[Robkk]

@gperez-tl

Post the code you are using for the custom howdy message in the toolbar. I do not think this would cause an issue but just double checking.

Do the same thing with the profile menu items code.

Just know that you said these were bbPress’s issue although the menu system and the WordPress toolbar are both part of WordPress. The registered menu and menu location are your theme. I do not know how bbPress could cause an issue with this.

So, (visiting any author’s profile and) clicking on some of these items will show the author’s data, while clicking in others will retrieve current user profile data or something.

Wait so clicking on anyone’s frontend forum profile could show the current users profile for some reason, or is it just the menu links as you stated.

You did not edit the user profile templates heavily? you said you are receiving issues with users profiles.

IF you haven’t already try to track down what is causing the issues you are getting. Since you have a custom theme see if the issue persists in a default theme like twenty twelve, deactivate all plugins but bbPress.

Troubleshooting

Your profile pages shouldn’t just be magically be cached by bbPress.

You may need to create me a test user account so that I can confirm of the issue you are getting, and to also test other areas the cache issue might be present.

[gperez-tl]

Sorry for the bump. But this is happening still.

Wordpress version 4.3.1
bbpress version 2.5.8

[gperez-tl]

Hi. Yes, I edit a file, add a blank line or something and save. Files in my case are:
user-profile.php
user-replies-created.php
user-subscriptions.php
etc

I don’t know if the names are the conventional names or just the ones my theme set.

Anyway there’s no real need to do this. Reloading with ctrl+F5 usually do the trick.

I don’t have a real solution yet. And I’m not sure if the problem is with bbpress or wordpress. Or with something else. But I know wordpress use to cache stuff. That’s clear when you develop a plugin and things just don’t change (unless you add rules to .haccess).

[Robkk]

There is a shortcode you can put in a page to allow users to create forums.

[bbp-forum-form]

Shortcodes

You can also use this PHP code snippet, and place it in your child themes functions.php file or in a functionality plugin to allow admins/keymasters to create a forum right from their bbPress forum profile.

function ntwb_bbp_forum_form() {
	if ( bbp_is_user_home() && current_user_can( 'edit_others_forums' ) ) {
		echo do_shortcode( '[bbp-forum-form]' );
	}
}
add_action( 'bbp_template_after_user_profile', 'ntwb_bbp_forum_form' );

To delete and edit you have to do it in the backend for now. There are plans to add more frontend moderation tools though.

[sey88]

I got both BuddyPress and bbPress installed in my WP. I’ve tried to figure out how to customize and remove it. But don’t seem I am able to.

[Robkk]

@sey88

You just talking about the default WordPress registration process right?? If you have BuddyPress installed also, this has an activate link process too. I am just making sure since BuddyPress is one of the most used plugins in conjunction with bbPress.

As @casiepa said it is possible to use a frontend form plugin to just get around this whole process activation process.

[Robkk]

You can also create categories then add your forums under that by setting the parent of the forum as the chosen categories.

To have a better layout use this loop-forums.php file here.

https://github.com/robkk/bbPress-Hierarchical-Forum-and-Category-Layout

Download it and place it into your child theme in a folder called bbpress.

[jorgemuyden]

Hello Everyone,

I have a site were users can add topics on Forums. But is there a way that the Admin adds/edits/delete new Forums on the front-end?

[Scrooge12345]

Hello! I have been looking for a lot of time but still could not get aware of how to make layout of my forum hierachical just as other forum plugins have? Old methods that were published are no more valid. I just need to make my subforums hierachical not amassed in lines. Who could help me?

[Pascal Casier]

Hi sey88,

This seems wordpress related and not bbpress related.
On my site I have the ‘Theme my login’ plugin installed where in the ‘Moderation’ part I have chosen not to send the email verification.

Pascal.

[Vintagepornbay]

Hi
We have a bbpress forum
But the fonts are not fit to site font size. I want to increase fonts size of bbpress. How to do it?

[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.