[Robkk]

I guess you can also remove the feeds too. This reply has code to remove BuddyPress feeds.

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/hiding-bp-pages-from-non-logged-in-users-tried-several-solutions/#post-243627

bbPress feeds are tough though. THere is a post here showing a function to hide feeds (it also includes sitewide feeds for blog posts too). You can also use the plugin disable feeds too.

Private posts showing in RSS feed & Widgets

[tjordan42]

Ok, I’m running the newest version of WordPress, running the Irridescent theme by RocketTheme, and just tried (3 times) to install BBpress.

When I activate the first time I got directed to http://angeryamericansurvival.com/wp-admin/index.php?page=bbp-about

Then I get an error that says “You do not have sufficient permission to access this page.”
I’m the admin.. so I know I have sufficient permissions. lol.

I also don’t see ANY sign that the plugin is installed.
I’ve deactivated and reinstalled two more times. Nothing.
I never get the activation page on subsequent installations. I had to go back in my browser history to search for it.

Any ideas?

I’d really like to use BBpress but if even the initial installation causes problems, then I’m worried.

I tried switching themes to Twenty-Twelve to troubleshoot a theme-related issue but same results.

[Robkk]

Found this. Requires Postmark.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-post-via-mail/

[Robkk]

The information you got was probably for the bbPress v1 standalone forum software. You can tell the information is from bbPress v1 when it is about 4 or more years old.

The latest version of bbPress is now a WordPress plugin. So any admin area would use the WordPress admin. Same thing with BuddyPress they use use the WordPress administration area.

To remove a large number of topics.

Go to Topics > All Topics in the WOrdPress administration area.
Enable each checkbox by the topics you want to Trash
Click the Bulk Actions dropdown and select Move to Trash
Hit Apply to move all those topics to the trash.

To remove a large number of topics in a specific forum

Go to Topics > All Topics in the WOrdPress administration area.
In the dropdown at the top that say In All Forums, click that to select the specific forum you want to delete topics in, then click the filter button beside it.
Enable each checkbox by the topics you want to Trash
Click the Bulk Actions dropdown and select Move to Trash
Hit Apply to move all those topics to the trash.

To delete all the topics in your topic trash.

Go to Topics > All topics in the WordPress administration area.
Hit the action link that says Trash, it is next to other action links in a row like Spam and Pending.
Clicking the trash action link will show you all the topics in your trash, hitting empty trash will remove all topics in your trash permanently.

To trash all topics by a specific use

You need to go to the user’s profile
Click the menu item Topics Started
Go to each topic and trash it manually using the admin links.

[riyabajaj]

Sorry for posting here my question, I’ve started a new blog and going to start bbpress forum first time on a subdomain of it. need an installation guide to install bbpress on a subdomain of my blog.

My Blog URL: http://www.pingzic.com/

P.S: I didn’t find any option to post my question in a new topic here on this forum.

[AilyRoot]

Hi

we run latest wordspress 4.3 +bbpress 2.5.8+buddypress 2.3.3 and we are just told that

“bbPress also has admin side, and there you can easily remove large number of topics filtered by forum or user”

I did google and someone say admin panel path is /bb-admin ? but it shows 404 and I do see it on top menu bar either

is there any any admin panel for bbpress/buddypress or it is just integrated with wordpress’s admin?

it NOT, how to do these “remove large number of topics filtered by forum or user”? I do not see function like that on wordpress’s admin though~

[demonboy]

I know this is a recurring question but a lot of the responses are out-dated. The only thing I keep coming across is the Falcon project on github. Has anyone got this to work? Is there a user-guide for those of us who don’t understand github on how to set this up for bbpress?

Interested to know if anyone has managed to get replying to posts by email working and what solution you used.

Thanks in advance.

[Stephen Edgar]

Hey @macpress, you were close, very close on your second post here, we’re using Grunt, not Gulp as part of our build process. 😉

Anyway the overall summary is that certain styles are compiled from SCSS into CSS, or minified CSS, or minified JS via our Grunt build tools.

A more in depth document (that has not yet made it into our codex) on all of this can be found here:

https://github.com/ntwb/bbPress#bbpress

If you don’t want to install NodeJS and Grunt we have another /trunk SVN repo that has everything already compiled https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bbpress.zip via the “developer version” on our plugin page https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/developers/, this isn’t truly /trunk though, this is a manual copy of our main repo we upload/update periodically, semi frequently.

FYI: The *.php = svn:eol-style=native SVN is our “Version Control Software” and this stuff sets us sets of rules for different file types or ignoring certain files and folders.

[Shmoo]

Well using a replies templates as comments to blog posts is a feature for bbPress 2.7 I believe but if that feature is really key you should either [1] code it yourself or [2] look elsewhere cause waiting for 2.7 won’t be worth your time. The bbPress 2.7 release is at least one year away based on the current average development of bbPress.

From the other point of view, bbPress is the most easy to use forum software when it comes to making changes or altering the frontend layout when you have some WordPress experience.
I mean, I customizing the frontend of a ‘forum’ is what rocks my boat I never understand why people would use one of those most populair forum scripts out there and in the end have a forum that looks like a FORUM and completely different from the rest of the site layout. I always like it when everything, site, shop, forum and whatnot looks and feels the same as the general site.. I never create forums for mega large websites or sites that are driven by communities from the early days when you simply had to install a forum script to create a so called community. There are far better systems out there that just do that. Create communities and interaction with users – you don’t need a forum for that. Forums nowadays are generally for support only.

Your MacRumors example is a site that was created 300 years ago based on a forum system to interact with users. Now they are bloated have to hide mega lots of content to fit your mobile screen else the site would load 12min a page.

Myself I was making a bbPress forum today with a subject called ‘Apple support’. Just for fun not a real project. It’s just fun how easily you can alter bbPress templates and create something frontend that you didn’t know was a forum script.
This example is my Forums index page.

iPad

iPhone

*still work in progress..

[Schuitema]

I notice now that, this error comes up when inspecting the element after search with bot wp and bbpress search, now that search forum-wide is on.

GET http://coachingonthego.co.zapath_to_style.css/?ver=4.2.4 net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED

[Bapple]

I am making a new website for a parent group which would use a forum in its core design. The site would consist of a main page with a blog which has comments that are tied to a forum topic. Similar to something like http://www.macrumors.com/. It would also have custom permission levels beyond the generic moderator, sub, and admin roles via plugins, and be locked with access codes. We are also planning on making a custom App for iOS and Android, or maybe even Windows using core tools like Xcode and Android Studio, Visual Studio, or Xamarin down the line. Right now I am trying to decide on what would be the best foundation for our site. Does bbPress have some sort of API that we could use, or do we need to look elsewhere?

[mrsminkie]

If I view the source code, the copy that is usually rendered by these lines of code:

$retstr = sprintf( esc_html__( 'This topic contains %1$s, has %2$s, and was last updated by %3$s %4$s.', 'bbpress' ), $reply_count, $voice_count, $last_updated_by, $time_since );

is displaying but it seems that %1$s and %2$s isn’t pulling any data through, but %3$s %4$s is.

[DevynCJohnson]

@robkk , thanks for everything. I appreciate the fact that you took the time to read my ideas and such. The BuddyPress and WordPress community does not seem to notice my suggestions.

Your summary is right. However, when I say “topic auto-suggestion”, I am referring to the “bbPress Live Topic Suggestions” plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-auto-suggest-topics-based-on-new-topic-title/).

1. As for the oEmbed cache code that I use, the code is below. This is not a real fix/solution since I remove/disable auto-embedding and three shortcodes. Basically, I am making it impossible for oEmbed cache to form.

remove_filter('the_content',array($GLOBALS['wp_embed'],'autoembed'),8);
remove_shortcode('audio');
remove_shortcode('video');
remove_shortcode('playlist');

By the way, the BBPress developers may want to consider designing the “bbp-topic-description” to look similar to the code below. I use that format on my website; the code snippet below was taken from http://dcjtech.info/topic/directx-introduction/ . The below code uses Microdata (like Hentry/Hatom and others) and is used by many search engines.

<p class="bbp-topic-description">This topic was published by <em><span class="p-author h-card fn author post-author" itemprop="author">DevynCJohnson</span></em> and viewed 201 times since "<time itemprop="datePublished" class="dt-published published entry-date uploaded" datetime="2015-07-28">July 28, 2015 @ 06:00UTC</time>".</p>

The BBPress developers are more than welcome to ask me for code or ask how I created/added some particular feature.

[mrsminkie]

Hi,

Thanks for weighing in.

I’ve run debugging mode and found nothing. I have deactivated ALL plugins apart from BBPress (including clearing all caches) and the problem remains.

I can’t find anyone else reporting the same issue after extensive searches.

Any other ideas?

Thank you.

[klmnweb]

Hi,

I am making a shortcode for bbpress use profile and here is the function

add_shortcode('myprofile', 'show_bb_profile');
function show_bb_profile() {
ob_start() ?>

<?php do_action( 'bbp_template_before_user_details' ); ?>

	<div id="bbp-single-user-details">
		<div id="bbp-user-avatar">

			<span class='vcard'>
				<a class="url fn n" href="<?php bbp_user_profile_url( get_current_user_id()); ?>" title="<?php bbp_displayed_user_field( 'display_name' ); ?>" rel="me">
					<?php echo get_avatar( bbp_get_displayed_user_field( 'user_email', 'raw' ), apply_filters( 'bbp_single_user_details_avatar_size', 150 ) ); ?>
				</a>
			</span>

		</div><!-- #author-avatar -->

		<div id="bbp-user-navigation">
			<ul>
				<li class="<?php if ( bbp_is_single_user_profile() ) :?>current<?php endif; ?>">
					<span class="vcard bbp-user-profile-link">
						<a class="url fn n" href="<?php bbp_user_profile_url( get_current_user_id()); ?>" title="<?php printf( esc_attr__( "%s's Profile", 'bbpress' ), bbp_get_displayed_user_field( 'display_name' ) ); ?>" rel="me"><?php _e( 'Profile', 'bbpress' ); ?></a>
					</span>
				</li>

				<li class="<?php if ( bbp_is_single_user_topics() ) :?>current<?php endif; ?>">
					<span class='bbp-user-topics-created-link'>
						<a href="<?php bbp_user_topics_created_url(); ?>" title="<?php printf( esc_attr__( "%s's Topics Started", 'bbpress' ), bbp_get_displayed_user_field( 'display_name' ) ); ?>"><?php _e( 'Topics Started', 'bbpress' ); ?></a>
					</span>
				</li>

				<li class="<?php if ( bbp_is_single_user_replies() ) :?>current<?php endif; ?>">
					<span class='bbp-user-replies-created-link'>
						<a href="<?php bbp_user_replies_created_url(); ?>" title="<?php printf( esc_attr__( "%s's Replies Created", 'bbpress' ), bbp_get_displayed_user_field( 'display_name' ) ); ?>"><?php _e( 'Replies Created', 'bbpress' ); ?></a>
					</span>
				</li>

				<?php if ( bbp_is_favorites_active() ) : ?>
					<li class="<?php if ( bbp_is_favorites() ) :?>current<?php endif; ?>">
						<span class="bbp-user-favorites-link">
							<a href="<?php bbp_favorites_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php printf( esc_attr__( "%s's Favorites", 'bbpress' ), bbp_get_displayed_user_field( 'display_name' ) ); ?>"><?php _e( 'Favorites', 'bbpress' ); ?></a>
						</span>
					</li>
				<?php endif; ?>

				<?php if ( bbp_is_user_home() || current_user_can( 'edit_users' ) ) : ?>

					<?php if ( bbp_is_subscriptions_active() ) : ?>
						<li class="<?php if ( bbp_is_subscriptions() ) :?>current<?php endif; ?>">
							<span class="bbp-user-subscriptions-link">
								<a href="<?php bbp_subscriptions_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php printf( esc_attr__( "%s's Subscriptions", 'bbpress' ), bbp_get_displayed_user_field( 'display_name' ) ); ?>"><?php _e( 'Subscriptions', 'bbpress' ); ?></a>
							</span>
						</li>
					<?php endif; ?>

					<li class="<?php if ( bbp_is_single_user_edit() ) :?>current<?php endif; ?>">
						<span class="bbp-user-edit-link">
							<a href="<?php bbp_user_profile_edit_url( get_current_user_id()); ?>" title="<?php printf( esc_attr__( "Edit %s's Profile", 'bbpress' ), bbp_get_displayed_user_field( 'display_name' ) ); ?>"><?php _e( 'Edit', 'bbpress' ); ?></a>
						</span>
					</li>

				<?php endif; ?>

			</ul>
		</div><!-- #bbp-user-navigation -->
	</div><!-- #bbp-single-user-details -->

	<?php do_action( 'bbp_template_after_user_details' ); ?>
 <?php
$output = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
return $output;
}

However, I am able to get the profile link for a user by this template tag get_current_user_id()

but how what is the template tag for a user to his replies & topics.

Thanks in advance

[AilyRoot]

Hi
we run WP 4.3 and bbpress 2.5.8
This codes does allow both admin and normal user to search for both wp and forum contents fine.

However normal user with no permission to certain forum could search for those articles in hidden forum too! and they could view the full fine from click link on search results, this is privacy alert!

[Robkk]

Try some troubleshooting to see if it could be a plugin issue.

Troubleshooting

[Robkk]

Does disabling bbPress subscriptions in settings > forums help any?? Or do you need the email notifications but not in the BuddyPress profile??

[Robkk]

alright glad you solved your own issue 🙂

you were using this plugin right??

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-private-replies/

[Robkk]

Creating the bbpress.php file was for removing the blog post data like the continue reading button. I guess you can just use CSS instead. creating the bbpress.php file was not for fixing the search issue.

You do not need to install the plugin fixes in that topic, it was for another issue for that user.

Can you enable the forum search in Settings>Forum again so I could see what could be causing the issue again. I remember there being something saying I don’t have the capability/ability to search because of my account to search or something? I am wondering if there is an issue with whatever is causing that too.

[Robkk]

the patch might not be created right. I don’t think you create the patch from the plugin version but maybe the latest alpha version or the latest version you can download from the trunk using SVN.

You can download/download using SVN using the url from here.

Download

Are you sure how you inserted the filter will not cause any issues?

I am specifically talking about how $blacklist = both of these.

$blacklist = trim( get_option( 'moderation_keys' ) );

$blacklist = apply_filters('bbp_moderation_keys', $blacklist);

Here are a bunch of helpful guides that I am just going to drop here.

Working With Patches

Installing Via SVN

[Robkk]

Try some troubleshooting to see if it is a plugin or theme issue.

Troubleshooting

Also know that the visual editor was not activated by default because it started having issues. So it might be better to just use the quicktags toolbar.

Please explain on the formatting issue.

[Robkk]

How does this pertain to bbPress?

[saintjaved]

I installed bbpress and it’s working fine. My boss wants users using the site to create topics without ever having to create a forum. Is that Possible? Also on the front end, When a user is creating a new topic can I hide or disable “Topic Type:”, “Topic Status:” and “Notify me of follow-up replies via email”? Even the “Notify me of follow-up replies via email” option isn’t working. What can I do the fix that?

N.B All of this must be possible on the front end. The back end is fine.

[Rob Sbaglia]

I am running a WordPress network with the latest version of Buddypress and bbpress. The site is http://theglobalschool.net/science and it is run for high school students.

My problem is that every time a blog is viewed, that viewer is added as a user, which makes things very confusing after a short while. Is there any way I can prevent this from happening? I noticed there is a checkbox in the settings for forums but it doesn’t seem to resolve the problem.

Thanks,
Rob.