[brinkingyellows]

Hello!

First, I want to say how much I appreciate the BBpress platform. I’ve been using it for over a year now and it has served the site well.

I have ran into an issue where every single comment ever made on posts now appear below the forums. I’m completely baffled as to how to handle this. It does seem to be a theme issue as this does not happen with the TwentyFifteen theme. Is there a way to remove showing the comments altogether on any forum page (which is preferred actually).

Has anyone had this same issue? Is there a way to simply have the comments not show up at all in the forums? Is there code that I can place in my functions.php that will make them not appear in the forums?

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated. As of now, this issue is causing some confusion and making my pages extremely long.

My site is FREEDOMcgc.com
Link to where the issue is happening: CLICK HERE

WordPress Version WordPress 4.2.2
bbpress Version 2.5.7
Buddypress Version 2.2.3.1

[andreawalford]

Hi, I just installed bbpress on my WP site – I have set up two forums and posted one topic in each forum. I made each of the topics super sticky because I wanted them to stay at the top of each forum. The topics are not displaying in their forums properly. I can see both topics when I click on either of the forums – whereas I should only be seeing one topic per forum. Also, on the forum index page the one forum is not even showing that there is a topic in it. You can see the page here: http://papercrafterslibrary.co/forum/

Thanks

[fmckinnon]

Hey Rob,
Yes – thank you. Dan has been very helpful. At this point, I think it’s becoming more of a preference question … as I am struggling with what path to take.

We definitely already have sitewide forums w/ vBulletin, so we could easily just keep WordPress as our blog and use site-wide forums w/ bbPress. The thing I feel like I’m missing there is the added sense of community that can be built via the “add friend” type thing you get w/ BuddyPress.

Beyond that, my biggest question is the use of Groups in BuddyPress. My concern I expressed in the other thread was that you can get the discussion happening inside a group (via the comment/status system) that is NOT part of the forum, and vice-versa. So, discussion is not happening in the same place. The big idea we had was to bring it all together.

I suppose the simplest idea would be to not enable groups, and use site-wide forums … but if not using Groups, I’m not sure what other big plus there is to BuddyPress.

Again – I realize at this point, it’s all subjective and preference. I’m enlisting some beta-testers to hit our staging site from our existing forums to see what they like/dislike.

[Robkk]

its all self explatory really.

you can test them out by creating a test page and putting each shortcode into it to see what it does.

if you need help finding ids of bbPress post types install this plugin, then look in the certain post types section.

like say forums , you go to the WordPress back-end and go to forums> all forums and you will see all the forums post id to use for these shortcodes. It would be close to the same procedure for topics and replies.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/reveal-ids-for-wp-admin-25/

[Robkk]

i tried to make this and failed at it.

you can look for tutorials on the web for creating this type of thing like this.

bbPress Recent Replies Shortcode

or you can hire a developer to create this type of functionality for you.

if you need to post a job at http://jobs.wordpress.net/

[Robkk]

im not sure about this , i cant tell if its a bug or not??

there have been a bug using BuddyPress Groups and bbPress lately. i dont know if this is part of it.

[Robkk]

maybe try these two plugins one at a time

http://www.rewweb.co.uk/bbpress-wp4-fix2/

bbpress wp4 fix

[Robkk]

try these two plugins one at a time and see if they do anything

bbpress wp4 fix2

bbpress wp4 fix

[Robkk]

@alandc12

try the other one

bbpress wp4 fix

[Robkk]

this might help you.

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

[Robkk]

i think there is a setting to turn previous comments into bbPress replies in the discussion settings in the wp-backend > settings > discussion .

[Robkk]

I’d set these to show short excerpts only

is this an option in your themes settings??

but im going to assume your theme thinks bbPress is a blog post , adn that you should create a bbpress.php file and remove any unwanted code.

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

this plugin will help you find the right file to copy to create a bbpress.php file.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/what-the-file/

[Robkk]

i see you also made a topic at BuddyPress.

i think Dan already helped you on this , but if you have any specific questions for bbPress you can ask away.

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/need-help-understanding-integration-of-buddypress-and-bbpress/

[Robkk]

bbPress shouldnt have comments??

if you havent already create a bbpress.php file and remove any code for WordPress comments.

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

this plugin will help find the file you have to make a copy of to create a bbpress.php file

https://wordpress.org/plugins/what-the-file/

[Robkk]

look at the subpages on the left too.

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

[Robkk]

create a bbpress.php and remove any post meta code like by (author) published (post date)

basically your theme thinks that the bbPress archive page is a blog post so it structures it like so , it keeps the forum limit low as if it was an excerpt.

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

this plugin will help you find the file you would need to copy and create a bbpress.php file from.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/what-the-file/

[alandc12]

Further to this, I tried also installing it on a site where I have optimize member installed. It now appears that bbpress has created a user category called “keymaster” and has placed myself (the administrator) in that category. However, I am now unable to access my wordpress dashboard….. seems that bbpress broke the back end – I hope there is someone out there that can help me.

I have even logged in via ftp to try and clear any bbpress files, but there is no files remaining after deletion. thanks.

[alandc12]

When installing bbpress I am not directed to any setup page – instead, I am told that I do not have permissions to see that page. I am logged in as the administrator and running the latest version of wordpress. I can see that the plugin is installed, but there is nowhere for me to make edits and set it up. I have even tried heading to the /forums page, on my site, but nothing.

Any ideas?

[DevynCJohnson]

I love the bbpress-simple-view-counts plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-simple-view-counts/). However, it has not been maintained in months. Could the bbPress developers consider integrating this plugin into bbPress and include a dashboard widget (or admin page) showing a list of topic-pages and their view counts? If such a feature is added to bbPress, can it be made to migrate the bbpress-simple-view-counts plugin’s data?

[knowlengr]

Wordpress 4.2.2
BBPress 2.5.7
Parent theme Genesis, child theme also by StudioPress

Need to make the content and reply body font size slightly bigger. Looks like it’s rendering at the equivalent of 5 or 6 pt. I tried theme Twenty Twelve with the same result. Styling for all other classes is fine.

http://pharmacytechnology.kryptonbrothers.com/forums/topic/complex-event-processing/

the class is “bbp-reply-content” – And same result for “bbp-breakcrumb.”

I see that these are set as 12px in bbpress.css which would be fine, so I have an override in place somewhere.

Is there an existing topic for this? I use Firebug occasionally but not often enough to avoid this post in the bbPress forum.

Thanks

[Toni]

WP MultiSite v4.2.1, bbPress v2.5.7

Is there a way to restrict login and comments to the bbPress forum?
I do not want comments on my blog posts and pages. Is my only option to go back through each post and in future posts choose the “No Comment” box?

Thank you

[maxelcat]

HI

My embryonic site is at http://www.morebusinessnetwork.co.uk/forums/forum/general-discussion/

I have 3.9.3 (and I can’t easily update at the moment) and have just downloaded bbPress

I have created two forums that have no parents – ‘re-engage with out speaker’ and ‘more business network’

On settings I have forum root = forums and forum index as what should show.

There are two or three posts in each forum

At the moment the landing page is showing ‘oh bother there are no topics in this forum’- which isn’t a lot of help.

I’d like it to show a list of the forums, and a list of the topics in that forum (say the last 5 etc)

How would I set that up please – happy to provide anymore info.

Many thanks in advance

Edward

[fmckinnon]

Hope this is the correct forum to post this request. We are considering a major platform change for our website, TheWorshipCommunity.Com (http://www.theworshipcommunity.com) – I’ll refer to it as TWC in this post.

TWC is built on two platforms:
The blog/articles are based on WordPress.
The forum is based on vBulletin, which is out of date, and needs major overhaul.

I’m strongly considering BuddyPress and bbPress. bbPress is a no-brainer because we HAVE to keep the forums. That’s where the bulk of our community exists.

So, my question is should we also use BuddyPress? I get a little confused on the difference between “Groups” in Buddypress and the forums … and “Group” forums.

I know that the vBulletin importer works because we’ve already tried it. I guess my big question is when you use BuddyPress and bbPress together … are the user accounts shared? Meaning … once we import all of our thousands of users from vBulletin, is there user accounts now created for both bbPress and Buddypress .. or is it still treated like two separate accounts?

I would be beyond grateful if someone who is experienced in both could look at our site and give some honest evaluation on if this combination would be right for our community.

Thanks!
Fred

[kitfreeman]

Hi

I’ve recently installed bbPress. It works fine but it’s had an unwanted side-effect on the Category pages on the rest of my site. I’d set these to show short excerpts only, but after installing bbPress they now show full posts, which I really don’t want. Is there a way I can tweak bbPress to stop this effect. Can anyone help, please?

Best, Kit

[o0Corps0o]

I have installed the bbPress plugin and have managed to get the Posts into the Topics of the forum (using bbPress Topics for Posts plugin). But I can’t seem to bring across the comments to be replies from the topics? It seems to just remove the comments and not show anything, and in the admin side of things, comments become -1 where there was usually 34 which is strange cause they are still there… Deactivating the Topics for posts plugin seems to bring back the comments however. Any ideas? or does anyone know what the best way would be to Bring an already made wordpress blog into a forum style (along with comments)?

Thanks.