[Robin W]

Spam, or is there a real question here?

If so, can you explain what exactly what help you need related to bbPress.

[Robin W]

“I needed to add the form, topic and forum manually [bbp-topic-index] [bbp-topic-form][bbp-forum-index] and have not found a manual solution for the login ([bbp-topic-login] didn’t work..))”

See the documentation for set up details including login in sidebar

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

and

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

for setting up menu and modal logins

As for your 404 error, I presume that the urls are correct, for instance

http://www.hightearecepten.nl/recipe/vijgencompote/

works with bbpress deactivated, but not when it is activated?

I’d check first whether there is a plugin conflict, and then a theme conflict viz ;

Check other plugins

Check that no other plugins are affecting this.

Turn off all other plugins, 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.

If it is Themeforest, I’d raise it with them, as it is a paid theme, and with over 1 million bbpress downloads they should have seen it, or know what to do. I have seen some comments that some themeforest themes do not support bbPress, but don’t know about this one.

[Mike]

Hi,
The menu options Forums, Topics and Replies appear on some of my sites in a multisite install, but not all.

If I change this in bbpress.php:

'show_ui' => current_user_can( 'bbp_topics_admin' ),

to

'show_ui' => current_user_can( 'manage_options' ),

I can see the Topics menu. Same if I change the permissions for the Forums and Replies menu.
Why should it be that the Forums, Topics and Replies menus are showing in some of my sites, but not others? I am administrator and keyholder in all of my sites.

I am using WordPress 3.8.1 and Buddypress 1.9.1 and I’ve set up bbPress for Sitewide and Group forums.

[Elbrich]

After I have installed bbpress,

(which didn’t work directly
I needed to add the form, topic and forum manually [bbp-topic-index] [bbp-topic-form][bbp-forum-index] and have not found a manual soluation for the login ([bbp-topic-login] didn’t work..))

But anyway even having found solutions for that, the error:
404 Not Found
Apologies, but the page you requested could not be found. Perhaps searching will help.

occurs at other pages in my website. I use the FoodRecipes theme from themeforest. Maybe it has to do something with the theme lay-out? It only happens when I’m visiting the recipe link.

my website is http://www.hightearecepten.nl

I leave the forum for a day, I hope anyone can help me, otherwise I change it back to without a forum. Thanx

Thanx for the help!
Elly

[Gilles Vauvarin]

Hello,

I would like to display on the front-end (over forum list on bbpress root page) the forum’s description (see here: http://i.imgur.com/o3c5iA1.png … to see what i’m speaking about).

I know there is a hook to put some content in this area “bbp_template_before_forums_index” but is there a function or a shortcode to get the forum’s description (http://i.imgur.com/o3c5iA1.png) ?

Thx

[stl99]

That’s great news dtbaker, this will be a great addition to bbPress!

Maybe a feature to select the “Best answer” or “Our Answer” (for admins) to display it on top of all replies (similar to a sticky post) would be a nice feature too?!

Cheers,
Thomas

[dtbaker]

I couldn’t find a working (simple) voting system for bbpress so I rolled my own:

Feature Requests

If it continues to work over the coming weeks I’ll clean up the code and share it.

[dtbaker]

I couldn’t find a working (simple) voting system for bbpress so I rolled my own:

Feature Requests

If it continues to work over the coming weeks I’ll clean up the code and share it.

[HDcms]

Hi,
I use BP 1.9.2 and bbPress 2.5.3.
FOr work we use the forums in BuddyPress groups.
Our menbres should be informed automatically for each new topic or reply
FOr me it should be a “php function” bbPress or budypress
Do you know of a plugin (or a function php to add)
A+

[Stephen Edgar]

To achieve this you would just make an alternate CSS stylesheet based of the main bbPress stylesheet and enqueue it as part of your theme.

You’d simply use display: none for the bits you don’t need.

<link rel="stylesheet" id="bbpress-print-css" href="http://example.com/bbpress-print-css.css" type="text/css" media="print">

[Stephen Edgar]

bbPress 2.6 is also focusing on performance issues that we have found and will improve it’s performance, personally I don’t find it very slow at all, look at this site for a perfect example, that said we have found a few tweaks.

[Stephen Edgar]

See this thread on how one user did it for SimplePress:

bbPress SimplePress 5 Importer

Also a search with a few of these keyowrds: mod_rewrite, phpbb or vbulletin at Stack Overflow will give you some good examples to go by: http://stackoverflow.com/

[Robin W]

Great, glad you’re fixed, and I learnt some more about how bbpress works along the way, so was a good challenge !

[mshane8]

Hi Robin –

I am too far along. That is not an option.

Do you know where bbPress places the database tables. What is the default table prefix?

I am not sure why this is so complex. I have imported through WP/Dashboard/Tools/Import – Forums, Topics and Replies individually through xml files.

I have a static page that calls the forum index using the shortcode : [bbp-forum-index]

This page displays OK. It will show the # of topics but when I click on the forum itself it opens up the forum but shows 0 topics. All the topics, forums and replies are in the WP Dashboard assigned to the proper author.

[Robin W]

hmmm… not sure you’re going to achieve this without some major coding and probably wordpress rather than bbpress related for sign in part.

maybe try

http://jobs.wordpress.net/

You can post a ‘project’ on there and someone will offer to do it for you

[GMarco24]

Something is wrong when you try to use child theme.
I am using child theme of Buddypress default theme. I have:
plugin-bbpress.php in both folders (parent and child)
bbpress.php in both folders
and still I don’t have correct template.

I have id=”content” and id=”content-wide” in my theme, depends do I have 1 or 2 sidebars on that page. I’ve searched&replaced id=”content” in my child theme with id=”content-wide” and still on page there is id=”content”. I am guessing it loads some template from parent folder somehow.

Somebody has any idea what’s a problem here?

Thanks

[Robin W]

You could do this.

Presuming you only want tutors to see the forum (not the general public), basically you would set the forum as private, this restricts visibility to logged on users with higher than spectator privaledge to see them.

You would then create a new bbpress role, which has visibility but no access. I think that would be fairly easy – I know how to go about it but have never tested

If you want to go down this route and test, come back and I’ll make a quick function to set this up for you.

You would have full rights – keymaster
Then your clients would have keymaster or moderator role – lets them create forums and new topics (and indeed replies for supplementaries to topics)
You clients’ tutors would have say “tutor” role, which is the spectator role with visibility to private forums added in.
Public would see no forums, topics or replies

[lowco2525]

Hello!

I was wondering if bbPress offers integration with TwitchTV and if so, how I would go about doing that?

Basically when a user tries to sign in/register there is an option to sign in with TwitchTV and it syncs their account to the forums, with permission.

[Robin W]

Sort of think that’s how it is designed to work, the idea being that you eye is drawn to the latest unstuck post, and then immediately above it is the latest stuck post, so it works
sticky – early to late.
unsticky – late to early.

Suspect there’s a bit of code you can do to change the order.
The function bbp_get_stickies

sits in

\bbpress\includes\topics\functions.php

[Robin W]

I don’t directly have any experience of maintenance plugins.

However creating a test/backup site, whilst requiring some further learning, is of great benefit, and discussed in the documentation here

https://codex.bbpress.org/creating-a-test-site/

[Robin W]

ok, so drop the following into your functions file

//  Display just latest topic
function display_latest_topic() {  

	$topics_query = array(
					'post_type'           => bbp_get_topic_post_type(),
					'post_parent'         => $settings['parent_forum'],
					'posts_per_page'      => '1',
					'post_status'         => array( bbp_get_public_status_id(), bbp_get_closed_status_id() ),
					'ignore_sticky_posts' => true,
					'no_found_rows'       => true,
					'order'               => 'DESC'
				);
				
	$lt_query = new WP_Query( $topics_query );
		
	while ( $lt_query->have_posts() ) {
			
		$lt_query->the_post();
			$topic_id    = bbp_get_topic_id( $lt_query->post->ID );
?>
<h2> Latest topic </h2>
<h3> <a href="<?php bbp_reply_url(); ?>" class="bbp-reply-permalink"><?php bbp_topic_title($topic_id); ?></a></h3>
		
<div id="bbpress-forums">
		
		<div id="post-<?php bbp_reply_id(); ?>" class="bbp-reply-header">

	<div class="bbp-meta">

		<span class="bbp-reply-post-date"><?php bbp_reply_post_date(); ?></span>

		<a href="<?php bbp_reply_url(); ?>" class="bbp-reply-permalink">#<?php bbp_reply_id($topic_id); ?></a>
		
	</div><!-- .bbp-meta -->

</div><!-- #post-<?php bbp_reply_id(); ?> -->

<div <?php bbp_reply_class(); ?>>

	<div class="bbp-reply-author">

		<?php bbp_reply_author_link( array( 'post_id' => $topic_id, 'sep' => '<br />', 'show_role' => true ) ); ?>

		</div><!-- .bbp-reply-author -->

	<div class="bbp-reply-content">

		<?php bbp_reply_content(); ?>

	</div><!-- .bbp-reply-content -->

</div><!-- .reply -->
</div><!--div bbpress-forums--->

	<?php
		
	} }

and then on your page template add this function where you want it. I’ve wrapped it in an if is_front_page statement so it only shows on the frontpage. You night need to use is_home instead depending on how your blog is set up.

If you want it in the body, you should put it within the content div, either before or after the loop depending if you want it at the of or bottom of the page. You may need to play a bit !

[snakiest]

Hello everyone

Sorry for asking a simple question, but i have just spent an hour figuring out how to increase the font-size in the html text editor. That is, the one we use to make replies or post topics. I don’t think it is related, but the font size is also very small when I submit a quick message on the Activity page in BuddyPress, ut just saying if somebody knows something about it.

I am using WordPress 3.8.1, Fruitful theme and WP USer frontend. The font size is small only on the Activity page in BuddyPRess and in bbpress. The comment section and WP user frontend seem to work fine picking up the 14px font size from my theme. To remind you, I am talking about the html editor, not the visual editor (which doesn’t even show up in topic/reply fields, I believe)

Thank you in advance!

[BlinkyBill01]

I really want my Buddypress community to be built with only the bbPress forums within the groups page. I really don’t want people to have a secondary forum outside of the group page because, from past use of bbPress, it was too confusing for members to know exactly where to post to.

So can this be done? Is there a way to disable the main site bbPress forums and just keep the group bbPress ones?

Hope you can help!

[eternal noob]

Hi all.

What can be done to get bbpress page load faster ? What are best practices ? Is there a tutorial I have missed ?

It appears as if I have a redirection-problem, where my browser is stalling ?
Is there still a gravatar-issue where I have to remove some code for speed optimization ?
What ressources can be cached with htaccess or otherwise ?
And so on …. ?

BBpress is really looking better and better and the bbpress-for-wordpress-comments in 2.6 feature would be quite a fix for wordpress which doesnt even have an edit feature for commenteers. I like how things have gone so far. But seriously – SPEED, SPEED, SPEED.

I am definately no coder just an annoying end-user. But it is simply not decent for such a relatively simple set of functionalities to be so slow as it appears to me. I simply cannot annoy forum members with such page loads and also making wordpress load slower with bbpress installed.

What is a boy to do if he really would like to use bbpress ?

Thanks for anything.

[kdumas123]

I have a client who wants a forum where tutors can discuss things amongst themselves. They want to create a topic where they can add information for their tutors. They don’t want anyone to be able to add topics to this.

Can bbpress do this? If so, how?

What do you recommend in this scenario?

Thanks!