Hi!
I am choosing a suitable forum plugin to use on my wordpress site.
I wish my end product to look like this: http://www.tokyohive.com/forums
Please advice if bbpress layout can be edited to look like this, and if yes, how difficult or easy is it?
I am really new to wordpress. Thank you everyone for all your help!
No problem for me Stephen… I like bbpress…
Thanks for the links, I hadn’t see Moot before
Personally I am not sure about ‘remember your place’ at all, if I had of used that feature today when I opened bbPress.org would have that put me half way reading topic ‘abc’ in forum ‘xyz’ rather than the home page showing me a summary of what happened recently? Maybe an iterating on that idea a little further where you could have a button/link to ‘Take me to where I last left off’.
Reply directly inline to search results… That wouldn’t be too difficult to implement.
Another good read/watch is this post by @sadr https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/any-plans-to-merge-o2-features-into-bbpress/ on the upcoming O2 theme from WordPress, some really cool stuff in this.
Lastly is the WordPress Heartbeat API and @mordauk has a bit on his blog on an implementation idea in one of his plugins http://pippinsplugins.com/using-the-wordpress-heartbeat-api/
Needless to say there are lots of ideas on future directions of bbPress and BuddyPress, we also have a few features that have been on users want list for quite a while.
Hello to everyone. I work part time (still in college) for a studio that is converting a popular Joomla site to WP and one of the top new features will be the community. I’ve been asked to get some ideas together for our forums and do the research on software and plugins.
I hope I’m not asking too much here but if I could get some links to what some of you seasoned community developers consider to be some of the best implementations I’d really appreciate it. If you’d like to look at the site it’s at and if you want to reach out to me privately you can use the contact form there: Attention Holly.
I’ll be back in a couple days to check replies. Thank you ahead!
also, can somebody tell me where to copy the template files so I can customize bbpress. the information here
https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-creating-a-custom-bbpress-theme/
admits to being dated
Hi there, I’m trying to add new profile fields to the bbpress profile screen. so far I’ve been able to add the profile items I want like so
add_action(‘bbp_user_edit_after_name’,’lp_add_profile_settings’);
question now is, how to I get the profile items to save properly. is there a bbpress hook or wordpress hook that I can use to get my user_meta settings to save?
Thanks Steve! Here’s my latest reply on that same thread: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/anyone-supporting-this-plugin-help-w-discussions?replies=28#post-4951643. Giving up on the migration and sending the client to GROU.PS in the meantime since they will migrate Ning data (including forums). Then start 100% fresh with our beloved bbPress and BuddyPress.
I figured it out…bbpress was in conflict with a plugin called “Advanced Post Types Order”. By disabling all plugins and turning them on one at a time, I found out that this was the plugin that was causing the conflict / error in bbpress.
Of course, I proceeded in reverse alphabetical order working backwards from the W’s and “Advanced Post Types Order” was the last one I checked (first on the list going alphabetically), knowing my luck, I should have bet money on that.
Anyway, that is one problem solved. Thanks to the forum for the help, support and hand-holding.
My problems now is that “Advanced Post Types Order” is a plugin that I like and need. I will recreate the error on my dummy site and submit it to the authors of “Advanced Post Types Order” because I think they would like to know….because its bbpress.
In the meantime, is there any alternative to this plugin that allows me to order my posts?
Please let me know, thanks!
I’m installing bbPress on a blog that is restricted, and would like to know if you have only logged as people view the forum content. How can I do this?
thanks
Try to disable it..
I think you have a plugin registering a post type incorrectly, and then core complains.
Content-single-topic.php is in plugin/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/
Maybe… have you a cache plugin active? Try to disable all plugin and use only bbpress!!
If you search on google your problem you aren’t alone… many many sites have it but not with bbpress!!
Trying to sort my way through this. I have a dummy site set up on the same ISP. Running WP 3.7.1 and bbpress 2.5. Both a fresh install, and bbpress is working without an error.
So does that mean I may have a conflict with one of my plugins?
I have not heard back from the board in a while so I went ahead and did another uninstall and fresh install of bbpress. Before reinstalling bbpress again, I repaired and optimized my database and my site does not have any other errors.
I followed the exact steps in the book bbpress complete. I am running twenty-twelve theme with WP 3.7.1 and bbpress 2.5. I left all defaults in place and I still get the error when accessing topics.
Warning: Illegal offset type in isset or empty in /home/postpr7/public_html/aquariumcarebasics.com/wp-includes/post.php on line 1060
Here are the links to check out:
http://www.aquariumcarebasics.com/forums/
http://www.aquariumcarebasics.com/forums/forum/bamboo-shrimp-care/
http://www.aquariumcarebasics.com/forums/topic/best-temperature-bamboo-shrimp/
Please let me know what you think
Thanks!
Unfortunately its still the same…
When the user logs-in he does in fact get the default Forum role. So that part works.
But even after I upgrade him to “Moderator” he can’t access the front en form, nor can he access the back-end “forum” menu.
On a side note, I noticed that upon deactivation of BBpress there is no option to remove the data stored in the database. Sure there are options to reset everything to a fresh install, but nothing that enables a user to rid the database of orphaned entries from a previous BBpress install. Do you have any insight as to why that feature isn’t offered?
Sorry, hard to keep up with so many posts 😉
bbPress includes and importer for phpBB and with the size of your forum once you click ‘start’ it should be done in less than 30 seconds 🙂
You will lose very little, details of what is not converted is in the links below.
https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/ & https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/phpbb
Can you try this instead 😉
Either add this to your themes functions.php or your bbpress-functions.php or download the entire file and install it as a plugin from https://gist.github.com/ntwb/7767761
add_filter ( 'bbp_get_reply_post_date', ntwb_bbpress_enable_date_translation, 10, 6);
add_filter ( 'bbp_get_topic_post_date', ntwb_bbpress_enable_date_translation, 10, 6);
function ntwb_bbpress_enable_date_translation( $result, $reply_id, $humanize, $gmt, $date, $time ) {
$date = get_post_time( get_option( 'date_format' ), $gmt, $reply_id, $translate = true );
$result = sprintf( _x( '%1$s at %2$s', 'date at time', 'bbpress' ), $date, $time );
return $result;
}
Hello again Stephen,
so here is what happens…
SHORTCODE SOLUTION
I inserted the [bbp-forum-form] shortcode and can see a forum creation form while logged is as KeyMaster. However, once logged in as “Moderator” I only get the following message
You cannot create new forums.
PLUGIN APPROACH
I installed the suggested plugin (which is very straight forward and easy to use BTW) Advanced user capability editing for bbPress.
Even though options are all set appropriately, the “Forum” menu will not display as long as the user is a “moderator”.
In order to be as thorough as possible, here are the tests I ran :
- Changed moderator’s WP user role to each available option (subscriber -> admin) and tested every time
- Used plugin’s reset to defaults button (essentially disabled everything)
- Added options to enable creating and editing forums
What i noticed is that the “Topics” and “Replies” menus react to BBpress user-role settings whereas the “Forum” menu does not. This might seem logical, but in my mind it validates the fact that BBpress roles are not entirely overridden or broken.
Change your WordPress settings (/wp-admin/options-general.php) to whatever format you require, bbPress will inherit those settings.
Firstly, thanks for the detailed report, it really helps 🙂
This is actually a known issue with moderators and the back end.
The way around this is to use the [bbp-forum-form] shortcode, your moderator/s should have no problems creating new forums from a page setup with this shortcode.
Tried editing role with Capability Manager Enhanced
I am not familiar with this tool and it’s compatibility with bbPress.
A great tool from @johnjamesjacoby is this one Advanced user capability editing for bbPress
Hello,
We’ve just added full support for bbPress to FunCaptcha: http://wordpress.org/plugins/funcaptcha/
You can try a demo of FunCaptcha on our site, but signup is easiest through the WordPress Plugin for your WordPress sites!
Let me know if you have any further requests for FunCaptcha using bbPress!
Kind regards,
FunCaptcha team
Do you mean if I have the odd and even classes on the bbpress.css?
No, in the code I posted above the 2nd last class on the 1st line of each entry has even, every second one of these should be ‘odd’ and I am trying to see if there is any correlation betwen these two issues.
Hello Stephen, thanks for your feedback
So far, I just noticed this issue after edits.
Do you mean if I have the odd and even classes on the bbpress.css?
#bbpress-forums div.even,
#bbpress-forums ul.even {
background-color: #fff;
}
#bbpress-forums div.odd,
#bbpress-forums ul.odd {
background-color: #fbfbfb;
}
I found this on the css, but I’m not sure if this is what you are looking for.
I didn’t changed any template or php file.
Thank you! 🙂
Try some of the options listed in this thread
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