[tazogamer]

NEW VERSION of the solution can be found here –
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/displaying-sub-sub-forums/#post-141934

[Jaina “Jazzy” Jaslyn]

Here’s the scenario, and I’ll try to be as specific and detailed as possible.

There are two different WP installations:

• The first (let’s call it myforum.com) just holds a bbpress forum install with thousands of members and posts.
• The second (let’s call it myblog.com) is an existing WP blog with thousands of existing posts&pages.

We want to create a fresh bbpress install on myblog.com/forum and want to import all of myforum.com’s bbpressdata. We’re getting rid of the myforum.com site after migration.

I am not a database guy however, and I have no idea how to export and import the forum posts as well as the users. I fear overwriting the existing posts, pages and users of myblog.com.

Is it as simple as importing tables from wordpress onto myblog.com? Will that overwrite what’s already there?

Appreciate any advice 🙂

[opensource_waffle]

I tick the check box to enable nested replies but even so, bbpress will not nest replies. Please help.

[xpoveda]

Hi, i like to have bbpress in spanish and catalan.

How find this translation in po/mo files?

Thanks!!!

Xavier.

[assylumn]

Hi All,

I am new to BbPress and have inherited an installation that seems to have issues.

When you select a forum from the home page it not only shows topics from that forum, but also random topics from other forums on the site.

This happens using the twentyten theme plus 2 other custom themes using different frameworks.

This is the original installation http://techiteasy.co/

And this is a clone of it on a test server with a different theme http://techdev.kemikalkitchen.co.uk/

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[barnabe]

Maybe this bug not appears if bbPress is installed before qTranslate. I’ll try an another install to test that.

Finally, even if bbPress is intalled before qTranslate, qTranslate is loaded first.

[Anonymous User 13302461]

I think this is your solution.

Just found it myself.

I have created a bbPress starter theme with a phpBB look and feel

[AndyL99]

In my forums, all the fields for entry have a gray border except the box in which the text of the post is entered. In this case the field is present but the border is invisible (or white). The nine dots at the bottom right to resize the box are visible.

My site is up to date, and uses a child of the TwentyTwelve theme. I have verified I get the same problem with native TwentyTwelve.
WP 3.8.1
BBPress 2.5.3
Other plugins: Askimet, BackWPup, Better WP Security, Easy Table, Fast Secure Contact Form, Formidable, NextGEN Gallery by Photocrati, XML Sitemap & Google News Feeds

Site: http://marlowriders.org.uk/forums/

[barnabe]

Hello,

Thanks for the answer! In fact, this is no a display problem in admin menu, but rights (user capabilities). When I set the URL “edit.php?post_type=forum” directly in the addresses’ bar, WordPress says to me I have not the right to access this page.

After a “very” long debug, I found why this behavior appends. The qTranslate plugin is loaded before bbPress and sets up the WP_User via the function wp_get_current_user() and so sets its allcaps. So when WordPress object is init in wp-settings.php file to sets up current user, wp_get_current_user() returns the existing user and not reloads capabilities.

I fixed this problem in adding a param to wp_get_current_user():

function wp_get_current_user($new_user = false){}

and the same param to get_currentuserinfo() and wp_set_current_user(). I also modified the condition in get_currentuserinfo():

if ( ! empty( $current_user ) && $new_user === false ) {

and the condition in wp_set_current_user():

if ( isset( $current_user ) && ( $current_user instanceof WP_User ) && ( $id == $current_user->ID ) && $new_user === false )

Then I added the true value in param to the call of wp_get_current_user() in init method of WP class.

Maybe this bug appears because I installed qTranslate before bbPress. Maybe this bug not appears if bbPress is installed before qTranslate. I’ll try an another install to test that. It would be nice not to change the core of WordPress.

[yoyoma1974]

I’m using the bbpress login shortcode [bbp-login]. The example shown on this page has a title and descriptive text but I don’t see any way/parameters for entering this:

bbPress Shortcodes Directory

I’m guessing this is just an image that was placed in a lightbox plugin. Wondering also if anyone knows how to get it into a modal window like this too.

Thanks for any assistance.

Tim

[brightbell]

I have been building a site http://www.racingpigeon.com
The site includes a bbpress forum.

I found that there was peculiar things going on with the forum such as it could not be accessed from the back end. It can be viewed from the front end until someone logs in then it becomes blocked and returns 404. This happened first on the production site but was confirmed on a pilot installation also by deactivating and reactivating Ad King Pro. 1.9.9
bbPress 2.5.3

[gastronomicslc]

Fixed it myself 🙂

I guess bbPress and Genesis don’t play nicely out of the box and the Genesis bbPress extend plugin is needed.

[gastronomicslc]

Hi all.

My apologies if this is a fairly rudimentary query, or one covered elsewhere, I did search but managed to only confuse myself more 😉

My site is:
http://www.gastronomicslc.com/

Running latest WP and a Genesis based theme from Studiopress. I installed bbPress but am having issues generating a coherent main page, I guess the forum root if you will. I followed the install instructions and made my forum root slug (foodie-talk), I also then made the foodie-talk page, however that doesn’t seem to work:

http://www.gastronomicslc.com/foodie-talk/

I have created two test sub-forums

http://www.gastronomicslc.com/foodie-talk/forum/general-talk/
http://www.gastronomicslc.com/foodie-talk/forum/ask-expert/

with a test post in each. I have yet to link to the bbPRess directly from my site while I work on this. On the foodie-talk page I have the [bbp-forum-index] code right now.

I imagine I have made some simpleton fault, appreciate anyone pointing it out 🙂

[JustinF]

Hi John-

Sorry for the delay. The add-on I was referring to was this:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-private-replies/

It appears it is not compatible with the current version of bbpress in that the replies that are marked as “private” are in fact viewable by users without Admin permissions if using the Search function.

I suspect Pippin would be the one to contact for this?

[Prometheus Fire]

In BBPress, is there an equivalent to WP’s next_post_link() and previous_post_link() functions to create navigation to the next topic?

Reference:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/next_post_link
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/previous_post_link

If not, can anyone think of a custom way to create one, or do something similar?

[John James Jacoby]

There are a few plugins that jumpstart WordPress’s roles and capabilities, which can cause permissions issues with bbPress (and any other plugin that relies on roles and capabilities.) These plugins are __doing_it_wrong() in the conventional sense, and there’s not much bbPress can do about that other than throw debug notices when WP_DEBUG is turned on.

[John James Jacoby]

It looks to me like bbPress isn’t finding its default CSS. You could try reinstalling bbPress; it’s possible you have an incomplete installation, with only some non-essential assets were caught missing.

Otherwise, it could be a plugin conflict, or some other code might just be getting in the way of bbPress’s CSS loading. You could also try deactivating plugins one at a time, and seeing if something new you’ve added recently is causing this to happen.

[John James Jacoby]

Sounds to be like qTranslate is accidentally stomping out bbPress’s top level menu locations. WordPress’s code in regards to navigation has a tendency to be pretty fickle in this regard.

bbPress even takes measures to try and avoid this from happening on its own, but it looks like it’s still not enough anymore.

We’ll see if there’s anything we can do on our end to avoid any of these kinds of menu collisions again. If so, improvements will come in a future version of bbPress.

[John James Jacoby]

The most likely culprit is another plugin causing a conflict. If you’re an admin already, activating bbPress, it forces your forum role to Keymaster so you’re able to administrate the forums completely.

[Shmoo]

– Yes the plugin is 100% sure active and working because you can see ( red border ) the topic is reported , I’ve even deactivated & activated it again to make sure when I saw that error.

– It’s a clean copy-/paste from the plugin’s functions file. I’ve even added echo in front of it to check if there was a difference but both with & without echo have the same error.

Why I ask if a plugin function can be private or protected is, when I take a look inside the plugin function-file I see all functions wrapped inside a class which is pretty standard for making plugins I’ve seen online.

But I also see something like this:

	protected $version = '1.0.0';
	protected $plugin_slug = 'bbpress-report-content';
	protected static $instance = null;
	protected $plugin_screen_hook_suffix = null;
	protected $plugin_path = null;
____
	private function __construct() { ....

____
	public static function get_instance() {

		// If the single instance hasn't been set, set it now.
		if ( null == self::$instance ) {
			self::$instance = new self;
		}

		return self::$instance;
	}

Most functions have public function function_name() and the function I would like to use has only function function_name()

That made me think maybe my function it’s protected, so I started testing and searching online and did this inside my page template.

<?php if(function_exists('get_topic_report_link')) {
echo get_topic_report_link( $args = '' );
} else {
echo 'Function does not exists..';
}
 ?>

It takes the ELSE option so there is something wrong right.

___

This is what I did to kill for example the Merge link from the admin_links, preventing it would show up something else when called upon.

function shmoo_kill_topic_merge_link( $r ) {
	$r = null;
	return $r;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_get_topic_merge_link', 'shmoo_kill_topic_merge_link' );

I’m a Check Norris fan, when I change stuff it has to be NULL 😉

I know, I probably add and write too much functions-/codes of my own to alter the bbPress core but at least I’m getting it done right now and starting to understand how it works a little. In a few years I will be better ( hopefully ) and add more logic to my projects.

[Shmoo]

– Plugin to filter bad words can done by almost any WordPress plugin that does this kinda trick, it will also filter bbPress posts.

– Who’s online I have no idea. I don’t think this is available.

[Shmoo]

If you know a little CSS and you’re not afraid the change the bbPress templates a little you can make this happen with through the forum_id(); which is unique for each forum.

Take a look inside loops-forums.php ( the template that starts the forums loop ) you’ll find this. <?php bbp_forum_id(); ?>

Copy that, next open your loop-single-forum.php and paste that code where you would like your image to show up.
For example something like this could be possible.

<img class="bbp-featured-img" src="http://example.org/images/forums/featured_forum_<?php bbp_forum_id(); ?>.png" alt="<?php bbp_forum_title(); ?>" /><a class="bbp-forum-title" href="<?php bbp_forum_permalink(); ?>"><?php bbp_forum_title(); ?></a>

All you have to do now is make sure you call your forum images featured_forum_[ID].png and upload them to the path you set in the image tag.

If you Hover over the forum names at the WP back-end you’ll see where the URL-page is pointing to if you would’ve clicked it, this link has a number like 88 or something, each forum has an unique number so your could pick that number and call it in your images, featured_forum_88.png >> upload the image and it will show up next to the forum title.

Change-/position it a little by CSS ( img.bbp-featured-img { } ) and you’re done.

I’ve done this myself the same way only with icon-fonts in front of the forum titles.
It’s a little bit of customization and it has a static feeling but it’s not that difficult and works perfect.

Edit

Almost forgot to say, don’t change the bbPRess template files inside your plugins directory but copy those files to your theme directory.
https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

[Kris35]

Hi. Is there a way to add mandatory custom fields in the BBPress registering process? I did get someone to add a text field for the location but it wasn’t mandatory and for the UK, they were adding variations like England, Britain etc so in my user directory and search, people looking for people in the UK would only find people in the UK and not in England or the United Kingdom etc. So I had to go and edit their profiles to say United Kindom so they would come up in the search. Sooo…what I really need is not a text field but a drop down or other thingy where new members have to choose where they are from from the options they are given. So I need a list of all countries and then for now, a list for US states and UK counties. I have a coder to do this for me (Ive not got a clue)….is it possible to do this by configuring BBpress or is a custom code thingy needed? If I can do it, I will show it here maybe so others can see?

[barnabe]

Hi all,

I try to make a multilingual website with WordPress and I have a bug (?) when I activate bbPress and qTranslate both.
Indeed, the bbPress’ menu in admin appears correctly when qTranslate is disabled, but disappears when both are activated. And if I try to go to the edit topic’s page, WordPress says to me I don’t have rights. I debug the allcaps WP_User property and I don’t find the edit_topics capability.

How can I fix that problem?

Subsidiary question: Does bbPress allow multilingual?

My config :

– WordPress 3.8.1 (last)
– bbPress 2.5.3 (last)
– qTranslate 2.5.39 (last)

Thanks!

[Kris35]

Ta John,

I need to look into this as currently I am using amr user list for a list of members. Hmm. Never knew BuddyPress profiles even existed. Maybe I should combine the two – both BBPress and BuddyPress? Ive read that sometimes the two dont play well togfether so am a bit worried about that. The BBPress profiles are quite basic I think, so would you say that BuddyPress is the same regarding layout etc? Also, going off topic slightly – amr has a search function….is there a way via the BBPress or BuddyPress registration to add a location field that people have to fill in via a drop down menu and not a text box. At the moment I have a text box location in my BBPress registration thingy but its not mandatory, and also members are adding their locations as UK, United Kingdom, Britain, England and such so I have to go in and edit those to say United Kingdom so they come up in the search. Does my message make sense? Ive just got up! Thanks.