[daybo]

Hi Uniprint QLD

I am a WordPress specialist, with some bbPress experience based on the Sunshine Coast – if that is of interest…

Regards
David

[printablecharm]

I am trying to make a forum sidebar visible. I want the forum sidebar to replace my main sidebar on forum pages only. The widgets for bbpress are currently in my “showcase sidebar”, but I do not know how to make the showcase sidebar visible.

[Robkk]

@stagger-lee

I have seen this list but it is not the same as Feature plugins are for WordPress core.

Im trying to spruce up the page on the bbPress codex.

Not of things on list has anything to do with me personally, just using other popular forum scripts as reference.

Anything that BuddyPress already has as a feature and putting it into bbPress is a BIG decision to make, this could shy away from the plugin integration with BuddyPress in bbPress, but it would make bbPress stand on its own compared to other forum solutions though. Most of the features people want could be added by just installing BuddyPress with bbPress. I am starting to think if users want something like Vbull or IP Board they install should install BuddyPress to add any social network features. If users want a simple forum just use bbPress.

Here is what I think of your plugin list, it is just my opinion, my opinion could change depending on how you reply to how I feel about this. Maybe tell us a reason of why to incorporate these features into core vs a plugin. I just want to know what you think, and please do not just tell use that this forum is doing this and that bbPress should have do it also, make it an interesting discussion.

• Live preview – maybe bring TinyMCE back, as long as it doesn’t have issues
• Report content – Josh Eaton’s plugin I think personally is pretty darn good and well developed to stay being a great plugin for awhile. Might have to see how his plugin favors in the 2015 survey for any core considerations though.
• Ignore User – I don’t know really know, this might need some additional functionality somewhere else, maybe plugin territory.
• bbPress moderation panel separate from backend –  I could see improvements on front-end moderation, maybe not exactly similar to the way the backend is set up, but I have ideas.
• Notifications – BuddyPress can add this..
• Make topics/forums read, unread (dont know if it is already in the core) – Not in core, toss up if in core or not, lots of plugins to choose from.already, do not know which one is the most optimal for most sites.
• bbPress TinyMce plugin – Maybe bring TinyMCE back, as long as it doesn’t have issues
• Reply titles – I don’t see a benefit from this, there is already a plugin for this though.
• View counts – I had this implemented on one of my forums using WP PostViews, after awhile I got to thinking that the voice and reply count really do show how popular a certain topic is, especially the voice count. Because the higher the voice count amount the more participation from users and not just back and forth between two people. Plus this will bulk up your database with a bunch of data.
• Topics for posts (very important even if not used on all installations) – Something like this is set for core. The creating a new topic for each blog post and linking to the topic where the comment form is gold. Entirely replacing the comments is where I had thoughts about this and I started to question possible issues that might come forth from this, and also the set up needed to make this work flawlessly.
• Online / Offline status – Don’t know really, I don’t really care either way, it is neat though.
• bbPress Polls (not shortcode based) – Maybe someone should just fork _ck_’s version of polls and make it work for bbPress v2, but this in my opinion this should stay plugin territory.
• Attachments – bbPress definitely needs more support for the import of attachments from other forum solutions, but managing them might shift to BuddyPress because they have the attachment API now, and BuddyPress might handle it better. I could see a simple image upload button in toolbar though.
• Move topics / replies between subforums – Yeah probably needs to be core. Maybe just topics with its own replies, not single replies??
• Avatar management – Same thing with attachments, needs more support for the import of avatars, managing them might be considered a toss up too, maybe BuddyPress/plugin territory, maybe core.
• Like / Vote topics, replies (I personally would never use this one, but..) – Probably plugin territory, I have seen some great plugins for this that are compatible with bbPress though. This also gives the user to have more choices on what to use, a 5 star rating, thumb voting, up down rating, like only topics. There are lots of choices.
• New plugin that makes it easy to add custom fields and add them where you need (this one is not referenced by other forum scripts).- I think you could use Advanced Custom Fields, but I am not entirely sure where you are going with this one??

Take some of those plugis from your list and give them to bbPress core developers. Or ask original developers to sign some of you on list of plugin Authors. For those developers who dont have much free time you have some plugins literally made from one-two PHP files. Just as it is a GPL take ownership from todays developers, or cooperate with them as co-maintainer Author.

Well this is tough sometimes too, contributing is one thing but taking ownership is another. Some devs might not see eye to eye, some have probably have gotten most of their income based on a very popular bbPress plugin.

There are plugins that I have suggested merging into core because they seem to improve areas that bbPress already has, the plugin seemed simple enough to consider thinking about since it is very commonly requested, and also that it would make life easier in some cases. I have also contacted a few developers if they wanted to contribute some have said they would like to see what they made into core, and others have not replied back.

Also some plugins could be very small, that might not mean put it in the plugin anyway.

There is not a lot of core devs in bbPress as one might think to start taking over some plugins while bbPress would have a bug that needs to be fixed, testing, code improvements, and other features added to core that may not exactly be a plugin on WordPress.

If you mean just any other active plugin developer to ask them to take over stuff, well I can’t really tell what they are good at besides making their own plugin. And I don’t want to seem bossy by asking people to do stuff that they might not agree to or have time to.

All those names of developers are very active in core community. Developers of bbPress plugins are not.
Either they abandon plugin and lose lust, dissapear.

WordPress core is very active compared to bbPress, but they are two different things. One is a plugin the other is the entire CMS. Other forum solutions are CMS’s to themselves but bbPress is just a plugin.

If there are some plugins that are abandoned and do not have an alternative/fork that you think the plugin should be resurrected and be contributed to, you can say which plugins here.

I think I got most of your points, if I missed one point it out. Try not to be rude at all or come off as rude, just have a decent discussion.

[vizcano]

Hello everyone!

This is my problem: i was creating my forums they were in alphabetical order but at some point it got all mess out, is not in alphabetical order anymore. I tried to set the order inside each forum with the Order section and it still doesn’t work.

I used to have it in the past and it worked just fine. But now i can’t get it to look properly.

I disable all other plugins and the problem persists…

I have wordpress 4.2.2 and bbpress 2.5.8

Anyone… help?

[Robkk]

You could use the regular WordPress toolbar, that is exactly what bbpress.org uses.

Anything custom you have to do it yourself, or hire a developer. Only thing I can say is you probably need CSS to style the drop down profile form.

[Coach Afrane]

Thanks.

Please one more thing.
I want to place a login/register form in header which drops the profile on hover as in codex.bbpress.org

I used

<?php if ( $user_ID ) : ?>
<?php wp_head();
global $user_identity;
?>

<p><b>Howdy</b>, <a href="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-admin/profile.php"><?php echo $user_identity; ?></a>.  [<a href="<?php echo wp_logout_url(); ?>" title="Log out of this account">Log Out</a>]</p>

<?php else : ?>

<form name="loginform" id="loginform" action="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-login.php" method="post">

	Username <input value="Username" class="input" type="text" size="20" tabindex="10" name="log" id="user_login" onfocus="if (this.value == 'Username') {this.value = '';}" onblur="if (this.value == '') {this.value = 'Username';}" /> <input name="rememberme" id="rememberme" value="forever" tabindex="90" type="checkbox"> Remember Me? <br />
        Password <input value="Password" class="input" type="password" size="20" tabindex="20" name="pwd" id="user_pass" onfocus="if (this.value == 'Password') {this.value = '';}" onblur="if (this.value == '') {this.value = 'Password';}" />
		<input name="wp-submit" id="wp-submit" value="Log In" tabindex="100" type="submit">
		<input name="redirect_to" value="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-admin/" type="hidden">
		<input name="testcookie" value="1" type="hidden">

</form>

<?php endif; ?>

…but on log out the username and password boxes stretchesd fullwith.

Please help.
Thanks

[PinkishHue]

Just to add another suggestion, I’ve found this plugin works well on a regular WP install (not yet used with a live bbpress installation but the plugin info does say it supports it):

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-spamshield/

[Robkk]

@itsmeitsb

@carlharrison1 <- sorry I was probably lazy that day.

You would have to create a custom template for bbPress or a bbpress.php file so that all your forum pages use this.

i guess if your slider is using a shortcode you can echo the shortcode in the template too.

Getting Started in Modifying the Main bbPress Template

You need to show it only on pages you want, so single topics, single forums, forum archive, and topic archive. Usually I see sliders have a conditional to show on the home page only so you would to do something similar but only on bbPress pages. You can input multiple conditionals using && or | for example,

<?php if ( bbp_is_single_topic() && bbp_is_single_forum() && bbp_is_forum_archive() && bbp_is_topic_archive()) : ?>

<?php echo do_shortcode("[shortcode]"); ?>

<?php endif; ?>

bbPress Conditional Tags

[Robkk]

@itsmeitsb

You would have to create a custom template for bbPress or a bbpress.php file so that all your forum pages use this.

i guess if your slider is using a shortcode you can echo the shortcode in the template too.

Getting Started in Modifying the Main bbPress Template

You need to show it only on pages you want, so single topics, single forums, forum archive, and topic archive. Usually I see sliders have a conditional to show on the home page only so you would to do something similar but only on bbPress pages. You can input multiple conditionals using && or | for example,

<?php if ( bbp_is_single_topic() && bbp_is_single_forum() && bbp_is_forum_archive() && bbp_is_topic_archive()) : ?>

<?php echo do_shortcode("[shortcode]"); ?>

<?php endif; ?>

bbPress Conditional Tags

[Robkk]

Thanks @Robkk but it doesn’t see to matter what change I want to make.

Yeah I just tested it and it doesn’t work when saving, I guess do not edit your profile right now.

Not a good place for the book to be because if I or someone is getting a 404 error page then we’re not happy and you are linking that to purchasing the book… Just my 2 cents.

Well maybe Rhys Wynne is getting some good out of this haha, the 404s of course are not intentional.

I defintely won’t upgrade until the new version is well tested

It usually is well tested before official release, I wouldn’t consider running anything alpha though.

BBpress or buddy press (what is the difference)

Ones has some features that are in Twitter or Facebook, the other is just forums. Both usually work great together.

Other than that I have used this login here since 2011 when I first played with BBpress and got rid of it after 6 months or so…

I think that was way back in the beta version of bbPress v2. a lot has changed since then.

[folgerj]

Thanks @Robkk but it doesn’t see to matter what change I want to make. I enter with the url you specified: https://bbpress.org/forums/profile/folgerj/edit

And one time I add just my first name and another time I change my website and hit submit and I get the 404 error page which has a copy of the BBpress book to purchase. 🙂

Not a good place for the book to be because if I or someone is getting a 404 error page then we’re not happy and you are linking that to purchasing the book… Just my 2 cents.

I defintely won’t upgrade until the new version is well tested… I may upgrade WP as soon as it comes out but I won’t upgrade BBpress or buddy press (what is the difference) until I see the forums say its all clear…

Thanks for the assist and I’ll check back from time to time. This isn’t that important except for my need to update my website from a long defunct domain (I own it but it just forwards now). Other than that I have used this login here since 2011 when I first played with BBpress and got rid of it after 6 months or so…

[Robkk]

I made changes and changed my email to what should be over at Gravatar and hit submit and get a 404 error and end up seeing the BBpress book for sale.
I don’t know if it took it or not…. It may not be allowing changes as far as I can tell

@folgerj

It probably didn’t work, and you can could always add additional email addresses to Gravatar. So if you want a specific Gravatar for wordpress/bbpress.org add the email you used on those sites. You can always remove it then change the email on the sites later.

..Curious to know what the bug is/was..could happen to any of our sites too I suppose.

@uncle-jimmy

I think I made an educated guess last week to what commit caused the issue, and Stephen pinpointed the issue. Also the reason the issue is on this site is because this site is running the latest alpha, so this site see any issues first before releasing the next update.

@longchelsea @candicexiang

do what I said here

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/edit-allowed-only-for-1st-post/#post-164195

[Uncle Jimmy]

There is a bug right now that is being looked over.

This is what I’m get’n..

https://bbpress.org/https://bbpress.org/forums/profile/uncle-jimmy/edit/

lol!..Clear to see what’s wrong with that picture..

..Curious to know what the bug is/was..could happen to any of our sites too I suppose.

I’ve seen this kind of thing before on Mintees.com Profiles, click a User website link and get this same sort of thing, inconsistant though, I think it’s user error in that case.

This is something different.

[Robkk]

@caseylifec

You might have to try this to only remove it on bbPress pages and not on blog posts.

#bbpress-forums div.entry-author {
  display: none;
}

[Robkk]

As long as the users have registered and their default role is a participant they should be able to create topics.

You can try troubleshooting for other possible issues too.

Troubleshooting

[Sam Rohn]

also respects posts hidden by s2member bbpress level restrictions

i was mistaken, topics hidden by s2member restrictions are hidden, but replies are not hidden in search results when using this snippet

davidddn, you may have another plugin or theme function interfering with this search code, so try testing with default wp theme and disable other plugins etc

otherwise, including bbpress in standard wp search results as a standard option in bbpress would be great

sam

[Robkk]

The activate component I think you are talking about is part of BuddyPress.

I can’t find any documentation that details if there needs to be a shortcode on that page but mine is blank…This is the downside so far. In the Docs there should be a description of each of the required pages and what they do as well as what I need to do with them

When BuddyPress is installed you will have a register page usually at yoursite.com/register/, and also an activate page so after you register you are required to activate your account usually here yoursite.com/activate/.

All documentation for the activate page would be on BuddyPress, in their codex.

Register and Activation Pages

There might be more documentation on the activate page, but I can’t find them if you want more information about it contact BuddyPress in their forums.

https://buddypress.org/support/

bbPress does allow shortcodes for registration, lost-password, and also for login, but none for users to activate their account. bbPress relies on how WordPress sets up registered users.

[jambla]

Hi I am using bbPress version Version 2.5.8, website link is http://fantasypremierhq.com/

I cannot seem to style the register button on http://fantasypremierhq.com/register/, it defaults to in line css. The submit button class is button.submit.user-submit. I have managed to style everything else fine, including other buttons on the profile page. Any suggestions?
thanks

[Coach Afrane]

I have bbpress installed for forums and i have set it to “Anyone can register”. I would want to allow anyone who is registered to be able to start a topic in the forum but it seems i (admin) am the only one who is allowed to.

Please help.
Thanks

[Coach Afrane]

I have bbpress installed for forums and i have set it to “Anyone can register”. I would want to allow anyone who is registered to be able to start a topic in the forum but it seems i (admin) am the only one who is allowed to.

Please help.
Thanks

[Robkk]

well I don’t think you can merge forums by default in bbPress.

Hello, I have set my forum up with four different forums, but I want to strip this down to two, so effectively merging three forums into one.

How can I do this?

I think there is a plugin to export all the topics and replies of a forum and then you can import the that data into another forum.

I think there is also a different way to do this, some other guy did this with some other plugin. I might have to look that up and see the plugin he used.

Is it better to rename one forum, then move everything from the other two forums into the first?

Or, should I somehow merge all three into one?

I don’t think it matters really?? It might be best just to move all the data in a new forum though.

In any case, how will this affect posters subscriptions? Will they still have direct access to the forums once moved if people add to a topic?

This is a great question about the subscriptions, this will need some testing. I think they can have direct access to the topic once it is moved.

[PinkishHue]

@julia_b (If you’re still waiting for a reply!) – you need to put this in your functions.php file, more info here: https://codex.bbpress.org/functions-files-and-child-themes-explained/

This works great, thanks so much for sharing this code!

I’ve also managed, with very little tweaking, to get this displaying replies under topics within the topics list (this is very rough with some bits commented out but pasting here in case it helps someone)

// https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-to-add-latest-reply-or-topic-to-forum-list/
function jagreplies_add_last_reply() { { 
 $jagreplies_last_reply_id = bbp_get_topic_last_reply_id();
 //$jagreplies_last_topic_id = bbp_get_forum_last_topic_id();

$new_args = array(
    'post_type'=> 'reply',
    'p' => $jagreplies_last_reply_id
);
$post_title_args = array(
    'post_type'=> 'topic',
    'p' => $jagreplies_last_topic_id
);
$other_args = array(
    'post_type'=> 'topic',
    'p' => $jagreplies_last_topic_id
);
$jagreplies_query = new WP_Query( $post_title_args );
$nest_query = new WP_Query( $new_args );
$another_nest_query = new WP_Query( $other_args );

   if ( $jagreplies_query->have_posts() ) : while ( $jagreplies_query->have_posts() ) : $jagreplies_query->the_post();
     $this_post_id=$post->ID;
     $this_post_permalink= get_permalink(); ?>   
                             
     <!--<a href="<?php //echo $this_post_permalink; ?>">-->

<?php endwhile; 
   endif; wp_reset_query();

   if ( $nest_query->have_posts() ) : while ( $nest_query->have_posts() ) : $nest_query->the_post();
     $this_post_id=$post->ID;
     //$this_post_title= get_the_title();
     //$this_post_content= get_the_excerpt(); 
     $this_post_content= the_content(); ?>

     <h1><?php echo $this_post_title; ?></h1></a>
     <div class="the_content"><?php echo $this_post_content; ?></div>
                     
   <?php endwhile;
elseif ( $another_nest_query->have_posts() ) : while ( $another_nest_query->have_posts() ) : $another_nest_query->the_post();
     $this_post_id=$post->ID;
     //$this_post_title= get_the_title();
     //$this_post_content= get_the_excerpt();
     $this_post_content= the_content(); ?>   
                                  
     <!--<h1><?php //echo $this_post_title; ?></h1></a>-->
     <div class="the_content"><?php echo $this_post_content; ?></div>
                     
   <?php endwhile; 
   endif; 
    }} 
// Hook into action
add_action('bbp_theme_after_topic_freshness_author','jagreplies_add_last_reply');

This is extremely useful in creating a ‘Facebook’ style site where all content can be displayed on one single page (I know, Facebook, yuck! But it’s what ‘the people’ like)

Now I just need to try to get the bbpress Ajax Replies plugin working in conjunction with this so people can post and reply from that single page. Interesting!

**edited to add – if using my code above you may just want to change the last line ‘bbp_theme_after_topic_freshness_author’ to a different hook depending on where you want to display it, I am using customised templates but I’m not sure how it would look loading the content there if using the default templates

[tuninginsider]

We’re using newsmag theme for http://tuninginsider.com WP 4.2.2. Seems to be kind of conflict we cannot sort. Any idea?

[bzwb]

Hi @sceko,

Its working now….a bbpress file was missing in the themes folder hence the disorganized layout.
🙂
Thanks

[bzwb]

Thanks @robkk for pointing in the right direction. A bbpress file was missing in the theme’s folder. Was able to figure it out cause it worked in other themes. 🙂 (y) Thanks