[Robkk]

I used the plugin wp-members

Is it this plugin??

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-members/

I cannot seem to figure out how you did the members area thing with this plugin (if it is the correct plugin).

So I have done loads more searching and it is known problem which BBPress do nothing about

Well there might be related issues to search redirecting to the home page, some had issues with the search query having a url structure and query different than intended by default, and some had issues with search plugins on their site, and I think some I tried to contact personally to help them since they had a premium theme and it is hard to just figure it out on premium themes that might have some kind of fancy ajax search having conflicts with the default bbPress search for example. Your issue could be somewhat related to the url structure.

Do you have any steps that maybe I can try to replicate to find the cause of this issue, like explain how you set everything up?

So you ditch the BBPress function, it does not work. And amend the normal search to include forums.

Yes this can be a workaround for some, but since you may have private members only content this solution may not be practical.

Does the default bbPress search work fine on a fresh installation with just your theme and no other plugins like wp-members?

If you haven’t already known if bbPress search works by default with just your theme and bbPress activated, consider created a localhost setup to test the default bbPress search to see if it works on a default fresh installation, then we can work backwards and try to find the cause of this issue that you are experiencing.

https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started/testing-your-bbpress-installation/creating-a-test-site/

[Robkk]

I’ve added a new site to my multisite installation, set the language to German and activated bbPress. The ‘by’ did not show.

Was the word “by” turned into “von”, or was there an entirely different layout when you activated your theme on new site install? If it was “von” by default in the new site installation then, then maybe it could be a possible cache issue on your original site, so flushing the cache could then update the word to “von”.

Could it be that the theme only causes the ‘by’ to show if two (or more) languages are active or that a plugin is causing it?

Are you planning to have a multilingual single site? You might be on to something here if you are trying to run a multilingual single site.

Just so you know, I thought the root issue could be the “by” not changing in your forums is because it might have outputted the text using code from a custom phpbb starter pack theme created by @lynq, here is an example of the custom forum freshness column from the starter pack.

https://gist.github.com/ntwb/3133450

[itsasiak]

Hi all,

I hope you can help me. I am trying to create and attach a bbp forum automatically after a BuddyPress group is created.

I have “unset” the BuddyPress group creation steps, and only the “group settings” step remains.

I have been digging in bbp code to try to reproduce the forum creation process, and this is what I put together (though it is not working):

<?php $bbpforum = new BBP_Forums_Group_Extension; ?>
<?php $bbpforum->__construct(); ?>

<!-- Reproducing parts of public edit_screen() -->

<!-- Reproducing fieldset return -->

<?php $_POST['bbp-edit-group-forum'] = true; ?> <!-- this comes from the edit screen; this form field is sent -->

<!-- end of fieldset return -->

<!-- start of edit_screen_save -->

<?php

if ( empty( $group_id ) ) {
$group_id = bp_get_new_group_id();
}

$create_forum = true; // Changed this to true (there was a switch structure down and I kept the true case only
$forum_id = 0;
$forum_ids = bbp_get_group_forum_ids( $group_id );

if ( !empty( $forum_ids ) )
$forum_id = (int) is_array( $forum_ids ) ? $forum_ids[0] : $forum_ids;

// Set the default forum status

$status = bbp_get_public_status_id();

// Create the initial forum
$forum_id = bbp_insert_forum( array(
'post_parent' => bbp_get_group_forums_root_id(),
'post_title' => bp_get_new_group_name(),
'post_content' => bp_get_new_group_description(),
'post_status' => $status
) );

// Run the BP-specific functions for new groups
$bbpforum->new_forum( array( 'forum_id' => $forum_id ) );

// Update forum active
groups_update_groupmeta( bp_get_new_group_id(), '_bbp_forum_enabled_' . $forum_id, true );

// Toggle forum on
$bbpforum->toggle_group_forum( bp_get_new_group_id(), true );

?>


It is placed in create.php, right after the create group form submission entry.

As you see, I have erased the wp_nonce_field functions and the associated admin_referrer functions to avoid the “Are you sure you want to do this?” screen.

If it is not clear, please, let me know what else would be needed to try get the automatic forum, and of course, if you know a better and easier way of doing it.

Thank you very much!

[semperaye]

Hello. What would the code be to change the color of the “Submit” button? I’m assuming the same code but with a change to the 1st line.

Is it this:

#bbpress-forums .submit {
background-color: #1e73be;
color: #FFFFFF;
float: center;
vertical-align: middle;
border-radius: 4px;
height: 35px;
width: 120px;
font-size: 14px !important;
}

Because it didn’t work..

[siparker]

Hi, Can you please advise how to extend the Vbulletin importer.

I know the fields i want to get and where i want them to go. but i am unsure how to add this to the import routine.

Example is to get from vbulletin the user signature (which is a simple lookup to sigparsed field in the db by userid) and insert that into an xprofile field for that user.

Secondly i ahd an issue importing which i believe was because the mycred plugin adds fields to the user table. It might be worth adding some validation of the user fields as the insert is hardcoded with the default fields.

[JaneAkshar]

I used the plugin wp-members and put the forums in the member area. I have been speaking to the author of that plugin who is brilliant with support and he had problems at the begining as well. So I have done loads more searching and it is known problem which BBPress do nothing about

There is no solution out there BUT what you can do is change the main search function to include forums and that is what I have eventually done. I do think BBPress should provide a proper solution

So you ditch the BBPress function, it does not work. And amend the normal search to include forums. I used this code snippet to help.

/**
* Include bbPress 'topic' custom post type in WordPress' search results */

function ntwb_bbp_topic_cpt_search( $topic_search ) {
        $topic_search['exclude_from_search'] = false;
        return $topic_search;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_register_topic_post_type', 'ntwb_bbp_topic_cpt_search' );

/**
* Include bbPress 'forum' custom post type in WordPress' search results */

function ntwb_bbp_forum_cpt_search( $forum_search ) {
        $forum_search['exclude_from_search'] = false;
        return $forum_search;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_register_forum_post_type', 'ntwb_bbp_forum_cpt_search' );

/**
* Include bbPress 'reply' custom post type in WordPress' search results  */

function ntwb_bbp_reply_cpt_search( $reply_search ) {
        $reply_search['exclude_from_search'] = false;
        return $reply_search;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_register_reply_post_type', 'ntwb_bbp_reply_cpt_search' );

[tharsheblows]

@pathardepavan — post_parent is in the posts table rather than postmeta so instead of updating post meta, update the object in wp_posts. So your update callback function (update_topic_post_parent) would be something like:

function update_topic_post_parent( $value, $object, $field_name ){
$update_post_parent = array(
'ID' => (int)$object->ID, // the ID of the topic you just created
'post_parent' => (int)$value ); // whatever you want your post_parent to be as an int. You could use $field_name for 'post_parent' here but I tend to whitelist 

wp_update_post( $update_post_parent )
}

and you should be able to get the post_parent from the $object directly in your get callback I think.

Also if you’re using one of the latest versions of the plugin, you should use register_rest_field as register_api_field has been deprecated.

(I’m doing this without any testing, sorry, so it might be incorrect! But I think that’s somewhere close to the answer maybe 🙂 )

[Manuel Fritsch]

Hi Robkk,

thanks for your suggestion. No, this code does not change anything, not even with !important after the font size.

[Robkk]

Does this custom CSS help any?? This is what I have making a custom theme in twentytwelve.

#bbpress-forums #wp-link {
  font-size: 13px;
}

#bbpress-forums #wp-link .screen-reader-text, .screen-reader-text span,
#bbpress-forums #wp-link .ui-helper-hidden-accessible {
  position: absolute;
  margin: -1px;
  padding: 0;
  height: 1px;
  width: 1px;
  overflow: hidden;
  clip: rect(0 0 0 0);
  border: 0;
  word-wrap: normal!important;
}

[Manuel Fritsch]

Hello,

if you look at our latest topic, you will see the blue notice bar. In in, the time is formatted incorrect. There should be a comma, or even better, the word “und” between the hours and the minutes, not a full stop. I tried to change it in the translation, but there is only a code for the whole timestamp. I would suggest to update bbpress in this regard, so the timestamp becomes localizable.

Best
Manuel

[Manuel Fritsch]

Hello there,

I use WP 4.4.2, bbpress 2.5.8, this is a post in our forums.

To insert a link in my copy, there is this popup window. Apparently, it gets its styling from various sources, including my theme’s settings, where for regular text, I set the font-size to 17px, while line-height of 26px is hard-coded into the theme. As you can see (if you click the link-button in the reply form below the sample post given above), this disturbs the styling of this popup.

Is there any way to a) make this popup draw its styling from the back-end CSS (where the same window is used, and looks fine), which in any case I would like to suggest for future updates of bbpress, or b) style it with custom CSS?

Thank you
Manuel

[zimmermann.c]

I just tried: The moderator cannot see ‘forums’ in the dashboard
He can only see topics and replies
the doc in the codex is saying the opposite
But i would like to change the name of the forum author (this name appears in the forum list, etc…)

[Robin W]

Do you agree with the fact that “Moderator – Cannot create and edit forums”?

Not sure I either agree or disagree, or that it is a fact – I’m trying to help here, I’m not trying win an argument in a bar, but as a user of this software I haven’t tested every feature 🙂

The documentation for bbpress says that moderators can publish and edit forums

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

Is it this that you are asserting isn’t true?

[Robkk]

Edit the code in the Gist and add style to the Span tag like so.

  // Span
‘span’ => array(
‘class’ => true,
‘style’ => true,
),

I am not sure why you would even want the more tag, as it might be useless in the frontend of your site and bbPress forum posts.

[Robkk]

Unfortunately, using just CSS, there is no way to assign different colours to each forum.

Yeah there is. I used to do this with CSS way back.

Here is something I did real quick and an image to show you, that you can do it.

#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-parent-forum-8 span.bbp-topic-started-in a {
  background-color: #00a6eb;
  color: #FFF;
  padding: 3px 5px;
  vertical-align: middle;
}

#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-parent-forum-0 span.bbp-topic-started-in a {
  background-color: #E25E00;
  color: #fff;
  padding: 3px 5px;
  vertical-align: middle;
}

[Robkk]

bbPress reply posts are having issues with CSS from your theme that is for WordPress comments.

Try this CSS, add it to your child themes style.css file or add it to a custom css plugin.

#bbpress-forums .reply a {
  float: none;
  padding: 0;
  color: inherit;
  font-size: inherit;
  display: initial;
  position: initial;
}

[Robkk]

@davidstriga

I think if you have threaded replies enabled in bbPress, if you reply to another reply, you get a BuddyPress notification (if you have the notifications active), I think there is a bug in bbPress’ code for that feature though.

[Robkk]

@rothaar bbPress by default does not have this kind of layout or the “by” in the last post column, so it is definitely your theme.

I think that the “by” is just in a template, maybe loop-single-topic.php and loop-single-forum.php in your theme.

It might be best to create a child theme and manually edit the template and then translate the word to your language.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

Just copy your main themes bbPress templates into your child theme, and edit the files I listed above.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
You can read all about this in the codex : https://codex.bbpress.org/bbp_setup_current_user/was-called-incorrectly/
Thanks for notifying

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
Hope this page can help you: https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started/forum-moderation/dealing-with-spam/
Pascal.

[2tyerd]

Hi guys,

So thhis is the a portion of the code right now for the sign up pop-up on my site. Its for the username, email, password and email.

<div class="six columns">
        <input type="text" id="reg-username" name="signup_username" class="inputbox" required placeholder="<?php _e("Username", 'kleo_framework');?>">
      </div>
      <div class="twelve columns">
        <input type="text" id="reg-email" name="signup_email" class="inputbox" required placeholder="<?php _e("Your email", 'kleo_framework');?>">
      </div>
      <div class="six columns">
        <input type="password" id="reg-password" name="signup_password" class="inputbox" required placeholder="<?php _e("Desired password", 'kleo_framework');?>">
      </div>
      <div class="six columns">
        <input type="password" id="confirm_password" name="signup_password_confirm" class="inputbox" required placeholder="<?php _e("Confirm password", 'kleo_framework');?>">
      </div>

In this same sign up form I want to have a dropdown menu where you select your age because it didn’t come included in the theme. The age options being from 18-99.

How can I implement this?

Thanks

Regards

[ixixy]

I would like to know how I can put up a ‘forum cover image’ on the page of each of my forums…..
I was hoping to use the ‘featured image’ function and display a landscape image on top of the page.

For example, if i am running a fitness forum community with a cardio workouts forum, and put up a cover image showing pple doing cardio….. and then for the weights forum, i’d have a weights cover image.

How could I do this?

FYI My knowledge of wordpress, bbpress, buddypress is beginner – intermediate. I know how to edit files, but not write code myself.

[tech55541]

Hello,
Also figured out this one, you can use these 2 functions.

bbp_get_topic_subscription_link
bbp_get_topic_favorite_link

Thanks.

[tech55541]

Hello,
I tried to use this code to remove the little character between the Subscribe and Favorite link, but it does not seem to work.

/*Fix character issue with BBPress admin links menu*/
function hide_before2 ($args = array() ) {
$args['before'] = '&nbsp';
$args['subscribe'] = 'Subscribe';  
$args['unsubscribe'] = 'Unsubscribe';
 
 return $args;
} 

add_filter('bbp_before_get_user_subscribe_link_parse_args', 'hide_before2');

http://yourtechadvisors.com/forums/topic/testing/

Feel free to create an account, I think the biggest problem is the Subscribe/Unsubscribe link that can be found under the Options menu. Please check screenshot.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_h6oU4LzDtlYU44LUNCQVNaZ0U/view?usp=sharing

Any suggestions?

[Andrea Barghigiani]

Hi @brhahlen,

I’ve resolved the issue commenting out the line 203 of crayon_wp.class.php, this one:
$the_content = strip_tags($the_content);

It’s seem that with the new version this is the problem. How have you solved yours? Have you changed highlighter?