[Yossi Aharon]

I recently migrated a phpBB forum to bbPress. I currently use 2.6 alpha version. The participants count of all topic is 0. When I try to run the fixing tool it reset all the topics to 1. Even if there are several participants and it happen also for a new topics on the forum after the migration. I think that it doesn’t count the gusets, the participants who don’t have account on the forum. It should also count the guest participants because for a forum that allow to guests to post topics there is no point to show the count of participants if all topics shows 0.

[Robin W]

bbPress is tested with wordpress default themes. It maybe a conflict – you need to check plugins and themes

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[Robin W]

bbPress is tested with wordpress default themes. It maybe a conflict – you need to check plugins and themes

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[Blaze Miskulin]

Fresh install of WordPress 4.5.2
Fresh install of bbPress 2.5.9-6017
Only other plugin: WP Spamshield
Theme: Moon
Site: GeekNiche.com
All settings left at default.

As Admin/Keymaster, I am unable to create new topics or reply to topics already posted, when in the forums. I can post a new topic from the dashboard.

The error (when trying to post from the forums) reads:
ERROR: You do not have permission to reply.

To test, I created a new user with the “participant” role. That user can create new topics and reply to topics. It’s only the Keymaster who is forbidden from posting.

This would appear to be a problem. 🙂

[jhayghost]

Hello,

I implemented a basic BBPress to our secured site. all members are registered and automatically assign them to participants. But after a week when I visited some topics went to trash, spam and closed. I checked bbpress code and I can not find any cron task and I`m not using Akismet at all.

I hope you can help me.

Many Thanks 🙂

[stevecl]

WordPress 4.5.2 running Sydney theme
Very new to this, I have a forum on my site and have installed BBpress search in the side bar, unfortunatly the only results that comeup on any search is the last item I have posted in my blog.
Would appriciate any help on this.

Thanks

[vivnt]

When I try to post an image using bbpress, I click the insert image button and this happens.

View post on imgur.com

How can I make it not overlap each other?

[Robkk]

Use the listed function on this page, and use it to get the id of a reply, that is the response to another reply, and then you can use this with other bbPress functions to get a threaded replies information.

http://hookr.io/plugins/bbpress/2.5.8/functions/bbp_reply_to/

[Robin W]

you can achieve this with forum roles eg

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

if you want it across all forums

or if you just want one of several to be restricted, then I’ve recently added this to my private groups plugin

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-private-groups/

see topic permissions tab

[Robkk]

@rda5009

Or how would I go about adding the reference lookup to obtain the user’s bp group(s), the forum tied to that bp group(s), and then display the recent 5-10 topics?

If you are really not that good with code, try to hire a developer to create this for you.

Here is a couple of links that might be helpful though.

http://hookr.io/plugins/buddypress/#index=g&search=bp_get_group

http://hookr.io/plugins/buddypress/#index=i&search=bp_is

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

https://github.com/ntwb/bbPress/blob/master/src/includes/common/widgets.php#L674

[designbysue]

I have 3 forums on my site. I have them set to private so a user needs to login to see and post. To explain lets call them A, B and C. Users may have the following access:
A only
B only
A & B
C only
A & C
A & B
A, B and C
Can someone tell me if this is possible with bbPress’ programming or if I need an additional plugin – and what plugin would be suggested.

If anyone can help me on this I would be greatly appreciative. I have been working hours on this and can’t see how to accomplish it.

Thanks
Sue

[Robkk]

Lynqs suggestion in the topic you linked to will not work if you just put his code into a text widget, because the text widget does not output PHP just HTML.

I see you just placed the bbPress login form shortcode into a text widget, why not just use the bbPress profile widget which includes a login form and register, lost password, and logout links.

[Robkk]

As I state in this post, you may not need to even add an emoticons plugin, older conservatives may not even use it, but they might every now and then use the simple smilies like :) :( >:( :P

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/smiley-emoticons/#post-175672

[Robkk]

1. Robins plugin uses the same file that has been tossed around these forums for the past 2 or so years.

https://github.com/robkk/bbPress-Hierarchical-Forum-and-Category-Layout

4. You should probably just keep them, as they help with moderation on the frontend. There is a link in the description to show all posts including ones that may be pending moderation. The yellow ones just help notify users whats up, so if they cannot post for soem reason and there is no notice, they would not know what the issue is.

Here is a link to the code though.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/where-can-i-remove-the-this-forum-contains-topics-and-themes/#post-167642

5. If you are minifying your CSS, then I say do not worry about this feature.

I don’t really think there is a best practice for forum rules/admin content, it is whatever works for you and makes most sense in the end.

[Robin W]

bbpress uses the wordpress system of gravatar, so you’ll need to do that

https://en.gravatar.com/

[r083r7]

How do I upload my avatar on this site? On bbPress.org? Went to edit my profile but don’t see an option.

[fpradmin]

Thank you both for the help. I installed the “Simple Custom CSS” Plugin and fixed both issues by adding the following code there, after removing the code to “get sidebars” in bbpress.php

/* Change Post Font Color to Black */
.post-inner .entry{ color: #000; }

/* Increase Forums to Full-Width of Page - after removing get sidebar code from bbpressphp */
.bbpress .main-inner,
.bbpress .main,
.page-template-full-width .main-inner,
.page-template-full-width .main  {
  background: none !important;
  padding-right: 0 !important;
  padding-left: 0 !important;
}

/* Increase Font Size on various items in bbPress */
#bbpress-forums,
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-lead-topic,
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-topics,
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-forums,
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-replies,
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-search-results,
#bbpress-forums .bbp-forum-info .bbp-forum-content,
#bbpress-forums p.bbp-topic-meta,
div.bbp-breadcrumb,
div.bbp-topic-tags,
span.bbp-admin-links a,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-author .bbp-author-role,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-author .bbp-author-role,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-author .bbp-author-role,
span.bbp-author-ip,
div.bbp-template-notice p,
#bbpress-forums #bbp-your-profile fieldset span.description  {
	font-size: 16px !important;
}

#bbpress-forums .bbp-forums-list a {
  font-size: 18px;
}

li.bbp-forum-info a.bbp-forum-title,
li.bbp-topic-title a.bbp-topic-permalink,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-content p,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-content p,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-content p {
  font-size: 20px;
}

[Robkk]

These are not BuddyPress notifications, but are in fact bbPress email subscriptions right??

[Robkk]

Yeah you can’t do what you want now using that specific plugin, you can using widget logic, or creating a bbpress specific sidebar for all the widgets you want/not want to display on bbPress pages.

Contact the display widgets plugin author to possibly add this feature to hide/show widgets on bbPress user profiles, and maybe specifically the edit profile page. All they would need is just use these supplied bbPress conditionals.

bbp_is_single_user_edit()
bbp_is_single_user()

[Robkk]

There are a ton of social login plugins that will work, just search for them here.

There are plugins that can autopost bbPress topics to twitter like bbp-tweet, and many other different ways like using Jetpack or NextScripts: Social Networks Auto-Poster.

Allowing an anonymous forum, but allow twitter social registration to your site…making sure that the thread posters topic is created on the thread posters twitter page, and each reply post reply to that users twitter page post…all sounds like custom development, and you should try to find a developer to create this for you.

[Robkk]

The last three items are probably added by some plugin that hooks into the registration form. bbPress’ registration form template uses the same hook as the WordPress default registration form, so any plugin that hooks into one will hook into the other.

[bushell86]

Hi,

I have installed bbpress on my website and it works, but it looks messed up.

http://matchedbetting.review/forum/

If someone could at least point me in the right direction to get started I’d be grateful – to get the layout look half decent. Also the sub pages don’t have a sidebar too (which I think I have found stuff on the forum to help me with that).

Thanks

[walterfenley]

Hi there,
i am going to use bbpress for my upcoming forum but, i have some question if anyone can help i will be very thankful to him.
Make user register and login only through twitter.

And such users who logged in through twitter can post.

It will be even better if a thread is automatically added to the twitter page of the thread poster.

If will be even better if the replies to the thread are automatically added to the reply to that twitter post.

(Would it be even possible to automatically assign a twitter account for the user when he register for my forum? Because a user might find it boring to have to go through the process of creating twitter account)

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Allow entire forum to be anonymous forum.

Thread-starter can write a link like “google.com” and then the webpage screen frame of “google.com” will appear inside the thread, or appear as the 1st reply to the thread.

[powershelldon]

Is there a way (either a plugin, or even manually in MySQL) to purge old topic subscriptions in bbPress?

We auto-close topics after 180 days, and it’d be kind of nice to “clean up” the database and remove people’s “notify me of replies on this topic” subscriptions, too.

[mygirlywho]

I have a rather large vbulletin database – just under 2M posts in 160k threads. I am looking for a solution with better photo posting options than vb. I’ve been reading the threads here and I’m not sure if this is a good fit. If I can get it imported, is it just too big to run on bbPress without being slow as a snail?