[Robkk]

If you want a specific view to have images, you would need to create a custom view template called either single-view-recent-with-topic-image.php or view-recent-with-topic-image.php and most of the code would be based on the single-view.php template in the extras folder in the bbPress plugin, you would have to make it custom enough to include the featured image code, and I guess however your users will be able to select a featured image during topic creation.

[Robkk]

Well I don’t entirely understand where you are getting at, but I mean its possible for a user to have 3 different roles.

For example.

Site Role – Subscriber – Default WordPress role
Forum Role – Participant – Default bbPress role
Membership Role – Premium Member – Some paid membership framework plugins role

If you want 1 custom site role with different capabilities that other roles might have, consider creating a custom user role. But be aware of what each capability does, so that you will not give your users permissions that you do not exactly want them to have.

Creating a custom bbPress role guide.

https://codex.bbpress.org/custom-capabilities/

bbPress user roles and capabilities

https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started/before-installing/bbpress-user-roles-and-capabilities/

WordPress roles and capabilities

https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities

And a plugin I would recommend to create a custom user role with custom capabilities would be a plugin called Members by Justin Tadlock.

[Robkk]

I think other moderators thought this was spam.

I can see that it is hard to tell unless you go digging in your sites source code to tell if you are using bbPress.

I knew one day with all these users basically using bbPress as a blog, that a designer one day would customize and create custom templates for bbPress enough to just make it look like a blog.

Interesting and very unique stuff!!

You don’t even have to worry about waiting for bbPress replies for blog posts, because your whole site is mainly using bbPress.

Interesting as hell to see bbPress turn into a news site.

[Joe Greenwood]

I have already posted this question, but has not been approved by moderators. Please approve, has been entire day already, thank you.

I have issue where bbPress HTML code is being written above the <doctype> declaration in my page, but this only happens when not logged in / signed in to WordPress. This is for Forums and Topics pages, and none others. When logged in, then HTML code is written in its proper place. I will attach a screenshot showing both instances, the top being when not signed in (HTML is out of place, before <doctype>), the bottom when signed in (HTML is correctly placed in body, and <doctype> comes first as it should).

Any ideas on where this HTML might be called differently, depending on whether or not user is logged in? I have tried disabling plugins. Perhaps it is something with my theme. My site can be viewed at http://www.lexiconleep.com/forums/forum/leep-questions-answers/ … I wonder if it has something to do with assigning a forum role to anonymous users..? Perhaps anonymous (not logged in) users need to have a forum role … I will look into this. Thanks!

[Robin W]

have you followed

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

and what have you got for step 3?

[Stephen Edgar]

The last version of the import has problems and lost the relation between post and owner.

That’s because the current version only supports phpBB 3.1.x as I stated above.

As you don’t need to worry about any custom modules as bbPress doesn’t support these anyway I still think you are best of upgrading your phpBB database schema to 3.1.x, but here is a 3.0.x alternative for you to try, though no guarantees and I won’t be making any 3.0.x changes etc.

This here is the 3.1.x version: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/includes/admin/converters/phpBB.php?rev=5795

This here is the 3.0.x version:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/includes/admin/converters/phpBB.php?rev=5770

You’ll still need to use bbPress 2.6 alpha with that 3.0.x version.

[Stephen Edgar]

Can you remove a page of topics at a time?

Go to the bbPress topics dashboard: http://example.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=topic

From the dropdown select the forum you want to delete the topics from and click filter, now select the 20 topics from that forum and in the “Bulk Actions” dropdown select “Move to trash” and click apply.

Going back to the repair tools and running those has the forums topic and reply count now been reduced by the number of topics you just deleted?

[ordresser]

I want to do CSS for just the forum thread pages themselves (ie if I change the title color, I don’t want that change to apply to the list of forums or to other parts of my WordPress theme).

I’m working in the style.css file. How can I target bbpress’s templates and pages.phps?

[Stephen Edgar]

I’ve only ever had a handful of people ask and/or help on importing Xenforo to bbPress, I’ve been lucky that I’ve been given copies of the raw database to work on, thats the only reason the bbPress Xenforo importer exists.

There are some bbPress forum tweaks that can be made to improve performance, and as pointed out some of those will ship with bbPress 2.6 (hopefully sooner rather than later), there are also further tweaks that won’t ship with bbPress 2.6 but can be added to further improve performance.

Edit: This site is running on bbPress 2.6, by the end of the week so will wordpress.org/support, over the past couple of weeks bbPress 2.6 has been used to roll out ~25 international (Non English) forums across w.org see: https://make.wordpress.org/meta/2016/07/29/rosetta-forum-upgrades-in-progress/

bbPress 2.6 is very stable right now 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

@aeneas1 I’ve split this into it’s own topic, things can be hard to track otherwise.

Did you do the import with bbPress 2.5.x or 2.6 alpha?

The 2.6 alpha now supports importing from phpBB 3.1.x which fixes quite a few issues with phpBB users, you can get it from https://bbpress.org/download

[Robkk]

@lnangel well for IPs specifically, if you put her IP into the comment blacklist she will be blocked from posting in your forums.

There are also cases where people don’t know that plugins can hook into the comment blacklist with their own custom list, like I have seen issues where a Mojo Marketplace plugin would cause this same error. So if she would use profanity that might be in a custom blacklist for the comment blacklist, she would be blocked.

You can know if it was this, if she sees the error notice listed in the guide.

She could go over the link limit settings in Settings > Disscussion too

From there her actual posts would be set as pending I think.

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

Other things could be spam plugins like Akismet that work with bbPress possibly being too aggressive.

[Robkk]

So you are trying to configure BuddyPress with its own inbuilt bbPress v1 forums? I think the bbPress v1 in BuddyPress (BP Forums) has issues in the last few major version of BuddyPress.

Why not look into just using the latest version of bbPress v2 and BuddyPress and use BuddyPress’ groups feature with bbPress.

https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/

[thegarnet]

I found the excellent article by Tanner Moushey on how to create groups programmaticaly: https://tannermoushey.com/2014/08/create-groups-buddypress/

However I also need to create a forum for each group, and I can’t get his suggestion of using groups_new_group_forum to work. I read other posts of getting function doesnt exist error for bp_forums_new_forum (which groups_new_group_forum calls), but I believe I found the right requires to get that function, and everything it depends on, but now I am getting an error about null several layers down within bb code.

Here is my code so far:

<?php
/* Show the errors in browser */

error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', 1);

/** Load WordPress Bootstrap */
require_once( dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/../admin.php' );

/** Load WordPress dashboard API */
require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php');

wp_dashboard_setup();

do_action('bbpress_init');

?>

<H1>Add Groups</H1>

<?php

$args = array(
'group_id' => 0,
'creator_id' => 0,
'name' => 'California',
'description' => 'For people located in California',
'slug' => 'california',
'status' => 'public',
'enable_forum' => 1,
'date_created' => bp_core_current_time()
);

?>

<p>Creating group '<?php echo $args[name] ?>'</p>

<?php

$newgroupid = groups_create_group($args);

?>

<?php

////////////////////////////
// Now creating a new forum

// Not needed for get groups_create_group - this already got included
// require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-groups/bp-groups-forums.php');

// For bp_forums_new_forum
require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bp-forums-functions.php');

// For bb_new_forum
require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/bb-includes/class.bb-walker.php');
require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/bb-admin/includes/functions.bb-admin.php');

// For bb_current_user_can
require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/bb-includes/functions.bb-capabilities.php');

// Example from: http://buddypress.wp-a2z.org/oik_api/groups_new_group_forum/
$newforumid = groups_new_group_forum($newgroupid,'California','For people located in California');

?>

<table>
<tr><td>Newly created group id:</td><td><?php echo $newgroupid ?></td><td>Groups</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Newly created forum id:</td><td><?php echo $newforumid ?></td><td>Forums</td>
</tr>

</table>


It throws this error:

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function get_var() on null in /Users/eyespider/projects/justiceserved/local/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/bb-admin/includes/functions.bb-admin.php:992 Stack trace:
#0 /Users/eyespider/projects/justiceserved/local/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bp-forums-functions.php(123): bb_new_forum(Array)
#1 /Users/eyespider/projects/justiceserved/local/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-groups/bp-groups-forums.php(47): bp_forums_new_forum(Array)
#2 /Users/eyespider/projects/justiceserved/local/wp-admin/custom/add-groups2.php(67): groups_new_group_forum(38, 'California', 'For people loca...')
#3 {main} thrown in /Users/eyespider/projects/justiceserved/local/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/bb-admin/includes/functions.bb-admin.php on line 992

[Robkk]

Do you only have bbPress activated, or do you have some bbPress image upload plugins activated as well?
You can try some plugin troubleshooting if you haven’t yet.

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

You can also reinstall bbPress and see if that fixes anything too.

[Robkk]

Instead of going through each template and possibly changing this, you can also use a php code function listed int this topic.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/resizing-avatars/#post-148625

The original source of their code seems to be from this guide.

https://schaltgetriebe.wordpress.com/2014/04/06/increase-avatar-size-in-bbpress/

[Robkk]

Is this a site you created? It looks pretty darn good and it seems to try to not stay with bbPress’ default design, and everything is unique, which I very much like to see designers do.

As for what you asked in this topic, you can do this with the help of some jquery, and a conditional whether the user is logged in or not.

This will have links to basic code for a show/hide toggle for a simple div. Just remember to use the topic forms container ID in any code you are going to use.

http://www.w3schools.com/jquery/jquery_hide_show.asp

This is a possible recommendation of a conditional you should use in a function you would create with whatever modal login plugin you are using.

if (!jQuery(this).hasClass('active') && !jQuery('body').hasClass('logged-in')) {

[Willson R]

Hi i installed wordpress multisite, How to use video tags in bbpress replies?

[Robin W]

In which case this is the easiest way.

create a directory on your theme called ‘bbpress’
ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/loop-single-topic.php
Make a copy of this file, and put in in the directory called bbpress that you created above, so you end up with
wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/loop-single-topic.php

bbPress will now use this template instead of the original
and you can amend this

so go to line 60 which says

<span class="bbp-topic-started-by"><?php printf( __( 'Started by: %1$s', 'bbpress' ), bbp_get_topic_author_link( array( 'size' => '14' ) ) ); ?></span>

and change the ‘size’ => ’14’ to a larger number for instance ‘size’ => ’20’

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress 2.6 has dropped support for importing from phpBB 3.0.x, you need to upgrade your phpBB database to 3.1.x before importing into bbPress 2.6

[Stephen Edgar]

Maybe this? https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2204

[Stephen Edgar]

I’d suggest switching your “password protect child pages” plugin to a “membership” type plugin:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=members

I’m sure one of them will support what you are looking for and allow you to continue using a single password where bbPress is also behind that.

[Stephen Edgar]

Try importing using the beta of bbPress 2.6, it includes heaps of import enhancements, let me know how you go 🙂

You can get it from https://bbpress.org/download

[Stephen Edgar]

This is an aMember issue around supporting bbPress’ roles

A quick search of their forum shows many bbPress users asking the same question, but never getting a reply http://www.amember.com/forum/search/330361/?q=bbpress&o=date

The current suggestions seem to be if you have a license is to create a support ticket for help from aMember.

[Stephen Edgar]

I’ve not heard or seen such a plugin….

That said, I swapped out “topic tag” for “term” and searched the plugins repo:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?type=term&q=autocomplete+term

There may be others but this one stood out: https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-tags/

Add some tools for taxonomies : Terms suggestion, Mass Edit Terms, Auto link Terms, Ajax Autocompletion, Click Terms, Auto terms, Advanced manage term

It doesn’t list bbPress as being supported but maybe it could be adapted to support bbPress or support for bbPress added to the plugin.

[Stephen Edgar]

See https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2973 for further information and bbPress 2.6 PHP 7.x compatability.