[Stephen Edgar]

That was a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) project and is an awesome plugin.

You should take a look at @rmccue’s bbPress plugin https://github.com/rmccue/bbPress-Reply-by-Email. It works quite well but is a little complex to setup.

There are no current plans to integrate this feature into bbPress core and the recommendation is to use a plugin for this feature.

[Stephen Edgar]

Why am I showing only MY activity in the activity area

That is a BuddyPress issue https://buddypress.org/

Also, how do I make the subscribers become members so that we can communicate in the forum?

Once a user logs into bbPress for the first time they are given the default bbPress Role ‘Participant’ and are now able to contribute to your forums.

[nzguyyy]

I am new to CSS and trying to change the formatting of my post-content div. My forum home page, and topic pages look okay but the margin in my post content page isn’t quite right. I can fix it by inspecting element and performing the change below, but then it reverts to being broke again.

I change it to this:

#bbpress-forums .post-content p {
margin: 0px 0px 0px !important;
display: block;
}

but then it reverts to this:

#bbpress-forums .post-content p {
margin: 0px 0px 20px;
display: block;
}

Any idea what I’m doing wrong? Forum is here:

http://www.planitnz.com/new-zealand-travel-forum/

[Stephen Edgar]

Cool 🙂 Drop a link to the forums in https://bbpress.org/forums/forum/pimp-your-press/ once you’ve finished, would love to take a look 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

@mosaicrob Pagelines have a bbPress module for there themes that should fix your issue, contact them for the link or search around their site.

[Stephen Edgar]

Try making a copy of the Twenty Eleven page template sidebar-page.php file and rename it to bbpress.php

[Stephen Edgar]

1. The legend of bbp-form gives no indication of the difference between a reply to topic versus a reply to a reply. I have to look at the URL displayed by the browser to tell the difference.

Will take care of this in the ticket you created 🙂
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2509#comment:5

2. When I go to the link of a post given by the RSS feed, it displays starting below the post’s toolbar. Now I know there is a toolbar above the post and can scroll up to click the REPLY link, then go reply. BUT – I really, really don’t want to have to educate every one of my moderators and users about this. From some Google searching about this, it seems that having the post’s reply link above the post is a more recent feature. I don’t think it is very intuitive, especially when a post link ending in “…/#post-416″ gets me to post 416 with the toolbar for that post invisible until you scroll up to see it (if you knew to do that).

I get where you are coming from on this and this is pretty hard to implement in bbPress as we don’t know what toolbars, headers etc your theme uses and there are soooo many.

I’m far from a CSS guru but is there some CSS trick that will allow some margin padding to fix this?

3. Some of my moderators have pointed out to me examples of the “Freshness” column in the Forum index pages being just plain wrong. To be more specific, the “Freshness” entries in question say a particular category is several days old (even after an F5 browser refresh), when by going down to a topic in that category you can see that it should have been 30 minutes old.

This does happen from time to time, hopefully with the patch in #1925 this will also be resolved. https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1925

I get the same ordering issues with only some of the Topic threads.

Is there/ Have you seen anything that determines if the issue occurs?

Are the topics that work as expected before Threaded Replies were enabled for example?

I also have a particular thread where a reply to a reply does not show any thread indentation and ends up after all comments on the topic, just as if it had been a reply to topic.

Probably need to take a closer look at that entire topics topic, replies and replies to looking at the post id’s and relevant data.

The ‘Threaded Replies’ issues I am tracking in ticket #2397 if you come across anything that may help diagnose these issues further that would be great.
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2397

[Stephen Edgar]

Is there a migration path on moving previous threaded replies in the plugin to bbpress? Does just simple deactiving the plugin make the previous threads show up?

I actually do not know, all I can suggest is giving it a try 😉

[Stephen Edgar]

Try disabling all your ‘other’ plugins first leaving bbPress and your widget plugin, with some luck it won’t be ‘that’ plugin.

[benjik]

Thats what I thought but I looked in my trash and there are no pages by that name. I was thinking about uninstalling bbpress and also removing all the associated tables from the mysql database. My hope is that it would completely remove all bbperss information from the database and would allow for a clean installation.

[Stephen Edgar]

No, it is not a feature and is a pesky bug we are having an extremely hard time trying to find the cause so we can fix it 🙁

Edit topic reply, changes post order

[wiste]

@netweb, I get that and that’s where the CSS files are, but when I try to change any php files that are located in the subfolder which is also names “bbpress” it simply doesn’t see them. My understanding from the WordPress documentation is that if you put the file in a child theme in the exact same heirarchal location as it is in the parent theme it should pick it up, but that’s not how it’s working.

I made a custom loop-forums.php. The structure of the default folder is that this file is inside a folder already called bbpress. When I copy over all the files form default in my parent theme to bbpress in my child theme I end up with a bbpress folder containing all of the php files inside of the bbpress folder that I created for the child them. Then upload my custom loop-fourm.php to the folder where it normally resides, it doesn’t pick up the change. When I put it at the root it does pick it up. However, changes to the CSS files in bbpress/CSS get picked up.

I’m having this same problem with other files in the child theme where I can’t figure out where to place php files to have them be recognized in the child theme, so it might be something wrong with the way the theme handles child themes, but I have no way to know this.

[benjik]

I am having the same problem. When I install bbpress the index is showing up as a blank page. If I create a forum page and put the index short code on that page the permalinks to do allow the page to be /forums, It will rename it to /forums-2. I assume this is happening because the bbpress forum plugin is reserving the /forums. If I click view on a topic from the admin panel I am able to see that topic but as soon I click in the bread crumbs to the root forum I am brought back to the blank page. Help?

[WPDragon]

Hi..I assume this is a CSS thing, but can someone please help with.

I’m trying to get my Forum to look as close as possible as the current popular Forums today…one thing I wanna add is the Stats at the bottom of the page..for example:

WHO IS ONLINE?
In total there are 115 users online :: 35 registered, 0 hidden and 80 guests (based on users active over the past 5 minutes)

If someone can assist with what line of code I need to use to make the STATS Horizontal across the bottom, rather than Vertical – I would appreciate it!

Thank you!

[gr33nman]

BBPress 2.5.3
W3 Total Cache working at 2.9.2.11
Just curious if bbpress is compatible yet with this version of w3 total cache.
Cheers.

[Lynqoid]

Nice, that looks awesome!

Would of saved me some time :p a WXR file would of been pretty handy indeed for some bbPress themes i’m attempting to create.

[MT]

I’ve been trying different variations of things and I assume that’s probably what you mean by “Try just leaving the page with the default template”. To make it work I had to name the copied “Full Width Page” file “forum.php” (to get rid of sidebar widgets) and to extend bbp over the entire page I added this width to css…

#bbpress-forums {
	width: 900px;
	background: transparent;
	clear: both;
	margin-bottom: 20px;
	overflow: hidden;
	font-size: 12px;
}

I do also have a bbpress.php file but it doesn’t work alone and haven’t wanted to delete it, just in case, now that the forum.php has resolved things. But again I assume that it’s not needed–the bbp.php file, in my case.

So now that that is done, the “Replies” button in Admin will not open “All Replies”, only the “New Replies”. I started a new topic as this may be unrelated.

Thank you much.

[Stephen Edgar]

Your trial and error is 100% spot on for what you should be doing 🙂

That said you want to make a copy of the bbPress templates so your hard work isn’t overridden when you update bbPress, how to do this is here https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

Everything you need to do to achieve your end goal is in these templates, you don’t need to go looking elsewhere to change things.

Basically all the changes you need to make are to the loop-xxxx.php templates, primarily loop-forums.php, loop-single-forum.php, loop-topics.php, loop-single-topic.php, loop-replies.php, loop-single-reply.php and later the loop-search.php templates.

In the ‘loop-xxxx.php’ remove the headers as you’ve already done in ‘loop-topics.php’ and in the ‘loop-single-xxx.php’ remove the columns.

[Stephen Edgar]

Sweet 🙂 Will have a play later 🙂

In a similar vein there is also this from @MZAWeb https://github.com/MZAWeb/bbpFauxData

I have a set of sample data that I use for all the different forum importing tests I have done and should really package it up as a WXR file, similar to the WordPress Theme Tests Data as it includes virtually every type of bbPress forum, topic, topic tag, reply and reply to options available.

[Stephen Edgar]

Use ‘Private Forums’ for your ‘Registered Users’ as you must be logged in to see these forums and use a ‘Public Forum’ with ‘Anonymous Posting’ enabled for your guests.

https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/#creating-your-first-forum

[Stephen Edgar]

Most likely a plugin conflict, to try and resolve conflicts with other plugins please disable all your plugins except bbPress to see if the error persists. Re-enable each plugin one at a time and if things break again you should be able to now know which other plugin is causing the conflict.

[Stephen Edgar]

This cannot be achieved at this stage with bbPress, the only option is to ‘Opt-In’ and there is no availability to have the defaults the other way around.

[Stephen Edgar]

The subscribe to email notifications was a bug, it is now fixed in bbPress 2.5.3

I installed that plugin, pulled up a user who was a Participant, and changed “View hidden forums” from “Default” (which was set to “Denied”) to “Allowed.”

And then boom, the Participant account could then view the forums.

Here’s the odd part though: we have 3 forums and they are all set to Private, not Hidden. So changing this setting shouldn’t have made any difference. Private forums are visible to Participants by default.

…

I realized that one of two things were off: either the participants were NOT allowed to view private forums, or else the forums were NOT private. Had to be one or the other.

The repair tool “Recalculate private and hidden forums” has a bug in it 🙁

When that repair tool is run private and hidden forum are assigned both _bbp_private_forums and _bbp_hidden_forums statuses so this is why a user with the Participant role could not read a private forum as after that tool had been run it was also been given the hidden status also.

The workaround for this is to do exactly what you did by “changing each forum from Private to Public back to Private” as this doesn’t touch the broken repair tool and sets the visibility status correctly.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2512

Thanks for your patience here @martyn-chamberlin and your detailed info helped a great deal finding said bug, just need to write a patch for it now. 😉

[Stephen Edgar]

It is an issue with your theme not playing nice with bbPress 😉

Try making a copy of your themes full width template eg. page.php file (Or page-sidebar.php if you want a sidebar) and rename it to bbPress.php then all your bbPress pages will use this template.

How’d that go?

[Stephen Edgar]

Try just leaving the page with the default template as this might be confusing things a little.

(Keep the bbpress.php file with Twenty Fourteens full width page code in it.)

How’d that work?