[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

[Robin W]

ok, so try

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

[Sebastian]

@Robkk: Yes! Comments work fine also at the LearnDash Course Pages. And I used the bbpress integration for learn dash – doesn’t change anything.

I tried your settings and others too, but whatever I adjust after saving the page it automatic deselects the field “Use a bbPress forum topic for comment on this post”.

I think I will forward this issue to the learn dash support.

Thanks for your help!

[Robin W]

The link you gave

Sidebar on left for Forums, then right for Forum and Topic – Why?

had this as his solution

Just swap the floating elements from left to right, where content becomes right and sidebar becomes left. Remember to end with the !important to override any other CSS. Code is thus:

.bbpress.single-forum #main #content {float:right!important;}
.bbpress.single-forum #main #sidebar {float:left!important;}
.bbpress.single-topic #main #content {float:right!important;}
.bbpress.single-topic #main #sidebar {float:left!important;}

You need to put the code in your style.css

Functions files and child themes – explained !

[Pierre Ledoux]

yes

with page.php and single.php

renaming into:

plugin-bbpress.php and bbpress.php

[dazwilk]

I am using WP 4.1.1 with HeatMap AdAptive theme and bbpress 2.5.4
I have setup bbpress and all seems to be working, the problem is when a user trys to register they get taken to a 401 page Authorization Required.

http://arcos-creator.com/registration

Your help is very much appreciated.

[skylarmb]

After some investigation, it appears my mailing provider (SendGrid) warns against using “noreply@yourdomain.com” as the sending email for many reasons and will drop your email if you do so. Apparently I missed this important point while setting up the service. I looked though the logs and found a bunch of these:

No wonder no one was getting their notifications!

Temporary fix (Warning! Hacking core files is bad, this is only for the desperate, like me, and will break as soon as you update the plugin):

“noreply@…” This is the default that bbPress uses to send its notifications from. I simply created a new email for the forums, “forums@mydomain.com” and set that as the “noreply” email address in bbpress/includes/common/functions.php on lines 1065 and 1205. everything is working fine now. I realize this might not be the solution for everyone as other people in this thread might not be having the same issues as me, and it is certainly not a permanent fix, but at least next week or so the users on my site will be receiving their emails while I investigate this further.

[skylarmb]

This is happening to me as well. If I try to use any sort of SMTP mailing plugin, no notifications are sent from bbPress. Disabling SMTP fixes it, but that is hardly a solution. I will be following this topic closely for a solution.

bbPress: 2.5.4
Wordpress: 4.1
Email plugin: SendGrid

[Pierre Ledoux]

Hello Robin,

doesn’t work. It seems the same problem had this guy:

Sidebar on left for Forums, then right for Forum and Topic – Why?

The instruction didn’t work in his case also. Any other idea?

Regards

[Robin W]

I hope the theme authors read this.

In the meantime either add it manually and keep a note

or add this to your functions file

//This function changes the text wherever it is quoted
function change_translate_text( $translated_text ) {
	if ( $translated_text == 'old text' ) {
	$translated_text = 'new text';
	}
	return $translated_text;
}
add_filter( 'gettext', 'change_translate_text', 20 );

just put the old and new words to change ‘old test’ and ‘new text’

Functions files and child themes – explained !