[koendb]

I would show a little more appreciation for the people making all of this possible.

That being said, this is my bbpress forum: 24Baby (dutch). Looks exactly like the two you linked to. I would be happy to provide some code, but before I put any effort into it, please make sure bbpress is the forum software of your choice.

[SickSquirrel]

I backup daily, twice, just to be safe. It’s automatic no having to remember fortunately. I don’t think the kid I hired did coding in the site but was install, integrate, load old phpBB site in and go.

WordPress was just the vehicle to carry bbPress. I’d hire someone but don’t want to invest any more $$$ I can’t afford.

Thanks. I guess since you gave a standard response and not a warning about specific issues, there are no known issues between WP 3.81 and bbPress 2.3.2.

[SickSquirrel]

I backup daily, twice, just to be safe. It’s automatic no having to remember fortunately. I don’t think the kid I hired did coding in the site but was install, integrate, load old phpBB site in and go.

WordPress was just the vehicle to carry bbPress. I’d hire someone but don’t want to invest any more $$$ I can’t afford.

Thanks. I guess since you gave a standard response and not a warning about specific issues, there are no known issues between WP 3.81 and bbPress 2.3.2.

[Mycelus]

This is something else I don’t understand. Who uses numbers to manually order stuff? Is this a joke? This is something I would expect from 2 decades ago. This is WordPress / bbPress, why is drag and drop re-ordering not supported outta the box?

How do I go about re-ordering my forums via dragging and dropping rather than manually renumbering every forum?

Ive searched online and couldn’t find a post on how to do it.

[Mycelus]

I don’t know what the designers were thinking when they designed bbPress, but it looks like crap, not the theme, just the way the stock design is where the forums are just all bundled up underneath the category.

Look at the forums for example:

https://linustechtips.com/main/

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/

The categories are nicely separated in a hierarchy, with the posts and replies being shown to the right.

I need my forums to look like this, cause I’d like to avoid using crap paid software or open software like phpBB, vBulletin, IP Board, etc.

[Mycelus]

I want bbPress to look like this:

https://linustechtips.com/main/

See how the categories are above and separated from the rest?

My current forums look like this –> http://www.skyforgelabs.com/?post_type=forum , and I HATE that, the way the forums are under the category with the stupid 0’s is ugly and I don’t know why bbPress is like this by default.

[Shmoo]

I know they don’t try to keep information from us but it can be frustrated at times if you wanna learn something but for X reasons you can’t find it or you just can’t understand it :S

And it becomes extra frustrated if you know for sure something similar works 1000 times easier inside WordPress out of the box.

The link you gave me explained it very well, I’ve read it twice and now I made my very first filter.

bbPress

// Adding extra CSS
function shmoo_extra_css( $classes ) {
		$classes[] = 'tab-row';
		return $classes;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_get_topic_class', 'shmoo_extra_css' );

Doing the same thing in WordPress

<?php body_class( 'tab-row' ); ?>

Because this simply doesn’t work.

<?php bbp_topic_class( 'tab-row' ); ?>

[SickSquirrel]

I run 3.7 right now. I was afraid to upgrade WP in case there wee issues with bbPress. So … if I update to 3.81 (the latest) can I expect issues or should it go smoothly?

I hired someone o set up my site with WP and bbPress. He hasn’t worked on the site after that so if I run into issues, I’m stuck. I’m only online two hours a day and can no longer code or fix errors (due to illness).

I’m leery about upgrading but know I have to do it.

[Tafita]

I’m using the Genesis framework and bbpress does not seem to disable nested replies.

[mabbas64]

I’m customizing my bbpress a bit.
How do I generate new replies. I have to display some Login credentials as a 2nd reply – everytime a new topic is created. I couldn’t find anything about generating replies from code via Google or via searching on these forums.

Thank you.

[Robin W]

shmoo,

don’t think there’s any conspiracy to keep this stuff secret, rather that the clever people who write this stuff are generally the same type of people who hate documenting – they enjoy the code and getting it to do stuff, not the this is how I did it.

I’d love to see a crib on the structure of the bbPress plugin – a list of the directories and files, and a description of what each file did – eg loop-single-forum.php does this, and content-single-topic does that etc. but unless I do one, don’t think it will happen.

I’ll try to unravel the filter side of the plugin at some stage !

[Shmoo]

What happens if you do the same inside a WP Blog Post ?

Do you have the right Twitter link?

Version 3.8 “Parker” is available with a redesigned, responsive admin, theme browser, and a new magazine theme: http://t.co/n9Kwk2n27P

— WordPress (@WordPress) December 12, 2013

Version 3.8 “Parker” is available with a redesigned, responsive admin, theme browser, and a new magazine theme: http://t.co/n9Kwk2n27P
— WordPress (@WordPress) December 12, 2013

Edit:

Looks like it doesn’t work here at bbPress.org as well so maybe a core problem 🙁

[Shmoo]

Because it doesn’t work like that out-of-the-box.

WordPress checks some values based on a Submit action – a page-load is needed to check and push the error_msg into your page and because of the page-load the browser will go back to the top of the page by default.

If you want functionality like that you have to search at Javascript Validations ,there are lots of them online.

Personally I really like Foundation’s Abide
http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/components/abide.html

It can check if a field is valid when writing and if it’s not it blocks the Submit button from being pushed in the first place.
I used it in a BuddyPress site and it works very nice.

[Shmoo]

Thanks, IF I knew how it worked I would also like to write about it but for some reason they keep this very secretly while 98% of all bbPress changes have to happen through filters.

I’ve read the WP Codex about this a few times but I just don’t see it, I can’t connect the dots + all tutorials online are often talking about this in a global way, they make up ‘some’ function and add it to another ‘something’ function.
Pippin often has easy to follow tutorials but I lost him in the second picture.

A Quick Introduction to Using Filters

Respect for your link!
I will make some time for it and read it very slowly today, looks like a very good one because I saw a heading HOW to SPOT a filter!

[Roitduck]

Hi folks,
Is there anyone who can help me to find out why bbpress don’t scroll automatically down to the ”error”-section when you press the ”submit”- button on the bottom of my page without filling in the fields: http://www.dicud.com/forums/topic/keep-up-the-motivation/?

This is the error-section and its red.

ERROR: Invalid author name submitted!

ERROR: Invalid email address submitted!

ERROR: Your reply cannot be empty.

ERROR: Slow down; you move too fast.

[Robin W]

best explanation I know is here :

Filters Explained

I plan to write some bbPress specific documentation for this when I get my head around it enough to pass it on (I am relatively new to wordpress as well).

[Will Brownsberger]

I’m sure this is a tricky area of bbpress to make work.

My perception is that it is glitchy. I converted over a year ago from posts to topics and have the most recent of bbpress installed.

Here’s an example of a forum in which the freshness is persistently wrong — I’ve used the repair tools for parents and last activity repeatedly.

Check this link — there is activity in subforums (recent topics and recent posts), but the parent forum is showing a hard-to-explain freshness of one month ago.

http://willbrownsberger.com/forums/forum/priorities/protecting-people/

[Will Brownsberger]

I’m a state legislator and we use bbpress as a constituent communication vehicle. We publish statements about legislative issue as “topics” so that people can give us feedback. In the course of preparing those statements it is essential to save work in progress as draft.

[Nathan Hawkes]

I am currently using bbPress 2.5.3 with WordPress 3.8 and the default bbPress theme, as inside the plugin folder. I am wondering how I change the tags prefix (“Tagged:”) on the topic page. I have looked through the theme files and can’t find it in any of them. Can anyone assist me? It’s really annoying me right now.

Thanks

[Roitduck]

Hi folks,
Is there anyone who can help me to find out why bbpress don’t scroll automatically down to the ”error”-section when you press the ”submit”- button on the bottom of my page without filling in the fields: http://www.dicud.com/forums/topic/keep-up-the-motivation/?

This is the error-section and its red.

ERROR: Invalid author name submitted!

ERROR: Invalid email address submitted!

ERROR: Your reply cannot be empty.

ERROR: Slow down; you move too fast.

[Lynqoid]

Drafts for forums is kind of against what they are for, you send your message into the discussion at the point you arrived at the discussion. If you save a draft then publish it later it could be irrelevant at that point. You could be using bbPress for something different than a forum, but it is effectively forum software.

Not sure if anyone else has any differing opinions on this?

[bpark73]

Does bbpress allow forum users to send private messages to one another? I can’t seem to find this anywhere and wondering if a basic feature as this is available with bbpress….otherwise a great plugin.

[Wendell]

I am considering a move to bbpress but am very concerned about keeping the general functionality of my current forum at http://surveyorconnect.com. It uses a threaded, hierarchal tree-style forum software and my users love it. A little backstory: an industry magazine used to have a similar forum, then switched to a newer format and nobody liked it — so I started a new forum using MyLittleForum (http://mylittleforum.net) and told a few surveyors about it and in short order, it was very busy and respected in the surveying community. Many of the users are “old school” and so they like this format. But I also want to attract a younger crowd, who I assume would prefer a more modern format.

What I’m really hoping for here is that bbpress would allow me to provide BOTH formats on a user-by-user basis, so they can select which format they’d prefer. Also, one of the features they like about the current site is the little bubble next to the date in the topics list that gives a preview of the latest post within that topic. If we lose that feature, I won’t be heart-broken, but it would be nice to have something like that in bbpress, if possible.

There is so much I could do with my forum that MLF won’t allow me to do. Probably the biggest thing is the social aspects — allowing people to “like” and share posts, etc.

I’d love your thoughts, opinions and references to anything that might help me make the decision to move to bbpress. Thanks!

[KaitlinFNF]

Hello,

Clicking a username from within the BBPress section generates a 404 error.

I’ve done extensive research on this problem, and haven’t been able to find a fix in the forums so far.

I’ve deactivated all plugins besides BBPress – no dice.
I’ve switched the default theme and still get the 404.
I’ve changed the permalinks and the subscriber role – didn’t make a difference.

Some code fixes I’ve found in the forums just make it so that the 404 page doesn’t generate, but it shows a blank page, which isn’t really the point. I need it to actually go the member profile.

I believe all of the software is up to date:
Wordpress v3.8
BBPress v2.5.3
Theme is Dante, v 1.5.1

Here is a user link: essential-essentials.com/forums/user/Essential-Essentials/

(The site is still very much in development)

Thank you for any help you can provide : )

[Shmoo]

I’ve look at it a few times in the WordPress Codex and it probably explains GREATLY how it works and what it does but maybe I just don’t get it.

I understand the concept of taking a function that exists <—> edit it <—> return it to WP Core but how!

Lets say I just simply want to replace the text inside a HTML “… class=”bbp-topic-spam-link”> ” of the spam link.

First step I do is search for the function: bbp_topic_spam_link()

Second step found it inside plugins/bbpress/includes/topics/template.php [ line 2832 ]

Third step copy the entire function to my functions.php file or plugins functions file.

Fourth step, edit the code that you want to edit but after that, how do you add the filter to this function to make it a new or your function.

/**
 * Output the spam link of the topic
 * @uses bbp_get_topic_spam_link() Topic spam link
 */
function bbp_topic_spam_link( $args = '' ) {
	echo bbp_get_topic_spam_link( $args );
}

	/**
	 * Return the spam link of the topic
	 */
	function bbp_get_topic_spam_link( $args = '' ) {

		// Parse arguments against default values
		$r = bbp_parse_args( $args, array(
			'id'           => 0,
			'link_before'  => '',
			'link_after'   => '',
			'sep'          => ' | ',
			'spam_text'    => esc_html__( 'Spam',   'bbpress' ),
			'unspam_text'  => esc_html__( 'Unspam', 'bbpress' )
		), 'get_topic_spam_link' );

		$topic = bbp_get_topic( bbp_get_topic_id( (int) $r['id'] ) );

		if ( empty( $topic ) || !current_user_can( 'moderate', $topic->ID ) )
			return;

		$display = bbp_is_topic_spam( $topic->ID ) ? $r['unspam_text'] : $r['spam_text'];
		$uri     = add_query_arg( array( 'action' => 'bbp_toggle_topic_spam', 'topic_id' => $topic->ID ) );
		$uri     = wp_nonce_url( $uri, 'spam-topic_' . $topic->ID );
		$retval  = $r['link_before'] . '<a href="' . esc_url( $uri ) . '" class="bbp-topic-spam-link">' . $display . '</a>' . $r['link_after'];

		return apply_filters( 'bbp_get_topic_spam_link', $retval, $r );
	}

Thanks.