[Robkk]

It is just like customizing a regular WordPress theme.

Just copy the bbpress.css file into your child theme in a folder called css then edit it to your liking.

Theme Compatibility

bbPress Styling Crib

[Robkk]

It is weird that when I check the teststudents blog in the dashboard, I can see users listed as Participant as their site role, while it should be Subscriber.

The WordPress backend menu is all off when I hover over menu items. I do not know what is causing that. Also some bbPress tools in the Tools section, seem to have their own menu items also, which I do not know why.

There also seems to be forums on some blogs with the same content too??

This is one for example.

http://theglobalschool.net/science/tilliemcr/forums/topic/hello-world/

You can probably find more by visiting the site, and adding /forums at the end of the url.

If you haven’t already try some troubleshooting to see what is causing all of this.

Troubleshooting

[Rob Sbaglia]

They are just listed as “participant” under users of the blog in question. I’m not sure whether they are bbpress forum roles, but bbpress must have something to do with it because when I uninstall bbpress the behaviour stops.

There are no forums on these blogs, just the parent blog (http://theglobalschool.net/science).

Try it for yourself. Go to a sub-blog (http://theglobalschool.net/science/nerissabcr). Hover over “blog authors”. There are heaps – most have only viewed the blog. Notice ‘teststudent’ is not listed as a blog author.

Now go to http://theglobalschool.net/science and sign in as [removed login information]. Now visit that blog again. I bet “teststudent” is added as a blog author.

[Robkk]

That is a really old topic that used bbPress v1 standalone, which is entirely different software than what you have now. So I would recommend not using any code from topics about 3 or more years old.

You may need to install a Find and Replace plugin to remove the tt tags, or just change back to break tags.

To add mutiple line breaks you may need to read this, maybe install the mentioned plugin, and maybe also active TinyMCE in bbPress using the bbPress Enable TinyMCE plugin.

http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-add-single-double-line-spacing-in-wordpress/

[Robkk]

Thanks for finding that bug. I will create a trac ticket for this.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2864

[Robkk]

Closing this in favor of your other topic.

How can I change voices and replies

Please do not make duplicate topics.

[Robkk]

You can use the default registration forms in WordPress instead. The bbPress register shortcode is not really complete in functionality. The login shortcode should work decent enough though.

[Robkk]

I have seen users use Qtranlate or Qtranslate Plus. You may need to use a fix though for resolve some other menu item issue.

Conflict with qTranslate

[Robkk]

Download this file and edit it to change the word Freshness. Make sure to copy the file in a folder called bbpress in your child theme.

https://github.com/robkk/bbPress-Hierarchical-Forum-and-Category-Layout

Or try this that might help get the “by” and category layout. You should be able to copy all the folders in your child theme.

https://github.com/EpicWebs/bbPress-starter-theme-epicwebs

[Robkk]

Don’t change the root settings in bbPress to be that page and it should work.

If you only have one forum, make it where the Forum root should show Topics by Freshness in Settings > Forums, then you can just leave it how it is without an additional page.

[Robkk]

@andyrushtonprogramming go to your forum profile on your website, I was just using the one on bbpress.org just as an example.

It should be something like

yoursite.com/forums/profile/username/subscriptions

With “yoursite.com” being your actual site url, and “username” being your username. You can easily access your profile by hitting your author link in your reply.

If you have BuddyPress active, the bbPress forum profile will merge into BuddyPress, and anything in the bbPress should be under a menu item on your profile named Forums.

[Robkk]

copy loop-topics.php from the bbpress plugin into your child theme in a folder called bbpress and edit these lines.

<li class="bbp-topic-voice-count"><?php _e( 'Voices', 'bbpress' ); ?></li>
<li class="bbp-topic-reply-count"><?php bbp_show_lead_topic() ? _e( 'Replies', 'bbpress' ) : _e( 'Posts', 'bbpress' ); ?></li>

You can change it like so.

<li class="bbp-topic-voice-count"><?php _e( 'Participants', 'bbpress' ); ?></li>
<li class="bbp-topic-reply-count"><?php bbp_show_lead_topic() ? _e( 'Comments', 'bbpress' ) : _e( 'Posts', 'bbpress' ); ?></li>

Theme Compatibility

[Robkk]

I took a break yesterday sorry.

Have you tried some troubleshooting? It may be related to cache, a theme, a plugin conflict, or if you made your forums Hidden.

Troubleshooting

[aikichick2012]

no ideas, anyone? 🙁

(ps: forgot to say: i am using the latest version of bbpress and wordpress.)

[mihirpatel7410]

Hi,
I have tried everything like
1.Uninstalled all plugin and checked if any plugin conflict it,
2.Checked in twenty twelve theme.
Still not working. and Vibetheme told this is bbpress plugin issue,its neither theme issue nor plugin conflict issue.

And This is my live website so please help me as much as possible do fast.
Thanks in advance.

[KeithAdv]

I’m going through the odious task of importing a Ning forum to bbPress. The hard part (or so I thought) is done. I was able to get about everything from Ning into BuddyPress.

However, when I get to the last phase–BuddyPress to bbPress migration–which I thought would be easy-peasy, I lose all the replies to the forum topics! I’m following the migration process exactly (as far as I know) but it always fails. Here are the details:

I’m currently on a local server using XAMPP.
WordPress 4.2.4
BuddyPress 2.3.3 (using the default theme)
bbPress 2.5.8

The only other plugins I have installed are The Events Calendar (which you kind of need for the Ning conversion) and BackupBuddy, so that I can restore/reset after every unsuccessful attempt.

I have a smallish forum of fewer than 100 people and 4 groups.

At the time of this writing, I’ve restored the site to its last successful state:
– All data successfully imported into BuddyPress
– bbPress is installed and activated
– Final migration has not yet been attempted.

So, you can see all forums and replies, etc., in the BuddyPress theme on the site. The bbPress forums section in the admin menu is empty, as expected.

Now my typical next step, which always fails, is to follow the codex on migrating forums from BuddyPress to bbPress. I’ve been following it to the letter:

Migrating from old forums to bbPress 2.2+

Unfortunately, during Step 5, the actual import step, I get the following error message:


WordPress database error: [Table 'foo.wp_bb_terms' doesn't exist]

SELECT convert(term_relationships.object_id USING "utf8mb4") AS object_id,convert(term_taxonomy.term_taxonomy_id USING "utf8mb4") AS term_taxonomy_id,convert(terms.name USING "utf8mb4") AS name,convert(terms.slug USING "utf8mb4") AS slug FROM wp_bb_term_relationships AS term_relationships INNER JOIN wp_bb_term_taxonomy AS term_taxonomy USING (term_taxonomy_id) INNER JOIN wp_bb_terms AS terms USING (term_id) LIMIT 0, 100


I can’t tell if it is just complaining or if the import has actually failed at that point. Nevertheless, I finish all the steps. At that point, the groups have become forums in bbPress and the topics have transferred but only the first post in each. All replies are gone and I haven’t found any way to restore them.

One additional detail–I don’t know if it’s relevant. In order to do the Ning conversion, it’s best if you use BuddyPress v1.6, which I did. Afterward, I updated to the latest version. (Is that why wp_bb_terms didn’t get created?)

I’d greatly appreciate any insight on this. I’m so happy to be getting away from Ning–I can’t believe I’m getting tripped up on the WP side! 🙂

[kleypie]

I was wondering if anybody had a solution to this? I’d like my users to have the formatting toolbar for posts but I dont like that when they click “link” it shows “link to existing content” and shows pages and pretty much tons of stuff I dont want my forum users to go to. If you want to know what I mean, you can actually do the same thing on this bbPress support forum when you are replying to a post.

Is there a way to turn that off?

My site btw is

Forum

Thank you!!

[tkse]

I created a WordPress page with the name “Diskusjon” and changed the root of bbPress to be this in the settings. Now bbp-single-forum shortcode won’t work. It just shows the forum index, something I tried to avoid by creating this standalone page as root. Any tips?

[andyrushtonprogramming]

Hi casiepa,

thank you for the helpful tips.

I have installed a plugin called bbPress Notify (No-Spam) which does the notification functionality I was looking for. It seems to be working!

I’ll look up your plugin for the subscriptions listing functionality (although the notifications is actually the bigger issue despite how it appears from my OP).

I already have an SMTP plugin – Easy WP SMTP – so I’ll have a look at whether that does debug messages. Otherwise that’s another helpful tip.

Thanks again, I’m getting there…

[andyrushtonprogramming]

Hi @robkk,

that seems to answer a different question – it only lists forums I’m subscribed to in bbPress.org, not subscriptions on my website – and I can’t see how it could list those since there’s no connection. I’m talking about a self-hosting website using bbPress as a plugin.

One reason I was asking was because of this post in the codex:

Subscriptions

Is this post wrong?

[Robkk]

bbPress does not add a subscriptions menu item in the backend of WordPress. There is this in your frontend forum profile though.

https://bbpress.org/forums/profile/andyrushtonprogramming/subscriptions

[aikichick2012]

Hi,

we have been using bbpress for a couple of months, but since a few days we are having the problem that participants can´t see topics in the forum any more. When a participant loggs on, they get the message that “this forum has 7 topics and 58 replies” but also “No topics could be found!”.

Moderators and administrators do not have that problem when they log on….all topis are visible then.

How can this problem be solved, please?

Best regards,
Sonja

[french5000]

Hello,

Have you find a solution ? BBpress-multilingual is not working anymore, and i’m desperately searching for a solution to display the same forums for each language…

[IkerMB]

Hello, I would like instalation bbpress in my blog, I have bbpress instalation already, and I created 3 forums, well, now I would like to create one options in my menu with the name forum and if you click there go directly to my forums.
the thinking is I can put all my foros inside the foro/menu, if I go apparience – menu, select the forums and put inside the menu, my forums appeare in the menu but with individual options.

How can I create one options in the menu with the name Forum and put inside al of them.

regards

[andyrushtonprogramming]

Follow up:

I tried a completely clean install with WP v4.3 and bbPress v2.5.8-5815 and I’m still not seeing the Subscriptions menu item. I’m not sure about notifications because my localhost setup tends to lose emails anyway, but I’m certainly not getting them from the installed website.