[Type Historian]

I *need* a plug-in for my bbPress-driven forums site that lists/links topics with the most recent replies [Hottest Topics]. For this purpose, I have tried both the “Recent Replies” widget and the “Recent Topics” widget configured to display/link “Topics with Recent Replies” selected from the drop-down menu.

First I tried the Recent Replies widget. It worked perfectly for several months, successfully weathering upgrades of both WordPress and bbPress to the latest versions. Suddenly [outta Nowhere!], it broke the visitor experience: Content of the main navigation sidebar following the first “hot topic” disappeared, and a second [variable] sidebar disappeared completely.

Even worse, admin access to replies went nuts [more below]. When I disabled the “Recent Replies” plug-in, the problem disappeared instantly.

Next I tried some “third-party” plug-ins that either didn’t work or required coding beyond my experience.

Then I tried the Recent Topics widget configured to list only “topics with recent replies.” This solution worked [with reservations, more below] for several weeks until July 1. Just as suddenly, this choice created some of the same problems experienced with the “Recent Replies” widget.

So I’m trying the Recent Replies widget again.

When I use it now, the visitor front-end works as it should.
However, admin access to replies has the same problems as before:

The dashboard link to this function is
http://forums.typeheritage.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=reply

When I click it, this is what I see:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/78278455/bbPress/Replies-01.png

Note that the “Filter” button has disappeared. By selecting June 2014 and clicking the “Apply” button instead, I can view all replies PUBLISHED last month.

What I CANNOT view:

ALL replies regardless of publication date or status
Complete lists of replies published in months before June 2014
Private replies including my own input in progress
Drafts
____

In terms prioritizing visitor experience vs admin control, it seems safer to use the Recent Topics widget configured to list “Topics With Recent Replies” selected from the drop-down menu. My complaint with this option is that it lists/links to brand-new topics with NO responses.

Is there a way to tweak either the Recent Replies or Recent Topics With Replies plug-ins to do the job?

Many thanks for your help, Anna

[thecatholicwoman]

Robin I have a new issue which is not traditionally for this forum so I understand if you say that i I have move it.

Last night I deleted two plugins. A logo plugin and a log in/log out plugin because it was causing a pop up that people who tested the site did not like. Well for some reason after deleting them when I returned to the site to test it my admin bar was missing. I did some research on that issue and it said to check the footer.php file to make sure that <?php wp_footer(); ?> is right above the body and it is there so I am not sure. I deactivated most of my plugins until I can figure it out but even with everything but bbpress deactivated the admin bar did not come back. Not sure what to do.

[Tom Dyer]

Hi @netweb, thanks for the response. I’ve gathered some more information to elaborate on the issues…

Stickies – the issue here seems to be that the phpBB stickies and announcements have all been imported as ‘super stickies’. There is actually a lot more than 20 posts (my estimate in the original post was waaay out – there was actually about 100 when I went in to un-stick them). These might have been fine had they imported as normal stickies – but having them as super-stickies had a hug impact on forum pages load times.

User import – I thought at the time that it was probably a conflict with username and/or ID but having looked at the posts I’ve adopted, they are all from different users. I have 62 forum topics/replies under my name but looking at the live site, the original authors of these are all different users which makes no sense to me. What’s more is, I haven’t adopted all of the users posts, just like one or two from each user…

…Following on, I now wonder if these are posts that should have been assigned to the ‘Anonymous’ user because I think I may have deleted that user at some point not realising it was a result of the import… I’ll add it back in and see if it fixes my problem.

I didn’t realise that adding a moderators only forum was that easy… I’ve been working with RobinW to integrate the bbp-private-groups plugin, maybe I don’t need that after all.

Repair Tools – our forum has imported 72 Forums, 71,007 Topics, and 564,453 Replies. It’s a fairly large one, but I think I’ve heard of larger forums being imported into bbPress…

User login – I haven’t used a plugin for this, I’ve written it myself. It just does a simple ajax call using the admin-ajax and then calls wp_signon() to attempt to log you in. It’s a fairly simple one, I just need to know which hooks bbPress is using to run the conversions on and hopefully I can just call that action before/after trying to log them in.

[pazis]

Thanks. It was Paid Memberships Pro 1.7.11 causing this.

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/buddypress-bbpress-conflict-with-paidmembershipspro

[Stephen Edgar]

WPML make their own ‘bbPress WPM’ plugin, though it is not publicly available.

You need to ask them really nicely to get a copy 😉

If you are using the official ‘bbPress WPML’ plugin is it the latest version?

With all that said though any issues with the ‘bbPress WPML’ plugin need to raised with the WPML support team.

[chrissss]

I narrowed it down to a conflict in /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/js/editor.js. When i move this file or deactivate the editor toolbar in the bbpress settings, the gallerys work again.

[chrissss]

I run bbpress 2.54 on wordpress 3.9.1. After activating bbpress I noticed that gallerys inside my blog articles gallery pictures don’t show up anymore. Instead of the pictures I only see a blank line. You can see this here…

http://linuxundich.de/allgemein/flixtor-popcorn-time-alternative-android-chromecast/

As soon as I deactivate bbpress the gallerys are back again. Is there a generell problem with gallery plugins and bbpress? Is there a quick way to fix this?

Thanks for your help!
Christoph

[Robin W]

yes there’s lots to learn, my css is probably at your php level !

I found a way to have a search box that is persistent on every level of the bbPress forums. Now I have to get rid of the second search box that is at the top of the forums. I can’t find where that is in the code to remove it.

You could try just turning off the forum search

dashboard>settings>forums and look for allow forum wide search

Is there anyone that comes around regularly that would either donate the time for these couple of tweaks or let me pay them over time?

you can put an ad on wordpress jobs

http://jobs.wordpress.net/

just post it as a project and detail what you want

But I’d play with the css first, as I think much of what you want is stylable.

[K-Path]

Robin W,
Thank you for the resources. I can work my way through the CSS and HTML4 and some 5 but I haven’t a clue how to program in PHP. Is there anyone that comes around regularly that would either donate the time for these couple of tweaks or let me pay them over time?

I cloned TwentyTen and renamed it TwentyTen+ and then tweaked the CSS of the formatting to the limit of my understanding. I’m going to keep at that but I’m not going to have the programming kung fu needed to tweak the PHP that bbPress depends on for it’s formating.

I found a way to have a search box that is persistent on every level of the bbPress forums. Now I have to get rid of the second search box that is at the top of the forums. I can’t find where that is in the code to remove it.

Help please.

Auriel

[Robin W]

no problem, using the wordpress editor will not work, you’ll need to use ftp or cpanel

see the following

Functions files and child themes – explained !

on FTP and notepad++ which will get you the tools.

then you want to
ftp the file to your pc
open it using notepad++
then save it to your pc as the new filename
the edit it for the sidebar
then save it on your pc
the ftp the file back to your host

lots to learn, but you’ll find this useful for future as you customise you site

[Stephen Edgar]

I have also made the edits to that part 3 document.

Awesome, thank you 🙂

The _bbp_topic_title on the new form something like:

#bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form p,
#bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form textarea,
#bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form select, 
#bbpress-forums fieldset.bbp-form input {
margin: 0 0 8px;
background-color: #111111;
}

(The above includes a few other areas of bbPress forms you might be interested in)

[Stephen Edgar]

There is a Ticket somewhere in our bug tracking for bbPress, I just can’t find it right now but there is a planned improvement to only show a single revision log notice, it is planned to do a bit more than just the notice display also 😉

[Stephen Edgar]

I haven’t used any of those above plugins except BuddyPress of course so I really can’t help you there except to say that ‘bbPress Roles’ are separate to ‘WordPress Roles’ and most likely the ‘Student’ role you refer to above (and the plugins) are all manipulating WordPress’ roles for you and NOT bbPress roles.

[Stephen Edgar]

You would need to create a custom role, should be possible.

Take a look at these to get you started:

https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-user-roles-and-capabilities/

Custom Capabilities

[Stephen Edgar]

I have not tried these recently though I still believe both work, that is of course if you want some Ajax topcs bits also 😉

bbPress – Ajax Replies and bbPress – Ajax Topics

[Stephen Edgar]

This worked for me…. Try a hard refresh (CRTL F5/CMD F5 I think), your CSS might be cached.

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-header,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-header {
background-color: #111111;
}

Use your browsers debug tools also, most browsers tools are pretty awesome, F12 will bring it up or right click an element and select ‘Inspect Element’

Also could you update the codex with the correct edits you found, anyone can edit the codex, just login using your same username and password 🙂

https://codex.bbpress.org/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=page

[Stephen Edgar]

Take a look at the following thread as a starter point for navigation menus and bbPress content.

Forum index

[Stephen Edgar]

Only moderators and keymasters would see that you it should not be an issue in the majority of use cases.

If you still want to though create a child theme if you don’t have one already and modify the bbPress template form-topic.php.

Functions files and child themes – explained !

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

[Stephen Edgar]

I don’t see this coming to bbPress in the near future as subscriptions are keyed by user_id, which anonymous users do not have.

I don’t know of any plugins either sorry.

[Stephen Edgar]

Try disabling each of your plugins one at a time (except bbPress) until you see the topic and reply content.

Then you will know which plugin the conflict is with and can then research that further.

[pazis]

After upgrading to bbPress 2.5.4, none of my topic contents are being showed anymore! The topic page loads and everything is visible but the topic content and replies! I use WordPress 3.9.1 and here are the list of my active plugins:

All In One SEO Pack 2.1.7
BackWPup 3.1.2
bbPress 2.5.4
bbPress Enable TinyMCE Visual Tab 1.0.1
BuddyPress 2.0.1
Capability Manager Enhanced 1.5.1
CloudFlare 1.3.14
Disable Feeds 1.3.1
Dynamic Widgets 1.5.8
iQ Block Country 1.1.10
Membership 3.4.4.1
myCRED 1.4.7
Paid Memberships Pro 1.7.11
Quick Chat 4.13
Register IP 0.1
Share Buttons by AddToAny 1.3.3
Shortcodes Pro 1.1.5
Shortcodes Ultimate 4.9.0
Sidebar Login 2.6.0
Sweet Captcha 3.0.8
WordPress Google +1 Button – Advanced Plugin, Includes Redirection 1.9
WordPress Importer 0.6.1
Wordpress Poll 35.0
WP-Ban 1.62
WP Admin No Show 1.4.3
wpMandrill 1.33
WP SlimStat 3.6.4

I tried disabling and enabling bbpress plugin and resubmitting settings, but none fixed the issue. I don’t know how to fix it!

[dzung]

@netweb Thank you for replying my question, could you please read the below info and give me some guide, thanks a lot in advanced!

I have installed the following plugins: buddyPress, bbPresss, wp-roles at registration(Allow me to have a drop-down which user can choose their role at registration), buddyPress xProfiles ACL (allow me to set buddyPress xProfile group to Role) and BP Force Profile (display a message and require user to fill in required fields after register and log in before continue).

So I have a Role called “Student” and using buddyPress xProfiles ACL I set a set of xProfile Fields to that Student Role.
I create a User and choose Role as Student and log in with it. I see the message of BP Force Profile that requires me to fill in the missing fields of Student Role User – this means this user role is set to the Student Role.

But, in Admin panel, I still see in the User list: that user Site Role is still : Participant.

In the BuddyPress xProfiles ACL I set it to display the Student Profile Group Fields on User Profile Edit page if the Role of User is Student, but because the New created user Site Role is still Participant so the Student Profile Group Fields Edit Tab won’t be displayed on the User Profile edit Page..!

[yoshimitsu1234]

Is it possible to reply to a bbpress post without reloading the page itself?
Like how it works with Facebook, when someone replies to a Facebook post whole page does not reload and the reply gets posted.

[SeeingBlueS2]

First issue I ran into is the example at the bottom of this page is no longer valid, but I did find the correct edits.

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – part 3

Second issue I am currently having is I am unable to find out how to change the “New topic” and “Reply To” backgrounds that show up at the bottom forums and topics.

Lastly(for now) is that I am unable to change the reply header despite having added this to my css.

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-header {
background-color: #111111;
}

My forums are located here: http://test.greatarchitect.us/forums/

Thanks for any help.

[Robin W]

basically you’d use the same css as @robkk into your stylsheet, and then the code would be

/**
* Add @mentionname after bbpress forum author details
*/

add_action( 'bbp_theme_after_reply_author_details', 'mentionname_to_bbpress' );
function mentionname_to_bbpress () {
$user = get_userdata( bbp_get_reply_author_id() );
if ( !empty( $user->user_nicename ) ) {
$user_nicename = $user->user_nicename;
echo '<p class=bbp-user-nicename>' ;
echo "@".$user_nicename.'</p>' ;
}
}