[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

[Robkk]

How do I eliminate:

Notices from “This forum is empty.” and “Oh bother! No topics were found here!” That’s obvious when I open a new forum. I would post welcomes if that would solve the problem. But I have seen that this replaces the notices with even longer info that probably nobody wants to read.

You can create a topic. A super sticky topic should show above all forums if you want to have a welcome topic or a general rules topic, if that is what you want. Creating a topic in a forum should remove that notice.

What wouldn’t they want to read? Please explain more on this. Is it the Topic/Forum descriptions??

“Maximum Length: 80″ for the title – People will notice.

Well yeah that is the point so that they know the max characters to use in a topic, you can remove it but it would require a template edit.

Do you know how to use FTP , use a file editor like notpad++ , and possibly create a child theme?? I can what file to edit as long as you put the file in your child theme in a folder called bbpress.

Further notices like “Your account has the ability to post unrestricted HTML content.” makes people probably think: When do I get to the posting form?

Only Keymasters/Admins can see this notice. Regular participants cannot post unrestricted html content for security reasons. This is another notice that would require a template edit to remove the specific notice?? I can show you some CSS to remove all notices but you might find them handy. Do you want to remove all the notices?

Topic status: … closed. In an open discussion, who decides when a topic is closed?

Keymasters and Moderators should only close topics.

Is there any plugin with which I can deactivate this?

No.

How can I block these pages from being publicly viewed? The forums and the participants profiles shall all be private.

You can use this plugin , but it is best without BuddyPress.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-members-only/

[jamborambo7]

Hello everyone,

I am having an issue with trying to make my bbpress forum full-width. I’ve looked through several troubleshooting guides and nothing has seemed to work. I am using Marketica theme with bbpress plugin.

From this link below:
https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/getting-started-in-modifying-the-main-bbpress-template/
I’ve located the file it is pulling from (through What the File plugin) and it is from bbpress.php (since I copied a page.php file and renamed it to bbpress.php and added it into my Marketica child theme) file directory.

I then changed the style.css file in the Marketica child theme and injected:

.bbPress #primary {
display: none;
}
.bbp-forums {
width: 100%;
}

I’ve tried other css stylings that I found online and nothing seems to have worked. Can someone please help me? I’m running out of ideas! Thank you all in advance.

[Nuchaz]

I am having the same issue right now and was wondering if a solution was ever found? I tried the bbpress-do-short-codes plugin and it seems to work for google chrome, but not firefox. I would ok to just disable image captions from the tinymce editor too. I’ve been trying to figure out the css code so I could just slap it with a display:none, but haven’t had any luck.

I’m using WP v4.2.2 and BB Press 2.5.4.

[Garrett Hyder]

Hi @viratsteelgroup,
You can check out the documentation here – https://codex.bbpress.org/
If you’d like assistance with anything specific I suggest opening a new topic as this is an old unrelated one so no one is going to read your post.
I did notice you’re with wordpress.com and not a self-hosted wordpress.org instance so you won’t be able to use bbPress as it’s an installable plugin for wordpress.org instances. You can look into creating a free forum on another site, more information here;
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-add-forum-capability?replies=17
Cheers

[Anonymous User]

There is something else:

I already had bbpress installed and one of the reasons I was looking for a solution elsewhere is that I found out it had created user pages that display the forum activity of registered users.

How can I block these pages from being publicly viewed? The forums and the participants profiles shall all be private.

Thanks a lot.

Nicole

[Robkk]

Did you read the reply I linked to on your last topic?

I believe this is because of DB differences between phpBB 3.0x and 3.1x.

Current import only supports phpBB 3.0x

I was able to get rid of the error messages by creating the columns it complains about.

You can also try this: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/2716/2716.1.diff

If you did try the patch and it did not work, I can contact the devs for that because some other user had an issue also.

[Anonymous User]

Hello,

I’d appreciate your help on this.

I’d love to integrate forums into my wordpress site, but how do I get rid of all the clutter in bbpress?

There is really cool community software out there like Flarum or the P2 theme that put the focus on the people discussing and on the topics, not on status infos.

That makes me wonder: How do I get bbpress to be more like them while maintaining the basic functionality of the forum software and the look and feel of my theme?

How do I eliminate:

– Notices from “This forum is empty.” and “Oh bother! No topics were found here!” That’s obvious when I open a new forum. I would post welcomes if that would solve the problem. But I have seen that this replaces the notices with even longer info that probably nobody wants to read.

– Further notices like “Your account has the ability to post unrestricted HTML content.” makes people probably think: When do I get to the posting form?

– “Maximum Length: 80” for the title – People will notice.

– Topic status: … closed. In an open discussion, who decides when a topic is closed?

These are just some examples.

I do not know how to edit functions.php. I have fields for Filters and Hooks in my theme options, but I would need clear instructions where to put what, or some CSS.

Is there any plugin with which I can deactivate this?

Thanks a lot for some hints.

Nicole

[OscarGuy]

I’ve been trying for weeks now to import a version of phpbb 3.1.5 to my bbPress 2.5.7 version on WordPress 4.2.2. I can’t seem to get past a particular set of errors. I do not know what this means. Is this a wordpress issue, a bbpress issue or a phpbb issue? I can’t seem to find any support topics in the forums that address this and the last couple of posts I’ve made haven’t gotten any replies. Do I need to open a repair ticket of some kind to have it looked into? Someone please help. I’d rather not continue using phpbb, but if I can’t get this resolved soon, I’m going to have to abandon bbPress altogether.

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

[Nuchaz]

Hello bbPress community, I am currently building a theme for my website (started with the underscores theme) that uses bbPress and I’ve hit a snag. So, as per the bbPress codex here on enabling the visual editor, I have that enabled. I also hid the tabs to switch between the visual editor and the html editor (just using css display:none) since I only want my users to access the visual editor. Ok, that works fine. Now I need to style the visual editor.

So how would I go about styling the tinymce editor? I would like to change the font family and add some styling to the block quotes so they match everything else.

Looking at the code via the chrome dev tools it looks like the tinymce editor loads its own style sheets inside the tinymce form. I’m not sure how to override them.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me figure this out. This is my last major thing I think I need to do before I can call my theme done and move it from my local dev environment to my staging server and start building out all my content.

[Carliff]

Hi,

I was trying to customise my theme and the next thing I know is I can’t access my website anymore. White screen.

First, i went to my files in cpanel and deleted the bbpress plugin. Not fixed.

Then I set the WP_DEBUG to true in wp-config.php file and this is the message i got:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function listify_theme_mod() in /home2/saba2359/public_html/wodchaser.com/wp-content/plugins/code-snippets/includes/snippet-ops.php(446) : eval()’d code on line 5

Please somebody help me.

I have been searching and reading forums about this for 12 hours and I still have no idea at all what to do about it.

Note: WordPress and bbpress is latest version (newly installed and updated)

[uucmadmin]

Greetings!

Do I have any options to alter what happens when users “subscribe” to a topic or forum? Specifically, I would like a way to display something like “There is a new topic on our forum”, but not the actual text of the new topic or reply.

I work for a church that occasionally needs to delete/moderate inflammatory or inappropriate topics and replies from our members. We don’t want the content of these topics and replies to go to anyone’s inbox, if possible, but we want members to have a “subscribe” option and be alerted of new posts.

I’m using the most current BBPress and WordPress editions on an Envato theme called “Risen” (we are not married to the theme, and it can change if it is the problem). Our forums are all private and access is controlled with user groups in a plug-in called UAM.

[Robin W]

ok, bbpress use pages slightly differently.

Are you trying to get the sub page to show in the menu?

[monica44]

Hi All,

My site is http://www.buyineastvale.com

I am using the latest version of WordPress.

I downloaded the bbPress plugin to use for my site’s forum.

Now I want to add a page of Forum FAQ’s as a sub-page underneath the “Forum” parent page.

However, when I create a new page on my site’s back end and then designate the “Forum” page as its parent page and upload it, that page on my site then gives me a message on the front end when clicking on it that says “Sorry, no such page. It seems we can’t find what you’re looking for. Perhaps searching, or one of the links below, can help.”

For the sake of this example, I created a page called “My Name Is” and assigned its location as a sub-page (with “Forum” being its parent page on the back end). And when clicking on the “My Name Is” page on the front end, I get the same “Sorry, no such page” message.

This leads me to believe it is an issue with bbPress (and not my theme, which is Weaver Xtreme).

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Thank you SO MUCH in advance!

[kokoko]

Hi,

When someone marks his reply as private it’s properly displayed in forums (blue background and comment not visible to other users), problem is if someone is subscribed to that topic he will get private reply to his email. What can I do to prevent private replies being sent to subscribed members?