[Stephen Edgar]

Check out some of our docs, scroll down past the main headers on the following link and you’ll see some tutorials: https://codex.bbpress.org/

If you want a capcha for your site search the WordPress plugins for “bbPress Capcha”, there are a couple of these I think from memory.

[Dane Gould]

Hi there

We are experiencing a ‘mass spam attack’ that is overloading the database on our web host server. Our web hosts SGIS have looked into this and have deleted 75,000 spam attacks this week that have taken place from May to August 2014 (there were only a few hundred in the 14 months preceding this).

Investigation has seems to show that the spam attack is linked to the bbpress forum plugin in our website. We have the latest version of Akismet installed and the latest version of bbpress. We don’t allow guests to start topics or posts or to reply to posts. All users have to be registered to reply to posts and only a few users are allowed to start new topics and posts. We are also using the latest version of WordPress which is 3.9.2. Does anyone have any thoughts or ideas about why this may be happening? Look forward to any reply.

Our website address is: http://www.tenantcentral.org.uk

Cheers – Dane

[Stephen Edgar]

Check out some of the docs, there’s a link at the top of this page.

If you don’t want particular widgets in a sidebar remove those widgets, this is not a bbPress issue so we have nothing to fix here.

If you don’t want a sidebar, use a template from your theme that doesn’t include a sidebar.

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

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress Forums are limited to 50 forums, you should use some categories…

[icejerry]

I want to show the sticky posts first in the BBPress recent topic widget for each forum, and then show the newest topics.

It seems that the BBPress recent topic widget can only show the newest topics.
Please help me to show the sticky topics in the BBPress recent topic widget.

My BBpress Version is 2.5.4
My website is http://www.ezthelife.com/

Please help me, thanks a lot.

[icejerry]

I am going to create a widget that shows local events, which are sorted by the date of the events. So I need to sort the topics by topic names but not by when I publish it, for example
[8/22/2014]event1…
[8/25/2015]event2…
[8/26/2014]event3…

But right now there is no this kind of choice for BBPress recent topic widget.
This can be done in wordpress post widget, but I prefer to use BBPress to publish this kind of Events.

I don’t know how to get the wordpress version, but I have the version number for BBPress, which is Version 2.5.4
My website is http://www.ezthelife.com/
Please see the second column on the top, that is what I want, but it is wordpress post widget not BBPress topic widget .

Please help me, thanks a lot.

[Shupreme]

Hi there,

I have bbPress but the thing is I can’t fix the page width,
I did it successfuly with the home page of the forum but now
I want to do the same with the topic page, I still see widgets on the left which is annoying.
I don’t know why bbPress guys can’t fix that, it’s been a problem for many people, so please can you help me make the topic page large (full-width)..
I’m good with HTML and CSS, so if you can just tell me which file I should edit…
(I’m not talking about the forum main page I already fixed the width for it, I’m talking about the topic pages.)
Thanks alot!

[Robkk]

@cybarmitzvah contact your themes author too if you havent already , they might know more about the problems your facing

i checked out your theme and it seems compatible with buddypress , im just going to assume bbpress too so the theme author would help alot.

[Robin W]

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

[Xevo]

Edit the bbpress base theme to not include the sidebars.

[jilleryfregan]

I have a weird bug going on with my Static Homepage.

We are using the plugin called Store Locator (http://wordpress.org/plugins/store-locator-le/) to show office locations. It’s a fairly simple plugin called by a shortcode in a page to display a map and list of offices.

When I installed bbPress in addition to this Store Locator plugin, my static homepage was no longer working and my homepage reverted to a generic list of recent posts. (The static page was set in all settings correctly).

This happens on every theme, including twentyfourteen, only when both plugins are activated at the same time.

Is there any hook or reason that these two plugins would affect the static homepage?

Thank you!
Wordpress Version: 3.9.2
bbPress Version: 2.5.4
Website: http://209.240.4.6/

[Robin W]

it is in

\bbpress\templates\default\bbpress\form-reply.php

However it would be easiest to change the text using a function which you put in 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 );

Functions files and child themes – explained !

[Robin W]

I also moved template-full-width.php, to my child theme, and called it bbpress.php. After doing this, nothing has changed except now the forum specific sidebar, that came with the theme, does not show up.

so what would you like to happen, all I can see on your site is your forum with a sidebar

[Robin W]

So basically on the forum, when someone clicks edit my profile at the top of the page, it goes to the backend. Even though, it would be preferable to go to the front end.

I would not let users see the toolbar, this is really just for admins.

You need to disable the toolbar – add this to your functions file

add_filter('show_admin_bar', '__return_false');

then put the profile into your menu

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

[cybarmitzvah]

Thanks Stephen Edgar for the help, in request by him, I am posting this here and starting this new topic:

disable front end editing

So basically on the forum, when someone clicks edit my profile at the top of the page, it goes to the backend. Even though, it would be preferable to go to the front end. Currently, the only way a user can go to the front end is by clicking their name next to a post or in a topic/replies sequence.

I am using the mesocolumn theme and am new to wordpress. site: http://www.astronomertalk.com

I also moved template-full-width.php, to my child theme, and called it bbpress.php. After doing this, nothing has changed except now the forum specific sidebar, that came with the theme, does not show up.

Source code from bbpress.php:

<?php
/*
Template Name: Full Width
*/
?>

<?php get_header(); ?>

<?php do_action( 'bp_before_content' ); ?>
<!-- CONTENT START -->
<div class="content full-width">
<div class="content-inner">

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

<!-- POST ENTRY -->
<div id="post-entry">
<section class="post-entry-inner">

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?><?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

<article <?php post_class('post-single page-single'); ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">

<h1 class="post-title entry-title"><?php the_title(); ?></h1>

<div class="post-content">
<div class="entry-content"><?php the_content( __('...Continue reading', TEMPLATE_DOMAIN) ); ?></div>
<?php wp_link_pages('before=<div id="page-links">&after=</div>'); ?>

</div><!-- POST CONTENT END -->

</article>

<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php comments_template(); ?>
<?php else : ?>
<?php get_template_part( 'lib/templates/result' ); ?>
<?php endif; ?>

</section>
</div>
<!-- POST ENTRY END -->

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

</div><!-- CONTENT INNER END -->
</div><!-- CONTENT END -->

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

<?php get_footer(); ?>

Thank You,
JB

[K-Path]

This is the HiddenCity website that I want to rebuild completely in WordPress/bbPress.
http://ecopsi.org/

This is plain a vanilla copy of Twenty Ten theme modified with the bbPress forum plugin.
http://ecopsi.org/journal/

I started out with html/css/javascript to skin the domain it’s loaded on. With WordPress added on a few years later and the bbPress added last year. To say the least I am not happy with the result. My work is conceptually flawed and poorly executed. The only good thing is that I learned a lot about WordPress and bbPress.

With the 2015 presentation of a rebuilt HiddenCity website I intend to adopt the style of Montezuma theme while keeping the data and livery (colors and logo). The following link is an example of how I want the prototype bbPress forums on my personal site to look except with the Montezuma theme. After I’ve got it worked out on my personal site I’ll use what I’ve learned to upgrade the HiddenCity site.
http://cultivators-forum.com/forum/growers-forums/

This is the only part that I’m not sure is possible. I want to make the following modifications.

• forum topic to be the posts
• categories to be forums
• comments are replace by replies to the post

In this case the the beginning of the last three or four replies showing with the topic again which appears as a post. The unregistered User can only see a static page and a forum for newcomers. I shouldn’t have to do anything to the Montezuma theme aside from the mods needed to make WordPress/bbPress execute the list above and tweak its colors to match the corporate livery of The HiddenCity Foundation.

Thank you.

PS — I don’t mind compensating someone for their time and attention in order to get this done.

[palmdoc]

I am using bbPress and Buddypress.
My forums are tied in with Buddypress groups.
If the user has not joined a Group, then he cannot post a reply in the group forum and the message at the bottom of the thread says “You cannot reply to this topic”

I would like to alter the text string to something more informative like “You cannot reply to this topic unless you Join the Group”

Can anyone tell me the relevant section in the bbPress plugin which handles this?
I tried looking but could not find it.

Thanks.

[gon2train]

hi
I have just installed bbpress .. would like to change the appearance more to what a “post” page would look like ..
http://dogwooddogtraining.com/category/brags/

would also like to add a capcha to this since I do not want to require a sign up or log-in to post ..
I am just learning all this so something detailed would be great ..
thanks much ..
debby

[kvns09]

Hi, How do I make my forum fill the entire page? Right now it only covers around 50%. I have used widget logic to hide all the widgets and I have also done some research on this and tried editing the bbpress.css file but nothing works. Any help is much appreciated.

Heres a link to the page with the problem

WordPress 3.9.2
bbPress 2.5.4

[Stephen Edgar]

Don’t use bbPress login widgets or shortcodes then, use whatever is supplying that form instead, essentially we are all just piggy backing the standard WordPress login form.

[Stephen Edgar]

Download and install the bbPress Genesis plugin, that should fix things for you.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-genesis-extend/

[Stephen Edgar]

First up, a clarification on what you are calling posts; are you inferring users in the back end editing WordPress blog posts? That is sort of how your last reply reads to me. bbPress uses Forums, Topics and Replies and it can get confusing if these terms aren’t explicitly used at times 😉

When in the back end and you try to restore a trashed topic by clicking restore indeed you will see that error, it’s a know issue and will be fixed in the next release. The workaround is to use the “bulk actions” and select the checkbox next to the topic or topics to restore, select “restore” from the bulk action drop down and click apply.

If you are seeing that error in the font end it shouldn’t be doing that and should work as expected when restoring topics.

Either/or try the same again with a new admin/key master user and see if you can still replicate the issue.

[Stephen Edgar]

Create new topic and per my previous replies, and include the name of the theme. You are using and include the source code of the contents of the bbpress.php file you created.

disable front end editing

disable front end editing

[melanie bund]

Hi
I am using the latest wordpress and bbpress
i have my own login form, (for people to upload images to their portfolios) how do i synchronise bbpress with that form rather than having to have 2 login forms which seems silly
Thank you in advance
Melanie

[cybarmitzvah]

Ok, I have switched it back to my child theme and called it bbpress.php

I’ve also found that by doing it, the edit my profile button still goes to the backend, even for a user

What should I do next, I am a bit lost.

Thank You,
JB