[kopperwoman]

I’m having a similar problem to dustinarmstrong. But its not exactly the same.

I’m trying to fix a broken forum set up for a client. I did not do the forum installation (he did it himself) AND the forum is installed on a live site that gets lots of web traffic so I don’t want to do anything that might impact the website overall.

Here’s my situation:
1) BBPress was installed (I don’t have details about when and how),
2) a page was created with the [bbp-forum-index] shortcode on it
3) the forum didn’t work, so my client contacted me to fix it
4) I went into settings > forums and changed the forum root slug from the default “forum” to “travel-forums” (the name of the page where the shortcode lives. The error message “Possible bbPress conflict: Forum slug” showed up next to the slug field after saving the settings.
5) I also changed the single forum slug from the default “forum” to “travel-forums”. The error message “Possible bbPress conflict: Forums base” showed up next to the slug field after saving.

In my case, the forum page DOES show up at http://foobar.com/travel-forums but it is empty except for the welcome text that I had entered into the forum main window. (So it just says “Welcome to our forum” without any of the discussion topics showing up.

Also, I have the “Recent Topics” widget enabled on my sidebar and my three test discussion topics DO show up there. When I click on any of them they take me to the correct URL but the pages are blank. So, for example, when I click on “test topic” in the widget I land on http://foobar.com/travel-forums/topic/test-topic/ and the page displays the topic header “Test topic” and the topic question “what do you think about travel?” but it doesn’t display any of the posts.

I’m not sure if this behavior is related to the slug conflict error messages or if something else is wrong.

I’m trying to follow the advice that Stephen Edgar gave.

First up, I think this is probably true in my case:

most likely you have something else either titled or using the slug discuss and this includes any items in trash as even though they are in the trash they still reserve that slug and it is not released until the item is removed from the trash.

This is probably a stupid question but How do I empty the trash to make sure that the old slug is removed?

Second, I’d like to try this:

To fix this try resetting your permalinks. In your WordPress Administration Screens navigate to Settings > Permalinks, select a different permalink structure and save. Then select your preferred permalink structure and save again.

but since my website is live and has been for a long time (and has lots of blog posts using the custom structure already) I’m concerned that this could permanently break the existing links. Any thoughts on this?

[nolimit966]

I have this exact same issue with BBPress and Wishlist members.

Does anyone know how we can fix this properly without showing all.

Thank you

[cybarmitzvah]

#2 I have noticed a new problem on the forum, astronomertalk.com,

you need to join to see it, but I changed the submit button,

using this code:

#bbpress-forums .submit {
background-color: #000073;
color: #FFFFFF;
float: center;
vertical-align: middle;
border-radius: 2px;
height: 35px;
width: 80px;
font-size: 18px;
}

but it also influenced the update profile button which now looks screwed up…

You need to join to see it, but it looks bad.

Does anyone know a fix?

Best,
JB

[ttmt]

Ok so I see in the back of wordpress bbpress settings I can deselect subscription to post and tags but this deletes it for all users.

How can I allow subscription and notification emails is only allowed for Moderators

[ttmt]

Hi all

I have bbpress set up so new users are Spectator

As Spectator they see the subscribe btn at the top of the post and the ‘Notify me of follow-up replies via email’ at the bottom.

Is there a way to change this so only Participant can see the subscribe and Notify buttons.

[MarcoDiModena]

Hi there same problem here, I use Buddypress and bbpress, I installed BBpress post rating and now I have the “like” and “dislike” in the topic post but as the user have buddypress page in profile thats cut off the Karma. There’s a way to integrate BBpress post rating with Buddypress profile? Thanks in advance for any suggestion. marco

[MilliR]

I am using forums.php as my custom template to modify bbpress. I copied content of archive-forum into it and modified it a bit. Thing is, the forum lists shows up as expected. But no topic or list of topics is shown on following the links. This is all I get.

Oh bother! No forums were found here!

Using the default page.php gives no problem.

Here’s the code for forums.php

<?php

/**
 * bbPress - Forum Archive
 *
 * @package bbPress
 * @subpackage Theme
 */

get_header(); ?>
<div id="main-content">
	<div id="millir-header-feat">
		<div class="container">
			<h1 class="entry-title"><?php bbp_forum_archive_title(); ?></h1>
		</div>
	</div>
	<div class="container">
	<div id="content-area" class="clearfix">
		<div id="left-area">
			<?php do_action( 'bbp_before_main_content' ); ?>

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

			<div id="forum-front" class="bbp-forum-front">				
				<div class="entry-content">

					<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'content', 'archive-forum' ); ?>

				</div>
			</div><!-- #forum-front -->

			<?php do_action( 'bbp_after_main_content' ); ?>
		</div>
		<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
	</div>
	</div>	
</div>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

[khansariamirreza]

Hi to everyone and sorry for my English
I installed bbpress on my site and now wondering is there this futures i wan’t:
1) Is there any user role plugin or tweak for posting restrictions i wan’t to let all peoples ask their questions on my site but the topic or their reply not published until i approve (somthing like contributer role in wordpress)

2) Is there any captcha for bbpress?

[Stephen Edgar]

Can I bring with me the anonymous posts from deleted and anonymous users?

I have just added support for this to a handful of bbPress’ importers, I hope to finalize some bits for compatibility with all of bbPress importers by the end of the week and release the code for people to test out. 🙂

Importing Avatars

This is kind of a complex issue because of PHP timeouts, if we can’t find an avatar via ftp/http how long do we wait, what if the remote avatar no longer exists.

@cybmeta Has written a Joomla Kunena Forum Attachments converter for the GD bbPress Attachments plugin.

I’d like to play around one day when I have some time up my sleeve to base an avatar and attachment importer that we could use as a separate plugin to import these into WordPress media library for use with bbPress.

https://github.com/CybMeta/kunena-attachments-to-bbpress

Kunena converter for bbPress 2.4

Kunena converter for bbPress 2.4

[Nicolas Korobochkin]

In file bbpress.php I find this code:

// Topic-View Pagination|Feed|View
add_rewrite_rule( $view_slug . $paged_rule, 'index.php?' . $view_id . '=$matches[1]&' . $paged_id . '=$matches[2]', $priority );

add_rewrite_rule( $view_slug . $feed_rule,  'index.php?' . $view_id . '=$matches[1]&' . $feed_id  . '=$matches[2]', $priority );

add_rewrite_rule( $view_slug . $root_rule,  'index.php?' . $view_id . '=$matches[1]',                               $priority );

What is it? What is feed? /forums/view/feed not open.

[Stephen Edgar]

We are not supporting importing form a remote database at this stage, theoritically it shouldn’t be that difficult with the correct access in place, but not at this stage.

It should work fine if you have a copy of your database locally though, most likely this is you didn’t select phpBB from the dropdown menu on the import screen.

Robin: I had a horrid week last week and am still catching up, read through 1/2 of bbPress.org this arvo and I will write a heap of replies tomorrow 😉

[Stephen Edgar]

There are some details on what and why different status’ are reported depending on if the result is due to “Comment Moderation” or “Comment Blacklist” here:

Moderation and BlackListing

Depending on time, improved support for this may land in bbPress 2.6.

[Kris35]

Sktrader, thanks for posting your site. I had a coder set everything up for me a few months ago and I remember the BBPress register/login area looked really naff. Maybe he wasnt such a good coder? We decided to use User Pro, but I didnt like it in the end. We had a User Pro PM plugin and I just remember having so many problems with everything, I took it down in the end and members joined my closed FB group. Am going to look into this more. Not sure what happened with mine but yours looks professional and smart. Thanks a bunch for this.

[rzelnik]

I have a WP+BBP installation for few months. The forum subscriptions worked well until recently – it sent e-mail notifications for users subscribed in a particular forum or topic as expected. Now it doesn’t send any e-mail. Any other e-mail notifications (user registration, password change etc.) are working well. I tried to create two bare new installations of WordPress with bbPress and no other plugins. It is working like my existing WP+BBP – all e-mail notifications are working well, except the new forum/topic notifications.

BTW, where can I find the subscriptions/notifications setttings? I can not find it. I can just check this one checkbox in Forum Features:

Subscriptions [] Allow users to subscribe to forums and topics

[ttmt]

Hi all

I have bbPress installed and everything is working fine.

I would like to use wordpress’s moderation tools.

This post states that bbPress uses the same moderation tools as WordPress.

Moderation and BlackListing

I have entered test words in the moderation text box:

Dashboard > Settings > Discussion > Comment Moderation

If I use these words in a post nothing happens and the post is added to the forum.

I’m logged in as admin and the words are used in the post not comments.

Does the user effect the moderation?

Is the moderation only on comments?

[aussiestar14]

Hey,
I am having the same problems with my oxygen theme as mentioned above!!
I created a forum page with shortcode and choosed there the fullwith template.
This works great:
http://www.curlyhorse.info/forum

• I’ve copied my “page-template-fullwidth.php”
• renamed it as “bbpress.php”
• installed bbPress WP Tweaks
• tried the code for the bbpress.php of Robin W (above)

But the whole forum doesn’t work now anymore with the new code, if you click on a forumpage like “dies-und-das”

Can anyone help??
Thanks a lot!!!!

[cybarmitzvah]

I have noticed a new problem on the forum, astronomertalk.com,

you need to join to see it, but I changed the submit button,

using this code:

#bbpress-forums .submit {
background-color: #000073;
color: #FFFFFF;
float: center;
vertical-align: middle;
border-radius: 2px;
height: 35px;
width: 80px;
font-size: 18px;
}

but it also influenced the update profile button which now looks screwed up…

You need to join to see it, but it looks bad.

Does anyone know a fix.

Thank You,
JB

[sktrader]

I am using this theme https://wordpress.org/themes/wp-knowledge-base
try this theme.
i am also using https://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-bbpress-tools/
plugin

[Stephen Edgar]

I also cannot find any forums on your site, I see bbPress is activated though.

Could you add some links that take us directly to your list of forums (and a link to your main forum page) and also a link to a topic.

[Robkk]

<a href="http://yoursitename.com/new-topic/">New Topic</a>

this should work after you have done everything in

New Topic Button at top of topic, and Topic Creation on Separate Page

[sktrader]

I whole idea of having this forum is having a common place where admin of bbpress forum can chit chat about managing the forum. i appreciate that you guys have provide genuine feedback. Now i am think what the point of having this forum because Mostly Webmaster talks about code and customization and i have limited knowledge regarding that. i think i should abort this forum.

[Robkk]

I will say there is a bit of a gap now, between the forum, and the title of site/description, would you know how to make that smaller?

try this, but if you see some weird looking css throughout the rest of your site in that area remove it, Or try to find an alternative.

.content {
padding-top: 5px !important;
}

search forum and topic icons in bbpress search then go from there

[Robkk]

they use , the bbpress shortcode for the new topic form.

[bbp-topic-form] – Display the ‘New Topic’ form where you can choose from a drop down menu the forum that this topic is to be associated with.

more shortcodes https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/

create a page , lets say “new topic”

add that shortcode, and save

place an html link in loop-forums.php

the link should look like

<a href="http://sitename.com/new-topic/">New Topic</a>

style it with css with

a.bbp-new-topic-button {
background:#009375;
color:#fff;
}

[MarximusMG]

Hey Robkk, thanks for the reply.

1. http://www.highexistence.com/ should be an example of a great looking bbpress site

https://bbpress.org/about/examples/

Totally agree. It’s a beautifully designed site.

2. i want that Hethens Voting plugin that site has .

I’ve been looking for it, so if you find it, please let me know!

3. the reply form below topic post could be there because they are showing the lead topic, and then inserting the reply form after that. not sure i will look at it though.

Again, please let me know if you figure this out! I appreciate it!

[Robkk]

1. http://www.highexistence.com/ should be an example of a great looking bbpress site

Examples

2. i want that Hethens Voting plugin that site has .

3. the reply form below topic post could be there because they are showing the lead topic, and then inserting the reply form after that. not sure i will look at it though.