[Chad R. Schulz]

When I say single forum/topic/reply slug I actually meant for the single post-type slugs of forum/topic/reply. As the /forums/ slug is just a wrapper for all those bbPress custom post-types. So you could effectively remove the /forums/ wrapper and end up with just http://wwww.somesite.com/forum/name-of-specific-forum/. If you rename the single /forum/ slug to /forums/ it would become http://wwww.somesite.com/forums/name-of-specific-forum/ or something similar with topics like http://wwww.somesite.com/topics/name-of-specific-topic/

And adding the topic slug after the forum slug is not intuitive as the topics don’t actually exist inside the forums, they are simply linked to it–similar to a shortcut. This is something that can be done with breadcrumbs, however.

Again, permalinks can be rather tricky. In fact I’m fairly certain they’re the reason the “Private” forums are leading not-logged in visitors to a 404 page. I’d try putting everything back to the default settings and seeing if that fixes the error. Also, look at any customizing, plugins you might have that could interfere with bbPress defaults.

BTW, bbPress has a default error message for not-authorized users and “private” forums that should display. Again, something must be off in the settings/configuration.

My forum has no “private” forums, so I have little experience with this particular issue. Sorry.

Best of luck,
Chad

[Young Prodigy]

Hi @chadschulz

When I’m not logged in, the forum link goes to an error page. I’ve set forum visibility to “Private” because I only want course members for a specific online course I host on my site to have access to the forum. So the “private” issue doesn’t show up when not logged in because nothing shows up.

Here, take a look: https://satdecoded.com/forums/forum/support-clinic/
It leads to an error page (which I don’t know why it does) when not logged in. Any way to NOT make it lead to error page, but a custom page that just says you must be a course member to see the private forum?

I’m confused what you mean by renaming the slug for the single forum/topic/reply. I see the settings for single forum, but what I’d really like is this:

http://www.somesite.com/forums/name-of-specific-forum/some-topic/

I plan to have different forums for different online classes. Thanks!

[Robin W]

yes there is, but basically it needs you to know what your page template is called

see

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

item 8 for some more details

[thepageman]

I am a newbie with WordPress and I have been using a custom menu widget placed at the top of all of my pages to keep a consistent header going. I am now trying to use bbPress and discovered I can create a page called “Forum” and use a page builder to place my menu widget above the forum shortcode widget to achieve the header.

However, when I select a forum/topic, it goes to a different page, one that is generated by bbPress and as such, doesn’t have a page builder design of which I can place a header.

It seems like the best solution would be to implement this header into all my pages through editing some php file somewhere but that is a bit beyond my technical ability. Is there a way to add widgets to ALL bbpress pages?

[SRD75]

Hi. I tried the following code, created a new user, logged in as that user, went to subscriptions, and the user was not subscribed to any forums.

Was hoping the new user would be subscribed to the single forum that exists.

Help appreciated.

Regards,
Steve

add_filter( 'bbp_get_user_subscribe_link', 'invert_get_user_subscribe_link', 10, 4 ); //invert forum subscription
add_filter( 'bbp_is_user_subscribed_to_forum', 'invert_is_user_subscribed_to_forum', 10, 4 ); //invert forum subscription
add_filter( 'bbp_get_forum_subscribers', 'invert_get_forum_subscribers' ); //invert forum subscription
add_filter( 'bbp_is_user_subscribed', 'invert_is_user_subscribed', 10, 4 ); //invert forum subscription

function invert_is_user_subscribed($retval, $user_id, $object_id, $subscribed_ids) {
	if (get_post_type( $object_id ) == bbp_get_forum_post_type())
		return !$retval;
	else	
		return $retval;
}

function strContains($needle, $haystack) {
	if (strpos($haystack, $needle) !== false) {
		return true;
	} else {
		return false;
	}
}

function invert_get_user_subscribe_link ($html, $r, $user_id, $topic_id) {
	if (strContains( "bbp_unsubscribe", $html )) {
		$html = str_replace("bbp_unsubscribe", "bbp_subscribe", $html);
	} else {
		$html = str_replace("bbp_subscribe", "bbp_unsubscribe", $html);
	}
	return $html;
}

function invert_get_forum_subscribers( $users ) {
	$args = array('fields' => 'id');
	$all_users = get_users($args);
	$send_to_users    = array_diff($all_users, $users);
	return $send_to_users;
}

function invert_is_user_subscribed_to_forum( $retval, $user_id, $forum_id, $subscribed_ids ) {
	return !$retval;
}

[Chad R. Schulz]

I understand why you might want to change the permalinks to “clean” your url. However, this helps distinguish forums from topics from replys. For example somesite.com/forums/forum/some-forum or somesite.com/forums/topic/some-topic.

You can remove the “forums” part of the permalink in admin settings under forum and Forum Root Slug–Forum Prefix select off. And you can rename the slug for single forum/topic/reply under same menu and Single Forum Slugs. These built-in adjustments are usually harmless and can be changed as needed.

There are also a few bbPress/WordPress permalink plugins that might help–but they could also make things worse.

Above all, you want a clean url that both makes sense and remains functional. And I’ve found that messing around too much with permalink settings can often break more than fix.

And regarding that “Private” issue: Does it display that when you’re not logged in? That’s a curious quirk.

Chad

[blasterspike]

Hi Robin,
thank you for your reply.
I have tried with

function tinymce_remove_root_block_tag( $init ) {
    $init['forced_root_block'] = false; 
    return $init;
}
add_filter( 'tiny_mce_before_init', 'tinymce_remove_root_block_tag' );

function bbp_enable_visual_editor( $args = array() ) {
    $args['tinymce'] = true;
    $args['quicktags'] = false;
    return $args;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_before_get_the_content_parse_args', 'bbp_enable_visual_editor' );

or with

function tinymce_remove_root_block_tag( $init ) {
    $init['forced_root_block'] = false; 
    return $init;
}
add_filter( 'tiny_mce_before_init', 'tinymce_remove_root_block_tag' );

function bbp_enable_visual_editor( $args = array() ) {
    $args['tinymce'] = true;
    $args['quicktags'] = false;
    $args['forced_root_block'] = false;
    return $args;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_before_get_the_content_parse_args', 'bbp_enable_visual_editor' );

but I’m still getting a new paragraph for each new line.

[Robin W]

not my field of expertise, but suggest you have the wp code,

and try

function bbp_enable_visual_editor( $args = array() ) {
    $args['tinymce'] = true;
    $args['quicktags'] = false;
    return $args;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_before_get_the_content_parse_args', 'bbp_enable_visual_editor' );

this just does the ‘turn on’ earlier

may work, may not !!

[blasterspike]

Hi,
I have followed this documentation page

Enable Visual Editor

to enable TinyMCE. Now I would like to change the default behavior of TinyMCE to not add a paragraph for each new line but use instead <br>.
For WordPress I have to use this

function tinymce_remove_root_block_tag( $init ) {
    $init['forced_root_block'] = false; 
    return $init;
}
add_filter( 'tiny_mce_before_init', 'tinymce_remove_root_block_tag' );

But the TinyMCE in bbPress doesn’t get this setting.
I have tried to do something like

function bbp_enable_visual_editor( $args = array() ) {
    $args['tinymce'] = true;
    $args['quicktags'] = false;
    $args['forced_root_block'] = false;
    return $args;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_after_get_the_content_parse_args', 'bbp_enable_visual_editor' );

but it doesn’t work.
How can I pass that “forced_root_block” to the TinyMCE enabled for bbPress?

Thanks

Massimo

[Young Prodigy]

Hi there,

I have enabled forums on my site, but it seems like my forum URL is here:
http://www.satdecoded.com/forums/forum/support-clinic/

It’s set to private, so you may not be able to see it, but I’ve taken screenshots below.

The Forum Root (which is being used as a prefix slug for all forum related content) is “forums.” I’ve checked yes to the show prefix option.

Then in the single forum settings, I see that the it shows “forum” (singular, not “forums”).
Here is a screenshot of my settings: http://prntscr.com/f7m2ca

The forum I created is called “Support Clinic.” It shows up at a URL that says “/forums/forum/ support-clinic/” Here’s a screenshot of my URL: http://ibb.co/iKJrvk

How can I get rid of the “forum” in the middle? I just want it to say “/forums/support-clinic/”

I’ve also set my forum to “Private” (I was logged in as admin when I took the screenshot), so now that gets doubled too: “Private: Private: Support Clinic”

I only want it to say “Private” once. How can I do that?

Thank you!

[rgilman]

Thanks, Robin, that’s helpful.

In my case I wanted to remove that title and was able to do so with

#bbpress-forums > h3 {
    display: none;
}

But that feels like a workaround and it was a long hunt to find this bit of the UI in what I would think of as core code. I’ll make my suggestion in the trac.

[Robin W]

and if you want to suggest code changes, then this is the place

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

[Robin W]

I am just a humble user, so can’t comment on changing core code, but is it is styling capability you want you could filter the actual title eg

add_filter( 'bbp_get_forum_title', 'rew_title');

function rew_title () {

$title = '<span class="rew">.$title.'</span>' ;

return $title ;

}

[rgilman]

This is both feedback and a request.

I’m working on simplifying the UI of a Commmons In A Box site, which means I’m working with both BuddyPress and bbPress. While working on the group/forum page, I found that the forum title is hard coded as a simple h3 with no selectors into wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/extend/buddypress/groups.php at line 767. This is just before the content-single-forum template call.

My request is that the forum title be moved from groups.php and into content-single-forum.php where it can be customized through the normal child theme process. Let me know if there is a better place than here to file this as an issue.

Thanks!

[pre55]

Hi,

Just wanted to share a newly released plugin available called bbPress User Ranks and it allows you to create user ranks, star ranks, RPG ranks, user badges and month badges which display on forums and user profiles. It also has widgets and shortcodes.

You can view all the features and screenshots here:

http://pre55.com/downloads/bbpress-user-ranks/

You see the free lite version here:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-user-ranks-lite/

The plugin was created as I had been using the brilliant bbp user ranks plugin created by Robin W and although this worked great for what I initially wanted I eventually needed something a little more custom.

I have therefore built my plugin from scratch incorporating lots of great features I think will increase engagement for any bbPress forum.

Let me know what you guys think, if you have any suggestions please let me know.

[Robin W]

ok, closest without code would be :

1. go into

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>breadcrumbs

Leave Disable all forums breadcrumbs UNTICKED

but tick disable on 1, 2, & 3

then put this into

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Custom css

.bbp-breadcrumb-forum {

  border-radius: 28px;
  padding: 7px 15px;
  text-decoration: none;
  background: #3498db linear-gradient(to bottom, #3498db, #2980b9) repeat scroll 0 0

}

.bbp-breadcrumb-forum::before {

content: "Back to ";

}

you may need to play with the background color to get it to suit your website – I’ve given you a blue gradient

[Robin W]

seems like that will be fixed in bbpress 2.6

so 3 fixes

1. downgrade to a lesser version of php
2. upgrade to bbpress 2.6beta-2
3. in bbpress 2.5.12 change line 1851 from

$meta_query   = $posts_query->get( 'meta_query' );

to

$meta_query = $posts_query->get( 'meta_query', array() );

Since the next upgrade will fix that anyway, no issue in changing the bbpress file

best I can offer I’m afraid

[virusek89]

I also need something like that.
Is there any plugin or code?

[Stephen Edgar]

I was going to suggest renaming you’re plugins folder, you’ve done that already.

Try renaming the directory of your theme, or the entire themes directory if that doesn’t work

Strange, I tried hitting some URLs direct, e.g.

• http://restomod101.com/test/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=page
• http://restomod101.com/test/wp-login.php

I’d also suggest taking a look at any custom functions you have in a functions.php file

What about rewrite rules, have you any custom rules in your .htaccess file?

[dominikb]

I realized, that i used another code mentioned in this forum, to change the original names of the roles, so i deleted this code and afterwards it just worked.

[dominikb]

I put the code into a custom plugin.

[realnsleo]

Hi Robin,
I have just tried your code with BBPress 2.5.12 and I can not see the “trash” links. I hope it’s not a lot to ask, but could you know why it might be broken?

From what I could test, it has something to do with the lines where the capabilities are given, for example this line:

//allow any reply to be deleted
if ($post_type == bbp_get_reply_post_type()) $caps = array('delete_replies');

I appreciate any response.

Regards,

[xelota]

Wordpress : WordPress 4.7.4 avec le thème BlackFyre.
bbpress : Version 2.5.12
http://www.vieuxetmechants.com/

Hello i’ve created custom and i don’t understand the role MembreVetM can’t edit or delete their own post

function add_new_roles( $bbp_roles )
{
    $bbp_roles['bbp_gamer'] = array(
        'name' => 'Gamer',
         'capabilities' => custom_capabilities( 'bbp_gamer' )
        );
 
	$bbp_roles['bbp_membrevetm'] = array(
        'name' => 'MembreVetM',
         'capabilities' => custom_capabilities( 'bbp_membrevetm' )
        );
		
    $bbp_roles['bbp_veteran'] = array(
        'name' => 'Vétéran',
        'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_moderator_role() )
        );
	
	$bbp_roles['bbp_officier'] = array(
        'name' => 'Officier',
        'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_keymaster_role() )
        );
	
    return $bbp_roles;
}
 
add_filter( 'bbp_get_dynamic_roles', 'add_new_roles', 1 );
 
function add_role_caps_filter( $caps, $role )
{
    /* Only filter for roles we are interested in! */
    if( $role == 'bbp_gamer' )
        $caps = custom_capabilities( $role );
 
    if( $role == 'bbp_membrevetm' )
        $caps = custom_capabilities( $role );
 
    return $caps;
}
 
add_filter( 'bbp_get_caps_for_role', 'add_role_caps_filter', 10, 2 );
 
function custom_capabilities( $role )
{
    switch ( $role )
    {
 
        case 'bbp_gamer':
            return array(
                // Primary caps
                'spectate'              => true,
                'participate'           => true,
                'moderate'              => false,
                'throttle'              => false,
                'view_trash'            => false,
 
                // Forum caps
                'publish_forums'        => false,
                'edit_forums'           => false,
                'edit_others_forums'    => false,
                'delete_forums'         => false,
                'delete_others_forums'  => false,
                'read_private_forums'   => false,
                'read_hidden_forums'    => false,
 
                // Topic caps
                'publish_topics'        => true,
                'edit_topics'           => true,
                'edit_others_topics'    => false,
                'delete_topics'         => false,
                'delete_others_topics'  => false,
                'read_private_topics'   => false,
 
                // Reply caps
                'publish_replies'       => true,
                'edit_replies'          => true,
                'edit_others_replies'   => false,
                'delete_replies'        => false,
                'delete_others_replies' => false,
                'read_private_replies'  => false,
 
                // Topic tag caps
                'manage_topic_tags'     => false,
                'edit_topic_tags'       => false,
                'delete_topic_tags'     => false,
                'assign_topic_tags'     => false,
            );
 
			case 'bbp_membrevetm':
            return array(
                // Primary caps
                'spectate'              => true,
                'participate'           => true,
                'moderate'              => false,
                'throttle'              => false,
                'view_trash'            => false,
 
                // Forum caps
                'publish_forums'        => false,
                'edit_forums'           => false,
                'edit_others_forums'    => false,
                'delete_forums'         => false,
                'delete_others_forums'  => false,
                'read_private_forums'   => true,
                'read_hidden_forums'    => false,
 
                // Topic caps
                'publish_topics'        => true,
                'edit_topics'           => true,
                'edit_others_topics'    => false,
                'delete_topics'         => true,
                'delete_others_topics'  => false,
                'read_private_topics'   => true,
 
                // Reply caps
                'publish_replies'       => true,
                'edit_replies'          => true,
                'edit_others_replies'   => false,
                'delete_replies'        => true,
                'delete_others_replies' => false,
                'read_private_replies'  => true,
 
                // Topic tag caps
                'manage_topic_tags'     => true,
                'edit_topic_tags'       => false,
                'delete_topic_tags'     => true,
                'assign_topic_tags'     => true,
            );
 
            break;
 
        default :
            return $role;
    }
}

[negi15]

where did you put that code?

[blengine]

Another solution for those interested. This makes use of the “Shortcodes in Menus” plugin to easily place the bbpress “View Profile” and “Edit Profile” links in your WordPress nav menus. Instructions:

1 – Install the free plugin “Shortcodes in Menus”
2 – Place the following code in your theme’s functions.php file:

function menu_profile_link() { 
		$current_user = wp_get_current_user();
		$profile_menu_item = '<li><a href="' . home_url('forums/users/') . $current_user->user_nicename . '">View Profile</a></li>';
		return $profile_menu_item;
}
add_shortcode('bbp-profile', 'menu_profile_link');

function menu_edit_profile_link() { 
		$current_user = wp_get_current_user();
		$profile_menu_item = '<li><a href="' . home_url('forums/users/') . $current_user->user_nicename . '/edit">Edit Profile</a></li>';
		return $profile_menu_item;
}
add_shortcode('bbp-edit-profile', 'menu_edit_profile_link');

3 – In WordPress go to your Menus and go to the new Shortcodes panel. Type in “View Profile” as the title and underneath that type in [bbp-profile] to place the profile link in your menu. Click “Add to Menu”. Repeat this process using the shortcode [bbp-edit-profile] to add the “Edit Profile” link.

4 – I’d also recommend the free plug-in “Nav Menu Roles” to restrict your menu items to logged in or logged out users.

Hope this is useful!