[Stephen Edgar]

Arabic is 96% translated already, see this to get you started https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-in-your-language/

[Stephen Edgar]

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

[Stephen Edgar]

Thanks for adding the Codex page @jwarren 🙂

bbp_get_user_profile_url

[Stephen Edgar]

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

[Stephen Edgar]

Give this plugin a try, you should be able to customize the templates as needed.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-custom-reply-notifications/

[ijourneaux]

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

[Stephen Edgar]

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.

[activeoutreach]

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

[Stephen Edgar]

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.

[comagnum]

I’ve searched EVERYWHERE but I’ve not found a suitable solution. I am searching for a way to integrate the number of posts each user has under their name as well as custom user roles. There was a plugin for older versions of BBpress that accomplished this (Post count pro I believe it was), but I cannot find any way to make this happen. I’d like it to be sort of like traditional vBulletin forums are, seen here hxxp://slashconnect.org/Public_html/upload/showthread.php?10-Battlefield-1942-is-Free

My bbpress forums; hxxp://www.slashconnect.org/forums/

My attempt is to make it as close to vBulletin as possible(the forums in general) but my knowledge is limited.

Moderator Note: Changed links from http to hxxp

[David 9]

Hi,

I have a wordpress site and would like to interact with my users – however, I would like this interaction to be private from every other user on the forum. Ideally I envision a part of the forum that is for all registered users, but a separate section where I can interact with an individual – send files, chat etc.

Can this be done by using the group function – where I make a group of myself and the other individual and then keep this group private to myself and the individual? Or is this likely to become unsustainable for myself – having to keep track of what is being written on all the groups I have created?

Any help would really be appreciated! Maybe I am over complicating it if bbPress can have a secure messaging system that copes with attachments. Thanks

[Anonymous User 8097816]

Take a look at Customising dynamic roles in bbPress 2.2 | Gawain Lynch

[Hansaplastique]

Thanks Stephen for the reply and suggestion.

I’ve looked at those yes and they work great except for code that has backticks in it 🙁 … Some examples shell code that is being posted on my forum actually uses backticks in the code which makes it all a big mess … 🙁

The current “fancy” editor doesn’t work well with code either, specially when switching back and forth between WYSIWYG and code.
In this day and age I’d like to avoid that my visitors have to “code” their own HTML to get a message posted right.

What I’ve done so far:
– create my own rich editor
– disable backticks in bbPress

This works pretty good, but it most certainly is not perfect either.
Obviously changing bbPress core files is a no-no from a maintenance perspective (hence my request).

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?

No disrespect intended to the developers!!
I really appreciate the enormous amount of work they have done, and I understand that my editor issues are maybe not the top priority.
I really like bbPress as a forum for WordPress, and I consider it so far the best option out there.

[JakubMarian]

Hello, I am trying to integrate bbPress seamlessly into my custom WordPress theme. However, this theme defines several global variables which are then used by the theme files.

These variables are defined as global variables in header.php of the wordpress theme and are used without problems in all theme files. Example:

header.php
global $variable;
$variable = "value";

single.php
global $variable;
echo $variable; // outputs "value" as it should


So far, so good. But if I try to use the variable in a bbPress theme file, it is empty:

content-single-topic.php
global $variable;
echo $variable; // outputs ""

When bbPress is done, the variable comes back to life:

loop-single.php
echo $variable; // outputs "value" as it should
the_content(); // all the bbPress stuff, $variable empty – what happens there?
echo $variable; // outputs "value" again

Using print_r($GLOBALS), it turns out that in fact all the custom variables cease to exist for the time bbPress is doing its job and than come back to life.

How can I pass a global value to the bbPress theme files without doing absurd things like querying the database?

[jwarren]

Okay, sorted!

I took a dive into bbPress source code, and ‘bb_get_user_profile_url()’ is the correct function to use to get to a user’s profile. Here’s the source link

And an example usage:

<?php $this_user = wp_get_current_user(); ?>
<a href="<?php echo bbp_get_user_profile_url($this_user->ID); ?>edit/">Edit Forum profile</a>

[ronthai]

Menu link to Profile

<?php global $current_user;
      get_currentuserinfo();
     echo  $current_user->user_login . "";      
?>

[gijs5]

Here is my current converter: https://gist.github.com/gijs5/7943186#file-bbpress-minibb-converter
I’m gonna use it tomorrow to launch bbpress.

Cheers.

[jwarren]

So, I’ve added bbpress to quite a big WordPress site. While everything works fine and dandy for the admins, most (if not all) regular users aren’t able to view their profile page or edit their profile. I’ve changed all regular users to the “Participant” role, but it still simply returns a 404. Which capabilities do I need to add to the Participant to enable the profile?

Additionally, I’m generating the edit profile link like so:

`/forums/users/<?php wp_get_current_user()->user_login ?>

However, this feels a bit hacky and fragile – is there a better way?

WP 3.8, bbPress 2.5.1

[Simon Barnett]

Is it possible to combine Forum Index with Topics by Freshness?
ie. list the fresh topics beneath the Forum title link to which they belong?

I’m not sure why Forum Settings page has:
Topics & Replies Per Page
Topics – How many topics to show per page in the forum index

..when topics is only represented as a number – feels like I may be missing something.

[RukiaR7]

Ok so I’m using buddypress, and as I understand it subscribers to my website have the comments, buddypress, and bbpress all connected. So if you upload a avatar for one it’ll be used for all. As I understand it being on wordpress for a month.

Is there a (simple noob) way or plugin to get options on avatar sizes? And somehow get it to work for buddypress, bbpress, and comments. Or at least bbpress.

In other words if users upload a square avatar it’ll be square in the comments, buddypress profile, and bbpress since they’re all connected. Or if they upload a long rectangular one it’ll be long and rectangular everywhere also. I can settle for square in the comments but I really want long ones in buddy and bbpress.

Or would I have to change the code in buddypress, and in bbpress, and somehow for the comments as I think I do. If thats the case I only ask for help with the bbpress since this is bbpress support.

I know how to change the avatar size in buddypress from this article (though I haven’t tried it yet, I like to gather information then potentially ruin my site afterwards). http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/how-to-change-the-default-buddypress-avatar-sizes/

Problem is I’m not sure if the cropping will still work if I change from square to rectangle as the cropping seems to only work in squares. So I found this article to deal with the cropping. http://offthewallmedia.com/programming/buddypress-crop-avatar-to-any-ratio Though I haven’t tested it yet.

So I just wanted to ask before I mess something up if there is a better way to accomplish all this or if there was a plugin or anything and if I change all these settings in buddypress would it be the same for bbpress andor the comments. Thanks for any help.

[Stephen Edgar]

Thanks, indeed it does help, gets some of those pesky regex strings half sorted out.

It be extremely keen on seeing what JOIN expressions you used to join the posts & topics table as if I remember correctly this was the only thing holding me back from including this as one of the new featured importers in bbPress 2.5.

[Stephen Edgar]

You probably want to look into WordPress’ ‘Conditional Tags’
https://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags

And then a list of bbPress’ conditional tags https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-conditional-tags/

[Stephen Edgar]

You can also go down the path of add Post Thumbnails to your forums and topics, not so much replies though unless you have some awesome templates 😉

There is some example code in this thread:

Add Featured Image to the BBpress Index

[Stephen Edgar]

The creator/developer of bbPress or the Mods, can not help in translations, they just have to trust anybody whom submits a translation.

Kind of correct, all the translations are handled by the same translation process for WordPress

https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-in-your-language/

Using pt_BR as an example if you take a look at: https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/dev

You will see that Portuguese (Brazil) is at 94% translated, 975 strings translated and 60 strings untranslated.

@tvieira If you open this link it shows you the 60 strings that have yet to be translated for bbPress. You can update these strings yourself and then contact the Brazilian translator team via one of these links to get these translations approved. Once approved they should then become available via WordPress’ automatic updates in the very near future.

https://br.wordpress.org/contact/
https://br.forums.wordpress.org/
http://wp-brasil.org/

[Stephen Edgar]

It looks like whatever plugin you are using to control user access to your forums is causing the URL’s of your links to be rather strange to say the least.

To try and resolve conflicts with other plugins please disable all your plugins except bbPress to see if the error persists. Re-enable each plugin one at a time and if things break again you should be able to now know which other plugin is causing the conflict.