[robgranholm]

Hi,

I’ve hit an issue that is critical for my site to function, and can’t figure out where to go to fix this. If you are a service professional, please let me know, I’d be happy to pay for a fix.

We launched our site, and have found a weird bug where users who have the Site Role – Subscriber [through Contributor] and Forum Role – Participant [through Keymaster] which is most everyone CANNOT view any original topic posts, only replies if any. Even if you are user who is creating the topic, once you hit submit, you’re brought to your topic, and you cannot see the topic content any longer. Here’s a snapshot of what you do see: http://bit.ly/1ctPQv7 [replies are shown, but the actual topic content which goes above the replies is missing]

Here’s the same post as viewed from a User set as an Administrator: http://bit.ly/NzMu4K [notice the original topic content and controls that are visible]

The only user type who can see the topic post content is Administrators, which certainly isn’t workable for a forum!

Please help, and contact me if you are a support professional with this forum software. Where do I look for what could be causing this?

This makes no sense, and I can’t figure out how to fix this. I am willing to provide username and password to any individuals that can help troubleshoot. The site is protected with wishlist so you won’t be able to view the forums without access, it can be located at http://mbicoachspot.marthabeck.com

Wordpress 3.8
BBpress 2.5.3
BuddyPress 1.9.1

[jmessick]

The forum was just a few days old when it stopped working and only had a few forums and topics. It’s on a new website that I’ve been working on. All my software and plugins are the latest version I have the following plugins.
Akismet
bbPress
Category Reminder
Jetpack
Limit Login Attempts
myRepono Backup Plugin
New User Approve
Post Expirator
Simple Notices
System Snapshot Report
TinyMCE Advanced
TinyMCE Spellcheck
Updater
WangGuard
WP Display Header
WP Super Cache

[thajskyraj]

Thanks Robin, I guess I understand you completely. I did exactly what you advised me to do and it actualy works, however I am not certain what exact code of bbpress theme should I put there.

The code of page.php looks as follows:

<?php get_header(); ?>
<?php get_template_part(‘loop’, ‘page’); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

The questions is what piece of bbpress template code should I put between the header and footer. Now I put there code copied from bbpress/templates/default/extras/page-front-forums.php, and its some improvement, however it is still not correct as it put the sidebare widgets under it instead of its correct location.

If you can advise what code should I put there, then it will be perfect solution.

Thanks a lot for your efforts and time.

[Robin W]

Ok, you might take while to fix this, but here’s some starters.

On the correct forum, the page is using the bbpress.css under a div class of “entry content”
On the incorrect forum, the page is using your themes css under a div class of “storycontent”

On the incorrect website, I suspect that you need to take a copy of the page.php that this forum is using. Rename this to bbpress.php, and move this file to your theme’s folder. BBpress will then use this as the page style for all forum stuff. Then you’ll need to edit it to use the bbpress theme. Sounds simple when you write it, but this assumes you know what I’m talking about, and even that I know what I’m talking about! But maybe start there and see how far you can get.

[thajskyraj]

Hi, I have installed your bbpress forum plugin to two WP sites. Both are using same themes Magazine Premium from Bavotasan, however first one is old version and second one is updated version. In updated version bbpress looks great while in the old version List of forums is not displaying correctly as follows:

http://www.thajskyraj.com/forums

For comparrison the updated theme displays it correctly as follows:

http://www.perfectlife.ws/forums

Unfortunately, I need to keep the old version of the theme on the first site and do not want to upgrade that theme to the newever version. But the list of forums is not displaying correctly as far as topics are displaying correctly:

Koh Chang Fórum

Is there anything I can do to correct this error?

Thanks a lot and I highly appreciate your work.

[Robin W]

No problem,

Several ways to do this, the easiest is to add the following to your theme’s style.css file:

.widget_display_topics .bbp-author-avatar { display: none ! important; }

.bbp-topic-freshness-author  .bbp-author-avatar { display: none ! important; }

or if you are using a child theme, put in in the bbpress.css in your css folder

If you need further help, just come back and ask, or visit

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – part 2

[SaoWolfe]

I believe that I’m experiencing the very same ting. I’m using buddypress and bbpress, and I’m referring to what happens in my froums. When you create a topic is posts only the topic title which, when clicked on, only shows the title and the “reply to” filed. It doesn’t show the actual topic content. Is that what’s happening to others? Anyone figure this out yet?

It’s very frustrating and holding up some important work via my site!

[alkesh_14]

Hello,

I installed bbpress all is working fine except 2 pages

1. http://www.investoo.com/forums/topic/alkesh-topic/

2. http://www.investoo.com/forums/forum/alkesh-test/

Those page are coming blank only header part is coming.

Please help me

[Robin W]

ok,

what is happening when they hit the submit button?

Have you tried

de-activating all plugins except bbpress to check if there’s a conflict?
changing to a default theme such as twentytwelve to see if it’s a theme issue?

[Robin W]

presume you are using the code is_bbpress() in your widget logic?

[Robin W]

unfortunately you are right. The widgets that bbpress comes with can only be changed by filters, and that may be your solution.

Alternately you can cut the widget code into a plugin. I do this to alter the wordpress login plugin, and once you get into it it’s quite easy, just google creating a plugin for lots fo resources.

You’ll need some plugin code, and then to copy the widget into the plugin. You’ll then need to change the widget name so it doesn’t conflict.

[pooya]

Hi Guys, just installed bbpress.

I need help with the following please.

1. I need to find a plugin which allows my visitors to login via facebook credentials.
Which in return registers them as part of my website & bbpress.
An if else function is needed to verify if the visitor is the member of the facebook group, if not it wont allow them to login.

2. I want someone who could modify /wp-content/plugins/jsl3-facebook-wall-feed/php/class-uki-facebook-wall-feed.php to add data to my bbPress database as it loops through each post in my Facebook Group feed. The specific function that loops through my feed is display_fb_wall_feed(), will provide more details.

[Robin W]

If having themes and plugins in wp-content was a security issue, then WordPress all over the world would be hacked daily, and if wp-content is insecure then all wordpress folders would be and the locations of the wordpress core are all standard.

I’d just put bbpress into a wp-content folder

If you really want to stick with your route, then search the whole bbpress plugin for “wp-content” and just do a copy/paste. it may be one occurance, it could be hundreds.

Of course you’ll need to repeat on any upgrade

[Robin W]

use the bbpress logon widget in a sidebar on your forum page, and it’ll stay on the forums.

edit : sorry just read your entry again, and that’s exactly what you are doing !

I disable dashboard for all my users – untick “show toolbar when visiting site”

If they logout using the widget (which is their only option if they don’t have toolbar), then they don’t get the WordPress login page.

You can customose the generic login form if you want to keep it see

https://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_the_Login_Form

[Robin W]

How long have you had the forum?, and how long have you had the problem?

Have you done any additional plugins, wordpress, bbpress or other plugin upgrades, or changed css or functions recently?

What versions of wordpress and bbpress are you on?

[ttyler333]

I have been trying to enable the ability for the author to delete their own posts. I am running bbPress 2.5.3-5249 and based on my analysis current_user_can("delete_reply", $post->ID); seems to be the problem, I created a capability “delete_reply” and still didn’t succeed. I read documentation but it said delete_replies. I have spent too much time on this one thing. I can make the bbpress work so the user can delete their own posts but it’d be after modifying files I really should only have to hook into. Anyone have any advice or tips?

[Robin W]

Not quite sure what you are after

There is a bbpress widget that shows latest topics which you can put into your sidebar.

Otherwise come back and explain some more !

[Robin W]

Think this thread should help you

http://wpml.org/forums/topic/conflick-with-bbpress/

[Robin W]

it’s coming from bbpress stylesheet.

there may be a quicker way to remove this, but one that should work is as follows.

I don’t think you have a childtheme, and now may be the time to consider having one, see https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum-part-2/ for more details

once done you need to navigate to

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/css/bbpress.css

copy this file into a folder called css within your theme, so you end up with
wp-content/themes/mychildtheme/css/bbpress.css

where mychildtheme is the name of your childtheme

Then edit every line that has

background-color : xxxxxxx

change to

background: none repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4);

NOTE it goes from background-color to background
and it is only the background color that you’ll be changing, not lines which just have color: as that’ll be text!

eg

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-header,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-header,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-header {
	background-color: #f4f4f4;
}

becomes

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-header,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-header,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-header {
	background: none repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4);
}

This will make the background transparent, but with a darker tint shading that you have in your sidebar (the amount of difference is on the 0.4 bit, 0.1 is the lightest, 1.0 the darkest).

Come back if that doesn’t fix it, or for further help

[Robin W]

the answer is probably yes – a forum post is a post

You might do better to install bbPress WP Tweaks Widget Logic plugin which gives you a forum specific sidebar

alternately (or additionally) use widget logic where you can use code like is_bbpress()or the negative !is_bbpress()to control where widgets are shown

[Robin W]

Biloute,

There are lots of ways into bbpress and wordpress. Can you post a link to the screen you’re talking about so that we can clearly see what text you want to remove.

[CM_DK]

Hello BBpress,

Im an new user and would really like to hear if its possible to integrate your system with zendesk (ticket system).

What i need is that when a user makes a topic on my forum, its create a Tickets which i can reply to make an answer on that question. Is this possible?

Thanks in advance!

[zane99]

First time using BBpress with a new site i was helping with. Installed the setup forums with no problem and everything was working fine for a few days then blam, everything died. I was not even installing or editing anything at the time. You can see the result here –

http://www.ukdynasty.co.uk/forums/

I reverted back to original twenty twelve template but still the same and deactivated plugins.

whats going on anyone?

[Andrea]

Hi folks,

Same problem with me, new BP install, new BBPress install but no bbpress menus in my dash at all.

In my case it did turn out to be a plugin clash, and in case it should help anyone else, “WP Survey And Quiz Tool” plugin conflicts. Disable the quiz plugin, and the bbpress menus magically appear. I did manage to set up my forums, then reenable the quiz plugin and they both appear to function correctly.

Cheers

[craftersuniversity]

I never get any errors, just a blank page. But only if i reply to some other members forum thread, if i reply to a forum thread i have started, then this problem doesn’t appear…. Also i just noticed that my admin account receives notifications via mail, but not my moderator account…both are subscribed.

I tried deactivating all plugins except bbPress, but the site crashed completely, showing me empty gray pages. I then activated BuddyPress, and the website started working again, so BuddyPress must be activated for some reason. I also tried repairing the forum, and reinstalling entire bbPress, but still the problem remains. However, when i reinstalled BuddyPress, then it started working again. And for some reason BuddyPress latest version is working, the last time i tried to update, it broke my entire site….

At any rate, i think it is working now…