[Robin W]

yes use

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-do-short-codes/

[Styled Themes]

It appears the forum search is not working on my demo theme site:

1. search the blog, it works
2. search the forum, it shows the same single post from a blog
3. search does not search the forums

Try it out here: FORUM
Then the blog search: BLOG

Any ideas why the dedicated search in the bbPress plugin is not working?

[SteelersDen]

I love the idea of bbPress and I am currently using it on my website but there are a few things that make this plugin poor.

1. No login/register box for logged out users. Yes, I know we have widgets that can be used but what about above the actual forums on the page?

2. User signatures. This is such a simple addition that I have no idea as to why it is not included with bbPress. It’s apart of the core message board features all around.

3. My main beef with bbPress is the way categories and forums are shown. Forums are placed under categories like sub-forums which looks un-forum like to me.

Just a few things that come to mind.

[SAPinfoASAP]

Hi,

Is it possible to allow shortcodes in the forum? These shortcodes are not part of bbpress, but other wordpress plugins I have installed.

For example one short code allows me to add an optin form, I would like to add this to the end of my forum post.

Thanks in advance,

[Thanh Sang Nguyen]

I have use your plugin bbPress. I has add this code into form-reply.php and form-topic.php
bbp_the_content( array( 'context' => 'reply', 'media_buttons' => true ));
Add media button appear, when I upload image, it not work and error “An error occurred in the upload. Please try again later.”
How can I upload image with subscriber. Please don’t sugguest me use GD bbPress attchment.
WP 3.9.1 and bbPress version 2.5.3.

[Robkk]

you put this into your child themes functions.php

source https://gist.github.com/ntwb/7864894

add_filter( 'bbp_get_dynamic_roles', 'ntwb_bbpress_custom_role_names' );
 
function ntwb_bbpress_custom_role_names() {
	return array(
 
		// Keymaster
		bbp_get_keymaster_role() => array(
			'name'         => 'My Custom Keymaster Role Name',
			'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_keymaster_role() )
		),
 
		// Moderator
		bbp_get_moderator_role() => array(
			'name'         => 'My Custom Moderator Role Name',
			'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_moderator_role() )
		),
 
		// Participant
		bbp_get_participant_role() => array(
			'name'         => 'My Custom Participant Role Name',
			'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_participant_role() )
		),
 
		// Spectator
		bbp_get_spectator_role() => array(
			'name'         => 'My Custom Spectator Role Name',
			'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_spectator_role() )
		),
 
		// Blocked
		bbp_get_blocked_role() => array(
			'name'         => 'My Custom Blocked Role Name',
			'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_blocked_role() )
		)
	);
}

[fabiii]

Hi there,
I’d like to import punBB forums to BBpress from localhost.
I am running MAMP localy with punBB forums and I want to import them to an online BBpress installation.
When I am typing in ‘localhost’ and credentials in the import form the script cannot find topics, messages, users and so to convert though I don’t get any DB connexion error message.

Any advice on how to achieve this? Thanks.

[Leonyipa]

My Full Code in /public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/core/capabilitiese.php

http://pastebin.com/bdisb0Bb

[Sudar Muthu]

For anyone keeping an eye on the development of 2.6, all of these fixes are already ported over, and we bumped the 2.6 release date back to the end of June to give us time to enjoy the fresh summer air.

This was mentioned in this 2.5.4 release blog article https://bbpress.org/blog/2014/06/bbpress-2-5-4-security-bugfix-release/

But it’s already end of July, so I am assuming that the date got pushed out again.

[Robin W]

very high chance it will be fine, but risk that your developer will have changed some core files.

Since your trying to learn stuff, then I strongly recommend that you create a test site, which will let you try it there first, but also will teach you loads about wordpress and how it operates, and give you confidence to make other changes in a test area first

https://codex.bbpress.org/creating-a-test-site/

[Robin W]

absolutely there is, but if you’ve only taken out the footer in bbpress.php, then it will only have been taken out for bbpress, so will still be available elsewhere.

otherwise do come back

[jack28791]

I have permalinks set like this

/%category%/%postname%/

I just installed bbpress and haven’t touched the settings. My forum root looks like

mysite.com/forums and displays the 2 forums I created

Test-1
Test-2

But when I go to test-1 it looks like:

mysite.com/forums/forum/Test-1

I don’t want it to say “forums/forum” just “forums/Test-1”

How can I accomplish this?

[wahtips]

I had someone build my website and he hasn’t been much help recently so I have been trying to learn things on my own. I have bbpress 2.5.3 and I’m not sure what all the website developer has done when it comes to customization. I want to update but before I do I just wanted to make sure I won’t lose anything on my forum. It’s fairly new but if I lose anything I don’t know if I would be able to fix it. I know very little about this type of stuff. So I just wanted to know if it is safe to update or if I should hold off.

[Robin W]

this thread discusses

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/upgrade-bbpress-1-0-2-to-2-1-2/

looks like you need to go via 1.2 but then should just be export/import?

of course back everything up before you start.

Actually if I were doing this I’d do it on a test site first

https://codex.bbpress.org/creating-a-test-site/

and just see if it works !

Can you document as you go, and When you’ve done it, come back and give us how you did it, and I’ll add it to the

https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/bbpress-1-x-buddypress-group-forums/

to help someone in future

[Robin W]

Hey don’t worry, code is just a bunch of stuff that either works or doesn’t – and yours now works.

what I couldn’t figure out was why the sidebar was showing, and now that you’ve posted the footer.php I can see why. Strange bit of theme coding to put the sidebar in a footer.php but there are only conventions not rules. All you’ve done by deleting the footer line is stop the sidebar running, which is what you wanted.

The fact that I changed your code also is worrying me since I have absolutely no knowledge about php coding. I mean, I’ve found out there is a something called php coding.

Don’t worry you’ve done nothing wrong, it’s all good.

NOW the only thing you’ll need to do is make a note of all the changes you made. Themes sometimes have updates, and these may overwrite existing files, and in your case may also delete the bbpress.php. So keep copies of any files you have changed or added on your PC.

[gogitossj34]

Okay, now this is what I did:
I replaced the line above

<?php the_title( ‘<h2 ‘ . hybrid_get_attr( ‘entry-title’ ) . ‘>‘, ‘</h2>’ ); ?>

with this line in my old bbpress.php file because I see they are in the similar position and the page work ok.

<?php the_title( ‘<h2 ‘ . hybrid_get_attr( ‘entry-title’ ) . ‘>‘, ‘</h2>’ ); ?>

But at the topic page, it pushed the sidebar to the bottom. So, I deleted the get footer line and everything looks exactly how I want them to be.

Only that now I don’t know if they’ll be any problem, especially when I removed the get footer line.

The fact that I changed your code also is worrying me since I have absolutely no knowledge about php coding. I mean, I’ve found out there is a something called php coding.

Anyway, here is my footer.php content, can you check if anything is important ?

<?php hybrid_get_sidebar( ‘primary’ ); // Loads the sidebar/primary.php template. ?>

</div><!– #main –>

<?php hybrid_get_sidebar( ‘subsidiary’ ); // Loads the sidebar/subsidiary.php template. ?>

</div><!– .wrap –>

<footer <?php hybrid_attr( ‘footer’ ); ?>>

<div class=”wrap”>

<?php hybrid_get_menu( ‘social’ ); // Loads the menu/social.php template. ?>

<p class=”credit”>

<?php printf(

/* Translators: 1 is current year, 2 is site name/link, 3 is WordPress name/link, and 4 is theme name/link. */

__( ‘Copyright © %1$s %2$s. Powered by %3$s and %4$s.’, ‘stargazer’ ),

date_i18n( ‘Y’ ), hybrid_get_site_link(), hybrid_get_wp_link(), hybrid_get_theme_link()

); ?>

</p><!– .credit –>

</div><!– .wrap –>

</footer><!– #footer –>

</div><!– #container –>

<?php wp_footer(); // WordPress hook for loading JavaScript, toolbar, and other things in the footer. ?>

</body>

</html>

[gogitossj34]

I tried it but this happen when I get in the General:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in …/bbpress.php on line 14

You can see it here
http://mmo4teens.netai.net/forums/forum/general/

I don’t know if this is right but the error seems to be in this line ( ran some php code checker and read the error on my page):

<?php the_title( ‘<h2 ‘ . hybrid_get_attr( ‘entry-title’ ) . ‘>‘, ‘</h2>’ ); ?>

[Robin W]

Hey no need to apologise, it’s often difficult to resolve these things, and it’s not due to your lack of explanation, it will just be something simple that needs fixing !

can you try the following as your bbpress.php

<?php get_header(); // Loads the header.php template. ?>

<main <?php hybrid_attr( ‘content’ ); ?>>

<?php if ( have_posts() ) : // Checks if any posts were found. ?>

<?php while ( have_posts() ) : // Begins the loop through found posts. ?>

<?php the_post(); // Loads the post data. ?>

<article <?php hybrid_attr( ‘post’ ); ?>>

<header class=”entry-header”>
 <?php the_title( ‘<h2 ‘ . hybrid_get_attr( ‘entry-title’ ) . ‘>‘, ‘</h2>’ ); ?>
 </header><!– .entry-header –>

<div <?php hybrid_attr( ‘entry-content’ ); ?>>
 <?php the_content(); ?>
 <?php wp_link_pages(); ?>
 </div><!– .entry-content –>

</article><!– .entry –>

<?php endwhile; // End found posts loop. ?>

<?php else : // If no posts were found. ?>

<?php locate_template( array( ‘content/error.php’ ), true ); // Loads the content/error.php template. ?>

<?php endif; // End check for posts. ?>

</main><!– #content –>

<?php get_footer(); // Loads the footer.php template. ?>

[Masoud Golchin]

Hi,
i’m using bbpress 1.0.2 for my website forums since 2006 .
i want to know how can i upgrade it to newer version?
as you know automaticly upgrade is not possible 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress’ ‘private’ forums can be viewed by any bbPress user logged in.
bbPress’ ‘hidden’ forums can only be viewed by any bbPress moderators and keymasters.

https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/#creating-your-first-forum

For BuddyPress specific info you should see http://buddypress.org

https://codex.buddypress.org/buddypress-components-and-features/groups/group-settings-and-roles/

[Stephen Edgar]

You’ll need to download the translations manually per the details here:

https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-in-your-language/
https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/2.5.x

Save them into /wp-content/languages/plugins

With some luck these two direct links will get you the .mo and .po. Make sure you rename both files so they are named bbpress-fr_FR.mo and bbpress-fr_FR.po respectively.

The reason I asked for the language you are using is because if the language translation is 100% translated then bbPress translations are delived to you automatically by the same WordPress Core ‘Automatic Updates’ mechanism, sadly bbPress French translations are not at 100%. (Technically they are at 100% translated but there are 228 strings waiting to be approved.)

[foresme]

@robin-w

Thank you! Very helpful.

I followed the instructions for #8, and added a sidebar.php file (renamed bbpress.php) to my theme root > however, when I did that, all my forum topic pages went completely blank – showing only a white page.

I would really love this solution to work, as it’s perfect, but not sure what to try now…?

[vegas778]

French. Maybe its because I put them in bbpress folder / languages and when there was the update it deleted them.

[Herophantom]

So another update:
The bossman wasn’t liking the layout that bbpress uses and insisted on using a different forum plugin. So, I’m very sorry to have wasted any of your time, but I appreciate your quick response and helpfulness, I will defiantly keep bbpress on hand for future projects.

[Stephen Edgar]

What language are you using? You should see bbPress’ translations in /wp-content/languages/

(Dependant on the language you use also changes a couple of things)