[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.

[Jerry]

I have a general question. I am trying to modify the behavior of the function bbp_new_topic_handler, which is located in bbpress/includes/topics/functions.php. I use child themes extensively. I have not found a way to modify functions.php within my child theme. After reading the codex, and various searches, I THINK that I need to take the entire function, bbp_new_topic_handler, and re-declare it within bbpress-functions.php. I can’t declare a function twice, so that implies I need to remove it from functions.php within the above mentioned directory. Or perhaps I am on the wrong track?

What I fear is making changes directly to functions.php and then having those changes wiped out in the next bbpress update. I can’t use filters because I intend to modify how the function works, not just the wording.

So I suppose my question is as follows: How does one go about making changes to functions within a functions.php file, located in the includes directory? Does someone have a “best practice” recommendation for doing this?

Thanks.

[Stephen Edgar]

@leanderbraunschweig Feel like creating a ticket on Trac, I never did 😉

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/

Add it as an ‘enhancement’ type ticket with the component ‘users’ and leave it in ‘Awaiting Review’, add a bit of the detail of what is outlined above though the general consensus of the feedback above and we can start working towards adding support for this into bbPress 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

This is a theme issue, your theme isn’t letting bbPress inject it’s template styles.

Ceate a file in the root of your theme called bbpress.php and putting the following code into it

<?php
/**
 * bbPress wrapper template.
 */

get_header(); ?>

<?php while( have_posts() ): the_post(); ?>

	<?php the_content(); ?>

<?php endwhile; ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

[tharsheblows]

@robinw – I just came across this too and thought exactly the same as you, that it needed that filter or something like that. I was trying to change the “Topic tags: ” (or something like that) bit of the tags archive pages.

It was picking up the default taxonomy-topic-tags.php file. This must have been picked up from the plugin default theme, not mine – it’s in /extras in my theme folder but changing it there had no effect, I had to move it out of there to the root of the theme folder. This totally makes sense from a WordPress standpoint but was non-obvious because I was looking in the bbPress folder in my theme.

ANYWAY it’s sorted now but if someone else comes across it, check for some hidden template. I couldn’t get that filter to work for anything. I tried very very hard to make it work. It didn’t.

@saulmarq – what you can do is make a new page and make the permalink your forum root. So my forum root (in settings) is forums and the page is at example.com/forums. Then use the [bbp-forum-index] shortcode. The gotcha is that this page will *only* use the bbPress template, I think – you can’t make a custom template for it. I might be misremembering that, but I do know you can’t change the default template. Someone tried to tell me this was a good thing, whatever.

Doing it this way is nice because then you can write an intro like:

Hi! Welcome to our forums. Dive right in. Post a lot, whoo!

[bbp-forum-index]

[sepidpooy]

I have a bbpress forum structured like this:

Category_Forum_A
_Subforum_1
_Subforum_2
Category_Forum_B
_Subforum_1
_Subforum_2
_Subforum_3

Is there anyway to get the URLs of subforums using Category_Forum ID ? Is there any php function which I can use to get the URLs ?

[Type Historian]

WP 3.9.1
bbPress 2.5.4-5380
Suffusion Theme 4.4.7
Child Theme
forums.typeheritage.com

Hello, I used the Recent Replies one until it broke my site—a long story, details if requested.

Then I discovered that the Recent Topics plug-in can be used three ways with config options in the drop-down widget menu:

Hottest Topics=Topics with Recent Replies
Latest Topics=Newest Topics
Popular Topics=Popular Topics (most visited? most discussed?)

My only concern is that “Hottest Topics” lists brand-new topics with NO replies. Is there a way I can fix this?

By the way, I have lots of private [unpublished] topics in progress, and they do not list in the sidebar.

Many thanks for your help, Anna

[localplayer]

Hi Stephen, thank you.
Here’s the link:
You need to login to see the content: localp / localplayer1
http://www.thework-coaching.de/forums/forum/beziehungsprobleme-gibts-nicht-die-challenge/
Wordpress Version: 3.9.1
bbPress Version: 2.5.4
Buddypress: 2.0.1

[leanderbraunschweig]

Hi there,

Shmoo’s suggestion will do the job, thanks! But generally I think deleting of your own account could / should be a core component of bbPress rather than having to do that from an admin side. The posts & topics should stay and the former user will be marked as “retired”, “anonymous” or rather anything you ould like to specify (add an option to change the value in bbPress options).

[Stephen Edgar]

If you set the ‘Group Forums Parent’ when you open any of bbPress’ group forum you should be redirected to the forum inside the BuddyPress group.

Thus if there are no bbPress ‘standalone’ forums and only BuddyPress Group forums there should not be any confusion.

i.e. No confusion if your not confused by my description above 😉

[Stephen Edgar]

Doesn’t this require the person to put the image somewhere – ie on Smugmug – and then use the IMG tags to reference that image?

Yes

I was looking for something that allows you to just decide to show a photo in a forum post and upload it then and there to the site and have it display inside the post.

For this a common a plugin is this one https://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-bbpress-attachments/

[BlinkyBill01]

I don’t see anywhere that lists only BuddyPress Group Forums. I mean is this from a fresh install of bbPress? I’ve had bbPress for a couple of years and don’t see anything in options, settings or elsewhere in the Dashboard that mentions bbPress.

*Edit*

I mean, I’m on the bbPress Settings and I see the “Enable Group Forums” but I don’t see where to disable sitewide forums.

[pgarth]

Disclaimer: I tried to self medicate in the forums to resolve this, but to no avail.

Web-site: http://www.paulgarth.name
bbpress: Just installed a day or so ago from within PlugIns – really easy
Static Home Page: My Home-Page is a Static Page of a Page
Forums: When I click on Forums, it goes to: http://paulgarth.name/forums/

Issue: Within Forums, to the left of “> Forums” – which I think is a breadcrumb – is a hyperlink, that when I hover over it it goes to http://www.paulgarth.name (ie the static page called “Welcome to the web-site including Value Propositions”

Question: Is it possible to have a Static Page, and for the breadcrumb to just say something like “Home” so that it goes to the top level of the forum breadcrumb, or however you would say this??

I suppose I’m less bothered by this, because I just click on Forums (to the right of the “>”) but I can imagine users clicking on the hyperlink and then leaving the forum page and going back to the home-page.

Thanks in advance
Paul

[Stephen Edgar]

It’s all good… My testing of Firefox 29, Apache 2.x, and bbPress 2.5.4 here with Twenty Fourteen and things work perfectly.

Also what I meant by TinyMCE plugin is there are quite a few plugins that enhance/modify/tweak the TinyMCE, ‘TinyMCE Advanced’ and ‘Ultimate TinyMCE’ to name just two.

Anyways when/if you have another look at troubleshooting this just ask away any Q’s 🙂

[Deamion]

Hi Stephen,

Are you talking about the bbPress toolbar when creating a topic or reply?

Yes.

What happens if you switch to the Twenty Fourteen theme?

The Twenty Fourteen theme has the same issue.

Have you disabled any TinyMCE plugins?

I didn’t install a plug-in called TinyMCE. I thought it was included by default.

Have you tried disabling all your plugins except bbPress to see if the issue is resolved?

No. As I said, the site works find when using Chrome, or IE on the Linux/Apache box (with all plug-ins enabled). When I use the site hosted by Windows Server/IIS 8.5, Chrome, IE, and Firefox work.
So it looks like a bug that only shows up when Firefox + Apache + bbpress are all working together. Any other combination seems to work fine.

What version of WordPress and bbPress are you using?

Latest version of both.

Note: Please don’t bump old topics, create a new topic please, things change and most of the time the issue will be a different issue.

Very sorry. I’ll do that next time.

Note: I’ve decided that I’m just going to leave it as is. If Firefox users want to post, they can forfeit the editing tools, or use another browser.

Sorry to have wasted your time. Maybe I’ll try to troubleshoot it again when I have more time.
Thanks for your reply.

[Stephen Edgar]

Are you talking about the bbPress toolbar when creating a topic or reply?

What happens if you switch to the Twenty Fourteen theme?

Have you disabled any TinyMCE plugins?

Have you tried disabling all your plugins except bbPress to see if the issue is resolved?

What version of WordPress and bbPress are you using?

Note: Please don’t bump old topics, create a new topic please, things change and most of the time the issue will be a different issue.

[Stephen Edgar]

Some more information would be helpful, a link to your site, what version of WordPress and bbPress are you using etc.

Note: I split this from the other topic, no sense bumping old topics for something that sounds familiar but 99% of the time never is…

[Stephen Edgar]

Tell them to set WP_DEBUG to false in their wp-config.php define('WP_DEBUG', false); and troubleshoot what the other plugin and/or theme is causing this issue, this is not a bbPress issue per se, it is another theme or plugin doing_it_wrong.