[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.

[Stephen Edgar]

I know many sites that are using bbPress for code are using the ‘Crayon Syntax Highlighter’ plugin. Have you had a look at this plugin? Will that do what you require?

[Einkoro]

I’m seeing the same issue with WP 3.8 and bbPress 2.5.1 when MemberDeck 1.2.1 is activated. I reached out to their developer and with debugging turned on the following error occurs with the bbp_setup_current_user function/hook:

The current user is being initialized without using $wp->init()

I see a ticket for this already filed with both bbPress and upstream in WordPress:

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2412

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/24169

[s1r0n]

no, i mean the default loaded for people who don’t have a gravatar. the one that is assigned by bbpress. I know how to change my gravatar

[Alex]

The “js minify” feature of performance plugins such as W3TC breaks the bbpress Visual editor. Which code can I add to the “exclude” list to make it work again? Ie. I’m looking for the bbPress TinyMCE/Visual editor js code to add to that list.

WP 3.8
bbPress 2.5.1

[Lynqoid]

Hi,

.bbp-template-notice {
display: none !important;
}

and

.bbp-template-notice p {
display: none !important;
}

Are causing the message that no search results were returned to be hidden, which causes part of the blank page. Along with that you also have a minus margin on your sliderdiv which cause a lot of the bbpress forum to go underneath it.

Good luck!

[Lynqoid]

I’m not 100% on what is happening without seeing a site link, if you can find out where the coupons are being rendered then you could wrap them in if(!is_bbpress()) { }

[sanadfawaz]

HI
I need to know how to make bbpress in Arabic into a English website?
Best Regards

[s1r0n]

i don’t know why this one was so hard for the support people to answer, but the hook I was looking for was

add_filter( 'bbp_get_reply_content', 'lp_access_enforcement', 99,2);

this allows me to take the content just before it is posted on the screen and manipulate it how I want. now my forums here

http://thelightningpath.com/forum/subject/the-need-for-spirit-to-sustain-a-growing-baby/

can be locked down. people now need to pay for a subscription to get access to certain forums on my site.

i’m posting this for anybody else that might want to expand on bbpress’s limited access functionality.

[jreeve]

I’m trying to make this checkbox checked by default: Create a Group -> 4. Forum -> Group Forum -> “Yes. I want this Group to have a forum.”

I found the code that handles this at /plugins/bbpress/includes/extend/buddypress/group.php, a function called create_screen. I’d like to customize this function, so I copied the function to a plugin script. I figure I have to do something like

remove_action(‘whereever_the_hook_for_the_group_creation_thing_is’, ‘create_screen’);
add_action( ‘whereever_the_hook_for_the_group_creation_thing_is’, ‘create_screen’ );

to get my custom version to replace the stock version, but I don’t know where the hook is or how to go about finding it.