[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/

[yoshimitsu1234]

i have added bbpress forum on my site along with buddypress. My forum posts has reply box at bottom which doesn’t have any border and reply area looks like white empty space. I want it to look like this site reply box with border. I have also attached a screen shot of the reply box look.
Is there any solution to this?

http://tinypic.com/r/2cg0qqo/5

[artkahlich]

Regarding the current Forum subscriptions:
1. Do they apply only to the current forum, or to sub-forums as well? I am seeing behavior that a subscription to a forum does ”’not”’ subscribe you to all sub-forums as well. Will I and all my moderators have to go and subscribe to each sub-forum in the entire forum tree?
2. Do they apply only to new topics? Or to ask another way, do they also apply to all of a forum’s existing topic replies? Here again, I am seeing behavior that leads me to believe that I will only get a single new topic notification, but I will have to go and ”’manually subscribe”’ to each individual topic if I want to see replies to that topic. For administrators and moderators this would be nastily inconvenient behavior.

The wording at https://codex.bbpress.org/forum-settings/ for precisely what subscriptions do appears ambiguous to me in these areas.

Even though RSS for the entire forum is currently implemented, I still have a great interest in a simple email subscription that is equivalent. Simply put, the reason is simplicity for my users, moderators, etc., as well as for me as an administrator/implementer. While I can setup something using the RSS feed that would generate email notifications to all my moderators, I don’t want to for a variety of reasons including time to implement and potential security holes.

A thought: you may decide to implement both “forum local” and “forum with sub-forums” subscriptions. When unsubscribed, the links would display as:
”’Subscribe”’ – if there are no sub-forums
”’Subscribe with sub-forums”’ – if there are sub-forums (the default)
”’Subscribe without sub-forums”’ – if there are sub-forums (user selectable)
where the ”’without sub-forums”’ versus ”’with sub-forums”’ are 2 faces of a toggle link (similar to your Subscribe/Unsubscribe toggle link) controlling what the ”’Subscribe”’ link in fact subscribes the user to.

If you choose to implement only a single behavior for forum subscriptions, I am ”’strongly”’ in favor of including all sub-forum new topics and replies. I can see every bbPress site administrator and forum moderator wanting this functionality.

I also think it extremely counter intuitive to not include existing topic replies in a forum subscription. I hope you do already, but I have not experimented with it enough to know precisely how the forum subscriptions behave.

NB: The “unsubscribe” bug may have clouded my observations of real forum subscription behavior.

[Stephen Edgar]

After just adding support for imported phpBB posts where the original author had been deleted I’m kind of thinking maybe this is something that should be in the core of bbPress. BuddyPress allows users to delete their own accounts (if enabled) and maybe we should also have this option for bbPress.

Thus if a user deletes their account rather than deleting their topics and replies we delete the actual account but assign a ‘legacy’ username to each topic and reply allowing the topics to retain the original context.

Does this sound like the type of way we should implement this in bbPress core?

[Stephen Edgar]

Cool, I’ll take a closer look at bbPress with Twenty Fourteen (I’m mobile at the moment) and post an update to either here or the ticket you created.

[Stephen Edgar]

Have you tried using the single forum shortcodes for each forum you want on each page that you want a forum?

https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/

[Stephen Edgar]

It is already translatable, see https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-in-your-language/ to download or add translations for your language.

[artkahlich]

The short answer is: no difference.

I think I get what you are asking… I did the following:

cd wp-content/themes/copyOf2014
sudo cp page.php bbpress.php

That did not affect behavior on my desktop browser, which continues to render properly. Neither did it change anything on my Android Chrome browser, which still shows a mostly blank page with only the single word “Forums” when I go to “http://mysite.com/forums/”.

I have – as recommended – copied the twentyfourteen theme so that I could make font and margin adjustments, as well as changing the top and side bars from black to very light gray with black text. That “copyOf2014” also contains – again I believe as recommended – a copied “bbpress” sub-directory with a lot of php files and a copied “css” sub-directory with “bbpress.css” among other .css files.

[Stephen Edgar]

You need to make sure embeds are enabled for both bbPress & WordPress

Auto-embed Links
Enable forum participants to embed links from YouTube, Twitter, and others by simply pasting a link into their topic or reply. This is done using the WordPress oEmbed API. More information and a full list of supported sites can be found on the Embed Codex page.

https://codex.bbpress.org/forum-settings/ https://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds

You could enable Featured Images for your theme and bbPress and also display the actual image just as the site you link to does (at the left of the topic/post)

Find out if your theme supports ‘Featured Images’ and if so then enabling them in some customized bbPress templates would mirror that same look. 🙂

https://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Thumbnails

[Stephen Edgar]

This is the same issue I responded to here https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/recent-topic-image-blurry/