[Robin W]

‘course are posts for “courses” custom post type.’

That is the part that confuses me.

Bbpress uses three custom post types – forum, topic and reply – none of which would concern you.

If you just want forums for each course, that is out of the box, but a course participant would be able to see other course’s forums – is this an issue?

Otherwise if you want separate private group forums then try adding the following plugin on top of bbpress.

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbp-private-groups

Since I have never used courseware I can’t say how well bbpress would integrate with it

I think you best option is to install bbpress and see how it works for you.

[Robin W]

Try this link and come back if that doesn’t solve it for you

https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-in-your-language/

[Anonymous User 13302461]

In wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/widgets.php

At around line 807 I added some code from the recent replies widget:

// Verify the reply ID - TESTING
$reply_id   = bbp_get_reply_id( $widget_query->post->ID );
$reply_link = '<a class="bbp-reply-topic-title" href="' . esc_url( bbp_get_reply_url( $reply_id ) ) . '" title="' . esc_attr( bbp_get_reply_excerpt( $reply_id, 50 ) ) . '"> TEST</a>';
// END TESTING	

Then near line 830 I changed

<div><?php bbp_topic_last_active_time( $topic_id ); ?></div>

to include the code to print the “recent reply” link after the date/time.

<div><?php bbp_topic_last_active_time( $topic_id ); 
//print latest reply link
printf( _x( '%1$s',              'widgets', 'bbpress' ), $reply_link);
?></div>

[billrodgers2013]

Our Club didn’t want forums in BBPress so I needed to uninstall it.
After the uninstall I was left with BBPress Roles such as Keymaster etc.

Additionally, all Admin accounts aand other WordPress accounts other than mine now get a page “you are not authorised to access this page” when they log in. They can go back to the main page while logged in and can then access the Dashboard.

I’ve worked around this b copying the user privileges from my account to other admin accounts.

How can I “fix” this?

[Aezaz Shaikh]

Hi all,

I am creating a course related membership site. I am using course ware plugin for course management. I also need forum for my registered members for course related discussion.

I google for best forum plugin for wordpress and found this bbpress plugin.

But I am confused, I am not sure whether it will work with my course post type or not because its custom post type.

What I actually want to do is: Suppose, I created 1 course say “bbpress installation” in course ware custom post type and I want to add 1 separate discussion board for this course. Is this possible with bbpress plugin ?

Let me know its really very urgent for me because my project is overdue. I really very appreciate quick and useful reply 🙂

Thank you in advance.

[Aezaz Shaikh]

Hi all,

I am creating a course related membership site. I am using course ware plugin for course management. I also need forum for my registered members for course related discussion.

I google for best forum plugin for wordpress and found this bbpress plugin.

But I am confused, I am not sure whether it will work with my course post type or not because its custom post type.

What I actually want to do is: Suppose, I created 1 course say “bbpress installation” in course ware custom post type and I want to add 1 separate discussion board for this course. Is this possible with bbpress plugin ?

Let me know its really very urgent for me because my project is overdue. I really very appreciate quick and useful reply 🙂

Thank you in advance.

[pedravil]

Hi,

Thank you for your answer.

I found the issue. I’m using WPML. When I create a Forum for English and than if I create a Topic, also for English, the attribute “Forum” combobox has items. On the other side, if I create a Forum for Portuguese and than a Topic also for Portuguese, the attribute “Forum” combobox is empty.

It seems BBPress is only working for English, not for any other language.

How do solve this issue?

Kind regards.
Pedro Avila

[Stephen Edgar]

I have just started updating the layout and structure of the codex http://codex.bbpress.org/

This has been on the ‘ToDo’ list for a while, there is much to do and if you would like to give a helping hand that would be great, subscribing to this topic would be a good start 😉

In the coming days I will update this post and outline further some of the plans.

You can see the new planned layout home page here: http://codex.bbpress.org/

The ‘Participate & Contribute’ page here: http://codex.bbpress.org/participate-and-contribute/

No pages or changes to permalinks have been made yet, though I do plan on this in the coming days.

[Robin W]

ok, quick and messy way (based on some code I did elsewhere)

create a directory in your theme root called bbpress

wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress

copy

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress

loop-replies.php
and
loop-single-reply.php

into this directory

bbpress will now use these files instead

in loop-replies change from line 40 to

<li class="bbp-body">

		<?php if ( bbp_thread_replies() ) : ?>

			<?php bbp_list_replies(); ?>
			
			
		<?php else : ?>
			<?php global $countr ;
			$countr=0 ; ?>
		
			<?php while ( bbp_replies() ) : bbp_the_reply(); ?>
			
			<?php 
			$countr ++ ; 
			
			<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'loop', 'single-reply' ); ?>

			<?php endwhile; ?>

This is basically just putting a count into this, so that we can see that the topic is count 0

then in loop-single-reply change line 45 to read

<?php if ($countr !=0) bbp_reply_author_link( array( ‘sep’ => ‘<br />’, ‘show_role’ => true ) ); ?>

I’ve not tested this, but you should be able to get it to work.

[Jerry]

If anyone is able to give me a hand on this, one note. I’ve tried modifying content-single-topic-lead.php as per the codex. That did not work. My next route is to try modifying something within buddypress, which I have installed. Perhaps something in there is preventing these changes within bbpress? Grasping at straws at this point.

[Jerry]

@robin-w, can you please help me with another issue I am having? Here is the link to my posted question:

Is it possible to remove topic-author, but keep reply-authors

[demonboy]

A slightly different question to the last one about visibility. I’d like to make the one private forum’s TITLE and TOPIC COUNT visibile to everyone. If they try and click on it, they’re taken to a page which tells them it’s members only (that part I’ve got covered).

I thought when I first installed bbpress this was actually the default setting but when I log out I don’t see the forum title. Have I inadvertently changed a setting whilst piddling around with plugins, or did I just imagine it? Is this at all possible?

[kowarler]

Don’t suppose there’s a sample bbpress forum that can be imported into one’s own bbpress pages is there?

I know one-size fits all wouldn’t work as everyone wants different things, but if there was a few to choose from, it would help complete newby’s (like myself)!

Off to re-read section 8 on how to setup page width, I’m sure after ten read-through’s it might start making sense to me (can’t remember how I got to go to full page)!?

I will persevere!

[Robin W]

It’s not listed as one that is known to be compatible with bbpress

http://themeforest.net/collections/2997867-bbpress-compatible-themes

Sorry but you’ll need to contact the theme author for a fix.

[southcot]

Yes it’s the same issue. I didn’t understand the reference you made to the plug-in author, sorry. Not being conversant with the conventions I assumed you were still talking about the bbpress author. I’m sure I could have been more switched on but perhaps replies to in this forum could make less of an assumption about the degree of tech literacy us ordinary users have?

I’m now completely at a loss as to what the link:-

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2593

… should convey to me?

[southcot]

Don’t understand above, Stephan Edgar wrote:-

“It looks like ‘however’ all the things on your site are working it is making the topic ‘private’

The good thing is we will have this fixed for bbPress 2.6”

Where in the thread does it say this is a UAM issue?

[Robin W]

Integration is not an option for us, as explained in my original post.

was just trying to help by giving you a test site that you could fix the issue in – only an option 🙂

therefore yes you are doing wp and bbpress on a sub-domain, should work quite easily !

[Robin W]

Do you want me to include the bbpress custom fields code?

yes please !

[fumbling]

Hi there! I am using bbpress v 2.5.3 and wordpress v 3.9.1.
I would like to use an email for notifications from the forum, that is different then the one I’ve setup in wordpress settings. Is this possible? Its just different people in our organization will deal with the forum, and others with support on the contact page.
Any help would greatly be appreciated!!!

http://fumblingfitnesscom.fatcow.com/test/wordpress/

[Stephen Edgar]

The WordPress WXR Export/Import does include all the post meta, it includes everything that bbPress needs except for some idiosyncrasies for users such as bbPress roles and passwords as I outlined in the ticket.

[Stephen Edgar]

Per my reply here: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/migrating-from-one-bbpress-installation-to-another/#post-147085

I have just created a ticket on Trac to add a bbPress 2.x to bbPress 2.x importer.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2605

I have no idea why I had never thought of, or had mentioned or requested previously to include this. It should be pretty quick and easy to do also.

[Stephen Edgar]

I have just created a ticket on Trac to add a bbPress 2.x to bbPress 2.x importer.
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2605

I have no idea why I had never thought of, or had mentioned or requested previously to include this. It should be pretty quick and easy to do also.

[Stephen Edgar]

The ‘Recent Topics’ widget even though it can include ‘Recent Replies’ the widget itself only outputs topic links. The ‘Recent Replies’ widget does link to the most recent reply id.

I also read your comments on the Trac tickets, we will get the widgets updated, the performance improvements we are making for bbPress 2.6 will most likely affect the widgets also, so we will take a look at the widget tickets at the same time.

[TrishaM]

Hi Robin,

Thanks for the reply! Integration is not an option for us, as explained in my original post.

The reason I posted the question is that the current version of bbPress – unlike the version we started with – is now a “plugin” that uses the wp_ tables, whereas before it had it’s own folder structure, themes, plugins, etc. But NOW when installing bbPress as a Stand Alone forum, it sounds like we have to install WP somewhere first and then add the plugin? I just wanted to be sure there wasn’t some other method to follow when you’re *not* integrating it into an existing WP-based site.

[Jerry]

No problem. I found out that I did not need to create that extra function after all. All I had to do was place ‘bbp_topic_content’ in the ajax function. Here is the javascript. I put more code below this.

<script>
      $(function() {
      $( "#dialog" ).dialog({height: 550, width: 450});
        $( ".submit" ).click(function(){
        $.ajax({
         type: "POST",
         url: 'review-meta.php',
         async:true,
         dataType: 'json',
         //assign values to the variables to be passed to the server via data, according to their B position
         //within the foreach array. See script within loop for jquery window to see how B is derived.
         data: { B : B, cover : b_cover[B], coverSmall : b_cover_small[B], title : b_title[B], author : b_author[B], published : b_published[B],
         ISBN : b_ISBN[B], description : b_description[B], pages : b_pages[B], publisher : b_publisher[B]},
         success: function(data)
             {
             //identify the variables for unique handing on the server side, this is
             //how the book data gets to the input fields for bbpress forums
             $("textarea[name='bookCover']").val(data.cover);
             $("input[name='bookCoverSmall']").val(data.coverSmall);
             $("input[name='bbp_topic_title']").val(data.title);
             $("input[name='bookAuthor']").val(data.author);
             $("input[name='bookPublished']").val(data.published);
             //$("textarea[name='bookDescription']").val(data.description);
             $("input[name='bookPages']").val(data.pages);
             $("input[name='bookPublisher']").val(data.publisher);
             $("input[name='bookISBN']").val(data.ISBN);
             $("textarea[name='bbp_topic_content']").val(data.description);
             //alert(B);
             },
             //error: function(errorThrown){
             //alert('error');
             //},
             });
      $( "#dialog" ).dialog( "close" );
      });  });
</script> 

Here’s how I did variable assignment in a different script, located within the loop where I am generating results. I did not include all the variable as this is long. Also, I am wondering if I could have done some type of auto-indexing instead of having to list each result. Luckily there are only 10, otherwise this would have been crazy.

$( ".submit" ).click(function(){
            //get the id number of the button the user selects, which is indexed for each result
            //the variable B is then decremented 1 from id because javascript arrays begin with [0]
            if(this.id.indexOf('select')>-1) {var id = (this.id.split(" "))[1]; console.log(id);}
            B = id - 1;   });
            //create an array for all 10 results. There is probably a cleaner way to do this
            var b_cover = [<?php echo json_encode($b_cover[1]); ?>,<?php echo json_encode($b_cover[2]); ?>,<?php echo json_encode($b_cover[3]); ?>,<?php echo json_encode($b_cover[4]); ?>,
            <?php echo json_encode($b_cover[5]); ?>,<?php echo json_encode($b_cover[6]); ?>,<?php echo json_encode($b_cover[7]); ?>,<?php echo json_encode($b_cover[8]); ?>,
            <?php echo json_encode($b_cover[9]); ?>,<?php echo json_encode($b_cover[10]); ?>];
            //this is the javascript foreach that stores the array values 0 to 9
            b_cover.forEach(function(entry){console.log(entry);});
            
            var b_title = [<?php echo json_encode($b_title[1]); ?>,<?php echo json_encode($b_title[2]); ?>,<?php echo json_encode($b_title[3]); ?>,
            <?php echo json_encode($b_title[4]); ?>,<?php echo json_encode($b_title[5]); ?>,<?php echo json_encode($b_title[6]); ?>,
            <?php echo json_encode($b_title[7]); ?>,<?php echo json_encode($b_title[8]); ?>,<?php echo json_encode($b_title[9]); ?>,<?php echo json_encode($b_title[10]); ?>];
            b_title.forEach(function(entry){console.log(entry);});

Do you want me to include the bbpress custom fields code?