[Chad R. Schulz]

There’s contradictory information inside these forums about whether it’s possible to have front-end editing for a forum in bbpress.

Within the code there’s obviously support (or once was). However, every attempt to access front-end editing using a /forum/sample-forum/edit url results in a 404.

Older posts here indicate this used to work. Yet, some more current posts state that front-end editing for forums is not yet(?) possible (only topics and replies).

What information is correct? Is front-end forum editing still possible in core as default or has it (for some reason) been deactivated? And if it is still an option what things could I check for why I’m getting a 404 instead of the form-forum.php template?

Thanks for any help,
Chad

[Aliosha Kasin]

I’d like to hide/remove the “right now in forums” widget from the dashboard. There are some code snippets online but none seem to work.

Can anyone help?

[Robin W]

Thanks for posting back

To remove the indent and the left hand border,
put the following into the custom css tab of the plugin

#bbpress-forums .bbp-forums-list {
  border-left: none;
  padding-left: 0px;
}

If you still want the border, then just

#bbpress-forums .bbp-forums-list {
  padding-left: 0px;
}

[meervdnick]

Hello,

I am currently working on my websites forum. The thing is. I have two diffrent pages where I want to display a forum. One page is a ‘search’ forum and one page is a ‘find’ page. The topics on each page must be the same. I used the shortcode [bbp-forum-index] on both pages but this results in the same forum on both pages. So now, when I enter a post in the ‘search’ page it automaticly shows up in the ‘find’ page.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Kind regards,

Nick

[Venutius]

I am also trying to hide forums from the list, in my case it’s all of my BuddyPress Group Forums, I think that these forums should be held within the groups and not displayed in the general list of forums. I’ve not seen a solution for this other than trying to code which unfortunately I’m not up to.

[meervdnick]

Hello,

I hava a question. I am currently working on my website’s forum. I want to use two different pages for two topics. So, one page is for the ‘search’ topic and one page is for the ‘find’ topic. The problem is when I use the shortcode [bbp-forum-index] in the pages they automaticaly become the same. So when I post something in the ‘search’ topic the same message appear in the ‘find’ topic. Does anyone know how to solve this?

Kind regards,

Nick

[gameslopedy]

Our http://gameslopedy.com/forums/ recent replies widget doesnt shows times correctly it shows just “46 years ago ” thats very strange Why? :

Example:

RECENT REPLIES
Your '' action must run in a post's context! winno on How to create XBox One ISOs
46 years, 11 months ago
Your '' action must run in a post's context! aqui on How to create XBox One ISOs
46 years, 11 months ago
Your '' action must run in a post's context! VampireSwizz on How to create XBox One ISOs
46 years, 11 months ago
Your '' action must run in a post's context! myhtril on How to create XBox One ISOs
46 years, 11 months ago
Your '' action must run in a post's context! rubyy on Should I get the New 3DS or the Old 3DS for POKEMON MOON
46 years, 11 months ago
Your '' action must run in a post's context! lawa on Should I get the New 3DS or the Old 3DS for POKEMON MOON
46 years, 11 months ago
Your '' action must run in a post's context! astrangeon on Selling Private Headers from offline Games (3 in stock, region free)
46 years, 11 months ago

[Stephen Edgar]

When you have BuddyPress activated they user profiles now us e member instead of bbPress user profile URLs

[pcpro178]

No love for this post? I’m using WordPress version 4.6.1, and I’ve received this feedback from my hosting provider regarding this issue:

I navigated to templates/default/bbpress/bbpress-templates and the file ‘bbpress-templates’ is a symbolic link to bbpress-templates:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 sopearly_admin pg1217016 17 Jul 28 18:02 bbpress-templates -> bbpress-templates

I’m not exactly certain how the symbolic link is referring itself but I’m afraid you may have to inquire with bbpress support as to why the plugin is failing with permission errors due to the file, bbpress-templates.

[cinquantesix]

Wordpress 4.4.5
bbPress 2.5.10

Hello, when I create a page and insert a shortcode (like bbp-forum-index for example), my whole page is displayed properly.

http://www.legofftechnique.com/forum

But if I get inside a topic, my footer is not displayed properly anymore. Instead, I see Visual Composer shortcodes.

http://www.legofftechnique.com/forums/forum/discussion-generale

Do I need to add something in my bbpress.php template ?

If anybody can help me, I would appreciate it very much !

[ricky9]

Hi all

Fairly new to WordPress and the use of plugins (and the complications of interacting with themes) so please bare with me!

I am using the them Accelerate Pro theme, Version 2.5.10 of bbpress on a managed WordPress 4.6.1 site provided through godaddy. I have installed bbpress but I have come across two problems.

Firstly I do not seem to get the bbpress sidebar in widgets after installation? I have been trying to work round this by utilising Widget Logic options and codes (from a community help page) but is there anyway of getting this sidebar on my theme which would be a lot easier!

Secondly (and more importantly!) – the display of the fields on the registration page (I have create using shortcodes) gives the full width for the username and email fields but the rest (First Name (required), Last Name (required), Company/Organisation (required), Confirm Email (required), Password (required), Confirm Password (required) only display across about 1/8th of the page and look horribly bunched up. I suspect this is a problem across bbpress on my site but it is most noticeable here.
The url of the page is:

Register Forum Account

Other pages created are:

Forum

and

Restore Forum Password

I have not done much in the way of setting up forums and topics as I wanted to get it displaying correctly first.

Help! You advice and guidance is most welcomed to ease my frustration!

Kind regard

Ricky

[ricky9]

Hi all

Fairly new to WordPress and the use of plugins (and the complications of interacting with themes) so please bare with me!

I am using the them Accelerate Pro theme, Version 2.5.10 of bbPress on a managed WordPress 4.6.1 site provided through godaddy. I have installed bbPress but I have come across two problems.

Firstly I do not seem to get the bbPress sidebar in widgets after installation? I have been trying to work round this by utilising Widget Logic options and codes (from a community help page) but is there anyway of getting this sidebar on my theme which would be a lot easier!

Secondly (and more importantly!) – the display of the fields on the registration page (I have create using shortcodes) gives the full width for the username and email fields but the rest (First Name (required), Last Name (required), Company/Organisation (required), Confirm Email (required), Password (required), Confirm Password (required) only display across about 1/8th of the page and look horribly bunched up. I suspect this is a problem across bbPress on my site but it is most noticeable here.
The url of the page is:

Register Forum Account

Other pages created are:
http://ruralengland.org/forum/
and

Restore Forum Password

I have not done much in the way of setting up forums and topics as I wanted to get it displaying correctly first.

Help! You advice and guidance is most welcomed to ease my frustration!

Kind regards

Ricky

[Jochen Gererstorfer]

Hello,
there is a problem with bbpress, that prevents SEO Plugins to do there job.

The problem exists only for the forum index page. Also if you use a standard page an paste the [bbp-forum-index] shortcode.

* That page is not handled anymore as a page, so it gets a noindex tag by the SEO plugins.
* It’s also not possible to add a custom title, description or other meta tags.

The bbpress forum index is completely ignoring all of that settings.
The result is a noindex forum index without a reasonable title and description.

Example:
Forum index

Screenshot of the ignored settings:

I talked with the codes a the German WPseo plugin.
They told me, that bbpress is using so crude things for that index and doesn’t use wordpress standards.

I also found here in the forum and on Google, that Yoast and All in one SEO Pack have the same problems with bbpress.

Is there a way to get that fixed?

A forum index with nofollow makes no sense at all.

thanks
Jochen

[JoeCec]

Has anyone been able to inject googles captcha widget into the login prompt? If so, do you mind pointing me to the source code?

[Ismail]

You’re welcome all. Happy to be able to help 🙂

@wasanajones You can use get_the_excerpt( $se_post ) or just post_excerpt property of the WP_Post object:

Edit the last callback from previous code to go as this:

add_filter('bbp_get_form_topic_content', function( $body ) {
	global $se_post;
	if( $se_post ) {
		return $se_post->post_excerpt;
	}
	return $body;
});

I did not test this but I am sure it should work.

Best,
Samuel

[idpokute]

Hi gurus,

I’m wonder how I can display topics under specific category.
Here is example;
Game News (category)
– PC (forum)
– Mobile (forum)
Local Community (category)
– Toronto (forum)
– Tokyo (forum)

I want to show PC and Mobile game news, when users access ‘News’ page.
Did I miss the shortcode that I need to write on ‘News’ page?

Thank you in advance.

[gbbgadmin]

Update. Today we did the following:

1. Deactivated all BuddyPress and bbPress plugins. Uninstalled all BuddyPress and bbPress plugins. Removed all BuddyPress and bbPress data from the database, but kept a backup copy of the data and tables.
2. Installed fresh WordPress on fresh server. Installed new, fresh plugins.
3. Site worked.
4. Replaced data from backup.
5. Entire site works, EXCEPT there is a 503 error when people try to post a reply on a forum, and a 503 error when we try to go to the “replies” page from the wp-admin.

So, maybe something in the data? Could someone have posted a reply that has some content that is breaking the php code when trying to see the Admin panel “replies” page or when people try to post a reply?

We have learned another thing. When people post a reply, the reply DOES go into the db and it is visible to other members on the forum. HOWEVER, the person posting the reply gets a 503 error during the process and has to come back to the site fresh to see the forum, including their post.

Something is causing a 503 error ONLY when replying OR when we try to access the Admin “Replies” page as admin. It is very very strange.

[Robin W]

It is the shortcode, but I think that you probably need to pay someone to do this – different theme work in different ways and clearly this is not within your current skillset

http://jobs.wordpress.net/

[u_Oi]

bbPress Messages works fine… maybe there is something wrong with WAMP.

Try to buy the pro version to get faster support and better features! bbPress Messages Pro

Regards,

[u_Oi]

Hi Buddies!

I checked out the “Layout and functionality” page, and I found that I can add Social Media Fields to bbPress through this function:

function add_extra_contactmethod( $contactmethods ) {
// Add new ones
$contactmethods['twitter'] = 'Twitter';
$contactmethods['facebook'] = 'Facebook';
$contactmethods['googleplus'] = 'Google Plus';
$contactmethods['youtube'] = 'Youtube';
  
// remove unwanted
unset($contactmethods['aim']);
unset($contactmethods['jabber']);
unset($contactmethods['yim']);
  
return $contactmethods;
}
add_filter('user_contactmethods', 'add_extra_contactmethod');

I wonder if there is a way to make them visible. I mean if I add my Facebook account could bbPress show it on the public profile with a Facebook Icon?

And also show them in users topics and replies posted?

Any advice, thanks!

[Ismail]

@treeflips

Hi contemplate,

Can you make a skimmed down version of your solution for people who have ONLY bbpress?

/**
 * Hooked into the new reply function, this notification action is responsible
 * for notifying topic and hierarchical reply authors of topic replies.
 * Fixed: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/new-reply-notification-link-to-the-reply/
 */
function bbp_buddypress_add_notification_custom( $reply_id = 0, $topic_id = 0, $forum_id = 0, $anonymous_data = false, $author_id = 0, $is_edit = false, $reply_to = 0 ) {

	// Bail if somehow this is hooked to an edit action
	if ( !empty( $is_edit ) ) {
		return;
	}

	// Get autohr information
	$topic_author_id   = bbp_get_topic_author_id( $topic_id );
	$secondary_item_id = $author_id;

	// Hierarchical replies
	if ( !empty( $reply_to ) ) {
		$reply_to_item_id = bbp_get_topic_author_id( $reply_to );
	}

	// Get some reply information
	$args = array(
		'user_id'          => $topic_author_id,
		'item_id'          => $reply_id,
		'component_name'   => bbp_get_component_name(),
		'component_action' => 'bbp_new_reply',
		'date_notified'    => get_post( $reply_id )->post_date,
	);

 	// Notify the topic author if not the current reply author
 	if ( $author_id !== $topic_author_id ) {
		$args['secondary_item_id'] = $secondary_item_id ;

		bp_notifications_add_notification( $args );
 	}
 
 	// Notify the immediate reply author if not the current reply author
 	if ( !empty( $reply_to ) && ( $author_id !== $reply_to_item_id ) ) {
		$args['secondary_item_id'] = $reply_to_item_id ;

		bp_notifications_add_notification( $args );
 	}
}
remove_action( 'bbp_new_reply', 'bbp_buddypress_add_notification', 10 );
add_action( 'bbp_new_reply', 'bbp_buddypress_add_notification_custom', 10, 7 );

[Ismail]

Can you point me to the function that converts @mentions to links. I feel like I can figure this out but I can’t find where it’s being converted.

It is called bbp_make_mentions_clickable and located line:424 of \includes\common\formatting.php. The function is hooked in \includes\core\filters.php:248

[johnskennedy]

Thanks for the reply, unfortunately it did not work for me, but off a hunch I cut some code from the .php file, saved it, and then replaced the code and now it seems to work again. Still not sure why but hope this helps someone.

[Robin W]

would need bespoke code.

You can get close by having forums per team and using

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbp-private-groups

but without further code it wouldn’t restrict them to their own topics

[Robin W]

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