[Micheal]

Are you not seeing your topics or replies in each section?

Refer to my screen shots before to make sure I am not getting confused to what you are asking here.

For the one I referenced the participant did this:
Forum(General Questions)>Topic(Payout)>

When they go there they see the response to what they entered earlier but they don’t see what they posted earlier.

What is odd though is when I go to the same page I see her original post and my response to her question. She doesn’t see that though, she just sees my response.

———-
This is what she sees as a Participant:

This is what I see as Admin:

[Stephen Edgar]

Indeed bbPress does this too 🙂

Quick answer, copy the templates you need into your theme folder under /bbpress

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

[Stephen Edgar]

I’ve got nothing else at the moment…

Let me think on it for a bit…

I also presume you still have all your plugins except bbPress deactivated?

Also what theme is it you are using?

Have you any custom code in a functions.php file running?

[Micheal]

This statement here confuses me… You should see Forums, Topics, and Replies sections like I have in my previous screenshot. All the ‘posts’ should show here, you only see the title of the post and not the full content until you open it with the ‘edit’ row action (mouse over a title).

Are you not seeing your topics or replies in each section?

YES, I do.

Here is Topics screen shot.

[greenhoe]

Hi,

I have a custom wordpress theme which I also use a child theme and I know to edit and customize the buddypress theme you need to place the files such as archive-forum.php in your child theme folder or main theme folder.

I was wondering is it possible to have a folder for all the bbpress main theme components so that they don’t clutter up my main child theme?

In the plugin all the main theme files are stored in a folder called extra, I would like to be able to have a folder called extra in my child theme and have worpdress recognize all the bbpress theme files.

[Stephen Edgar]

– Do you have ‘Auto Role’ checked and what role is it set to? (Dashboard -> Settings -> bbPress)

[Micheal]

The first image shows the forums.

This image shows the topic “Payout” previously entered by the participant.

This image shows the response but not the original entry.

These images screen shots taken from the participant being logged in.

When the participant tries to look at any other topic they don’t see what has been posted, they only see the one that Micheal replied to (just not there post that was being replied to).

—–

Here is what Micheal sees when he is logged in:

As you can see in this image Micheal can see the original post and his own.

—–

When Micheal is logged in he can see his own posts but when the participant tries to look at the same post they don’t see anything Micheal has posted (except his response to their post).

Any Ideas?

Thanks.

[Stephen Edgar]

The string Keymaster is being translated to Super Administrator(here)

If you login to http://translate.wordpress.org using your wordpress.org/bbpress.org username and password you can also suggest an updated translation and the Spanish translation team will review the translation and accept it or not.

The first link above is for the ‘development’ version of bbPress, upcoming 2.6 release, you should also suggest any translation updates for the current bbPress v2.5 here.

Once you have done the above you should let the Spanish translation team know:

Contacto

[Stephen Edgar]

Sorry, but I don’t see how any of the above is a bbPress issue, all of your issues above are from plugin/s not doing something that you expect the plugin to do, these are all issues you should raise with the plugin author/s.

[saphadmin]

Hi;
After updating the BBP private groups plugin this morning, I lost my forum. This is the message on the page:
Warning: array_merge(): Argument #2 is not an array in /home/xxxx/public_html/xxxx/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/functions.php on line 1344

If I deactivate the plugin, the forum shows up.

Is there a fix for this? As most here, fairly new to WP & bbPress.
BTW – excellent tutorials.

Thank you.

http://saph.ca/saph

[HW]

Hi Robin

Thank you for the functions code you provided to create a custom role. I’ve implemented this and can see it and change the user to the new role – however it doesn’t save it so if i navigate away from the user page and go back it hasn’t kept the role it just defaults back to nothing until i post and then it puts me on participant (which I have enabled to set automatically for new posters). Would you know why that is happening?

My initial setup was a template file called forum.php which bbpress automatically picked up as my forum page – I didn’t use override of existing bbpress templates within my theme, however when I made the bbpress-functions.php in my theme folder it made the forum stop using the bbpress styles (not sure why) – so i tried adding the overrides for bbpress in my theme folder and that made it not render any html at all just blank body – I’ve ended up copying the stylesheet to my theme folder and naming it something else.

I’m looking for a user role half way between a participant and a moderator (I’ve called it a Junior Moderator) where they can moderate and flag things and get in touch with users who flagged inappropriate posts and inform them of the actions as well as receive emails or notifications from users flagging the inappropriate content- but they can’t delete or edit other people’s topics, replies and can’t delete forums or add new ones.

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks

[Robin W]

WHat can i do?

you could post a link to a page that works 🙂 I just get ‘this page cannot be displayed’

But also have you read

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1

[itisix]

I’ve been using wordpress for about 6 months now and I’m using the “luminescent lite” theme. I now decided it was time to move my old phpbb board over to bbpress and I’m struggling a bit with the design. So:

1 – The theme is universal, so not much chance to change much without hard coding or a new theme

2 – I use categories and forums and it’s messy. I get:

Category
Forum nº 1 (14,54) Forum nº 2 /1,445 4,754)

Can I add a paragraph for each forum or even not show the forums at all (they would open on a click on the category).

3 – No “unread topics” display (icon/different colour)

Not all is bad. I’m using buddypress and I’m loving it. BBpress ported quite well from phpbb3 and I lost no data at all (except PM’s). Even BBcode is looking good. My users are giving me a hard time, but they are just idiots anyway… lol

[ajshanahan]

Hi @netweb thanks again but I don’t think I’m explaining myself – the add media button is working fine – what ISN’T working is the ability to let participants Upload Files.

I’ve added a role manager plugin which claims to have added this for Participants but it’s not “taking”. If I change a user to Moderator then it works no problem – my feeling is that this is purely to do with amending bbpress user capabilities – that’s where I’m stuck.

Any ideas on that one?

[Stephen Edgar]

I haven’t looked closely at the GD bbPress Attachments plugin (And never at GD bbPress Toolbox) though I was presuming that GD bbPress Toolbox included the same/similar/enhanced version of GD bbPress Attachments which I believe does allow participants to upload attachments.

So, can you use (and/or ask @gdragon) if running both plugins side by side is the best solution.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-bbpress-attachments/

[K-Path]

Version 3.9.1
Twenty Ten Theme with some very simply, barely noticeable CSS modification.
http://hcrd.foundation/journal/forums/

I need to know where to get the Registration URL?
Seems to me that WordPress would make that one of the more obvious and prominent links on the page. I haven’t figured out where it is. I need it to complete the bbPress Login Widget configuration.

Also

As you can see this is what my menu looks like now.
Home Forums About
Forums
Home › Forums
Forum
Raisons d’être
Corporate Charter Of The Foundation
The Declaration of Universal Rights

How do I make it look like this?
Home Forums About
Forum ›
Raisons d’être
Corporate Charter Of The Foundation
The Declaration of Universal Rights

I got the Forums link in the menu to work. Now how can I remove the totally redundant Forums labels beneath the main menu?

Thank you for you help.

Auriel

[peter-hamilton]

And then you also need to make it so that every user has a private album instead of all members seeing all media.

I have been trying this for a while and have issues making it true inline images.

Now I use the attachment plugin together with bp-album, bp-album allows members to create private albums for media, and it will post those images to the activity pages.

Here is a link to the forum I am building right now.
Inline images for activity

This comes closest to what you need, I have also tried RTMedia plugin but that causes much problems and makes sites run slow, not too mention the errors from the W3C validator.

I do hope that BBPress will add a good image uploader soon.

P.H.

[ajshanahan]

Hello all – I know that the issue of user capabilities has been covered before but I’m stuck

First off:
http://www.manvfat.com/talk
WordPress 3.9.1 running BuddyBoss 3.2.0 theme.
BBPress 2.5.4
GD BBpress Toolbox 3.1.3

I have used GD BBpress Toolbox to allow the “Add Media” button to show up for all logged in users. Fine.

However, the Participant role cannot actually upload an image – it tries to upload gets nearly to the end and then throws an error message:

“An error occured in the upload. Please try again later.”

After experimentation (I changed one test user to Moderator from Participant – and this allowed the image to be uploaded) it appears to be down to the fact that Participants do not have the capability to upload media.

Using this plugin http://wordpress.org/plugins/capsman/ I am able to assign that capability to Participants but it still fails. My *guess* is that this is because the capability is not actually being saved, but I don’t know why or how to change it.

Does anyone know how I can allow the Participant role to upload files – and thus be able to add images inline?

Many thanks in advance for your help!

[Stephen Edgar]

I’ve not looked at doing do that personally, I saw something recently on adding short codes to WordPress quicktags so you could explore that option (WordPress’ quicktags are the buttons you see here ‘b’, ‘i’ etc)

Also take a look at the source of bbPress Shortcode Whitelist plugin to see their implementation, and see if you can adapt it for your own needs.

[Stephen Edgar]

Firstly, please don’t bump old topics, the majority of the time things change considerably if more than 6 months old.

That said moving topics should work fine, there is a couple of small issues that will be addressed in the next release of bbPress but that shouldn’t see the problem you are describing.

There is a chance that maybe some of the bbPress data was out of sync before you moved the topic, I’d suggest running each of the repair tools for your forum and then try again.

[Stephen Edgar]

No, you cannot use shortcodes within bbPress.

This is more of a security issue than a technical issue, you don’t want users adding login shortcodes and the like into the content.

There is a ‘bbPress Shortcode Whitelist’ plugin (It’s in the wordpress.org plugins repo) that will allow you to ‘whitelist’ a list of short codes so you can use the ones you approve.

[greenhoe]

I was wondering can I use my normal worpdress shortcodes in bbpress? So my users could take say a certain query shortcode and post in the forums and allow it to work?

[Robin W]

These are exactly the questions I was asking 6 months ago, so I sense your frustration !!

I was expecting to write some stuff on filtering, but having had a quick look at ‘bbp_new_topic_handler’ this doesn’t have any real filtering capability, although it does have some url filters.

Fuller than probably needed answer for the benefit of others !
Ok so you can usually
either filter a function either using bbp_parse_args where you want to change some paramters that are being passed to wp-query

or filter the whole function – if it ends with ‘return apply_filters(..)’ then you can easily copy the whole function and alter it within your child theme, just rename it slightly and then add a filter
so a fictional function called ‘add_name’ in bbpress ends with
Return apply_filters (‘add_name’, $name) ;

you simply copy the whole function and change ‘add_name’ to say ‘my_add_name’ then add a line
add_filter (‘add_name’, ‘my_add_name’)

and wordpress will use your function to replace the original.

But for your function, there is a url filter near the edn but otherwise this is a function that does, so no neat parameters that are replaceable at the end !

I searched bbpress for where this function is used, and in includes/core/actions.php it is added as an action to wherever bbp_post_request is used

Searching for that gets me a bit confused, as I’m not familiar with what this does, and have limited time to chase it down.

Now, having written all that as I was going along, if I were you I’d do one of two things

1. Go further back and find what is calling the function, and then change that. If it is a template, you can alter that in a bbpress folder within your theme to call your function instead, and neither will get overwritten by upgrades.

2. There is no problem in changing core bbpress files as long as a) you are happy you know what you’re doing and b) you make a note of the changed function.

Then on each upgrade, you’ll need to look at whether any code in the function has changed, and if not just overwrite it again. If it has changed, then you’ll need to redo your amendment taking into account the new code. But you sometimes need to do that anyway for a child theme function where bbpress is dealing differently with it.

Yes changing core is ‘frowned’ upon, but only because people do it and then get upset when it is overwritten and they can’t remember what they changed !! Do it with knowledge and you’ll be fine !

After all it just some code that someone’s written, and any ‘rules’ are just made up and have no authority !

[itisix]

Hi,

I’ve been running wordpress for a few months and I now was confident enough to move my phpbb to bbpress. All went very smooth.
Problem is, the theme I use (and that I like a lot) is not very bbpress friendly.

I don’t suppose I can change the bbpress part too much without some hard coding, so any suggestion would be useful (probably change the theme altogether?). Any theme suggested?

My site is http://www.smartistas.com and the theme is luminescente lite.

Thanks

[absurdity69]

I need some help, this issue is making me go crazy.

Sometimes threads posted won’t show up but I know they are there because when I use another user’s login and post the same thing it says “Duplicate post detected”. I noticed this happens only with longer posts and replies.

Currently I have these plugins:

bbPress Notify
bbPress WP Tweaks
Floating Social Media Icon
Math Captcha
WordPress Social
Login WP Modal Login

The only plugin interference I can think of is bbpress WP Tweaks.

The only potential issue I can think of is that there is a limit to how much characters a thread/post is and this limit causes threads/replies to be hidden. Having said that, I’ve never heard of such setting.

I appreciate the help.