[Robkk]

This might be related to your theme and bbPress theme compatibility. I think what you are experiencing is similar to what other theme frameworks could experience with bbPress.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2545

There might be a workaround for this though by using the template you are already using and creating a bbpress.php template from that so that all your bbPress pages you that template.

Use what the file to find out what template is being used from your theme for the other bbPress pages, then copy that template and rename it bbpress.php.

Getting Started in Modifying the Main bbPress Template

[Robkk]

Closing this in favor of your other topic.

My Search Box Went Away In My Forum – No Longer Visible

[Robkk]

The forum search should show up on the forum archive page that is usually yoursite.com/forums by default and I do see it there on your site.

The input box for the math captcha could just be a CSS issue. Unless you have anonymous posting activated in bbPress, you may need to send me account details for a Subscriber/Participant test user account as I may need to be logged in to your site to be able to even see the captcha.

Also not sure why you are using bbPress with some other forum software plugin, you could possibly get issues by having them both activated together. If you are just importing from one to the other your simplepress data should stay in your database and you just import all of that.

You should try some troubleshooting to see if some of the issues could be theme related. Make sure to check in a theme like Twenty Twelve, and also check to see if Simplepress could be causing an issue if you have it activated with bbPress.

Troubleshooting

[OutoftheHat]

I have a fairly large vbulletin 4.0.3 forum (sql dump installed locally), and am currently testing importing it into bbPress on a local xampplite install. I have a clean install of WordPress 4.3.1 and latest bbPress. Running the importer, it has run through 1600 users, 1300 topics and so far 4200 replies (100 at a time), at which it has paused, with the wheel turning happily. My question is, what’s causing the pause? Are there limits (such as sql queries per hour) that I can change to speed up the process? And if so, where do I change them? Given it’s a local install, I’m not worried about performance impact if I allocate max resources to this task. Any info welcome!

And how long should I let it spin before deciding it’s stuck and terminating it?

TIA

[Loc Pham]

I’m using bbPress’s “favorite” feature as “like” feature in other social networks in my application. Is there a function which would allow me to count the number of users whom “favorited” a topic? I’m also interested in counting the number of subscribed users for a particular topic as well. I’ve looked into /bbpress/includes/topics/templates.php but did not find any and wondering if you’re aware of any.

Thanks.

[creativecardio]

I updated to bbPress 2.5.8. I’m using Simplepress 5.5.11 with this. Since then, the boxes for my “search” function in the forum are no longer showing up. Also the box at the bottom of each new topic has a box for a simple “Captcha” math problem and the box for that is no longer showing up to my users anymore. Not sure if it is a text setting or a layout issue, but the line around the text that framed the search area as a “box” is now missing.

Basically there should be a “box” for the user to type keywords into the search field. It’s technically there, but my users can’t see it. (It’s just not visible to them) The “SEARCH” used to be like a header area with boxes around showing where to type. It was highlighted real nicely. Wondering if this is something in the preferences section that was automatically reset during the last update? Where would I fix that?

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In addition, when a user goes to reply to a topic, that’s when the “captcha” box comes up. The users are telling me it won’t let them post, but they are just not seeing the “box” for the captcha math entry. It is there, but they are not seeing it. It’s where my finger is directly under the 6+4. There used to be a prominent box there that has disappeared in the last update I did. Any ideas on the settings that I might need to adjust?

*I’m a rookie when it comes to bb Press, so the more step by step you can give me the better.

[mica123]

When I set up bbpress first locally on my computer, I managed to get all pages for bbpress full width with no sidebars. I simply went to Theme options and set all pages and posts to default full page width tempates.
Now I am setting up bbpress on a live site. bbpress forum pages display correctly in full width, but to my unpleasant surprise the user profile page displays with a sidebar. I simply can’t get rid of the sidebar and make the page full width. This is very disappointing for me – can someone help, please? I spent so much time getting it ready beforehand and i was hoping that I would not encounter any more hurdles. Thank you.

[Mei Ling]

Hi,

I’d like to know if it would be possible to get a preview of posts that are in the spam folder. I have the function in WordPress.
Akismet is quite sure but I’d like to check out for guests are allowed to post and my own posts as a guest had been sent in the spam folder.

I thank you in advance
Regards

Mei Ling

[UgoDimma]

I tried members plugin, but it was unable to resolve it. I tried another method I got from this topich ttps://bbpress.org/forums/topic/only-admin-can-see-forums/#post-167366 but way close to my issue. I then took the final step by deactivating all the plugins!, except bbpress, but nothing happened. It makkethink that my installation has been compromised beyond what I can resolve through forum discussion, so I trash the whole installation and start all over again.
Now everything is working just fine as it suppose to work, though not all plugins has been activated yet. So am taking a careful step to be sure my weeks and months of work nrr go down again.

[NeoID]

I’m looking for a way to convert my Drupal 6.x Advanced forum to bbPress. On the help page for the Drupal 7 import module it says:

Note: This current implementation is for the Drupal ‘Out of the Box’ forums, if you are looking to convert ‘Drupal Advanced Forums’ or ‘Artesian Forum’ for Drupal create a ticket on Trac and we will see how we go.

Has anyone converted from advanced forum before or do I need to write my own import rule?

[oliver_rub]

Hey guys,
i have the problem that moderators in my forum can assign/modify tags at all. According to the bbPress role they should be able to do so. The template checks whether tags are allowed (which is true, since normal users (=participants) and admins can successfully post tags). I tried to fix it with the following code:

function rub_fix_moderator_tags_capability($allcaps, $caps, $args){

	if($args[0] !== 'assign_topic_tags'){
		return $allcaps;
	}

	if(bbp_group_is_mod()){
		$allcaps['manage_topic_tags'] = 1;
		$allcaps['edit_topic_tags'] = 1;
		$allcaps['delete_topic_tags'] = 1;
		$allcaps['assign_topic_tags'] = 1;
	}

	return $allcaps;
}
add_filter('user_has_cap', 'rub_fix_moderator_tags_capability', 10, 3);

Not sure whether this approach is correct, since it doesnt solve my problem 😉 Also when i try something like echo current_user_can('assign_topic_tags'); in there as a check, the page doenst load anymore.
But also I´m a little bit clueless in terms of where to look for a solution. I created a somewhat clean install (just copied over the files, but new db) using the twentyfifteen theme, and there moderators are also not able to post tags. In terms of plugins I only have BuddyPress and bbPress enabled.
Has someone an idea where to start looking or how to approach this?

[sbskamey]

Hi BBpress,

I’m not sure why, but the Freshness author name is not updating to the newest post. The avatar updates fine.

It’s stuck showing the Forum creators name (in this case, being the Admins User name). What’s strange is that the Frehness name still links to the correct user profile.

This only happens on the Forum Index. It does not happen on the Topics or Replies.

Can you help me please?

[OsamaNuman]

I found that I can change them from “includes” file, in users, forums, topics (template.php) files, but how can I modify them all since they have the same name and I can’t copy them in my bbPress folder in my child theme !?

[lyndysmart]

Hi,
Please, how can I show about 5 recent topics in a page without pagination. I basically want to replicate the way Recent Topics currently displays on bbpress.org homepage on my site.
Thanks for your anticipated kind contributions.

[Kasi Salyer]

Hi, I tried again to post this bug on track, but I got a “you have not ticket privileges”, so I’ll try to report it here since it can be a very general issue.

My blog is set with a permalink structure like %category%/%postname% WITHOUT a trailing slash. But on bbpress file ajax.php on function bbp_get_ajax_url() the url is generated with a trailingslashit( $wp->request ).

WordPress sends back a redirect whene there is a trailing slash and the subscription fails with an alert “undefined”. Removing the trailingslashit(…) everything works fine.

There is a specific reason for that use of trailingslashit()?

Thank you, Kasi.

[OsamaNuman]

Hello,

I have 2 inquiries:

1- I would like to know how to change buttons texts (subscribe, favorite, submit) in forums and topics lists?
2- How to change/remove some reply links (Stick , merge ..etc)

How can I do this on my child theme, is it by copying the php files to my child theme? if yes, which files are they? OR I should have a function file created by me to do that ?

Thanks

[tashmash]

I’m using the Cafe Pro Genesis child theme and the latest version of bbpress. I would like to add a border to the text boxes on the topic and reply forms but can’t find the bbpress css in Genesis. Anyone know where to find it?

[davidschwartzer]

I have gone through the prior threads on this issue and I still can’t change the text in the Oh Bother box.

My site is appletechtalk.com. If you click on the Forums taband look at the bottom of the page, you will see the Oh Bother! text.

I have modified the feedback-no-forums.php file so that the text line reads “Please select a topic”. I thought that would be easier than trying to remove the box completely (which is what I would rather do).

I placed the file into my child theme. First I put it in the root of the bbpress directory and that did not help. I also recreated the directory structure in my child theme:

bbpress/templates/default

and that didn’t help either.

I am new to WordPress and bbPress as well as css and php files so I have a bit of a learning curve but I’m wondering if you have any thoughts on why this isn’t working.

Thanks,

David

[davidschwartzer]

Stephen:

I have gone through this topic thread and I still can’t change the text in the Oh Bother box.

My site is appletechtalk.com. If you click on the Forums taband look at the bottom of the page, you will see the Oh Bother! text.

I have modified the feedback-no-forums.php file so that the text line reads “Please select a topic”. I thought that would be easier than trying to remove the box completely (which is what I would rather do).

I placed the file into my child theme. First I put it in the root of the bbpress directory and that did not help. I also recreated the directory structure in my child theme:

bbpress/templates/default

and that didn’t help either.

I am new to WordPress and bbPress as well as css and php files so I have a bit of a learning curve but I’m wondering if you have any thoughts on why this isn’t working.

Thanks,

David

[AilyRoot]

could we possibly to have Bulk-move bbPress topics soon?

users post on wrong forum all the time, we really need function

[bp.karpinski]

Hi,

I have problem with translation Polish Plugins BBpress. I use plugin translation loko.

Example:
Translate no problem headline, while there is a problem translation other elements.
Screen:
http://www.fotosik.pl/zdjecie/be5ef86aeb3e93b8

It is not affected while the change
Exapmle:
http://www.fotosik.pl/zdjecie/7bd91fc5748b0c84

Please, help me! How to translate all the elements?

[chill1padi]

Hi, I am new to WordPress and bbPress, I have recreated my blog using WordPress, and i want to have a forum on my blog for my students to participate in discussion. However, I don’t seems to get the member registration for my forum. Any idea whats going on?

[Robin W]

try adding this plugin to your bbpress set-up

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-private-groups/

[dltanner99]

So, this issue was never resolved with bbpress? Here it is a year later, and I am having the exact same problem. Are you still suggesting that we come up with a workaround for the forum/blog highlighting problem? Take a look at my site at the link below:

http://trilogusmediagroupco.ipage.com/edipros01/forums/

I just need to know why such a straightforward problem is still happening.
I am also using the Generate Press theme with bbpress. Was it ever addressed/resolved?

[Robkk]

In the code I posted the menu links should lead to the default WordPress forms.

Login, Register, Lost Password links

Other plugins can add frontend forms like Theme My Login, woocommerce, some other membership plugins.

I am basically saying the bbPress forms are incomplete in functionality, it might be better to use something else like the default WordPress forms.