[Stagger Lee]

Try to play with this in functions.php:
For some buttons you will need to borrow them from TinyMCE advanced plugin and put in core folder, they dont come in the core. (emoticons, and some else, called “plugins”)

function bbp_enable_visual_editor( $buttons = array() ) {
	
	$buttons['tinymce'] = array( 
	'toolbar1' =>'bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, blockquote, alignleft, aligncenter, alignright, alignjustify, justifyfull, bullist, numlist, outdent, indent, cut, copy, paste, undo, redo, link, unlink, table, fullscreen, image, media, cleanup, help, code, hr, removeformat, sub, sup, forecolor, forecolorpicker, backcolor, backcolorpicker, charmap, visualaid, anchor, newdocument, pastetext, separator, wp_adv,wptadv,media,image',
    'toolbar2' => 'pastetext, pasteword, selectall, formatselect, fontselect, fontsizeselect, styleselect, strikethrough, outdent, indent, pastetext, removeformat, charmap, wp_more, emoticons, forecolor, wp_help,media,image', // 2nd row, if needed
    'toolbar3' => 'pastetext,pasteword,selectall,paste_as_text,preprocess,paste,media,image', // 3rd row, if needed
    'toolbar4' => 'media,image', // 4th row, if needed 
	'plugins'  => 'anchor, code, insertdatetime, nonbreaking, print, searchreplace, table, visualblocks, visualchars, emoticons, advlist,wordpress,wplink, paste,fullscreen',
		   ); // 4th row, if needed 
    $buttons['quicktags'] = array ('buttons' => 'strong,em,link,block,del,ins,img,ul,ol,li,code,close');
    return $buttons;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_after_get_the_content_parse_args', 'bbp_enable_visual_editor' );
add_filter('mce_buttons', 'bbp_enable_visual_editor');

[joop.stringer]

Hey guys,

Can you please explain me where to put the functions.php file ?
If I put it in the child theme directory,my whole site goes blank …

<?php
/**
 * Functions .. additional to all the programs
 *
 * @package WordPress
 * @subpackage Twenty_Fourteen
 * @since Twenty Fourteen 1.0
 */

function add_custom_role( $bbp_roles ) {

	$bbp_roles['DDC Member'] = array(
	'name' => 'DDC Member',
	'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_participant_role() ) // i just want them to have the same capabilities as participants );

	$bbp_roles['Forumlid'] = array(
	'name' => 'Forumlid',
	'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_participant_role() ) // i just want them to have the same capabilities as participants );

	$bbp_roles['DDC Bestuur'] = array(
	'name' => 'DDC Bestuur',
	'capabilities' => bbp_get_caps_for_role( bbp_get_keymaster_role() ) // i just want them to have the same capabilities as participants ); 

	return $bbp_roles;
}

add_filter( 'bbp_get_dynamic_roles', 'add_custom_role', 1 );

?>

[Rosa Parker]

This is my website: http://ecoperate.com, WordPress version is 4.0.1 and bbPress version is 2.5.4.

I have two forum groups running on my website (‘Opportunities’ and ‘Forum’); both of them highlight a different item in the menu when they’re active. Now, what I can’t manage to do is highlighting the respective menu items in the forum topics. At least not in a way they can tell the parent forums apart.

This works perfectly:

.single-topic .genesis-nav-menu .menu-item-71 > a

With the exception that only ONE of the menu-items is highlighted for every single topic (71 refers to menu item ‘Opportunities’). What I want to achieve is differentiation, by somehow linking the single-topics to the right parent forum. How can I do this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated! 🙂

Thanks,

Rosa

[Robin W]

ok, at least we know you’ve got the right file !

Try the following

delete all the content from wp-content/themes/twentyeleven/bbpress/content-single-forum.php

and then paste the following in

<?php

/**
 * Single Forum Content Part
 *
 * @package bbPress
 * @subpackage Theme
 */

?>

<div id="bbpress-forums">

	<?php bbp_breadcrumb(); ?>

	<?php bbp_forum_subscription_link(); ?>

	<?php do_action( 'bbp_template_before_single_forum' ); ?>

	<?php if ( post_password_required() ) : ?>

		<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'form', 'protected' ); ?>

	<?php else : ?>

		<?php bbp_single_forum_description(); ?>

		<?php if ( bbp_has_forums() ) : ?>

			<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'loop', 'forums' ); ?>

		<?php endif; ?>

		<?php if ( !bbp_is_forum_category() && bbp_has_topics() ) : ?>

			<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'pagination', 'topics'    ); ?>

			<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'loop',       'topics'    ); ?>

			<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'pagination', 'topics'    ); ?>

		<?php elseif ( !bbp_is_forum_category() ) : ?>

			<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'feedback',   'no-topics' ); ?>

		<?php endif; ?>

	<?php endif; ?>

	<?php do_action( 'bbp_template_after_single_forum' ); ?>

</div>

save and then try it.

[Haris Zulfiqar]

<div class="support-topics">[bbp-single-forum id=383269]</div>

The above shortcode only works in http mode and not https mode. It stops the entire page content from rendering in SSL mode only.

Nope, this is not an HTML or CSS issue.

Any ideas?

[Robin W]

see

https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query

and look at the heading

Order & Orderby Parameters

my guess would be

‘orderby’ => array( ‘meta_value_num’ => ‘DESC’, ‘date’ => ‘desc’ ),

`

the date is the date of the post ie topic

[Robin W]

ok, no problem, I can’t judge how technical people are 🙂

You can do this in your main theme, but you would do better to create a child theme

Don’t be intimidated, the following should explain

Functions files and child themes – explained !

when you get to

What is FTP and how do I access it?

To access your files, you’ll need an FTP client. Some host providers do with within their administration area, check with your host provider if in doubt

I’m pretty sure form memory that hostgator has an area that does that called c-panel, but check with them if in doubt

[Robin W]

and since bbp_reply_count is in the metadata, you’d need to refer to that

see

https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query

so something like

add_action( 'bbp_init', 'view_twentyplus_posts_init' );

function view_twentyplus_posts_init() 
{
		
	$args  = array( 

	 'meta_key'   => '_bbp_reply_count' ,
          'orderby'  => array( 'meta_value_num' => 'DESC', 'title' => 'ASC' ),
          'meta_query' => array(
		         array(
			'key'     => '_bbp_reply_count' ,
			'value'   => '19',
			'compare' => '>',
		),

	);

);

	
	bbp_register_view( 'twentyplus_posts', __('Popular Posts', 'twentyplus'), $args, false );
	
}

[a298e]

I could solve this by adding following code to function.php.

add_filter( ‘bbp_get_the_content’, ‘amend_new_topic’, 10, 3);

Function amend_new_topic ($output, $args, $post_content) {
if ($args[‘context’] == ‘topic’ && $post_content == ”) $output=str_replace(‘></textarea>’, ‘>question1 question2 question3</textarea>’,$output) ;
return $output ;
}

Thanks,

[Robin W]

your code says

'_bbp_reply_count' => '19'

shouldn’t that be

'_bbp_reply_count' => '>19'

[Twist360]

Sadly not,

add_action( 'bbp_init', 'view_twentyplus_posts_init' );

function view_twentyplus_posts_init() 
{
	//$args = array( '_bbp_topic_reply_count' => '>20' );
	
	$args  = array( 
	 '_bbp_reply_count' => '19'
	);
	
	bbp_register_view( 'twentyplus_posts', __('Popular Posts', 'twentyplus'), $args, false );
	
}

Shows me posts with no responses 🙁

[Springgg]

Maybe I’m blind but …
I’ve just installed bbPress plugin to my WP, with the idea to import Mingle forums but “Getting There” is not getting me anywhere as there is no Import Forums tab.
The only tabs there are All Forums and New Forum

Am I in the wrong place or…?

Help please! 🙁

[Robin W]

ok, getting there, but a solution brief would be good. ie a long description of exactly what you want.

If it’s easy, I’ll drop some code

If not, I might look at it as a project

[Martyn Chamberlin]

Hi Robin,

Okay, I’m just now realizing that we have two problems going on here then.

1. Problem #1 was a universal to bbPress problem, and your code above fixes that.

2. Problem #2 is the fact that at http://thewritepractice.com/bw, the forum does not realize that you are the author of the topic you’re posting. There is no Edit button in the in-box area. Only when I enable “Edit others topics” for Participants via the bbPress Advanced Capabilities plugin do you then see the Edit link in the in-box area.

Any ideas on how we can fix this problem, and what might be causing it?

[Robin W]

ok,

create a directory on your theme called ‘bbpress’
ie wp-content/%your-theme-name%/bbpress
find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/content-single-forum.php
Make a copy of this file, and put in in the directory called bbpress that you created above, so you end up with
wp-content/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/content-single-forum.php
bbPress will now use this template instead of the original

then change lines

<?php if ( !bbp_is_forum_category() && bbp_has_topics() ) : ?>

<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'pagination', 'topics'    ); ?>

<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'loop',       'topics'    ); ?>

<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'pagination', 'topics'    ); ?>

<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'form',       'topic'     ); ?>

<?php elseif ( !bbp_is_forum_category() ) : ?>

<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'feedback',   'no-topics' ); ?>

<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'form',       'topic'     ); ?>

<?php endif; ?>

to

<?php if ( !bbp_is_forum_category() && bbp_has_topics() ) : ?>

<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'form',       'topic'     ); ?>
			
<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'pagination', 'topics'    ); ?>

<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'loop',       'topics'    ); ?>

<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'pagination', 'topics'    ); ?>

<?php elseif ( !bbp_is_forum_category() ) : ?>

			
<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'form',       'topic'     ); ?>

<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'feedback',   'no-topics' ); ?>

<?php endif; ?>

and save

that should do it

[Robin W]

ok, the following code removes the edit for bbpress, but leaves it for normal wordpress pages

function wpse_remove_edit_post_link( $link ) {
	if (is_bbpress()) return '' ;
	else return $link ;
	}
add_filter('edit_post_link', 'wpse_remove_edit_post_link');

The users will still be able to edit their topics and replies via the in-box edit buttons

[Martyn Chamberlin]

Wow. Crazy that nobody has ever tried to use that feature before!

Here’s the interesting thing though. WordPress.org’s support forum is (I’m 99% sure) built in bbPress and it does successfully allow you to edit topics that you’ve posted. The interface you are sent to when editing your topic does not reside inside the WordPress admin area. Rather it is right there on the publicly facing page.

I wonder how they are doing that?

Another interesting wrinkle in this whole thing is that according to the bbPress User Roles and Capabilities, participants should be able to edit their own topics.

[Manny Rodrigues]

I too had this issue and found countless other posts dated many years ago with no solution. I am using bbpress v2.5.4 and buddypress v2.1.1 on WordPress v4.1. I “resolved” this by editing my functions.php file within the bbpress plugin directory and replacing any character values with a blank. Good enough for me. This “solution” IS NOT RECOMMENDED as any update to bbpress is more than likely to overwrite it. Unless you don’t mind going back in and remembering to re-hack it after each update. No doubt it can be done better. The client just requested I get rid of the code values. Without further to do…

GoTo: yoursite\wp-content\plugins\bbpress\includes\common\functions.php

Between Lines 1090 and 1091 Add:

$search_bbpress_titles = array("&# 039;", "&am p;", "&#82 11;", "&qu ot;"); // ' & - "
$topic_title = str_replace($search_bbpress_titles, '', $topic_title);

Then add the same two lines further down between Lines 1233 and 1234.

NOTE: You will have to remove the spaces from the $search_bbpress_titles array line as I was unable to post without it parsing that line. Don’t know the coding on this form to post properly. Email me if you need the code.

Looking forward to any other helpful input. No need to remind me how better you are at coding. 🙂

[Seo45]

No, I didn’t actually put the words “the color you see.” I don’t have the code anymore because I deleted it, so I’m not sure of the exact color I used, but it’s the one that it is now because it won’t go back to the original color.

Nav bar is what I mean. It’s just the background color of the whole site. Underneath the black bar, it’s a light tan. Somewhat the same color as this site here. When you click on one of the links, that color gets darker. Here are 2 links to the different colors I’m talking about. Please don’t take the arrows as being rude. I just want to make sure you see what I mean.

http://thevrlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/color.png

http://thevrlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/color2.png

[Robin W]

did you actually paste this line

background-color: “the color you see”!Important;

ie the real words “the color you see”

This would be ignored as it’s not proper code

And if you put this into your child theme, and you’re no longer using your child theme, then it wouldn’t matter anyway.

And if you go to the forum, the background of the actual site under the top nah bar is a light tan. Then if you click on the test forum to go into it (though there aren’t any topics), you will notice it gets darker.

Not sure what ‘the top nah bar ‘ if you mean nav, then I can’t see any tan in my browser, or anything going darker?????

Put an image on photobucket or similar please

[Seo45]

Sorry u might be confusing. There’s 2 different backgrounds. The one that I’m talking about now is the actual background of the tables. The even and odd of the forum. I changed it by putting this in my child theme:

#bbpress-forums div.odd,
#bbpress-forums ul.odd {
background-color: “the color you see”!Important;
}
#bbpress-forums div.even,
#bbpress-forums ul.even {
background-color:” the color you see”!important;
}

I then changed the parts that affect the actual theme through theme options. After doing this, I noticed stuff wasn’t changing back once I put it back to the default color. I then tried changing the code above and it didn’t work anymore. Then I even deleted the code, yet it still didn’t change back to normal.

The original background was dark I believe. Can’t remember for sure. But now it’s white and a tan, which I set with the code above, but I can’t change it back.

[Twist360]

Thats awesome, you are right, I also needed to make

add_action( 'bb_init', 'view_twentyplus_posts_init' );

become

add_action( 'bbp_init', 'view_twentyplus_posts_init' );

Need to play a little more as its not showing what I was expecting, but at least it’s showing something 🙂

[Robin W]

just add a line

add_filter( 'bbp_get_topic_pagination_count', 'hide_topic_display' );

so you end up with

Function hide_topic_display ($retstr){
	$retstr = '' ;
	return $retstr ;
}
	
add_filter( 'bbp_get_forum_pagination_count', 'hide_topic_display' );
add_filter( 'bbp_get_topic_pagination_count', 'hide_topic_display' );

That should work !

[Twist360]

Hi Guys,

I am trying to have a page in WordPress which shows two sections:

1) posts with 20 or more replies
2) posts with 19 or less replies

I have created a page with the following shortcodes:

[bbp-single-view id="twentyplus_posts"]
[bbp-single-view id="lesstwenty_posts"]

I have added the following into my themes functions.php file:

// Add Custom View - Forum Home

add_action( 'bb_init', 'view_twentyplus_posts_init' );

function view_twentyplus_posts_init() 
{
	$args = array( 'post_count' => '>19' );
	bb_register_view( 'twentyplus_posts', __('Popular Posts', 'example'), $args, false );
}

add_action( 'bb_init', 'view_lesstwenty_posts_init' );

function view_lesstwenty_posts_init() 
{
	$args = array( 'post_count' => '<20' );
	bb_register_view( 'lesstwenty_posts', __('Forum Posts', 'example'), $args, false );
}

However all I get in response is:

Oh bother! No topics were found here!

Oh bother! No topics were found here!

Any idea what I am doing wrong here?

[Robin W]

For those who have been asking a new plugin which hopefully will help

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-style-pack/

Changing style items – now in this plugin so no need to create child themes and post complicated code into style sheets

Changing how the forum looks, the most asked for items, such as vertical sub forums, hiding counts, adding ‘create new topic’ links, removing ‘private’ prefix, adding forum descriptions, changing breadcrumbs and more

Login – create simple menu items to help with logging in, registration and changing profiles

Shortcodes – 3 useful new shortcodes to help your display

Feedback both positive and ‘needs improvement’ welcomed !