[Stephen Edgar]

p.s. I like what you’re doing where with your homepage and bbPress http://www.utehub.com 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

How about using bbp_get_reply_id ? I think that one is not echoing…

Correct 🙂

Throughout much of bbPress this is true, more often than not if there is a function bbp_some_thing there will be a sister function bbp_get_some_thing, the functions with bbp_get_ will always just get the value for you to use, and the functions without it will echo the returned value.

[lapineweb]

Hello everybody,

I would like to know how to remove the light yellow box on top of my website. It shows the last post and the user profil.
I know I put this myself but I can’t remember how to remove it. Someone can help me?

image

Best regards

I use bbpress 2.5.8 and the wordpress 4.4.2

[Robin W]

Starting by complaining about how something that is free doesn’t do it for you is not really the way to get help.

I suspect that bbpress isn’t for you.

[xionkid]

So, I’m thinking of using bbPress for a forum I’m about to create. But, the more I read on this forum, the closer I get to the conclusion that bbPress is a dead project and should be buried. I’m writing this because I want to know if it really is as bad as it seems and in that case, why?!

So, I want my guest users to have the option to start forum threads and answer to topics, so far so good (but that’s about it). I also want the guest users (non logged in users) to be able to “quote” previous answers – a very basic forum function that is still not included in the most recent bbPress release?! I have searched this forum for answers about a quote function and as far as I can see it was promised to be a feature in the upcoming versions ABOUT 3½ YEARS AGO?! I’ve tried 3 plug ins to accomplish this without success. The Quote feature shows up if I’m logged in as admin, but not for guests. Same results for all the plug ins I’ve tried. Why is this not a standard feature yet?!

Another thing discussed here is the permalink function, the option to use wildcards to control how the forum permalink structure looks. There’s even a fantastic request about how this feature is supposed to work here: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2258 The priority is set as “low” though this is a critical and very useful feature?! Nothing has happened. WHY?!

It seems that this is the same for all requests for new features on this forum. A lot of users are asking the developers for the most basic functions any forum on the net should have, but 2, 3 even 4 years later, nothing has happened. Again, as far as I can see, this laziness and ignorance showed by the developers is always defended by a phrase that goes something like “bbPress is a basic forum and you can expend it to your hearts content with plug ins!” but that is not the case. There are so few plug ins for bbPress, and even fewer good ones that is currently being updated on a regular basis.

So, what the f*ck is going on with bbPress? Is there any point in considering bbPress when creating a forum with more >10 users? Why is notning happening?! Also, how would I go about fixing the Quote function problem. “Quote option” isn’t showing to any guest with any plug in.

[raduconstantin]

Hi,
I have a wp site with bbpress but when I go to the forum section without being logged in it renders the following before the DOCTYPE html:”
“<div id=”bbpress-forums”>

<div class=”bbp-breadcrumb”><p>Home <span class=”bbp-breadcrumb-sep”>›</span> ”

I can’t find a solution and this appears only when I’m not logged in. If I log in everything is rendered just fine. (hiding it via css does not work because the bb-forums div encapsulates my whole page).I mention that in firebug this appears right after body although in the viewsource it appears before the Doctype. How can I resolve this issue ?
Thank you for your support.

[Adri Oosterwijk]

@robin-w: thank you for your reply. I’m sure it could work. However using this solution forces me to create a function for every language I add.

@casiepa: Goeiemorgen, daar zijn we weer! Thanks for helping out. I have achieved a lot of what I want but the breadcrumbs remains. (for reference, see this topic on WPML: https://wpml.org/forums/topic/multiple-site-languages-but-just-a-bbpress-forum-in-english/).

As a result of this thread I have an English forum AND a Dutch page displaying the forum with a shortcode with only one set of topics. Exactly what I want.

For the breadcrumbs I tried to create a solution with an onclick event and then navigate back in the history but that is not reliable. When a user is entering a topic from, let’s say a google search result page and then clicking the breadcrumb link they are send back to the google page.

I imagine something like this:

The English page for the forum has the slug: supportforum (for example)
The Dutch page for the forum has the slug: helpforum (for example)

On the forum index page no breadcrumbs are needed.
On the topics page I only want a link back to the forum index for the appropriate language.
So the ‘solution’ must not link back to the forum slug but to the page where the index lives.
I have absolutely no idea how to achieve this.

The outputted link has to be something like this:

http://www.my-site.com/forumpage-slug/

For the other languages:
http://www.my-site.com/language-code/localized-forumpage-slug

In my case English is the default language and Dutch is the translation.
The urls should be:

http://www.my-site.com/supportforum/ -> for the default English language.
and
http://www.my-site.com/nl/helpforum -> for the Dutch language forum page.
and
same way for every other language added.

I hope this description make sense.

HTH

Regards,

Adri

[iso2013]

Hi. I recently installed bbPress along with the Material Gaze theme. I’m having a problem – the /forums/ page shows a line of gibberish with no clickable links. Here is a screenshot: http://s13.postimg.org/w1elw7g07/Untitled.png

I did try creating a new page with the [bbp-forum-indexx] tag (with 1 x) which worked flawlessly.
So here are my questions:
1. Is there a way to use a custom page (and put that shortcode there) for the forum main?
2. Is there a way to fix the forum index?

Thanks!

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
I don’t think that bbPress is the best option for that. I think you are more looking for an ads/classifieds plugin.
Pascal.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
Also read item 26 of https://codex.bbpress.org/layout-and-functionality-examples-you-can-use/
Pascal.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
Did you check item 26 in the codex ? https://codex.bbpress.org/layout-and-functionality-examples-you-can-use/
Pascal.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
Make your choice:
1. Check item 1 and 2 from https://codex.bbpress.org/layout-and-functionality-examples-you-can-use/
2. Install my ‘bbP Toolkit’ plugin.

Pascal.

[AlamSyed]

This is my scenario,

I create a private Forum of type category , then I create two public forums to type forum which are the children of that category forum. I get a nice category level organization, when I click on the url,

Home/ Forums/ Private: DummyCategory.

But when I click on one of the forums :: Home/ Forums/ Private: DummyCategory/ DummyForum1

all the posts that do not belong to that forum shows up. It means if I post in DummyForum2 or 1 or any forum, when I click Home/ Forums/ Private: DummyCategory/ DummyForum1 , all the posts show up.

It can’t be by design ? Is this a bug ? Most likely some settings need to be changed in the bbpress I suppose , any idea ?

Just for additional details I am using code to add into the forum. I can get the parent child relations between the forums displayed properly, the insertion of the topic goes to the right parent forum. But then that bug shows up.

if (!function_exists('bbp_insert_topic')) {
            require_once '/includes/topics/functions.php';
        }

        echo "All fine here ??? Did it reached ";
        $forum_ID = $selectmyID;
        $terms = array(bbp_get_topic_tag_tax_id() => $key_pieces);
        // The topic data.
        $topic_data = array(
        'post_parent'       => $forum_ID, // forum ID of Projects  hard coded
        'post_status'       => bbp_get_public_status_id(),   // Subscribed users can see this
        'post_content'      => $my_content,
        'post_title'        => $slug,
        'comment_status'    => 'open',
        'menu_order'        => 0,
        'tax_input'         => $terms  
        );

        // The topic meta.
        $topic_meta = array(
        'forum_id'    => $topic_data['post_parent'],
        'reply_count' => 0
        );

        // NOTICE! Understand what this does before running.
        $post_id = bbp_insert_topic($topic_data, $topic_meta);
        bbp_stick_topic($post_id , true);                         // Making it super sticky !

        echo "The post id returned is " . $post_id;
        echo "Sucessfully inserted the post" . $slug . " programmatically !!!!";

[terranova23]

Thank you Pascal, I guess I misunderstood, it seemed to me that the Activity Stream was a bbPress feature. I will look into what you sent and if needed, post my questions over at BuddyPress. I appreciate your time.

[Robin W]

try

https://codex.bbpress.org/themes/theme-compatibility/getting-started-in-modifying-the-main-bbpress-template/

[oscmage]

Hello, I want to create something like this “http://www.freeride.se/admarket/&#8221; where you as an bbpress user have the possibility to sell an item. I don’t want the functionality like woocommerce or such. I don’t need the checkout and everything. I just want something where I can add a picture, put a description of the item, input the email address and maybe a telephone number. Does bbpress support this with some extension? I would like it to look at the link provided. Thanks!

[Lord Rikam]

Why isnt my bbpress sidebar not showing on my website. is there a theme issue? Any help is appreciated.

[fdcom]

wp 4.4.2
bbpress version 2.5.8
fdccl.fr/cgpa

Hello. I would like to create a topic in my forum with important informations and I would like that all the participants receive these informations without to subscribe to this topic (because some of them will forget). Do you know how to do that ? Thanks !

[Indrekkor]

Trying to display fewer replies for mobile users.

Before getting to the mobile users ran into a problem that the following filter:

function mobile_replies() {
$args['posts_per_page'] = 10;
return $args;
}

add_filter('bbp_before_has_replies_parse_args', 'mobile_replies', 10, 1 ); 

Works, but, it does not change pagination values in the view loop-single-topic.php problem is with the function bbp_topic_pagination()

For whatever reason it is not affected by filters.

In addition changing the rendering type to “list” with this function affects everything else, but not the pagination show in single forum view.

function bbpress_custom_pagination( $args ) {

	$args['type'] = 'list';
	$args['prev_text'] = '«';
	$args['next_text'] = '»';

	return $args;

}
add_filter( 'bbp_topic_pagination', 'bbpress_custom_pagination' );
add_filter( 'bbp_forum_pagination', 'bbpress_custom_pagination' );
add_filter( 'bbp_replies_pagination', 'bbpress_custom_pagination' );

Any thoughts?

Probably adding filters to wrong functions

[gleninjersey]

Okay….so I was on the WordPress forums thinking it was the bbPress forums….I know, I know. DUH!!

Complete NOOB here. I’m looking to create a forum based community.
I’m using Twenty Ten them and have started created my forum with bbPress.

I have a “Master Forum” with with sub-forums “North”, “Central” and “South”. It is displaying as:

Location
North (0, 0), Central (0, 0), South (0, 0)

I’m assuming the “(0,0)” after each sub-forum title is the number of topics and replies. I want to remove those on the main forum page so it looks like:

Location
North
Central
South

Any ideas?

[angeljs]

I’ve just imported my SMF forum to bbPress with little trouble. However, all of my posts are now showing as being written by anonymous. Is there a simple MySQL query I can run that would change all of my topics and replies to myself instead of having to trawl through hundreds of posts to do it manually? 🙂

[TKServer]

Wow I can’t believe it but I figured this out.

Basically I wrote a function that looks for a result to the bbpress function bbp_reply_id();

IF there’s a result, then replaced my $item_id (the actual post id such as $post->ID) with the id of the reply.

That did the trick. One problem though is that the bbpress bbp_reply_id(); function echoes the number, so I had to clean the echo off like this:

ob_start();
  $result = bbp_reply_id();
  ob_end_clean();

[Robin W]

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 twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[KubiK888]

The freshness indicator on my site is all wrong – http://epilens.com/forums/. I have tried using the bbpress repair tool with no success. Please advice.

[TKServer]

I decided to program my own Like/Dislike plugin so I could customize it and tweak it for my exact needs. It’s working great in my custom threaded forum view for bbpress here:

Ute Fan Board

By using the hook bbp_theme_after_reply_admin_links I’m able to get the like buttons to show up in the bbpress topics and replies, but they’re all the parent topic. See photo below.

Here’s one of my hooks:

//adds the like buttons right of the time on forum posts in bbpress
function tk_after_bbpress_content() {
     $custom_content_after_forum_title = tk_like_buttons();
    echo $custom_content_after_forum_title;
}
add_action( 'bbp_theme_after_reply_admin_links', 'tk_after_bbpress_content' );

Hoping perhaps @robkk or @casiepa have some ideas? I can’t get the post id into the plugin for replies. Thanks!