[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/

[Stephen Edgar]

Yeah, a pure MySQL will always be better, for bbPress 1.x imports both the topics and replies steps of the imports have a table join that is currently required for topics to determine the 1st post and ignore replies, then for replies to ignore the topic.

I’ve got some ideas on how we can eliminate this join which would speed things up significantly but that will have to wait a bit as it involves refactoring the entire process, that then means refactoring the other ~24 importers to also work. At the moment this process is all manual, try this, try that, and that makes it incredibly time consuming. Hopefully not to far down the road I can automate much of this with bbPress’ new testing setup much of the manual work can be eliminated and iterating the importers can happen alot faster.

[Stephen Edgar]

Regarding option 1, is it even possible and does such a script exist?

Yes, there one, maybe two scripts, but they are quite out of date.

Regarding option 2, what are the required wp_postmeta keys I would need to generate?

Have you looked at the internals of any of the ~25 importers included with bbPress?

phpBB and SMF are the two most “feature complete” in that they import nearly 100% of the required wp_postmeta fields.

A basic example version of an importer is included, Example.php in the `/includes/admin/converters/ folder, its fairly basic, when comparing it with either the phpBB or SMF importers it might make more sense. There is also some initial documentation on modifying this yourself https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started/importing-data/import-forums/custom-import/

If you upload to https://gist.github.com/ or somewhere, take a screenshot of it from phpMyAdmin I’ll happily help you get it up and running.

Also, I suggest using bbPress 2.6-alpha, loads of importer improvements over bbPress 2.5.9, you can grab it from here https://bbpress.org/download/

[Stephen Edgar]

Unfortunately the original Sucuri article incorrectly stated what versions of bbPress were affected, the article has seen been updated to document what versions of bbPress were affected. bbPress 2.5.9 patched the security issue documented by Sucuri.

[mario83s]

Ok, the weird issue.

I’m trying to get the forum working on a child theme, however, it is being displayed as a blog posts. Switching to the parent theme makes it display normally. I found that while child theme is activated, bbpress injects into archive-listing.php of my child theme.

Now, It tried all I could think off. All tutorials, documentation, support topics. It doesn’t matter whether I create a custom bb theme, creating bbpress.php, plugin-bbpress.php or any other file name I found in documentation. It always injects into the same template and displayed as posts.

If I create a new page and input a [bbp-forum-index], it is displayed properly. However, as soon as I click on a single forum or topic, it gets displayed on a different template again and ignoring bbpress.php.

I evein tried echoing some custom words inside the templates to see do they even get loaded somewhere. But “hello world” didn’t appear anywhere.

This issue is clearly not related to bbpress as it works on other themes, the issue is within my child theme. But I don’t have any idea what to do!! I spent last few days googling for a solution without a luck.

Do I need to add some kind of filters or actions inside my child theme functions.php??

If anyone has encountered with this issue or can offer a solution, it would be most appreciated!

WP:4.5.1
BBPRESS: 2.5.9

Thanks!

[Robin W]

which is why 2.5.9 has been released

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-2-5-9/

[David Tierney]

I am assessing installing this for a client and am new to bbpress, but have 9 years with WordPress.

What default user profile fields come with the basic single site installation of bbpress, and how customizable are they.

Specifically, my clients wants to have name, company and a question answered (i.e. why are you here). And no other fields other than what is desired.

And are their options to require fields if so desired?

And as a side question: Is there any recommendation or advice on whether to install this in a client’s existing website or duplicate their theme and install that theme with WordPress and bbpress on a subdomain and have the forum there?

Thanks so much,

David