[alfredo49]

Hi:

In my wordpress dashboard when wp e commerce (last version) is actived , bbpress (also last version) control panel in the dashboards disappears. Forums still running but i cant change any option in the dashboard when wp e commerce is actived beacuse any bbpress icon appears

solution please?

Thxs

[Gautam Gupta]

Better hook it to bbp_new_reply_pre_set_terms here: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/includes/replies/functions.php#L371 and return the $words array after joining in the supplied $terms array. Similarly for topic.

I’d also suggest to have this at the very beginning:

if ( !bbp_allow_topic_tags() || !current_user_can( 'assign_topic_tags' ) )
return $terms;

[shearamariz]

Hi bbpress Admin,

I am having a problem with the bbpress pagination.
Especially when I call the shortcode [bbp-topic-index].
The thing is it must be showing all the posts and yet when you click the 2/page 2 you are redirected to a 404 error.

I hope someone could help me.

Thanks.

[Stephen Edgar]

@shanebp wrote:

Another issue:

If you turn off threaded replies, the ‘reply’ link still appears on the right side for each reply. If you click it, it reloads the whole page!

If you turn off threaded replies, the ‘reply’ link should be removed.

This is pretty much covered in (I think) https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2509

[shanebp]

Ticket created:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2540

See: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2397

Mod: I edited the link to point the existing Trac ticket we have.

[Shmoo]

Okay as the title says I need a little help finishing a small bbPress plugin.

Right now it checks each topic content against the bbPress topic-tags created from the back-end ( only those are assigned not empty tags ) and if there are matches between the tags and content it echo’s those matches found.

The only deal-breaker here is how to add those matches found the $word Variable to each topic tags when you create a new topic or edit a topic fron the front-end.

I believe you have to work with those two actions:

add_action( 'bbp_new_topic',  'function_name', 10, 5 );
add_action( 'bbp_edit_topic', 'function_name', 10, 5 );

But how do you make the connection to the database table or how it’s called.

This is the code I already made.
http://pastebin.com/d7ZEifNb

This Plugin was an idea because of this topic.

Opinion: Tags in bbPress, do you like it or frustration to maintain?

Some help from anybody who knows PHP and creating WP Plugins would be very cool.

Thanks..

[nikhilrj]

Hello,

I have tried several plugins in order to enable sharing/ social media buttons on the individual Forum Posts such as this one: http://www.hereismyidea.com/forums/topic/tracking-my-workout-and-fitness-levels-in-gyms/ – but the sharing buttons never show up.

What plugins do you recommend that I install in order to display the sharing buttons in a decent location for the user to use? Thanks

WordPress 3.8.1 running Oenology theme.
bbPress 2.5.3
buddypress 1.9.1

[marky_uk]

Actually, just found out how to “fix” this … but not sure of the impact.

In file bbpress/includes/replies/template.php there’s two places –

Around line 174, I’ve remarked out the IF statement –

// Set posts_per_page value if replies are threaded
$replies_per_page = $r['posts_per_page'];
/*if ( true === $r['hierarchical'] ) {
	$r['posts_per_page'] = -1;
}*/

And around line 250, I’ve made the IF never be true just to try it out –

if ( true === $r['hierarchical'] & 1==2) {
	$walker      = new BBP_Walker_Reply;
	$total_pages = ceil( (int) $walker->get_number_of_root_elements( $bbp->reply_query->posts ) / (int) $replies_per_page );
} else {
	$total_pages = ceil( (int) $bbp->reply_query->found_posts / (int) $replies_per_page );

And that works. But what’s the impact of doing that beyond fixing what I wanted? Am I missing something?

[jslom]

I take it no one has done it with bbpress or has an idea what to do..

Guess I’ll switch to a different forum.

[Lucas van Heerikhuizen]

Hello everyone,

Recently we’ve been starting to use bbPress and it seems to be a very rich expansion of WordPress. What I wonder about is this: is it possible to show all sticky topics on your front page, using a shortcode? Say I have a part of my site that is the forum, I would still want to show the sticky topics in a widget in a sidebar, right from the start on the home page. I’ve read about shortcodes listing most popular or most recent topics, but is this possible for stickies too?

Many thanks,
Lucas

[malkah]

Hi

Is there a way to remove the rel=nofollow from bbpress posts?
I want the links inside posts to be indexed.

thanks

[dblatner]

I want to add the name of the forum when I get a notification of a new topic or reply. Currently, the notification just says the name and URL of the topic. (Neither of which includes the forum name.) We have 7 forums set up in our bbpress forum.

Is there any way to identify which forum a topic is in?

[karena123]

Wordpress: 3.8.1
bbPress: 2.5.3
organic-conservative.com

I notice that when viewing a topic post from my bbpress forum on a smartphone, the user avatar increases in size and moves, covering much of the forum and topic title. I would like to know how to fix this.

Thanks for your help.

[Shmoo]

I would like to start this discussions because I have no idea what to think of the adding tags to topics feature in bbPress.

First, Tags are taxonomies like Categories are also. Each Post Type ( or custom PT ) can be added with those taxonomies Categories or Tags right?

Looking that the Core of WP and how they’re designed to work Categories and Tags where always designed to be added by editors or authors on content – people who understand how to own or maintain a website through the WordPress admin.
Somebody who writes a blog post can define what categories and-/or tags they want to add against their blog posts – bbPress also uses Custom Post Types for Forums – Topics and Replies because they’re great for adding those kind of structural elements only there is a huge difference in the way how those work and who uses them.

bbPress Forums have categories as taxonomy attached to them while bbPress Topics have tags attached to them. It seems pretty normal this way but if you look at how Forums and Topics are created at your WordPress site you’ll see that Forums are created by owners of the website ( like Blog Posts ) and topics are created by random users of the website.

Topics are more like comments compared to WordPress Core functionality because their added by external users not editors or authors like Forums are – you don’t want people who write comments to your blog posts also have the ability to add Tags to them , right ?

The main reason why I look at it like this is because I always switch the Tags functionality off in bbPress because it doesn’t work the way it should work to be honest. I think Tags are great for fast navigating and filtering-/grouping specific topics with the same errors at a forum the only difference is people who write topics have in general a problem with ‘something’ , else they don’t start a topic at your site at all. Those people often don’t know anything about blogging or maintaining a website and how Tags and Categories work. A Live example of how bad Tags in bbPress work if you let them get added by users who don’t know how they should work is the Tags Cloud on the sidebar at bbPress.org.

Just look at the Tag Cloud in the sidebar, the bigger-sized words are most often used. BuddyPress + WordPress + Integration + Forum + Plugin + Theme those words are often tagged by people who write topics which is crazy because those are totally not Tag-wards at all.
How could you ever filter WordPress or something like BuddyPress or Plugin at a forum? Those words are too broad or wide to be used as Tags , maybe they’re beter as Categories. Tags should be words you could search for to solve a problem – like bbPress Core function_names() could be great Tags at a forum like bbPress.org but we all know most people who write topics don’t understand this so they add more ‘sloppy’ (with al respect) words as Tags or even more worst they’re used as SEO keywords or something like that.

My main problem with this feature is, IF you enable the Tags feature in bbPress you Moderation-activity goes up very fast because you’re always editing topics, removing bad words and adding better words. Okay we all know this is fun at the start when you’re forums are fresh and not very active yet but after 6 months or one year you don’t become very active at maintaining your topics because it takes up too much time and your Tags Cloud grows to something totally un useful as seen at bbPress.org.

My idea is to keep the bbPress Tags feature for sure, but adding a Filter system who checks at existing Tag-words.
There’s a Plugin called auto-tagger ( or something ) It only works at WP Posts, but what it does is it check for similar words in Post titles, content and excerpts – if a word matches a Tag-word it automatically adds the Tag to the Post.

My opinion is we need this option by default at bbPress. Remove the adding Tags from the front-end – keep them add the back-end where some Moderator or site owner can create a list of Tags and whenever some user writes a topic and X word involves that topic the Tag will be added.
Knowledge boards like Stock-overflow uses those kinda of systems, they don’t let people write their own tags, especially not New users, you need at least X rate before you can add your own Tags.
Some other Great example is Zurb’s new Forum, they also add Tags automatically based on the words in the content. They’ve Pre-Tagged Foundation’s elements so whenever somebody uses one of those elements in their topics because they have a problem with this elements it becomes a Tag without doing anything. People who’s looking for support can click on those Tags and group similar topics together very easily.
http://foundation.zurb.com/forum

It’s a long story, but I believe this would make the Core Tags function inside bbPress a lot better and people could really use it as a great feature instead of disabling it because it’s a pain in the * to maintain in the end.
Maybe we can use excising WordPress Plugins and change them a little bit because Blog Posts and Topics have the same structure, their both Post Types connected with a Tags taxonomy.

What do you think ?
Thanks for reading.

[Anonymous User 13302461]

Hi. When viewed on an ipad, some of the forum “start topic” or “reply to topic” area is not displayed. For some reason it is not shrinked and the div stays too wide to display all of it, as you can see the bbcode buttons are not all displayed as they are all on 1 row.

However, this div in question shrinks on PC and the bbcode buttons are displayed on multiple rows.

Has anybody got any idea why please?

[sadiq690]

is there any script can convert from pbboard 3.0 to bbpress?

[kech61]

Hi,

I’m currently struggling with bbpress/wpml and my experience so far:
It works, using the unofficial wmpl-bbpress plugin – for 85%
Each language have their own forums.

Modifying the plugin (adding hooks for registration + lost password page) it works for 90% and I’m pretty shure that the rest of the issues with language switching can be solved…
.. till yo begin to add bbpress plugins:
working: GD bbPress Attachments, GD bbPress Tools, bbP Topic Views
not working so far: mark as read, bbPress Unread Posts

However, its unstable.
Sometimes – on very rare occasions – topics appear on the wrong language fork.

From WPML.org there is no serious help – just search their forums and get the picture how they handle this issues.

You may take a look at my test installation at http://new.openandromaps.org/ , it will stay online for some weeks.

I, by myself will probably set up a subdomain for the forum with ONE forum for all languages with sub_forums for the language forks.

Best regards
Christan

[jslom]

Hello everyone. I am looking to have a form I have created with a simple questionnaire post to the forum as a “forum post” once the user has submitted it..

Can someone help me out with where to start on this? I know how to post php to a page, just not the bbpress part.

Thank you!

[asprofirst]

Hi All,

I have implemented bbPress (last version) in my WordPress blog (last version too) at the http://www.asprofirst.fr (directly to the forum page at asprofirst.fr/forums-4).(not yet visible by search engine)
I am facing an issue with numbers of topics and articles in bbPress.
I have several forums on my page (the page is called Forums), posting topics on a forum doesn’t show any modification of the topic and article numbers (counters stay at 0). If I click on the line of the forum which is supposed to host topics I can verify the topics I have posted are there. This happens when I am not connected, when I am connected the counters are OK, actually there is a mismatch between these counters in connected mode or in non-connected mode.
This is for me a big issue, with counters showing 0 nobody is going to enter the forum, the forum being supposed to be empty.

Thanks in advance for your help, this is my first bbPress implementation.

Asprofirst

[Morisu]

I think this has to do with the fact that we are developing on a local machine and not on an actual server. I have seen multiple issues opened because of this error, but no one seems to want to resolve this issue at all. I resolved it by just uploading it to an actual server and working from there. Yes it’s more tedious, but until someone comes forward with how to fully resolve this issue on local machines, you’re stuck with that solution. For styling, I ended up doing the above, throwing in a lot of replies and topics, then dumped the html into a stand-alone html file. Then styled from there on the local machine and re-uploaded the css afterwards. It more than triples the time and work, but it works. If you have a client, just let them know that is the only way as for now. As for why you’re getting the error, I understand it that bbPress logs the ip from the user each creation of a topic/reply and does not recognize 127.0.0.1 or localhost as valid ip’s (which is what most MAMP/WAMP installs use). WordPress is fine with it, but not bbPress, or so I understand it.

[Stephen Edgar]

Yes, you should see ‘Forums’, ‘Topics’ & ‘Replies’ in that same WordPress Export tool.

If you select ‘All content’ it will include WP’s posts, pages, taxonomies and all of bbPress.

[Jaina “Jazzy” Jaslyn]

Jason, what we’ve found so far, this plugin —

https://github.com/pippinsplugins/bbPress-Export-and-Import

It does the job exceedingly well. HOWEVER, our forum is so big the plugin cannot finish importing data. We use WP Engine for hosting, and they have a “Limit Script Execution” script that cancels any active script after 60 seconds. So we only have 60 seconds for the script to run.

Now 60 seconds gets us about 20% successful import percentage of Forum Topics, Replies and User Accounts. Then we get a 502 Bad Gateway page.

If it weren’t for the script timeout, this project would be done with. So for that, I am splitting up my export .csv file into 10 chunks. The original file is 25,000 lines or so. I’ll split them into 2k-2.5k chunks and import them one after another.

Going to get around to that part either tonight or early next week. Jason, if you try it out please let me know how it goes 🙂

[jasoncoffee]

Is there a way to export all forum, posts and replies in a XML file like is available in wordpress for posts, comments and all other content.

I want a one click option for exporting the content. I do not care about preserving logins.

[BrynWRuggiero]

Hi all,

I’m wondering if it’s possible to use the 2.x plug-in version of bbpress and maintain completely separate users from the wordpress site. Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks,

B

[Mike]

I added a simple check in bbpress/inlcudes/users/capabilities.php to see whether the current user has a role in the current blog, before giving them a forum role:

	/** Ready *****************************************************************/

	// Load up bbPress once
	$bbp         = bbpress();

	// Get whether or not to add a role to the user account
	$blog_role = bbp_get_user_blog_role( $user_id );
	$add_to_site = bbp_allow_global_access() && $blog_role != false;

With that in place I can reset all my previous changes so that the default setting for global access is true.
I’ve edited the text in Forums -> Settings to show that ‘global access’ is really now just ‘site access’.

Ideally this would be a separate option in Forums -> Settings, to limit automatic forum access to site members. I will submit a patch if I get the time.

The problem with the default settings is that in a large Buddypress-type site, every time I visit a new site when logged in, that site is added to my My Sites list.