[Stephen Edgar]

See https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/this-is-why-we-cant-have-nice-things/ 🙁

[treb0r23]

Dude.

After multiple issues and days of stress, I came to the conclusion that BBPress is not worth the hassle.

I moved to using Discourse and boy am I glad I did.

It seems to me that BBPress is dead in the water.

Take heed and check out Discourse!

[Nicolas Korobochkin]

@schrully do you use external plugin and send emails from remote SMTP server?
I also have this problem on my multisite. Maybe it occurs because bbPress send emails with BCC (one email for all subscribed users and mail services like gmail delete emails thinking that it’s spam)?
I remove default functions that send emails and write custom functions to send email notifications with cron and all works correctly right now.
I don’t digg into this issue with default functions. I think the last version of bbPress have bug because previous release sends emails on my site 🙂

[Reverend2100]

Hi brainy people!

I’ve added the forums to my website, and have also added a plugin called Users Ultra. For the most part, the forums and Users Ultra share enough common ground that they do, to an extent, work together.

however one thing I’ve been having trouble with is that UU allows inter-user messaging, wheras I don;t think bbPress does. So for that reason I need to be able to add a Users-Ultra-generated Message User button on the bbPress Profile page.

(I hope I’m making sense here)

However, when I edit the file I believe should be controlling that page (\wp-content\plugins\bbpress\templates\default\bbpress\user-profile.php), no changes actually show up on the live site?

So, in short, how do I add some custom code to the bbPress User Profile page? Or does anyone know if a more elegant way to make this function work through bbPress?

[Letty2014]

Hi,
I’m new to bbpress and I have set up a forum which I really like the look of.
However they are in alphabetical order which is not what I want.

I’ve tried and failed to find a solution.

See below how they are arranged, General needs to be at the top, plus there is more to add once I know what I’m doing.

Many thanks in advance for any help.

Letty

Farm Machinery
Machinery for sale (0, 0), Machinery wanted (0, 0)

General
How to post a photo (0, 0), Welcome (0, 0)

Livestock
Beef Cattle (0, 0), Dairy Cattle (0, 0), Pigs (0, 0), Sheep (0, 0)

[Robkk]

@izzyian

you just do it like how i did it.

by editing the template loop-single-reply.php that was in my bbpress folder in my child theme

separate the role from the rest of the bbp_reply_author_link

like this

<?php bbp_reply_author_link( array( 'sep' => '<br />', 'show_role' => false ) ); ?>

<?php 
$displayed_user = bbp_get_reply_author_id() ;
$role = bbp_get_user_role( $displayed_user);
if ( bbp_is_user_keymaster($displayed_user)  || $role == 'bbp_moderator'  ) {
	
	echo bbp_reply_author_link( array( 'show_role' => true, 'type' => 'role' ) );
	
         }
?>

[Robkk]

in this code you pasted it looks like the exact code to display the avatars is already there.

maybe you didnt install the template files right??

wherever you see something like this below , this is what should be displaying the avatar

‘size’ => 14

this is complete started by section showing the started by author avatar

<?php do_action( ‘bbp_theme_before_topic_started_by’ ); ?>

<?php
if (class_exists(‘userpro_api’)) {
/* Integrating UserPro */
global $userpro;
$link = preg_replace(“/(?<=href=(\”|’))[^\”‘]+(?=(\”|’))/”, $userpro->permalink( bbp_get_topic_author_id() ),
bbp_get_topic_author_link( array( ‘size’ => 14 ) ) );
} else {
$link = bbp_get_topic_author_link( array( ‘size’ => ’14’ ) );
}
?>

<span class=”bbp-topic-started-by”><?php printf( __( ‘Started by: %1$s’, ‘bbpress’ ), $link ); ?></span>

<?php do_action( ‘bbp_theme_after_topic_started_by’ ); ?>

this is the complete freshness section showing the author avatar

<?php do_action( ‘bbp_theme_before_topic_freshness_author’ ); ?>
<?php
if (class_exists(‘userpro_api’)) {
global $userpro;
$link = preg_replace(“/(?<=href=(\”|’))[^\”‘]+(?=(\”|’))/”, $userpro->permalink( bbp_get_topic_author_id( bbp_get_topic_last_active_id() ) ), bbp_get_author_link( array( ‘post_id’ => bbp_get_topic_last_active_id(), ‘size’ => 30 ) ) );
} else {
$link = bbp_get_author_link( array( ‘post_id’ => bbp_get_topic_last_active_id(), ‘size’ => 14 ) );
}
?>

<span class=”bbp-topic-freshness-author”><?php echo $link; ?></span>

<?php do_action( ‘bbp_theme_after_topic_freshness_author’ ); ?>

[Robkk]

@foresme

give a link to a bbPress post on your site that should have paragraph spacing.

[skyynet]

I read a lot about these email notification problems and think this is a real pain in the a..
On my system

wp: 4.0.1
bbpress: 2.5.4
wp-url: subdomain.domain.com

Everytime an email is about to be sent I get an error message from my server like <noreply@ubdomain.domain.com>… Deferred: Connection refused by ubdomain.doamain.com.

You might have seen that the subdomain is being put into the email sender and the first letter of it is killed. In my opinion the sender should be noreply@domain.com instead of noreply@ubdomain.schule.com.

Any idea how to fix this?

Thanks,

Ingo

[digiblogger]

Hello Everybody.

I hope you understand my “german Englisch”.

I tried many many membership and capability plugins to empower bbpress. But with no success.
This is because bbpress has capabilities, but don´t used them the right way.

I am not a developer, so I don´t know, if everything I suggest is possible or not. But I know, for some of these features, that it worked for former versions of bbpress with plugins that are outdated for years.

What bbpress really needs are capabilities in this way (marking new capabilites with (*)):
When talking about forums, I mean forums and categories.

Forums/Categories

can_see_forum
can_see_thread

Threads

can_create_topic_in_forum (*)
can_edit_owntopic_in_forum (*)
can_edit_anytopic_in_forum (*)
can_delete_owntopic_in_forum (*)
can_delete_anytopic_in_forum (*)

Replies

can_create_reply_in_forum (*)
can_edit_ownreply_in_forum (*)
can_edit_anyreply_in_forum (*)
can_delete_ownreply_in_forum (*)
can_delete_anyreply_in_forum (*)

Moderators/Admins

Capabilites to create, edit, delete, move or split forums, threads and replies.

With these capabilites, bbpres itself or every capability addon could add members or groups to forums and categories.

This would make bbpress more like full featured forum software (vbulletin, burning board, phpbb and other) than it ever was.

I asked a developer a long time ago, how long it would take to build an extension or add this to the bbpress core features.

He said something like: BBPress is well coded. I think, adding these capabilities and rules to forums, adding some metaboxes for assigning groups, members or capabilites to forums post types.. I think a good developer could do this in no time.

Well… he is specialized in another section of wordpress plugins and not interested in creating for bbpress. But I think, every wordpress user and forum lover would love these features.

And I think, this is also a great way to prevent spam in forums. on non-english websites, most spam plugins block users that are definetly no spammers, because they search for things, that are not present in non english languages.

Hoping for feedback and… hope this can be realized.

Plugins I tried:
– press permit
– advanced access manager
– advanced capabilites manager
– s3members
– members
– and many many more (used keyword in wp repo: bbpress, member, access, restrict, capability, capablites, read, write, permission and more)

Hope for positive feedback

Digi

[Cartographer]

I was hoping that would be easy to find a solution. It is a bbpress feature after all.

Maybe I miss something but my setup is very simple:

WP 4.0.1
BP 2.1.1
bbPress 2.5.4
Theme Twentyfourteen

I receive every other email without any problem (e.g. buddy press mention emails). The problem only occurs with bbPress.

[Paolo]

I’ve found this on github and modified it a bit.

//Close forum topics inactive for more than 30 days

add_action('bbpress_daily_event', 'bbpress_close_old_topics');
function bbpress_topic_scheduler() {
wp_schedule_event(time(), 'daily', 'bbpress_daily_event');
}
function bbpress_close_old_topics() {
// Auto close old topics
$topics_query = array(
'author' => 0,
'show_stickies' => false,
'parent_forum' => 'any',
'post_status' => 'publish',
'posts_per_page' => -1
);
if ( bbp_has_topics( $topics_query ) )
while( bbp_topics() ) {
bbp_the_topic();
$topic_id = bbp_get_topic_id();
$last_active = strtotime( get_post_meta( $topic_id, '_bbp_last_active_time', true ) );
if ($last_active < strtotime( '-30 days') )
bbp_close_topic( $topic_id );
}
}

I’m using it on the support forum of our Business directory plugin.

Hope you can find it useful too.

Thx

[dmx09]

Sorry to hijack this thread @harpeml but this might just be what I’m looking for.

@netweb – We are in the process of migrating a Ning site to a bbPress forum. We managed to import some of the content using the ‘Import from Ning’ plugin but unfortunately it didn’t import any replies (just the main topics were imported).

From what I can see, it might be possible to convert the json file (which is exported from Ning) to a CSV file and then import that in the way you have suggested above. Do you think this would work?

It appears Ning don’t make it particularly easy to get content to other platforms!
Any guidance most appreciated.

[Robin W]

ok,
Firstly bbpress roles and wp roles are entirely different, and are set in different places in wordpress, although they share the wp-capabilities space in wp_options.

So you can have an author who is also a keymaster and an administrator who is only a participant.

what other plugins are you running ? and how and where were/are you setting up the bbpress roles?

a membership plugin might be responsible for this??

[hassebasse]

I’ve got a problem with Administrator / Keymaster and other roles when installing bbPress.

When setting up the site in 4.0 I created 2 administrators beside myself, and the rest of the members of the club I gave the roles of Authors or Editors (but in French Auteur and Editeur). When installing bbPress everyting screwd up. Suddenly everyone had the lowest role and the other administrators couldn’t log in to the Dashboard but of some reason my previliges as Administrator remaind. When attempting to give back the roles as Admins to the other 2 accounts, there where no Admin in the list to so I couldn’t give them that role. The highest role I could give them was Editor

I then deinstalled bbPress. My Administrator account then turned into Keymaster and the other two former Adminstrators turned into Editeurs (editor in French) but all the other members got their old roles.

So when now trying to give back the Administrors role to myslef (who is a Keymaster for the moment) and to the other 2 accounts there is no Administrator in the list just a mitchmach of roles in English and in French. What turnes up are (rmember that bbPress is deinstalled now):

* Abboné
* Participant
* Moderator
* Blocked
* Spectator
* Keymaster
* Contributeur
* Auteur
* Editeur

(FYI I have now upgraded WordPress to 4.0.1)

What is this all about. How do I give people the roles of Adminstrator ??? And why did the roles change in the first place ?

[Icaroferreira]

Thank you.

So, Please, where exactly I should enter these codes above, within my code I have in the folder: loop-single-topic.php

see:

<?php

/**
* Topics Loop – Single
*
* @package bbPress
* @subpackage Theme
*/

?>

<ul id=”bbp-topic-<?php bbp_topic_id(); ?>” <?php bbp_topic_class(); ?>>

<li class=”bbp-topic-title”>

<?php if ( bbp_is_user_home() ) : ?>

<?php if ( bbp_is_favorites() ) : ?>

<span class=”bbp-row-actions”>

<?php do_action( ‘bbp_theme_before_topic_favorites_action’ ); ?>

<?php bbp_topic_favorite_link( array( ‘before’ => ”, ‘favorite’ => ‘+’, ‘favorited’ => ‘×’ ) ); ?>

<?php do_action( ‘bbp_theme_after_topic_favorites_action’ ); ?>

</span>

<?php elseif ( bbp_is_subscriptions() ) : ?>

<span class=”bbp-row-actions”>

<?php do_action( ‘bbp_theme_before_topic_subscription_action’ ); ?>

<?php bbp_topic_subscription_link( array( ‘before’ => ”, ‘subscribe’ => ‘+’, ‘unsubscribe’ => ‘×’ ) ); ?>

<?php do_action( ‘bbp_theme_after_topic_subscription_action’ ); ?>

</span>

<?php endif; ?>

<?php endif; ?>

<?php do_action( ‘bbp_theme_before_topic_title’ ); ?>

“><?php bbp_topic_title(); ?>

<?php do_action( ‘bbp_theme_after_topic_title’ ); ?>

<?php bbp_topic_pagination(); ?>

<?php do_action( ‘bbp_theme_before_topic_meta’ ); ?>

<p class=”bbp-topic-meta”>

<?php do_action( ‘bbp_theme_before_topic_started_by’ ); ?>

<?php
if (class_exists(‘userpro_api’)) {
/* Integrating UserPro */
global $userpro;
$link = preg_replace(“/(?<=href=(\”|’))[^\”‘]+(?=(\”|’))/”, $userpro->permalink( bbp_get_topic_author_id() ),
bbp_get_topic_author_link( array( ‘size’ => 14 ) ) );
} else {
$link = bbp_get_topic_author_link( array( ‘size’ => ’14’ ) );
}
?>

<span class=”bbp-topic-started-by”><?php printf( __( ‘Started by: %1$s’, ‘bbpress’ ), $link ); ?></span>

<?php do_action( ‘bbp_theme_after_topic_started_by’ ); ?>

<?php if ( !bbp_is_single_forum() || ( bbp_get_topic_forum_id() !== bbp_get_forum_id() ) ) : ?>

<?php do_action( ‘bbp_theme_before_topic_started_in’ ); ?>

<span class=”bbp-topic-started-in”><?php printf( __( ‘in: %2$s‘, ‘bbpress’ ), bbp_get_forum_permalink( bbp_get_topic_forum_id() ), bbp_get_forum_title( bbp_get_topic_forum_id() ) ); ?></span>

<?php do_action( ‘bbp_theme_after_topic_started_in’ ); ?>

<?php endif; ?>

</p>

<?php do_action( ‘bbp_theme_after_topic_meta’ ); ?>

<?php bbp_topic_row_actions(); ?>

<li class=”bbp-topic-voice-count”><?php bbp_topic_voice_count(); ?>

<li class=”bbp-topic-reply-count”><?php bbp_show_lead_topic() ? bbp_topic_reply_count() : bbp_topic_post_count(); ?>

<li class=”bbp-topic-freshness”>

<?php //bbp_topic_freshness_link(); ?>

<p class=”bbp-topic-meta”>

<?php do_action( ‘bbp_theme_before_topic_freshness_author’ ); ?>
<?php
if (class_exists(‘userpro_api’)) {
global $userpro;
$link = preg_replace(“/(?<=href=(\”|’))[^\”‘]+(?=(\”|’))/”, $userpro->permalink( bbp_get_topic_author_id( bbp_get_topic_last_active_id() ) ), bbp_get_author_link( array( ‘post_id’ => bbp_get_topic_last_active_id(), ‘size’ => 30 ) ) );
} else {
$link = bbp_get_author_link( array( ‘post_id’ => bbp_get_topic_last_active_id(), ‘size’ => 14 ) );
}
?>

<span class=”bbp-topic-freshness-author”><?php echo $link; ?></span>

<?php do_action( ‘bbp_theme_after_topic_freshness_author’ ); ?>

</p>

<!– #bbp-topic-<?php bbp_topic_id(); ?> –>

[Cartographer]

I left my setup using only

wp: 4.0.1
bbpress: 2.5.4
buddypress: 2.1.1
theme: twentyfourteen

I still can’t receive email notifications for my subscribed topics.

Any help would be appreciated 🙂

[Cartographer]

Hi there,

If you select “Discourage search engines from indexing this site” in WP – Settings – Readings then bbpress new topics and replies won’t be shown in Buddypress Activity.

[Sam Rohn]

you could also try to select the specific adsense css element within whatever bbpress element and then do something like

li.bbp-header .adsense {
display: none;
}

sam

[Robin W]

I suspect it is the loop-single-forum template

create a directory on your theme called ‘bbpress’
ie wp-content/%your-theme-name%/bbpress
find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/loop-single-forum.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/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/loop-single-forum.php
bbPress will now use this template instead of the original

then

remove lines 20 and 24

line 20

<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_before_forum_subscription_action' ); ?>

line 24

<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_after_forum_subscription_action' ); ?>

come back if that doesn’t work

[liquid8]

Hi all,

I’d need to convert a bbpress-version 0.73 to the newest version.
Is there any converters etc that could do this?

I tried to use the bbpress-plugins importer and selected the old database as a source but I got an error saying that bb_meta-table is missing from db. I found out that this table has not been used in the earliest versions such as 0.73.

[atfpodcast]

I understand. Im still waiting on bbpress staff to address my issues.

[Stephen Edgar]

Sounds great, have at it 🙂

Check out and edit the Google doc here.

General guidelines on creating new codex articles:

Codex Standards & Guidelines

Make a copy of this template for each page you create:
https://codex.bbpress.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=1767&action=edit

[Robkk]

i think that these topics should be discussed in a guide for users in the codex.

How to Moderate in bbPress
How to Deal with SPAM
SEO and bbPress
Common Mistakes to Avoid

How to Moderate is for users who are brand new to dealing with a forum, and are not sure how to handle it.

Dealing with SPAM will definitely be useful because alot of users make topics about how to handle it.

SEO and bbPress , there is some topics about this subject and help optimizing it would be quite useful.

Common mistakes is useful too so that users know what not to do.

what do you guys think??

[antderdog72]

i am using wordpress 3.9.2 and bbPress 2.5.4-5380.
I want to change user role automatically based on total replies created by user, so when user reached the number of total replies it will change the user role automatically.
Is it possible to do that? How I can do that?