[epretorious]

> Thanks, Pascal: That worked perfectly!

One, very important correction: If visitors to the site aren’t logged in, they see nothing – not even the warning that “You must be logged in to…” 🙁

There must be an easy way to do away with that “Oh bother!…” bit of text without leaving visitors in the dark. 🙁

Maybe I should just manually change the source:

[root@cp bbpress]# grep -r bother *
languages/bbpress.pot:msgid "Oh bother! No forums were found here!"
languages/bbpress.pot:msgid "Oh bother! No replies were found here!"
languages/bbpress.pot:msgid "Oh bother! No search results were found here!"
languages/bbpress.pot:msgid "Oh bother! No topics were found here!"
templates/default/bbpress/feedback-no-topics.php:	<p><?php _e( 'Oh bother! No topics were found here!', 'bbpress' ); ?></p>
templates/default/bbpress/feedback-no-replies.php:	<p><?php _e( 'Oh bother! No replies were found here!', 'bbpress' ); ?></p>
templates/default/bbpress/feedback-no-search.php:	<p><?php _e( 'Oh bother! No search results were found here!', 'bbpress' ); ?></p>
templates/default/bbpress/feedback-no-forums.php:	<p><?php _e( 'Oh bother! No forums were found here!', 'bbpress' ); ?></p>

Eric Pretorious
Portland, OR

[epretorious]

I’m really surprised to see that bbPress warns visitors to the forums that “You must be logged in to create new topics.” but does not provide a link to the login page. e.g.,

<a href='/login.php'>Login</a> to create new topics and/or to reply to topics.

Is there some way to correct that?

TIA,
Eric Pretorious
Portland, OR

[epretorious]

Robin:

Originally: I hid the top primary menu by adding a bit of CSS to the child theme:

.primary-navigation {
        display: none;
}

…but I have since enabled the top primary menu.

HTH,
Eric Pretorious
Portland, OR

[Robkk]

Creating a new view template will help with the layout of how you want it. And yes you can still show that view with a shortcode.

[MalMac]

Apologies for being unclear,

The shortcode I posted worked, just wondering if I create a new view template if I will be able to call it in a shortcode?

Thanks!

[Robkk]

The shortcode that you posted seemed alright with the code you posted, so you had the right ID and everything, only thing I would possibly say is if those quotes don’t work use single quotes.

'

[MalMac]

Thats a great help, Thanks! Would it be possible to call this new view in a shortcode?

[Robkk]

The toolbar on this site is sort of absolutely positioned, it has this CSS used. Its not really that great if you want a good mobile site.

#wpadminbar {
  top: 81px;
}

[Robkk]

If you want a specific view to have images, you would need to create a custom view template called either single-view-recent-with-topic-image.php or view-recent-with-topic-image.php and most of the code would be based on the single-view.php template in the extras folder in the bbPress plugin, you would have to make it custom enough to include the featured image code, and I guess however your users will be able to select a featured image during topic creation.

[Robkk]

Well I don’t entirely understand where you are getting at, but I mean its possible for a user to have 3 different roles.

For example.

Site Role – Subscriber – Default WordPress role
Forum Role – Participant – Default bbPress role
Membership Role – Premium Member – Some paid membership framework plugins role

If you want 1 custom site role with different capabilities that other roles might have, consider creating a custom user role. But be aware of what each capability does, so that you will not give your users permissions that you do not exactly want them to have.

Creating a custom bbPress role guide.

https://codex.bbpress.org/custom-capabilities/

bbPress user roles and capabilities

https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started/before-installing/bbpress-user-roles-and-capabilities/

WordPress roles and capabilities

https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities

And a plugin I would recommend to create a custom user role with custom capabilities would be a plugin called Members by Justin Tadlock.

[MalMac]

Hello All,

This is what I have so far:

in my functions.php file:
bbp_register_view( 'recent-with-topic-image', __( 'Recent With Topic Image' ), array(false ,'author' => 0, 'show_stickies' => false, 'order' => 'DESC', 'post_parent' => 'any', 'posts_per_page' => 8 ), false );

corresponding short code
[bbp-single-view id="recent-with-topic-image"]

What can I add to array to show the featured image from the topic that the post is in?

Thanks, Malcolm

[Robkk]

I think other moderators thought this was spam.

I can see that it is hard to tell unless you go digging in your sites source code to tell if you are using bbPress.

I knew one day with all these users basically using bbPress as a blog, that a designer one day would customize and create custom templates for bbPress enough to just make it look like a blog.

Interesting and very unique stuff!!

You don’t even have to worry about waiting for bbPress replies for blog posts, because your whole site is mainly using bbPress.

Interesting as hell to see bbPress turn into a news site.

[Robkk]

Its the WordPress toolbar, a bit customized, but its definitely the default WordPress toolbar.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Toolbar

[Joe Greenwood]

I have already posted this question, but has not been approved by moderators. Please approve, has been entire day already, thank you.

I have issue where bbPress HTML code is being written above the <doctype> declaration in my page, but this only happens when not logged in / signed in to WordPress. This is for Forums and Topics pages, and none others. When logged in, then HTML code is written in its proper place. I will attach a screenshot showing both instances, the top being when not signed in (HTML is out of place, before <doctype>), the bottom when signed in (HTML is correctly placed in body, and <doctype> comes first as it should).

Any ideas on where this HTML might be called differently, depending on whether or not user is logged in? I have tried disabling plugins. Perhaps it is something with my theme. My site can be viewed at http://www.lexiconleep.com/forums/forum/leep-questions-answers/ … I wonder if it has something to do with assigning a forum role to anonymous users..? Perhaps anonymous (not logged in) users need to have a forum role … I will look into this. Thanks!

[Robin W]

have you followed

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

and what have you got for step 3?

[Stephen Edgar]

The dashes ———— usually indicate that the database connection has been lost, sadly this one bug I’ve not been able to nail down with the importer to fix and give a decent warning/error message.

Basically a workaround is to open another tab in your browser to the dashboard page and refresh it every hour so and by doing so WordPress doesn’t “lose” the database connection

[Robkk]

@lnangel well for IPs specifically, if you put her IP into the comment blacklist she will be blocked from posting in your forums.

There are also cases where people don’t know that plugins can hook into the comment blacklist with their own custom list, like I have seen issues where a Mojo Marketplace plugin would cause this same error. So if she would use profanity that might be in a custom blacklist for the comment blacklist, she would be blocked.

You can know if it was this, if she sees the error notice listed in the guide.

She could go over the link limit settings in Settings > Disscussion too

From there her actual posts would be set as pending I think.

https://codex.bbpress.org/moderation-and-blacklisting/

Other things could be spam plugins like Akismet that work with bbPress possibly being too aggressive.

[Robkk]

So you are trying to configure BuddyPress with its own inbuilt bbPress v1 forums? I think the bbPress v1 in BuddyPress (BP Forums) has issues in the last few major version of BuddyPress.

Why not look into just using the latest version of bbPress v2 and BuddyPress and use BuddyPress’ groups feature with bbPress.

https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/

[thegarnet]

I found the excellent article by Tanner Moushey on how to create groups programmaticaly: https://tannermoushey.com/2014/08/create-groups-buddypress/

However I also need to create a forum for each group, and I can’t get his suggestion of using groups_new_group_forum to work. I read other posts of getting function doesnt exist error for bp_forums_new_forum (which groups_new_group_forum calls), but I believe I found the right requires to get that function, and everything it depends on, but now I am getting an error about null several layers down within bb code.

Here is my code so far:

<?php
/* Show the errors in browser */

error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', 1);

/** Load WordPress Bootstrap */
require_once( dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/../admin.php' );

/** Load WordPress dashboard API */
require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php');

wp_dashboard_setup();

do_action('bbpress_init');

?>

<H1>Add Groups</H1>

<?php

$args = array(
'group_id' => 0,
'creator_id' => 0,
'name' => 'California',
'description' => 'For people located in California',
'slug' => 'california',
'status' => 'public',
'enable_forum' => 1,
'date_created' => bp_core_current_time()
);

?>

<p>Creating group '<?php echo $args[name] ?>'</p>

<?php

$newgroupid = groups_create_group($args);

?>

<?php

////////////////////////////
// Now creating a new forum

// Not needed for get groups_create_group - this already got included
// require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-groups/bp-groups-forums.php');

// For bp_forums_new_forum
require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bp-forums-functions.php');

// For bb_new_forum
require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/bb-includes/class.bb-walker.php');
require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/bb-admin/includes/functions.bb-admin.php');

// For bb_current_user_can
require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/bb-includes/functions.bb-capabilities.php');

// Example from: http://buddypress.wp-a2z.org/oik_api/groups_new_group_forum/
$newforumid = groups_new_group_forum($newgroupid,'California','For people located in California');

?>

<table>
<tr><td>Newly created group id:</td><td><?php echo $newgroupid ?></td><td>Groups</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Newly created forum id:</td><td><?php echo $newforumid ?></td><td>Forums</td>
</tr>

</table>


It throws this error:

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function get_var() on null in /Users/eyespider/projects/justiceserved/local/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/bb-admin/includes/functions.bb-admin.php:992 Stack trace:
#0 /Users/eyespider/projects/justiceserved/local/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bp-forums-functions.php(123): bb_new_forum(Array)
#1 /Users/eyespider/projects/justiceserved/local/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-groups/bp-groups-forums.php(47): bp_forums_new_forum(Array)
#2 /Users/eyespider/projects/justiceserved/local/wp-admin/custom/add-groups2.php(67): groups_new_group_forum(38, 'California', 'For people loca...')
#3 {main} thrown in /Users/eyespider/projects/justiceserved/local/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/bb-admin/includes/functions.bb-admin.php on line 992

[Robkk]

Do you only have bbPress activated, or do you have some bbPress image upload plugins activated as well?
You can try some plugin troubleshooting if you haven’t yet.

https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started/troubleshooting/#plugins

You can also reinstall bbPress and see if that fixes anything too.

[Robkk]

This bundled with a page conditional will do what you want.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/wp_enqueue_scripts

https://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags#A_PAGE_Page

[Robkk]

Instead of going through each template and possibly changing this, you can also use a php code function listed int this topic.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/resizing-avatars/#post-148625

The original source of their code seems to be from this guide.

https://schaltgetriebe.wordpress.com/2014/04/06/increase-avatar-size-in-bbpress/

[Robkk]

Are you just talking about the HTML tag like <video> </video>? And not some new taxonomy added to your site, possibly through plugin.

If its the HTML tag you will need to use a php function like this.

https://gist.github.com/ntwb/7797990

You can download and edit Stephens plugin and just add your HTML tag like so.

http://htmldog.com/references/html/tags/video/

                // Images
		'img'        => array(
			'class'    => true,
			'src'      => true,
			'border'   => true,
			'alt'      => true,
			'height'   => true,
			'width'    => true,
		),
            
                //Videos 
                'video'        => array(
			'autoplay'    => true,
			'src'      => true,
			'controls'   => true,
			'loop'      => true,
			'height'   => true,
			'width'    => true,
                        'muted'    => true,
                        'poster'    => true,
                        'preload'    => true,
		),

		// Tables

[Robkk]

Is this a site you created? It looks pretty darn good and it seems to try to not stay with bbPress’ default design, and everything is unique, which I very much like to see designers do.

As for what you asked in this topic, you can do this with the help of some jquery, and a conditional whether the user is logged in or not.

This will have links to basic code for a show/hide toggle for a simple div. Just remember to use the topic forms container ID in any code you are going to use.

http://www.w3schools.com/jquery/jquery_hide_show.asp

This is a possible recommendation of a conditional you should use in a function you would create with whatever modal login plugin you are using.

if (!jQuery(this).hasClass('active') && !jQuery('body').hasClass('logged-in')) {

[sfmPascal]

Hi, here is what I did for my site:

1. Installed Allow PHP Execute
2. Create a page, for example “forum profile”
3. Add this code:

<?php
if (!is_user_logged_in()) {
  header('Location: /my-account/');
} else {
  $current_user = wp_get_current_user();
  $user=$current_user->user_nicename;
  $newURL = '/forums/users/' . $user;
  header('Location: '.$newURL);
}
?>

4. Now when you go to this page, which you now can add to any menu location supported by your theme, if not logged in, will redirect to your login page, otherwise redirect to their form profile link.

Jarrod