[yoyoma1999]

I am using WordPress 4.7.2 and bbpress Version 2.5.12. I have tried the code as mentioned in previous post. However, it doesn’t work. Could any generous guys can help me?

My main objective is to set spectator to have ability to post/edit a post. That’s it.

1. Is there any other easiest way to do it?
2. If no, any change besides the false/true value I suppose to amend?
3. Where should I put the code, only capabilites.php?

I wish someone can show me step by step solution. Thank you so much.

[dropshot]

Thanks for your reply.

This might seem obvious for the creator of bbpress. But it really isn’t. I think you need to drop the word “partner” cause that is really confusing.

Method 1:
This doesn’t do anything other than adds a page that you can add to your navigation. You could instead basically add a custom link to your navigation because the page itself isn’t displayed since you have the same slug as you set for forum root index. The default bbpress index will be displayed. Having a wordpress-page is just confusing since nothing added to that page is displayed.

Method 2:
This method doesn’t mention the slug at all so I presume the slug here is different then the one set as forum root index. Fine. Name your page anything and add anything along with the shortcode [bbp-forum-index]. There you have it. You think…

You think you have customized your forum index page. But in fact that page is just a non-bbpress page that happens to have bbpress content in it. How so?

1) Your breadcrumb forum index link will still display the default index page.

2) And if you use the bbp style pack to add login-logout-buttons to your navigation it won’t recognize your custom index page as a bbpress-page. (The buttons won’t display when option is set to only display on forum pages)

Maybe it’s just me, but If I create my own index page, of course I want that page to be the index page linked to in the breadcrumbs as well.

So. I’m struggling with the word “partner” here. In my mind it says a wordpress page can partner with bbpress and act as the forum index page. As a replacement not as an addition. It can’t be that you should have TWO different index pages, can it?

So, how do I create a custom forum index page that is recognized as a forum page and acts as the forum index page in the breadcrumbs?

Cheers!

[talonfl1]

Hello, using WP 4.7.2, with BBPress sort topic relpies 1.0.3, I’ve set the form sort options to descending, along with forums and topics sidebar to descending. when I view Forums or Topics from their main pages the plug in works as advertised, however when I use the short code [bbp-single-topic id=1286] what is displayed is the topic but not sorted correctly.

REEF Webcam

should have newst post on top.

[Robin W]

see

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

item 3

method 2 lets you add text before (or after) such as

“welcome to our forums….”

[ddevries]

I was using method 1 with postname. My forum root is called “forums” in settings. When that didn’t work, I tried #2 by putting a shortcode in. Still didn’t work.

I noticed last night that the individual forums show fine when I go directly to them:
http://livelovecards.com/forums/forum/cardstock/
It’s not pretty, but at least it’s formatting.

So I guess it’s just the list of forums that isn’t showing correctly. Is there something different about this page?

Thanks for your help, Robin. I appreciate it more than you know. 🙂

Darlene

[dropshot]

Customize your Forums root. Partner with a WordPress Page and use Shortcodes for more flexibility.

What does this mean??

I’ve set the forums root to “forums”. Then I’ve created a WP-page with slug “forums” and included some shortcodes.

The WP-page is ignored, so content displayed on /forums is the bbpress default index page.

What does this mean: “Partner with a WordPress Page and use Shortcodes for more flexibility.”??

How do I replace the default index with a WP-page?

[Robin W]

I suspect it is a theme issue, it seems to be rendering as a paragraph.

what method in item 3 below are you using

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

[lijitimit]

Old topic to be chiming in on but this helped a lot, thanks @tharsheblows!

I changed it up to simply add buttons to the pages instead of the login form, and made sure that upon login, it redirected back to the topic or forum.

//this adds the login and register links underneath on a single topic so someone can leave a reply. It uses the same logic as form-reply
function mjj_new_reply_login(){
	if( !bbp_current_user_can_access_create_reply_form() && !bbp_is_topic_closed() && !bbp_is_forum_closed( bbp_get_topic_forum_id() ) ){ ?>
		<a href="<?php echo wp_login_url( get_permalink() ); ?>" title="Login">Login</a>
                <a href="<?php echo wp_registration_url(); ?>">Register</a>
<?php
	}
}

add_action('bbp_template_after_single_topic', 'mjj_new_reply_login');

//this adds the llogin and register links underneath on a single forum so someone can start a topic. It uses the same logic as form-topic
function mjj_new_topic_login(){
	if( !bbp_current_user_can_access_create_topic_form() && !bbp_is_forum_closed() ){ ?>
		<a href="<?php echo wp_login_url( get_permalink() ); ?>" title="Login">Login</a>
                <a href="<?php echo wp_registration_url(); ?>">Register</a>
<?php
	}
}

add_action('bbp_template_after_single_forum', 'mjj_new_topic_login');

I personally did them as buttons, if you have a .button class just add class="button" between <a and href=.

Hope that helps someone in the future.

[yoyoma1999]

I am using WordPress 4.7.2 and bbpress Version 2.5.12. I have tried the code as mentioned in previous post. However, it doesn’t work. Could any generous guys can help me?

My main objective is to set spectator to have ability to post/edit a post. That’s it.

1. Is there any other easiest way to do it?
2. If no, any change besides the false/true value I suppose to amend?
3. Where should I put the code, only capabilites.php?

I wish someone can show me step by step solution. Thank you so much.

[cit1000]

Hi,

we needed to use the visual editor for our forum, since a lot of the normal users are not familiar with html, especially when it comes to URLs/Links

Sadly, there are a lot of copy&paste related texts that are showing visible code.
Mostly METADATA from word, when someone copied text from a doc or docx file.

Now, the strange thing is, that I couldn´t reproduce this with my version (Office 2016, Win 8).
The visual editor looks fine (the text editor is full of meta data, a mess, but it “looks OK”)

Has anyone an idea why this happens to some users and some not?

I found a plugin for this kind of problem, but maybe there are recommendations, experiences or other solutions. Thank you in advance!

[sjc]

I had a similar need – to show the user’s bio on their replies – so sharing my solution here, a simple function created after having a look at this nifty little plugin by Robin W.

function show_bio_bbp_replies () {
$user_id = bbp_get_reply_author_id( $reply_id );
$usermeta = get_userdata( $user_id, 'description' );
echo '<p class="bbp-reply-user-bio">'.$usermeta->description.'</p>';
}
add_action ('bbp_theme_after_reply_author_details', 'show_bio_bbp_replies');

[Robin W]

you may need to add this to your functions file to get it for particpants

add_filter (‘pw_bbp_parse_shortcodes_cap’ , ‘publish_topics’ ) ;

[Robin W]

This used to work, see no reason why it should not still be fully functional!

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-do-short-codes/

[cskasler]

Hello bbPress Profis,

i hope, that i can find a solution or you can help me…

i’m searching for a plugin to make different forms for different topics.

for example: topic name web designers:

form to post:
– Name:
– City:
– Experience:
– etc…

other topic name: Job
topic form:
Company name:
Job title:
Job description:
Salary:
Start date:
etc…

And i would like to get a pre-formatted post…

is there a plugin what can help me?

I’m not a coder, so i can make only smaller changes, i use plugins to build my own sites, but in this case i would need a lot of different user made content and this would be a cool solution, to don’t need 20 different plugins to make my site slow.

[yo35]

Hi,
Is it possible to use WordPress shortcodes in bbPress posts? (I mean either native WordPress shortcodes such as [caption][/caption], [gallery ...], or shortcodes defined by third-party plugins).
To be more precise, I’m the author of a WordPress plugin that allows to insert chess diagrams and/or chess games in WordPress posts/pages (see https://wordpress.org/plugins/rpb-chessboard/). I would like to extend to have chess games/diagrams in bbPress posts.
Thank you beforehand.

[lijitimit]

I am looking to change the buttons in the default text editor to those that appear in the fancy visual editor. My audience is overseas and are familiar with the “microsoft word” style of buttons. I have tried Enabling the visual editor however am experiencing issues with inline replies. I actually prefer the default text editor as it strips out copied html, so really I just need so fancy buttons. Can I do so with css or create a filter to call the other toolbar instead of qt_bbp_topic_content_toolbar ?

[Barry]

Hi @fhasst1,

(Let me start by noting it could very well be that you already know this—but something in your post made me want to call it out just in case you weren’t aware.)

bbPress runs on top of WordPress. That’s important because it means if a user has logged into your (WordPress-driven) site/app then, by extension, they will have logged into the forum (insofar as bbPress will realize they are an authenticated user and will be able to identify them) … no need for a separate login.

Also, I think it’s worth calling out the fact that when it comes to adjusting the way bbPress behaves, or building some new forum feature, there is a really quite extensive set of functions, hooks and methods available to you that make it a really awesome platform to build on.

codex.bbpress.org

[tenabrae]

All the answers I can find to this question seem old and the solutions don’t work.

I’ve tried copying my theme’s full width template to my child theme and naming it bbpress.php
I’ve tried copying bbpress.css to my child theme and adding the CSS for article width to it and adjusting it to 100% (which works fine in the theme if I want to change ALL my content to 100%)

How can i get JUST my bbPress generated pages to be full width ? Currently i’m linking straight to the forums, should I be putting them in full width pages and generating them with short code instead as a workaround ?

Note: the bbpress.php override works fine but I can’t figure out how to override the .css that’s keeping the forum box small.

/* Arrange posts into grid structure on archive pages */
.archive article,
.blog article,
.search article {
-moz-box-sizing: border-box;
-webkit-box-sizing: border-box;
box-sizing: border-box;
float: left;
margin-bottom: 3.33333%;
padding-left: 1.11111%;
padding-right: 1.11111%;
width: 33.33333%;
}

[Robin W]

your theme is setting the css blockquote to 171.4%

if your theme has a custom css area put this into it

blockquote {
font-size: 100% !important;
}

[rainbowint]

I am on WordPress 4.7.2 and bbPress 2.5.12 and suddenly this combination stopped working layoutwise. bbPress is just outputting content (text), but without any tables or any other formatting.

The glitch happens with all WordPress themes not just a particular theme.
I am using “bbPress Tweaks” to render the output in my theme. Deactivating bbPress Tweaks did not solve it.

Unfortunately we use this website for internal communications, so can’t just put a link here, you have to have an active user to login.

Therefore I uploaded some pictures of what is happening:
https://www.rainbow-international.de/screen.jpg
https://www.rainbow-international.de/screen2.jpg

I tried everything disabling plugins, downgrading WordPress, downgrading bbPress itself. But I can’t get the older versions of bbPress to run. Something in the code is crashing -> white page. So I am stuck with 2.5.12.

Thank you in advance!

[Stephen Edgar]

Oh, that is strange, can you check the contents of the following file for me on your beta 2:

bbpress/includes/admin/converter.php#L653

That line should read $max_index_length = 191;

One other thing, you might need to run the “reset forums” tool first from:

/wp-admin/tools.php?page=bbp-reset

That will delete that old table (and *all* your forum data) and make it available to be created in the updated format.

[John James Jacoby]

If you create a page with the same slug as your forum index, you can use either the [bbp-forum-index] or [bbp-topic-index] shortcode in your page content to output the list you desire.

bbPress won’t complain, and you’ll be able to customize the page title and content if you desire.

It’s not exactly a hidden trick, but it’s what we use here on bbPress.org and seems to work OK. If that approach is creating a broken breadcrumb, that’s definitely a bug.

[wautersandreas]

Hi, i have the same exact problem.
I don’t really know why everybody isn’t tagging this as an issue. As far as i can see, it’s just nog a logical way to do it.

– on the one hand, a forum index is created by default, but cyou can’t use it on it’s own if you want to start customizing things.
– So you need to make a page and put the index in there.
– On the other hand, you can’t easily specify what your page for the root is, so there is no way to let the breadcrumbs be redirected to the index page.

– Are there other options? because the enormous bit of code to fix it is a bit too complex for me.

[TiiuK]

Hello,

I try to import my phpBB 3.2.0 (latest stable version) to bbPress (latest version 2.5.12) using the default import tool in the WordPress 4.7.2 backend. The phpBB is clean, no mods / plugins or custom styles. I get this error:

Repair any missing information: Continue

WordPress database error: [Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes]
CREATE TABLE MNmAD_bbp_converter_translator ( meta_id mediumint(8) unsigned not null auto_increment, value_type varchar(25) null, value_id bigint(20) unsigned not null default ‘0’, meta_key varchar(255) null, meta_value varchar(255) null, PRIMARY KEY (meta_id), KEY value_id (value_id), KEY meta_join (meta_key(191), meta_value(191)) ) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci;

No data to clean

Starting Conversion

I don’t know any MySQL so I don’t understand what to do. If relevant here the collations used: utf8_bin (phpBB) and utf8mb4_general_ci (WordPress).

Any suggestions?
Tiiu

[corne.smit@gmail.com]

I deployed the bbpress plugin.
on the Lost Password page, using the Lost password shortcode, I cannot finalise the action to do a lost password. get an error message that says that captcha has not been entered.
Problem: captcha is not even on the screen.
Note: it is however on the WordPress Lost Password screen.

Any help on how to get the captcha feature on the Lost password bbpress functionality?