[Bicho]

Hi. I’m looking for a plugin to perform a very simple action: everytime a new forum and/or topic is posted on my site, it is auto-posted to Facebook and Twitter.

Anyone? Thanks!

I’m using:
WP 3.8.1
bbPress 2.5.3-5249

[tajenli]

I also search for the solution for a while. I have not found any real “group” solution directly for bbPress. However, I came up with couple other solutions. I list them below in case others need them:

1. Use BuddyPress: BP is for group management with much more functions. It works great with bbPress (prob same development team). BuddyPress group users management is quite powerful. There are 3 levels of group: public, private & hidden, and 3 level of user role for group: admin, mod, member. I also suggest to add Invite Anyone plugin, so group member can invite others without “friends” limitation.

2. Use Membership from wpmuDev. This solution is similar to s2member. You can control every piece of accessibility on your site through user subscription. The subscription can be set to free. But it’s a bit too complicated for just one simple purpose.

[bbpressuserkb]

Hello,

I added the follwoing code to functions.php

add_action( ‘init’, ‘blockusers_init’ );
function blockusers_init() {
if ( is_admin() && ! current_user_can( ‘administrator’ ) &&
! ( defined( ‘DOING_AJAX’ ) && DOING_AJAX ) ) {
wp_redirect( bbp_user_profile_link( bbp_get_current_user_id() ) );
exit;
}
}

This redirects users to http://www.mydomainame.org/wp-admin/profile.php
and displays a link to their BBPress Profile.
Question is, how do I redirect users directly to to their BBPress profile?

This is probably something very simple, but I am not a developer unfortunately.

Thanks for your help.

[jpgrilo]

Hello
I have successfully migrated my forum from PHPBB to bbpress, but i have encountered a problem that i do not know how to result this

Example
If you visit this topic http://www.bushcraft-pt.org/?topic=leather-work-by-jpgrilo and try to click on button of the page 16 it will return an error “This is somewhat embarrassing, isn’t it?
It seems we can’t find what you’re looking for. Perhaps searching can help.”
I have found that the software is malforming the url. Instead of this http://www.bushcraft-pt.org/?topic=leather-work-by-jpgrilo&paged=16 he is generating this
http://www.bushcraft-pt.org/?topic=leather-work-by-jpgrilo6.
The strange thing is, if i click in the button referring the page 2 everything works fine.
How can i result this problem, any ideas?

WordPress 3.8.1 running Twenty Twelve theme.
bbpress Version 2.5.3

Thank you in advance
Joao

[Oscar Estepa]

Hi Doremdou,

I haven’t been able to spend much time on this matter, I still don’t want to use the outdated plugin but bbpress support is not paying attention to this thread…

If you find out a solution please, do not hesitate to let me know.

Regards,
Oscar

[davidkooo]

Hi, I tried your “bbPress starter theme with a phpBB look and feel” (downloaded from github), I have placed all files in my theme folder, but I have several problems:

1. On forum index http://batman.scifi-guide.net/forums you can see title of the last Forum on the very top.

2. If there is no topic in forum section, freshness link is displayed and heads to the Category

3. sub forums page looks very strange http://batman.scifi-guide.net/forums/forum/arkham-seria when compared to http://teamoverpowered.com/forums/forum/general-forums/

I am using latest WP and bbpress.

How to fix these issues?

Thank you.

[SooperGenius]

is_bbpress() almost works. Thanks for the pointer there, by the way. I can’t see how I missed that function in all my searching. I failed my Google-fu obviously. My code now looks like this in the my-plugin.php file.

function forum_lock_check($allcaps, $cap) {
	if (function_exists("is_bbpress")) {
		$is_bbpress = is_bbpress();
	} else {
		$is_bbpress = false;
	}
	
	return $allcaps;
}

add_filter("user_has_cap", "forum_lock_check", 10, 3); 

Here’s the funny part. (Funny = weird not Funny = haha) If I’m navigating to the main forums page (http://localhost/wordpress/forums/), then everything proceeds swimmingly. If I then navigate to a forum within the page (http://localhost/wordpress/forums/forum.forum-a) or to a thread within the forum (http://localhost/wordpress/forums/topic/post-1) I then get several of the following errors.

Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-includes\query.php on line 3792

Notice: Undefined property: WP_Query::$post in C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-includes\query.php on line 3306

Commenting out the “$is_ppbress = is_bbpress();” line removes the errors but I’ve got no idea why WordPress suddenly doesn’t like the code. Have you seen this before? What file is is_bbpress() in?

Thanks, Robin.

[Robin W]

you can edit the profile page to prevent them changing it

In your theme create a bbpress folder

wp-content/themes/%yourtheme%/bbpress

where %yourtheme% is the name of your theme

then navigate to

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/form-user-edit.php

and copy this file to the bbpress folder you created above

bbpress will now use this one instead of the default.

edit this new file and take out lines 33 to 45

ie take out the following

<div>
			<label for="nickname"><?php _e( 'Nickname', 'bbpress' ); ?></label>
			<input type="text" name="nickname" id="nickname" value="<?php bbp_displayed_user_field( 'nickname', 'edit' ); ?>" class="regular-text" tabindex="<?php bbp_tab_index(); ?>" />
		</div>
		<div>
			<label for="display_name"><?php _e( 'Display Name', 'bbpress' ) ?></label>
			<?php bbp_edit_user_display_name(); ?>
		</div>
		<?php do_action( 'bbp_user_edit_after_name' ); ?>

This will remove the ability to set a nickname and to change the display name.

[Robin W]

is_bbpress()

should do it I think.

Otherwise bbpress has custom post types of forum, topic and reply.

You should also consider disabling or modifying the bbpress search function, as otherwise searches will go forum wide, giving a backdoor.

Good luck !

[SooperGenius]

Hi,

Here’s my situation. I have a site with several forums. Let’s call them Forum A, B and C. All users to the site can view Forum A. Through other actions that happen on the site users collect points. At a certain point total Forum B becomes available. At another point total Forum C becomes available. There is an external webservice I can call to see if the user has the appropriate number of points for the relevant Forum.

As far as I can tell, bbPress doesn’t have the built in capability to handle that particular permissions scenario so I’m building a plugin. My plugin is hooking on the “user_has_cap” filter to determine whether a user can see a particular forum. I don’t want to make an external webservice call on every single current_user_can() call that gets made during a page load, so in my hook function I want to immediately check to see if the current request is a Forum page.

For example, if the requested page was “http://localhost/wordpress/forums/forum/forum-b/” then being able to get the pagename “forums” it would allow me to jump out of my hook function immediately if the request wasn’t for a forum page or topic. Below is a copy of code/pseudocode for what I’m doing in the plugin.

function forum_lock_check($allcaps, $cap) {
    if (pagename != "forums") return $allcaps;	

    if (webservice says I can) {
        $allcaps["can-view-forum"] = true;
    }
    return $allcaps;
}

add_filter("user_has_cap", "forum_lock_check", 10, 3); 

Is there a wordpress or bbpress function that gives me the pagename the forum is attached to? Of course, if there is an easier way to do what I want, I’m all ears for that as well. Thanks for any help you can give me.

[Stephen Edgar]

Ha! Thanks for this, the rabbit hole goes deep here…

I’ll take a closer look at his soonish, things indeed are a little broken here 😉

Details in https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2581

[Stephen Edgar]

Don’t forget our about page 🙂 https://bbpress.org/about/

[palmdoc]

Hi @peterwsterling
I’m keen to get your plugin but I am also using WP Polls for blog posts and pages and in fact WP Polls can also embed in bbpress posts (https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-polls/installation/) though Polls can only be created by Admins from the backend

WP Polls also uses the short code poll but in a different format
[poll id="2" type="result"]

But I like the concept of users being able to create their own polls in forum posts so I’d be keen to get your plugin provided it doesn’t conflict with WP Polls. Hope you can confirm.

Thanks

[chapman387]

I have installed bbPress, and think it’s great. My thanks to the developers!
I am having a problem though……As Administrator I installed bbPress, and therefore am a Keymaster.
However, I have given the same privileges to two other Users (Administrator/Keymaster, but if they go:

Dashboard>Appearance>Menus they only see Pages/Links/Categories option for menu editing, whereas I see the additional Forums option.
Any ideas anyone?
Many thanks,
Chris

[chapman387]

Hi,
Is there any way I can change the Login Widget to prevent users from being able to change their screen name once it has been set?
I am trying to prevent users from hiding behind Aliases.

WP 3.8.1
bbPress 2.5.3
Many thanks in advance

[John James Jacoby]

Seems unlikely you would receive error messages from bbpress.org. Are you able to copy them here? I primarily use Safari on a Mac, and have never experienced issues.

[Robin W]

If you want it to look like PhPBB then the following links should help

I have created a bbPress starter theme with a phpBB look and feel

Forums index in the same layout as other bb software

[Robin W]

This is just different software, like the difference between a Ford and a Toyota.

bbPress is ‘skinny’ and you can use plugins to add functionality as you need, rather than have fat software that has loads of stuff you don’t need.

[Robin W]

You should really be looking to get rid of the toolbar for everyone but moderators and above ! It shouldn’t really be seen by users.

go to dashboard>users and for each user untick the toolbar

The codex has help on putting logins and profile on the menu pages – see

https://codex.bbpress.org/layout-and-functionality-examples-you-can-use/ no.s 8 & 11/12

[gobeyond]

Hello Liberty and all the experts here,

I am having the same problem. I set up the bbpress using a minimalist theme I created from scratch. Everything works except the missing toolbar in the editor.

I added the following code in the functions.php file, but I only saw two tabs “Visual” and “Text”, but no toolbar, as shown in the picture posted above by “Liberty.”

function bbp_enable_visual_editor( $args = array() ) {
    $args['tinymce'] = true;
    return $args;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_after_get_the_content_parse_args', 'bbp_enable_visual_editor' );

When I switched to the Twenty Ten theme, the toolbar showed up nicely. I know my theme is missing something, but can’t seem to be able to figure out what I am missing. Any help will be greatly appreciated!!!

Have a great day!

Terry

[Tanya Quintieri]

Okay, nice! While trying to submit this support request, I got 4 error msgs. Perhaps bbPress doesn’t like Macs and Safari?

[Tanya Quintieri]

Hi there,

I get a weird error msg when hitting the submit button when opening a new topic. I get a white screen that says: “http://forum.dvud.de/members/tanya-quintieri/
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /var/www/web86/html/forum/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/topics/template.php:1541) in /var/www/web86/html/forum/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 896”

When I hit refresh in my browser, the forum shows up.

All my versions are the newest. I just installed everything today.

Thanks,
Tanya

[Kx]

Hey @ravisharma911,

I’ve been testing using Paid Membership Pro (free plugin) and it seems to be working so far. The integration doesn’t seem to be terribly tight, but it’s functional. You’ll need the Paid Membership Pro plugin along with Paid Membership Pro for bbPress. I hope this helps.

[ravi.sharma911]

Hi, We are looking to create a website that will be somewhat forum based. It would allow both consumer and vendor to post/interact with each other. There would be a fee charged on both ends. Is it possible to charge a fee for registration on forums?
Do you think it is possible using any plugin on BBPress?

[Robin W]

glad to have someone else looking !

My ajax is hopeless !

Your solution is valid, but digging for it produced some code issue

we have several issues here

firstly the filter call is wrong in the code ie

bbpress/includes/topics/template.php has two errors

function bbp_get_topic_subscription_link( $args = array() ) {
......Parse the arguments......
		), 'get_forum_subscribe_link' );

so the function is ‘get_topic_subscription’ but the parse argument reverts to ‘get_forum_subscribe‘

whilst it doesn’t affect this issue the error is repeated for favorites in the same file

function bbp_get_topic_favorite_link( $args = array() ) {
..........), 'get_forum_favorite_link' );

needs changing to ‘get_topic_favorite_link’`

This doesn’t affect the issue as such, other than the filters above are wrong.

But filtering bbp_get_topic_subscription_link is totally pointless, as it immediately calls
‘get_user_subscribe_link’ which them resets the |, so whilst the filter seems to correct it once, any click just resets it.

So your filter to get_user_subscribe_link is the correct one, but for the wrong reason.

Really the code needs to have the filter in one place only (suspect user)

Anyway the solution for @majid436 is as you suggest

function hide_before3 ($args = array() ) {
$args['before'] = '';
return $args;
}
add_filter ('bbp_before_get_user_subscribe_link_parse_args','hide_before3');