[mauryg]

I originally posted this on the BuddyPress forum, It was suggested that I might have better luck getting an answer here. My apologies if this is redundant to some.

I have the legacy forums set up on my site, barronsquare.org. I want to move up to bbPress. I especially want the “Follow this topic” notifications and reply ‘threading’.

• Running WP v3.7.1, BP v1.9, Suffusion child theme with Suffusion BuddyPress Pack
• ‘Public’ portion visible to users who are not members
• ‘Private’ portion for members only.
• “All Residents” GROUP with auto join for all MEMBERS with forums.
• Several other smaller sub-groups with forums.
• Forums are not public.

Tried the upgrade to bbPress 2.2 (with Suffusion bbPress Pack) on my WAMP localserver version of site and had all kinds of problems migrating content, etc. Many of the data ‘repair’ functions failed. I could not get the ‘threaded replies to work. Eventually got the forums to mostly work, but still have questions.

1. Would I be better with a ‘site-wide’ forum rather than the private All Residents group?
2. Can I make a site-wide forum private?
3. How do I modify the formatting of the forum postings?
4. Where do I look to troubleshoot the ‘threading’ function?

Happy Holidays to all.

Maury

[Delete me]

Yes Stephen and thanks. It was that. Strangely, I had to first set it back to default permlinks and save it and then set it to ‘Month/Name’ and save it again so it re-writes it back to the htaccess file to get it to work. Originally I had permlinks set to ‘Month/Name’ but obviously BBPress doesn’t pick this up on activation it seems and thus resetting permanent links is required. Interesting. Thanks.

[Rolf Allard van Hagen]

Hi,

A weird thing is happening on the main site of my WordPress Multisite installation where bbPress is used for the support pages.

The forum plugin was activated with the main Super User account (with ID #1) on the main site. Forums where created without problems and the user got Key Master role.

But since then, that super user has been replaced by another account promoted to Super User. The account with ID #1 has been ‘demoted’ to site admin on the primary site where it is now used only for publication of pages and posts. That account visibly still has Key Master role for the forums but…

When logged in with that account, none of the forum admin pages are accessible.

What is going wrong? How can I use a normal site admin to manage forums and topics. I’d like to prevent usage of the Super User account for public type actions like posting and the like…

[Robin W]

Have you got a page associated with the forum?

If not try creating a page called “forums” with a sidebar.

This should work.

If not try adding the following shortcode to that page

[bbp-forum-index]

You can also use a plugin called bbPress WP tweaks to add a specific forum sidebar

[Stephen Edgar]

Are you also using this plugin? https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-genesis-extend/

Maybe disable that also if you are.

[Stephen Edgar]

Firstly, that field is the ‘Post ID’ and everytime WordPress creates a post, page or bbPress topic, reply etc this gets incremented. This issue could happen ‘if’ there were 100 edits to a WordPress post, page or bbPress topic etc, though I think you might have mentioned that if that was the case.

I would suggest the quickest way to see what is going on would be in ‘phpMyAdmin’ and have a look at the wp_posts table and have a look at the ID field in this table, these will match the ID’s you mention above and then you can look at the id’s in betwwen those values and the other fields should give you an idea of what content is in those posts which will help you track down the issue.

[almightyeonni]

Hello!
I’m currently setting up a bbPress forum on my WordPress website and I have one problem.
The “Submit” button is not recognizeable as “Submit” button because the colours are not strong enough.
Here is what it looks like:

If there is some sun shining on the computer screen, the “Submit” button can’t be seen at all. 🙁
So can someone please help me? I want to change the main colour of the button to slightly darker gray while the text in it saying “Submit” should be black.
How can I change the button colours?

(Please keep explanations easy. I don’t really know much about CSS and such.)

WordPress version: 3.8
bbPress version: 2.5.1

[bffnb]

Hi, i need some help!

I run my mainsite with frontend registration and frontend user profiles like: xxxxxxxxx.com/user/anyusername

I also installed bbpress and ONLY ALLOW USERS TO REGISTER FROM THE MAINPAGE – mentioned above.
I show the Forum in a page wiht the shortcode… the forum url is: xxxxxxxxx.com/forum/
SO far it works great!

My setting for the forum user profile slug is like that:
xxxxxxxxxx.com/forum/mitglied/anyusername (“mitglied” is for “user” in german)

My Question 🙂
In the users FORUM PROFILE page i have on the left site under the users Profile the menu links. The first of them links to the users FORUM PROFILE like:

xxxxxxxxxx.com/forum/mitglied/anyusername

Now i need the same URL LINK to the users MAINSITE PROFILE wich should be like:

xxxxxxxxxx.com/user/anyusername

IN …..bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/user-details.php it calls the url for the USERS FORUM PROFILE with this line of code:

<a class="url fn n" href="<?php bbp_user_profile_url(); ?>" title="<?php printf( esc_attr__( "%s's Profile", 'bbpress' ), bbp_get_displayed_user_field( 'display_name' ) ); ?>" rel="me"><?php _e( 'Profile', 'bbpress' ); ?></a>

How can i get the users MAINSITE PROFILE URL? (xxxxxxxxxxx.com/user/anyusername)
I cant find anything in the bbpress and wordpress docs 🙁 or im not intelligent enough to find a solution… i think to remove the slugs from the url is not possible to get a desired url structure for the link. I think there must be a other filter function for the users MAIN SITE PROFILE url…???

I think i must mention this:
I already managed to show the USERS AVATAR from the MAINSITE in the forum page with this code:

<?php $user_info = get_user_by('id', $wp_query->query_vars['author']); echo get_avatar($user_info->ID, '150'); ?>

The avatar call works great – hope it is possible to get the USERS PROFILE URL too 🙂

Thank you so much!

[Robin W]

yes, if you google ‘Wishlist member & bbpress’ – there’s a whole bunch of posts

[Robin W]

googled ‘thesis theme & bbpress’ and got several hits saying that bbpress doesn’t function with thesis, and a link to a plugin that might fix it – worth a try or some more googling !

Integrating bbPress to Thesis framework

[amyboyack]

bbPress 2.5.1-5217 wp version 3.8 using bigbang theme

I’m having trouble getting the sidebar to show on the forums. You can check here
http://sandbox3.sureleader.com/forums/forum/non-protected-forum-for-testing/

[Subtopic]

Hey guys. I am messing around with implementing Local Simple Avatars, and BBPress, and I have an issue. My Recent Topics widget, the picture of the user who recently posted something, that image is blurry.

I have edited the code in firebug, and even when I expand the image, its still blurry.

My website is http://www.subtopic.org check it out!

[Delete me]

Sorry.. Trying bbpress for the first time. Its a Completely board with no data.

[Kevin Geary]

When I remove BBPress, my home page, my blog page (mostly the sidebars) all break and disappear. What’s the problem here? Those pages and sidebars have nothing to do with BBPress.

[Robin W]

ok, plan b

upload the “widget logic” plugin

This lets you set widgets to appear in certain conditions

Once uploaded, using your normal sidebar, you can set when a widget appears

You’ll see a new box appear when you add/edit each widget saying “widget logic”. if you want it to appear on a forum page type

is_bbpress()
If you want the widget to appear on other pages, but not obn the forum page type

!is_bbpress()
so you login widget would have the logic

is_bbpress()
and appear only on forum pages

If you didn’t want search on the forum page, you’d put

!is_bbpress()
on that widget and it will not appear

[badams38024]

Well, I figured mine out. Turns out that my bbpress will not run with my AWPC classified plug in, which is essential to my site. It all worked fine together before the update, so I have to rebuild one or the other I guess. I will probably be looking for a new forum plugin.

[Robin W]

ok, I have 2.5.1 bbpress working with WP 3.8 on a twentyten child.

I suggest that each of you :

Disables all of your plugins. If that fixes, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the issue
If disabling plugins doesn’t work, then with them disabled, switch to a default theme – twentyten, twenty eleven or twentytwelve. If that works, then your theme has an issue
If any/none of that works, comes back and say exactly what you did
If you get a fix, let us know what was causing it to help others

[yc1111]

I am using WordPress 3.8 and bbpress 2.5.1. I am also using GD bbpress attachment version 2.0 for attachments.

The problem I am experiencing is that whenever I click “add another file”, the page simply reloads but not allowing me to upload another file.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Eugene

[mafton]

Hi just a quick question i am using bbpress for my forum and sometimes it is askign please log in after the user loged in then press in any link of that page it asks again please log in ?
i am wondering i am the only one with this issue ?
any help would be appreciate

[Delete me]

I’ve just upgraded wordpress to 3.8 and the problem persists. Other than the bbPress plugin I only have 2 others in my install: wp-no-category-base and google-sitemap-generator. I have tried disabling these and it makes no difference.

[Owen Bick]

Hi, everyone!
I need a theme for my bbPress forum. I only want to change the theme for the forum, not the site. The site should look the same. I don’t know much CSS so I can’t change the style of the forum. I want the forum to look like http://forum.arvixe.com/smf/

Here’s my site: http://www.covalty.com

Thanks 😀

[Stephen Edgar]

For now I have added links to this topic in #2397, it is not specifically the same bug though it is closely related.

[Stephen Edgar]

For now I have added links to this topic in #2397, it is not specifically the same bug though it is closely related.

[Stephen Edgar]

The timestamps of your posts appear in chronological order, that I can see.

Nope, this is the order

December 19, 2013 at 12:55 PM #1370
December 20, 2013 at 6:33 AM #1371
December 19, 2013 at 12:12 PM #1368

It is another case of this Edit topic reply, changes post order.

@inetbizo Any chance this happened after you edited that reply?

[Delete me]

I’m currently unable to create “Topics” for any forums from the web site side. All what happens is I fill in the topic title and description, but on pressing the submit button nothing happens and the screen is just cleared with no topic being added. I’m using WP 3.5.2 and BBPress 2.5.1
What is the problem here?