[Robkk]

sorry Friday through Sunday you can expect slow support responses.

it should be like that by default , participants shouldnt be allowed to mark topics spam, they can edit but for whatever time you have allowed in settings> forums.

you can answer these questions to help me help you.

has this issue always been there when you first installed bbPress?
did you import any forums and this issues has started?
did you install any plugins that modify s the capabilities of users?
is your default WordPress role for registration a subscriber in settings>general?

[Robkk]

@fmckinnon

you do not have to be subscribed to the topic for it to be unread and show if i remember correctly, and its just the area the plugin developer put it.

that plugin should display a list of topics that are unread in the subscriptions area.

it should kind of similar to these screenshots here, it looks really different because the developer was using a custom theme.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-mark-as-read/screenshots/

if there is a way to use custom user meta in wp-query then i could just give you a snippet to add a custom view for bbPress that would list all the unread topics in one place , and you just place a shortcode in a page and all.

viewing unead forums is not part of both of these two plugins i think but you could mark a forum read in both to clear any unread topics in it.

unread replies go to first unread post shows which topics that are unread replies using that little [>] icon.

[Robkk]

bbPress is inheriting .hentry and .reply styles from your theme.

you can add this custom css to fix it.

#bbpress-forums .reply {
  margin-left: 0;
  text-align: inherit;
}

#bbpress-forums .hentry {
  margin: 0;
}

[dfwpress]

Hi,
I have WP 4.2.2 and bbpress 2.5.7.
When I put bbpress Login Widget into sidebar, it is not displayed properly. Widget fields are in mess.
The sidebar is 751px width.
Please do you have any suggestion?
Thanks

[kylestubbins]

I am a little confused on how and when updates are included in the released versions.

Specifically, I am working on converting / importing a forum, but have run into errors, such as the sync table not being created. I do a Google search and find this –> https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2650 which states that the problem has been corrected. Great!

The problem is, the code shown here –> https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/5525 is not included with bbPress version 2.5.7, which is the latest release as of this writing. Lines 1023 through 1038 do not exist (just as an example as they are only comments… I picked this as it was easy to spot and just for reference).

In fact, there are a bunch of things that are said to be fixed in the Trac (Thanks, Stephen), but they do not appear to be included with the official release of bbPress.

Am I missing something?

(Just a comment, but it would be nice to have version info in the headers of files as I cannot tell which version of converter.php is included with 2.5.7 without doing a diff on them and figuring it out from GIT.)

[Shaktimaan]

You must edit the file activity.php that is located at /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/extend/buddypress/activity.php

find // Get the activity stream item, bail if it doesn't exist

and apply the patch manually that i have given in post # https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-post-edit-causes-multiple-activity-entries/#post-160330

[Robin W]

No, do you have any idea why i can’t see topics below Forum names?

What you are seeing is the list of forums, you then click a forum to see the topics for that forum.

if you want each forum to have then topics below it, then use shortcodes within a page

[bbp-single-forum id=$forum_id]
[bbp-single-forum id=$forum_id]
[bbp-single-forum id=$forum_id]

see

https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/

or use the shortcodes from

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-style-pack/ in a page

Also i was wondering how i can order Forums by some hierarchy?

If not using the shortcodes above, then use dashboard>forums>all forums and edit a forum. On the right hand side you’ll see ‘parent’ and ‘order’ boxes that let you build a hierarchy

[Gena2222]

What i found is that this bug is because of your theme and not really bbPress.and no problem.

[debatingday]

I like this site style
But i can’t find bbpress.org style theme
Where i do find this site forum style theme?

[Chad R. Schulz]

I know this is an old post. However, I’ve been screwing around with various javascript suggestions from other forums and came up with a solution that works (no problems yet discovered). I’m not exactly a code ninja, so if anyone can help to streamline the code let me know.

Just insert the following lines into a custom javascript for your theme (if you need guidance on this there’s a lot of help available all over wordpress.org and other forums).

jQuery(function($) {
	var forum_input = $( '#bbpress-forums textarea' );
	var forum_button = $( '#bbpress-forums .submit' );
	var forum_limit = 50;
	var forum_class = $( '<div class="forum_limit_info"><span>' + forum_limit + 
	    '</span> characters needed</div>' ).insertAfter( forum_input );
	forum_button.hide();
	forum_class.show();
	
	forum_input.bind( 'keyup', function() {
		var forum_length = $(this).val().length;
		var chars_left = forum_limit - forum_length;

		$( '.forum_limit_info span' ).html( chars_left );

		if (forum_input)
			( chars_left > 0 ) ? forum_class.show() : forum_class.hide();
		
		if (forum_button)
			( chars_left > 0 ) ? forum_button.hide() : forum_button.show();
	});
});

Basically this function hides the submit button and displays a countdown text counter until the minimum length is reached and then the button appears and the counter disappears.

There are ways of hard-coding a minimum into php but I believe you have to edit core files and then insert these modified php files into a child theme. I couldn’t figured out how to insert a simple php function that would do what I wanted in a clean and simple way. So javascript it is.

The forum_limit setting can be anything you want it to be, just change it. And you can customize your topics and replies minimums separately, if needed, with separate javascript functions using textarea#bbp_reply_content, textarea#bbp_topic_content instead of #bbpress-forums textarea.

For my CSS stylings I chose to put a :before message on the left and the character count on the right using these:

.forum_limit_info {
  text-align: right;
  font-size: 13px;
  color: red;
  line-height: 1.2;
  margin: 5px 5px 0px;
}

.forum_limit_info:before {
  float: left;
  content: '(Minimum Length: 50)';
  color: blue;
}

CSS Styling is theme dependent and can basically be however you want/need it to be–very flexible.

I also created a similar javascript function for my site’s commenting system. Here’s that code as well:

jQuery(function($) {
	var comment_input = $( '#commentform textarea' );
	var comment_button = $( '#entry-comment-submit' );
	var comment_limit = 25;
	var comment_class = $( '<div class="comment_limit_info"><span>' + comment_limit + 
	    '</span> characters needed</div>' ).insertAfter( comment_input );
	comment_button.hide();
	comment_class.show();
	
	comment_input.bind( 'keyup', function() {
		var comment_length = $(this).val().length;
		var chars_left = comment_limit - comment_length;

		$( '.comment_limit_info span' ).html( chars_left );

		if (comment_input)
			( chars_left > 0 ) ? comment_class.show() : comment_class.hide();
		
		if (comment_button)
			( chars_left > 0 ) ? comment_button.hide() : comment_button.show();
	});
});

Good luck to all,

Chad

[amckinnell]

Hi Rob,

i mean like does the issue show up in gmail?? why not try in ymail or outlook to see if the emails are just buggy in one place.

Oh! I understand your question now (I thought you meant for sending the mail, which I think wordpress does). No, all my users can see it, so it’s happening in all email providers.

if you havent already you might need to deactivate all plugins but bbPress in your test site.and hopefully see if that fixes anything.

Okay. I’ll give that a shot. I think I tested that before, but I’m not sure now. I’ll try contacting siteground support about it again as well.

Thanks for your help.

Anne.

[juggledad]

@robkk: Just to clarify something, the OR function_exists('is_bbpress') was added (with some other code, to get around a bug that bbpress doesn’t seem to want to acknowledge or fix. see https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2723

[Robkk]

you can use something like this.

#bbpress-forums .bbp-body .topic-author {
  background: #f5f5f5;
}

[Robkk]

this has something to search by user.

its not a plugin more of a file to put in a folder called bbpress in your child theme and some PHP code snippets but i will test it out to see if it works.

https://github.com/MateuszNowicki/bbpress-Advanced-Search

[Robkk]

I’m not even sure how I would go about setting up another email service. Hmmm…

i mean like does the issue show up in gmail?? why not try in ymail or outlook to see if the emails are just buggy in one place.

thats probably not it but you can try…

if you havent already you might need to deactivate all plugins but bbPress in your test site.

and hopefully see if that fixes anything.

Before Posting

other than that contact siteground support if you didnt already and see if they know anything.

you can lead them to the topic you posted in this topic and also the links @jjj posted in his reply to that topic and maybe they can find something in your host setup.

[Robin W]

Great – glad you’re fixed !

fro anyone looking at this

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-login-register-links-on-forum-topic-pages/

[Robkk]

you probably can put the search widget in a sidebar that only shows in bbPress.

other than that maybe the plugin doesnt support just displaying in bbpress search results pages.

[Dule95D]

Hello,

I’m having a problem with displaying correctly forum on my website. I copied my template file at my theme folder and renamed it to bbpress.php, but this is how it looks. Here is my forum and there are no topics below Forum names. Can anyone help me with this?

Thank you.

[Robkk]

the recent comments widget is just displaying any comment from your facebook page most likey,
not that is has any comments on a particular topic from bbPress, but that you just shared a topic as a “status update” and people are commenting on that “status update”.

@herculaas if you want this kind of functionality , which would be pretty difficult to create you should hire a developer and post a job at http://jobs.wordpress.net/

[Robkk]

@entrapped

edit the custom post type/post type archive titles for bbPress which should be these below in your All in one Seo plugin settings.

forum archive
topic archive
forum
topic
reply

by default without an seo plugin the titles should display like this

topic: your topic title | yoursite

[Robkk]

where did the get the file from?? was it from my github link??

are you heavily editing your files or is your forums having more issues??

because i can see there is no topics but it displays the number in the topic description.

you can try these two plugins if you are not heavy editing and it is just a weird issue.

bbpress wp4 fix

bbpress wp4 fix2

[PinkishHue]

You can do this either by using CSS to simply hide that information, or in the PHP templates where you can remove it completely.

There’s a couple of similar threads here that may help you:

Removing "HTML tags and attributes"

HTML tags and attributes

Hope that helps 🙂

[PinkishHue]

Hmm, this sounds a bit complicated as bbpress replies are not technically ‘comments’, they are a separate post type, the same as topics, that are simply connected to their parent topic (as far as I know anyway).

The first thing I would try is to copy the code that displays comments on a regular post, and add this to the template that displays my topics. That way, if comments are attached to the topic, they will display when viewing the topic on the front end.

You want to find the template ‘content-single-topic.php’

This should be at wp-content/themes/your-theme/bbpress/

(If it’s not, read up on theming here: https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/)

Then add this code somewhere in that file:

<?php wp_list_comments(); ?>

If no comments appear when you view a topic, then I would check in my mysql database to see how the comments are being saved – perhaps they are saving to the database but without being assigned to a specific post (topic). You may need to enable comments for the ‘topic’ post type.

I hope that helps, it is a bit complicated as I said.

[Robkk]

this is not really a problem , and its not bbPress

WordPress handles the registration and in a default installation of WordPress your login page is yoursite.com/wp-login.php

bbPress just has a custom registration form.

You can use this plugin for a custom new registration email.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/welcome-email-editor/

[Robkk]

you do not have to use the bbPress lost password form if want to.

All of your users will just log in to your site like normal with either one and it should work fine.

But as for the legend being hidden that is normal the label being hidden is probably your theme causing an issue.

if you still want to use bbPress’ login form i will need a link to the lost password page so i can see if its a css issue.