[Pascal Casier]

Hi kamenlee,

First of all, you can refer to https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/new-users-auto-subscribe-to-one-forum/ if you know how to code and try from there to automate.

Otherwise you can start with this plugin and perform it manually if somebody registers to your site (if your userbase is not that big) : https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-manage-subscriptions/ . The ‘automation’ and ‘bulk options’ are not yet there but should hopefully come in some weeks.

Pascal.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi aycreative,
As Robkk asked, please explain a bit better what you want to obtain.

A lot is happening in wordpress and bbpress, so post IDs are growing all the time. Every post, page, revision, email sent, topic, reply, … takes the next number. This means that adding 2 topics with 5 minutes in between could result is an increase of post ID of tens or hundreds because of things happening in wordpress.

Pascal.

[barbarabax]

Hello, I need your help desperately! It’s one month now that i try to import my old forum into bbpress. Before, it was on vbulletin and i had no success. So i migrated vbulletin on a fresh phpbb installation and from there i’ve tryied again to migrate on bbpress. But this time is even worse!
I have the following problems:
forum repair recalculate the position of each reply gives me a blank page
on front page replies are not present, there’s just the first topic
on backend, if i try to access to replies, i have internal server error (when i’ve imported vbulletin i had the same 2 problems but at least i could access replies from backend)
I’m almost giving up as i lost so much time on it and i’m still stucked with the same problems.
Please help me!
Wordpress 4.3.1
BBPRESS 2.5.8
Theme: Hueman (issues are the same also on theme twenty twelve ecc)
noimamme.it/forums
Thanks
Barbara

[Robkk]

It adds this by default at 480px in the bbPress stylesheet. Should definitely show up unless you have reply threading activated because of some weird bug when it is activated.

#bbpress-forums .bbp-body div.bbp-topic-author,
	#bbpress-forums .bbp-body div.bbp-reply-author {
		margin: -15px 10px 10px;
		min-height: 100px;
		padding-left: 80px;
		position: relative;
		text-align: left;
		width: 100%;
	}

	#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-author img.avatar,
	#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-author img.avatar {
		position: absolute;
		top: 15px;
		left: 0;
		width: 60px;
		height: auto;
	}

	#bbpress-forums .bbp-body div.bbp-topic-content,
	#bbpress-forums .bbp-body div.bbp-reply-content {
		clear: both;
		margin: 10px;
		padding: 0;
	}

[Robkk]

I split your topic, since it was kind of off topic.

This is the code I used to have the large avatar like that in the freshness column. This code should replace the bbp-topic-freshness list in loop-single-topic.php that should be copied in your child theme. You may have to style the avatar by floating it to the left and giving it a margin to the right too by using the class bbp-topic-freshness-author-av.

	<li class="bbp-topic-freshness">

	<span class="bbp-topic-freshness-author-av"><?php bbp_author_link( array( 'post_id' => bbp_get_topic_last_active_id(), 'size' => 48 , 'type' => 'avatar' ) ); ?></span>

	<div class="bbp-topic-meta">

		<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_before_topic_freshness_link' ); ?>

		<?php bbp_topic_freshness_link(); ?>

		<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_after_topic_freshness_link' ); ?>

			<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_before_topic_freshness_author' ); ?>

			<span class="bbp-topic-freshness-author"><?php printf( __('by %1$s', 'bbpress' ), bbp_get_author_link( array( 'post_id' => bbp_get_topic_last_active_id(), 'type' => 'name' ) ) ); ?></span>

			<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_after_topic_freshness_author' ); ?>

		</div>

	</li>

[Robkk]

I just split your reply into a topic so that you can have your own topic about this.

Please do not bump topics, especially topics that are about 8 years old.

If you are using the latest bbPress plugin.

To get the user’s username use

<?php 
  global $current_user;
  get_currentuserinfo();
  echo $current_user->user_login;
?>

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_currentuserinfo

You can also just use the WordPress toolbar.

[Robkk]

Where do I add those lines of code?

It is CSS put it in your child themes style.css file, a custom css plugin, or anywhere you can put custom css.

I assume you want me to edit one of the PHP files

No, never edit the plugin core files, unless you are 100% sure you know what you are doing. Since you are a novice, just do not do it.

I don’t know what “multisite” is.

Since you do not know what it is, I am going to assume you do not have it. You do not need it to solve this issue so no need to install any plugins, just curious if you have it. I see it is probably that you have a test enviroment of WordPress because you are planning on migrating to a WordPress/bbPress install from phpBB.

Yes, your deleteme user does appear in the Users list.

Does it have the Participant forum role too?

Alright, so I assume you’re talking about Peter’s Login Redirect plugin, and I assume I’ll need to edit the settings under Settings -> Login/logout redirects, correct?

You seem to be getting that together. Not sure why you are redirecting to the forums especially a specific forum, but yeah you got it.

I created a test Subscriber user, which in fact is redirected upon logging in, but isn’t logged in (of course that code you recommended still needs added in).

The code I gave you helped remove the bullet list displaying in your forums.

Again thank you for trying to help Robkk, but I would definitely like it if you could be a bit more descriptive in what I need to do to fix this login problem

We still have to troubleshoot what is causing the user to not seem to be have access to the forums.

Try some of these troubleshooting steps listed in this guide to see if it could be theme/custom theme related like if you copied the bbPress customizable templates into your child theme and edited them and messed something up on accident, check to see if a plugin could be causing an issue, you can check to see if caching could be an issue by flushing cache from your site, if you edited the bbPress and ever do not remember what you edited you can reinstall a fresh version of the plugin to see if it fixes the issue also.

Troubleshooting

Do not just go deleting cache files from WordPress or code in bbPress.

[kamenlee]

I have a small, niche single forum install of bbPress and one of the things I need to do is figure out how to subscribe everyone to the single forum by default.

What I know so far:

1) The notify plugins won’t do because we WANT people to be subscribed and allowed to opt-out by unsubscribing in their settings.
2) We only want to auto-subscribe them to a single forum, not replies. This way they see all new topics, but not ALL convos.
3) This will also eventually be part of a membership to the site, thus the people subscribing are doing it, in part, to gain access and be a part of the conversation.

Seems like I am not the only one that would use a forum this way, but have found no insight on how to accomplish it.

[names_are_useless]

Where are the cache files located? And I assume you mean bbPress cache files? Or do you mean WordPress cache files as a whole?

[mica123]

Hello @casiepa, @robkk

I did more testing, this time I looked at response headers following instructions from this article. I am not sure if this is the right course of action but if you could bear with me could you perhaps have a look at the results below? The first part is from my good site and the second part is from the problematic site:

My good site results:
Response headers:
cache control: max-age=0
Request headers:
cache control: “max-age=0”

bbpress
Response headers:
cache control: max-age=2592000, public, proxy-revalidate, public, proxy-revalidate, must-revalidate
Cache control: max-age=0

After login:
Response header:
Cache control: no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0

My bad site results:
Response headers:
Cache control: max-age=3600
Request header:
Cache control: max-age=0

bbpress:
Response headers:
Cache control: max-age=2592000
Request header:
Cache control: max-age=0

After successful login response header says:
Cache control: no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0

However, clicking on page that was viewed before login,
response header says:
Cache control: max-age=3600

[names_are_useless]

Thank you for trying to help Robkk.

Where do I add those lines of code? I assume you want me to edit one of the PHP files (click “Edit” for bbPress plugin). I just tried adding it to “bbpress/bbpress.php” (since its the first php file that comes up) at the end of the file. I received a “Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘-‘, expecting ‘(‘ in /var/www/vhosts/laysofalthas.com/epochgames/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbpress.php on line 933”. There’s a bunch of other php files, and I have no idea where I’m supposed to put that code snippet (novice here), so I’m just going to delete that code and wait for further instructions.

I don’t know what “multisite” is. Looking through the plugin list, I see several (Multisite Toolbar Additions, Multisite Global Search, etc). Would you recommend I add one of them? Can you give me the specific name of one?

Alright, so how can I fix it so “yoursite.com/wordpress/wp-login.php” leads to “yoursite.com/wp-login.php” instead?

Yes, your deleteme user does appear in the Users list.

Alright, so I assume you’re talking about Peter’s Login Redirect plugin, and I assume I’ll need to edit the settings under Settings -> Login/logout redirects, correct? I have now set the “administrator” role to go to the URL “yoursite.com/wordpress/wp-admin/” and it works perfectly, so thank you. I have also set it so Subscribers are redirected to “http://epochgames.co.uk/forums/forum/test/” when they login. I created a test Subscriber user, which in fact is redirected upon logging in, but isn’t logged in (of course that code you recommended still needs added in). Can’t say I’m overjoyed that I have to change the URL to the forums every time I want to login as an administrator account, but at least I can get to the Dashboard now without having to memorize the URL.

Again thank you for trying to help Robkk, but I would definitely like it if you could be a bit more descriptive in what I need to do to fix this login problem. I am very much a novice still with WordPress.

[hotconductor]

I have the same question. Excellent request. Can anyone point us in the right direction? I have a great web developer but bbpress is a bit of a beast on this stuff and I’d hate to approach this without some guidance before diving in!

[mica123]

@gperez-tl

As @casiepa told you, I am the one who is having dreadful problems as detailed on this
link.

My host says they have no caching enabled. I wonder which pages did you edit via FTP? When you say “edit”, did you actually edit them or just resaved them?

[Robkk]

It is not really moderated on the bbPress site plugins page, it just pulls plugins with the bbPress tag from the WordPress repository.

Yes, some developers do this and many other things to possibly increase sales in their premium plugins.

I do not really like some of the tactics they do to try to gain an increase in sales in their premium plugins either.

This should really go to the make plugins team I think for a suggestion of stricter tagging and plugin submission.

For the bbPress plugins page I think we will think about it, I might contact the devs tomorrow about it to see if they have any opinions on fully moderating plugins in the list. It would defiantely be time consuming moderating plugins on bbpress.org unless the tagging process was sticter.

[Robkk]

This fixes the list issue.

#bbpress-forums li {
    list-style: none !important;
}

I created a user called “deleteme” and I see the issue you are talking about.

Do you have multisite enabled or at least a subsite for testing.

the wp-login.php page leads to yoursite.com/wordpress/wp-login.php instead of just yoursite.com/wp-login.php.

Check it out right now to see if I am even a user to just the yoursite.com site. If I am see that I am even have a forum role like participant.

The redirect to the home page is because of some piece of code in bbPress for the frontend login forms. You can easily fix this by setting it where Admins can go the Admin and other users redirect to the home page using the plugin you have already installed.

[Jake Hall]

Does it ever get maintained or at the very least, moderated?

it seems plenty of Plugin developers are almost “gaming the system”, it is already hard enough to attract new people to your plugin before you have developers committing readme changes into the recent stable tag, e.g adding a period/removing a period from the end of a sentence. (which, to those unaware, causes their plugin to shoot to the top of the bbPress plugins list almost as if it has just received an update… wherein fact it hasn’t.)

Not to mention the amount of plugins that are in no way related to bbPress, yet still use the bbPress tag?

It doesn’t seem like the plugin guidelines are enforced much either, since every single plugin seems to have a boatload (30+) tags attached some of which aren’t even relevant.

(And to name and shame, here’s one: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Flogin-page-styler&old=1263429&new_path=%2Flogin-page-styler&new=1263429&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= – most recent change to the stable tag was to remove a period from the readme… really? Note, this plugin has a free and premium version… I wonder why it is being bumped constantly…)

It is just frustrating to see this going on in all honesty. The WordPress Plugins page doesn’t suffer from this as it doesn’t display the plugins in a list form.

[Robkk]

I think there is an issue with the bbp_make_clickable() function that is causing this especially the part that leads to the function _make_url_clickable_cb() in WordPress.

bbp_make_clickable() is in

\bbpress\includes\common\formatting.php

bbp_make_clickable

_make_url_clickable_cb() is in

\wp-includes\formatting.php

_make_url_clickable_cb()

Will make a trac ticket once I gather the information to write down.

[Robkk]

Does your SEO plugin allow allow you to edit the titles and descriptions of custom post type archives? Most SEO plugins do. And in them you look for forum archive to edit the front page of the forums.

Here is the bbPress conditionals if you are using something custom.

bbPress Conditional Tags

[Robkk]

I think it will release when it is finished, so there isn’t exactly an ETA.

Most of the performance tickets/performance improvements headed into bbPress are definitely holding back the release date, and I always see the devs find new areas to improve performance drastically too and that pushes it back even more.

[Robkk]

You can try this instead. This hides the “this forum contains … topics… and” description that is blue on top of forums.

add_filter( 'bbp_get_single_forum_description', '__return_false' );
add_filter( 'bbp_get_single_topic_description', '__return_false' );

You can try this CSS for the reply/topic form text areas.

#bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form textarea {
    border: 1px solid #ccc;
}

Anything else you want on this site I am sure there has already been a topic about so searching the forums might be best.

[Robkk]

@lfeddern

If I remember correctly I think this allows you sort replies in a topic on a per forum basis.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-sort-topic-replies/

[aletarius]

I tried plugins and reading other posts on here but nothing seems to work. I’m using the DIVI theme with my bbpress and can’t seem to remove the “Forums” page title. I want to remove the table and take out that gap that is there. It just seems unnecessary. Is there a way of doing this without modifying any crazy files?

http://orderofthegalacticalliance.ga -click on forums

[Robkk]

Closing this in favor of your other topic.

In the discussions the message does not appear

[Robkk]

@casiepa

I am starting to think that filter may not be the best way to translate content. It was widely used though and was recommend a few times in these forums.

The dangers of the gettext filter

While trying to find the bbPress string swap plugin that was a bbPress plugin that use to do this exact thing fine. I came upon this that lead me to find the alternative to the gettext filter and using global $l10n;

https://github.com/justintadlock/hybrid-core/issues/49

Here is an example with BuddyPress and I am sure there is a way to make this kind of thing work with bbPress.

https://bp-tricks.com/coding/string-replacement-hack-core/

[Robkk]

This might be custom development for now. You may need to hire a developer for this type of functionality.

Here is a guide to help people create custom user roles with custom capabilities.

Custom Capabilities

The whole each user gets a private forum thing could be possible in the plugin bbPress Private Groups but I am not entirely sure. Having specific roles have their own forum is possible with the plugin though, a group of users not sure about just 1 specific user to each forum.

Upgrading the role after they have done something is custom development also.