[jesseaaron]

I’ve searched for captcha plugins/human verification plugins to cut out the flow of spam registrants on bbpress, but everything is either outdated or does not work on the register page. Does anyone have any suggestions/links/tips/etc.?

Thanks for your time!

[kvr28]

I did some more testing, disabled all plugins except bbpress, still getting the error, but when I made a thread in the announcement and suggestions sub under support, I got no error, when I made one under the compost bin, I did

Forums

any ideas?

[kdumas123]

Yes, I suppose that is exactly what I would like.

If it can’t be done, I suppose we could just have a separate password protected page for the tutors not connected to bbpress.

Just trying to figure out a solution.

[amandafrench]

I had this same problem on a site in my Multisite network (the only site with bbpress activated). I fixed it by checking the “Auto role: Automatically assign default role to new, registered users upon visiting the site” option in Settings –> Forums. The default role was set to “Participant.”

[echoleaf]

I just copied the bbpress theme files to my child theme and thought asking here would be a lot easier than wading through all the code.

I would like to hide replies from anonymous visitors, basically with an if/else statement. If logged in, show replies; if not logged in, hide replies and show a message that it’s for members only. The idea is that the topic would be readable by Google but the replies would be private.

Is there a single theme file I can edit for this or are there multiple files to edit? Trying to figure out which file is like looking for a needle in haystack! Thanks.

[Magic-Komplex]

Hello,
I have created two categories with several forums within, and I’m trying to set up a specific behavior. On the main index, I want all forums to be visible by everyone, even unregistered guests.
Some of these forums should only be visible for unregistered guest, but they shouldn’t be able to enter or even read or post within these specific forums. When they try to enter they should get a message like “You must be logged in to view this forum”.
Logged in members, on the other hand should be able to enter, read and post within these forums.
I have several problems in achieving this. First of all, I only found the possibility to set a forum as private, but that causes the forum only to be visible by logged in members.
So my next step was to have a look at user roles, which caused a lot of confusion. So I installed the plugin “bbp-capabilities”, in intention to be able to set up user roles. The problem is, it only provides the possibility to define the capabilities of a registered user, but not for guests. I’d need to know how I can define roles on a global level, instead of editing every single user and not being able to define what guests can do.
I hope this is clear enough to let you understand what my problem is, I’m German, so please be patient. If there’s something unclear, I’ll try my best to clarify it.
I also asked this question in the German support forum for bbpress, but I got no answer so far, so I’d be very thankful for help.
Thanks in advance,
Sylvia

[Stephen Edgar]

Robin, the issue here is if you look at his site you also see the text Door

Thus it is not just the image being loaded in ‘whatever’ template is loading bbPress it is also adding that text.

Ahhh.. It’s a Genesis theme…. Are you using the Genesis Extend bbPress plugin?

You need this https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-genesis-extend/ 🙂

See also: http://www.studiopress.com/forums/topic/adding-widget-area-to-page-title-php/

[Robin W]

Perry,

If you go back to Lynq’s answer

.bbpress .post-image { display:none; }

you post this in the style.css of the theme

wp-contents/themes/’yourtheme’/style.css

where ‘yourtheme’ is the name of the theme you are using

put it at the end, and make a note of it, as it may disappear on any theme update, so you would need to add it back.

[Robin W]

No bbPress doesn’t have it’s own theme, it uses your wordpress one.

It does have styling and can (but doesn’t have to) use a custom page, so you can make it look as much the same or as different as you like.

[batmanfan]

I’ve installed bbPress and BuddyPress. Having some trouble…
1. How to invite friends (be friends with another members)
2. As an Admin, how do I create a private forum group, and want to have selected members/users to be in this group?

Thanks.

[batmanfan]

Hi, new to bbPress. Been doing a lot of reading. Can I confirm if bbPress has its own theme and plugin? does it mean I can’t use the standard wordpress theme and plugin on bbPress? Thanks

[jonas89]

I tied delete plugin and reinstall and delete database but nothing helps. Is looks as plugin bbPress can working without database but looks strange and missing table borders. How to install new database for bbPress ?

[Perry Vermeulen]

Hello,
I asked a question and got an answer and some other help on the issue. But I needed more information to let that it work 🙂 Unfortunately, no new answers came on the threat.

Can someone please help me? This is the threat:

Photo on home of forums

Thanks!!!
Perry Vermeulen

[Robin W]

ok, interesting, whilst altering that file on a permanent basis is not a good idea, it should have worked.

I’m not familiar with the role editor, does it let you change the default participant role, or did you create a new one with the delete topic capability?

I’d eliminate plugin and theme issues by

Check other plugins

Check that no other plugins are affecting this.

Turn off all other plugins apart from bbpress, and see if that fixes the problem. If the problem is resolved, add back one at a time to see which is causing the conflict.

Check themes

If plugins are not the cause, then it may be a theme issue. Switch to a default theme, such as twentytwelve, and test.

Let us know how you get on

[Stephen Edgar]

Start by checking out the docs in the codex.

There are some good examples of what you need to do to achieve this.

First you need to customize your bbPress templates per:

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

The https://pl.forums.wordpress.org/ site is a custom page named page-forums.php with snippets of the code from various bbPress templates.

So start digging around the codex and as bbPress is made ‘the WordPress way’ to customize bbPress templates is the same ideology as customizing a WordPress theme.

[Stephen Edgar]

This primarily fixes forum subscriptions to be compatible with bbPress v2.5.3 and v2.6alpha

* Removes ie.css that was a theme CSS file and not a bbPress CSS file
* Updated CSS including RTL and minified versions
* Adds user profile forums subscription management
* Updated bbpress-functions.php to be compatable with bbPress v2.5.3 and v2.6alpha

I have tested this with bbPress v2.5.3 and v2.6alpha and the Twenty Thirteen and Twenty Fourteen themes.

Note: In the CSS I have added the responsive CSS changes via bbPress #1933 but I have kept the ‘epicwebs’ CSS after these changes so they will override any of the media queries that were introduced. This will need to be tested and tweaked so that eventually the CSS’ media queries are the last section of CSS.

You can see the ‘Pull Request’ I have submitted for @Lynq here:
https://github.com/EpicWebs/bbPress-starter-theme-epicwebs/pull/5

Once he has had a chance to review it and merge it things will be good to go.

If you know your way around GitHub you can download that pull request and test it out.
(In other words I’m not going to be giving GitHub tutorials today 😉 )

[Stephen Edgar]

Deleting duplicate topic see https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/main-page-customize/

[RuFiK]

Hello

I am testing bbPress and WP Symposium.

http://www.virtualolivia.com/forum/

http://www.virtualolivia.com/forums/

My question is how can i set up same template from bbpress in my main site on forum same like.

http://pl.forums.wordpress.org/

I mean on left side some information below tag cloud etc …

I am waiting for quick replay,

[RuFiK]

Hello

I am testing bbPress and WP Symposium.

http://www.virtualolivia.com/forum/

http://www.virtualolivia.com/forums/

My question is how can i set up same template from bbpress in my main site on forum same like.

http://pl.forums.wordpress.org/

I mean on left side some information below tag cloud etc …

I am waiting for quick replay,

[Stephen Edgar]

@mycelus Can you test the following for me to see if it fixes the isssue

In your themes folder `/wp-content/themes/yourtheme/bbpress/loop-single-forum.php’

The current code is:

<li class="bbp-forum-topic-count">
	<div class="topic-reply-counts">Topics: <?php bbp_forum_topic_count(); ?></div>
	<div class="topic-reply-counts">Posts: <?php bbp_show_lead_topic() ? bbp_forum_reply_count() : bbp_forum_post_count(); ?></div>
</li>

Can you change it to:

<li class="bbp-forum-topic-count"><?php bbp_forum_topic_count(); ?></li>

<li class="bbp-forum-reply-count"><?php bbp_show_lead_topic() ? bbp_forum_reply_count() : bbp_forum_post_count(); ?></li>

Does that look better now?

(I don’t have the time to fully test these ‘style’ updates, I am mainly adding the functionality for forum subscriptions)

[Doremdou]

Thanks @robin-w and @netweb ! 🙂
I don’t know if it was @uniqcon89 ‘s problem (well it was long ago it is true but that was the only topic similar in the forum) but if someone else has installed the starter pack and has the same problem, the fix will be here : https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/i-have-created-a-bbpress-starter-theme-with-a-phpbb-look-and-feel/page/4/
Thanks,
Cya! 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

As bbPress is a plugin for WordPress it uses the exact same database tables so it is either a theme issue of the bbPress plugin is corrupted. Try deleting the plugin and reinstalling it.

[Stephen Edgar]

I am new to bbPress and I’m pretty astounded by how incomplete out of the box this thing is. I’m really trying to love it but at every turn I’m experiencing a disconnect… : (

What do you mean exactly?
I’ll add this for starters, making bbPress templates compatible with every WordPress theme in existence is not possible ‘out of the box’ we do try to do our best though 🙂

I have just had a quick look at the theme authors site and there is very little publicly accessible info available so I can’t link you to that. It would also be worth looking at their support forums to see if any others have had issues and/or fixes when using bbPress

Support

1. How do new users login/find password? I’ve already created pages with the short code and added it to the widgets. Doesn’t work.

For this you will need to make sure bbPress is using a template from your theme that includes a sidebar. If you look in your theme folder you will probably find a file named page-sidebar.php, make a copy of that file and rename it to bbpress.php and now bbPress will use template for all your bbPress pages like forums, topics etc

Once the sidebar is present that will also fix the login issue as you have the login widget set for your sidebar.

[jonas89]

I have problem just with bbPress i think missing database connection with forum. WordPress working great and forum works but he looks strange missing table borders. Can you say why ?

Rgs. Jonas

[Stephen Edgar]

Seems like the bbPress user role ‘keymaster’ is trying to make you have a bad day.

Open up bbPress’ Repair Tools from the Dashboard -> Tools -> bbPress (/wp-admin/tools.php?page=bbp-repair)

Run the Repair Tool “Remap existing users to default forum roles”

How’d did that go?