[nishantkashyap23]

I installed bbpress on my website and while I get the forums on my backend, I do not see any backend menu for the bbp user profiles (all I have is the default WP user profile) – is that how it is suppose to work? Are users suppose to just edit their profiles from the front end only? Also, if I just want to use the default wp profiles for the forum how do I do that? Further, how do I disable links to the user/author profile in the forums? (Sorry if the questions seem to too naive, I am a WP/BBP newbie)

[angslycke]

Hi!

I’m using bbPress 2.5.3 and BuddyPress 1.8.1 and loving it, however there’s something I miss.

When I visit a users profile in BuddyPress I can click to show that users started forum threads and his/hers replies in other threads. The replies page only lists the users replies and there’s no link to view the entire discussion. This makes it really difficult for another user to reply in that discussion.

Should this be a core feature to lower the threshold for additional replies in forum threads?

Thanks in advance!

[Gokuuu]

Hey guys, i’ve installed the BBpress plugin last version 2.5.3 while running latest wordpress 3.8 version, and i had nothing in the dashboard, no tab, nothing related to BBpress.

I’ve deactivated all my plugins and set up basic wordpress theme.
I figured out that once i activate WPML Multilingual CMS, the three tabs related to BBpress : forums, topics and replies disappear from the dashboard…but i can still access to the forums, the pages are still available, because i’ve created it so i could test, the only issue is that if i want to create new category or anything else, i need to deactive my WPML plugin so the BBpress tabs appears again, and then reactivate and so on…

I can’t run my website without the WPML Multilingual CMS plugin because i run a multilingual ecommerce and most of my contents is translated in two languages…

So just wanted to let you know the issue in case it was unknown, and you might know what i can do for it ?

Meanwhile i would have to found another forum plugin 🙁

Thanks in advance and Have a nice day 🙂

[Gokuuu]

Hey guys, i’ve installed the BBpress plugin last version 2.5.3 and i had nothing in the dashboard, no tab, nothing related to BBpress.

I’ve deactivated all my plugins and set up basic wordpress theme.
I figured out that once i activate WPML Multilingual CMS, the three tabs related to BBpress : forums, topics and replies disappear from the dashboard…but i can still access to the forums, the pages are still available, because i’ve created it so i could test, the only issue is that if i want to create new category or anything else, i need to deactive my WPML plugin so the BBpress tabs appears again, and then reactivate and so on…

I can’t run my website without the WPML Multilingual CMS plugin because i run a multilingual ecommerce and most of my contents is translated in two languages…

So just wanted to let you know the issue in case it was unknown, and you might know what i can do for it ?

Meanwhile i would have to found another forum plugin 🙁

Thanks in advance and Have a nice day 🙂

[Debayne]

If anyone else has this problem

This is an issue with bbPress, it loads the content-search.php template from the theme directory, which is wrong. An easy fix is to rename the content-search.php file in your theme directory to content-searchresults.php and then change this line in search.php:
get_template_part(‘content’, ‘search’);
to this:
get_template_part(‘content’, ‘searchresults’);

A big thanks to Trevor over on the Artisteer Forums

[FlyFishersCorner]

EDIT note: Running bbPress 2.5.3 on WordPress 3.8.1
My theme does not support sidebar widgets, so I instead created a page to house my forums. Additionally, I like the idea of being able to add some content above the forum index. I am running everything through a child theme.

EDIT note: The breadcrumbs display in the bottom right of the header, in case it’s not obvious when looking.

As it stands, I’ve added a login box and some content to the page, then used the [bbp-forum-index] shortcode to add my forum index. See the page here.

Clicking into the first forum, “General Fishing Discussion” (my site is a fly fishing related one), I have no issues. The breadcrumbs can get me perfectly back to the page where the index resides. See here.

Finally, I have created a couple test topics. Once I click on one of those topics, this is where my problem arises. Instead of the breadcrumbs being Forum>General Fishing Discussion>Topic Title, they switch to Home>Topic>Topic Title. Clicking the Topic link takes me to a 404 page. See it here.

I’ve been tinkering with this for days, trying several different solutions from this site that I thought might work. The most recent was a fix suggested about two weeks ago whereby I copy the page.php file from my theme folder and rename it to bbPress.php to force bbPress to use it. I have seen no change. I will note that I tried placing it in the theme-child folder as well as the theme-child\bbPress\default folder. Neither worked.

The other fix I tried that I thought might get me there was one posted here about 4 months ago that offered a replacement code for the loop-forums.php. Unfortunately, that didn’t work either.

Does anyone have any other ideas? I really appreciate any help you guys can offer! I love the look and integration of bbPress, I just can’t have users running into walls after reading a topic and trying to navigate back out to other forums.

Thanks in advance!

[gillis]

I’m finding it very tricky to import my Vanilla forum to bbPress 2.5.3 on WordPress 3.8.1. I was not completely sure about the settings to use for the import, and so have tried every combination I can think of, but to no avail. The conversion still results in:
No users to convert
No passwords to clear
No forums to convert
No forum parents to convert etc etc.
My site is http://www.wansteadium.com, and my vanilla forum is at /talk.
Any suggestions or links would be much appreciated.

[neo82]

Hi bbpress forum,

How can i do this?

I use bbpress 2.5.3 and wordpress 3.8…

Thanks for help. 🙂

[neo82]

I searched a white with google, and yeah – now i found this post! But this doesn’t work… Can anyone help please?

I use bbpress 2.5.3 and wordpress 3.8

[homeschoolmommy]

I have no problems when creating groups, but when I create a new topic and click on that topic it opens up but I get a blank white page.
I have disabled all plugins
change the theme to deffault
nothing same problem presist

bbpress-Version 2.5.3
buddypress-Version 1.9.2
website-http://gossip-moms.com

can someone point me in the right direction Thanks

[Kris35]

Anyone know if theres a compatible wysiwyg editor for forum posts? I want my members to be able to upload images from their computers. Thanks.

[Norman]

Hello,

Currently my bbpress forums do not show any information underneath an author info:

http://screencast.com/t/MWpsfe4S

I am wondering how I can turn on this so I can display more info, such as name, user name, type of user etc.

This is an live example:
http://contactpoint.ca/groups/open-contactpoint-group/forum/topic/why-career-development-matters-round-2/

Thank you,

[Jaina “Jazzy” Jaslyn]

Exciting news!

The forum was imported successfully to a test development site.

I used the plugin “Export Users 2 CSV” by Yoast ( https://wordpress.org/plugins/users-to-csv/ ) to import users.

Then I used a modified version of Import Users by DagonDesign ( http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/import-users-plugin-for-wordpress/ ) to import the users.

Important Note: When importing users with this plugin it WILL send notification emails to the Admin and the User. I ALMOST pressed “go” on importing 2,200 users — but then I decided to check the plugin code just in case; sure enough there’s this line of code wp_new_user_notification($user_id, $password); you should delete or comment out.

Yes, the users will have to re-create their passwords. We will instruct them how to do that on the new forum. That’s perhaps the only drawback of this method. But since out of the 2,200 users there are perhaps only 100 current active users, it shouldn’t be too much of a hassle.

I did have to write a custom PHP script to help this user export/import process, because the import and export plugins do not match in formatting. You can either do this custom in CSV or make a simple PHP script (took me 10 minutes) to take data from the export CSV and reformat it to meet the delimiters and the stricture of the import CSV. I can help people with this, just ask.

This user import/export had to be a separate process because using bbPress Export and Import by PippinsPlugins ( https://github.com/pippinsplugins/bbPress-Export-and-Import ) did not properly attribute users to posts if it had to create the user. (It attributed the admin to most of the posts.)

After the users were imported, I imported my 20 CSV files (~2,000 rows each file) and after much scrutiny in examination, I find that all users have been properly attributed to posts.

Now all that’s left is performing this process again onto the live site, the fresh bbpress install. (Remember, always back up your site and database before you do this stuff.)

[jmessick]

I have a bbPress installation with several forums and topics. I can enter replies and it appears to be saving the post when I click on Submit but the post never shows up, and it does not show up via the dashboard either. What gives and how do I fix this? Thanks.

[sontru]

If we run bbPress on a subsite of a WordPress Multisite installation, administrators of the subsites can’t change a user’s capability. Has anyone written a plugin to allow admins to change a user’s forum role?

[jmessick]

I have the bbPress Login Widget on my forum page, but when a user logs in it takes them to the dashboard. I want them to stay on the forum page. Also, logging out takes the user to a generic WP login page, and logging in from that also takes the user to the dashboard. Is there any way to keep the user on the page the log in or log out from? Thanks.

[IceReaper]

I just installed WordPress the latest version on WordPress with plugins BuddyPress and bbpress.

I created a dummy user under the role “Participant” but when I login to it and go to the forums I see no “Create New Topic” button anywhere.

Also I already created a category forum.

I want my users to be able to make their own topics in my categories that I make.

[dilmuhammad717]

Hi Everyone,

I am currently using bbpress in my wordpress site. I want to modify the comment before saving it,I mean I want modify the content of comments in a forum. like I want to capitalise the comment text or want to add some extra text,
Please help

Thanks!

[MBonner]

ok, so I did a fresh install of wordpress and began to install each plugin one-by-one. Here’s an update on what’s happening:

– Buddypress released a new version Feb 5th (yesterday) with a new component or something.
– I get a blank page as soon as I activate Buddypress with bbpress (no other plugins or themes installed).
– WooCommerce works with bbpress until I install a specific theme but I will take that up with the theme.

I’m going to post this thread in BuddyPress forums to see if they are aware of what’s going on but any help here would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

[JeremyCh]

Hi guys

I was wondering if we can have a link to the last post along with OP’s title for each forum in the home page, a bit like what we have in phpbb.

I searched a lot, but could not find a thing to get the last post of a forum, or a link to it. In another discussion someone suggested the use of get_topic_last_post_link, which when I tried, got undefined error.

Anyone has an idea ?
Thanks.

PS.
WP: 2.8.1
BBPress: 2.5.3

[Robin W]

look at

bbPress Styling Crib

and see

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

for where to put the changes if you’re not certain.

[Robin W]

Suspect you have a conflict somewhere. bbpress and buddypress will work, so it is something else.

Suggest you start by disabling all your plugins, and switching to a default theme. Add bbpress, buddypress and test that works (it should). Then add woocommerce, again it should work. Then switch to your normal theme, and test again. If that all works, then add back the other plugins one at a time to see which is causing the conflict.

[Robin W]

Suspect that not a lot of bbpress people will have done this, and probably none that view this forum.

Basically you just need your form to save the relevant bits to the database as a forum entry.

I’d start by looking at how an entry is stored in the database, and then get your form to do this for you.

[Debayne]

Hi guys,

I am using an Artisteer 4 theme on a Buddypress/BBpress site, but seem to have a problem with the search.

Under the forums there is a search function, but when I put in a search phrase it returns a wordpress post rather than searching the forums.

Has anyone come across this and solved it?

Thanks

[nadjamp]

When subscribing to my forums, there are no email notifications for the subscribers.
I believe it worked initially. The plug ins I may have added since then (dont’ know, if I added them before it last worked or after) are “Members” to create new user roles, as well as “Tehnik BBPress Permissions” to make Forums only accessible to certain users.