at this point, I am using bsp shortcodes…some work as stated..some don’t..so I’m just at a loss
wow well that’s stupidly embarrassing. This is what I was expecting:
https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/53/2013/11/forum1.jpg
taken from here:
Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1
Any advice on the archives heading?
Thanks again!
my site is deleted. I had bluehost absolutely wipe out WP and I started out adding bbpress and trying this again. I really haven’t yet added anything else back except for elementor. Am I misunderstanding thinking that [bbp-forum-index] should return a forum name and then have topics listed underneath and then the next forum and so on? If so, disregard and tell me I’m just silly please. Anyway, I threw something up and created a gyazo of what I think you might be wanting to see. But, if you need to get in there I can create some credentials for you if you want to message privately.
So, left to right. Topics…I created a couple in topics and one by going to the page and opening the forum. Next, the page created with just the shortcode. I didn’t even use elementor. Just straight to add new page and shortcode using the name in the root. The last one, I opened the site and used an incognito window to view the page.
As you can see, it’s like it’s calling up archives. Looking back, I didn’t mention that before. That was really dumb. It’s been doing that all along. After deactivating all plugins, this is what made me believe I actually needed to reinstall WP. Honestly, this index thing is not my actual issue. LOL maybe we can address that one later? But bc of the archives thing, I am afraid to move forward.
Hopefully, now that you have the whole story, you will recognize my error and be able to just say comment this code out with your child’s functions.php or add that to some other file or whatever. And all will be well 🙂
Thank you so much, Robin. I look forward to hearing from you.
Storm
https://gyazo.com/ab8f8fd010ba5967cce876c547b971b4
Hi. Forgive me. I’m new to all of this…trying but new. My frontpage containing [bbp-forum-index] is not working. It shows the forums but not the topics.
I did try using Topics for Posts but decided I couldn’t see the benefit. So, at this point, I have tried the following things:
checked permalinks
reset forum root should show to topics by freshness
I have repaired and reset bbpress
And, at that point, I rolled the entire thing back with backup to before the bbpress install. And did not update any plugins. Also, though I have bbpress styling code thingies I had intended to use, I had not gotten past adding a bbpress folder to my theme’s child.
At this point, I am deactivating plugins but am not confident that will solve it. But if it does, I will come right back and try to delete this or just plain apologize.
Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.
I checked the database posts table via phpmyadmin and confirmed that replies posts did not come over to bbpress. Is there a way I can fix this manually by running some manual sql code?
I’m using latest wordpress just downloaded today, and latest version of bbpress (bbPress 2.5.14).
During the conversion I only get the following error which I don’t think tied to the replies posts not coming over.
Repair any missing information: Continue
WordPress database error: [Table ‘*.*_core_tags’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT convert(core_tags.tag_meta_id USING “utf8mb4”) AS tag_meta_id,convert(core_tags.tag_text USING “utf8mb4”) AS tag_text FROM *_core_tags AS core_tags LIMIT 0, 100
No tags to convert
No super stickies to stick
Please forgive me my ignorance – don’t worry we were all there when we started !!
bbpress uses the wordpress database and pages so is contained entirely within wordpress.
at it’s simplest, just put a ‘custom link’ menu entry of url ‘/fourms/’ and navigation label of ‘forums’ into your menu.
Alternately create a page with a title of say ‘forums’ and put [bbp-forum-index] in the content.
The client I’m working for would like logged in members to be able to create forums.
I’ve added the [bbp-forum-form] shortcode to the archive-forums.php template, and given the logged in user role the following permissions:
– edit_forums
– publish_forums
– delete_forums
However, when I login as a user in the above role, I get the “You cannot create new forums” message.
Any ideas what is happening here please?
bbpress is just a plugin that sits within wordpress, so you would just install it and typically have a menu entry to
yoursite.com/forums
see
Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1
yes, in effect create the subdomain you say, and install wordpress and bbpress.
Then you could just have a home page with the code [bbp-forum-index] in it and that is all that site would contain
this is a theme conflict issue, and you need to get your theme to recognise bbpress.
Not bbpress’s fault and not your theme’s fault, both just use wordpress
see
Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1
section 8 on trying to get them to work together
Haha. This is amazing. I added the code to my php and it worked. Thanks a million. Some other experts couldn’t help me with this.
Robin, two more questions. Related.
Can you also tell me how I as administrator get all forums in a alphabetical order, but my students/members not? It’s totally random? How can I fix that? I think the most recent one is on top. How can I change that? I can’t seem to change to date of publication.
And how can I get notified when some starts topic in a forum. I tried the plugin bbPress Notify Admin, but it didn’t work. Perhaps I didn’t follow the instructions correctly.
Any help would be great. Let’s make this 3 out of 3 😉
Gijs (Holland)
small tweak to not break for users with names that include spaces. the issue was not a permissions one as i posted above.
/*
* attempt to handle generic request for current user
* https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-link-to-profile-page/
*
* if the url is passed as forums/users/current/
* this function detects that the permalink has been set to bbp_user=current
* and
* - if the user is logged on, the query is changed to the current user
* - if the user is not logged on, the user is redirected to login screen
*
*/
function ink_bbp_request_current_user( $query_vars ) {
if ( isset( $query_vars[ 'bbp_user' ] ) ) {
switch ( $query_vars[ 'bbp_user' ] ) {
case 'current':
if ( get_current_user_id() ) {
$query_vars[ 'bbp_user' ] = bbp_get_user_nicename(get_current_user_id());
} else {
auth_redirect();
}
}
}
return $query_vars;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_request', 'ink_bbp_request_current_user', 10, 1 );
@jonathanmoorebcs for me, your code works great for admin users, but fails for contributor role users
Hey guys
This is probably due to my theme, but the default install of the forum at the url /forums displays the forum on a page with the title “Archives” and the layout is broken, ugly, full width etc.
Following another suggestion on this forum, I created a forum holding page at the url /forum and used the shortcode [bbp-forum-index] to embed the forum in this page, and it looks great.
However, when any forum link is clicked, you’re taken to a page with the starting slug of /forums and the ugly layout again. How do I keep the forum within the nice page layout?
In the Settings I have:
Forum root: forums
Forum prefix: unchecked
Forum root should show: Forum Index
Single forum slugs / Forum: forum
If I change the forum root to /forum that overrides the custom page I set up and I’m back to the ugly layout again.
What’s the best way around this?
Many thanks in advance.
I suspect it’s related to your theme, but all I’m seeing on that link is a buddypress page.
you can try this in your theme’s custom css, but I feel it is more related to the theme selections you are using
.g-cols .l-content {
width: 100% !important;
}
<a href="http://yoursite.com/forums">Words Here</a>
in custom html widget
Thank you. that was a lot of information but my problem is much simpler. I already created a forum and so far everything is satisfactory. I was even given a shortcode(i promptly disregard)because i thought it would be simple.
My only problem is i am unable to access(a link perhaps) it from my website home page. All i need is a link on the sidebar or on a menu that says “Go to Forum” or anything. Don’t think it is difficult but i just cant do it nor have the time to up on support. I could definitely use some quick help. Thanks
Hi all
i already created a forum(I was given a shortcode but i lost it) in any case i do not know how to use it to put a forum link on my home page. Help please!
by the way, the first bit of code saves the changes to the database, so just removing the code does not remove the capability.
to undo this, you would need to re-run the first function, but with all the add_cap changed to 'remove_cap'
editing users is a wordpress rather than bbpress function
It may well be possible, but the easier way would be to use a wordpress role to do this.
This link will give you code to make the ‘editor’ role able to do user stuff, and you may want to hide admins as per their suggestions
Let Editor Manage Users in WordPress
so you would just set your moderators to be editor as well as moderator
I will need to spend long periods of time away from my site and bbpress forum, and want the Moderators to have the ability to delete users that are clearly just there to spam. I want them to have more than blocking capability and the ability to delete posts and topics.
I have not found much on this topic through searching. I am willing to implement some specific code. If there is something I can edit with Buddypress to allow this, please let me know. However, I don’t want to make the moderators Keymasters – I only want them to have authority over the forums and who uses them.
I would rather use code than a plugin. Not sure if it is simple as adding a line to the bbpress moderator capabilities that allows them to essentially ban Buddypress users.
WordPress version: 5.2.3 (Vantage theme)
bbPress version: 2.5.14
Site: https://pirateswithben.com/forums/forum/pirates-csg/
Thank you!
Ben
Back to square one. I have tried everything I can think of. I have looked at several articles here, copied and pasted lots of CSS codes, tried everything I can think ok. Need some help please. Thank you.
here you go – http://www.livingdipfree.com
I did plug in a CSS code and it got better – not fixed, but better.
