[Sam Rohn]

hmm, i just noticed the same thing on one of my test sites still site running 2.3.2, no bbpress admin tabs except for gd sub items, so i suppose this is OT for 2.4, must be something on my end, sorry

thanks for the update on permissions, Tehnik-bbPress-Permissions seems to be the best solution for now but i am always afraid it might break with a bbpress update, and it requires yet another plugin besides…

https://github.com/ZanderAdam/Tehnik-bbPress-Permissions

[Stephen Edgar]

I cannot reproduce the issue of missing bbPress wp-admin panels with any of these plugins: GD bbPress Attachments, GD bbPress Tools, GD bbPress Widgets, that’s not to say it isn’t happening. I will keep an eye on Milan Petrovic’s Twitter feed to see if he comes across any issues himself.

Permissions and caps with bbPress is a hard (for me anyway) to grasp at a code level, I do know that essentially bbPress is ahead of WordPress in some ways in this aspect and the fact that bbPress is built on top of WordPress this is going to constantly evolve. The ‘other’ forum packages that are available do have finer granular permissions but none of them integrate with WordPress the way bbPress does (I am up to my 27th forum converter now BTW).

These bits will come, hopefully sooner rather than later and the dev’s that contribute code for bbPress are acutely aware of this type of feature request and I am quite sure it is kept in their mind as code is written for anything for example as mentioned above ‘Per-forum moderation’ & ‘Forum subscriptions’ slated for bbPress 2.5, these two features alone make for a great start in getting more of the types of features you are referring to.

“bbPress is forum software with a twist, from the creators WordPress”

[kimbo_king]

Anyone have any idea?

[Sam Rohn]

thanks stephen 🙂

might not be a bad idea to put the changelog info or link in top post too, the trac might be kind of confusing for the less experienced

i have updated to 2.4 from 2.3.2 on a few different test sites and have noticed that in some cases, the forums, topics and replies tabs in wp admin disappear, w gd tools and attachments plugins enabled only gd options in forum tab otherwise no forum tab at all, or the others

i tried disabling all other plugins etc but only disabling and reenabling bbpress restored the tabs

main site i updated went fine, admin tabs did not disappear, mostly same plugins, the sites that went odd also all had buddypress installed

for permissions and caps etc, i think it should be a basic feature to have a simple way to create multiple levels of private forums for logged in users – private forums for admins, mods, members, public forums for non-members, etc, basically some type of granular permissions allowing groups and forum access per group membership based on wp user role perhaps, similar to phpbb etc, this is standard w most other forums but currently this is still real tricky w bbpress…

any chance we might we see something along these lines in an upcoming release ?

[aihoi]

Thanks for your help!

[Stephen Edgar]

The file is located in /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default

If you edit this file manually when you update bbPress your changes will be lost.

The link above in my post shows the steps needed to copy this template to your own theme so you can use your own custom templates without bbPress overriding it during updates.

[aihoi]

Sorry… Im new so i dont know where i can find feedback-no-forums.php 🙁

Sorry for troubling you

[Stephen Edgar]

@sam-rohn Thanks, I added a link to the blog post 🙂

The changes to “Improved user capability integration” shouldn’t break any existing solutions out there doing forum restrictions. bbPress 2.5 is going to focus on performance though with ‘Per-forum moderation’ & ‘Forum subscriptions’ slated also for 2.5 this will bring us closer to better forum management for users.

[Sam Rohn]

btw, it was in the blog post that “replacing comments with bbPress topics” in 2.5 was mentioned

bbPress 2.4 Released

if you are reading this in the forum and not on the blog (this thread appears as blog post comments and a stand alone topic in the forum), you would not see the blog post or the info therein

maybe a good idea to also link to blog post and list changelog in this type of new version announcement topic, seems lots of forum-centric folks like myself miss some things the way they are, should help avoid such confusion

thanks again 🙂

sam

[Sam Rohn]

any specific info on bbpress 2.4 “Improved user capability integration” listed in the changelog ?

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/changelog/

will it bring us any closer to being able to easily restrict access to specific forums and posts/replies contained therein to a specific user role without any 3rd party plugins or hacks, or might this new change break any existing methods of creating such per user role forums ?

thanks for the update, i will be installing on at least one site very soon 🙂

sam

[Nashwan D]

Great version! I will update our website today 😀

[John James Jacoby]

Hi there. We’re working on a fix now, and it will be included in 2.4.1.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2405/

[n4ce]

The newest version of bbPress has caused a couple of my sites plugins/short-codes to display incorrectly. The plugin in question is Cookie Law Info, it appears to remove it format i.e. no button image and text not centred etc. Also the short-codes for my elegant themes, theme do not appear to be displaying correctly either.

[Stephen Edgar]

Can you update to the newly released version of bbPress 2.4 and let us know if it is still broken.

[Stephen Edgar]

It is in the feedback-no-forums.php template \templates\default\bbpress

If you want to modify this template for your theme here check out the docs on theme compat.

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

[Stephen Edgar]

@sadr Here are the BuddyPress 2.4 related tickets, you can also the commit log for ‘/includes/extend/buddypress/’ within bbPress.

“replacing comments with bbPress topics” is part of 2.5′s scope.

Where exactly did you hear about that?

[Erlend]

Fantastic! Will be upgrading tomorrow.

Could you elaborate on what’s new/changed in the BuddyPress Group Forum integration?

Also very excited to hear “replacing comments with bbPress topics” is part of 2.5’s scope. I checked to see if there was an enhancement issue I could start to follow yet but there doesn’t seem to be one. Will check in again later then.

p.s. you gotta remove the last slash in the Trac link to make it valid.

[Xevo]

Thanks JJJ!

[Andrea Whitmer]

I have just updated bbPress to 2.4 on a site running the latest version of the Genesis framework. When bbPress is activated, all posts and pages lose their titles – I just get a dash and the site title in the page source. This happens with all other plugins deactivated and with any Genesis child theme, as well as the naked framework itself. This was not an issue prior to the 2.4 release of bbPress earlier today. Any ideas for what I can do to fix this?

[aihoi]

Hello hello,

This is my first post so sorry if i post it in the wrong place :$

I wanted to hide my forum by default,I achieved this. Having achieved this, my question: Where in earth do I change the friendly “Oh bother! No forums were found here!” message???? Can’t find it anywhere! I am using bbpress 2.4

Thanks in advance

[PureLoneWolf]

Hi there

I used the code in my themes function.php file, as detailed above and it worked perfectly. That is, until I upgraded to 2.4 a few minutes ago, now the open forums changed position with the private ones (no problem) but the subforums are back listed on one line again.

The function.php file still contains the code, so I guess something has changed with bbpress.

Would someone know what I should do now?

Many thanks

[Unsal Korkmaz]

bbPress 2.4 released! Now you can easily use it with hierarchical replies

[MediaSVI]

Thanks for the hard work to all you dev’s!

[MediaSVI]

Ok thanks for the 2.4 update, I installed it but it does not fix this issue. Maybe this is something I could just edit myself if I had the code and knew the place to add it. Also it would be cool to add an option in bbPress to have the User info to the “left” or “across the top”.

With it to the left there is a lot of wasted page real-estate and it is not responsive friendly.

Forums have always had the user info to the left but I think it’s time to change this or at least have the choice.

Thank you for your time.

[Anonymous User 5853594]

First of all, did you copy the extra Dutch language files for bbPress and BuddyPress? You need those in addition to the Dutch language files for WordPress itself.

https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-in-your-language/ will point you in the right direction for making things work with bbPress. (I suggest that you take the “dev branch” for the files, as the other link is outdated.)
https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/buddypress/dev points to the BuddyPress version of the language files.

If you’ve got those up and working, you should be able to use the Dutch settings… Although I don’t know if the plugin will enable you to switch languages for the bb’s, as I can’t find that they support them.

In ieder geval veel succes!