[Stagger Lee]

It is not problem to hardcode WP-Polls function inside specific bbPress custom template, to bypass activating shortcodes in topics and replies.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-polls/installation/

But main problem is User interaction. Shame, WP-Polls is very nice Polls plugin.
It would be needed one modal popup where User opening topic can add new poll. believe Roles and permissions are not problem to fix with plugin filters, but other doesnt exist.

It is not acceptable to send Users to separate page (backend) just to make poll for topic they opening.

[pyromaster]

Hey all,

I’m working on my first website and I have been making pretty good progress….I installed the bbPress forum plugin (latest version) and it integrated pretty easily into my theme (Sento Pro). Can somebody tell me how to turn off the page into bar on the forum? I can easily turn them off on pages by simply going to the page of interest and clicking disable page intro. There are no such options for forums….

Thanks for your help in advance….

Jay

[Stagger Lee]

This one is closest I could find. Still has to be guessed to hit 24-48 hours, or exact week time ban for instance. But there is no better out there.
Strange, considering WP has plenty plugins for everything.

It is permanent ban logics fault. Sometimes it is enough to cool down User by time ban of 1 day, one week or one month.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-blocker/

Maybe you can borrow code and make something for bbPress core.

[Robkk]

copy the bbPress templates to your child theme , it has fixed this issue for me before when using Twenty Fifteen.

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

[Robkk]

This plugin might help.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-custom-reply-notifications/

[Robkk]

Just copy loop-forums.php from the bbPress plugin templates into a folder called bbpress in your child theme, or edit the one that is already custom from your theme to a child theeme.

Edit this and change Forum to what you want.

<li class="bbp-forum-info"><?php _e( 'Forum', 'bbpress' ); ?></li>

[Robkk]

So maybe, I should create the learning platform as I envision it and take a more relaxed stance on the fact that parts of the profile and member information are visible for guests.

Hey I mean it is your website you can do whatever you want to it. If you feel the information people are passing on your forum should be private you can make it private. The other solution that I thought of is similar to Robins code and that is to just put a conditional if the user is logged in to a bbpress.php file so it would only work on bbPress pages (and hopefully not mess with woothemes sensei). But this would require code editing/WordPress template knowledge.

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/getting-started-in-modifying-the-main-bbpress-template/

[Robkk]

It is definitely possible.

You might want to create custom templates then style it to want you want from there.

copy the loop-single-topic.php file into your child theme in a folder called bbpress. THen add the topic excerpt using bbp_topic_excerpt() and also place the post count into an icon font.

You can add topic thumbnails with a plugin I think, or just manually put that before every topic.

You can also change the heading to comments by copying/editing I think loop-topics.php into your child theme in a folder called bbpress also.

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

[Robkk]

if you have the pro version they give you an editor for the bbcode/shortcode buttons.

If you are messing with the bbPress default quicktags you can change the buttons output display to bbcode/shortcodes instead of html.

If you look at this you can see that it says you can copy the Javsacript from bbPress to your custom child theme.

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

So you can copy the editor.js file from bbPress and created custom buttons for your bbPress installation from there. You can see an example to change the output of the code button to just use quote marks.

/* Use backticks instead of <code> for the Code button in the editor */
	if ( typeof( edButtons ) !== 'undefined' ) {
		edButtons[110] = new QTags.TagButton( 'code', 'code', '<code>', '</code>', 'c' );
		QTags._buttonsInit();
	}

This will I think use the bold, italics , and lists format that they use in the plugin.

/* Use some bbcode outputs for the quicktags editor in bbPress */
	if ( typeof( edButtons ) !== 'undefined' ) {
		edButtons[10] = new QTags.TagButton( 'strong', 'b', '[b]', '[/b]', 'b' );
		edButtons[20] = new QTags.TagButton( 'em', 'i', '[i]', '[/i]', 'i' );
		edButtons[80] = new QTags.TagButton( 'ul', 'ul', '[ul]', '[/ul]', 'u' );
		edButtons[90] = new QTags.TagButton( 'ol', 'ol', '[ol]', '[/ol]', 'o' );
		edButtons[100] = new QTags.TagButton( 'li', 'li', '[li]', '[/li]', 'l' );
		QTags._buttonsInit();
	}

[Moobs]

I’m looking for a way to get bbcode buttons for users. I have the gd bbpress toolbox, but I’d like to have buttons for those codes on the toolbar. Any suggestions?

[Uncle Jimmy]

Hello everyone!

I wasn’t sure where to post, or what exactly to ask..lol! Is it possible to make the changes in the image with CSS? Or does it have to be done within the php files?

I’ve looked all over the internet for specific tutorials to accomplish this and can’t find anything definitive enough.

Wordpress/Buddypress/bbPress.. That’s the combination I want to stick with but wrapping my mind around it is very difficult, even with all the great documentation! Ha!

Any suggestions are welcome and thanks. Jim :o)

[project_subdomain]

thanks, robkk, you are right.

found a solution that may be useful for some, though:
It’s these three plugins together:
Paid MembershipsPro + Paid Memberships Pro bbpress + Paid Memberships Pro: PMPro Roles
Tried, worked, but unfortunately slowed down my page already and found it to be a bit too much overload for what I need.

[project_subdomain]

ok, the code above could not work.

the remaining issue comes from a different singular/plural form of “Your” in my language.

came across this, but I’m not sure what’s been the specific purpose of that changeset:
trac 5105

[Robkk]

Hmm I probably need to contact the author about the incompatibility with the WooThemes Sensei online courses, or I will just check out what is causing the issue later.

Robins zip file does not contain a plugin, it is just custom bbPress templates with some conditional code.

You can email me about all these issues, and also since this topic is messing up too. I am going to be busy today though because of celebrating July 4th with the family though, but I will be there to help you out definitely tomorrow.

Contact

[timsilva_]

Just wanted to bump this topic as I am also looking for the exact solution.

Has anyone found a method for creating pages under the bbPress directory?

[timsilva_]

Hi Stephen! Thanks for all of your volunteer work on this, I greatly appreciate it. 🙂

Just a few questions, and I did do a few days of research (with no luck) before asking.

1.) Any plans to support importing of private messages? I plan to use BuddpyPress + bbPress, so the feature will be covered. What are the chances of adding another checkbox to “optional settings” that says “Attempt to import private messages to BuddyPress”

2.) I have noticed that my existing SMF database had a handful of deleted accounts, so my settings left those posts behind as “Guest” posts (and it displayed the deleted user’s old username). In WordPress + bbPress, I created the original admin/keymaster user in my fresh install. After doing the SMF to bbPress import, the “Guest” posts from the deleted account are automatically assigned to the existing admin/keymaster user that I created in WordPress. Is there a cleaner way to handle this default behavior? Do these posts from deleted accounts require being assigned to an account? If not, could I somehow mass re-attribute these posts to a different account?

[Anonymous User]

O.k. I deinstalled the members only plugin and installed the Functionality plugin.

With this and your code snippet, robkk, I was able to hide the forum/topic descriptions. I also found a code snippet to redirect all bbpress feed requests.

Now, I found this to hide the user page:

bbPress – Making Profile Pages Private

But I am wondering:
– Is that update safe?
– Is there a way to solve the same in functions.php or .htaccess instead of starting with a third approach to get familiar with? I have seen something like returning the user profile blank. Unformatted as they are they are useless anyway.

Nicole

[Anonymous User]

Not sure, if this was transmitted:

I am close to desperate.

I have given the bbp members only plugin a try. And after clearing all caches I can confirm that it works:
– forum index page: You have no permission to view this.
– single topics: redirect to homepage
– rss feeds (good to know that bbpress generates public feeds!): you have no permission to view this.
– with some occasional blips like 404 pages after logout.

But.

I also offer WooThemes Sensei online courses. They are protected, too. When someone logs in with the log in page created by Sensei, the “My courses” area appears. When the person then clicks on “Client forum” in the same menu, she is kicked out as a logged in user and gets “You have no permission to view this”.

When I refresh the “Client forum” page, the content is displayed.

What shall I do???

Nicole

[Anonymous User]

Hi there,

I am close to desperate.

I have given the bbp members only plugin a try. And after clearing all caches I can confirm that it works:
– forum index page: You have no permission to view this.
– single topics: redirect to homepage
– rss feeds (good to know that bbpress generates public feeds!): you have no permission to view this.
– with some occasional blips like 404 pages after logout.

But.

I also offer WooThemes Sensei online courses. They are protected, too. When someone logs in with the log in page created by Sensei, the “My courses” area appears. When the person then clicks on “Client forum” in the same menu, she is kicked out as a logged in user and gets “You have no permission to view this”.

When I refresh the “Client forum” page, the content is displayed.

What shall I do???

Nicole

[mtupuschies]

Hi,
try the following:

1. In your themes folder create a new folder called “bbpress”
2. Then go to: ../wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/extras
3. Copy all these files into the folder you created in step one.
4. Edit the files in ../wp-content/themes/marketica/bbpress:

Every file in there has the line (close to the bottom):
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
Change this to:
<?php /*get_sidebar();*/ ?>

This should completely hide the sidebar. Otherwise maybe contact the author of the theme. Maybe the theme already contains forum template which may overwrite the bbpress originals.

Hope I could help!

[mtupuschies]

Hi,

I am using the plugin from http://www.gdbbpbox.com.
With this you can completely change the content of the notification. It’s not free but well worth it!
(not affiliated)
It offers tons of options to enhance bbpress functionality.

Regards!

[Robkk]

This is usually caused when customizing theme or plugins. It also could be a memory limitation but try the theme and plugin route first.

Blank Pages

[Stephen Edgar]

You’ll actually need a couple more bits and not just the 2716 patch, if your working locally you can download the “development branch” of bbPress 2.6 and this includes everything you need.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/5804/trunk?old_path=%2F&format=zip

This version of bbPress will NOT allow you to update to the next version or revision of bbPress, you’d have to delete this version of the plugin and replace it with the official release when released, it also has the potential of breaking in other ways not related to importing phpBB, in other words it may be full of other bugs and if you decided to use it it’s the use at your own risk disclaimer 🙂

[Robkk]

I have found a way to hide most notices by CSS. Question is, can I keep it that way, or will there be any important notices not showing up later when the user is interacting with the form:

Well that is the thing , I would have to know what is important to you. The notice that shows when a users post is in moderation might be useful so that they know the moderator has to approve their post , but that will not be in til 2.6 of bbPress. Some plugins might hook into that , and some notices might be for post flooding and maybe some users might think their is a bug on your site if they do not know why they couldn’t post.

The Topic/Forum descriptions could also be removed with some PHP using this function and you can place it in a plugin like this.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/functionality/

It should be Plugins > Edit Functions. You can place any code snippet you might see useful into this.

You can place the snippet after the plugin information.

add_filter( 'bbp_get_single_forum_description', 'ja_return_blank' );

add_filter( 'bbp_get_single_topic_description', 'ja_return_blank' );

function ja_return_blank() {

    return '';

}

The users plugin you suggest is from 2 years ago; I would not install that. I am told again and again by my hoster and main plugin providers that old plugins are one of the greatest vulnerabilities.

It should be fine , it is a fairly small plugin and very well coded.

You can see the plugins main code functionality in the link below. There is also an empty languages folder and a readme.txt file also in the plugin.

https://gist.github.com/jaredatch/3868274

And then I had to turn off the buttons for html because they are badly formatted, barely legible in white text on light-grey background.

You can fix that with some CSS too. Here is a simple black background to fix it.

#bbpress-forums #qt_bbp_reply_content_toolbar input,
#bbpress-forums #qt_bbp_topic_content_toolbar input {
  background-color: #000;
}

I also would like to offer my clients a possibility to create a profile page with some background on themselves and the business project they are working on.

There is a bunch of plugins that add custom fields like BuddyPress some premium plugins add social features too , just like BuddyPress. The thing I am guessing you want is to highlight it on the Home of the users profile page with the forum role and user stats. This would require some PHP coding to achieve. By default the user can add a description and it would show up on the front-end , nothing too crazy.

[Anonymous User]

Hello robkk,

Thank you very much for your answers. They helps me get started.

I have found a way to hide most notices by CSS. Question is, can I keep it that way, or will there be any important notices not showing up later when the user is interacting with the form:

/* bbpress */
div.bbp-template-notice.info {
display: none;
}

div.bbp-template-notice {
display: none;
}

The bbpress pages cause me headaches. The original bbpress pages for forum index and user page all come out unformatted in my theme, practically useless. I have created a forums page by using shortcodes for forum index and topics index. That is well formatted and informative. But only with one level of hierarchy.

The users plugin you suggest is from 2 years ago; I would not install that. I am told again and again by my hoster and main plugin providers that old plugins are one of the greatest vulnerabilities. Isn’t there a way to block all access to pages containing mysite/forums/users/* in .htaccess or something like that?

And then I had to turn off the buttons for html because they are badly formatted, barely legible in white text on light-grey background.

I also would like to offer my clients a possibility to create a profile page with some background on themselves and the business project they are working on. I have tried BuddyPress but it is not for me. I cannot code and this seems to be necessary to effectively use BuddyPress. So, I have not found a good solution for that yet. For the moment I have chosen to go with the wordpress.com/gravatar profiles and encourage people to introduce themselves and their project in the forum.

Nicole