[Robin W]

yes put this code in your functions file

add_filter('protected_title_format', 'ntwb_remove_protected_title');
function ntwb_remove_protected_title($title) {
	return '%s';
}
 
add_filter('private_title_format', 'ntwb_remove_private_title');
function ntwb_remove_private_title($title) {
	return '%s';
}

for information on functions files see

Functions files and child themes – explained !

[jamesamack]

Hi guys,

I was hoping you could help me out here, first up I’m working with BBPress V2.5.4.

I’m building a private members only forum and I’ve got everything up and running but every forum has the tag Private: in front of it. So when i end up opening things I end up with the page header as “Home › Forum › Private: Private: FORUM NAME TEST” for example.

Is there any way you can remove the Private bit? Without making everything public?

Sorry I can’t share the site but as it’s all hidden behind a membership section there isn’t anything to show.

Thanks in advance for the help

[Stephen Edgar]

Cool, have a look around the site here also as there a few interesting topics, like this one.

Let us know if you need anything else, will try to answer any Q’s you have.

p.s. Our vBulletin importer is pretty awesome, works well, and is included free, the downside is waiting for those MySQL queries to finish 😉

[superaven]

Thanks again Stephan.

Not so worried about the import… I’ve sourced an outfit that specializes in complex data migrations and will probably leave it to them to develop a custom tailored solution for it.

It is great to hear the rest of it though. I’ll bring this up to everybody so we can dig a bit deeper and put BBPress back on the possible contender short list. Hopefully you guys push it out soon, but truth is we’re kinda behind schedule ourselves.

Looking forward to seeing how BBPress evolves.

[Stephen Edgar]

So to be clear, you feel that if I were to implement a work around for ‘last active time’ or wait to install BBPress version 2.6 that I can confidently run BBPress on a forum that size?

Indeed, as you stated you need a fairly robust server though it sounds like you already have that. As bbPress 2.6 continues development I’d suggest you set yourself up a test install on your local PC and do some benchmarks and test the vBulletin importer as ~6.5 million posts will take a bit of time to import and familiarising yourself with how this works is worth knowing so you know what has to be done before you switch over your live site.

Is ‘last active time’ really the bottle neck? As I understood this issue, it had to do with bbPress sharing the DB table with the WordPress posts.

Yes, ‘last active time’ is the primary bottleneck as by default we sort topics based on the latest reply in a topic, though if a topic has no replies this is slotted in also.

The full technical details of this are here https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1925, it is not the easiest read and as there are two potential methods discussed. Primarily because of this ticket is why bbPress 2.6 is running late as there is a boat load of testing to be done to make sure we don’t break backwards compatibility.

Lastly, do you have a target date for v2.6?

3 weeks late 😉

[superaven]

Hi Stephan,

Thanks for your reply.

So to be clear, you feel that if I were to implement a work around for ‘last active time’ or wait to install BBPress version 2.6 that I can confidently run BBPress on a forum that size?

Is ‘last active time’ really the bottle neck? As I understood this issue, it had to do with BBPress sharing the DB table with the WordPress posts.

Lastly, do you have a target date for v2.6?

Thanks again,

Allen

[Stephen Edgar]

Hi,

The issue discussed in the thread you linked to is being updated/fixed for the next bbPress release, version 2.6, we are currently just working through some other bits as part of 2.6 before finalizing this update.

I don’t see the size of your vBulletin forum being an issue for bbPress 2.6, the ‘last active time’ is a bit of a pain for large sites though there are also a couple of workarounds already implemented in these large sites.

What version of vBulletin are you currently using?

bbPress has built in importers for vBulltin 3.x and 4.x, I also have a ‘development’ version for vBulletin 5.x that will be in a future release of bbPress.

[superaven]

Doh, just saw this thread despite our forum being quite a bit larger… https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbbpress-performance/

[superaven]

Forgot to mention… Our server hardware is pretty robust ands plenty capable for a stand alone forum like vBulletin or Xenforo. Since BBPress looks so streamlined and minimal, I’d have guessed its resource footprint on our servers would be significantly less than some of those other forum systems that has ever heel and whistle imaginable.

I know these discussions often turn towards solutions like throwing more system resources at a problem and you can run just about anything, but trying to get an idea of efficiency as best I can so we can make an informed decision.

[superaven]

Hi,

We’re contemplating moving our website to WordPress and are looking at integrated forum options to replace an older version of vBulletin we’re running now. I know vBulletin to WordPress bridges exist, but I’m hesitant as its been a nightmare bridging it to our current CMS and hoping to also not have to maintain two separate scripts, never mind theming them both as well.

Anyhow, I was informed that BBPress shares the same database table as WordPress and that migrating a forum as large as ours would have a massively negative effect on our WordPress install and properly affect our posts pretty bad.

Our vBulletin forum has approximately 180,000 members, 100,000 threads and roughly 6.5 million comments.

Any suggestions on how we might best proceed in a forum solution should we go the WordPress route for the rest of our website? I did see Simple:Press and saw it runs off a different table… Hate to be superficial, but looking at the website, it doesn’t really inspire confidence. (no offense)

Thank you in advance for any input or insight that can help us make a decision.

[shpitzyl]

Hello all.
Does someone here know how to embed buddypress favorite button inside bbpress posts? Is it possible to get the activity id from the post id?

[Jerry]

I have been working for about 5 days to get topics from a forum on one site to show on my main page, which is a separate site. I’m running current versions of wordpress multisite, bbpress, and buddypress on my main page.

I found some code via my searches and created a simple plugin. It works to display topics from a separate site on my main page. That was a victory for sure. The problem I am now having is the formatting! Arrghh! I cannot get it to format correctly.

I know that others have been wanting to do this, so perhaps someone else can get me to the final step and we can publish a good plugin. Here is the code:

<?php
/* 
		Plugin Name: Recent bbpress Topics
		Plugin URI: http://whosgotbooks.com/wp-content/plugins
		Description: A plugin to display recent bbpress topics across the network
		Version: 1.0.0
		Author: Jerry Caldwell
		Author URI: http://whosgotbooks.com
		License: Open Source 
*/ 

function recent_bbpress_topics_shortcode() {                  
  recent_bbpress_topics(); }
  add_shortcode( 'recent-bbpress-topics', 'recent_bbpress_topics_shortcode' );

// ! // Add Recent Topics to BBPress
function recent_bbpress_topics() {
  if ( bbp_has_topics( array( 'author' => 0, 'show_stickies' => false, 'order' => 'DESC', 'post_parent' => 'any', 'posts_per_page' => 8 ) ) ) { 
      //bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/loop', 'topics' );
      bbp_get_template_part( 'loop', 'topics' );
      }
// Hook into action
add_action('bbp_template_after_forums_loop','recent_bbpress_topics');

} ?>

I have been trying to get this to format with bbpress.css. I managed to changed the css on one of my sites to get things how I want, but I can’t with this function. Here is a link of how I want things to look: http://whosgotbooks.com/book-reviews/
And here is the link of the main page, where I can’t quite get it the way I want it: http://whosgotbooks.com/

Here is the bbpress.css that worked on the review page, but doesn’t work for the main page:

li.bbp-topic-title {
	float: left;
	text-align: left;
  overflow: hidden;
	width: 75%;
}
#bbpress-forums li.bbp-body ul.topic {
/*	border-top: 1px solid #7D573A; */ 
  border-top: transparent;
	overflow: hidden; 
  display: inline-table;  
	padding: 8px;
  width: 22%;
}

To get the books somewhat organized on the main page, I had to change width to 20% on the bbp-topic-title class above, and the bbp-body ul.topic changes do not help on the main page.
This is the extent of my abilities. I would love to get rid of those annoying dots as well. Hopefully someone can help me get the rest of the way.
Thanks…

[Jonathan Bardo]

Hey everyone,

I know this topic is a little bit old but we have recently created a plugin that would help reducing the post meta queries involving _bbp_last_active_time. The plugin is righthere.

We basically move the meta to his own table for reading which reduce considerably the query time. The good thing about this plugin is that it is non intrusive meaning once bbpress core find a solution to resolve this issue, one can only deactivate the plugin and everything will be back to normal.

Any feedback welcomed!

Cheers!

[Robin W]

In essence if I understand it you want to change the

reply/edit/merge/trash/close/trash/reply links that come up with a topic or reply so that only some show, and others are in a dropdown list.

is that correct?

if so then

my goal with this is to call each admin link individually and make only 2 or 3 to be visible
(reply,edit,maybe quote link from gd bbpress tools)

simply requires you to filter for those you want to display

open up

bbpress/includes/replies/template.php

and you’ll see the admin links function line starting at line 1811

On lines 1840 to 1848 you’ll see the default links are added.

So lets create a function to just have the first two

you’ll see a filter in line 1841 (‘apply_filters’) and we can hook to that

so

//change admin links displayed
function change_admin_links ($r) {
$r['links'] = apply_filters( 'rw_reply_admin_links', array(
				'edit'  => bbp_get_reply_edit_link ( $r ),
				'move'  => bbp_get_reply_move_link ( $r )
			), $r['id'] );
return $r['links'] ;
}
add_filter ('bbp_reply_admin_links', 'change_admin_links' ) ;

just leaves us with edit and move.

This also gives you the ability to add a new link, with say your dropdown list.

You’ll also see that this function checks if it is a topic on line 1825, and you’ll need to similarly create a function for that – I’ll leave you to work that one out.

Come back if you need more help, and when you crack this, can you post the finished code to this site so we can see what it looks like.

[Robin W]

no the file is one that belongs to your theme called just functions.php

you’ll find it at

wp-content/themes/%yourthemename%/functions.php

where %yourthemename% is the name of your theme.

If you don’t have a child theme, then you should create one, see

Functions files and child themes – explained !

[Miatsu]

Hello,

I’m actually using WordPress 3.9.1, BuddyPress 2.0.1 et bbPress 2.5.4 .

For my website I have created differents forums for each user group. This forums will directly be displayed in the main menu as submenus.

Is there a way to choose to display each forum submenu ONLY if the user is log in and a members of the group ?

I have found some solution to filter menu by role, but in my case it will be the group that should be used to filter the menus elements.

Thanks in advance !

[mattmatt88]

Hello,

I have a WP multisite with different blogs but i want a single forum that is used by every blog. So every forum and post should be visible for every site.

There was a topic 3 years ago: http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-multisite-single-forum/

Look like that is still no feature?

Thank you.

[Schpil]

Hi!

Is this the file? : bbpress-functions.php
Is this its location? : /public/www/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default

Where exactly do I drop the lines into the file?

thanks for your help!

[feb992]

Don´t work… the forum index load in full width but the subforum, topics… load whith the default themeplate.

I´m create a page themeplate in full widht and rename it bbpress.php and I configure the permalinks, the forum works, but don’t load how I need

Thanks 🙂

[Robkk]

ok i just need help with creating a function

if i could use <?php echo bbp_get_topic_reply_link(); ?> to call the topic reply link

how could i make a function thats

if post type is topic echo bbp_topic_reply_link else echo bbp-reply-to-link

and another function that is if keymaster or mod echo trash topic , trash reply etc.

my goal with this is to call each admin link individually and make only 2 or 3 to be visible
(reply,edit,maybe quote link from gd bbpress tools)

while the others are inside of a dropdown menu with an icon to show the menu
kind of like twitter where it shows other options in the more button on tweets

if you guys could help me find another way to call the bbpress admin links instead of
<?php echo bbp_get_name_of_link(); ?>

[Robin W]

yes, drop this into your functions file.

Functions files and child themes – explained !

This will send users to the /forums/ page whenever they log out -whether private or public forum or on a topic or reply, or anywhere within bbpress. If you logout, you’re saying your done, so taking you back to the index seems a logical place to end up !

You can change the $url to say ‘/home/’ if you want the home page,

//sends the user to $url - in this case '/forums/'  
function rw_logout ($redirect_to) {
	$url='/forums/' ;
	$redirect_to = '<a href="' . wp_logout_url( $url ) . '" class="button logout-link">' . esc_html__( 'Log Out', 'bbpress' ) . '</a>' ;
	return $redirect_to ;
	}
	
	add_filter ('bbp_get_logout_link', 'rw_logout') ;
	

[Rami Yushuvaev]

I think this is a WordPress question, not bbPress.

[Stephen Edgar]

No, from memory the widget does not support adding a category to then show all the topics from all the sub forums in the widget.

We have a ticket tracking some enhancements for the widgets in a future bbPress version, I’ll add this request to that.

[Robin W]

bbpress has its own roles

so user not registered would see all public forums but not able to post, but would not see private forums
registered users with wordpress roles would be able to do all wordpress things but with ‘no role’ in the user profile under forum would not be able to post in the forum.
registered users with forum roles (eg participant, moderator) would be able to see public and private forums, and if wordpress roles set would be able to carry out wordpress roles
registered users with spectator role would be able to view both public & private forums but not participate.

you should be able to achieve whatever you want with a role based solution.

come back with further details if this is not what you are trying to achieve

[Sam Rohn]

the separate bbpress dynamic caps have been very frustrating for me, i had actually been able to rig something up as the OP described a few years ago with user role editor plugin, but it was broken by the caps change in 2.2 🙁

Roles and Capabilities in bbPress 2.2

an interface to set granular permissions per forum by user or user role for bbpress would be a HUGE boon, this is a core feature of all other forum software i am aware of

otherwise, here is an article on customizing bbpress dynamic caps, haven’t tried this one yet

http://gawainlynch.com/customising-dynamic-roles-in-bbpress-2-2/

i have seen robin’s new plugin too, might do almost what i need but i haven’t had a chance to test it yet, but ultimately my goal would be the ability to create different forums for different customized (custom code or URE etc) member roles which are auto-assigned by s2 member

sam