[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.

[Stephen Edgar]

Sounds like the issue I’ve got documented on the codex here:

Import Troubleshooting

[rebecca-paisley]

Nevermind it was a conflict with Askimet and BBpress. This is resolved.

[rebecca-paisley]

BBPress Version: 2.3.3
WordPress Version: 4.3.1

http://www.flasco.org

The forums are completely private from public view via a membership plugin (WPMUDEV Membership2). However, every time anyone (members) posts into the BBP forums, everything is going to spam. None of it is actually spam though.

Any idea of why everything would be going to spam?

I deactivated all plugins related to BBBPress, but that didn’t remedy anything either ..

[matthew.stephens]

Sounds like this is a plugin conflict. Masking the issue as you mention would not resolve it and potentially create further more serious issues. Given these are two pretty widely installed and reputable plugins, would it not be sensible for bbPress and Yoast to get together and resolve the issue properly please? Otherwise, one or the other will have to go. Thanks.

[Robkk]

The custom profile fields, what exactly do they do? I get that I can now add my Twitter handle from profile settings, but it’s not displayed anywhere on the site.

Yeah you have to manually place the any extra fields you want on the frontend of the user profile and and place the code in the template user-profile.php, that should be in your child theme for easy customization.

in user-profile.php you will already see an example of the user’s description field being displayed, and you would need to do some of the same procedure.

<?php if ( bbp_get_displayed_user_field( 'twitter' ) ) : ?>

    <p class="bbp-user-twitter">
        <a href="<?php bbp_displayed_user_field( 'twitter' ); ?>" title="<?php bbp_displayed_user_field( 'display_name' ); ?>'s Twitter" rel="nofollow">
             <?php bbp_displayed_user_field( 'twitter' ); ?>
        </a>
    </p>

<?php endif; ?>

I will probably put an example for user’s to place the links on their profile templates later on that guide.

I would love for it to be displayed beneath my avatar and username phpBB-style in topics, or at least on my visible forum profile.

Yep, there is a way to that too. I can’t remember much but I think it just involves a hook to place the data. There is a plugin Robin made that can basically do that. There is also a different plugin for displaying BuddyPress profile fields. You can dig around the plugins code if you want to see how he did it.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-profile-information/

This doable? Obviously I can’t use the_author_meta() in bbpress, so…

I think it is possible to just use the WordPress code with bbPress. bbPress is just a plugin of WordPress now.

Also, instead of adding labels to certain topics. Can I add classes so I can do changes in CSS?

Yeah you do not have to leave the [status] and just leave the classes there so you can style with just CSS.

[Robin W]

If you want to delete everything bbpress datawise and start again then

Dashboard>tools>forums>reset forums

[Robkk]

Try not to bump very old topics at least older than a year, especially ones that are 8 years old!!

—

There is an API or an example API in the Jetpack plugin.

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/jetpack/trunk/class.jetpack-bbpress-json-api-compat.php

There have been users trying to make apps with bbPress.

WordPress JSON Rest API bbPress and Android

Also know there has been work to introduce an API into WordPress.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/json-rest-api/

And there already have been plugins in development for compatibility between the WP-REst API and bbPress like this one.

https://github.com/thenbrent/BB-API (Alpha version)

Any contributions for any work toward any type of bbPress Rest API are welcome and much appreciated.

[tkse]

This works nicely. Sorry to bug you so much.

The custom profile fields, what exactly do they do? I get that I can now add my Twitter handle from profile settings, but it’s not displayed anywhere on the site. I would love for it to be displayed beneath my avatar and username phpBB-style in topics, or at least on my visible forum profile. This doable? Obviously I can’t use the_author_meta() in bbpress, so…

Also, instead of adding labels to certain topics. Can I add classes so I can do changes in CSS?

Thanks! 🙂

[Loc Pham]

I’m also looking for the REST API for bbPress but unable to find info on it either.