Pascal:
Thank you for your feedback. I will certainly try your plug-in. That said, I am concerned that I have a major error in my bbPress set-up. I want it to be right and if that means staring over I am willing to do that.
I did not change any of the slugs when I set up the Forum. Perhaps I added a page or category in a way I wasn’t supposed to. I tried to follow the step by step guide on the bbPress site but clearly I did something wrong.
Can you provide any guidance on what I need to do to fix this problem or, if I start over, what I should do to configure it properly?
Regards,
David
@casiepa
Per forum moderation is in 2.6 alpha if I remember correctly. So I assume it should ship with 2.6.
In my reply in that topic I got my information from the bbPress milestone roadmap, and also the feature was not complete til about 3 months ago, 3 months before that reply.
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/roadmap
Huh didn’t know Robin’s plugin could do that, that’s pretty cool.
I digged a bit further because I was almost sure that it could do it… and it seems so. Check out https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-private-groups/
According to https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/per-forum-permissions-by-group/page/5/ v1.7 had : Moderators can now be set to moderate all forums or just their group ones (plus any open forums)
To be tested of course if it helps with your question.
Pascal.
I forgot you are using the Responsive theme and you shouldn’t get the same issue as some other theme frameworks.
Remove your CSS and use this code for your bbpress.php file. It should work fine and be full width for your bbPress pages.
https://gist.github.com/robkk/8a2a01a4d0e7d29c9d12
Robkk:
Thanks for your note. Let me respond to some of your questions with what I know (which isn’t much).
I created the forum by trying to follow the steps in the Step by Step guide provided on the bbPress site. I have not done any editing of the template other than adding some css to make the topics flow in a list, rather than horizontally as is the default layout and also to change the comment text to black instead of gray. I am also using a couple of plug-ins. One is called bbPress New UI which changes the basic layout but doesn’t seem to otherwise change the forum plug-in. The other is called Bbpress Login Register Links On Forum Topic Pages, which does what the title says.
I am not using a child theme currently but I have deactivated all of the plug-ins so what you should now see is the default bbPress forum that is created.
I hope this is helpful. Let me know if you need anything else from me to help figure this out.
I am new to WordPress and bbPress and clearly have a lot to learn. I appreciate your assistance with all of this.
Regards,
David
@davidschwartzer
Your forum urls for each section is weird for some reason. Have you added a slug that is something like this forums/forum for the forum root slug in Settings > Forums in the WordPress backend?
Your forums archive page is blank and only showing a sidebar login widget.
appletechtalk.com/forums/
Yet strangely here is how your forum archive should look like and yet it is in a single forum page. Since this is a single forum page there is a reason there is this notice, as single forums should have topics and not a forum archive. I think you could have possibly echoed a forum index shortcode in the single forum bbPress template?? I am not sure though, I am just guessing.
Oh bother! No topics were found here!
appletechtalk.com/forums/forum/forums/
A single forum page should have this by default.
yoursite.com/forums/forum/forum-name/
Or if you have categories
yoursite.com/forums/forum/category-name/forum-name
Your topics are fine though.
appletechtalk.com/forums/topic/notes-not-syncing/
I am not sure how much template editing you may have done, but can you rename your bbpress folder in your child theme to like bbpress-1 so I could see without any template edits what were your original issues then I can try to help you on that.
Sorry you had to start over, but glad you got bbPress working fine on your site.
Make sure to take regular backups, so that you do not have to just redo everything and just restore to a previously saved backup.
https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups
Backing up your Database and Files
Hello,
I used underscores with bbpress. i just apple some CSS and HTML not adding any special function. And when i visit my forum. I only see the forum’s name topis number post number. But it dont have any HTML warped. Please give me a solution me.
thankg for helping me.
Thank you very much. I did set up the bbpres.php template on the basis of page.php – the same way as I did in my test site. However, this does not work for the user profile at all on the live site for some strange reason. Just now I found a workaround by using CSS – not sure if this is the correct way. But I would really like to know what the bbpress.php works for all pages except the user page. The CSS I used is:
body.bbp-user-page.single.singular.bbpress div#content.grid.col-620 {
width: 100%;
}
body.bbp-user-page.single.singular.bbpress div#widgets.grid.col-300.fit {
display: none;
}
Please let me have your thoughts.
I do not think there is any plugins for this but this functionality should be in the 2.6 version of bbPress.
Here is the trac ticket.
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/459
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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?
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?
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?
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 !?
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.
