[Stephen Edgar]

It should be in your theme folder, though maybe this is what you need and/or are you using it?

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-genesis-extend/

It might also be worth posting on that plugins support forum if you are.

[John James Jacoby]

What do you mean by “private posts”?

bbPress doesn’t enable private topics or replies out of the box. What little support it does have, still allows for administrators to search for and see any non-trashed topics or replies.

Are you using a third party plugin to enable this private posting functionality?

I don’t really see this as a security vulnerability, so much as you’re using bbPress in a neat way that isn’t quite finished for your needs yet.

If we need to add support for something that isn’t possible yet, we’re happy to do it. A little bit more information will be helpful so we can suss it out.

[John James Jacoby]

Nothing in bbPress 2.5.3 would delete any data on its own.

• Are you sure there are no replies in your administration dashboard?
• Can you take a screenshot of your site, or link us?
• Are you 100% sure updating from bbPress 2.5.2 to 2.5.3 was all that happened?

[John James Jacoby]

Nothing in bbPress 2.5.3 would actually delete your replies, so you can relax a bit knowing your data is okay.

• Are you able to see replies in your administration dashboard?
• Can you take a screenshot of your site, or link us?
• Are you 100% sure updating from bbPress 2.5.2 to 2.5.3 was all that happened?

[chapeauvert]

Hi,

I am quite new to WordPress and definitely new to forums. I am trying to export a forum using SMF on one site and importing into bbPress on another site within WordPress. How do I go about doing this?

Thanks.

[shauny007]

I made a test post and this is showing ok for now. I was just thinking even if say they were deleted from admin replies (which they weren’t), then the forum would display this then anyway would it not, by saying no voices etc, but the forum is still showing the actual correct amount as if they were still in there.

I’m not sure, but something is up. This person here (https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-update-2-5-3/) it seems has the same issue.

This was all working last night ok, and I have not played with anything today very strange indeed 🙂

[stetzerd]

No luck with that solution. Does the new bbPress.php file need to reside in the theme folder, or does it replace the current bbpress.php file in the plugin folder.

I actually tried both and nothing worked, but thought I would ask.

Thanks

[Robin W]

Markic,

Thanks for posting these – I’ve added them to the codex documentation at

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

as items 6 & 7

Regards

Robin W

[papas_fritas]

@netweb Thank you!

In a bbPress context is an ‘Anonymous User’, check that you don’t have this enabled.

OK, not enabled. Anonymous posting is NOT checked (Allow guest users without accounts to create topics and replies = NO). Still seeing the dummy revisions.

Also check what WordPress settings are in /wp-admin/options-discussion.php

I checked the box “Users must be registered and logged in to comment,” but that didn’t change anything.

Is this with bbPress disabled?

NO, bbpress was enabled. I disabled bbpress for a few minutes and did not see any post revisions generated during that time period.

[Ulrik]

Hi.

How do I display ‘Recent Topics'(widget) like bbpress.org does on the index page?

Thanks.

[sephiroticvm]

WordPress 3.8
bbpress 2.5.3
http://organicconservative.net/?topic=oil-pulling-for-clean-teeth

On this topic page, when the window is resized to about 464px wide or less, the avatar images (the actual image element, not its div as far as I can tell) are removed and positioned absolutely at the top left part of the page, all in one stack.

What causes this, what is the fix, and do I really need to worry about it since I can’t think of a environment that is 464px wide?

Thanks!

[giggio]

I use bbPress-2.5.3 and BuddyPress-1.9.1 for my forum.

I want to add a couple of new forum roles + existing 5 default roles. How to do that?

For example, I want to have forum roles – ‘beginner’, ‘advanced’, ‘senior’, ‘veteran’, etc. with capabilities – ‘participant’. And other forum roles with custom names with capabilities – ‘moderator’.

Thanks in advance!

[Stephen Edgar]

post_author = 0

In a bbPress context is an ‘Anonymous User’, check that you don’t have this enabled.

Also check what WordPress settings are in /wp-admin/options-discussion.php

Ack! Disabled all plugins and still getting lots of dummy revisions.

Is this with bbPress disabled?

[powermaniac]

When I’m logged in as admin and trying to make a sticky, it sends me to the login page. Once I log in again and try once more, it does the same thing. I’m using the latest version of both bbpress and wordpress. Any ideas?

[bpark73]

so “bbpress” itself does not have a PM feature? I thought this was fairly basic feature for forums?

[papas_fritas]

This is out of control! There are dozens of new dummy revisions just since I posted this. Will try disabling all plugins except bbPress now.

[Nermoz]

Hi There,

I spent a couple of hours looking for a solution and couldn’t find one. Does anyone have an idea how to address my challenge:

I am using “Restrict Content Pro” to create a few groups on my site and I have a dedicated sub-forum for each group.
I would like to subscribe all the members of group X to sub-forum X. So they will all start getting email notifications for every activity within that sub-forum.
Any suggestion how to achieve that? (I don’t use BuddyPress, only BBpress)

Thanks!

[Roitduck]

Hi again,
It worked before, but stopped after i made some changes in the code. But i can’t find the error or where in the code the problem is. I’ve also updated to the new version of bbpress, do you think it has any effect?

[Markic]

First of all, I’m not asking any questions, I’m offering solutions for people who, like me, had these specific problems, are googling for a solutions and can’t find any. Some of you think this is pure amateur stuff, but there are people out there who will spend hours trying different things and this can save them so much time. If you want to delete this topic, I don’t care, I’m here to help…

How to load bbpress.css before your yoursheet.css?
Intro: When WordPress is loading stylesheets, they’ll load all the theme .css files first and then they’ll load plugin css. That way plugin css has higher priority than your css and only way you can override it is with !important. As we all know, that is a bad practice.

Also, you can create your own bbpress.css in your theme but that means more files to keep up with (although, that’s the cleanest solution). Here’s another way to do this:

paste this code into functions.php…

if (class_exists('bbPress')) {
add_action( 'wp_print_styles', 'deregister_bbpress_styles', 15 );
function deregister_bbpress_styles() {
wp_deregister_style( 'bbp-default' );
}
wp_enqueue_style( 'bbpress_css', plugins_url().'/bbpress/templates/default/css/bbpress.min.css');
}


So, let’s get into details:
– first, if you have active plugin ‘bbPress’ it will exicute the following code which removes all the .css files from it
– second, it loads bbpress.min.css again, but this time where you want it…
– be sure that you enqeue your stylesheet after this code

Note: there are two problems that might arise from this techique
-if bbPress developers decide to rename, remove or split bbpress.min.css, you’ll have to change the code again
-there’s other .css file named “bbpress-rtl(.min).css”. Well, some cultures (Arabic), read and write from right to left. And what this file aligns everything to the right. bbPress has some system of deciding whether it should load this file or not, but by doing this technique, you’re disabling that system.

How can I remove all the breadcrumbs from the templates and set them at the top of the page?
Intro: Many of us are creating our own themes with existing breadcrumbs systems which are in the header. But bbPress has it’s own idea where to display breadcrumbs, and sometimes that’s at the top of the page, sometimes that’s below search form and sometimes it’s below title. Here’s how you can change that quickly.

1. If you haven’t, create “bbpress.php” in the root folder of your theme. (You can copy-paste page.php)
2. Add
<div class="truebreadcrumbs"><?php bbp_breadcrumb(); ?></div>
where you wan’t to show your breadcrumbs
3. Add this CSS:

div.bbp-breadcrumb {
display: none; /*this will hide all breadcrumbs*/
}

.truebreadcrumbs div.bbp-breadcrumb {
display: block; /*this will display breadcrumbs you've created*/
}


Sure, HTML will still generate all the breadcrumbs and css will hide the unwanted ones, but this is the easiest way to do this without going into templates…

[billseymour]

Hello- First time poster to the bbPress forums.

I am giving bbPress (WP plugin) a good test workout, and overall find it a great piece of work.

I am working up a set of forums where (with the Members plugin) I have a few forums for ‘Board members’, while most forums are for all members.

Q: Is there a way to generate a topic-index that excludes selected forums, that correctly paginates? I can easily exclude topics in ‘forum xyz’ by customizing loop-topics.php, but the topic pagination still includes those excluded topics in the pagination count.

It seems to me that many bbP users would benefit from the ability to list selected topics by excluding forums (ie, topics for all forums except forum-xyz).

Can this possibly be done via wp_query? Is the ‘forum name’ attached to each topic a Custom Field?

Thanks for any information. –Bill

[moes88]

Hello,

I installed BBpress and liked it very much, everything is working fine but when i try to start a topic the whole topic page is messed up! The text field is okay but my menu is at the bottom and my footer next to my textfield so my whole lay out is messed up! Also the link is weird, i made a forum with subfolders in it and when is post a topic the link is voetbalwedtips.nl/topic/jaja instead of voetbalwedtips.nl/forums/forum/jaja?? i dont have a clue anymore?

[koendb]

You could change your forum lay-out with a template and let your other pages stay the same. It’s going to be though to achieve this result without ANY coding languages. Even when you use other’s code you’ll need to change the .css to change the colors etc.

If you however decide to try it yourself, you should start reading here.

[Mycelus]

I could swear I’ve seen a plugin for bbPress where you can manually order the forums and categories…

[Shmoo]

Try this.

Your HTML and CSS isn’t very pretty but this will do the trick I believe.

.type-reply.user-id-1 {
     background: #91CDEA;
     border-top: 1px solid #BEC3C7;
     border-bottom: 1px solid #BEC3C7;
     overflow: hidden;
}

Btw, if you have copied the default bbpress.css stylsheet from the plugins folder to your own theme ( wp-content/themes/your-theme-name/css/ ) folder you can edit and customize that new bbpress.css file. You don’t have to place all your custom CSS inside the style.css – just customize the bbpress.css inside your theme folder.

Right now you’re working too much with the !important; attribute just trying to overwrite default stylings while it’s not needed if you simply customize the bbpress.css stylesheet.

[Shmoo]

Screenshots:

Default:

Shows pagination:

Activated:

Gone pagination:

Added a Trac ticket