[curlcomjl]

Hi @robin-w

I’m still a WP beginner and I’m not a native speaker (I use Google Translater, that doesn’t make it easier 😀 ) and I really need help. Sorry to write again on this topic, but unfortunately I didn’t fully understand the instructions.

I have exactly the same problem as most others.
I create a community with bbpress forum. For this I use Ocean WP Theme (I also tried Hello Theme because of your plugin, but unfortunately it didn’t work.) and Elementor (Unfortunately only the open source version, not Pro).

I can customize forum index page with Elementor exactly as I want with motion effect, borders, additional widgets…
When I click on a topic, bbpress uses the default theme without my Elementor editing.
I understand that bbpress creates a new page for each topic and only uses the default theme. How can I tell bbpress to use my Elementor template?

If I understood it correctly with FTP?
I’m having trouble finding my template in the files and I don’t know where to go for bbpress.

Or CSS?
Can I change the loading instruction for the template somewhere in the bbpress stylesheet? If yes, where?

I would be grateful for the help, I’m desperate.

[billy835]

Hello, does anyone know the max number of forums/categories and subforums you can have on a single WordPress site before it becomes unstable? Does anyone know where you can find best practices for structuring forum and subforum hierarchy? For my project I will likely start with ten categories, which will each have three subforums or categories, which in turn will have two or three layers of subforums likely resulting in several hundred subforums on the site. I don’t have a live site to link to yet and will be using most recent versions of WP and bbPress.

[Monika]

can i replace my forum https://www.seodio.com/ with bbpress ? if so how do i transfer all my data from php xenforo to bbpres?

my forum : https://seodio.com/forum/

[Robin W]

so I would fix it like this in this order

for all these, by default worpdress/bbpress will usually display 20 items per page. if you look at the top right of the edit topics/replies/users page, you will see a dropdown box labelled ‘screen options’ – you can then set the no. items a page – so set this to say 50 or 100 to be able to do the process more quickly.

1. REPLIES

If you haven’t already marked the replies as spam then do 1.a if you have marked them as spam then do 1.b

1.a
in
dashboard>replies>all replies you will see a box to the left of each reply. Tick those you want to mark as spam – you can use the box left of the ‘replies’ title to select all of them.

Then click the ‘bulk actions’ top left under the replies heading and select spam and click apply.

This will move the spam replies to the spam folder.

1.b

Once you have all the replies as spam, then click the ‘spam’ link where it says

All (xxx) | Mine (xx) | Published (xx) | Drafts etc…. |Spam (xx)

then delete using the same method select all the spam replies (box to the left of the replies list heading) and use the bulk actions to ‘move to trash/bin’ all the spam replies.

1.c then you can leave them there in spam, or delete them permanently by selecting the ‘trash’ or ‘bin’ option in

All (xxx) | Mine (xx) | Published (xx) | Drafts etc…. |Spam (xx)

2. Repeat this process for topics

3. USERS (the bit I think you want to really know about)

In dashboard>users>edit users – you can use the same method to bulk select you spam users, and then using bulk actions choose ‘delete’ and ‘apply’ (as you did for topics and replies). When you do so, it will ask who you want to assign any content to. It normally (from memory) defaults to the first user in the list. If you have deleted all content in 1 and 2 above, then there will be nothing to assign, but if you have spam entries they will get assigned to whoever you say – that can for instance be to assign to ‘admin’

However I have seen sites where admins who use this method create a user called ‘spam user’ with a dummy email address who they assign content to. The logic of this is that if you have missed marking as spam and/or deleting a topic or reply it shows the user as ‘spam user’, rather than making ‘admin’ look like they are spamming their own site 🙂

The explanation above has probably taken longer to type than it should you to do this once you understand 🙂 🙂

[Robin W]

bbpress doesn’t have an upload facility, so must be another bbpress related plugin that is doing this?

[xxreef]

Hi ecollart,
you must put in your function.php in your theme folder

function filter_pll_check_canonical_url( $redirect_url, $language ) {
    if(strpos($redirect_url, '/edit/') !== false && strpos($redirect_url, '/forums/') !== false && strpos($redirect_url, '/reply/') !== false) {
        $redirect_url = str_replace('/fr/', '/', $redirect_url);
        $redirect_url = str_replace('/en/', '/', $redirect_url);
    }
    return $redirect_url;
}
add_filter( 'pll_check_canonical_url', 'filter_pll_check_canonical_url', 10, 2 );

and you must modify inside the folder topic of your bbpres plugin the file template.php

from

// Pretty permalinks, previously usedbbp_use_pretty_urls()
// https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3054
if ( false === strpos( $topic_link, ‘?’ ) ) {
$url = trailingslashit( $topic_link ) . bbp_get_edit_slug();
$url = user_trailingslashit( $url );

// Unpretty permalinks
} else {
$url = add_query_arg( array(
bbp_get_topic_post_type() => $topic->post_name,
bbp_get_edit_rewrite_id() => ‘1’
), $topic_link );
}

to

// Pretty permalinks, previously usedbbp_use_pretty_urls()
// https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3054
if ( false === strpos( $topic_link, ‘?’ ) && strpos($topic_link, ‘/fr/’) == false  && strpos($topic_link, ‘/en/’) == false ) {
$url = trailingslashit( $topic_link ) . bbp_get_edit_slug();
$url = user_trailingslashit( $url );

// Unpretty permalinks
} else {
$url = add_query_arg( array(
bbp_get_topic_post_type() => $topic->post_name,
bbp_get_edit_rewrite_id() => ‘1’
), $topic_link );
}

Bye Renzo

[Ahmad Karimi]

Hey there,
I want to make a website with bbPress. I have “Hacklog Remote Attachment” plugin that allow me to remotely upload media files on to another server with FTP access. I mean this plugin will upload everything you upload on “media” to another server.
But bbPress ignore this and save files on wp-content folder. My local host is limited so that’s not good option to save files on my local host.

Is there any add-on or plugin to force bbPress upload files to another server with FTP?

[alexdesouza]

I was working on my site and saw some new text (a link for an online [url=https://pesaland.com]casino[/url]) added to a block on my homepage. I deleted the block of text, then checked my “users” list. That’s where I saw a new user (Ann Smith) with a spammy e-mail address (I think it was 11@11.com or something), this user had Administrator and Keymaster status. I deleted the user. I then tried to give myself keymaster status again, and cannot. I currently have Administrator and Participant Roles. There is one other user (a developer I work with sometimes) who has Administrator and Keymaster status.

I thought if I deactivated and deleted the bbpress plugin, cleared the cache and reinstalled it that would let me start over, but that did nothing. (note I have not started using this for a forum on my site yet so doing this was no big deal). Since that did not work I deleted the plug in again, but I am submitting this question because I would like to use it. Also, even after the plug in is deleted the roles (Keymaster and Participant) still appear in the user list under the “Role” column, but I thought they were only associated with bbpress. Is that correct? (I am not using buddypress)

So basically I need to know how I can install bbpress and be given the keymaster role again. Please help, thank you!!

yes u are right

[ecollart]

Hello,

not being programmer, I can’t use this as it is but can this be used to help in my case to restore the edit and delete function from the topic top bar menu when using Polylang (FR and EN) ?

I am pushing at Polylang free support too but no luck so far … would be good to have Polylang and bbPress to talk together as being 2 big actors in WordPress…

Sorry if the question seems obvious to you …

Thanks for your help

Eric Collart

Ps: I can provide access to test if useful…

[DeepBlue]

Sometimes downgrading phpbb might work, have you tried this ?

i will soon try invision to bbpress, but i’m afraid the last version of invision is not supported

[DeepBlue]

You mean the plugin you recommended first is better than this one ?

By the way look at this : this guy seems to have solved a real issue

[RalfM]

Hi,
I found that the bbpress index is not shown in a Divi page made with the theme builder. While the forums work fine, the index is not. I can insert the shortcode [bbp-forum-index] into the page, but then only the index is shown and nothing else.
After some writing back and forth with ET, I found that a not-given design shows the forum and the index as it should (besides a sidebar that CSS could delete), but the page – of course – is not in the design of the other pages.
Is there another way to implement the forum into a page design? Any ideas?
Every response is highly appreciated!
Best regards

[uksentinel]

GD bbPress Tools is what I use and works well for my Forum members to have individual signatures etc.
Not tried it with Hyperlinks.

[DeepBlue]

Hi

I have read several topics on this matter but didnt find the solution

How can i replace the standard BBpress “1 hour, 4 minutes ago” in freshness columns by the simple date “February 2”

Thank you 🙂

[gr19rute]

Sorry. My fault.
It doesn’t work with Image Upload for BBPress.
The second page (and all other pages, except the first) only produce an error “404”.
Diabling the plugin is the only solution.

[gr19rute]

I use “Image Upload for BBPress” and your Plugin works.
It works!

Thank you! That’s awesome!

You made my day!

[Robin W]

try this one

bbPress Moderation

I also have a version of the one above that I might publish when I get back from holiday

[DeepBlue]

Hi Robin

This plugin has been closed from WordPress plugins on 11 february

Any other plugin to moderate topics ?

i was hoping that the feature for comments :

Before a comment appears
1) Before a comment appears Comment must be manually approved
2) Comment author must have a previously approved comment

would also work for bbpress

but i tested and it doesnt work…

Apparently only the 2 settings comment moderation blacklist are working :

– number of links
– stopwords

but the problem is there is no warning message showing if someone adds 2 links for instance and then submits, nothing tells him his post is pending moderation (same test for stop words)

Also the admin doesnt have any notification of pending post, no mail, nothing on dashboard, i had to go directly to admin topics to see the pending topics

Best moderation would be to always moderate the first post for any user, how could i do that ?

i just found this other moderation plugin that does exactly what im describing but it’s 8 years old without update, does it still work ?

Thanks a lot !

[Robin W]

have a look at

https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum/ item 3 method 2

[Frederic Pilon]

For some reason on a brand new install of BBPress, all pages work as expected, except the archive for the forums, the home page of BBPress.

View post on imgur.com

So is there a way to make that archive page work by listing the available forums?

Site also runs elementor, if that helps.

[Robin W]

sorry I’m just a bbpress user who helps out here and I have limited time to try stuff.

you could look at

https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum/ item 3 method 2

[Robin W]

actually just remembered that this plugin does this

GD bbPress Tools

[Lee]

I have set up my bbPress as no registration is required, but another plugin needs registration to use the service.
Is it possible to disable the user information on bbPress for users who are already logged in wordpress?

The theme (Astra) has a child theme, the bbPress child theme is not installed yet.
Wordpress is ver.5.9, bbPress is 2.6.9.

Thank you.

[DeepBlue]

Test to see what REPLY does 😀

Edit : actually any REPLY button on any message is simply a reply to the entire topic ?

Second question : can we quote on BBpress ? this is very useful, i dont see this option

Thanks 🙂

[hitlis]

Hello, same problem, installed Template Library and Redux Framework Version 4.3.10 + bbpress, when opening the forum page in the role Participant i get an error:

Error thrown
Call to a member function get_users_for_object() on null

please help, how can i fix it?