[MT]

Trying to put forums on a page with full-width-page template–no right sidebar. Reading other Topics here with similar problem, I followed the remedy posted, i.e., I created two php files labeled bbpress.php and buddypress.php with a copy of the full-width-page code in them in my file manager under my theme. Created page for forums and checked the full-width-page.

The page loaded only in default page template, though sidebar widgets not visible. I deactivated bbpress, reactivated, repeated everything, now shows in the default template only but this time widgets showing.

WordPress 3.8 running Twenty Fourteen theme. bbPress 2.5.2. http://mtmcclanahan.com/thepainterstongue/.

Thanks

[tjt756]

I have the latest version of wordpress installed on my site. I followed the instructions to install bbPress, then clicking to activate it. But after I do, it just tells me that the plugin has been activated successfully on the top of the page, then shows the normal lists of all plugins on my site. There’s no “Welcome Page”

Additionally, there is no “Forums” option on the left sidebar. Basically, it looks like nothing happened. I uninstalled and tried again, twice. Still no difference.

Is there something I’m missing?

Thanks!

[Spencer Hill]

Here is a thread with a potential solution: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/post-by-email-social-media-integration/

[Ghafoori]

There isn’t any Good Tutorial available to install a new Theme in bbpress 2.X.
However, I found its much easier to customize the default theme other than installing a new one. The structure of the default theme is good to use, but somehow I needed to include its stylesheet into my site’s main style.css file because it was picking all styles from my website’s stylesheet and there was no structure and layout formatting at all.

Here is a quick and easy way to customize the default theme and apply it:

1. Copy “bbpress” folder from wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default into your websites theme root folder.

2. Create a folder called “css” (if you dont have one) into your website’s theme folder and copy bbpress css file from wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/css/bbpress.css to this folder.

3.Open your themes style.css and include bbpress.css file. (@import url(“css/bbpress.css”).

4. You can start customizing bbpress.css and now you will see the default sturcture of bbpress theme.

Hope that helps.

Thanks,
Shah

[Spencer Hill]

Kay Hagen, a contributor on the WordPress Core, developed this Post by Email Plugin that could be extended, probably extremely easily, to support Custom Post Types. Which it could then be adopted into BBPress to create a support ticket or help desk scenario.

[Spencer Hill]

Two questions:

1. Does anyone know of a way (like a Plugin) to extend BBPress so that users can post by email? For example, a customer emails support@ourdomain.com and it’s forwarded to BBPress and a post is created. We receive an email notification about their post and reply to that notification via email as well. It also posts to the forums and sends a similar notification back to the customer to which they can respond via email as well. Ultimately they’ll never really have to interface with the forums if they don’t want to.
2. We have customers mention and message us on social media outlets but are tired of having to log into that system to respond. We’d like to respond from within WordPress and it seems like having them become BBPress Posts would make sense since they’re usually support requests anyway.

Thanks!

[piccart]

ok, I’ve figured it out.

the files which have to be edited are:
bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/content-single-forum.php
bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/content-single-topic.php

in the first one you’ll have to cut off this line in each place it comes:
<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'form', 'topic' ); ?>

and substitute with something like this, to make the new-topic link:
<a href="http://mywebsite.com/form-new-topic/?forum_id=<?php bbp_forum_id(); ?>

then you create a new template page (which you’ll assign to a page called “Form New Topic”) copying your theme default page, and adding at the top /* Template Name: Form New Topic */ . then you can substitute the function which displays the content, or just add this below it:

$forum_id = $_GET['forum_id'];
echo do_shortcode("[bbp-topic-form forum_id=$forum_id]");

at the same you can edit the second file (the topics list) substituting this:
<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'form', 'reply' ); ?>

with something like this:
<a href="http://mywebsite.com/form-new-reply/?topic_id=<?php bbp_topic_id(); ?>

and then create a new template called “Form New Reply”, and add a code similar to the other one but using the shortcode to display the reply form. unfortunately the shortcode for the reply form seems to don’t have a topic id attribute, according to this list: https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/

I’ll make some test to see how it react, the only other solution I see is to make a spoiler with the reply form, so it’s hidden till you click.

p.s. you can also store the ids into variables, using these functions:

$forum_id = bbp_get_forum_id();
$topic_id = bbp_get_topic_id();

[Grant Palin]

I resorted to resetting the bbPress data to nil, uninstalling and reinstalling the plugin, and the functionality is now working as expected. I’m not bothered about losing the forum content as there wasn’t much there anyway. I had one other issue with bbPress which seems to be due to a seemingly unrelated plugin. I’ve deactivated that plugin and filed a report with the developer. bbPress is now working like it should.

[mosaicrob]

Hi Stephen,

I’m having similar issues to @aje_1985, however my theme does not have a page.php file. Is there any other way to get the index page to show?

My forum index should be showing at: http://rad.mosaicearth.com/gatherings/

I’m using a minimal child theme, whose parent theme is the default theme from pagelines.com. Their templating system is a little different than traditional wordpress themes, and hence there is no page.php.

Just to try, I duplicated page.php from the twentyfourteen WP theme, and renamed to bbPress.php and put directly into my child theme folder. (Is this the right place to put it?) The result was my forum index page became white, and nothing showed.

Next I tried copying the whole bbpress templates folder to my child theme and again no luck. I’d really appreciate any advise here, as I’m reaching a dead end for what to try.

Thank you.

[ibab]

I have WordPress 3.8 installed with the bbPress 2.5.2. The WP is in Finnish so it’s important that the forums are in Finnish as well, so I attempted to add the translation file as told here.
http://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-in-your-language/

I took the latest dev branch Finnish translation, downloaded the .po and .mo files, renamed them to bbpress-pt_FI, even attempted bbpress-fi_FI, uploaded to /wp-content/languages/bbpress/ but no results. The forums are still in English.

I also checked that the language is set to fi in the wp-config.

Why is the translation not working?

[Stephen Edgar]

A high chance this is a plugin conflict, try disabling each of your plugins until you see bbPress return and let us know which plugin it is, if not a plugin we can go from there.

[kilahcup]

After an epic fail with another forum plugin, I’m curious if anyone is willing to sum up the security features of bbPress. Specifically, how much control can the admin have over who registers on the forum and is thus able to post on the forum and send messages to forum members? On the previous forum plugin, I was unable to figure out how to stop spam accounts from registering and sending messages through the forum, which naturally is unacceptable. What measures can/will bbPress offer me to control these sorts of things?

[artkahlich]

Here is my setup info:
Wordpress: 3.8
bbPress: 2.5.2
OS is Linux, Fedora 11
PHP is 5.2.13
Apache is 2.2.15

Theme is a copy of TwentyFourteen with light modifications to margins, colors, fonts and font sizes only. No php mods at all.
bbPress Plugins are “bbPress Admin Bar”, “bbPress Notify (no spam)”, “Global Hide/Remove Admin Bar Plugin”
Wordpress plugins are “bbPress”, “Bad Behavior”, “Akismet” and “Mailchimp”.

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

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.

Finally, at least in the TwentyFourteen theme I have some complaints:

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.

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).

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.

[Moiyra]

Hi folks,

After what was a dizzying day of trying to figure out what was triggering it, I’ve now discovered that whenever anybody leaves a comment on an activity bulletin on the Activity page, I receive blank notifications of this activity.

Some things to keep in mind:

• I am a keymaster of the site

I have the following plugins installed:

1. Achievements Version 3.5.1
2. Akismet Version 2.5.9
3. bbPress Version 2.5.2
4. BuddyPress Version 1.9.1
5. GD bbPress tools Version 1.5.1

Any redirects or pointers would be much appreciated.

Many thanks.

[AJD]

I’m looking for a simple way to to add two capabilities:’delete_topics’ and
‘delete_replies’ to the user role ‘participant’.

I have found a couple plugins to manage all capabilities, but that seems like overkill.

thanks.

WP: 3.8
bbPress: Version 2.5.2

[Martyn Chamberlin]

One last note on this forum thread….

Email notifications never worked for me here at bbPress.org when I check-marked the “Notify me of follow-up replies via email” checkbox. I have thoroughly checked my spam as well. Using an email address powered by Google Apps. Not sure if this is a bug or just me, but FYI.

[dd2012]

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?

Thanks – DD

[Matt The Hat]

hello all,

I have searched the forums here and not found a solution yet, so sorry if I have missed it.

I recently installed bbPress to my site and all seemed fine. I have not done anything that I can think of this evening but the dashboard options have all disappeared. I think this could be user settings issue but the forum repair tool in the Tools panel has disappeared too so I am unable to repair the user settings. anyone got any ideas how I can reset the admin access?

I have checked that I am set as Keymaster and have also noticed that the forum settings when editing profiles has also disappeared

Wordpress 3.8 and bbPress 2.5.2

Thanks in advanced for any help.

Matt

[Darth]

I am working on installing BBpress for the first time.

I have it installed and I created my first forum, but the link is way too long. It shows as:

http://mysite.com/forums/forum/darth-forums/

I’ve tried resetting permalinks, but that didn’t fix it. How can I make the link show as http://mysite.com/darth-forums/ ?

Thanks!

[rossagrant]

Happy New Year all!

Just noticed a slight bug I think with the way that BBPress deals with @mentions since this TRAC ticket for the way BP handles usernames with spaces in.

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/7570

So basically a new username can now HAVE spaces in it.

When we use that username with spaces in BBPress it isn’t happy and wont work, unless it’s hyphenated.

Let me know if you’d like me to make a TRAC ticket for it.

🙂

[NarOneR]

I just tried with a default theme but it does not work either.

My plugin enable are :
bbPress
bbPress Enable TinyMCE Visual Tab
Light – Responsive LightBox
NextGEN Gallery by Photocrati
Regenerate Thumbnails
Relevanssi
Responsive Lightbox
Sidebar Login
Theme My Login
TinyMCE Advanced
User Role Editor
WP-PageNavi
WP Minify
WP Wall

You can test on http://www.lsa-clan.fr/wordpress/forums (register is open)

[Stephen Edgar]

Oh BTW… WPML has an extra plugin to make it compatible with bbPress but no public download link, you need to ask them for this, why? I do not know you just do :/

[Stephen Edgar]

I’d suggest taking a look at the bbPress Repair Tool to remap users forums role as it shows pretty much what you are trying to achieve using bbp_set_user_role

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/includes/admin/tools.php#L771

[Stephen Edgar]

I am going to close this topic as we should be really using the following topic 😉
(My bad, I may have pointed a few people to this one recently)

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

[Stephen Edgar]

That is a little strange, was it only in one particular browser? (IE, Firefox etc)

Aside from that if you need to have custom templates the best way is to copy the template you need to a subfolder /bbpress of your theme to avoid it being overridden after an update.

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

I’d suggest you copy that form-topic.php template per the above.

You could also try adding some CSS styling to those labels to make them work better with your theme.