I have a site on WordPress Version 3.8 running bbPress Version 2.5.1… I have a forum under a parent forum that participants cannot post topics in. The error they get is:
ERROR: Your topic cannot be created at this time.
I am not sure why this happens – the forum that is causing this error is configured as:
Type: Forum
Status: Open
Visibility: Public
Any thoughts on why this might be happening? The users of the site also are part of BuddyPress incase that may shed some light on this error. Anything I should look at? Thanks.
If you want to hide the other breadcrumb then you can use something like: .bbpress #breadcrumbs
Otherwise you need to fix the breadcrumb at the top to pick up the correct place.
You could hide the bbPress breadcrumb with some CSS.
.bbp-breadcrumb { display:none; }
Do you happen to have a link? I can’t remember if I changed it or if this is just the older bbPress theme files I am using, but my template uses the bbPress name not You or Your or Your’s.
The best way to start is to get a website up and running with bbPress, then copy the bbPress template files from the plugin into your WordPress theme – once you get to that stage then take a backup of your full WordPress theme files.
Then get stuck in and start changing some of the bbPress template files, if anything goes wrong just upload the backup and your reset (make sure you take a backup at set intervals so you don’t lose things you want to keep).
Good luck!
Can someone tell me the name of the hook/filter that I can use to take an action immediately AFTER there has been a new post in a forum? I want to be able to send out some emails to special groups of subscribers when a post is made on a forum. I have tried the wordpress hook publish_post but that doesn’t seem to work.
help!
Make sure you have no login, register widget on the WP side and use a plugin for login,regsiter that re-directs users back to the page they logged in from. There are several that do that.
I even believe there is a bbPress login widget
I presume you have on the WP side comments and such off for users (only read blog)
That would overturn the whole idea of guest posting.
Most guest will give a fake email address anyway.
Actually bbPress should remove the email field for guest posting.
Stephen
Thanks for pointing me towards the plugin. Unfortunately I am still learning my way around WordPress and bbPress. I haven’t gotten to the point where I am customizing templates. Would you have any additional tips? or a resource you can point me to so I try and figure it out.
Hello,
After I install and activate bbPress plugin in my WordPress, I can’t see forums, replies, setting etc in my WordPress Admin Panel. This is the first time I use bbPress, so I don’t know what to do.
Please help me.
Wordpress version: 3.8
Website: http://gagby.me
Regards,
Mai
Is there any way to alert guest when someone responds to their posts? I know we can do it for registered users, using the “Notify me of follow-up replies via email” checkbox. But most of our visitors are unregistered, and they don’t get that checkbox option.
When a guest submits a post, BBPress does collect their email address. So in theory it should be possible to use that address to send them an alert when someone replies.
Is this something that can be done? Either natively or with a plugin?
Thanks
Just wondering if anyone can tell me how I can add a user to participate in the bbpress forums, but not allow them access to sign on to my wp-admin panel. When the registration email is sent out, it includes in the default message the sitename/wp-admin for them to sign on. I don’t want my forum users to get routed there, but want them to just be sent back to the forum sign on page internally.
Any help? Am I missing something simple?
Is there any way to include subforums links below forum names with bbpress? I want it to look like goo.gl/FctFuY
Please help me create such look. Thank you.
I’ve searched everywhere, to no avail. There used to be a plugin for this for older versions of bbpress (post count pro I believe it was called) but there aren’t any plugins for this anymore. I’m limited on my code knowledge, but I’d really like for this to be accheived. We’re a compeitive gaming community and vBulletin has been a staple of our professional/amateur gaming life since the beginning. I’ve decided to make the move to bbpress to have a more seemless site integration between users, posts, and news. My ultimate goal is to make the forums as similar to vBulletin as possible, but all of the plugins that accheived this goal do not work with the newer versions. I’d like for the post total to be listed under the users name when they post, as well as in their profiles. In addition custom user roles would be a plus, but not requred. If anyone can point me in the right direction, I’d be very grateful.
Thanks for the detailed reply, Stephen. I probably meant Forum Root rather than Forum Index, but the way you describe it is exactly what I’m after.
I had considered what to do about the list getting too long and it will almost certainly be a matter of listing only the freshest 10 topics per forum. Clicking the Forum title would take you to the full list.
Now that I know where to begin I’ll probably figure it out eventually (new to BBPress but not afraid of code), but if you have some suggestions on where to get started or even a block of code to copy-paste I certainly wouldn’t object to using it : )
If get around to it first I’ll post my findings here for the knowledge base.
Arabic is 96% translated already, see this to get you started https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-in-your-language/
You can add some widgets to your side bar or shortcodes to a page
https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/ https://codex.bbpress.org/widgets/
Also there are a few other docs on the codex worth looking at
Codex
Thanks for adding the Codex page @jwarren 🙂
bbp_get_user_profile_url
I just updated that page to ‘Topics – How many topics to show per page’
As to combining the ‘Forum Index with Topics by Freshness’ I’m not exactly sure what you mean by this, for example look at the following two pages here on bbpress.org
https://bbpress.org/forums/forum/installation/ <- That’s the ‘Instalation’ forum 25 topics/page
https://bbpress.org/forums/forum/troubleshooting/ <- That’s the ‘Troubleshooting’ forum 25 topics/page
If you wanted to have something like below on a single page then you would have to customize your templates or use some shortcodes on your page to get the layout you want. It is quite doable but once you get 50 topics for example in a forum finding ‘Forum B’ or any other forums below that list will be extremely difficult.
Forum A
- Topic 1
- Topic 2
- Topic 3
- … etc
Forum B
- Topic 1
- Topic 2
- Topic 3
- … etc
Give this plugin a try, you should be able to customize the templates as needed.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-custom-reply-notifications/
I have bbPress up and running but was wondering how I might be able to allow users to get an sms text message when there is a new forum post. I have played around with the WordPress Text message plugin but Wasn’t able to figure out a way to incert the codes onto the form pages.
Ian
I see where you are coming from, I just went and took a look around backticks in Crayon Syntax Highligher.
Tex uses backticks and appears to render fine based on this http://aksandbox.webege.com/?p=92, I also tried some MySQL with backticks and that also rendered correctly.
You can also add/create your own languages for Crayon:
https://github.com/aramk/crayon-syntax-highlighter/blob/master/langs/readme.md
Some more background on the issues in the past can be read in these two tickets and this was one the main reasons backticks were implemented.
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2091 & https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2317
While looking for a solution I noticed that I’m not the only one experiencing this back tick problem – frankly; the editor for bbPress needs some serious reconsideration … isn’t it time for a capable WYSIWYG editor?
I also think we do need a better editor in bbPress, or more so a better editor in WordPress itself that we can use in the ‘front end’ of bbPress.
The install base and use of bbPress is quite large and varied and we try to make it work for all of these cases and is one of the reasons recommending to use plugins that work with bbPress to support your own use case.
Maybe we should have a wider discussion on the bbPress editor and the options available to us.
1. I am totally new at all of this.
2. I did a quick install for WordPress and BBpress through my Hostgator Control Panel.
3. After installing BBpress, I was not able to customize the forum.
4. So I deleted the forum and installed it through WordPress through the plugin feature.
5. The forum looks alright, but I do not see anything so that users may register or login.
6. Post this message on BBpress.
Any help would be nice.
If it helps, my site is http://www.houston-skateboarding.com
It looks like the issue is fixed?
Anyway see the comment on this ticket in Trac for more details https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2204#comment:3
On each bbPress related page, the bbPress adds a class ‘bbPress’ to the body html element, so adding something like below would solve the problem in a non-obtrusive way.
body.bbPress #nav > li.menu-item-318 > a {
formatting for the highlighted menu item class
}
Where, menu-item-318 is the id of the page which should have been highlighted by the current_page_parent or current_menu_item class, which are not attached (for which this ticket is for).
Of course, this is just a hack, but it does get the work done.
