[Robin W]

ok, bbpress just uses wordpress users, so anything that registers wordpress users will create users for the forums.

You probably don’t need the private groups plugin, so deactivate that for the moment.

So set the forum to private.

then decide how you would like your users to register.

a) If you just want anyone to be able to register, then

dashboard>settings>general and tick ‘anyone can register’

You can then create a registration page (Dashboard>pages>add new) and put this shortcode in it

[bbp-register]

then add that page to your menu.

b) if you want to ‘vet’ new users, then use a contact form plugin such as ‘contact form 7’ to create a registration form asking whatever questions you want. Set that form to email to whoever, and they then create the user (dashboard>users<add new), and either use wordpress to email the user the password (there is a tick box on the user creation, or copy the password, and send an email to the user yourself.

c) or use one of the many wordpress registration plugins (https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/register/)

The choice is yours 🙂

[veganishdotworld]

So frustrated!
I installed BBPress yesterday. I’m trying to set up a private forum for about a dozen authors on our site, so we can ask questions and learn from each other regarding using wordpress or the type of content we want to create.

First Question. I used the bbpress shortcode to add the forum to a page, just as a test. http://www.veganish.world/forums That went well (there is a public forum there, just as a test), but the thing is, how do I add the registered users for the private forum? The 12 people who will have access? I’ve looked in Settings, and I’ve looked under Forums, in the left-hand side bar in WordPress, and I can’t find anything.

I installed Robin’s Private Groups plugin today, thinking that would help … still not finding anything there either, regarding how to MANUALLY add registered users who are pre-approved to view the content in the forums. ARGH.

Such a simple and crucial thing, I don’t know why I can’t find it.

Second Question. Once I figure out how to register a new user, I have a question … can I make it so that if this persons is already logged in at wordpress.com (as they would need to be, to upload new blog posts), they instantly have access to the FAQ author forums, without having to log into anything else?

My web site is http://www.veganish.world, but I don’t see how that would be helpful as I just have two (2) general questions, noted above.

If you go to http://www.veganish.world/forums, you might see a public forum that I posted as a test yesterday, before I realized I need private forums, etc.

Thank you!
Raquelita Dee

[Robin W]

Apologies, I was mixing you up with another user whose hoster does not allow changes. if you have FTP capabilitiy then

I’d suspect you need a bbpress.php template

see

https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum/ section 8

[Robin W]

#bbpress-forums {
	width: xx%;
}

[WordCamp Bilbao 2024]

Until now I had a problem every time a participant wanted to unsubscribe from forum or topic notifications using buddypress profile (forums/subscriptions).
Since the unsusbscribe buttons on his buddypress profile did not work.
And he had to go to the forum/topic in question to perform the operation.

I modified the plugin code to fix the problem and it works. You can review my code and include it in your plugin for future updates.
Thanks:

/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/users/engagements.php
line 840~ (depends version)
// Bail if actions aren’t meant for this function
if ( ! in_array( $_GET[‘action’], $possible_actions, true ) ) {

line 870~ (depends version)
/** No errors *************************************************************/
if ( ‘bbp_unsubscribe’ === $_GET[‘action’] ) {

/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/users/template.php
line 1375~
$html = sprintf( ‘%s<span id=”subscribe-%d” %s>%s</span>%s’, $r[‘before’], $object_id, $sub, $url, $object_id, $object_type, wp_create_nonce( ‘toggle-subscription_’ . $object_id ), $text, $r[‘after’] );

[sc00t]

Hi everyone,

I have had no end of trouble with PopularFX support on this issue!

I managed to get the forums to display within the theme using a shortcode here:

Forum

But as you look at an individual forum (i.e. Feedback) the forum is no longer incorporated within the theme. If you then click a thread, neither is that.

PopularFX changed a margin, somehow thinking that would fix the issue, but instead made containers for all the text on my website 10 pixels wide!

They then reverted that back and replied a few days ago saying “change your page slugs.” – so ended their support, and replies to my support ticket!

So are they right in saying changing my page slugs will somehow incorporate the forums into the theme? And if so, how do I go about doing so?

I’m using Popular FX, Scoops.

Thanks in advance!
sc00t

[cassel]

That css code works!

And to answer your question, I use that pdf generator plugin for blog posts. I don’t know if it has anything to do with forum posts. Which is why I never made the connection.

[Robin W]

ok, install

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>shortcodes

and you’ll see [bsp-display-topic-index] with lots of options including picking from selected forums – insert this in a text/html/shortcode box – if gutenberg, then a shortcode box.

[Robin W]

ok, try this is in the custom css part of your theme

#TB_window {
    width: 100% !important;
    max-width: 700px !important;
   }

may or may not improve/fix – it all depends on the load order of your site’s css !

[Robin W]

ok, just been playing.

I susoect this is caused by your plugin pdf-generatorfor-wp-public

which has a css rule on line 165

#TB_window {
    z-index: 1000000 !important;
    width: 90% !important;
    max-width: 400px;
    transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
    margin: 0 !important;
    box-shadow: 0 0 0 5000px rgb(0 0 0 / 74%) !important;
}

The width 90% and max width are poossibly the problem

Try deactivating that plugin and see if this fixes. If so, then we can look at some css to fix.

[eichenau]

I want to use bbpress in sub-site network.
I was able to install it, create a forum and display it on [bbp-forum-index], but when I click on the permalink to display it, I get an error that not even wordpress itself is loaded. Please let me know if you know a solution.(I cheked it run correctly in main site)

this is the code what I can show the forum page
<html>
<head></head>
<body></body>
</html>

[Robin W]

yes I suspect it is wordpress update.

as a punt, try this – I have low hopes of it working 🙂

function fnctn_add_thickbox () {
    add_thickbox();
}
add_action ( 'wp_enqueue_scripts','fnctn_add_thickbox' );

Put this in your child theme’s function file –

ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/functions.php

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

or use

Code Snippets

[Robin W]

ok, it is a theme issue.

2 further things to suggest

you could look at this

https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum/ item 8

and/or you could add this to your custom css

#bbpress-forums {
	width: 90% !important;
}

Otherwise you need to reach out to the theme authors

[Robin W]

https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum/ item 8

[sc00t]

Hi everyone,

global-wrestling.com/forum – I’ve embedded the forums here using the shortcode. however, if you click for example the ‘wrestling’ forum, you’ll note that it isn’t picking up the website layout.

I’ve tried editing topics, forums, login and newtopic in the pages section of WordPress in pagelayer, and it just comes up blank.

Can anyone help advise me how I embed the sub forums (i.e. wrestling, OOC, etc) into the website template?

Thanks,
Sc00t

[simon_a6]

I need help. It loads it, but it breaks the website. It seems to add code in the #main DIV of the site, causing it to lose all the full width element so the page on which I place it.

[simon_a6]

It’s applying “Boxed” as a class to the #main ID of the Container of the website homepage. The theme has a “Boxed” format, which puts spacing around it all, but we are not using that format.

It only does it when I apply that shortcode right at the bottom of the homepage though.

Iv’e no idea why

[Robin W]

you can use the shortcodes

Shortcodes

[Tao Sheng]

I’ve created a page with bbpress shortcode for login, users will need to give their name and email information, but when they are directed to the registration page I set for them, they need to give the password, as a matter of fact, there is a no process when they have required a password, and no emails will be sent to their mailbox, I am confused.

The page needs support is https://eventmelt.com/

[theriddler]

Hello,

I also have a question regarding the order of topics in a forum. For me it’s very easy, the topics should be sorted from the date they have been published (old to new) and stay that way. What code do I have to use?

Thank you!
Best regards
René

[sharkster4000]

This really should be added to bbpress. In the meantime, you can use

https://YourDomain.com/wp-admin/profile.php

as a permanent link to a user’s profile. HOWEVER: This sends people to their WordPress profile page, not to the more friendly looking bbpress profile. It does still allow them to do all the changes to their settings though.

[Robin W]

The easiest way is to create a ‘category’ forum as a holder

so if you had 3 forums related to say flowers and 3 forums to trees, you would add 2 new forums called ‘flowers’ and ‘trees’

so in dashboard>forums>add new when adding the forum in ‘forum attributes’ in the top right of the screen change the ‘type’ from ‘forum’ to ‘category’

then in each ‘flower’ sub forum you would edit these

dashboard>forums>select forum> edit and change the ‘parent forum’ (right hand side) to the category forum ‘flowers’

and repeat for trees.

then in your page use the forum category as the id

so if the flowers category was forum id 365 then the shortcode would be

[bbp-single-forum id=365]

since categories don’t have topics, just the forums show.

You might want to improve how they look by looking at this plugin

bbp style pack

and looking at the 3 first forum tabs. there’s lots of other useful stuff in that plugin as well.

[David]

Hi
I have 6 forums. I’d like to display 3 of them on one page and the other 3 on anoter page in WordPress. I thought that I could use the shortcode [bbp-single-forum id=32] but when using this, the single forum is added to the page but it’s already expanded showing all the topics within that forum. Is there a way to show single forums but in a collapsed format?

Thanks for any help that you can offer (I’m not a programmer, so please keep replies easy for a non techie 😀)

Thanks – David

[Chuckie]

It is not new. It is mine. And TinyMCE has not changed for several versions in WP so all I had to do is change readme.

If I deactivate mine then it just shows an error for EnlighterJS instead (which adds code buttons)

[Chuckie]

I don’t get this.

Look here:

Create New Topic

I am getting a message under the TinyMCE toolbar. My two icons are now showing either.

My code is very basic:

<?php
/**
* Plugin Name: Add AutoSave | Fullscreen to TinyMCE
* Description: This will install the TinyMCE AutoSave | Fullscreen Plugins (version 4.9.11) and register them with TinyMCE.
* Version: 2.1
* Author: Andrew Truckle
* Author URI: https://www.trucklesoft.co.uk/
**/

/**
 * Add the TinyMCE AutoSave and Fullscreen Plugins.
 *
 * @param array $plugins An array of all plugins.
 * @return array
 */
function aaft_custom_plugins( $plugins ) {
     $plugins['autosave'] = plugins_url( 'mce/', __FILE__ ) . 'autosave/plugin.min.js';
     $plugins['fullscreen'] = plugins_url( 'mce/', __FILE__ ) . 'fullscreen/plugin.min.js';
     return $plugins;
}
add_filter( 'mce_external_plugins', 'aaft_custom_plugins' );