[Robkk]

Wait so

with bbPress, Akismet, and BuddyPress activated it does not work

but does work when Akismet and BuddyPress are activated

and it does work if only bbPress and BuddyPress are activated?

[samuelstraka]

Hi Rob,

I have single site installation only. I could try it with Chrome and Firefox and it was same in both browsers.
But I tried to install bbpres 2.6 alfa yesterday. After installation same problem exist. Today afternoon I tried to look once again to WordPress dashboard and there was added menu item Forum with submenu Settings where I could setup bbpress.
I don’t know how it make. I didn’t make anything after this unsuccessful installation. It seems bbpress is OK now.

[Robkk]

Try to see that you are placing widgets in the right sidebar for it to show on the bbPress pages.

IF you want full-width forums.

Try this custom CSS to see if it fixes the empty space and makes your forums actually full width. Place the custom css in your child themes style.css file or in a custom css plugin.

.bbpress .sidebar {
  width: 0;
  display: none;
}

.bbpress .postcontent {
    width: 100%;
}

[Robkk]

This has happened to a couple users before, so it may be a bug in bbPress that needs to be reported now.

Just to make sure that it is just bbPress causing the issue.

Make sure you have already done most of these troubleshooting steps. Also try in a different browser and see if it helps any.

Troubleshooting

And please answer these questions also.

Is this a single site installation or multisite?
If it is a multisite installation, what is your current user role Admin or Super Admin?

After all this I have to collect all the topics on here about the issue in the last year.

[Robkk]

Did you try refreshing your permalinks??

Navigation Links Return 404s Errors

Also make sure it is not a plugin conflicting with bbPress or your current theme/a code snippet in your theme causing the issue also.

Troubleshooting

[Robkk]

On this site it is custom links in the WordPress toolbar.

You can follow this tutorial to add custom links to the admin bar.

http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-add-custom-shortcut-links-to-wordpress-toolbar/

There is also this plugin that can add links above forum pages.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-login-register-links-on-forum-topic-pages/

And also you could just place the bbPress login widget in a sidebar you have and input additional authentication links in the widgets input fields.

[mica123]

Actually, I can see that this bbPress support forum created a submenu showing the login, register and lost passwords links at the top of the index page. So I take it that this was done with the help of CSS.

[mica123]

I know that similar questions have been asked many times – unfortunately I have not found any satisfactory answers – I very much hope for your help as follows:
I set up Forums on full page widths without sidebars.
I would like to have the login, register and lost passwords links at the top of
the forum page the same way as bbPress Support forum has – I am not referring to menu links.
Can you please help?
Many thanks.

[mica123]

I am afraid that I have many problems finding my way around bbpress.
One of the things I didn’t realise is that anyone who registers is actually
going into the list of users in WordPress. How do I know that they are all participants?
If there are many users the list will be very long which is rather worrying.
I also would like to know how I assign the moderator role to a user? I can’t find anything about it anywhere.
I would very much appreciate your help.
Many thanks.

[UgoDimma]

Hey buddy

I have bbpress install with buddypress in my WordPress, all with the latest version as at the time of writing this post.

My forums and topics redirects to 404, page not found when my users clicked on any of them, except the forums that are part of the buddypress group the said user is a member of.

As an admin, I can view all of them the normal way without any form of restriction and redirection both at the front and back end.

Even forum category that is the mother of some forums and topics are been redirected to 404 page even if the user has a forum he/she has an access to.

I have followed some directives of people on similar cases, but none works for me, wp-admin –> tools –> forum and recalculated everything there, and went to wp-admin –> tools –> buddypress and recalculated everything.
I went to permalink and update it, but nothing seems to be working.

Please some help.

[wesphily]

Hello,

I have searched all over trying to find out how to fix my issue. The website is generalrealestateacademy.com. I have bbpress and buddypress installed on the Nimva theme. I was trying to get a sidebar working on bbpress but was unsuccessful. Now, there is a space to the right like a sidebar is trying to show, but it doesn’t show. Sidebars work on any other page besides the forum.

My first goal is to reclaim the space to the right of the forum so that it is full width. My next goal is to get a sidebar working. (I have tried content aware, bbpress wp tweaks, and other plugins.

[Robkk]

I just split your reply into a new topic because your reply is very specific with using the divi theme and reply threading feature in bbPress.

I am aware of this issue. There is a conflict with a script in the Divi Theme some custom-js.js script that holds carousel/slider javascripts and it is conflicting with bbPress’s reply threading.

A simple and fast fix, I guess would be to de-enqueue the script on any bbPress related pages.

Contact Divi Support first about the issue to see if they have a fix handy or are aware of the issue.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi bo-oz,
I don’t know what could cause the issues (probably another plugin), but for your last line: we also use WPML and bbpress works fine.
Pascal.

[bo-oz]

Hi,

I tried installing bbPress, after activation I was redirected to a page which told me “you have insufficient rights”. After a refresh, the plugin was activated but nothing changed in the menu (no formums menu option, also no settings -> forums was added). I tried deactivating -> activating and completely re-installing the plugin, but nothing worked so far.

I use wordpress 4.3.1 and the latest version bbPress to automated plugin install.

I’m also using WPML, could that be causing conflicts?

[aaron2310]

Thanks for the reply Robkk.

#bbpress-forums li.bbp-header,
#bbpress-forums li.bbp-footer {
border-top: 1px solid #eee;
}

#bbpress-forums li.bbp-body ul.forum,
#bbpress-forums li.bbp-body ul.topic {
border-top: 1px solid #eee;
}

I’ve changed the hex code and added it to my style sheet but it doesn’t seem to be working. Do I want to edit the actual bbpress style directly?

Second question is tough for me to try to find what is causing the issue.

DId you do anything to make /forums page any different from your other pages??

Nope. It’s the same theme.

[Robkk]

I think these are the borders the plugin is missing the ability to customize.

#bbpress-forums li.bbp-header, 
#bbpress-forums li.bbp-footer {
    border-top: 1px solid #eee;
}

#bbpress-forums li.bbp-body ul.forum, 
#bbpress-forums li.bbp-body ul.topic {
    border-top: 1px solid #eee;
}

Second question is tough for me to try to find what is causing the issue.

DId you do anything to make /forums page any different from your other pages??

[Skvirly]

I am using WP 4.3.1, BP 2.3.3 and Sweet date theme. If I activate the bbPress plugin my activity stream on the WP dashboard becomes empty. If I deactivate bbPress my activity stream appears again. Any suggestions what and where to look for to solve this ? Thank you in advance.

[tashmash]

Is there a way of making the topic and reply edit boxes visual editor similar like the one in WP posts rather than html? I’m using a Genesis child theme with the BBPress extend for genesis – both current versions and I’m hoping there is a simple setting I’ve missed. Not very confident with php so if this is required to make the change then I would appreciate step by step instructions. The site is still under development so no url provided.

Natasha

[RLsARc]

Good day bbPress. Newbie here…

ROLES
I want to edit the name of this role
*Keymaster to *Administrator
*Participant to “Ranks by Posts”

I want to add this roles
*Staff Leader same as admins capabilities
*VIP, Donator, etc… in Participants capabilities but excluded in ranks by post

RANKS BY POST
20 Post = Trainee
40 Post = Private
80 Post = PFC
160 Post = Corporal and so on…

//that when bbPress updates, all of this will not be gone and will be shown at BuddyPress Profile as well. Hope you’ll help me and I’m willing to do/learn some coding. Please!

[Robkk]

I do not use the plugin, I just found it in the WordPress repository.

The plugin author has been active in the support forums in the past few weeks, so I assume people are using it still and with at least most with the latest version of WordPress.

You can contact the plugin author in their support forums if you have any concerns with the plugin working with the latest version of WordPress.

If a bbPress post contains a word that you put in the comment blacklist, the topic or reply will be marked as pending, and will be pending until moderation approval.

Moderation and BlackListing

The plugin I linked to just replaces profanity words you list with characters such as ***

[mica123]

Thanks very much. I had a look at the wp-content-filter but this is compatible
to WordPress 4.0.8 and it was last updated more than a year ago. Are you using this
plugin yourself?

I read the topic you pointed me to. It is not clear to me if bbPress has its
own profanity filter?

Thanks.

[Robkk]

Which one did you link me?

Robin’s plugin for just bbPress fields.

What I did, which seems to work fine for now…

Yeah I told you the WordPress code would work. If you want cleaner templates you may nee to use the hook.

bbp_theme_after_reply_author_details

I might be saying very stupid things here (gotta learn some way), but I tried changing bbp_theme_before_topic_title to bbp_topic_class which is what my inexperienced self thought would do the trick, but it didn’t.

Oh, you are trying to make a post class. You can try this to see if it adds a new-topic post class to any new topics. I haven’t tested this though.

add_filter( 'bbp_get_topic_class','rkk_unread_topic' );
function rkk_unread_topic($classes) {
	$offset = 60*60*1; 
	if ( get_post_time() > date('U') - $offset ) {
			  $classes[] = 'new-topic';
		  return $classes;
	}
}

[Robkk]

Does it actually print the paragraph tags??

This is for any new topic/reply right??

You might possibly see if this is a plugin issue, maybe something that modifies Tinymce somehow?
You can also check to see if it is a theme issue also, or a possible code snippet in a child theme.

Troubleshooting

[Robkk]

A good topic to read.

Profanity filter or notification with Comment Moderation

A plugin I found.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-content-filter/

[mica123]

As far as I know bbpress can work with the widely recommended Akismet plugin. Is there a good profanity filter plugin that would work with bbpress?
Many thanks.