[Robin W]

@zejio – you have the same symptoms, but probably not the same problem, – but have you tried checking the plugins and themes as above?

@evolveworkforce – Sorry but can you absolutely confirm that :

1. The plugin is activated
2. with JUST bbpress plugin and 2012 theme you are not seeing ANY of the following
Forums
Topics
Replies
Settings>forums

Thanks

[kannued]

Stephen, I wasn’t sure what I was to do once I had the post ID from the database, as there wasn’t any where to call for post id’s on the dashboard. But I solved my original problem with no replies, as follows:

I deleted everything and started over with installing wp and then integrating bbpress. My problem was that I had de-activated all other plugins before using bbconverter, as the only active plugin. The key is to have the plugin bbpress also activated before using bbconverter to integrate. Plugin BBpress activation helps bbconverter to know where to put everything like replies, voices, and comments, putting everything in the right place.

[jawittdesigns]

I still haven’t been able to find where the & character conversion is taking place, but I have managed to get it to work.

Here’s the class I’m using

class JPM_BBP_Support {

    /**
     * Initialize the class and set its properties.
     */
    public function __construct() {
        add_action( 'plugins_loaded', array( $this, 'custom_jetpack_markdown_support' ) );
        // Remove the back_code_trick filter
        remove_filter( 'bbp_new_reply_pre_content',  'bbp_code_trick',  20 );
        remove_filter( 'bbp_new_topic_pre_content',  'bbp_code_trick',  20 );
        remove_filter( 'bbp_new_forum_pre_content',  'bbp_code_trick',  20 );
        remove_filter( 'bbp_edit_reply_pre_content', 'bbp_code_trick',  20 );
        remove_filter( 'bbp_edit_topic_pre_content', 'bbp_code_trick',  20 );
        remove_filter( 'bbp_edit_forum_pre_content', 'bbp_code_trick',  20 );

        add_filter( 'bbp_get_reply_content', array( $this, 'custom_con_char' ), 6 );
        add_filter( 'bbp_get_topic_content',  array( $this, 'custom_con_char' ), 6 );
    }

    /**
     * Replace instances of < and >
     * with < and > when pulling the content
     * from the databse to display
     * 
     * @param  string $content the content stored in the database
     * @return string          the formated content
     */
    public function custom_con_char( $content = '' ) {
        $content = str_replace( '<', '<' , $content );
        $content = str_replace( '>', '>' , $content );
        return $content;
    }

    /**
     * Add Markdown support for BBPress Froums
     */
    public function custom_jetpack_markdown_support() {
        add_post_type_support( 'topic', 'wpcom-markdown' );
        add_post_type_support( 'reply', 'wpcom-markdown' );
    }
}

$jmp_bbp_support = new JPM_BBP_Support();

[Toni]

I had to manually add a link in the site menu for the main forum page/section.
The individual sub-forums generated menu items – I don’t want those in the main site menu.

That seems incorrect – no menu item for the forum section?

– WP 4.1/bbPress 2.5.4
– MultiSite install
– MultiSite sub-site is dedicated to bbPress
– I have used the generic twenty fourteen, and other themes.

[Toni]

I am new to this plugin and to running a forum. I am just a volunteer English teacher obsessed with WP.
My user count will be microscopic, a handful of people. (my ESL students)
Many of my users will not have email addresses, have not ever used PCs and do not have PCs at home – experience has shown me it is impractical to provide email initially.

Is there an option to register users without email addresses?
If I leave the forums open without registration – what are the potential issues, security or otherwise? If any?

(I do not know how to set up any WP registrations anyway!)
– WP 4.1/bbPress 2.5.4. MultiSite install.
– I have dedicated a MultiSite subsite to bbPress.
– I have Askimet and Conditional CAPTCHA https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-conditional-captcha/

Any suggestions or input about plugins, if this is a bad idea, etc. will be appreciated.

[Jacob]

It is time for THAT TALK. Do not reject it – but seriously engage in this discussion. The standard and very understandable answer of not commenting and so on – just doesnt cut it anymore.

I want to ask politely and with full respect to the developers, what we as users of bbpress should expect in the future. Is there going to be development of bbPress so it becomes something useable as actual forum software with nodal, finegrained permissions and serious security and SPEED.

Looking at TRAC, it is not reasonable to call this project under active development. So, to the devs I want to politely ask:

Explain to me what to realistically expect, given the past development non-activity ? What should I expect ?

Thanks.

[Chris Huff]

You’re right, I forgot that I installed GD bbPress Attachments. Thanks!

[ttmt]

Hi all

I have bbpress all installed and everything seems to be working fine.

I currentlt have 3 forums and about 200 users that have aacess to all forums

I’d like to create a new forum that is only accessible to some users

Is it possible to a have a forum only visible to certain users.

I currently have a forum index like

Forum 1
Forum 2
Forum 3

This is visible to all users

I would like some users to see

Forum 1
Forum 2
Forum 3
Forum 4 – Private

Is this possible

[Dirk]

Hello,

I recently started to use bbPress v 2.5.4 with WP v 4.0.1.
Everything worked fine until I changed the user_login in of a user in the mySQL database, who had the bbPress moderator-role and started two forums before.
Now this user (and every other „moderator“) can´t see the menu-item „forum“ in the Dashboard anymore. Any other bbPress-role works like it should.
As a workaround I created a testpage with the shortcode [bbp-forum-form] and tried to start a new forum as „moderator“. It worked, but I only could start a child-forum under an existing parent. So the „keymaster“ has to change it to „parent“ everytime a „moderator“ starts a new forum.
That´s a wortkaround but not a solution.

Deactivating all plugins made no difference., also changing the capabilities with “bbPress Advanced Capabilities”.

I found a post here in the forum “Moderator role can’t create or manage Forums”, where you speak of a known issue, that a moderator can´t see the „forum“ menu in the dashboard anymore. The problem described there seems to be quite similar to mine but is 1 year old. So, is this issue solved in the meantime? And if not, perhaps my problem helps to address it.

Thanks for any assistance.

[pazzaglia]

I used the first code snippet above in my functions.php with ‘post’,’page’,’topic’ in the array. It DID show the topics in search results BUT, unfortunately, it blanked-out my topic page (no topic or reply text just the title and reply form).

However, I took a chance and installed the super-old “Search bbPress” plug-in and edited the script to NOT add ‘replies’ to the search results and it worked!

Thought I’d share my experience in case anyone else has been hunting for a solution to this for weeks, like me.

Ciao,

L

[Joe Dostie]

Sorry about that previous post, no idea why it looks like that (you can delete it)

I have both a test site and a production site. This is repeatable in both environments.

I had to disable BOTH of the below plugins to make bbPress work.

Revolution Slider – Version 4.6.5
User Role Editor – Version 4.17.3

Revolution Slider is part of the Avada 3.7 theme and they say “Avada has full integration with this plugin.”

Another thing I just now noticed since it working is that the options “Tags:”, “Topics Type:” and “Topic Status:” were not originally available when using the [bbp-forum-index]

[Joe Dostie]

I have both a test site and a production site. This is repeatable in both environments.

I had to disable BOTH of the below plugins to make bbPress web interface work.

I have both a test site and a production site. This is repeatable in both environments.

I had to disable BOTH of the below plugins to make bbPress work.

Revolution Slider – Version 4.6.5
User Role Editor – Version 4.17.3

Revolution Slider is part of the Avada 3.7 theme and they say “Avada has full integration with this plugin.”

Another thing I just now noticed since it working is that the options “Tags:”, “Topics Type:” and “Topic Status:” were not originally available when using the [bbp-forum-index]
User Role Editor – Version 4.17.3

Revolution Slider is part of the Avada 3.7 theme and they say “Avada has full integration with this plugin.”

Another thing I just now noticed since it working is that the options “Tags:”, “Topics Type:” and “Topic Status:” were not originally available when using the [bbp-forum-index]

[Joe Dostie]

Yup…its a plug in. I disabled every plugin I have except for bbPress and it started to work.

Now I have to enable 1 by 1 and see which one it is.

Thanks for your help and I will update as soon as I find which one it is.

[Robkk]

first remove all the CSS code you just posted , from where you are putting this custom css

it looks all jenky..haha

im going to use most of the CSS code i posted here

How do i change the color of the text and box?

/* header and footer that says AUTHOR , POSTS , VOICES, TOPICS , FORUMS */

#bbpress-forums li.bbp-header, 
#bbpress-forums li.bbp-footer {
background: #000 !important;
border-top: 1px solid #eee;
font-weight: bold;
padding: 8px;
text-align: center;
}

/* this is the background of the forums and topics that display the title, the freshness stats and so on. */

#bbpress-forums li.bbp-body ul.forum, 
#bbpress-forums li.bbp-body ul.topic {
border-top: 1px solid #eee;
overflow: hidden;
padding: 8px;
background: #000;
}

/* this is the header that shows the post date and post ID */

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-header, 
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-header, 
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-header {
background-color: #000;
}

/* try to make these two different types of dark shades if you care about having an AB color pattern of replies/topics/forums. */

#bbpress-forums div.odd, 
#bbpress-forums ul.odd {
background-color: #000;
}

#bbpress-forums div.even, 
#bbpress-forums ul.even {
background-color: #000;
}

here is the code to remove the text decoration from the forum titles

.bbp-forum-title,
.bbp-forum-title a {
text-decoration:none;
}

[Applesauce]

Hi, I’ve changed the background color in my bbpress forum but for some reason the background color is not affecting the padding (or so it seems). I’ve searched online and found I may need to add overflow:hidden and even overflow:auto. I’ve tried to add this to many many variations and combinations of IDs and CLASSes (there are so many!) but I can’t figure it out.

I’m using a child theme from the 2014 WordPress theme but didn’t change too much.

My forum is at: http://www.pippenings.com/rv-living/rv-motorhome-life-forum/

Here is the CSS styling I’ve added to the forum so far (minus the child theme’s styling which was mostly used for changing colors…)

Can you please help me out?

#forums-list-0 .bbp-forum-title {
	font-size:1.6em;
	text-decoration:none;
}

#forums-list-0 .bbp-forum-title a:link {
	text-decoration:none;
}

#entry-content #bbpress-forums {
	background-color:#232d36;
	overflow:auto;

}

#bbpress-forums ul, #bbpress-forums li {
	background-color:#232d36;
		overflow:auto;

}

#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-replies, bbp-body, #bbpress-forums p {
	background-color:#232d36;
}
#bbpress-forums ul.forums-list-0 li.bbp-body {
	background-color:#232d36 !important;
		overflow:auto;
}

[Applesauce]

Hi, I can’t figure out how to create a new topic so i’m choosing this topic to post in because its topic title is the closest to what I’m needing help with.

I’ve changed the background color in my bbpress forum but for some reason the background color is not affecting the padding (or so it seems). I’ve searched online and found I may need to add overflow:hidden and even overflow:auto. I’ve tried to add this to many many variations and combinations of IDs and CLASSes (there are so many!) but I can’t figure it out.

I’m using a child theme from the 2014 WordPress theme but didn’t change too much.

My forum is at: http://www.pippenings.com/rv-living/rv-motorhome-life-forum/

Here is the CSS styling I’ve added to the forum so far (minus the child theme’s styling which was mostly used for changing colors…)

Can you please help me out?

#forums-list-0 .bbp-forum-title {
	font-size:1.6em;
	text-decoration:none;
}

#forums-list-0 .bbp-forum-title a:link {
	text-decoration:none;
}

#entry-content #bbpress-forums {
	background-color:#232d36;
	overflow:auto;

}

#bbpress-forums ul, #bbpress-forums li {
	background-color:#232d36;
		overflow:auto;

}

#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-replies, bbp-body, #bbpress-forums p {
	background-color:#232d36;
}
#bbpress-forums ul.forums-list-0 li.bbp-body {
	background-color:#232d36 !important;
		overflow:auto;
}

[22colors]

Very strange! I was setting up my new forum (newest WP, newest bbpress) and the subforum pages are looking just fine. Also the topic pages looked good – until recently. Now, the topic page is only displaying the core content (starting with the breadcrumb-path of the forum topic), but no design at all!

When I look at the sourcecode of a topic page, it starts like this:

<div id="bbpress-forums">
<div class="bbp-breadcrumb">

Where is all the beginning of the page, with the usual html elements for the page design?

I activated another theme and it has the same problem.
Do I have to reinstall bbpress?

Unfortunately, I cannot post a link here, the forum is only visible for logged-in users.

Thanks for any help!
Nils

[Robkk]

@schneidi76

add this anywhere you can put custom css

add !important at the end if it doesnt work at first too.

to shrink username , change 12px to something lower if you want to go smaller

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-author a.bbp-author-name, 
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-author a.bbp-author-name {
clear: left;
display: block;
font-size: 12px;
}

to make user role disappear

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-author .bbp-author-role, 
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-author .bbp-author-role, 
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-author .bbp-author-role {
display: none;
}

the IP is only seen by keymasters , and it is very useful if you want to block users who are spammers, but if you want to remove it just use this CSS.

span.bbp-author-ip {
    display: none;
}

[SimonHof]

Thanks for the answer, Rob!

bbPress Digest might be an solution for my aim, I’ll have a closer look at it.

I found a small workaround (for sure not the best solution but feasible): I open the topic just before I want to post something and close it right after I’ve made the reply. So the mails are sent and subscribers nearly aren’t able to reply.

I let you know if I could solve it more elegant

[Robkk]

the Private Groups plugin needs bbPress so both.

Robins got you just in case you forgot about the topic in his plugin support forum

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/do-i-need-bbpress-as-well#post-6308430

[Robkk]

@dvdfever

ok this CSS changes every link color in bbPress to black

#bbpress-forums a {
	color: black;
}

and this CSS is for if you want any links in the topic/reply content to be a different color like blue, just like blog posts usually have.

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-content a,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-content a {
	background: none repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
	border: medium none;
	display: inline;
	font-weight: normal;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	color: blue;
}

also use some of the CSS that i posted here since you have a dark background.

How do i change the color of the text and box?

[Robkk]

im kind of leanging that you might need some custom development for this

jobs.wordpress.net/

but im not sure if this kind of plugin is what you are after

wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-digest/

highlight and search these links in google

[youi75]

Hi everyone. I am currently working on a Turkish site which uses Buddypress as well.
The translation here seems to be a great start, but it seems to be incomplete as well:

https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/2.5.x/tr/default

Do you by any chance know of a more complete version (if I understand correctly. Cagatay has combined multiple ressources / “I download bbpress turkish files from various sources”)

Would you mind sharing your language files with me? Maybe we can alspo work together in translating the remaining fields so we all end up with a complete set in the Turkish language.
All the best.

[Robkk]

as long as attachments means something like media like images and vides

bbPress does not support this unless you have another plugin from the WordPress repository.

contact the plugin author of the plugin you are using for support

or get some custom development done here

http://jobs.wordpress.net/

[Robkk]

for forum topics/replies

try this code robin posted in the topic you linked to

#bbpress-forums .bbp-topic-content p, 
#bbpress-forums .bbp-reply-content p {
font-size:  16px;
}

this is for breadcrumbs

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-breadcrumb p {
margin-bottom: 10px;
font-size: 16px;
}