

bbPress New Topics

bbPress unread Posts v2

bbPress go to first unread post

I personally like bbPress Pencil Unread, because with a few lines of custom css I can either have the new label or a custom image before the forum/topic title like in the other plugins. And because it has a template tag to include a mark all as read button somewhere. Other users like mark as read as it is close to vBull functionality and the go to first unread post plugin as its close to phpbb functionality. You probably would just need to use Unread Posts v2.

[rateyourway]

Ok i see but I still don’t know how to be able to change it.

in the forum index it appears:

FORO TEMAS ENTRADAS REFRESCAR

but when you click on a forum topic then it works fine:

DEBATE USUARIOS PUBLICACIONES ÚLTIMO MENSAJE

Último mensaje is the correct! but not refrescar…maybe i will wait for bbpress 2.6 🙂