@zimmermannc
Moderators cannot see the forums menu in the WordPress backend. To see the Forums menu item they need the keep_gate capability which only Keymasters have.
Moderators can create forums on the frontend of your site if you used the [bbp-forum-form] shortcode in a page
Editing forums, I am not sure how they are supposed to do that on the frontend, maybe bbPress had some functionality for managing BuddyPress group forums that is broken. Have to look into it.
These are my plugins
bbPress
Category Posts Widget
Contact Form 7
Display Posts Shortcode
iThemes Security
jetpack by WordPress.com
Really Simple CAPTCHA
Wordfence Security
WP Google Maps
WP-Members
Yoast SEO
Actually I am using the french version of WP
For BBp, currently I am using the following plugins
Maybe there might be some inconsistency?
bbPress by La communauté bbPress version 2.5.8,
bbP private groups by Robin Wilson version 3.0.8,
bbPress Notifications by dFactory version 1.0.1.1,
bbPress Topics for Posts by David Dean version 1.8.1,
bbPress – Sort topic replies by Atif Naveed, Kevin Marshall version 1.0.3,
GD bbPress Attachments by Milan Petrovic version 2.3.1
and what version of bbpress are you on?
I used the plugin wp-members
Is it this plugin??
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-members/
I cannot seem to figure out how you did the members area thing with this plugin (if it is the correct plugin).
So I have done loads more searching and it is known problem which BBPress do nothing about
Well there might be related issues to search redirecting to the home page, some had issues with the search query having a url structure and query different than intended by default, and some had issues with search plugins on their site, and I think some I tried to contact personally to help them since they had a premium theme and it is hard to just figure it out on premium themes that might have some kind of fancy ajax search having conflicts with the default bbPress search for example. Your issue could be somewhat related to the url structure.
Do you have any steps that maybe I can try to replicate to find the cause of this issue, like explain how you set everything up?
So you ditch the BBPress function, it does not work. And amend the normal search to include forums.
Yes this can be a workaround for some, but since you may have private members only content this solution may not be practical.
Does the default bbPress search work fine on a fresh installation with just your theme and no other plugins like wp-members?
If you haven’t already known if bbPress search works by default with just your theme and bbPress activated, consider created a localhost setup to test the default bbPress search to see if it works on a default fresh installation, then we can work backwards and try to find the cause of this issue that you are experiencing.
https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started/testing-your-bbpress-installation/creating-a-test-site/
Yeah I can confirm it is a bug, I created this trac ticket on the issue awhile back.
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2869
I’ve added a new site to my multisite installation, set the language to German and activated bbPress. The ‘by’ did not show.
Was the word “by” turned into “von”, or was there an entirely different layout when you activated your theme on new site install? If it was “von” by default in the new site installation then, then maybe it could be a possible cache issue on your original site, so flushing the cache could then update the word to “von”.
Could it be that the theme only causes the ‘by’ to show if two (or more) languages are active or that a plugin is causing it?
Are you planning to have a multilingual single site? You might be on to something here if you are trying to run a multilingual single site.
Just so you know, I thought the root issue could be the “by” not changing in your forums is because it might have outputted the text using code from a custom phpbb starter pack theme created by @lynq, here is an example of the custom forum freshness column from the starter pack.
https://gist.github.com/ntwb/3133450
Hello,
Please…it’s driving me crazy…
I can’t find the option to move a topic to another forum. I know this is an option on every forum I’ve ever seen in my life, yet I am not able to find it on bbpress to save my life. I checked for plugins and couldn’t find anything, only old forum posts from like 2009 with dead links.
I have a very organized forum that absolutely must have this feature, or else it’s useless. Did I miss something?
Thank you!
Hi Robkk,
thank you for your reply. I appreciate your help. 🙂
I’ve added a new site to my multisite installation, set the language to German and activated bbPress. The ‘by’ did not show. I then activated my theme. The ‘by’ still did not show.
Could it be that the theme only causes the ‘by’ to show if two (or more) languages are active or that a plugin is causing it? I activated some of the plugins I’m using on my site related to bbPress and BuddyPress, but I couldn’t recreate the issue.
Thanks
K.
NVM I think I got it…might not be optimal…but this worked:
#bbpress-forums .submit {
background-color: #0f5289;
color: #FFFFFF;
float: center;
vertical-align: middle;
border-radius: 0;
height: auto;
width: auto;
}
#bbpress-forums .submit:hover {
background-color: #0c2b44;
color: #FFFFFF;
float: center;
vertical-align: middle;
border-radius: 0;
height: auto;
width: auto;
}
Hello. What would the code be to change the color of the “Submit” button? I’m assuming the same code but with a change to the 1st line.
Is it this:
#bbpress-forums .submit {
background-color: #1e73be;
color: #FFFFFF;
float: center;
vertical-align: middle;
border-radius: 4px;
height: 35px;
width: 120px;
font-size: 14px !important;
}
Because it didn’t work..
I have threaded replies enabled, the box ticked, and the forum subscribed, but I am not getting any BuddyPress notifications when someone responds to the topic. @Robkk, It probably is a bug. I wish more people would work on BBPress, but I know you can only go so far with volunteer work (and they did go pretty far! Especially with BuddyPress. BuddyPress is awesome.).
I used the plugin wp-members and put the forums in the member area. I have been speaking to the author of that plugin who is brilliant with support and he had problems at the begining as well. So I have done loads more searching and it is known problem which BBPress do nothing about
There is no solution out there BUT what you can do is change the main search function to include forums and that is what I have eventually done. I do think BBPress should provide a proper solution
So you ditch the BBPress function, it does not work. And amend the normal search to include forums. I used this code snippet to help.
/**
* Include bbPress 'topic' custom post type in WordPress' search results */
function ntwb_bbp_topic_cpt_search( $topic_search ) {
$topic_search['exclude_from_search'] = false;
return $topic_search;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_register_topic_post_type', 'ntwb_bbp_topic_cpt_search' );
/**
* Include bbPress 'forum' custom post type in WordPress' search results */
function ntwb_bbp_forum_cpt_search( $forum_search ) {
$forum_search['exclude_from_search'] = false;
return $forum_search;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_register_forum_post_type', 'ntwb_bbp_forum_cpt_search' );
/**
* Include bbPress 'reply' custom post type in WordPress' search results */
function ntwb_bbp_reply_cpt_search( $reply_search ) {
$reply_search['exclude_from_search'] = false;
return $reply_search;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_register_reply_post_type', 'ntwb_bbp_reply_cpt_search' );
Hello
i have an issue regarding role of forum in BBPRESS the “moderator” role doesn’t see the “Forum” menu in the WordPress back-end
regards
Adeel Ahmed
Does this custom CSS help any?? This is what I have making a custom theme in twentytwelve.
#bbpress-forums #wp-link {
font-size: 13px;
}
#bbpress-forums #wp-link .screen-reader-text, .screen-reader-text span,
#bbpress-forums #wp-link .ui-helper-hidden-accessible {
position: absolute;
margin: -1px;
padding: 0;
height: 1px;
width: 1px;
overflow: hidden;
clip: rect(0 0 0 0);
border: 0;
word-wrap: normal!important;
}
Hello,
if you look at our latest topic, you will see the blue notice bar. In in, the time is formatted incorrect. There should be a comma, or even better, the word “und” between the hours and the minutes, not a full stop. I tried to change it in the translation, but there is only a code for the whole timestamp. I would suggest to update bbpress in this regard, so the timestamp becomes localizable.
Best
Manuel
so if you go in as administrator and hover over forums, you get a list of
all forums
new forums
forum moderators
or what do you get?
sorry but my test site is set up for buddypress at the mo for something else, so don’t want to alter to see what you get with just bbpress and my private groups
Hello there,
I use WP 4.4.2, bbpress 2.5.8, this is a post in our forums.
To insert a link in my copy, there is this popup window. Apparently, it gets its styling from various sources, including my theme’s settings, where for regular text, I set the font-size to 17px, while line-height of 26px is hard-coded into the theme. As you can see (if you click the link-button in the reply form below the sample post given above), this disturbs the styling of this popup.
Is there any way to a) make this popup draw its styling from the back-end CSS (where the same window is used, and looks fine), which in any case I would like to suggest for future updates of bbpress, or b) style it with custom CSS?
Thank you
Manuel
Thanks for your research. Im also still searching. Hope some other bbpress lovers will find any solutions.
Cheers
🙂
Do you agree with the fact that “Moderator – Cannot create and edit forums”?
Not sure I either agree or disagree, or that it is a fact – I’m trying to help here, I’m not trying win an argument in a bar, but as a user of this software I haven’t tested every feature 🙂
The documentation for bbpress says that moderators can publish and edit forums
https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started/before-installing/bbpress-user-roles-and-capabilities/
Is it this that you are asserting isn’t true?
Edit the code in the Gist and add style to the Span tag like so.
// Span
‘span’ => array(
‘class’ => true,
‘style’ => true,
),
I am not sure why you would even want the more tag, as it might be useless in the frontend of your site and bbPress forum posts.
Unfortunately, using just CSS, there is no way to assign different colours to each forum.
Yeah there is. I used to do this with CSS way back.
Here is something I did real quick and an image to show you, that you can do it.
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-parent-forum-8 span.bbp-topic-started-in a {
background-color: #00a6eb;
color: #FFF;
padding: 3px 5px;
vertical-align: middle;
}
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-parent-forum-0 span.bbp-topic-started-in a {
background-color: #E25E00;
color: #fff;
padding: 3px 5px;
vertical-align: middle;
}
Okay I tested the bbPress forum search on my localhost setup with the latest bbPress, BuddyPress, and WordPress, and I have no issues.
I am running a default setup, and I do not have the forums under a directory called “members area” though. If you run bbPress in the default setup without putting it under the “members area” directory would it work on your site if you searched “forum” for your only forum on your site?
I am not entirely sure how you did the members area directory on your site in the first place, I am not entirely sure it is a sub directory in a multisite setup.
bbPress reply posts are having issues with CSS from your theme that is for WordPress comments.
Try this CSS, add it to your child themes style.css file or add it to a custom css plugin.
#bbpress-forums .reply a {
float: none;
padding: 0;
color: inherit;
font-size: inherit;
display: initial;
position: initial;
}
@davidstriga
I think if you have threaded replies enabled in bbPress, if you reply to another reply, you get a BuddyPress notification (if you have the notifications active), I think there is a bug in bbPress’ code for that feature though.
