[Shanenopolis]

Users have both a site role and a forum role, and those are the specific terms used within wordpress and bbPress, respectively. Thank you for your concern, but I believe I understand the difference. I’ve never seen any reference to the word rank, but it would undoubtedly alleviate some confusion if bbPress were to use that term in place of forum role.

I would like to be able to allow forum users to earn ranks and titles like achievements. Notable badges or icons everyone can see. I think it would add a lot of depth to the forum, but maybe bbPress is not the best tool for that.

[John James Jacoby]

I’ll caution you not to conflate “roles” with “ranks.” A “Role” provides specific capabilities on the site (and in the forums) where as a “Rank” is a visual indicator of some kind of importance on the site.

Sometimes these are the same; usually they are different. I bet there’s value in having a separate “Rank” plugin for bbPress to help visually group users together into level of importance that don’t dictate the scope of permissions users have within the forums.

[tonyhir]

http://www.greenfriends.org,uk
Wordpress 3.8.1
bbPress just installed

I have tried several times to create my first forum. Every time the same error occurs:-
“You are not allowed to edit this post.”

Huh??

[kokocipher]

I want to disable pagination on certain pages, eg. homepage, but still want pagination in the forum root just like how bbpress.org does it. Where should my search begin?

[Robin W]

With current bbPress neither is possible as far as I know !

I take out roles from the display, I hate being a “keymaster” and think “participant” sounds a bit low.

[franzvz]

Thanks,

Yea, I was going to post in both because I don’t know what the culprit is. I thought it was my theme, and have confirmed this happens with just the default themes as well.

The link however has a bbp_ tag to it, so that’s why I thought to post here too.

Just in case anyone else needs it

bbpress Version 2.5.3
BuddyPress Version 1.9.2

[Robin W]

offhand I’d say yes, more likely buddypress, try the support forums there and come back if needed.

You should give them the wordpress, bbpress and buddypress versions, any plugins you have and what theme you are using

https://buddypress.org/support/

[kokocipher]

I want to disable pagination on certain pages, eg. homepage, but still want pagination in the forum root just like how bbpress.org does it. Where should my search begin?

[Shanenopolis]

Hey Robin, I’m sorry this guy never came back and elaborated, but I have the same question. It seems like such an obvious thing to me, I really can’t figure out why there’s no documentation on it.

I’m using bbPress 2.5.3, which comes with some built-in forum roles:
Keymaster
Moderator
Participant
Spectator
Blocked

Sure, I’d like to be able to change the names of these roles, but more importantly, I’d like to add new ones. Permanent ones. What about a moderator for only a specific forum, rather than all of them?
Specifically, I would like to have several different types of Participants, but without a change in permissions. I’d really just like to change what it says under a person’s name on the forum. Like a title, badge, or mark of prestige for forum users.

I have this great site role editor called Members, but it has nothing to do with the forum roles. If I could have some similar functionality for bbPress, that would be great. Do you know if this is a possibility?

[Robin W]

@satrya

Looks like you’ve done the research – I have added your comments to the tracticket

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2175

and we’ll see if the experts reckon that’s the fix and put it in the next release

[surangaudimedia]

how can i show letest thred (only last one) on my home page template. http://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/ i tried all this short cods in this page but nothing worked.

[surangaudimedia]

Hi..
please help me to get bbpress latest post.’[bbp-single-view]‘ this shortcode are not working. how I get bbpress latest post to my home page.

[travelersuniverse]

Hi! I’ve just installed bbPress (so it should be the last version) and I have the last version of WordPress too. After installing bbPress I keep getting this error in like 90% of the times I refresh my page: Fatal error: Cannot call overloaded function for non-object in /home/xxxxxxxxx/public_html/wp-includes/class-wp.php on line 529
My website is http://www.travelersuniverse.com/
This error does not occur when bbPress is not installed.
Many thanks!

[aerotran]

Hi, I’m using a wordpress theme, Brooklyn, that includes a contact section on all the pages including the bbpress forum I added. The contact section I designed uses shortcode the theme came with, but on the bbpress forum page the shortcode does not work. Instead the text of the shortcode is written out. I tried changing this to html instead of shortcode in the theme, but then it stack the icons into one column.

Does anyone have suggestions on how bbpress can recognize the shortcode for the theme.

Thank you,
Matt

[donty]

Thanks ravanh, yes, I have tried forum plugin (member at WPMU) but unfortunately it too has bugs (next/prev link doesnt work on long threads) and they have not released a new working version for a while and the beta doesn’t activate and work for me either.

Such a shame that bbPress seems so dismissive of the idea of working with multi-site properly or at least in a way that follows most plugins expected behaviour. Some of the responses to others past enquiries almost border on rude – not sure why.

I shouldn’t complain though, it is OSS but I don’t have the time to work on it myself, so can’t expect someone to do it all for me!

Thanks for the helpful response.

D

[Stagger Lee]

If it works for others i must be making some mistake. Tried with default theme same problem. It is some test development with many, many WP and Bbpress plugins. Could be that some of them is blocking.

[Ricardo Bueno]

I’m setting up/testing bbPress on this URL:
http://www.contentsmartslab.com/membersite/forums/forum/content-smarts/

I can’t seem to check the box that says “notify me of follow-up replies via email.” I have the subscribe option properly setup on the back-end. I’m wondering if I messed up the input CSS somewhere here, or something else. Any thoughts?

[kokocipher]

in an attempt to replicate bbpress.org’s recent 5 topics on its homepage, I used the shortcode, bbp-topic-index. One critical problem is that the pagination links fail miserably. So instead of http://domain.com/forums/page/2/ , it’s http://domain.com/topics/page/2/ which result in “page not found.”

Can someone please enlighten me on how to replicate bbpress.org’s recent 5 topics?

[Stephen Edgar]

@stagger-lee I just tested the code from https://codex.bbpress.org/enable-visual-editor/ and it worked fine.

You could also try the following as a plugin, it has options to enable the full editor, though it sounds like you don’t want this so don’t enable it.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-enable-tinymce-visual-tab/

[arielmeadow]

So if I’m understanding correctly, the current work-arounds for this long-persisting bug are

Disable threaded replies in bbpress

OR

Edit replies by going into the WP back-end, instead of editing via the convenient front-end interface

I’m baffled that this bug has persisted for so long.

[Mycelus]

I am using WAMP to make a test bed for my site and I am trying to install bbPress on my locally hosted site.

However, when I install the plugin, it installs fine, but the forum pages give a 404…

How do I go about doing this?

[Robin W]

Thanks for pointing this out. I’ve raised a trac ticket

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2553

so a developer should pick this up at some stage

Thanks again

[Asynaptic]

Would appreciate feedback since it seems development has stalled. bbPress 2.6 is 5 weeks overdue according to trac:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/milestone/2.6

There are only 40 tickets outstanding which is inline with previous releases so I don’t think the number of outstanding tickets is the cause (being so large in number that it would cause the delay).

And it has been more than 3 months since the last major release (2.5). The previous one before that (2.4) was released in a 3 month interval.

bbPRess 2.6 ??????????????????
bbPRess 2.5 November 25th 2013 (3 months)
bbPress 2.4 September 2nd 2013 (5 months)
bbPress 2.3 April 14th 2013 (5 months)

I’m not really quibbling over 3 months or 5 months or 5 weeks overdue, more than any of these it is the lack of activity and movement in clearing out tickets on trac that moves me to post this.

[Robin W]

Sorry, I don’t run buddypress.

You might do better on the buddypress support forum

https://buddypress.org/support/

Have you tried

Installing Group and Sitewide Forums

and there is also talk of

https://wordpress.org/plugins/private-bp-pages/

and what have you set visibility within bbp to be eg

https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum/ section 5

[Robin W]

You’d need to change a couple of templates

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/form-topic.php line 203

and

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/form-reply.php line 135

You do this by creating a directory under your theme called “bbpress” and copying these two files to there. Then modify the lines as you want, you’ll need to change the word ‘Submit’ in the following towards the end of the line to whatever you want.

<?php _e( ‘Submit’, ‘bbpress’ ); ?>

bbPress will then use these files instead

You could use a translate function, but Submit is such a widely used it might affect any submit on your site