[reminisce32]

I currently have a vbulletin, and used to have vBSEO for thread title to show up in the url. I’ve since lost this.. if I convert to BBpress, can I somehow get the thread titles in the url for seo purposes?

Also, if I install bbpress, will it look like the one on this site by default, with the different forum topics on the left? Thanks.

[Robkk]

Interesting survey results!! I keep forgetting to comment my thoughts on this!!

I am surprised that theming bbPress is split between all three of the choices listed, I expected most people to rely on their custom built themes and theme compatibility of bbPress like last year. So it seems not just developers/knowledgeable coders know how to use bbPress with any theme.

I can see there is a small increase of developers creating sites with bbPress forums for others, but a decrease in users creating themes and plugins. So at least more developers are interested in bbPress, but I bet once the plugin and theme development guides are finally up, that there will be an increase in plugin and theme development.

There is an increase in multisite usage of bbPress, which is good to see.

I believe Gaming, Academic, and Music site types could possibly use an increase in site types using bbPress.

Users contributing to bbPress has seem to have lowered quite a bit, which is not good. Hopefully there are a few things that can change that. People are joining slack though, so there is that.

Desktop and Laptop is being mostly used by users, while they seem to want a better mobile experience. I will keep that definitely in mind as times are changing, and people browse while on mobile more than in the past.

I am surprised unread replies and quotes have dropped a tad for being a requested feature, but there are some great plugins that can add that functionality.

People want bbPress topics to replace WordPress comments more than ever.

There is a lot more positive feedback on the comments left in the survey listed at the very bottom on this. Which is very good. I also think these comments are one of the most important parts to pay attention to of the survey.

http://mercime.github.io/bbPress-2015-survey-results/

@mercime thanks for doing a wonderful job with the survey. 🙂

[Robkk]

I think this plugin will allow you to customize how the notifications look in Settings > Forums. There might be shortcodes to change the content to use excerpt instead.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-custom-reply-notifications/

[Robkk]

They shouldn’t be able to create blog posts in the WordPress backend by default.

Make sure that you have the New User Default Role set to Subscriber in Settings > General in the WordPress backend. Make sure to also set the default forum role in Settings > Forums to Participant for any new users to get for the bbPress forums on your site.

If the social login plugin/or any other plugin you are using has a setting to configure the default role make sure to check on that.

Also know that the SUbscriber role can go into the WordPress backend, but since they have low level capabilities compared to an Admin or an Author, they can only edit their profile in the WordPress backend.

If you need to disallow users from the backend entirely by user role, install a plugin like WP No Admin.

[@mercime]

@netweb Thank you! Kudos to you and the bbPress core and moderator teams for your awesome volunteer efforts 🙂

[@mercime]

@yolandal backup database and files, then check out the Mingle Forum importer https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started/importing-data/import-forums/

[Karthikeyan KC]

Uh! Found it!

bbp_show_lead_topic

Hope it helps others…

[KubiK888]

Currently the default setting is the title of the bbpress forums to be underlined. How can I remove the underline text decoration?

[Karthikeyan KC]

I’ve been tweaking my BBPress a little bit, and in the process, I recently stumbled upon some cool customizations of this forum (bbpress support forum).

Really elegant and simple. Love it. 🙂

This particular thing caught my attention. Every topic has the author’s reply (description) is highlighted below it.

So the question 😉 – Is there a simple way to highlight and ‘stick’ the author’s first reply right below the title (above the pagination element)?

[Robkk]

Why did you contact bbPress support??

I think that plugin is for WordPress themes??

Also links to that plugin are quite about 5 years old, and it is not on the wordpress.org repository.

You may need to contact the plugin author, if it is still supported.

[KubiK888]

Hi all, I am new to bbpress support forum and I have no idea how to create a new support topic, and no way to contact site admin directly, so please forgive me to post it here.

Could someone please tell me how I can create a new support topic on bbpress.org support forum? I am able to login using my wordpress account information, but nowhere I can see any button for me to create my own request of support topic. Any help is highly appreciated.

[Patrick10am]

Hi everyone, I have a website/blog where I have started a painting course, mainly videos hosted on vimeo.

I have set up a forum and Have a template but its a bit boring. is there anything out there available to run on the wordpess Twenty Ten theme. I have searched but I seem to just come up with whole templates for sights not just the forum bit.

http://www.purewatercolour.com

Any help much appreciated

Patrick

[Robkk]

Haha! I did not even edit/create this page before. 🙂

Alright, thanks for pointing that out. I just now changed the errors you pointed out for now, but this guide might be completely rewritten later because it does contain information that is similar to/that should be in the theme compatibility guide.

Theme Compatibility

And it kind of has information that might be in this guide later when it is finished.

Template hierarchy in detail

The amending templates guide might be a comprehensive guide all about customizing the templates/creating custom templates/customizing how theme compatibility works, and not necessarily about just copying the templates in your theme and knowing that you can customize it.

[deanljbirch]

Also just above that it states…
Wp-content/plugins/templates/default/bbpress/

Should be…
Wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/

[deanljbirch]

Hey Robkk,

Thanks for getting back to me.

Link : https://codex.bbpress.org/themes/amending-bbpress-templates/ (Last paragraph 2nd word)

Deano 🙂

[deanljbirch]

Hey guys,

Not a support question but don’t know where else to place this.

I just noticed a small typo within the Documentation part of the bbPress website, how can I notify someone?

Deano 🙂

[dayan89]

Hi,

I have two menu areas on my website: main and top. I would like to add user profile link to top menu only.

I found this example, which was were useful: https://codex.bbpress.org/layout-and-functionality-examples-you-can-use/#8-add-edit-profile-to-a-wordpress-menu But it adds link to both menus, top and main. I would like to add user profile link only to top menu, without adding it to main menu.

Can you help me please?

[project_subdomain]

just had the problem that on all not bbpress-related pages the title was ” ‘s “.
When commenting out the part for “User is viewing someone else’s profile” it’s working correctly on all pages, also when viewing another profile:

else {
			$new_title['text'] = sprintf( esc_attr_x( "%s's", 'User viewing another users profile', 'bbpress' ), get_userdata( bbp_get_user_id() )->display_name );
       }

fyi new occurred, just had a wordpress update recently

[project_subdomain]

UPDATE: sorry, thought code is causing the browser’s title as ” ‘s” on all non-bbpress-related pages. need to find the reason which does not seem to be in relation to this topic.

[ahsaaron]

Hi

How would I be able to remove the author column in posts?

I have BBpress set up so that it uses only one forum, and I have linked that one forum to the menu items in my themes menu.

It seems to be a bit bloated with the author column right now.

[Robkk]

[bbp-topic-form forum_id=$forum_id] – Display the ‘New Topic Form’ for a specific forum ID.

Shortcodes

[Robkk]

I think it is how the subscriptions work, this might be a reason TinyMCE was disabled by default too, and also for security reasons.

There may not be an easy way to fix this without editing the core files of bbPress.

Like I said I created this trac ticket awhile ago that is about this issue. It might take awhile before a patch is made into the bbPress plugin update though.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2865

[Robkk]

Closing in favor of your other topic.

Displaying value in every first reply. which function ?

Please do not create duplicate topics.

[Robkk]

That template taxonomy-topic-tag.php should be in the root of your theme, you can try that with your custom theme.

I am not sure what else to suggest as this is custom development. You might need to study how topic-tag is used in bbPress possibly.

[Robkk]

Okay I tested this theme again today and found some issues are actually in the bbPress plugin right now, but it is fixed in the latest dev version.

The user profile page being transparent is related to this bug listed here for theme compatibility.

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

This is what the profile page and its sub pages looks like this with the modification in the bbPress plugin and without any WP Fix plugins, a custom bbpress.php, without transferring the bbPress templates into the theme.

There is also a possibility to fix the forum search, views listing, topic tag archive, moving replies, easily by either using archive and single for most of these bbPress pages to have better compatibility with these type frameworks. For example it might be best to use is_tax() for topic tag archives but using is_archive() will definitely work for most themes and theme frameworks.

Creating a bbpress.php is sort of a workaround for this. I do not have that much familiarality with the theme and framework that you have to know exactly how it needs to be to post anything to help with this quite yet.

I thought that guide would help you get most of the way there, since all you would need to change is the urls of your site, but I guess you are just transferring basically from bbPress to bbPress.

Something like this would definitely help in your case though.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2605

I guess you can try Exporting and Importing through the regular WordPress tools provided in the Tools section. I tried just exporting all the bbPress post types Forums, Topics, Replies, then run the repair tools, but that did not help and kind of messed up my test site. You can try that, maybe using ALL content instead or not running the repair tools though I recommend using a test server/local development area first.