[Robin W]

you’ll need to create a role with those capabilities

see

https://codex.bbpress.org/custom-capabilities/

[sidebarissue]

thanks for the advice, i’ll get looking into this. But shouldn’t the pre-made sidebar ‘Plugin | bbPress’ be a working sidebar? I’m just confused about that.

Underneath the sidebar called ‘Plugin | bbPress’ it says “Main sidebar for bbpress pages that appears on the right. Leave it empty to use the full page layout”. I don’t really understand how your solution solves my problem of widgets that aren’t showing up.

[Pascal Casier]

Ah ok,
Then please start from here: https://codex.bbpress.org/layout-and-functionality-examples-you-can-use/#26-creating-a-bbpress-specific-sidebar

Pascal.

[Pascal Casier]

If you have already deactived all plugins except bbPress and switched to a default theme and you still do not see ‘Forums’, ‘Topics’ and/or ‘Replies’, then please try this in Settings > Forums (check after every step if you find the options back on your dashboard):
– ‘Settings > Forums’ : (de)activate ‘Anonymous posting’, save, (de)activate it again to get back to your original setting, save
– ‘Settings > Forums’ : (de)activate ‘Auto role’, save, (de)activate it again to get back to your original setting, save
– Deactivate the bbPress plugin, then reactive the bbPress plugin
– ‘Tools > Forums > Repair Forums’ : Remap existing users to default forum roles, click ‘Repair Items’ (WARNING: Make sure to have multiple admins in case the keymaster role would disappear from one account)

Pascal.

[sidebarissue]

Hi Pascal,

There’s no plugin. It’s just the standard sidebar that bbpress comes with. here’s a screenshot. On the right you see Plugin | bbPress and I have put a few widgets in there. Once I go to mysite.com/forums/, I get an empty sidebar.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi Marc,
I didn’t try any of them, but these are some possibilities:
1) installing bbPress on the us_US and then downloading the nl_NL bbPress translations and adding them in the bbPress folder (https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started/bbpress-in-your-language/)
OR
2) Go MU and have the main site in us_US and create a subsite in nl_NL
Pascal.

[Pascal Casier]

Because it’s not bbPress causing this. What plugin do you have for memberships/roles/capabilties ?
What version of bbPress and WordPress ?

[Pascal Casier]

Could you point me to that plugin for bbPress sidebar ?

Pascal.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
This seems a BuddyPress question, not a bbPress question, right ?
I think the BuddyPress forum would be a better option to get an answer.
Pascal.

[sidebarissue]

Hey guys,

I’m having one issue that I can’t seem to figure out. I’ve looked everywhere but I can’t find anyone with the same issue. I’m using the Be Theme with bbPress, and my sidebar widgets (for the forum only) aren’t showing up. When I drag the widgets onto the Plugin | bbPress sidebar, I get an empty sidebar. When I put the widgets in the footer or on a different sidebar (like the blog or even the footer), they work fine. The people from Be Theme say bbpress is fully compatible with Be Theme so I’m a bit confused.

Additionally, I’ve tried deactivating all plugins besides bbpress and that didn’t help. I also ran the forum repairs and nothing happened. I still haven’t tried switching to the twentytwelve theme because I don’t want to lose all of my settings for my current theme.

Have any of you ever encountered this before? I figured I’d try here before trying on the Be Theme forums.

MY ACTIVATED PLUGINS (even though I said my plugins aren’t the cause of the issue)—————–

– Add Meta tags, All in one SEO pack, bbpress, bbpress report content, bbpress login register, contact form 7, duplicate post, force regenerate thumbnails, gd bbpress attachments, gd bbpress tools, google analytics, google xml sitemaps, jellyfish counter widget, jetpack, layerslider wp, mycred, newsletter, related posts thumbnails, slider revolution, user role editor, wordpress popular posts, wp smush, wp user avatar, wpbakery visual composer

bbpress v2.5.8 and the latest version of wordpress. Additionally, I’d rather not give my website name publicly, but I will give links to a mod if they need it.

Here is a screenshot of the site so you can see. There is a sidebar active (once I delete the widgets the sidebar goes away obviously).

Thanks in advance

[lim sungbeom]

I want to link a group to a forum which exits,

So I checked it and set a forum name (first one below ‘Customer Center’) in group forum box and save

but then check in the checkbox is disappeared

at last, I found that if I modify the group forum settings in the group page setting in backend,
the setting sustain, even though I click or not group forum setting in the group setting option in in frontend.

I tried with default theme twenty-thirteen and KLEO.

Is it normal or bugs?

– frontend setting page :

https://www.miinfra.co.kr:44373/infra/groups/%EA%B3%A0%EA%B0%9D%EC%A7%80%EC%9B%90/admin/forum/

– Backend setting page :

https://www.miinfra.co.kr:44373/infra/wp-admin/admin.php?page=bp-groups&gid=588&action=edit

wordpress ver 4.42
buddypress Version 2.5.2
bbpress Version 2.5.8

[laurcarsan]

Notice: Undefined offset: 0 in /homepages/22/d392911797/htdocs/app548697787/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/topics/capabilities.php on line 80

Notice: Undefined offset: 0 in /homepages/22/d392911797/htdocs/app548697787/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/replies/capabilities.php on line 62

Please help me with this Error 🙁

[Pascal Casier]

It’s not an issue at all, it’s just what is displayed. bbPress always had one thing, BuddyPress started putting another one. I didn’t have time yet to have a look at the function in BuddyPress as I’m very busy professionally at the moment.
Pascal.

[cmavrikas]

Do you think thia is a BuddyPress related issue or bbPress?

[Robkk]

It kind of is both, the issue is caused by some CSS that becomes useless after it uses li.bbp-body that seems to not close properly, breaking the markup when threaded replies is enabled. The avatars going to the top left corner is caused by absolutely positioning the avatar when it reaches about 480px.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2823

A possible workaround for this would be to have a horizontal forum layout.

This stylesheet has an example of the horizontal layout I was talking about. You can Place the file in a folder called css in your child theme to see how the layout takes affect. I have not tried it with 2016 theme yet though so I do not know how it will do.

https://gist.github.com/robkk/ec3129ef78397783fa2a23389be47649

[Robkk]

Well not a bbPress specific plugin, but there are a few plugins that can work with custom post types (bbPress uses custom post types).

A plugin I found and tested is called NS Featured Posts, but like I said many other plugins could possibly work too.

After installing the plugin make sure to go to Settings > NS Featured Posts and make sure to add the topic custom post type from bbPress in the plugin’s settings.

Now we can go to Topics > All Topics and see a new column that says Featured. Make sure to click the checkbox near the topic you would want to feature.

Now we are going to make a custom view to display these featured topics in a topic list, and also be able to display them in pages with a shortcode.

Add this php code snippet into your child themes functions.php or insert this snippet into a custom plugin like functionality.

This function displays about 10 featured topics on a single page, change 10 to whatever you want.

function rkk_register_featured_view() {
 bbp_register_view( 'featured', __( 'Featured Topics' ),  array( 'meta_key' => '_is_ns_featured_post', 'meta_value' => 'yes', 'posts_per_page' => '10', 'max_num_pages' => '1'), false );
}
add_action( 'bbp_register_views', 'rkk_register_featured_view' );

Now in a custom page or widget area that has a widget text area that can handle shortcodes, insert this shortcode.

[bbp-single-view id='featured']`

[Robin W]

I suspect you have a bbpress related function in your theme, or are running other bbpess reliant plugins

[Valery Kondakoff]

Hello, Pascal!

Thank you for helping me again. It turns out this is not .bbp-author-avatar issue. The issue starts when you enable threaded replies in bbPress settings. This is reproducible on fresh WP/bbPress install as well.

So, if threaded replies are enabled, the issue appears. I just disabled those setting on all of my sites and the issue disappeared.

Summary: if threaded replies are enabled in bbPress settings, the topic is rendered wrong on small screens (less than 414×736).

Bug? I’m using bbPress 2.5.8 with theme Twenty Sixteen (WP 4.4.2).

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
Great tags 🙂

Did you try with bbPress2.6-alpha ? It very very stable now and the importers have improved a lot.
https://bbpress.org/download/

Pascal.

[madflute]

Hi Pascal,
Guess what, all is working now even after I reenabled “bbPress Notify (No-Spam) 1.10”. I am stunned. What was the 4 days of agony for, I don’t know.

Speaking of cache issue, I was wondering about that. I installed “WP Super Cache – Clear all cache” in early dev but I don’t think it has ever worked. Do you have any recommendation?

I have one remaining issue:
The subscriber who clicked Forum Subscribe only gets notification on new Topic creation but not Replies. Subscribers have to subscribe to each topics in order to receive notification on replies. On top of that, “bbP Manage Subscriptions” plugin only controls at the Forum level but no the Topic level.

I need subscribers who subscribed to a Forum gets notification on all the replies within its Forum. Is this possible with some plug-in? I can’t find any.

And then I need subscribers gets notification of Topic updates, like when announcement was updated. Is it possible?

[imborx]

Hi,

I have bbpress installed and I’m using it having forums inside a group. My problem is that the title of a single topics seems like “Group | Webpage”. How can I like this forums? To show: “This is a topic | Webpage” or “This is a topic | Group | Webpage”

Thank you 🙂

[thelaw]

Several months ago I tried to import a phpbb 3.1 forum into bbpress. Sadly it didn’t work. It was frustrating because the description says it works. It would be very beneficial to have version numbers and dates associated with anything associated with bbpress, including importers. Otherwise it’s a constant source of frustration downloading, trying, failing. No need to have done so in the first place if the version number was already a part. Thanks for the consideration.

[ma3ry]

Does this not mean that there is an issue with bbpress?

bbp_setup_current_user was called incorrectly

[Pascal Casier]

It’s somewhere a cache issue or so !
So for me if it worked, there might be a conflict between bbPress Notify and async. Can you try to deactivate one and then other for a longer period ?
Pascal.

[Valery Kondakoff]

Hello!

I’m using bbPress 2.5.8 with theme Twenty Sixteen (WP 4.4.2). Accidentally I noticed, that when viewing topic on a devices with small screen (less than 414×736) all of the author avatars are sliding to the upper left. Here is a screenshot:

I tried to install bbPress on a fresh WP install and the avatar does not seems to slide, when viewing in small screens. So, I deactivated all the plugins, removed all known theme modifications, css styles, but avatar is still misplaced.

Here is a link to the test topic: http://rugby-forum.ru/wp2/forums/topic/test/ Can you please, take a look and guess what may be wrong here and how to fix this?

Thank you in advance!