[awpt]

Hi,
I have wordpress 4.1.1 installed and bbpress forum was working fine until I updated wordpress and bbpress.

So in admin Area I dont have more the tabs forum or replies, I have nothing as tools > forum etc

The forums are there in the frontend but I cant post and I get instead this messagge:
ERROR: You do not have permission to reply.

Before posting this topic I saw all forum duscussions about this issue I tried everything.
I created another user and I installed bbPress Advanced Capabilities
With the new keymaster created I posted one time but it doesnt work more 🙂

Im confused because I cant understand where can be the problem.

ohh before I forget I installed also a plugin called bbpress wp4 fix wich I found here in a forum reply.

Anyway I exported xml files for topics , replies etc and went to phpmyadmin to remove all data in database about bbpress for a new installation but I cant see any bbpress table there.

How can be possible ? if anyone got the same issue and knows what to do please but please tell me what to do.
Thanks!

[Robin W]

ok, this could be lots of things, and part of what you mention is buddypress not bbpress.

so start with

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1

and if you aren’t seeing forums/topics and replies in the back end then

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[Robin W]

There is no need to copy the bbpress.css file.

you just need to put it in your child theme’s style.css, BUT add the ‘!important ‘ which stops bbpress overwriting it.

.forum bbpress single single-forum postid-20 #fixed-background { background: url('http://www.heartwoodgaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/ffxiv-background.jpg') !important; }

You may find you don’t need all the string above ie ‘.forum bbpress single single-forum postid-20 #fixed-background ‘ but have a play if the full doesn’t work, or come back with a url/link and I’ll try to help

[peter-hamilton]

I dont understand the question…sorry.

You installed bbpress, have you checked the dashboard? activated the plugin? and do you have a link to the site so we can have a look to figure out wha you mean.

[numumar]

I have installed buddypress, but I don’t see the file of this plugin in (file) ‘pcpanel wordpress’. I don’t know if I need a file for each plugin. Can you explain to me if I need the file for buddypress? I have created a file (bb.config.php) for bbpress. Thanks.

[Ryan]

Does bbPress have a plugin or capability of searching the database for a similar post and displaying that to the user before they submit their post (hopefully to cut down on the post duplication)? Similar to how Bugzilla operates.

WP: 4.1.1
bbPress: 2.5.5

[Mizagorn]

Woops, that was for the GD bbPress Tools plugin. Sorry!!

If (WHEN!) I find where bbPress embeds the images, I’ll let you know. 🙂

[dealtek]

new to WP and BBPRESS (latest versions)

I like threaded replys a few levels deep

When viewed on mobile the user image and left margin on reply distance pushes the text way to the right – offscreen after just a few threads

1 – can I have less less distance (left to right) between threaded replies?
2 – can I remove the user image to get more space for text?

[dealtek]

WP and BBpress = latest

Just getting started….

I would like to edit the css for the user entries – so that I can reposition the user image/ remove the user image etc….

also control the width of the user entries

I don’t know where the css is located

I do know a bit about creating a child first… but still a wordpress newbie

any ideas?

[numumar]

I have installed bbpress 2.5.5, but I don’t know how to activate it. I can’t see in the Dashboard the symbols. When it has been installed, does other new screen appears with options ‘activity, profile messages, friends, groups, settings? What appeares in the screen?
What should I do? Thanks.

[Milad Rafi]

Hi there
How to change the color of bbpress user roles on the postbit there?
For example:
Admin: Red
User: Green
And the …

[Alice Kaye]

Yeah, it’s just very difficult to get it to work the way I want sometimes.

Anyhoo, I put it in my themes custom css box. Though now in hindsight that seems foolish. I suppose what I really need to do is make a copy of the bbpress stylesheet and then update that with this code and upload it to the bbpress folder inside of my child theme/bbpress.

Am I on the right track? Sorry for any typos. Writing this on my cellphone.

[GraemeScott]

Hi everyone,

I just created a new plugin for bbPress called Friends For bbPress. This plugin allows users to add friends on their bbPress forums. It’s simple to use and is a great feature for any bbPress forum. You can download the plugin using the link below.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/friends-for-bbpress/

This is the first plugin I have ever created so let me know what you guys think. If you have any ideas for additional features I would be more than happy to implement them.

[GraemeScott]

Hi everyone,

I just created a new plugin for bbPress called Friends For bbPress. This plugin allows users to add friends on their bbPress forums. It’s simple to use and is a great feature for any bbPress forum. You can download the plugin using the link below.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/friends-for-bbpress/

This is the first plugin I have ever created so let me know what you guys think. If you have any ideas for additional features I would be more than happy to implement them.

[GraemeScott]

Hi everyone,

I just created a new plugin for bbPress called Friends For bbPress. This plugin allows users to add friends on their bbPress forums. It’s simple to use and is a great feature for any bbPress forum. You can download the plugin using the link below.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/friends-for-bbpress/

This is the first plugin I have ever created so let me know what you guys think. If you have any ideas for additional features I would be more than happy to implement them.

[Alice Kaye]

Hi @robin-w,

I just realized that you responded to this. I’m not sure how I missed this!

I just tried to give this a go (man sometimes this stuff isn’t easy to find) and it’s so far not doing what I want. I’ll admit CSS is not always my friend.

The code I’m using is below:

.forum bbpress single single-forum postid-20 #fixed-background { background: url('http://www.heartwoodgaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/ffxiv-background.jpg'); }

I was hoping that would be how I needed to set it up, but I’m starting to think, not…

Could you take a look at that and let me know where I might have gone wrong? Let me know if you need access to my site to see my bbPress, I have a test account set up for situations such as this! 😛

Thanks in advance!

[roysmyth]

I just wrote a little hack to do it. Seems very low prioirty for the bbpress team.

Actually, what I hacked was the bbPress Custom Topic & Reply Notifications plugin. I was already using it on the site and it is a much more manageable thing to hack.

You can get in touch directly if you want to do the same. wembaster at northshorehikers.org

Makes the users happy.

[Joseph]

I needed to add a Login/Logout link in one of my navigation menus.

Using this from the bbpress docs got my link to work, but how would I add this link into another menu? For example, the link went into the menu below my logo in the header, but I would like to use it in my very top menu (above the logo).

[DanaJoy2008]

I seem to have two forums created, but I prefer the layout of one over the other. I’ve been trying to get my forum page to direct to the page with the layout I prefer, but it will only direct to the other. I’ve tried to change the forum slug to absolutely no avail.

I’m using WordPress 4.1.1, bbPress 2.5.4 and my site is http://artintheblood.net.

The forum I would LIKE to use is http://artintheblood.net/forums/
The forum I keep getting stuck with is the same domain name with /forum/ instead of /forums/

Any help is sincerely appreciated!

[Robin W]

bbpress uses wordpress as it’s host and using a combination of the two you should be able to achieve all this

1 yes
2 yes
3 yes
4 probably
5 lots of wordpress petition plugins
6. https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-like-button/
6 (again) lots of diary systems within wordpress
7 would tend to do this within wordpress

[Robin W]

its a theme issue,

Try the alternate methods here

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1

[MattConway]

Hello,

My name is Matt Conway, just joined the site. I would like to know how easy it is to run a bbPress forum. The only thing I’ve ever used before is iWeb; I enjoyed it’s simplicity but I’m not stupid and I know there will be a learning curve.

Our local council here are planning to redevelop the town centre with high rise apartments. There is a lot of local anger about this and I think a forum is the best way to get people talking. I’d like to know: Is it within the bounds of someone with no programming knowledge, but a desire to learn, to set up and moderate a bbPress forum?

I would start as simply as possible, but over the course of time would like to do the following things:

1 – Run the forum from a name I have just registered: http://www.walthamforestforum.org

2 – Make users register before being able to post – add someway to deter spammers

3 – Make it possible for users to add photos

4 – Make it possible for users to vote on issues

5 – Make it possible for users to sign a petition (could be just a link to another petition site)

6 – Make it possible for users to “thumbs up” or “thumbs down” other people’s comments

6 – Start a diary of upcoming local events (maybe best in another part of the site?)

7 – Start a sub-forum that lists local tradesmen, shops etc; where users can add to an accumulated star rating and add comments on the tradesmen’s individual thread

How much of this is possible on bbPress? Should I instead be looking at phpBB?

Thanks, Matt.

[RecipeBrag]

Morning all.

Most likely an obvious error my end but when i visit certain parts of the forum it does not show properly. For example if you view http://www.recipebrag.com/forums/forum/recipebrag-com/ it will show but if you then go to http://www.recipebrag.com/forums/ it looks like a blog post.

Where am I going wrong?

TIA

Stephen

ps using the latest wordpress bbpress etc

[Robin W]

ok, if you can’t get the right sidebars to show, just have one sidebar and use widget logic to decide what widgets show in which pages

https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-logic/

then for each widget there is a widget logic box

put

is_bbpress() if you want that wiodget to appear in forums
!is_bbpress if you want it to appear in pages other than forums
and leave blank for both

[tpayton]

I’m still seeing this behavior in the latest bbpress. Tried the new “Recalculate the position of each reply” and all old posts that were edited in the WP Control Panel are “stuck” at the bottom.

Wordpress 4.1.1
bbpress 2.5.4