[brunodavid]

Hi,

Thanks Stephen.

I searched in the translation files in /wp-content/languages/bbpress/ but I couldn’t find the string that controls this text 🙁

This is not the search widget, it’s the embed search in the forum index.

Any lights?

[walkingmiller]

Hello. I just updated to bbPress 2.5.2 on WP 3.8, and am having a little trouble with the text box label bbp_topic_title (ie, Topic Title (Maximum length:80)) interfering with the forum title on the main page. On a post page, the text box label bbp_topic_tags (ie, Tags) also interferes with the forum title. For some reason it is not applying the labels to the text box and is putting it at the top of the page. Any thoughts on how to fix the issue? Here is a link to the site – http://smartchurch.staging.wpengine.com/?forum=confirmation-forum Let me know if you need any further information. Thank you!

walkingmiller

[baylock]

Thank you for your answer.

Well, I must insist:
If ‘ar’ is used, only BBpress is in arabic and if ‘ar_AR’ is used, only WordPress is in arabic.

What you point out may be so in writing but pointing it out will not change the fact that it’s not working in real life.
It’s quick and easy to verify and the marge of error of doing it wrong is very small.
So, I’m quite positive.

So, what are my options then?

Thank you for your help.

[jimmycrow]

WordPress: 3.8 bbPress: 2.5.2 website: http://nacbrewclub.com

When I (or any of the members of this site) hit “edit profile” we see a page like this..

with just a list of all the user info and no way to actually edit any of it.

tried adding “User Role Editor” but it had no affect.

I would really like to turn off the WordPress user option but I’m using Woo Commerce to sell memberships to participate on the forum (and a few other things) so i don’t think that is an option.

I can supply some log-in info if anyone needs it to help.

Thanks,

Jimmy

[Deaf_Guy]

Hi – thanks for your reply. I know this is going to sound defeatist and lazy but I simply cannot believe that in this day and age of automation that BBP makes you have to do all of this technical stuff.

I run a blog for my client that you can see here on non-hosted WP. They’re very happy with it:

http://hissign.wordpress.com/

You’ll see in the blog that it’s so easy for me to just plug a YTV video in there. So now my client wants a forum where they can allow others to post a wide variety of YouTube videos presented in ASL (like the example in the first post). But what’s mind blowing to me is when I set up BBPress, I’m amazed that this feature of embed is not right there and ready to go; but instead, I have to tweak and do all kinds of complex stuff like adding codes and stuff. Wow.

I chose WP because the blog (not the forum) does all of this for you conveniently so I can do my job of publishing and not have to worry or figure out all of these codes and stuff. Why in the world would bbPress be completely different.

Anyway, thanks for your help and I’m not really sure what to do at this point about my client’s forum needs.

[Andreas]

Hey,

I use some other plugins providing shortcodes. The work fine on every page, but not in topics or response of the bbpress forum.

For example this progress bar plugin
http://wordpress.org/plugins/progress-bar/

How can I add the function that the shortcodes will work in bbpress forums?

Thanks for your help!

[kj24]

Here’s my setup:

Wordpress version: 3.8
bbPress version: 2.5.2
Operating system: Linux (Debian 6 32bits)
Web server: Nginx
Notable plugins: buddypress, jetpack, GD bbPress Tools, Platinum SEO Pack, WPBase-Cache

[Stephen Edgar]

The bbPress templates should be in /wp-content/themes/yourchildtheme/bbpress/

[Stephen Edgar]

Make a copy of your themes page.php (Or page-no-sidebar.php) and rename the file to bbpress.php in your themes directory.

[Stephen Edgar]

I just installed it to take a closer look and it does appear to be broken 🙁

I do see the ‘Convert to topic’ for the blog posts though, so half works 😉

I’ll also keep an eye on https://github.com/jmdodd/bbpress-topic-post-converter/issues/1

[synergywp]

Hello,

I did some forum searching and found this to be an issue from almost a year ago, however, its just hit me. It seemed that eventually others thought that maybe some other plugins were making the conflict, but if this is the case, there needs to be a fail-safe implemented into bbPress that a user with the WP Role of Administrator always can visit the Tools > Forums and Settings > Forums links.

And so here I begin:

I logged into one of my admin accounts, didn’t see the main CPT “Replies” “Forums” or “Topics” on the main admin. I thought it was funny so I tried to visit Settings > Forums, nothing. Same with Tools.

I look in my Users page and the Keymaster role is no longer listed at the top as a filter. I try “Change forum role to…” on my admins, but the Keymaster role is not listed, and I can only change my other admin account to Moderator. I try to change the one I’m currently logged in from Participant (was once Keymaster) to Moderator, but nothing happens.

I tried deactiving, reactivating. Nothing. Deleting and reinstalling, nothing. I tried removing plugins, nothing.

Here’s the thing, another forum post blamed it on All in One SEO. Well I don’t have that installed. I don’t know why a plugin would be deleting “Keymaster” role.

Again, I get that you can have a non Admin be a keymaster.. That’s nice. Why not have the admin ALWAYS be a nothing less than Keymaster? It doesn’t make much sense to have complete awesome and total control over the main platform, but not over a plugin?

Thanks for any assistance.

[Stephen Edgar]

users -> delete imported_user with the option to move all topics/replies to the original users.

Just go to your WordPress Admin Dashboard and select the the ‘imported_username’ and click delete, then select the ‘username’ from the dropdown.

When bbPress does the import if a user already exists then it will be created with the prefix imported_ as part of the username.

Typically this happens after doing the import a couple of times without previously having deleted the imported users.

[wiste]

I should also add that I’m not 100% certain this is correct. It works for the CSS files but it doesn’t seem to pick up the php files in ../wp-content/themes/yourchildtheme/bbpress/bbpress. It works if I move them up a level to the top level bbpress folder, or even under the child theme folder, though. I haven’t read enough about child themes yet to figure out why this is the case, but it works, it’s just odd that you can’t have the files in the same structure in a child theme.

[wiste]

Thanks, I didn’t realize I could do that. I’ve only been using bbPress for about a week so I’m not sure I’m an authority. I spent the morning working it out and figured I could save someone else the frustration. I will take a look at updating the codex when I get some spare time, but if anyone wants to take this info and add it before I get to it feel free.

[Stephen Edgar]

Thanks for this 🙂

Any chance you’d be able to update the codex so it isn’t out of date?
https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-creating-a-custom-bbpress-theme/

(You login with your normal wordpress.org/bbpress.org username & password as anyone can edit the codex)

[Subtopic]

I can’t delete this post lol. But where would I edit the bbpress widget avatar size?

[Subtopic]

I am sure that the bbpress widget is the one at fault, because everything else that uses th.at picture is not blurry.

[Shawn74]

Solved:

I declared as Avatar then i used this code inside theme’s function php file:

add_post_type_support('forum', array('thumbnail'));

function ks_forum_icons() {
	if ( 'forum' == get_post_type() ) {
		global $post;
	    if ( has_post_thumbnail($post->ID) )
	    	echo get_the_post_thumbnail($post->ID,'thumbnail',array('class' => 'alignleft forum-icon'));
	 }
}
add_action('bbp_theme_before_forum_title','ks_forum_icons');

Then i changed the img.avatar style (hope to have not changed anithing else…)

Source:
http://www.kristarella.com/2013/04/bbpress-forum-icons/

[wiste]

The codex page for this is outdated and a lot of the threads are for older versions so here is a version for WP 3.8, bbPress 2.5.2.

Resources

Here are the pages from which I pieced this together.

http://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-creating-a-custom-bbpress-theme/
http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
http://op111.net/53/
http://perishablepress.com/bbpress-theme-template-files/
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/wordpress-child-themes-dev/

WordPress Child Themes – What, Why & How

Initial Setup

Install WordPress and bbPress.

Step #1: Create a child theme of your WordPress theme.

Even though what you’re wanting to change is bbPress and not your WordPress, there are not separate themes for plugins, so you need to create a child theme of whatever WordPress theme you are using to have a place to put the bbPress plugin child theme files. This will ensure that any updates to bbPress or your WordPress theme will not overwrite your changes. Here is how you create a child theme:

1. FTP to your website
2. Go to ../wp-content/themes
3. Create a new folder for your child theme. Name it yourtheme-child for the sake of organization.
4. Create a new file called style.css and add the below, changing the valuesto the value for your child theme. The critical fields are Theme Name, Template, and the the parent theme directory name (which should be the same as “Template”) in the @import. Everything else is used by wordpress.org for categorizing templates so don’t stress if you don’t know what to put there:

/*
 Theme Name: Your Theme Name Child
 Theme URI: Your website if you don't intend to publish a separate site just for your theme
 Description: A brief description of your child theme
 Author: your name
 Author URI: your website
 Template: parent-theme-directory
 Version: 1.0.0
 Tags:  whatever tags you might want to use for your child theme
*/

@import url("../parent-theme-directory/style.css");

/* =Theme customization starts here
-------------------------------------------------------------- */

5. FTP your newly created style.css to ../wp-content/themes/yourtheme-child

Step #2: Add your bbPress Child Theme files to your WordPress Child Theme

1. Create a folder called “bbpress” on your local machine.
2. FTP to ../wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates
3. Download the contents of the “Default” folder to the “bbpress” folder on your local machine
4. Edit the files you want to change for bbPress (see bbpress-theme-template-files link under resources above).
5. Delete any files you haven’t changed. You can skip this step if it’s confusing, but you should try to only upload files you’ve changed.
6. FTP to ../wp/content/themes/yourtheme-child
7. Create a folder called “bbpress” inside yourtheme-child
8. Copy the contents of the “bbpress” folder in your local machine to the “bbpress” folder inside your child theme folder.

Step #3: Activate your Child Theme

Once you have created your child theme and made changes to the bbPress files in the child theme, you need to activate the child theme in order to see the changes on your site.

1. Log into your WordPress admin panel
2. Go to Appearance -> Themes
3. Find your child theme. It would be the same as the “Theme Name” you gave it in the first line of the style.css you created in Step 1.
4. Click “live preview” and make sure nothing has gone horribly wrong.
5. Activate the child theme.

Since you didn’t change any files from your wordpress theme, the theme for the site will be inherited from the parent theme so the only changes you should see are the changes you made to the bbpress files that you uploaded to your child theme. The only problem I encountered was that because it was a new theme, my custom “header top menu” was not associated with the theme, so I just had to go into the menu and check the box to tell it to use that custom menu as the header menu.

[ctseng01]

When I tried to create a topic under the forum, I get this error message:

ERROR: You do not have permission to create new topics.

I also am not able to go into any link under Dashboard>Forum – I think somehow the permission setting is all jacked up…

I already deleted and re-installed the Plugin, tested it on TwentyThirdteen, the problem still persist.

I am using bbPress 2.5.2-5234, WP Version 3.8. The site is collaborativemotherhood.com. Also, the site is password protected (ctseng01, santaynezvalley) The forum link is in the footer, between “Mommy Power” and “Help Center”

Thanks for your help.

Mod: I edited and removed the user/pass from your post.

[Stephen Edgar]

You should use define(‘WPLANG’, ‘ar’); as both WordPress & bbPress Arabic translations use ar

https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/dev/ar/default
https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp/dev/ar/default

[xmasons]

bbPress Reply by Email works pretty darn well, but it takes a bit to configure it initially. The included documentation is minimal, but the conversation on the specific github directory has plenty of pointers.

[baylock]

Hi,

I installed WordPress (3.8) and BBpress (2.4) in arab for a client.
But I can’t have both translations at the same time…

If I want to have WordPress in arab, it only works if I to tweak the wp-config this way: define(‘WPLANG’, ‘ar_AR’); -> then, BBpress remains in english
But if I want to have BBPress in arab, it only works if I tweak the wp-config this way: define(‘WPLANG’, ‘ar’); -> then, WordPress remains in english

So far, it’s one OR the other, but I would like, logically, one AND the other.

So…what can I do?

Thanks

[Jairo Ochoa]

Hi,

Whenever I logout, using bbpress conections widget, if I’m inside a private forum I get a 404 page.
But I’m at any other page or post or even in a public forum everything goes OK.

If at least I could set on the widget a logout url, I will send the user to the home.

Regards,

[Jared Atchison]

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-members-only/