[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>' ;
}
}

[Robkk]

how do I change the font colour of @username?

im going to use my version though , cause i dont know how with the add action version

<p class=bbp-user-nicename><?php $user = get_userdata( bbp_get_reply_author_id() );
if ( !empty( $user->user_nicename ) ) {
$user_nicename = $user->user_nicename;
echo "@".$user_nicename;
} ?></p>

throw this into custom css

#bbpress-forums p.bbp-user-nicename {
font-weight: bold;
color: #888;
display: inline-block;
margin: 0;
}

[Leonyipa]

It works! And it looks really pretty now!! Thanks 🙂

how do I change the font colour of @username? (e.g. grey like BBPress forum)

[unit377]

Hi!

Is there any chance you guys will make a “notify me of follow-up replies via email” for anonymous posts (and replies)?

Or is there a pluggy that can do this? Any help is appriciated.

Anyway, thanks for bbpress awesomeness 🙂

[lkicknosway]

You are right. That’s not it.

It’s a plugin from Genesis, bbPress Genesis Extend that is causing the problem with the newest Genesis Theme update 2.1.0. Have logged on to the StudioPress Forum to see if I can get some help there.

I’ll update this in case anyone else is having the same problem. Or, if anyone has a solution, please let me know.

Cheers.

[Stephen Edgar]

Just deactivate bbPress, delete the plugin and files, add the plugin again.

You won’t lose any bbPress data 🙂

(I don’t actually think this is it though 😉 )

[lkicknosway]

Hmmm, didn’t see any errors.

Thinking of uninstalling the bbpress plugins, deleting them and reinstalling.

Is there a way to save the current topics, registered users before I begin?

Is this too extreme, what would you suggest?

thanks in advance.

[Stephen Edgar]

I’ve got nothing, all I can see is your bbPress is merged into your themes ‘cloudfront’ minified/cached CSS.

Try using your browsers debug tool, right click and ‘Inspect Elelement’ or F12 on your keyboard, you should see errors once you are logged in showing certain assets can’t be loaded (i.e. CSS)

That should get you to a starter point on what is missing to debug from there.

[Stephen Edgar]

The actual bbPress role is not assigned to the user until they login for the first time.

[Stephen Edgar]

Forum import – The documentation states that stickies will not be imported, however I after doing the import I have around 20 ‘super-stickies’ which, looking at the old forum, are a mixture of announcements and stickies. I’d rather these weren’t converted to anything, and as far as I’m aware they shouldn’t be (https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2126)

The above ticket you reference was the ‘issue’ being created to track the changes and progress of implementing this feature.

In comment 12 that is where the ticket was to updated to ‘fixed’ and ‘closed’ via changeset r5170. Trac can be a little daunting at first trying to understand everything that goes on in a ticket 😉

With only your ~20 ‘stcikies’ it shouldn’t take more than a couple of minutes to ‘unstick’ the ones you do not want after your import has finished and the repair tools run.

I have updated the docs to reflect that also https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/phpbb/

Stickies – is there a way to ignore stickies during the import? They don’t appear to have come through correctly so it would be nice to simply ignore them (as was previously the case).

How so, could you explaing that a little more please? Do the topics ‘look right’ and are just not ‘stuck’ or something else going on?

User import – During the import, I (the main WordPress admin user) seem to have had quite a lot of forums, topics and replies linked to my user. I wasn’t a user on the previous phpBB forum at all so I’m not sure why I’ve adopted these posts. Or any posts for that matter.

If there is a username match the importer will try to match the posts being imported with any current WordPress user, thus if phpBB has a user named ‘admin’ and you use the default the default WordPress username ‘admin’ that will be the cause.

The best work around for this would be to rename the phpBB username in the database bvefore importing.

Users – looking at the phpbb data, the amount of imported users seemed to match up, but I wonder if I’ve been assigned posts that were previously changed to the ‘Anonymous User’ that phpBB has at user ID 0… the amount of posts don’t seem to match up with that theory but a ‘majority’ of the posts that have been assigned to me seem to match the logic to an extent (ie, posts that have been moved into a ‘moderators only’ forum for further discussion about actions to be taken).

You should notice that you now actually have a WordPress username ‘Anonymous’, so any ‘Anonymous’ posts should be attributed to that user.

Your ‘moderators only’ forum after import you should change the bbPress forum permission to ‘hidden’ and that will make that forum the equiv bbPress ‘moderators only’ forum.

Repair tools – All the repair tasks seem to work ok, except for two:
– Recalculate the position of each reply
– Remap existing users to default forum roles
These two tasks end up white-screening with no status messages at all.

What size is the phpBB database your importing? (Approx. Forums, Topics, Posts & Users please 🙂 )

User Login Conversion – User logins are converted correctly when using the standard wordpress login screen but now when using my custom frontend ajax login – does anyone know if there’s a way to get that to work? A seperate topic has been started about that here: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/user-login-authentication-migrated-phpbb-users/

I’ve pretty much still got the same opinion as I wrote last night here.

User Login – that’s correct – I’m just using the wp-signon method so I guess I’ll need to add some kind of do_action() call or something to trigger the conversion? If you can point me in the right direction, that would be great 🙂

There is nothing to point you to sorry, when a user logs in for the first time after the import their legacy salt and hash password get’s converted to the native WordPress password format. Without knowing each legacy password their is no way to do this programmatically.

bbPress’ login forms actually are hooked into the WordPress login forms, so theoretically it shouldn’t be too difficult for either the plugin you are using to add support for bbPress or possibly look for another similar plugin that already supports bbPress.

Passwords and all their associated algorithms are hard and this an area where I just manage to skate by with the basics, actually doing any of what I mentioned in the previous paragraph is way beyond my skill level and pay grade 😉

[dzung]

@leonyipa, thanks for that but I’ve done it already. “in bbPress setting, the default role is “Participant” I meant I set the auto default role to be Participant.

So here are steps that I do:
– In stall, WP and Go to Dashboard-Setting-General – Set New User Default Role to “Subcriber”
– Install bbPress, go to Dashboard – Setting – Forums – Check the option for Auto Role and set it to “Participant”
– On front end- I create an account for test!

– In Dashboard – Users List: The Forum Role of the newly created user is “Participant” – The Site Role value is “Participant” which I expect should be “Subcriber”.

If I un-check/disable the Auto Role in bbPress setting, then when someone create an account the Site Role value of that user would be “none” and the value for Forum Role would still be “Participant” – I don’t know what wrong!

[Topher Jamero]

Using the most recent version, able to order topics by latest posted topic and not by latest topic activity

bbpress>includes>topics>template : (line)154

I didn’t remove it but commented it as I don’t know what to replace with the _bbp_last_active_time to achieve ordering by the latest posted topic.

[Robin W]

or put

/**
* 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 = $user->user_nicename;
echo "@".$user_nicename;
}
}

in your functions file.

Functions files and child themes – explained !

both methods are valid, if you use @robkk’s method, remember to create this as a separate file within your theme
https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum-part-3/ section 3

[Robin W]

ok, use this template, but follow the instructions in https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum/#8-make-sure-bbpress-uses-the-page-template-we-want

in the copy that you have renamed bbpress then remove

<?php
 if ( ! is_active_sidebar( ‘sidebar-2′ ) && ! is_active_sidebar( ‘sidebar-3′ ) && ! is_active_sidebar( ‘sidebar-4′ ) && ! is_active_sidebar( ‘sidebar-5′ ) )
 return;
 ?>

and replace it with

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

and then ensure that bbpress tweaks is saying to use bbpress.php

[Robkk]

How to add a @username like BBPress forum

<?php $user = get_userdata( bbp_get_reply_author_id() );
if ( !empty( $user->user_nicename ) ) {
$user_nicename = $user->user_nicename;
echo "@".$user_nicename;
} ?>

you add this to your loop-single-reply.php template

[Topher Jamero]

@sandyrig was hoping for sorting a topic not replies

I guess bbPress developers have so much stuff in their hands. Been searching for solutions for days but still no luck. I find this software a bit constrained.

Has anybody tried muut?

[Leonyipa]

How to add a @username like BBPress forum(this), see example in red bracket.
How to change the user role from Words to image?

Example:

[dzung]

Hi,

I have a site with bbPress intalled. I have set the New User Default role in Setting/General to a Custom Role that I made. in bbPress setting, the default role is “Participant”.

The issue is when a new user created their Site role auto set to “Participant”. does anyone know, how to fix this so that new user will have site role as the value set in Setting/General?

[Robin W]

probably a theme or plugin problem

bbPress is tested with wordpress default themes. It maybe a conflict – you need to check plugins and themes

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

[EigerT]

Hi, I’ve created a number of forums within a bbPress forum. When a new topic is posted inside a forum on a web page it doesn’t appear in that forum although it does appear in the topics list in the dashboard…

In order to get the topic to appear in the correct forum it has to be set manually in the dashboard.

Why is this happening?

[Robin W]

wordpress is post software and has posts and comments

bbpress is forum software, so it has forums, topics and replies

so people will reply to topics, not comment on them !

so I would

1. deactivate buddypress
2. switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve and see if people can now reply to topics, you are only doing this to see if your theme has an issue with replies.
3. let us know whether you are allowing anonymous posting, or whether you onlt want topics/replies from registered users?

Also, how do I just let people see the topics and not the forum?

umm, not sure what you mean, either you have a forum or your have posts and comments, you can’t have forum topics with post comments 🙂

[Ineedbbhelp]

I first installed bbpress for the forums to be on a discussion page of my website. Not for the entire website to be forums. Everything seemed to be working fine, but people can’t comment on the topics. After researching more I installed buddypress too, and now i’m more confused because its a whole different look and now there is no forums. I think i’m going to deactivate it for the moment.

But how do I get bbpress to let people comment on the topics? It lets people create topics, but thats about it.

Please help!!!!

[Robin W]

Personally I hate the toolbar – it should only be there for admins !

I switch it off and use a menu item

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

[Robin W]

not sure what you’ve done, but it will be as simple as a comma or ; missing somewhere

I’d suggest you

download a copy of bbpress to your PC

Download

and then FTP the functions file to overwrite what you have messed up 🙂

Then nose around the files on your PC rather than your site !

Don’t worry I used to do what you’re doing until I did much the same, now I look at a copy not live !

[Stephen Edgar]

Cool, whack your issues here and I’ll check than out tomorrow.

Quick answers:

– stickies are now converted so I’ll update the docs for that.

– Repair tools, as I stated in the other thread shouldn’t do this, will look closer tomorrow

– Users is odd, seems maybe some users aren’t getting imported, job for tomorrow also

– User login, bbPress doesn’t actually convert the phpBB password until the migrated user logs in for the first time. This will most likely be the issue in that the ajax login is stepping around this. Presumably after an imported user has logged in and their password converted the Ajax login will work.