[Stephen Edgar]

@susfse You are using define( 'WP_DEBUG', true ); and because of this one of your plugin or themes is doing it wrong and bbPress is informing you of that, to fix the issue start deactivating each of your plugins until you no longer see the message, then you will have the name of plugin causing the issue, you can then contact the plugin author about fixing the issue. If it’s not a plugin, switch your theme to Twenty Fifteen to determine if it’s your theme.

[Robkk]

Use this Custom CSS

#bbpress-forums ul li {
  margin-left: 0;
  text-indent: 0;
  list-style: none;
}

[Robkk]

well for the wbb1_post it looks right.

[sammmmy]

Thanks for your help.
I think that was correct, because in wbb3 it was wbb1_1_post

…and in WBB4 it is wbb1_post

or am i wrong?

[Robkk]

I think editing the bbPress templates removing all instances of bbp_author_link() and bbp_reply_author_link() would be what you are looking for.

You can also edit the loop (like loop-topics.php) files to remove the text that says Author and Posts, or use some CSS.

Theme Compatibility

[Robkk]

Follow anything that is listed on this WordPress Codex guide

https://codex.wordpress.org/Common_WordPress_Errors#Internal_Server_Error

[Robkk]

You can kind of do the same process that is mentioned here.

Creating Test Data

And you could possibly use a plugin to create forums too like this one

Test Data for bbPress – Plugin

[Robkk]

This should just change it to something like

1 hour ago/26 minutes ago/5 days ago/8 months ago/2 years ago

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

[Robkk]

However I have topics associated with forums and if you click on the forum the topics do show (Introductions – for example has a topic in it). But even though the topic shows once the correct forum is clicked the notification banner at the top states “This Forum is Empty”

Hmm try some troubleshooting , clear cache run repair tools.

Troubleshooting

[folgerj]

I’m using weaver extreme, current WP install and current Buddy press install and BPress install.
Over all the site is working http://www.autumnadvice.com/ and I think looks good. But I have a question about two components that I apparently have ignored.
I can click repair and register and activate are labeled as none. I created a login/registration page and put the login shortcode on it and put it in my menu.
When I link register to this page, and save, the page disappears from the menu and from the list of pages. I don’t see anything in the documentation about how to call or link to these functions but I feel I’m missing something that I should be doing.

I don’t see anything on Activate at all??? what is the purpose of it?

Also If anyone wants to give feed back on how I’m implementing so far I would love it.. I don’t see a listing but I think if the owner/moderators created a list of what they see as best practice forums, it would help us to get ours off the ground. If you had under pimp your press a separate topic where folks can say what they are using as plugins and CSS and so forth… might be there already but searching for it is not clear… Maybe I’m lazy.. 🙂 Thanks

[Stagger Lee]

Ah OK. You can find hundred of excuses. Bit you know as good as I know bbPress is lacking huge behind other forum scripts.
At the end it is your time, you code for nothing if people dont use bbPress.

All those names of developers are very active in core community. Developers of bbPress plugins are not.
Either they abandon plugin and lose lust, dissapear.

Please no excuses. Nobody force you do one way or other. It is up to you. But I have seen infinite number of times Users asked you to implement those plugins in core and you ignored it. Why it has to be plugin Author making such wish ? Despite “or” in sentence.

OK, you personally dont have time and it is to be respected. Make some internal discussion and ask other bbPress developers if they have time to adopt some plugin(s).

Give us later a raport how it all goes and stands.

[Stephen Edgar]

A year or two ago we had lots of translation issues with bbPress, to fix this I got en_AU (English Australian) of the ground and translated all the things, WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress and help out on the #polyglots team https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/

The string I translated to test was the Pending string replaced with stickfinger for en_AU:

https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/dev/en-au/default?filters%5Bstatus%5D=either&filters%5Boriginal_id%5D=196793&filters%5Btranslation_id%5D=9251229

I then downloaded the .po and .mo files (at the bottom of that screen you can export these) and replaced my en_AU bbpress-en_AU.mo/bbpress-en_AU.po files in /wp-content/languages/plugins

What happens if you export the .po/.mo files from /bbpress/2.5.x/pt-br/default?

Also make sure your files are named bbpress-pt_BR.mo and bbpress-pt_BR.po

[Stagger Lee]

You noticed I am not asking all this will be in the core and force people parse all those lines of code if they dont want it or dont need it. Just as it is a GPL take ownership from todays developers, or cooperate with them as co-maintainer Author.

Fast few of them should be in the core definitelly.

[Stagger Lee]

Here is a list in my opinion should have under Author names at least one nam of bbPress core developers. Not of things on list has anything to do with me personally, just using other popular forum scripts as reference.

– Live preview (live or button for another window/popup)
– Report content (reply)
– Ignore User
– bbPress moderation panel separate from backend
– Notifications
– Make topics/forums read, unread (dont know if it is already in the core)
– bbPress TinyMce plugin
– Reply titles
– View counts
– Topics for posts (very important even if not used on all installations)
– Online / Offline status
– bbPress Polls (not shortcode based)
– Attachments
– Move topics / replies between subforums
– Avatar management
– Like / Vote topics, replies (I personally would never use this one, but..)
– New plugin that makes it easy to add custom fields and add them where you need (this one is not referenced by other forum scripts).

And some more, other people can have other lists. Most important is that at least one bbPress core developer stand on Author list and guarantee plugin will work with latest bbPress version. Not in same minut maybe, nobody is a Superman, but few days after new bbPress version got out.

[stickFinger]

Hi Stephen

Thanks for your input here.:-)

I guess i did not understand you very well 🙁
You telling that in the en_US.po file it works, am i correct?

I´ve just download a fresh copy of the po file at: https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/dev/pt-br/default

and that is the header:

 Translation of Development in Portuguese (Brazil)
# This file is distributed under the same license as the Development package.
msgid ""
msgstr ""
"PO-Revision-Date: 2015-07-15 17:00:03+0000\n"
"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
"Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=(n > 1);\n"
"X-Generator: GlotPress/1.0-alpha-1000\n"
"Project-Id-Version: Development\n"

there is no Kewyword list
I´ve read something regarding this issue also on buddypress foruns. It seems that the strings after the “_x(….” caracter is the problem on some languages.

[Danny]

@PinkishHue My bad. Was suppose to be .bbp-login-form.

@Robkk I’m not overly worried about the mobile layout because as pointed out by PinkishHue, I’ll be using media queries later.

Though thank you for reminding me about the form templates. I’ve copied them over, just in case I might need them.

Coming back to the topic of the login form position..

I’ve looked inside the loop-forums.php template, then found this <?php do_action( 'bbp_template_before_forums_loop' ); ?> being executed. Which template file is bbp_template_before_forums_loop pulling from ?

Because this is also loading the Search form, I’d like to load the login form too. Rather than use the shortcode [bbp-login] above my [bbp-forum-index].

What I’d like to achieve is a header with the login form and search form on the same line before listing the forums.

Thank you in advance for the help so far.

[David13_13]

Hello again.

I just installed a new website and the latest version of WordPress and BBpress and the last code that worked well in that website is no working here. The email notification works well, but still is checked the log field…

Any suggestion please?

I guess that the code of BBpress has changed in recent versions…

Thanks in advance

[Robkk]

@sammmmy

in the original code you will see

'from_tablename' => 'wbb1_1_post',

you listed it as being just wbb1_post so edit that to the correct table name.

[Robkk]

You can try and see if resetting your permalinks helps any

Navigation Links Return 404s Errors

Other than that maybe try putting the main bbPress templates into a child-theme.

Theme Compatibility

[Robkk]

Maybe the URL of the registration page can be used as the URI.

Yes use that page you created with the bbPress registration form shortcode. You can also use the default WordPress registration page which would be.

http://yoursite.com/open/wp-login.php?action=register

Same for the Lost Password page, you can use the page you placed the bbPress lost password shortcode or the default lost password form by WordPress.

[Robkk]

9 years. Man. Can you stop rely on third party developers and plugins. They are simply said a mess.
This one from this trac is not the only one lacking in forum core.

First 5 years is an entirely different bbPress from what it is now, but the last 4 it picked up more and more and now it seems to be finished from what I can tell.

Make a list of “must” things in the core. Otherways you lose time coding, relatively nobody use bbPress.

There is this, that lists possible considerable plugin functionality that might be in the core. I need to clean it up later though and move some information I placed their earlier to some other guide I created. There are also probably more functionality I recommended to be adopted that I haven’t yet listed in the page yet.

Feature Plugins Tracking

Share tasks between bbPress core developers and give each of them, or few of them, adopt a fetured plugin. it doesnt have to be in the core. Just some security it will follow all changes in the bbPress core and adapt fast to changes, continue to work with all new bbPress version.

Plugin functionality adoption happens for some plugins like bbPress threaded replies which made its way to core, and also topic/forum subscriptions. Other plugins need to rely on the plugin author to keep up, if there is an issue or no updates the community will usually fork/adopt the plugin. I might help though, I thought about it.

I repeat, third party (plugins) community for bbPress is a complete mess and cannot be trusted. How do you expect people can sleep well with 5-15 thousands of registered Users on forum and one important third party plugin has a developer writing one comment per year on support forum. Or per 3 months, one per month. All the same.

Hopefully when I get around to writing the Plugin developer section in the codex, that it will help most of the code quality/security side of things. But right now most devs will have to use the WordPress codex to gain their knowledge of this (I am mostly gonna base the information I learn from this).

Support Forum activity has many factors to it. The dev could be busy or just stopped supporting the plugin.

Also would you mind sending me list of plugins that you may not trust through my email, not to call anyone out in the forum. And see if I can take a look at why you may be thinking that.

Contact

[Stephen Edgar]

I just changed the https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/dev pending string to stickfinger and it works as expected 😉

[Stephen Edgar]

What happens if you resave your permalinks? Go to Settings > Permalinks

A more common and now default of WordPress is to use the Post name format, also known as pretty permalinks, as such the following would be what you’d see for the “maine” forum

http://www.plowandanchorconnect.com/forums/forum/plow-and-anchor-forums/maine

[gothweb]

post test:

I looked at:

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

I tried to write an explanation of what I did, but flood detection seems to be deleting my posts.

Edit:

I tried to use:

If you do not permit anonymous posting, then your users will need to register with your site. It is up to you to decide which method is preferable.

Automatic registration is easier and it does allow people to quickly sign up, but by the same token gives you less control over who is contributing to your forums, and can lead to spam postings.

Manual signup involves you in more administration, but does give you complete control over who has write access.

Neither is better overall, but one will be better for you !

To allow automatic registration, go to Dashboard > Settings > General settings and under membership, tick “anyone can register”. Then in Dashboard > settings > forums tick the auto role, and ensure this is only at participant level.

To set manual registration, go to Dashboard > Settings > General settings and under membership, and ensure “anyone can register” is not ticked. Then in Dashboard>settings>forums tick the auto role, and ensure this is only at participant level.

In both cases, you will then need a screen for users to register – we’ll come back to where to put this screen later, but for the moment go into dashboard>pages>add new page and create a page. You can call this page anything you like but “register” or “registration” would be logical when users view or access its URL.

If you are doing automatic registration, then put whatever preamble you’d like (“to register for our forums” etc.) , and then add the following shortcode [bbp-register]. Save the page.

and I can register new users by the page at:

http://makers.beyondnp.com/open/?page_id=149

but I don’t know how to fix the widget. Maybe the URL of the registration page can be used as the URI.

[geog272]

Hi,

I upgraded to 2.5.8 and now all my forum pages are blank. I can bring up the forum index by using a shortcode, but links from the forum index are blank. Any advice on how to bring my forums back?

http://www.plowandanchorconnect.com/?page_id=207