[ktwbc]

Just tried to install 2.5 on WP 3.7.1 and can’t get it to consistently appear. I know it’s something related to permissions, just can’t fix it.

If I attempt to apply Administrator permissions to my account, the BBPress menu on top and on the left will suddenly appear. As long as my permissions in the db are set t a:1:{s:13:”administrator”;b:1;} the menu shows up.

The moment I attempt to click on anything such as Add Forum (which attempts /wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=forum), I notice BBPress changes my permissions to a:2:{s:13:”administrator”;b:1;s:13:”bbp_keymaster”;b:1;} and the menu options vanish. If these are the top-level permissions, why is it removing menu options and telling me everything is invalid? Is this even compatible with 3.7.1?

[Robin W]

I disable the toolbar for users – it always looks like an add-on and clashes with the theme style

I use a sidebar, and put the login widget on it.

I then customise the login widget as per item 3 of

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

[Robin W]

Yes use buddypress and bbPress together.

For how to do this see this excellent video

http://labzip.com/the-definitive-guide-to-buddypress-bbpress-configuration/

[Robin W]

crzyhrse – I am in the process of trying to improve the documentation – I started using wordpress & bbPress earlier this year and am still learning. This is community software, and community documentation, so I am trying to do my bit by helping the documentation side, and by spending time on the forum helping others where I can. The step by step guides I am writing are designed to fit the bill of “cohesive simple directions”, but if they are failing or you haven’t found them, then they are not working as planned. Let me know and I’ll try to improve layout and/or content, but I need good feedback to do this.

The text change suggested by renai42 works (with a small change) if done to the bbpress.css.

Can I ask you to look at

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – part 2

and the styling crib

bbPress Styling Crib

I’ve just tested and added Renai’s css so look there for what to use.

If you can improve wording or content to help others – please let me know what could be better phrased.

If it doesn’t work, come back with what you did, and I’ll see if I can help further

[Lynq]

Hey guys,

Can I ask, are you comfortable with changing font sizes on a WordPress website? Regardless of bbPress.

If so then it’s exactly the same. If you wanted to you could even create a section inside your main themes style sheet for bbPress specific styles.

Good luck!

[ronthai]

Hi,
In posts, my theme only has page-navigation at the bottom.
I added it also at the top of posts, no problem

The issue is that now there is also a (sort of) page-navigation at the top of every page in the bbpress plugin part, which I don’t want of course.

How do I exclude the added code from showing on the bbpress pages (the whole plugin pages for that matter)

Thanks, Ron
WP: 3.7.1
bbPress: 2.5

Nevermind, solved it:
SOLVED:
Had to put it inbetween:

<?php if ( is_singular('post') ) : ?>

<?php endif; ?>

[Robin W]

bbPress can do all the above.

See

Codex

for a step by step guide.

Can bbpress be configured to require registration before posting?

Yes, and you may want to set a manual registration if you want to vet who joins. The documentation explains.

Are there additional plugins?

Yes, lots of them that’ll let you add stuff to the forum and customise it for you

[crzyhrse]

OK, I have been at this off and on for days, trying to find how to merely, easily, simply change font sizes in bbpress…

I tried as best I could to do as directed here by Jared… It doesn’t work…

I concur with renai, the attitude of many moderator responses with brief, vague, inexplicable, information lacking answers, and the seeming total lack of any easily findable cohesive simple directions to do much of anything…

Come on- How much more basic and normal can it be, to want to change font sizes…??

[Asynaptic]

Both of these new discussion forum implementations have great new ideas that can be incorporated into bbPress. And they both have integration plugins for wordpress users:

https://moot.it/
https://moot.it/docs/wordpress.html

http://www.discourse.org/
https://github.com/discourse/wp-discourse

Some of the features are already implemented in BP and bbPress, like the notifications mention feature (@name). Many others would be great to implement (like, “remember your place” which stores where you read up to in the thread so when you return you don’t have to remember or scroll to it).

Anyway, just wanted to open up the topic as I don’t think it has been discussed at all previously.

[mouffles]

I’m sorry but the devs should really correct this, cause it’s a bad ux for forum users, i found many thread talking about this specifical issue since 2 years (-_-) and it’s has never been corrected :

Not taken to correct page after posting to long topic

Permalinks for replies on long topics lose /page/ and number

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2291

I will bump the topic since i have a correct answer to this issue.

[MediaSVI]

I just installed the latest WordPress and BBpress and the forum opens fine on a computer but when you open it on a mobile device it does not open and I get “oh brother there are no forums found”?

[justsayno1]

No worries, I like putting up answers like this because people have done the same for me and it was a life saver. Also I feel like this is something that bbpress should just be able to do through the admin panel so I thought I would help out any one who wants to not expose their users real names to everybody.

[FreeWPress]

This is not a bbpress css problems.. you can modify css.. create a folder named css in your theme folder and copy and paste bbpress.css here…

Bbpress use for future the css in your template, you can modify css and when bbpress being updated css remaining same..

Remove clear none and show all replies in your user profile!!

[jeepdon]

Well, to be fair, *I* don’t use it, bbPress.css came that way. I’d prefer not to modify bbpress.css since it’ll become an ongoing maintenance thing every time the plugin is updated. If it’s a problem, I’d like to see it fixed.

[FreeWPress]

Why you use clear none?

#bbpress-forums #bbp-user-wrapper ul.bbp-lead-topic, #bbpress-forums #bbp-user-wrapper ul.bbp-topics, #bbpress-forums #bbp-user-wrapper ul.bbp-forums, #bbpress-forums #bbp-user-wrapper ul.bbp-replies, #bbpress-forums #bbp-user-wrapper fieldset.bbp-form {
    clear: none;
}

[jeepdon]

Re: http://powershell.org/wp/forums/users/dlwyatt/replies/

You’ll notice that the container for the page content is getting a 0px width and massive height calculated. The CSS style #bbp-forums has an “overflow: hidden;” style. Removing that style element fixes the display – but I’d like some confirmation that this is indeed a bug? The content in this specific case has a lot of PRE/CODE styling, so I’m not sure if there’s some weird interaction going on that I just can’t figure out.

The container in question is a ul#topic-0-replies, classed with .forums and .bbp-replies. The overflow attribute I’m referring to is coming right from the top of bbpress.css.

Note that I’m using the default styling/theming for BBP.

[BarryB64]

First, Inspiration Point (http://www.inspiration-point.org) is using a child version of TwentyEleven. I’m using the latest WordPress software.

I did some reading and I’m liking what I am hearing about the bbpress forum plugin. On my site, there is area that I’m calling Shore Classified. Here’s what I’d like to do:

Shore Classified is born out of a frustration I had with my church. It’s not because they didn’t want to put a request on the church’s mailing list. It had to do with limited resource and wary of unwanted advertisements. I’m not the only one

Why not create a place where people can posts “blog updates”, “Christian business”, “Church Events”, “Help Wanted” and etc. My initial thought is to limit this to a region. It can easily be expanded.

I, obviously want to be careful and it’s why I didn’t jump on it. 🙂 Are there additional plugins? How can I best set the forum to safeguard against unwanted trolls? Can bbpress be configured to require registration before posting?

There are probably other questions that I should be asking. I’d appreciate some inputs. Thanks in advance.

[Denver Prophit Jr.]

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2481#comment:7 I made a comment and reverted back to 2.5.0

[FreeWPress]

@inetbizo There is a patch for this issue: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2481

[MediaSVI]

If i got my forums click on forum and then click on a thread my bread crumbs read like this:

Home › Topic › This is a Test

They should read:

Home › Forum › Control Ants > This is a Test

If I click on “Topic” I get a 404 error.

I did install the BBPress String wrap plugin but that did not help and I have no idea how to edit it.

Goto to this page and click on the stick thread and you will see what i am talking about.

How can i fix this?

Thank you for your time.

[FreeWPress]

Important NEWS in ticket.. see here https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2480

Issue is in subcategory forums…

[QTipPoker]

This worked. https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/stylesheet-issues/ Looks like 2.5.1 will be out soon anyway.

[justsayno1]

How did you get from there to “I just followed…”?

Unfortunately there is not an easy way to explain this as I am not that familair with wordpress/bbpress core myself. BUT what I mean is that function is obviously somewhere in the bbpress core files. All I did was start going in there. They are quite well documented and have comments that explain the different functions that get used. You are mainly looking for the template tags function files. Also most plugins/php apps use an includes folder to put all the main crux of the things in. While the main file is just simply a link to all those areas an common functions. If you really can’t find it then just use a program with a “search in files” option and just try and find it that way. I think that is what I did to start with.

For example when I wanted to find the function yo mention above:
bbp_reply_author_link( array( 'sep' => '<br />', 'show_role' => false ) );

I thought about what the function is saying and where in the folder directories of includes it may be. Since it was “reply” related I figured it would be in the reply section. I just used some common sense to figure out the template-tags.php probably containted template specific functions. Then I just did a search on those files until I found the bbp_reply_author_link. Which then calls bbp_get_reply_author_link which in tern as a return value of:

return apply_filters( 'bbp_get_reply_author_link', $author_link, $r );

Meaning that you can basically sub in your own functino for this function by using:

add_filter( 'bbp_get_reply_author_display_name', 'replace_bbpress_replies_username_filter', 10, 2);

Where replace_bbpress_replies_username_filter is your replacement filter. Then what I mean by following the functions is that i realised that this function was fine. It was the bpp_get_author_display_name that I was unhappy with. And this would be called in many places (presumably). So I overwrote that function. EG:

function replace_bbpress_replies_username_filter($author_name,$reply_id ){
$author_id = bbp_get_reply_author_id($reply_id);
$author_object = get_userdata( $author_id );
$author_name  = ucfirst($author_object->user_login);
return $author_name;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_get_reply_author_display_name', 'replace_bbpress_replies_username_filter', 10, 2);

Does that help? I know it seems daunting but getting into the core files and seeing what they are doing is I have found the best way when you are thinking “what the fuck!”. Also bear in mind I spend about 4 hours yesterday figuring this stuff out (but I didn’t understand filters really until now). Just to help you out futher. The three filters I added were as follows:

add_filter( 'bbp_get_reply_author_display_name', 'replace_bbpress_replies_username_filter', 10, 2);
add_filter( 'bbp_get_topic_author_display_name', 'replace_bbpress_topic_author_display_name', 10, 2);
add_filter( 'bbp_get_user_profile_link', 'replace_bbpress_profile_link_text_filter', 10, 2 );

The display name function I have shown you. The topic display name function:

function replace_bbpress_topic_author_display_name( $topic_id = 0 ) {
		$topic_id = bbp_get_topic_id( $topic_id );

		// Check for anonymous user
		if ( !bbp_is_topic_anonymous( $topic_id ) ) {

			// Get the author ID
			$author_id = bbp_get_topic_author_id( $topic_id );
			$author_name = get_the_author_meta( 'user_login', $author_id );

		// User does not have an account
		} else {
			$author_name = get_post_meta( $topic_id, '_bbp_anonymous_name', true);
		}

		// If nothing could be found anywhere, use Anonymous
		if ( empty( $author_name ) )
			$author_name = __( 'Anonymous', 'bbpress' );

		// Encode possible UTF8 display names
		if ( seems_utf8( $author_name ) === false )
			$author_name = utf8_encode( $author_name );

		return $author_name;
}

And for the profile link:

function replace_bbpress_profile_link_text_filter($user_link, $user_id){
		// Validate user id
		$user_id = bbp_get_user_id( $user_id );
		$user_object = get_userdata( $author_id );
		$user_name  = ucfirst($author_object->user_login);
		if ( empty( $user_id ) )
			return false;

		$user      = get_userdata( $user_id );
		$name      = esc_attr( $user_name );
		$user_link = '<a href="' . bbp_get_user_profile_url( $user_id ) . '" title="' . $name . '">' . $name . '</a>';
}

I also changed the default wordpress “get_avatar” function because it returns the gravatar users real name as the alt attr. All you really have to do it replace the function with the same function but get the users login name and replace the alt text name with that. the function is big and I don’t wanna make this post any more ridiculous.

It’s cool to be the one giving the answers on a WordPress forum! I only really have learned this stuff in the last few months myself. I am more of a Drupal guy. Shock Horror.

Cheers!

[joshnoworries]

Thanks for all the suggestions! I will investigate the filter as that would be much more elegant. Here is what i am currently using, it’s ugly but i needed an urgent solution for a client:

loop-single-forum.php

REPLACED:
<?php bbp_author_link( array( 'post_id' => bbp_get_forum_last_active_id(), 'size' => 14 ) ); ?>

WITH:

<?php if(bbp_get_forum_last_active_id()){?>
<?php $last_post_id = bbp_get_forum_last_active_id(bbp_get_forum_last_topic_id()); ?>
<?php $last_user_id = bbp_get_topic_author_id($last_post_id); ?>
<a href="<?php echo bbp_topic_author_url($last_post_id) ?>"><?php bbp_topic_author_avatar($last_post_id,15); ?>
<?php $user = get_user_by( 'id',$last_user_id ); echo $user->user_login ; ?></a>
<?php } else { ?>
<?php } ?>

loop-single-topic.php

REPLACED:

<?php printf( __( 'Started by: %1$s', 'bbpress' ), bbp_get_topic_author_link( array( 'size' => '14' ) ) ); ?>

WITH:
Started by: <a href="<?php echo bbp_topic_author_url() ?>"><?php bbp_topic_author_avatar(0,15); ?><?php $user = get_user_by( 'id',bbp_get_topic_author_id() ); echo $user->user_login ; ?></a>

REPLACED:
<?php bbp_author_link( array( 'post_id' => bbp_get_topic_last_active_id(), 'size' => 14 ) );?>

WITH:

<?php $last_post_id = bbp_get_topic_last_active_id() ?>
<?php $last_user_id = bbp_get_topic_author_id($last_post_id) ?>
<a href="<?php echo bbp_topic_author_url($last_post_id) ?>"><?php bbp_topic_author_avatar($last_post_id,15); ?>
<?php $user = get_user_by( 'id',$last_user_id ); echo $user->user_login ; ?></a>

loop-single-reply

REPLACED:
<?php bbp_reply_author_link( array( 'sep' => '<br />', 'show_role' => true ) ); ?>

WITH:

<a href="<?php echo bbp_reply_author_url() ?>"><?php bbp_reply_author_avatar(0,80); ?><br/>
<?php $user = get_user_by( 'id',bbp_get_reply_author_id() ); echo $user->user_login ; ?></a>
<?php bbp_reply_author_role() ?>

[ozgurpolat]

Hi Stephen ( @netweb ), Thanks for helping me. I tried the fix with bbpress 2.5 but it doesn’t seem to be working. The strange thing is if I login as admin, there is no problem. :). I have to go back to version 2.3.2 for now but I will set up a test site with the same problem and give you admin/ subscriber access. maybe it would help you better to see the problem. I will do this on the weekend.

Best regards