[Robin W]

You can use almost any theme – some integrate better.

to style bbpress use

bbp style pack

[Robin W]

No, that’s what it does.

I don’t know of anything that does exactly what you want.

bbpress is forum software – it does not try to emulate FB – sorry

[4sbc]

Sorry about the newbie questions.

I have a wordpress install and like the theme. I wanted to add BBPress/BuddyPress
To the wordpress site, Is it better to create a separate WordPress install for BBPress
with the a specific BBpress theme?

Or is it possible to add a special theme to ONLY style BBpress?

Thank you

[4sbc]

Sorry this is the URL https://courtvictim.com/support/network/groups/divorce-court/
and I am using BuddyPress with BBpress
Still trying to figure it all out

[DeepBlue]

Hi

Two solutions : you can either use this plugin :

or an easier solution, add this css, it will hide the possibility to change nickname (it will be only possible to change if from admin dashboard)

i think this is a good choice, as you dont want your members to constantly change their nicknames

label[for=nickname] {
    display: none!important;
}
input#nickname {
    display: none!important;
}
label[for=display_name] {
    display: none!important;
}
select#display_name {
    display: none!important;
}

[DeepBlue]

Sure 🙂

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-search-form {
	display: none!important;
}

[Robin W]

it is theme related, but add this to the custom css part of your theme

#bbpress-forums {
	padding: 15px !important;
}

I can’t help with the subscribe, as that only shows to logged in users.

[sallypforum]

Hello, I’m installing bbPress on wordpress 2022 theme and bbPress doesn’t seem to work. It shows empty pages. Is it not support on this theme?

[macheteyeti]

Hello,

We are eagerly evaluating bbPress as an alternative to our current Facebook secret group. Initially we came across BuddyPress, but it seems overly high priced for our needs, so bbPress is a welcome alternative.

A critical feature to us is to have a notification modal ala Facebook, where users are made aware of all posts and replies.

From my research, not exhaustive, but I like to think pretty thorough, I have not been able to find anything to achieve this. Lots of plugins for email notifications, but this is less appealing for us. Hoping someone has an insight to set me on the right direction.

We are picturing adding a button the navigation. On click, it pops up a list of recent posts and indicates if it is new or already read by you.

[DeepBlue]

Hi

Im working on this on file loop-single-topic.php

How can i show only user avatar ?

as in the code above this line show avatar AND user name :
<span class=”bbp-topic-freshness-author-av”><?php bbp_author_link( array( ‘post_id’ => bbp_get_topic_last_active_id(), ‘size’ => 48 , ‘type’ => ‘avatar’ ) ); ?></span>

How can i show only avatar on left side and on right side date of last post AND last poster name

like this bbpress site for instance:

https://olympus.crumina.net/groups/hiking-route/forum/

Thanks

[meembat]

So I have the issue resolved.

I checked the box to let bbPress Notify (no spam) “Override subscriptions” so that this plugin handles those replies.

[mjrodrig3z]

Topics or replies not showing on participant profile/dashboard bar. It only shows dashboard and then profile. However, they are both showing for moderators.Please help!

Wordpress version 5.9.2
bbPress version 2.6.9

Forum

[meembat]

I am using bbpress notify (no spam). I just dropped the no spam part in the post.

I am ok with the Bcc. Just need to figure out how to ensure bbpress notify (no spam) does not interfere with the notifications from subscriptions.

The alternative would be default all users to be subscribers to all forums. Is there a plugin for that? Or else may need some code or direct database changes to implement that.

[Robin W]

I had NOT set bbpress notify to override bbpress subscriptions, so not sure why it was still disabling those notifications.

I suspect that plugin assumes you want to override the subscriptions – but no idea.

However, the email seem to have been addressed to noreply@domain, with the user email Bcc’ed

Yes this is how bbpress now does this. The idea is that many mailservers chop lots of emails being sent at once, so this avoids that pitfall in theory. The fact that the noreply goes nowhere is not an issue as such, and you’ll find that many sites use this method.

You can use this to amend that, though old this plugin still works

AsynCRONous bbPress Subscriptions

and if you want to amend the sending email use

bbp style pack

and dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Subscription Emails

Finally you might want to try

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-notify-nospam/ as a better version of the notify plugin

[meembat]

I disabled bbpress Notify and found that the notifications to replies/subscription is working.

I had NOT set bbpress notify to override bbpress subscriptions, so not sure why it was still disabling those notifications.

However, the email seem to have been addressed to noreply@domain, with the user email Bcc’ed

Is that how the notifications are sent? Not sure where the noreply@ was set, there is no such email in the system, so it will bounce.

[Robin W]

Parent Forum
Subforum, Subforum, Subforum

That is the default bbpress display 🙂 🙂

[DeepBlue]

Hi

I noticed that “: )” doesnt create a smiley on a standard bbpress forum, but it does on this official forum 🙂 how can i have the same ?

also how to show emoticons on create / reply form ?

thank you

[Robin W]

ok, If you are certain that

1. the box is being ticked (by default it is left blank), and that
2. emails are working from within bbpress (ie if someone else subscribes to the topic they get an email)

then the standard fault finding applies…

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

[Robin W]

Yes, that is standard bbpress behaviour – replies are not sent to the author on the grounds that he does not need to be told that he has posted a reply 🙂

I think bbpress notify follows that principal as well.

There is a filter that could be used to change this behaviour if it is critical, but it will probably annoy as many posters as those who like it. Personally I have enough emails 🙂

If you like, I’ll take a more detailed look, but it may not be a free answer.

[meembat]

Hi,

I am using bbPress and also bbPress Notify. The Notify plug in is set to notify users of creation of a New post. While only administrators are notified of replies.

The email notification to administrators works perfectly and all new posts and replies are notified.

However, replies are not being sent to the original poster even if the “Notify replies” box is checked.

I can’t see those email in the email logs in the Post SMTP plugin that I use to handle emails.

So it looks like the email is not being initiated even.

[Osman]

bbpress.org forum style so good. How can i make same this forum. ?

[Robin W]

works fine on my test site

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

[Robin W]

Is this plugin not compatible with Enfold?

or you could ask

is enfold not compatible with this plugin?

check out

https://kriesi.at/support/topic/getting-bbpress-to-work-with-the-enfold-theme/

and perhaps raise with enfold as this is a paid theme

[Robin W]

bbpress just uses the .body font from the wp-content.css file.

You could style it using

.mce-content-body p {
	font-size: 25px;
}

but this will not save to the post, it will just be what is shown in the form

[DeepBlue]

Hi

Is there a way to show similar topics at the end of a topic ?

i know it might be an issue for performance when a forum has a lot of topics

An idea of the cost & requirements of doing this as a paid job ?

Easier alternative : show the last 5 topics of the same forum : how to do this ?

Thanks 🙂