[Tizia]

I’m trying to style my new site and a good looking and functional forum is very important for me, but I’m a wordpress newby, so forgive me for my questions…

1) I would like to have, like in bbpress site, the small avatar icon/login/logout that is the upper right
2) I would like that my bbpress users (who are also WP users that can publish articles), might choose their avatars only from a certain set of images that I have chosen
3) I don’t want that they upload images, video or files whatsoever (only giving a link to them)
4) Is it possibible to have smilies in bbpress? In the old forum I maintained, users had a lot of smilies to help them to clarify their statements.

Thank you! 🙂

[kavehmovahedi]

Hi,
I have the latest version of wordpress running (4.5.2) and latest version of bbPress.
Everything was working just fine before i moved my host from windows to Linux server.
Now i can see the forums and topics in each forum. but when i open a topic the content and replies are not shown in the pages, only the reply form shows up.
I can see the replies in the admin panel but clicking view from back end opens the front end reply to … without the reply content.

I have already tried these :
1) disabling all other plugins
2) switching to wordpress default themes
3) creating a new page with bbPress shortcode
4) copying the php code provided in other forums
5) removing and re-installing bbPress

it’s driving me crazy ! i have tried all 2 links on google’s 2 first pages for search results of “bbPress content not showing up”, “bbPress topic content not showing”, “bbPress replies not shown”,…

Best Regards,
Kaveh

[natinho68]

Hi,

I want to add a daily notification of the most popular topic of the day by email to my bbPress users.

Someone has doing this ? A plugin or development function ?

Thanks !

[Robkk]

Yeah this makes sense since you are only editing the page you created with the forum index shortcode, the forum index shortcode only displays the forum index not embed bbPress entirely.

I say just create a bbPress.php file and add the content you want to the template.

https://codex.bbpress.org/themes/theme-compatibility/getting-started-in-modifying-the-main-bbpress-template/

[Robkk]

Did you check and see if this is possibly created by a function you might have used/created that is causing an error for that piece of bbPress, check to see if it is a custom bbPress theme related, or check to see if it is cache related.

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

[Robkk]

Your category layout is quite different as it uses the subforum-list function and layout in bbPress, which you would need to filter to include the description like you want.

But since this seems similar to another file that I have that can create this layout, take a shot at using it instead. Take this loop-forums.php file and put it into your theme and see if it will make the layout how you want it with the forum description.

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

[Robkk]

Where exactly in the forums do you want to display this.

In the default description area this might be a little too much for the default layout in bbPress. I say hire a designer and make the forum page title for each forum display nice and gold like how it is displayed, use the same font you chose to style the forum titles in bbPress (maybe in topic titles too for consistency), and keep the description similar to how you have it and just style it in bbPress using CSS. You might have to have heavily style and customize the bbPress templates to achieve a good looking layout like this. Place any bbPress templates in your child theme or custom made theme so they can easily be customized.

https://codex.bbpress.org/themes/theme-compatibility/

[Robkk]

There is something in the codex about a bbPress forums page, but specifically it is for the forum index only not bbPress forums entirely. So it will not embed bbPress in an iframe like other forum solutions that host the forum content on their own servers.

Look into creating a bbpress.php file for your site so that all your bbPress pages will use the same template, which is what you are looking for, for this to work.

https://codex.bbpress.org/themes/theme-compatibility/getting-started-in-modifying-the-main-bbpress-template/

[Sevenwords]

I was curious if there is any plug-in or method available to automatically create posts in bbPress.
The topics should be generated based on a new article posted on an external site.

Is there a way to populate my forum with new topics based data from my scraper, output from this scraper could be e-mail or data SQL?

[Steve Keller]

I created a Forums page, but I don’t know how to sync the bbpress forums with that page.

Here is what I set up…
http://www.fightportlanddemodevelopment.website/issues-comments

and here is the bbpress forums page, which is linked on the sidebar…

Current Activism – proposed, planned, or in process

It seems I am missing a simple step…

I’d really appreciate any direction/help in resolving this.

Thanks, Steve

[giobby]

Hi everybody,

I’ve been trying as suggested bbpress 2.6 alpha but the PhpBB import fails right at the beginning.
I’ve been already importing successfully by using the latest 2 versions and I’ve never faced this error before.

Also take into account I am running the import in the same environment and against the same data set.
Here the error:

SELECT convert(users.user_id USING “utf8mb4”) AS user_id,convert(users.user_password USING “utf8mb4”) AS user_password,convert(users.user_form_salt USING “utf8mb4”) AS user_form_salt,convert(users.username USING “utf8mb4”) AS username,convert(users.user_email USING “utf8mb4”) AS user_email,convert(profile_fields_data.pf_phpbb_website USING “utf8mb4”) AS pf_phpbb_website,convert(users.user_regdate USING “utf8mb4”) AS user_regdate,convert(profile_fields_data.pf_phpbb_aol USING “utf8mb4”) AS pf_phpbb_aol,convert(profile_fields_data.pf_phpbb_yahoo USING “utf8mb4”) AS pf_phpbb_yahoo,convert(profile_fields_data.pf_phpbb_icq USING “utf8mb4”) AS pf_phpbb_icq,convert(profile_fields_data.pf_phpbb_wlm USING “utf8mb4”) AS pf_phpbb_wlm,convert(profile_fields_data.pf_phpbb_facebook USING “utf8mb4”) AS pf_phpbb_facebook,convert(profile_fields_data.pf_phpbb_googleplus USING “utf8mb4”) AS pf_phpbb_googleplus,convert(profile_fields_data.pf_phpbb_skype USING “utf8mb4”) AS pf_phpbb_skype,convert(profile_fields_data.pf_phpbb_twitter USING “utf8mb4”) AS pf_phpbb_twitter,convert(profile_fields_data.pf_phpbb_youtube USING “utf8mb4”) AS pf_phpbb_youtube,convert(users.user_jabber USING “utf8mb4”) AS user_jabber,convert(profile_fields_data.pf_phpbb_occupation USING “utf8mb4”) AS pf_phpbb_occupation,convert(profile_fields_data.pf_phpbb_interests USING “utf8mb4”) AS pf_phpbb_interests,convert(users.user_sig USING “utf8mb4”) AS user_sig,convert(profile_fields_data.pf_phpbb_location USING “utf8mb4”) AS pf_phpbb_location,convert(users.user_avatar USING “utf8mb4”) AS user_avatar FROM forum_users AS users LEFT JOIN forum_profile_fields_data AS profile_fields_data USING (user_id) WHERE users.user_type !=2 LIMIT 0, 100

Not sure yet what the problem is.
I’ll do my little investigation and I’ll let you know.

Gio

[kachan64]

I’m trying to add a forum description. I used
<?php bbp_forum_content(); ?>

in loop-single-forum and didn’t work! Any other way I can do this? I have not modified any theme fifle, I simply copied loop-forums & loop-single-forums into my bbpress folder in my them folder

[Yossi Aharon]

Hello,
I want to migrate phpBB forum to bbPress. I use the default import tool of bbPress, I was able to migrate it successfully but the only problem is the author name shown as Anonymous in almost all topics. When I chose to import the users, the topics shown with the correct users besides the users in Hebrew that converted automatically to numbers and shown as Anonymous and that’s because WordPress doesn’t support Hebrew characters in the username.

I would like to convert it without the users but still keep the author name, as in archive forum. It’s also make sense to keep the original name of user who post even the user doesn’t exist in system. Any suggestions? Thanks.

[jjnyx85]

Hi
When I click a single topic to read its content, the bbpress layout breaks and looks so ugly.
It is fine when I logged in as web-master but as a regular member or anonymous visitor, the page layout breaks.
How can I fix this problem?

[brooklynbrookie]

Hi,
I have a issue regarding the Visual Editor within the forum page. I would like the visual editor within the forum edit page to be enabled so that I can give a image/text introduction to the forum. I have tried to install suggested plugins like “TinyMCE Advanced” and others but none of them directly solve the problem I am having. Example of what I am looking for:

What I would like to be on the page:
http://postimg.org/image/y52i13nup/

Wordpress: Version 4.5.2 running Untold Stories theme.
bbPress: Version 2.5.9
website forum page: http://www.curlswithattitude.com/forums/introduction

[akira010203]

I found out where is the problem.

It is due to the language translation file, If I put the default language back in english there is no problems.

To the french users if you get this issue try :

#bbpress-forums .administrateur .bbp-author-role {
  background-color: blue;

It will wrk but when it comes to the french translation of moderator : modérateur it will be harder due to the special character on it.

You will have to rename it before being able to change color.

[Bjarne Oldrup]

Setting up my first bbPress forum, and I’m amazed so far 😀 Probably a newb question, but:

Is it possible to make the forums public visible, but the topics (or posts) private, for logged in users only?

I’d like the visitor to see what to expect when he/she creates an account.

Thanks everyone!

[nztestnz2016]

I am very new to wordpress and installed bbpress, but I’ve noticed that I don’t have the option to delete a post I created. How can I generate a link for this on created posts?

Update: I realise that you need to be a moderator. I was testing with a standard/ordinary account.

[alzaran]

I’ve found a function that enables autocomplete on any element of my choice. I’m reproducing it below:

function buddydev_enable_mention_autosuggestions_on_compose( $load, $mentions_enabled ) {
	if ( ! $mentions_enabled ) {
		return $load; //activity mention is  not enabled, so no need to bother
	}
	//modify this condition to suit yours
	if( is_user_logged_in() ) {
		$load = true;
	}
 
	return $load;
}
add_filter( 'bp_activity_maybe_load_mentions_scripts', 'buddydev_enable_mention_autosuggestions_on_compose', 10, 2 );

However, this only works with a textarea or input, I believe. TinyMCE, on the other hand, is an iframe with HTML elements generated on the fly. As such, when I try to initialize the function using the below:

if ( jQuery( '#bbp_reply_content_ifr').get( 0 ) ) {
		console.log('success');
		jQuery('#bbp_reply_content_ifr').bp_mentions( bp.mentions.users );
	}

Nothing happens. What am I doing wrong? Buddypress supports the @mentions on TinyMCE instances (see here: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6972) and bbpress supports it in the plaintext editor. How can I enable it for the TinyMCE editor?

[gungs]

Hello,

When I change a language from English to Korean, my bbpress(2.5.9) makes problem.

– English + bbpress
: working well.
– Korean + bbpress
: widget is not saving, customization is not working <- Issue. but I want fix.
– Korean // bbpress(deactive)
: working well.

ps. WP 4.5.2, Theme ‘Total’

Please give me a your hand.

Regards
gungs

[metlhed]

Hello,

I would like to allocate one of my BBPress forums to allowing posting and replies to “guests” only.

Is there a plugin or way to allow a user to simply register a username, password, and email only (but no other user fields required by WordPress) so that they may do this in a “guest” forum?

[alzaran]

Fantastic! I attempted to do the same thing but neglected to remove_action, so this is exactly what I needed. Thanks for your help, it’s baffling to me that BBPress doesn’t make this an option out of the box.

[akira010203]

Hello,

I got an issue while trying to put a background color under the role name on my forum.

I added this to my function file :

function rk_show_role_classes($classes) {
    $replyid = bbp_get_reply_author_id();
    $bbp_get_role = bbp_get_user_display_role($replyid);
    $bbp_display_role = strtolower($bbp_get_role);
	  
  
	$classes[] = $bbp_display_role;
	return $classes;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_get_topic_class','rk_show_role_classes' );
add_filter( 'bbp_get_reply_class','rk_show_role_classes' );

and this into my css file :

#bbpress-forums .participant .bbp-author-role {
  background-color: blue;
#bbpress-forums .keymaster .bbp-author-role {
  background-color: red;
#bbpress-forums .moderator .bbp-author-role {
  background-color: green;

But it only works with the participant role. Maybe I’m not using the correct keymaster and moderator role name. Is someone already did that and can help me to sold it out ?

Thanks!

[Robin W]

ok, that opened up a whole new area, and I think I’ve worked out what is happening !

When a new topic/reply is created, bbpress sends a email

to : noreply@vpinball.com
bcc : all the subscribers of that topic

Bbpress changed how this works in a recent version. It used to send an email per user, but many mail servers saw say 200 emails going at once as spam, and blocked them.

So now bbpress sends to an address and blind copies all the users, so that in most cases a single email is sent. This still creates a risk, as some mail servers block multiple bcc’s over a certain number, but is probably better for most sites.

Now the problem with this is that some mailservers will return invalid email addresses, and as your noreply email doesn’t exist, you get a failed.

so you could

1. create the noreply email address on your system, so that a mailbox gets them, and every so often just clear it out.
2. change that noreply email address to a valid email – I can give you code to make it anything you want, but as with 1 above a mailbox will get them so it will fill up.
3. change the code to send emails individually – the old code is somewhere.

Let me know your thoughts

[Kineta]

Here you go. I have this in my theme’s functions.php file. I posted this code a while ago, but there was a small mistake which is fixed here.

function jpr_buddypress_add_notification( $reply_id = 0, $topic_id = 0, $forum_id = 0, $anonymous_data = false, $author_id = 0, $is_edit = false, $reply_to = 0 ) {
	
		
		// this is who the notification goes to. whose post is replied to
		$topic_author_id = bbp_get_topic_author_id( $reply_to );

		// Bail if somehow this is hooked to an edit action
		if ( !empty( $is_edit ) ) {
			return;
		}

		// Get author information
		// $topic_author_id   = bp_loggedin_user_id();
		$secondary_item_id = $author_id;

		// Hierarchical replies
		if ( !empty( $reply_to ) ) {			
			$reply_to_item_id = bbp_get_topic_author_id( $reply_to );
			// if not replying to OP:
			$topic_id = $reply_to;
		}		

		
		// Get some reply information
		$args = array(
			'user_id'          => $topic_author_id,
			'item_id'          => $topic_id,
			'component_name'   => bbp_get_component_name(),
			'component_action' => 'bbp_new_reply',
			'date_notified'    => get_post( $reply_id )->post_date_gmt,
		);
	 	
		// Notify the topic author if not the current reply author
	 	if ( $author_id !== $topic_author_id ) {
			$args['secondary_item_id'] = $secondary_item_id ;

			bp_notifications_add_notification( $args );
	 	}
	 	// Notify the immediate reply author if not the current reply author
	 	if ( !empty( $reply_to ) && ( $author_id !== $reply_to_item_id ) ) {
			$args['secondary_item_id'] = $secondary_item_id;
			
			bp_notifications_add_notification( $args );
	 }
}
// remove the bbpress notification function so we don't get dupicate notifications
remove_action( 'bbp_new_reply', 'bbp_buddypress_add_notification', 10, 7 );
add_action( 'bbp_new_reply', 'jpr_buddypress_add_notification', 10, 7 );

// remove the bbpress format notification function before using our custom function
remove_filter( 'bp_notifications_get_notifications_for_user', 'bbp_format_buddypress_notifications', 10, 5 );

function jpr_format_buddypress_notifications( $action, $item_id, $secondary_item_id, $total_items, $format = 'string' ) {

	// New reply notifications
	if ( 'bbp_new_reply' === $action ) {
		$topic_id    = bbp_get_reply_id( $item_id );
		$topic_title = bbp_get_reply_title( $item_id );
		$topic_link  = wp_nonce_url( add_query_arg( array( 'action' => 'bbp_mark_read', 'topic_id' => $topic_id ), bbp_get_reply_url( $item_id ) ), 'bbp_mark_topic_' . $topic_id );
		$title_attr  = __( 'Topic Replies', 'bbpress' );

		if ( (int) $total_items > 1 ) {
			$text   = sprintf( __( 'You have %d new replies', 'bbpress' ), (int) $total_items );
			$filter = 'bbp_multiple_new_subscription_notification';
		} else {
			if ( !empty( $secondary_item_id ) ) {
				$text = sprintf( __( 'You have %d new reply to %2$s from %3$s', 'bbpress' ), (int) $total_items, $topic_title, bp_core_get_user_displayname( $secondary_item_id ) );
			} else {
				$text = sprintf( __( 'You have %d new reply to %s',             'bbpress' ), (int) $total_items, $topic_title );
			}
			$filter = 'bbp_single_new_subscription_notification';
		}

		// WordPress Toolbar
		if ( 'string' === $format ) {
			$return = apply_filters( $filter, '<a href="' . esc_url( $topic_link ) . '" title="' . esc_attr( $title_attr ) . '">' . esc_html( $text ) . '</a>', (int) $total_items, $text, $topic_link );
			
		// Deprecated BuddyBar
		} else {
			$return = apply_filters( $filter, array(
				'text' => $text,
				'link' => $topic_link
			), $topic_link, (int) $total_items, $text, $topic_title );
		}

		do_action( 'jpr_format_buddypress_notifications', $action, $item_id, $secondary_item_id, $total_items );

		return $return;
	}
}
add_filter( 'bp_notifications_get_notifications_for_user', 'jpr_format_buddypress_notifications', 10, 5 );