I found plugins that are able to do this for posts, pages, and custom post types,
bbpress uses 3 custom post types of forum, topic and reply so your plugin should work for bbpress
if you get it working, please come back and share which plugin and what you had to do.
Hi there,
In phpBB there is a option to create a link, which looks like a forum.
E.g. On this page https://www.phpbb.com/community/index.php the second “forum” called “Area 51 Development Board” is a link.
Is there a plugin or option to create such a link in bbpress?
Thank you
a lot of people use
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-enable-tinymce-visual-tab/
I haven’t tried it myself, but come back either way and let us know
Hello,
I’m currently using Yoast SEO for my site with bbPress installed. I’m having trouble figuring out why the SEO descriptions of the forums and topics show something “This topic contains 0 replies, has 1 voice, and was last update…”
Is there a way to show instead the content of the topic. If so, how do I do this with Yoast SEO. Yoast does have the “%%ct_desc_<custom-tax-name>%%” variable but I’m not sure how to change it.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Hi,
I was wondering if there is a plugin anyone is using to turn keywords into topics and replies to links to other pages in wordpress.
For example if had a forum about fish, and someone mentions “gold fish” I want that to automatically be turned into a link and go to a page I have about gold fish, etc…
I found plugins that are able to do this for posts, pages, and custom post types, but is anyone doing this with bbpress and if so, how?
ok install widget logic
https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-logic/
this adds a box to each widget in a sidebar
so work out which sidebar is showing in your bbpress pages and for each widget in that sidebar into that box put
is_bbpress() if you want it to appear in forum pages
!is_bbpres() is you don’t want it to appear in forum pages (but do want it on other pages where that sidebar appears
and leave blank if you want tit to appear on both forum and other pages
Hi Robin,
Given you’re so knowledgeable on bbPress and I really don’t want to go making a mess after getting the forum working nicely, is there a plugin you would recommend to get the nice visual editor for post replies, instead of the default? I think my users are more visual, trying to use the default buttons will make their heads implode!
Thanks.
I did, it doesn’t work with my theme (or maybe Genesis, I don’t know), unfortunately. I could never get “bbpress sidebar” to display. Genesis has a specific bbpress sidebar that can be activated, that’s the only thing other than default I’m able to display.
Ya ok i got something figured out. its very basic but you can easily add to this. here’s the code
This basically ads a field call ‘lp_post_honey_post’ with the question “I am a robot”. if the user answers anything other than ‘no’ the post craps out with an error. currently the error message is that the post parameters are wrong, but maybe if somebody can tell me how to set the bbpress error message I can fix that.
You can see the filter in action here
http://www.thelightningpath.com/forums/room/lobby/pre-registration/
There are a few tweaks you could make to this. if you have a plugin like piklist you can easily have a settings page where you could set both the question and the answer. And of course you can change the question in the hard code.
I choose the wp_insert_post_empty_content filter because it fires early on in the wp_update_post routine, saving some CPU cycles.
If somebody wants to help me set this up as a wordpress plugin we could make this a plugin pretty easily. I’m guessing there would be a lot of interest in this.
incorrect code removed ! - correct version below
@tools4toni
ideas for plugin exploration
there is a plugin section on this site, it basically pulls information from the wordpress.org plugin section on any plugin tagged “bbpress”
i’d say search the plugins section
search the forums on this site so you would find some developed plugins that are not yet on wordpress.org
check some in the list here https://codex.bbpress.org/feature-plugins-tracking/
on gist.github.com/ there are a few snippets in plugin format , especially netweb’s gists https://gist.github.com/ntwb
there are also paid plugins on sites like codecanyon
and there is always google.com
@s1r0n
I want to be able to add some fields to the BBpress post. So in addition to Topic Title, content,and Topic Tags I might also be able to add a custom spam field
if you are doing a honeypot type of spam protection please share how to achieve this when you have accomplished coding it , it might help other users …heck even this site.
try this CSS
.bbpress .vcard .avatar {
position: relative;
left: auto;
top: auto;
}
I’m having trouble and I’m not sure if this just can’t be done or I’m missing something basic.
I’m using wordpress 4.1.1 and bbpress 2.5.4. The set up I’m trying to achieve is anyone visiting the site (not registered) can view the forums, but can’t create topics or reply. Registered users can both create and reply to topics. Is there any way to do this?
yes look in the form templates which you’ll find in the plugin
bbpress/templates/default/bbpress
in particular
bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/form-topic.php
and
bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/form-reply.php
either
a)( You’ll find several hooks in there which you can add_action to , or
b) you can copy these templates to your theme and modify happily by
create a directory on your theme called ‘bbpress’
ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress
where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme
then find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/xx.php
where xx.php is say form-topic.php
Make a copy of this file, and put in in the directory called bbpress that you created above, so you end up with
wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/xx.php
where xx.php is say form-topic.php
bbPress will now use this template instead of the original
Hello,
Sorry for myy bad english, but i need your help. I have install BBPRESS but when new topics create the color not change.
I would like that when there is a new answer, it changes color
Thx
HI all.
I want to be able to add some fields to the BBpress post. So in addition to Topic Title, content,and Topic Tags I might also be able to add a custom spam field, custom meta tags, etc. Can anybody tell me what the hooks are to accomplish that?
great -besy way to learn, I knew nothing of bbpress two years ago !
Come back if you get stuck, and if I can help with quick pointers I will.
In the spirit of community, it would also be great if you shard the solution if you get there, this is occasionally asked for, and I’ll add it to the codex.
key bit is on the topics widget for most recent replies, which you would copy and use
// Order by most recent replies
case ‘freshness’ :
$topics_query = array(
‘post_type’ => bbp_get_topic_post_type(),
‘post_parent’ => $settings[‘parent_forum’],
‘posts_per_page’ => (int) $settings[‘max_shown’],
‘post_status’ => array( bbp_get_public_status_id(), bbp_get_closed_status_id() ),
‘ignore_sticky_posts’ => true,
‘no_found_rows’ => true,
‘meta_key’ => ‘_bbp_last_active_time’,
‘orderby’ => ‘meta_value’,
‘order’ => ‘DESC’,
);
break;
that’s where the meta key bit is, so if your plugin stores as ‘_rating’, then that’s what would go in the meta_key line.
I am not searching for a plugin actually. Need the php code to show these options.
Maybe its a wordpress thing or maybe its a BBpress thing or maybe both.
Hello Guys,
First of all great job on BBpress! Really like it!.(Hope i am in the right corner for my question)
I got a question about a login bar i want to create. My website http://hardstyle-united.nl needs one under the navigation on the upper right side(It says “Hallo”) . I want to make it exactly how its build here on bbpress.
Basically: When not logged in i want to show Hello Guest: Login | Register
When logged in i would like to show: Hello “username” Avatar | Logout
Most replied to is already in the topics widget (as most popular), so it would be nicking that query code.
It would not be tons of code to do a rating, as long as the rating system stores the score in post_meta, then a simple query with that meta would do it.
Just that I haven’t got time to code it at the moment.
suggest you
a) look at bbpress rating plugins
b) check that they store scores in post_meta
c) either code yourself (see bbpress/includes/common/widgets) for the widget code,
d) or pay someone to do it http://jobs.wordpress.net/
not sure if it would help, but just tried this plugin, https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-notify-nospam/, and works perfectly find with me. =)
I realize that end user manuals are the responsibility of the community I had hoped that someone else might have seen that need and solved it. I myself as a brand new novice to bbPress am hardly qualified. Not only that but it will add several weeks to launch date
Hello there,
So I have an existing bbpress sitting on another WordPress site. We are redesigning this website and migrating its content to a new install.
On the old website I exported Forums, Topics, and Replies using the WP Export tool. On the new website I first import Forums which works fine. Next after I import the Topics xml and check the topics page, I see all the topics, but they aren’t associated with the correct forum, the just say “No Forum”.
Is this a bug? Or is there a better way to pick up and move the entire forum to a new WordPress install?
Thanks so much!
