[Robin W]

lots of ways to do this, you might want to have a think about the best for you

I have a plugin called

Private groups

which lets you set up groups and may be the best solution

alternately

if you are able to ftp and edit files the message is held in

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/feedback-no-forums.php

so

create a directory on your theme called ‘bbpress’
ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/feedback-no-forums.php
Make a copy of this file, and put in in the directory called bbpress that you created above, so you end up with
wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/feedback-no-forums.php
bbPress will now use this template instead of the original
and you can amend this

so go into it and amend the message to what you desire.

You could instead put this in your functions file or put it in a code plugin such as

PHP code snippets (Insert PHP)

function rew_change_text( $translated_text, $text, $domain ) {
	if ( $text == 'Oh bother! No forums were found here!' ) {
	$translated_text = 'whatever you want it to say in here!' ;
	}
	return $translated_text;
}

add_filter( 'gettext', 'rew_change_text', 20, 3 );

[Robin W]

yes crack that code open it is in includes/widgets, you should find a good place to filter – probably change 159-161 – set the ‘post_parent__in’ to the forum of the current buddypress group, and the settings in the widget will be ignored.

[rgilman]

Hi Robin, thanks for your response. It looks like (style pack) latest activity gets me close and will provide a great starting point and tutorial from a bbp master.

Apologies for the lack of clarity in my initial post. Let me explain a bit more.

I’m developing a site that builds on Commons In A Box. You can see more about what we are doing at https://github.com/ContextInstitute/bfcom. The readme and wiki are out-of-date in the details but the general direction is right.

We are designing for a large number of BuddyPress groups, each with its own forum. It will be a private site with access only to registered users. Most users will be involved in only a subset of the groups/forums.

Each user will have a personalized home page/dashboard. One of the features on that dashboard will be a listing of the most recent posts/replies in topics in all of the forums to which that user belongs. So we need to start from something like groups_get_user_groups( bp_loggedin_user_id() ) and then go into something like what you do in (style pack) latest activity.

Having (style pack) latest activity as a starting point feels like a tremendous help.

Thank you again. 🙂

[Clivesmith]

On my site I am the only one that can create a new topic (anyone can reply) I am trying to introduce a couple of pieces of text that will be added to the end of the content of each reply. (they are twitter names and twitter hashtags).

I have found this piece of code that allows me to add some input fields to a new topic but it only works at the front end, I have been trying with no luck to find a hook I can use to get this to work on the back end. Can any one help please ?

add_action ( ‘bbp_theme_before_topic_form_content’, ‘bbp_extra_fields’);
function bbp_extra_fields() {
$value = get_post_meta( bbp_get_topic_id(), ‘bbp_extra_field1’, true);
echo ‘<label for=”bbp_extra_field1″>hashtag</label><br>’;
echo “<input type=’text’ name=’bbp_extra_field1′ value='”.$value.”<br>’>”;
$value = get_post_meta( bbp_get_topic_id(), ‘bbp_extra_field2’, true);
echo ‘<br><label for=”bbp_extra_field2″>Twitter Name</label><br>’;
echo “<input type=’text’ name=’bbp_extra_field2′ value='”.$value.”‘>”;
}
/* Write out to meta table */
add_action ( ‘bbp_new_topic’, ‘bbp_save_extra_fields’, 10, 1 );
add_action ( ‘bbp_edit_topic’, ‘bbp_save_extra_fields’, 10, 1 );
$topic_id = bbp_get_topic_id();
function bbp_save_extra_fields($topic_id) {
if (isset($_POST) && $_POST[‘bbp_extra_field1’]!=”)
update_post_meta( $topic_id, ‘bbp_extra_field1’, $_POST[‘bbp_extra_field1’] );
if (isset($_POST) && $_POST[‘bbp_extra_field2’]!=”)
update_post_meta( $topic_id, ‘bbp_extra_field2’, $_POST[‘bbp_extra_field2’] );
}

[Robin W]

not tested as going out soon, but this should work

add_action ( 'bbp_new_topic', 'myprefix_assign_tag_to_post', 10, 4 );
add_action ( 'bbp_edit_topic', 'myprefix_assign_tag_to_post', 10, 4 );

function myprefix_assign_tag_to_post($topic_id, $forum_id, $anonymous_data, $topic_author) {
if( $forum_id == '168'  && bbp_current_user_can_publish_topics() ) {
	wp_set_post_terms( $topic_id, 'introductions', 'topic-tag', true );
}

elseif($forum_id == '1343' && bbp_current_user_can_publish_topics() ) {
		wp_set_post_terms( $topic_id, 'discovery', 'topic-tag', true );

}
}

[rgilman]

How can I code an activity stream that lists only the most recent post for each topic, not all recent posts (which can include many posts from the same topic) as the standard widget does?

I’m using bbPress 2.5.14, BuddyPress 3.20 and WordPress 4.9.8 on a local dev server so no public link to the site.

[GeekyJules]

I’m trying to write a conditional statement to auto tag new topics based on forum.

This is what I have so far

add_action ( 'bbp_insert_topic', 'myprefix_assign_tag_to_post' , 10, 1 );
add_action ( 'bbp_new_topic', 'myprefix_assign_tag_to_post', 10, 1 );
add_action ( 'bbp_edit_topic', 'myprefix_assign_tag_to_post', 10, 1 );

function myprefix_assign_tag_to_post($topic_id) {
if( bbp_is_forum ( '168' ) && bbp_current_user_can_publish_topics() ) {
	wp_set_post_terms( $topic_id, 'introductions', 'topic-tag', true );
}

elseif( bbp_is_forum ( '1343' ) && bbp_current_user_can_publish_topics() ) {
		wp_set_post_terms( $topic_id, 'discovery', 'topic-tag', true );

}
}

The problem is, this automatically tags the new topics with “Introductions” regardless of the forum. I tried replacing ‘bbp_is_forum’ with ‘bbp_is_single_forum’, and the same thing happens. I’ve tried replacing it with ‘bbp_is_forum_archive’ and nothing happens. I’ve even tried replacing the ID with slug, with and without the single quotes, trying it with just one IF statement, and I’m not getting the desired results.

I also tried using is_page, hoping it would be using the default WordPress call since it used in the functions.php for topics. No joy.

So, if someone could please tell me what I should be using instead of is_forum, is_single_forum, is_etc, that would be great.

[maxlevel]

I have 5 different forums.
Only one of them should serve as a Q&A forum where people can ask us questions. Nobody should be able to reply before we reply. I could think of two ways to make that happen:

1. The forum is moderated and all topics have to be approved before they are posted together with our answers. After posting other people can reply too.

2. All the topics are initially private. So we can answer it and then make it public for receiving further replies.

I could not find code or plugins to make that happen and would be very grateful for any advice.

[krioteh]

Buddy-bbPress Support The topic still works with bbPress 2.6, albeit with errors.
You can return the form to the console settings of a specific forum using this code:

add_action('add_meta_boxes', 'bbbp_support'); 
add_action('save_post', 'bbbp_save'); 

function bbbp_support() {
	add_meta_box('bbbp_support', 'BbbPress Support', 
	'bbbp_support_callback', 'forum'); 
}
// HTML код блока
function bbbp_support_callback( $forum = falce ){
		if ( empty( $forum->ID ) ) {
			return;
		}

		$support_feature = bpbbpst_get_forum_support_setting( $forum->ID );

		$mailing_list_style = '';
		if ( 3 === (int) $support_feature ) {
			$mailing_list_style = 'style="display:none"';
		}

		$support_only_style = 'style="display:none"';

		if ( 2 === (int) $support_feature ) {
			$support_only_style = '';
		}

		bpbbpst_display_forum_setting_options( $support_feature );
		?>
		<div class="bpbbpst-mailing-list" <?php echo $mailing_list_style;?>>
			<h4><?php _e( 'Who should receive an email notification when a new support topic is posted ?', 'buddy-bbpress-support-topic' );?></h4>

			<?php bpbbpst_checklist_moderators( $forum->ID );?>
		</div>

		<?php do_action_ref_array( 'bpbbpst_forum_support_options', array( $forum->ID, $mailing_list_style ) ); ?>

		<div class="bpbbpst-support-guides" <?php echo $support_only_style;?>>
			<h4><?php _e( 'New Topic form extras', 'buddy-bbpress-support-topic' );?></h4>
			<label class="screen-reader-text" for="support-topic-intro"><?php esc_html_e( 'New Topic Guide', 'buddy-bbpress-support-topic' ); ?></label>
			<textarea rows="3" cols="40" name="_bpbbpst_support_topic[intro]" id="support-topic-intro" style="width:100%"><?php echo bpbbpst_get_forum_support_topic_intro( $forum->ID );?></textarea>
			<p class="description"><?php printf( esc_html__( 'Use this field to insert some instructions above the new topic form. Allowed tags are: %s', 'buddy-bbpress-support-topic' ), join( ', ', array_keys( (array) wp_kses_allowed_html( 'forum' ) ) ) ); ?></p>

			<label class="screen-reader-text" for="support-topic-tpl"><?php esc_html_e( 'New Topic Template', 'buddy-bbpress-support-topic' ); ?></label>
			<textarea rows="3" cols="40" name="_bpbbpst_support_topic[tpl]" id="support-topic-tpl" style="width:100%"><?php echo bpbbpst_get_forum_support_topic_template( $forum->ID );?></textarea>
			<p class="description"><?php esc_html_e( 'The text added within this field will be used as a template for the content of new topics.', 'buddy-bbpress-support-topic' ); ?></p>
		</div>
		<?php

		do_action_ref_array( 'bpbbpst_forum_support_options_after_guides', array( $forum->ID, $support_only_style ) );
	}
	function bbbp_save( $forum_id = 0 ) {
		$support_feature   = false;
		$is_forum_category =  bbp_is_forum_category( $forum_id );

		if ( ! empty( $_POST['_bpbbpst_forum_settings'] ) ) {
			$support_feature = absint( $_POST['_bpbbpst_forum_settings'] );
		}

		// Forum is not a category, save the support metas
		if ( ! empty( $support_feature ) && ! $is_forum_category ) {
			update_post_meta( $forum_id, '_bpbbpst_forum_settings', $support_feature );

			if ( 3 === (int) $support_feature ) {
				delete_post_meta( $forum_id, '_bpbbpst_support_recipients' );
				delete_post_meta( $forum_id, '_bpbbpst_support_topic_intro' );
				delete_post_meta( $forum_id, '_bpbbpst_support_topic_tpl' );
			} else {
				$recipients = ! empty( $_POST['_bpbbpst_support_recipients'] ) ? array_map( 'intval', $_POST['_bpbbpst_support_recipients'] ) : false ;

				if ( ! empty( $recipients ) && is_array( $recipients ) && count( $recipients ) > 0 ) {
					update_post_meta( $forum_id, '_bpbbpst_support_recipients', $recipients );
				} else {
					delete_post_meta( $forum_id, '_bpbbpst_support_recipients' );
				}

				if ( 2 === (int) $support_feature ) {
					if ( ! empty( $_POST['_bpbbpst_support_topic']['intro'] ) ) {
						update_post_meta( $forum_id, '_bpbbpst_support_topic_intro', wp_unslash( $_POST['_bpbbpst_support_topic']['intro'] ) );
					} else {
						delete_post_meta( $forum_id, '_bpbbpst_support_topic_intro' );
					}

					if ( ! empty( $_POST['_bpbbpst_support_topic']['tpl'] ) ) {
						update_post_meta( $forum_id, '_bpbbpst_support_topic_tpl', wp_unslash( $_POST['_bpbbpst_support_topic']['tpl'] ) );
					} else {
						delete_post_meta( $forum_id, '_bpbbpst_support_topic_tpl' );
					}
				} else if ( ! empty( $_POST['_bpbbpst_support_topic'] ) ) {
					delete_post_meta( $forum_id, '_bpbbpst_support_topic_intro' );
					delete_post_meta( $forum_id, '_bpbbpst_support_topic_tpl' );
				}
			}

			do_action( 'bpbbpst_forum_settings_updated', $forum_id, $support_feature );

		// Check for support metas to eventually remove them
		} else if ( $is_forum_category ) {
			$support_feature = get_post_meta( $forum_id, '_bpbbpst_forum_settings', true );

			if ( ! empty( $support_feature ) ) {
				delete_post_meta( $forum_id, '_bpbbpst_forum_settings' );
				delete_post_meta( $forum_id, '_bpbbpst_support_recipients' );
				delete_post_meta( $forum_id, '_bpbbpst_support_topic_intro' );
				delete_post_meta( $forum_id, '_bpbbpst_support_topic_tpl' );
			}
		}

		return $forum_id;
	}

Unfortunately, I have not yet found a way to eliminate errors when editing themes in the console: (

[Robin W]

@domeboys I have remove the error code as it looked like it contained the card details of one of your customers.

I can only repeat that you had a working site a week or so ago, and something changed to create the issues you have now. bbpress has not changed, but something has caused an error.

This could be down to many issues, including updates you have done, or database corruption.

I appreciate that you are feeling very frustrated.

In your position, I would be asking HostGator to revert my site to before the issue and see if that fixes. I would also suggest you turn on debug to see if that reveals a site error.

bbpress runs on over 300,000 websites worldwide, but there are infinite combinations of themes, plugins and data that make it impossible to say that bbpress will work in all circumstances, but the fact that your was, should mean that it could be again.

I wish you luck in resolving.

[eviang]

Hi there, I took a look at that article (https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started/forum-moderation/common-tasks/#deleting-topics) and cannot see the Trash Admin Link referenced for deleting topics from the frontend.

Could you please advise where this might be found?

Thanks,
Evian

[BrianHenryIE]

I’ve been working on a converter to import our Invision v4 forum to bbPress. I’ve got the users, forums and topics all importing reasonably well.

https://github.com/EnhancedAthlete/bbPress-Invision-v4-Converter

I’m having trouble with the titles which are stored in a language table:

core_sys_lang_words

| word_id | ... | word_app | ... | word_key | word_default | word_custom | ...
| 8379 | ... | forums | ... | forums_forum_2 | Generic Discussion | Generic Discussion | ...

To retrieve a single forum title, I can use:
SELECT word_default as forum_name FROM ipbforum.core_sys_lang_words WHERE word_key = CONCAT('forums_forum_', 2)

or to retrieve them all, something like:

SELECT word_default 
FROM ipbforum.core_sys_lang_words 
WHERE word_app = 'forums' 
	AND word_key IN 
    (SELECT CONCAT(prefix, id)  FROM 
		(SELECT 'forums_forum_' as prefix, ipbforum.forums_forums.id 
        FROM ipbforum.forums_forums) 
        AS t)

Or all with the forum ids:

SELECT ipbforum.core_sys_lang_words.word_default as forum_name, word_key_table.forum_id as forum_id 
FROM ipbforum.core_sys_lang_words, 
	(SELECT CONCAT(prefix, id) AS word_key, 
					id AS forum_id 
			FROM 
				(SELECT 'forums_forum_' AS prefix, 
								ipbforum.forums_forums.id 
						FROM ipbforum.forums_forums) 
                        AS temp)
	AS word_key_table
WHERE ipbforum.core_sys_lang_words.word_key = word_key_table.word_key

but I’m struggling to figure out how to write that in the BBP_Converter_Base extended class field_map[].

I’ve looked at some other converters and don’t see anything similarly complicated so I’m assuming there’s a more straightforward way.

Any pointers appreciated! Once this is figured, the converter should be good enough for most people’s use.

[filout]

In this thread (see bottom) i found the code. I think is better to remove it…

[Robin W]

this seems to be some custom code the function vvd is not a bbpress one. I presume you have added this to your functions file, or a plugin has it ?

I googled and got this thread where the snippet is mentioned

http://bbpress37.rssing.com/chan-7465926/all_p128.html

function vvd_no_view_ip( $author_ip, $r, $args ){
	return __return_empty_string();
}
add_filter('bbp_get_author_ip','vvd_no_view_ip', 10, 3 );

is this the code you are using ?

[haddly]

so, with some help from a collegue, this is how to do it:

update wp_users  
    set wp_users.user_email = "myemail@email.com"
    where
    wp_users.ID IN (
    select  
    wp_usermeta.user_id
    from wp_usermeta
    where (wp_usermeta.meta_key = "wp_capabilities") &&  (wp_usermeta.meta_value like 
    "%bbp_participant%")   
    )
    ;

[filout]

Hi,

i get the error
Too few arguments to function vvd_no_view_ip(), 2 passed in /home/sites/site64/web/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php on line 286 and exactly 3 expected.
Users can create topics and write comments in it but when i want to see the topc and get this error

Regards, Thomas

I used WordPress v4.9.8 and bbPress v2.5.14.

[domeboys]

This morning, my site, thecardinalnation.com was presenting 500 errors to all visitors. After three hours with support from my hosting provider, HostGator, they were able to isolate the problem to the bbPress plugin, which is now disabled. Obviously, my forums are down, but the base site is again available.

HG Level 2 support provided the following, which they said indicates that bbPress is trying to pull from PHP 5.4, although the site is now on 7.0. (The site was on 5.4 to start the day, but it was upgraded to 7.0 as part of their trouble-shooting.) HG also said that the 500 error problem would remain even if we took PHP back to 5.4.

The site is current on all code:
Wordpress 4.9.8
bbPress 2.5.14

[Tue Nov 13 10:30:27 2018] [error] [client 192.185.1.20] Failed loading /opt/php54/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20100525/ZendGuardLoader.so: /opt/php54/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20100525/ZendGuardLoader.so: undefined symbol: zval_used_for_init, referer: http://thecardinalnation.com/login/

I am not an IT professional, but will do my best to get any additional information as required. Thank you in advance.

Brian Walton

[cfrutos]

Got to make a change in a website(can’t include it) and it uses bbpress. I’m relatively new to wp also, sorry for the trouble.

The /forums route is being added to the nav bar and it’s configured correctly to be accessed but for some reason only the /forums route is not including a correct header/checking if there is a user logged in. How or where could I configure this.

[Robin W]

set $id = the number of the user eg 6 and then use

bbp_get_reply_author ($id)

[liyacaty]

Hi all.
After a lot of testings and experiments in order to get the board running with all the same functionalities I had before in 3.0.14, I tried to install a clean version of 3.20, then install the extensions needed. The tentative was successful so I decided to follow this way to bring my old board to the new version in production mode.
The problem is related to the data migration from 3.0 to 3.2.
I’ve managed to export the old data from a clean 3.0.x DB (without any mod installed) and then import them in the new, empty 3.2 DB, but the two structures differ a lot, giving me many errors.
I’ve tried to manage those errors, but editing a 150MB SQL file it’s a huge waste of time.
I’ve looked for a routine in the php migration code present in the install subdir, but I didn’t find anything usable in a easy way.
Has anyone met the same problem and is there anybody that could give me a draft solution?
Thanks in advance.

[haddly]

Hi there,
I want to do a test mailing in my staging area, to see if a new WP plugin works for BBpress. In order to do this, i want to change all emails to my personal email address for all that are subscribed to the forum (so i don’t accidentally send out mails to real users,(this has actually happened to me before)). The problem is that the WP user_email is found in the DB wp_users and the forum meta info is found in the DB wp_usermeta. What SQL statement would i use if i wanted to change the email of all bbpress “Participants” to “myemail@email.com”. I want to do something like:
UPDATE wp_users SET user_email = "myemail@email.com" WHERE wp_usermeta.meta_key = "participant";

[Robin W]

ummm…. AsynCRONous bbPress Subscriptions changes from bbpress one email and bcc to send lots of single emails, so you have moved to the system that your server doesn’t like.

Email providers stopping lots of emails is why bbpress moved to a single email with bcc, although now many email providers are stopping that, so it’s really hard to know what to do.

code to send in sets would be complicated

[shibaa987]

Well, the above function also worked but needed some modification.

Here is the code snippet that actually worked:

function bbp_increase_forum_per_page( $args = array() ) {
$args[‘posts_per_page’] = get_option( ‘_bbp_forums_per_page’, 100 );
return $args;
}
add_filter( ‘bbp_before_has_forums_parse_args’, ‘bbp_increase_forum_per_page’ );

[lookingahead]

Oh wow — I figured it out, nm!! 🙂

You can do it via CSS….like this:

#group-admins {
  pointer-events: none;
  cursor: default;
  text-decoration: none;
  color: black;
}

And in bbPress apparently that is the correct way to write that code; the #group-admins part will likely work for everyone, just as it is, because it appears to be the default name for that.

Whew!

[lookingahead]

@robin-w turns out it was a BuddyPress issue. 🙂

in the BuddyPress forums, an admin there posted this fix — and it worked!

here’s what they said:

Hi,

This is hardcoded in bbpress plugin here bbpress\includes\extend\buddypress\groups.php.

Find the line $this->slug = ‘forum’; but I think changing this may create some issues but you can check if it works fine for you or not. Also changing anything in core file is never recommended because on the next update you will lose it and then have to redo again.

One recommendation is that always take a backup of your site when you are doing such core changes.

Thanks

i hate editing in the core files, but….well, this was a last resort that apparently has no other solution for now. i’ll keep looking though, and update my files in a better way if any alternative comes up.