[Robkk]

@killer_x10

This topic was way back in bbPress v1, so nothing is good for this current version.

There is a way to use shortcodes (bbcode) as long as they are whitelisted for users in the quicktags toolbar but this would require some editing of some javascript.

You can also use the TinyMCE toolbar, adding bbcode to this would be more difficult then editing the quicktags toolbar.

[Robkk]

BuddyPress use to have bbPress in it as a module before, and there are some tutuorials on the web saying BuddyPress as a forum solution because of this. The way how it is now bbPress is just forums and BuddyPress has features like Facebook/twitter without a forum module in it anymore.

They just installed that way and I believe it changed my permalinks from custom post to subject. I literally cannot find a huge group of posts now.

But what exactly changed? What were your permalinks before and afte? Make sure to show a full url example. You of course do not have to put your actual site link, use something like example.com

[Robkk]

You modify the template bbPress is inheriting from your theme. Use what the file and go to the page with the forum index shortcode to see which template has the banner in it, then go to other bbPress forum pages to see what template bbPress is inheriting by default.

A step by step is pretty difficult since all themes are different.

Getting Started in Modifying the Main bbPress Template

If you really want the banner, use what ever template that is coming from.

The first issue I’ve got is when you click ‘Forum One’, it shows the message, ‘This forum contains 1 topic, and was last updated by…” but doesn’t actually show the topic.

Try some troubleshooting, try a default theme to see if the issue is present, you should also try leaving only bbPress active to see if could be a plugin issue.

Troubleshooting

[killer_x10]

I would like to make it so that the Users of my Forum can only subscribe to Topics and not Forums. I am asking this because in the Settings Section of bbpress you can toggle Subscription for both, Topics and Forums. Is that possible? Thank you

[sbskamey]

Hi guys,

I am looking to have the same setup these guys https://ultimatemember.com/forums/

Page 1: A Page that shows all my forums
Page 2: A Page that shows the topics of each forum
Page 3: A Page that shows the replies of each topic.

Simple simple.

Here is my website: http://sincebeingsingle.com/forums/

Fyi: I am using the latest versions of WordPress, bbpress and Bridge theme (from themeforest).
Fyi: I am a bit of a newbie at this.

Issue 1:

The first issue I’ve got is when you click ‘Forum One’, it shows the message, ‘This forum contains 1 topic, and was last updated by…” but doesn’t actually show the topic.

Issue 2:

When I click on ‘Forum One’ I’d like it to go to a page where the yellow header banner replicates title of the forum. And that goes the same for, clicking on a topic and a reply.

The Ultimate Members forum above is the best example of this. You can see that each blue header banner has the title of the forum, topic and reply.

fyi:

I have got the forum working for the bbpress-forum index using [bbp-forum-index] shortcode. My header banner is showing perfectly as I have designed the page for the forum to sit on.

I’m struggling with getting the topics and replies sitting on a wordpress page that I’ve designed.

I am literally going around in circles trying to work out how to get my bbpress to sit within my own WordPress pages.

(I would like the same setup as UM, where the Forum page has the Forum title in the blue banner, Topic page has the Top title in the blue banner and Reply page has the Reply title in the blue banner).

Any guidance or step by step instructions would be massively appreciated from bbpress community.

Kam

[ABCDiamond]

I just did an import of an SMF forum to bbPress, and my posts have <tt><tt> where all my paragraph breaks were.

I don’t have any of these though, as shown by the other poster: </tt>

But I do have some individual <tt>’s

Any links in the posts also have [ class=”bbcode_url” ] attached to the end of the link.
eg: <tt>Australian Electoral Commission<tt><a href="http://www.aec.gov.au/" class="bbcode_url">http://www.aec.gov.au/</a><tt>Enrolled etc

[Stagger Lee]

Thank you. Dont mind my writing. I know developers dont like topics like this. Despite everything, even if you dont do anything about it I stay on bbPress because it is so fun. Much more fun than SMF or phpbb.

Talk to your friends from bbPress core circle on your private channels. And see if they have time for some plugin. Report just back to us results. It they are bussy with private projects nobody will be mad about it. Just to know.

Or announce on the WordPress Slack that you are underpowered and ask for some help from other core, other strong plugins developers. There is no shame in it.

[Stagger Lee]

Robby, i told you already. I counted 13-14 plugins from here:

Feature Plugins Tracking

not in the WordPress repository. Translated nobody cares about update notifications, etc.
I have no clue what they do on Github, private websites, and why. Beginner User have less chance to know.

You can start with this list. Clean it and set a goal to make all possible to move all plugins to WP repository.

If not possible, well it is GPL. Take code and dont care what original developer thinks.

[runamuck]

I am importing from SMF to bbpress and this is the error message that I’m receiving:

WordPress database error: [Unknown character set: ‘utf8mb4’]
SELECT convert(messages.id_msg USING “utf8mb4”) AS id_msg,convert(topics.id_board USING “utf8mb4”) AS id_board,convert(messages.id_topic USING “utf8mb4”) AS id_topic,convert(messages.poster_ip USING “utf8mb4”) AS poster_ip,convert(messages.id_member USING “utf8mb4”) AS id_member,convert(messages.subject USING “utf8mb4”) AS subject,convert(messages.body USING “utf8mb4”) AS body,convert(messages.poster_time USING “utf8mb4”) AS poster_time FROM messages AS messages LEFT JOIN topics AS topics USING (id_topic) WHERE topics.id_first_msg != messages.id_msg LIMIT 0, 25

I’ve upgraded from PHP 5.3 to 5.4, but still running into the same problem.

Anyone else run into this problem? And how did you fix it? TIA.

[Pamela Keogh]

I’m completely new to wp and bbPress and also a php novice and am currently doing an assignment in both. I have created a child-theme and have spent many hours trying to find the right template_part to amend to suit my theme. I have managed to do so for loop-forums and loop-single-forum for Forum page but now have moved to Topic page and thought the two templates I needed were loop-topics and loop-single-topic but they don’t have the section I want to remove ie. bbp-template-notice info.

Is there somewhere I can find the hierarchy of pages and template hierarchy or can anyone point me in the right direction please?

[Robkk]

Dont want to talk about design and style. It would ruin all from my title.
But yes, bbPress is ugly as hell when installed and takes lot of time to design. Better to keep written notes what you do and how, to be able to use it next time.

email me then, I actually do want to talk about design.

Dont know what to say about buddyPress serving as “Jetpack”. I like to install buddyPress along with bbPress and think they do better with design. Guess it is up to them, will they be standalone WP plugin or serve as filling gaps for bbPress.

Really just design? Only design I can think of is the companion stylesheets? Other than that it has a plain layout look like bbPress. Not the groups, @mention autosuggest, members page, attachments api, more advanced profile fields, ability to change/crop avatar?

Back to your question. Cannot point exactly what is hard for begginers and users. It is all small bits and parts making it difficult. Even to me is hard and takes lot of time to have one bbPress forum ready for live server.
Guess it is huge amount of time spent searching on Google and forums howto. I made those mistakes on my first 2-3 instalaltions and noticed it is impossible to continue this way. Now I have searchable and filterable database with bbPress, buddyPress snippets. Just for bbPress circa 150 of them and some tutorials. But not many people will do this. When they spend half day searching on Google how to solve something they will simply go to phpbb, SMF forum and it is one user less.

It is easy to get a bbPress forum set up. It will definitely get hard to make bbPress work like other forum solutions? It would be pretty difficult to make something like phpbb turn into something like discourse for example.

Most of this time lost is fixing and tweaking third party plugins, using their adapted code in functions.php, etc.

What plugins? Tell me what plugins to adopt if you need to fix them? Email me this too.

In matter of fact price of one bbPress installation and customization goes easy to level of one very advanced web shop. Only know it is not sustainable and should not be this way.

Dont want to talk about money, just took it as example of how many hours and days bbPress takes to be finished and looks professional.

Yeah this would probably be level of skill vs cost for time to do it. It is easy for me and I might say I have a moderate level of skill. This is just my opinion though.

[Stagger Lee]

Thanks Robby.

Dont want to talk about design and style. It would ruin all from my title.
But yes, bbPress is ugly as hell when installed and takes lot of time to design. Better to keep written notes what you do and how, to be able to use it next time.

I have some ideas of making bbPress more acceptable to Pods or ACF. It would open many possibilities. Some of them could be, polls, attachments (very regulated and narrowed), SVG icons, reply title (it is just text input field), avatars, etc..

Dont know what to say about buddyPress serving as “Jetpack”. I like to install buddyPress along with bbPress and think they do better with design. Guess it is up to them, will they be standalone WP plugin or serve as filling gaps for bbPress.

Anything that is the same as Jetpack. Lots of modules all deactivated on default, to not force people use what they dont need and want. And without connection to wordpress.com.
If you make some better cooperation with Pods you get automatically mass of new developers and possibly mass of custom tweaks shared around. Same would be with bbPress “Jetpack” or buddyPress if they want it.

Back to your question. Cannot point exactly what is hard for begginers and users. It is all small bits and parts making it difficult. Even to me is hard and takes lot of time to have one bbPress forum ready for live server.
Guess it is huge amount of time spent searching on Google and forums howto. I made those mistakes on my first 2-3 instalaltions and noticed it is impossible to continue this way. Now I have searchable and filterable database with bbPress, buddyPress snippets. Just for bbPress circa 150 of them and some tutorials. But not many people will do this. When they spend half day searching on Google how to solve something they will simply go to phpbb, SMF forum and it is one user less.

Most of this time lost is fixing and tweaking third party plugins, using their adapted code in functions.php, etc. Design OK, but usually easy to find answer on Google.

In some way I try to imagine how would it be to charge a client for a bbPress installation and customization. I dont do it for money, i spend time on it because I think it is fun. But so many spent hours and days is impossible to charge. Hence, nobody will setup bbPress forum for living and earning. Web companies goes to other solutions.

In matter of fact price of one bbPress installation and customization goes easy to level of one very advanced web shop. Only know it is not sustainable and should not be this way.

Dont want to talk about money, just took it as example of how many hours and days bbPress takes to be finished and looks professional.

[carmstrongclark]

Hi,

So my issue seems to have been an issue to some other bbpress users in the past:

User profiles: Topics Created and Replies don't show up for me either

But this only solved the “Topics created” issue. That now looks great – but the replies created part is still empty.

Here’s the user profile page:
http://luffit.com/forumtest/users/luvvieclaire/

Any help would be amazing.

[Robkk]

Because I see potentioal and how WordPress self can make bbPress powerfull. Or buddyPress, I install it all the time together.

I know a lot of users who ask for more features like other forum solutions are like this because they all do see potential.

But, one thing is very specific for bbPress. I would not dare to touch it as average User, who installs and setup phpbb or SMF forum without big problems. It is extremely hard for beginners

In what ways is it difficult? Is it anything about user experience, or from just going from one to another?? Any ideas to improve it for beginners?

At least take those 10-12 plugins from Github and put them in WP repository. Dont ask developer, it is GPL. Developer had 2-3 years or more to decide to do it byself, and he did not wanted it.
Problem there is notification about updates.
Just one example, lost many hours to see why Live preview stoped to word and by chance checked on Github versions. If it was in WP repository I would be notificated directly there is an update for it.

There is some plugins on Github but that doesn’t mean everybody should use them. Some plugins on github were made from developers from jobs they did for people(might contain specific db table names for a specific site), are just some custom plugins they use on their site(might contain several referances to a site), custom projects for themselves(just playing with stuff/learning development). There is a difference between building a plugin for yourself, and building a plugin for everybody to use. When you begin to build one for everybody to use, you definitely take into consideration some plugin conflicts that might happen(I think GD bbPress attachments and bbp live preview comes to mind). There are some plugins on there that actually should be considered to be on WordPress.org, so I will keep that in mind.

Just to not be missunderstood. I personally dont have any problem whatsoever with this list above. Implemented with help of code tweaking and those plugins all of this. And much, much more. All except proper Polls. For this I cannot find a solution.

The polka polls plugin is the best plugin for polls for bbPress. It does require use of shortcodes, I do not think you have to whitelist the shortcode or anything, I think it just works. I guess it could get inspired from some ideas of the bbPress polls plugin for v1 that _ck_ made.

I am not telling about design, despite this too is hard for Users beginners to tweak.

Please say any issues you might have on this, I have ideas for users to make design for theme compatibility easier.

Github should never be primary source of plugins. Additional OK, but only and one never.
I know there is a plugin that makes updates from Github possible, but demands some lines added by author in plugin self.

It isn’t, any plugins listed on the featured plugins list are really just plugins that might have functionality similar to what might be suggested to core. Github was never really a plugin repository for WordPress, mostly development. Some of the information why some plugins might not be in what I already said above. Plus some plugins were pretty neat not to leave in.

Something like Jetpack for bbPress would be a killer, perfect. But I do understand when you say there are not many developers of bbPress. Wish just you start discussion about it and report back to us how it went. Jetpack probably started with few developers, and with years come to number of 46. It doesnt have to start great, developers are attracted later to all good staff by itself.
Do you know what all those names behind Jetpack say to me ? Not in the first hand anything about code quality, but about security. I know it will flow huge amount of years before this plugin is abandoned. And with all new WP versions they adapt code before new version get out.

If we are talking about Jetpack as a plugin full of features, then BuddyPress could be something like that. There is also another plugin but it is paid (has minimized free version) that has several other features like bbcode, attachments, quotes. Creating another plugin like that I will keep in mind.

[Stephen Edgar]

Yes, “individual sub-forums moderators” is in the next release of bbPress, bbPress 2.6 🙂

[Robkk]

try some troubleshooting first

Troubleshooting

[Robkk]

What happens if you logout from the WordPress toolbar, which has nothing to do with bbPress?? If you come across the same issue something is just redirecting you.

You might have to do some troubleshooting

Troubleshooting

<?php bbp_logout_link(); ?> pretty much uses wp_logout_url{} in WordPress.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_logout_url

[Robkk]

Yeah you do not have to use the plugin in that codex page, its not like it is recommended or anything it is just a user submitted guide. That codex page will likely show an example using CSS or a lightbox when I am done with it. But yeah there are tons of plugins that add a modal popup login.

In this reply to a topic, I list a bunch of alternatives.

Modal login – can't find plugin ‘wp modal login’ mentioned?

[Robkk]

now for the mobile navigation I need to get all profile pages into the main menu, too.

This might be custom development.

followed this which also uses the add filter above, but did not get it to work: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/user-porfile-page/

Does it just not show up?? I am starting to think you have some fancy slideout mobile menu and you want the profile link to show up there?

1. links don’t work. on profile page no nicename is used. and the created menu links give a 404page as the username is not inserted.

Does the login widget with profile links not work?? or does the actual links on the profile not work?

2. cannot set the location of profile page as submenu item.

This might be a little tough. I think you have to construct a small menu, but it may not work well with your header menu for example. And also if you decide to put just a sub item under something you constructed in the menu section in the backend of WordPress.

[Robkk]

If you want forums, use bbPress if not do not use it.

why did this mess with my permalinks?

explain a little more on this??

It’s been a pain resolving this feature. Is the solution as simple as correcting this alert “Possible bbPress conflict: Topics base.” Right now this is set to subject, so what should I change this to?

The topic slug??

Can you explain a little more on this error?

You set what to subject??

[Robkk]

I guess you could link to the My Account page in woocommerce just by adding a link to it in the bbPress forum profile menu??

maybe create a user-details.php file in a bbpress folder in your child theme like this one??

https://gist.github.com/robkk/4e6d17c5fced1b7dfaaf

[rozevans]

Hi,

I have just updated my theme which is compatible with BBPress and Woocommerce. Currently I have a ‘profile’ page which has information on the BBPress forum, but I was wondering if it was possible to add an additional tab so that customer’s order information can be seen all in one place?

Thank you,

http://www.biosphereonline.com

[jrunfitpro]

I installed BuddPress, but wondered why I should have bbPress in addition to BuddyPress?

Also, why did this mess with my permalinks? It’s been a pain resolving this feature. Is the solution as simple as correcting this alert “Possible bbPress conflict: Topics base.” Right now this is set to subject, so what should I change this to?

Thanks people!

Justin

[project_subdomain]

now for the mobile navigation I need to get all profile pages into the main menu, too.

followed this which also uses the add filter above, but did not get it to work: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/user-porfile-page/

1. links don’t work. on profile page no nicename is used. and the created menu links give a 404page as the username is not inserted.
is: mysite/forums/users/topics
should: mysite/forums/users/USERNAME/topics

2. cannot set the location of profile page as submenu item.

really happy for any help with this!

[tkse]

Wow, thanks! I’ll add this to bbPress with the_author_meta(), correct?