[Robin W]

which of the files …I should be using to customize the bbPress topic page…which file name I should rename it to

You’ll need to say what customisation you want to do, as that will affect my answer, if you can detail what you are after, I’ll try to help, but I do need details as I said above. I’m not trying to be awkward, just trying to help !

[Robin W]

@aeneas1 I don’t think that plugin should be hosted on wordpress plugins, and I’ve asked the plugin review team to see if it violates the plugin rules.

There is an import phpbb in the bbpress software – I think you may have seen it

Dashboard>tools>forums and you can select phpbb – did you have an issue with this?

[pcpro178]

You are correct. There is no functionality missing, and I am trying to get the bbPress pages to look like they fit with the rest of my site (i.e. background and header–theme elements). My last reply (#176623) was badly mangled by the auto-populated page elements from my site (did not see that coming), and Akismet keeps blocking my posts, so I have no idea when anyone will see this. :”’ (

Please correct me if I am using the wrong approach, but what I am trying to do is figure out which of the files at wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress that I should be using to customize the bbPress topic page (e.g. ‘sopearly.com/topic/welcome-to-the-sopearly-community/’) and which file name I should rename it to: plugin-bbpress.php, bbpress.php, forums.php, forum.php.

I realize I’m having a lot of trouble with this. Thanks so much for your help. 🙂

[Robkk]

do i need both bbpress and buddypress?

Depends on what you might need for your site, but technically no.

assuming i don’t “need” both, is it advantageous to have both?

Having BuddyPress allows you to use Group Forums, wordpress toolbar notifications for new topics and replies, better profile and custom profile fields, Members page, and a bunch of other stuff that might be useful if you want a more featureful forum.

do i need a wordpress page? i thought this was the case, so i registered and signed up for an annual wordpress account.. now that i’ve installed bbpress, it appears that i don’t actually need a wordpress page or an annual account, is this correct?

You don’t need a page, its not on the recommeded requirements for set up in my opinion. It might be required for a workaround for a theme/bbPress related bug. What do you mean by annual account? Just so you know bbPress won’t work on wordpress.com sites, and only self hosted ones.

how do i import a phpbb 3.1 forum into wordpress? i read the tutorial but a phpbb import tool isn’t included among the other import tools…

for 3.1 phpbb forums look into using bbPress 2.6 alpha, because the current version of the phpbb import in the stable version of bbPress does not work for version 3.1 phpbb forums.

my goal is to set up a phpbb-type forum/discussion, i’m not interested a wordpress blog or the like, just a discussion board. is this something i can achieve with bbpress, bbbuddy, the combo of both?

Its possible to create a forum with some features sort of like phpbb with the help of BuddyPress and bbPress, and quite possibly some other plugins that might be useful.

[Robkk]

it’s enough to send a prospective wordpress user running in the direction of other alternatives

bbPress has a forum import tool in Tools > Forums > Import Forums (free and open source code, so any dev can just improve the program how they want then official devs can commit changes or not).

[aeneas1]

no experience with wordpress or bbpress but it looked great so i installed it… next up was an attempt to “import” my phpbb data to bbpress using the dashboard import tool but, sadly, a phpbb install plugin was not among those listed in the dashboard so i had to search the plugins directory… not knowing which one was best, i blindly chose the “CMS2CMS: phpBB to bbPress Forum Convertor” and began the migration process.. well surprise, surprise, shortly after the program began the migration a popup window reared its ugly head asking for $38 in order to complete a full migration… what the f is that all about? so is the wordpress life? wordpress plugin life? plugins are listed with no indication that they cost x amount of dollars until after you install the thing and try to use it? what sort of nonsense is that? how does this practice fly with wordpress? it’s enough to send a prospective wordpress user running in the direction of other alternatives, good grief…

[aeneas1]

i’m having a bit of a tough time understanding the wordpress flow and my exact needs in order to setup a standalone wordpress-based forum…..

– do i need both bbpress and buddypress?
– assuming i don’t “need” both, is it advantageous to have both?
– do i need a wordpress page? i thought this was the case, so i registered and signed up for an annual wordpress account.. now that i’ve installed bbpress, it appears that i don’t actually need a wordpress page or an annual account, is this correct?
– how do i import a phpbb 3.1 forum into wordpress? i read the tutorial but a phpbb import tool isn’t included among the other import tools…

my goal is to set up a phpbb-type forum/discussion, i’m not interested a wordpress blog or the like, just a discussion board. is this something i can achieve with bbpress, bbbuddy, the combo of both? or for a standalone forum is phpbb actually recommended over a wordpress-based option? thank you for your time.

[Aluarth]

Hi!

We’re migrating from IPB to Buddypress/bbpress and now I’ve got some questions. With IPB we had the possibility to attach different rights to certain topics/forums. For example: we got a crew-forum, with all kind of topics in it. These topics and forum are only visible for crewmembers, ‘normal’ members can’t see this topics. Is there a way to manage this in Buddypress? Maybe with a plugin or something?

Thank you very much!

Greetings,
Aluarth

[theredheadhenry]

I found this plugin that takes all the usernames that are commented on a post and makes the link go to a different page. I’m trying to make it call the bbp_user_profile_url. This way, when the link of a user is clicked on from the comments it goes to the users bbpress profile.

My PHP is a little rusty, so I deliberately coded this wrong hoping someone can see what I’m trying to accomplish. My code modifications are at the very end.

if ( ! function_exists( 't5_comment_uri_to_author_archive' ) )
{
    add_filter( 'get_comment_author_url', 't5_comment_uri_to_author_archive' );

    function t5_comment_uri_to_author_archive( $uri )
    {
        global $comment;

        // We do not get the real comment with this filter.
        if ( empty ( $comment )
            or ! is_object( $comment )
            or empty ( $comment->comment_author_email )
            or ! $user = get_user_by( 'email', $comment->comment_author_email )
        )
        {
            return $uri;
        }

        return <a href="<?php bbp_user_profile_url( bbp_get_current_user_id() ); ?>" ></a>( $user->ID );
    }
}

[lamitdeptvolunteer]

Hi,

Thanks for such a well thought out plug-in and this forum. I am a *total* newbie at this… and this seems totally confounding to me. Your help will be appreciated.

Apparently when I enable bbpress, it adds an option for the user to delete themselves off of the right hand menu, with Settings etc.

This plug-in is being proposed to be used in a wp-based intranet.

See, we don’t want the users to annihilate themselves. So it seems like a bug, not a feature, if I can’t disable it.

Thanks

[pcpro178]

Thanks, Robin. I’ve already done that for the Forum Index and Forum pages. In concert with a few .htaccess redirects, it works fine, as can be seen here:

https://sopearly.com/forums/
https://sopearly.com/forum-introductions/

Any links to the bbPress-generated https://sopearly.com/forum/introductions/ are redirected to https://sopearly.com/forum-introductions/.

Redirect /forum/introductions/ https://sopearly.com/forum-introductions/

The biggest problem I am having right now is with the Topic pages, since I do not have control over which discussion topics be created by my users in each of the forums; the Topic page links are automatically generated by bbPress. Here is a good example:

https://sopearly.com/topic/welcome-to-the-sopearly-community/

I can make the colors, spacing, etc. match the rest of my site with a little work, but the page backgrounds and header are managed by the theme I’m using. What I’ve been able to gather by the reading I’ve done is that I should be able to take the contents of one of the files located at wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress, insert that into the appropriate (copied) theme file (single, template, etc.), and rename that file to one of the following:

• plugin-bbpress.php
• bbpress.php
• forums.php
• forum.php

I can get with my theme’s support to find out which of their files I should start with, but (unless you think there is a better way) I guess my question is which of the files from wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress should I use, and to which of the four filenames should I copy it in my child theme? Thanks so much for your help. 🙂

[BekBek20]

Sorry if my response was not good.

What i meant was, Your suggestion was together with a few adjustments i made to the code, which i used to get the alphabetically arrangement of a specific forum topic.

Now i want to arrange another specific forum topic in a specic order using there ID i guess.

For example, I want to arrange the following topic to another arrangement.

Topic ID
I enjoy bbpress 655
I want bbpress 658
I love bbpress 660
bbpress 662

To be arranged like this

Topic ID
I love bbpress 660
I want bbpress 658
bbpress 662
I enjoy bbpress 655

That’s what i want to do now, I was hoping you could help me.

Thanks for your time

[Robin W]

Try adding this to your functions file:

function amend_bbpress_search ($args) {
$args[‘post_type’] = ‘any’ ;
return $args ;
}

add_filter (‘bbp_before_has_search_results_parse_args’ , ‘amend_bbpress_search’) ;

Functions files and child themes – explained !

[Fuskeduske]

Hi Packzap,

Are you by any means running Akismet, or another anti-spam plugin? Akismet can actively prevent spam in bbpress, but does so kinda aggressively.

[Stephen Edgar]

The import was completed successfully.

Yay, did you use bbPress 2.6-alpha?

The imported topics still remain uncategorised though. I had a look at the support ticket at https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2380 . I tried the repair tool, but it did not work too.

You need to run each of the repair tools and that should fix those up.

That Trac ticket is quite old and really related to any of these issues.

I had a widget on my theme’s sidebar which displayed the recent posts feed from the forums. The topics were visible there too.

You’ll need to add bbPress “Recent Topics” widget to your theme, do that from the customizer.

I am ready to take the pain to categorise the topics themselves. Is it in an importer bug that the topics were not categorised? How can I categorise them manually?

It shouldn’t be a bug, but I’m not entirely sure what you mean by “I categorise them manually”?

By this do you mean that your topics are not forums?
Do your topics not have topic-tags categorising each topic?

[pcpro178]

I’ve read a lot of the documentation and posts on this, but it unfortunately is not sinking into my skull. From what I can tell, there are basically three pages to the standard bbPress installation & usage: Forum Index page, Forum page, and Topic page. I saw something referring to the wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress folder, available after installing bbPress. How do I know which of these files to copy/modify, and to which file name should I copy it? Any help or insight you might be able to offer would be appreciated. I am completely lost on this.

[uschesch]

I have my wordpress search configured to include bbpress forum topics; however, the bbpress search only searches forums topics. How do I include wordpress pages in the forum search?

Thank you.

[Stephen Edgar]

The bbp_setup_current_user issue is not caused by bbPress, bbPress alerts you of this issue though because it is important for bbPress. If you have disabled ALL your plugins and the error remains you MUST switch the theme to Twenty Thirteen (or Twenty Fourteen, Fifteen, Sixteen etc).

Once you know what plugin or theme causes the issue then you can contact the author and let them know they need to fix it and problem solved.

[jbarbu]

Anyone know how to troubleshoot why bbPress notifications go to some people but not others? For example: I gave the same permissions to a handful of people. Those permissions have notifications when there is a new topic or a reply to a topic… only some of the people with those permissions are receiving the new topic e-mail notification. I’ve looked in junk folders (not there)… have no idea why some people aren’t receiving them. Any idea how to troubleshoot this?

[packzap]

Some users are getting their posts and new topics flagged in my bbPress/Wordpress site as spam. They are long-time contributors with valid and thoughtful comments. It seems that bbPress occasionally gets too aggressive flagging valid posts as spam. I am running the latest bbPress (2.5.10) and WordPress (4.5.3) versions. Is there anyway to correct this situation?

[Robin W]

interesting question – bbpress will add the default role you set in forums settings, so if you set this to participant this would sort the majority of users out from a forum perspective.

Which then makes this more of a wordpress question – in essence you could set up the users manually and click to not send them emails, so they would be on the live site when you transfer, but then of course they wouldn’t know their password, so it is a bit of a catch 22 !

[n1fdadmin]

I have been using bbPress on my site for sometime and it has been working fine. Recently, I notice that I am getting a 404 error when trying to view page 2 – 16 of the topic list for “All Forums”. I am using standard slugs and paths for all of my forums and they are all setup to be private for logged in users. Viewing of page 2 or higher of topics works fine for any of the individual forums on my site but when I try to do this for n1fd.org/forums/page/2/ I get a 404 error. I have tried disabling all of my recently installed plugins and I’ve tried regenerating all permalinks and neither of these steps helped. I am using the standard Twenty Fourteen theme.

[BekBek20]

Hello everyone.

I have been issues with sorting my BBpress forum topic on the front end.

So i tried to use a custom function i got from one of the threads.

Here is the code i used.

//* Change sort order of Topics within a specified bbpress forum
function my_custom_display_topic_index_query ($args) {
$thisforumid = bbp_get_forum_id();

if($thisforumid == 43135) {
$args[‘orderby’] = ‘date’;
$args[‘order’] = ‘ASC’;
}

return $args;
}
add_filter(‘bbp_before_has_topics_parse_args’, ‘my_custom_display_topic_index_query ‘ );

and i got this error

Warning: call_user_func_array() expects parameter 1 to be a valid callback, function ‘my_custom_display_topic_index_query ‘ not found or invalid function name in /home/flexol5/public_html/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 235

Warning: array_merge(): Argument #2 is not an array in /home/flexol5/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/functions.php on line 1419

I don’t know what i did wrong or maybe the coding structure of bbpress as changed. I would like someone to help with a way to arrange a specific forum topic in ascending order.

Thanks

[expectancy]

For anyone that hasn’t solved this yet, it’s actually a very easy and quick fix!

In the W3 spec (http://www.w3.org/TR/dom/), the “insertBefore” method requires 2 arguments. The second can be null, but it is still required. It looks like IE doesn’t require the second argument (which is why it works in IE as is) while Chrome, Firefox, and Safari do.

bbpress/templates/default/js/reply.js – line 18
Added a null argument as the second argument on “insertBefore”.

Before Fix: reply.parentNode.insertBefore(respond);
After Fix: reply.parentNode.insertBefore(respond, null);

reply.parentNode.insertBefore(respond, null);
if ( post && postId )
	post.value = postId;
parent.value = parentId;
cancel.style.display = '';

[androguider]

The import was completed successfully. The imported topics still remain uncategorised though. I had a look at the support ticket at https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2380 . I tried the repair tool, but it did not work too. I had a widget on my theme’s sidebar which displayed the recent posts feed from the forums. The topics were visible there too.

I am ready to take the pain to categorise the topics themselves. Is it in an importer bug that the topics were not categorised? How can I categorise them manually?

Best Regards