[inboxis]

Hi, I’m making a page on my website that will contain a list of forums. I know how I can add the forum list on the menu, but I have a few problems:

1. How can I get people visiting on the website to login in or register and view their profile? Whenever I look at my website in incognito mode, there is no sign up or register button or view profile button.

2. If people can register, how can can that registered person create a new topic? I can’t seem to find that tab thing on bbpress on my website.

3. How can I make the forum so that only registered people can reply and non registered people to only look at the forum?

4.How can i get registered users to unsubscribe

In other words how can i make the forum on my page like the one on bbpress ?

Any Help would be greatly appreciated. Runnig wordpress version 4.3

[frank tredici]

I want to install forum / help desk / q&a type plugin and I am considering bbPress for this.

Does bbPress allow for private posts whereby the submitter must register to the site and can only gain access to their own posts by logging in? Also, can posts be kept private so no other member can see them?

[myssy]

I have a field called website which I would like to remove. What should I do to remove it? Didn’t find it in any functions.php. So where should I search? Or should I remove it from mysql?

Thanks for the help.

[ponturibune]

Hi,

First I want to say that I read this article: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/where-is-the-bbpress-dashboard/ not helped me and last reply was 5 years ago.

When I go to mysitename.com/forum I don’t find any link to administration panel.

I tried bbpress integration plugin and different addresses: mysitename.com/bbpress-directory/bb-admin/ or mysitename.com/bbpress-directory/ but I received 404 error page nout found.

What should I do?

[yoloboatrentals]

Hello bbPress Forums!!

We are trying install forums for our local business website (www.yoloboatrentals.com) and because we do not want the forums to be part of the website for seo reasons, will it be possible to use a sub-domain installation with ssl without any issues?

[drake2k]

That seemed to do the trick. I have no idea where to put that CSS so I installed a plugin called “Add Custom CSS” and pasted it in there.

Thinking about what you said regarding the whole theme thing. I tried a couple of different themes such as the 2010 & the bbpress 2010, and everything seems to display just fine there so your suggestion that it’s theme CSS related seem to be spot on. Thank you.

[Robkk]

Add this custom CSS for it to display in a sort of list.

#bbpress-forums .bbp-forums-list li {
    display: block;
}

[Robkk]

I think this plugin would be better for bbPress in my opinion. It works by setting up the display widget by widget though I think.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/restrict-widgets/

[Robkk]

closing this in favor of your other topic.

A single topic forum requiring password

[Robkk]

@gptxffa this fix is in @satrya’s post you can change the conditional in the function to other areas on bbPress.

In @mvaneijgen’s topic I helped him make it work for his feedback-no-search.php template.

New Topic Form Shortcode Issue

[Robkk]

THat should only be for avatars or gravatars and nothing else. You even see that option under a header tag that says Avatars.

The only settings bbPress uses in the discussion settings is the Moderation and Blacklisting settings.

Moderation and BlackListing

You might need to do some troubleshooting just in case to see what might be causing the issue.

Troubleshooting

[Robkk]

For the line-breaks missing it might be some CSS from your theme maybe causing the issue, but link to a post that should have line breaks so I can check and make sure.

ALso fix the oversized avatars using this CSS.

default size bbPress 14px avatar.

#bbpress-forums p.bbp-topic-meta img.avatar,
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-reply-revision-log img.avatar,
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-topic-revision-log img.avatar,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-template-notice img.avatar,
#bbpress-forums .widget_display_topics img.avatar,
#bbpress-forums .widget_display_replies img.avatar {
   margin-bottom: 0px;
   vertical-align: middle;
   border: 1px single #ddd;
   width: 14px;
}

default size profile image

#buddypress div#item-header img.avatar {
    width: 150px;
}

[Robkk]

By default bbPress doesn’t force subscriptions on users so whatever plugin you are using you may need to contact them. If you need the default way of subscriptions to turn off and on based on certain things like being offline then that may be custom development. By default the users can just unsubscribe from notifications from topics or forums if they do not want to keep getting notified anymore.

[aluxi33]

Nevermind.

Right now I am using the (bbpress) Forum Search on my Main Sidebar. I also have the bbpress shortcodes listed below. If I check this box: Forum Prefix (Prefix all forum content with the Forum Root slug (Recommended), my search works but then it disables my bbpress shortcodes. How can I make the bbpress shortcodes work with the Forum Prefix box checked?

http://mysite.com/view/latest-topics/

[BewitchingFiction]

Hi,

I am hoping that someone here will be able to help with this as it’s a rather frustrating issue and I can’t figure out why it’s happening to start with.

I have set my forum to the ‘rating level’ that will accept posts using phrases such as ‘porn’ and curse words…that being the case I was rather surprised when someone attempted to create a thread in a forum using a jokey phrase including the word porn and it wouldn’t allow the user to post. I checked the post, checked all the settings (I have no words in the blacklist – the forums are monitored almost 24/7 and we have a rather exclusive membership so I felt this was unnecessary at the present time) and there seems to be nothing amiss so the reasons for this being done are a mystery to me. I am able to add the extra words in the sentence in the CMS but this is not something I wish to have to do every time someone wants to refer to something specific like this.

Is there a reason why this would be happening?

I have recently upgraded to the latest versions of Buddypress (2.3.2.1) and BBpress (2.5.8) and also was upgraded to WordPress 4.3.

The site is set up to work with the Make template but I have tested this on the other templates and as it works when I remove a single word from the actual post I know that it HAS to be some hidden filter somewhere that I am unable to remove.

My site is found at http://www.bewitching-fiction.com

[demonboy]

I am confused as to how to make a ‘contributor’ of wordpress automatically a ‘participant’ in the forum. How do I automate this? I am using BuddyPress, bbpress and User Role Editor plugin. At the moment even if they are a participant I have to manually go through each user and change their access to each element of the forum which, by default, is all set to ‘deny’ so that a participant can’t even see the forum.

[TheMK850]

I was following the layout and functionality examples you can use and it didn’t work for me.

Step 1 worked for me just fine.
I inserted the following code into my functions.php (i am using a child theme)

//create vertical list
function custom_bbp_sub_forum_list() {
  $args['separator'] = '<br>';
  return $args;
}
 add_filter('bbp_before_list_forums_parse_args', 'custom_bbp_sub_forum_list' );

Then I moved onto step 2 and added this into my functions.php as well

function remove_counts() {
$args['show_topic_count'] = false;
$args['show_reply_count'] = false;
$args['count_sep'] = '';
 return $args;
}
add_filter('bbp_before_list_forums_parse_args', 'remove_counts' );

It removed the counts but it didn’t look like a list anymore

[jrb9406]

Sorry, I don’t mean to bump, but does anyone know where I could start? I know the page for each forum has a subscribe/unsubscribe button that I’m basically looking to replicate.

I figured out that bbpress makes a link to subscribe/unsubscribe from forums, and depending on whether the user is already subscribed, bbpress shows the appropriate link. Where I’m having trouble is how to determine if the user is subscribed to a forum, and getting the link to update accordingly.

I’m not looking for someone to do this for me for free. I’m just looking for some direction on where to look/what to try. Thanks in advance.

[Robkk]

Subscribing to forums after registration is custom development for now. You may need to hire a developer to create this for you.

You already have an area in your profile.

Subscriptions

[estrogenat]

Hello
I will use private groups for workshops of my courses. For one course there is about 500 subscriber to the private forum and I can’t imagine accepting them one by one or adding them one by one. I want them to send a request within a period of time and I need to accept all the requests with one click. Is this possible???

I’m using wordpress 4.3 and bbpress 2.5.6 buddypress 2.2.2.1
my site: http://www.estrogenat.com

[richard.wil]

Ive finally had some progress!!!! Finally getting something in the status box other than the ‘starting conversion’ lol

I ended up installing another instance of wordpress in an old version: 3.9 and then installed bbpress plugin old version: 2.5.4

Then when I did the import from the phpbb3 forums I had the import actually start! I think it must have been some compatibility issues on newer versions.

However I did run into a fair few errors. I got a few errors where I had to click start conversion again and then it would get another error and have to click start again.

It finally finishes but seems to have only imported replies and there are no forums or topics and the user accounts don’t import either.

Wondering if anyone might know why and if anyone can decipher the output I get below?
Any help would be greatly appreciated

———————————————————————-

Repair any missing information: Continue

Conversion Complete

No reply_to parents to convert

Converting replies (1200 – 1299)
Converting replies (1100 – 1199)
Converting replies (1000 – 1099)
Converting replies (900 – 999)
Converting replies (800 – 899)
Converting replies (700 – 799)
Converting replies (600 – 699)
Converting replies (500 – 599)
Converting replies (400 – 499)
Converting replies (300 – 399)
Converting replies (200 – 299)
Converting replies (100 – 199)
Converting replies (0 – 99)

No tags to convert

No super stickies to stick

No stickies to stick

Starting Conversion

Repair any missing information: Continue
WordPress database error: [Unknown column ‘topics.topic_replies’ in ‘field list’]
SELECT convert(topics.topic_id USING “utf8”) AS topic_id,convert(topics.topic_replies USING “utf8”) AS topic_replies,convert(topics.topic_replies_real USING “utf8”) AS topic_replies_real,convert(topics.forum_id USING “utf8”) AS forum_id,convert(topics.topic_poster USING “utf8”) AS topic_poster,convert(posts.poster_ip USING “utf8”) AS poster_ip,convert(posts.post_text USING “utf8”) AS post_text,convert(topics.topic_title USING “utf8”) AS topic_title,convert(topics.topic_status USING “utf8”) AS topic_status,convert(topics.topic_type USING “utf8”) AS topic_type,convert(topics.topic_time USING “utf8”) AS topic_time,convert(topics.topic_last_post_time USING “utf8”) AS topic_last_post_time FROM phpbb_topics AS topics INNER JOIN phpbb_posts AS posts USING (topic_id) WHERE posts.post_id = topics.topic_first_post_id LIMIT 0, 100

No topics to convert

No forum parents to convert

Starting Conversion

Repair any missing information: Continue
WordPress database error: [Unknown column ‘forums.forum_topics’ in ‘field list’]
SELECT convert(forums.forum_id USING “utf8”) AS forum_id,convert(forums.parent_id USING “utf8”) AS parent_id,convert(forums.forum_topics USING “utf8”) AS forum_topics,convert(forums.forum_posts USING “utf8”) AS forum_posts,convert(forums.forum_topics_real USING “utf8”) AS forum_topics_real,convert(forums.forum_name USING “utf8”) AS forum_name,convert(forums.forum_desc USING “utf8”) AS forum_desc,convert(forums.left_id USING “utf8”) AS left_id,convert(forums.forum_type USING “utf8”) AS forum_type,convert(forums.forum_status USING “utf8”) AS forum_status FROM phpbb_forums AS forums LIMIT 0, 100

No forums to convert

No passwords to clear

Starting Conversion

Repair any missing information: Continue
WordPress database error: [Unknown column ‘users.user_website’ in ‘field list’]
SELECT convert(users.user_id USING “utf8”) AS user_id,convert(users.user_password USING “utf8”) AS user_password,convert(users.user_form_salt USING “utf8”) AS user_form_salt,convert(users.username USING “utf8”) AS username,convert(users.user_email USING “utf8”) AS user_email,convert(users.user_website USING “utf8”) AS user_website,convert(users.user_regdate USING “utf8”) AS user_regdate,convert(users.user_aim USING “utf8”) AS user_aim,convert(users.user_yim USING “utf8”) AS user_yim,convert(users.user_icq USING “utf8”) AS user_icq,convert(users.user_msnm USING “utf8”) AS user_msnm,convert(users.user_jabber USING “utf8”) AS user_jabber,convert(users.user_occ USING “utf8”) AS user_occ,convert(users.user_interests USING “utf8”) AS user_interests,convert(users.user_sig USING “utf8”) AS user_sig,convert(users.user_from USING “utf8”) AS user_from,convert(users.user_avatar USING “utf8”) AS user_avatar FROM phpbb_users AS users LIMIT 0, 100

No users to convert

Starting Conversion

[demonboy]

Nope, it is very definitely disabled. Also I loaded a new WordPress install with NO plugins activated (or even installed) bar bbpress and the same problem persisted.

[joym]

Hello everyone. I have posted several times on the wordpress.org job board – each time I am flooded with responses from all over the world. In the past 3 months or so I have hired 4 different devs – ALL of which have flaked out on the project or for one reason or another were unable to complete the task. My project is now well behind schedule due to this. I thought I’d ask for help here instead, since I know we have a lot of members who really know their bbPress stuff. Here’s what I’m hoping to implement:

1. When using the “reply” button within topics, I would like the username in which you are replying to, to auto-generate in the text box(@username)

2. Add a drop down to the new topic form – this would create color specific background to the topics. For example topic types would be: discussion, photo, link, music, quote, and it would correspond with a specific background color when the new topic is actually posted. Let me know if that makes sense.

If anyone has any knowledge on how to make this happen, please let me know. I would be delighted to work with someone with who is capable and willing. Thank you!

(mods, please don’t delete…this is a job posting, but I really need someone who is qualified instead of mass responses without the proper skills set)

[demonboy]

In this topic I’ve just posted a reply at 11.41pm. So far it has not appeared:

http://www.oyster-owners.com/forums/topic/this-is-a-third-topic-just-around-7-45-pm/

However it is counted in the back-end of the forum, I just can’t see it.

Also, a reply I put up earlier that did not appear has now appeared after checking four hours later.

There is definitely a delay in the post appearing publicly and on the public-facing count within the forum (i.e. post count does not count the reply until it appears after the delay).

Why would there be a delay? It is not the themes, it’s not a plugin, it is not bbpress. What else could it be?

[Robkk]

Alright just so you know I can’t really do Admin access type stuff anymore, I am following some guide from the WordPress.org codex about moderators not needing to gain admin access because they will be going too far, its something like that. I also got a talking to, to stop doing it by some people on this site to, I mostly helped with commercial products because I could find the issue faster if I am more hands on and find a bbPress/theme/plugin bug faster, than telling the users to just ask the theme/plugin author. Plus in this case I do not really need to have an admin account, so you can delete that account you created for me again.

From what I can see the downloaded theme is Jolene and you can just edit the Biker theme since it is already a child theme. If the Biker theme is frequently being updated (which it really shouldn’t), then I guess creating a grandchild theme like what you are doing would be the best approach.