[biztips]

I set the home page of my site to display the forums. There will be public forums.

However, when new (unregistered) site visitors see these Forum names, I also want them to see the NAMES OF PRIVATE FORUMS.

I’m thinking that if they see other topics that interest them they might register. Is that possible?

Have bbPress installed on new site, step4profitforum.com, version 6.6

Thank you!

[Robin W]

in the bbpress.pot file

[davidnewth]

Having a couple of issues with a Non-Profit website I am working on. TBH I HAVE VIRTUALLY NO EXPERIENCE OF WEB STUFF.

1st issue i have is the when using safari the login and the forum topic input does not show up. Seems to work correctly in Opera.

2nd issue on the Forum page I would like to remove the text “bbPress Forum”

3rd issue would like to increase all forum text by 15-20%

Apologises if these are all stupid questions.

The site is not live at the moment (still lots of content to be added) but can be found at https://1888hh.live-website.com/forums

Many thanks in advance.

[mod603]

Nice to meet you.
Thank you for the wonderful plugin “bbpress-moderation-tools”.
I would like to change the display message of this plugin, can you tell me how?

[diannekrause]

Hi,

I apologize if this answer is elsewhere but there is SO much here to search and dig through and much of what I’m finding is too technical for me to understand, especially the things in the documentation I found.

What I’ve been asked to do is customize where it says “Topic” and “Tag” on the topic page. We actually want Topic to say what we’d like them to type there and we’d like “Tag” to actually say “Strategy” where the users can type in a specific strategy we are asking them to learn about (We are an educational PD company and we’re using BBpress in conjunction with the Lifter LMS we’ve built into WordPress). We also want it so the “notify me of followup replies” is checked of by default.

MY own personal knowledge of WordPress is primarily GUI but I’ve done some things in the “customize” area of WordPress with the help of Lifter Support. SO, when things are telling me to deal with .php files (like I see in the documentation), I have no idea what to do.

Is there someone who can tell me how to customize these things? Is there bbPress SUPPORT where I can put in a ticket and get hand-held help like I do with Lifter?

Any and all help is appreciated as I have been asked to do these things that I have no idea how to do.

Thank you!

Dianne Krause

[ferule]

Thanks, the only thing is, I do not want to modify the php or css files. Not only is that a rathole that I’d never escape from, I do not feel competent to do so, and to be honest, I don’t want to learn all that. I wanted a forum plugin that would use my theme and allow me to style it by using one of my theme builder’s page templates, because that I know how to do.

In any event, further research led me to discover that bbpress seems to use three custom post types: forum, topic, and replies. I can’t find documentation about when these custom post types are used, but I’m guessing that “forum” is used for the forum index listing, “topic” is used for the topic listing within an individual forum, and “replies” are for the replies.

I figured out that Thrive Theme Builder lets you create a template and apply it to custom post types. I did that with the “forum” type and it it does seem to work. It looks ugly, but at least it applied the template and now I can fiddle with it.

So then I tried it with the “topic” type, but that doesn’t seem to take effect. When I click on a a topic that I created, it takes me to a page that uses the default Theme Builder’s archive page. Not what I want at all. I would be fine if it used the same “forum” template, actually, but I don’t see how it does that.

Finally, Theme Builder does not even show the “reply” type as an option so I can’t try making a template for that one.

[Robin W]

which has a set of templates (or you can easily create your own)

if you create a template and call it ‘bbpress.php’ then this will be used by bbpress.

see

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

section 8

[ferule]

Hi all,

I am using Thrive Theme Builder, which has a set of templates (or you can easily create your own) that you can apply to different pages, etc. One nice feature is that they are “smart” in that you can set your theme colors and then if you change them, they’ll change on all of the pages in your site that use the smart templates.

It’s easy to specify which Thrive Theme Builder template to use for pages that show up in the wp Pages list. However, BBpress forum pages seem to be generated on demand. Right now, if I click on a forum, it us using a random (but probably the first alphabetical) template (the default “Audio post”). Which needless to say, is not what I want and is ugly to boot.

Is there a way to specify which Thrive Theme Builder template to use for these pages? I am not a coder (at all) and I’m highly leery of poking around with php files and so on, especially as they might get overwritten or broken by wp or Thrive or BBpress updates down the line. So what I really want is a setting that says, “choose this Theme Builder template for the forum pages.”

Thanks!

[Robin W]

if you are using style pack, then in

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>login

tick item 6

then in dashboard>users>all users if you select ‘view’ under the username when you hover, it will take you to the bbpress profile page

[ssk1220]

Hi

I have BBPress installed and wish to make one of our Forums only visible & accessible by a few people. Please advise the best way to do this? I have seen other posts on here regarding this but they are over 10 years old so I am assuming the technology has moved on since then.

I see that there is the option to set the Visibility to Private but what about the access?

I’d appreciate your advice on this.

Thank you

[Robin W]

got this from a quick google

bbPress Simple View Counts

[Robin W]

standard fault finding advice applies viz

it could be a theme or plugin issue

Themes

As a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwenty, and see if this fixes.

Plugins

If that doesn’t work, also deactivate all plugins apart from bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

If you cannot do this to your site (say because it is live) then use the ‘troubleshooting’ features of this plugin to let you test without affecting other users

Health Check & Troubleshooting

Then come back

[deborahdavidson]

Not sure if this is Divi related or BB Press related. We have a BB press search function for our Forum which has been fine until recently. However, suddenly only page 1 displays correctly in the search results (first image). The rest of the pages look like the second photo – you have to scroll down to reach the menu which has been corrupted and then the search results are after that (and are displaying correctly. All plugins, themes and WordPress are the latest versions. Hope someone can help (please) …

https://thefdforum.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/1.png
https://thefdforum.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/2.png

Wordpress Version: 6.0
bbPress Version: 2.6.9

Home

[markusmit]

Hello,
I have a problem with the activated search.
users who only have access to certain sub-forums have the bug that they enter random words in the search window and then get to posts from areas that are actually not visible to them.
how can I set the search so that only everyone receives search entries from their authorization? Thanks,
regards Markus

[Chuckie]

Just checking if the author of this plugin got my support forum request on Dev4Press?

[mand01]

Hi !I would like to know how to translate “freshness”. I have however translated all my .pot files, but I cannot translate this term on the forum.
Or do I have to go to a php file ?

Thank you a lot for your help.

bbpress version : 2.6.9
WP 5.9.3

[aolaru]

I have to find a solution for multiple tiers (hierarchy) of forum members. Specifically: if a forum member has more than 50 replies, I need to assign him/her an “expert” tag.

[rcotwunite]

Hello all, I’m using a plugin called bbPress Topics for posts. Each of my wordpress posts has a forum. I want users to be forced to choose “Buy” or “sell” from a dropdown menu when they reply. I’d like their reply to be tagged so I can, for instance, filter only “buy” or “sell” tagged replies on the page.

How can I do this? Thanks!

[Robin W]

that appears to be bbpress version 2.5.12 which is very old and out of support

[ithemelandco]

Hello. I installed bbpress on one of the clients’ websites. But unfortunately, after installation and activation, it gives an error and does not run properly.

See the attached file and help.
Thankful

Screenshot

[Robin W]

bbpress just uses WordPress login, so any ‘member’ plugin will work for bbpress

[razezendegi]

hello,
my site has forum with bbpress how can connect it to iranian payment gateway (like https://sepordeh.com) , is it possible?

[Hammy Havoc]

Hi Robin!

Thank you very much for the reply, really appreciate it. :- )

Around two years ago, I migrated from phpBB to bbPress, and it works great, just get this error via email (via Jetpack) 1-2 times per day around the same time each day. There shouldn’t be any kind of conversion going on anymore. Once migrated, you don’t need it anymore, right? Is there any way to disable it from running?

[neon67]

It’s been 3 years and 2 months – and everything works great.

Such a short entry in functions frees up a lot of free time for administrator. You can better plan the appearance of content in your forum, smooth out the peaks and days of silence, leave the scheduled right answers or warnings in the topics.
I recommend the authors of bbpress to include these lines in the standard delivery))

Thanks so much to Robin for your generosity and kindness!

[cayd]

Hi all,

I’m currently working on trying to display the currently signed in users subscriptions to both forums and topics within a Gutenberg block, but when accessing the user-subscriptions.php template, it shows that I’m not currently subscribed to any topics or forums, even though I can see I’m subscribed to them on the true subscriptions page at /forums/subscriptions. Is there any way to output this same content into a custom block?