[samjoe199]

Dear Robkk,

Thanks a million to you, it worked well! I already lost hopes to use the bbPress. Appreciate your help!

Do you know, by any chance, how to add margin between forum topics and Subscribe, and also align it properly, on the top of forum topic panel? (http://www.mynettips.com/blog2/forums/forum/новый-форум/)

Thank you again!

[Robkk]

This is a common theme related issue, where avatars are displayed in block instead of inline or inline-block. Add this CSS anywhere you can add your custom CSS like a child themes style.css file or a seperate custom css plugin.

#bbpress-forums p.bbp-topic-meta img.avatar, 
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-reply-revision-log img.avatar, 
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-topic-revision-log img.avatar, 
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-template-notice img.avatar, 
#bbpress-forums .widget_display_topics img.avatar, 
#bbpress-forums .widget_display_replies img.avatar {
  float: none;
  margin-bottom: 0;
  vertical-align: middle;
  border: 1px solid #ddd;
  display: inline-block;
}

[Robkk]

I think with bbPress you just have forums on one site each only for right now, there is no shared content on a multi site setup.

[alzaran]

Ticket created: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2956#ticket

[Robkk]

Not entirely sure this plugn works still, but there is this still.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-digest/

[Robkk]

1. Its the WordPress Toolbar, used on all WordPress sites by default.

2. This plugin adds avatar suggestions, it might not be presented easily for users, but he expains it in this video.

3. bbPress by default doesn’t have the ability to upload files, for avatars that plugin I mentioned allows avatar upload.

4. You can filter the default wordPress smilies and use custom ones, their is emoji to use because of WordPress, also there a good plugin that has a feature to import phpBB smilies call WP-Monalisa.

[name]

Wordpress: 4.5.2
bbPress: 2.5.9

Hi there,
I use the wpMandrill plugin (v1.33) to send email through Mandrill.
It works fine for Buddypress emails, and other standard WordPress emails.
However bbPress emails don’t get sent through Mandrill.

What is bbPress doing differently about how it sends email notifications?
How can I get bbPress to correctly send through Mandrill?

I’ve read a few previous topics, and they seem to indicate it’s something to do with how bbPress handles BCC, and no reply.

thx
Vanessa

[Robkk]

Also, even after the plug in is deleted the roles (Keymaster and Participant) still appear in the user list under the “Role” column, but I thought they were only associated with bbpress. Is that correct?

This is a known bug, there is some code in the codex here to use to remove the user roles whenever you are resetting your user roles. Removing the roles and reinstalling bbPress might fix this issue, if it does not, you can use this plugin to switch to another Admin temporarily and then edit your user and switch its forum role. Make sure to edit the user by clicking the edit link by the users avatar. I think there is still an issue bulk changing a users forum role from the users list.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-switching/

Make sure that your default role for users are Participant in Settings > Forums. Also make sure that the default blog role for your users is Subscriber in Settings > General.

If this developer only did a short job and is done, I recommend not keeping their account as Admin/Keymaster. If they are hired for a project that is not finished or is like say doing maintenance for your site for awhile, okay keep them, but you know just be cautious since this happened to your site.

Just to be sure, make sure to check out this link for more help.
https://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked

[hivoltage316]

Just installed bbPress on latest version of WordPress and the forum search feature does not work. When I do a search, it searches blog posts instead – actually only ever finds one blog post even if the search text does not exist. It does not search the forum.

Whats going on?

[mfox104]

I was working on my site and saw some new text (a link for an online casino) added to a block on my homepage. I deleted the block of text, then checked my “users” list. That’s where I saw a new user (Ann Smith) with a spammy e-mail address (I think it was 11@11.com or something), this user had Administrator and Keymaster status. I deleted the user. I then tried to give myself keymaster status again, and cannot. I currently have Administrator and Participant Roles. There is one other user (a developer I work with sometimes) who has Administrator and Keymaster status.

I thought if I deactivated and deleted the bbpress plugin, cleared the cache and reinstalled it that would let me start over, but that did nothing. (note I have not started using this for a forum on my site yet so doing this was no big deal). Since that did not work I deleted the plug in again, but I am submitting this question because I would like to use it. Also, even after the plug in is deleted the roles (Keymaster and Participant) still appear in the user list under the “Role” column, but I thought they were only associated with bbpress. Is that correct? (I am not using buddypress)

So basically I need to know how I can install bbpress and be given the keymaster role again. Please help, thank you!!

[andrew55]

kachan64 – thank you. That is a good start. My main issue at this point seems to be that roles I’m using aren’t bbpress roles, so how I need to pull them is different. I will keep working at it.

[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?