[Robin W]

sorry – I haven’t read in detail this whole thread – do you need to do something else as well as

I used the following procedure:
◾Go to you dashboard > forums
◾“Edit” a forum
◾At the Forum Groups box deselect all groups (That box is added by bbPress private groups)
◾At the Forum Attributes box set visibility to Public
◾Choose Update

And now, revert to the previous settings:
◾Re-select/check the Forum Groups,
◾Re-apply visibility to Private
◾Choose Update

?

[tomsw]

Hi all,

I am a newbie so I am sorry if this is an easy answer however I have not been able to find the answer or in the documentation.

I am setting up a forum on a small site and have installed bbpress. I am wondering how to remove the sidebar and add the correct sidebar for the forum options (login, register, search etc.) also is it possible to place these options above the forum? I was watching a tutorial on youtube which showed the sidebar added automatically after the install of bbpress but it may have been an older version.

I am currently using the latest wordpress 4.4, bbpress 2.5.8 and the esteem template. I did try to use twenty fourteen and twenty sixteen temprorarily but couldn’t add the sidebar under widgets as there was no bbpress sidebar.

Thanks,

Tom

[juniorbra]

Hi,

How can I change the default display name from bbpress? I’d like to display first_name instead of username by default, without members having to edit profile to get it.

Thanks

[Pascal Casier]

Ciao,

Extra icons on the toolbar might not always display correctly for bbPress. Please see https://codex.bbpress.org/enable-visual-editor/

Pascal.

[jsoonlee]

I’m a newbie, so please be kind. Is it correct that plugins (except ecommerce ones) are not available for wordpress.com sites? Is there any way to install bbpress onto a wordpress.com website?

Thanks.

[shades404]

Oke – hear this:

Fixed it I think..

As I mentioned above users not able to see topics as participant but when I switch them to moderator I figured it has something to do with rights, now bbPress doesn’t really come with a sophisticated rights management so the “problem” must be with bbP private groups (although I cannot confirm the root of the problems lays there).

So, ff you are using bbP private groups and got the moderator can see participant not issue

I used the following procedure:

• Go to you dashboard > forums
• “Edit” a forum
• At the Forum Groups box deselect all groups (That box is added by bbPress private groups)
• At the Forum Attributes box set visibility to Public
• Choose Update

And now, revert to the previous settings:

• Re-select/check the Forum Groups,
• Re-apply visibility to Private
• Choose Update

Cheers

[Diul89]

Hi all, I need help. I’m very noob in “web”, but I was asked to solve this problem:
on a WordPress 4.3.1 with bbPress 2.5.8 site there is the problem shown on this pic

The three icons on the right are not shown properly. I’ve tried to analyze the problem, and I’ve noticed that for those buttons there are no corresponding classes/objects(?) in the “skin.min.css” file. Adding the missing code with Chrome editor (do not know how to call it), icons are shown, even if I can’t find corresponding “Content” for those three buttons, so I use other buttons icon just to make an attempt.
How can I solve? Are that css file static o dynamic generated? If the second one, is the following error linked with the problem?

I apologize in advance if I was not so clear.

[shades404]

Hi Casiepa,

Is this the “ultimate fix”?

I changed the line but it does not have any effect. I also tried the “fix” by timsilva_ but that doesn’t work either. I revert back to 4.3.1, disabled all plugins but bbPress and the problem remains. Before the upgrade there were no problems.

I’m using quite a lot of bbPress enhancement addons but i don’t think they interfere

• bbP private groups 3.0.8<
• bbPress Do Short Codes 1.0.3
• ppPress Votes 1.1.0
• GD bbPress Attachments 2.3.1

Since Im a keymaster I didnt notice is but got complains from user there topics were gone. Also – they can actually create new topics and they are saved but they just cant see them. They got the imfamous “Oh bother!” message but the freshness information bar says they actually were the last that posted something.

Now – if I make that user moderator everything seems to be working as it should – but hey – i dont want to apply that workaround.

Our problem has something to do with the upgrade and I guess something to do with rights. The only rights-plugin being used is bbp private groups but people confirmed that that plugin is compatible..

Also change the permalink to default – no effect aswell

Please advice..

[Pascal Casier]

I suppose that
add_filter( 'bbp_get_teeny_mce_buttons',
should be
add_filter( 'bbp_get_teeny_mce_plugins',

Check out https://codex.bbpress.org/enable-visual-editor/

Pascal.

[Herve ARNAUD]

Late for @freshwater … Hope it will be usefull for someone else.

To add and control the featured image size on forums:

1- Add the following code to your child theme functions.php file.

add_post_type_support('forum', array('thumbnail'));
add_image_size('forum-category-thumbnail', 1080, 320, true);

2- (optional) Change/rename “forum-category-thumbnail” by something more useful for you if you need.

3- Set featured image size by changing numbers. First number is width in pixels and last is the height.

4- (if not done yet) Create a bbpress directory in your child theme.

5- (if not done yet) Copy the template file you want to affect from …/plugins/bbpress/template/defaut/bbpress/your_template.php to your bbpress directory.
for example: content-single-forum.php

6- Add the following code exactly where you want that your featured image appears in your template.

<?php if( has_post_thumbnail() ): ?>
  <div class="entry-thumbnail"><?php the_post_thumbnail('forum-category-thumbnail') ?></div>
<?php endif; ?>

If you made change on point N°2 remember to change “forum-category-thumbnail” by what you’ve choose.

[todd.e]

I’m having an issue with the bbpress profile page.

I receive a 404 error up until the moment that a user actually posts something in the forum. It is only once this event occurs that the user’s profile page is displayed and the 404 error disappears. So it seems as though the profile page has not been generated until this trigger.

Is this normal behaviour for bbpress? Ideally, I would prefer if users could access their profile page regardless of whether or not they have contributed to any of the forums. Is there any way to achieve this?

[Head Goldfish]

Hello!

I would like to display a list of the logged in user’s subscribed forums and topics in my sidebar in order of recent activity (similar to the Recent Activity widget that comes with bbPress).

I’ve been searching around for days and I haven’t figured out a way to do this, nor even a plugin that will do it. I’ve tried creating a custom shortcode, I’ve tried creating a custom widget, and so far the closest thing that has worked is to just copy and paste the code from the user-subscriptions.php template into my sidebar.php. Doing that displays an unformatted version but only when I’m on the user profile page.

Can anyone help? I’m sure there’s some kind of global variable that I’m not calling but I’m not sure what it is. Is there a shortcode I’m missing that will let me display the user’s subscriptions on other pages of the site?

[scorpnetwork]

Hello BBPress Community,

I am running a medium-sized vBulletin 4.2 Forum, which I want to migrate to BBPress for various Reasons.

The vBulletin Forum currently has 46k Topics with 490k Posts and 7k registered Users.

I am using the BBPress Built-in Importer to migrate my Forum, but I cant get it to work. The Importer runs smoothly until it gets to “Converting Replies”. It then just gets stuck somewhere in the middle of processing replies… I just see the rotating loading Symbol. At my last try to get this done, it already got stuck at “Converting Replies 0-99” …..
I know that I can press Stop and Start, but I have the feeling that this messes Things up… Take a look at my log:
———————–
Converting replies (200 – 249)
Starting Conversion
Converting replies (0 – 99)
———————–

The Script was converting Replies 0 – 99 when it got “stuck”. I pressed Stop and lowered the amount to 50, since I thought maybe 100 is too much? I pressed Start again, and it jumped to “200-249” … So where are replies 100-200 ???

Are there any other ways to migrate my Forum? Maybe a shell Script or php Script that is made to get run via shell, to prevent timeouts etc.?

Thanks for any help on this!

[andy_g3942]

Thanks Pascal. I would try this for bbPress 😉

[BryanWalters]

Hello Andy,

You may refer our past discussion here

Social integration with bbPress

Thanks,
Bryan W.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi Andy,
bbforums 2.5.8 ? or bbPress 2.5.8 ? 🙂

If you just use bbPress on WordPress, then you can use any plugin that is offering the social integration. I’m using https://wordpress.org/plugins/oa-social-login/ on one of my sites and it seems to do the job, but a lot of plugins exist for that.

Pascal.

[Ger]

Hi,

Upgraded my downgraded WP-installation to 4.4. Changed wp-includes/post.php according to the last diff file patch 35084.2.diff and it worked!

So the issue is not in bbPress but WordPress itself?

When will there be a WP update?

Thanks a lot!

Cheers,
Ger (@lindt01)

[damdesignnu]

I am using WordPress v. 4.4
Buddypess v. 2.2.0
Bbpress v. 2.5.8

[damdesignnu]

I have installed bbpress and buddypress on . Every thing has been working just fine until the other day (I have tried to deactivate all plugins and that did not work).

Before my bbpress forum was looking just like any other bbpress forum, with a nice list over categories and topics.

But now it takes all of the forum content at put it in – what looks like – one big blog post (see here: http://greenkeepitsimple.dk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Skærmbillede-2015-12-14-kl.-17.00.11.png) And the “read more”-button just reload the page. I really hope this makes sense and that somebody can help me! I am using total theme

[Robkk]

The default bbPress forum index shortcode works fine. And it does not have arguments for removing the search bar, and showing specific forums in the forum index only.

You had some code that uses the shortcodes in the plugin bbp style pack.

Here is a shortcode from the bbp style pack plugin.

[bsp-display-forum-index forum= '2932, 2921' breadcrumb='no' search='no']

[gptxffa]

What happened? The index doesnt display properly anymore. here is what I have in my functions file

function recent_bbpress_topics() { 
 echo do_shortcode("[bbp-forum-index= search='no'] [bbp-topic-form]");
 }

add_action('bbp_template_after_topics_index','recent_bbpress_topics');

add_filter( 'bbp_current_user_can_access_create_topic_form', 'custom_bbp_access_topic_form' );
function custom_bbp_access_topic_form( $retval ) {

	if ( bbp_is_forum_archive() ) {
		$retval = bbp_current_user_can_publish_topics();
	}

	return $retval;

}

Its always worked in the past no problem. I found that if i deleted = search='no' then it works again. I would however prefer to not display the search bar because its redundant. Just not sure what changed to stop that original code from working.

Thanks

[NVWA2]

I have installed bbPress plugin and when I activate it it says it is activated but on the left Dashboard area of the WP admin there is no Forum menu option and under settings menu option their is nor Forum option. Also when I activate the plugin in I am not redirected to welcome screen.
I have attempted the following fixes already:
– uninstalled and re-installed the plugin = same results
-deactivated all plugins and tried activating only BBpress= same results

Please help!

[timsilva_]

Thanks for jumping on this everyone, it’s appreciated. 🙂

@casiepa I have WP 4.4 with BuddyPress, bbPress and WooCommerce in a local environment. No fancy permalink settings, except for the root forum slug set to “forum”. But to be sure, here is a screenshot of my forum’s permalink settings: https://i.imgur.com/X6jfnrQ.png

I also should have mentioned before that all of my parent & child forums are set to private.

@KPDub I tried the same thing that you did by turning the parent forum from private into public. That worked to solve the incorrectly generated URLs! It does require making the parent forum public though, which we obviously don’t want all users and guests to see. So it appears that the issue has some relationship to parent forums being set to private.

Here is my actual structure that always works:
/forum/categories/parent/child/

After WP 4.4, if the “parent” forum is set to “Private”, then the forum links to:
/forum/categories/child/ (which returns a 404 error, while the above link still works)

After setting the “parent” forum to “Public”, the correct URL is made again:
/forum/categories/parent/child/
…but, the leaves the “parent” forum’s threads visible to everyone.

@schwarzkopfclub If my information in this post doesn’t lead to replication of the bug, I will try to make it happen from a fresh setup. 🙂

@robkk My 404 error is my custom theme’s version (theme/404.php), not the “Oh bother” one that bbPress includes.

[Robkk]

It is usually recommended to not edit the core plugin files. Use a custom css plugin and add some of these styles and customize it to how you want it.

1.

.bbp-forum-content p,
.bbp-topic-content p, 
.bbp-reply-content p {
    font-size: 16px;
}

2.

.bbp-topic-author a.bbp-author-name,
.bbp-reply-author a.bbp-author-name {
    font-size: 14px;
}

3.

Depends on what Avatars exactly? Plus CSS is not the best way to adjust this.

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-author img.avatar,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-author img.avatar,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-author img.avatar {
    border: none;
    max-width: 80px;
    padding: 0;
    margin: 12px auto 0 auto;
    float: none;
}

4.

#bbpress-forums div.even,
#bbpress-forums ul.even {
	background-color: #fff;
}

#bbpress-forums div.odd,
#bbpress-forums ul.odd {
	background-color: #fbfbfb;
}

[Robkk]

Copy the archive-forum.php template from the extras folder and place it into the root of your child theme and customize it to your liking, make sure that the template code is similar to the one bbPress is inheriting from your theme.

Just make sure the get_sidebar() code is in your archive-forum.php template while the rest of your forums are full-width.

Getting Started in Modifying the Main bbPress Template