[cdonahue]

Solved!

Added this code to the bottom of my ‘page’ template, as that appears to be the default page for bbpress:

if (is_bbpress()) {
get_sidebar(forum);
} ?>

et voila.

[cdonahue]

Ah, I looked at the HTML and suspicions confirmed — it is not a page, but instead is classed as “forum-archive.” I think that means I can’t just change the template (obviously, as that is not working!). But I’m not sure what to do as my default pages have a custom sidebar that seems to prevent the bbpress sidebar from showing up on the Community/forum page.

[bpark73]

I’m using Headway themes and WP 3.7.1

I just installed bbpress and everything looks good. All pages are styled the way that I want them to until I click on the Topic page (the one that displays the individual topic). This page seems to be styled completely different from the other pages and also elements are severely out of position. When I inspect elements I notice that unlike other pages, class names are named “generically”. No sign of “bbp” prefix for class names on the topic page. Why is this happening for this page only? Any idea what could be happening?

Any explanation and solution would be appreciated. I’m stumped.

[fantasysixpack]

Sorry very new to BBPress and WordPress. How do I back up the template and rename it?

[cdonahue]

Thanks, that’s pretty much what I had done — except I gave my sidebar a different name. It’s registered; it shows up on my widget page; I put the bbpress items in my new sidebar; I edited the php file to give it the proper i.d.; I called it from the community.php template. Still defaulting to the regular page sidebar.

What seems to be happening is that it doesn’t recognize the template I’m choosing for my Community page. It will only read the default template. Is that a thing with bbPress?

[tdubs]

Hi bbPress,

There seems to be a conflict between WP 3.8 and bbPress. If I have bbPress enabled my blog shows a 404 page “The page you requested cannot be found”

If I disable bbPress, then my blog loads no problem.

I have disabled ALL plugins to verify that it is just bbPress.

Can anyone help me?

[Shmoo]

Well the normal ‘WordPress’ workflow would be something like this..

– Register a new Sidebar inside your functions.php
– Duplicate the default sidebar.php file inside your theme folder and call the duplicated file sidebar-bbpress.php
– Open sidebar-bbpress.php and change the default mark-up.
– Go inside that community.php page template what is showing your forums page and search for the tag <?php get_sidebar(); ?> and change it to <?php get_sidebar( ‘bbpress’ ); ?>

Save it and that should do the job.

If everything goes well it will load the sidebar-bbpress.php if not it falls back to the default sidebar.php

[cdonahue]

Hello, I’ve installed bbPress (v.2.5.3) to my custom WordPress website (v.3.8) and it picked up the theme perfectly. However, I can’t get the bbPress sidebar to display. It seems that even though my Forum page (which I’m calling Community) is a WP page, it behaves like something else. Here’s what I’ve done:

— Created a new template for my forum page (community.php);
— Selected that template from the community page per the WP interface;
— Created a new sidebar by registering it in functions.php;
— Moved the bbPress widgets over into my newly created sidebar;
— Called the sidebar from community.php

My community page is defaulting to the main sidebar, or page sidebar, even though I have selected a completely different template for the page. I also tried going with the default page and using bbPress Tweaks but that did not work.

I think I’m missing something about how the forum page works. Any ideas?
Here’s how the page is displaying:
innovativeapprenticeship.org/community

Regards, Cheryl

[Tearstone]

My understanding is that there is no “New Posts” functionality for BBPress. Previous support requests on WordPress.org have gone unanswered, and I do not see a plug-in that allows this. I reviewed the documentation and I’m not sure how I could construct my own view with this ability.

What I would like to know is how to craft a forum view that aggregates all the forums into one just like when you click on “Support” at the top of BBPress or Buddypress website. Whenever a new reply is posted, it puts the thread back on top. The GDBBPress tools only has the ability to sort topics when they were first created.

Recap, I would like assistance on constructing a view like the one that we normally use here on BBPress.org or Buddypress.org when clicking the “Support” button.

Thank you,
Russ Sanderlin

@Tearstone

[avgmatt]

I have tried everything to get any kind of buttons to show up either visual and html. If they do show, I click on them and they disappear forever with that user account.

I am using Genesis framework and have tried multiple themes and no change.

http://averageoutdoorsman.com/forums/
user: demo
pword: demo

I have tried “bbPress Enable TinyMCE Visual Tab” plugin with no help. I have added the code to show visual in mytheme/functions file. Nothing. Really need help with this.

[mkistler]

Hi all. I was wondering if there is a way to “clear notifications” from bbPress. I currently have 90 sitting there, but can only delete them individually. Is there a way to select all or delete all at once? Thanks!

[Shmoo]

What’s the PHP code to get this result.

[bbp-single-forum id=$forum_id] – Display a single forums topics. eg. [bbp-single-forum id=32]

I would like to include it inside a page template.

Something I really HATE about bbPress is that it’s very easy to group a bunch of forums inside another forum ( Category ) and list all those forums together at a page template by just the Parent $forum_id of all those forums and you’re done.
Just like this:

<?php if ( bbp_has_forums( array( 'post_parent' => 104 ) ) ) : ?>

Easy right, but that bbp_has_form functions doesn’t have something like this:

<?php if ( bbp_has_forums( array( 'forum_id' => 75 ) ) ) : ?>

Only show forum_id 75 out of the entire loop, or this:

<?php if ( bbp_has_forums( array( 'forum_id' => 75,88,93 ) ) ) : ?>

That doesn’t look like rocket science to me and it would give us so much more customization options.

Look at this screenshot I made.
At the top the block of 4 with the big headings, Mac … + iOS … are forum categories with a bunch a forums inside them. I gave them all their own page templates with each its own ‘post_parent’ Loop.

<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'cat-forums/mac-hardware' ); ?>

At the bottom the green row of none Apple products related are just forums ( single’s ) with no parent stuff.
It’s ridicules difficult to group them together and list them in a list or row and customize them.
You have to do something like this:

<?php bbp_forum_permalink( 98 ); ?>
<?php bbp_forum_title( 98 ); ?>
<?php bbp_forum_topic_count( 98 ); ?>
<?php bbp_forum_post_count( 98 ); ?>

That’s all needed to get the same result as at the top for just a single forum_id.

Beside all that frustration it’s even more difficult to give each single forum ( the page where you show a list of topics ) it’s own template.
You can’t customize the forums differently. Let’s say I want to give al forums at the top the Apple products relegated stuff it’s own page template and all none Apple related stuff another page template it’s simply not possible.

There should be an easy way to just add a forum_id or name after the page-template.php like WordPress does.
Maybe for starters a conditional tag inside the content-single-forum.php template that says, if forum_id’s 75,98,114 go to template X and if forum_id’s 73,120,88 go to template Z else ( if none of those ID’s ) go to template B.

This has been frustrated me for 2 years now and it’s really a game-breaker in customization of bbPress.

🙁

[Will Brownsberger]

My office team is complaining that they can’t save topics in draft.

I thought it must be a bug, but tracked it down to very deliberate code in topics.js.

jQuery( document ).ready( function() {
  jQuery( '#misc-publishing-actions' ).find( '.misc-pub-section' ).first().remove();
  jQuery( '#save-action' ).remove();
} );

I can’t find any reference to problems in the forums — is this just a policy choice or screen simplification? Or is there a reason why I should not just comment out that code?

I’ve tested the topics listings and statistics with the code commented out and saving drafts and all appears to perform correctly.

Some guidance from developers would be much appreciated.

NOTE: I posted this on January 17, 2014 but it took a publication date 18 months earlier. This is a repost on January 18, 2014.

[JustinF]

We have discovered a critical security issue with bbpress that really needs an immediate fix.

Users submit sensitive information to us using PRIVATE posts – which works fine. However, these posts show as VISIBLE when using the built-in Forum search!

We had to remove the search function from our forum until this is fixed.

Quite honestly, I would expect this to be a #1 priority for fixing.

[talkedtv]

Thank you! The ticket has been created.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2517

[nzguyyy]

I just tried to install that and got loads of errors. Any idea why? I’m on the latest bbpress version.

Notice: load_plugin_textdomain was called with an argument that is deprecated since version 2.7 with no alternative available. in /home7/backpad3/public_html/planitnz/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3019

Notice: Use of undefined constant _topic_recipients_inputfield – assumed ‘_topic_recipients_inputfield’ in /home7/backpad3/public_html/planitnz/wp-content/plugins/bbpress-notify/bbpress-notify.php on line 321

Notice: Use of undefined constant _email_newtopic_subject_inputfield – assumed ‘_email_newtopic_subject_inputfield’ in /home7/backpad3/public_html/planitnz/wp-content/plugins/bbpress-notify/bbpress-notify.php on line 322

Notice: Use of undefined constant _email_newtopic_body_inputfield – assumed ‘_email_newtopic_body_inputfield’ in /home7/backpad3/public_html/planitnz/wp-content/plugins/bbpress-notify/bbpress-notify.php on line 323

Notice: Use of undefined constant _reply_recipients_inputfield – assumed ‘_reply_recipients_inputfield’ in /home7/backpad3/public_html/planitnz/wp-content/plugins/bbpress-notify/bbpress-notify.php on line 324

Notice: Use of undefined constant _email_newreply_subject_inputfield – assumed ‘_email_newreply_subject_inputfield’ in /home7/backpad3/public_html/planitnz/wp-content/plugins/bbpress-notify/bbpress-notify.php on line 325

Notice: Use of undefined constant _email_newreply_body_inputfield – assumed ‘_email_newreply_body_inputfield’ in /home7/backpad3/public_html/planitnz/wp-content/plugins/bbpress-notify/bbpress-notify.php on line 326

[nzguyyy]

Have just tried to activate bbpress notify, and have gotten all of these errors. Not sure where to start fixing. Can anyone help?

Notice: load_plugin_textdomain was called with an argument that is deprecated since version 2.7 with no alternative available. in /home7/backpad3/public_html/planitnz/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3019

Notice: Use of undefined constant _topic_recipients_inputfield – assumed ‘_topic_recipients_inputfield’ in /home7/backpad3/public_html/planitnz/wp-content/plugins/bbpress-notify/bbpress-notify.php on line 321

Notice: Use of undefined constant _email_newtopic_subject_inputfield – assumed ‘_email_newtopic_subject_inputfield’ in /home7/backpad3/public_html/planitnz/wp-content/plugins/bbpress-notify/bbpress-notify.php on line 322

Notice: Use of undefined constant _email_newtopic_body_inputfield – assumed ‘_email_newtopic_body_inputfield’ in /home7/backpad3/public_html/planitnz/wp-content/plugins/bbpress-notify/bbpress-notify.php on line 323

Notice: Use of undefined constant _reply_recipients_inputfield – assumed ‘_reply_recipients_inputfield’ in /home7/backpad3/public_html/planitnz/wp-content/plugins/bbpress-notify/bbpress-notify.php on line 324

Notice: Use of undefined constant _email_newreply_subject_inputfield – assumed ‘_email_newreply_subject_inputfield’ in /home7/backpad3/public_html/planitnz/wp-content/plugins/bbpress-notify/bbpress-notify.php on line 325

Notice: Use of undefined constant _email_newreply_body_inputfield – assumed ‘_email_newreply_body_inputfield’ in /home7/backpad3/public_html/planitnz/wp-content/plugins/bbpress-notify/bbpress-notify.php on line 326

[Anonymous User 5853594]

You’ll have to create a page do display your forums and some forums to fill them. You can find the settings in the admin area under Forums, Topics, and Replies. Settings for the forums can be found under Settings > Forums.

You could also take al look at the instructions in the Codex to see if you’re missing something.

[Stephen Edgar]

Done https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2516

Probably need to add some more sample topics with ‘Lorem Ipsum’ sample text and formatting next.

[hipp]

Hello Lynqoid,

Thank you for your reply. The trouble I am having involves the permalinks. I rely on these for other seo / social aspects of my site but they seem to break bbPress. When they are on and I visit url.com/forums, the page behaves like a blog listing page. What I mean is that the forums do not show but rather a paragraph with “read more” afterword. In turning off permalinks, the forum does show until I click on a sub-forum, which breaks it again.

I am assuming it’s an issue with the way my theme handles links. I will likely have to hire someone to figure it out for me.

[Shmoo]

Just curious is it me doing something wrong or can’t we give each single-forum it’s own page template ?

I thought earlier we could do something like this.

bbpress/content-single-forum.php ( default )
bbpress/content-single-forum-%forum-name%.php ( custom )

?

[Anonymous User 5853594]

No, they cannot. Only Moderators and Keymasters can.
You can find which types of users can do what in the codex, it has an article about user roles and capabilities.

If you like to change what users can do, you would have to look for a plugin with controls what users can and cannot do.

[Stephen Edgar]

Thanks for the report, this most likely is a bbPress issue, would you be kind enough to create a ticket on Trac for this and we’ll take a closer look. 🙂

http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org

[Anonymous User 5853594]

It can be done in a roundabout manner by using a shortcode. You insert a topic with the [bbp-single-topic id=$topic_id] tag and voila, you’ve got a post which displays/links a topic.

[Stephen Edgar]

@hulajoe I posted a link to supposed update here. (You have to contact them to get the update, it’s not available publicly)