[HansRuedi]

WP 3.9.1, BP 2.0.1 and bbPress 2.5.4 – http://www.info.ch

I would like to auto activate the forum component while a BP member creates a new BP group, same what’s happening e.g. while using BP Docs or rtMedia. Other words: the checkbox should be marked by default. Thanks for help!

[Stephen Edgar]

Firstly, you should update WordPress to v3.9.1, if you have some reason you must remain using the 3.7.x version upgrade to 3.7.3.

That said line #1198 of your style.css has the following:

.hentry {
border-bottom: 2px solid #f7f7f8;
margin-left: 120px;
padding-bottom: 15px;
position: relative;
}

You will need to override that for your bbPress forums with a custom entry in a child themes CSS.

eg.

#bbpress-forums .hentry {
margin-left: 0px;
}

[Robin W]

ok, I’ve just installed bbpress, buddypress and private groups on a new test site, added a couple of forums, and set one to subscribe.

Without private groups it is fine, with private groups both forums show as subscribed, so I can replicate your problem 🙂

I’ll take a look tomorrow as to whether I can work a fix for it.

[zxtonizx]

The content area for replies is shifted to the right on my forum, such that there is an odd white space to left. Also, this results in the right-most content being cut.

Can anyone help troubleshoot?

site: http://gcioba69-75.com/forums/topic/hello/
WP version: 3.7.1
bbPress version: 2.5.4

[Ihatetomatoes]

Hi,
I am using iThemes Exchange and bbPress Membership Add-on and want to include access to a specific forum in one of the memberships.

The issues is that the list of forums is not showing on a page where it should list all the forums available for that membership. I have logged this issue with iThemes, but replied with the following:

—
I was installing bbPress on my site to test this issue and I got the following:

Notice: bbp_setup_current_user was called incorrectly. The current user is being initialized without using $wp->init(). Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 2.3.) in /public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3245

Can you start a ticket with them as well. There’s a good chance this could be part of the issue.
—

Thanks for any help.
P.

[charris25]

Hey Robin,

So I tried step 8. I duplicated and renamed page.php to bbpress.php. that didn’t seem to work.

Screenshot Here is what I’m seeing when I click into a group and click on the groups forum tab.

[Robin W]

Getting bbpress to work with the many very clever (too clever!) themes is not always easy

Ok, we could spend a lot of time getting a forum specific sidebar for your theme, but maybe easiest to get your sidebar working to display in bbpress

so install widget logic

https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-logic/

Then set up whatever sidebar is being displayed on the bbpress page for all the widgets that you want it to display, both for the homepage and bbpress

Then you’ll see each widget now has a widget logic condition.

For items you want to display only on bbpress add the logic

is_bbpress()

For items say only on a home page add

is_home()

for items you want on all pages apart from bbpress use

!is_bbpress()

Come back if anything is not clear

[jtabrams]

AH! I figured it out. Gosh, how simple.

BBPress was overriding my search because, in the settings, the BBPress search slug was /search, and my search results slug is also /search. By changing the BBPress slug to something else, I was able to quickly and easily fix.

Thanks for all your help! I guess now we know for future reference!

[jtabrams]

The problem is that my search form is only returning a list of recent posts. It’s not including ANY forum information, and it’s not including any valid search results. Prior to installing BBPress, my search results were displayed on a formatted page that said “Search Results.” Now when you search, it’s saying “Latest Posts.” Somewhere with the installation, something is rerouting the code to pull from somewhere else.

In my searchform.php the code is:

<form role="search" method="get" id="searchform" class="form-search <?php if (is_404() || !have_posts()) { ?> well <?php } ?>" action="<?php echo home_url('/'); ?>">
  <label class="visuallyhidden" for="s"><?php _e('Search for:', 'roots'); ?></label>
  <input type="text" value="" name="s" id="s" class="search-query" placeholder="<?php _e('Search', 'roots'); ?> <?php bloginfo('name'); ?>">
  <input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" value="<?php _e('Search', 'roots'); ?>" class="btn">
</form>

[Morgensonne]

Hi Stephen,

thank you for this detailed explanation of the background to this new behavior of bbpress.
I’m with my forum not online yet and still experimenting on my test area. That is why I made a lot of things in the backend, because I would like to get to know everything about bbpress before I go online definitely. And so I have noticed it that the reply-titles are missing. Now I will try out your advice in the future everything if possible only to manage in the front-end.

Thank you for your explanations to this new behavior.

Morgensonne

[Lumartist]

Sure. But the theme I am using is WIP, very WIP. The whole Buddypress part has not been worked on so far. That being said – It looks messed up.

On the first picture you can see the generall forum view, which looks a little bit different, but it’s a normal bbpress. Where it says “Neuigkeiten und Ankündigungen” (News and Announcements), this is the the category (header). Below, this are the forums (subforums). Right now I am subscribed to the first forum, which ist called “Der Yucom-Bote”.

On the second picture you can see the forums in the buddypress profile. It displays all forums and categories, even if I am only subscribed to the first forum. As said before, it looks a little bit messed up, as there aren’t any template files or changes for buddypress yet.

Not sure if this helps you. I can make new screens with another theme, if you want to.

[Robin W]

It may well be that you’re search form is just including the forum posts.

bbpress uses custom post types of ‘topic’, ‘forum’ and ‘reply’. You site wide search may well need to exclude these types so that forums results do not get filtered into the search.

see https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_search_form

In particular

<input type=”hidden” value=”post” name=”post_type” id=”post_type” />
Here we submit the value post. The default value is any, meaning, posts, pages and custom post types.

ie the default is any would include forum entries.

[Robin W]

ok, sounds like you need a test site

https://codex.bbpress.org/creating-a-test-site/

so that you can test things like installing bbpress prior to going live !

Anyway, back to your immediate issue, it will be very theme dependant, and sounds like your theme is doing something with search after you’ve disabled it

you say ‘our site continues to use the search functions that we setup. ‘ have you some special search function, or how is your search working?

[Lumartist]

That is very kind of you @robin-w. I was a little… demoralized today, as I did put a lot of work into my bbpress-forum, which is based on INK interface kit, and it would be very disappointing if all the effort would’ve been for naught, even if it’s just the subscription.

Please let me know if I can help you with anything, even if it’s just testing!

Thanks again for all the work!

[jtabrams]

Hi Robin,

Thanks for the feedback, but unfortunately, our site is so large and widely used that disabling plugins and/or switching themes is not a viable option for us.

Is there any way to alter any of the bbpress files to disable search completely or remove it? It seems that part of the problem is that my theme calls a certain search file which is being overridden by the bbpress search file. But when I try to edit your file in my ftp, it won’t let me…

[Robin W]

It could be a bbpress + buddypress + private groups issue

Buddypress filters some bbpress code, so my plugin may be overwriting a filter that buddypress is using to control either subscriptions or the info it is displaying about bbpres subs.

Did you check if subscribing to one forums ACTUALLY subscribes to them all, or whether buddypress is just saying that they are?

You could check this by unsubscribing from forum b, then subscribing to forum a, checking that buddypress says you’re subscribed to forums a & b, and then posting in forum b to see if you get an email.

[Lumartist]

Okay, I have to add another reply here, sorry.

Strange thing is, that I am having the same effect as with the Tehnik plugin. As soon as I add your plugin, bbp-private-groups, and I subscribe to a forum, I am subscribed to all forums. As soon as I disable the plugin everything works fine. It also happens with a standard theme like twenty fourteen.

I am not sure where this coming from. Very strange…

Here’s a list of installed plugins:

• Advanced Custom Fiels
• bbP private groups
• bbPress
• bbPress Pencil Unread
• Breadcrumb NavXT
• Buddypress
• CodeStyling Localization
• iThemes Security
• Members
• Radio Buttons for Taxonomies
• Regenerate Thumbnails
• Require Featured Image
• WP Smush.it

All Plugins are up to date!

May it be a conflict with iThemes Security or Members? But why? And why does it just happen if a plugin for forum access is used?

This is like a closed book to me, as I am a designer and css-coder, but not a php-coder, which makes it realy hard…

[Lumartist]

Okay, I just found out, that it was a plugin I was using for forum permissions – Tehnik BBPress Permissions. As soon as I activate it, the subscription doesn’t work correctly anymore. Might be a problem, as the plugin wasn’t updated a long time, and it is not an “official” one…

Guess I have to find an alternative to it. Any suggestions?

[Stephen Edgar]

Only create “BuddyPress Group Forums”, don’t create other bbPress forums and also make sure you have the BuddyPress Group Forums Root set in Settings -> bbPress (The last setting of that page)

[Stephen Edgar]

I can’t reproduce this using bbPress 2.5.4, BuddyPress 2.01 and WordPress 3.9.1 with the Twenty Fourteen theme.

[Stephen Edgar]

Everything here is working and is expected behaviour for bbPress.

You are correct replies no longer have a title, the slug of a reply is now the reply ID.

You would typically only notice this working in the backend by not seeing a reply title in the ‘edit reply’, yet when you look at the list of replies in the backend just like bbPress you will see all the replies have a title, this title is inherited from the topic title.

The key thing here is that when viewing a single reply on the front end it has no context without it’s parent topic. We also encourage the use of the vast majority of bbPress via the front end and not the backend, the backend is really only meant to be used if you cannot do something via the front end, we try to make everything work via both interfaces but due to other issues further upstream in WordPress Core we can’t replicate all the functionality we implement.

As you stated via @JJJ until WordPress 3.7 replies had to have a title, this imposed some limitations on what we could and could not do with replies, further to this change in bbPress there will be even further enhancements coming to bbPress, maybe 2.6, if not 2.7 due to this new found freedom and functionality we have with our replies.

As I continue reading the previous page I knew this was coming 😉

Why do I want this?
1. permalink without reply-title, but only with reply-ID is not good for search engines.

Neither is duplicated content, previously if your topic URL was /topic/topic-title, then your replies would be /reply/topic-title-1, /reply/topic-title-2 etc, similar content but not the same content, now each reply has a unique URL.

2. if I open a reply-post in the admin area, there is no title “reply to: …. (topic title) …” (the title bar is empty) and I do not know to which post this reply refers. This is not good for handling the forum in practice.

This is one of those things I just mentioned above, about working via the frontend vs the backend and until the updates upstream flow from WordPress Core this field will remain empty until we can actually hide it completely. You should be editing replies via the frontend, moderators and users all use the frontend to perform all the tasks required. I’m only a moderator here on bbPress.org and can perform any task bbPress needs just fine, it is the preferred experience as just because you can do something in the backend does not always mean you should.

Apologies that I only saw this this morning, crazy week last week.

[Robin W]

ok I looked and it would require a filter to re-write

bbp_get_reply_author_link

held in

bbpress/includes/replies/template.php

This is beyond the time I currently have available – sorry !

[Robin W]

Ok so sorry it looks like a theme issue.

I don’t thin k it will help, but just might, so try

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

[Robin W]

ok, with the code in, try the following

Deactivate bbpress tweaks
Dashboard>plugins>bbpress tweaks>deactivate

Go into widgets
Dashboard>appearance>widgets

And look at the bottom of the left hand side. You’ll see an “inactive sidebar”, with your entries on
Below this is an “inactive widgets”
Drag all the entries from the inactive sidebar to the inactive widgets area.
This then allows wordpress to delete the sidebar
I normally log out and in again at this stage – probably not needed, but I’ve never bothered to check
Then basically reverse the above
Re-enable bbpress tweaks
You see the bbpress sidebar returns
Drag the entries back from the inactive widgets area to the sidebar

[Robkk]

keep buddypress uninstall bbpress?