[Kineta]

If you look at a javascript debugger are you getting a console error that reads something like “Failed to execute ‘insertBefore’ on ‘Node’” (I can’t remember the exact text)?

If not then it’s probably a different issue than what I was dealing with.

If you’re getting that error, it’s because a function in bbPress is trying to move the TinyMCE editor. Since the above code is an overwrite of the addReply.moveForm function, it needs to be loaded after the bbPress script. Because my example is using jquery you might need to make sure it’s in the right place for that. I’m not sure, you might need to change the $ to ‘jQuery’. Or write the code to use vanilla javascript. I have my .js file set up for jquery, following the Twentysixteen theme: everything is between:

( function($) {	
$(document).ready(function() {	

   // all the javascript goes here...

})
})

[lwathelet]

Hi,
We had an old website (old.wattlet.fr/forums) with an existing forum. I’ve tried to import it to our new website http://www.wattlet.fr/forums. The bbpress version on the old website has been updated to 2.5.9. I’ve used the import feature under tools/forum, but surprisingly there are no options to select bbpress 2 from the dropdown list. I just see bbpress1.This selection doesn’t use the same table. Currently it is using wp_posts tables. Did I miss something? What I’m trying to do seems to be so simple !

Luc

[l11vyk]

Our website is currently down.
However, I have been using WordPress 4.5 with BBPress 2.5.8.

I do not want my forum to be accessible to the public or through Google searches.

Our website was developed to have usernames and passwords to access a log-in area where the forum is held.
The settings for the forum were set as:
Status: Open
Visibility: Public

We’ve since found out that topics can be found on Google with these settings. Our web developer says that the settings don’t matter.

So, my question is: How do we create a forum that is not accessible to the public/Google?

[tikimojo]

Hello everyone,

I’m new to bbPress so it’s all learning curve here.

I’ve been asked to show a search feature for forum posts, and it seems that bbPress will do this, but I can’t figure out how to turn it on.

This page here implies that it should be appearing at the top of the page, but that’s not happening on my development site.

Search

Is there some way to turn search on? What am I missing?

[Kineta]

@maketheest – sounds like the error coming from the bbPress code, which uses “insertBefore”. Make sure the overwrite is being called *after* the bbPress javascript. Or try clearing your browser cache. Also make sure all the divs & textarea is named the same as my js – or change accordingly.

The heart of it is that the TinyMCE editor doesn’t like being moved around in the DOM, which is what the bbPress function is trying to do. You need to remove it first, then re-initialize it after moving the container. The last piece is to put the parentId, which is passed by the function, into the hidden field (should have the id of bbp_reply_to) that accompanies the editor.

[David Richied]

Well, I hacked the function bbp_buddypress_add_notification() in bbpress > includes > extend > buddypress > notifications.php which calls bp_notifications_add_notification( $args );
I also found bbp_get_topic_subscribers($topic_id) which I used to get the ids of users who have subscribed to a topic (not sure if there’s another better way of getting all the ids of users who are part of a topic).
I plugged those ids into the $args for the previous function with a foreach loop, and I was surprised to get anything back.
Each user gets a notification (as far as I can tell) when anyone replies to the topic, but they also get extra notifications (from themselves and other users) from one reply. I’ll keep playing around with it.

[David Richied]

It looks like there’s only one function to notify the author of the thread and none to notify anyone else. I’m sure you already found the function, but just in case, its in bbpress > includes > extend > buddypress > notifications.php

I would also really like to see this feature implemented.

[David Richied]

Yeah, you’d assume it would be an obvious feature to include, but maybe there’s something stopping them from implementing it. I think BBPress has its own notifications feature that ties into BuddyPress’ notifications.

[Kineta]

Funny, I could have sworn reply notifications worked when we were first testing and trying to find a forum platform that met our needs. Must have hallucinated that!

Email notifications are fine for some things, but on a very active discussion board they would be overwhelming.

I’ve been trying to hack the code in the includes/extend/buddypress/notifications.php file. But I’m pretty green with both php and wordpress/bbpress development. It does look like all the parts are there to extend it. But I’m a bit perplexed about some things in the code.

[David Richied]

I haven’t experienced the first problem you mentioned (getting two notifications), probably because I haven’t used BBPress and BuddyPress that much, yet, but I really wish the second part would work: allowing participants (who haven’t created the topic) to get notifications when someone leaves a reply.

My guess is that the second part just hasn’t been implemented, yet. All the components to create that feature are probably there. Someone just has to create it.
Maybe they thought it wasn’t necessary since users can choose to receive email notifications?

[Kineta]

I’ve encountered the same issue. I’ve been beating my head against this thinking it was an issue in the theme I’m developing. Finally stripped everything down to just the bbPress & BuddyPress plugins and used the TwentySixteen theme to test.

If someone replies to a post inside a threaded topic and that post was made by the person who created the original topic, then they will get TWO notifications. One will say it’s from the name of the person who replied (good so far) and the second will say it’s from the name of the person getting the notification (and/or OP author). Also, no notifications are sent if the reply isn’t to the author of the original post/topic.

I’m very happy to see there’s a ticket for this. Any hope that it will get fixed any time soon? Selfish reason for asking – this stands to put a kibosh on my project as the two main requirements for the community forum I’m developing the theme for require threaded replies and notifications.

[Kineta]

Anyone else have this issue? It’s a real roadblock for our project and I’ve been trying to debug it. I’m 99% certain this happened during one of the last two bbPress upgrades.

[modman]

Hello!

I’m ready to install wordpress with bbPress

I need to say if there is a way to convert my forum IP.Board (By Invision Power Board) to bbPress

I see that there are plugin that works only with old version of IP.Board (from 1.0 to 3.4)

Thanks you so much!

Daniele

[AlexanderCnb]

Should this still work? It doesn’t seem to close the topics in my case. Just wondering if it’s me doing something wrong or that this doesn’t apply anymore.
WordPress version: 4.5.2
bbPress version: 2.5.9
Child theme: Canvas WooThemes

This is the code I’ve got in the plugin now, from all the code @robin-w provided.

<?php 

/*
Plugin Name: BBPress Close Old Posts
Description: Close BBPress 2.0+ posts that haven't been updated in X days. 
Author: Raygun
Version: 0.1
Author URI: http://madebyraygun.com

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
*/ 

register_activation_hook(__FILE__, 'bbpress_topic_scheduler');

add_action('bbpress_daily_event', 'bbpress_close_old_topics');

function bbpress_topic_scheduler() {
 wp_schedule_event(time(), 'daily', 'bbpress_daily_event');
}

function bbpress_close_old_topics() {
	// Auto close old topics
	$topics_query = array(
		'author' => 0,
		'show_stickies' => false,
		'parent_forum' => 'any',
		'post_status' => 'publish',
		'posts_per_page' => -1
	);
	if ( bbp_has_topics( $topics_query ) )
		while( bbp_topics() ) {
			bbp_the_topic();
			$topic_id = bbp_get_topic_id();
			$topic_date = strtotime( get_post( $topic_id, 'post_date', true ) );
                $forum_id = bbp_get_topic_forum_id($topic_id);
                if ($topic_date < strtotime( '-1 day') && $forum_id == 1276 )
                    bbp_close_topic( $topic_id );
		}
}
?>

[Kineta]

This bug isn’t just in Chrome. It’s actually because TinyMce editor doesn’t like being moved around the DOM, which is what the the function in bbPress is trying to do – tying to move the editor under the post you’re replying to.

I wish this bug would get fixed, but in the meantime you can overwrite the javascript function in a .js file in your theme. This is what I did – remove the editor before moving the containing element, then reinitialize it. Works well for me.

FYI: in case you don’t know javascript well – this needs to be inside jquery $(document).ready()

// overwrite bbPress's broken function that moves the reply form under the replied to post in threaded topics
	
	addReply = {
		moveForm : function(replyId, parentId, respondId, postId) {
						
			tinymce.remove('#bbp_reply_content');
			// it can't possibly be this easy:
			$('#post-container-'+parentId).after($('#'+respondId)); 
			
			tinyMCE.init({   
				selector: 'textarea', 
				plugins: 'hr, wplink, textcolor, paste, image, media, wpemoji, emoticons, charmap, fullscreen',
				forced_root_block : "",
				menubar: false,
				toolbar1: 'styleselect,bold,italic,underline,strikethrough,blockquote,bullist,numlist,alignleft,aligncenter,alignright,fullscreen',
				toolbar2: 'fontsizeselect,forecolor,outdent,indent,hr,charmap,emoticons,image,media,link,unlink,wp_help'
			  });
			
			// write the correct reply-to id to the hidden field that stores it
			// this prevents the wrong id inserted because we're returing false at the end of the function.
			$('input#bbp_reply_to').val(parentId)
			
			// return false to prevent page reload, losing all the work.
			return false; 
		}
	}

[Kineta]

I have bbPress & BuddyPress installed on my site (the newest versions of both: 2.5.9 & 2.5.2 respectively. On WordPress 4.5.2

Notifications had been working nicely – users where notified when someone replied to either a topic they posted or a reply in a thread. Now only the person who started the topic gets a notification to their topic or their replies in the thread, and with replies they get two notifications – one that says the correct name of who it’s from and another saying it’s from their name.

I disabled all other plugins and turned off my theme and activated the Twentysixteen theme to test.

A separate but related issue – it would be *very* nice if the notification link went to the actual reply instead of the topic at the top of the page. This had seemed kind of promising: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/new-reply-notification-link-to-the-reply/

[jevans93]

Hi all,

Been googling and searching here and WordPress etc for days and no luck. Previous threads here showing plugins that no longer exist.

I’m looking to disable users from changing their display & nicknames on the forum so only their username is displayed.

Currently using bbPress with WP User Manager

[rf0854]

Hi @jonathan-mangual,

Just noticed this as well. Anyone else run into this issue as well?

bbPress Version 2.5.9
WordPress Version 4.5.1

[jon]

Mywebsite: http://www.lucacenter.com

BBPRESS Versión 2.5.9
WordPress 4.5.1

After I update my bbpress to version 2.5.9 I can’t see the Text editor.

I try to change themes, flush cache, and desactive all plugins. :/

any knowed issuess?

View post on imgur.com

[sg1984]

Hi im new to bbpress and have some questions to ask.

1) How do you hide the wordpress top bar for subscribers, subscribers dont need to use the top bar to access to the forum. I dont wish users to know that they are using a wordpress website.

2) How do you increase the size of the font for the main forum? The description of the sub forums are too small, would love to change the font type and its size.

[Tranny]

I have installed bbPress on my busy site when it already had 500k registered members. With the forum running, I noticed that some registered members have their role displayed as “Participant”, while other as “Member”. I don’t even see the option to set a user’s role to “Member” and am rather confused by the discrepancy, especially since it appears to have occurred without my (administrator/keymaster) input.

Could anyone fill me in on the difference between the roles, and how they are assigned?

[Artisantopia]

HI. I have the following structure:

– Private Group
– – Private Forum Category
– – – Private Forum
– – – Private Forum
– – – Private Forum

So, a private group that has a forum. The top level forum is of type category, then the child forums are all private forums.

If a user that is not a member visits the Group or Forum Category they cannot see anything and are shown the option to request membership.

But if they go directly to the child forum they can access it and post. Even though they are not a member of the group.

I have the latest versions of WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress as at today.

I just ran 2 forum repairs:
– Recalculate private and hidden forums
– Repair BuddyPress Group Forum relationships

and now I have a another problem. I’ve actually been experiencing this problem on and off now for about 2 weeks and I’m starting to pull my hair out!

So now if I go to the forum list (at the category level) I can see that there are topics in the child forums. But when I click through to the child forum it tells me “Oh bother! No topics were found here!” This is for a group that the user is a member of. There are definitely topics in that forum.

If I change the user from a Participant to a Moderator they can see the topics.

If I change them back to a Participant and then toggle the forum from private to public to private they can see the topics again. I have done this toggling of forum visibility several times over the past week and it only lasts for a day or two, then I’m back at this problem.

Further testing:
– I’ve changed to TwentyFifteen theme
– deactivated all plugins except for BuddyPress and bbPress

I still can’t see topics that the user should be able to see. And they can access a private forum they aren’t a member of.

Where do I even begin to figure out what is going wrong with this site? Thank you!

PS I have logged this in trac: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2947

[nedens]

Its a closed site and a test account. I was hoping for some quick help. Unfortunately the activity on this forum is less than quick it seems. I like bbpress and buddy press a bunch. But buddy press seems like a complete mess to customize.

[Kineta]

This is just what I need for the project I’m working on. I have the same question about how to do this without hacking the core files. Any guidance for a wordpress/bbpress beginner?

[nedens]

I have an issue where my breadcrumbs are not showing as well as I can’t seem to find any template file to customize how the top banner looks and behaves on the forum pages or how the Group Admin and Group Moderators section behaves and looks.

In addition I would really like to remove the Private: Forum Name text as I only have one forum per group.

Site is currently not open but you can login with
username: debug
password: debug
to see what I am talking about here
http://www.hackbg.org/wp-admin/