[sallysqueak]

Hi

Having never used bbpress before and being relatively new to wordpress, I’m struggling to get the forums on my site up and running.

Having spent 3 hours today just looking for the ‘forums’ tab, I eventually worked out that the reason I couldn’t find it was because in the latest version of buddypress (or bbpress?) there is no ‘forums’ tab – it is named ‘Groups’ instead! It seems the documentation on here is outdated and this has caused me no end of agro today aggggh!

Now I finally worked that out, and the forums option magically somehow appeared in my individual ‘groups’, I’m now unable to make a post in any groups, even when logged in as a keymaster!

Can anyone help me with this? I don’t even know where to find up to date documentation for this plugin now, everything I’ve read is outdated and has confused me. Can anyone point me in the direction of a place to find documentation for bbpress 2.5.1, when running with buddypress 1.8.1 on wordpress 3.7.1? Or just help me to get these forums useable!

Also, is there a way to allow forum users to add photos to their posts?

Thanks

Sally – website thehouseofdog.co.uk

[ronthai]

add to the bbpress.css
.bbp-forum-title { color: #E03700 ! important; }
You also put anything in there like font-size, font-weight, text-decoration

Note that when bbPress opdates all changes will be lost, UNLESS you follow these instructions:

You should have all your customizations as per this document
https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

[Jeri]

I have exactly the same problem here. Tried deactivating all of the plugins except bbpress as well as returning back to the twentythirteen theme. Any help is greatly appreciated.

[Stefano Lissa]

Hi,

best practices about site speed optimization recommend to load the external javascript on the bottom of an HTML page.
I see that bbPress adds some “inline” JavaScript (for the widget or the editor), and this JavaScript requires jQuery.

Since that JavaScript is added in to the head it’s not possible to move the jQuery load on bottom of the page. Could you fix bbPress to add that Javascript on the footer so even jQuery con be load at the bottom of the page?

Thank you, Stefano Lissa.

[Cars10]

John, why is WordPress.org more up2date with rev 2.5.1 than https://bbpress.org/download/ still stuck in 2.4 and 2.5 beta/dev?
I am confused…

[julieono]

I just installed this plugin and I went through these steps

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1

and I can’t get the list of forums to show up on the forum page.

I named the page forum and then I also tried adding the extra code as outlined in step 2 [bbp-forum-index] but neither create a list of the forums that I have created. I have two set up.

http://massagepracticebuilder.com/forums/

This is one of the forums I set up just to test. http://massagepracticebuilder.com/forums/forum/diy-websites/

And why does that have the address forums/forum ??

I just went and followed the directions to set up a forum.
thanks
Julie

[Rachel Biel]

Help! I’ve been at this for hours and am going out of my mind…

I have the latest of everything, bbpress, buddypress and have deactivated all plugins except for buddypress, bbpress, members and akismet. I actually even deleted and reinstalled buddypress, bbpress and members. I deactivated my theme and am using the default buddypress one.

The site is visually a mess: http://www.tafaforum.com/

I am the only one who can post on the forums. Everything was fine until yesterday when several plugins updated, including bbpress. I had also been mucking around with trying to get a tinymce plugin to work for the forums.

If I disable everything and just have bbpress, I can post (as a fake member). Add buddypress, and I get a “You cannot reply to this topic” message at the bottom.

I messed around with roles and have enabled everything possible that could contribute to this, but the one thing that I notice is that the members all have an author role for their wordpress roles (as I want them to post on our blog), and even though they all show participant for their forum roles on the Users Page, when I go into the settings for the roles, I only see the author role as having any users, not the participant one.

Yes, this could be a buddypress or members issue, but bbpress is the one that had the latest update, so I figure that the problem starts here. If not, please send me where I need to go….

[ronthai]

All widgets (even if you use the same more then once) can be individually edited how they look.
From colors, headers, font type/size/color/shadow, widget background color/image,
you name it, it can be done, WITHOUT editing any core files.

How? Just use css.
For the ladies question, assuming she uses the bbPress “Recent Topics” widget, just add the following to the bbPress main ccs file (bbpress/templates/default/css/bbpress.css):

.widget_display_topics .bbp-author-avatar { display: none ! important; }
This will remove the little avatar and leave it with:
topic title by posters name

You can find any widgets “css class or id (id can be used if the same widget is used more then once)” by viewing the source code of your page or using FireBug (firefox or chrome browsers, just get rid of IE all together)

You should also follow this, to avoid any updates from changing your edits:
You should have all your customizations as per this document
https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

[Stephen Edgar]

Use this plugin, it was updated today to also support the new forum subscriptions 🙂

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

[Toxed2loss]

I’m running wordpress 3.7.1, using Twenty-twelve, and Bbpress 2.5.1.have my site is http://www.theholisticchatterbox.com If you go to this page and click on any of the “recent Reply” links, it will take you to the first page of the replies. You have to click on the page numbers above to get to the last page. It started doing this after the last update. How can I fix it? I’ve looked in the widget & appearance menus. I’ve removed it and reinstalled it. Please help?

[jswartzendruber]

Hi 3tonine/Rachel – As a followup, make sure to have the latest version of the bbPress Enable TinyMCE Visual Tab plugin. I’m using WP 3.7.1, bbPress 2.5.1 with TinyMCE Advanced 3.5.9. I had to use bbPress Enable TinyMCE Visual Tab 1.0.1 in order for it work properly, and this doesn’t appear to be available yet from the WordPress Plugin Directory.

More info: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-working-in-bbpress-24

Regardless, thanks for the pointers to all the bits/bobs, once I got the correct versions it works great.

[mtraps]

Hi There, Just installed bbPress and I love it, but one thing:

On the main front page of the forum where it displays all topics the search bar is at the bottom and I would much prefer it to be at the top. Which .php file would I need to go to, to fix this? Thanks in advance!

[Robin W]

loop-single-reply is the template that displays posts and replies

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress

copy this to a bbpress directory in your theme (see codex for how to do this if needed), and then you should be able to put a “logged in” condition around whatever you want in this. For instance

<?php bbp_reply_content(); ?>

to make that bit conditional

[James Dilworth]

Funny. BBPress need to remove those filters on this forum too. When I copied and pasted your example, I had to go back and remove the fancy quotes.

Anyway, found the solution :

When removing the filter, the priority has to be the same as when the filter was added. The filters are added in : /bbpress/includes/core/filters.php with a priority of 3.

So, to successfully remove those filters from functions.php, add in the priority :

remove_filter( 'bbp_get_reply_content', 'wptexturize' , 3);
remove_filter( 'bbp_get_topic_content', 'wptexturize', 3);

[Matoca]

I have a relatively new installation of bbPress and while the learning curve isn’t great, this particular problem is just causing me grief. If I could just somehow go into the dashboard and move these posts back into order I would do it, but I can’t seem to figure out how. Wishful thinking….

We have one topic that has gone on for 5 pages now. I know I should have limited the number of replies on topics. However, this forum is for owners with sick dogs and I didn’t want to stifle their conversations. When I move us to our permanent home, I will do this. This is a temporary place.

So in this particular situation I have this at the bottom of the replies:
reply 1150 12/5
reply 1016 11/27
reply 1017 11/27
reply 1025 11/27
reply 1064 11/28

I have explained the difference to them about replying to the topic (use the entry field at the bottom of the page) vs reply to another reply (click on “Reply” inside the reply you want to answer. We did have some confusion early on, but for the most part they are doing everything right.

So I took a look at reply 1016 to see what was up. I noticed that one of the new moderators had apparently mistakenly made a revision to this post about 2 hours later after it was originally posted. There was really nothing revised, but it does show up in the Post Revisions history. I tried to delete this revision but I got this error:
The AJAX request has Failed, Please try again;
The unexpected data was: [object XMLDocument]

If one of the keymasters would like to look at this particular topic and replies you can view it here.
http://www.cybergiants.com/GiantRescue/forums/topic/megan-sophie/#1064

I will do anything you need to figure this problem out. We just can’t have replies about a dog that is alive be sequentially after the date the dog has succumbed to the illness. If one of you needs to get inside the dashboard then so be it.
my best
matoca

[markthedoc]

Hi

I’m trying to set my forum so that a non-member can view the list of topics in a forum but when they click on a topic to read it they get a message telling them they must be logged in to view the topic.

This bbPress forum does exactly what I’m trying to achieve.

I can hide the forums entirely using this code, but I want to show a list of topics to non-members but not allow them to view the content of the topic.

Thanks in advance for any help and advice.

[Yakuza-san]

Webmaster Tools says robots.txt say no to index, but their is any robots.txt on my server (only -> http://www.xbox-one-erfolge.de/robots.txt)

I don’t know whats the problem of google

Worpdpress Version: 3.5.2
bbPress Version: 2.5

Domain: http://www.xbox-one-erfolge.de/forum/

[moxjet200]

Hey everyone. I’m new to BBPress and I may not be understanding portions of it correctly.

1. If someone registers for my wordpress website and sign in can they automatically start posting to my bbpress forums? (Do they then have a forum membership too?)

2. Currently the registration is as follows: user inputs username and email and then the password is sent to them via email which they have to reset… How can I build a custom registration form for my wordpress/bbpress site and forums that looks more like http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/register.php where the user can specify their password, agree to terms, etc? (I guess this also depends on if registering for wordpress or bbpress registers for each other as well)

The site I’m building right now is http:/www.thenextarpg.com with the Avada wordpress template.

Any help would be appreciated! Thanks guys

[glyndavidson]

For other peopel starting out with bbPress and BuddyPress, I found these really useful:

• Beginner’s Guide To BuddyPress
• Getting Started With bbPress

[contramare]

Hello,
I’m creating a site: http://www.contramare.net/site I’ve installed and activated bbpress.2.5.1, buddy press 1.8.1, I have a weaverII theme with WP 2010 sub-theme (maybe that’s a problem) and a meteor slider plugin on the header. Everything was working fine until I installed bbpress (buddypress seems fine). Two problems: 1) can’t create a forum, no option for it except in the forums page, but it requires a parent forum… which I can’t create, so I’m stuck; 2) meteor slides not working on forums page, but working fine on buddypress pages. I think maybe I can do it with the buddypress only but from what I read here http://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/ it seems like you have to install bbpress if you want to have any buddypress forums. Is that true? Can you help? If there is coding, can’t do it, unless there’s some step by step guide.

[FreeWPress]

Have you recently update wordpress or other plugin and after you receive this error?
I think is not bbpress related..

[Stephen Edgar]

You are going to have more issues than just search and search pagination if Premise is only detecting by forum category and/or post_parent in wp_postmeta.

I expect you will also find them turn up via widgets, shortcodes and custom registered views.

If Premise was detecting by each off bbPress’ post types, forum, topic and reply specifically rather than forum category alone you would find that it would also filter these results correctly from search also alleviating your pagination issue whilst also making sure they didn’t turn up in via widgets, shortcodes or custom views.

[Stephen Edgar]

when did that appear !?

bbPress 2.4 😉

[ronthai]

OK, Thanks, that seems to work perfectly.

Question: What happens when there is a major update, e.g. bbPress 3.0 that maybe has loads of template and css changes?

[Stephen Edgar]

Even simpler just disable search in bbPress’ settings