[aaronbennett2097]

Hi all.

I’ve set bbpress up to show topic descriptions, which looks great. But for consistency, I’d like to be able to show the excerpt of each topic under it’s title on the topic-list template.

Hope this is possible.

Thanks

[karaokelove]

Hi, I’m creating a forum where people can post links to their Twitch streams for other users to rate. I want to add specific input fields, such as Embed Code, games streamed, active times, etc, that the user can fill in to populate the post. Is there a way to do this?

Also, is it possible to add another field to the main list of topics, other than Voices, Posts, and Freshness? I have a good rating plugin installed, and I have it integrated with bbPress to allow and show ratings inside the topic. But I’d like users to be able to see and sort topics by rating.

Thanks in advance!

[Krzysztof Radzikowski]

You were right … and the winner is “Instant Articles for WP” 🙂 thought that was caused by bbpress but further testing also saw troubles with Envira and ACF … seems that all custom post” have problems now 🙂

[Robin W]

suggest you try re-installing

or

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.

[Robin W]

yes, but it is a very old version and not supported use 1.2

https://bbpress.org/download/legacy/

[prayatnaseo]

The topic tags are indexed by Google for my bbpress forum, i tried Yoast, All in one seo to block topic tags and there is no luck.

is there any plugin to do the task?

thank you in advance

[Robin W]

bbpress has various widgets and well as shortcodes, so you can call it from pages, posts and sidebars

check out the documentation !

[kennieboezi]

Hello guys,

I have question. i have static website. I haven’t installed wordpress on my site. can i install bbPress for my website without wordpress. Please let us in it is possible.

Thanks

[Stephen Edgar]

@clayj I’d suggest giving it a try and see how it goes

If you have any issues with it create an issue on GitHub and we can try and help

https://github.com/IDmedia/bbpress-converters-drupal6

[sgiraldo]

Hi everyone,

I’m developing a website which is using WP as content manager system, the front-end is a custom one developed by me though. Due to the idea of having a forum, I’ve installed bbPress plugin in order to reach it through my front-end.

Before I start in retrieving all the data through the database, I’m wondering if there’s a way to call de bbPress plugin as widget or whatever to “embed” it in my front-end.
Do you know if it’s possible?

Thanks!!

[clayj]

I’ve been communicating with data migration services about moving my Drupal 6 Advanced Forum to bbPress, but now it seems I might have to do it myself. But my knowledge of PHP is limited. Is this script working at this point, and, if so, how exactly would I use it to do the migration? Thanks.

[Kineta]

@veelow – That was exactly the problem I was having. It seems to be generated from the bbPress function: bbp_buddypress_add_notification (notification with your name instead of the person who responded). The code I posted addresses that problem. Did you try it?

[cai247]

Hello,

I can’t figure out how to make my bbPress forum full-width. My website/discussion forum is here: http://www.bacls.org/?forum=bacls-discussion-forum (I use the “Lucid” theme from Elegant Themes).

Many thanks!

Caroline.

[joe34]

Hey I am using BBPress, BBPress Notifications (No Spam), and User Role Editor.
I want to make it so that when a new topic is posted in a certain forum, only certain members get a notification based on where it was posted.

I have tried to hack this together but have been unable to get conclusive results, so any tips or help will be much appreciated.

[Robin W]

you can still call loop single reply, but just amend that template and put it into in your theme.

so if you wanted to amend loop-single-reply you would do the following

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-reply.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-reply.php

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

[vogelsang]

Hi,

Thanks for the answer. I had another plugin, but it didn’t solve the problem. It is nice to know that bbpress got a better behaviour than my site has right now. I’m just gonna turn of plugins off until I find the problem (turning of notifications in buddypress wasn’t enough).

-vogelsang

[gm713]

Check this out https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/this-is-somewhat-embarrassing-isnt-it/

[gm713]

This is somewhat embarrassing, isn’t it?

[Robkk]

Probably just the mojo marketplace plugin, others have had similar issues with this plugin in combination with bbPress.

[Robkk]

@rainbowgolfcart bbPress can use words that are in your comment moderation and blacklisting input boxes in Settings > Discussion. Some plugins like the mojo marketplace plugin that @mclaurence noted can use a function and inject a custom list of words to these input boxes. Make sure to remove the interfering plugin.

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

@mclaurence

Its probably just the mojo marketplace plugin, ninja forms might be fine.

https://github.com/mojoness/mojo-marketplace-wp-plugin/blob/f5a0985168b06d9202148acce928494b54218a57/inc/spam-prevention.php#L102

[Kineta]

I came up with a solution, based on the start @davidstriga made. I’ve been meaning to post it for anyone else having the same issue. I don’t have the same goal he did to notify everyone in a forum, just the person being replied to, so I removed the foreach loop. I also wanted the notification to go to the actual replied-to post in the thread and not just the initial topic at the top of the page. The forum I’m working on has titles on all the replies – but if you aren’t using titles on replies the notification just shows the topic title, but the link still goes to the relevant post/reply.

If anyone is interested, here’s my solution. It’s working great on our site and takes care of the duplicate issues, as well as the GMT timestamp problem.

Put this in your theme’s functions.php

/* notifications */

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 ) {

	$current_topic_id = bbp_get_topic_id();
	$ids_of_subs = bbp_get_topic_subscribers($current_topic_id);
		
		// 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 );
		}		

		// pass the $reply_id to the function that formats the notification
		$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 ); 

[backstreetnomad]

Hi,

I have just installed bbPress on my existing website but any new topics or replies in these topics cannot be viewed (regardless of whether or not they done at the back or front end).

http://www.nextleveltravelblogging.com/forums/

The exception is if I make the topic sticky, it will show, but then the content and replies inside the topic do not. (I’ve tested this).

Feel free to make a few test topics/replies to see for yourself if need be.

I have tried reading some previous and similar forum posts so I have done the recalculate steps in Tools. I have also deactivated most plugins to no avail.

I have a feeling it will be my theme being the issue, but I am not going to install another theme just to test at this stage because I know I will lose stuff. If I’m going to install a new theme (which I’m not strictly opposed to doing) it will be to one I know works (I have another) and will keep it long term. But I’m looking for the solution that will be the least hassle as I want to get this up and running.

I’m on WP 4.5.2 and the latest bbP.

Thanks.
Luke

[Larry]

How can I get the post author’s name to appear in the reply RSS feed?

When someone posts, they (must and do) fill out their name, in the “Your Name” field. (That field has id=”bbp_anonymous_author” name=”bp_anonymous_name”.)

But the post author doesn’t appear in the RSS feed. The author is blank:
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
https://zimfest.org/topic/rides-offered/feed/

How can I get bbPress to recognize that field as the reply author? (It’s not actually anonymous!)

The forum is here:
https://zimfest.org/rideboard/
(The URL will change when this goes public)

What you see so far is just my own testing. This is a new bbPress forum that’s not public yet. I plan to make it public soon, as a way to create a (very basic) ride board.

WordPress 4.4.3; Responsive theme with customized child theme; bbPress 2.5.9; bbP Toolkit plugin (1.0.6); bbPress Moderation plugin (1.8.3).

I’ve created (I believe) a fully moderated forum by using the Moderation plugin. No one is expected (or able) to register on the site, but all posts must be approved (by me) before they appear. (This is how WordPress comments work when moderation is required.) I was surprised to discover that bbPress won’t do this on its own, and getting this behavior with the Moderation plugin is a little convoluted (difficult).

I’m not using bbPress’s subscription system. Instead, we have we manage our a mailing list in MailChimp that sends new posts via RSS to email. This works well for our blog posts and comments, but I need to fix some details in the forum RSS feeds. The blank <creator> RSS field causes my emails to say “by Anonymous”.

(In the RSS feeds, you will see my name as the author of a few posts, because I logged into WordPress before making those posts. But I don’t expect reply authors to log in; they won’t be able to do so.)

Also, how can I remove “Reply To:” from the title in the RSS feed? What line in which file (template?) do I need to modify?
<title><![CDATA[Reply To: Rides Offered]]></title>

First time posting here. Thanks for your help (and I hope I’ve followed protocol).

I posted this yesterday, but it has not appeared on the forum. I’m guessing that’s because it contained 3 links, so needed to be approved. Apparently it was not approved. I have removed one of the links this time (link to a 2nd RSS feed).

[designbysue]

I have a child theme created and added the bbpress.css from my main theme’s css folder to the child theme folder. Changes I make to the child theme do not have any effect and firebug shows that the bbpress.css in the main theme’s css folder is the one affecting the website. I can make changes using the custom css area but was trying to make all changes in the child theme. Any thoughts why this may be happening?

Thanks
Sue

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
Did anybody try with bbPress 2.6-alpha ? The version is pretty stable already and has improved performance AND importing capabilities.
Pascal.